Chapter Seven: Turmoil
#8 of Tales of Ippon
The past Can, and Will haunt you...
"A room for one, please, facing the front courtyard so that I have access to my cart," The Kyujin
woman said, keeping her eyes out the front door on her small cart. Shuji and Natsumi walked past,
bowing in greeting as they went, and the new arrival blinked in astonishment at Natsumi, obviously
having never seen a foreigner before.
The Innkeeper smiled and bowed, "If you would follow me?"
"Yes, of course..." The Kyujin woman shook her head and followed, casting her cart one last look
before heading down the hall toward the room she was going to be using.
Shuji looked thoughtful as he sat, getting Natsumi's attention. She leaned on him and blinked, "What
worry?"
"Not worries, love, Thinking," He smiles, kissing her hair, "I've seen that woman before..."
Natsumi blinked and tried to remember the fox at the entryway, thinking on her features. Though her
clothes had hidden most of her shape, she seemed strong and self-reliant, and Natsumi remembered a
strange smell in passing her... it reminded her of fire. "She smell like smoke," Natsumi said softly,
wondering if that would help Shuji.
"Indeed... the kind of smoke that metal gives off... She was a smith."
"A smith?" She blinked, not knowing the word.
Shuji nodded and smiled, "Someone who makes weapons and armor."
Natsumi blinked and took her turn to look thoughtful...
Not far from the inn was a cliff, overlooking the Hiyashi Falls, A place in the Tesari River where it
plunged down a drop of unknown height into the heavy mists below the cliffs. The expanse was half a
Ri across, with falcons other birds of prey roosting in the crevices of the rock face. Usuyami stood at
the edge, her mind washing over the tales her father had shared when at the same spot when she was
young...
_The great goddess, Sufai, would stand here and spread her arms, the updrafts catching her long robes
and lifting her into the sky, carrying her from one end of the island to the other..._
Usuyami let her mind wander as she spread her arms and felt the winds from the bottom of the falls in
her fingers. Suddenly she was yanked from the edge and her reverie as a young man's voice sounded
in her ear.
"Look out!" He shouted, pulling her back.
She blinked and shook her head, clearing it as she readied herself to eviscerate the fool. Soft green
eyes met hers in a worried look, and she blinked, realizing he was holding her still, staring at her in a
mixture of worry and anger.
"Are you trying to kill yourself?" he grumbled, "Even if you are samurai, that's not the way to go about
it."
"n-no..." She stammered, realizing he'd thought she was going to jump. A smile cracked her lips and
she laughed.
He pulled back, letting her go, "What's so funny?"
"You... you thought I was going to jump?" she laughed and looked him over. A Kyujin samurai; far
from home, as his sash bore the color and marking of the Hodai Clan from East Ippon. His fur was a
burnt copper color, with black fur on his hands and feet. His head and ears were covered by a white
bandana, and there was a faint scar over his right eye, though the eye itself was unmarred.
"That's what it looked like... What were you doing out here?" he blinked.
She looked away, her smile faded to one of nostalgia, "Flying."
"Flying... right..." He sighed and turned, "Well, just be careful to not fall... the death of such a beauty
would make even the gods weep."
She blinked and turned, "what?"
He realized what he had said and looked away and to the sky, "Ah... well... I mean..."
She shook her head and stepped over, looking at him curiously, "What's your name?"
"Tokei Ganmi... And you are?"
She nodded, "Usuyami Shidomori."
He blinked and stared, "The Lady of Tetsumo?"
"Yes... you know of Tetsumo in the East?" she smiled, unable to hide her pride in the thought that her
town's steel was that far known.
Tokei smiled at her mirth, "My Lord, Kutaku Hodai, carries one of your blades."
She smiled and nodded, "I see... Well, I pray he is satisfied."
He leaned forward, "I have to ask... are the legends true?"
"Legends?"
He nodded, "That you can vanish from plain sight, walk on ceilings, and would never stand for a man's
touch?"
She blushed and backed up, "th-that's a bit personal..."
He backed up as well and smiled sheepishly, "Ah, forgive me... I got carried away..."
She shook her head, "I can vanish when I need to and I can climb walls... as for the last one..." she
smiled impishly, "I really don't that that's the business of a wandering samurai..."
He bowed and hung his head, "Please forgive me... I did not mean to offend."
She smiled and shook her head, "you didn't..." she paused, finding this samurai more interesting than
most, "but perhaps if you stick around long enough... you may yet find out..." She smirked and turned
away, swishing her tail as she walked, waving dismissively, "I'm staying at the Four Hawk inn...
Farewell, Tokei Ganmi of Hodai."
He smiled, unable to help himself from watching her leave, whispering at her, "Farewell, Lady of
Tetsumo..."
"Hpmh, your Ipponese is horrid, and you are the least attractive girl I have seen in all my life..." the
Kyujin woman grumbled, "What do you want with me?"
Natsumi kept her head bowed low, "You make weapon, yes? Ask for Spear for Lord Yarimoto."
The Kyujin blinked and raised an eyebrow, "The Lord Rokkotsu wants a new spear? His spear was
forged by the great Kifune, greatest weapon master in all Ippon, and he wants a new one?"
Natsumi struggled to keep up, trying to figure out the rapid speech and she shook her head after
deciphering it, "Old Spear Break, monster break spear."
The Kyujin blinked and smiled, "Mmmm... Well my work isn't cheap, girl. What are you planning to pay
with?"
Natsumi looked up, stunned. She hadn't thought there would need to be payment, "Ahh... I do not
know."
The Kyujin smiled, "you find a way to pay, and I'll make that spear... Although I'll still need some
materials for what I have in mind... but we'll get to that after payment."
Natsumi blinked, understood, and excused herself, sighing. She may have become Shuji's... she
paused to think, what was she now? He had accepted her as part of his clan... but was she his wife? Or
was she just another woman? She made a not of that to ask him later... As she walked she saw the
Merchant, Magura sitting and milling over some papers... She got an idea.
Usuyami hummed quietly to herself as she scrubbed her scales slowly, thinking of calmer days when
there were no worries about the Gasaran. With her mind adrift in her memories, she jumped and
looked around when someone spoke up.
"If you'd like... I can wash your back for you," Said the familiar Kyujin that sat on the bathing stone to
her left, scrubbing the soap into the fur on his lean arms. He at least had the manners to not stare, due
to her being naked.
"Mmm..." she smirked, admiring the courage of this 'Tokei Ganmi', had she been in a less peaceful
mood, she would have broken him where he sat, "alright then." She turned on her seat, showing him
her back and pulling her hair forward over her shoulder to get it out of the way.
He smiled and knelt behind her, taking the scrubbing cloth in his hands, not used to using something to
wash with, as for his fur, his fingers were better than any cloth or brush. With careful motions he
started washing her back.
"Harder... I won't break. And you won't get the real dirt out without some elbow in it." She smiled, eyes
closed.
He grinned and nodded, starting to work the cloth in circles firmly, "I keep forgetting how hard jirajin
scales can be."
Usuyami purred, "Mmm... 'Their hide shall be that of the stone and gem, strong as the earth, and
wondrous to behold.'..."
"What's that from?" Tokei blinked.
"Legendry of Sufai's creation of the jirajin," She laughed, "My father liked me to be well-read."
He nodded, "I have heard the tales of your father's greatness. It shines through in you, Lady of
Tetsumo."
"Oh? How do you figure that?" She smiled as he kept up the attention on her back.
Tokei smiled softly, "because only a great father would have such a beautiful and intelligent daughter."
She smiled and turned her head a bit, opening one eye to look at him. His eyes were unfocused, as he
was lost in thoughts. She grinned, glancing down at the sheathe between his legs, suppressing a giggle
as she saw the pink tip of his maleness peeking from its hiding place. "Really... and just what are you
thinking, Ganmi-dono?"
He looked up and saw her looking at his eyes, and from the smirk on her face, he knew he'd been
caught fantasizing. "Ah, Forgive me... I presume too much." He bowed and put the scrubbing cloth
down, taking a small step back.
She sighed and huffed. "Hold it," she commanded, smirking, "I did not say you were finished..."
He blinked and blushed, "b-but."
She leveled a stern look at him, still smirking slightly, "I do not hope -all- the Hodai lose their nerve at
the mirth of women..."
Tokei blinked at the joking barb and twitched his ears in thought. She was teasing him... meaning she
was not offended. He decided to play along, "Oh no, not -all- women... only the ones that could kill us."
She laughed and shook her head, "I would not Kill you, Ganmi of Hodai.... Yet."
He bowed low, "your kindness to this humble fool is much appreciated."
She shook her head and sighed, lazily, stepping under the cool waterfall to rinse the soap off her
scales before it dried and left a residue... "Mmm... well I'm going to soak now... you might want to finish
washing... carefully?" She winked, noting that his arousal grew as she walked past him, unashamed.
He smiled and nodded, "I will do that."
"Yes, of course. Lord Yarimoto has saved my life and my business more than once now, I would be
happy to give you the payment for a new Spear for him." Magura nodded, his mostly unused skill
with 'English' being put to the test now.
Natsumi bowed and smiled, "Thank you sir, I will find some way to repay you."
Magura laughed and patted her shoulder, "That is not necessary; this will be my repaying the Lord
Yarimoto for his help. How is his shoulder?"
She nodded, "It is healing well. I cannot believe James actually shot him..."
"Neither can I... Apparently he doesn't understand what it means to be defeated."
"Ugh," Natsumi rolled her eyes, "He's an idiot in that sense... He's always picking fights he can't win."
"Ahh... 'The man who borrows more than he can repay will life a long, sorrowful life.' That is what my
father taught me," Magura smiled.
Natsumi nodded, "Well, I thank you greatly for this favor Kibotani-san."
Magura smiled and nodded in return, "if there is anything you need, please ask."
"I will, Thank you again." She excused herself and left.
Tokei could not help but stare... He was fascinated by her beauty. She lounged on the submerged flat
rock, lying on her belly, with only the top of her head above the waterline, like the river-dragons in the
lowlands of his home. Tokei Swallowed nervously before speaking, "I guess the legends were not all
true then..."
"Mmm?" she purred, unmoving.
He smiled inching closer, "Though you can vanish and walk on walls... you did not seem to have a
problem with my touch."
She lifted her head to speak, "Except that it lacked confidence." Another smirk followed the taunt.
Though he knew she was only joking, his temper flared slightly, making him bolder, "Perhaps the lady
wishes a better demonstration of my courage?"
Her eye opened and she looked him over, smiling. "If you wish, though I do not require it." Another
smirk as she relaxed again, closing her eye.
Tokei turned in the water and slid over to the rock she lay on, reaching over and putting a hand on her
shoulder. Usuyami's eye ridge moved, but she did not flinch or pull away. He slid the hand down her
scaled back softly; the glass-smooth surface of her opaline scales unique to his senses. As his hand
passed the small of her back, he did not stop, pushing his thumb and middle finger harder as he passes
his fingers over the base of her tail. She exhaled softly as the pressure from his fingers grazed the
nerves there.
"Mmm... I had no doubt of your bravery... but you confidence was what I questioned. Bravery is
standing up and facing against the chance of harm or death. Confidence is just about finishing what you
start." She shifted her posture slightly a little restless from the touches on her tail.
"I seee..." Tokei smiled, using all his fingers to caress down her long tail, gently moving it over the leg
farthest from him as h shifted his touches to that leg, running the caress up the tautly muscled limb,
careful of going against the lay of her scales. "Well, all things permitting, I have every intention to
finish what I'm starting."
She smiled and did not fight him, knowing she needed such intimate attentions, even if it was from
someone who was almost completely unknown to her. She held back the soft hiss as his gentle fingers
found their way to her center, her tail moving aside on its own as she shifted her hips slightly upward.
Tokei smiled and moved closer, leaning over and giving her neck a soft kiss as he ran his fingers
softly along the warm line of her vent, "The lady gives permission?"
Usuyami tilted her head a little at the kiss and purred intensely, "Mmm... it has been some time for
me... be careful..."
Tokei murred and pushed a finger inward, dragging the tip of his digit along the soft inner skin of her
treasure as he nuzzles the edge of her audial scale, whispering, "As you wish..."
She inhaled sharply at the finger, arching her back as she pushed her hips upward to feel more. Tokei
smiled as her back came up out of the water as she pushed up onto her elbows. He kissed at her
shoulders and downward as he moved, wiggling his finger softly to coax her up farther. She moaned
and did just that, lifting her hips until she was on her knees on the low rock.
Tokei paused, but kept his fingers slowly moving in and over her slit, "mmm... little too high..." he
smiled softly and guided her to the side of the low rock he was on. She gave a little hiss at having to
move, but the hiss turned to a moan as his finger tugged at her gently... Being careful not to move to
quickly, she slipped off the laying rock and put her arms on the side of the bath, kneeling so that she
was half-in, half-out of the water; the waterline just over her waist as she leaned against the side of
the bath, her breasts just barely touching the water's surface.
Tokei pushed his finger farther inward, moving behind her as he nibbled and kissed at her neck, he
was fully aroused, his shaft throbbing in need as he wasted no more time. Pulling his finger from her,
and earning a whined moan of dismay from it, he took his shaft in hand and pointed the reddened tip at
her vent. Leaning in, with one hand atop her hip, he wiggled his shaft until the tip parted her slit, her
breath giving a hissed moan as the first contact was made. With the water's help he pushed in slowly,
groaning as the snugness of her around him.
Usuyami hissed and gripped the stone side of the bath as Tokei started to penetrate her. Her mind
raged with mixed feelings as she reflected on the first, and only other male she had ever felt that way...
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"Please... let me go..." Usuyami sobbed. She was twelve, it was a sweltering summer night in the
country of Kifu province, and she was terrified. Her uncle had abducted her from her home and taken
her to a small shack in the forest, where he had tied her up and placed her on a futon. The week
before, her father had been named as first retainer to the Lord of the Akanti, instead of her uncle, who
had been assured of the position.
"My brother has all the things I've ever wanted... Now I shall take from him his most treasured thing..."
The burly jirajin snarled as he disrobed, his thick shaft already at full-mast.
Usuyami yelped and squirmed in her bonds, the ropes pulling out a few of her scales as she struggled
and sobbed. She had been tied too tightly though, and could not escape, "Please... uncle... don't do this."
He laughed evilly and loomed over the futon, "Trust me, niece... soon you will be begging for me to fill
you, just like your whore of a mother."
Usuyami hissed and lashed out with a foot, since he had left her legs untied. Her toe talons raked
across his face and snout, drawing deep cuts and sending him sprawling. She struggled and got to her
knees, running for the door. She got two steps when a heavy hand grabbed her tail and yanked,
popping several of the joints as she fell backward, into her uncle's hardened lap. He gripped her bound
arms and squeezed, making her scream.
"That hurt, you little whelp... I was going to go easy on you, but now I'm just going to enjoy myself..."
He snarled in her ear and licked the side of her face as he lifted her by the shoulders and wiggled his
hips underneath her, settling the tip of his fat cock against her untouched vent.
She wailed and struggled, trying to get her pained tail to cover herself, but he held her fast, wiggling
his hips again to work her virgin slit open and then with a merciless shove, he pushed her down onto
him fully, drawing an ear-splitting cry from her as he tore through her maidenhead like a bull through a
shoji screen. Fully hilted in his younger niece, he growled and gripped her hips roughly, "now, move
your hips, you little slut, or you'll never leave here again."
Usuyami sobbed, unable to move or think because of the pain of having him inside her. He growled
and picked her up slowly, only to drop her onto his fat shaft again, moaning as he filled her abused
vent roughly.
"Fine then, I'll do all the work, since you're useless..." He snarled and bit at her shoulder dominatingly
as he turned and set her on her knees and chest, gripping her hips and starting to pound himself into
her repeatedly.
She sobbed and grunted from the pain of being stuffed and used so roughly. Time stood still for
Usuyami as her uncle used her for his own desires. Hours, maybe even days passed for her. She felt
something warm and sticky erupt from his cock as he gave a particularly hard shove into her sore
depths. He stayed still for a moment, panting over her as outside it started to rain.
"You want more? Don't you?" he sneered.
She sniffled and sobbed, "Please... let me go... no more..."
He growled and yanked her hair, "Don't lie to me you little bitch, you want my cock in you more, don't
you?"
Usuyami struggled to think, her pain-addled mind unwilling to work for her, but she did gather that he
wanted her to beg for it, so she used a skill learned on her teachers, and told him exactly what he
wanted to hear, "y-yes, uncle... please... more..." she sobbed.
"That's better... I'll give you what you want then..." He growled lustily and started pumping himself in
her again, drawing yelps and sobs from the abused girl under him. His first load of seed seeped from
her bleeding vent as he continued to pleasure himself with her. After another short while he pulled out
of her abused hole and flipped her roughly, gripping her hair and pulling her head up as he worked his
other hand over his shaft quickly, groaning as the head swelled before her tear-filled eyes and then
erupted in several pulses of thick semen, leaving he face and chest splattered with the heavy spunk.
"Mmmm... now you look just like your mother..." He laughed uproariously. But his laugh stopped short
as a sword tip sprouted from his chest.
"This strike is mortal, brother..." Usuyami's father hissed from behind his larger brother, eyes aflame
with rage, "But you will not die yet... You have done the unthinkable, and for your transgressions, I will
make sure you last five days before I let you die..."
"H-Hakkichi... you bastard..." Her uncle hissed and gurgled as she passed out, knowing her father was
there to keep her safe.
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"Nnn... S-Shidomori-san?" Tokei's groaned voice brought her back to the current moment. He looked
at her, blinking, "y-you were crying..."
She blinked and realized there were tears in her eyes...
"Did I hurt you?" he asked, worried.
She shook her head and shivered as he shifted his weight, his fully-hilted shaft moving inside her a
little. "Mmm... n-no... just, bad memories, I'm fine."
"you are certain?" he asked again, leaning against her a little more, his shaft pushing in a little more,
making her moan softly.
"Trust me..." she smiled and purred, squeezing herself around him and making him gasp.
Ahh... Th-that... I see... Well then..." He smiled and pulled back, then pushed into her depths again
slowly, enjoying the feeling of her surrounding his length.
She hissed softly in pleasure as he began pleasing her, his shaft wasn't overly thick, but he was long
and thick enough to bring pleasure to all the places she needed it. Her tail curled around his hip a little,
pulling him in a little faster as she rocked back against his hips, the water starting to splash around
their mating.
"Sh-Shidomori... san... you're so tight..." Tokei groaned as he gained speed, feeling her inner walls
clutch at his sliding member as he worked to please her.
Usuyami hissed and moaned, rocking against him harder as the pleasure grew. She increased the
pace again, and after a few thrusts from him she felt a strange 'pop' every time he pulled from her.
She gasped at each time but after a few more thrusts, he wasn't getting into her as deeply... Words
were a thing of the past as the passion soared, Tokei gripping her hips and rutting her eagerly now, his
knot mashing against her vent with each thrust. Lost in the moment, Tokei snarled a little as he pulled
back to his tip and then pulled on Usuyami's hips as he thrust into her. She yelped at the force of the
thrust, but more so at the feeling of Tokei's knot being shoved into her.
"Ahh! Wh-what?" she panted out, looking back as he growled and yipped, his thrust now short and
fast, tugging his knot within her. The feeling of being pulled from within sent Usuyami over the edge
and she gripped the side of the bath, her talons gouging the stone as her climax tore through her
senses. Tokei yipped again as her walls convulsed over him, his furred sac pulling in close to his body
as his cock leapt and exploded with his orgasm, pumping a full load of his seed deep into her body.
They stayed there for a moment before she pulled away from him, only to find she couldn't pull off of
his shaft. Each tug she made sent little sparks along her spine, "Ahh... wh-what's going on?"
Tokei blushed and panted, catching his breath... "I'm sorry; I got caught up in it... I didn't mean to tie
you..."
"Tie?" She blinked, looking over her shoulder at where his hips were pressed against her rear.
He blushed, "Kyujin males... and Kibajin, I hear... well our manhoods have a spot at the base that
swells when we reach our peak..."
She perked an eye ridge and blinked, "I wonder why..."
Tokei smiled, "You notice there's many more Kibajin and Kyujin than any of the other races? It's for
breeding purposes."
She blushed and then smiled coyly, "Ahh... you were intending to breed me, is that it?"
He gasped and blushed, "n-not intentionally..." He looked down, "but if it happens... I would be
honored..."
She laughed and patted his cheek, "Well, it won't happen... I was... damaged. Quite some time ago, not
that anyone knows it."
He bowed his head, "I am sorry..."
"Don't be. I'm all right with it. Besides, being gravid would only slow me down."
He shook his head, "No, I meant that I am sorry, because the world will never see what beautiful
children you could have had."