Tales Of The Silhouette King

[Neko_Shinobi]

With a flick of her wrist Neko set the knife flying into the wall behind the demon, leaving a thin red line to trickle blood from his neck. It wasnt a fatal cut by a long shot, but definitely meant to hurt and the demons attention. "He's really talkative for a dead guy." She pointed, readying her next knife. "So, what is the plan with him. All his men are dead, and hes hold up in here with what looks like the villages food supply, and their woman." She pointed out, motioned with her non knife wielding hand to the huddle of terrified villagers in the corner.

"Do you mind if I ask how it happened?" Isuna asked, not sure how touchy a subject it was. "If you dont want to explain that's fine, I don't want to overstep. You can ask me something instead of you want."  

[Star Stealing Kidd]

The villagers moved huddling in the corner staring at Neko and Tear before pulling in a young demon to hide there face. " Please, Take mercy on us." The demon said quietly.

Tear shifted a little and sighed looking at Neko. " I was going to take him to the castle for punishment. But I don't want to deal with that paper work." The King started and held his hand out. " Take care of him. Will have the Knights come deal with the bodies shortly." Tear said.

The bandit snarled and tried to get free. " I'll kill you king Tear. " He yelled and twisted ripping his arms free from the rafters before going right for Tear. As he did that he was stopped, frozen in time. " It's better you don't lay a hand on the king." Tear explained holding his hand out. " Shall I stop your heart from beating and your lungs from working? So you can slowly suffocate to death? Or would you rather my Shadow deal with you?" Tear asked. This was the part of Tear that people feared.

- -


Akuro blinked a bit and laughed. " I was dealing with a man who came in, The Ambulance attendance said they couldn't get a read on his heart and was pronounced dead. So I was just doing the last bit of paper work and getting it ready for Natsuko to deal with the body because she runs the morgue." He started. " As I was taking it downstairs, the body sat back up and he attacked me. Nearly ripped my ******** neck out." The Vampire said and touched his neck slightly where the scar still was.

" Kurama found me and stitched the wound up but I was out cold for a few days before my heart stopped. Well Natsuko was dealing with my body I woke up on he table and went for her." He sighed a little. " Ive never seen my sister so scared." The vampire felt bad for that. " I ran away, I didn't make contact with my sister for a few years until Kurama told me I should so I spoke to her again. But I was trying to track down the guy who did this to me and I never found him" The vampire let out an annoyed sigh. " I still can't find the ******** and even with Hiei's help. "  

[Neko_Shinobi]

Neko had ported instantly from Tears Shadow, standing between the King and the frozen Raider demon. Her ears where pinned back as held her knife at the ready. Even if the demon was frozen in time, she didn't appreciate the attempt on her new Employers life. "I can take care of him here if youd like to escort these ladies out, Sir."

Isuna nodded, still walking as she listened. "I'm sorry you had to go through such an ordeal. What will you do once you find him?"  

[Star Stealing Kidd]

Tear didnt flinch when the raider got in his face or when Neko got between them. He waited a few seconds and nodded. " I'll deal with the ladies. Once I leave he'll be free." The King said, meaning his hold on time would stop and he would be free to move again.

He took a step back and turned toward the ladies to help them up. " Come with me, I've already contacted the castle about spending Knights this way. The Knights will escort you to the next village and help you get started there. This Village is to damaged." Tear explained walking out with the ladies and found Saito's partner to speak to her about the plans.

- - -

Akuro shrugged as he walked toward the store that Kazu owned and opened the door. " Kill him, If I kill him there a chance I can become Human again. Or I'll thank him. I haven't decided yet" AKuro said opening the door and looking around. The smell of smoke and booze thick. " Kazu?"

Kazu was sitting at his desk working on some stuff again well the small hell hound boy was sitting ontop of the desk reading. " Kazu look! People!"  

[Neko_Shinobi]

Neko smiled. "I can handle it. I'll be out shortly." She put her knife blade up to the Demons forehead. The blade tip barely touching him. Once the time freeze ended, the forward momentum he had from jumping at Tear would force him to impale himself on the knife. "And now we wait..."

Isuna tilted her head slightly, noting the new addition to Kazus clinic. "Oh...sorry for disturbing you Kazu...is he a patient?" Isuna asked, noting the kid was grossly underweight.  

[Star Stealing Kidd]

As time went, the demon fell right into Neko's blade. His eyes crossed as he screamed out in pain.

The woman had all left the hut and where standing around Tear who was speaking. He held a hand out of course looking at Lord Saito's wife and bowed before standing back up. " I apologize for the death of your husband. This is why My knights will be taking you to a new village. We will give you some gold to start as well. " Tear talked to the woman a bit longer before he stood straight up.

It didn't take to long for a few knights to show up. Mukuro standing behind them. The woman looked toward Tear and nodded. " Will handle this. Please head forward. You still have to be in another village." Mukuro said. Tear shifted and let out a small sigh before he shoved his hands into his pocket. " Neko and I shall head there. I'm going to portal there." He said.

- - - -

Kazu shook his head. " No, It's the ******** slave Kid that Hiei went off and saved and dumped here for me to look after till his done work today or something." Kazu let out a sigh. " His name is Jencho, His a Hell hound Drow." Kazu explained.

" Hiei....saved a kid from a slave trade?" The vampire was confused and crossed his arms leaning toward the young dark skinned boy. " Is this what Hiei wanted me to grab? It's going to have to wait till when Isuna and I are ready."  

[Neko_Shinobi]

In a matter of seconds Neko had ended the Raider leader, walking out of the hut while cleaning off her knife and putting it away. She took a breath, looking out at the village before joining Tear as the Knight showed up with Mukuro.

As he mentioned porting over to the next Village, she raised a brow slightly, surprised that he was willing to try it again so soon. "Ready to head out as soon as you are, Lord Tear." She kept her tone professional in front of Mukuro, not wanting to incur any unnecessary attention from the woman.

Isunas tail swishes as smiled at Jencho. "Its nice to meet you Jencho. My names Isuna, I'm a medic at the castle. This Akuro, were friends of Hieis." She explained, not wanting to make the kid uncomfortable.  

[Star Stealing Kidd]

Tear shifted and pointed at one of the females and two cloaked figures. " Those three go back to the castle. They offered to join us for battle and protection." Tear started and Mukuro snorted " There weak" She started.

Tear shook his head. " The young Lady standing there with blood all over here and two cloak figured. That's Kidd Ramsden, The Puppet master. She would be a great person to have on our team and my scouting unit. She comes back to the castle." Tear said.

" Who the hell is Kidd Ramsden" Mukuro started and Tear smirked and seriously you could hear it in his voice. " The Run away Puppet Princess. She's well know for ripping souls out of humans and demons and placing them into dolls. She wants to work for me so let it." Hiei said and nodded before looking at Neko. He didn't want to use the shadows he'd be happy with a portal knife but his knife was still broken from awhile back so it had to shadow port. " Alright, We are heading South West, It's the small town before demon capital, A few of the lower lords and I where suppose to meet there in an hour." Tear said walking away from Mukuro.

- -

Jen smiled and waved jumping off the table and looking at Isuna's tail before looking at Akuro and blinked. " You smell like the dead" He said and looked at Isuna. " You smell like pretty pretty plants!" He smiled and grabbed Isuna's hand and looked at Kazu." I wanna go with them. Your boring."

" Kid, you could play in traffic for all I care." Kazu said with a sigh grabbing his booze and coffee. He was low on food and was getting angry. It was easy to tell.  

[Neko_Shinobi]

Neko looked over, curious about the puppet user. Her tail twitched as she watched the Knights move about and Tear walk away from Mukuro. She moved to join Tear, giving a quick wave to the orange haired woman. "I'm familiar with the area. I can bring us out just outside the village." She explained moving toward a shadow cast by one of the huts. "Take a deep breath and let all of it out as you go through, closing your eyes might help too." She offered, holding her hand out as she stood in the shadow.

Once Tear took her hand, It would be a second or two before they walked out of a shadow cast by some pillars outside the next village.

Isuna smiled a bit at Jenchos antics. "Akuro and I have an errand to run to collect some supplies. We have to climb a mountain and get some sap from a tree for some medicine" she explained. "Kazu, do you need anything while we're out? You look like you're getting low on personal essentials." She pointed out, noticing the pile of not good sustenance  

[Star Stealing Kidd]

Mukuro sighed and dropped her head about the new member joining the team. She waved watching Tear and Neko leave before she turned to deal with clean up.

Tear had waited a second before grabbing Neko's hand and walking into the shadow. Coming out the other end he shivered a little and shook his head. " I'm not sure if I'll ever get used to that. " Tear said as he looked around the area. He moved fixing his mask before walking toward the town. He moved pulling his cloak hood over his face and started to walk. " The meeting point is just this way." He said glancing toward the Shadow cat before heading down a back alley and coming to a door. He knocked on it lightly.

He waited a second before he mumbled a word and the door open. " She's with me" Was all he said as they walked into the room. Sitting around where S class and A class demons. " King Tear, What took you so long? Where is Lord Saito?" One asked.

" Dead, Let's get this meeting done so I can finish the rest of my duties for the day" Tear said sitting down at one of the big chairs and crossed his arms. Lord where talking and go over things and ideas to feed to Tear and how they wanted this in there land and so on and so forth. When the topic of Sex and Slave Trade came up Tear was very stern on the word No. " That will not be in any lands. Like I said, No Sex no Slaves and no more eating Humans. " Tear snapped.

The one Lord waved his hand. " You are going to ruin this. Human eating, and those types of trades have been around for years. Even before you could walk. You can't change this s**t." The lord said hitting his hand on the table. " Not to mention we need to deal with the topic of Able Miuere and his b*****d Son." The one lord said.

" Kazu, is on my land working for me. His mine you can back off." Tear snapped and pointed at the lord speaking. " You were the one that requested that Able start up show in your land. His your issue to deal with." Tear added and moved waving his hand. " I made you sub lords to help control the lands when I can't be there. But if you all continue this. I will take your power away " Tear threaten.
- - -

Jen sighed and crossed his arms with a sigh. " I have to stay with him? His such a downer." The Hound said and sat back down on the desk to read another book.

" I need another few bottles of Booze and smokes." Kazu started and Akuro rolled his eyes. " Idiot food. Actual Food." Akuro said and Kazu shook his head at that. " No, I need to deal with that myself." Kazu explained.  

[Neko_Shinobi]

Neko snickered a little as Tear commented on the porting. With a shrug, she shifted her attire to a black snug fitting T-shirt and black slacks, keeping her jacket and boots though. It was the closest she was going to get to business attire for now. She followed Tear to the meeting place, keeping her poker face as she moved to stand to the side of his chair, hands folded behind her back.

At the mention of Abel and Kazu, she tensed her fists behind her back. A small nerve in her jaw twitched slightly, but she relaxed quickly hearing Tears response. She was definitely going to need a cigarette after this one.

Isuna smiled a bit. "Just for a little bit. We didn't know Hiei was sending us to pick someone up."  

[Star Stealing Kidd]

" Able is left for you to deal with Lord Kaiya" Tear said and rested his chin on his hand staring at the rest who started to go at it again and screaming and yelling about new plans. The time demon struggled to stay calm before he slammed his hand on the table. " Shut up, All of you." He snarled.

It went quiet fast after that. They all settled down as Tear fixed his mask and stood up. " The laws stay, I'm passing them today. No more sex or slave Trades. No more eating humans. Find a new way to survive, We have other things you can do to live off. " Tear said and through the paper on the table. " And you all stay the ******** away from Kazuhiro. His under my protection." He snapped.

Akuro smiled and waved a little. " Will be back to pick him up shortly Kazu. Don't worry" The vampire said turning to leave with the fox demon.  

[Neko_Shinobi]

Neko had caught her tail in her hands, needing something to keep her hands from fidgeting, and her tail from giving away her nerves. The side that faced the group though, was a blank wall of zero emotion, stone still and ready in case someone got a stupid idea. She didn't even flinch as the table was slammed. She did however have to bite the inside of her cheek from squeezing her tail to tight. She released it quickly, letting a breath out quietly, trying to relax.

Isuna waved. "We'll be back later." She followed Akuro out and back toward the market. Taking a book out of her bag she opened it to a hand drawn map and pointed to some mountains in the north. "This is where we are headed"  

[Star Stealing Kidd]

It was only a few moments before the others got up leaving before Tear. The time demon only glanced toward those in the room before feeling a knife skim passed him and into the chair by his cheek. Opening his eyes slowly he narrowed them on the Wind demon crouched down on the table with a long blade pointed at Tear's throat.

" You've been at this for two years and we still don;t accept these changes. The small changes the first year was fine but all this new s**t is getting tiring. Someone needs to put you in your place. King Tear." The wind demon hissed out.

- - -
Akuro glanced toward the book and stared at the map before grabbing Isuna's hand and heading that way. " Well lets get this party started then." He said with a smile on his face. For once it was a fun job and not a stressful job.  

[Neko_Shinobi]

There would be a moment were the Wind demon would blink, and suddenly realize that the woman that had been standing next Tear was no longer there. Or atleast, that's what Neko told herself as she ported out of the demons shadow. Her own knife at his throat and her hand wrapping around the one that held the sword, holding it in a way so he couldn't rush forward. "You're going to want to drop that sword. Now." She instructed. Speaking quietly into the demons ear. "I will strangle you with your own Shadow otherwise." She hissed.

The low lighting was ideal for her. The familiar glow of her eyes seemed brighter in it, and around her the shadows stirred, waiting to be given an order. She had to admit, she was damn close to happy to be given an outlet for having stood there quietly for so long.

Isuna "smiled, walking with Akuro. "You know, I could get us there a little faster if you dont want to walk all that way.