Samurai of Fate: Kubo and the two strings

Orphaned Girl

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Kubo and the two Strings:Head Canon

The Samurai of Fate

by Casey Benne

You all know the story of Kubo and his great adventure of searching for the armour along with his traveling companions who turned out to be his long lost family, and him defeating his evil god grandfather; the Moon King. But do know the story of Hanzo and Sariatu? Or better yet the tale of one of his loyal samurai? Well just so know I happened to be once Hanzo's apprentice. My name is Seika, and this is my story.

I was sleeping peacefully in the small tunnel of my cave I call home on the cold hard ground, until the rose up bringing bout of a new day. I creaked my eyes opened, gave myself a good stretch, got up on my feet, embraced the warmth of the sun shining down upon my face and. I've always enjoy this every moment before I start my day going hunting to get myself breakfast since I'm always alone in the wilderness. The farlands were no place for any man, woman, or child because this place is always crawling yokai or demons but they don't bother me. I'm always careful and vigilent. The only reason I'm out here all by myself is that my parents were killed by a group of bandits that kidnapped me five years ago. They thought they could sell me and gain some good price because there are rarely people born with red hair. Some say red is the color luck, but where was luck when I needed it the most? I guess it wasn't mean't for me. I managed to escape my fate before those savages could do anything to me. Every village I went people stare at me either I was worth something or not. That's when I learn I couldn't trust people anymore. So here I am a lone wolf.

As I walked through the forest, I scavenged to find any trace of source for food, or better yet some tracks. I looked through every bush, climbed every tree, I even went to stop by the river for a drink. I was able to find some berries, catch some rabbits, but then I spotted something that catched my eye in the dirt; boar hoof prints. I examined them carefully and they looked to be fresh so which means the animal could be close by. I followed the tracks, got my bow and arrow out as I walked silently and kept a sharp eye out for my prey through the woods. When suddenly I heard a loud pig squeal I pursued.

I rushed and jumped through every obstacle and found not just the boar, but two men wearing samurai armor. They caught the beast in a trap hanging struggling to get out, one of the samurai brought out his sword killed it. As I hid behind a tree and listened in to what they were saying. "Looks like we're having pork tonight my friend." he said. "No kidding, look at the size of this thing, we even make a feast out of it." the other samurai said. He was right the boar was about the size of a boulder. If I had caught that thing before they did it would of save me the time without struggling find more food everyday. "Let's get this thing back to camp, everyone is gonna enjoy this." They cut the beast down from the trap, and picked it up. These men they were remarkably strong to carry something that big, not even I could handle something like that. I was thinking about moving on and find something else, but then again after hearing the growling sound of my belly I desperate on finding a descent meal. So I made the most stupidest decision that would cost me my own life.

I carefully used my stealth pursuing the samurai as the carried the giant boar to their camp. I quickly climbed up the nearest tree and jumped from branch to every branch without making the slightest sound for them knowing my presence. As I continued following them I was impressed on how much they were able to endure carrying all of that weight. Who ever these people and what clan they were from they must be very strong, but they could probably be dangerous. Which means I must watch my step and avoid contact if I have any hope of snatching myself anything from these guys. When I made my next jump my foot got caught in one of the branches and I tripped, I catch myself in time before I could even fall, but it caused a ruckus in the trees making some leaves falls. The samurai stopped, before they could even look up, I quickly got up and hide. "Is something wrong, Genki?" the samurai asked his friend holding the boar up front looking in the air. "I could've sworn I saw something." he said. "Probably a monkey or something." They shrugged it off and continued returning to camp. I sighed in relief thinking if they had caught me I might've been dead.

I may have took a while but, they have finally reached the camp, it was a small camp with a very few samurai probably six, but thankfully it looked easy enough for me to sneak in. I silently climbed down the tree and made sure they didn't see me. Before I snuck in and noticed a salt line that circled their camp; I remembered my mother telling me salt is a useful tool to help prevent and ward off demons. So I jumped over the salt line without ruining it. I hid behind the tent and watch the men who caught the boar showed their allies their prize. "Great job you two it looks like we're going to have a good meal tonight." one of them said. "Let's skin and roast this boar 'cause I'm starving." the other said. "Don't be impatient, Toru, we'll all have our share soon." another said. "But it's going to be a while to cook this thing and besides it's still morning we'll have rice for now." Rice that's something I haven't had in long time, I remembered the time when father and I go picking for rice and mother always helping prepare rice and mixing it up with the best ingredients to make the taste so exquisite. I spotted pot boiling over the fire which means they have the rice ready to cook. My mouth was watering I couldn't stand waiting I wished they hurried up. The smell of food was so good my stomach began to growl it was making so much noise I could even hear it; even the samurai. "Whoa Daizo, was that you?" one of the samurai asked. "No" he shook his head as he turned. I ducked down hiding and held my breath, sweating nervously. If these guys catch me it could mean the end of me, I watch the suspicious samurai walked by checking his surroundings, I remained low and quiet and when he finally gave up he walked away. I knew from within that moment I could stay out here too long, the best solution was look around camp and find their stocks, and get out of here before anyone notices. Although it would ashamed to get a piece of meat out from that boar.

I crawled and checked each and every tent to find what I was looking for, until I finally found one with baskets of peaches, assorted vegetables, and nuts. I grabbed my sack and started filling it up as much as I can. Once I had it completely full I sealed it up and tied it around my waste. I peeked through the tent to make sure the coast was clear and silently walked out of the tent trying to make my exit. Just when things were starting to look up, I failed to pay attention to my surroundings and accidently tripped one of the wires that were holding up one of the tents, which caused a scene and brought unwanted attention. They shouted and came right after me, as I quickly got up and tried to escape. One them shot an arrow pinning me down without injury. The samurai grabbed me I struggled to get away. "Alright, calm down kid, just who are you and why are sneaking around our camp?" I did not answer, instead I grabbed my knife and slashed across his face dropping me. Before I could even escape another samurai got in the way. He pulled out his sword and attacked, I evaded and the next and did a backwards kick in his jaw. He backed up and touched his lip to find blood, and looked at me angrily and swung his sword again. I kept on dodging his attacks, but I was losing balance by the speed of his attacks, I fell and landed to the ground, I looked up, saw his incoming attack, and rolled out of the way, then I kicked the sword out of his hands and tackled him down, when I was about to land a punch in the face. Someone attacked me from behind and knocked me out cold.