Chapter 16 - Festival 3

While Yasaka took Kunou to the washroom she didn't noticed that some people were following her. While Kunou was in the washroom she went towards a tree and sat under it. She placed her hand on her head where Tatsuya had patted her and rubbed it unconsciously. A smile appeared on her face and she started remembering all the things that she did with Tatsuya during the day.

Suddenly she felt that something was about to hit her and she immediately disappeared from that spot and the spot where she was sitting now had several knives stuck in the tree. If she hadn't moved she would have injured her shoulder.

She narrowed her eyes and said in a cold voice, "who dares to attack me come in front of me right now." She more like demanded it. Suddenly she was attacked from every direction but Yasaka didn't flinched and made a barrier around her.

"Well well nothing less to be expected from the leader of the Youkai faction." Suddenly a man with a huge stature appeared and stood in some distance from Yasaka while looking at her with a smirk on his face. Yasaka who recognised the man had an enraged expression on her face, she started to release her aura and asked in an cold and angry tone, "what are you doing here and how dare you attack me, you do know that attacking me would lead you to serious consequences right?" The man who was most probably a Youkai started laughing maniacally.

Yasaka who was trying to figure out why he was doing it but the man stopped laughing and answered her queries. The man looked at Yasaka with an excited expression and said, "There wil be no consequences because as of today I would be the leader of the faction after I kill you." Yasaka who heard this again narrowed her eyes and said, "You should stop daydreaming you know better than anyone else that you cannot defeat me and because of that attitude of yours you were not made the leader."

The man got enraged and gave Yasaka a hateful glare and said, "Those damn geezers think that you were a better choice than me huh, I will deal with them once I am done with you." Yasaka didn't said anything and stared attacking him with her senjutsu. The man also didn't stood still and stared his own attacks towards her. After a couple of minutes of fighting the man was on the ground and Yasaka looked at him coldly and said, "surrender now and I can guarantee that you will not be killed." The man when heard this snorted and said, "still acting mighty as always huh let's see what you can do now." The man made a bright flash and blinded Yasaka's vision. Yasaka who was expecting an attack immediately made a barrier around her but she didn't felt that any attack hit her barrier. She opened her eyes and saw that she was surrounded by many Youkai who were ready to attack her anytime. She also noticed that the man had also disappeared from his place.

Yasaka was about to attack the Youkai but stopped when she heard the man's voice. "I don't think that it is a good idea to attack us, at least look behind first." Yasaka turned around with an angry expression on her face but her face immediately turned into one with worry. "Not so high and mighty now eh." The man standing behind her was the same man she was fighting a bit ago and he had captured Kunou and was pointing a blade on Kunou's neck. Kunou's mouth was already gagged and she was also tied up with restraining chains.

Seeing her daughter like that Yasaka stopped and said, "Leave my daughter out of this, she has nothing to do with your goal." Yasaka was very angry but calmed herself down for the sake of her daughter. The man looked at Yasaka with amus.e.m.e.nt and said, "how is she not involved with my goal isn't she the Princess of Youkai. This means that eliminating her is also very important for my goal."

Hearing this Yasaka again tried to attack him but the man said, "don't try to do something stupid you don't want any bloodshed do you" he moved the blade closer to Kunou neck and some blood came out. Yasaka immediately stopped and said, "I will do anything you want just leave my daughter alone." Kunou who heard this wanted to refute her but was not able to speak anything.

"Hoo~ you will do anything I say, is that right." The man turned towards one of his subordinates and gestured him something. The subordinate nodded and moved towards Yasaka and bound her with restraining chains. "Now you would not be able to do anything unnecessary." He looked towards his subordinates and said, "men carry take her to the headquater, we still require her to be used as the bargaining chip against those geezers."

Like that they reached the old storehouse and Yasaka and Kunou were thrown in the room which the man entered. Kunou kept on crying and was trying to say something but was unable to. She kept on praying for someone to help her and her mother and thought of Tatsuya.

Yasak was worried about Kunou and was thinking of ways to free her out of this situation but nothing came to her mind.

The man had sent some of his subordinates to inform the Youkai faction about the situation and his demands and was now waiting for them to respond.

The man took a seat on a chair and started waiting. After a while the man got bored and looked towards Yasaka and Kunou. He looked at them for a while and then a maniac like expression appeared on his face. The man stto up and walked towards the mother and daughter.

When he approached them he raised both of their chins with his fingers and said, "you know what you don't look bad, I guess we can have a little 'fun' before the people of the faction arrives.

Hearing him Yasaka got panicked and said, "You can do anything you want to me but please don't touch my daughter she is just a kid." Yasaka said with tears flowing from her eyes.

Kunou didn't knew what was happening but when she saw her mother crying she knew that whatever the man meant by 'fun' was not good for them at all.

The man laughed like a sinister and threw Kunou away. When Yasaka saw the man coming closer to him she knew that she was about to be ravaged. She closed her eyes and silently crying so as to not make Kunou even more worried. She too was praying for someone to help her as she was very scared. Just as the man was about to tear Yasaka's kimono someone kicked opened the door. All of them looked towards the door and saw someone standing there.

When the dust cleared Yasaka an Kunou widened their eyes when they saw who was standing there. It was none other than the person they were hoping for..... Tatsuya