CHI NO TORA/BLOOD OF TIGER.DAI ICHI BU/FIRST PART

Why don't I hear anything here?
There is blood EVERYWHERE and I don't hear a sound of anger,fear,sadness.

Nothing.

This momentarily stops my tears and keeps me instead at a standstill,I watch the trio before me instead,it is not like I have anywhere to go and I feel inately safe with this masked warrior,not so much with this child but even so a child she is and needs help,
I think.
"Who is this man Usagi-chan?"
The warrior asks,his voice turning soft like one would to there favorite child family member,Kiko beams at the name while the Warrior never turns his gaze away from the young man called Tennami,he on the other hand is leaning with his back against the broken carriages with t=his clothes tattered and his sword broken,jagged edged like something somehow.....bit it in half.

I am too tired to hide my surprise and too paranoid now to not take quick glances around us,wondering what real life thing could have done this to a katana that from here,with my studying gaze notices it is a high quality made katana that only a master could shape,a one only a noble would have....
Oh.

"I tried to send word to uncle,to keep him from going back home and another messenger to warn you and the servants away but it seems far too late now.Uncle did not make it through the attack?Any of the servants?"The young man asks,eyes even more alert with each person mentioned in detail.
Namely the fate of the fair Hana.

Kiko responds,gently to his words,even tries to soothe his grief that came in like part of his namesake.It makes me tear up but I don't know him and I have an odd feeling when I look at him as though we are rather peculiarly bound and that scares me deep to my bones.

When I glance up to look at The Warrior,I see how the sunlight that is casting to tell us it is well past noon and it tells me the shade of his eyes,Like jade.They seem troubled by this man as well then he turns to see what made some sound or other only to find me staring at those eyes and,uncharacteristically  bold of me,
I don't look away,I don't want to.
Neither does he.

"We should all leave now,They will most likely return by nightfall,that is when all this happened and I couldn't reach Lord Takahira in time."

Kiko looks on at him in surprise and the Warrior just grunts in annoyance as he lifts the young man up,signaling me near to help Tennami on his other side.Kiko grabs the bag her cousin bids and I take the arm of the young man Tennami,wrap it around my shoulders while the Warrior does likewise,I feel it wiser to be quiet from some reason but thankfully Kiko asks what I am thinking right now.

"What will return by nightfall?"

Both men speak in unison.

"Chi no tora"

Blood of tiger?
"Great more blood......."I whisper to myself praying to go home or anywhere but here.