CHI NO TORA/BLOOD OF TIGER.DAI NI BU/SECOND PART

We walk on for a few hours keeping a brisk pace,both The Warrior and Tennami keep a careful watch on each side,meanwhile Kiko seems to be almost joyous suddenly.
''What is that amulet you cling to so?"
For a moment I am not paying the slightest attention,Tennami is the one who whispers to me"Kiko-chan was speaking to you,she is quite a vicious creature if unanswered,I promise."I like the way he speaks in this moment,unlike before,it is gentle and playful he even smirks as he and I both hear Kiko walk up closer and impatiently asks again,lacking any formality this time.

"Usagi-chan....."I hear the Warrior speak up just the once,That alone seemed to pull her back.
If but a little bit.
"My inheritance,my...my grandmother passed away not long ago,not long at all,she wrote that she wanted me to have this as a remembrance of sorts."
The Warrior signals me ,I take the heft of Tennami while the Warrior,kneels down to listen closely to the ground,I even hear a growing sound that is like hitched roar,one that also has voices carrying on with them.
I decide to finish my words to Kiko and just trust that GOD sent me here now and with an ally to make it out of here safely.
"A remembrance that will is more important than a weapon,hope that you will have what you want rather than fearing you won't.She said this locket is like a manifestation of all her hopes and dreams,her very will for what she wanted most in this world,it carries mine to since she put it on me right after birth and she only took it back because I could not bear to keep it when she first feel ill years and years ago.."
"Interesting,is it not cousin Ten-san?"
Only a brief moment passes that the young man,this honey eyed young warrior noble's son glances to it then to my eyes which are momentarily caught by surprise with there intensity."Bold One!"
I can't believe I turned so quickly to that like I have heard that before said to me but it seemed much warmer when I heard it,whenever I heard it...
"Do you see that marking?Like a shrine over a river edge."
I nod,I visited this inn many times as a child on my frequent visits headed to Grandmothers,"There are three of them,they carry something horrific..."
The warriors eyes light in a way that seems so eerie in a way,like they just know what I am about to say and do.
The Warrior quickly takes Tennami from my arms,Kiko follows suit,watching that brief moment with scrutiny and I kneel into the grass by the path side,praying fervently for GOD to help me do this.
The Warrior takes to my side and readjusts his mask to better cover after it cracked in the previous encounter saving me yesterday.

"I feel it around you Bold One,let your eyes not see them,just your soul.That way you can never fail at taking a evil from the world and saving an innocent from them."
That,wording.

My eyes remain closed and I try to sense around me while my eye well up"How can you have faith in one you know nothing of,in someone small and insignificant like me...."
"Is an ant insignificant?I have yet to see stronger warriors than they and they are smaller than most things."

My heart,traitorous thing...
I feel outwardly,not trying to instead allowing the senses to flow out and there about five minutes ahead of us are the creatures.
The blood of tiger
Three and all dragging along with them those they killed with the hate that they had been captured with as cubs,I see there past as I sense them near us.More of there vicious treatment follows into my mind,I warn The Warrior who is already taking the rear of our group and unsheathing his sword in a flash of a quick breath and he is off while I try something out.

Letting my self breath in and set my mind to it,I listen to the souls crying out and find that along with those that had been vicious towards them as cubs I heard the voice of  mother and little girl who had been torn apart in there attacks."Who are you?"I ask,trying to help The Warrior by also attempting to use the blood on the guilty tigers bodies to keep them from pouncing on him.

"We were only visiting my father,Those,those awful merchant men called there swordsmen to throw us into there pit to make money on how fast they would devour us!"
No.
GOD help me to let this work.