Chapter 3

As the Lord Prince advanced towards the bloody field, his men cleared the path as he made his way through them. The Lord Physician who was trying to reason with the grey cloaked figure grew quiet as his eyes landed on the withdrawn sword of the Lord Prince which was already dripping with blood. Did he kill anyone? This was the thought of the Lord Physician as the red crimson liquid dripped from the weapon of intense violence.

Indeed, if one was to head back to the once crowded inn, he would find it littered with bodies. For what reason, no one knew.

The figure clothed in black and red identified as the Raven lord advanced further until he reached a sword length to the figure in grey. Without uttering a word, the lord Prince put on his helmet and raised his sword beckoning on the grey cloaked figure to come at him.

'You're not hurting anyone else in this village." The grey figure cloaked said to his opponent before charging at his opponent with his axe raised. The Lord Prince braced himself as their weapons clashed in a terrifying spark of light.

The fight continued as it seemed the two fighting figures were evenly matched in strength. Not until the Lord Prince stopped playing defense and turned the attacker. The grey cloaked figure fell back as the enraged Lord Prince didn't allow him time to prepare himself for the quick, calculated strikes. Seeing that if he allowed himself to move any more back, he would be sorry, the Lord Prince's opponent suddenly stood his ground as the Lord Prince made another strike, the force bringing him to his knees. With one knee already on the ground the figure in grey, pushed back with all his strength knocking the Lord Prince back and as the raven lord staggered back, his opponent did not allow him time to regain his composure before giving him a heavy blow of his own but the Lord Prince blocked the impact without much effort his bloody sword, surprisingly cutting through the heavy axe. The eyes of the grey opponent widened as the sword released its hold in the cut edge of his axe and suddenly slashed towards his abdomen and he took the opportunity to attack the raven lords' face, his weapon knocking off his helmet. He smiled thinking that maybe finally he has been able to gain the upper hand in the fight but then he gave at a gasp of pain as a cold metal cut through him. He fell back landing on the ground his axe beside him. His opponent advanced towards him with blood dripping down from the cold metal in his hand.

"No, dad!" a tiny voice was heard as a young boy charged towards the fighters. The fighters froze and turned towards the voice as a young boy of about 10 years old came running to lie on the side of the fallen grey cloaked figure

"No Yuri, go back." The fallen fighter shoved a blood stained hand trying to push away the young boy clinging to him. The sobbing boy kept right on to his fathers' side refusing to move an inch until a shadow suddenly appeared and shoved the tiny clingy boy away from his dying father. The crying boy refused to stay down as he rushed back to grab the leg of the lord about to put an end to his father.

"No, stop. Don't hurt dad. Please, hfffff...stop...ppp...Don't hurt my daddy." The still sobbing boy pleaded, still gripping the leg of the intended murderer. It seemed the Lord Prince was having second thoughts as he stood still for a while, making no further attempt to shove the boy away from him. The Raven lord reached with a hand and lifted the sobbing mess away from his legs and lifted him to his face, staring at him for a while with a blank expression on his face but then suddenly a look of anger flashed through his face and he threw the boy with a devastating force away from him against a wall. The boy landed with a thud, blood gushing from his mouth and passed out.

Before anyone could make any further moves, the Raven lords' sword slashed through the head of the grey cloaked figure already passing out from loss of blood, splitting his skull in two.

Kakashi's Pov:

Huh! I knew this will happen. This has gone out of hand. Granted, the Lord Prince is ruthless, but he was never one to kill without a reason. His irrational behavior started since the rogue lord Orichimaru placed a curse mark on him. Apart from draining his life source, I wonder what else it's doing to him. The Lord Prince has grown more aggressive and his taste for blood has become unreasonable. It must be the effect of that curse mark. We need to move fast if we are to avoid any further casualties.

I watched the lord prince as he wiped his sword on the dead body and sheathed it behind him. He turned to face the unconscious boy which he had thrown at a wall few minutes ago and walked towards him. What is he planning to do? He's not thinking... Oh no! I must stop this.

"No, lord Prince." I stood before the Lord Prince blocking his view from the unconscious boy. I looked up to him and his eyes were a crimson red, intent to kill escaping from him. This was a mistake, he's not himself.

"Get out of the way Lord Kakashi. He cannot be allowed to live. He is the spawn of that fool. If he's allowed another day, we will regret it." The raven was not thinking clearly.

"You are not thinking clearly my lord. Calm down lord Prince. Remember, why we're here. The more you use up your evil energy the more your life source gets drained. And we don't want that happening." The red eyes faded to its normal color and the Lord Prince finally retreated.

"Get ready to move out. I'll find someone who knows something about our mission." The raven lord was back to his composed self.

I'm so glad that is over. I don't want something like that repeating again. To stop from doing so, we need to find the Lord Yin and yang and fast.

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