Hey guys, sorry for dissapearing but my laptop got a virus and died so I couldn't update or anything until I got another one for Christmas... Anyway here is the last chapter of Nene's Last Stand, remember this is only like a 'what if' chapter for the storyline and not the real ending of this story, last chapter was the real ending.
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Nene stared up at the sky, she had a feeling in her gut that they were going to win. It made her feel hopeful, optimistic and very courages. Not even the arrows, bullets and cannon fire raining across the battlefield were making her lose hope.
"We can really win this, I just know it!" Nene cheered as she smiled, she had once again ordered Masanori and Kiyomasa with defense of Hideyori, it wasn't because she thought they were lacking in abilities but in fact it was because they were the only ones she trusted with the safety of her deceased husband's son.
She looked behind her and jumped into the shadows and proceeded to run in the shadows to see how her family was coping.
Unaware of Nene's spying, Kiyomasa complained about being assigned to guarding Hideyori especially with the bumbling idoit Masanori. "Its like she has no faith in my abilities!"
Masanori leaned against a war, blissfully uaware of Kiyomasa's rant that included insulting him. He looked down imagining how life would be if Mitsunari was still around and had succeded in killing Ieyasu.
Kotaro laughed manically. "So the Tokugawa have finally gained enough courage to bring their whole army? Haha, wonder how they'll fair against the winds of chaos?" Kotaro broke into a sprint, decidng to torment Masamune.
Yukimura stared determined, intending to die in this battle. He stood silent unmoving before he swiftly cut a leaf that have been blown by the wind in half. "The Toyotomi stand no chance, we can only hope that I can take out of Ieyasu."
Kunoichi stood watching him, tears streaming down her face. "I can't do this. I just can't!" Kunoichi cried as she quickly fled, she had to leave this battle, this castle, what kind of ninja was she? She was meant to protect Yukimura. Kunoichi as a horrible ninja.
Kai glared all around at the soldiers, if any of them defected to the Tokugawa, words could not describe what she would do. Looking back forward she saw Tokugawa troops with their arms on their head. What were they planning?
Keji was already engaged in battle, he was decimating the Tokugawa troops they didn't stand a chance. He halted his attack when he saw a familiar friend in white charging towards him and several troops also in white.
Okuni was staring at Keji entranced by him. "Such a wild beast!" The dancer giggled, hearing footsteps she turned around and saw the womanizer Magoichi Saika running towards her, intending to cut her down. Okuni threw her parasol killing the troops with him, Magoichi had been lucky as he jumped over the umbrella. He tried to strike her but Okuni parried.
"Look, my Lord." Nene begun looking up into the sky, talking to Hideyoshi hoping he could hear her from heaven, she lifted her arms up, a gesture about the Toyotomi loyalist. "They are all fighting for you, for me and for your family."
Nene smild once more, wishing Hideyoshi was here with her. She sniffed, tears in her eyes. "All of our children gathering together to help your legacy. I can never repay them, all I can do is thank them."
Nene looked down as she leaned over the balcony. "Wait, my Lord. There is something I can do, I am a ninja. I will sneak into Ieyasu's main camp and hope that I can succeed in killing him."
Having regained her hope Nene jumped off the balcony with a new found determination.
Kotaro watched the One-Eyed Dragon from afar, he knew all about him. "Let's see if the dragon can fly through these winds!" Kotaro said, a evil smile appearing on his face as he jumped down to suprise him.
Masamune fired a bullet and watched as it went thorugh the last troop. He turned around to orer his troops to advance into Osaka castle and he was visibly shocked by the fact they were all dead.
"Suprised?" Kotaro said as suddenly appeared behind Masamune, he still had the creepy smile plastered on his face as he was about to stab Masamune with a knife.
Masamune quickly turned around and knocked the knife out of Kotaro's hands. "It's you! You Imbecile how dare you think that you, a ninja, dare lay a finger on me!" Shouted Masamune as he quickly slashed Kotaro, who jumped out of the way before using his arms which suddenly became elsatic to grab one of Masamune's as he pulled himself forwards before Masamune's bullet could hit him as he spun around Masamune and powerfully kicked Masamune's leg before letting go of Masamune's arm.
Masamune, clearly in pain, turned around and slashed and fired a bullet only for them to touch air. "Come out demon! And face me or are you scared you'll lose to the Dragon!" Kotaro smiled as he was right behind him. "I'm right behind you."
This pattern continued with Masamune getting exhuasted and shocked as Kotaro continued to torment Masamune with the dragon's childhood. "STOP! You imbecile!" Masamune yelled out as he fired 3 bullets where he presumed Kotaro was.
"Haha, you id-" Kotaro didn't get to finish as Masamune had fired a bullet into the creature of chaos' stomach. The ninja's became filled with rage as he flung his arms back and sended the forward but the never made it there as the ninja collasped to the floor dead.
"Ha! That will teach you imbeciles to mess with the great Masamune Date!" Said Masamune smugly, his face also had a very smug look on it. But that didn't last long as his expression soon turned to shock, he felt someone's hands on his head and neck and before he could even scream or gasp his neck was snapped.
"Still so smug now?" Kotaro asked the dead Masamune before pushing him to the ground. "Pathetic. I barely got a chance to use any power." Kotaro took one last glance at the first major casualtie of the battle.
Yukimura continued his perfectly timed and executed strikes, unaware of the fact Hanzo was watching him in the shadows. Hanzo had been ordered by Ieyasu to capture the Sanada Ward and in order to do that Yukimura had to die.
The Tokugawa ninja glanced around, looking for Kunoichi, Yukimura's ninja. He didn't see her and wondered breifly where she was, but he pushed that aside it would only make the assassination even easier.
"Target will be eleminated."
Keji glanced down, why did it have to come to this. Friends fighting against friends, he remembered that last battle they fought together, but last time they were on the same side, the guy who was slightly obsessed with honour and love.
Kanetsugu Naoe. But Maeda laughed, this would be a good fight as long he managed to get his friend to surrender or retreat all would be well.
Glancing at Okuni, who was currently dueling Magoichi, he wondered if the girl he secretly loved would make it out alive. Shaking his head, Keji Maeda the wild man wasn't about to back down and not face Kanetsugu, he would make this battle one to remember!
Kanbei crept forward, with his archers, musketeers, spearmen and foot soldiers following him, he was going to sneak into the castle and slay Hideyori and whoever Nene had assigned to guard him.
The strategist had to praise his son, Nagamasa Kuroda for the distractions and the plot involving Takatora Todo, it simply was brilliant and would definately aid in the destruction of the Toyotomi.
Hideyori was merely a flickering flame that needed to be extinguished once and for all, and with him gone those loyalist would crumble and fall before the Tokugawa. Letting out a small laugh he ordered his archers to set fire to the castle and it's surroundings.
Realizing that the archers hadn't fired he turned around, he glared as he saw the traitor Masanori demoslish Kanbei's small unit of troops. "Uhh.. Yeah! Thats what you get when you mess with the Toyotomi! Right?"
Kanbei made a noise, attracting Masanori. "You are a fool, why would you not rush back to inform others that we had snuck into the keep?" Kanbei asked, Masanori looked confused, which is what Kanbei hoped for as he sent an orb towards Masanori.
Masanori evaded the attack before spinning twice towards Kanbei, he barely missed Kanbei before hitting Kanbei in the chin with his elbow and bashing him over the head with his club.
Kanbei retailiated with sending one of his orbs upwards, striking Masanori as it turned into a rather karge demonic looking hand that smacked Masanori into a wall.
Laughing Kanbei moved forward towards Masanori who suddenly jumped up and started smashing his club into the ground creating shockwaves that dazed Kanbei as Masanori slowly advanced towards the Tokugawa strategist.
As he was close to Kanbei he slammed his club extremly hard into the ground creating an explosion that sent Kanbei flying, also causing Masanori to get pushed back a few steps.
Kanbei growled as got up from the floor and summoned 3 orbs, he sent the three orbs towards Masanori and they circled around him occasionally moving forward to hitting him in the head, with Masanori distracted one of the orbs went above Masanori and turned into a fist.
Masanori barely had time to blink as the orbs took turns slamming into him and was extremely shocked when a demonic looking, green and very large fist hit his left leg with extreme power, not only causing Fukushima to crash into a wall but also break his left leg leaving him useless.
Aproaching Masanori, Kanbei smirked. "Another worthless spark is about to be extinguished." Suddenly a war cry came out of nowhere and as Kanbei turned around and narrowly missed getting sliced by Kiyomasa.
Kiyomasa glared furiously at Kanbei. "You will not destroy the Toyotomi, not while I am here to protect it!" Kanbei snorted in response and replied simply. "Pathetic. You a merely one person you cannot hope to stand against the Tokugawa."
The warrior responded by swinging his halberd to the left and then to the right, hoping to strike Kanbei. Blocking the attack Kanbei sent an orb to hit Kiyomasa in the stomach, Kiyomasa was merely a dying flame that needed to be put out.
Launching into the offensive Kiyomasa swung his halberd down the spun, the attempted to slice Kanbei's neck. Swinging his halberd left and right, every attack missed. A rare smile found its way to Kanbei's face. This enraged Kiyomasa.
Who begun to swing his halberd up switching from left to right, eventually he jumped forward and hit the ground with the tip of his halberd, creating cicular shockwaves that yet again failed to hit Kanbei.
Kanbei laughed at the futile efforts of the former Tokugawa officer. "Know the futility of your struggle." Proclaimed Kanbei as he stopped and allowed Kiyomasa to get back on his feet.
"Your very existence is a crime. You may make amends by giving up your life." Kanbei said as he walked slowly towards Kiyomasa his 3 orbs spinning around him, Kiyomasa parried as he had to take a step every few seconds.
Eventually the orbs flew high up and in front of Kanbei, before transforming into a gigantic demonic fist which suddenly slamed into Kiyomasa sending him straight into a wall.
"You will not...break...our house..." Kiyomasa gasped before his head slumped fowards. Kanbei once again allowed a smile to creep its way onto his face. "Another flame extinguished." And with that he turned towards Masanori.
"Look behind you!" Masanori taunted with an idiotic smile on his face. Kanbei rolled his eyes but he heard footsteps and he turned around just in time to see Kiyomasa decapitate the emotionless strategist, Kanbei's head fell off his shoulders as his body quickly fell to the ground afterwards. Kiyomasa and Masanori looked at each other and smiled.
Elsewhere, Nene continued her inflitration of the enemy camp. She would not fail her children or her husband. "Time for punishment!" Nene said slightly cheerful she quickly sliced through the necks of a couple of unlucky troops.
The ninja wondered where Hanzo was, she had not seen him anywhere as she snuck around on the battlefield. Nene was aware of the fact that the first casultie of the battle had been a Tokugawa officer, Masamune Date to be exact.
That had raised Nene's morale by a lot. So far none of her officers had been slain as far as she was aware of and that made her heart lighter, but she could not stop worrying about the safety of her children.
Shaking those thoughts out of her head, Nene slapped her cheek to get back to reality. She had to be extra careful, who knew where Hanzo or any of the enemies are, she could not allow herself to be seen. No she would not.
Tadaoki Hosokawa, the husband of the deceased Gracia, sighed he wished his dear Gracia was still alive. He would never forget the day that Mitsunari burned down the Hosokawa manor while Gracia was in it. As a result he joined Ieyasu and swore revenge.
He believed that his wife, Gracia had perished in the manor, unaware that his wife had survived and was assissinated by Hanzo, who had been ordered by Ieyasu just a few days earlier.
Tadaoki leaned on the gate he was defending when he heard Ieyasu and his son, Hidetada talking to eachother. "Are you sure we made the right decision in sending Hanzo to assassinate Gracia?" Hidetada Tokugawa asked his father.
"Yes, if Tadaoki found out Gracia was serving the Toyotomi he would defect from us in an instant." Ieyasu replied in response. Hidetada voice came next. "But we could of captured her and used her to force the Toyotomi to surrender."
"It would not be that easy." The voice of Ieyasu pointed out to his son. Tadaoki's rage was building however, how dare Ieyasu kill his Gracia?! Tadaoki would not allow Ieyasu to get away with that.
"Father please allow me to join the battle." Hidetada asked, Ieyasu seemed to consider it for a while before speaking. "I suppose but do not go into the frontlines!"
"Yes father!" The excited voice of Hidetada agreed as he mounted his horse and the gate to the main camp opened and Tadaoki could only watch as Hidetada rode away on his horse.
The gate was still open, Tadaoki smiled this was the chance he was waiting for, garbbing his spear he prepared to walk into the main camp. But unfortunately Ina spotted him.
"Traitor!" Ina yelled furiously as she charged on horse towards Tadaoki leaping off of it when she was near and firing an arrow. "Ina! Prepare to meet your death!" Tadaoki yelled in response after narrowly advoiding the arrow.
"Your treachery shall not go unpunished!" Shouted Ina as she started attacing Tadaoki, parrying and striking between angry shouts. "My treachery?! How about lord Ieyasu's!?"
Ina spun around, catching Tadaoki off guard, and she fired an arrow into Tadaoki's stomach. Gasping, he dropped his spear he looked up and saw Ina about to fire another arrow. "None can escape the reach of my bow!" Yelled Ina as she fired the arrow, it hit Tadaoki in the neck and he fell down drowning in a pool of his own blood before dying a few minutes later.
Staring at Tadaoki Hosokawa's body with disgust Ina got back on her horse and charged towards the frontlines.
Okuni glared hard at Magoichi Saika, blocking his attack as they were locked in dread lock. "Shall I bring a little grace to the party?" Okuni said with venom, after all she had a reputation to protect. She was Okuni of Izumo, legendary dancer and seductress and she would not allow herself to lose to Magoichi, who was also a famous flirt.
"Thanks, beautiful. How 'bout I repay you with a kiss, huh?" Magoichi asked before finally winning the dread lock. He fired a bullet and watched as Okuni gracefully sidestepped out of the way.
"I will not lose this dance." Okuni stated with a flirtacious tone as she swung her umbrella, attempting to hit Magoichi and frowned when he blocked her attack. Magoichi stood still and fired a bullet hoping to hit Okuni.
"I just can't fight against such a pretty face!" Magoichi claimed, using that as en excuse as he swng his bayonet upwards before jtaking a step backwards to fire a larger shot then before.
Okuni gasped dramtically as the bullet just hit her arm and burned some of her skin. "Cruelty is an ugly colour on you!"Okuni shoted kicking upwards before spining and opening her umbrella and charging forwards knocking Magoichi to the ground.
Okuni smiled as she swung her umbrella downwards hoping to finish off Magoichi and frowned when he rolled out of the way and stood up, slicing Okuni with the bladed part of his gun cutting Okuni's arm.
Frowning Okuni looked at the cut and her mouth opened in shock, with Okuni distracted Magoichi fired a bullet but instead of getting her in the chest he got her hip. Wincing in pain Okuni looked up to see Magoichi walking slowly towards her holding his gun with one hand and started to shoot a barrage of bullets like a shotgun.
Okuni dropped to the floor and rolled out of the way before spining gracefully around Magoichi who was getting frustrated that he kept missing and Okuni prepared her umbrella when Magoichi pivoting to see Okuni and fired a shot groaning in frustrationg as the dancer just advoided death from his shot.
"Feast your eyes on the Queen of the Dance!" Okuni yelled standing still as her umbrella rotated around her hitting and dizziying Magoichi, Okuni smirked as she begun to rotate Magoichi on top of her umbrella and then casts her umbrella to spin around her.
Magoichi backflipped while in mid-air and landed on his feet, glaring at Okuni he charged towards her Okuni twirled around with her umbrella open and threw it towards Magoichi while it spun it slit his throat and Magoichi's eyes went wide as he fell to the floor and rolled her he was on his back, he quickly tried to prevent the blood from pouring out of hid throat but it was too late. Magoichi Saika had been killed by a lucky strike.
Okuni stared wide eyed at the scene it was a lucky strike and she knew, Magoichi Saika knew it before he had died. Everyone watching the duel knew it too. "Take that you brute!" Okuni said victoriously as she limped to where Hideyori was as she knew it was safe there.
Currently unaware of the duel that had just happened with Okuni and Magoichi, Keji Maeda stood waititng for the Uesugi to come and try to defeat the Great Keji Maeda!
As Kanetsugu neared on his horse, the horse suddenly tripped over sending Kanetsugu rolling off. Keji snorted looks like he'll have to settle with the troops for a while.
Keji charged with his troops into the wave of white, Keji launched into the offensive starting with a swing going right to left, then he spun around hitting the other direction and finished it by impaling his opponents and launching them in the air.
The Wild One laughed as he already decimated alot of the enemy troops. Most of them were backng away from Keji less confident then before allowing Keji's troops to attack and kill them from behind.
One Uesugi troop in particular tried to sneak behind and kill Keji quickly, unfortunately for him Keji turned around evading the stab of the spear and punched the troop in the face knocking him out.
"He's a monster!" A Uesugi troop called out in fear as he started fleeing as did several others but they were quickly cut down by Okuni's lady samurai who had been lying in wait.
"Still as strong as ever I see." Kanetsugu Naoe said as he approached Keji Maeda and asked, "Why don't you just surrender to the Tokugawa and avoid anymore bloodshed?"
"Surrender?" Keji repeated. "Not a chance in hell!"
"Well then its look like we'll have to settle this in battle." Kanetsugu spat as he prepared his weapons and fired a beam of energy at Keji who easily blocked the attack. "Tell me Kanetsugu, why are you helping the Tokugawa?"
"I can't stand Ieyasu but I'm willing to lend him the support of the Uesugi for the greater good." Responded Kanetsugu who sent his palm forward which connected with Keji and Kanetsugu used magic to levitate Keji briefly before throwing him away.
Keji smiled the fun was about to begin as he leapt towards Kanetsugu who hastily blocked Keji's strike with his sword and cards but was quickly over powered and knocked to the side.
Kanetsugu got up to his feet and sent 9 swords towards Keji who knocked them all to the side befored jumping up to a great height and slamming his weapon to the ground creating a shockwave which dazed Kanetsugu.
Uesugi troops decided to step in and kill Keji who swung his the spear over his head killing every troop that charged towards him as they were spread in a circle around Keji.
Kanetsugu got back to normal and slashed his sword at Keji who parried and punched Kanetsugu, spun around with spear held firm, then twirls it in the air and slams the spear, weight first, into the ground making a shockwave that kncoked Kanetsugu to the ground.
"I admit defeat, kill me if you must." Kanetsugu said admitting defeat and was suprised when Keji offered his hand and lifted Kanetsugu up. "Nah, I'm not gonna kill you but why don't you defect to the Toyotomi?"
Kanetsugu shook his head. "My honour does not allow me to defect from the Tokugawa but the Uesugi will leave this battlefield." Kanetsugu ordered a retreat and what was left of his army soon followed him as they left Osaka castle and this battle.
Kai stared at Takatora Todo unconvinced that his defection was real and not a trick to get them to let their guards down so they'd be an easy kill. "If you want me to believe you aren't lying and that your defection isn't a ploy bring me Nagamasa Kuroda's head!"
Takatora tried to come up with an excuse as Kai smiled she had found out he was lying, but Takatora quickly yelled before she could move or speak. "Look! Ninjas are invading the castle!"
"What?!" Kai fell for the lie and turned around allowing Takatora to get a sneak attack but he never did. A dagger was sticking through his chest. "Hey! There aren't any..." Kai trailed off when she saw Takatora's dead body and swear she briefly saw Kunoichi, and she knew instantly the ninja had saved her life.
"How pathetic, I was hoping Takatora would at least kill one officer. But I suppose on the bright side another spark has been extinguished." Nagamasa Kuroda, Kanbei's son sighed looking down at Takatora's body.
"You! You are responsible for this!" Kai blamed, referring to broken down walls and dead troops that died from cannon fire, arrows and bullets. "I suppose, it was my idea to use cannons, guns and archers. Now that I think about it I am responsible for this." Smirked Nagamasa.
Kai growled in rage and slashed her sword whip across Nagamasa's face causing him to cry in pain and gain a large cut across his face. He cried out in pain as Kai suddenly grabbed his head and pushed her sword through his forehead, killing him instantly.
"Don't worry everyone, I'll protect you!" Kai claimed as she killed some troops, Ina looked down briefly not wanting to fight or kill Kai put she pushed that out of her head. "I am Ina. Know me and you shall know pain!" Yelled Ina in response as all eyes were on her as lady samurai charged in.
The two female samurais charged towards eachother. "Impressive, even for an enemy." Ina praised dodging Kai's strike."What are you so surprised about? My victory was never in doubt!"
Ina fired an arrow which Kai narrowly advoided. Ina then did three twirling slashes before she standing and fired four arrows to her front. She finished off her attack by crouching to fire three arrows.
Kai groaned as Ina wasn't going easy on her, but Kai knew that she couldn't lose this duel not if she wanted to protect the everyday lives of her people.
Going on the offensive Kai did three diagonal slashes with her blade in its normal state. Extending her sword into its whip state and swung it horizontally four times. Placing one hand on her hip as she continued her assualt with four diagonal whippings. Kai waited a moment for her sword to go back to normal.
Just as Ina regained her posture from the attack Kai did a quick kick, knocking Ina to the ground. Ina grunted in annoyance as she fired an arrow, still laying on the ground catching Kai off guard, allowing Ina to get back on her feet.
Kai then conjured a series of water geysers to damage Ina who gracefully advoided every geyser. Ina reached for her arrows before firing them skywards. Shortly afterwards a rain of arrows fell down towards Kai.
Letting out a manly scream Kai rolled out of the ways before getting back of her feet to Ina racing towards her Kai wanting to stop Ina performed a handstand while her sword rotates around her on the ground below.
This caused Ina to crash into Ina while dodging getting slashed, as the two rolled on the ground they had lost their weapons. They looked at eachother briefly before getting back up on their feet and running towards their weapon.
Ina got to her weapon first and started to stand in one spot and rapidly fire a chain of arrows tinged with a blue aura of energy towards Kai. This prevented Kai from getting to close her weapon but as Ina finished, Kai grabbed her weapon.
"None can escape the reach of my bow!" Ina cried out as she aimed her bow skyward and shoot a great amount of arrows into the sky. They all fall in a large circle in front of her. Most of which just missed Kai.
"I won't stop until I win!" Kai shouted a she starteds criss-crossing whipping attacks as she slowly walks forward. It also created a damaging ground effect, Kai smiled victory was hers. "Feel my wrath!" Kai yelled triumphantly as she unleashed her final and strongest attack and started by rapidly whiping the ground in front of her to create a damaging geyser. Ground spikes and a final water splash finished it off and blasted Ina away.
"Still not enough... Still not enough!" Ina shouted in fury as she admitted defeat, "We have to retreat!" Ina yelled glancing at Kai with a smile as she and her troops left the battlefield.
Yukimura still practised his fighting unaware of Hanzo who was about to kill him, Hanzo then swung his sickle. "No!" Kunoichi yelled as she took the blow causing her eyes to wide as the blade cut a deep wound her stomach.
"Kunoichi!" Yukimura shouted having witnessed what happened. Hanzo readied his weapon as Yukimura layed Kunoichi down on the ground. "Your going to be ok." Yukimura said holding back tears.
"I can't feel...my legs..." Kunoichi said, slightly exaggerating as she could feel her legs. Yukimura wrapped something around the wound hoping to prevent the loss of blood. Kunoichi begun to say something but passed out.
"You!" Yukimura said in rage as he assumed Kunoichi died he quickly got up to his feet. "This is all your fault!"
"You will die..." Hanzo stated as he took another swing at Yukimura who advoided it and furiously charged towards Hanzo. Yukimura started his onslaught of attacks by dashing forward, Hanzo dodged easily.
"Pitiful..." Hanzo muttered, but blinked when Yukimura caught him off gaurd by missing in his thrust, just as Hanzo was about to strike Yukimura knocked the back of Hanzo's head with the blunt end of the spear turning and slicing Hanzo with the bladed end of his spear.
Yukimura stabbed Hanzo and slowly lifts the ninja over him. He smashed him into the ground and Hanzo was knocked high into the air. Double jumping to land on his feet Hanzo was not prepared for Yukimura to attack him again.
Yukimura jumped up into the air and drops with his spear pointing down which makes a shockwave, dizzying Hanzo who quickly got rid of the dizziness.
Barely giving Hanzo anytime to recover Yukimura unleashed another attack on him. He started swinging his spear left to right with each step he takes, and to finish he Yukimura leaps into the air and stabs his spear downward, unleashing a torrent of fire around him.
The flames burned Hanzo who knew he had been defeated and failed his mission. As Yukimura charge to finish Hanzo off, Hanzo threw a blast of green ninjutsu in front of him to catch Yukimura off guard.
It did its job and before Hanzo left he said. "This...is an unacceptable failure..." Yukimura growled but Kunoichi's moan got him to focus on her again as her lifted her up and carried her to safety.
Unaware of the loses the Tokugawa had suffered Hidetada Tokugawa was also unaware of Nene sneaking into the garrison he was in, Nene snuck uo behind him and jumped over his just as he turned around.
"Who's there?" Hidetada asked furious but frowned when he saw no one, he swear he heard a sound and as he turned back around he saw a shadow move out of the corner of his eye.
"Whoever this is, show yourself now!" Demanded Hidetada Tokugawa, this wasn't funny. If it was some ninja that for some reason wanted to make him scared, that ninja would find itself without a head.
Just then a shuriken landed in front of his feet causing him to jump and take a step back, and then he knew it was a ninja but he wondered who it was. "Ninja show yourself or are you afraid you'll die at the hands of me!"
"A ninja is a creature of darkness, we prefer to stay out of the light." Nene's voice called back as she jumped somewhere else before Hidetada could see who she was. But Hidetada was more focused on remembering where he had heard that voice.
Sensing a oppurtunity Nene jumped towards Hidetada and stabbed one of her weapons into his back. Hidetada gasped as he turned around and saw Nene. "Curse you, stupid ninja..." Hidetada forced out as he fell to the ground, dead.
Nene took back her weapon, she felt no pleasure from killing Hidetada especially not the way she did but it had to be done and she knew he would alert his army if he had seen her at first and she couldn't take that risk.
But she had killed Hidetada and she knew the Toyotomi had won this battle, all that was left was Ieyasu and they will win this battle, Nene only hoped everyone was ok.
Hideyori listened to the injured Masanori, Kunoichi and Okuni talk about what they had done, Okuni was currently teasing Kunoichi about her love for Yukimura while Masanori was confused.
This gave Hideyori courage and he suddenly stood up. "My lord where are you going?" Masanori asked, as Okuni and Kunoichi looked at Hideyori silently asking for answers too.
"I'm going to join the battle, to aid my army and loyal officers." Hideyori said grabbing a nearby sword, he had a newfound confidence and quickly left the room before the 3 could try to make him stay.
The sword felt unfamiliar in his hand and he wasn't sure if he could use it well, but he pushed those doubts out of his head. He couldn't chicked out now. Hideyori Toyotomi saw a troop sneak up and was about to kill one of the Toyotomi loyalists.
And suddenly Hideyori didn't know what came over him as he suddenly sprung into action and cut down the troop where he stood, saving his officer. The officer turned around and was startled when he saw that his lord had not only joined the battle but also saved his life.
Soon the whole Toyotomi army was filled with confidence and respect at their lord and their morale was soaring and it became obvious that the battle now belonged to the Toyotomi.
Meanwhile Kai, Yukimura, Kotaro, Keji and Kiyomasa had gathered and were planning to attack Ieyasu together and were suprised when as they got there they saw Nene locked in a furious fight with Ieyasu Tokugawa and they didn't dare to intervene.
Nene was a lot quicker then Ieyasu but was less powerful, she still was however the better fighter.
Blocking Ieyasu's strike Nene ducked underneath and quickly slashed at Ieyasu who groaned in pain, before trying to hit Nene but failed as he ninja nimbly jumped over him.
Ieyasu fired a blast from his spear cannon thing, and it hit Nene in the stomach she gasped for breathe looking up before dissolving. "What?" Ieyasu asked himself before remembering the trickery of ninjas.
The real Nene jumped and slashed at Ieyasu and eventually had him at her knees. "Lord Ieyasu, we have beaten your army, your son has been slain and you lost the support of the Uesugi. Why continue to fight?"
Ieyasu had nothing to reply with as he did not even know the reason why he continued to fight, but the words Nene spoke next shocked everyone including herself. "I will allow you to live, but attack my family again and you will be punished!"
Ieyasu's eyes widened he thanked lady Nene before ordering a retreat what remained of the Tokugawa army left the area.
But it was over, they had succeded and suffered little casualties and Nene could not be more prouder of her children, all of them played a part in this victory no matter how small that part was.
And that is it, hope it was good. This ends Nene's Last Stand.