Faded Memories: Memories to Remember on The Battlefield
(Samurai Warriors: Yukimura and Mitsuhide Fan-Fiction)
By: Ember Yami
The Story (The Whole Introduction): Once there was two strong and respected samurai warriors that lived in the era of the Sengoku period of Feudal Japan during the 1500s where samurais didn't have the fear of death as they will spill their honorable blood on the battlefield as they fought for their country, their clans, and their masters that there were the most powerful feudal rulers of that era that are called "Daimyo." The honorable and well respected names of the two samurais were Yukimura and Mitsuhide. Yukimura, the strongest samurai that people would call "A Hero who may appear once in hundred years" and the "crimson demon of war" was the son of Sanada Masayuki who served under an ruler named Shingen of the Takeda clan and has an female ninja that would help him fight named Kunoichi. They were both friends and took care of eachother when they risked their lives on the battlefield as they protected Lord Shingen from encounters from the other clans of the Uesugi, Date, Toyotomi, Tokugawa, and mostly the Oda. During the war between the Takeda clan and the Oda clan, War between good and evil between two great leaders. Strong and a brave leader, Takeda Shingen against the cruel, cold-hearted, and an determined leader name Nobunaga Oda. Nobunaga wanted all the clans to fail as his clan rises, he wanted everything. He wanted lands, soliders, money, everything that made him the strongest clan than all the others. He wanted to be feared and obeyed or they will be killed. Nobunaga had two commanders named Ranmaru and is so happens that Mitsuhide served under Nobunaga! Takeda Shingen strongly disagree about Nobunaga and his evil ways and believed he must be stopped! During the long journey of Shingen's determination to stop Nobunaga, Yukimura and his clan encountered with the Tokugawa clan as Yukimura has met his enemy, Hattori Hanzo, an azure ninja that served under Ieyasu, the lord of the Tokugawa clan and challenged the crimson samurai to an duel but later fleed and the Tokugawa clan retreated. As the journey continues, Yukimura meets an gunman named Magoichi that soon became Yukimura's friend and Magoichi and his clan helps Yukimura and his clan as they fought the Date clan and the Oda clan intil one moment, an destiny or fate, when Yukimura was alone, during the encounter, he was suddenly ambushed by ninjas intil an samurai with such male beauty, an beauty that can't be described by words, named Mitsuhide helps Yukimura from the ninjas. As Yukimura was amazed of Mitsuhide's beauty, but when Yukimura wanted to thank Mitsuhide for defeating the ninjas, Mitsuhide left before Yukimura even had a chance to talk to Mitsuhide. Meanwhile, Yukimura and Magoichi continued to battle together and eventually, Masamune Date of the Date Clan, became friends with Yukimura but everything changed when the battle at Honnoji.
During the battle at Honnoji, as there were many clans have faced eachother and as the capitial became an bloody battleground. Yukimura, Kunoichi, Magoichi, Masamune, and everyone else were there, including the Oda clan, Tokugawa clan and the Uesugi clan as well as they all fought for the capitial of Honnoji intil they found out that Nobunaga wanted to set the capitial aflame and he exceded!! As Yukimura founded out that Nobunaga was escaping, He also saw another samurai along with Nobunaga which it was Ranmaru. He tried to stop them intil he saw Mitsuhide and they started to duel! Yukimura was surpised to see Mitsuhide attack him, even though he helped him defeat the ninjas. As Mitsuhide stopped and backed away from Yukimura, to end the duel, Mitsuhide explained to Yukimura that he once served under Nobunaga and Ranmaru used to be his friend. He also told Yukimura that to leave them alone, since he wanted to defeat them. As Yukimura and Mitsuhide started to get to know eachother, they started to have an very strong bond that would never be broken but little did they know, It would make matters worst between the Takeda and the Oda Clan! If Shingen and Nobunaga knew the relationship between Yukimura and Mitsuhide, they would for sure start an terrible war! Meanwhile, After Masamune encounted and lost the duel with Kenshi, the leader of the Uesugi clan and demanted Masamune to tell him where Shingen was heading next, since Shingen and Kenshi were enemies as well. Not only the defeat of Masamune's duel, Magoichi lost his leader to Nobunaga before he escaped. Magoichi begins to look for Yukimura intil he couldn't find him and now since he lost hope, he begins to have hatred within him for Nobunaga and begins to hunt for Nobunaga for his revenge. As Magoichi watched the flames of the capitial of Honnoji in dispair, Masamune saw Magoichi and as they got to know eachother and through out the journey, they started to travel together even though they didn't get along when they first met on their encounter, they became friends. Later through the journey, Yukimura ends up losing faith within himself after the battle of Honnoji. Kunoichi tries to help him feel better but sadly, It was helpless since they found out that his father died and was killed during the battle! As Yukimura was extremely upset, he went to go find who has killed his beloved father as the Takeda clan faces more encounters intil he found out that it was Hattori Hanzo that killed his father! As he finally faces the Tokugawa clan once again, he finally had an epic encounter with Hattori Hanzo but as they fought, Hanzo told Yukimura on the day of the battle of Honnoji, He told Yukimura that Mitsuhide was suppost to kill him and also kill his master, Lord Shingen, and the whole Takeda clan for good! Out of the pages of History! When things got worst, Yukimura was filled with such anger and killed Hanzo as they both had an bloody battle as Yukimura defeated Hanzo. Yukimura was also upset and wanted to believe what the azure ninja said was false information. Later, when the day when the Takeda clan and the Oda clan have finally have their war, Lord Shingen and Lord Nobunaga faced eachother as they had an brutal battle and as Yukimura faced Ranmaru. But suddenly, Nobunaga fleed and Yukimura begins to follow him intil Nobunaga faced Mitsuhide in a battle intil Mitsuhide was badly hurt! As Yukimura protected Mitsuhide as Mitsuhide felt depressed because he lost the duel. As the duel between the Takeda and the Oda, as the Takeda won the war, Nobunaga retreats as Yukimura was badly hurt and was bleeding from his armor but Mitsuhide left and Yukimura was looking for him once again as it started to snow and the weather was very cold. Later, As Yukimura found Mitsuhide as Mitsuhide's knees were on the snow, Mitsuhide had his very own blade near his neck and he wanted to commit suicide intil Yukimura stopped him. Mitsuhide felt sorrow and wanted to die because of Nobunaga, Ranmaru, and Yukimura and how he saved his life. As Yukimura helped Mitsuhide of his wounds and confort him, he thanked Yukimura and they hoped to see eachother and as Mitsuhide was better, they both went their separate ways.











