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"Inari!" You hiss at your otouto in anything but blood. His head shoots up, and he stares at you with wide, tear-filled eyes.

"T-Tou-san. . ."

"Help me push against this fence," you command. The fence is actually pretty flimsy, and you bet that if you push hard enough on a focused point, the thing will break.

He presses his tiny hands next to yours and pushes as hard as he can.

"Help us," you hiss at the nearby villagers, who have noticed what you're doing. "Discreetly, 'cause if Gato notices, we're dead."

They don't move.

"Help us!" you whisper-shout. What are they doing, standing there like that?

Still, they don't move.

And then you see their eyes. They're wide, and full of an emotion that is not the fury against Gato. The fury that's supposed to be there, that's supposed to help them fight, is not there.

It's been replaced by cold, haunting fear.

A chill slides down your spine, and you realize, with horror, that they're cowards. All of them. They're willing to just stand there and let Gato take control, let two families and two children scream and cry for their loved ones, let themselves starve, let their hero die, because they're too f*cking scared to help.

You give them the coldest glare on earth, with all the hatred for their cowardice pouring into that one look. Then you turn and ram your shoulder, hard, into the fence. The anger rushes into the blow, surprising even you with the strength in it.

The fence bends, but only slightly.

Gato finishes his list of false charges. His finger, previously pointed at Kaiza-oji-san, lowers.

"I just hope something like this doesn't happen again," he growls, and even when he's facing away and at least fifteen feet away from you, you can hear his voice.

The threat is clear.

You scream at the man you consider your uncle. You scream his name, yelling at him to fight. Next to you, Inari is also screaming, tears pouring down his face.

Kaiza-oji-san opens his one functioning eye, looking up at the two of you with a smile even as blood drips from his mouth.

Gato turns away.

"Kill him."

The thugs draw their katanas out of their sheaths.

"TOU-SAN!!!"

"KAIZA-OJI-SAN!"

Slice!

Blood splatters on the floor.

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