Chapter 9: Journey to Matsushige
Miyamoto and Yuriko walks along the path toward the shipyard toward Shikoku. They approach the first sailor they see in the shipyard. Miyamoto tips his hat and bow "Excuse me sir, would you kindly sail us toward Matsushige village? We will pay as much as you need." Miyamoto stands up and smiles toward the sailor before he gets a simple no. Yuriko chuckles and shakes her head before she bow and thank the sailor for their time. Both of them tries with every sailor they approach but they refused. Word is, there has been a group of pirate sailing on the sea, waiting for sailors to ship by and robs them. Miyamoto refuses to let Yuriko reveals that she is a Samurai because that would blow their cover, and would cause the Kurosawa clan to find them and cause a ruckus at the port. Both of them nearly gives up and sits at a teashop, drinking green tea and eating dango.
Yuriko shakes her head before she bites on one of her dango, "What should we do now? No one is brave enough to sail us toward Matsushige." Yuriko sigh in desperation. Miyamoto shrugs as he observes the sailors while drinking his tea. Miyamoto notices a small ship, big enough to support both of them. Consist of only three sailors and the ship is docked on the farthest place in the port, away from the other sailors' eyes. Miyamoto smiles to himself and drink his tea. The sailor seems to be loading some sort of crate into the ship, crate seems big enough to contain a human, or Yuriko precisely. Miyamoto chuckles and finishes his tea before he leans to Yuriko's ear and whispers "Have you ever stole a ship before?" Yuriko eyes widen and turns to Miyamoto, shaking her head and says that she disagree to.
While Yuriko shakes her head,Miyamoto nods and mumbles yes. Yuriko groans and rolls her eyes before she slump her shoulder in defeat and agrees on the plans. Miyamoto tosses his coins from his pouch and grabs Yuriko wrist before she could change her mind. They walk together toward the ship. As they approaches, Miyamoto grabs Yuriko's head and forces her to kneel behind a Crate. He swiftly grabs the crate and pulls it down, dropping it right beside Yuriko. The crate opens as it drops. Making lots of fish scattered on the ground. Yuriko covers her nose while Miyamoto fakes a gasp at the Sailor and quickly kneels. Miyamoto pushes Yuriko to get in the box, she hesitate but did and almost gags as Miyamoto fills the crate withfishes again. Yuriko covers her nose in the crate, disgusted by the smell.Miyamoto smiles toward the old sailor, "Sorry about that, actually. I would like to hire you to sail me toward Matsushige I have a relative that lives there and word is, she is about to deliver a baby." Miyamoto grins, the old sailor scratches his head and shrugs "Sure why not. Would like to use your help too Ronin, heard there is a Pirate sailing along the sea nowadays so having you would help." Miyamoto gasp in his head and gulps. He then bows and thank the sailor. The old sailor smiles and points toward the crates before asking Miyamoto to help him to carry it to the ship. Miyamoto nods and quickly carries the crate that Yuriko hides in, Miyamoto struggles a bit but smiles at the sailor, saying "very light!" as he done setting the crate on the ship he looks around the ship.
Miyamoto mutters to himself "Two on the dock, one on ship. This guy seems to be the youngest. This should work." Miyamoto waits until the sailor done unties the sail, now to lure him out and cuts the rope that tied the ship to the dock. Miyamoto taps the boy's shoulder and smile "Good evening, I'm Miyamoto. Your sensei there told me to get you, he got something to say to you." The boy scratches his head and ask Miyamoto who. Miyamoto gets nervous, he giggles and points at the old man and speak lowly, saying that the old man calls for the boy. The boy looks at Miyamoto suspiciously and walks toward the old man. Yuriko peers her head out of the crate, her eyes widen as she sees Miyamoto slowly draws his blade and raises it slowly behind the boy. Quickly, Yuriko pushes herself out of the box "Miyamoto No!" The boy turns around and sees Miyamoto. Before the boy could react, Miyamoto quickly kicks the boy off the boat onto the dock before he swiftly strikes his blade on the rope, making the ship slowly begins to sail toward the sea. The old man runs toward the ship and tries to jump in but Miyamoto steps back and hits the old man head with his blade handle. Making the old man falls back onto the dock while the ship sails away.
With a huge grin,Miyamoto bows toward the Sailors and waves them goodbye. Yuriko crawls out of the box and pulls Miyamoto by his collar, pushes and pins him on the deck wall. Miyamoto winces before he looks at Yuriko in the eye with a poker face. Yuriko grits her teeth as she grips harder on Miyamoto's red Yukata "You tried to kill the boy! And you hit the poor old man on the face after he agrees to sail us there?!" Miyamoto scoffs and replies "It is the only way to sail toward Matsushige. Unless you like being swarmed by some dead Tuna." Miyamoto giggles, makes Yuriko anger rises. She pulls and pushes Miyamoto back hard on the wall before she let go "I'd rather suffer in a crate of Tuna than hurt a poor sailor!" She walks away and stare at the sea, turning her back at Miyamoto. Miyamoto straighten his Yukata and chuckles "You say that, but you kept hidden in the crate even after he told me that he'd offer a sail, when you can crawl out and admit our plan. So don't spit your puny honor to hide your true self from me Yuriko. We are both the same." He walks to the back of the ship and begins to control the sail base on the wind direction. Yuriko looks down, can't help but let Miyamoto's word wander in her mind.
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