Like Some Child Possessed, The Beast Howls in my Veins --

[reverencing]

Characters: Ishida Mitsunari + Tokugawa Ieyasu
Location: Casualty Communal, Floor 3 (Unit J)
Rating: ...PG for now but subject to change
Time: November 7th, evening
Description: Ieyasu is back - and Mitsunari is less than thrilled about it.

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[reverencing]

Before Ieyasu had arrived, Mitsunari had planned everything out in his mind. He had timed his every breath; plotted each step, every blink and how to harness the rage that consumed him into absolute power. He imagined the feeling of his hands wrapping around Ieyasu's throat, watching as the traitor gasped and struggled beneath him - fighting to breathe, to live... But Ieyasu had long since thrown away that right. Justice would be served and it would be by Mitsunari's hand.

That is, until his opponent stepped into sight. As Ieyasu stood before him, all that careful planning, each strategic play that had formed in Mitsunari's mind, vanished as though they had never existed. He snarled, dried blood still clinging to his lower lip from where he'd bitten through it earlier - he was fueled by nothing but vengeance and bloodlust, blinded by the rage brought on from so much as seeing Ieyasu before him once again. When he had first determined Ieyasu's disappearance, he was furious that the coward had escaped from his grasp yet again but now

[reverencing]

"Do not turn your forked tongue on me, Ieyasu," Mitsunari growled, eyes narrowing on his foe. He took a heavy step forward, his foot stomping against the floor as he straightened his back, refusing to avert his gaze from Ieyasu's own. The hatred burned his his chest, the samurai doing everything in his power to stop himself from shaking with the fury that coursed through him. "I know the dark and twisted truth you keep locked beneath your talk of unity and bonds - you will betray these people and your allies just as you have betrayed those in Hi-no-Moto."

When Ieyasu had struck down Hideyoshi, he had betrayed many people. His Lord, his army, the people of Osaka - and most of all, he had betrayed Mitsunari. The depth of that betrayal was something he would never soon forget, nor something he could forgive. Mitsunari's world, everything he had known and trusted, collapsed around him on that day and Ieyasu was the one to blame.

"You expect me to believe you fight for the good of the people when all you do is bring pain and suffering to