Chapter 10 : 10th Stance

Appearing right above the wolves, Takeo brought out his sword before he dropped to the ground suddenly making dust scatter everywhere.

When the dust cleared Takeo looked like Death himself....steam escaped from his mouth, his purple eyes turned beastly, and he wore torn clothes like a caveman. The pack of wolves were taken-aback, some of them even shuddered in fear as he looked more like a beast than them. He scared them even more when he licked his lips, 'H-He want's to eat us....', some on them thought, before they high-tailed out of there, not wanting to die to him.

WOOSH!!! SLASH!!!

Before they could even get away, Takeo moved at great speed, appearing right in-front of them before he slashed his blade at supernatural speed, seemingly cutting the air and attacking them with the air itself.... but it still killed most of them at once....

<Venom Bite>

SPLAT!! DRIP! DRIP!

One of the wolves was cut deep, but his pride didn't let him back down, and instead he charged at Takeo with anger...

"ROARR!!", It yelled before it appeared in-front of Takeo. Not moving at all, Takeo just stood there, waiting for the right time....before his arm moved instinctively....lifting his sword up above his head, before he slashed his blade downwards at the wolf....

Before it could even react, Takeo had already put his blade away, and walked over to pick up 1 of the wolves away....

Whilst Takeo was walking away, the wolf finally fell to the floor, head decapitated.

<Ghost Slash>

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Holding a wolf on his back, Takeo had a smile beaming on his face, not only does he have so much meat, but the new techniques he made were really powerful, 'This is just the beginning', he thought before he ran home quicker.

After finally carrying all his food back home, he chopped some firewood and quickly made a fire, before he cooked all the meat. The amount of food he brought back was enough for 10 people, but he was going to eat all of it at once.

"Thank you for the meal!", he praised before he devoured it.

At the same time he was eating, in a tree, a little creature could smell an abundance of meat, 'Yummy', it thought, before it looked at it's remaining nuts. It wouldn't have enough food for winter.

It was like smell put it in a trance, it rushed to the window of the house, before it crept in through a hole. Inside it saw a young boy with white hair and purple eyes, gobbling a meal that weighed more than he did. It crept towards the meat, 'If I take some, he won't mind', the little creature thought with a cheeky smile, before it made it's way forwards.

The creature appeared right behind the meat. The meat covered the little creature, allowing it to took a nibble of the food. But just as it was about to....a little hand grabbed it's torso and was about to put him in his mouth, 'He's going to eat me!', the creature realised, before it started yelling.

"KUK! KUK! KUK!", it yelled, causing the boy who was about to eat it, to stop..

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'Huh?', 'Can meat talk?', Takeo thought, as he began to hear crying-like noises. 'Oh well, he thought as he opened his mouth, unbeknownst that he was about to eat a live creature.

Having it's survival instincts kicking in, the creature scratched the boy on the face, causing a tiny little scar to appear.

SCRATCH!

Feeling a little sting on his face, Takeo finally looked down on his hand and saw a black squirrel. "Eh? What are you doing here?", Taeko asked, as if it could talk.

"You bastard!", the squirrel yelled to Takeo's surprise, "YOU CAN TALK!", He asked with a shocked expression.

"You're the one that asked me a question! And if birds can talk, why can't I?!", it proclaimed, annoyed at Takeo's behaviour.

Hearing what he said, Takeo was also annoyed by this little squirrel, 'Who does he think he i-', he thought, thinking about what he said about birds, he remembered the one's from the Demon Slayer Corps that could talk, 'This little rat is clever', he thought before he examined him.

'Woah, this little rat is cute', he thought, 'I wonder what he'll taste like', he thought with a dangerous smile that scared the little animal.

'Why's he looking at me like that..!', the squirrel thought a little shocked.

'Actually I have enough meat here', he reasoned, 'He's clever and smart, but that tongue of his...', Takeo pondered over keeping him before he looked at how skinny he was, 'Look's like he was starving before he came here'.

"YOSH! I've decided, Little Rat I'll allow you to live here!", he told the squirrel.

"..Bastard, Who said I wanted to live here?! And I'm not a rat! I'm a squirrel", it shouted at Takeo.

"You sure? I guess you don't want this", he said, before waving a piece of meat in-front of him.

The food swung left to right, as if Takeo was putting the squirrel under hypnosis, causing the squirrel to say, "I g-guess I will take your offer then".

And with that, the squirrel had a good meal, still on guard however, it couldn't forget the way Takeo looked at him with hunger. As it was about to go back to it's nest, it began to snow heavily.

"It's snowing pretty heavy huh?", Takeo said before he looked at the squirrel, "Hey little rat, you can stay here if you want", Takeo said, to which the squirrel replied, "HOW MANY TIMES! I'M NOT A RAT!", he screamed.

"Relax, my name is Takeo, what's your name then little rat~?", Takeo asked mockingly.

'Bastard...', he thought, before saying, "...I don't have one", with a blank expression as if he didn't even care.

"Is that so?", he said as he stroked his chin, "Why don't I give you one!", he thought.

"Why would you do that?", the squirrel said.

"I don't know, I just feel like doing it.", "Your new name will be...Yuko!", Takeo said after some time.

"Yuko...what kind of a name is that...", the squirrel retorted.

"What you don't like it".

"...No I do. Thank you, you bastard".

Veins appeared on Takeo's head because of anger, 'If he wasn't cute, I'd have already killed you', he thought as he stared at Yuko with a deadly gaze.