Diaries, Part I

How to bring down a Gaijin barbarian, by Bayushi Dokusatsu.

It have fallen into my duties to see that a certain Moto meet his demise.

The Unicorn have their leaders in the Moto Family, and this family have 2 mayor characteristics and are well know by them:

1.- They are brash, hot headed people, even to Matsu standards.

2.- The Moto, more than any other family on the Unicorn Clan, have a reputation of being Gaijin Barbarians.

How do you bring down the Unicorn? The same way you bring down everyone else: Through their flaws.

My plans involve the use of Shinobi and my new friend: The Lady Doji. I need the Lady Doji to bring me a gift of poruvora from the ranks of the Daidoji Iron Warriors, then the Shinobi will plant it inside the Gaijin fortress.

This seems simple, but simple plans are the kind of plans that are simple to crack, so it will take a little more planing, a little more time and a little more action.

Finding a Shinobi friend would have been a little more difficult, however, my masters decided to provide me with one of my own. I made him play the part of an Emerald Magistrate and commandeer half of the ronin that I have captured in town and order them to attack a heimin village not far from here under the impression that the heimin are workers of Maho; their reward would be freedom AND payment. The next day my Shinobi servant will come to Kenson Jakka playing the part of an injured hemin escaping from the ronin that are slaughtering the heimin village. I then would take comand of the troops that serve under that barbarian and take them to the heimin village to make an attack on the ronin along with Akodo-Gunso, one of my companions. None is to be left alive.

Now with the fortress empty my Shinobi friend will infiltrate it and plant the poruvora, while at the same time Isawa-San and Mirumoto-San, my other 2 companions, will, by my order, perform a search on the fortress acompanied by the rest of the ronin in Kenson Jakka.

When Isawa-San and Mirumoto-San find the poruvora with MY warrant order I will take all the credit and I will be able to take everyone down without the word "Gozoku" ever being spoken in public.

Genius.

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Author's Note:

1.- Poruvora, or Gaijin Pepper, is gun powder; an illegal substance in Rokugan.

2.- Shinobi are NOT ninja, the work out of loyalty for the Clan, not money.

3.- Gunso is a military rank roughly equivalent of Sargent.

4.- Kenson Jakka (Humility Lesson) is the town in wich this story develops.
5.- Gozoku is a criminal organization.