Azuma (Guardian of the Forests)

At the beginning part 1

On a deep and dark night at around 2 am, the pine forest was completely quiet. No one would dare to walk around in the forest at this time. But one thing does seem to be, something hissed quickly through the night and hardly made a sound. It ran so fast that the human eye could only see it as a prick. Until it got to a little house. Something turned out to be someone in a brown robe, this someone knocked on the door as often and as loudly as possible, until suddenly an old woman with gray hair opened the door.
The old woman looked at the someone in the robe and her face became brighter and brighter, full of life, because she saw someone she hadn't seen for a long time.
She then said with joy: "You ... what are you doing ..., I mean how are you ..., oh no do you want to come in?"
This someone replies with a woman's voice: "No, I have something here for you."The unknown woman bent down and showed the old woman what she was holding in her arms.
A bundle with a baby in it. The old woman made a frightened face and then said: "When do you have a child? And who is it from?"
The unknown woman replied. "That's not my child, she comes from the village on the edge of the forest. She was attacked, I couldn't do anything more for her, I only found a half-dead woman with this baby in her arms. She told me to be the girl bring them to safety and then they came, ..... "
The old woman shrank back and shouted: "What, you were that you are against here?"
Then the woman said to you: "Yes, the shadowy beings are against and they are stronger than they were then, that's why I couldn't defeat them."
The old woman: "But that's awful, how bad is it?"
The woman: "It's really bad, but you are still the safest here."
The old woman: "Well then, I'm calmed down and should I take care of the little grunt now?"The woman: "Yes, because you are still on my track and with the screaming neck on your neck you will get me tomorrow."
The old woman: "All right, but take care and visit me again!"
The woman: "Thank you oh and Aja," she waited a moment and then "good luck."
Aja: "Thank you Azuma."
And Azuma ran back into the forest and led the shadowy beings far away from the house of Aja.
Aja went into the house with the baby and first gave him milk.
"How should we call you that? Well!" Aja took a small wooden dagger out of the bundle of cloth and then said: "That's wood from a nigo tree, I've got it, your name is from now on, Nigori."

Almost sixteen years have passed

and in the meantime Nigori became a pretty young lady and was very knowledgeable about the arts of sword fighting. She has long red hair and a very stormy character, she wears a white jacket with long sleeves and a white belt, a long white skirt and wooden sandals.She always carries a samurai sword on her back.
At the moment she is training sword fighting and she is really very good at it. Aja watched her doing it and was also very surprised that she is so good, only what she didn't like so much was that she let out her strength on a tree. Aja shouted angrily to her: “Nigori, why don't you leave the poor tree alone, he hasn't harmed you.” Nigorie got a shock and threw the sword straight into the tree. Then she says: "Aja, but I was only training, I don't harm anyone, it's just a tree."
Aja looked at her angrily and then said angrily: "It's not just a tree, that's your namesake."
Nigori: "What, that's my namesake, what do you mean?"
Aja: "Well, your wooden dagger, when I found you that was all you had, and the dagger is made of nigo wood."
Nigori: "Oh, if that's the case, I'll train somewhere else."
Aja: "Oh, I didn't mean it like that, you can't chop everything up here in the forest, don't you feel the pain of the tree?"Aja grabbed Nigori's hand and put it on the tree. Nigori took the hand away and then said:" Resin, that's tree sap. "
Aja: "Yes, that is the life of the tree, its blood." Nigorie: "Its blood?"
Aja: "Yes and if you refuse him he won't live very long, but you don't need to think that it's just a tree and that it's not that bad. If you kill one tree, you weaken everyone else too." makes a hurt face and then says: "I didn't know that, I'm sorry, but where should I train now?"
Aja: "The best thing to do is to get a washed-up tree stump from the river bank and then make it up so that you can hit it." Nigori: "Oh yes."
Aja went back into the house and Nigori watched her go. When Aja was in the house she looked at the nigo tree and made a disappointed face because she had rammed the sword into the tree because she was so frightened. How is she supposed to find out?

Meanwhile, in another place, three strange-looking beings were talking to each other.They all looked the same and must have something important to tell each other.
“Are you sure?” “Yes, and she had the same sword too.” “Where did she go?” “Our men say she's going towards a little house.” “Well then we'll go there!”

But still with Nigori. Suddenly a person stood on a hill above Nigori and it turns out, Azuma. She came back after almost sixteen years, but why. Nigori tried desperately to pull the sword out of the tree. She put her hands on the hilt of the sword, put her feet on the burrow, and pulled like crazy. Until she accidentally let go and fell with her back on the floor with full force. And then Azuma jumped down from the hill and landed right in front of Nigori's head. She ran to the tree and pulled the sword out of the tree with a small jerk. Nigori looked at her startled then said: "What ... who are ..., I mean what are you doing ... and anyway?"Azuma replied very quickly: "I'm passing through here, you don't need to know my name, what I want here is not important and it is none of your business." Nigori just looked astonished, picked up her sword and left then back to her house to get Aja.
Nigorie: "Aja, Aja, I think there is someone for you."
Aja came running out of the house and said: "What is it, don't yell like that!"
Nigori: "But look there!"
Aja looked up and then said: "You, what are you doing here?"
Azuma: "I need to talk to you."
Nigori: "Do you know about Aja."
Aja; "I think it would be best if you leave us alone now! You wanted to make a barrier for yourself."
Nigori: "Well, I know when I am unwanted." And with that she went against it. As she walked, she mumbled something to herself, but you couldn't understand that anyway.
Aja: "What do you want?" Azuma: "I have a request." Aja: "And what about?" Azuma: "I would like to discuss that with you inside!"Aja:" Well, come with me! "
They went into the house and Nigori to the bank of the river.
In the house: Aja: "What do you want here?" Azuma: "I ..., want to take the girl with me." Aja shrank back and made a perplexed face. She looked at Azuma angrily and then said: "No, I won't let that happen, not now, not today and definitely not in this life." Azuma made a cold face and then said: "If that is your last word .. ., then I'll go. "And turned around and wanted to go to the exit until Aja called her back:" Wait! I can't just give it to you. And besides that, aren't you allowed to have only one student? "Azuma:" Yes but I no longer see Hetaro as my student, he never finished his training. "Aja:" But I thought he took the oath of allegiance? "Azuma:" But he broke it. "Aja:" You will soon have one thing against your meeting isn't it? "Azuma:" Yes and why everyone thinks that I can't train a student and the little one is predestined to become a mistress.She has no family or obligations anyway? "Aja:" But she has me. "Azuma looked at her startled, then made a relieved face and then said," So you haven't even told her that I brought you to your home? "Aja:" Yes, I didn't think it was necessary. "Azuma:" Then I have to go against it, goodbye ... mother. "

In the meantime, Nigorie has fetched a tree trunk from the bank and set it up straight. She did not admire her masterpiece for long, then took a few steps back, slowly pulled out the sword with her right hand, and then ran towards the tree trunk. She set the blade sideways and ran close to it. A small, fine slit could be seen in the tree stump. Nigori snaps his finger and looks confident of victory. Aja and Azuma watched her and Azuma took out her sword, ran towards Nigori and hissed past. Nigori, who held her arms tightly in front of her face, got up, looked up and then flaunted: "Ha, I've done more damage to the tree stump, you don't even see a scratch."Azuma sticks her sword back and sneers at Nigori. And suddenly, half of the tree stump falls off, with a sloping and fine cut. Nigori's mouth got bigger and bigger and Azuma said:" It doesn't matter that you train hard , but make sure that you learn something from the training too! "And when Azuma finished this sentence she briefly looked over to Aja and then went back into the forest. She was not in the forest yet, so Nigori didn't look after her anymore and got up when she wanted to check Azuma again, she could, she couldn't find her anymore, she was gone. Nigori looked at Aja and then said: "She must feel really great, is putting on a show like this, who was that anyway? "Aja looked at her lovingly with her friendly warm eyes and then said:" You will find out yet, but not now and not today! Come on in now, I'll have a nice lunch! "Nigori:" All right. "
Aja was already in the house when Nigori wanted to get up and smelled something strange, something behind her smelled badly burnt.She turned around and examined the severed tree stump until she was suddenly startled and noticed that the severed side was completely burned. Aja: “Nigori come!” Nigori said something absent: “Yes,” and in silence she whispered to herself: “Who was that?”

Azuma has already run 10 minutes further and came to a small clearing where she first took a breather and sat down. She enjoyed the calm that