Haku why didn’t you just ask? why didn’t u just talk to Hattori????
Because only the emperor and its heirs are allowed to touch it, and Hakuba wanted to do it on his own. He thought he had to. As it turns out, dividing the artifacts and responsibilities between all of the Gosho boys worked out so much better, and Heiji was better at wielding the sword, anyway…
they kicked him out??????? rude.
…it was that or be beheaded, so I think that’s pretty generous, really. I mean, he did try to steal their sacred sword.
ooc: OH MY GOD, I BET THAT DIDN’T.
He ALMOST got away with the sacred ceremonial sword – ALMOST – but Heiji’s honor guards managed to dart the hell out of him just before he got out of the gates… and then Heiji’s freaking tigers pinned him to the ground.
The ONLY reason he didn’t die is because he and Heiji had been friends when Hakuba was a prince, so when Heiji took off the mask he was like ‘WTF I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD’ right before Hakuba passed out.
Oops. They healed him, then told him to never come back ever again. It was a sad day for Hakuba.
Send “In Another Life” and I’ll tell you a fact about an AU version of my character.
In the fairy tale/fantasy AU, Hakuba was the prince of a fallen kingdom and thought to be dead. He went on to travel for years and became known as The Austringer– a hunter who travelled through neighboring kingdoms, surviving off of the land in disguise. Rumors spread that he was the best marksman in the land, that there was nothing he couldn’t track, and that his hawk scouted for him and whispered all of the secrets of the kingdoms in his ear.
And he was good at hunting, yes, and surviving in the wild. But his true mission was to steal certain magical artifacts from each of the surrounding kingdoms to compose the full suit of armor that would allow him to face the evil necromancer in his homeland, defeat him, and restore peace to the kingdom.
…alas, this meant stealing from Heiji’s empire, which, uh, did not go over well at all…