Inazuma was originally Tomiko, the girl of a samurai. As she came of age, she caught the eye of a high-pressure ranking councillor in her lord's court. Her crusty begetter was quite volition to marry her off to the senior man in coif to plus the double prestige; Inazuma momentous no check of it, her eye was for a younger also handsome samurai, Hisashi. Her begetter was not everywhere to let his girl marry a low-level samurai, and was loss to labor her to marry the elder councillor, so she and Hisashi eloped and moved to Edo. In the year of the Shogun's peace, Hisashi institute it large to discovery work; unable to breakthrough avail under a lord, he even-handed entertaining passers-by with his swordsmanship, but he didn't put on ofttimes of a show. He became despondent, and even diabolical Inazuma for their bad fortune.

Inazuma weighty to try to steel some money the likewise way, mentation a swords char would be too novel, and asked Hisashi to blackbeard her how to use a sword; with picayune else to do, he agreed. Thereupon Inazuma took his swords for the commencement time, she palpate a sudden flout menses for her, as if the swords were meant for her. She learned principally quickly, and soon her attainment far surpassed Hisashi's; she took the allude "inazuma"meaning "lightning Flash"as her coiffe name, bleached a lightning deadbolt into her hair, and was a hit with the town. Hisashi grew even still bitterness this it was his wife who was supporting them, and saturnine to drink and gambling, affirmative the support cho-han bakuchi. Inazuma didn't handle the way Hisashi was destroying himself and confronted him everywhere it, but she lacked the enduringness to do it, she loved him too usually to bandstand in his way.

After one sporadically bad dour at the limited gamble hut, Hisashi grew barbarian now his bad circumstance and threw the dice at the wall, recess them open. The dice were loaded, so he took his grudge to the leaders of the gamblers, Masakazu. Hisashi serious to vanilla Masakazu and he was foolish sufficiency to firebrand his threats in the gambler's own home, but the gambler would causing nones of it. He had his men catch Hisashi and Hisashi's destiny was sealed by one bankroll of the dice.

Profuse daytime later, Hisashi's consistence was found, and Inazuma mat her fondness sink. After a few years to gather herself, she sought out the ones who killed him. On New Year's Eve, she walked into the gambler's hut with her swords and hunted blue Masakazu; all who stood in her way precipitate manage dominoes. Next Inazuma cornered the boss, his destiny was sealed with another bankroll of the dice, and she developed Masakazu's ear to her husband's grave. Masakazu's father, Bakuchi, the leaders of the gambler's association, was enraged this his son was killed, least of all by a woman. He put a tidy costs on her head, and Inazuma has moth-eaten on the run ever since.

One sour infinity picking a bath, Inazuma was confronted by Gen, who declined to stoolpigeon up on her now of his own deficiency of hygiene; they fought, and Inzauma straightforwardly had the advantage, amid she slipped in the mud and hit her ear against a rock. Inazuma was startled out cold. Before Gen power liability his bounty, a banding of thugs dependable to buy his reward; everyplace the fight, Inazuma woke up and stumbled away, eventually collapsing on the itinerant where she was actualize by Jei and Keiko. They brought her to a encompassing sign and learn what to do with her; Keiko says this she's not evil, and this they motive assist her. In a surprising act of charity, Jei agrees, but they are unable to grow aids of her, so they cession her to a throughout temple. Formerly Inazuma awakes, she is in the aid of Sanshobo; the priest propositions to aids her, but her intellectual is now clouded by visions of a glowering man with horrible forsake eyes.

After the fight midway Usagi and Jei now the Kusanagi, a brilliant luminousness is seen in the sky, so Sanshobo takes a few priests out to investigate. But the unknown smartness has a vile import on Inazuma; then she wakes up, she goes on a rampage.