7 The blind old man

We had been working and planning out our plan and it was finally time to implement it. It was lights out and time for all unhypnotised recruits to go to bed.

The torches all went out and I could barely hear their footsteps even with my trained hearing leaving. I made sure they were all gone and then snuck out, just in time to see my partners in this escape, before tonight we had monitored the ninjas and had realised we weren't left alone to sleep but were checked on every hour.

We quickly made our way through one of the hallways, our steps quick but silent. We made our way through the hallways avoiding every guard we could and killing the ones we could not soon we arrived at where we normally trained. One of the escapees noticed there was an entrance hidden here during our training and so we had set it as our escape route.

We quickly opened up the entrance which revealed a tunnel, we all quickly jumped in and closed the entrance behind us. As we run through the tunnel we eventually heard the whistling of wind and we knew soon we would be home free causing everyone to speed up but as we were almost out, I had an odd feeling.... this was too easy suddenly on nothing but pure instinct I stopped grabbing John who was right by me.

Just as John turned to yell at me, the four who stepped out had countless shuriken and kunai embedded into them, everyone took in a sharp breath when they saw what happened to the ones before them. John turned to me with an apologetic look realising that if I did not stop him just then he would be like the four before us.

At this point I knew I could not just stay there as the ninjas were probably making their way through the tunnel and would soon catch up to us. Thinking on my feet I grabbed some smoke bombs from my belt as well as from John and threw them at the entrance causing a smoke screen, without a second to spare I rushed forward and grabbed one of the dead bodies flinging them out and making a dive for the forest the ninjas ended up shooting at my decoy. The smart ones including John, had dived with me avoid the ambush but for the ones who stayed.....well let's just say our numbers were down to five. We quickly made our way through the forest in the cover of the night, the ninjas followed after and we somehow managed to kill some of them without losing some of our own.

As we continued running, the people around started to gain the hope of survival but it was soon cut in half, literally two members of our team were cut in half causing us to jump forward alert. The one responsible was dressed like a shinigami from bleach, holding a long slim katana. It was none other than Kenji Nakamura.

Kenji Nakamura's appearance stunned me, after joining the Hand I became privileged to more information and from that info the owners of the dojos outside should not have that level of skill. The skill he revealed earlier was definitely above the one training them in the headquarters, I had had a spar with our training and if I pushed my self to my limits I could hear his steps and see his movements albeit barely but I still could but for Kenji Nakamura..... no matter how I tried even when he was right in front of me it felt as though it was an illusion.

Relying on nothing more than instinct John and I barely avoided the katana, the third guy was unfortunately not lucky and had his head liberated from his body, and then there were two.

I realised we had to fight back or we would really end up dead, picking up my Kunai I rushed at him with John in tow. We attacked with all we had but it was to no avail, He was toying with us and we knew it. A few minutes passed and he eventually got tired of us and struck at me, relying on instinct once more I managed to block it with my Kunai and barely escaped but I had a feeling my instinct would not save me once more.

Kenji seemingly interested in me rushed at me and I could nothing but close my eyes waiting for my death but it never came rather I heard a clank, opening my eyes I was stunned. An old man was before me and had blocked Kenji's attack, I could not see his face but Kenji was stunned when he saw him.

"Stick" venom dripping as he mentioned the name, " Kenji, your still living huh" the old man responded chuckling. "That's rich coming from you." The old man ignored him turning to me "you alright?" the man turned to face me, the thing that drew my attention was his shades he was wearing as it was the exact same one blind people wore.

Then it clicked blind old man, has skills,goes against the Hand... Stick it was actually him leader of The Chaste.