CHAPTER XVIII

TSUNAMI I

Tsunami warily opened the door after hearing the insistent knocking by the two masked ninjas. Her wariness was aggravated by the fact that it was midnight. But she didn't have a choice. As if she could keep them out if they wanted to enter the house.

"Lady Tsunami," the taller one said with a shallow bow, "may we come in? I swear we mean you no harm."

Still wary, she cautiously nodded and stepped aside to let them enter. After they were inside, Tsunami closed the door and turned to face the strangers. They had taken off their hoods and were sitting side by side.

The taller one was about twenty five, with shoulder length dark brown hair and wearing a black mask that covered everything except his lips and deep purple eyes, black headband with a musical note symbol.

His companion was almost the same, except for his age which was about fifteen or sixteen and the fact he had grayish white hair and vibrant green eyes.

The older ninja said he was called Kyou and his teammate Shiro. Kyou was helped out by Kaiza years ago during a very embarrassing situation. When Kyou learned of Kaiza's death he decided to help out his family.

Then Kyou took out enough food and medicine for a hundred people to last a couple of weeks and handed them over to her.

They also spent the next two days using their ninja powers to catch fish to feed the starving people. Of course they didn't let her reveal their existence to anyone except Inari. Said that if Gato finds out about them he'll send people to kill them. And the townspeople would inevitably suffer when they get caught in the middle of the fight.

On the third day, everything went to hell. And that was just the beginning.