Chapter One. RAISED TO KILL...

My name is TAI KENOSKE and I am a ninja warrior born in the Shido Era. My mother once said that sometimes to protect the ones you love you have to do things to prove you are strong. My mother was a brave woman, I always wanted to protect her. But when my father died, she wasn't the same. Not in her weakness that she lost her lover, her favorite person in the world, but because she too had sacrificed everything so that we could be happy together with what we had, and still life took him from her.

I have always had my mother's deep black eyes. They often change color, a attribute my grandmother passed down, andy long black hair I often wore in my face, I got from my mother. But my strength and wisdom I got from my father.

That was long ago.

I sat in the quiet room pretending to drink my tea admi.eyed the other four men as we sat in a circle waiting for Lord Hakukira to give us our orders for our mission.

I was quiet.

He comes in and sits. He doesn't.look around instead he stirs his tea intently.

"I have called you all here to complete a

mission." He spoke.

We all nodded in agreement bowing to his orders.