Their way

Centuries before modern times there was a secret race or hidden society. Little is even known about them today, but enough is known for a story to forge, to let our imaginations go into this dark world, this dishonorable past. A past of devious tactics, killing for money and use of trickery of the mind.

Honor meant almost nothing to these people, or so the people say. This hidden society hid under disguises not showing their true occupation. Some hid as hokashi, others hid as sarugaku, akindo, shukke, or hid as yamabushi. These disguises allowed them to conceal their weapons and other treacherous devices.

No one knows when this secret race began, when they first formed an identity for themselves. The earliest known people of these hidden societies came around the early sixteenth century. Some say they started back in ancient China, to the writing of Sun Tzu, the art of war.

These worriers, trained since two to three, could deliver a fatal blow effortlessly. Soundlessly climbing the walls to an enemy castle to a where their target lay asleep. Mostly their targets were shoguns, but there were rare occasions where they went after someone that weren’t shoguns.

There were a few people who learned their secret art without their prier knowledge so they went and eliminated the potential threat. Or they went after people who knew their true identities. All these people were quickly and quietly dealt with.

This was their way… The way of the ninja.

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"Mommy, where are we going to?" asked a young boy, about the age of three and a half. He had big fearful Prussian blue eyes and unruly dark brown hair.

"Hush now darling, just stay quiet." The mother quickly glanced around her. She didn’t see anything past the dense night besides fog and trees on the sacluded mountain. The woman as well had dark brown hair that reached two inches below her shoulders. Her eye colors were slightly lighter than her young son’s eyes.

Moving swiftly again down the mountain, holding her son tight to her breast, she tripped on a small rock sticking up out of the ground. Her arms flung out in front of herself causing her young son to fling out of her protective arms and rolling down the mountain.

"Heero!" she cried. About to get up and run after the boy she felt the cold feel of a steel blade press against her neck. The last thing she heard was her son’s please for help before the steel blade slit her throat.

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"Tell us what you know," growled the man in a black suit at the Chinese emperor.

"I will not betray my people. I will not become a dishonorable traitor as you are to your own country." With that answer his throat was slit, and he died tied, to his own chair, an honorable death defending his country.

"Let us go, he could not have told us much any way." The leader said to his small group. They nodded and quickly exited the palace right before the guards came crashing through the door.

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Hokashi- musician

Sarugaku- actor or entertainer

Akino- merchant

Shukke- Buddhist monk

Yamabushi- mountain worrier-priest

Shogun- war lord

Hoped you liked it. ^-^ More is yet to come. Please review. Thanks

~Titan~