Shun was in the park on a summer day reading his new books.
"Let's see, what we have here: "Shakespeare's Classics", "How to hypnotize"," Les Miserables","Big encyclopedia of knowledge" and finally my favorite "The art of war"."
He said to himself and started to read. Suddenly it started to rain heavily. Shun took his books and ran home. He got in and suddenly saw that there was written "Happy Birthday, Shun". Shun thought that there will be a surprise party. But he only saw a note from his grandpa: "I'm going to Korea. Happy birthday. Don't forget to train. See you in one month."
Shun said:
"Great! Total loneliness is guaranteed. Even my friends didn't come on my seventeenth birthday. Well I'll better begin my meditation. Ohm…"
Shun put on his blindfold and began meditating. After ten minutes he heard someone opening the door. He continued meditating. Suddenly he heard a very familiar voice. It said:
"Hello Shun, happy birthday." It was a girl's voice. "Hey, where is everybody?"
"Ohm…"Shun continued his meditation. Suddenly a small tear fell from his blindfold.
"I thought you liked being alone?" The voice asked.
"Ohm… I don't care who are you and I won't stop meditating until morning."
"Ok then, you don't want your best friend Alice to be around?"
Shun instantly took off his blindfold and saw Alice, her close was wet from the rain and she was shivering. After that he saw a present in front of him.
Alice! Nice to see you again! Thank you very much for visiting me. No one came on my birth day you see. "OH! I forgot, you are cold and wet, let me get you a blanket. "
He took a big warm blanket from another room and gave it to Alice.
Because Shun was a ninja he could hear anything in the diapason of 4 miles. He heard a scream from the far.
"Wait a second; I'll go buy something from the store." Shun said and ran to another room and jumped from the window. He dressed as a black ninja on the way and ran towards the scream in high speed. Alice saw the ninja but she didn't think that was Shun. She followed the ninja. She could barely catch up with him. Suddenly she saw a crying girl. The girl said:
"They stole my money." She showed at a group of bullies that was running away.
The ninja ran very fast towards the running group. Beat them in five seconds, returned money to the girl and disappeared.
"Who was that?"Alice and the girl shouted.
"He is so brave."The girl said.
"It was amazing! He is a real hero! If only I knew who he is!"
Alice went back to Shun's house. Shun was their eating shrimps. He invited Alice to eat with him. Alice sat and started to eat shrimps and talk about the ninja.
"It was amazing, Shun. You should have seen the ninja. How he totally defeated the bullies and returned the girl's money."
"Yes, really interesting. I think it is one of our neighborhood kids."
"Maybe you are right."
The next day
Alice was standing on a cliff and taking photos of the mountains. Suddenly she slipped and was about to fall. She cried for help. But no one was around. She was about to meet her doom. Suddenly she saw something that was moving pretty fast. It caught her. She found herself in arms of the ninja. She said:
"Thank you for saving me."
The ninja did not say a thing he just nodded and ran away. Alice was getting interested in the ninja. She started a research. She bought a note to record the ninja's actions. One morning she asked Shun:
"Have you ever been in love before?"
"No, what is the matter?"Shun answered drinking milk.
"I am in love with the mysterious ninja that saved my life two days ago."
Shun spit out his milk,began to cough and said after stopping:
"I am happy for you. But you don't even know who he is!"
"I am going to find out. And you'll help me."
Shun was forced to agree with Alice to throw all the suspicions off him, though Alice didn't have any suspicions about her friend.
To be continued…