One day, while playing Tenchu:Fatal Shadows, I got the urge to write a fanfic about it. This will be sort of a novelization of the game, with some self-insert elements. Just me trying to set something up for future fanfics after this is finished…enjoy! *Character thoughts are italicized, as well as mysterious voices!* Also, excuse any canonical mistakes I make, my knowledge of details are sketchy.
Disclaimer: Tenchu:Fatal Shadows and its characters belong to K2, Software, and Sega. I own nothing, except this fanfiction, and my self-insert.
It was a spacious living room, and the lights were out. The only illumination came from a large plasma screen on one side of the room. There was a guy sitting on a couch, opposite of the screen, with a game controller in his hands. He had nothing better to do, then to sit there, mashing buttons, eyes glued to the screen. A game was loading, with the words Tenchu:Fatal Shadows in a corner, but suddenly, it froze. The gamer got up cursing, but then, an intensely bright light filled the room, coming from the screen, shocking the guy. He felt like he was being drawn into something, then his vision went dark.
Hakagure Training Course
Five shuriken impacted a target board dead center in the bulls-eye. A young woman in a red outfit and skirt twenty meters away struck a fist out in triumph at her accuracy. Her name is Rin, and she is a kunoichi of Hakagure, a small shinobi village bordering several large lands, among them, Gohda, and the old kingdom of Mei-oh. Rin is considered one of the finest kunoichi in Hagakure, she is talented at unseen movement, and nimble in a fight. At the moment, Rin was training at Hakagure's secret training area, hidden in the mountains near her village. In this training area, Rin practiced her shuriken throwing accuracy, her silent kill techniques, and her knowledge of weapons and items. Although Rin's weapon of choice is a sword named "nasume", Rin practiced daily to be proficient in the use of spears, staves, and bows as well, weapons to use in a pinch. The training area was comprised of several large interconnecting rooms. In one room, there was a waterfall and a large pool to train shinobi in swimming, something most shinobi seemed to have difficulty with. But not Rin, she is an excellent swimmer, even capable of moving in the water silently. In another room, several dummies representing guards were used to practice silent kills on. Rin would also practice her two most advanced skills, a quick parry used to throw attacking foes off balance that she named "fang guard", and a very difficult to time move, where she could deflect arrows and similar projectiles, using a metal vambrace on her right forearm.
Hours passed, and Rin practiced each of her skills diligently, making to keep her moves sharp. Rin paused, hearing what sounded like a whisper. But that was impossible, she was alone here, no one else came to the training area at this time of night. Shrugging it off as the wind, Rin continued hitting a dummy with deft hand strikes. But she heard the whisper again. Certain she heard something this time, Rin stopped, and listened intently. "Is someone there?" She asked. "The village is in danger…" Rin focused, drawing her ki together, a technique that could detect nearby people, but she could sense no one else with her. Frowning, Rin decided to pay heed to the faint warning, and headed back to the village. She had quite a walk ahead of her, so she jogged quickly. "Oh well, I trained long enough already tonight, might as well head back…"
That's the end of the first chapter, more like introducing Rin, and a mysterious voice. Yes, I do have a plasma screen, and for some reason, my copy of Tenchu: FS tends to freeze a lot, forcing a restart. We'll see Ayame in the next chapter, please rate and review! I'm a new author, I need feedback to improve my writing!
