Episode 1: The Not So Fabulous Life Of A Shinobi!
The story starts in a normal Japanese town on a normal spring afternoon, before we then cut to an average Japanese boy with uneven spikey hair and a typical school uniform walking down the street after school. He checked his phone to find that he had a single text message.
"Meet me by the alleyway in Kabukicho..."
The boy looked at the message, wondering who it was from, only to discover that the sender was unknown; it was nobody in his contacts. Worried, though also curious, the boy decided to head to the Kabukicho District, which is not too far from where he is now. The boy went by the name "Koichi". He's a bit of a loner and an aimless young man who once had a dream of becoming a Soccer player. Though as we'll soon discover, it seems fate had different plans for him. Upon finally reaching the alleyway, he called out for the person who requested him to arrive.
"Hello?" he called, his voice echoing slightly through the alleyway. He checked his phone again for the message...and then a female figure walked into the frame before standing in front of Koichi. She had fair skin, short hair, a large...chest, wore glasses and wore a uniform that seemed to belong to the same school as Koichi.
"Koichi-kun! You actually came!" the girl said, her face flushed red and ecstatic to see him.
"Uh...who are you?" he asked, genuinely not knowing who this girl is.
"I'm your biggest fan, Koichi! I watch you play Soccer everyday at school!
"Of course you wouldn't know me...why would you notice a nobody like me?.." the girl said, sounding sad.
"Oh come on, I'm sure-" Koichi said, before the girl cut him off. Her tone...it was as if somebody flipped a switch.
"For that...you must die." the girl said, before a group of ninjas arrive from behind her.
"Wai-GAHUH!" Koichi called out, before being being kneed in the gut by one of the shinobi and then falling to the ground.
"Ngh..." he grunted, holding his gut. Then another shinobi kicked him in the face, causing him to fall to the ground harshly.
"AGH!" he exclaimed before hitting the cold, stony ground below him. Blood dripped down the corner of his mouth before he then coughed some of it out. All he could do was wonder what reason these girls have to hurt him. It was at this moment the girl would step aside and reveal their true leader: one with short, scruffy white hair, yellow eyes and a...once again, well-defined chest. She wore a black cape with white markings at the top left while the cape is over a white and yellow, high collared coat with black linings held by a double strap with a buckle logo of somesort of a snake, a burgundy sash and two small brown leather straps crisscrossed at the bottom front. She held a seven-pronged sword and pointed it at Koichi's chest. Just as she was about to impale him, she heard a series of strikes that took down each of the shinobi accompanying her. All she could do for now was...
She raised up her sword and impaled Koichi straight in the chest, causing the boy to yelp out in pain. She then quickly yanked out the blade before making a retreat. The boy now just laid on the ground in a pool of his own blood, now fighting for his life. At that moment, a female figure ran up to him and started to call out to him.
"...y...Ar...ay?!" the voice faintly called out to him. He couldn't see much due to his vision blurring, but he briefly saw a girl with dark brown eyes, dark brown hair that was tied back with a white ribbon. He then closed his eyes and started to accept that he would die. Suddenly, a flash of white would envelop everything around him.
"W-...where am I?.." Koichi wondered to himself as he stood up. It was then that a female cloaked in black would appear before him. Koichi, understandably alarmed, stepped back in slight apprehension of the woman before him.
"I see you have become another victim of an unfair fate. One that you can't change or escape from." the woman said, her soft tone echoed through the vastness.
"Excuse me?" Koichi asked, not knowing what on earth she's referring to.
"You have had your life taken by evil shinobi. Ninja who break the law and act only for their own interest." the woman explained, though this explanation arguably only confused Koichi further.
"Shinobi? You mean...like ninjas?" Koichi asked.
"Indeed. You are still alive right now, because you have potential." the woman simply said.
"Potential?...Wait...ME, a ninja?! Nonono, you've gotta be mistaken! I couldn't be a ninja! I'm just a struggling soccer player!" Koichi explained, waving his hands in an exaggerated fashion.
"Yes...however, fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing." the woman said, before a an alarm clock goes off in her hand.
"...I'm afraid I must be going now. Good luck, Koichi. You will need it in the days that will come before you. In your fight against the Yoma." the woman said before she started to fade away.
"Wait, what?! What the hell is Yoma?! None of this makes any sense! I'm so confused right now! Hey, wait!" Koichi said, reaching his hand out for the fading woman. Suddenly, Koichi wakes up in a bed in a hospital covered in bandages. He looked around before setting his eyes on a man with gray wavy hair and a black suit sitting in a chair.
"Ah...I see you have come to." the man said, closing the book he was reading.
"Who are you? And how long have I been out?" Koichi asked, causing the man to turn his head and look him in the eye, intimidating the boy somewhat.
"My name is Kiriya. I'm a teacher at Hanzō National Academy. And you've been out for three days." Kiriya said, introducing himself. The name "Hanzō" caused Koichi's eyes to widen.
"Hanzō National Academy?! That's where I go to school!" Koichi said, his face lit up with surprise.
"Indeed it is. You've been on our radar for quite some time, Koichi." Kiriya explained.
"Why's that?" Koichi asked, his expression reverting to one of confusion.
"Hanzo-san, whom the school is named after and a legendary shinobi, believes that you have the potential to become a shinobi." Kiriya said, his posture remaining the same.
"I'm so confused right now..." Koichi said, rubbing his temple. Suddenly, a series of footsteps can be heard heading towards his hospital room. The source of the steps arrive in the form of a girl, who had brown eyes, dark brown hair tied back by a white ribbon. She was also seen wearing the Hanzō uniform with a red scarf. She was seen panting due to running all the way to the hospital
"That's...!" Koichi thought to himself as he has a brief flashback to seeing her at the time of him being near death. Kiriya turned around to face the girl.
"Ah, I see you've arrived Asuka. This is-" Kiriya said before being cut off.
"YOU'RE OKAY!" Asuka shouted, before running over to Koichi and hugging him while crying tears of joy. Her...ahem, large chest was also clearly smothering his face. An event that caused Koichi's face to flush red. The last shot of the episod is of Kiriya rubbing the bridge of his nose while smiling.
-To Be Continued-