CHAPTER 4

I WANNA BE AN ASSASSIN

Once Shadow and Rose got to Rose's place Shadow and Rose was in her living room. Her place wasn't like other homes. She had various types of swords and guns hanging from the hooks on her wall. Her whole place was decorated like the Japanese had, considering she was a ninja.

Shadow had known that she was an assassin. Now Shadow thought he should tell her, "Rose, you're an assassin and I respect that. I came here for a reason and that is to kill the mayor."

Rose gasped, "Really?"

Shadow nodded, "Yes, I want to become an assassin and take revenge for my family."

Rose opened his suitcase and saw all the weapons that Rouge had designed for him in it. Rose smirked, "If you wanna become an assassin you have to pass a couple of tests first."

"What kind of tests?"

"I'll have to teach you how to practice your sneak attacks and sniping skills."

"When do I start?"

"Whenever you want."

"Then I'll start tomorrow." He walked into Roses's spare room and rested for the remainder of the day.

The next day Espio was worried about Shadow so he decided to visit him. He called his name throughout his house, but no answer. He walked upstairs into his room to find him, but as he suspected he was not there. "Where could he be?" He began searching his room and at the most obvious place he saw a piece of paper laying on his table beside his bed. He picked it up and read it.

It said, 'If you came to check up on me, you're wasting your time. I already left to go with Rose. I figured she could help me with my problem. Since she lives kinda far, I won't be back for sometime now. Just try not to worry about me. I can take care of myself, so don't get involved in my business or else I'll have to kick your ass. Sincerely, Shadow.'

Espio looked away from the paper and began thinking, "What? Why did he go with Rose? She's our friend and all, but she's a fugitive, criminal, killer. Not to mention that she's the world's deadliest ninja assassin." He glanced back over the note, "I know you told me not to worry about you, but I can't take my mind off you. I pray that you're okay and remain okay."

Later at Rose's place Rose began to teach Shadow the art of assassination. They were in the basement starting to train. Rose had a dirk positioned in her hand as if she was ready to kill someone.

Shadow had almost done the same. It made him feel guilty wanting to become a killer, but it was the only way to take revenge. "Is this right?"

Rose positioned the dirk's stabbing position outward in his hand, "Keep the point outward it makes a killer hit."

"When will we get to the sniping?"

"Soon, we have to get through the basics first before we can handle the big guns."

Shadow nodded agreeing with her. He thought he could kill Sarah better with guns than with daggers.

A couple of hours went by and Shadow had gotten better handling the blades.

Afterwards they had finally got to the guns. They first did target practice. Shadow had aced that he always practiced targeting. He shot off all of the target's heads.

Rose was pleased by his actions, "Nice shot, Shadow. I see that you've been practicing a lot. You were born to work guns. If you can do this, sniping should be no problem for you."

Shadow wanted to get this training over with so he could get down to real business.

Rose handed him a rifle with a scope on it. "Do you know what to do with it?"

Shadow nodded as he took the rifle from her. He looked through the scope focusing on the new target's head. He quickly pulled the trigger and shot the head off.

Rose was amazed, "Shadow, that was amazing. You acted like you needed my help, but looking at it now it seemed that you didn't."

Shadow gave her back the rifle, "Enough talk, I want to kill Sarah now."

"Hold on, Shadow. This is nothing. Before you go for the goal, you have to go through experience first."

"What does that mean?"

Rose thought for a couple of moments, "Hey I got it. There's a gang that's selling fake crack and I really want to get back at their leader for selling me that cheap shit that they call crack. Think you're up to it?"

Shadow thought it could be another test to prove himself to become a true assassin. He nodded, "Sure, anything to become the best assassin I can be."

"Then lets prepare for tonight."