Throughout the years of the notorious Japanese "Sengoku Jidai" or Warring State, the war rages all over the country. Shinobi is a group of mercenaries or covert agents that worked under the feudal lords of Japan. They infiltrate, sabotage, and kill at a time when many of the land's famous individuals are trying to fight and become the ruler of Japan. Shinobi were devoted to the lords they served, but this espionage or irregular warfare that shinobi wages are deemed dishonorable in the samurais' eyes who fought beside their lord on the battlefield. Though they were looked down upon by the samurais, they were beneficial for their lords and were many focal points of the lord's army division.
After the Battle of Sekigahara and the Toyotomi's fall on the Osaka Castle's summer siege, Matsudaira Takechiyo or better known as Tokugawa Ieyasu became the Shogun. Thus the Tokugawa Shogunate was born, the tales or the records of shinobi faded from history altogether. No one knows why and the story of their deeds disappeared to obscurity. Not many know why and how the shinobi vanished from history, but they became the folklore of japan to this day society.
But what they don't know is that shinobi still exist. Shinobi only just covered their tracks and improvised through the changing era. Shinobi were still doing their operation in the modern era and even fought their fights in the shadows. The stories of this shinobi hidden from society are about to begin.
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The night falls as cold, and the lights shine throughout the city. The cold of the night was felt by the many people who came home after working in their office. The crowds of people walking down the night, the lights of the city shining through the night. It was in a state of peace in the society, but something was happening behind the scene that no one was paying attention to the busy lights.
In the dark alley, the sound could be heard around the back alley but cannot be heard in Tokyo's nightlife, where everyone was having fun. A boy was brutally beaten by an unknown person, the person's fist was already bathed in blood, but he kept punching and punching. The person seems in his 3rd year in high school.
"N-No P-Please." the boy begged, but the person delivered one last punch, knocking the boy down to the floor. The person was wearing a gray school uniform, wore glasses, his black eyes were silent and unwavering as he was still beating what's in front of him. His hair was dyed in cream color dye around his head while the other was still his original black hair. After he had enough, he let go of the person, leaving the unconscious body laying on the ground.
The high schooler then leaves the scene as he wanders around the city nights without a care in the world. In his school uniform, there was a crest of the school he was attending, a spider's shape, and the school's name, Gessen High School. The high schooler bumps into another person, but this time, the person has many friends.
"Hey! You fucking nerd! You just bumped into me." the person called out, but the high schooler was still walking, not noticing that he bumped into the person.
"Hey! I'm talking to you, four eyes. Hurry up and apologize!" the high schooler stops his foot after hearing that. The person has a smug smile on his face as he thought the high schooler was about to apologize, but as the high schooler turns around, the smugness quickly turns into horror as he saw blood around the cheeks of the high schooler was filled with blood spilled. The group was concerned and couldn't say a word of what they were seeing.
"I-I-I…." the leader couldn't come up with anything to say to the high schooler. The leader saw that the high schooler's eyes were filled with the intent to harm if any one of them came near him.
"What?" the high schooler replied.
"It's nothing." the leader replied nervously. The high schooler continued to walk in the opposite direction. The leader was breathing heavily after that encounter. He thought that the student would kill him, but the leader knows that if he decided to come near him, that high schooler would kill them.
The high schooler was still walking without looking back. The high schooler came across a clothing store mirror to notice that the face's right side was covered in blood. The schooler wiped off the trace of blood and looked around to see any police in the area. There is none in the vicinity, which is good, now that the boy needs to get out of sight before authorities catch for questioning. Luckily, he found a nearby toilet near him, so he hurried to the bathroom and quickly washed his cheeks.
The blood is flowing through his hands, the cold breath exhaled from his breath, the tap that streams and touches the blood-soaked hands of the boy. The boy felt exhausted, and he should be. He was out in the middle of the night where he should have been studying rather than beating up thugs. Then he heard his phone ringing, he picked up the phone and immediately responded.
"Hello."
"Where are you, Lil bro? I looked everywhere for you in the dorm and couldn't find you. Let me guess, you went outside at night, right?" the caller asked, and the boy didn't say anything.
"I knew it. Get back here right now, Naoki. No more funny business." the little brother hangs up his phone. He looks up to the moon. The light of the moon shines.
"The moon shines so brightly, and yet I could not. The one who should lead "Chronicle" is you, big bro." he moves again, going back to the streets of the night.
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Naoki was walking through the streets of the city, and he felt dried up. Luckily, he encounters a vending machine in front of him. After inserting his yen into the vending machine, He sees the option for today and decides to pick an orange juice bottle. To his surprise, the bottle didn't come out from the vending machine.
The boy was surprised that the machine was broken all of a sudden, he slapped the front of the thing, and it did nothing that serves his benefit. "Move." a voice coming from behind him. It was a boy who was waiting for his turn to buy from the vending machine.
Naoki moves aside from the boy, and the boy approaches the machine. The boy kicked the vending machine forward. This surprised Naoki because the sound of the boy's kicks was loud as hell. Naoki noticed that the machine's front was lifted backward a bit due to the force of his kick alone. His eyes went up as he saw what happened.
As the machine was in place again, it dropped out the orange bottle that Naoki wanted. Naoki observed the boy wearing a silver Sukajan with a black color dragon embedded on the back with "Japan" written on top. The sleeves of his Sukajan were black with silver lines, and he had messy black hair. The boy was grinning if he found something for free and was knocked down by his kicks.
He grabs something and finds the orange bottle that Naoki had already bought. The boy was confused and then stared at Naoki, which caught Naoki off guard. The boy's brown eyes kept staring at Naoki as if he did something wrong. Instead, he threw the orange bottle nonchalantly to Naoki.
"Rough night?" the boy who wore the Sukajan asked, in which Naoki replied by shooking his head.
"Yeah, I was searching for something for my friend, but I didn't get what I wanted. it was a PS5, but it sold out in the game shop." Naoki lied straight to the stranger. The stranger noticed blood on his sleeves. He quickly points to Naoki's sleeves that have a couple of bloodstains on them.
"A scuffle? For a PS5? Man, you are lying out of your ass, but it doesn't concern me, though. It's your business, so I won't judge." the boy said. Naoki was just silent as he opened up the orange juice bottle while the boy who was wearing the Sukajan was searching if anything fell down from the port below. It is only a coffee can that he can grab. He proceeds to drink the coffee.
"Isn't it doing this kind of stuff going to get you in trouble with the police?" Naoki reminded the boy as Naoki drank his bottle of orange juice.
"Meh, if we are not caught, that is." the sukajan boy replied. Out of the blue, he saw two police officers were walking straight this way. One of the officers is walking this way.
"Two officers behind you, coming this way." the sukajan boy warned Naoki. Naoki doesn't want to turn around and run. if he did that, they would get arrested for not complying with the police
"If we get burned, run towards the opposite direction, and we'll outrun the cops on our way. You feel me?"
Naoki nodded as they prepared for the cue to run away. The police officer noticed a bloodstain on Naoki's sleeve and quickly moved in on them.
"Now!" The cue was set. The two disperse from the scene while the two police officers split up to catch them. Naoki may not know it yet, but he will find a great ally from the boy he just met, and he will need his help with the new conflict that will begin in the city.
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After the exhausting escape, Naoki has run out of breath from all the running. He looks around for the sukajan guy, and both of them have separated from each other. He was concerned about him because he might rat on him but senses that it will not occur like that, but he might be wrong. Unknown to him, a hand taps him on the shoulder, and Naoki quickly turns his back while still catching his breath.
"Naoki-san. I'm sorry for scaring you." the voice says in worry.
"Don't worry about it. I thought you were someone else. Yumi-san." Naoki said to the girl.
Yumi is a gorgeous girl with a grey sailor blazer uniform, grey skirt, and black pantyhose. Her blue eyes and short dark grey hair with a white bow on the back of her hair. Naoki kept his distance between Yumi. He was always embarrassed when he was around Yumi, and still is to this day.
Yumi notices there are traces of blood on his right hand and quickly grabs his hand. "Gotten into another fight, I see?" Yumi guessed at her friend, and he nodded.
"Yeah. Why are you here, Yumi? No class for today?" Naoki asked the girl, and she shook her head as no to his answer.
"To tell you the truth, I was looking for Naoto-san and you. The last time the other saw him was in this area." Yumi explained her reasoning, which Naoki could understand.
"Naoki and I have a knack for fighting against other people before meeting Kurokage. It's quite logical, really." the voice says, and both of them turn back to see a boy wearing a shirt that has a picture of a skeleton playing guitar and also wore grey school pants. He has the same hair as Naoki, but Naoki's hair was full black and an arm sling attached to his left arm.
"Naoto-san"
"Big bro," Naoki said, and he was face to face with his big brother. Naoto and Naoki were facing each other, Naoki was shaking by his big brother's presence. Since little, Naoki always sees himself as inferior to his brother, a natural, a person who can do things quickly without fail, and still a perfect role model for a leader. Yet, the headmaster chooses Naoki, which the other students disagree with the decision.
All of a sudden, Naoto headbutts his little brother as the pain makes Naoki hold his head. "What do you do that for?"
"I've been searching for you for two days straight. I haven't eaten since!" Naoto says with an angry voice but then his stomach suddenly starts to ache and makes many noises. Naoki never thought that his brother would go that far for him. Naoto was holding his stomach as he was furious and starving as hell.
"I'm sorry. I thought you were busy or something." Naoki replied.
"Do I look like the type of guy who wouldn't be worried for his brother? Alright then, turn your back for a bit?" Naoto asked calmly. Naoki was confused, but he obliged his brother's request. Out of the blue, Naoto jumps on the back of his little brother's back.
"You're going to carry me until we get to the school. I want no objections!"
Naoki tried to brush off his brother from his back but Naoto clung to him. This was going on for a while but to no result. This scene between the two stopped as they heard someone giggling, and it was Yumi. she giggled from the sight that the two brothers were messing around. Both of them decided to stay silent, and Naoki just went with it. Yumi soon followed them from behind. She recalls the same thing that happened like this but with a different predicament. He remembered them that they were bruised and bloody during that time.
"Both of you have always argued with each other ever since you were little. Seeing it once again brings back memories, isn't it?" Yumi says with a smile.
"Now that you mentioned it, this scenario did happen before, isn't it?" Naoto suddenly realized something
"When you said that, you mean every time we got into a fight? Because that's the only thing that I could come up with when we were bruised up. We always get called up by the principal, and Kurokage-san always gets phone calls about our behavior at school." Naoki remarked on how Naoto could forget something that gave him a physical beating and showed many scars.
"When you and I fought against weak opponents, I rather laugh at how much fun I had than feeling the pain that we felt and forgot those chumps. I remembered you knocked out one of those chumps with a single knee strike, and his nose bandaged up the next time we met. You are a beast, dude." Naoto gave a smile, remembering those things. Naoki didn't mind the praise, but he thought his brother was just trying to cheer him up and trying to overhype to the moon, but he wasn't that impressive at all.
"Each time I carried you, you got heavier and heavier," he complained.
"Because I get bigger and stronger than ever," Naoto jokes around with his two friends, making them all let out small laughs.
"It's because you probably gained weight from overeating. You." Naoki playfully said and then he realized that he screwed from saying those words as Naoto tightened his grip around Naoki's neck.
"Who are you calling fat, huh? My left arm may be wrapped around my back but that doesn't mean I can choke you with my right one."
"Please for..give me. I'm fading away." Naoki begs his big brother to let go of his sleeper. Yumi decided to remove Naoto's
As the three are making their way to their school. A group full of delinquents is walking in front of them. They decided to ignore them as the group walked past them. The three of them looked concerned about the group.
"There are a lot of delinquents around here lately. The police are looking for anyone wearing any colors. we better make haste before anything happens. "
"Oh. How wise. As expected of my little brother." Naoto was impressed by his brother's observation.
"Well, if you look hard enough, even a monkey brain like you can spot those things from far away, I mean, you're not an idiot, right?" Naoki answers his brother's stupidity and quickly pays for it as Naoto is choking him once again while Naoki was tapping out for his brother to release him
"Naoki-san is right. We don't need to deal with them. Let us go back to school. " Yumi ordered the two as the three once again walked again to their school.
Unknown to them, a boy who was thumping his baseball bat observed the three third-year students from afar. He was curious about the three of them mainly. He hadn't seen them in this area before so he was interested. He then heard his smartphone ringing inside his pocket, so he quickly answered the phone.
"Don't pursue those three. They are too much for you. Withdraw and regroup with us." the caller said to the boy.
"Roger. I will return immediately." The boy puts his phone back, and he turns backward. The boy starts to walk away, and as he walks away, the sign of destruction that the boy has caused can be seen as the whole group of delinquents has been beaten by the boy. The boy has light red hair, red eyes. His jacket was unbuttoned, revealing his abs and a couple of marks of cuts from his body.
The boy steps over one of the injured delinquents that dare challenge him. He then let out a whistling song as he went through those piles of bodies until he saw one in front of him getting up. His face is still bloodied and panting a lot. The boy smiled at the sight and told the delinquent to bring it. The delinquent runs up to the boy, but he swings his bat to his right, hitting the delinquent's head. The delinquents fall unconscious, and the boy walks over now unconsciously delinquent.
"Gessen, huh? Let's see if they can provide us with a good time."
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Senran Kagura Infinity Frontier
Prologue
The Beginning
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Hello everyone, this is another project that I am working on. It's been a while since I made stories again, and being at home all the time during Covid 19 made it very hard to create stories, but I hope you guys will enjoy my prologue for this story. I wrote this story to test myself again if I can make stories again. Experiencing writer block has been very difficult for me, and Covid also makes it worse. Anyway, if you want to give me some tips, please review and like the story. Thank you very much
