The village was located at the bottom of a mountain, a small section of it flattened by a recent rockfall. I had moved some of the fallen rocks to block off all exit points in the small town. I myself sat on the top of a large foundation in the town's square and a crowd was beginning to gather around me.

I was grinding cheerfully and they were whispering to one another casting unsure looks a me. Once i was sure most of them had gather in the square i cleared my voice and began.

"Hello! I'm happy to say that we get to have a competition! We get to see which one of you looks the best! We'll start with the women first then move on to the men after!"

I laughed gleefully and the worried looks began to increase.

Seeing that it wasn't going to work i began to pout, "I was looking forwards to it all night, but i guess if you don't want to play we can go to plan B." my eyes flashed dangerously and a strongly large grin spread quickly over my face. "Let the slaughterfest begin!"

I launched down from the foundian and began tearing heads of right and left. I hadn't even been able to kill more than twenty when nine men dressed in strange armors jumped in front of me, blocking my way.

"Excuse me. I'm trying to do something right now." i tried to step around them but found swords pointed at my neck instead. "Gah! Don't do that! You scared me there." i began walking forwards, a large grin on my face as the swords slid through my neck like butter. My neck was healing back up any chance it got and hadn't fallen.

"M-monster! We're all going to die!" i lashed out and bought one of the shoulders closer to me so that i could rest my own blade at his throat and slowly begin to press down against it. The swords were bullied back and held up defensively and the common people began to flee.

I discarded the body and raised an eyebrow at the men, "so you're the people he warned me about! I thought he was just joking about that!" i rubbed the back of my neck sheepishly my bloodied knife poised in front of me ready to attack.

They charged and i wasted no time dancing with them. After all i had to get it done before the moon began to rise! "Ahh!" the man beneath me cried out painfully as i carved out his eyes and dug around in the socket with two bloodied fingers.

"Huu. that's strange i can't find your brain. I thought i was doing everything right." i pushed my fingers farther and his cries grew louder. My fingers finally touched something squishy. "Ah ha! There it is!" i began pulling it forwards but he was dead before i could get his brain out.

The rest of the men who had been trying to catch their breath charged forwards angered, and i quickly did off with them so i could go hunt the rest of the people. Still chewing on the man's eye i took of towards the largest clump of energy.

"Ready or not here i come!" i laughed joyfully as my blade and the stolen dagger from one of the men i killed cut through them like butter. Watch once cried out as i cut them and the screams echoed throughout the entire building they had locked themselves in.

"Gah!" another one down! The woman had tried to put up a fight to protect her young son but i cut him down in front of her so that she could see that he didn't suffer when i killed him. I'm so kind!

Most people wouldn't bother to do something like that! I blinked as a man dragged a sword through my stomach in a very unclean cut. He wasn't trained that was for sure. It wasn't deep enough wide enough or hard enough to do much damage other than cut a few of my intestines.

Let's just say his death wasn't as slow and peaceful as the others he was hiding with. The entertainment was soon over and scurried of to hunt down the solo runners and the families that were trying to flee.

I wouldn't let them get away from me that easily. They should've known that! I told them already that we were going to have a party! You can't leave before the party end right! It's rude!

I stood facing the last four in the village, all of them dirtied from tripping over their own feet as they tried to run from me. It was a mother, her husband, and two of their their daughter first, bashing her head in with the blind end of my two knives.

The son was next, match to the crying parents despair. I killed him slower than the girl and cut off bits of his chest until i ripped his heart from his chest in a bloody mess.

"Now, which one of you wants to die first? I could kill you at the same time to! Wait second that won't work! What if you want to be killed in two different ways! i can't make you two agree! How about we roll dice then to see who dies first and the other an hose how they die."

They were horrified and it was evident on their faces. The man was looking from me to the small book in his pocket then back to me. Wonder what was in there!

I watched in mild surprise as suddenly the man turned and wiped out a pocket knife, lodging it deep in his wife's throat with tears spilling down his cheeks.

"I'm sorry! I just can't let her hurt you! I'd rather kill you myself!"

I approached him smirking and crouched down in front of him as he fell to his knees in utter despair.

"Don't worry, i'm sure she's very happy you did such a nice thing for her! I know i sure am, cause i actually didn't have any dice." He was unresponsive and i gave a shrug. "Be that way then, i'll just eat you alive."

I thought that you wanting to have the competition was bad, but what you just did there even had me shaking in my pants.

I laughed and continued on my way, flipping through the pages of the book i had stolen from the man. The first few pages were a bit splattered with his wife's blood but they were still readable.

"Would you look at that! They actually gave me a name! It's not very fitting but it's ok."

A name? What are you talking about brat.

"Ketsueki the blood reaper. What do you think of it?"

It fits. You do take the blood with you when you find something that tastes nice.

I nodded and glanced at the picture they had of me. I looked like i had just woken up and it was a bit blurry from me running. "I wonder when they took that. It's a bit strange that somebody even wanted to take a picture of me. Not to mention it's strange how this got around so fast. The village was a few days travel for a normal person right?"

Yes it was, but there are shinobi in their world.

I nodded and continued humming a small tune as the sun began to vanish from the sky above. I had completed my goal before time ran out after all, even though they didn't stay in the same place even when i wanted them to.

Now… where to next.