random ninja story

                                      Ninja story
                                                                 Joshua Olson
Tenshiko and Suzu walked out of the inn and causally into the violent environment of the Bone valley. Even thou this was the place to make a living gambling or drink your pain away or even get into a quick fight if one so wished to they weren't here for any of that. They had been fallowing a lead they had on a powerful rouge ninja named Anzen. They wished to convince him join their clan of ninja who's aim was to be the strongest and most respected clan in their land. Bottles flying everywhere around them, Tenshiko turned to Suzu to see his friends strawberry hair falling slighty over his blue eyes witch Stared at the only calm store they passed with trail of drool running from his lips. He brushed breakfast off his green shirt and griped the small brown leather bag of coins at the waist of his baggy tan pants tighter. Tenshiko flinched a little at this as it held their money and he knew Suzu would most likely spend it all the minute he looked away. With this he nudged him in the side and said “come on then. Lets go get something to eat. I think it'll help the search a little if we had some pocky anyway” he knew from the stop they made in their home village a few miles away that they had a fresh stock of food but longed for his favorite snack.  Suzu just nodded in agreement Suzu smelt the stagnate air of the small store as they walked in. Tenshiko walked up to the clerk and asked “would you mind pointing me toward your bathroom?” the older gentlemen pointed towards the back of the small shop. Tenshiko then turned to Suzu “now only buy pocky.  You know what kind I like” with that he left for the bathroom.  Suzu began walking around aimlessly till he found a self with pocky. He grabbed a box of chocolate and another of strawberry then began to walk up to the front when a girl passed the store and straining his neck almost bent over for a better view he fell throwing the pocky in the air. Now if you blinked you would have missed his next movements. The clerk certainly did. One second it looked like impact and destroyed merchandise was unavoidable. Then Suzu locked his leg. Put a palm flat on the floor and using that force, rotated to catch the boxes of pocky with his other foot, then gracefully standing up as he pulled his legs back together. He placed the boxes on the counter and said “id like to buy these please”. It was all the man could do to close his mouth and shakily say “t-t-that'll be 20 copper c-coins” Suzu took the coins out of the leather pouch and placed them on the counter. The clerk took them and was about to ask how Suzu had not crashed to the floor when Suzu heard Tenshiko coming out of the bathroom. He looked over to see his friend completely changed. Tenshiko said “THIS DRUNKARD PISSED ON ME”  his voice surprisingly higher. This person was kiiro the delicate foot. Tenshiko use to run away to the river and uses foxes for target practice. Us sly it was harmless till he was out one late night and hit one. It happened so quickly that for two days he thought it was a dream. but after he hit the fox it yelp and turned into a man that looked to be about 19 to 20 with reddish-brown hair. He floated about a foot off the ground with two large and bushy fox tails the same color as his hair with white tips swaying behind him. He then told Tenshiko “for this dishonor whenever you are filled with rage, you will become a girl.”  His pocket coverd tight green cargo pants now hung baggily off his waist and the black shirt he was wearing now tightly clung to his busty ch east.  His usually bushy black hair went straight down to his ears. If it wasn't for the tattoo on the back of his neck, Suzu might not had believed this bright faced girl to be his young companion. The clerk looked sideways at Tenshiko as he swayed past to stand next to Suzu. his face lit up again as soon as he saw the pocky in Suzu hands and in a quick movement grabbed one.  Anzen slept with his arms warped around his sitar. He sat up and rubbed his eyes at the sudden amount of light He grabbed the flask that   was in his pocket. The sliver flask shined in the sunlight. he took a swig only to find it empty. He began to offer fights for money. “ hey I'll kick your ass for 30 copper coins” he told a man as he looked at him with confusion and just walked away. This was the 20th person he had asked. At this point he was close to giving up.“I WANT TO  KILL SOMEONE RIGHT NOW!!!” he yelled looking down at his flask.   Suzu and kiiro left the store. When they got outside he opened his box and stuck a stick of pocky into his mouth and continued to walk around town. he fallowed Suzu's example and began running around asking people if they had seen this man and showing a drawing they had composited of Anzen from the rumors. But all Tenshiko could really do was savor the flavor of his favorite food as the chocolate melted off the biscuit and onto his tongue. At this moment Tenshiko heard someone yelling”I WANT TO  KILL SOMEONE RIGHT NOW!!!”. he pulled Suzu from the man he was harassing and began to run to the fountain in the middle of town because no matter who he was at the moment, Tenshiko could never refuse a chance to fight or to witness a good fight. Having reached the place he thought the yelling came from he plopped down on the side of the only fountain in this dessert town and put in another stick of pocky and as Suzu began pestering more people, searched for the man that was the source of the yelling. he then noticed him and grabbing Suzu asked pointing to the man “wasn't he the guy at the last martial tournament “claiming” to be Anzen?” he added quotations with his fingers at the word claiming. Suzu turned to look at where Tenshiko pointed and said “yes but don't you member shiko? He got kicked out for being totally wasted without being a practicer of drunken fist” Suzu chuckled at the thought “so we crossed him off our list”. Tenshiko had a four sure plan to confirm him not Anzen. “hey Suzu-kun” he said “I bet if we take out this raging drunk before he hurts someone we could get a reward. Wanna try?” Suzu simply rolled his eyes, shook his head and said “no”. At this Tenshiko stuck his tongue out at him and said “Fine if you won't help” Suzu looked at him with a curious expression as he almost glided up from his seat. Ounce he was up Tenshiko snapped the pocky that was in his mouth, creating a large smoke screen that covered the street and most of it's occupants. Suzu caught something tossed at him reflectively and noticed it was Tenshiko clothing. He instantly thought the worse “OH GREAT HE'S GONNA FIGHT NAKED!!!” then at that moment he heard a call as the smoke screen dissipated “HEY YOU! I TENSHIKO THE IRON KNUKLE NINJA WILL BE YOU OPPENT!!” at that moment the smoke cleared completely and Suzu shy d in relief as he realized what he saw was not his nude friend but the tight cargo pants and bare tan chest, poised for battle, one hand in his top most pocket and other in a punch sailing towards the mans gut witch he knew was gonna be an uppercut.  He recognized this as the iron ball style that tensions had created over the years. Tenshiko then with deadly persecution flung 6 metal balls out of his pocket and caught them filling the gaps between his hand already clenched back into a fist to land dead into this mans chest sending him into the air.. then he threw the six balls on the ground and stepping on them, began to fly up to catch the man that was guessed maybe 15 feet in the air.. Tenshiko flung his leg up and kicked Anzen back to the earth. He landed with a large cloud of dust and a thud sound. Suzu looked at the spot on the ground were a small crater had appeared and grasped the bag of coins at his side tighter thinking “I really hope we don't have to pay again for damages” they had lost a good deal of earnings from Tenshiko's willingness to fight and overdo things usealy breaking some legal property witch they would have to pay to fix. Whilst lost in his thoughts he didn't notice Tenshiko land gracefully next to him. he nudged him and Suzi looked at him noticing the almost killer simmer in his eyes “think you might have overdone it a little shiko?” he asked. Tenshiko laughed and said “ had to make sure it wasn't him” at that moment they both heard a sound they didn't expect. they turned to the clearing cloud of dust to see the man now siting their strumming a death march on his newly drawn sitar, soon the ground began to shake and the building he barely avoided hitting while falling behind him crumbled to the ground  with this Anzen laughed and passed out Tenshiko looked and Suzu and said “ I think we found him. But I want a closer look” with this he walked over to the now passed out Anzen. By this point officials began to gather at the scene and made a small mob ready to case them out of town. Seeing this Suzu ran over to Tenshiko who was now poking the unconscious man with a stick, grabbed him by the arm and ran for the inn, Suzu had always been a fast runner so they reached the inn and their room within 6 minutes. their he flung Tenshiko and something heavy he assumed their bag to the bed. Tenshiko blinked a few times then realizing what was going on he sat up on the bed and reaching to his side, popped another stick of pocky into his mouth. Suzu finished packing and turned to ask Tenshiko if he was ready to leave and yelled as he saw him putting a stick of pocky into the anzen's mouth. “WHERE THE HELL DID HE COME FROM??!!”. “well do you remember when I was poking him and you grabbed me to run? I thought it would be a waste to leave him their after we ran around half the country looking for him, so I well grabbed him. you had no problems dragging him along anyway” Tenshiko said threw the baggy black shirt his was now putting back on. Suzu shy d and just shook his head “so can we keep him?” Tenshiko asked chuckling a little at his own joke. Suzu just replied” fine but you have to carry him till he wakes up ok?”  he grabbed his stuff and flung Anzen over his shoulder then reached for another pocky and sadly realized he was out.  “I'm out of pocky and we can't get more sooo can I have some of yours???” he asked. Suzu shoke his head no and said “shouldn't have grabbed mister drunk their” he stock his tongue out at him and began to walk out of the inn. They got out of town quickly and as soon as they were out Tenshiko whistled, about a few minutes of walking later a hawk appeared out of almost nowhere and perched on his shoulder. “why hello yohei” suzu said It fluttered to his shoulder and nudged his face. As they walked he looked up to suzu and asked “so what should we do now?” he munched on some bread and cheese form the supply trip threw their home. Suzu said “I don't know I guess we just keep walking till we find another town to settle down in and plan our next move” Tenshiko replied threw his mouth full of newly found dried meat “why walk that long?” suzu blinked and looked at him like he was missing something, Tenshiko just snapped and the hawk was back to his shoulder. He gave the bird some of the meat and told him “now yohei if you want more go find the nearest town that ISEN'T that last village ok?” yohei simply nodded his head and flew off. “why are you eating all the food??” he asked Tenshiko “because I'm hungry ok? doing that took a lot out of me” Tenshiko replyed “no it didn't you do crap like that every day” suzu snapped back “so stop me. I'll kick your sorry ass even with mister drunk on my shoulder here” Tenshiko said. “fine I will” suzu said, he began to lunge a fist at Tenshiko when as he caught it, yohei landed on suzu fist and dug in his talons. Tenshiko smiled and handed his loyal hawk some more dried meat.“did you find one?” yohei nodded and flew off in the deraction of town. They began to fallow the soaring yohei. After a few hours of walking later they arrived at the town as the sun began to fall behind the clouds and after finding the inn, checked in and went to their room. Tenshiko threw Anzen on the ground and along with suzu passed out on their beds.
Tenshiko sat straight up in his bed. A bead of sweat running down his brow. He looked out the window to see it was pitch black. Then he glanced at suzu's bed witch to his anger was empty then to yohei's perch on his head bored to see he was gone to. Tenshiko punched the wall cracking it as he thought  to himself “THEY DITCHED ME!”.  Then in a puff of smoke transformed into kirro. He got up and grabed the pile of stuff he kept for times when he wasen't able to transfrom from kirro for a while and shuffled to the bathroom. he came out serval minutes later wearing a tight light tan nightgown he  shuffled tiredly back to his bed but tripping over the loudly snoring Anzen missed his mark and ended up crawling into suzu's bed and slowly drifted off to sleep..... after a few hours he felt a rustling and suzu snuggling up next to him. To tired to notice his presence, he twitched at this and thought it strange that he came into his bed and stranger that he didn't hear yohei fly in threw the window.
Suzu sat up and realized their old friend futobara was yelling at him. he began to shake kiiro awake but he simply hit him and rolled off the bed. It was then suzu woke up enough to translate what she was saying “WHO IS THIS WHORE YOUV'E TAKEN TO BED I SWEAR TO GOD I”LL KILL HER “ !! suzu jumped up and tried inserting logic into her sentences “ no bara-chan this is shiko!!” he said she retaliated “ I WHOULD KNOW TENSHIKO WHEN I SAW HIM AND” she pointed to kiiro on the ground scrounging to pull down the nightgown. THIS BUSTY THING ISEN'T HIM” tenshiko was now up and  getting to the bathroom to change  But as soon as tenshiko was up futobara was right in front of him and to suzu's slight horror and amusement she raised  her hand and slapped tenshiko across the face. hard. A large red hand shape mark started form before her hand even left her face “ AND YOU SLUT.. SLEEPING WITH MY PURE SUZU-KUN” Anzen sat at the table in other corner of room watching the miniature soap opera going down sipping what appeared to be tea.  tenshiko tried so hard to hold it back but rarely got a chance to screw with futobara anymore.. he spoke up and said right to her face “yea I am and I can tell you from the things he's done to me.. he's no pure little boy” he stuck his tongue out a futobara. At this she became enraged and he took the chance to sneak away form her and change but he'd underestimated futobara who during that last 2 years of their absence had thrown herself into training for to be an assion so right as he reached the bathroom door handle their was a knife to her Throt. With this luckly in a cloud of smoke the fear poofed him back to tenshiko. futobara looked at him confused for five minutes  and burst out laughing. she still grasped her sides rolling on the floor laughing when Tenshiko walked out of the bathroom his bare chest still glimmering with water and his pockets jingling with his balls. Futobara got up to apologize when Tenshiko stopped and asked “first how did you'd know where we were? How did you get here? And why are you still here?? she responded “well in oder I heard suzu mention it while he was in town getting more food, then when I tried to fallow him he out ran me” Tenshiko looked over at suzu he simply shook his head and said “ I didn't know she was fallowing me man”  “um may I continue?” she interjected. Tenshiko nodded and she continued “so after that yohei lead me here and thirdly I want to join you guys it's sooo boring in the village. “we'll talk about that later”  tenshiko said then turning to the hawk pruning it's self on suzu's head bored   and all but hissed “traitor” then turning again to face suzu asked “what was wrong with the food we had?” “well” suzu began between you and mister drunk over their” he pointed to the now passed out supposed Anzen using his sitar as a pillow “ you drank all over booze and ate ALL the food so I had to go get more and were low on money so I couldn't just buy it” Tenshiko nodded his head accepting this answer. Futobara looked over to suzu and said “so anyway hows your last 3 years been? Give me every FLITHY detail” suzu began to respond when all of a sudden the sound of Tenshiko huffing on the bed distracted him. “i thought you said you got more booze suzu” Tenshiko said handing the bag to suzu who replied “ I did, it was even the village stash that we use to steal chugs of” he began digging threw the bag futobara walked over to the unconscious man with curiosity and sniffed his cup “he drank it” she said. Tenshiko and suzu's heads both shot up “WHAT!!!” they ran over Tenshiko picked up the glass and licked it “he did drink it” futobara watched while suppressing a laugh at their expressions witch she thought looked like a sad puppy that was just kicked.  Tenshiko looking up from the empty bottle that himself and suzu just found grunted “suzu go make some tea I can think all this threw”. She watched as suzu moped off to make some tea.  he snapped and yohei flew to his shoulder. futobara watched him whisper something to the hawk and it flew away. Moment's later it came back with a stick in it's beak. Tenshiko took it and started to poke Anzen. Soooooooooooooooo are you gonna let me join up and travel with you guys?  with that suzu came back into the room at this moment carrying a teapot and blanching 3 stacked cups on his head. “tea's on” he said. futobara blinked at his feat while next to her Tenshiko chuckled and tried to trip him. She watched as in almost slow motion as suzu did a front flip over Tenshiko's foot and landed on his feet with cups on the table, tea already poured into them “your such a showoff suzu” he said and then they sat down to plan their next move. Soo you said were low on money suzu? Tenshiko asked while siping his tea. “Yep” suzu responded queitly. Futobara spoke up “well if you guys need money theirs this big tournment comeing up soon. prize money is at least 1000 copper coins I think. “well I guess thats the plan then” interjected anzen who had woken up and was acting very hung-over. They gatherd up their things and left the inn heading on their way to the tournyment.