SHURIKENTALE: Shinobi Of The Worlds

Part 1: Chapter 1

0.1 Audacity:

'The confidence to say or do what you want, despite difficulties, risks, or the negative attitudes of other people.'

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Yup, Audacity is my soul trait. From old scrolls that I found in Father's library, I managed to find out that it's a soul combination of Determination and Bravery. It's odd since there can only be one Determination soul at a time. Maybe this is an exception? I mean, I was born with this trait, so there's no way a spell or ritual could've been done.

I don't see myself with that trait though. I don't really want anything as far as I know. I just follow my family rules. I honestly don't really care at all about them, and I'm sure it's the same for them. We are just 'people' who are 'destined' to become assassins for the government. Father and Mother have never shown me nor my siblings Senshi and Harumi any signs of affection like how normal kids would have. They just give orders and we must do everything they tell us to do. Not like it matters, it's not like I can do anything about it.

I was just five years old and they already started training me on how to swing a sword. Ever since my family found out about my unique trait, I've been privately trained by Sensei Aito Isa. Sensei Isa is very strict and won't hesitate on yelling at me if I do one single mistake. It's honestly kind of annoying. My older brother Senshi is trained by Father. I think Senshi is his favourite child, or pupil, I should say. My younger sister Harumi only trains with Mother with basic defense movement because she's a girl. Seriously, no one has any respect for women here.

"Kein! Concentrate on your training, you little imbecile!" yelled Sensei Isa.

"My apologies, Sensei. I won't get distracted again." I said, getting back on my feet.

Oh right, forgot to mention that all of us must have a 'good figure of speech'. We're a wealthy family of assassins, so that kinda explains it. Father and Mother only care about riches and power. They legit assassinate people for the government so that they would get money. With all the money they've gotten, we now own a very big mountain house and a dojo that is located right next to our house. The village is at the foot of the mountain though.

"Alright, this will be all for today, Kein Fujimoto. You may now leave." Said Sensei Isa.

"Thank You, Sensei." I replied.

I walk out of the dojo and head towards my house, and then my room. I change from my training clothes to my casual clothes. Suddenly, someone slams the slide-door opened. In surprise, I immediately aimed a katana that was laying in my room at that person.

"You're getting better at being on your guard, Kein."

It was Harumi.

"That's because you do that literally every single time I enter my room, Harumi." I replied.

"Fair point." She said.

"Have you seen Father lately? I haven't seen him at all today." She suddenly added.

"No I haven't." I responded.

"Father's gone to speak to the Royal family again." Said Senshi who just arrived.

Every since our country (the humans) went at war against the other country (the monsters), Father has been having lots of meetings with the Royal family, aka the government. Every time I'd ask Father why the war took place, he'd always reply something like: 'Monsters are creatures that don't deserve the rights to rule over the world'. It's been two years ever since the war first began, and I don't see it end anytime soon.

"Since Father isn't there to train you today, what will you do?" Asked Harumi to Senchi.

"He's gonna go in town and try to flirt with every single girls he sees." I replied for him, mockingly.

"Hey! Well I mean, Sometimes seing beautiful girls can lighten up your day." He said.

"You dirty perv." Said Harumi.

"What? it's true." Senshi added trying to defend himself.

Both Harumi and I give him the face of displeasure.

One thing I really hate about him is that he's just a dirty pervert towards women. Sometimes he'd purposely 'touch' a girl pretending it was an accident. Trust me, I saw him do that countless times.

Except the fact he acts like a jerk to girls, he's actually quite a good guy to talk with since he's very talkative (to us though-).

"Anyway, to answer your question Harumi, I'll take the day off and rest for a bit." He said.

"That's new" Harumi added.

"Father went rough with you today, didn't he? You look more exhausted." I asked.

"Yup."

"What did he make you do?" Asked Harumi.

"You don't want to know, trust me." He replied.

"Why not?" I asked.

"You'll find out once you get to my age."

Father and Mother train us different types of things depending on our age. By example, from four to seven years old, we learned how to swing a sword correctly. From eight to eleven, we learn basic self defense. I don't know what it is from twelve and over. I'm currently eleven years old, and Senshi is fourteen (quite young for a little perv-), so he's going through something else. A rule Father implied is that anyone that is in a higher type of training cannot tell the others in a lower type anything about it to prevent cheating.

This probably gives another idea of how much strict and insane my family is.

Another rule they added is that we aren't allowed to have any friends that aren't allies with our family, and my family barely has any allies. The only allies they have are other strict families. So that means we aren't allowed to make friends with the people in town, which really sucks.

What's wrong with having one friend?

Man, I really hate living here...