• It was a dark with a stiff eastward wind just inside the border of the Land of Fire. Deep in a forest, there rose a large fortress where two guards noticed some movement in the shadows.

    “Dude, chill. It’s just an animal, more than likely the wind,” said one.

    “Whatever, I’m gonna go check it out,” the other one said while skillfully climbing down the wall.

    “Your wasting your time; besides, you’ll get in major trouble if they find out that you left your post.”

    “No I won’t if you keep your mouth shut. Maybe it’s a lost nin,” he said jokingly. “It just could be a common thei-…”

    Just as he was about to finish his statement, he was cut in half by a large sword. The ninja holding it suddenly grew wings out of his back and flew to the top of the wall.

    “God! You’re the-…”

    His throat was cut in the blink of an eye.

    Before the light could be shone in his direction, he vanished and started toward the center of the fortress. Just as he reached the door, the whole fortress broke into alarm.

    “Damn. Thought I was faster than that. Guess I could have timed that better though,” he breathed to himself. “Now I have less time then I predicted.”

    But before he could get through the door, an arrow was shot into his right shoulder.

    “There he is! It’s a Leaf ninja! Get him!”

    “Great! Now I have even less time! This is just wonderful. Gotta get to the target and leave immediately. Now, where is the treasure room?”

    The ninja squatted down and put his left hand on the ground. After a few seconds, “Got it.”

    He got down to the treasure room relatively easily. “I wonder where everyone is Guess I scared them off,” he said chuckling to himself. “Oh, well. I need to get into the treasure vault. ‘In the vault is a box, and in that box is my greatest treasure. Retrieve it for me.’ Didn’t even tell me what was in it. Senile old man. Dammit, he didn’t even tell me what it looked like. Ah, here we are.”

    When he opened the vault, it was not what he expected it to be.

    “What…the…HELL!?! What kind of treasure vault is this!?! I was gonna nab some treasure for myself, but the only thing here is the box! Oh, well, might as well complete the mission. I’m rich enough already.”

    After he finished his statement, a blood covered blade stuck out from his heart and his body fell to the floor.

    “HAH! Reaper of Konoha my a**! He was a joke! An overexaggerated joke! He was too weak too def-aggh!”

    The guard couldn’t finish his ranting because the ninja caught his nick with his right hand and lifted him off the ground. “Rule one about fighting a legendary ninja: Never turn your back on him, no matter how dead he seems. Do you honestly know the definition of weakness? Weakness is the inability to defend one’s self or the others around him and the inability to complete his duty. Now, who do you think is the weak one?”

    With that said, the ninja snapped the guard’s neck and let his lifeless body fall to the ground.

    “Damn! Being stabbed through the heart hurts,” he said as he removed the sword from his chest.

    “Archers, at the ready! Take your aim!”

    The ninja tried to not attract any more attention, so he didn’t hear the commands while closing the door extra quietly.

    “FIRE!”

    As soon the door was closed, the ninja was turned into a pin cousin with a volley of arrows.

    “Damn! That’s gonna make it hard to fly with these in my back; oh, well, beggars can’t be choosers,” he said with a grin on his face.

    The ninja then opened his wings to their full span of twenty feet, and shot into the night sky with binding speed back towards Konohagakure. He completed his mission. He has no surname, his alias is the Reaper of Konoha, his name is Robert of the Oni Tribe.