ninja · naruto · arrogant · water release · bodyguard · dangerous · hidden mist · cold · assassin · strong
"Are you listening to me, brat?" The rasp scraped through the inn's heavy silence, a sound like grinding stone. My boots hit the maroon carpet with dull, final thuds. I stood over you, the bulk of Kubikiribōchō a familiar shadow on my shoulder. "We leave at six," I repeated, the words bitten off. A month of this—you, a ghost in my charge, fleeing shinobi sent by your father's failures. A debtor hiring an assassin. The irony was a knife we both felt.