Chapter 5
[Hidden Forest Village, Home of Onimaro]
4:00PM, Day 1
KazukiMika was reading until she heard a knock at the door and went to answer it.
"Hey Kurai and Kazuki's mom! Can Kurai and Kazuki come and play?" Yuki asked as more children waited a few steps behind.
Mika smiled sweetly at the children. "Of course, I can't see why not."
Mika called for her sons and they rushed to see their friends at the door.
"Be home in 2 hours and no leaving the village." She said sternly to the group.
"Okay mom!" Kazuki said as they all ran off to play.
Kazuki and the others walked down the dirt path talking about the lesson they had today.
"I know!" Yuki shouted. "We should go to the southern gate den!"
The group seemed to know what he meant except for Kazuki and Kurai.
"The southern gate den?" Kurai questioned his friends.
"Yeah! It was made by a few of us a while back! We play ninja in there!" Yuki shouted, still as loud as ever.
Yuki loved to be loud but he was as friendly as they come. He had a sister within the group called Tilly who looked up to her older brother. He was looked up to as the leader of their friendly group ever since Kurai and Kazuki met them all in class.
"We will show you, I mean it is still technically in the village. It's just beyond the wall!" The boy continued as they all started to run towards the southern gate.
As they arrived a big tree with a stick built den under it stood before them. It was quite big considering it was built by children and with little supplies.
"This is impressive!" Kazuki said admiring the work of his friends.
"Thanks! Come see my lookout point, Kazuki!" Yuki said with laughter in his voice.
He took him to the other side of the tree where there was a little bunker and some toy weapons inside.
"We can watch out for enemy ninja in here!" Yuki pulled out some binoculars and pretended to scout for enemy ninja.
Kazuki laughed and picked up a pair and copied his new found friend.
"What was that?" Kurai asked the group and everyone fell silent.
Kazuki and Yuki went to see what everyone was on about back in the main room.
A tall shadowy figure stood near by, tall and menacing. It was definitely a full fledged ninja.
"Yuki.. Do you recognise that guy?" One of the other boys whispered.
The figure heard them and jumped towards them with a kunai in hand.
"Get back!" The man screamed at them and everyone scattered around screaming.
"Yuki!" shouted Tilly, his younger sister.
Everyone gasped as they see the man holding Yuki against the tree and held a kunai deep into his chest.
The man realised they were just kids. "Shit! No! This isn't how the infiltration was meant to go!"
The man pulled the kunai away and Yuki dropped to the floor.
"Wake up Yuki!" Tilly cried as she kneeled down next to her brother.
Kazuki gritted his teeth as he turned to see where the man went but couldn't see him.
He turned to his brother. "Kurai! What do we do!"
Kurai looked with fear at the situation.
"We need to get our parents!" Kazuki yelled as he started to run back home to get help, crying all the way.
He arrived at his door and screamed "Mom! Dad! It's my friend! He is hurt!"
"Where?!" Onimaro said quickly rushing to his sons aid.
Kazuki led his mom and dad to the scene where Tilly was still crying, begging her brother to wake up.
"Oh god.. Mika! Hurry!" Onimaro yelled to his wife as she picked up the pace and started using medical ninjutsu on the boy.
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