• The origins of Neji Osamaru



    一本め
    the first strike


    It started to rain in a small dark forrest, the ground was so warm mist rose and started to hide everything with in it. There stood a samurai, named neji osamaru, who started walking at the first sign of mist toward a small village that was so small and unknown that any normal person out side of the village would walk past it even if they've been there before, yet the samurai wasn't a normal samurai, he may have looked like a rounin, he was wearing a metal head band that had the kanji:"神", which meant kami or god,this lone samurai only had one sword, that was a katana,it was sealed by something like a string or a chain that when he would try to weild it they would go into his skin and control him his kimono was long, faded black that was tathered, and flowing in the wind his hair was also long, black, and flowing in the wind. He sensed an aura like one of a true ninja he felt a touch on his shoulder as if it was going to break his neck the samurai pushed the being away and got into a martial arts pose getting ready to battle "WHAT THE FREAK SAMURAI!" the being said-"i was just seeing if you needed help." it turned out to be a simple villager "i am sorry sir i didn't expect any body to be out here in the rain beside me." the samurai said while bowing"it is alright samurai.......so what is your name?" the villager asked then there was silence for a minute or two then the samurai finally said"my name though it may not be important at the moment is........"the samurai became silient for another moment"is Neji H. Osamaru." the villager stood in confusion why did he pause he shook away the confuseness and said"hagememashide osamaru-san,which meant nice to meet you, my name is sanji kito" the samurai bowed and said the same thing he continued to the village with sanji they passed a red large gate which had the kanji for wood or tree on a sign in the middle the samurai immidatelly looked up as the mist was fading away he saw small houses in the tree and he thought no wonder this village's aura matchs the aura of a ninja clan they would need some great climbing skills to get to one place from the ground and great jumping skills to get to the other places from one place the only two building on the ground were a bath house and a shrine that was to all the animals of that forrest, it was a big tower like building. sanji looked up and said"sorry i have to leave you samurai but my wife needs me sionada"with that the villager lept onto a tree and climbed as fast if not faster then a ninja, neji was surprised to see a well trained village of ninjas and they weren't even ninja's at all something must be stopping them from becoming full fledge ninjas he had an idea if he could free their minds he can make them an offer to be the only ninja's in the samurai army of god but for now he thought to go to the bath house the old lady stood up and said"irashai",which meant welcome, the samurai bowed"may i have a room for a night or two?"the samurai said "sure under what name sir"the old lady said"Neji O"said the samurai and the old lady gave him the key to his room he left his stuff there and locked the door and went down to the changing room to get ready for a hot bath but when he was getting ready he heared a young woman wanting a room when the rooms were all full the samurai came out and said"she can have half of my room untill i leave there is more then enough room and beds for me and her in my room" the young lady looked surprised and smiled"you are sure about that samurai? i don't want to be a berdin" the samurai shaked his head and said"it is alright young lady i said there is enough room."the young lady bowed and said"arigato gozimasu samurai my name is iso orihime what is your name?" the samurai introduced himself and lead her to the room "if you need me orihime i will be in the hot baths ok?"she nods and the samurai went down the stairs and finally got in the bath that has been drawn from the mountain spring by a pipe that the head was shaped as a dragon the samurai looked up at the forrest's night sky and sighed then sensed a great aura of a mountain beast that was roaming the village the samurai putted on the bath kimono,which was shiny white with a hand sown dragon the same one that his mother made for him and he ran out and saw it it was a giant mountain boar that was eight feet tall and round one of his tusks was broken and the other scarred when the boar sensed a refined skill of a warrior he turnned quick to the samurai and said"so you are a samurai ehhhh? this is a village forbiden to host any form of warrior samurai i must take you out and kill you." "says who boar?"the samurai said getting in a marital art's pose"says the great boar rega inoichi they wish not to put the boar in their shrine so there is no warrior in this village at all." said the boar the boar ran and struck as the samurai barly dodged it but the dragon that was hand sown by his mother was ripped clean off showing his back that had scars from other battles when the samurai saw the dragon on the ground he started to become angrey and got in a more aggresive form and immideatly when and attacked the boar and throws himself at the boar the hardest he could orihime came out with neji's sword and gave it to him he knew what would happen if he used for too long but he was too pissed so he grabed the handle the strings went up his arm and in an evil voice he said"I WILL KILL YOU YOU FAT BOAR MY MOTHER MADE THAT FOR ME AND YOU RIPPED IT!"the boar just laughed the samurai shot out a big slash of energy and the boar tried to dodge it but it turned back while he was laughing again the samurai sheathed the blade again and he was back to normal"good bye boar" the samurai laughed and walked away "come back her........."he was interupted by the blast of energyand was killed and every other villagers came out and celibrated "this isn't the time to celibrate as long as you don't have a boar statue or as long as the head boar is alive you will always hide in fear."said the samurai "can i come neji-sama? i still owe you."the samurai nodded as orihime said"osamaru-san i know where rega inoichi is i will lead you there"said sanji as the samurai nodded. The samurai changed back into his old kimono and grabbed the dragon to fix it after the battle"start on the statue for if i fail you won't be able to become the warriors you can be unless the head boar is pleased or dead"with that the samurai and the two others headed out to the cave where the boar was said to be but in the way there was a big labrinth that had white walls making it look pure and had two statues of a boar which probably meant this is the second challenge before the big boar the samurai went first with his sense of aura he could find the fastest way out when he found one way the wall closed up and he opened his eyes"dang labrinth we have to guess the way"said the samurai when they finally got close to the end a boar came out"i am the second boar of the inoichi lineage i must kill you so my father can let me out of here"the second boar said "so you don't want to be trapped here neji-samma sanji-san lets get lost in here he will chase us and we can just go to the next place"said orihime "good idea orihime but if that doesn't work we should get ready to fight right osamaru-san?"sanji said and neji nods then the ran in the oppisite direction and the boar fallowed "lets get pass that line that is the next closing wall"the samurai said and the got pasted it and it closed on the boars snout"what the heck get me out of here please samurai."the boar said and the samurai shot a small amount of aurajust enough to push the snout through and they ran back to the exit and got to the next place which had three boar statues. after 43 challenges of the boar they finally got to the lair of rega inoichi, it was a big dark cave in the middle of a great moutain the split the forrest in half, in the middle of the cave was a throne room for a human in the center was what looked like a human with boar like armor"i am rega inoichi samurai i have called all my sons and daughters to distory you but some how you ether escaped or killed them"the figure said