Chapter 2 The Art

Water, I'm drowning in a pitch black ocean that's all I see, it's cold as ice water fresh out of the freezer, I continue to sink lower and lower but the lower I go the hotter it gets I look to the bottom and see light, blue flames at the very bottom of the ocean the water continues to heat up then a voice from the flames starts to yell "kai!" I look to the bottom and try to answer it but water fills my lungs, i feel the agonizing pain of drowning I hear it again "kai!!" I look again and see dead bodies burning in the flames, some still alive burning in agony then I see jay standing on top off

them with a dead look in his eyes and he says "you did this kai its all your fault you did this" I sink closer and closer until I'm close enough to grab, Jay grabs onto my leg it burns his hands were hot as magma I try to scream but water continues to fill my lungs he drags me down and continues to yell "kai! Kai!! Kai!!!".

" kai wake up!!!"

I wake up to see jay standing beside my bed, it was only just a dream but it made me uneasy its been 4 years since we were brought here i remember that day like it was yesterday *flashback of him being beaten tazed and drowned* "it's lunch time sleeping beauty let's go" Jay said snapping me back to reality.

Nejire no ha, my new home... well, not new anymore. Cafeteria is located at the top floor. But we don't have stairs you wanna eat you have to know how to run on walls and climb ropes, everything is an obstacle coarse here, everything is training.

me and Jay run into the halls and shots are fired, arrows from the training equipment, we easily evade them other students follow behind us we ran for the wall at the end of the hall there was a spring trap up ahead so we ran on the walls to our sides and dashed through avoiding the trap, then we land our feet firmly on the ground we continue to run, then out of no where giant axe like blades swinging from side to side we run straight to them then slide under we continue to run until we reach the wall, we run up the wall as high as we can then jump off to grab the ropes hanging, we look down and some students are injured they were lucky over the years some died the moment they stepped out of their doors, me and jay and the others that make it to the rope climb to the top.

In the cafeteria we ate ramen with fried chicken on the side I saw Jay staring at my piece "Here Bud you can have it" I said to him ,"thanks!" He said with a wide stupid looking smile.

A Japanese boy next to me looked at me then said to his friend "kare agemasu soto niwatori? Watashi shikou kokujin hitobito ai niwatori" translation "he gave out his chicken? I thought black people loved chicken" then I replied in Japanese "anata jinshusabetsushugisha haohaoya......!!!" That's when Jay stood up and yelled "kai!" Before I could finish my sentence

"Careful with your words" he said. so your not confused the translation of what I said was "you racist mother....!!!" Now you can guess why he didn't let me finish and if you can't you're brainless , I know what your thinking, jinsu what now? All that just to say racist? What can I say, Japanese. Now back to the story. So this guy he looks shocked hearing me speak Japanese ,the hell I've been here for 4 years hell yeah I speak Japanese, so he looks at me and says "you speak Japanese?" With one of the worst accents ever so I laughed hard ,he looks at me angrily and says "what so funny?" And I reply "I don't know" mocking his accent, which aggravated him further he came at me with a punch I leaned back and dodged I then grabbed my ramen and threw in his face then I stood up and back flipped of the table it wasn't necessary... but it looked cool, he stood up wiped some ramen off himself grabbed a fork and came at me, he slashed at the top of my head I ducked under did a 180 then elbowed his torso then I put one hand on the ground to support my body then gave him a swift kick to the head he skillfully got up quickly and drop kicked me to the ground it was so fast I didn't have time to react he tried to stomp me so I rolled to my side and knocked him to the ground performing a windmill then I got on top of him and punched him in the face then he turned the tables and punched me five times before one of the assassins watching us came to separate the fight.

He took us to the master who scolded us heavily "fighting without permission will not be tolerated here!" He said "but he..." The boy tried to reply the master but was silenced "I should not see this kind of behavior from you especially, you are his superior in class, as his superior and my son you are supposed to leave a better example" he said, and as I heard that my heart dropped I was screwed I just fought with the masters son, crap is that a black eye on his face? I thought forgetting the fact that I also had one on my face. That's it they're gonna make me dig my own grave "ten strokes of the whip for kai nashi" phew I got off easy.... WAIT!!! Ten that whip is friggin huge I might as well be dead I bet his son will get 1 or 2 tops "fifty for hijiro" said the master, my eyes widened in shock fifty to his own son this man had no mercy , hijiro so that was his name as I was lost in thought I didn't know when the first stroke landed on my back I screamed in pain and he said "cry and I add ten for every tear drop, no weakness here" so I took the ten without crying but what shocked me was hijiro taking fifty without making a sound he was obviously in pain it was written on his face but he would not make a sound and would not cry he truly was the masters son.

The master informed us that some of the upper class students would be taking an assassination test that night so we should stay in our rooms but hell no, I definitely wasn't going to miss that.

Later that night I woke Jay up "Jay wake up" Jay wakes up and says "what is it" I wanted us to go watch the assassination test together but he said "but master said stay inside" I replied "must you do everything your told?" Jay replied Sarcastically, "must you always be stubborn?" so I begged "come on jay just this once" , "fine but if we get caught I'll throw you under the bus" then I replied "deal".

We ran through the coarse with ease then we had to sneak past some assassins guarding the halls we used the shadows to our advantage like true assassins then we reached the training hall where the test took place we hid amongst the shadows to watch, the assassin assessing their tests said to them " today's test will be different, you will fight and you will kill, you are no longer babies, first two step forward " they stepped forward "face your opponent " they did as told "Begin!" Then the fight started their movements were like nothing I'd ever seen before they moved with such grace such agility such elegance. The fight went on for a while, one of the assassin students threw a shuriken at the other he caught it so easily and as he was about to throw it back he saw his opponent rush towards him with a kunai blade and slashed at him he jumped back and threw the shuriken at his opponents arm as his feet touched the ground without making a sound he ran behind his opponent swiftly and held the blade to his neck, then the assassin yelled "finished him" he yelled out a battle cry as he slit his opponents throat I had watched with such intrigue with innocent eyes but as I watched him kill his opponent using the brilliant art that is assassination only one thing went through my head

......... Amazing