HAJIMARI/BEGINNING

"You will get scolded if you don't stop staring out."I barely here Hana over the rain beating the window panes,or over the rain that threatens to drown me now.                                                               She's gone,my grandmother is gone and i'm here in class because I am not allowed to leave in such a storm as this,as though I could care about that now.                                                                        My illustrations of my heroes and villains of different eras from warring states,shogun,Meiji.None seem to ease me into distraction,nor does the lone paragraph lined sheet of notebook paper that details a mysterious warrior I would love to hunt down in eras past to learn more of....                        '"WITHERING SHADOW"                                                                                                                                       I know the name is a bit dramatic but the little I read of him it seems to suit in a way.                          "A warrior clad in shadows with a mask of death inking blood along his expressionless face,he tore through foes of the emperor and left none to breathe or witness his horror works.Only a child who escaped his wrath said with trembling"He danced shadows of blades and blood leaving me parentless!"                                                                                                                                                            Even so after reading this after coping it from my grandmother I felt just like she did,there was more there with the warrior,the child that remained unnamed by history as well.All of it.I had to know more.we had to know more.