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The Girl Who Would Be Ninja |
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Months of training showed a lot of progress. I worked non-stop, building my strength and trying to stay on Tatsuo's good side. He wasn't someone you wanted to meet with when he was in a bad mood, which seemed to be all the time. No matter how hard I worked, he never seemed pleased and my gender meant nothing to him. There was no doubt that I was physically weaker than any boy my age, but Tatsuo would never admit that. He gave me no special treatment just for being a girl or a child. I'm glad Tatsuo knew I was capable of getting stronger because there were a few times when I really believed I had reached my limit. I couldn't have made a better choice when it came to finding someone to teach me, even though I had my doubts back then.
Months turned to years and it seemed like my childhood flew by. I was angry sometimes, when I had time to just sit and think, about how unfair it was that I never had the chance to just be a kid. In the end, though, I just kept thinking about my mother and it always seemed as though she had been murdered only yesterday, even though in reality 10 years had gone by.
Tatsuo never asked about my past, nor I his, but I always wondered. It became even more interesting when I discovered I was beginning to have feelings for my sensei and wished to know more about him. Of course, I had to push that to the back of my mind. Feelings, he often told me, only got in the way. I never really thought he could feel and I never suffered the illusion he cared for me the slightest bit. I knew that to him, I was only a step and perhaps I felt that way towards him too. We were both using one another to reach our own goals. I sought revenge and I learned he did too.
Tatsuo told me he once worked with another man. He didn't tell me many details, but he did explain that the man betrayed him by striking out on his own. They were both assassins, but Tatsuo had never believed in killing women or children. The other man thought they were missing out on money by only killing men, so he took the first job offered by their boss that involved killing a woman. In the end, their boss decided Tatsuo's partner was a better choice, so he fired Tatsuo. He knew he could never get his revenge alone, though, because his ex-partner had since become the boss of his old organization and was always protected. With me, he expected we would be able to handle it. The day I turned 18, he said I was ready. The planning began.
 Pirate Eshe · Fri Feb 23, 2007 @ 02:06am · 0 Comments |
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