For those who care, I did have another sims story titled: Overwhelmed, but my laptop ccrashed and I lost everything, including the characters in the story, their house, all my custom content, ect. So after almost a year I got a new laptop. I may continue that story someday but right now, it'd be a pain in the @$$ to do the characters' whole town over again so
for now, consider it canceled. Now, on to my new story. One that's a lot more interesting than the last, or at least I think it is. So, without further ado, let's get it started...
NINJA - A mercenary or warrior who is trained in the art of ninjutsu, or a Japanese martial-arts style which involves stealth, speed, mastery of various weapons and poisons, efficient and deadly combat tactics
SHINOBI - A high level ninja, highly trained in the art of stealth. Roughly translates into "Walker of Shadows" or "Warrior of the Night." These ninja were considered to be very powerful in both body and spirit.
The way of the ninja doesn't completely belong to Japan. It may have been its country of origin but over time it spread until it became practiced all around the world. Unfortunately, this lead to competition between countries. 50 years after the spread of Ninjutsu, other countries would regularly try to outdo one another in the art of ninjutsu through contests, tournaments, even assassinations. But that was all nothing compared to the Great War. For five years, countries all around the world waged wars against each other, in their own towns, killing many innocent civilians in the process. No one, not even children, were spared from the bloodshed.
Enraged by how his art had become abused by his fellow human beings, Shinji Akita, the first ninja, created a jutsu that would seal away the part of a person's soul that allowed them to use Ninjutsu. Today, this jutsu is known as the "X-Seal". Akita used this jutsu to rid the world of ninjas forever, draining his life force in the process. Before he died, Akita decided he wanted to leave behind some kind of legacy so he chose four clans, or families, in every country and lifted the seal off of them, allowing them, and only them, to continue on the path of the shinobi.
300 years later......
My name is Kyle River, I'm 13 years old, and I'm a modern day ninja. The River family was one of four American clans, chosen by Shinji Akita, to carry on the Shinobi tradition, because of our decision to stay out of the Great War and for our mastery of Water styled Ninjutsu. Aside from being a highly trained killer(Yes, I've killed somebody before but it's not really something I like to talk about), I'm actually a pretty normal kid. I go to school, I play video games, I have friends, chores, a Facebook, everything a normal teenager has. In fact if I didn't wear my headband, people wouldn't even know I'm a ninja. I don't wear it try and get attention or respect, like a lot of my relatives do, I just like to show pride in my family.
This is my house. Not all Ninjas live in houses like these.....in fact, out of all the other Ninja clans I've met, mine is the only one to not have a normal house. My Grandpa is really traditional and in touch with his ninja heritage. So when he built the house, he went for the whole "Oriental look". Speaking of my Grandpa....
Here he is. Nathan River. He's head of our family and I mean our WHOLE family. Me, my parents, my siblings, uncles, aunts, cousins, he's in charge of all of us. He's also head of the American Branch of the Shinobi Council, which is basically him and three other old guys. Despite having all these responsibilities, Grandpa is actually pretty cool and fun loving guy. You'd never think he'd have the weight of an entire clan looming over his shoulders
My father, Eric, is destined to take over as head of the family when Grandpa dies. He's also our family's strongest Shinobi. He comes back from missions unscathed while my uncles and cousins come back heavily wounded, he's head of our family's assassination squad, and he's the only person who's ever beaten Grandpa in a sparring match. If the perfect Shinobi were to exist, it'd probably be my Dad.
My mother, Mai, is from a Japanese Shinobi clan called the Yamamotos. When my parents got married, they united our clan with the Yamamoto clan, ending a 10 year long feud. It was kind of like a modern Romeo and Juliet...only nobody committed suicide. My mom isn't much of a Ninja but she's a great musician. She has the talent and potential to do something with her life but she put all of that on hold to start a family. When I hear Mom play the piano I feel bad about how if she didn't have me or my siblings she might have become really famous. But she's assured me that the happiness of being a parent is greater than what any kind of fame could give her.
My sister, Kayla, is the oldest out of the three of us, which makes her next in line to be head of the family. Only problem is, she doesn't want to be. She's the stereotypical rebellious teenager and she hates being a ninja. She's never killed someone before, she doesn't spar or work out with me and my brother, I've never even seen her use Ninjutsu. All she does is go to school, read, and talk to her friends. I don't even know why she wears her headband, I assume it's for the same reason as me but I've never asked her. Like my Mom, she has a gift that makes up for her shortcomings. She's an excellent writer. When I "accidentally" go through the secret files on er computer, I always find some well writen poem or short story. Right now, she's in the process of writing a romance novel with vampires(Sounds stupid, right? I thought it was when I read what she had gotten done so far but the girls at my school seem to like stuff like that so at least Kayla will have a large and impressionable demographic if she ever gets her book published)
My brother Lee is...well...how can I put this nicely...Ok screw it, I love him but he's a suck-up, a show off, he's conceited, and bent on proving to Dad and Grandpa that he should lead the family when their gone, instead of his twin sister, Kayla(who was born three minutes before him, making her the oldest out of the three of us) I'd agree with him if he wasn't so stuck up. There's no way I'd enjoy serving under him if Grandpa ever agrees to make him the next in line. He and Kayla actually used to get along. They were inseparable when they were little but as they grew older they started to have conflicting views on the Shinobi way of life. Lee thinks Kayla doesn't take her job as a ninja seriously and Kayla thinks Lee takes it
too seriously. Remember when I said I've never seen Kayla use Ninjutsu...well I forgot about one little incident three years ago. It was the first time Lee tried to convince Grandpa and Dad to make him the head of the clan instead of her. She was alright with it..until Grandpa told Lee to give him a reason why he should pick him over Kayla and Lee said some...pretty insulting stuff. I'd never seen her so angry with him in my life and it was the first time I ever saw Lee lose a fight and he didn't just lose, he got his ass KICKED! Which convinced Grandpa that Kayla was indeed a suitable heir(much to her and Lee's dismay)
So there you have it, the Prologue to our story. Right now the Ninja community is in an unusual era of peace(well, except for when we're hired to kill somebody) But that' all about to change. Unbeknownst to us, at the time, an organization, bent on annihilating the Shinobi way of life, was assembling and my family and I will soon be in for the fight of our lives.
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