[b]Zaikan[/b]

Zaikan gripped his blade tightly as he sliced through the flesh of his assailants and blood slashed onto the ground dying it red. the fools had took him to be some common traveler instead of one of the Iron Nation's deadliest samurai warriors. his attackers were bandits who had become used to avoiding shinobi when they set upon a weary traveler, but they were not experienced with meeting a samurai and that was a horrific mistake that would cost them their lives. with intense speed, Zaikan beheaded one of the bandits and sliced off the arm of another before thrusting his Katana into his gut. the man gave a scream and collapsed onto them ground, a pool of blood soon forming around the man's corpse. the rest of the bandits turned and ran from Zaikan in fear, they had never thought that a non shinobi warrior could be so deadly. it mattered not to Zaikan whether the bandits fled, as long as they weren't able to steal anything from him.

his mission is what really mattered to him, and the bandits had been a small distraction from it. now that he had dealt with the problem, he continued on his way to Konoha. he was in the Land of Fire now and remembered the orders he had been given from his superiors to keep his childhood friend Yuuto Nakarai from siding with the treacherous Hidden Leaf Village. they said that if Yuuto refused to follow his command then Zaikan would have to kill his old friend. despite being a loyal samurai to his country, he had also been a loyal friend to Yuuto before his banishment and the thought of having to kill his one of his oldest friends was a hard thing to think about. he had his duty and orders to fulfill, but could he really shatter his friendship like that? but if he didn't follow his leaders' orders then he would be disgraced and failed his oath to protect the Land of Iron with courage and honor. 

he would find out once he found his old friend, and according to stories he had heard from people, Yuuto was in Konoha, which meant that it may have already been too late to stop him from joining the village. but Zaikan had to keep hope that his friend did fall for the lies of the fallen Village Hidden in the Leafs.