Ninja’d!

Ayane didn’t understand the bodysuit they asked her to wear for her mission. Sure it was light, and she could easily move around the location, but on this chilly night she could swear her nipples were poking through the fabric.

The outfit was probably an attempt by her village elder just to spite her for wanting to train as a real ninja, and not just a kunoichi. But whatever his motives, Ayane planned to get this assassination over with and prove she could be trusted with tasks like any real ninja.

Allowing her ki to flow throughout her body, Ayane became one with the world around her, manging to feel out a position that would allow her to slip past the guards, slip a poisoned needle into the target’s throat, and slip out. She hopped across the stepping stones leading up to a nearby koi pond, kicked in the head of a nearby guard and used it as a springboard to jump up to the top of the second story building. And when she leaped through the window into the room of the evil lord, she came to find a naked man standing over her target, closing his eyes with his fingers.

Ayane wasn’t quite sure what to make of the situation, so she planned to strike at the naked man first until he turned around and revealed his face to be awfully familiar to someone she knew from her clan. The naked man said to her, “Ummm, it’s not what it looks like.”

“Why are you naked and standing over the evil lord, Hayate?”

“The elder received some intelligence that the evil lord–how do I say this in a way you can understand–swung another way, played for the other team, preferred the touch of a man to a woman.”

“What?”

“At least I got some free food out of the deal, but dear God, I had to spend hours, Hours! talking with that bastard until the poison I slipped into his tea finally killed him.”

“He was supposed to be my target, not yours!” Ayane fumed.

“Well, I’m sorry. We’ll just have to talk it over with the village elder. At least you didn’t have to sleep with him.” As Hayate put on his pants, he continued, “Maybe you should try the kunoichi thing. You’ll probably get more assignments that way.”