The beginning

As the sun rises, braking the shadows cast by the dome so rounding the village of tanomoshi (1. Which was named after the hope of starting a new life when the great demon Owari made his last stand here creating the come/ creator the village is in.), the labored breathing of "Yami" could be heard among the early birds chipping.

Yami lives at the furthest point from the main village whilst still being "part" of it.

In the old sword training ground that is his home he is finishing is morning routine.

Yami:"*ahh* Today the day we finally start the first exam."

His morning routine consisted of 5-10k run for endurance then a series of sword swings, slashes and throws against the battered dummies left in the training grounds. This was the closest he could get to training with others... except for his extra training.

The reason Yami is seen as an outsider is for several reasons.

1) Even though he came from a family of people specializing in the power of darkness, he had white hair contrasting his families power.

2) His eyes where odd, they where mismatched. One piercing silver that could be mistaken as white it was so bright, the other grey. This was a large problem in this kingdom where the attributes of a person where normally determent by there appearance. Having three key aspects different from each other was something never heard of.

The silver in the eyes where normal the power of the moon, something that hadn't been seen since the demons where sealed years ago.

Then there was the grey, the grey meant no power. This was only seen when criminals had there's sealed or stolen. Not something a 10-year-old outcast should have had since birth.

Normally one could tell the importance of a person by the definition of there appearance the more detailed the higher the power. For Yami who had a mismatch, he was an outcast of out casts. The only reason he was allowed to stay was because of the house he was left.

Getting washed and changed into basic black clothes and flipping the hood up of the robe, he made the long walk to the school of tanomoshi.

Once Yami arrived the rest of the village now where also up and getting ready for there day.

As he crept further into the shadows hiding from the rest of the village he continued on the way to the school. Only the more power full adults could notice him and even then there where just as many that couldn't, As Yami's power where meant to be vast and great was very limited, he could only hid in shadows.

After dodging most of the people he arrived at the entrance to the school, he tried to walk in with no one seeing him, when he felt a since of danger coming to late.

Kaen: "Look i found "IT", can't even avoid a simple fire blast."

As Yami slowly stood up he looked round and saw Kaen with his group of friends laughing that he was knocked over.

"That's enough now children" shujin kawauso said, as he stood by the entrance for the school.

As Yami looked at kawauso his eyes lingered then turned away in disgust. As Yami thought he could have said something before being attacked.

Slowly everyone entered the school and made there way to the training grounds where rows of seats where set up and a raised platform with this years shujin where sat. Looking round at where to sit Yami found a nice spot in the back just covered but the shadows of the buildings.

The man named Sansho started to move towards the middle of the raised platform to address everyone. He was tall and powerful looking man whose blue eyes speckled with yellow seemed to be buzzing with energy.

"Thank you all for coming here so early in the morning" Shujin Sansho begain his speech, even though he didnt seem to raise his voice to Yami who was at the furthest point it seemed the words where spoken right into his ears.

"We will later being the test to allow you to start your journal to protect and serve your village. Since some of you have not come of age (10 years old), the test will be on how well you use your instrument to Chanel your power, is its a sword then it will be a sword fight, if its a bow then an archery exam, and so forth." He took a second to let people look at the shujin behind him. "Once you have taken your test then the test and hopefully pass, you will begin your training at the Sageru level. As time goes on this is broken further into 1-5. When you get to Sageru 5 you will be able to take the test to the next level.

The over all levels are:

Sageru - Beginning

Chou - Middle

Apper - Upper.

At the point you reach Apper you would have hopefully have turned 15, where you will be allowed to leave the village for 2 years to train yourself, or chose to stay and learn here!"

"How do you move up level's" a girl yelled out. Yami looked around to see a girl who suddenly was turning red from all the eyes. He believed she was called Aina.

"Ahh thank you, Aina, there are 3 main was to qualify to progress.

1) Complete enough missions, each level have an increase in difficulty and rewards upon completion.

2) Improvement of your power and control of the power, which is the over all aim for these 5 years of training.

3)Lastly and rarest of them the king of the lands may chose to promote someone's level that he sees fit." Sansho replied almost like the question was planned. "Now everyone should have an idea of the type of test they wish to take and the equipment they will need, so please make your way to the areas marked".

Yami headed to the area marked "bladed" as this was what he had practiced each day for as long as he could remember. He had been gifted a worn down set of "Gladius" blades in one if his extra training sessions allowing him to have one in each hand. Since they have been worn down and used for so long one was more the size of a dagger then a normal sword and the leather grip was worn down, however this was one of his prized possession.