500. Natural science. Math books. Perhaps he should pick one up.
600. Applied sciences. He wasn’t nearly smart enough to understand this.
700. The Arts. Yuichi began to search for books about music. He found an entire section detailing how to play various instruments.
Yuichi believed that he was a musician in a past life. He could picture himself playing a lute and singing to an adoring crowd. Partying with all the women. Men, too. Maybe.
He felt the leather backs of the books. He wanted one on playing the flute. He recently overheard something about a flute playing shinobi, and he was intrigued. He had played the flute a bit as a kid, but he stopped around the time he became a teenager, a year or so after he became a shinobi.
The best book he could find was a book about a famous composer, and it described how to play various instrument parts for songs.
“Ballad of the Ronin, Ichirou Nakamura and other works by….”
Interesting enough. Yuichi pulled the book off the shelf and began flipping through it. It was mostly fluff, and between the actual songs there were long descriptions of the composer’s life and context for the songs he wrote. He tucked the book under his arm and made his way over to a table.
He inspected the library. For whatever reason he always felt like he was being watched. There was nobody nearby though, and so he opened the book to the titular song.
Yuichi could imagine the instrument in his hands, and made the finger motions of the songs. This book was worth his time. He decided, so he began to read a description of the life of the ronin, Ichirou Nakamura.
600. Applied sciences. He wasn’t nearly smart enough to understand this.
700. The Arts. Yuichi began to search for books about music. He found an entire section detailing how to play various instruments.
Yuichi believed that he was a musician in a past life. He could picture himself playing a lute and singing to an adoring crowd. Partying with all the women. Men, too. Maybe.
He felt the leather backs of the books. He wanted one on playing the flute. He recently overheard something about a flute playing shinobi, and he was intrigued. He had played the flute a bit as a kid, but he stopped around the time he became a teenager, a year or so after he became a shinobi.
The best book he could find was a book about a famous composer, and it described how to play various instrument parts for songs.
“Ballad of the Ronin, Ichirou Nakamura and other works by….”
Interesting enough. Yuichi pulled the book off the shelf and began flipping through it. It was mostly fluff, and between the actual songs there were long descriptions of the composer’s life and context for the songs he wrote. He tucked the book under his arm and made his way over to a table.
He inspected the library. For whatever reason he always felt like he was being watched. There was nobody nearby though, and so he opened the book to the titular song.
Yuichi could imagine the instrument in his hands, and made the finger motions of the songs. This book was worth his time. He decided, so he began to read a description of the life of the ronin, Ichirou Nakamura.
- The life of Ichirou:
- "Ichirou was born during the Era of Warring Clans. After his home was destroyed by battle, he found himself under then tutelage of a monk by the name Da. There are several guesses as to which battle exactly saw his home destroyed, but it was likely the battle on the Boton river, which used to flow between the Uchiha and the Hyuuga.
The monk, Da, taught him the philosophy of a foreign land called the Shintokei, a philosophy emphasizing a connection to ones elders and ancestors. It also strongly emphasized conformity and had heavy ties to several religions worshiping nature.
Soon after reaching adulthood, Ichirou began to wonder about his past and his ancestors, feeling a disconnection for the philosophy that he was raised under. He began a quest to discover himself and left his home with only the clothes on his back and a wooden staff.
He soon met with trouble when he was attacked by a shinobi from the Senju forest. He awoke among a caravan of travelers, who rescued him and tended to his wounds. This was were he met a man who taught him all he would know about sword fighting. For years, Ichirou Nakamura worked hard to learn everything he could. At twenty five, he was one of the greatest sword fighter in the world.
He roamed what would later become the land of fire for around a year before discovering his the remains old home. It was here that Ichirou learned that his home had been destroyed by the Uchiha and the Hyuuga, and he began his quest for vengeance.
He died before he could have his revenge, but the battle he waged was truly magnificent. He took down many members from both clans, but once the two clans unified to fight off a foreign threat he lost his advantage. In the chaos of the war it was easy for him to disappear if things started to get too hot, and without that advantage he was captured and executed by the Hyuuga clan."
