CD Taro

Jackson Wolf

3/12/12

Language Arts

Taro

Character Development

Author’s Note: This pieces purpose is to raise my score in Character Development

From being a Fisherman in a small town to being the most epic kick-butt ninja there is; Taro, the supposed next shogun, the killer of lords, a murderer. How does Taro accomplish such task? In the book Blood Ninja by Nick Lake, shows how Taro over an amount of time becomes the main character of the story.

One day he is living a normal life from being a son of a fisherman and a diver, the next he is fighting for his life when their supposed good leader, Lord Oda, sends a squad of Ronin. Ronin are ninja’s basically, with the only task of doing what they are told. Taro’s father, defenseless and in a coma from reading the book, is killed by decapitation from another ninja. Then the same ninja goes for Taro, bringing his sword around for a killing blow, when the ninja is stabbed, the tip of a katana sticking through the ninja’s back. The Ninja falls, it turns out another ninja has done that. Then it turns out that he is the “Good Ninja” in the situation. And it is revealed to Taro that the ninja was sent by Lord Tokugawa. Why, because Lord Tokugawa is Taro’s true father.

Then when Taro is rescued, the “Good Ninja” reveals his name, Shusaku, also reveals that he is a vampire. It turns out all ninjas are vampires, with their unmatched strength and agility, it makes sense. But the thing is, like in Fairy tales, they are killed by light. So when they get off the boat, they immediately head for a hut, to rest in for the day. After when it turns to night, they get a move on, but not before they are found and attacked again. But it’s the same people that they have killed already. It is then told, that the only way to kill a ninja, is either a severing of the spinal cord, or a strike to the heart. After they deal with them, they keep going. But they take at a stop, where Shusaku’s girls that he rescued live.

Their Foster Mother is an abbess, a wise woman who can “see the future” kind of deal. When Taro enters, the abbess tells his future, by going into a trance and writing something, like an excerpt of what might happen, but then after she has completed it, it is shown that Taro, will become Shogun. But afterwards, everything goes downhill when the abbess, is killed by one of Lord Oda’s samurai, Kenji Kira. The girls then find Shusaku and the others as they head toward the main “ninja camp”. After arriving they meet the other ninjas. And then later skipping the non important parts, one of the sons of the ninjas, Kawabata, or known as little Kawabata, is beaten by Taro at a match, but then he gets revenge by locking him and one of the girls Heiko in a hut where Taro would be burned by the sunlight. And as it becomes morning, he doesn’t die from the sun, which is weird, so they set up a plan to get Kawabata when he comes back.

Kawabata then comes back, and finds Taro manhandling him with a long sword to his wrist. Kawabata then vows to never hurt anyone of them anymore. But when this news reaching the camp, the rules are that if a ninja turns on another or tries to kill him, he will be punished with death. So then Kawabata and Taro fight to the death. Then Kawabata is dead, and then out of the blue after Kawabata dies, Taro bites him, and brings Kawabata back to life. Long after they head to Oda’s castle to kill him, which leads to the betrayal that will change Taro's fate forever …