'Master Jubei, what is... happening to me?' Va'Sentai, had once been raised in the secluded 'Valley of the Crescent Moon' where a prominent ninja master of ancient lore had raised him as a master ninja, having attained ninja techniques long since held in such reverence that even the most dedicated would die in the mere attempt of achieving such terrific skill. What made him so different? Va'Sentai, laying in the dirt knew the answer. It wasn't his bloodline. Nothing he had inherited from either of his natural parents, genetically, would have him appear in such a fashion; though his natural father had been a shapeshifter. His mother... a member of a royal family long since dead. Why, even his fondest memories of his mother where fleeting. He couldn't remember her name, not to mention what she even looked like. All he had known was secluded in a place long since changed by the passage of time. Memories of his youth, the school, his surrogate parent Jubei, slowly fade to be replaced by an out of focus view of a what appeared to be a dimly lit bedchamber of an ancient castle... who, where, when was this? surely, this wasn't... but it was. As the new memories clear and sharpen, the slender, pale, dark haired woman beckoning to him from the bed. Who was this woman? Clearly it was someone from his past. As he approached the woman's began to resemble that of the woman he had only just shared a glance only hours before. Something wasn't right, why was he seeing this woman, in this memory? Quickly his eyes snap open. How long was he out? minutes? hours? For a moment, he couldn't shake the feeling that something was indeed, 'off'; though he continued to lay still he allowed his mind to ease as if placing himself in some form of trance.