A Very Ninja Christmas - Part I

((This is part 1 in a three part series.  Please enjoy!!!))



"You've got mail!"

Lady Blue's violet eyes traveled from the terrified mugger, who had the cold steel edge of her poisoned dagger resting against his neck, to the phone dangling from her sash that once again repeated, "You've got mail!"

"..'scuse me." she said, and turned suddenly to answer the phone. Her would-be-assailant-now-turned-victim froze in place when she added, "Don't move" without looking at him. Opening the screen to the text messages,

Seiji's comment flitted across the screen, accompanied by a jpg file: "Blue, I thought you should look at this. Don't freak out too much okay? Your Blue Crew boys are on it. Just drop by the shop before you go ninja on their asses."



Blue shook in rage and narrowed her eyes, muttering, "Over my dead body!"

Turning on her mugger, Blue said, "Change of plan."

From goodness knows where, the small ninja produced a roll of duct tape and proceeded to firmly attach the man to the wall. After a phone call to the local police, she could concentrate on the REAL emergency. Patting the man's cheek, she said, "I'll come for you later." and winked.

"mMMMMMRRRR!" he mumbled, his eyes buggy as wriggled helplessly against the grimy brick in his metallic coccoon.

She needed backup! It was one thing to go raiding a pirate enclave with a take no prisoners and leave nothing alive attitude. Explosives were great for that. To keep old Santa alive however, needed tact.

RYAN!!!

In her "I dream of genie" pose that Ryan found entirely irresistible, Blue folded her arms in front of her, nodded her head, and stepped into the shadows.

She used the shadow gate to locate her sweet little lieutenant, and found Lt. Ryan Wolf hiding in a closet, hunched over some sort of object as Blue appeared behind him.

"….Ryan-kun?" She regarded the man for a moment before tapping his shoulder and scaring the sweet Christmas crap out of him. The lieutenant spun around, his face smeared in jellied donut. He coughed out white powdered sugar as he beheld the petite kunoichi.

"…Blue?" he said, looking rather bewildered and surprised. Ryan took a hard gulp of donut; its box with the familiar Krispy Kreme logo the object of which he had coveted so carefully. It was his weakness. How a man could eat so many donuts and stay so lean and muscular was beyond her.

"Ryan-kun! No time to explain. We need to go!" she yelled, yanking him by the uniformed necktie and dragging him behind her. The bewildered lieutenant barely had a chance to grab his donut box before she burst out of the closet into the bright light.

"…BLUE! Be careful when you-" Too late. The alarm sounded. Blue stopped in her tracks. Ryan grabbed her shoulder as several soldiers pointed their assault weapons at her.

"…open doors like that." Ryan finished, deflating. The soldiers had an amused look on their faces, seeing Ryan with his box. They were not so amused seeing the small lady with the short kimono looking rather out of place in the middle of the military facility.

Holding Ryan in the corner of her eye, the rest of her attention on the men, Blue restrained from pulling out her katana and taking the lot of them out. "Where am I, Ryan-kun?" she asked ever so sweetly, her hand resting by her slender thigh.

Ryan's face went white. He had heard that all too familiar poison in her honeyed voice. It was the same tone she used when coaxing the baddies to give up and surrender; right before she gutted them with the shuriken conveniently strapped to the garter on her thigh. "Blue…" Ryan said as calmly as possible. "We're at the NSA. Please be good." he pleaded. "Please, please be good." Ryan added a little silent prayer as the men came forward. "Just go with the little men. I'll be behind you, okay?"

"What's the NSA?"