Don't go putting us out.
What do we do?
Let me handle them. I can take these small fry alone.
Just push it right here, in the middle.
Come at me, all of you!
What's wrong?
Didn't you just feel something?
The enemy isn't tailing us.
Are you starting to chicken out on us now?
They say that women have keen intuition, but you can't trust it.
We brought you on last, thinking that you had the skills to take it,
but you want the men to protect you after all, do you?
Knock it off.
The village isn't far. Ready to go?
Ow!
W-W-What did you do that for?! You really are too much.
What were you hiding for?
I was waiting for you, of course.
And if I passed by without noticing you,
were you planning to attack me from behind?
The old man said he wanted to ambush you,
so that he could get all the credit for the mission.
Hey, hold on, now. That isn't even funny.
Don't go saying something like that with a straight face.
You're too much. You really are ghastly.
You're the one who was thrilled when Yamata said to go on ahead.
It's whatever you're thinking that's ghastly.
Huh? I'm the one who gave Yamata the new weapon I made, aren't I?
This ridiculous weapon didn't do any good at all.
Aw, you're kidding. It took me a long time to make this.
I'm amazed you've lived as long as you have,
making nothing but worthless weapons like you do.
I've got other weapons, you know!
I can easily defeat ninja of their level, even without your toys.
Someday, someone is going to take that swelled head of yours
and knock it down a size or two.
And I have no doubt that you won't be the one knocking it down.
If you guys had a falling out, and ended up taking each other out,
I would get all the credit for the mission.
Ow!
Hey! Stop picking on your elder!
By the way, did you see it? That flame in the sky?
Yeah.
You think it could be Oda or Koga?
It didn't look like it to me.
Oh, was it fireflies, or lightning? Or a dragon?
Or maybe it was a tornado?
Whatever it was, let's hurry back to the village.
It was headed in the direction of the village, after all.
Yeah.
Hey, hey, hold on, wait for me!
What a pain... Wait for me!
Yamata, Jinnai, we're here!
"Spunk"
"Wholehearted"
They're here, the boys are here.
Welcome back. The ninja chief is expecting you.
Who, us?
Have you gone and pulled something else?
What are you driving at?
I'm talking to Yamata! Geez, you're so disgusting.
What do you mean, have I pulled something?
I mean how you're always getting into unnecessary fights,
and ruining your missions.
I what?
W-Whoa, now...
I mean like this time.
You were only supposed to go on a recon mission,
but you did something more. You did, didn't you?
That's why the ninja chief has called for you.
Remember what a shinobi's duty is.
And what is a shinobi's duty, huh?
To run away? To sneak around?
Did you hear that? Oh, hold on, that's right, he doesn't know!
You don't know, do you?
That's right! I'm sorry. He wasn't born a shinobi to begin with.
That's why you don't know, do you?
I'm sorry, how could I be so thoughtless?
That would explain why
for you, the proper duty of a shinobi is,
say it with me,
beyond you!
That was a good one!
You don't have to waste your breath.
Yamata never goes out of his way to shed blood.
Besides, we're out there, in life-or-death situations.
Our job is different from those of you who have duty in the village.
Big talk. You know, up close, you've got a cute face.
All right, fine. Hurry along and go see the ninja chief.
I'm tired of looking at you.
Let's go. He's cuter than I thought.
Pay no mind to what he says. He's just jealous of your exploits.
It's kind of a pain to be the village's best, huh?
How did it go?
There were no soldiers at the castle.
They had already left, and may be meeting up with Oda's army.
The castle was defended by shinobi?
Yes, sir. However, their shinobi weren't all that great.
After all, Yamata defeated them all by himself.
Nezumi, did you do nothing but watch?
No, no, no, I just left Yamata behind, and ran.
That's the smartest thing to do, if you want to survive.
Y-Yes, sir. I-I was just conceding the credit to the youngsters.
Well, this time, why don't I give you a mission
where you don't have to concede anything?
An unidentified ball of flame fell near the village.
I saw it as we were returning to the village.
Our ninja are spread out across the land.
I hate to ask this right after you've returned,
but you three, along with the ninja that returned last night,
go and see what it is.
You think it might be something from Oda?
I don't know.
Once you find out,
come back and tell me at once.
Now go.
Yes, sir!
So everyone else is out checking up on the other military commanders?
This is a crucial moment.
Our fate as Iga depends on which commander we side with.
Hey! Wait up! Hey! Wait!
We just need to side with whoever's strongest--
whoever will allow us to survive, right?
If that's Oda, then it's Oda,
and if it's Tokugawa, then it's Tokugawa, right?
You've got the devil's own ears.
Of course. I am a shinobi, you know.
I can hear what you're talking about, even far away.
Either Oda or Tokugawa is okay, you say?
At least your ass-kissing skills are at full strength.
Shinobi can't do things out in the open.
Our duty is to work behind the scenes for someone else, right?
If you keep moving forward like you do, you'll be dead in no time.
I don't like working these cookie-cutter missions in the shadows.
I'd rather gain fame taking down the commanders
than defeating their underlings.
Well, if you want to claim the head of a commander...
...hold on, here...
...then why don't you use Nezumi's new fully-automatic shinobi-hunting
top?
What, that good-for-nothing reject?
No, no, no, no, I rebuilt it, so it's all right.
It's all right... probably.
Oh, right... Well? This is pretty cool, huh?
Is that a dagger?
Bzzt! Look closer.
Shi-ing! Shi-ing!
If you're going to fight Oda's men,
you'll need something more than just chain-sickles,
like these western-style weapons.
Of course, this one is mine.
Let me see that.
Hey!
Hey, hey, g-give that back!
Aw, come on, now.
All right, all right!
Okay, look here, this thing is destructive like crazy! See? See?
Don't want it. I'll take this.
I've always wanted to try using a gun.
No, you can't! Really, give it back!
Bang! Bang!
Yamata! Yamata, give it back!
Give it back!
Come on! This doesn't have very many bullets,
so don't shoot it if you don't even know how! I mean it!
No, no, no, no, it wasn't me, it wasn't me! It wasn't me!
It wasn't me! Sorry to interrupt you!
It was just getting good!
That hurt...
This is all because you shot it.
Ah, I'm bleeding!
You survived again, huh?
As did you.
Did you see the flames?
Yeah. I saw it on the way back to the village.
Which way did it go?
That way. About five ri from here. [roughly 12 miles]
No, no, no, you guys are going to go on ahead and show us, right?
Nezumi, you're going to wear out your welcome.
Why? We came back to the village after they did, so it's only natural.
Ow!
I'll show you the way. You follow along, old man.
The young woman said she would lead the way.
Living longer has its rewards.
You've already worn out your welcome, huh?
How was your mission?
Boring.
Did you get to show off your fancy moves?
What about you? How was yours?
I wish I had a challenge.
You want me to take you on, right here?
After we get back to the village, in bed.
What?
Must be a bear or something.
There are no bears around here.
Then what did that?
Neither Oda nor Koga leave an ostentatious mark like that.
Right? Right?
Who are you?
Why don't you answer?
I don't care if you are a kid. Answer me, or I'll kill you.
Yamata, stop. Just look at him. Something's the matter with him.
Threatening him will be counterproductive.
You must be hungry, huh?
Food.
Oh, right...
Here, eat.
What happened?
Are you alone? Where are you from?
Are you all right? Stay with me!
Gather around!
Rin!
Snap out of it! We've gotta run!
Yamata!
We're getting out of here!
I'm staying here.
There's no way to fight something that doesn't show itself!
You guys go on!
You're gonna get killed!
You expect me to run away, after what it did to our pals?
Yamata!
Let's go!
Yamata!
Damn it!
What was that?!
Did anyone see the whole thing?
Only the part that was cut off.
What about the others?
Those things came to our village last night.
Oda's dogs?
Wolves? Or, like I said, bears?
It was too big to be a dog or a wolf.
And it was moving too fast to be a bear.
Then what was it? An ogre? A goblin?
Are you saying something like that came to our village?
I've been a shinobi for a long time, and I've been to a lot of places,
but I've never heard any stories about a monster like that.
It's possible that it came from across the sea, through Tanegashima.
I don't know where it came from,
but are we going to have to fight against that thing?!
To be a shinobi for as long as I have,
only to be killed by that crazy thing now...
No... no...
What do we do?
Yamata!
What?
You...
You're the one who brought that monster here!
Defeat it...
Huh? Speak up!
Defeat that thing.
That thing ran roughshod over my village!
Your village?
And that's why you ran here?
What is it after?
That monster isn't after anything.
We'll all be killed, we'll all be killed.
You're probably right.
I've never run away from an opponent that had killed one of us,
until now. Am I right?
But this time, we were done in.
Still, no matter who the enemy may be, we are shinobi!
You're still just a kid, and not a shinobi yet,
but we can't keep on running away forever
from the monster who killed our friends, can we?
Right.
Ready, and...
Be sure to keep your eyes open.
Ee-yow!
Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!
Why should I be stuck doing this?
Hey, don't scare me like that.
Take that! Take that!
Nezumi, get down!
Y-You're kidding, right?
This ought to be good.
It isn't any good for me!
There's another one!
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Hold it!
"Mighty strength"
Now you can't pick your arms up anymore, can you?
Are you all right?
Yeah.
Are you all right?
I'm fine. It missed the bone.
Never mind me, what about Jinnai?
He's had it.
Being taken away by a monster like that,
there's no way he hasn't been killed.
He's long since been preyed on.
Nezumi, what were you doing when Jinnai and Rin were attacked?
Were you napping, or something?
I was the first one who got knocked away.
You saw it, right?
You don't deserve to be called a shinobi,
when you don't have a single wound on you, and you still don't fight.
Ow! Ow! I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! In any event...
In any event, let's head back to the village.
We have to tell the ninja chief.
Ah, I just had a great idea.
There's only one of those monsters left, right?
Why don't we catch it?
What?
We catch it,
and take it into Oda territory.
Then, Oda and Koga will both be wiped out.
Huh? Huh? Huh?
And we'll get a big fat reward from the ninja master!
What are you talking about?
Or, we could rope in the other Iga villages,
and once we wipe out those other villages,
we'll be the ones... who will rule the Iga!
Get real!
Right now, what we have to do is to save Jinnai, right?
You're an idiot. That won't gain us a single thing, will it?
You're going to go fight that crazy, creepy monster,
when there isn't anything in it for us?
Jinnai was taken because he was saving me.
And you were saving him, weren't you?
You were watching?!
Uh, I, um, heard it from the kid!
Don't lie to them!
Don't go looking down on me, just because I'm a kid.
Where did you go? That was dangerous.
The monster that took your friend away left a blood trail
that goes on and on.
Let's go save him! If we follow his tracks, we'll find the monster!
I've been scared up to now, but watching all of you fight,
now I'm going to fight, too.
I want to avenge my mom, and my friends!
Please!
Listen, Yamata, if we listen to what this kid says,
there's no telling how many times
we'll cross the river of death in this age of war.
Yeah, all right.
What? I'm not going. I'm going back to the village.
Yeah. You tell the ninja chief what happened.
Someone has to carry out this important mission, after all.
Y-Yeah! R-Right, you're right.
I'm the oldest, so it's my responsibility.
Leave it to me.
With that settled, there's no time like the present.
Okay, I'm off.
Bye, then. Bye, then.
You're sure about this?
We really do have to inform the village.
That monster might just head there, after all.
Okay, show me.
Where are these tracks that will lead us to Jinnai?
Why would those monsters take Jinnai off without killing him?
Maybe it's going to feed on him.
Yamata!
What?
You don't have to say that in front of Nishi.
Why not? He's going to be a shinobi someday, right?
Your father was a shinobi, right?
I don't want Jinnai to be dead,
but a shinobi is always face-to-face with death.
We always live right on the edge.
If you don't like that, stay in the village,
and work in the fields, or the blacksmith shop.
Here you are, a shinobi, and you're a woman.
You know what I'm saying.
Rin, why are you a shinobi?
There weren't any boys in my family.
That's why I did as my father asked, and became a shinobi.
You didn't mind?
No, I don't. It's just...
It's just that I don't like how my father told me to be a man.
My old man was a peasant.
Him and my old lady got caught in the middle of the war, and died.
The village took me in.
Fighting is the only way for me to survive.
But I don't abandon my friends.
Even if I won't get to live a long time,
I'm going to fight alongside my friends.
You know?
Look.
These aren't ours. They're Koga.
They came scouting into Iga territory, huh?
Because they saw that fireball?
Looks like they were killed by the monster.
Where are their bodies?
I finally made it back.
What is this?
A monster...!
There it is!
Look at that!
What is this?
Nezumi?
Yamata, save me! Save me! Save me!
What happened to you?
It was at the village...
The village?
It wiped out the village!
It what?!
Where is it? Where is it?
Run away, quickly! We'll be killed, too! We'll be killed!
It isn't anywhere around.
Where is Jinnai?
Is that Jinnai?
The monster has done something to them.
What?
Listen, I'll teach you some skills later on,
but for now, go hide somewhere, and don't come out.
Stop it! Wake up!
What is with these guys?!
It looks like we'll have to kill them.
Our friends are among them.
Yeah, I know that!
You mother fucker.
Son of a bitch.
Give me the fucking dirty pussy.
Fuck you.
Fuck you!
Fuck you...
Fuck you!
Would you guys shut up?
Go for their throats!
Jinnai! Hey, Jinnai! Snap out of it!
Are you all right?!
Y-Yamata...
Yamata!
Yamata! Yamata!
Look after Jinnai!
Oh, you've learned, have you?
It is because flowers fall that they are so beautiful in bloom
Once the petals scatter, they merely return to soil
So much the better, then, to cast our eyes
up to the sun, and not to the side
To go under the sea, you must hold your breath
If you do not want to, you cannot go under the sea
The sea has its own world, after all, and you cannot resist going under again
Your vengeance is taken.
Are you all right?
I feel weird.
What did you do to me?
I never want to stick my hand in your mouth again.
Hey!
All right, let's go.
Hey, Nishi, hurry up.
What are you waiting for? Let's go.
Nishi!
I'm coming!
I don't have a loving manner
When I get hurt, nobody looks
Like being hollowed out inside cut-off light
I'm bound with a chain
Closed-off memories of that day,
smeared with lies
I'd lowered my eyes, but still,
it doesn't end; blood that don't stop
Upside down, I am scared
Everything's started falling apart
Turned me down, the way things are going
Blocked up the way
"I should have been hurt enough,"
the cry came spewing forth
No way out, however far I go,
I can't run away
I've been too hurt
Only a matter of fate
At some point, I even forgot
my widespread sea of regrets
I don't care, I turn my back, but
I seem to hear the voice I sometimes do
Upside down, I opened my eyes
while still embracing the damage of love
Turned me down, it never ends
Breakin' down the wall
"I don't want to rock"
the chains of countless words from the past
No way out, however far I go,
I am bound by them
Upside down, it scares me
Everything's started falling apart
Turned me down, the way things are going
I can't run away
I've been too hurt
Only a matter of fate