The Black Fox

Lei Fang has not always been of the Fang Clan. In fact when he was born he was born to the clan of Hyuuga's. Lei was once a happy child that belonged to a family of four, he was considered one of the best to set foot into the academy. He was an A student who always seemed to grasp the concept of anything he was taught at a very quick rate. His ability to understand and demonstrate was some of the best around since his mother had passed through the school.

His father was also one of the best med ninjas around. Lei was at his prime of happiness until one day the clock stroke 1:37 and the floor to his life feel out. When Lei was at school he and his brother, Kenji, had received word that his father had been murdered in cold blood. No one was around when the crime had occurred; some travelers had spotted him on the ground in the woods outside the village. The lost of his father drove his mother insane and she soon became ill after developing a bad drinking problem and that caused her liver and heart to slowly shut down.

   Genin


From that day on Lei and is older brother were all along. You see Lei and Kenji never meet their grandparents but heard they lived somewhere in Snow Village, due to the fact that his grandfather was a traveling doctor, they usually moved to where the money was. Their grandmother had broken ties to the Hyuuga clan long before Lei and his brother were born as she loved who she loved and wouldn’t be married to anyone but their grandfather.

Somehow they manage to get by on what they had until it ran out; Lei's older brother began to take on missions as soon as he got the chance, but as luck would have it, he would soon die as a misclassified mission fell into his lap. Lei slowly stopped going to class and his teacher Tokyo Fang decided it was time to intervene help his once proud students. By the time Tokyo had reached out it was almost too late.

Lei had been destroyed by his fears, loneliness, lack thereof help and had turned to the streets for his survival. Lei had become a petty thief that stole what he could to get by from day to day. Somehow Tokyo was able to break Lei of his bad ways and get him back into school. Soon after Lei graduated the academy Tokyo went to the Hokage and was able to convince him to allow him to adopt Lei.

At first The Hokage was unsure of the Ideal but soon figured it best to keep the boy out of the street. From that day on Lei was known as Lei Fang. Still even with Lei's housing and food problem gone Lei was still very angry, and days that He and Tokyo trained Lei seemed to let his anger consume him and let it loose on Tokyo. Unsure how to deal with Lei's bad temper Tokyo decided it best for Lei to go stay with his Brother.

His brother Jean had his own school on the outside of the village's walls. Tokyo knew that if Jean couldn't help no one could. Jean ran a school for teaching genjutsu and kenjutsus, that what Lei needed, he needed someone who had nothing to lose but everything to gain, he needed someone who could teach him how to home his anger and mind, to make it power, he needed someone who didn't care for his life as he cared for no one elses.

   Chuunin


Upon training under Jean, Lei soon learned of his mothers pass and her side of the family. He learned how she was connected to Tokyo and Jean, besides having there last name; Tokyo being her brother and Jean being is real uncle. He learned why the Hokage was so willing to let this adoption happen. For his Mother too belong to the Fang family, and their blood followed thru him as if was his own blood.

Lei soon learned of their kekkei genkia which had been dormant in his body something he did not have as a Hyuuga. He soon home his skills into a level far beyond that of his teachers comprehension and unlocked skills not even his teacher was aware of. Lei continued train with Jean until he had grew too strong for just one teacher. Jean and Tokyo pushed Lei's skill and body to the test every day, and everyday he seemed stronger than before.

It was clearer than ever, Lei was pushing himself harder than before so he could protect his new family and never have to experience his child hood every again. The day Lei graduated he learned of his father death and what truly happened and how it wasn't an accident. It was an assassination attempt that went wrong.

His father just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. His father died in combat. Somehow the assassin was able to gain the upper hand and killed his father with a rare poison. The stab marks on his father's back came from him trying to fight more than one member with the rare poison, but the poison was too strong and he was finally subdued by it.

Since then Lei has vowed to never rest until his father revenge was gotten. That day Lei began his search for every bit of knowledge that he could find on any clam that used poison as a weapon with the challenged that laid a head Lei knew he was going to need help from his father’s family.

   Jounin


With help from his uncle Tokyo he was soon able to find his grandma. Although she was not thrilled to see him, he was soon able to get her to open up her heart to him. It was something about him, that made her feel as if she had to help. And with that the longest and hardest training began. In six years she was able to teach him what he had been missing all his life to a point where he has mastered it.

Although he had his ups and down throughout his training he was able use everything he had ever learned from his family and make it a skill of his own. His grandmother chakra training and allowed him to push his kekkei genkia to new levels. His uncle’s counties kenjutsu training sharpened his mind to the point he could think of several different strategies in a seconds.

And Tokyo's boundless pushing caused Lei to finally break out of his old shell and form a new one where he was able to accept people for who they were. Although Lei has not change much, he's allowed himself fall in love with a Woman slightly older than him. He started wanting to be around his family more often.

He's not exactly sure when he fell, he just knew that she was one for sure, that he loved more than life it’s self.  Lei soon decide he would spend the rest of his life making her love him and chasing his revenge didn’t seem so important. Although he not sure how the woman feel about him, he had faith that his love would be returned onto him one day.

While trying to express his feelings to her, he was able to gain her trust and allowed her closer to him than most people had ever been. He's decided that if she allowed him than he would stay put until time would no longer allow him breathe, and there would be no turning back.

   Aubu:

A year later Lei and Amber would move back to the leaf village where they would settle into a small home. It was hard to be in a place that held so many bad memories of his life. He would take day after day as it came, and with Amber on his side, he would was able to withstand almost anything.

Well at least that is was what he thought until he found the truth about who she really was. It was almost like watching poetry in motion when he found out about how she was connected to the same clan that had killed his father, and it was even more beautiful how she belonged to the leaf village as well. That was the day that he snapped and everything that he had found in her was torn apart and ribbed away.

That winter was the last time that Lei stepped foot in the leaf village, as he whipped out an entire clan in the middle of the night, leaving only one witness to tell the story of his life and death. Amber, with the help of a Kenjutsus that he learn from his uncle, he was able to seal a part of her mind away, and the only thing that was left was the story of how he found out that the leaf village was responsible for his family’s death, and how he committed suicide that same night after murdering everyone that she cared about.  

Lei would return to the Snow village once again, but this time as a no-body. He wasn’t seeking out a trainer but a home. His grandfather and mother who had strong ties to the Hazekage were able to help him gain access to the Snow village as a ninja. Everyone in the leaf thought of him as dead, and Tokyo and Jean would abandon their homes to move to where Lei was.

Jean and Lei were soon able to get teaching jobs in the Snow village and earn their rights as civilians who taught in the academy, as for Lei, he became one of the go to ninja’s of the Snow as he soon earned the title, Black Fox of the Snow. One of the youngest Anbu’s to every come out of the village. His first mission was that seal his faith as one of the go to Ninja's when the village had an issue to deal with.

Two minutes in the fight and Fang was already bored with ninja. Fang decide it would be best to end this match now before anyone caught a glance at his real power. Fang quickly spoke "Snow White Cherry Blossoms!" as he formed the hand signs. A circle of his chakra formed in his hand and began to spark like lightening.

Soon it became bigger than Fang's hands could hold and he released it. It got a little bigger than burst into pedals that seemed to rain down on him in a graceful movement. The ninja almost seemed hypnotize by the falling pedal snow. Fang repeated the hand sign slowly one last time before the pedals of fire ripped thru the ninja.

Fang moved slight towards the left and admired his handy work that slowly traced behind the ninja. Slowly the ninja began to fall to the ground as the rest of the pedals of fire slowly dissolved into nothing. Fang slowly turned his back to the dying ninja and began his journey once again with his new found scroll from the once proud ninja.

Fang couldn't believe that a scroll with such claimed power was left in the hands of a genin to be safe. Fang still felt bad for the poor boy all he was doing was following orders. Fang giggled to himself as he finally made his way to the to Summertime Crossing. Fang looked across the bridge as he thought of the words the old man who hired him spoke.

"If you think about some thing long enough, you grow feeling for it, grow feeling for something and do what it takes to protect it. If you feel you have to protect some thing than you have created a weakness." Those odd words, rung thru Fang's head the whole trip. He knew he had to protect his family but he didn't see how that made him weak, none at all. Fang slowly took the first step on to the old bridge.

With each step Fang could feel the bridge give a little more. Although Fang had this same feeling early when he came to the bridge, this time it felt different. He felt something missing, but was unable to put his hand on it. He didn't know what he was feeling nor did he care, his mind was to busy focusing on the old bridge at hand.

His third, fourth, and fifth step were a breeze, but his sixth step was more trouble than Fang had bargain for. When Fang's foot hit the sixth board of the bridge it fell thru, He quickly leaped back and watched as the rest of the bridge collapsed. Now it was more clearer than ever, the kids that had been playing on the bridge were gone. The once heave flow of traffic had come to a halt and the bridge crossing was complete silent. The bridge must to have been booby-trapped in case someone tried to leave the town.

Fang slowly backed up, and thought of the old man had stopped him before he had made it to the bridge. Fang thought of how the old guy had seemed to be waiting for someone anyone willing to take on his task of finding the ninjas who stole his family scroll in. At first the task seemed minor and stupid to fuse over family moves that weren't majorly known nor famous, but it was just Fang's luck and need of money to say yes... That was the thing that was missing, the old man he wasn't here anymore. The boys words of knowing nothing about the stolen scroll rang out like a million birds.

It was all starting to make since now, the boy who had the scroll was only some street rat trying to make a quick buck, that would explain the lack of technique and skills. The old man who seemed crazy had to be someone from a rival village looking for the power; that would explain the task for the scroll. That A-ranked ninja that Fang had got to fighting with must have been after the scroll too. That mean this scroll was already stolen before Fang had gotten involved, and that old man must have been looking for a fall guy who would take the blame for that kid stealing the scroll and for the scroll reason being sold away.

It was so clear, the amount of money being gave away for this scroll would make it seem as if Fang was trading secrets of other villages with rivals villages to make a quick dime. That's why the old man stressed time so much, that way it would be all clear for him to disappear with the scroll while Fang took the fall. Now the only thing on his mind was, what was so great about this scroll. Fang slowly stared upon the scroll that read the Leaf Village's Hyuuga Clan. He held the scroll tighter and felt some of the ink smudge onto his hands.

He quickly took his shirt and whipped the scroll clean. It was a different scroll than what the old explained to be he could only assume the name Hyuuga was written on the scroll to hide it true identity. The way Fang figured if he was going to take a fall for some crazy old thief he had better have some insurance to save his own life. He slowly looked at the seal that held the scroll together and placed his right hand on it...

In the Village of Kumogakure there isn't much that can be left to desires and imagination of the masses, it is the Village of the rich.... and the takers. Most of the common hard working folks lives in central area of the Village, while the rich leave in the northern elite area of the Village, exclusive to those who are considered the higher caliber individuals of society. The few that are less fortunate then rest is left to get in where they fit in, which is usually down by the bay, and warehouse district. In the Village of Kumogakure , the sun rarely shines and yet it hardly rains either, it is a gloomy place by nature, where the cold is harsh and people are harsher...

A deep breathe would break over a young man's lips as he slowly sat up in a pool of his own sweat. His eyes would shift over the room as he found himself staring into a prison that he called home. The room was cold, several degrees colder than the low 35 degree temperature that was outside, His furniture was less than desirable, as his bed was lumpy, his dresser was a mess, and the so call work desk did not leave much for details as it was poorly built and had only three properly built legs, while the final one was a piece of metal that he and drilled to the top half of the desk and placed a piece of cardboard under to balance out.

His would toss the tattered comforter to the other side of the room as he made his way over the dirt stained window and looked out upon the bay, in the distances he would hear the sound of the noise that original woke him from his slumber. It was a cough, not just any cough but a sickly one that required a lot of attention and medicine that he didn't have money to pay for. It was sad life in deed, he had given up his three bedroom apartment for this hell hole and still he couldn't afford the proper care his mother needed while working his simple nine to five in the shipyard.

While money was good enough to support a simple living in the central area of the Village, it was no where near what he needed to get his mother a good doctor with the right medicine to pull her out of her death bed. Lei would slowly move into the hallway as he moved in a manner that allowed him to dodge the weak points in the floor board, and his movements where graceful, and elegant as he made his way through the little run down studio without making so much as a sound. His breathing was hollow and could barely be heard by the woman who was known for having some of the best hearing in the world, his friends use to joke about how great her hearing was, now she could barely hear the train that ran near their house.

Lei would slowly move into the room as he would poor her a drink of water and move to cuddle her body while she drank. His fingers would softly massage her shoulder as he placed a kiss upon her forehead and told her rest. Tonight was going to be the last and final night that they lived in the hell hole, and she needed for anything. With a soft smile and warm good bye, he would slip out of the room as his resolve to get her the life she needed was his driving fuel. His mother would not wait for another loan application to be processed, when he knew he had nothing that the banks wanted. She would not sleep in the cold studio another night, because the leasing agent was a dame penny pinching bastard would pay for a new heating unit.

Tonight all of that would come to an abrupt end, Lei quickly dressed in all black and grabbed a mask that made him look much like something out of a Chinese Folk lord about a ninjas. He was quite the little street rat, as the police liked to call the members of the lower class, as they were known for their Parkour style of movements through the Village. Lei would quickly hop on the back of his motorcycle as he raced to the heart of the Village and parked his bike three miles away and made the rest of the journey on foot, using the back alleys and the roof tops to make his journey to the El Santo's Diamond Gallery. A deep break would escape his lips as he prepared for his plunge into the darkness, living in the Village of Kumogakure , had a way of changing people with good hearts.

Three years Later:

"Lei wake up, you're going to be late for work."

A soft chuckle would escape the mouth of a woman that was no older than 46 as she smiled lightly and placed a kiss upon his forehead. Lei would softly looked to her as he smiled softly and allowed his hand to wrap around her shoulder and massage it lightly. "I'm getting up." He replied as he moved out of his bed and looked around the room. It was as grand as his old apartment that he had put years of effort to make a home, no it was much better, it was wild open, it was roomy, it was located on the northern side of the Village, but still fell into the central budget as it was two miles in the wrong direction to be considered exclusive and the fact that it was located next to a high school full of mid-class citizens didn't help on the market price.

"I still can't believe you won the lottery."

Lei smiled as that was the lie he had told his mother that faithful night ago, "Yeah it's amazing the luck one can find when you have the proper incentives." He teased as he climbed out of bed and moved into the kitchen. His mother was never the type to ask a lot of questions, she knew better when it came to him and his be laid father. She knew that they would never tell her the truth, and they wouldn't do anything that would place her in harm, so she trusted them. Lei would smile as he picked up the news paper and flipped on the television. The television was programmed to come on the news as he looked at what they considered to be the breaking news.

"The Black Fox has struck again..."

He softly chuckled as he looked at the footage that they had to offer of him making the police look like fools as he raced across busy streets, and ducked into an empty back alley. The name that the Village had given him, was something that he wasn't fund of, but what could he say, they had made him into a celebrity. On that faithful night, Lei Styles had died and Lei Fang was born. Off of the one heist he had cornered enough jewels to get him enough money to change his life. He was able to pay a few people off who had connections to the on how to create legit identities, and came up with a cover story that would date back to his grandfather, for anyone that was looking into him.

It was easy for the system to except that his mother last name was Style's because she never took his father's last name when they married. She had always been the free spirited type who didn't believe into labels and loved to brag about how she refused to take her husband's last name. Besides his father had died long before they had moved to the Village so no one knew of him anyways, Lei had never been the social type and never got into the idea of making friends, so for him disappearing and send in a fake dead certificate to the local news papers was easy.

Anyone who might have known him for that one year he attended in high school believed him dead, and probably wouldn't recognize him anyways now that his didn't have that weird gap him his teeth, and he now wore contacts that made his eyes look golden hazel brown, and his hair was now styled into short honey blond spikes away from what use to be long black hair. Not only that he had long since started working out and he was no longer that fragile little kid who could barely do a handstand. No he had change a bit and he was living on the top of the world. He would slowly flip the page toward the add section as he pulled out a burn phone and answered.

"Fox, I got a new mark for you, the gig pays 30 g's upfront and an additional 60 g's upon completion."

Lei would hang up the phone without saying a word. Soon the phone would ring a second time as he voice would call out a set of new numbers that was worth getting out of bed.

"Did I say 90 g's I meant 150 grand total. 75 for coming down and looking the plans over and pointing out tips another 75 if you actually take the job."

"Sounds more like." Lei would reply as he listened for the meeting location and a time. He would slowly move over to his laptop as he pulled up the address and debated out the location. He would take a trip down their on foot and check everything out, besides he had would be down in that location when it came time for work and what better way to see what this crook had up his sleeve. Since that faithful day, Lei had become one of the most salute after jewel thief. People had things that needed stolen and as long as you were talking numbers, Lei or the hood as people liked to call him had a few plugs for getting in contact with him.

One of them just happened to be Breeze, the thing about Breeze was, he was as dirty as they come. No matter how many things Lei stole, dropping the dime on him meant that Breeze would be going up the river too. Back when they first got involved together Lei had took the privilege of high-jacking his ledger, so it kind of worked out for them, Breeze had dirt on Lei, and Lei had dirt on Breeze, if one went down so did the other. The cops knew that Breeze was as worst as they come, but they didn't have the proof or the money to keep dragging him into court and losing only for him to file a counter suit against them. Besides Breeze liked Lei, he was willing to steal things that were worth Millions of dollars and take nickels and dimes off of the actual dollar amount.

While in theory it never made a lot of sense, nor did the fact that he worked as an chief in the most popular restaurant in the Village and still did this line of work. What he made in a month could easily pay for the life he was now living, but it would never give him the thrill of out witting the cops and maintaining this secret life that he had become so accustomed to living.