The Revenger's High: Keiji Reshi vs Riyan Uchiha

Have you ever felt what it was like to be excited? To feel that evergrowing tension inside you accompanied by the tension brought on by an expected event? Have you ever known what it was like to truly feel that sense of importance, that your next move may be something to deliver a great blow to the future?

It is a gift to the mind that is greatly under-appreciated. To the gentle heart, it is nothing more than the hidden expression of fear and paranoia, to have that tension grip the very threads of your nervous system. It is the weight that begins to press and press into your heart, until it finally surrenders to the horrifying pressure and crushes inward. It is the blade that will never be removed from your chest, to stay there even after you have died.

To gentle hearts, it is nothing more than a monster.

But to the ones who reject that kindness... to the ones that are willing to reject morality and embrace the shames and distateful acts of society in order to do their duty, it is a natural gift that is bestowed upon you by God himself. To the deceptive mind, it is something that comes with forethought, the pet that accompanies and entertains their master during their living days. To the ones who emit nothing more than resentment and hatred, it fuels the sense of satisfaction that one holds when they eventually complete their goal.

This... is known as the revenger's "high".

And for Konoha-ANBU member Keiji Reshi, it was exactly what he was feeling.

He moved himself like a ghost, a shadow under the cover of night. Despite the chill around his body, all he could feel was that high, that cold fury that burned through his chest. In the moonlight, his eyes seemed to blanken, putting out nothing but an emotionless and machine-like facade. Up ahead of him, he could sense the foreign chakra signature he so whole-heartedly bloodlusted after.

"You don't have to do this..."

"You know what they did can't just go away...."

His gloved hand reached out to grip the hilt of his katana, and he sped forward with what seemed like inhuman speed.