Two ninja clans, the Kouga and the Iga, have lived under the Hattori truce for to long to bear. When a successor needs to be chosen, the truce is dissolved. Both clans battle it out, but while the blood flies, two ninja, Oboro Iga and Gennosuke Kouga have fallen in love. As their fellow clan members kill each other off with bizarre techniques, they try to deny the fact that they will have to kill the other to satisfy the others of their clan. (

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THE BATTLE BEGINS

The Iga clan and the Kouga clan have been sworn enemies for more than four hundred years. Only the Hanzo Hattori truce has kept the two families from all-out war. Now, under the order of Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, the truce has finally been dissolved. Ten ninja from each clan must fight to the death in order to determine who will be the next Tokugawa Shogun. The surviving clan will rule for the next thousand years.

But not all the clan members are in agreement. Oboro of the Iga clan and Gennosuke of the Kouga clan have fallen deeply in love. Now these star-crossed lovers have been pitted against each other. Can their romance conquer a centuries-old rivalry? Or is their love destined to end in death?

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