By Cody
Introduction
Ninja Scroll, set in the days of Samurai, Shogun, and Ninja, follows Jubei Kibagami, a wandering rogue ninja, and Kagero, a cold and deadly female Ninja. Pulled unwillingly into a plot by the Shogun of the Dark and some very nasty demons to overthrow the Shogun and conquer Japan, the two are forced into an uneasy alliance against the forces of evil.

The story begins when the demon Tessai attacks and wipes out the Koga Ninja, leaving only one survivor as his plaything--Kagero. Kagero is rescued from the unpleasant fellow's clutches by a rogue ninja, Jubei Kibagami, but Kagero has little thanks, and reports the shady dealings of the "Shogun of the Dark" to her superior. Jubei, meanwhile, has another run in with one of the minions of the Shogun of the Dark, a snake woman. After being saved by a weird Buddhist monk, he is promptly forced into service by that same friendly religious man by way of a poisoned throwing star. Jubei is left with only a short time to live before the poison kills him; to get the antidote from the monk, he has to help him (the monk is actually a government spy) find out what that pesky evil Shogun is up to. Well, it's not long before Jubei and Kagero run into each other (and a bunch more nasty agents of evil). Since they both have the same goal now, they join forces, and soon find that the Shogun of the Dark is trying to get his hands on a shipload of gold from a secret mine--which he will use to gain power and eventually take over all of Japan. Furthermore, the Shogun of the Dark is an old enemy of Jubei's, who he thought he had killed years ago. Obviously, both Kagero and Jubei are going to do something about this, but will they be able to stop the Shogun of the Dark and his many superpowered