Episode 1

**A Bolt from the Blue** (青天の霹靂, *Seiten no Hekireki*) is the 1st episode of Shinobi no Ittoki anime series.

## Synopsis

Ittoki Sakuraba, an ordinary junior high school student, is fed up with her daily lessons and the surveillance of her childhood friend, Kosetsu. Then, a beautiful girl from his junior year, Satomi Tsubaki, confesses her feelings for him. Ittoki is excited for having his first girlfriend, but his mother, Yumika, stops him from going out with her. Ittoki, however, decides to go on a date with her...

## Summary

During class, Ittoki looks outside of the class window and sees a ninja in the distant building. Another student sees him looking outside and reports him to the teacher, stating he is sleeping. Ittoki denies it, but the teacher asks him to solve the math problem and Ittoki does it. After class, other students call Ittoki to join them for a karaoke, and Ittoki do wants to, but is busy with other lessons and have to decline.

Heading home, Ittoki is followed by Kosetsu, a childhood friend who follows Ittoki's mother request to make sure he doesn't skip lessons. Ittoki calls her to walk by his side, but she refuses and prefers staying behind him. While walking home, Ittoki recalls his conversation with the gymnastics teacher, who asks him to consider pursuing gymnastics in high school as he sees talent in him. Ittoki then realizes he will be late for cram school and runs taking a shortcut through some backyards and parks. He gets almost hit by a truck, who crashes, but Ittoki manages to jump over it.

At the local convi store, a regular customer complains at Tokisada for finding bugs in her greens, but Tokisada doesn't really care and tells her to deep fry them. His manager Kozo then drags him behind and Reiha apologizes to the customer. Tokisada explains that she is a regular complained and Kozo knows, but still he shouldn't say such things. Yumika decides to take the storefront as Tokisada isn't good at customer service. She tells Tokisada he can leave for today, but asks him to pick up Ittoki from cram school.

After Tokisada picks up Ittoki, he tells him about the truck incident and that the truck had its front tires burst. While there were no injured people, Tokisada notes that Ittoki is too good and shouldn't have gone to cram school. Later, Yumika goes home and Ittoki helps her make dinner.

Next day, Ittoki goes to school with Kosetsu following him again. He ends up finding a love letter in his locker, which surprises him. He thinks about it the whole day and after school he meets with the girl, Satomi Tsubaki. She is a year younger, but explains that she has been always watching him and she even saw him how he dodged the truck yesterday. She then asks him to become his girlfriend. Ittoki returns home in good mood, and his mother, Yumika quickly realizes he got a girlfriend. She starts asking him who is she, and how he knows her, and if she is pretty and a nice girl. Ittoki however, explains that he doesn't really know her, but its his first time being confessed and wants to go out with her on Sunday. Hearing he doesn't know her, Yumika's attitude changes and is against he dating her, which annoys Ittoki.

Ittoki still decide to date her and meets Satomi on Sunday at Iga Station. He wonders where she wants to go and Satomi invites him at her place. At her place, nervous, Ittoki wonders what she wants to do and Satomi stands up and undresses. She gets on him and states she likes him and attempts to kiss him, but Ittoki pushes her away, explaining he isn't prepared for this as they just met. As he is nervous he jokes this must be a prank and checks under the bed, but to his surprise he sees a ninja under the bed. Satomi then takes out a kunai and kicks his cheek, stating he is sharp. More ninjas appear and Satomi prepares to kill Ittoki. A kunai breaks through the window, causing a smoke screen and Kosetsu comes, throwing Ittoki out of the window and faces the ninjas. Kozo and Reiha then take him in a car and drive away. They get followed by a jeep, who bursts their front tires and causes them to crash. Kozo and Reiha fight the ninja, and Reiha tells Ittoki to go and find a place with many people.

Not understanding what is going on, Ittoki runs and reaches the city. A blackout occurs and a police officer appears asking Ittoki what he is doing there. Ittoki tries to explain what happened, but the officer tells him to calm down and explains the power is shut down as a new transformer is being installed. In that moment, a ninja appears and cuts the officer's throat. More ninja appears and they capture Ittoki. A moment later as the power comes back, Tokisada shows up and asks Ittoki how was his date. Tokisada knows the police officer is playing dead and the officer then stands up and joins the ninjas. Tokisada then gears up and beats the ninjas and saves Ittoki.

Ittoki later awakens in a car with Tokisada and Kosetsu. Tokisada then tells him to get out and head up the stairs on the hill as that's their Sakuraba family home. Going there, Ittoki is surprised to see they have a big mansion. As Yumika shows up, everyone bows to her and she tells Ittoki to call her "chief" while they are there. Yumika explains they are shinobi of the Iga village and that there are many other villages in the country, who have blended with society. They have formed strict rules and that's how they managed to maintain balance for decades. However, the Koga village, recently has been trying to upset the balance. The Koga are the most powerful and wealthy ninjas. Iga had found that Koga intends to take over Iga and the ones who attacked Ittoki are from Koga. They are after Ittoki's life as he is the 19th Iga Ninja village's successor. Yumika then asks Ittoki to become a ninja.

At Koga meeting, the Koga salute their substitute village chief, Kido Minobe. Kido states that flesh wounds heal in time, but heart wounds will continue to ache in the future. They recently lost their village chief Kishinmaru and Kido intends to make them pay, an eye for an eye, and they will take revenge on the Iga ninjas.

## Characters

* Ittoki Sakuraba
* Kosetsu
* Satomi Tsubaki
* Tokisada Kaga
* Kozo Moriyama
* Reiha Tsuge
* Yumika Sakuraba
* Housen Ban
* Suzaku Ban
* Himura Takamine
* Enbi Takamine
* Kido Minobe