*swoosh* *swoosh* *swoosh*

In the far back of the Land of waves, a boy trained with his sword beside his house.

The boy, Max, became 12 years old just resently. Contrary of his age, he is very tall and bulky which made him look like someone in his middle teens. With a long black hair and fierce face, he is considered handsome but hard to approach.

Still, with the rundown house and clearly worn out yukata, one can see that looking good wasn't something that mattered for Max. He could use the same cloths for weeks not minding the dirt on him.

Apart for his sword and katana, the only thing in his mind since 8 years old is to master a technique that his father, Rex, left with him before he left. The problem was that after 4 years of training, he still couldn't get it right.

The book that his father left him also talked about chakra and how to use it to augment his body, so he had become a lot stronger over the years. The only problem was that nobody could coach him with his training and he stayed stuck in the step of the technique.

*Humm*

The motion of the slashes created by Max look smooth and natural, but as Max continued swinging his sword his frowned and suddenly stopped. He closed his eyes and visualized every motion that he had done since he started training today.

"Let's see if I can do it this time." He said as opened his eyes and holstered his sword. He spread his right leg foward and rested his hand on the scabbard of his katana.

The technique that he wanted to do is called Iai- Blade Wave. The book said that it was easier to do with a katana, but the consept could be applyed to any bladed weapon.

As Max relaxed every muscle in his body, he also lowered his breathing and concentrated. Max could feel his chakra flow back and forth from his body towads his katana.

As the time passed, his chakra flowed faster and faster. After a while of waiting, he could feel that his chakra flowed fast enought for it to be seamlessly attaching the katana with his arm.

In a quick motion, Max draw his katana out of the scabbard and made a upper motion slash with it. At the same time that the slash was made, Max started to release the chakra in his katana from the tip of it.

*SWOOSH*

Max could feel the wind pressure being cut by his katana and an imprint of chakra forming as his katana passed.

But that was it. The slash created the imprint in the air, but it didn't propelled foward. Max knew that his attack could cut through trees with easse, but the purpuse of the slash is to attack enemies from long range.

Max felt disapointed of his failiur, but quickly recovered and holstered his katana.

After getting his chakra flow back to normal, he decided to try again. But as he was getting ready to try again he heard a voice coming from the direction of the village.

"Uncle we need to go to the bridge together and fight gato and his men! I know that if everyone of us go with can defeat him!"

Max frowned as he hear the voice of a kid. He became interested in what the kid said and decided to ask him what was happening.

As Max approched the kid, he noticed that he uncle had locked the door and didn't answer the kid. Seen this, the kid only grit his teeth and ran toward the next house.

*bump*

Because he was moving too fast, the kid crashed with Max and took two step backwards.

"Sorry uncl- Ahh, Trash Devil!" The kid, Inari, said as he looked at the person that he had crash into.

Max only frowned at the mention of the nickname that every other kid on the village called him with. Because of his focus on training, he didn't clean the dirt that his cloths acomulated until it bothers his training. When he goes to the market for by food, other kids always noticed him since he always carries his sword and katana on him.

Before, the other kids called him Blade Devil because of his sharp face and long hair. Also because they had heard fromthe adults that Max trained everyday and would be always be seen carrying his weapons.

But since Max started only focusing in his training, seen him so dirty all the time made the kids called him Trash Devil insted.

"You know this Devil? Then things will go easier. What do you mean that we need to go to the bridge and fight gato and his men?"

Sadly, Max had developed a strange personality since a couple of years ago. Because of the intense training that he always has, he had looked for ways to surpase his limits every day. As he tought of way to become stronger, he heard the kid called him Trash Devil which made him think.

'From what I know, 'devils' are beings with inmense power and abilities. If I can become one, mastering the book that Rex left me could be a lot easier.

But how could one become a devil?'

After years of training, Max believe that he had become one so he decided to start adressing himself by his new race.