In 14th Century Japan, the power of the samurai class is fading and the use of the Ninja has become necessary to hold political power. Kurenai, a young girl who's world is destroyed when she and her father are attacked by the deadly Black Lizard Clan, is brutally hung by a wire and left to die. Miraculously, she survives and is rescued and adopted into a clan where she obtains complete mastery of her unique weapon, the wire. Kurenai has pledged her undying loyalty to her new family. She now lives to avenge...