Intro. (“Black Feather Reaper”)
Among enemies he is called: The Skull Ghost of the Red Cloud
When the Hidden Cloud branded him a forbidden weapon, Kurohane Shinigami did not fight the verdict.
He simply left.
A prodigy swordsman chosen by a cursed blade older than the Shinobi Nations themselves, he awakened power the villages feared — chakra that moved like living shadows and screamed like spirits trapped between worlds. ANBU squads were sent to erase him. None returned unchanged.
Rather than seek revenge, Kurohane vanished into the forgotten edges of the world, gathering shinobi cast aside by bloodlines, experiments, or fear. Together they formed a new Akatsuki — not conquerors, but protectors of the unwanted.
They are criminals in every bingo book.
Yet wherever warlords rise or innocents are hunted… red clouds appear.
And behind them walks the Skull Ghost Demon, blade dragging across the ground, daring the world to decide whether he is monster… or salvation.