It was a grim day, the sun was NOT shining and there were NO flowers blooming. It was Monday and the only reason I was in Japan was to track down a criminal who killed people with a blade and left their mangled hands everywhere for no reason at all. 

My name is Barry Black. Master Barry Black to you. I am the leader of an elite crime solving task force known as the One Month Solvers, or the OMS. We were named that because it always took us less than a month before we solved any case... except for this one, which is why I am on the case instead of a regular agent. My best agent Dan Cooper wanted to help, but I work alone, he of all people should know that. 

But I have noticed that he has followed me to Japan. Right now, I was examining a magical piano. I knew Dan was going to examine it as soon as I left, so I said: "I can tell you're itching to examine it, Dan, just go." Dan was off like a jet, playing all the keys on the piano, wait... playing the keys!!! I yelled: "Stoooooooop" but it was too late, the piano transported us to a dark concrete room with no door. Then, a man with a blade came out of the darkness and said "thank you for returning my piano" then he rushed at Dan. 

Dan was lucky I was there. I used my cane and hit the blade out of the criminal's hand and then pressed a button on my cane. My cane shot a little tracker which expanded into a full-on net. But then the criminal pressed a key on the piano and the net disappeared. Then pressed more keys and sent darts flying at us but I span my cane and blocked the darts. Then I pressed another button on my cane and it turned into a pair of ninja daggers. The criminal growled and attacked even more fiercely than before just then, it hit me, all the people killed had one thing in common, they were all secretly ninjas! Plus the fact that the criminal was using a samurai blade, there was no doubt about it. The criminal was following the feud between the samurai and the ninjas! I quickly threw my daggers. They flew past the criminal, the criminal smiled and said: "You missed." I said "I wasn't aiming at you." as one of the daggers hit the piano and broke it. "NOOOOOOOOOO!" then I quickly tied up the criminal with some help from Dan and called headquarters.

A FEW DAYS LATER
Turns out I was right. The samurai was thrown into prison and the ninjas were safe. Dan was less impulsive. And me? I was just me.