A Dead or Alive Fanfiction
By The Headcrook
Legal Disclaimer: All characters and events from Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden (both the Original Trilogy and the newer versions) are the property of Tecmo. This is my first DOA/NG fanfic, and seeing as it is my first, I came up with something that has never been done before: Kasumi decides to stop running and takes the fight to Hayate and her former clan. This is also where I attempt to chain the events of Ninja Gaiden (I came up with the following order: Vigoor Incident, Original Trilogy). All, in all, enjoy the fic.
Prologue: The Road Back
Sacred Wilderness Training Grounds
A long figure stood in the bamboo forests of the training grounds. The person was female, eighteen years old, curvaceous, her shoulder-length hair (which she had recently cut), the color of ginger, was tied into a loose ponytail. Instead of her usual blue combat dress, she was wearing instead a modified black ninja uniform (similar to what Ayane wore in the Ninja Gaiden game). Two kunai were strapped to her right leg and her tanto was behind her back in its usual position.
It has been seven months since the destruction of the DOATEC's Tritower. Since then, Kasumi had vanished into thin air. For seven months, Kasumi had been in America, far from the assassination squads from her former clan. Finding peace in the Hawaiian Islands, she could have stayed there in exile, but at peace. Even she knew that it couldn't last, so after a couple of days of playing the tourist, Kasumi made her decision.
She was going to stop running.
Kasumi then began to train. Gone was the meek little kunoichi who had ran away to avenge her brother, but a battle-hardened martial artist, proficient in the arts of Ninjitsu. As she trained, she became more open to learning several more styles. Remembering that her brother was also a black belt in Karate, Kasumi approached a karate dojo. It turned out that the owner was a friend of Hitomi's family and had offered to train her.
Within five months, Kasumi had gained her black belt in the Kyokushin discipline of karate, incorporating it into her Ninjitsu. But she wasn't finished.
Upon returning to Japan, she stayed in the Hokkaido region. While searching through Raidou's old training grounds, she came across several scrolls. One was the scrolls pertaining to the Hajinmon fighting style, and the last was the Skill Copy technique, the same one that Raidou used to steal the Sky Torn Blast.
It took Kasumi several days to master the Skill Copy technique. Once she did that, Kasumi began to study the Hajinmon scrolls, particulary its ninpo techniques, combining it with her Tenshinmon ninpo techniques, something that has never been done before, creating a new style of ninpo.
Now, she was at the training grounds, preparing herself for the final test. Kasumi performed the chant as she summoned her spirit energy (similar as to what Ayane did in her DOA4 ending), which unlike her half-sister's lilac color, Kasumi's was crimson.
Kasumi's training in the Sacred Wilderness, however, didn't go unnoticed. A single ninja scout, from the Hajinmon sect watched from the forests. The ninja, a female named Ageha, immediately recognized the runaway while recording her with a hand-held video recorder.
Before she could do anything however, Kasumi punched the ground. The resulting blast was as if a bomb had went off in the area, knocking the ninja on her ass as the blast wave engulfed her. Fortunately, Kasumi was using a fraction of her power, otherwise she would have been killed as she laid in the tangled mass of splintered and broken bamboo stalks.
Kasumi stood up and surveyed the devastation around her. It was the result she was looking for. She then noticed the unconscious ninja nearby. Upon searching them, she recognized the Hajinmon seal on her swords.
'They didn't waste no time,' Kasumi thought as she walked away. Grabbing her knapsack and slinging it over her shoulder, she mused to herself, "I have made the first move. Now, let's see how my brother will react when he finds out that I have come back."
Turning to the camera, she said only one thing. "I have returned. Come and get me." The way she said it was more of a challenge as she disappeared in a swirl of pink leaves.
The video camera was still recording as Kasumi disappeared.