Author's note: I wanted to try write something a little darker than my previous stories.

Disclaimer: I dot not own any of the characters. All characters belong to Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja

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~Nightmare~

I struggled to open my eyes. My eyelids felt heavy, I forced my eyes to open to try to look at my surrounding, but they only fell shot again. I could feel movements, as if someone was carrying me and I heard voices, weak but I knew one voice very well.

"Take her to the cell and tie her up. I don't want her dead just yet."

"Brother…" I muttered weakly. My entire body felt numb, everything was fuzzy, my eyes grew heavier and my visions became blurrier. I tried to recall what I did last…how they had managed to capture me. The harder I tried the more my brain pulsed. Then it was complete silence as I drifted back into darkness.

I woke up on a cold rock floor. My hands were tied tightly with rope. I didn't know how long I've been out of it and my head was spinning continuously. I put a little force into getting out of the rope, but it wasn't much use. I could hear no sound around me. I was in a dark cell. The only light was the sunlight that barely shone in through the little window. Tears ran down my delicate cheek, feeling hopeless. Did he abandon me here to die?

Why brother…how could you be so merciless? I did it for you…

I wanted to scream for help, though I doubt that anyone would hear me. Now I wished I hadn't pushed away the only person always came to my aid. Hayabusa…I thought of our last conversation. I didn't remember how it all began but he confessed his feelings for me. After months of rejection to try to convince men to live with him, he finally gave up. I told him that I didn't want to be a burden nor put him through this any longer and that he should just move on. He refused, that's when I yelled at him and we began to argue. Oh, I've said some terrible things and now he's gone.

Suddenly, footsteps approached the cell. For a moment, I felt relief as I thought that someone had come to help me, but I was mistaken. It's him…and he wasn't alone, I could hear more of them, maybe two or three more.

Then I thought, this is it…this was how it will end for me. I raised my head up to force myself to look at him as he stood in front of me glaring at me with a cold glare.

"Hayate…"

The man I used to look up to, the one I could count on to protect me, someone I risked my life for…and what do I get in return? It was all beginning to make sense. If I hadn't left to avenge him, I would never know the true color of my brother.

"Why?!" I screamed at him as tears kept pouring from my helpless eyes.

His face was blank, my voice raised no reaction in him. He just stared at me. His eyes, looked so differently, so cold. Who was this person? What had he done to my brother? Then he began laughing, his laugh sent chills to my spine.

"Do you feel powerful now Hayate? Power has changed you. You are not the Hayate that I once knew, he would never…my brother would never have done this to me!" My trembling lips held disgust. Then blood trailed down my lips when I realized he had slapped me hard across my face. It happened so quickly. My cheek was burning like hot lava and I was gasping for air in shock.

He rose back up, crossed his arms over his chest while staring down at me with those fiery poisonous eyes of his. I thought my mind was playing trick on me, I struggled to comprehend, he couldn't be my brother…

"You did this to yourself, Kasumi. You turned your back on our village." He said darkly. His voice was so calm, an absolute calmness with a promise of swift violence to come. His words were like gasoline that fueled the fire that burned inside me. My fist clenched, burning rage hissed through my body like deadly poison.

I refused to give up so easily, just surrender myself to them. My life was more precious than that. So, I decided to fight back and forced myself up and send a deadly kick to Hayate's mid-section sending him flying across the cell. In surprised, his men quickly reacted, grabbed me hard by my arms, and forced me back to my knees but Hayate ordered them to stop. They drew back a few steps. He walked back towards me, still maintaining his calmness.

"I was going to take it easy you Kasumi. But after that…"

"You are dead to me Hayate. I will never forgive you." My eyes filled with rage.

Hayate smirked in amusement. "I think I can live with that."

He shifted his gaze to his three men. "You know what to do." Hayate then went to stand outside of the cell to watch.

With my hands tied so tightly, there wasn't much I could do, and my hands were beginning to feel numb. They had taken away all my weapons as well. I was thinking of every solution possible and my eyes narrowed to the cell door. They didn't lock it…good,I thought. But how to get out was an even trickier question. Even if I were to manage getting out somehow, were there more of them outside guarding the place?

One of them drew out a whip and began whipping me without any warning. Intense pain went through my whole body. It was unbearable, and I felt like I was going to die at that moment…unless I find a way to stop it, I will die. Then I saw blood streamed down my arms, my eyes froze, locked onto the blood. I gulped in fear when pain intensified…

A smirk of pleasure was on his lips as he watched me receiving pain. I couldn't call him my brother as he didn't deserve to be called one anymore. I closed my eyes and let my mind drifted into another place, a much happier place with him. Hayabusa…I loved him too, and I wished I had told him that, I wished I could see him again. Tears flooded my helpless eyes.

Fight, Kasumi! My inner voice screamed.

I wanted to fight but my body was weakening every second. If I could only snatch one of their kunai off their thigh, but with Hayate paying closely attention, it might not be a good idea. My teeth clenched tightly in frustration. What should I do…

"Master Hayate!" A shinobi ran inside and called after him in distress.

"What is it?" He responded without removing his eyes off me.

"We need you outside."

"Can't you see that I'm busy?"

"This is urgent, Master."

Hayate closed his eyes for a second while sighing in pure annoyance.

"I guess I wouldn't be here to watch you die, sis."

I felt sick within me just listening to his merciless voice. "Go to hell…" I blurted in my weak voice.

He smiled as he marched back towards me. They paused when he approached. He then leaned lowered closer and placed a quick kiss on my forehead. I flinched, but his hand clutched my head so tightly forcing my head to automatically draw closer to him.

"Sweet dream, Kasumi." He rose and walked out, but he paused and turned back around.

"End her." Then continued on walking without looking back.