Kasumi and Hitomi – Your Unrequited Lover's Sister

Me: You know, even though Kasumi and Hitomi are so ... connected, Team Ninja has NEVER managed to put them together in a single cutscene or whatever. I mean, Kasumi is Hitomi's unrequited lover's sister! And besides, remember in DOA:D when thought Ayane was Kasumi?

These two really need to meet. How the hell can they NOT know each other? Oh, and CCKins, if you're possibly reading this, I hope you don't mind that the general setting of this is similar to Hitomi Assasin just minus the whole assasination thing and other stuff.

This story is basically how Hitomi and Kasumi first met. Basically. That, and I just felt like writing this since I needed to take a quick breather from DOAX3: RTP. Chapter 3 is coming soon for that!

Sometime after the third Dead or Alive tournament ...

Hitomi was finally free. After all those years, Hitomi had finally bested her father at 18 years of age. Conveniently matching up with the start of her adulthood, actually. But after defeating her father, she had been, at last, allowed to leave home and live on her very own. Of course, frequent visits back home were still required!

With a little help from her father, Hitomi rented a very lovely apartment in the north side of the city, close to her high school, where she was in her final year of schooling. But ... only after a couple months or so, Hitomi's father was struck with a rather nasty illness.

The German girl became very busy, juggling her hectic school life, taking care of her father, and living on her own. Which was evidently quite hard. Some days, Hitomi's father needed her to take over instructing at the dojo, which proved difficult for the young woman. Business seemed to get worse and worse, what with the global financial crisis, and the increasing lack of physical exercise by most people.

Hitomi sighed. As much as she'd try to remain positive, sometimes it was just a bit hard.

One day, after meeting with Hayate and defeating him in battle, Kasumi had travelled overseas for a while in order to escape for a while. After all, Hayate could probably make up some cover story, right? And after all, they were fairly ruffled by Genra's treason, not to mention needing to promote Ayane to leader of the Hajinmon side of the clan.

Apparently, Kasumi had got on board a flight to ... Germany? What kind of place was that? Kasumi simply had no idea. What she did know was that she loved it when she was able to travel abroad, and see new things, and new people. True, she was completely and utterly dumbfounded at every alien concept that had smacked her right in the face, but still, she was learning. It was a joy learning about new things, new places. It was also a good break from running.

Well, at least, it WAS. Somehow ... the ninjas had caught onto Kasumi's trail ... not sure how, but well, they're ninjas. They're meant to know.

Anyway, Kasumi's ride to Germany wasn't exactly pleasant. You know how I say she "got on board a flight?" That kinda meant that she stowed away on a flight. And where does a stowaway go? The cargo hold. Normally, Kasumi would try to gain access to the cabin ... and hopefully first class, but unfortunately, all the seats were taken. And sitting on the aisle didn't get you very far either. Ninpo did help conceal her by reflecting light differently (to put it simply; invisible) but it didn't make her like a ghost. Anyway, it was a rough ride.

In any case, Kasumi managed to get to Germany, and wore a rather nice outfit; a red flower print shirt that was a little on the long side, along with some light blue shorts, with brown sandals. The flat, ungirly, and more functional variety. Oh, and just for a bit, Kasumi also let her hair down. Sure, her outfit made her stand out like a pimple on a posterior, but she usually wore this outfit when she was confident no one was pursuing her. After all, it did look quite nice ... right?

Yeah, anyway, Kasumi didn't really have much to do so she wandered around for a while. And then she chanced upon a rather charming city, the name in which Kasumi had no idea how to pronounce.

But only after half an hour in there, Kasumi felt a presence. Her ninja senses were incredibly sharp, and her survival as a nukenin only further improved that, and she could tell that someone was watching her. But because she was able to detect them so easily, it was likely that they weren't much of a threat, probably a lesser ninja. Kasumi smiled. Even if they were on different sides, Hayate still tried to be easy on his sister.

Kasumi quickly merged with an oncoming crowd of people and was able to lose her pursuer. The kunoichi then fled to somewhere nice and quiet ... but out of the blue, shurikens came flying out from up above, and Kasumi quickly dodged them.

How could she be this stupid! The lesser ninja was probably a trap! She then had a sudden change in mind. Hayate was such a meanie.

But Kasumi didn't have time to think about that. She quickly sped into another alley, running, dashing, jumping, anything to flee. Her pursuers were probably on the rooftops, and they had the advantage. But Kasumi was fast, and clever, and with a little luck, could easily evade them.

After running for at least 10 minutes, Kasumi found no other choice but to hide between a couple of people, using ninpo to conceal herself, and followed the people, entering some kind of building. Funny, because she swore that while she hid herself, she read some kanji on a sign. Kanji ... in Germany? That wasn't right. Oh well, she could find out while she went in.

The inside of the building was fairly large and airy, with beams of light protruding up from above, decorated with wooden pillars and beams all across the room. The floor was wooden, but the walls were a drab grey, made of brick. A lone girl, not much older than Kasumi herself, stood at the end of the hall, wearing a karate gi with a black belt.

"OSU!" cried the people at the entrance. Kasumi ... was partially familiar ... and partially not. But she just kept on going. She saw that most people headed off to some room in the back, but Kasumi was pretty sure that was because they had some affiliation with the place; she did see a 12 year old boy with his mother approaching the girl, the latter whom asked to join the dojo.

Kasumi stood near the entrance, watching them and planning out her next action. This was the perfect cover. She was going to join a karate dojo.