AN: OK! Finally came around to correcting chap 4. Gosh! Not in a thousand years would I believe this´d take such a hard time correcting.
Roof-jumping:
"No", the expedite shook her head, "you can´t stay at "Miss Nara´s" for free! That´s insane!"
Esme and Hayate had flown to the five-star hotel "Miss Nara", where they´d stood at the reception for half an hour trying to get a svit (or rather Esme had).
"Come on!" Hayate tugged at Esme´s sleeve, "you know she´s right! We can´t stay without paying for ourselves".
"But why?" Esme exclaimed, looking at the expedite as if though she´d escaped from a asylum, "why should it matter to you, when everyone else are paying and furthermore a fat sum of money!"
"Please miss...", the expedite started.
"Come on! Two customers more or less, what does it matter?"
"What if everyone reasoned like you?" the expedite voice raised in pitch, "then nobody would pay!"
"Exactely!" Esme smiled triumphantly, " you should be so glad I´m the only one saying this! And what do you need money for anyway, they´re only pieces of paper?"
"Please!" the expedite exclaimed her lost patience more evident then ever, "you know like every other person your age, that money is the proof off one´s wealth! Would you prefer people stealing and fighting to get what they wanted?"
I think she´d prefer that without hesitation, Hayate thought to himself, remembering the stolen lambhorgini.
"Ok!" Esme gave a loud sigh as she reached for her purse.
She dug inside it for so long, the ninja almost started hoping she had enough money after all. But that hope vanished, the moment Esme picked up a piece off paper, placing it on the disk.
"Ok!" Esme said calmly.
Hayate was speech less as Esme ripped the paper into shreds, counting them in a low voice.
"This is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen pieces off paper", the young girl smiled, "is that enough?"
"This is just...", the expedite starred as at Esme, her face muscles contracting from back held anger, "this is just..."
"Fourteen, I know", Esme shrugged her shoulders, "wait a minut!" she said, ripping each piece in two, "fifteen, sixteen, seventeen..."
"For the last time", the expedite roared, her brown eyes filled with a sudden fierceness, "pay in yen or get out!"
"Yen?", Esme frowned, looking truly surprised, "says who?"
The expedite snorted.
"The major part of the Japanese population off Japan for instance"..
"Why?"
"Ask the Government, the expedite snapped, "because I´ve got more important things to do".
"Ok!" Esme shrugged her shoulders.
Hayate couldn´t believe his eyes as Esme took him by the hand.
"Come on, Hayate, let´s go!" she said as she turned around, walking out of the building.
_._
"Things are not getting any clearer!" Jin Moto shook his head as he got out off the interrogation room.
"This is the strangest case I´ve ever been assigned to", Yugo Tamaka exclaimed, "what´s wrong with these people?"
"I don´t know!" Jin sighed, "all they´re saying is "please don´t take me back to Mugen tenshin". I´ve been interrogating all off them, and they can´t even describe where on earth that Mugen-tenshin is located. And then there is all this talk about Ayane, whoever she is", the younger man let his hands fall to his sides, a frustrated expression on his face, "Please make a try Yugo, I´m out off patience!"
"Ok!" Yugo said, sighing as well, "I´ll do my best!"
As Yugo walked into the interrogation room he was immediately struck by the confused, almost childlike expression of the man sitting by the table. Ken had a pale face, features so fair he almost looked boring. His eyes were large and brown eyes his hair red and wavy, and almost reaching his back.
"So", Yugo said as he sat down, on the seat in front of Ken, "let´s start with the accident on the road. What happened?"
"We attacked the red lambhorgini", Ken said, "but she, the girl stepped out and defended herself! Please, please! We´re the attackers! Ken spoke fast, his eyes filled with desperation, "arrest us! Don´t care about the girl! She´s not the one who´ll have to return to Ayane! You don´t know Ayane she´s..."
"Wow, wow, wow!" Yugo held up his palm, "let´s take things a little bit slower! Why were you attacking the girl in the red lambhorgini?"
"Because Ayane told us to!" Ken exclaimed, "and because she kidnapped our leader. The Mugen Tenshin can´t function without Hayate! Well...", Ken lifted a eyebrow, "it can because Ayane replaces him for now but I don´t want to go back...", he moaned miserably again, "Ayane as leader is..."
"Wait!" Yugo frowned, "did you say the girl kidnapped your leader?"
"Yes! She was in our village. She and that other girl! But she ran away. Ayane said she´s not that important". Ken spoke without pausing to catch his breath.
Yugo put his hands to his temples, all of a sudden, getting a terrible head ache.
"I´m not following you!" he said, "what were the girls doing in your village?"
"I don´t know", Ken shook his head, "no outsider has ever entered Mugen tenshin! And if they do...", Ken moved his hand, over his throat, "you understand?"
Yugo couldn´t really say he did, so he answered with another question.
"Is your village hard to find? "he asked.
"You can´tfind it".
"But how can you find it?" Yugo frowned again.
"Because I belong there. Ayane told me to assassinate that girl!" Ken yelled all of a sudden, "Isn´t that worth being arrested for?" the young man pointed, intense at himself, "I´m a ninja, an assassin!"
Yugo immediately felt his headache growing worse, now regretting leaving his work as buss driver more then ever.
_._
"Ok! Kasumi stopped outside the white, marble building with the three red signs on, "I really hope you´re right".
Fanny took a deep breath as they stepped out off the car.
"Me to", she said.
"Who sent you?" Kasumi looked Fanny in the eyes, "was it Doatec?"
Fanny frowned.
"What are you talking about?" she exclaimed, "and who the hell is Doatec?"
"You´re not a ordinary girl", Kasumi´s voice was resolute as she pointed at the other girl, "that I can tell!"
"I´m definitely not ordinary", Fanny agreed, "I´m the weirdest person there is and I´m proud off it. But however!" she looked at Kasumi with the same resolution, "I am definitely not a assassin!"
"So what are you then?"
"Not who you think!"
As the girls entered the hotel, their eyes were met by an almost temple like sight. A huge and light hall, a blue velvet mat on the floor and a scent of lotus that was almost overwhelming. But the expedite however looked everything but peaceful.
"What do you want?" she snapped, looking at the girls as if though she was about to eat them alive, "just so you know we only take yen!
Fanny and Kasumi exchanged one perplexed look.
"It´s okey", Kasumi said, "we aren´t going to stay here tonight. We´re only looking for some friends staying here".
"Do you have any suit booked under the name Esme Levi?" Fanny asked.
The expedite frowned, looking at the list in front of her.
"No!" she said, "we don´t have Esme Levi here".
"How about Hayate Otori?" Kasumi asked.
The expedite shook her head.
"In any case", Kasumi said, "have you had any people here, asking for a suit they couldn´t afford?"
"Yes", the woman didn´t look any happier, "but I really hope they weren´t friends of yours, because then I know what I´ve got to expect from you. Never seen anything like it!" she muttered.
"What did they look like?" Fanny said tensed.
"It was a girl and young man", the woman said thoughtfully, "he was around 180 cm tall, and his hair was shoulders length auburn, rather unusual for a Japanese. She had a more european appearance though! She was about 155 cm tall, dark hair and blue eyes. She tried to pay me with ripped up pappers! the woman exclaimed again, "papers! I really hope for your sake, you girls aren´t friends with these two", the woman shook her head, a resigned expression on her face.
Fanny and Kasumi exchanged another glance. Papers?
"Anyway", the woman muttered, "they went out and if I were you I wouldn´t follow them".
"Thanks for your time", Kasumi said, "we´ll find them somewhere!" she grabbed Fanny by the wrist, leading her out off the hotel.
_._
"Damn!" Fanny exclaimed as they came out off the hotel, "damn, damn, damn! If we´ve just arrived one minute earlier..."
"Relax!" Kasumi grabbed her lightly, by the shoulders, "they were here witch means we´re on the right track!"
"But they move in supernatural speed..."
"Trust me!" Kasumi said calmly, "if she´s really read the scroll she´s not going to settle with just walking into the hotel! She´s going to stay there! Even if she has to..."
Suddenly Fanny felt Kasumis grip around her harden, and the second after, the cold air, surrounding her.
_._
"My gooooooood!" Fanny exclaimed, nearly loosing balance from the shock.
But Kasumi grabbed her by the waist, pulling her up towards safe ground.
"Damn!" Fanny yelled, "where on earth have you taken us now?"
She looked ahead off her seeing cars, houses and people, all in miniature shape. As she looked down at her feet, she noticed her location couldn´t precisely be referred to as "safe ground" .
"No!" Fanny exclaimed as she starred at the white roof of "Miss Nara´s", "you don´t mean that you believe someone´d seriously go up here? One would have to be crazy to..."
"Exactly", Kasumi gave a meaningful frown.
"Hello, Fanny!"
The young girl turned around immediately when hearing the familiar voice.
"Long time no see!" Esme grinned broadly, "nice seeing you Fanny and... " she looked at Kasumi with a thoughtful look on her face, "carrot head!"
"What!" Kasumi starred wide eyed at Esme.
Esme gave a smirk as she faced the other girl with her arms crossed.
"I was referring to your hair, carrot head!" the tone of her voice had a uncharacteristic superiority to it.
The ninja girl who was usually calm and peaceful turned high red and glared at the girl in front off her.
"I really hope for your sake this is not your friend", she said to Fanny, "because that girl really tests my patience".
"Kasumi!"
Fanny and Kasumi turned around, seeing a Hayate who looked as if though he was about to be thrown into a pool of hungry piranhas.
"Please take me out off here!" he whined, "she drives like a madwoman, tries to pay the hotel with papers and now she´s going to make me sleep on the roof!"
"Hayate!" Kasumi exclaimed, starring as entranced at her brother.
"What´s the matter carrot head?" Esme said, "swallowed your tongue?"
"If you hadn´t practically inhaled that rubbish on the scroll", Kasumi said, "I´d swear I´d teach you manners!"
"I´d swear I´d teach you manners", Sabina repeated in a whiny voice, "jesus christ, Fanny!" Esme rolled eyes as she turned around, facing her friend, "Is this the kind of people you hang out with nowadays?"
"Esme! Fanny exclaimed, "stop your insults and be reasonable about this! One can´t simply steal people away from their villages!"
"One can´t simply steal people away from their villages", Esme imitated, making a silly face, "god! One could think you two were cloned!"
"Bring Hayate back to his village!" Fanny commanded, "if you think about it you know I´m right. Taking someone away against their will is a crime!"
"But I don´t want to think", Esme shrugged her shoulders.
"Come on! You know as well as I do that some actions are criminal. Sooner or later you will be arrested or worse, assassinated by the assassins off the mugen tenshin-clan".
"I won´t", Esme sang, "because they can´t catch me".
"Yes they can!" Hayate suddenly yelled, "and they will sooner or later!"
"Nope!" Esme said calmly, "or what do you think carrot head?" she looked at Kasumi.
"That´s just about enough", Kasumi hissed.
"Aha!" Esme made a exaggerated pose, grinning at the ninja girl, "and what are you gonna do about it?"
"Just wait!" Kasumi closed her fists.
"Okey", Esme said, "you two can take the guy home to his village".
"Good decision", Fanny nodded, "I knew you would..."
"If you can caaaaaatch him!" all of a sudden Esme lifted Hayate from the ground, throwing him high over the girls heads.
"Heeeeelp!" Hayate yelled as he flew threw the air.
"What are you doing you...! Kasumi exclaimed.
"You´re killing him!" Fanny yelled (one instant afraid Hayate was going to fall off the roof).
But Esme moved in a speed that was impossible, catching for the human eye, catching the ninja in her arms.
"See?" she smiled triumphantly, "I´m impressive".
"Let me go!" Hayate screamed.
"Let go off my brother!" Kasumi exclaimed, "you sadistic, self satisfied..."
"Look! He can fly!" Esme threw Hayate over the girls heads again, catching him as easily as the last time.
"Let him go, Esme!" Fanny exclaimed, "you´re scarring him".
"Don´t worry about it! He´ll get used to it!" Esme said as she threw Hayate again.
Fanny and Kasumi both made a attempt to catch him, but Esme dived in between the girls and the ninja, catching him again.
"Why don´t you girls go home and take a rest?" she said, "there is about to be some nice programs on TV this evening".
"You sick, sick person!" Kasumi yelled, "go... go... go back to Europe!" seeing as Kasumi didn´t offend people often, she wasn´t very good at coming up with offensive things to say.
"Catch him if you can, catch him if you can!" Esme sang flying in between the girls, over their heads, skillfully avoiding their grips as well as Kasumis furious punches.
"Stop it Esme!" Fanny called out, "this is childish!"
"What?" Esme said camly, "getting dizzy, Fanny? So... Hayate´s proved he can fly. Can you?"
Without a single warning Esme leapt, landing on the roof beside the hotel.
"What do you say girls?" she said, "think you can handle it?"
Without hesitating a second Kasumi followed her example, but just when her feet hit the other roof Esme took off again, standing on the roof of Miss Nara´s again.
"Getting a good exercise, carrot head!" Esme turned her head, looking at Kasumi.
"Will you stop calling me that!" Kasumi called out, leaping again.
"Okey!" Esme giggled, leaping to the other side, "carrot head!"
Esme and Kasumi leapt several times, moving so fast Fanny got dizzy just looking at them. At last Esme stopped in the middle off the house, standing in the empty air.
"The air is free!" she said triumphantly, moving her feet back and forth as if though she was dancing some kind off kozack dance.
"You are just to..", once again Kasumi´s lack of experience in offensive talking, stopped her from being as rude as she truly wanted to be.
"What?" Esme looked at the Fanny and Kasumi, pretending to be surprised, "can´t keep up! Don´t beat yourselves up about it!" Esme made a theatrical gesture, "you were terrific. But there is terrific and there is me! So sorry! "she shrugged her shoulders, carelessly, "but terrific just wasn´t good enough today! "
After that was said Esme took off with Hayate in her arms, leaving the girls sight.
_._
"I hate your friend!" Kasumi muttered.
The girls had now teleported down from the roof, walking away from the hotel.
"Me to!" Fanny said.
"She gave me a headache", Kasumi said, "and no opponent since... well... Jann Lee has ever done that to me".
"Who´s Jann Lee?"
"Do you know about the "Dead or alive tournament" ?" Kasumi said.
"No!"
"Never mind" Anyway! We can´t just let your friend go, after witnessing that show! My apartment is to far back so I guess we have to check in at a hotel tonight".
"Okey", Fanny said thoughtfully, "but do you know any that is not way to expensive?"
"Yes...", Kasumi frowned, "there are some".
They walked in silence for a long time before Kasumi stopped, staying outside a building that to say the least wasn´t luxurious.
"Are you kidding me?" Fanny exclaimed, looking perplexed at the huge, grey house with only red spots left after it´s original paint and clumsy graffiti all over. The green signs said "Club Goku" and outside were men in all ages, giving the girls grins that appeared to be everything but friendly.
"Unfortunately I´m not!" Kasumi said, "it´s all we can afford".
Most off the men wore baggy pants and jackets, and to Fanny they looked as if though they´d been stepping out of a hip hop movie on MTV.
"Is there really not a chance we´ll find anything else?" Fanny said, "not even a slight... little chance?"
She saw one off the men shooting a glance at her short skirt, and whispering something to the man next to him, both giving a short laughter. On instinct Fanny knitted her fists, thinking about the best place to hit.
"Not even a slight", Kasumi confirmed, "I´m sorry!"
They opened the door, walking past the starring men and their malevolent grins, finding the interior contained even more graffiti, even more starring men in sloppy clothes, and furthermore floors filled with beer spots. The man behind the disk was muscular and wore a armless t-shirt, that revealed all his many tattoos.
"What do you want?" the expression in his eyes was harsh, as well as his voice was harsh.
"A place to sleep", Kasumi looked the man into the eyes, not seeming the least repelled.
"I´m sorry!" the man raised a eyebrow, "but do you girls even know what kind of place this is?"
"I don´t care!" Kasumi said, "do you have any free rooms?"
The man was quiet for a while, some off the men in the room, giving each other significant looks.
"Ok!" the expedite said, "we have one! But it is room 23 on the sixth floor and it gets uhm...", the man frowned, "pretty noisy up there at times".
"It´s okey", Kasumi smiled, "I´m sure we can handle it!"
"Just so you know!" the man frowned.
"I know!" Kasumi handed over the money, "we´ll just stay the night!"
"Oh!" the man starred openmouthed at her, handing over the room key.
_._
"What´s taking them so long?" Ayane snarled, "what part off stopping her, bringing her and Hayate back is hard? And my bloody sister! They are ten experienced assassins and they still can´t finish her off!"
"Be patient my lady they´re coming!" Takeo said.
The two ninjas were standing outside the temple, impatiently waiting for the assassins to return.
"If they were to come!" Ayane muttered, "they´d shown up a long time ago!"
It went silent for a while.
"I wonder whom they were", the lilac haired girl said after a while, "these two girls! How on earth did they get here?
"Yes", Takeo nodded, "one isn´t supposed to get here unless one has it in ones blood".
"No! "Ayane shook her head, "it must be a mistake! These two girls weren´t even japanese. That I can tell!"
"They could be part off the Hayabusa clan", Takeo said thoughtfully.
"Absolutely not!" Ayane protested angrily, "they were loud and noisy, that girl in the mini skirt... she was talking jibbrish as she ran. If they have ninja blood in their veins I am the queen of Japan. Besides! We know Ryu is the only survivor off the Hayabusa clan".
"No need to be upset about it! I´m only considering...
"If that stupid dark blond was a ninja, I´m the founder off Mitsubishi", Ayane snorted.
"But you didn´t catch her, did you?"
Suddenly the lilac haired girls face turned high red and she knitted her fists, making even the experienced Takeo backing a few paces.
"If I find her she´s dead", Ayane hissed, "it was a mistake letting her go! But I will find both my brothers abductor and my sister and punish them. One at the time! Starting tomorrow", Ayane grabbed a shuriken aiming at at a small, black spot on the wall, hitting it with exact precision.
_._
"Hm!" Kasumi said, looking at the bed again.
Fanny and Kasumi had been standing at the same spot for almost ten minutes, considering the options. They´d walked five stairs that´d seemed to break more and more with every step they took (the hotel didn´t even have a elevator) and walked threw a corridor so dark, they´d had problem seeing the numbers on the doors (Fanny guessed they couldn´t afford lamps either). Now they were finally safe inside their room (or... well as safe as one could be in a hotel in the middle off the worst slum off Tokyo), standing in front off the bed.
"No way on earth they´ve ever checked on this mattress!" Fanny frowned.
"I suppose not!" Kasumi frowned.
Looking at the bed witch seemed to have been badly assaulted by termites, considering the holes in the wood and the spawns lying spread over the floor, and the mattress, wet and filled with holes from a time they could only imagine, the girls both had the same thought.
"Maybe the roof wouldn´t have been that bad after all", Kasumi said.
"At least there aren´t lot´s off men up there, looking as if they´d wanted to eat us alive", Fanny raised an eyebrow.
"Don´t worry about them", Kasumi said calmingly, "they aren´t as tough as they look! Believe me!"
"Not for a ninja maybe!" Fanny gave the redhead a significant look.
"But what are you then if you´re not a ninja? You still haven´t told me who you are".
"I believe I just did! You just didn´t belive it!" Fanny said calmly, "and by the way! How many european ninja´s have you seen?"
"You´d be surprised", Kasumi frowned, "now tell me, what are you really doing here?" Kasumi fixed Fanny with her eyes.
As they stood in silence, observing one another Fanny once again couldn´t help thinking Kasumi was "cute" as the waitress´d said. Just to bad she´s a ex-assassin, and to bad she seems to believe I am a assassin sent out to kill her.
Beautiful girl, Kasumi thought as she tried to read the dark blond girls face, to bad I have to expect every beautiful girl coming my way to be hired to kill me". But yet the european made a way to honest impression for Kasumi to fully believe in that theory. But how on earth did she enter the village then? Kasumi grew more and more puzzled with every second.
"I´m here to save my friend from your psychotic sister", Fanny said, her eyes shooting fire, "and then go back home to Sweden where I belong! That´s about all you need to know!"
Kasumi shook her head.
"There is something here that you´re not telling me", she said, "no normal person could ever teleport or find their way to "mugen tenshin" on their own".
"Maybe you just have to accept I´m not normal then", Fanny said, arms crossed over her chest, "the only reason I managed in getting there was because I copied your friend Takeo´s gestures".
"An ordinary person can copy them all they want, but they won´t teleport for that".
"Please! Believe me!" Fanny exclaimed, "all I want to do is get some sleep!"
It turned quiet as Fanny laid down on the bed, trying to forget the fact it´d probably been gorged on by both moths and rats. She turned to the side, noticing that it was even worse then laying on her back. Fanny moved back and forth for a good five minutes before realizing sleeping was not a option at the time, and ended up starring at the ceiling.
"That´s all I want to!" Kasumi said all of a sudden, "sleep!"
She to laid down in the bed beside Fanny witch wasn´t easy, considering how slim it was. The girls had to lay on their sides, dead still not to push the each other out.
"I´m sorry about all this", Kasumi said, "I didn´t mean to call you untruthful, but when one leads a life like mine one has to question everyone, even ones friends. I don´t think that you´re a assassin it´s just that I... I mean...", the red haired girl had a hard time finding the right words, "people like you are..."
"What do you mean "people like me"`?"
But Kasumi didn´t have time finishing the sentence, because a loud noise was heard from the other sound of the wall.
"Oooooooooh yes!" a man´s voice yelled.
"Oooooooooh!" a woman´s voice moaned, "take me, take me, take me!"
Okey, Fanny frowned, so there are women other then us staying at the hotel.
"Harder!" the women screamed.
"Yes!" the man yelled, "who´s a bad girl? Who´s a bad girl?"
I don´t want to know, Kasumi thought nauseous.
Fanny putted her pillow (despite the fact it probabley hadn´t been washed for years) over her head, trying hard to ignore the unpleasant noises.
"Aaaaaaaaaah!" the woman moaned.
"Yeah, you like it rough! Don´t you?"
"Oooooooooooh!"
The girls heard the sound off wood creaking, as the man and the womans voices grew louder.
"Pleeeeeeease!"
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
"What the hell is this?"Fanny exclaimed, "this is just.."
"Groose!" Kasumi crinkled her nose.
"Oh, yes! Oh yes! Be my bad boy! Be my bad boy!" the woman called out.
"Oooooooh!"
Finally Kasumi rose from the bed. Furious at being robbed off her sleep, she focused all her ki into her fist, smashing her fist into the wall. The ninja girl had just meant to silence the "happy couple" but since the walls in this hotel were like everything else..., badly checked out, they couldn´t quit handle the red haired fighters sharp swings.
"Oh no!" Kasumi starred as the wall split up where her fist´d hit, breaking up in a huge crack.
"Oh shit!" Fanny exclaimed, seeing the crack grow bigger and bigger and finally break into a big hole.
The man and the woman on the other side, lied naked in their bed, starring mute at the young girls.
"Hello!" Fanny and Kasumi said at the same time, pressing a smile to their lips.
AN: So... I fixed Kasumi´s character a bit so that well... it´s a slight bit closer to the original. But still... I can´t believe I wrote something like this... one would have thought I was 12, lol. But anywasy! I was 19, lol and I say as I said back then if you have anything to say, good or bad well... say it! That is as long as it´s constructive, of course. In other words NO FLAMERS!
As for any chap after this... well, read at your own risk *whispers* I haven´t got around to correct them. Well... tell me what I should improve D:)
