Author's note~
Gdi. I don't even know if I should continue this fanfic anymore... /rolls
Thank you so much for reading and reviewing! Please, please, please! Review for me! Onegaii? ;7;
Disclaimer; I do not own GI Joe and its characters. I only own my oc, some villains and the story~
'Thump! Thump! Thump!' Yuu's heartbeat rammed into her chest violently as the area around them grew silent. She stared at his eyes and looked away as she slowly backed away from him but Storm Shadow tightened his grip around her shoulders which caused her to wince. She struggled, wanting to get out from his grip but he was far more stronger than her.
She was nervous. She didn't know that she would bump into this man again after twelve years. Twelve years after leaving the Arashikage clan with her father draging her away without saying any goodbyes. Twelve years after she developed a crush to a certain ninja-boy. She looked down to the wooden floor finding it interesting as she stared at it, she didn't know what to do. Should she answer is question or not?
Storm Shadow looked at her angrily, his patience running thinly as he waited for her to reply. "Answer me. Don't tell me you forgot how to talk." He said harshly.
She tensed at the harshness of his voice and said, "W-well... Y-you see-" her words were cut off as the door ahead of them opened, revealing a red head looking at her worriedly.
"Yukiko! What are you doing getting out of bed?!" Scarlett shouted as she walked towards them, closely followed by a black figure behind her. "Your wound on your leg might open again!"
Yuu flinched at the sound of her real name being shouted, "Scarlett! How many times have I told you not to call me by my real name?!" She said angrily as she glared at her and looked over at the black figure behind her, she studied the black figure, noting that he had the Arashikage clan's symbol imprinted on his shoulders.
"Fuck." She whispered as she felt the gaze of the black figure on her through is visor. She was nervous again from the fact that two of the Arashikage clan members were here, she silently prayed and hoped that Scarlett won't say her full name.
"What? It's not like someone can hear your name here," Scarlett said as she crossed her arms over her chest. "Yukiko Tachibana, go back to your room right now and rest!"
She winced as Scarlett said her full name, the air around them tensed. 'Fuck! Fuck! Fuuucck! Kuso! Scarlett! Why did you have to do that?!' Yukiko thought as she facepalmed. Oh she was definitely fucked now, 'Why am I unlucky today?! Why is Unmei turning against me?!'
Surprise was written all over Storm Shadow's face as looked at her, seeing her face palming after Scarlett said her real name. He spun her around to face him once more, as his expression changed from surprise to anger. "Your real name is Yukiko Tachibana?!" He asked, almost shouting at her face.
"H-haii! Err... I mean y-yes!" She said, her voice sounding nervous as she held up her hands in defense.
Scarlett looked over at them, confused about Storm Shadow's outburst and Yukiko's nervousness as she felt the tension between them. She also noticed that Snake Eyes stiffened behind her as his hands clenched into a fist, "Okay, what is wrong here and what's with the tension?" she asked.
"It's not of your business, Scarlett." Storm Shadow responded to her harshly as he dragged Yukiko back to her room.
She watched his and Yuu's retreating form and began to follow them to her room but she felt a hand on her shoulder, she turned around to see Snake Eyes signing to her. "Don't worry, Tommy wouldn't hurt her. Besides, we used to be childhood friends with Yukiko back then."
"Childhood friends?" She asked, looking at him questionably.
"I'll explain it to you later, Scarlett." He signed back as he walked to the direction of Yuu's room.
Storm Shadow continued to drag her into her room despite her protest, with Snake Eyes following them closely behind. They entered her room in silence and locked the door with a soft 'Click'. Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow stared at the woman in front of them, neither of them wanting to say a word.
Silence filled around the small room, making Yuu clench her throat to prevent her from talking. She felt the guilt building up in her stomach as she looked down the wooden floor nervously to avoid their stares.
"Why didn't you tell us your real name?!" Storm Shadow spoke, his tone sounding hurt. "You just left us twelve years ago without saying any goodbyes."
"Because..." she trailed off, looking at Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes then back at the wooder floor. "L-let's just leave it like that okay? The truth is out, I'm sorry for not saying anything."
She walked away towards the door of her room to get out but Storm Shadow immediately grabbed her left arm. "Wait, you're hiding something." He said as he looked at her suspiciously.
"Ow!" She exclaimed as she felt the pressure in her left arm. "So what if I am?! Are you my boss for me to tell you?! Pervert! Don't touch me!"
Snake Eyes just stood there, watching the two quarrel. He recalled the times where both of them used to fight in their childhood days.
Flashback!
A young black haired girl appeared in the gardens of the Arashikage compound, running quietly as she ran past a huge tree, giggling quietly as she hid under the bush of the said tree.
"Tommy can't find me now!" She said as she giggled.
"Three! Two! One! Read or not! Here I come, Yukiko and Snake Eyes!" A young Tomisaburo shouted as he ran around the garden looking for them both.
Snake Eyes quietly sat in the branch of the huge tree as he saw Yukiko hide under a bush infront of him, he gave out a small smile as he saw her giggled. He looked around for Tommy, noticing that he was getting nearer into their hiding place. Slowly, he hid himself in the leaves of the tree as Tommy stood infront fo the tree.
"Yukiko! Snake Eyes!" Tommy shouted as he looked around, he noticed that there was a white cloth sticking out in the bush. Smirking to himself, he approached it carefully and yanked the cloth out of the bush revealing Yukiko.
"Ow! No fair! Tommy!" She said as she yanked her piece of cloth from his hands.
"Yes fair!" He said back as he took a step closer to her, resting his hands on his waist. "Now you have to help me find the gaijin and do the chores for me!"
"Noooo!" She said as she mimicked his pose, "You only told me that we're gonna do the chores together!"
"Yes I did!" He answered back.
"No you didn't!" She answered, pouting.
"Yes I did! Yukiko!" He shouted.
And the two continued to fight as Snake Eyes watched quietly from he tree, laughing as he saw Storm Shadow blushed when Yukiko pouted. He recalled a few days ago, Tommy suddenly barged into his room in the middle of the night to him up saying that they needed to talk. And in that night, Tommy told him that he developed a small crush towards their friend.
"You must never tell anyone, okay?" Little Tommy said in a serious tone as he raised his little finger infront of him.
He looked at him and gave out a nod, curling his pinky finger to his as they promised.
End of flashback!
After recalling his old memories, he slowly backed away towards the door without the two of them noticing and slid outside, leaving them both.
Storm Shadow looked at her surprised and said, "Look here small-chested girl, I don't plan on doing that stuff with you got it? You're not even my type!"
He flinched at his last statement, realizing what he had said. Of course he still had small feelings for his childhood friend, she was his first crush that he couldn't forget no matter how many women he slept with.
She felt hurt. Back when she was a kid, she developed a small crush towards the ninja boy, always admiring him every time she sees him training. Even until now she still had small feelings for him that she couldn't forget even if she just met him again today. Looking down, she withdraws her arm from his grasp and continued to walk towards the door.
"Okay, I went a little overboard, gomenasai.." Tommy said as he approached her slowly.
"A little?!" She answered back, stopping from her tracks and looked at him.
Snake eyes entered the room once again with Scarlett following closely behind, noticing that the two are still fighting. He sighed and signed "Now, now, now. Stop the lover's quarrell."
Yukiko blushed as she read Snake Eye's sign. Storm looked at him and said, "What are you talking abo-" His words were cut off as he noticed Yukiko staying quiet, looking over he saw a glimpse of her slightly red ears and he looked at her smugly.
She frowns and slapped him at his cheek. "What was that for?!"
Storm Shadow raised his hand to touch his cheek, "Ow. But you like it." He said in a mocking tone as he raised his eyebrow and smiled.
"B-baka!" She answered back, still blushing as she walked past him and sat on her bed.
Snake Eyes noticed his brother smiling happily as he watched her sit on the bed. 'He still likes her.' he thought as he gave out a small smile while Scarlett just stood there watching the scene in front of her.
"Well that escalated quickly." She said as she walked towards Yukiko's bed and sat right beside her.
Yukiko gestured the two of them to come forward as she sighs heavily, "Look, I'll only give out a small summary on what happened after I left in the compound up until now."
Both of the Arashikage ninjas walked closer and stood still, listening to her as she talked.
"My father realized one day that we had to go since the killer of our clan manage to enter the Arashikage compound without getting noticed one night... So he woke me up in the middle of my sleep and dragged me away without saying any goodbyes to you." She said as she looked at the both of them
"But that is impossible, no one can easily infiltrate the compound without the others noticing." Storm Shadow said in disbelief.
"That's what my dad thought too, that's why he left a note about it and left it in Hard Master's room before leaving." She said as she rested her hands on her lap and looked at them. "After that, we stayed in the outskirts of town without anyone knowing. But then one day my dad left to gather information about the killer's identity. He went back home, bloodied and bruised telling me to grab his sword and run since the killer was here again."
She bowed her head and clenched her hands in her lap as she remembered the memory, Scarlett gently placed her hand on top of hers and smiled at her. "So I ran as fast as I could, crying while my father shouted to never reveal my identity to anyone. Then I heard him fighting the killer back in our house, I didn't know if he's still alive. So I went to our cousin's place to stay, offering me food and shelter over the years as I gathered information about the killer."
"Then one day when I went to work, someone went to our house looking for me and told me that they want to recruit me. They told me that they can give me the information that I want in exchange for me working for them, so I accepted." She gave out a sigh and continued, "I moved out and rented an apartment and did my job. Good thing my dad continued to teach and train me about our fighting skills in our clan when I was a kid since this job required my fighting skills. They sent me on missions that tell me to gather data and such, after a few years I had a little bit of information about the killer."
"So I set out to continue doing their missions while I gather data to know who the killer is and avenge my clan. Over years I met Scarlett once in a mission and a guy named Jason and he was the one who instructed me on what to do in place of my boss." She said as she looked at Scarlett questionably, "Speaking of Jason, what happened to him?!"
"Snake killed him." Scarlett said as she pointed her finger at Snake eyes who was standing with his arms crossed over his muscled chest.
She looked over at Snake Eyes with a surprised look on her face and said, "Oh. I see, I was planning on interrogating him though... So in the past few days they sent me out on another mission to gather information in a high secured facility. Not much information was given to me that time so I went there and gathered the information and left the place with a few gun shots hitting me."
"So that explains the gun shots you had yesterday." Storm Shadow said as he looked at her with concern.
"Kuro- I mean boss told me to meet up with Jason a few meters from the facility and told me to give the Flash drive to him. So I went there, waited for him and he appeared. He threatened to kill me if I don't give the Flash drive to him, so I found it suspicious, then he told me that the Flash drive contained a very valuable information so I even find it more suspicious. Then I took off... And that's where you found me." Yukiko said as she pointed to Storm Shadow, "Speaking of Flash drives, where are my stuffs and where is it?" She asked.
Scarlett pointed over to the table beside the bed, Yuu looked and saw her clothes neatly folded, the flash drive resting on top of her black sweat pants and beside the table was her Souba leaning against the wall.
Yukiko gave out a small smile and looked at her again, "Why were you guys sent out on a mission to find me?" She asked, looking confused.
"General Hawk wanted you to join us." Scarlett said as she stood up and stretched, "He told us that you have a very valuable information that he needs."
"He wants me to join you guys?!" She exclaimed in disbelief, "Sorry, but no. I won't join you guys. I have matters to attend to."
Scarlett signed in annoyance as she wiped her face with her hands, "I know. I know, Yukiko but this was an order from the general. We can't just abandon this mission."
She crossed her arms over her chest, feeling the bandages loosing its grip. "You already have two kick-ass ninjas here, Scar. What do you need me for?!"
Turning around she faced her and looked at her in her eyes and said, "I don't have any idea why the general wants you, but maybe the reason is confidential. If you don't come with us, I'll make Tommy here drag you all the way to the Pit. Understood?"
Yukiko gulped nervously and nodded after hearing her statement, "O-okay. When do we leave then?" She asked as she felt the wrappings on her chest falling off.
"Later at 1200. So I suggest you try to rest and pack whatever things you need." Scarlett said as she headed towards the door and walked outside with Snake Eyes following her again.
I AM SO DONE WITH THIS FANFIC /tablefilpppps
Okay, Yuu has tendency to speak or say Japanese words when she gets frustrated, mad or whenher emotions get the best of her and stuff.
Here are some Japanese words used earlier and their meanings;
Unmei- means fate
Kuso- means shit
Gaijin- means foreigner
Baka-means idiot
Onegai- means please
Gomenasai- means sorry
I hope you like the chapter! Read and review please! Onegaii? :3
