Chapter Seven: Adventure in the Romin Village

Part two: Dr. Kimara makes an appearance

Rikimaru and Ayame ran for miles until they have reached the Romin Village. They then stopped to take a look at their surroundings. Little houses and shops were everywhere. It looks like a lot of people stay here but no one was out. No one except Jiannai's men; Jiannai himself was standing on top of one of the houses. Rikimaru and Ayame could only see him a little bit not much.

"Tenrai, he is on his way. My Romins will have fun with him." Jinnai mumbles and disappears.

"Now where did that jackass disappear to?" Ayame mumbles

"I don't know Ayame; well I must be on my way. I know of a way to get to Amagai Castle with out going throw here. See you at the castle." Rikimaru says as he sneaks him a kiss."

"Please rescue Kikiu, Rikimaru. Save that jackass who kidnapped her for me. I want to kill him in person."

Rikimaru only nodded his head and walked away. Ayame then reached for her graphing hook and hosted her self on the roof. She quickly bent down. She knew she had to be careful this place was loaded with guards. If she alerted one guard all of them will be after her. Below her were two guards that were talking.

"I am tired and I want to go home."

"Yea me too and my feet smell like cottage cheese."

The guards then parted and went their separate ways. Ayame knew that this was her only chance. When the guard was walking towards the bridge she quickly jumped down from the roof. She then grabbed the guard and sliced his thought. She then quickly jumped in the ditch next to her and hung off of it. She knew that the guards buddy would know that something was up. Thirty seconds later the other guard came rushing to the scene. He was on high alert looking around for whoever killed his buddy. But realizing that he couldn't find Ayame he returned back to normal and starts walking away. When he dose Ayame hosted her self out of the ditch and catches him off guard and kills him. She then gets back on the roof and jumps from roof to roof. Studding enemy patterns and killing them. She then reached a crawling space which she had to craw throw to get to the rest of the village. She crawled until she reached the end. When she reached the end she did not dare to come out. There was a small lake that wasn't very deep out side the hole on the right side of her was land. There was a guard walking back and forth. When he turned around and starts to walk the other way. She comes out of the hole and stealthy moves along the water. Trying to make as less noise as possible snuck up on the guard and kills him. She then moves on land and slid along the walls. She saw two guards;

standing on a huge wooden platform. It looked easy to just go and stealth the both of them. But maybe that's what they wanted her to do maybe there was a guard dog nearby to sniff her out and alert them. She walks away from the wall and pulls out her graphing hook and launched her self on the roof. She crouched down and crawled alongthe roof to make herself less visbable to the two guards on the platform. She crawled on the roof a little more then finds what she expected to find. There he was the guard dog. She knew that if she had gotten to the two guards first then the guard dog would haveeasily picked up her sent. She gets out her shrunken out of her ninja bag and amid it carefully at the guard dog. When the dog finally sits down and starts wagging his tail a shrunken hits him dead on. The dog whimpered out in pain, lies out and dies. Ayame lowers her self down off of the roof and went back to hiding behind the wall. When the two guards turned her back on her and walked to the back of the platform; Ayame saw this as her chance and ran towards the platform. She then hung her self on the right side of the platform. One guard walks toward her and stood there for a while then begins to walk away. Ayame hosted her self up on the platform and snuck behind the guard and did a quick stealth kill. She then jumped off the platform and hung on it. Waiting for the other guard to discover his fallen friend. The other guard was walking back when he discovered a dead body. He ran up to the dead up and was on high alert. After a few min of looking around he couldn't find Ayame and decided to quit.

"Damn it she got away." The guard mumbles and walks away. Ayame climbs on the platform and grabbed him of guard. She placed a hand over the guards mouth and placed one of her twin swords and drove it threw his stomach. She then took the sword out and pushes his dead body down on the platform. She jumps off the platform and walked over to the roof. She pulls out her graphing hook and flung her self onto the roof. She once again couches down on the roof and crawled forward. Up ahead was a little bridge and a small ditch. On top of the bridge was a female guard walking up and down the bridge.

'Aggh can't this job is so boring, Jiannai better pay me double.' The female guard mumbles as she counties walking up and down the small wooden bridge. Ayame countiesto watch her pattern for a while to find out what time would be the best time to kill her. As the female guard walks away from Ayame. She jumped of the roof and landed softly on the ground. She runs up to the female guard and jumped on her shoulders and twistedher neck and sung her down on the bridge. Ayame got back up while the female guard lied there dead. She pulled out her graphing hook and got on top of house. In front of the house was a guard walking back and forth in front of the house. Ayame quickly killed him and walked forward to the two large doors. She opens the doors and finds her self inthe second section in town. There was nothing here but huge wooden baskets and threeguards guarding the huge gate to the rest of the village. She jumped on a wooden basket and killed an unsuspecting guard then quickly jumped back up there.

Knowing that theother guard near by would notice the dead body and falls right into Ayame's trap. The other guard soon noticed the body and ran up to it. The guard was on high alert demanding were Ayame was. After receiving no answer for a few min the guard returns back to normal and started to go back to his post. Ayame ran up behind him and slices his neck blood spattered on her as he fell to the ground. She wasp her bloody swords in the guard's clothing then jumped from wooden basket to wooden basket. She stops when she sees a woman guarding the doors to the rest of the village. The woman had on a short pink kimono with armored flip flops. As the woman turned her back towards Ayame, Ayame drove her twin swords in her back and lets her body fall gently on the ground. Ayame walks towards the giant wooden doors and opens them. As she walks throughshe sees guards walking on the rooftops guarding that red house in the middle of the town. She also notices that there were more guards guarding this particular spot.

'Zeenosake, must be staying in that red house, I am sure of it.'

She snuck guards on the roof tops and on the ground as well. It took her almost thirty min for her to check out Zeenosake's place. She walks in only to find Zenosake dead on the scene. Ayame was very upset that she did all of that work for nothing while she could have been trying to save Kikiu.'

"Damn, too late. Ayame mumbles as she looks at the dead body. She then senses someone nearby. Show yourself, Ayame commanded knowing that someone was there. She practically did not like stalkers. Tesshu came out of hiding and stared at Ayame with a look a fire in his eyes. He was a little shorter than Ayame and had a little muscular build. He had on a blue karate fighting suit. He didn't look handsome in fact a little far from it. You, so you are the one that killed the old man."

"Don't give me that woman; I will avenge your death boss."

Tesshu walks outside singling for Ayame to come out. Ayame came out and got into her fighting stance. Tesshu began using a method of marshal arts against Ayame. But Ayame blocked everyone. Figuring that his marshal arts weren't working he tried to shot Ayame using his pistol he hid under his clothes. Ayame doges the bullet and hit him with her swords when he was off guard.

"Woh wait."

"Don't tell me that you are going to beg for mercy." Ayame mumbles

"You're fighting style, your Azuma right."

"Yea, Just who are you?" Ayame questions.

"Tesshu Fujuma I am a doctor by trade."

"So that old man was your boss?"

"Yes he was. My boss told me never to cross swords with an Azuma. Crossing swords with an Azuma would be the same as suicide."

"Well you were about to learn the hard way. So have you ever heard any thing about the

Jewel of Heaven?"

"Nope never heard of it. Now I must get going before the authorities show up. See you around Azuma."

Ayame watched as Tesshu left. 'I have heard rumors of a private organization where people pay for justice. Tesshu must be one of them. I think he knows why more than heis telling about the Jewel of Heaven.' Just when Ayame was about to leave to go to Amagai Castle she sees Rikimaru walking her way.

"Ayame"

"Rikimaru, have you found Kikiu? Where is she and what are you doing here?"

"Don't worry Ayame, I am not a ghost. No time to explain now that I am back?"

Ayame knew that something's fishy was going on with Rikimaru. 'That Rikimaru, must

be a fake. Well just to make sure….' Just when Ayame thought that she pulled out her sword and attempted to strike Rikimaru. But Rikimaru moved out of the way. Now she knew that this was not the real Rikimaru.

"Ayame, why the hell did you do that!" the fake Rikimaru growled.

"I was just testing you. The real Rikimaru would have dodged my blade."

"What are you talking about I am Rikimaru and I will prove it if I have to."

The imposter charged at Ayame and sung his sword at Ayame. It took all of her strength to block his attack. She threw eight shrunkens at him instantly but he blocked all of them and sent them flying back at her. She jumped up high in the air and did a moon salt in the air ducking the shrunkens and landing perfectly on the ground. She charged at the imposter and caught him off guard. She struck him over and over again as he fell on theground. The magic disappeared and showed who he truly was. He would have been no problem for her with out the magic he used.

"I knew he was a fake." Ayame mumbled as she started to walkway. But when she starts to walk away a posin dart hit her in the neck. She cried out in pain as she knelled down on the ground and fell uncurious. Dr Kimara along with Tenari's men walked up to the unconuis Ayame and laughed.

"Looks like I have got a big one. Those stupid Azuma Ninja's are right were I want them.

Men I want you to take Ayame up to the prison cell. I will figure out the best way to ture her."

"Yes Sir Dr Kimara" The guards say obeying his orders as they took Ayame inside the Castle. Dr Kimara laughs as he follows the guards into Amagai Castle.

Sorry it took me so long to update but I was busy working on my other story Breathe and

Checking out Passions on NBC. I had to play Tenchu again to find out what happens in the Romin Village so I could write this chapter. I hoped you like it. Chapter 8 is coming up soon.

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