Chapter 10

"Wait, so what are you saying?" Kasumi asked, trying to understand what the maiden explained to her.

"The Greater fiend is getting recreated by him." Momiji answered as calmly as possible.

"But that little girl...The one Hayabusa has been protecting throughout this mission. What will happen to her? Are we supposed to carry out the mission and.." Kasumi stopped and placed her hands on her heart.

Momiji shook her head and walked over to the shinobi.

"Kasumi, I want to save her. Canna means everything to all of us. My top priority is to destroy that fiend and break her free from that prison." She told her and began to walk around her and to make her way further into the village.

"Momiji, is Hikaru informed with this?" She turned and asked the maiden.

Momiji stopped and glanced behind her shoulder.

"Hikaru? I haven't seen her." She answered honestly and continued her walk.

"You haven't seen her since the incident?" Kasumi asked as she started to catch up with her.

Momiji only nodded her head and looked around the village. Kasumi did the same, but didn't even bother on asking any more questions.

Minutes later, the two arrived at Mount Miyama. Kasumi smiled as cherry blossoms flew in the breeze into Momiji's hair.

"This is beautiful, don't you think?" Kasumi asked as she lifted her hand and caught several flowers on her palms.

Momiji's smile faded as she sensed and unfair ara.

"What's wrong?" Kasumi asked as Momiji began to pull out her bow and arrow.

Suddenly, the pink blossoms disappeared and the whole entire area turned dark. The meadows soon died and the air started to shift. "Hell." That's how Kasumi described it.

"Kasumi!" Momiji called as the shinobi was attacked by several ninja stars. Thinking fast, Kasumi blocked the stars with her sword and looked around her.

Momiji then released her bow and arrow at the direction the stars were coming from. The arrow quickly hit its target as it fell to the ground.

Seconds later, multiple Van Gelf fiends rose from the shadows of the grounds and ran towards the two girls. Getting into their fighting stance, the ninjas killed each fiend one by one in matters of seconds. Body parts and green blood flew everywhere throughout the area as Momiji and Kasumi took them out.

As Kasumi impaled her sword into the last of them, the fiend laughed in its disgustingly way. Momiji shielded her sword and drew out her kunais and turned towards the shinobi.

"I hope you've enjoyed this little exercise." The fiend said in a childlike voice. Kasumi then pulled out her Windmill Shuriken with her free hand and held it above the fiends head.

"Who are you?" She asked and sank her sword deeper inside the fiend. It laughed again but this time it pulled out her sword from its chest and threw her towards the large tree. In a nick of time, Momiji was able to catch Kasumi before she hit the tree.

"Who am I?" The fiend mocked Kasumi and chuckled. Suddenly the fiend flashed from itself to a female girl with short brown hair.

"This is my mission. I will eliminate anyone who gets in my way. I'm not the person you want me to be.." A familiar voice came out of the girl's mouth.

Momiji's hazel eyes narrowed as she looked from Kasumi and back at the girl.

"You.." Kasumi said in a lower voice as she slightly lifted up from her position.

Wasting no time, Momiji threw her two kunais as the girl. But in the process, the girl caught them and threw them to the ground.

"Do you want to try that on me?" She laughed and smiled at them. "Killing me means killing the others." Was the last thing she said as she turned back into the fiends' form and disappeared into ashes.

Once they left, the meadows grew back and the sky cleared up the darkness. The large tree bloomed incredibly fast and the wind went back to its calm matter.

Momiji sighed and helped Kasumi back to her feet as the area turned back to normal.

"Why does she want this?" Kasumi asked and started to put away her shuriken and bloody sword.

"Hikaru, the one we trusted. Now formally part of the Black Spider ninja clan." She answered and turned her back to Kasumi.

"We need to inform the others before it's too late." Momiji stated and glanced back at Kasumi.

"Are you willing to save your clan or watch everyone die with it?" She asked and disappeared into gases of fire.

Kasumi stood there for several seconds and shook her head.

"I can't avoid this fight against my village and her's." Was the only thing she said before she disappeared into cherry blossoms.

The German girl came out of bathroom in her fresh white karate gear with her brown hair soaked from top to bottom. She smiled and let out a long sigh then began to run her fingers through her damp hair.

"Lalala! Time for some training.." She sang aloud and opened the door, ready to leave her room. As she turned to lock her door, she felt a warm hand wrapping around her torso and the other covering her mouth.

"Don't say another word." A voice whispered into her ear. She stiffened as she suddenly glanced to see a ninja appear besides her, with a kunai held in its hand.

Warm red liquid dripped on the floor beneath her as the kunai quickly sliced her rib cage. She tightened her fists as she felt the breeze flow against her wound.

"Take her. Get her and her singing out of my sight. I'm sure Hayate would be excited to see her again." A familiar voice told the ninja that had her in his grasp.

"Hika..." Hitomi groaned and fell unconscious in the ninja's arms.

Hikaru smiled and walked over the face Hitomi in her state.

"Now, now. Hitomi don't give us that look. He would hate to see you looking like that." She said and bent down then ran her hand down Hitomi's cheek.

She then rose and pointed her finger at the ninja with the girl.

"Leave and get her to the lab!" She paused and pointed at the ninja with the bloody kunai in his grasp. "And you. Don't leave him unattended."

They bowed and opened Hitomi's door and then opened her window.

"Spiders can fly, or am I wrong?" The ninja asked and smirked at the one with Hitomi in her arms.

The ninja responded with a smile forming on his face as he jumped out the window, along with the one following right behind him.

Hikaru walked towards the window and felt the wind blow through her short brown hair.

"What a silly question you fool." She smiled and closed the window. She then began to walk towards the door, when she saw her keys laying on the doormat.

Picking them up, she then closed the door behind her and locked it before throwing the keys above her. She then drew out her sword and sliced the keys in half in a split second.

"Won't be needing those anymore." Hikaru shielded her sword and disappeared into lightning. The key pieces were the only thing that shined in the blood the stained the hotel's carpet.

Hayate stood inside the lab, looking around at all the damage that was caused.

'Ryu. What have you done now?' He thought to himself as violet Irish petals danced before him.

The purple haired ninja girl kneeled as she arrived with the petals.

"Master Hayate."

"Ayane.." He responded and turned and began to walk past the dead bodies the surrounded them.

"What's with this hell?" He groaned and kicked the bodies aside.

Ayane followed her master as she walked around several limbs.

Looking around, a shiny sword came to view as the two examined it.

"The Dragon sword?" Hayate questioned as he lifted it up and cleaned the blood off of it. "But where is he?" Ayane questioned aloud when she quickly turned once she felt someone's presence .

Ryu groaned as he began to rise, with the tokkosho sinking deeper into his chest. The Omega Fair fiend then disappeared into smoke as the two ninjas arrived at the lab.

"Every single...one of..them.." He paused and coughed up fresh blood. "Will..die..!" He finished as his eyes flashed from a crimson red back to an emerald green. He groaned stood up as the tokkosho slightly loosened in his chest.

Ayane turned to see a tall dark figure approaching them. Thinking fast, she unshielded her two short swords and stood in her fighting stance.

Hayate then turned too as the figure stepped out of the dark shadows.

"Ayane. Why..are you..." Ryu's voice asked as he came to view and walked over to the girl.

Ayane dropped her swords as he collapsed in her arms.

"Master Ryu!" She called and looked down to see the tokkosho still impaled into his chest.

Hayate quickly strapped the sword on his side and ran over to the two.

His brown eyes widen once he saw the tokkosho still inside the dragon ninja. Carefully, he slowly pulled the weapon out of him as more blood spilled onto the floor and Ayane.

'This tokkosho from the Omega Fair. Could he be alive?' He asked himself and threw the weapon elsewhere.

"Take the sword to Master Joe at once." He told the kunoichi..

"But Master Ryu-"

"Momiji will take care of him." He interrupted and took Ryu out of Ayane's grasp.

"Yes, Master Hayate." She responded and unstrapped the sword and disappeared with it tightly in her hands.

Hayate fell to his knees as more blood began to drip from Ryu's wound.

"You would never ask for help since day one." Hayate told him in a serious tone of voice and placed his hand on top of the ninja's chest.

"Hayate." A voice called from behind.

"Momiji,.." Hayate paused and turned to look at the maiden. "Don't leave his side."

Her hazel eyes widen as she nodded and walked over to him.

"The curse is back?" She asked and sat down besides him.

Hayate was confused until he noticed dark red veins across Ryu's right arm. He then removed his hand from his wound and ran it down his cursed arm.

"Master Ryu!" She gasped as she saw his deep wound.

"He'll be alright. With you." Hayate told her and grabbed her hands with his bloody one.

He then removed his hand and left the blood print on Momiji's wrist. His eyes narrowed as he stared into her eyes.

"Take him to the village as quickly as possible. Stay hidden Momiji."

She nodded and carefully took her master in her arms then rose from her position.

"Kasumi is on her way to find you." Was the last thing she said before disappearing into gases of fire.

Hayate sighed and looked at his hand covered in the Dragon ninja's blood.

"Brother." Kasumi called and opened the doors to see her brother quickly walking over to her.

"She's been poisoned. And now she's gone." Kasumi said and let her head fall.

"Hikaru..Hikaru is not herself anymore." She told him and rose her head and stared into his brown eyes.

"She's our enemy."