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P.S.: Sorry if it's slightly descriptive, I'm still working on that...it's like...I have OCD when I go into details or stuff like that.

sign language will be in bold and if i decide to put in writing on paper or a notepad or on a tablet, it will be underlined. I also apologize if the characters are OOC, it's a little hard to get everyone's actions and personality right. So...I hope I was at least somewhat close to it.

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P.P.S: The name I use for Storm Shadow is...his real name...I think...um...the name comes from G.I. Joe: Renegades, which I also don't own. So...yeah...ALSO...sorry for like...the really off number countings with a few of the chapters...sometimes I forget to fix/change it or just forget what chapter I'm doing next! But...thanks for still reading! You guys rock!

Sorry for late update! Writer's Block SUCKS, ALTHOUGH...I DO wanna thank blackrosewitch1996 for giving me the ideas and suggestions for the next following chapters! Sorry it took a while, I had to find a way to make it all mesh well and make it seem...reasonable and believable and not too mary sue! Again, writer's block SUCKS ;A;

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Sorry if fighting scenes seem repetitive! I tried! I really did!

Last time on "Shadowing the Past":

They both turn their heads when the door bursts opens and Viper soldiers begin to fill up the room, outnumbering them. Taking the lead was a white-clad ninja, carrying two deadly katanas in his hand, an angry glare on his features. Kai and Yumi immediately stand up, back-to-back, drawing their guns as they pointed them at the Vipers.

"I think it's time for you to leave now, don't you?" Storm Shadow asked, walking towards Kai.

Kai switched off the safety and pointed both of her guns at Storm Shadow, and was about to pull the trigger and shoot, but stopped when a black figure jumped down from the ceiling and right in front of her and Storm Shadow. Kai's eyes widened in shock as she immediately recognized the figure.

"S-Snake!"

CHAPTER 20

The sound of metal clashing with metal resounded and echoed throughout the whole house, signalling the start of the fight. Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes were in the middle of the spacious room, fighting against each other, both intent to best the other. Snake Eyes used both of his katanas to block Storm Shadows' combo, and then quickly kicked out his right leg, connecting with Storm Shadows' side. The white-clad ninja grunted loudly and rolled away a few feet, just in time to escape the down swipe of Snake Eyes' katanas. He reached into his back pocket and pulled out 3 kunai knives, throwing it towards Snake Eyes.

Snake Eyes deflected two of the knives with his katanas, but inwardly cursed when the last one hit him in the right arm. He glared at Storm Shadow and was about to run towards him, but was stopped by 4 Vipers blocking his destination. Softly growling, Snake Eyes twirled both of his katanas and began to attack the enemy soldiers, trying his best too quickly get towards Storm Shadow.

Storm Shadow used this distraction to try and find the only reason he came here, that blasted girl that pissed him off. He quickly sighted her, fighting back-to-back with another woman he didn't recognize. They were currently occupied with the 3 Vipers in front of them, shooting them with their guns. Glaring, Storm Shadow ran towards the two women and threw 2 kunai knives at the them.

Kai cursed, and pulled Yumi towards her as they dodged the oncoming kunai knives, watching as it embedded itself onto the wall beside them. Turning, Kai glared as she realized who it was. She pointed her gun at Storm Shadow and pulled the trigger, growling when it made the audible "click", telling her that she was out of bullets. Kai shook her head and released the magazine, quickly and swiftly reloading the cartridge with a new magazine that was holstered to her hip. Before she could even shoot, however, Storm Shadow had already reached her and had kicked out his right leg, causing her to drop the gun a few feet away from her.

Storm Shadow sheathed both of his katanas and aimed a punch towards Kai, smirking when it connected with her jaw, causing her to stumble back and bump into the wall. He lifted up his left leg and aimed for her head, growling angrily when it connected with a vase instead as she quickly slid down the wall onto the ground.

Kai kicked out her right leg in an attempt to sweep at Storm Shadows' legs, smirking in satisfaction when he tripped and fell on his back with a loud grunt. Kai quickly stood up and brought up her right leg as she swiftly spun around, before quickly bringing it down to Storm Shadows' chest. She cried out in frustration and surprise when Storm Shadow quickly blocked the attack, tightly grabbing her ankle, and pulled her down, causing her to fall and land on HER back. Kai softly groaned and quickly rolled over to dodge the low punch that Storm Shadow had aimed for, attempting to hit her in the face. She quickly stood up and got into a defensive fighting stance, bringing both of her arms up to make an "X", to block Storm Shadows' kicks and punches. She cried out in pain when he kicked out right leg, which immediately connected with her ribs, hard enough to slightly fracture it. Kai fell to the floor on her knees in a low crouch, tightly gripping her side as she tried to calmly breathe.

Storm Shadow smirked and was about to kick Kai in the head, but was stopped when a faded blue, denim-clad leg blocked his attack. He turned his head and growled out in pain when a small, lightly tanned fist connected with his jaw, sending him stumbling backwards, but still standing. He shook his head from the pain and looked down to see Kai's friend glaring up at him with her Caramel-Hazel colored eyes, which was turning into a darker color from anger.

Yumi cracked her fingers and knuckles before running towards Storm Shadow, aiming a right punch towards his jaw. She softly cursed when he grabbed her punch and tried to twist her arm. She twisted her body with her arm and then back kicked Storm Shadow in the shin with her left leg. She pulled her hand away when she felt him release her arm and then quickly spun around with her right leg in the air, bringing it down onto Storm Shadows' hunched over back.

Storm Shadow loudly grunted as he fell to the floor, caught off-guard by the sudden impact on his back. He looked up and glared at Yumi's smug look, quickly pushing himself up and kicking out his right leg. Yumi ducked and aimed a left jab towards Storm Shadows' gut, smirking when it connected, causing him to step back a little bit from the pain. She quickly jumped back to dodge Storm Shadows' knee that had risen up to hit her jaw. She glared at Storm Shadow before a small smile began to play on her lips.

"What the hell are you smiling about, mesu?" Storm Shadow growled, grudgingly admitting in his head how much of a good fighter she was.

His eyes widened in shock and pain as he felt something crash against the back of his head, causing him to fall down to his knees. He grabbed the back of his head, seeing blood on his hands as he pulled away from the injured area. He turned around and grunted in pain when a fist connected with his jaw, sending him to the floor. He shook his head to regain his vision and looked up into Kai's bright midnight black eyes.

"You little-" Storm Shadow started.

"Urusai yo!" Kai yelled at him.

Storm Shadow glared at Kai and slowly stood up, deeply breathing in and out through his nose. He eyed Kai as she glared at him, eyes wet with unreleased tears. He was surprised by this and immediately brought his guard up, not wanting to fall into some kind of trick or hoax or whatever this foolish on'na was planning.

"Why are you doing this..." Kai softly whispered, glaring at Storm Shadow.

"What the hell are you going on about?" Storm Shadow snarled.

"This! Why are you doing this?" Kai cried out.

"Because I can! What's it to you? What I do with my life and how I live it is none of your damn business!" Storm Shadow growled.

"This isn't you! You weren't like this before!" Kai called.

"How the hell would you know how I was like before?"

"Because I know you, Tommy...at least...I thought I did..." Kai softly said.

"Don't you fucking call me Tommy! My name is Storm Shadow!"

"I know who you are! You're Tommy! I know you are!" Kai glared at Storm Shadow, trying her best to fight the tears from falling.

Storm Shadow glared and looked at the young woman in front of him, softly snarling at her in anger. He didn't know how she knew his name and why she insisted on calling him that...no one was supposed to know who he was or who he was in the past...no one except...

"Damn it, Kairi!" Storm Shadow yelled.

Kai was surprised when he called her that, feeling a small glimmer of hope that he would stop this. She slowly walked towards Storm Shadow, ignoring Yumi's protests, and stopped a few feet away from him, leaving enough room for her to dodge or block any attacks in case he got pissed off and decided to kill her.

"This isn't you...you weren't like this before, so why are you like this now? What happened?" Kai asked softly.

"You don't know anything about me, Kairi...no matter what you say, you know nothing." Storm Shadow snarled.

Kai glared and softly growled in frustration, feeling herself begin to slowly become irritated with Storm Shadows' devil may cry attitude and enemy-like persona towards her.

"You know what? Fuck you, Tommy! You're right, I may not know EVERYTHING about you, but what I do know is that when we met, you weren't like this at all! You were different back then, sure, we may have been on the wrong side of the law a few times, but never enough to make you evil and act like this! I don't know what happened to you but this isn't right! You need to stop this!" Kai angrily yelled.

Storm Shadow growled and quickly punched Kai in the ribs, fracturing it even more. Kai softly gasped in pain and gripped her sides, finding it hard to suddenly breath. Snake Eyes raised his hand in attempt to karate chop Kai's neck, but stopped when he felt a hand wrap tightly around his elbow, quickly turning him around to have his jaw connect with an oncoming fist.

"Snake! Snake, stop!" Kai called out weakly.

Storm Shadow glowered, and lunged at Snake Eyes, wrapping his arms around Snake Eyes' waist as he brought both of them down to the ground. They rolled around a few times before Storm Shadow emerged on top, bringing his hand down onto Snake Eyes' jaw, face only covered by his black ninja mask, visor and full mask gone. Storm Shadow began to punch Snake Eyes in the jaw a few times before he felt Snake Eyes bring up his knees and quickly ram it into his chest, causing Storm Shadow fall forwards in a forward roll. Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes quickly stood up, facing each other, ready to attack.

"Storm Shadow you idiot! Leave now before you get killed! We'll just grab the girl next time!" Cobra yelled into his earpiece.

Snarling, Storm Shadow called the remaining Viper soldiers dropped a smoke bomb, using the distraction to quickly leave the house. As soon as the smoke cleared, the room was completely empty, except for the remaining Alpha Team members. Snake Eyes quickly rushed towards Kai when he heard a small pained whimper escape her lips, gently placing a hand on her back.

"Kai!" Yumi called out, running towards Kai and Snake Eyes.

"I'm...fine! We...need to...go!" Kai cried out hoarsely.

Snake Eyes immediately lifted up Kai bridal style and began to walk towards the door, ignoring Kai's indignant cries and protests of being treated like a cripple.

"Technically...you're sorta crippled, he fractured your ribs, Baby Girl! You shouldn't walk!" Ripcord admonished.

"Nice...real nice, Rip...you sure do know how to make a girl feel special." Yumi commented dryly.

"What the-holy shit! Yumi!" Ripcord cried out in surprise.

"You-you're coming...with...us." Kai coughed out.

"Stop talking! You're making your injury worse!" Yumi scolded.

Kai just rolled her eyes and weakly told Duke and Ripcord to make sure that Yumi followed them. Scarlett gave a small smile at Yumi before gently pushing her towards the front of the group, so that she was standing in front next to Heavy Duty. Yumi looked up at the tall, muscular man, inwardly cursing Kai for making her follow them. She gave a weak smile and followed them to a sleek black jet that was inconspicuously hidden and parked in the forest behind her house. They all climbed inside, Ripcord and Duke heading towards the cockpit. She looked around before sitting next to Scarlett, giving her a wry smile. As soon as the jet was up in the air, a question popped up into her head.

"Wait...where are we going?"

0-0-0-0

"Argh! That stupid, little...argh!"

Storm Shadow was in his room, banging his fists against his walls as he angrily thought about what had happened earlier. He turned and leaned against the wall, slowly sliding down onto the floor, left leg brought close to his chest while his right was straight out. He rested his left arm on top of his propped up knee, clenching and unclenching his fists every now and then.

"Damn it..." Storm Shadow softly muttered, glaring down at the floor.

"This isn't you...you weren't like this before, so why are you like this now? What happened?" These words raced through his mind as he began to think about her question, pulling out a wrinkled and worn out photo from inside his jacket. He unfolded the photo and stared at it, it was a picture of him and Kairi from when they were younger...when he wasn't Storm Shadow, but Tommy...

FLASHBACK

"Tommy...hey, Tommy!"

Softly groaning, Tommy slowly opened his eyes to see midnight black eyes staring down at him. He softly cried out in surprise, quickly sitting upright as he gently glared at the little girl in front of him.

"Damn it, Kairi! Don't do that!" Tommy growled.

Kairi just softly giggled, finding the current situation to be extremely funny. She tilted her head to the side before she kindly smiled at him, handing him a cupcake that she had managed to steal from a party a few miles down. Tommy furrowed his eyebrows in confusion but gratefully took the cupcake, gently holding it in his hand as he eyed it suspiciously.

"Uh...what is this?" Tommy asked.

"It's a cupcake, duh!" Kairi giggled, rolling her eyes.

"I KNOW that...is it poisoned?" Tommy frowned.

"Really? That's mean!" Kairi pouted, crossing her arms against her chest.

"Sorry, it's just...what's this for anyway?" Tommy asked, looking up at Kairi.

"Did you forget already? It's been a month!" Kairi smiled.

"A month? A month since what?" Tommy asked, confused.

"It's been a month since we've known each other!" Kairi grinned.

"Oh...yeah, you're right." Tommy replied, slightly surprised by her confession.

"Of course I am." Kairi giggled jokingly.

Tommy just rolled his eyes and smiled at Kairi before he halfed the cupcake, handing her the bigger half, while he began to eat his smaller one. Kairi smiled as she took the cupcake and began to it eat, feeling her chest grow with elation. They began to talk about everything and anything, both random and on-topic.

"Hey, Tommy? What do you wanna be when you grow up?" Kairi softly asked.

"...I don't know...I haven't thought about it." Tommy replied.

"When I grow up, I'm gonna be just like my daddy!" Kairi grinned.

"What's that?"

"I'm gonna be a Marine and protect lotsa people!" Kairi giggled.

"Huh...cool..."

"Well? What about you? Have you thought about it yet?" Kairi asked, tilting her head to the side.

"...I wanna...I wanna be the master and founder of my own dojo." Tommy said.

"Ooh! That sounds awesome! Can I join? You can be my teacher so I can be a great Marine!" Kairi said with wide eyes and a large smile.

"Haha, you have to be THIS tall to be able to reach me first!" Tommy teasingly smirked, lifting up his hand above his head as a joke towards Kairi's height.

"Hey!" Kairi glared.

Tommy just laughed and stood up, quickly running away from a fuming Kairi as she tried to chase him.

"You can't catch me, I'm a ninja!" Tommy yelled.

"Yeah! A DEAD one!" Kairi laughed.

END FLASHBACK

Storm Shadow softly growled, quickly folding the photo back up and putting it back into his jacket. He stood up and frowned, what the hell was he thinking? She's the enemy, he shouldn't be thinking like this.

'Forget about her...none of this will end well if you think about the past...'

Snarling, Storm Shadow stood up and turned around, slamming both of his fists against the wall, the sound echoing and reverberating throughout his room and walls.

"She doesn't matter to me anymore...she doesn't matter to me anymore...she doesn't...matter..."

Cipher, pronounced as Sci-fer
Ciph, pronounced as Sci-fuh(uh is silent)

translations:

on'na - girl
Jigoku ni ochiru - go to hell
kutabare - fuck you/drop dead
Fushidarana on'na - slut
baishun-fu - whore
mesu - bitch
Doushite - Why/how come?
Ohayou - Hello
daijobu desu ka?- Are you alright/ok?
Aishiteru- I love you
sensei- teacher
oyasumi- good night
kawaii- cute
Watashi no kichōna- my precious
yamero- stop/stop it
onegai- please
kuso- damn/damn it
Yarō- bastard/asshole
urusai- shut up
nani- what
baka- idiot

End of Chapter.

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