Now time for Jessi's super just-for-the-hell-of-it summary machine! Gives it a nice kick to the side and out comes a piece of paper Well if you've read the first chapter Kasumi and Hayate were mixing it up in Tao. But after that another rumble breaks out against Kasumi and the Mugen-Tenshin ninjas (excluding an exhausted Hayate.) After the trashing Kasumi gives the faceless wonders Hayate gets even with a mad push-and-slice to the kunoichi, sending her clear over a mountain. Da Fanz: KASUMMMIIIII!!! We shall deztroy u Hayate!(light up candles and such) Hey hey no lynching. Just keep on reading.

"B…brother…"

Slash!

"You fooled me!"

"Testuo…Tenchi…Koji…"

Slice!

"Kasumi!"

Two days passed since the Tao incident, Hayate had left not to far from his mountainous village to mediate. But it kept replaying in his head, the carnage that happened right in front of him, unable to do anything about until it was too late. He had done his duty as a leader and terminated the runaway Kasumi, and to avenge the ones that fell perusing her. But it was just so much to bear on his soul, was he going to be haunted by his actions? He always tried to ease his pain through meditation outdoors…but could he really move on after single handily sending his sister to her demise? Grief wasn't his only inner enemy right now, he was confused on what he found just hours later. His duty to slay the mindless and destructive Omega had been completed, but it wasn't his doing. Someone else had come and destroyed the last Hanjin-Mon master. Who could off…?

"Hayate…" A shadow of a girl could be seen barely in the darkness of the tree Hayate sat under. The ninja leader snapped back to his senses, sighing again has he began to respond. "Hello, Ayane…" The second-in- command and half sister of Hayate hopped out of the tree, right beside her brother.

"I…just heard the news, Toya informed me back in the village." Ayane, who had left to train the day before Hayate left for Tao, looked down at the waterfall Hayate stared blankly into, sitting down next to him. "What about Genra?"

Hayate could read his baby sister pretty easily. Staying away from the topic about Kasumi. But he also had bad news for her about that as well "Its confirmed that he is dead…but we have no clue who did it. Anything we could use was burned into nothing. Maybe Hayabusa got to him before we could."

"Oh…" Ayane rubbed her shoulder, sighing a bit from the news. "Hayate…I'm really sorry about what happened to…"

"God…" Hayate interrupted the kunoichi accidentally, rubbing his head as if he had a headache. "I…can't blame you for ordering Toya and his squad to keep an eye on me. I feel like a total failure." The hard exterior that Hayate presented cracked again, as he looked into his palm deep in thought. "I've failed as a leader, for not defeating Omega and sending so many soldiers to die…" Hayate sniffed before continuing. "And as a brother I've failed. I couldn't save Kasumi from…her fate." Hayate felt he was going to let it all out again, but he gasped lightly as he felt something slide over his palm and hold him.

It was Ayane's hand. Her fingers held tight onto his hand, offering her honest support. She couldn't cry…Hayate was very unstable at the moment and she needed to be strong for him. "It's the iron code, brother. You did the right thing for the village. I understand that it must hurt for you…but you saw her again. The outcome just wasn't what you expected." Hayate tried to speak, but he couldn't find the right words. "Just remember you had to do what you had to do…and anytime you feel like you can't handle it, just remember I'm right here to comfort you." Ayane finished, tightening her grip on Hayates' large palms. Hayate closed his eyes, slowly feeling his inner pain and guilt fade. "Thank you...sis'." Hayate whispered, putting his head on her shoulders, closing his eyes as he returned to being lost in thought.

"That's right Hayate…don't worry. You still have me…" Ayane thought, her sincere looked had changed oddly, into a coy smile. "And I still have you…all of you…all of my big brother to myself." She toyed with strands of Hayates' soft brown hair as her smile turned into a dangerous smirk.

Shinjuku had always been a lively and active city, and it never slept during the night. It would become wilder and more exciting then, and activities that were not seen or even stayed away from during the day were just about everywhere if you looked hard enough. Besides loud music and dancing, gambling was very popular in the district, but the game was very different then cards or dice. It was street fighting. Anywhere street fighting went the music was louder, the crowds were bigger, and then action (and risks) was to the roof.

"God I cant believe he won that at the last second!" Roxy, 19, Japanese-American and just another small wheel in the street fight betting ring hopped around ecstatically, scoring 3000 yen on her lucky pick against the undefeated "king" for the night. "Bam! Pow! Roxy punch!" She jumped up raising her fist in the air, imitating the same uppercut that declared Koji the winner. "I need to take some sort of martial art, being inside the circle and fighting is where the real money is." If that were the case she would be able to quit the job she currently had, not that it was anything else but money from dropping the boring thing. Roxy could hear the music fade as she walked farther away, really beginning to think it was a bad idea to park this far. The street was strangely quiet and dark. But no big thing she nervously thought, don't run into anybody and she'll be okay.

"Wow oh wow did you see that fight between the Koji guy and "Raiden"?" The voice came from the left. Roxy's blue eyes widened upon hearing the deep, yet female voice. "Oh crap there around!" she thought…quickly speeding up her walking.

"You said it boss." Another voice, this time male, spoke up. "That final punch sure was something."

"You know a lucky someone could really cash in from the odds in that fight." The third voice, the deepest one heckled, coughing violently after. Roxy had begun to look around panicky, ditching the money into her pockets. "That biker gang from the college are here again, oh no oh no oh no…How far are they?"

"Hey its our friend Roxy!" the first arrogant and cocky first spoke up again, latching her arm around Roxys' neck and dragging her scrambling body over to an alley. "What a surprise that we meet the gaijin around our neighborhood again." Roxy pushed away from the gang member, only to be surrounded by a wall and the three dark figures.

"What do you want now Shinobu?" the blonde girl growled at the three of them. "Now that isn't a way to greet your friends gaijin…" The one on the left began, throwing his toothpick on the floor. He was real skinny and had a ragged look with his big sweater and pants. The shorter one on the left, also male, grinned wickedly at the surrounded Roxy. "Pockets look a bit big there, sweety. Got lucky with some cash perhaps?" His eyes were barely visible, with the huge hat on his head and all. The Japanese- American still stared defiantly at the trio, trying not to let her fear show.

"I think you know how this goes down, gaijin-girl" The ringleader of the group, Shinobu inched forward, with her own deadly grin as she pushed back some of her dark long hair. "Parking in our neighborhood, walking our streets. There is a serious tax to be paid here. I think what you have is enough for now." The biker woman took her hand out her pockets and held her hand out, expecting Roxy to give it up.

Roxy on the other hand, thought differently. She was smaller then the woman but she wasn't going to be punked out of her cash anymore. "Forget it!" She suddenly raised her left hand and smacked the biker in her face defiantly. "Oh my god." She gasped suddenly at what she done, and realizing she had just started a confrontation with the gang. Shinobu growled slowly, staring angrily before smirking a second later. "Oh you think your something don't you, college girl?" The biker snapped her fingers. " Ikari…let me see that interesting item we found a few minutes ago."

Roxy trembled as she looked over Shinobu's shoulder to see her grab a long metal chain from her crony, hearing the other too snicker as well. "Big mistake gaijin…now I'm going to have to make this difficult for you."

"I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna AAAAH!" Roxy shrieked as she braced her arms over her face, waiting grimly for the attack…

"HEY ASSHOLES!"

The trio and Roxy turned around surprised. "Beat it if you know what's good for yo-…what the hell?" Ikari stopped suddenly, somewhat confused from what stood on the other side of them.

"Leave her alone…" What stood in front of them seemed like it would fall apart any second. The slim person were covered in bandages on the arms and bare legs, and the hair covered up the eyes. The only thing the mysterious person was wearing was a large dark blue jacket.

"What…what do we do about HER boss?" The short one asked. Shinobu sneered dangerously at the new girl, wrapping the chain around her right hand. "What's this? Did the biggest dumbass for girl's convention just finish?"

" I don't feel like having to waste you three so I'll say it one last time…BACK OFF!" Her tone was darker, and angrier then before.

"Waste us? You got to be joking me. Ikari. Jin. Get rid of this bitch for me."

" Boss are you sure we have to get rid of her…Something about her look is quite attractive. Don't you agree Jin?" The taller man chuckled, walking closer to the mysterious girl. Jin had a smirk on his face as well as he walked closer "Maybe we don't have to kill her after all this."

"What are you doing!? Get out of here!" Roxy yelled at the top of her lungs, only to be slapped violently by Shinobu. "Shut up! You get to see a show before your beating so just keep quiet."

The ragged person growled loudly, taking off headfirst into the gang. "Go to hell!" She screamed before throwing a wild punch, literally plowing the attack into the short gang member's face and sending the yelling man off his feet and onto the floor.

"You bitch!" Ikari had flipped out his knife, before taking a stab at the girl's jacket. Like nothing she moved out the way, and as she gritted her teeth she kicked out the attacks leg, sending him on his knees.

"Ah!…Oh SH!" He couldn't finish his swear, since his face had now become part of the brick wall on the side because of the persons merciless roundhouse into the back of his head. Jin stood up, eyeing the crimson pouring from his partners face and then back to the slim aggressor, filling up with rage. With a loud shout he tried to overpower the ruthless girl with a clothesline.

"JIN SHE DUCKED!'

"Wha-AAAAHH!!" Jin's blood curdling scream filled the entire alley. After ducking the ragged person had took the knife on the ground and stabbed it deep into his now bleeding kneecap. To continue her assault she stood up and kicked the blade in, and with a sneer she pushed his body face first into the wall.

"B..boss.." The short man whimpered as he slumped motionless near the other bleeding heap on the floor.

Shinobu's mouth was wide open and her eyes were completely shocked. In just seconds her gang members were crippled bodies right in front of her. Roxy stared in complete awe on what the person had done to the trio. " Jin! Ikari!…What the hell are you?" she spat out. In return the attacker lunged at the biker with a series of punches. She wasn't going to go down as easy as they were, on the third punch she parried and lunged out her leg with a heavy kick to the waist. The woman blocked easily, but she screamed harshly from the stinging pain in her legs, sending her to crouch over. She regained her balance quickly, avoiding a deadly boot that was coming for her face by rolling backwards.

"What's the matter, running low on your little heroine adrenaline?" The only standing gang member taunted, closing in on her. "Shut up!" The mysterious girl had entered a different stance then her unpolished one, perfectly. As if she done it before…before when she…

*I will win this battle! *

Stop…not again.

*You dug your own grave…now die in it! *

Why? Why am she doing this? She stared at her trembling hands awkwardly.

*Your pathetic! *

"Ah…AAAAAHH!!!" Out of no where the bandaged woman howled out in pain, holding her head as she started to stumble around. Surprised, but not willing to give up this moment to attack, Shinobu socked the head startled girl in the the pit of her stomach. The girl choked violently, and fell onto one knee, still holding her head, trembling in pain.

"What the hell is wrong with you? No matter your dead meat now!" The biker sadistically claimed, holding up the fist wrapped around in the heavy chain, ready to bash her opponent's head into oblivion.

"TAKE THIS!!" Shinobu didn't have enough time to react, as she was nailed from above from a aluminum trash can, threw by Roxy!" The gang member yelped in pain, stumbling to the side, but still staying on her feet. "You bitch I'll…"

"EEYYYAAAAHH!!" Shinobu's eyes lit up as she turned back to see the raising girl. In a blur before the trash can fell from ricocheting off her head, the mysterious girl jumped out of her unbuttoned jacket with her arm coiled. Just as the can reached face level for Shinobu…

*C-rack! * The ragged lunged a vicious uppercut, right into the trash can, which slammed unforgivably into the final gang members face. " Holy crap!" She could hear Roxy scream, watching the biker stand motionless for a second. As the trash can fell the bleeding Shinobu also fell over, without making another sound.

The unknown woman spat rudely, finishing up with the last punk. With a simple glance over to Roxy, she started to walk away, only to crumbling over in just a few steps. "Oh no! Wait!" Roxy ran over to the one that rescued her, turning her over and shaking her. The blonde girl nearly screamed at what she saw, under the jacket the girl had been terribly scared, nearly chest to stomach. "OH my god! Are you okay?"

"D-don't worry about me. Just get out of here, please."

"No way that's happening." Having been rescued, Roxy couldn't help but aid the total stranger that saved her from the gang. She hoisted her back up onto her feet and got under her arm, helping the stranger walk to her car. A silence passed between the two as the turned the corner from the now silent alley.

"Thanks…for helping me out back there." Roxy said.

"Thanks for helping me out too." The stranger replied softly, completely spent.

"What's your name anyway?" The scarred girl was silent for a moment, taking a deep breathe. She couldn't drag someone she just met into her problems. If everyone wanted "Her" dead…then so be it.

"…Aoi."

To Be Continued