Easily deceived at the end of the road
A.N- this is NOT the last chapter of this story. I changed my mind, there will now be seven chapters, because chapter six is so long, I hope you all don't mind. A big thank you goes out to all the brilliant reviewers, and also an extremely big thank you to my friend Tami who has read through my notes and has encouraged me to get this fic completed. I know that I said that the fic would go back to PG 13, but I changed my mind. I know that the last chapter left you all in wondering. My friend said that I was mean to Ryu, but then I was the one who reminded her that she had said that he was an ass before, lets just say she shut up after that. Well on with the fic, enjoy ^__^
Disclaimer: don't own squat, just the creativity I put in to it.
Ryu was up and dressed before his alarm had ever gone off. He stood in front of the bathroom mirror trying to compose himself. He was finding it hard to come to terms with the fact that he would go and lie to the entire council and his best friend, but he knew it was something that had to be done, if he wanted to protect Kasumi. With a sigh Hayabusa ran a gloved hand across his face and straightened out his clothes. He stood up straight and turned towards the bathroom door, strands of his long hair brushed against his cheek as he moved. Silently Ryu walked in to the bedroom and picked up his long black leather trench coat from off the end of the bed, he looked over to the sleeping Kasumi.
She was curled up in the spot where he had been sleeping; her long hair fell across her shoulder and her back. The pale sheets were wrapped around her mid section, and her legs were partly exposed. Her breathing was light and soft, and her expression peaceful.
Ryu turned away with a smile and finished fastening the clasps on his coat. He looked in the mirror on the wall one last time, before carefully pulling a section of his hair in to a small ponytail behind his head, and tying it in place with a small blue band. Hayabusa turned back towards Kasumi, and quietly walked over to the bed. He knelt down beside the bed and pushed the corner of the sheet up onto the mattress to reveal two draws. He quietly slid one open pulling out a thick blanket. He slowly stood up and shut the draw with his foot, and then he unfolded the blanket and draped it across Kasumi's bare shoulders.
The touch of the soft fabric against her bare skin made her smile slightly, before she opened her eyes. She pushed her self up and leaned back against the headboard of the bed. She looked at Ryu and smiled slightly, before pulling the thick blanket around her.
"Thank you, how did you know that I was cold?"
Ryu said nothing and sat down on the bed, his green eyes studied her for a minute before he answered her.
"I didn't, I just thought that you might like to be warmer and more comfortable than you were that's all."
His voice was low and cold, Kasumi could tell that something was troubling him, and not by the way he spoke to her. His body was giving off a lot of uneasy movements; weather he realized it or not and there was tension in the air.
"What's troubling you Ryu? Please, tell me the truth."
Her sweet voice was slightly pained, and her words almost a frightened whisper. Ryu looked away, his attempts to hide his feelings from her had obviously failed. Guilt began to fill his mind, her words had been so quiet, and so much hesitation and fear had been in her voice. Had he really scared her that much? Scared so much from just one night, that she was afraid to talk? He sighed, and lowered his gaze to the floor. After an uneasy silence he looked back at Kasumi, his head still lowered.
"The fact is, you are meant to be dead. In less than an hour I have to go lie to the entire council of clan leaders, and your brother, who also is my best friend, if you have not forgotten."
Her expression became pained; she lowered her head in shame. This was all her fault; she was the one who had been the reason for Ryu getting expelled from his clan and now this. Her sister had been right, maybe it would be better if she was dead.
"I'm so sorry, I have caused you so much trouble. I don't want you to lie." She took a deep breath, "I want you to kill me, please. It would be better for every one, and then I wouldn't be able to cause any one any more pain, especially you and my brother."
Ryu stood up slowly and walked to the window, that would be taking the easy way out. His eyes narrowed as he heard Ayane's voice speaking Kasumi's words. -Every one would be better off if you were dead- No, he would not kill Kasumi; he would not let Ayane win.
"I will not kill you. That would be the easy thing to do, and that is what Ayane wants." He turned to face her; "You would be letting her win. Even Hayate dose not want that, you have to be strong."
Her expression was one of pure shock when she heard his words. Every thing he had just said was true in one way or another, and she wasn't going to give Ayane the satisfaction of knowing that she had won.
"Also, it is not your fault that my clan dose not recognize me as one of them. That was my own choice, just like today. I will protect you, so that one day you can go back to your family."
He felt better, his own fears beginning to fall away. He walked over to Kasumi and hesitantly kissed her on the lips before heading towards the bedroom door.
"Don't leave, other wise you will be killed, and don't want all my efforts to be wasted. You can leave this room, just stay away from the windows, oh and if any one comes in hear while I'm gone, protect your self with this."
He picked his Katana up from its resting position against the wall and threw it to her. She caught it and looked at it before back at Ryu, but he had already left.
"Thank you, I guess you're not so bad after all." she whispered to her self before lying back down and drifting off to sleep.
Ryu stood on the balcony over looking the waterfall that ran over the shinobi temple. In just a few minuets he would be facing the entire council. He would have to make his story believable, his thoughts were running through his head like the very water flowing over the waterfall below him. Ryu took a deep breath, his thoughts becoming more ordered with every breath. His thoughts were suddenly interrupted, when he heard footsteps behind him.
"What do you want Ayane."
She laughed, before stopping a few feet behind him.
"I know what you've done. You such a naughty boy Ryu, putting your own pleasure before a mission. But that's always how it goes when it comes to my sister." He turned around and sat on the edge of the balcony; his emerald eyes studied Ayane's expression.
"What are you trying to accomplish? You have no idea what happened last night, and for your information Kasumi is dead."
Ayane frowned, she knew that something was not right but it didn't matter. This time she knew she had the upper hand, and hopefully Ryu would call her bluff.
"Oh really, well I guess that you wont mind then."
Ryu stood up and pushed loose strands of hair over his shoulder, Ayane knew. Or she was playing her mind games, so that he would confess the events of the previous night.
"Mind what Ayane?" he kept his voice low and level, this was not a good time for Ayane to be playing her games. She smiled and took a few steps closer to Ryu. Her soft brown eyes flashed wickedly before she continued.
"Oh I just sent a few assassins to your apartment to make sure you are not hiding any thing. It's always nice to make sure a job is done properly the first time am I right?" His eyes narrowed, Ayane's childish acts were starting to get old. He grabbed her arm and twisted it round behind her back; she fell to her knees, the soft fabric of her dark blue dress falling in a pool around her.
"What the," but she couldn't finish. Ryu dropped down to one knee and pulled out a four-inch blade, he pressed it to her neck. She struggled, but her efforts were pointless. Ryu just tightened his grip in her arm and pressed the blade closer to her throat.
"Now listen to me you stupid wench, you have no right to send assassins to my apartment, and you defiantly have no right to be messing in my affaires."
She laughed; tears of pain ran down her cheeks.
"You don't know shit! Once Hayate hears about this he will have your head,"
Ayane was really annoying Ryu, no matter what predicament she was in she always had to open her mouth. Hayabusa pressed the blade closer to her throat. A thin line of blood formed, before trickling down the soft pale skin of her throat. "Right now you are in no position to be threatening me, because no matter what you say, or what you do to try to get Hayate to kill me." He leaned closer to her, putting more pressure on the blade so that it dug deeper in to her skin. "He will never listen, do you want to know why?"
Ayane shook her head, and more tears ran down her cheeks. Ryu smiled coldly, no matter how many times Ayane challenged him, as soon as he threatened her with the truth she backed down. He always put it down to the fact that she knew everything he said was true, and that she would only end up bring shame to her branch of the Mugen Tenshin.
"I knew you wouldn't, you are such a pathetic worthless whore anyway. Plus it wouldn't be such a good idea to get on my bad side now would it, because you know what will happen don't you?"
He released her removing the blade form her throat, before putting it back up in to the sleeve of his leather trench coat. Ayane put her hand to her throat, in an attempt to cover the cut. She just sat on the marble floor of the balcony; her gaze fixed on Ryu.
"So what do you think you can do to hurt me? You have nothing on me," every word she spoke was pained, but the anger and hatred were still there. Ryu smiled at her seductively before turning his back on her, he walked passed her, and an aid appeared at the door before he could continue.
"The council is ready to see you now."
Ryu nodded to the aid and watched him disappear in to the darkness of the temple walls. He stood silent for a minute, then spoke.
"Now don't be to sure of your self. I don't think that many people would like the fact that you are in love with your very own half brother, and that in the second dead or alive tournament you tricked him in to sleeping with you. You know it's not very nice taking advantage of people who have amnesia."
He smiled again, before making his way in to the dark temple. Ayane just sat on the floor, -How did he know? Nobody knows about what happened- tears of anger fell down her cheeks, she got up off the floor and looked around, then it came to her.
"So that's what Ryu meant" she whispered to her self, as she thought back. ~ "I wouldn't count on it, do you want to know why your brother really keeps you around, or shall I stop now?"~ His words echoed through her mind like a ringing bell,
"YOU BASTARD!"
The doors to the main council chamber opened silently, and Ryu Hayabusa stepped through them and in to the great hall. Shadows cast by the many torches lined up around the vast expanse of the stony walls played across the floor, and the ivy covered statues. The warm glow of the early morning sun filtered in through the skylights and the few windows positioned at the top of the temple. Only six out of the twelve-clan leaders were present, including Hayate. They all sat at the great stone table that was positioned in the middle of the hall. Hayate stood up and looked at the ninja standing before him and the other clan leaders.
"Ryu Hayabusa, at the request of the other clan leaders I sent for you. I asked you to find my sister runaway sister and dispose of her, I asked this of you, because you were one of the only people who could accomplish this successfully."
Hayate paused, Ryu could see that the Mugen Tenshin clan leader was not himself, he had noticed this from the moment he had walked in to the room. Hayate stood slouched, with one hand resting on the stone table for support. His shoulder length light brown hair fell raggedly around his face and his usually bright and alert eyes were dulled with pain and lack of sleep. Ryu could only think of two reasons why his best friend might be in such disarray, one being the fact that his younger sister was finally dead and the other being that Ayane had probably done something to him, or a combination of both. At that point Ryu felt some what sorry for the 17th head of the Mugen Tenshin, he knew that Hayate would be living with the fact that he had ordered his best friend to kill his sister. He would also be living with the weight of her death for as long as Ayane was in some place of power, but Ryu also realized the difficulties he would have to face too. He himself would be living a lie, because he was really hiding Kasumi, and Ryu had even begun to doubt his ability in protecting her. One of the other thoughts that weighed heavily on his mind was that Hayate would be talking to him and confiding his feelings about the loss of his sister to him. And because of this, the task of being a friend would become harder, once Hayate came to his senses and didn't have Ayane on the sidelines to cloud his judgement. After a long silence and many anxious looks from the other clan leaders, Hayate continued.
"Ryu this has not been easy for me to do or come to terms with, but this is a question I must ask."
He paused again, his expression becoming more pained as he placed his other hand on the stone table. Hayate became even more slumped and his arms began to tremble from holding the full weight of his body up, he sat back down in to his chair with a heavy sigh. He lifted his head so that his gaze locked with Ryu's.
"Did you kill Kasumi?"
Hayabusa kept his gaze fixed with Hayate's, and then he reached in to his long black coat and pulled out two things. He walked over to the council of clan leaders and set the things on the table before taking a few steps back in to the shadows that sill lurked near to where every one was seated. Hayate stared blankly at the two things Ryu had just placed on the table, one item was Kasumi's dress and the other was her katana. He looked at Ryu then at his sister's belongings. So far every thing was going along with Ryu's prediction. He was glad that he had gone and gotten Kasumi's katana from the ally, Hayate had given it to her as a gift when she was smaller, and she had always carried it with her and would never give it away no matter the situation.
"I guess it is finally happened then, she is dead." He said to himself quietly.
Ryu walked back over to the table and placed one more thing in front of his friend, the lock of Kasumi's hair. Hayate stood up again; he stared at Ryu coldly,
"Fine, you did your job well. The runaway known as Kasumi is dead." He turned and made his way to the door quickly before any of the other clan members could see his tears of pain and sorrow.
Ryu stood silently, waiting to hear from the other council members. Finally one of them stood up, she was an older woman and Ryu recognized her almost immediately, as the leader of the Hajin Mon. She wore similar robes to Hayate, and her long black hair was braided and held back with an over sized neon blue bow. Her almost perfect skin was beginning to show the signs of her age, and a few scars marked her slender face. The bright purple and red markings clearly showed that she was the head of the Hajin Mon. the woman's intense steel gray eyes bore down on Hayabusa.
"You have shown us enough proof that the runaway is dead. Word will get out to your clan, and you shall be welcomed with open arms. We thank you for what you have done, and shall forever be in your debt."
Ryu bowed his head and the clan members did the same. With that Ryu turned and left, he just hoped that by the time he got back to his apartment Kasumi would still be alive and all his efforts would not have been for nothing.
A.N- another interesting chapter. Will Kasumi still be alive, or will Ayane's assassins have killed her? I think that's an easy question to answer, and I promise I wont take as long as I did on this extremely long chapter, until then. Oh and if you are fans of the anime Inu-Yasha, or like Lord of the rings please check out my other fics, (Inu-Yasha: Dancing with fire and Lord of the rings: Blood and gold). I also have another Dead or Alive fic.) Thanks again and keep reviewing, -Faith-
A.N- this is NOT the last chapter of this story. I changed my mind, there will now be seven chapters, because chapter six is so long, I hope you all don't mind. A big thank you goes out to all the brilliant reviewers, and also an extremely big thank you to my friend Tami who has read through my notes and has encouraged me to get this fic completed. I know that I said that the fic would go back to PG 13, but I changed my mind. I know that the last chapter left you all in wondering. My friend said that I was mean to Ryu, but then I was the one who reminded her that she had said that he was an ass before, lets just say she shut up after that. Well on with the fic, enjoy ^__^
Disclaimer: don't own squat, just the creativity I put in to it.
Ryu was up and dressed before his alarm had ever gone off. He stood in front of the bathroom mirror trying to compose himself. He was finding it hard to come to terms with the fact that he would go and lie to the entire council and his best friend, but he knew it was something that had to be done, if he wanted to protect Kasumi. With a sigh Hayabusa ran a gloved hand across his face and straightened out his clothes. He stood up straight and turned towards the bathroom door, strands of his long hair brushed against his cheek as he moved. Silently Ryu walked in to the bedroom and picked up his long black leather trench coat from off the end of the bed, he looked over to the sleeping Kasumi.
She was curled up in the spot where he had been sleeping; her long hair fell across her shoulder and her back. The pale sheets were wrapped around her mid section, and her legs were partly exposed. Her breathing was light and soft, and her expression peaceful.
Ryu turned away with a smile and finished fastening the clasps on his coat. He looked in the mirror on the wall one last time, before carefully pulling a section of his hair in to a small ponytail behind his head, and tying it in place with a small blue band. Hayabusa turned back towards Kasumi, and quietly walked over to the bed. He knelt down beside the bed and pushed the corner of the sheet up onto the mattress to reveal two draws. He quietly slid one open pulling out a thick blanket. He slowly stood up and shut the draw with his foot, and then he unfolded the blanket and draped it across Kasumi's bare shoulders.
The touch of the soft fabric against her bare skin made her smile slightly, before she opened her eyes. She pushed her self up and leaned back against the headboard of the bed. She looked at Ryu and smiled slightly, before pulling the thick blanket around her.
"Thank you, how did you know that I was cold?"
Ryu said nothing and sat down on the bed, his green eyes studied her for a minute before he answered her.
"I didn't, I just thought that you might like to be warmer and more comfortable than you were that's all."
His voice was low and cold, Kasumi could tell that something was troubling him, and not by the way he spoke to her. His body was giving off a lot of uneasy movements; weather he realized it or not and there was tension in the air.
"What's troubling you Ryu? Please, tell me the truth."
Her sweet voice was slightly pained, and her words almost a frightened whisper. Ryu looked away, his attempts to hide his feelings from her had obviously failed. Guilt began to fill his mind, her words had been so quiet, and so much hesitation and fear had been in her voice. Had he really scared her that much? Scared so much from just one night, that she was afraid to talk? He sighed, and lowered his gaze to the floor. After an uneasy silence he looked back at Kasumi, his head still lowered.
"The fact is, you are meant to be dead. In less than an hour I have to go lie to the entire council of clan leaders, and your brother, who also is my best friend, if you have not forgotten."
Her expression became pained; she lowered her head in shame. This was all her fault; she was the one who had been the reason for Ryu getting expelled from his clan and now this. Her sister had been right, maybe it would be better if she was dead.
"I'm so sorry, I have caused you so much trouble. I don't want you to lie." She took a deep breath, "I want you to kill me, please. It would be better for every one, and then I wouldn't be able to cause any one any more pain, especially you and my brother."
Ryu stood up slowly and walked to the window, that would be taking the easy way out. His eyes narrowed as he heard Ayane's voice speaking Kasumi's words. -Every one would be better off if you were dead- No, he would not kill Kasumi; he would not let Ayane win.
"I will not kill you. That would be the easy thing to do, and that is what Ayane wants." He turned to face her; "You would be letting her win. Even Hayate dose not want that, you have to be strong."
Her expression was one of pure shock when she heard his words. Every thing he had just said was true in one way or another, and she wasn't going to give Ayane the satisfaction of knowing that she had won.
"Also, it is not your fault that my clan dose not recognize me as one of them. That was my own choice, just like today. I will protect you, so that one day you can go back to your family."
He felt better, his own fears beginning to fall away. He walked over to Kasumi and hesitantly kissed her on the lips before heading towards the bedroom door.
"Don't leave, other wise you will be killed, and don't want all my efforts to be wasted. You can leave this room, just stay away from the windows, oh and if any one comes in hear while I'm gone, protect your self with this."
He picked his Katana up from its resting position against the wall and threw it to her. She caught it and looked at it before back at Ryu, but he had already left.
"Thank you, I guess you're not so bad after all." she whispered to her self before lying back down and drifting off to sleep.
Ryu stood on the balcony over looking the waterfall that ran over the shinobi temple. In just a few minuets he would be facing the entire council. He would have to make his story believable, his thoughts were running through his head like the very water flowing over the waterfall below him. Ryu took a deep breath, his thoughts becoming more ordered with every breath. His thoughts were suddenly interrupted, when he heard footsteps behind him.
"What do you want Ayane."
She laughed, before stopping a few feet behind him.
"I know what you've done. You such a naughty boy Ryu, putting your own pleasure before a mission. But that's always how it goes when it comes to my sister." He turned around and sat on the edge of the balcony; his emerald eyes studied Ayane's expression.
"What are you trying to accomplish? You have no idea what happened last night, and for your information Kasumi is dead."
Ayane frowned, she knew that something was not right but it didn't matter. This time she knew she had the upper hand, and hopefully Ryu would call her bluff.
"Oh really, well I guess that you wont mind then."
Ryu stood up and pushed loose strands of hair over his shoulder, Ayane knew. Or she was playing her mind games, so that he would confess the events of the previous night.
"Mind what Ayane?" he kept his voice low and level, this was not a good time for Ayane to be playing her games. She smiled and took a few steps closer to Ryu. Her soft brown eyes flashed wickedly before she continued.
"Oh I just sent a few assassins to your apartment to make sure you are not hiding any thing. It's always nice to make sure a job is done properly the first time am I right?" His eyes narrowed, Ayane's childish acts were starting to get old. He grabbed her arm and twisted it round behind her back; she fell to her knees, the soft fabric of her dark blue dress falling in a pool around her.
"What the," but she couldn't finish. Ryu dropped down to one knee and pulled out a four-inch blade, he pressed it to her neck. She struggled, but her efforts were pointless. Ryu just tightened his grip in her arm and pressed the blade closer to her throat.
"Now listen to me you stupid wench, you have no right to send assassins to my apartment, and you defiantly have no right to be messing in my affaires."
She laughed; tears of pain ran down her cheeks.
"You don't know shit! Once Hayate hears about this he will have your head,"
Ayane was really annoying Ryu, no matter what predicament she was in she always had to open her mouth. Hayabusa pressed the blade closer to her throat. A thin line of blood formed, before trickling down the soft pale skin of her throat. "Right now you are in no position to be threatening me, because no matter what you say, or what you do to try to get Hayate to kill me." He leaned closer to her, putting more pressure on the blade so that it dug deeper in to her skin. "He will never listen, do you want to know why?"
Ayane shook her head, and more tears ran down her cheeks. Ryu smiled coldly, no matter how many times Ayane challenged him, as soon as he threatened her with the truth she backed down. He always put it down to the fact that she knew everything he said was true, and that she would only end up bring shame to her branch of the Mugen Tenshin.
"I knew you wouldn't, you are such a pathetic worthless whore anyway. Plus it wouldn't be such a good idea to get on my bad side now would it, because you know what will happen don't you?"
He released her removing the blade form her throat, before putting it back up in to the sleeve of his leather trench coat. Ayane put her hand to her throat, in an attempt to cover the cut. She just sat on the marble floor of the balcony; her gaze fixed on Ryu.
"So what do you think you can do to hurt me? You have nothing on me," every word she spoke was pained, but the anger and hatred were still there. Ryu smiled at her seductively before turning his back on her, he walked passed her, and an aid appeared at the door before he could continue.
"The council is ready to see you now."
Ryu nodded to the aid and watched him disappear in to the darkness of the temple walls. He stood silent for a minute, then spoke.
"Now don't be to sure of your self. I don't think that many people would like the fact that you are in love with your very own half brother, and that in the second dead or alive tournament you tricked him in to sleeping with you. You know it's not very nice taking advantage of people who have amnesia."
He smiled again, before making his way in to the dark temple. Ayane just sat on the floor, -How did he know? Nobody knows about what happened- tears of anger fell down her cheeks, she got up off the floor and looked around, then it came to her.
"So that's what Ryu meant" she whispered to her self, as she thought back. ~ "I wouldn't count on it, do you want to know why your brother really keeps you around, or shall I stop now?"~ His words echoed through her mind like a ringing bell,
"YOU BASTARD!"
The doors to the main council chamber opened silently, and Ryu Hayabusa stepped through them and in to the great hall. Shadows cast by the many torches lined up around the vast expanse of the stony walls played across the floor, and the ivy covered statues. The warm glow of the early morning sun filtered in through the skylights and the few windows positioned at the top of the temple. Only six out of the twelve-clan leaders were present, including Hayate. They all sat at the great stone table that was positioned in the middle of the hall. Hayate stood up and looked at the ninja standing before him and the other clan leaders.
"Ryu Hayabusa, at the request of the other clan leaders I sent for you. I asked you to find my sister runaway sister and dispose of her, I asked this of you, because you were one of the only people who could accomplish this successfully."
Hayate paused, Ryu could see that the Mugen Tenshin clan leader was not himself, he had noticed this from the moment he had walked in to the room. Hayate stood slouched, with one hand resting on the stone table for support. His shoulder length light brown hair fell raggedly around his face and his usually bright and alert eyes were dulled with pain and lack of sleep. Ryu could only think of two reasons why his best friend might be in such disarray, one being the fact that his younger sister was finally dead and the other being that Ayane had probably done something to him, or a combination of both. At that point Ryu felt some what sorry for the 17th head of the Mugen Tenshin, he knew that Hayate would be living with the fact that he had ordered his best friend to kill his sister. He would also be living with the weight of her death for as long as Ayane was in some place of power, but Ryu also realized the difficulties he would have to face too. He himself would be living a lie, because he was really hiding Kasumi, and Ryu had even begun to doubt his ability in protecting her. One of the other thoughts that weighed heavily on his mind was that Hayate would be talking to him and confiding his feelings about the loss of his sister to him. And because of this, the task of being a friend would become harder, once Hayate came to his senses and didn't have Ayane on the sidelines to cloud his judgement. After a long silence and many anxious looks from the other clan leaders, Hayate continued.
"Ryu this has not been easy for me to do or come to terms with, but this is a question I must ask."
He paused again, his expression becoming more pained as he placed his other hand on the stone table. Hayate became even more slumped and his arms began to tremble from holding the full weight of his body up, he sat back down in to his chair with a heavy sigh. He lifted his head so that his gaze locked with Ryu's.
"Did you kill Kasumi?"
Hayabusa kept his gaze fixed with Hayate's, and then he reached in to his long black coat and pulled out two things. He walked over to the council of clan leaders and set the things on the table before taking a few steps back in to the shadows that sill lurked near to where every one was seated. Hayate stared blankly at the two things Ryu had just placed on the table, one item was Kasumi's dress and the other was her katana. He looked at Ryu then at his sister's belongings. So far every thing was going along with Ryu's prediction. He was glad that he had gone and gotten Kasumi's katana from the ally, Hayate had given it to her as a gift when she was smaller, and she had always carried it with her and would never give it away no matter the situation.
"I guess it is finally happened then, she is dead." He said to himself quietly.
Ryu walked back over to the table and placed one more thing in front of his friend, the lock of Kasumi's hair. Hayate stood up again; he stared at Ryu coldly,
"Fine, you did your job well. The runaway known as Kasumi is dead." He turned and made his way to the door quickly before any of the other clan members could see his tears of pain and sorrow.
Ryu stood silently, waiting to hear from the other council members. Finally one of them stood up, she was an older woman and Ryu recognized her almost immediately, as the leader of the Hajin Mon. She wore similar robes to Hayate, and her long black hair was braided and held back with an over sized neon blue bow. Her almost perfect skin was beginning to show the signs of her age, and a few scars marked her slender face. The bright purple and red markings clearly showed that she was the head of the Hajin Mon. the woman's intense steel gray eyes bore down on Hayabusa.
"You have shown us enough proof that the runaway is dead. Word will get out to your clan, and you shall be welcomed with open arms. We thank you for what you have done, and shall forever be in your debt."
Ryu bowed his head and the clan members did the same. With that Ryu turned and left, he just hoped that by the time he got back to his apartment Kasumi would still be alive and all his efforts would not have been for nothing.
A.N- another interesting chapter. Will Kasumi still be alive, or will Ayane's assassins have killed her? I think that's an easy question to answer, and I promise I wont take as long as I did on this extremely long chapter, until then. Oh and if you are fans of the anime Inu-Yasha, or like Lord of the rings please check out my other fics, (Inu-Yasha: Dancing with fire and Lord of the rings: Blood and gold). I also have another Dead or Alive fic.) Thanks again and keep reviewing, -Faith-