Ayane stepped out of his room, more confused then anything. She still didn't really know what had come over to her, apologizing to Hayabusa! Maybe she wasn't well… or revenge for Kasumi was driving her slightly insane. She had to admit that when they were children, she didn't know much about him. He was Hayate-sama's best friend, and when she came along, Hayate had simply welcomed her into the fold, which she had readily accepted and appreciated. She had immediately taken a disliking to Kasumi because of the 'cuteness' factor on which she thrived upon, yet Hayabusa… she didn't remember feeling a sudden liking or disliking to him the first time she met him, just a neutral feeling. Hayate was always frank and didn't mind talking about himself, the weather, or anything in order to make conversation. Kasumi… she sucked up to everybody so hard that I'm surprised she wasn't a vacuum cleaner in a past life, Ayane thought bitterly. Always 'May I help you?' and very innocent. In her opinion, innocent equaled naïve, and naïve equaled stupid. And Hayabusa, now that was almost funny in his severe lack of people skills. She remembered when all four of them had been sitting and talking, when Kasumi and Hayate's father had summoned them briefly. She had sat, watching Hayabusa, who was just as comfortable with silence, if not more so then when everybody had been talking.
"Aren't you going to say something to me?" she had demanded after about ten minutes of silence.
"What would you like me to say?" he had asked coolly. She had fallen silent until Hayate and Kasumi had come back. Hayate immediately started chatting about what Shiden had wanted, while Kasumi stared up at her brother with a slimy affection. Hayabusa had simply stared out of the window, seemingly uninterested with the small talk.
She really missed Hayate. He was usually kind to her, although he had a darker, harsher, more competitive streak which anybody who knew him would realize. He was also very adherent to the rules, although didn't mind having fun and making mischief once in a while. The only flaw that she had noticed was that he never had seemed attracted to any girls. When they were teenagers, she had flirted with him almost unashamedly, yet he didn't even seem to notice, treating it as normal behavior. She worried about him sometimes, she had to say.
There was a small noise behind her. She immediately spun, before realizing that it was probably the sound of somebody inside their hotel rooms. She shook her head. She had to get out of assassin and kunoichi mode, and into 'get revenge on stupid slut Kasumi' mode. Her blood boiled at the mere mention of her name. She was not going to lose to her, no doubt about it. She would rather lose to anybody else then her.
Suddenly, she had thought of a distant reason why she had apologized to Hayabusa, much like Kasumi would do, which was rather embarrassing, actually. Because he was Hayate's friend, right? And Hayate had accepted her as a child, the least she could do was try and thank him for it, even by going through his friend. Hayate really was a nice guy, although she did have to question his choice of friends. She did not understand Ryu Hayabusa's motives no matter how hard she tried, or anything about him. Really, she knew nothing about him. Other then the fact that he wasn't as good at hiding emotions as everybody had thought that he was. He understood why she didn't like Kasumi. And she knew that he drank tea. It was a start.
Hayate… she thought as she strode briskly down the corridor to her room, glancing at the clock on the way past. Eleven at night. Only the rest of today and the day after before the tournament would begin. She smiled to herself, gritting her teeth in determination. Basically one more day. Kasumi had better start training, hard.
I thought that Ayane would probably be a bit OOC apologizing to Ryu (I mean, HELLO world) but for the sake of the storyline I had to make it so. Hopefully this justifies her decision a little although totally is nigh-on impossible (although I could see her apologizing to Hayate… is that just me? Because this is pretty much the first time I've written a story about Ayane, I find the bitch persona hard to write as sometimes but she is a great character) Anyway, enough waffle!