I got so many ideas now, I don't think I'm gonna stop this story anytime soon, so those of you who are avid for the next chapters, don't worry ;)
Second, James, don't worry, I was going to add Ayane to the story. Only, now I felt like making her show up earlier than I had first decided it…so there she is ;)
Third, to get all the costumes at DoAU, you have to finish the story mode with the characters at hard and very hard until you got all costumes. The boys don't get more costumes after normal though. Kasumi, Ayane and lei Fang have 20 costumes, Tina 16, Helena and Hitomi (I'm not sure anymore if hitomi has more)13.. or you can just go and win all the items of the collection in survival. To get the last item, you gotta reach 50wins. Once you do that, it unlocks a special item collection. You gotta win 15 items (one for each chara). When you're done, it unlocks everything, the costumes you don't have, the cg, the booster disk for doa3, etc.
Unexpected ch5
Christie lied in her bed, looking at the picture of Helena Donavan gave her. "I'm confused now." She mumbled to herself.
"Confused about what?" A voice answered her. We could hear her unhealthy smile as she talked.
"Leave me alone." Christie only grumbled as an answer.
"I don't feel like it." The young voice was almost laughing.
"You never feel like it, these days." The albino threw the picture at the side of the bed.
She could hear a somewhat childish giggle. "I like being with you."
Christie sat up, a little unnerved, and searched her room for a shadow. "Show yourself Ayane." She could feel her but not pinpoint exactly where she was.
"Turn around." The shinobi's voice was now dangerously close and Christie could feel her body's heat.
"Stop this." She warned.
Ayane's hands sneaked around her waist. "Why? This is what you once wanted…"
"Once." Christie tore her hands off her as she stood up. "Just tell me why you're here and go."
Ayane still had her playful smile on. "What's with the sudden coldness?"
The albino crossed her arms. "What's with the sudden warmness?" She returned her question.
The shinobi lied on the bed. "I've been observing you."
"Since when stalking me is one of your hobbies?" Christie walked to a nearby chair and sat, not wanting to be in bed with the girl.
Ayane snorted as she made herself comfortable on the bed. "It was Donavan's request." Christie felt herself jump, her mind now raced with questions just as the purple haired girl expected it. "Woops, I wasn't supposed to tell you. He has trust issues you know." She grinned, watching the other woman.
"I wonder why, after what you pulled at the opera two years ago." Christie tried to keep her cool. "I still don't understand that night." She added even though she had an idea of what could've happened.
"Yet, it's me he sends to keep an eye on you." Ayane observed closely her nail, being unnervingly nonchalant.
"Like he would send Bayman…This man is as subtle as a piano falling from a building twelve stories high." The albino muttered. Ayane laughed at the image. "Donavan's not stupid, he knows you're best suited for spying as he knew he couldn't risk entrusting you with this mission a second time."
"What happened is in the past, alright?" Ayane stopped smiling. "Leaving these matter aside, something's going on in the boss' head and I don't think it'll turn out very pretty for you."
"Why are you telling me this?" There was an edge in Christie's voice. If there was something she hated above all, it had to be having someone play in her back.
"I'm gonna help you." Ayane, still lying on the bed, crossed her legs and closed her eyes. When she opened them again, all playfulness was gone. "But I need you to do something for me in return." She seemed dead serious now.
Christie woke up with a huge headache. 'Ayane tends to have this effect on me.' She mused as she went to the bathroom to get something to ease the pain. 'I can't believe I agreed to help her…' She gulped down the pill with a cup of water. 'Surprising she of all people would want something like that tough…' She got dressed and headed to the kitchen, picked up the food and got to Helena's room. She quietly entered the room and set the plates on the usual table.
"Lady Helena." She called softly to the lump under the covers.
"dormir…" the woman mumbled from under the covers. (AN: "sleep…")
"Your food will be cold if you stay in bed." Christie noted and tugged on the covers. Helena popped her head out. "…you don't seem very well." She added as she observed her features.
Helena sighed and sat up. "I'm just… " She didn't continue as she got out of bed; of course she was wearing only a light almost see-through gown as her night wear. She stood beside the huge window, like she liked to do; looking outside as she thought about god knows what. Now bathed in sunlight, Christie could easily see the blonde's silhouette through the white cloth. She turned away, knowing she was very red at the moment. "I just don't know what to do anymore." She stated a little worried.
Christie remembered her little breakdown the night before. "What about, Lady Helena?" She'd rather act as if nothing happened.
Helena quietly sat down. "Lei Fang isn't wrong; I don't remember ever falling for a man." She turned to the British woman. "It's just… I had no other excuse to push her away. She was a good friend and I liked her a lot." She picked at her food. "But that's all. I mean… How do you explain to one of your best friends that as close as you can be… as pretty, smart, funny, kind as she is, you just don't love her?" She rubbed her forehead with the palm of her hand. "What else, beside the lie about me liking men, could I tell her? I didn't want to lose her friendship." She ate a bite of her waffles, munching on it as she seemed to be thinking the situation over. "Love is so complicated…"
Christie was starting to think that Helena was more talking to herself than to her. "Have you ever been in love?" She found herself curious about this detail.
The blond tuned to her, too many emotions mixed in her eyes. "I… I don't know." The albino raised an eyebrow. "I have trouble making the difference between love and lust." She eyed the other woman's reaction.
"Why didn't you try and develop a relationship with them? At least to know what it was you were feeling…" Christie was wondering why she was talking about this with her of all people.
"Never got the chance." She sighed. "I don't think they would've wanted that kind of relationship with me."
Now Christie was curious about whom someone like Helena couldn't get. "…"
The blonde read her reaction perfectly and chuckled. "Are you sure you want to know?"
Christie blushed slightly. "I didn't even say a word!"
"But it's written all over your face how curious you are, dear." She rested her head in her hand as she watched the woman in front of her.
The albino cleared her throat. "Who wouldn't be curious?" She tried to sound detached but this matter was really intriguing her.
She smiled, as she knew or at least hoped Christie would feel targeted by the next comment. "Mysterious women tend to get to me." Helena finally admitted and started eating.
As expected, Christie kept silent. Some part of her wanted to press the matter further, but she decided best not to. It was a delicate issue after all. She watched her eat for some time then remembered she had chores to do and excused herself.
When the night fell, Christie found once again she wasn't alone in her room. "I told you I'd help you, can't you leave me alone for the time being?"
"Don't worry, I will." Ayane smiled. "I just came to give you the details." She sat up from her lying position… on the ceiling.
"Can you not do that?" Christie looked up at her.
"I never understood why that bothered you." The shinobi let herself fall to the ground, landing silently on her feet.
Christie rolled her eyes. "Just because you're a ninja doesn't mean you have to show off all the time."
"Shinobi, please. And I'm not showing off, I'm practicing." Ayane corrected her. "I don't wanna get rusty." She ran her fingers through her purple hair.
"Yea, well let's get this over with so you can go." Christie undid her tie, throwing it on a desk and took off her vest. She flopped down on her bed. She watched as Ayane picked up the tie, tried it on and observed her reflection in the mirror, smirking. "How long do you plan on staying, exactly?" the British woman felt she wasn't getting rid of Ayane anytime soon as she eyed the shinobi take off the tie and twirl it around. "I'm really tiered, I want to sleep." She lied on her back.
"Awww." She sat on Christie's stomach. "And I planned on staying all night" She ran her fingers on her chest.
Christie didn't flinch. "Stop playing around and get to the point." When she felt Ayane's touch was starting to have an effect on her, she slapped her hands off. "You and me, it's not gonna happen." Oh how she had dreamed of returning Ayane those words she spat at her a few years ago.
The purple haired shinobi seemed to recognize the words as she grimaced. "You're still angry for that?"
"You know, I always had this theory about you…" Then she grinned. "You only want what you can't get. Your brother, Kasumi's life, at the moment, me and for some reason, what you asked me yesterday night makes me think you now want--"
"Stop." The shinobi's eyes grew deadly cold. "Don't you dare…" She squeezed the woman's waist between her powerful thighs. "…say something like that again."
Christie clenched her teeth from the pain but held Ayane's glare. "Get off me." She was getting tiered of the younger woman.
Ayane squeezed harder before releasing her and standing up. "I heard rumors about Donavan wanting the little princess dead in the next week." She yawned, changing the subject.
'Already?' Christie frowned.
"What's with the frown? It's just a rumor." Ayane crossed her arms. "Or are you getting attached to her?" She smiled wickedly.
"Oh don't worry, I'm not going to make the same mistake you did." Christie mocked.
Ayane rolled her eyes. "What are you fantasizing about? I never had any feelings for her."
"Really? That night at the opera… Are you saying that you didn't shot her mother on purpose?" It was Christie's turn to smile. "That you, you missed your shot? You, who had never missed a mark before and never missed again after that time? It was such an easy target too, a beginner would've succeeded." She stood up. "Okay, now lets say that because of some event, you could've missed. Are you saying that in the few minutes following, you didn't have time to shoot again and kill her? Hyne, you still had the whole night to do the job and you failed! I'm not gonna buy you telling me you couldn't get past the security, you're the elite of Hajin Mon."
"You have no idea what happened." Ayane whispered warningly.
"Then why don't you tell me?" Christie had always been curious about this.
Ayane sighed. "Because I made a promise." She jumped and stood on the ceiling.
"Get down." The albino was determined to know what happened.
"I'm gonna get back to you to tell you about the plan. That is if you're still up to it." She stated in a professional tone.
"Why don't you tell me now? That's why you came in the first place, isn't it?" Christie started to change to her nightwear.
"I don't feel like staying any longer." Ayane flipped and had disappeared before she hit the ground.
"How do they do that?" Christie shook her head slowly, referring to ninjas disappearing in thin air.
to be continued….