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Here's chapter 2

Translations:

Kimono - A dress warn by men and or women in Japan

Gomen - Sorry

Honto ni - Really

Hai - Yes

Onii sama - Respected elder brother

Kunochi - Female ninja

Shinobi - Male ninja

Kiri desu - Beautiful

Shikashi - Never the less

Yurushite kudasai - Forgive me

Chapter 2: Redemption

She awoke to the warmth of a crackling fire. Her eyes lids slowly fluttered open as her eyes caught sight of her brother. She gave him a gentle smile as she watched him ring out what appeared to be a wet towel.

"Your awake…" The sight of her warm smile and calm features stirred feeling into his heart. She sighed heavily as she felt the wet compress lay across her forehead. She jumped as she heard the sound of lighting.

"It's still raining…?" She questioned weakly.

"Yes." He replied as he gently eased her back down onto the mattress.

Looking around the best she could while her brother tended to her wounds; several thoughts began to cloud her mind.

She placed her hand atop her stomach and felt nothing. "My wound…" She uttered in slight shock. "How…?"

Cringing a little as he heard her mutter the same word she breathed when she went unconscious Hayate just grabbed her hand and moved it away from where her wound once was.

"What did you?"- "Healing herbs." He answered.

Her eyes widened a little as she stared at his wounded chest.

"You did this." He replied in a stern voice. Lifting her hand to the wound above his pectoral muscle, allowing her to feel how deep the cut went. "I underestimated you." He admitted as he took the other hot compress he had floating in the water and rubbing across his chest.

"Gomen…" She muttered; laying her head to the right so she could look at the sword that laid against a wall.

It silver blade was tinted with blood. Seeing the look of anger appear on her face he removed his hand from hers and straightened up.

Looking at him crossly. "How could you?"

"It is my duty." He grumbled; hearing the same word she used before falling unconscious stirred more feeling and guilt into his seemingly empty soul.

"Why?" Lifting herself up from the mattress and glaring angrily at him. "Because I saved your life?"

"You ungrateful girl…" He muttered angrily as he detected her aggravation.

"You are the ungrateful one big brother." She snapped; crawling over to him to meet him face to face.

Rolling his eyes he pushes her back onto the mattress and gets to his feet.

"You owe me big brother!" Her tone turning definite as she continued to plea her case. Noting her strength he acknowledged her. With his arms folded he glared at her with the same serious, and unchanging facial expression.

"Your so cold…" She muttered bitterly; her hands in her laps as she looked away from him.

"Honto ni…" He replied neutrally; not particularly caring for her response.

"Although you saved my life today…Hai Hayate onii sama." She replied in a serious but respectful tone of voice as she accorded her brother. "You are cold hearted."

"I saved you didn't I?" He asked sarcastically.

"You rather I die…" She replied whispering the words.

"You broke the code of…"-"Fuck the code!" She cried; getting to her feet in an instant and getting in her brother's face.

"I was captured by DOA TEC to save you!" Her tone full of anger and truth; sending a wave of unknown emotion into Hayate. His serious glare now falling faint as he focused on the emotional kunochi.

"…Kasumi…" His strong and uncaring tone weakening every second he hears his sister cry and continue to reveal how she feels about the whole situation.

"I risked life and limb! Avoiding home and escaping death at the hands of many in order to make sure you were safe!" Tears streaming down her face as she fell into the shin obi's open arms. "And you don't even care!" Her fists slamming across his broad chest as she poured her heart and soul into the stubborn shinobi.

"You don't even understand…" He replied in a somewhat bothered tone of voice.

"I would be better off dead…" She replied sadly as she reframed from banging onto Hayate's chest and place herself against the wall.

"You know the clan does not tolerate this…"-"Then why don't you put an end to it?" She questioned; her voice almost sounding devoid of all emotion as she gripped her katana.

His eyes focused and thinking she would attack him he reacts by gripping the same hand that grips the handle of her own weapon. Only to be surprised by Kasumi's reaction.

"What are you…?" He asked; surprised as he watched Kasumi take her katana and slash at the bands that held her skimpy kimono together.

All sense of reason left him as the blue and white material that was once her kimono fell to the ground. Seeing a half naked Kasumi stand before him without shame or fear was nothing further from disturbing for the shinobi of the wind.

But despite how wrong the situation deemed itself to be her naked beauty was something to behold in all it's glory and he knew it. Feeling even more of the same over whelming emotion he felt earlier surge though him.

"…Kiri desu…" He muttered in an almost lustful tone as he studied his sister's flawless body. "…Shikashi…"

He shivered as he felt Kasumi grip him by his hand and place his sword hand across the hand that gripped the handle of her katana. As he felt her arm wrap around his waist he lived in the moment of her beauty. Her skin had never felt so soft.

"Is this…bad…?" She questioned. Her somewhat informal and innocent behavior sending undeniable shockwaves through his entire body as he fell pray to his sister's every whim.

"Kasumi…" Her name barely escaping his lips as he felt himself caught in between his feelings for his sister and his own morals as he endured the feeling of her soft body molded against his own in this difficult situation.

"Do it…" She replied softly; the tip of the katana pressed lightly against her chest; bringing it deeper.

Sensing her strong but bothered aura he came to grips with this wrong and looked at her with conviction.

"…No…" He muttered; snatching the weapon out of her hand and tossing it to the ground; wrapping his arms around her waist.

"Why not?" She questioned; her innocent eyes focused on her brother. Hearing her whine as innocently as possible in her soft voice he felt himself tensing up against the pressure. "What's wrong big brother?" Her bare chest pressing up against his own, now causing another emotion to cloud his judgment.

"You are nothing to me…" He growled as he buried his head into her neck. "As far as I am concerned we are not even related."

"…So then…" She asked; sighing as she felt his strong arms wrap around her waist and strengthen in hold. "Why didn't you kill me?" Her eyes glistening with held back tears and seriousness.

After a minute of silence Kasumi just sighed heavily and buried her head into his chest.

"...You really want me dead..." She mumbled. Snuggling her brother as she strengthened her embrace. "Don't you love me anymore…?" Tears falling slowly from her eyes as she questioned him.

"I never said that…"-"Actions speak louder then words…"

Loosing all sight of everything he felt as his heart fell into emptiness. He had convinced his sister that he had disowned her and didn't love her.

And with that knowledge he felt he truly was the one to blame for Kasumi's depression and now that he knew that he had no idea of what to do or say to her to prove this wrong.

"Do it Hayate…" She muttered in a soft toned voice as she bent down to pick up her murder weapon. "Kill me now." She answered; depression painting itself all over Kasumi's face as she handed Hayate the katana. "Put the clan and yourself at ease with my death."

As she stood back and waited for her blade to plunge into the depths of her heart all Hayate could do was feel shame and regret for all that he had done to his sister.

"I can't…" Upon hearing the sound of her sword hitting the hard ground her eyes opened to the sight of a saddened Hayate.

Swallowing all of her emotion in an attempt to emulate her brother's neutral toned expression she approached him.

"Why not?" Her sad facial expression turning curious as she gazed into his apathetic eyes. Looking away from the ground to meet her brown orbs he sighed as he brought his lips to hers.

"I just can't…" He muttered softly. As he inched in for what seemed to be a kiss Kasumi slightly jumped at the action. As her lips brushed across his she wrapped her arms around him and snuggled him tight. Not wanting to let go.

"I'm so sorry Kasumi-chan." The gentle tone of her brother's voice never sounding so endearing as she strengthened her embrace. "I can never regain what we had lost since childhood but…if you could…I beg you…" He paused as he became lost in her natural beauty. She sighed as she looked up into his emotional brown eyes. He actually looked kinder to her now for some reason.

"Yurushite kudasai…" He muttered across her lips. Her heart began to feel lightened from the pain she had been feeling for the longest time as she detected the sincerity and love in her brother's voice.

"…Yes…" She muttered softly as she felt his lips touch hers. Her wide eyes began to close as she felt her brother wrap his arms around her waist in an almost protective fashion.

Despite all of the horrible things her brother had put her through for once in her life Kasumi honestly believed that she might of gotten through to her brother.

"I can't be your big brother any more…" Hayate muttered across her lips as he broke away from the kiss.

"Don't be…Hayate-sama." She answered as she nuzzled his tight.

"I never knew I could one to love her this much…" He thought as he softly nipped at her neck.

"Hayate…I…" She muttered; trailing off as she gave into her brother's consistent, gentle touches.

Silencing her with another kiss he almost wanted to jump as he felt Kasumi rest her weary hand atop his chest. "I did this…" She replied half jokingly as she brushed her hand against the wounds and cuts. Both getting to their knees; another sigh of happiness escaped them as they hugged each other tight.

"How…did this happen?" Hayate asked as he rubbed the back of Kasumi's head.

Looking up with star crossed eyes she smiled lightly and gave him a shy look.

He smiled and cupped her chin. "Go on…" Seeing as she bit her bottom lip out of nervousness.

Going in to steal another kiss he felt himself overwhelmed by Kasumi's strength as he felt her topple him to the floor.

As she broke the kiss he smiled. "That wasn't so hard…now was it?"

Shaking her head she went up to him and pressed her lips against his own; proving she was comfortable being this close to her brother.

As the rain continued to fall Hayate and Kasumi continued to be good to each other. It seemed as though the two had been kissing for hours on end.

"I don't want this to end…" She muttered softly; moaning a little as she felt her brother's hand come in contact with her chest.

With her hand moving ever so slowly towards the designated spot in Hayate's pants; it was as they neared the second step to this unexpected redemption that reality began to set in for the two of them.

"How could you…" Replied the angered voice of the purple haired kunochi. Her eyes widening as she spotted her half brother and sister engaging in the act of romanticism.

Breaking the kiss in a sigh; the two looked up and noticed their half sister staring back at them from her hiding place in the trees.

"Ayane…" Hayate muttered in slight shock.

Her brown eyes burning a hole into the heart of Kasumi and Hayate as she disappeared into darkness.

Tossing on her blue and white kimono and racing to get to the door she found herself stopping at the site of a bothered Hayate.

"This was inevitable…" He replied sternly; his informal and uncaring tone of voice returning to him.

Shaking her head in annoyance she stared at him for a moment and then headed for the door. "You loved me once Hayate…"

As she went to turn the handle she felt Hayate gripping her wrist and placing her up against the door.

"Will you be able to once I step out this door?" She questioned.

Reaching for her katana Hayate says nothing and hands her the weapon.

"Arigatou…" She replied as she placed it back under the wraps of her white belt. Without warning Hayate leaned in and kissed her sister. With no reaction he nodded his head in approval.

"Let's pretend that we met…" Looking away from him and out to the forest.

Holding back tears she took a moment and sighed; taking in the scent of the wet earth as she felt the grip her brother had on wrist loosening.

"…Run away…" He replied as he helped her open up the door all the way.

Her eyes widening with surprise as she heard her brother tell her this.

"Go…Ayane will be coming for you."

Nodding her head it was as she went for the door she paused and then wrapped her arms around Hayate to hug him.

"I won't forget this Kasumi…" He answered as he rubbed her back. "Neither will I." She answered; dashing off in a torrent of pink flower petals. "…Neither will I…"

The End