A.N.- Keep in mind this is an AU and there are different ages as well as personality caused by the age difference as well as the time period. SUBMIT ORIGINAL CHARACTERS. THERE IS STILL ONE OPENING

Forevermore- Thanks for the OC. Oh, I've changed her weapon to a ninjato because that's the type of sword ninja's used. Ninja swordsmiths would normally really be outlaws or farmers so they didn't have the skills to make an excellent sword like a katana. They didn't have the tools to make curved blades or have the same metal alloys that swords the samurai bought. A ninja would steal a samurai's katana (or whatever weapon they carried) because it was much better. The ninjato would have to be used in a sawing motion. Slashing from the end and bringing it inward as you moved it down, or vice versa while the samurai's katana was so sharp that it could be dropped and cut a soldier in two, even with their armor on. When she goes on a mission, I'll make it so that she steals a samurai's sword.

Wolf Runner- Good, I thought no one else was gonna review. I'm gonna give a some more people a chance first. I couldn't pass up Forevermore's because her character provides a solution to getting Hayate to where he needs to be to get the plot right. If no one elses submits a better OC, then I'll put yours up hopefully before the third chapter. Tai won't be behind in Kuji-in so that your storyline will fit for him.

Primary Kuji-in:
Rin: Brings strength to the mind and body
Hei: Delivers psychic power to mask presance
Toh Balances the solid and liquid states of the body
Sha: Heals the user or another
Kai: Control all bodily functions like heart rate, temprature, etc.
Jin: Increases telepathic powers
Retsu: Increases telekenetic powers and stun opponents
Zai: Merge with the universe
Zen: Enlightenment


New Characters

Midori Matsusuke- The daughter of the Tenshin Mon faction's youngest brother. She is jealous of Hayate's position as heir of the Tenshin Mon. She is determined to get rid of Hayate and become the leader of the Tenshin Mon when her training is over.
Age: 15
Hair: Dark Brown, long braid.
Eyes: Black
Preffered Weaponry: Ninjato
Kuji-in: Hei/Toh/Sha/Retsu


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By: Joey/Mai fan15 aka Hitomi/Hayate fan aka Spider


Arrows flew through the air, sticking into their target's chests. The samurai were caught offguard by the sudden attack of the assassin group hired by a wealthy rival family. The samurai fell to the ground, collapsing in the mud. So was the price to pay for ruining an important mission.

Suddenly a salvo of flaming arrows flew against the regular arrows, burning the trees that were the source of the offensive attack. The remaining samurai sighed in releif as the fire died down and the retreat of the ninjas was confirmed. A smart move since their presance had been discovered.

The samurai reported to their empoyer's dining hall as was routine after an attack. The old man who had hired them as bodyguards was furious, "What do I pay you people for? To sit around and talk while they kill members of my family? While you were all outside waging hopless war against them, they stuck scorpions in my son's bed. He's dead now because none of you followed what you were supposed to do."

"Sir, we didn't think we'd make it to the rooms in time."

"So what, you could have made it. It's better than not going at all," he looked out the window, "My daughter, Naemi's family is coming tomorrow. I do not want this happening again. She has a husband and a daughter, I don't want them to be killed either."

"Sir, tonight we have decreased by at least half."

"There are thirty more samurai that are coming. They should arrive three hours before Naemi."

"Sir..."

"Go back outside, resume your duties. Now!" the man walked bitterly away, "You're lucky my archers saved you."


Erikku Kohachirou sat down at his worktable and took a toad from a barrel and set to work exctracting the poision from behind it's eyes. The toxin dripped out into a small bowl. Within minutes he had finished up on the toad and threw it back into the barrel.

He was about to get some darts to dip in the poison when someone called from the front room. He took off his gloves and facemask and headed to the front of the shop to come face to face with Zyunichi Anyarei, Yuuna's father, "Hey kid."

"What do you need? I just finished up with the toad poison. Or do you need some sort of medicine?" Erikku handed him the inventory list.

"I just got back from another mission, I just need one of those burn antidotes. They shot some molatov arrows at me, my upper arm stings," the ninja stood as Erikku retreated to the back room and reappeared with a jar of the burn antidote.

"Just rub a handfull of this on your arm, it'll feel better in a few hours. It'll also help the burn marks fade," he tossed it to the Anyarei.

"You're running a great buisness here, kid. You're parents would be proud. They were good friends of mine, I'd know."

"Thanks," Erriku started to get back to work as the ninja started to leave.

"Oh, Shinden wanted me to get you for your Kuji-in training. He says you're very far behind and to report to Mr. Kyuu's cabin. Hayate should on his way already," Zyunichi turned to leave, "I'll send Yuuna over later with the payment. Her brothers and sisters can manage for a few minutes. Her mother and I have to do some more work for Shinden."

"Thanks, but I'll just stop by there. I might even help her with them," Erriku ushered him out and headed off towards his teacher's house. He didn't like having to study magic with him especially because he made Hayate and him feel guitly about being behind in Kuji-in.

He was shortly joined by Hayate and Mari who was following him around again. Hayate ran up to him, "Get her away from me."

"Sorry, man. I can't, she wont take her eyes off you."

Mari walked a few feet behind the two, they whispered so she couldn't hear a word. Erikku couldn't help but feel sorry for her since she was oblivious to how Hayate really felt about her. Maybe if she wasn't so obsessive, it would be different, "You two are getting married in a couple of years. If you don't want it to seem like hell on earth, you need to start spending more time with her."

"Spend more time with her? You realize that she's following me around every day, right? Besides, I'll find a way for my father to accept that I don't want her."

"Well, there is a loophole for everything. But Shinden thinks that she's the perfect wife for you. She's smart, she's knows a fair share of magic, she's beautiful, she's a great kunoichi."

Hayate scoffed, "If you think so high of her, why don't you take her off my back?"

"I would, but she's supposed to marry you. Hayate... why did you have to tell me about this anyway? It's torture hearing all your problems about her every day."

"Because Heero would tell Shinden. Ryu, even though he's a good friend, would give me lectures about how it's important to follow traditions and all that crap. My sisters would scold me about it. And everyone else would tell."

Erikku was glad that Hayate trusted him, but was equally dissappointed that he trusted him with this, "Well too bad cause I'll scold you about this too. Seriously, you have to accept it."

"I'll find a way out."

The two walked up the stairs to their teacher's cabin. He stood up and they bowed respectfully to him. He returned the gesture and motioned for them to sit down, "Glad you could have joined us, Mari."

"Thank you, sir."

The elder had been the one of the first to master all eighty one hand symbols of Kaji-in, including the nine primarys. He always expected the same commitment and dedication of his students that he had when he was a child. Maybe he suceeded because books don't yell at you if you're moving along too slow, "Now, Hayate, it is to my understanding that if you show improvment today you'll go on a simple mission tomorrow night. Am I correct?"

"If my father keeps his word, yes sir. You are correct," Hayate looked nervous about it. The thought of failure was distinct in his mind.

"You're nervous, aren't you?" Hayate nodded in reply, "Well, you should have nothing to worry about. Your father has good judgement, he wouldn't let you go unless he was positively sure that you could make it out alive."

Hayate nodded and the old man stood up, "Come, we have to venture out to the forest for this training excersize. Today we will test your ability to use Kai. The mountaintop is very frigid and if you can control your bodily functions, you will come out just fine."

The two stood up and followed the old man outside and Mari headed home as she was instructed by Mr. Kyuu. He looked at Hayate, "Hayate, you will be training until dawn the following day to better prepare for you mission. Then you will go to your father's and spend the rest of the dya with your cousin. Erikku, you will be dismissed at the regular time. Six hours after we reach the top."

The present time was eleven in the morning and the two trainees were beginning to feel more invigorated as they headed up the mountain until halfway up, when they began to grow tired. Their teacher pressed on, and seemed to lose no energy at all. Erikku looked over at Hayate, "This is going to be a long lesson. Especially for you."

"Shut up."


Hayate shivered in the cold as he saw his accomplice leave down the mountain, "L-L-Lucky b-b-astard," he instantly wanted to punch himself, knowing that Erikku had indeed lost his father to death.

"Watch your language, child. Such vileness leads you down the wrong path. Besides, Erikku will be even further behind in his Kuji-in training while you may catch up to the level you should be at," Kyuu stood up and walked to the edge and watched Erikku's decent, "Now, if you were actually making any progress, you shouldn't be feeling the cold."

"This stinks, why couldn't you pick something else?" Hayate rubbed his hands together as a futile attempt to warm himself, "Did you bring any food?"

"No, controlling bodily funtions includes eliminating the need for hunger," Kyuu seemed as if he was sitting in front of a warm fire, "Hayate, your destiny shall begin to unfold during your next mission. The very reason you live might very likely be revealed to you."

"Yeah, that's what my father said."

"I told that to your father. Otherwise he wouldn't let you go until your twentieth birthday," the elder sat down in front of Hayate, "Now Hayate, concentrate. Use your will to survive this. Make sure you've used the correct hand symbol."

Hayate closed his eyes and moved his hands and fingers into the same formation as his teachers. His breathing became slower and calmed, "Good, good Hayate. How do you feel?"

"I feel... warm," Hayate was concentrating on the spell so hard he seemed in a trance.

"Good, Hayate. Keep it up until midnight, and we can head home," Kyuu seemed glad to see that they'd be leaving soon.

"Thank you, sir."

"Remember, with enough practice you can use this and it will stay in effect for a long amount of time and you would be able to use it with much less effort," the elder smiled, "Tomorrow night, Hayate, will be your first mission."


Ayane sat down, holding the gash in her forehead as Ryu looked through the cabinets for some bandages. He came back shortly and took the spot next to her and began to unroll the white cloth, "It's a good thing you didn't fight back. You could have gotten in more trouble."

"It would have been worth it," she turned away from him so that he could wrap the bandages around her head, "As long as I could've gotten back at them."
"No it wouldn't. They'd get mad at you and come back every day to do the same thing again and again," Ryu finished up and cut the end with his knife, "Then eventually, they'd get tired of you fighting back and would probably kill you."

"Don't be stupid, Ryu. They wouldn't go that far."

"Well then, how far do you think they'd go?" Ryu took her silence as an uncertain answer, "Beleive me, you don't want to know."

"Well, they wouldn't do anything more than cut me," Ayane was sure that what she had said was true.

Ryu went back into the other room, "Ayane, just don't yell and insult back at them anymore, it'll make your life much easier."

"What do I do then? Just walk by when everyone says that I'm living proof that my mother is a whore?" Ayane felt tears run down her cheeks as her vison blurred.

Ryu sat down next to her and shook his head, "Don't cry. You know that it's not true. Radiou... you know what Radiou did. That's why he was banished."

"So, only a few of us know that. And it hurts to know that I am... this, a child of rape. It hurts to think about the horror my mother went through, the pain she experienced when she found out that she was pregnant with me, and thoughts linger inside my head that maybe some of them are right, that my mother enjoyed it and went on with it after a little while so that it theoretically wouldn't have been rape."

"Ayane, that isn't a possibility."

"Yes it is, Ryu. And you know it."

"Listen, I lost my father a few months ago, and I'm going through a lot of pain too, I-"

"So that is something that you can get over with in time! My problem has been with me my whole life! Every day is the same, I show my face in publc, I get teased and my mother does too! Shinden won't accept me nor is he certain about what had happened to my mother. And she is always sad because she loves Shinden so much, and he can't show any feelings in return. Shinden thinks that Ayame actually went to him and... it happened."

"No, everyone knows that your mother was drugged by him."

"Yeah, everyone used to know that. Then other rumors started to pop up and the truth became just another rumor. Even I beleive that it could just be a lie."

"I'm sure that in time, you'll get over it."

Ayane looked at him and wiped some of her tears off onto her sleeve, "No, I can't. Hayate and you are the only ones who accept me. Everyone else teases me, or just looks at me weird when I pass by. And Kasumi... Kasumi is worst of all. She teases me the most and she's my older sister. I'd give almost anything to have her be my best friend, the one who looks out for me, the one who sticks up for me, the one who can help me through this. But no, she has to be like this."

"Ayane, she is just concerend with her mother's reputation and her father's happiness. You know that since then, they've never been happy."

"And it's all my fault..." she whispered.

"No it's not, it's Radiou's."

"And I'm a reminder of what that asshole did."

"Ayane, don't talk like that, like it or not, he's your father."

Ayane's eyes grew wide at this statement, "No, he's not. He didn't raise me. Neither is Shinden. As far as I'm concerned, I don't have a father, so what everyone says is true, I am a bastard. Say it Ryu, you're thinking it just as much as everyone else."

"No I'm not, Ayane. I would never think like that."

Ayane looked away from him, ashamed that she would even accuse him of that, "I'm sorry. It's just... I can't bear to live like this another day. I need to get away from everyone and everything. I need to be somewhere that I can escape all of this."

"You can spend the night here or at one of your friend's house."

"I don't have any friends and it would be innapropriate to stay here with you."

"What about Yuuna?"

"I can tell that she's uncertain about what to beleive and that's good enough to make me not want to be there, even though she is one of my only friends. Besides, one of her little brother's is such a brat. He'll say things without much thinking and will hurt people without even knowing it," Ayane laid down, resting her head in his lap, "It's alright, I can deal with another night in the mansion."

"I hope so."


Night had fallen by the time Erikku had reached the village he called home. He felt sorry for Hayate for having to be up there but wanted to laugh at it at the same time. He made his way to the Anyarei household. Once the cabin was in view, he could see the light on in Yuuna's room so he decided to collect his payment since he had no home to go to and she probably had nothing better to do.

He knocked on the window of her room and a few seconds later, she had opened it and handed him the money her father had given her for the burn antidote, "Go to the front door, I'll let you in."

He went around to the front to find the door open already. He went in and looked for Yuuna in the kitchen, making tea, "Father said you'd come right after training. Since it's so late, I'd bet you haven't eaten."

"No, I havent," the two stayed in complete silence until Yuuna brought the pot of tea and two cups to the table.

She took one and poured it for herself, "So how'd it go?"

"Not too well, I didn't really learn much. I was too busy thinking about the cold to concentrate," he took a sip of the hot tea, "Feels good to have something warm."

Yuuna handed him a peice of bread, "I know we don't have much, but I haven't been able to get out of the house and go to the market to get fish, meat, or vegetables."

"So, why haven't you asked me to go get anything for you? I'll do it."

"I just didn't really want to impose on you to do things for me."

"No, problem. I don't have a family to do chores for of my own, why not do some for yours?"

Yuuna was sorry everytime that she brought up a topic that eventually lead to talk about his parents, she beleived that it would be better for him to forget about them, "Sorry. I forgot about that. It must be very lonely for you at night... maybe you should stay here tonight. I insist."

"It's alright, Yuuna. I'm used to it," he got up to leave, "See you tomorrow."

Yuuna took his hand and pulled him back down to his chair, "I insist, besideds, my parents won't be back until tomorrow at around nine. So we'll have room."

"But where would I sleep? I really won't feel comfortable here."

"My room."

"Umm, Yuuna..."

"Let me finish, I'll sleep in my parent's room."

"No, Yuuna. It's alright, I can last a night in my house by myself," he smiled, "I'm a big boy now."

Yuuna laughed, "Fine, just come here in the morning then, okay?"

"Fine," he turned to leave, "Before I forget, do you want to come with me and Ryu tomorrow? We're going up the mountain to go fishing. Since your parents are watching the kids tomorrow, why don't you come?"

"Sure, I'll come," she got up and walked back to her room, "I'll see you tomorrow morning."

Erikku watched her as she walked away, admiring how her nightgown hugged her figure perfectly. He shook it off after he figured out what he was doing and headed out the door to his empty home above the poison shop.


Hayate stood next to his cousin, Midori, half asleep and waiting for their mission breifing. Shinden walked into the room with a small bottle of what looked like rock flakes, "I ordered this poison from Erikku a few weeks ago. They are small peices of a highly toxic mushroom that he calls amanita phalloides. All you have to do is slip it into a soup and thr family members will eat it and perish."

"Father, may I ask who our assignment is?"

"The Sorai family again. A few relatives of theirs are also coming to visit. The patriarch's youngest daughter, her husband, and their daughter. They will be eliminated also. Midori, you will slip the mushrooms into their soup and Hayate, you will put scorpions into the beds of the family."

The two cousins replyed in unison, "Yes sir."

"Now, I know you two are rivals and bicker a lot," Shinden released a hearty chuckle, "But you two need to learn to work together as a team, that is why despite that fact that, you Midori, are not finished with your training, I have assigned this to you. You two will spend the day working together and planning this out for yourselves."

Midori looked at her cousin and feigned a smile, "Yes sir."


A.N.- R/R, put up OC's. Hope you like this so far.