Tenchu 2: Red Crimson

By: Tenchu Girl 16

Disclaimer: I do not own Tenchu; it's just fan fiction

Okay in this chapter Ayame wonders threw Master Shunsai's underground maze; also known as his basement. She has to use everything she has ever learned as an Azuma Ninja to make it out. The thing that worries her the most is if she will ever make it out in sixty minutes that the Master has given her.

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Chapter Two: The Master's Final Test

Ayame falls threw the open trap door and landed feet first onto a cement floor. Her ki senses picked up a guard not too far away from her. Her first enemy kill was about to be in progress. Just the thought quickly got her excited as she quickly and accurately scanned were she was. She noticed the walls of this place were white stone and the floors were concrete. Not too mention the smell of this place was a swamp like small. There had to be a source of water somewhere to produce such an odor. Ayame began to slowly walk forward up the step so she could get a better view of the guard up a head. But before she knew it she saw the guard and almost instantly a warning signal flashed off in her head. She quickly ducked down to avoid getting spotted. As she ducked down she quickly took a look at the guard. The guard wore a gray and black ninja suit along with a mask to cover his facial expressions. The guard was a few feet away from Ayame and was standing face forward. He then began to turn sideways then finally he turned his back towards Ayame.

Ayame saw this as her chance to nab him. She quickly got up and did a silent run as she quickly grabbed him and cut his neck with both of her twin swords. The guard's head separated from his body as Ayame let his body fall. The blood from the guard's head splattered on her. Ayame took out a hanker chief from her dress pocket and wiped off her face. The smell of death was so strong but yet so intoxicating. Ayame walks away from the dead body and soon finds that she was at a dead end. Well what seemed to be a dead end. It turns out that there's a room above that high blue platform that the guard was standing in front of. Ayame quickly made her way up the platform using her grappling hook. As she hosted her self up she noticed that this room led to a drop. In that was a guard walking in a square like pattern waiting for her to be that stupid enough to jump in there after him, with out studying him. Ayame stood at the edge of the room observing the guards pattern wanting to make the kill. As the guard turned his back on her, she jumped down and stealth killed him. Afterwards she cleaned her twin swords then launched her grappling hook into an opposite wall and hosted herself unto another platform. But this platform leads into a narrow hallway which leads unto a small room. In the small room was a guard, almost right in front of the room entrance. The guard proved to be a difficult one to get, for the light source coming from the room gave the enemy a boost of sight range, but a few minutes later Ayame saw her chance and stealth killed him.

After the kill she looked to her left for her right would lead her to a dead end. She walked towards the left that lead into a small hallway with blue walls and red flooring that was divided into six squares. Thinking nothing of the six squares Ayame just walked across one when all of a sudden she felt her self sinking. She quickly jumped to the other square when she noticed that it was a pitfall trap.

"Oh shit, this is a trap! Ayame said to her self as she hoped from Red Square to Red Square. Got to get the hell off of these red squares."

A few minutes later Ayame was off the red squares and just in the nick of time; because they began to collapse revealing a never ending pitfall. In front of Ayame was a huge wooden ramp leading somewhere but where? Ayame didn't have time to evaluate where the ramp would lead. So she just silent ran over the ramp, but every step she moved forward she could her arrows shooting at her. She quickly ran off the ramp and almost fell off the ledge but she caught herself before she fell. She took a look behind her and saw a row full of arrows on her right. It was a trap that failed to kill her.

"Damn how many traps are in this basement?" Ayame asked her self once more.

Meanwhile Rikimaru was lying on his mat reading a book on ninja's when someone knocked on the door.

"Come in" Rikimaru responded

The door to the room opens and Tatsumaru walked in. Rikimaru's room was a little bigger than Ayame's. It was complete with blue walls, a mat with white sheets and a tan dresser a few feet to the right of Rikimaru's mat.

"Hey Riki, studying books typical you."

"You Tatsu are such a womanizer. You look at women as much as I read books. So what brings you here?"

"I just came to ask you how your first mission as an Azuma ninja went."

"Oh it was okay, I guess. I had to go after some village thieves that sleep by day and attack by night. There leader was a complete moron; he was about to kill an innocent woman for sport."

"That is a true bastred, so did he kill her?"

"Nope because I blocked his knives from hitting the target. I killed him soon afterwards; the woman asked for my name. I just told her I am just a shadow; I have no name."

"Any way's I was thinking of Ayame. Do you honestly think that she can handle the final test?"

"Yeah if her movements are as sharp as her tongue. I have been watching her train lately; and I think that she has potential."

"I admit it Ayame has talent but she is just seventeen, I don't think she can handle the pressures of being a ninja."

"Tatsumaru that's where your wrong, Ayame can handle it just fine. Are you worried about her getting hurt or something of that effect?"

"Yeah what if a enemy boss pisses Ayame off. You know how Ayame is when someone pisses her off. She really dose do stupid things when she is angry."

"Oh yeah I try to stay as far away as possible if Ayame gets mad at me. But she can handle herself; Master Shunasi thinks the same way I do."

"True. Rikimaru, I think Ayame still doesn't get it."

"You mean…."

"Yeah she still is living in her little fantasy land. After breakfast she told me that we're going to get married under a beautiful cherry oak tree. Ayame is beautiful there is nothing wrong with her looks. It's just that I do not want to get married or have a serious relationship with her. I just want to check out pretty women and serve as an Azuma Ninja."

"Tatsumaru, have you told Ayame that you're not interested in her in relationship wise."

"No I just keep putting it off, or I will tell her I think about marrying her. I just didn't want to tell her; she seems to be so much in love with me. I just want us to be friends and to work together as Azuma Ninja."

"Then tell her every thing you told me and do it as soon as she comes back. Rikimaru responds you can't keep deceiving her like this. Ayame is a smart girl she figures things out. I think she would never forgive you if she finds out you have been lying to her. She thinks that you are going to marry her someday."

"You're right maru, for someone who has no experience with women; you do know of how to solve men's problems with women. Well I catch you later, I am going to go and mediate by the waterfalls."

"Bye" Rikimaru simply responds as he counted to get back into his book; as Tatsumaru walked out.

Meanwhile Ayame have killed two enemy ninja and went threw the tear gas trap. Her eyes were still a bit irritated from the tear gas. As she walked she stopped as she saw a small wooden sign. On the small wooden sign it simply pointed up. She knew she could trust this sign because she have seen the same kind of signs around the training course. She launches her graphing hook and hooked on a piece of rock that lead in a small cave and hosed her self on it. As she walked to the end of the cave she simply saw a small sign pointing down. Ayame looked down and saw deep water but it was way down there. Trusting in the sign and her senses she opened her arms up like a bird and divided head first. After a long dive, Ayame founded her self swimming up for air and coming up for air. As she came up she gasped for air and swam with out going under water for a few yards before she noticed a path underwater. With a dead end at the surface she really didn't have much choice but to take the underwater path.

'Okay Ayame you don't have much time to be debating you must go under. I wonder though will I make it out in one hour? Okay just have faith.' Ayame thought to her self as she took a huge breath of air and dive underwater. She then went threw the underwater cave and swam threw it as fast as she could. A minute later she was out of the underwater cave and found her self swimming up for air. Almost instantly she could since an enemy near by. She decided that she must come up as silently as possible. She swam up slowly and when she finally reached the surface she pulled out her underwater breather, so she still breathe while being partially underwater. The enemy was standing on what looked to be a rock platform and was standing directly in Ayame's direction. It took awhile but the guard turned his back towards her. Ayame saw this as her chance and pulled herself up against the rock and grabbed him. She then proceeded to cut him at the neck; she could hear his neck snap as he fell to the ground. Ayame walked past his body and took a look to her left. At her left was a step leading up to a cliff and on that cliff was another guard she must kill. A few minutes later as the enemy's back was turned, Ayame quickly walked up those steps and killed him. She then walked to the edge of the cliff, jumped off and grabbed another enemy and cut his throat. The guard soon fell as Ayame kept walking until she saw two metal doors. She opens the two metal doors and walked out of them.

As she walked out she noticed that she was under the waterfall. Ayame sees Master Shunsai standing right beside the splashing water. She walked up towards Master Shunasi and stood a few feet in front of him.

"Coagulations, Ayame you are now an Azuma Ninja!"

"That's great, I mean thank you for the honor."

Okay that's the end of this chapter. Please review and tell me what you think of it whether it's good or bad. Any why's in the next chapter Master Shunsai sends Ayame out on her first mission. She would have to head out to a near by village at night fall to hunt a mysterious group of mountain bandits. After packing what she would need for her first mission and getting some shut eye; she decides to join Rikimaru and Tatsumaru at the dinner table. Rikimaru keeps nudging Tatsumaru to be honest with Ayame. But dose Tatsumaru tell Ayame the truth; or dose he do something completely unexpected.

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