Disclaimer: I do not own the characters. Tecmo does.
This chapter will be longer.
Warning, there may be adult situations in this chapter.
"= Talking
'= Thinking
Bold= Author's Note
Italics= Transitions
Dark Gaze.
"What proposal do you have?" Nyotengu asks Hayate unsure.
"I want you to help me track somebody down." He replies.
"And why would I help you, I can just kill you right now!" She says angrily. Forgetting she was restrained by the wire, she falls forward with a yelp.
"And how exactly do you attend on killing me right now?" Hayate asks sarcastically. She says nothing and just lies on the floor. Hayate sighs and helps Nyotengu to a sitting position.
"Listen... if you help me track down and defeat this person, I'll give you the rematch that you want." Hayate says.
"I suppose I'll help you then, but I want another condition." She says.
"And what's that?" He says regretting his decision.
"Give me the name of the ninja who killed Tengu..." she says with a hint of venom in her voice. Hayate remains silent knowing that Ryu was the one who killed him.
"Help me track this person first and I'll give you his name." He says unsure of his decision. He releases Nyotengu from her restraints.
"Hmph, stupid brat." She mumbles under her breath. She gets up and stretches, letting out a huge sigh in relief and notices that Hayate is staring at her eyes.
"What are you looking at?" She asks him rudely. Snapping him out of his daze.
"Oh uh... nothing it's just... your eyes.." he says. Causing her to lightly blush and turn away annoyed. "Don't look at me, you worm." Hayate gets up from where he was sitting and heads to the edge of the mountain, looking into the direction of the wind current.
Nyotengu sighs. "What are you doing now boy?"
"I'm just looking for a potential direction to go in... we will head into that direction when nightfall hits, you were out most of the day so..." he says. She scoffs and looks into the other direction.
In a unknown area.
"How is the the test subject so far sir?" Says a silver haired woman with a tight black dress.
"It's going perfect my dear. Soon we'll have an entire army of super-enhanced soldiers." He says. "Good Donovan, we'll control this world and make everybody crumble at our feet." She says.
With Hayabusa in a snowy tundra
Ryu walks along the snow bank searching for anything he can find, his thoughts often drift off to Hayate and his mind state. 'I wonder if he has what it takes to be a leader.'
'I know I said those things to him to get his instincts back, but now that I think about it I'm not so sure.' He thought. Ryu's way of the shinobi constantly collides with Hayate's newfound ideas of how shinobi's should handle themselves. "The world is in need of an enforcer, it's sinful, the only way to maintain peace is to strike fear into enemies and use justice to prevail. Meaning you have to kill without hesitation." He says to nobody in particular.
While he is meditating with these thoughts, an unknown assailant tries to ambush him, but he could sense them. He swiftly dashes out of the way and gets behind the assailant. He brings his foot up to kick them in the head, but they ducked and moved out of the way in time.
"Show yourself." Ryu says sternly, the figure reveals their face and Ryu is shocked upon the revelation. "Kasumi?" He says confused, the figure attacks Ryu with a small sword in hand, Ryu retaliates by jumping over the Kasumi look-alike. With her back turned away from Ryu, she opts for a sweep kick, but Ryu predicted the movement to near perfection and grabs her foot and twists her ankle. She lets out a violent shriek in pain, and tries to break lose, but Ryu being the master combatant he is used the hilt of his sword on his back to break her knees, immobilizing her. "You're not Kasumi, you must be another stray clone." Ryu says."I'll put you out of your misery." Just as Ryu was about to kill her-
"That'll be enough." Says a person dressed in a short hoodie type vest with no undershirt. "You ninja are really something, but I can't have you going around destroying my father's projects." The man says. "Ryu, you are the embodiment of a perfect warrior, we could use you, and give you more than what you're used to if you come with me." Ryu scoffs at that proposal. "I have a duty to my clan and to myself. I will not be joining you, I will destroy the clones and every trace of your father's plans." Ryu says. "Well that's too bad, I was giving you the easy way, oh well. Raidou! Alpha! Engage!" Out of the tundra two more assailants ambush Ryu, one being a cyborg version of Ayana's father, and the other was a green gelatin like being that he thought Kasumi destroyed. Ryu jumped into the air but Alpha teleported behind him to knock him onto the ground, while that was happening, Raidou was charging up his ninpo for a devastating attack, once Ryu was in range, Raidou hit him hard. "Perfect combination ain't it?" Says the man controlling them. 'I don't have time to release my own ninpo, it takes too long to charge, I got to retreat somehow.' Ryu thought while slowly getting off the ground, his right arm seems to be injured. He faces his two assailants and ready himself for an attack, he anticipated that Alpha would teleport behind him and he was right, he ended up unsheathing his sword and cutting off one of it's limbs, he almost forgot about Raidou, who charges and Ryu. Ryu ducks the incoming kick and was about to retaliate with his own until Alpha wrapped its legs around his head, this bringing him to the ground. With Ryu on the ground, Raidou jumps up into the air and comes back down hard on Ryu's chest, injuring his sternum and knocking him out. "Okay I think that's enough, Raidou, bring him and Phase 4 back to the helicopter. My father Donovan will be pleased."
"Yes Rig."
Rig smirks with confidence.
With Hayate and Nyotengu
"Where are you taking us boy! We've been walking for hours!" She says annoyed.
"Well technically, I've been walking, you've been floating." He says matter-o-factly. Nyotengu just groans in annoyance. "Hmm, we seem to be close." He says to himself. "Close to where?" She asks. "My old friend's house, a long time ago I lost my memory and she found me. She had her father take me in and he taught me karate." 'She..?' Nyotengu inwardly scoffs. "And what does meeting with your little girlfriend have to do with what you're looking for?" She asks. Hayate ignores the girlfriend comment and remains silent. "I asked you a question." She says annoyed. He walks away towards his old dojo. 'If only you knew.' He thought.
When they arrived at the dojo, Hayate knocked on the door. A young woman answered. "Ein? I-I mean Hayate?" "Hello Hitomi." Hayate answers with little to no emotion. "Would your father happen to be around?" He asks. "Yeah, come on in.." she says avoiding his eyes. "By the way this is Nyotengu, my traveling partner."
"Nice to meet you Nyo!" Hitomi says with a smile.
"Hello." Nyotengu says with a slight bow.
"I'll go get my father! Just wait here!" Hitomi says. Hayate and Nyotengu remove their shoes and sit on the mats, awaiting Hitomi's father.
"She's a little cutie isn't she?" Nyotengu says playfully. Hayate sits there quietly, much to her annoyance.
"I hate being ignored ninja-brat." She says puffing her cheeks out. She reaches for his ear, but Hayate grabs her wrist and squeezes it. "Look, I am in no mood right now, just sit there a remain silent." He says with a cold glare, he releases her wrist.
Hitomi returns with her dad. Hayate bows in respect. "Ein it's been so long!" He says cheerfully. "H-Hayate sir.." Hayate sweatdrops. "What brings you here my boy?" "I have business to discuss with you."
"Well can it wait Hayate? I think we should have a celebration for you coming back, one of my top students!" He says. Hayate sighs, and looks out and notices the sun is setting, 'I guess it will be better to do talk tomorrow.' He thinks to himself.
"I suppose master. But will it be alright if Nyotengu and I stay here for the night?" "Of course! We'll have you go to your own personal quarters now to get ready for the feast! It'll be in one hour."
"Thank you master." Hayate bows and goes off into a room, Nyotengu follows Hitomi to another.
After the feast in Hayate's room.
Hayate lays shirtless on the floor, looking out at the moon. 'I can't believe that I'm back after that incident with.. her...' While Hayate drifts in and out of consciousness, a figure stands over him. Hayate sits up and realizes it's Hitomi.
"Hitomi?" He looks at her and notices the bottle of alcohol in her hand.
"Hi Ein~" she slurred a little. "I missed you so much. Why'd you leave?" Hayate looked at her but said nothing. A thunderous slap was heard throughout his room. "You bastard! You were my first... I-I loved you!" Hitomi said with tears in her eyes. "If you loved me so much, then why after I got my memory back, you... cheated on me with Keith?" He snapped back at her. "Because you changed! You kept pushing me away, I even tried searching for you" she said.
"I had a duty as the leader of my village."
"Bullshit Ein! Or Hayate! Or whatever your name is! You only use that excuse because you wanted to leave me." She said.
"Yeah well you want to know what I was doing during that time? Figuring out a way for me to get the outsider rule abolished from my village so I could.. make you into my wife. And I did it! It worked, but when I came back to tell you, I come back to you FUCKING Keith. I'm so glad that I was out of touch with my emotions because if I was the way I am now, I would've ended Keith. Right then and there." Hayate says standing over Hitomi. Hitomi glares up at him and throws a punch but Hayate grabs it, he then pushes her against the wall and pins her arms to the wall. "Let me go." She says. Breathing heavily while looking into his eyes. He slowly let's her go and on instict she grabs his face and they share a rough kiss. Hayate's brings Hitomi's legs up and she wraps them around his waist. He roughly thrusts his tongue into her mouth and glides it around her lips, eliciting a soft moan. After what seems like an eternity of them kissing they slowly pull apart. Hayate says while catching his breath.
"We can't."
End
Welp that ends this chapter. Keith is an original character I made up who trained with 'Ein' and Hitomi. I know Hitomi is a sweetheart and would never hurt Hayate, but there needs to be a reason he's so emotionally conflicted. Sorry for the delayed release. I'll try to be quicker next time.
Til next time.