Chapter 15

Mizuki walked through the Hayabusa village, to come to face the entrance of the area. Looking around her, she left the village, wanting to take her call privately.

Seconds later, she stood against a tree and looked at the screen before she answered the phone.

"Unknown caller" The green screen presented.

Without thinking twice, she answered, thinking it could be from one of her agents.

"Mizuki McCloud speaking."

"Aah. Oh, how I love that sexy voice of yours. Gets me turned on."

Mizuki blinked a couple of times and shook her head. Was she hearing correctly?

"Excuse me? Who's speaking?"

"A little birdy has been telling me you've been staying with Hayabusa for quite some time now. I was wondering when I can have you to myself...of course along with my other eight legs." The man chuckled on the other side of the line.

"Eight legs...?" Mizuki questioned.

Before she could say anything back, three kunais flew her way and quickly opened up into ropes. The ropes tied themselves around her body and she fell to the ground. Her phone also fell alongside of her as she struggled to break free.

"Way too easy." She heard a voice say from behind.

"Ryu Hayabusa has his work cut out for us." Another was heard.

She then heard several footsteps coming towards her.

Slightly turning on her side, she saw three ninjas standing in front of her.

"Shut up you fools!.." Someone from above yelled.

A figure jumped in front of the three and cracked his knuckles then glanced at her state.

The ninja then went to grab Mizuki's phone and placed it to his ear.

Nodding, the ninja walked over and placed the phone back on her ear.

"Oh pity. I guess you've already met a few of my friends. But don't worry. I will enjoy meeting with you soon McCloud."

The phone call quickly ended, leaving her mesmerized.

The ninja took the phone and crushed it in his hand. Pieces of the device fell to the ground as he dusted the remains out from his palm.

"Take the women." The ninja ordered and turned away from her. He then jumped into the trees, heading towards his destination.

One of the three remaining ninjas then walked over to her and kneeled down to her ear.

"Don't want to keep Master waiting, now do you?" He asked.

Without wasting anymore time, the ninja threw her over his shoulder and jumped from tree to tree, following the other one, with the two-following close behind him.


The three ninjas continued their way towards the hideout, with Kasumi still leading the way.

Hayate still replayed what had happen years ago, when he performed the ninpo in front of Ayane. His father had warned him the consequences of what would happen if this situation would to happen again.

Shaking his head, he continued to follow Kasumi.

A small chuckle was heard through their walk.

Hayate glancing behind him to see Ayane halfway awake on his back. She flashed him a small smile and wrapped her arms around his neck.

Her body slightly started to warm up as she played with her fingers.

"I remember..." She trailed off.

"Hmm?" Hayate wondered if she had said something.

"Do you remember Hayate?" She asked him.

"Hayate, get back." Kasumi interrupted them as a few fiends jumped from the bushes.

He quickly teleported behind a tree, watching his sister fight against the enemy.

"Remember? Remember what?" He quietly asked, not wanting to draw more fiends over towards them.

"The lilies." Ayane answered and pointed over to a small patch of flowers, not far from where they were standing.

Hayate followed her eyes and saw white lilies blowing in the breeze.

"I was going to give you the ones I picked..that day, I wanted to show you what lilies looked like. You've never seen one. So, I wanted to show you them." She said and sighed.

Hayate stared down at the white lilies, trying to remember what she was talking about.

Kasumi then motioned them it was safe for them to come over as she finished off the last fiend. Hayate nodded and ran back over to her.

Soon, they both started to jog through the area.

Hayate glanced down every now and then as he saw multiple white lilies growing in their path. Some were stained in crimson blood, while others were their original bleached color.

The sight then hit him.


"Master Hayate! Hehe! Hayate! Look! Look at these pretty flowers!" A small little girl called, having freshly picked white lilies in her hand. Her lavender hair swayed in the wind as she ran towards the two.


Hayate slowed down his pace as he remembered that day.

How would Ayane know? Didn't Father erase her memory? She wasn't told the truth by anyone, has she?

They then passed by a small patch of lilies, with no trace of blood on the flowers.

Hayate stopped and had another quick flashback.


"Nani-" Ayane was cut off and was hit with the ninpo. A bright blue light engulfed the area the second the girl was targeted.

Several kunais stabbed in parts of her body. Her blood filled the puddles as it leaked from her small form. Her lavender hair was covered with mud along with crimson liquid as she laid there, completely still.


In his eyes, he saw those perfectly white lilies stained with Ayane's blood. He slowly backed away from the flowers, which made Ayane question him.

"Hm? What's the matter Master Hayate?"

He stared the flowers down and his blue aura suddenly formed around his body.

"Master Hayate?!" Ayane called.

Suddenly, Hayate felt a burning flame dance upon where the back of his right shoulder is. He glanced behind him to see that flame was coming from Ayane's lower right shoulder.

"Ayane?" He called in concern of the flamed burning her skin.

"What's wrong Hayate?" Ayane asked, not bothering reacting to the flame.

Hayate tried to calm himself in order to deal with Ayane.

Kasumi abruptly stopped to turn to see Hayate lowering to his knees, trying to hold on to Ayane.

"Hayate!" Kasumi called and ran towards the two.

Her amber eyes widen when a large beast landed in front of her, blocking her from getting any closer to her siblings.

The beast threw its arm over in her direction, which she swiftly dodged by doing several back flips.

"Dammit." She mumbled and drew out her Windmill Shuriken.

Kasumi jumped into midair and glanced over towards Hayate and Ayane, who were also surrounded by several beasts.

'Have to get this done fast.' Kasumi told herself and fell to the ground, ready to make a piercing cut into the creature.

"Master Hayate! Please! Get a hold of yourself." Ayane told him. She looked around them to see several creatures crowding around them. She then tried to grab one of her short swords, but there was nothing to get a hold of.

'What the?' She thought but remembered what had happened to her missing sword.


An excruciating pain shot up around every part of Ayane's body, causing her trip over her own feet and soon she fell to the ground. Her sword didn't fall far from her as she looked up to see Master Hayate.


Her heartbeat suddenly skipped a beat as she realized that the beats had closed in on them.

A cold hand was placed on her waist. She slowly turned when she was faced to face with one of the beast. She froze in fear, not even bothering on reaching for her other short sword.

The creature then grabbed a hold of Ayane, ready to tear her off from Hayate's back.

"Get your filthy hands off her."

Ayane stared down at Hayate's back. Blue lightning struck around his body, along with white energy lights as well. He turned to see that the beast had Ayane in its hold, ready to swallow her whole.

"..Get your filthy hands off her, you bastard!" He yelled.

A flash of light engulfed the area, to soon quickly die down. Once the light faded, the beasts' bodies were sliced up into pieces.

Ayane was terrified at what she had seen Hayate do.

He then slowly got up and made his way over to his baby sister.

"M-Master.."

Ayane was once again froze in fear. Why is she suddenly scared of him? This is what ninjas are born to do. So why was she so scared?

"S-Stay..stay away..Stay away from me..." She stuttered.

Hayate abruptly stopped as purple flames burned on both of her shoulders. Her red eyes burned in rage as her eyes pierced right through him.

He looked down at his hands, to see blue flames on his palms.

"Ayane.."

A sharp pain shot up his right arm when he tried to reach out to her. He fell to his knee and lightning came from his palm, to make its way to Ayane.

A high pitch scream was heard the second the lightning struck her.

His eyes widen when he witnessed Ayane consuming the lightning bolt within her body. A lightning symbol glew a little bit below her right shoulder once the lightning was consumed.

Seconds later, Ayane's body felt heavy and she began to fall forwards.

In a nick of time, Hayate teleported over towards her, still in his kneeling position. She rested her head against his back and let her arms fall to his side.

"I'm sorry Master Hayate." She mumbled as her flames died down.

Hayate grabbed both of her arms and linked them around his neck. With said, he slowly stood up to see Kasumi standing near a defeated fiend, shielding her weapon.

She then made her way over to them, with concern clouding her face.

"Are you alright?!" She asked glancing over at Ayane.

He only nodded and looked around the area.

"We're wasting time here. Let's get there a quickly as possible. No more distractions." He ordered.

Kasumi obeyed and disappeared, leaving behind a trail of cherry blossoms.

Before Hayate left the area, he looked down at the white lilies that swayed in the breeze. He then grabbed one of Ayane's hand to hold it in his own.

Behind him, Ayane's cheeks slightly grew a bright pink as she felt the warmth of his hand in hers. She slightly smiled and laced her fingers around his.

They then both disappeared, leaving with nothing that remained of the three.


Hours later, the three entered the hideout of the M.I.S.T organization. They looked around the area, waiting for another threat to come at them.

Hayate glanced at Kasumi and nodded for her to keep moving forward.

Agreeing, she continued her way towards the door that was down the hallway.

Kicking the door down, Kasumi unshielded her sword and looked up to see a giant egg sitting in the middle of the room.

"Is that?"

She turned to see Hayate letting Ayane slowly get off his back.

"There's some kind of body in there." Ayane pointed out, staring at the experiment.

Hayate stared at the egg as well.

"What the..? Canna?" He mumbled and unshielded his own sword and began to walk closer towards it.

Something in the corner of his eyes sparkled and suddenly a single knife cut through the air, aiming for his head.

Dodging the weapon, it also managed to cut the palm tree leaves that was wrapped around Ayane's back side.

Sighing with relief, he turned back to where the weapon came from.

"Aah. I wasn't expecting you three ninja coming to the rescue."

They all turned their attention to no other than Donovan, who was standing on the staircase above the egg.

"You again." Hayate responded and lowered his weapon.

Donovan gave a light chuckle and began to walk down the staircase.

"Such a beautiful soul. Very, very beautiful indeed. Wouldn't you agree?" He asked while gesturing towards the egg.

"Why are you even going back to this? I see that cloning wasn't your specialty." Ayane mocked.

Clicking his tongue, Donovan continued.

"My Alpha project was a success, do to your comrade's foolishness." He then paused and tilted his head to look at the egg.

"And then everything came to me. The Dragon ninja's blood would play the most important ingredient to our experiment...alongside with this one's pure soul."

Suddenly, a small voice was heard coming from the egg.

"Help..me." Canna cried inside.

"You've done enough to Canna and her mother." Hayate said and stood in his fighting position.

"I wouldn't try that if I were you." Donovan replied and the sound of metal doors opening echoed throughout the room.

The three quickly turned around to see an area that was a thick glass window with one guard standing inside. Then another came in but he wasn't dressed in uniform. He wore his baggy jeans and black sleeveless hoodie, which slightly covered his face identity. He then threw a brown-haired woman inside the room. She was still dressed in her karate gear, that was covered in blood stains from head to toe.

"Hitomi?!" Kasumi exclaimed and ran over to the room.

She looked up as fresh blood ran down her forehead and dripped to the ground below.

Kasumi watched as she tried to steady herself for her to stand on two feet.

Seconds later, she fell back down grasping her side.

"Hitomi!" Kasumi cried and banged on the glass.

Looking from Hitomi to Donovan, Hayate lowered his head.

"You're dead."

"Is that so?" Donovan laughed and raised his arm. Several doors of the lab began to open and multiple fiends ran towards the ninjas.

"This was fun, I hope we'd meet again ninja." Was the last thing Donovan said before returning up the stairs and disappeared down a hallway.

"Gross..." Ayane muttered and unshielded her single short sword and tried to balance herself.

'Dammit!' She said to herself as she fell to the ground.

Hayate quickly looked up to see her kneeling on the ground and grasping her side.

"I can manage Master Hayate." She quickly replied and teleported over towards the battle.

Hayate was frozen in his place as he watched Ayane attacking the fiends. His blue aura slighly began to grow off of his body.

He suddenly was thrown to the ground when he saw Kasumi standing in front of him and a headless fiend falling as well.

"Get a hold of yourself Hayate!" She ordered and ran over to Ayane.

He quickly got up and looked behind him to see the hooded man kicking Hitomi down to the ground.

"Sukoshi tawagoto ga shinu." He smiled.

Suddenly the M.I.S.T guard instantly exploded and blood spewed inside the room.

The man slightly jumped and looked up to see Hayate giving him a dark glare before he disappeared into the battle.

Hitomi stared at Hayate as we walked away from his previous location. Her face was haunted as she looked from the exploded body towards him. She then felt the man walk behind her and grasped the top of her head. Lifting it, she was faced with the dead body.

"This is what he did. This is what they do when they get angry. Do you know how they do this?" He asked her, tightening his hold.

"I-I.." She stuttered in fright.

"Answer me..Hitomi."

"I..don't k-know." She answered.

"Tsk. You're worthless." He responded and threw her, yet again, by the body.

He then left, not wanting to deal with her presence anymore.

Once she heard the door close, she stared at the body as tears escaped her eyes constantly. She then looked over at the egg. Sobs were heard from inside as Canna screamed.

"This is what he did. This is what they do when they get angry."

She replayed his words in her head.

"..H-Hayate..." She cried when an excruciating pain was shot in the back of her neck. She fell down in an instant as the pain grew worse. Within seconds, she lost consciousness.

"What a pain...I can't even get this chick to talk." The hooded man sighed. He then picked up a file with it labeled "Rig's Assignment".

"To hell with these then." Rig said and tossed them aside and disappeared out the room entirely.


Joe Hayabusa sat in his chair, lost in thought.

'The Greater Fiend...' He told himself over and over again.

Ryu had explained to him the situation he was in before things got out of hand. He stood there, waiting for a response from his father.

"The little girl...she's what they wanted all along?" Joe said, breaking the silence.

"M.I.S.T was making the threat towards the Mugen Tenshin before they found out that it was I who went out on that mission." Ryu said.

"The Black Spider clan had also tried to capture her for many unknown reasons. Now seeing that M.I.S.T wanted her-"

"I've heard enough." Ryu was cut off by his father, who raised his hand to stop the conversation.

Joe then sighed and shook his head.

"That explains the Dragon sword incident." He mumbled.

"I'll get the sword back to this clan. Hayate and Ayane already went to their hideout-"

"I'm not just worried about the sword, Ryu..." Joe paused and stood up from his chair. "I want you to bring them back home as soon as possible." He finished and walked past his son and out the room.

A heavy sigh escaped his lips as he placed the ninja star in his back pocket. Standing there for a few more seconds, he went to put on the top of his legendary black falcon attire.

Minutes later, Momiji entered the room with the Eye in her palms.

"Master Ryu." She called and lifted the jewel to him.

He nodded and took the Eye from her and placed it in his pocket.

Turning around, Ryu continued to get himself together.

"Momiji."

"Yes Master?"

"Have you gotten any information about Hikaru?" He suddenly asked.

Momiji was taken back once she heard Hikaru's name coming out of his mouth.

"Hikaru.." She mumbled and stared at Ryu's back side.

A frown tugged her lips as she replayed the scene Kasumi and her witnessed.


"Who am I?" The fiend mocked.

The fiend flashed from itself to a female girl with short brown hair.

"This is my mission. I will eliminate anyone who gets in my way. I'm not the person you want me to be.."


"Hikaru is not any of us." She replied and looked away.

Ryu stopped what he was doing and slowly turned back around.

"'Not any of us'?" He questioned.

"Kasumi and I had run into some chaos and met up with her while doing so. She wasn't herself, Master." She paused, staring at the ground.

"Momiji, who is Hikaru?" He demanded, standing directly in front of her.

"She's our enemy and..Hikaru belongs to the Black Spider clan." She answered and lifted her head to see him staring her down.

He then turned back around once again and put his face mask back on. Turning back at Momiji, he adjusted his scarf.

"Find her." He ordered, pulling his scarf up to cover his mouth and nose.

"Of course, Master Ryu." She bowed and turned getting ready to leave.

"Momiji."

"Yes?"

Ryu then walked past her and towards the exit.

"Bring some men along with you as well." He ordered and disappeared leaving behind a trail of green leaves.

Standing in her place for a few minutes, she then left the room as well.


Kasumi, Ayane and Hayate finished the last of the fiends when the lab started its Lockdown Mode. The room lights blinked a couple of times before several doors began to slowly close. Some of them closed a lot faster than others. The room where Hitomi was kept was also halfway closing as the Lockdown continued.

"Brother!" Kasumi called to him and pointed over to the room.

Hayate impaled his sword in the last fiend and quickly turned to see the room door closing.

Acting quickly, he shielded his sword and teleported inside the room. He then picked up Hitomi and was getting ready to leave when he heard a loud click.

Glancing behind his shoulder, he saw one guard pointing his gun aiming for his head.

"This is it, ninja." He said, ready to pull the trigger.

He then fell to the ground with a loud thud. Hayate looked up to see Ayane pulling her sword out from his back and shielding it back in its place.

"We have to leave while we still have time Master Hayate." Ayane said and glanced to see a trail of silky cherry blossoms on the other side of the room.

'Doing whatever she pleases...of course.' Ayane smirked and turned her attention back at Master Hayate.

"We're going back to our village for medical assistance. Are you managing ok?" He asked her.

"Like I said, I'm fine. Let's hurry before we get stuck in here." She said.

He nodded and the two disappeared in a flash.

Ayane then fell on one knee and grasped her side yet again.

"Managing? Pfft. Yeah right." She laughed and disappeared not long after.

Rig stood in the shadows of the room, witnessing them taking Hitomi. Clicking his tongue, he left once again.

"And when I was getting ready to have fun too."


Author's Note:

I've been lacking so much on this story. It's probably because I grew tired of DOA communities and roleplay on my account. But recently, my sisters and I have played the Ninja Gaiden games again and now I realize that I can't give up with this story yet. I'm also busy with my own personal life as well. With Hurricane Harvey showing up, many of my friends have lost their homes and supplies. I'm so happy that so many people came from all around my country to help out with donating so much money and volunteering at local food banks for those who lost their homes. If any of you are willing to help out, please just go online, text or even call to donate a small amount towards many, many families out there. Thank you for your corroboration and I hope you all still stay here with this story!

Extra:

I'm just pointing this out towards the people who were very confused about the language of this story...Yes, I put some of the lines in Japanese. I just want to put some culture inside this storyline. For those who understand it fluently, please feel free to email me. One of my close friends has been helping me write what I want the characters to say in Japanese (in characters as well). I'm sorry if the words are a little off! Some of the things are just irrelevant, but I might just put the English version instead. Comment what you would prefer. English or Japanese?