Authors Note- I apologize for shortness of my recent chapters,because of my work I am just wanting to write what I can so everyone can read it.

Chapter 10

My eyes widened when this sudden burst of anger came from Bayman. His words bit with venom and anger, asking about Raidou and then telling me to tell him. This hurt my chest for some reason, yet at the same time it caused a sudden burst of anger to coil in my body. Somewhere I felt like I could tell Bayman, yet in the same instance my mental shield. My stoic and cold emotions flooded over me like a tsunami. Without warning I felt my left hand ball into a tight fist, only to spin around and strike Bayman along his jaw. I watched as he fell back into the soft dirt and grass of the jungle. "You can go to hell!" My words coming out in a rush of hatred, venting everything toward Bayman, even as he slowly began to get up dusting himself off. I noticed my shot had busted his lip open, the red liquid pouring from the wound and spilling onto the ground. However something would unerve me while he looked toward me. I saw a lion, not a man, it seemed to me he could change his personality at the drop of a hat. In that instant I felt like I made a huge mistake, yet my body reacted for me.

"Fuck you!" I found my words coming out as I struck toward him with my left leg. I got the satisfaction of him stumbling back, and I would follow up. Using my corkscrew kick technique I felt him slam into the tree in front of me. Several small coconuts would fall from the top. Yet again like our scuffle in the snow he would begin to rise. "Stay down!!" My voice was becoming slightly raspy when I ran toward him. My body quickly leapin upwards, both my legs getting full extension, cracking along his hard jaw. I watched his head whip back as I completed the full flip landing on my feet. Blood spewing across my face, I swore I saw a tooth of his come flying from his lips and falling on the ground. His body remained propped against the tree almost like a statue. My frustration building now as he stood defiant, it made me even more angry. "Why don't you just die Raidou!" My mind truly was elsewhere lunging forward I drove my knee into his stomach, only to push off his now bent knee and leap onto his shoulders. Drawing my left leg to the side I struck his face sending him sprawled out into the jungle mud and dirt.

He didn't seem to move now, my voices now choked each time I panted. My fingers now tracing along my jaw the heated blood of his leaked down leaving a subtle feeling of satisfaction upon my features. Yet with astonishment he was getting up, I noticed with each time he got up my mind remembered Raidou. Like a demon long forgotten and should have been dead, he would climb from the gates of hell. My legs digging into the soft mud, while I blitzed toward him. To much suprise it would be quite painful, his eyes catching mine when he stood up. Right left leg was blocked, and he used his shoulder to clock my jaw, my feet being lifted off the ground. "Ahhhh!" My voice coming out shrilled as the blow came in full force, nothing had been held back. While I was falling back, I felt my legs grabbed and then came a strong gust of wind. I noticed only in an blink that Bayman hurled me toward the tree, my back bending like a twig when I slammed into it. "Ooof!" It hurt to no explanation falling face first into the mud, I could feel my eyes leaking tears while I laid in the mess.

"I am not Raidou!" The voice of Bayman's pierced my slight fading consciousness. "I allowed you to hit me, but I will not let you kill me!" It seemed each word from Bayman's came with emotion, my eyes full of tears would look and now see his face. Mixed with the blood leaking from his mouth. Was that a single tear trailing down his jaw? My hands pushing from the ground, nearly sliding in the mud. "Bayman-sama? I.. I am sorry." Did I actually apologize? Why was I apologizing he had treated me like some weak fool. "Don't say anything." I froze hearing Bayman tell me those words, only for him to fall back and slide down a tree. He didn't have that same anger that I had heard earlier, it sounded like he understood what he said to me. My body now ached while I slowly got up, stumbling a little toward where he was sitting. I realized he had only hit me twice, but each blow did massive damage to my frame. He was ungodly strong and precise in his attacks his style of fighting was so different than what I had been used to. My form now dropping down beside him, hand coming up to hold the small metal dogtags that rested against my chest.

"If we don't stop this Raidou.. We won't be able to leave this island. I refuse to let any man dictate my life, what about you Ayane." I listened to Bayman tell me what he truly intended to do, yet his last words struck me. Did I allow Raidou to dictate my life? It wasn't true it couldn't be. Yet it did seem true, the man's name mentioned alone made my skin crawl. The thought of facing him even now had my heart beating harder and harder. Almost like it would explode in my chest, my head dropping a little, his hand touching my cheek would make me raise my head. "What could break a cold hearted killer like you down into tears?" My eyes flashed when Bayman spoke to me in such a way, he was right I was a murderer. Just like him, we took lives as needed and we both enjoyed the hunt and task of killing them. How could I answer those words? "I.. I... Raidou is..." Each time I tried to explain my eyes would water up with emotion. The memories flooding my mind like broken damn over a low land valley, Raidou destroyed everything in his path, the village. He damned me to existance just by my birth.

I was trapped in a dilemma could I share such tender concerns with this man, why did I even consider it. I was a shadow, a cold brisk wind if struck in the right way. My head finding itself comfortable on his shoulder, I felt connected to this Russian. He seemed to be just like me in every way imaginable. "I.. Raidou is a demon.. He raped my mother Ayame... Ayame in my village was... She was the wife of the lord of the village, so when I was born I was considered trash.. I am a bastard child of that demon, he damned me to die. He came back when I was sixteen to the village and attacked. He was after a special fighting technique, he easily defeated the entire village, me, and wounded Hayate-sama.. He is a demon no one can kill him. I don't want to face him again, I have trained so long and even last time I was no match for him. It's pointless he will kill us if we face him. I just want to run, he is not someone I can defeat. I.." My words were cut off when I felt his fingertip touch my lips, I felt the leather of his tipless flove brush my chin. My eyes fixated toward the Russian. "What?"

I asked why he had stop me, yet when his cold dark eyes looked at me I froze. "I don't give a damn if he is the devil himself. He is a man, no man will control me, I fear nothing. I felt his flesh, I heard him breathing. If this fool can do these things, he can be killed. I won't make you come with me Ayane. However its your choice to continue to run, continue to act like a whipped dog. However if you do that I will never respect you as an equal in my field of work. It's your choice Ayane." I listened to his words, each of them would do little to change my mind. His words mentioning the losing respect for me actually hurt me, would he do that. Then again why would I care if he did that? My answer not coming until I watched him slowly stand up. Only to walk away, "Bayman-Sama?!" I heard a somewhat desperate sound in my voice while he moved away. I watched him continue to walk away, his form beginning to dissapear. My heart would begin to race, the fear of Raidou would be replaced with the fear of seeing Bayman leave. My hands pushing off the ground as I ran after him.

"Wait!" My voice would carry on the wind, while my feet rushed to catch up. I noticed he had slowed his pace enough for me to catch up. "What is it?" I heard Bayman ask the question, only to continue walking ahead. "You cannot do it alone.. I won't let you get the glory of killing him. Thats mine." I spoke with conviction as I grinned a moment, with this lion of a man by me. It seemed like I could do anything. Realizing before I could say another word I saw the wired fence that lead to the buildings we escaped. It looked like a poorly kept fort befitting the former Soviet Union. However the eerie silence would concern me, why was it like this? Bayman moving toward the entrance to the building stopping as two doors would slide open revealing entrance to the building. My eyes scanning them, what was going on? Looking to Bayman I didn't really have to ask, I watched him begin his treck down the right hallway. Only for me to look at the left, stopping before I entered. "Bayman- Sama?" I spoke his name carefully as he looked in my direction, "Be careful.."
All I got was a simple nod as he dissapeared down the corridor. Each step I took my curiosity was peeked, what laid in wait?