Here's the third chapter! Enjoy!
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Ryu and Crystal sat at Crystal's desk. A cup of tea was set on her desk. She sipped the tea. "What is it you want to talk about, Mr. Hayabusa?" she asked him. Stay calm, Carrie. Stay calm... she thought to herself.
"I, well..." Ryu started. "I just want to know more about you."
Crystal looked slightly confused. "What do you mean, Mr. Hayabusa?"
"Like...I just want to know more about you. How you started this school, how you got your name?"
Crystal tried not to bite her lip. What the hell is he asking me? He's acting suspicious.
"I'm sorry Ryu. Why don't you ask me this AFTER classes are over?"
Ryu sighed. "Never mind. Forget this ever happened." He stood up and left the room before Crystal could say anything to him.
Seriously...he was acting weird... Crystal thought. Unless...Hitomi... She gritted her teeth. I've got to make sure. She went to her camera room and began looking at the cameras.
Meanwhile, outside of Crystal's office, Ryu was disappointed of his action there. He acted too rashly and weird. He'll have to make her reveal herself SOMEHOW. He was thinking of what to do to make reveal herself...
"Kasumi?" asked Lisa. "Where's your homework?"
Kasumi looked confused. "My...what?"
Lisa face-palmed. "Your HOMEWORK, Kasumi. Where is it?"
Kasumi realized she had a worksheet she was supposed to work on. She got a little to fed up with Ryu, she didn't do her homework and fell right asleep. She muttered, "I didn't do it, Ms. Hamilton."
Lisa sighed. Are ninja really THIS stupid? she thought. "Make it up tonight with today's assignment, alright?" Kasumi nodded, looking sad about doing more homework. She playfully blamed it on Ryu. He distracted her last night, then she just went to sleep like that. Is school really this hard?
"Alright class. This is Day 2 of this semester. Now, if you're late, you'll be marked tardy. Understand?"
"Yes, Ms. Hamilton," said the whole class.
"Now then, for today's lesson..." Lisa began teaching the class. Kasumi got out her pencil and paper and started taking notes in Japanese. She couldn't take them in English. She doesn't even now how to write the first letter of the alphabet. She only understands Japanese. She knows what people are saying in English, but she can't read English is all.
Also in class, Hitomi was taking notes for the lesson. She couldn't get Crystal's machine and messages out of her head. Kasumi's in class with her. Heck, she's her locker neighbor. She should tell her, but could she believe her? After all, it seemed hard to believe that a sweet woman like Crystal is a madwoman who wants to have unbelievable strength from everyone fighter here, including the ninja.
"Ms. Buchfink? Are you paying attention?" Lisa asked the German karate girl.
Hitomi snapped out of her thinking and replied, "No-I mean, yes!" Lisa sighed again and continued the lesson. Hitomi started taking notes again. She shouldn't let that thought get into her in class. She was thinking about telling Kasumi. Still, could she believe her?
Helena was teaching the history of the Chinese, something both Leifang and Jann Lee had an advantage at, since they were both Chinese. Leifang kept whisper-shouting to him if he and she could be a team. The answer was always no. Helena constantly told Leifang to cut it out. Jann Lee just finds it annoying that she's constantly asking him the same thing. He hoped she could get over it sooner or later.
"Alright everyone, I'm making an announcement," announced Helena. "You are going to get paired up into two and work on the questions on page 108 in your textbooks. Work together, okay?" Helena paired up the students together. Suddenly, she paired Leifang and Jann Lee together. Both their jaws dropped.
"Uh...can I be paired with someone else, Ms. Douglass?" Jann Lee asked.
"No," she answered. "Begin your assignment everyone." She sat at her desk, checking homework. Jann Lee sighed.
"Well, let's see what we could do..." Leifang opened her textbook and went to the page 108. "Number 1's easy!" She quickly got her notebook, opened it, and scribbled the answer into it with her pencil. "Ya got it, Jann Lee?" Jann Lee was doing nothing but pretending to sleep. She was shaking him.
"Jann Lee! Wake up!" He ignored her. Hell... he thought in frustration.
"Jann Lee, please work. This is a grade you know," Helena reminded him. Jann Lee groaned and stopped pretending to sleep. He grabbed a pencil and wrote down the answer on a piece of paper.
"Wait a sec, you didn't see the-" Leifang said before getting cut off.
"Shut up b*tch," he said in an almost inaudible voice. Leifang looked offended. She figured out she was bothering him, so she did the questions on her own like he wasn't there. If that's the way he likes it.
Jann Lee wanted to punch himself for being so rude to Leifang. Sure, it's annoying that she's asking him the same question over and over, but still...
"Sorry I called you that, Leifang," he stated. She looked at him with a bit of surprise on her face. "Just stop asking that question already."
"But I-" Leifang cut herself off. It would annoy him to say that she didn't at that moment, so she said, "Okay. I'll cut it out."
"You sure?"
"Yeah. No worries. I won't bother you with that question." Leifang smiled and continued answering the questions. Jann Lee smiled too and also continued answering the questions on paper.
Helena looked up at them and let a short smile come across her face. She knew Leifang from Zack Island. She talks a lot, but she keeps her promises well. She thought Jann Lee won't have a problem with her.
After the 4 classes ended, it was lunchtime for everyone. Bass and Leon made a choice of Greek Salad, Macaroni and Cheese with some spice to it, and grilled fish with a side of steamed vegetables. The students and the teachers bought the food. As Tina was getting the grilled fish, Bass noticed and said, "Tina!" As she got her fish, she looked up and saw her dad wearing an apron and a chef's hat. She muttered, "Oh my god..." She tried walking away from him as quickly as possible. She sat a table for the teachers.
"Let me guess, Bass?" Lisa asked.
Tina laughed. "You know me well, Lisa."
"I wonder why he's there."
Tina shrugged. "Beats me." She grabbed a fork and started eating on her fish.
"Yo! Tina!" said an energetic voice she knew.
"Heya Zack," she greeted. "So I heard you teachin' music class?" Zack had the spicy Mac n' Cheese lunch. He sat down next to the girls.
"You bet! I'll be teaching the kiddies here about electro music! Something I'm a professional of!" the energetic DJ bragged. The two friends smirked at him. "What?"
"Ah nothing, DJ Zack Attack," Lisa said.
"Hey! You can just call me Zack!" Zack said with the spicy Mac n' Cheese in his mouth.
"Don't talk with your mouth full! It's gross!" Tina reminded him.
...
Ayane was sitting with Hayate. She was eating her grilled fish with veggies at the side while telling him about Kasumi. He sighed. "So, she came here to hide?" he asked.
Ayane nodded as she swallowed her piece of fish. "She thinks she's going to be safe from being hunted down here." She roughly ripped a piece of fish and ate it.
"Calm down Ayane," Hayate said to her.
She chewed and swallowed the piece. "It's so freaking stupid of her to think that! She would still be hunted down by the clan! What good does that make?" Hayate slightly shook his head and ate his fish.
"Uh...hi?" said a voice the two knew. They turned and saw Hitomi with her Greek Salad on her plate.
"Ah, Hitomi," Hayate greeted with a smile. Hitomi smiled back.
"Can I sit here?" she asked.
"Sure. We don't mind. Right, Ayane?" Ayane slowly nodded. The cheerful karate girl sat next to Hayate and talked to him. While they were having their conversation, Ayane was just eating her lunch, thinking what to do since Kasumi was in the school. Should she send a letter to the clan, saying that she's hiding in the school and that she needs to be killed...or be silent and kill her herself? Where should she be killed? She can't be killed in the school, that will cause so many problems. She needs to be killed somewhere in secret...
"What?" Hayate said. Ayane snapped out of her thoughts and listen into Hitomi and Hayate's conversation. Hitomi looked serious.
"I'm telling you, you and Ayane are in danger," she said. "Ms. Lake wants everyone's power here, and you and Ayane's power will be taken!" Ayane couldn't believe her ears. Crystal wants their power? That has to be the most ridiculous thing she ever heard.
"Ms. Lake? Are you sure?" Hitomi nodded. He remembered Ryu being suspicious about her too. With him and Hitomi curious about her, then... "You may be right." Hitomi and Ayane's jaw dropped.
"What?!" yelled Ayane in shock. "You believe that?!"
"Ryu was curious of her too, so you may be right, Hitomi." Hitomi couldn't believe it. She never expected Hayate to ACTUALLY believe her! Plus, Ryu was curious too? Then that figure from last night...Hitomi felt stupid.
"Are you okay, Hitomi?" asked Hayate.
Hitomi snapped out of it and said, "I'm fine." She continued to eat her Greek salad. "I just can't believe you believed me." She cracked a smile to cheer herself up. "That's good at least." Hayate cracked a smile too. Ayane was confused on the situation. Crystal is such a nice lady...Hitomi and Ryu could be wrong. She can't be evil. She continued thinking about how to deal with Kasumi. Too bad Hayate believes that.
...
Kasumi was eating her Grilled Fish, looking at Ayane. She kind of heard what she said over there. She felt like she got stabbed in the chest with a sword. She tried not to cry. At least a swift, clean death, Ayane... she thought.
"Are you okay, Kasumi?" asked a voice. She turned and saw Ryu with a plate of the Greek salad with dressing on it.
"I'm okay," she lied.
"Your expression tells me no." He sat down near Kasumi. "What's the matter?" It's no use lying to him. He just knows her too well.
"Ayane..." she muttered. He looked at the purple-haired kunoichi who had Eliot and Mei-Ling sit next to her.
"Yes?"
"Now that she knows I'm here..." Her sweet voice trailed off. Ryu understood what she's going to say.
"I'll talk her out of it for now," he said. Kasumi looked at him in shock.
"What? How? You know-"
Ryu put his fork down and explained to Kasumi, "She'll listen to me. She does have respect for me after all." Kasumi guessed it was true. Maybe it could work.
"Thanks...Ryu," she said with a smile on her face.
Ryu smiled back. "Don't mention it." He forgot to tell her about why he really was at the school. She wouldn't believe about Crystal, but she needs to know about the mission. So Ryu said, "Kasumi?"
"Yes, Hayabusa?" she asked.
"I want to tell you that the reason that I'm here right now...is because I have a mission."
"A...mission?" she repeated. "What's the objective?"
"To find a certain woman who acts nice, but hides her true self and assassinated her." Kasumi didn't like the sound of that. She gulped.
"And do you know who that is, Hayabusa?" she questioned.
"I was thinking Crystal Lake."
Kasumi almost choked on her piece of fish. She swallowed the whole thing, then said, "Ms. Lake?! How?!"
"I'm not sure yet, that's why I'm going to ask her out on a date to make her reveal herself." The words "ask her out on a date" hit Kasumi like a rock. She had feelings for Ryu. He's...going to ask her out?! Ryu looked at her expression.
"No worries, Kasumi. It's only to reveal herself. It's not like I find her attractive or anything." Kasumi sighed in relief. The two started a conversation about other things while eating their lunch together.
Crystal couldn't tell if Hitomi DID tell Hayate and Ayane the truth or if they were talking about something else. Due to the cafeteria noises, she couldn't decode what she was saying to them. She still got her eyes on her. She must need to know if Hitomi told them or not. If she did, Hitomi will suffer a slow and painful death from her.
...
As the second day of school ended, Ryu headed to Crystal's office. As he knocked on the door, inside her contraption room, she heard the door knock. She finished writing something on a piece of paper and taped it on a wall. She rushed out of her contraption room, shut the door, and opened the office door to see Ryu again.
"Oh, good evening, Mr. Hayabusa," she greeted calmly. "Why are you visiting me again?"
Ryu took a deep breath and said, "Remember this morning? I acted a little off."
"Yes."
"Well, I was trying to ask you out on a date," he stated. Crystal began to blush. He wants to ask ME out?! she thought in surprise.
"What an odd way to try and ask me out..."
"Yeah. But, right now, I'm properly asking if you can go out with me this Friday. Will you accept it?" Ryu asked. Crystal got into thinking.
This super ninja's asking me out! How very weird of him. But, this could be an opportunity to get some of his power. I'll have to use something unsuspicious to transport some of the technology into. What could it be...? Meanwhile, I'll accept his offer.
"Yes, I accept, Ryu," she answered.
Ryu smiled. "I'm glad."
"So, where are we going on this date?"
Ryu hadn't thought of that yet. "I'll tell you later." Before he left, Crystal gave him a little kiss on the cheek. He blushed a little and left. Crystal went to her desk to think about things like the date, Hitomi, what to transport some of the technology in...
She realized she kissed Ryu on the cheek. She didn't mean to, but she guessed she did it for some fake affection. Her heart belonged to her ex-husband and kid, even though she hated her ex-husband. She wanted to know how her kid was doing. Her ex-husband was the reason why she was in jail. He knew her life goal, he didn't want that, so he fought with her, and she ended up in jail. She loved and hated him the same. But, she will always love her child. But, they don't matter now. Her life goal is more important to her.
So...what do you think? I think this was kinda off...
This story has Ryu x Kasumi in it, so don't think the "date" changes that.
I'm just going to do a random question for you all to answer whenever I update, so get used to that. The question is:
Who's your least favorite character in the DOA series and why?
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