Here's the sixth chapter! Enjoy! This is the chapter where my other OCs will appear! I have INTENSE writer's block right now, so expect late updates until it leaves me alone! :'(
busisuzy: I always do that to everyone that reviewed. :)
Hayate, Hitomi, and Kasumi were on their own now. Kasumi was worrying about Ryu and everyone else's safety. Yeah, Ryu is a super ninja, but still...what if Crystal caught them and had their power? Then what?!
"Kasumi, are you all right?" asked Hitomi. Hayate noticed his sister's attitude.
"Will we ever see everyone again?" she asked them.
"I know Ryu, he'll be fine. And Ayane too," answered Hayate. "Everyone else, it depends."
"Still..." Kasumi looked back. "What if..."
"Wait a sec, look!" Hitomi pointed at a mansion not far from where they are. "Should we go there?"
"It might be a trap, but it's better than walking a lot." Hayate lead the two girls to the mansion. Up close, the mansion was HUGE.
"Whoa..." The girls' jaws dropped. It looked so huge and fancy! They've never seen anything like that before! Kasumi opened the door nice and slowly. "Hello?" she squeaked. "Anybody here?" She heard a giggle. She shivered.
"Like I said, it might be a trap. Let me go investigate," Hayate suggested. Kasumi nodded as she stepped away from the door. Hitomi wished him good luck. As he took a step into the mansion, he accidentally stepped on a wire. A bucket of cold water splashed on his head.
"Hayate!" yelled out the girls.
"I-I'm okay," Hayate said, shivering. "I-it's just a stupid p-prank someone pulled."
"Stupid?!" yelled a young girl's voice. Everyone kept close attention to the voice. "Damn it."
"Roxi, I TOLD you this was a bad idea!" said another girl's voice.
"Pssh, whatever."
"What's going on?" Kasumi muttered.
Hitomi shrugged and stood by Hayate. "We're not your enemies! We just need a place to stay! That's all!" They waited for an answer.
"I think we should let them in," said the other girl's voice.
"Hell no. The only person I would let in is mom! ...If she was still alive..." said the girl's voice. The trio felt a little bad hearing that.
"If we're bothering you, we'll leave..." Hitomi said. Suddenly a girl with glasses popped out.
"No, it's just my sister. She doesn't want anyone in our home," she explained. "I'm Phoebe Brooks. You can come in." Then a rocked-out version of the girl popped out. She didn't look happy.
"You're going to let freaking strangers in, Phoebe?" she asked roughly. "Mom taught you well."
"Come on Roxi, you pulled a prank on them. They should at least get some rest!"
"What if they were spies, Phoebe?! Then what?"
Hayate, Hitomi, and Kasumi sweat-dropped. "I can tell you we're not spies..." Hayate said.
Roxi sighed. "Well, we're not 'special' anyway. You can come in, but I'll be watching you." She stared at them with piercing brown eyes. They slowly walked into the mansion. Phoebe closed the door.
"Dang! This room is huge!" Hitomi said, her jaws dropping. "Are guys rich or something?!"
"Well, actually, yes," answered Phoebe. "I think we're the richest kids in the world."
"Phoebe!" yelled Roxi.
"No wonder..." said Kasumi. "I bet you have lots of fun here."
"Eh, sometimes. After awhile, it gets boring here," said Roxi.
"Is there any room we can stay?" asked Hayate.
"I think Phoebe will show you around. Meanwhile, I'm just gonna go." Roxi left the room. Phoebe smiled.
"So, do you want me to show you around?" Phoebe asked.
Hitomi shrugged. "Why not?"
Kasumi and Hayate nodded. Phoebe began to show them around.
...
A girl with long black hair and blue eyes was training in a gym. Her name was Kanae. She practiced her punches and kicks. She hit the sandbag with all her might. She sat down on the floor to take a break. She grabbed a water bottle and drunk it down. She wiped the sweat off her forehead. She was tired. Perhaps she had enough practice for one day. She laid on the floor. She just stared at the ceiling. She was thinking of her boyfriend, Kai. He was practicing outside. She hoped he was careful.
"Hey, TinKan," shouted a voice. Kanae stood up and saw Roxi. She sighed. She doesn't like Roxi that much.
"What is it?" she asked.
"Phree-Bee let some strangers in."
Kanae's eyes widened. "What?"
"But they're good. They might be even good opponents."
"I hope you're not lying to me."
"I'm not, trust me."
Kanae doubted Roxi for a second. She never did trust this tomboy. Still, she sounds like she was speaking the truth. Maybe she's right. But what's wrong with Phoebe? She always lets whoever in. She needs to break that habit. Kanae exited the gym and went to her room. She went to the shower and stripped herself naked to take a nice, cold shower. She stepped into the shower and washed herself up.
...
"And this is adoptive sister, Kanae's, room," Phoebe stated, showing Kasumi, Hitomi, and Hayate the door to the room.
"Do you like her?" Hitomi asked.
Phoebe nodded. "She doesn't trust my sister though."
"I can see that."
"So, where are we staying?" asked Kasumi.
"Oh right! Follow me!" The trio followed Phoebe to a fancied door. Phoebe opened it and the trio's jaws dropped. It was super fancy-looking. There was 3 beds in that one room.
"Daaaaaaaaaang!" said Hitomi in awe. "How much is this room?"
"Um...$9,000?" Phoebe answered.
"What? It must've cost more than that!" Phoebe shrugged.
"This is where you'll stay for now." The glasses girl remembered to ask something. "Oh yeah! Do you guys have any parents of some sort? There's phones in there." Hitomi's eyes widened as she dashed into the room.
"Er...do you have paper and a pencil?" asked Hayate.
Phoebe nodded. "I'll be right back!" Phoebe left. Kasumi and Hayate entered in. Kasumi saw a nice bed and laid down on it. It kind of felt like the bed back in school. School...school...
Meanwhile, Hayate was sitting down on a chair, waiting for his paper and pencil.
Hitomi was pressing buttons on the phone and held the phone to her ear. She was tapping her foot on the ground until her mother answered, "Hello?"
Hitomi smiled. "Hey, mom. It's me, Hitomi."
"Oh. My dearest baby! How are you?"
"I'm...doing good."
"That's great! How's school? Is it good?" Hitomi can't believe her mother asked that. How should she answer? One thing's for sure, she won't believe the truth. She has to say something.
"Hitomi? Sweetie?" her mother said. "Are you alright?"
The karate girl snapped out of her thoughts and answered, "I'm okay! Uh...how's daddy?" That should get her mother out of topic.
"Oh, well...your father...he..." Her mother's voice trailed off. Was something wrong? Suddenly, she heard thunder on the phone. That worried her a lot.
"Mom?!" she said with her voice slightly raised. "What's going on?"
"He's not back home yet and there's a storm here!" Hitomi couldn't believe this.
"Are you going to be alright?" asked Hitomi.
"I think I'll be fine, sweetie. I hope your father comes back here." Hitomi sighed.
"I love you, mommy."
"I love you too, sweetheart. Good-bye." She hung up the phone. As in this day couldn't get any worse. She had high hopes that her parents wouldn't die.
Hayate noticed Hitomi's saddened expression. "Are you alright?" he asked. It was just like that one night in school. She had the same expression.
Kasumi noticed and asked, "What happened?"
"It's nothing," she lied. "Just some bad things I don't want to talk about." Hayate and Kasumi understood. Hitomi brightened up her attitude. She knows her parents will make it, she knows they will. Plus, Crystal won't pop up again. She'll probably be arrested and be in jail. Yeah, she would! That made Hitomi feel a little better.
The group was felt like they're walking forever. The sun was setting. Most of the girls were whining. "Do ya'll even know where ya goin'?" asked Tina, who was exhausted from walking.
"Anywhere away from Crystal," Ryu answered. "We'll need to camp out for the night."
"Good," Helena said. "My feet are aching. We need rest."
"But we need a manageable place..." Ryu suddenly heard a battle cry. Everyone stopped.
"What was that all about?" Ayane asked. Then another battle cry was heard. Everyone began to be cautious. Ryu came to the noise to see what's going on.
...
Kai Munora was hitting a practice dummy for sharpening up his skills. He let out one more battle cry as he knocked the dummy down with his kick. He felt like jelly. Maybe I used too much of my strength, he thought. I'm exhausted although I wasn't before I kicked the dummy. I got to control that. He picked up his water bottle and drank it down. He wiped the sweat off his forehead. I should head back to the mansion. Kae-Kae will worry about me. He got the dummy and was about to leave until he heard a bush rustle. He looked at the bush to see if it was a harmless creature. A foot came out of it. Kai dropped the dummy and got into his fighting position, even though he was very tried and exhausted.
"Who's there?" he asked in his usual quiet voice. Ryu then came out.
"So you're just a boy?" he asked. Kai got out of his position and tilted his head in confusion.
"I thought you were going to attack me," he said. "But...you don't look trustful. Who are you?"
Ryu put his hands up. "I'm a good guy, okay kid?"
"How will I know I can trust you?"
"I have no weapons on me." Kai thought about it for a moment, then asked, "Is there people with you?"
"Yeah," he answered. "A lot."
"...a lot?"
Ryu turned and yelled, "It's okay now. All of you can come out now." Then, everyone came to Ryu. Kai's eyes widened. That's a lot of people... he thought.
"Oh, it was just a little boy all along?" asked Bass.
Ryu turned back to Kai and said, "We mean no harm. We just need shelter." Kai DOES live in a big mansion after all. Still, they're strangers and Kanae will get curious about this. Not only her, but his least favorite person, Roxi, too. Phoebe probably would mind as well. Some of these people looks like they can't hurt a fly while others look the opposite. He'll have to try.
"Follow me," he said. Everyone followed him. He picked up the dummy and his water bottle. He sure hoped everyone can understand.
...
In the group, Leifang was really tired of walking. She wished everyone arrived at where the boy's leading them now. She hoped Hitomi and the others are safe somehow. Hitomi especially. They're best friends after all. She looked at the group. Mainly, everyone's tired like her. Leifang sighed.
"This freaking sucks," said Jann Lee, who was behind the Chinese beauty. She turned and saw an angry Jann Lee. "We've been walking for who knows how long and I just can't rest for once." She decided to cheer him up a little by saying something.
"At least you don't need to worry about tests, right?" she said. "Tests are pretty stressful if you ask me."
Jann Lee sighed. "I guess you're right." She managed to cheer him up a little bit. She was proud of herself.
"Crystal was being a b*tch trying to kill your friend."
"Yeah, she was." She actually managed to spark a conversation with him! They continued talking to each other like normal people.
Meanwhile, Mei-Lin was on Eliot's back, sleeping. Eliot was carrying her. Ayane felt bad for the little girl because she's been through a lot today. Kind of like Ayane when she was young. She was rejected a lot, but she happened to get through hard training and become a kunoichi. Even be by Hayate's side. Hayate...Ayane hoped he and everyone else made it out safely. She didn't want to hope the worst for him.
"How's your head, Ayane?" Eliot asked.
Ayane didn't expect that Eliot would say anything, but replied, "It stings a little, but I'm fine." She tapped the bandaged part of her head and winced a little. It still stings.
Eliot sighed in relief. "That's good. At least it's not infected now, is it?"
Ayane shrugged. "I hope so. How's Mei-Lin?"
"I think she'll be fine, but after what she's been through today..." Ayane knew that feeling. Never forgetting a scary moment. But, there's one good thing about it.
"Hey Eliot."
"Yeah?"
"Have you heard of the phrase, 'Experiences make you stronger'?"
"Yeah, my master said that to me once."
Ayane smiled. "Mei-Lin might grow stronger after today." Eliot looked puzzled. "When she sees something like what happened today, she might know what to do in that situation. That's good, right?"
Eliot thought about it, then said, "Maybe. Then she wouldn't feel so helpless after all."
Ayane smiled again. "She's going to grow up to be a strong girl, like me."
"Heh. Yeah," said Eliot, remembering the time he fought Ayane. "As strong as you."
...
Soon, they arrived at the mansion. "Here we are," announced Kai.
"Whoaaaaaa!" said almost everyone except for Helena as they saw a mansion.
"You're rich?!" exclaimed Lisa.
"Yeah, my mother was rich, so we afforded this house." He turned to everyone. "Now, there's people inside here, so I'll reason with them. Meanwhile, all of you need to wait okay?" Kai entered the mansion. Almost everyone moaned again as they sat down on the ground. They thought standing would be too exhausting for them.
"I'm going to check if he's toying with us," Ryu stated.
"Whaaaaat? Really?" said Zack. "He seemed like a nice little kid!"
"Be careful, master," Ayane said.
"I'll be back." Ryu disappeared into the mansion.
Inside the mansion now, Ryu hid so no one would see him. He saw Kai walking into a hallway. Suddenly, a girl with black curly hair and glasses bumped into him.
"Oh! Sorry Kai!" she said. "You know where the pens and paper are?"
"I think in the office in the second floor," he answered. "Where's Kae-Kae?"
Kae-Kae? Ryu thought.
"Probably in her room. Oh yeah! Kai, I've got something to tell you."
"And what's that, Phoebe?"
The girl bit her lip. "I may have let some strangers in here."
Kai's eyes widened. "Strangers? Phoebe, mother taught us better!"
Strangers?
"Ugh, I know! B-but, they're good people! Honest!"
Kai crossed his arms. "Tell me what they look like."
"Okay, two girls, one guy. The guy has brown hair and brown eyes. He's tall and looks strong. I think he looks Japanese."
Ryu knew who she was talking about. Hayate! Does that mean...
"One of the girls look like his sister. Brown hair, brown eyes, looks Japanese. She's actually shorter than me."
Kasumi...
"The other girl has dirty blonde hair and light-blue eyes. She's a bit taller than the Japanese girl but still shorter than me."
Ryu sighed in relief. They're all safe. I need to know where they are though.
"Where are these strangers at, Phoebe?" Kai asked.
"Well...they're at mom's room..."
Kai face-palmed. "Really?"
"B-but it had enough beds for them, s-so I thought-"
"It's fine, just make sure they don't break anything in there. Oh yeah, I also want to tell you something."
"Really? What is it?"
Kai bit his lip. "I...just ran into some strangers as well and they want shelter...so..."
He's talking about us...
"Do they know the strangers I brought in?"
Kai shrugged. "I'll ask. You should tell everyone else about this, okay?" Phoebe nodded as she left. Ryu disappeared and returned outside. He learned some important things he should tell the group.
"Master, what happened?" Ayane asked.
"It's fine," he answered. "He's trying to help us. Plus, I learned that Hayate, Ryu, and Kasumi are okay."
"Oh, thank you!" Leifang said, who was worrying about her friend.
"That's good..." the violet-haired kunoichi murmured, who hoped for the best of her half-brother. But the traitor's still alive...
Just then, Kai opened the mansion door and gestured the group to come inside. They all stood up and walked in, one by one.
Done and done! *stretches* How was this chapter? Part of this was a little rushed. I also think some of the characters are becoming OOC. Anyway, how's my OCs? Phoebe is an OC that's kinda like me, so yeah. I wouldn't let strangers inside my house though.
I have intense writer's block now. Part of it is gone, but it's still with me! Why?! T^T
I was supposed to be done with this story by the end of this summer, but summer's coming to an end already! Well, this fanfic is halfway done anyway. Stupid writer's block!
R&R, F&F if you haven't done so! Tell me if there's a typo or anything. The next chapter will be all focused on Crystal. The chapter after that is full of training, fluffy moments, and friendly interactions. I'll see you in the next chapter! :D
