Here's the second chapter! Enjoy! Don't' forget to give feedback!

A young woman moved stealthily through a forest, to place called Hagakure. She wasn't sure why she was heading there, but she heard a voice in her head telling her to hurry there and to be careful. She had nothing else to do, so she decided to stop by there and see if there was anything interesting. The grey clad woman reached the tree line, to see a small village on fire in the distance. Hakagure. Tensing up, the woman took cover in a shrine nearby. Her name is Azuma Ayame, and she is an experienced and highly skilled twenty one year old kunoichi in the service of Gohda. Ayame is a prodigy, having mastered the shinobi basics by the age of fourteen, recently, she has been searching for her missing partner, Rikimaru, the other shinobi of the Azuma ninja clan.

Ayame checked her gear, she was wearing her new grey "blossom" outfit, a pair of loose trousers with side slits, and a grey top that revealed the sides of her torso, including a light grey bandage wrapping securing her breasts. She checked her equipment pouch to find her grappling hook, and half a dozen shuriken. Ayame was just about done with her equipment check when she heard someone walking nearby. Ayame got her back to a wall, and peered around a corner, to see a kunoichi wearing a blue traditional patrolling down the path to the shrine. Ayame concentrated her ki, and found that the kunoichi meant harm if Ayame revealed herself. Ayame waited until the kunoichi turned around to continue back along the path before making her move. Fingering her Tanto, Ayame crept forward toward the unsuspecting kunoichi. When Ayame was directly behind the kunoichi, Ayame drew the pair of short daggers out, thrust them into the kunoichi, pivoted, and sliced through the woman's spinal cord in one quick move, "crossed blades". The kunoichi died without a noise, and Ayame carried the body back to the shrine. Ayame moved down the path, somersaulting over a stream as to not make a sound, and climbing up a wall to perch on the top. She saw a dark green dressed ninja, patrolling below, unaware of Ayame. Ayame waited for the ninja to pass by where she was crouching, and then leapt right above the ninja, plunging her blades into his body and slicing through, a move named "Twisting Fangs". Ayame continued towards the village, stopping to listen to a pair of enemy shinobi. At the mention that the shinobi had not only attacked the village, but also had an inside man, Ayame narrowed her eyes, suspicious of a group that could subvert shinobi from another clan. After the conversation apparently ended, Ayame jumped down from her hiding place and sliced both shinobi's throats in one move, a new technique Ayame liked to call "Red Phoenix".

Ayame gazed upon several arrow ridden corpses, definitely the villagers. Ayame walked down an alley to find a flash bomb carelessly dropped on the ground. Ayame pocketed it, and then utilized her grappling hook to climb on top of a wooden platform, and the entry way into the village proper.

Outside Hagakure Village

Rin was now sprinting all out towards her village. Upon seeing the fires since leaving the training area, only one thought was in her mind. "Is my family ok?" But she also thought about the whispered warning, and how true it was now. Rin ran faster.

Inside Hagakure Village

Ayame had just finished off two more shinobi without being detected. Dozens of bodies laid on the blood soaked dirt. Every house was burning. Ayame quickly moved past the devastation, with anger at the ninja that had done this. Ayame passed through a door, and started heading towards the village square, where the buildings weren't razed to the ground yet. Ayame crouched on top of the wooden platform, seeing two ninja down below, wandering around the clearing. Ayame waited till the two got close together, then leaped over their heads and decapitated them both with an aerial blade spin. Ayame went deeper into the village, sticking to the shadows, and staying unseen. Every now and then, Ayame stealth killed a patrolling foe. She finally reached a closed gate, leading into what appeared to be the village elder's home. Ayame scaled the wall with her grappling hook, and found an old man, bleeding out on the ground. Ayame was by his side in an instant, propping him up.

"K-Kuroya…"

"Kuroya? Is that who did this?" Ayame said, confused about the old man's whisper. But the man died, Kuroya being his last words in life. Frustated, Ayame laid the man down, and was wondering where to go next,

"Ayame, watch out!" rang out in Ayame's mind, the same mystery voice that had led her to Hagakure in the first place.

Out of the corner of her eye, Ayame thought she had saw movement from a red robed crossbow armed corpse behind her, but she quickly forgot this when she saw a young red clad girl running toward her.

"Futaba! Elder!" The young girl shouted, her eyes turning to face Ayame, with hatred in her eyes, the girl yelled a challenge to Ayame, "You! You did this! You killed everyone!"

Sensing danger, Ayame leapt away from the girl, who appeared to be a kunoichi, with clothes suited to the job, and a sword, now drawn, towards Ayame.

Ayame sarcastically replied "You don't look dead" while wondering why this girl immediately suspected her, while there were so many other unknown shinobi corpses lying around.

This however, only made the girl angrier, "What're you going to do about it!" she cried.

Ayame sighed, and drew her blades, "Look, I doubt you're going to believe anything I say, so let's just get this over with."

The girl must have had enough of talking with Ayame, and charged. Ayame evaded the girl's wide swing, and performed a roundhouse kick, knocking the girl to the ground, then stabbed one of her blades between a pair of the downed girl's ribs. The girl gasped in shock and pain, but threw Ayame off. Clutching her bleeding side, the girl tried a jump slash against Ayame, who had quickly got to her feet. Ayame blocked the overhead slash with both blades, locking the girl's sword in place. Ayame then simultaneously used her blades to knock the girl's sword out of her hands, and kicked her in the chest backwards. The sword went flying and got stuck into the dirt, while Ayame brought her blades to the girl's throat, into a position where Ayame could slit the throat in an instant. The fight was over.

"Does the name "Kuroya" mean anything to you?" Ayame inquired, now that she was in a position of power.

"Never heard of it, not that I'd tell you anyway," The girl replied, looking shocked at her swift defeat.

With a "Hmph", Ayame sheathed her blades, and turned to walk off.

Ayame's act brought the girl to immediately insist to finish her off, but Ayame wasn't feeling like ending the mystery girl's life, and since the girl didn't seem to have any information on the Kuroya, Ayame didn't want to waste any more time here. But the girl took up her sword and charged at Ayame again. With a grunt of annoyance, Ayame took the flash bomb she had found earlier, and threw it down, blinding the girl. While the young kunoichi was still dazed, Ayame departed, heading towards a nearby town to find a place to rest.

Rin's POV

When the effects of the flash bomb had worn off, the mysterious grey clad kunoichi had disappeared. Her adrenaline wearing off, Rin collapsed to her knees, aware of a throbbing pain in her side, where she had been stabbed. Rin punched the ground in anger and screamed "Damn it!" But she didn't cry. Even though she saw the Elder dead, and knew her entire family was likely gone too. Rin sheathed her sword, and started bandaging her wound. Rin sensed shinobi patrols getting closer to her position, all with hostile intent. Rin decided to escape the village in one of the boats on the other side of the village before deciding where to go next. She was now a clanless shinobi, as her clan was gone. Anger began to rise in her, and she vowed to kill all of the enemy shinobi that stood in her way, to hunt them down without mercy like they did to her family and friends. Rin finished wrapping her wound and moved on…

Whew, second chapter done, next up is Rin escaping the village, on the path where she has to kill all enemies in her path… Stay tuned!