TheDarkestShinobi: Hey, sorry it took forever, but here is chapter 5 for clubbing.

Chapter Start:

Jann looked up and seen red eyes staring directly into his. It was the closest he had ever been to a girl and he was a bit shocked by it. He could smell a forest like scent along with sweat and swallowed the saliva in his mouth. He felt awkward and in that same second the slight awkwardness was replaced by fear. Then next thing he felt was pain. He staggered back and held a hand to his bare stomach.

She fought like Christie did. He felt his stomach burn and look at her settling into a stance. He imagined Christie in his mind. Knowing where she hit him she was one who attacked pressure points too. He shook himself out of it and settled into his stance. He wouldn't lose to her. If he lost to her she was going to kill him.

Christie had not backed down, even after he had kicked her hard enough to bruise a rib or punched her in the face. She had spit out the blood and settled into her stance. Jann had slowly been disabled by her seemingly harmless taps. He didn't know how he managed to pull the last move, and how lucky he was that she slipped in those heels and went tumbling down the stairs.

He brought his hand down and blocked her strike with ease; however she spun quickly and kicked him. Falling to a knee he wondered how fast she was. He then kicked out his leg and tripped her, she didn't fall but she staggered enough for him to get up and assume his stance again. She stood and shifted her weight to the right as she crossed her arms in front of her.

"This does not have to be difficult Lee."

Jann simply flicked his nose and waited. She would attack him. He could wait for her, she couldn't wait for him to move, after all the longer she waited the farther Kasumi got. He had managed to get a kick in but she smirked and suddenly he felt the impact of the ground against his back. He would have gotten up right away if not for the long purple object in her hand. It was a glowing staff and very close to his neck.

He was about to speak but she stepped on his chest digging her sandal type shoe in to his chest and she looked down at him scornfully. She had won in such a short time, he was weak. The purple thing moved up from his chest and was now very close to his neck. Jann could now hear a slight hum from it.

"Tell me where she went."

Jann said nothing looking up at her with narrowed eyes. He wouldn't tell this killer where to find his friend. Friend? Jann realized that he did think of Kasumi as a sweet person who was his friend; she just was someone with a darker side.

A dark side that kills…

Still he decided, right now she was the lesser of two evils

"You are trying to stall me for her aren't you?" She said in perfect Mandarin speaking the language with more conviction than Kasumi and Ryu, who had both spoken than when in his presence. If he didn't know better he'd think that that was her original language. Jann tried to lean farther into the earth and further away from the dangerous weapon at his throat. She narrowed her eyes and put more pressure on his chest.

"I don't-" He gasped and she lowered the force waiting for him to speak.

"I don't know where they are!" He said. He didn't want to die! And it was true. And he wasn't betraying Kasumi or Ryu.

Ayane sighed in defeat as she realized he was telling the truth. She was at a loss then. She raised her head and scanned all the directions they could have gone. He couldn't help her. He had no idea where they were. Her eyes widened. They.

"Ah, so Ryu sama is with her." She looked back to Jann and knew it was true. Her lips curled into a smile as she spoke in Japanese "now you die."

Jann understood her and he wasn't sure if she said it in Japanese because it sounded better or because she didn't think he'd understand.

She raised her weapon to strike and Jann tried to tell himself to move but his body seemed paralyzed with fear. It didn't move or twitch or flinch. His eyes followed the edge of the weapon that would hit him first and kill him. He was going to die. There was no way to escape death that many times in one night.

Her look shifted to be one of pure pleasure as she raised her weapon and she started to lower it when a sharp whistle caught her attention. She glared in the direction the shuriken came from and with a flick of her wrist and the twirl of her weapon she had blocked and destroyed the throwing stars.

She took two steps back and in front of her appeared the Neishin. The traitor. Kasumi. Ayane turned back to see Jann eying the two of them warily. He didn't know what would happen and it scared him more than it should have. He didn't dare move though with a body still paralyzed with fear.

"Ah, the Shinobi" Ayane coldly said as she turned to her sister. Kasumi stayed silent, her hands hovering over her weapon pouch and her sheath. Normally she would be content to run from Ayane and let her do whatever she pleased but she wouldn't let her hurt Jann.

"I thought I was supposed to be hunting you." She taunted hoping to get a rise out of her older sibling. A reaction that would leave her open for Ayane's first strike, she needed that advantage. Ayane knew that they were almost even in power. Ayane was stronger, but Kasumi had mastered the pressure point system. Ayane was faster to attack, but Kasumi was swifter to dodge. Lastly they both knew magic arts. Kasumi knew more although she hardly used them but Ayane had one huge advantage: Kasumi had never wanted to harm her; Ayane had always wanted to kill her.

Kasumi did not give her sister a verbal response or advantage; instead she settled into her stance and drew her tanto blade. Ayane's own eyes narrowed as she twirled her weapon and held it diagonally behind her. Both of them then sunk a little lower into their stance narrowing their eyes.

Jann slowly sat up wondering if doing so would cause the purple clad ninja to attack him again. He looked at the two women facing each other, getting ready to attack each other, maybe even kill each other. He looked between them, these women were sisters, sisters! And they looked at each other like they were enemies. Well, Jann reasoned, they were. Kasumi had said that she made an enemy of her family and her village when she ran away to avenge her brother, by killing another.

He felt someone next to him and seen the man he had feared would kill him. His heartbeat jumped in his chest and looked into the Jade eyes all ninja feared. His dream flashed in his head and he started to mildly panic. The ninja behind him made no reaction to it and instead watched the two kunoichi.

"Jann, go inside and get your family to safety."