TheDarkestShinobi: this chapter just came out dark to me, in the way that Kasumi and Ryu start treating each other. Um just start to think about a couple things

Should Kasumi get her peace or Ryu his revenge?

Who should die?

Should Hayate and Ayane get bigger roles in this?

Chapter start

"Any new information?"

Ryu asked again after a minute of silence. Kasumi looked away and then back to him. Why did she hope he was jealous? She knew he was a man that did not feel; he was one who was above all little petty emotions like jealousy. She didn't do this to get him jealous, she wasn't the type to do that but now that she had done this she was hoping he would be jealous. She was a fool.

"Saji is the target, Hayabusa san"

Ryu almost raised his eyebrow at her formality, they had just started calling each other by their given name but he had not expected her to revert. Kasumi looked elegant in her kimono which, Ryu noted, matched Saji's. She looked up and took a slow breath, it made Ryu wonder about the effect that the other men had on his girl. He couldn't let her get too close to them, as a friend or as a lover. Not only for his selfish reasons but for her as well, there would be a war, and they would die. There was only one way to make sure she would keep her distance.

"He trusts me far too much, but his information is correct, therefore I should complete this mission far earlier than expected."

"After you get the information you need, kill him."

Ryu's voice held no emotion, it was a command, and she would have to follow it if it had come from Hayate but not from Ryu. She, however, did not refuse to this right away. She knew Ryu always had a reason for things.

"You know how I dislike killing."

"That does not matter, he needs to be disposed of before he could leak that you are a spy."

"He knows?"

"He will soon enough. You are a careless one."

"Then I must…"

Kasumi looked down, she would never admit it to them, but she had taken a liking to the Koga, they were not deceitful to their own, or to her. She felt more at home here than she would ever feel in the Mugen Tenshin. She also didn't like how Ryu just insulted her either. She was never trained to be a spy, and she had been out of training for years.

"If you kill him then it could be painless."

Kasumi's eyes narrowed as she was struck with realization. She took a half step back and Ryu crossed his arms, his face hardened even more so that it could be mistaken for a statue.

"You didn't come here for me. You-" Ryu cut her off with a small dark laugh

"You are naïve, why would I come for you? Did you think I cared for you more than the mission? If I need to take him out, know he will be tortured, I am searching for my own information as well."

Ryu didn't know why he was being so cold towards the only one who wasn't to him. He wasn't lying though; he did have an ulterior motive that no one else knew about. Kasumi wanted to make sure there was no war, but Ryu would make sure that there was. If Kasumi did not kill Saji he would kill him, along with Satoshi and Michiru and he would torture them and mutilate their bodies. However he would not kill Satoshi's father, he would make him watch as he lost everything, like he made Ryu do.

With the deaths of the future clan leaders pinned on Kasumi the Mugen Tenshin and Tsube would go to war in a matter of hours. Kasumi's nuke nin status was revoked so even if she was killed before she completed her mission there would be war.

Ryu knew he wouldn't let her die by their hands.

"What do you have to gain here Ryu?"

She was back to his given name, but she now said it with such a tone of disrespect that it felt like a slap in the face. He got a fleeting urge to remind her just who would win in a fight if they fought but he knew they couldn't here. Ryu didn't look at her, instead he searched for wandering eyes and moving shadows, but there were none, they were alone.

Kasumi was seeing Ryu in a different light. She had always thought of him as a friend but she could not forget that he was a super ninja, that he stuck fear into many when his name was uttered. She could not forget he had lost everyone he ever cared for, and took out an entire Shinobi village because of it. If she could kill, he could do much worse, he was a monster like she was, no matter how he was when he was with her. She could not forget that he was a killer.

"It is none of your concern Ieto san."

"It is interfering with my mission, therefore it is my concern."

Ryu stepped closer to her. Kasumi knew she had hit a delicate point because of his sudden formality with her; he had never referred to her as Ieto san. He moved to get closer but she held up her hand to block him, which he grabbed and pulled her to him so that they were fully against each other. She was reminded of Satoshi.

"So you remember your mission? I have watched you too. You are enjoying this far too much." He was angry at her, not for doing her mission poorly, but for allowing those other men to get close to her, to think they had a chance with her. She acted freely in the village as if it was her own. She might have thought of that as well. He knew that if she did betray the Hajin Mon for real he would be honor bound to kill her. He would kill her.

"Do not forget your mission. Do not forget your village and what you stand to lose." Do not forget me.

"You are a kunochi of the Mugen Tenshin. Do not let your guard down"

Kasumi's eyes looked coldly into his but he could tell she was getting the message.

"You think that they accept you, but they accept only a lie."

Kasumi knew that there was a truth in every word he spoke but that did not mean she wanted to face it. She had wanted to believe she was a normal kunochi that had two guys who wanted her and an accepting village. She wanted to believe she wasn't being chased by her former classmates; that she didn't have to kill former friends to live. Ryu wouldn't let her pretend even for a little while. She was an idiot. She needed to be the Kunochi she was trained to be.

"If they knew the truth they would not hesitate to kill you."

"I know."

Kasumi stopped struggling against him and looked down. He released her hand and stepped back. He felt worse than he had after his first kill; he was taking out his anger on the wrong person, on the worst person. Kasumi had done nothing wrong. She then looked up at him, her eyes shown with the tears he knew she would never allow to fall.

"You've made your point, Dragon Ninja, now leave, and do not come back. My mission will be completed without complication."

She sounded like a true kunochi now, not someone who would never have wanted to be a ninja but was forced to because she was born to a family that made her a huge target. Ryu watched a smirk settle onto her face that did not belong there.

"Goodbye."

She turned and walked into the house that served as her home and every part of Ryu screamed for him to follow her and make things right except for the part he always listened to, his brain. He turned and blended into the long shadows.

"Who were you with yesterday night?" Kasumi turned towards Michiru with a dumbfounded look on her face.

"Saji, but you knew that."

"Afterwards. Someone told me they saw you with Satoshi, but he was with me."

"I went into my home after Saji dropped me off." Kasumi laughed as if it was a joke but Michiru narrowed her eyes.

"Saji and Satoshi don't know yet, but you are still on thin ice here Kasumi, so you better tell me who you were with."

Kasumi cursed Ryu in her head. He had ruined her fun with a cold slap of reality and had the gall to be spotted. She felt Michiru's hand on her throat and grabbed her wrist with her own.

"So you're a spy? I should've known."

Kasumi felt something unknown crawl into her and she smirked darkly. She would never be normal, evil followed her everywhere. She squeezed Michiru's wrist tightly and she winced out but kept a firm hold of Kasumi's throat.

"You all should have Michiru Chan, but you're all idiots. This close to war and you're still naïve. You should have told on me, but I guess you're just stupid."

Kasumi had seen Michiru fight and the key was not to under estimate her but Kasumi knew she could take her out quickly. She felt her tanto pulling her down and could hear it calling out to her begging to be used.

"Bitch."

Kasumi had been careful enough not to use any real skills here so she knew Michiru would assume she could take her.

"Petty name calling?"

"I don't see what Satoshi saw in you." Michiru twisted her wrist out of Kasumi's grasp and went to strike her. Kasumi dodged gracefully and trust her hand into Michiru's stomach. After Michiru's startled gasp Kasumi did it three more times before kicking her sending her flying into the sliding doorframe. She took the whole door with her but did not break it. She stood with a look of untainted betrayal on her face Kasumi then sprinted towards her and seemed to appear behind her. Grabbing her stomach she fell to the ground. Kasumi turned to her and pulled up her head by her hair. She then trust her hand towards her.

After Michiru's body was hidden Kasumi walked towards the door to see Ryu there. He picked it up and they silently slid it back into place. After Kasumi tested it she walked into the room grabbing her black kimono. She turned towards Ryu and he looked away.

"I'm sorry."

Kasumi's smirk told Ryu all he needed to know but she spoke anyway.

"For being right? Don't be. Leave, I have to change."

"Michiru?"

"Is dead." Kasumi lied with ease. Ryu nodded and jumped up into the air.

Ryu sat on the roof and placed his head in his hands, somehow he had turned Kasumi into a monster like him. The Kasumi he knew would have knocked out and hid Michiru, not kill her. He silently crept back into the room. Kasumi had changed into the elegant black kimono and was on the bed waiting for Satoshi. She turned her head towards him and he stepped out of the shadows.

"Did you dispose of the body?"

"I will take care of it."

"Tonight?"

"Tomorrow."

"Then let me do it before she is discovered, I'll come by tonight to get the location."

"Do not come by tonight, I will not be alone."

"Sleeping with him was a last resort only." Ryu stepped closer to her an untamed rage beginning to show in his eyes. Kasumi propped herself up on her elbow and looked to him.

"You showed yourself yesterday, I need to erase suspicion."

"You don't need to sleep with him."

Kasumi rolled her eyes. Ryu was always trying to protect her.

"I want to, okay?"

"NO, not okay." Kasumi sat up and Ryu moved towards her, for once listening to the beating muscle in his chest.

"I don't want you to sleep with him."

Suddenly things made sense to her. She had an internal struggle then. She wanted Ryu, and now she knew that he wanted her, but so did Satoshi and Saji. She knew that if she wanted to stop this war she needed to get a witch to erase Michiru's mind and really become part of the Tsube. She had already decided that she would sacrifice her dream for the lives of hundreds. She would stand by Satoshi as his woman, and make sure the war never happened.

"Too late for that, Ryu, I'm tainted." She spoke in that dark tone that she had become so used to. She had to do this, so Ryu had to believe that she didn't want him, otherwise he would kill Saji, Satoshi, Michiru and a good portion of the Tsube.

"Kasumi, this has nothing to do with protecting you from evil this time. I want you."

He had grabbed her hand and she wanted to confess her feelings but she knew she couldn't. She had to get him away from her.

"Don't you have your own mission to complete?"

He thought about that now as well, with Kasumi occupying Satoshi he could kidnap Saji, and with Michiru already dead it made his job easier. He also thought about the war.

"Are you going to kill him?"

"Afterwards, yes. Maybe I can get some information out of him. I know all that Saji does, he allowed me into his room to get away from Michiru who wanted to take me shopping and I found all of his war plans, strategies and drawings or army setups."

"Well done, so you know enough, we can leave."

"You can leave."

"I'm coming for you tonight."

Ryu said this with a tone of finality and disappeared as the door opened.

"Kasumi, have you seen Michiru?" Kasumi frowned in worry as she sat up

"Not since I hid in your room from her."

"No one has." Kasumi jumped out of bed and to his side,

"Let's go then Saji"

After a four hour fruitless search Kasumi leaned against a tree and sighed.

"Could Satoshi's father have sent her on a secret mission?"

"Unlikely, he never gives those out." Kasumi nodded, the Mugen Tenshin gave them all the time, especially to young women who would need to lie with the enemy. They did not like anyone interfering in those missions.

"It's late Saji, I'm sure she'll turn up tomorrow."

"I hope so; I'll see you tomorrow, Kasumi."

Satoshi feared exactly what had happened, that someone from the Mugen Tenshin had fought her and taken her away. Kasumi knew there was nothing to worry about, Michiru was fine, alive and breathing, she couldn't do much else, but she was alive. Kasumi had sat oh her bed when she heard the door open again.

"Michiru just gave me some interesting news." Kasumi looked up at Satoshi whose teeth were locked. Just Kasumi thought, there was no way she could have gotten out of her hold.

"Just before she went missing she told me that you were with another man yesterday."

"Not by choice, Saji had to escort me."

"I was watching, it was after he left."

"There was no one Satoshi."

"Don't lie to me!"

He was in front of her in that instant and his hand was on her throat, she knocked it away with ease and Satoshi looked to her in shock.

"I am not here for you to beat me over Michiru's jealousy."

Kasumi realized the truth in her lie. Michiru had wanted Satoshi, which was the true reason that she had been trying to set Kasumi up with Saji.

"Michiru's jealousy?"

"Everyone here could tell that she wants you…" Kasumi paused "like I do"

Satoshi rose his eyebrow and moved closer to her, she then bit her lip nervously. Could she really sleep with him for the mission, and what about Ryu, was he really going to come and get her now?

"Well, I want you."

Satoshi hadn't given her time to react to his statement as he crashed his lips against hers. So this is my first kiss… she thought as she kissed him back. He pulled away and gave her a once over, he smiled and then picked her up placing her on the bed. He kissed her mouth before moving down to her neck. He licked a spot and then kissed it as his hand started to travel up Kasumi's leg pulling her kimono up. Kasumi let out a moan as her desire took over, he sucked harder and his hand reached the top of her thigh. Kasumi felt his fingers slowly crawl under her panties and shivered.

She felt guilty but she was enjoying it.

He kissed her mouth again and the fingers tugged her underwear down. She was sure he would take her now but the door was banged on.

"Satoshi! Someone is at the front gates! He's fighting everyone!"

"I'M BUSY" Satoshi yelled as the door was opened.

"He's killing everyone." another voice said, one she recognized, it was Saji, who looked at them both with hurt eyes.

"It's Ryu Hayabusa."

Kasumi felt a shiver go through her as she heard his name.

"R-Ryu?" Kasumi leaned forward and Satoshi groaned getting off of her and vanishing. Saji started to walk away and Kasumi yanked up her underwear and followed him.

"Where is he, Saji?" She said, letting the anger drip into her voice.

"Front gates." He said and she turned to look at him before she sprinted away.

"Do you… do you think he got Michiru?"

Kasumi looked away before nodding and she sprinted away before she could see him cry.

TDS: Okay, so Kasumi and Ryu will now fight the Tsube, and Ryu will blow her cover. Now this is important. Who, out of Satoshi, Saji and Michiru should die? (At least one has to) and this chapter was darker than the previous ones, should I make it darker next time, or go back to it being ok.

Oh and lastly who wins, does Kasumi get her peace, or Ryu his revenge?