A note- Hello and thank you for viewing this story. It means a lot to me, seeing as it is my first fiction for Dead or Alive. I haven't played the third game on X-box yet, so please pardon it if there's something that contradicts with anything. I tend to type on random thoughts then to plan ahead...

Disclaimer- I own nothing from Dead or Alive. Plain and simple.

Kage no aru Murasaki

It begins...

Cold rain fell in the forest, as two shadows ran amongst the trees. The two were nothing but blurs to the untrained eye, but to one who knew how to see beyond common people could tell that these two blurs were highly trained ninja, one trying to escape the other who was after its life.

Kasumi nimbly ran past each tree, wishing to lose her purple haired assassin, who happened to be her half-sister Ayane. But Ayane was close behind her and wouldn't be lost so easily.

Ayane jumped into one of the nearby trees and went from one tree to the other, trying to get an advantage on Kasumi from above.

"Stop running and fight me!" Ayane yelled at her, jumping from the tree and tackling Kasumi from the air, bringing her to the ground.

Ayane quickly stood, "Stand up and fight me, you runaway..." She slammed her heel into Kasumi's back; Kasumi grunted from the pain and pushed herself up from the ground.

"I don't want to fight you and I won't!" Kasumi righted herself, and took a few steps back, "Why must we fight?" Ayane glared at her sister,

"Why? Because you broke the rules!" Ayane yelled, "You left to look for Hayate! You knew it wasn't allowed!"

A smirk crept onto Ayane's face, "But that's ok..." She said, stepping closer to Kasumi, "I'm almost glad that you runaway... because now I have a reason to fight you..."

Kasumi took off running again; Ayane gave an agitated sound as she started to run after her again.

The trees were becoming fewer and fewer, as the two ninjas reached the end of the forest, which dropped off to a steep cliff. Kasumi came to a halt at the cliffs edge.

Now where would she go? She saw nothing but the cliff ahead of her, and Ayane closing on her from behind. Looking over the side of the cliff, Kasumi saw the fast moving waters of a white river. She didn't wish to fight her half-sister, no matter how much she disliked her, and the river was her only choice.

Ayane was just coming out of the woods as Kasumi spread her arms and dived off the cliffs edge.

"No! You're not getting away that easy!" Ayane dived after her, extending her arm trying to grab Kasumi, but she was too late. Both girls crashed into the water below.

Ayane struggled against the waves, gasping for air as she tried to stay above the waters surface. She'd lost sight of Kasumi, and now the current was pulling her under. The waves tossed and pulled her in their grip.

Darkness... All she could see was darkness...

Ayane awoke to the sound of waves crashing against a beach; she lifted herself up on to her elbows and found herself alone, covered with sand and salt water. Quickly she looked around her for any traces of Kasumi, but she couldn't find one.

Damn it! Ayane pounded her fist against the beach, she was so close! I could've finished her for once and for all!

Ayane stood and brushed the sand from her purple ninja suit. She looked out to the ocean. The mouth of the river emptied out to this beach. The waters surface looked calm under the moonlight...

Could Kasumi have drowned? Ayane clenched her fist. She better not have... The pleasure of killing Kasumi was Ayane's... And Ayane would make sure that anyone who took the joy of Kasumi's death away from her would suffer a much worse fate...

Note from Nashi:
Hiya, Sorry for this being so short, but I thought it was a good place to end the first chapter. Feel free to tell me what you think.