Disclaimer: Assassin's Creed belongs to Ubisoft and Dead or Alive belongs to Team Ninja.

Prologue

Darkness.

That's all he ever see. That's what all the five year old is seeing right now. Suddenly, his vision turned to two people in front of him. One is a Japanese woman with her back turned infront of him. The other person is a man that has his face covered behind the shadows with a gun pointed at the woman.

The woman looked up to the man and with a weakened and defeated voice, asked him a question, "Why Victor? Why would you betray us?"

"Betray you?" The man we know now as Victor answered the woman's question with a question of his own, "It's all business, nothing personal."

"Still, to betray the order..." she trailed off once she noticed a ring on one of the man's fingers. It is a white ring with a red edgy cross in the middle.

"You were never part of us aren't you." It wasn't a question, it was a statement. She started to tear up,"To know that I trusted you, to know that I loved you."

"Well I guess you were right," Victor responded, "To be honest, I loved you too, but you know as they say: business before pleasure." He pulled back the hammer of the gun.

"Wait," the woman suddenly said, making Victor stop before pulling the trigger, "Just promise me one thing, please."

"Okay, and that is?" Victor asked curiosly.

"Just leave our son, Akira, out of this," The woman answered gesturing to the child she is standing in front of, "Please Victor, After you shoot me, just drop him in an orphanage. I don't want him to be part of this."

"Is that all?" Victor asked.

"Yes," the woman answered, closing her eyes knowing what will happen next, "That's all."

"Well for all it is worth Yukina, I'm sorry." With that said, Victor Donovan shot the woman, now known as Yukina, in front of his and her son. Yukina dropped to the ground front first. Victor moved passed her and grabbed his son by the hand. As they walked passed Yukina's bleeding body, she looked into Akira's eyes, Akira looked at his mother's eyes. They said what she needed to say.

"Stay strong Akira, stay strong." Then with the last of her strength, closed her eyes and smiled.

The child nodded to his now deceased mother. He continued to walk with his father until they reached his father's car. Victor opened the back door and let his son in as he went to the front side of the car and into the driver's seat. He started up the car and headed on out to an orphange just outside of Tokyo that he knew and trusted their care of his now motherless son.

Akira looked up to his father, curious as to why his mother is not around, "Daddy, isn't mommy coming with us?"

Victor looked at his son via rear view mirror and looked at him apologetically,"I'm sorry son, but mommy will not come with us. She is sleeping, and she won't wake up for a long time."

"Then why not wake her up?" He asked innocently.

"I wished I could son, I wish I could." Victor responded, "Now go to sleep, we have a long trip ahead of us."

"Okay Daddy," Akira leaned his head near the car door and closed his eyes letting sleep take over him.

Victor looked back at his son with pity, "If only he knew, I'm sorry son."

2 hours later, Victor parked the car near a building with a sign that's written in kanji that said 'Asakura's Orphanage'. He looked at his son again and told him to wake up, saying that they have arrived.

Akira groggily started to rub his eyes in case he has eye gunk while he was sleeping. Victor got out of the car and opened the back door so that Akira could get out. He closed the door after his son got out and approached the orphanage.

Once inside, he instructed his son to sit on one of the chairs and wait patiently while he has to talk to someone in the orphanage. Akira complied unquestionably and sat on a chair.

With that he walked to the counter in which the woman behind it recognized him.

"Hey Victor, how are you doing lately?" she asked him in japanese as he approached the counter.

"I'm doing fine thank you," Victor answered, then he asked the woman a question, "Hey, is Sakura around?"

"Oh, yes," the woman answered, "Do you want me to call for her?"

"Please do," Victor said politely. The woman went to the telephone and a few minutes later, a woman with her hair tied up in a loose ponytail wearing an apron approached Victor.

"Well Victor, I'm hear now what do you want?" She asked him with her hands on her sides.

"Sakura, can you do me a favor?" Victor asked her.

Sakura looked at him curiously, "Yeah, what for?"

"Can you look after Akira when I'm gone?"

"Sure, but where are you going?"

"I'll be going to an important meeting for a couple of days and Yukina is in a business trip right now so she won't be here until next week," Victor lied.

"All right, so where is the little runt?"

"He's waiting over there," he looked at Akira. Sakura followed his sight and found the five year old sitting on a chair with his legs moving back in forth. His sea green eyes looked around the room with upmost curiosity.

"He looks like a mix between you and Yukina," Sakura said with a smile on her face, "Not surprising since he's your son after all." She looked to Victor and nodded.

"Thanks Sakura," Victor thanked the woman.

"Don't mention it, come on, introduce me to him."

Victor walked towards Akira with Sakura following him. Akira, not knowing who the woman is, curiously looked at her. "Daddy, who is that? She reminds me of mommy," Akira asked his father.

"Well son, your close," Victor said with Sakura chuckling behind him, "She's mommy's sister: Auntie Sakura."

"Hello little guy!" Sakura said waving to the boy.

"Hello Auntie Sakura," The boy waved back.

"Son," Victor suddenly said,"I need to tell you something."

"What is it daddy?" Akira asked his father.

"You will be staying with your Auntie Sakura for a couple of days." Victor answered.

"Why?" His son asked.

"I have to do something for work," Victor said, he went on one knee and looked at his son on eye level, "While you're with Auntie Sakura behave for me okay?"

"Okay daddy." His son answered obediently.

Victor then looked at Sakura, "Take care of him alright?"

"Don't worry Vic," Sakura told him.

"Alright then, I will see you two soon," Victor said then walked to the door.

"Bye bye, daddy!" Akira shouted towards his father. Victor waved back without looking at him and walked out the door. With him gone, Sakura looked at Akira.

"So, you wanna go play with some of the kids?" Sakura asked him.

Akira beemed and said the only word he thought of: "Yay!"

A day has passed with Akira in the orphanage. It was just an ordinary afternoon when a man with his hair gelled to a small fowhawk, wearing a brown jacket and jeans approached Sakura. He seems to want to tell her something urgently.

"Takashi," Sakura said recognizing the man, "Are you alright?"

"Sakura, thank God you're alright, I was worried," Takashi told Sakura with a relieved voice, "Have you seen Victor?"

"Yeah he went here a day ago to drop Akira off." Sakura asked wondering what's goong on.

"Damnit, I'm too late."

"Why? What happened?" Now Sakura is worried.

"Victor betrayed us all." Takashi said in a solem voice.

"What!" Sakura shouted, surprised clearly in her eyes.

"Yeah," Takashi said, "I reacted the exact same way, turns out that he was a double agent working for the Templars."

"I can't believe it," Sakura still in shock slowly sat down, "What about Yukina? What happened to my Sister!"

Takashi didn't say anything, he just looked at Akira, who was playing with some kids, with pity, knowing that the boy didn't know what was going on.

"Answer me damnit!" Sakura shouted really loud at Takashi, tears struggling to stay in her eyes, "What happened to Yukina?!"

Takashi suddenly hugged Sakura with tears streaming surprising her. "I'm sorry Sakura, I'm so sorry." This finally made Sakura start crying. She wrapped her arms around Takashi , returning the hug.

A few moments later they calmed down and released the hug. They didn't notice that Akira was watching when he asked them:

"Auntie Sakura, who's that?" he asked the inoccently, "Is he your boyfriend?"

Sakura and Takashi blushed at the comment.

"Akira," Sakura said still a little embarassed at the boy's comment, "This is Takashi, a 'friend' of mine's." She seems to put a lot of meaning to friend.

"Hey little guy," Takashi said nicely putting his hand out for Akira to shake, "I'm Takashi."

"Oh," Akira then shook Takashi's hand with both his hands, "Hello Uncle Takashi!" He then let go of Takashi's hand ran out to play with some of the kids in the orphanage.

"Nice kid," Takashi commented, "He reminds me of Vic with a little bit of Yukina's touch, like the hair and some of his face structure, he might pass for a Japanese kid if his eyes aren't green."

"Yeah, I've noticed," Sakura responded, "Still, how am I going to explain what happened to his parents."

Takashi looked at the woman beside him. He reached his arm around her shoulders and pulled her close. Sakura suddenly blushed and looked at Takashi With a surprised look. Takashi looked at her in the eyes in a rassuring way in which Sakura calmed down.

"Don't worry, you won't have to tell him alone." Takashi smiled at Sakura in which she returned." They continued doing that until Takashi proposed something surprised Sakura.

"I'm thinking Akira should know the ways of our order." He then told Sakura With his eyes away from her.

"What?" Sakura asked eyes widening

"I'm thinking of letting Akira join us," Takashi said now looking at Sakura

"Isn't he too young?" Sakura continued to question him.

"Yes, but when he gets older, I want him to join."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure."

Sakura stopped questioning him and looked at his eyes to see his strong conviction.

"Alright," Sakura slowly agrees, then her eyes turned dark that scares the daylights out of him, "but if he gets really hurt, you're answering to me, got it?"

"Y-yeah" Takashi answered albeit sweatdropping on the back of his neck.

"Good."

This is my crossover so please go easy on me guys if I did anything wrong with what I did with the crossover. So tell me what you think of the story so far. If I make any errors, grammar wise or canon wise, please tell me so that I could make corrections. Thank you guys once again for taking your time and reading the prologue.