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Chapter 2: The Eagle She Saw

It is a normal day in Tokyo where we find a girl with her long auburn hair tied to a ponytail, wearing a school uniform, indicating that she's still in school, talking to her friends in the classroom before the class begins. To those who knew her, she is just Kasumi Goto*, to those who really knew her, she is Kasumi, the runaway kunoichi, who left her clan to save her brother, and the winner of the first Dead or Alive tournament.

Now she is hiding from her clan knowing that they are sending members to either take her back or to kill her. Even after she saved her brother and got his memories back after the events of the last twp tournaments, she is still in exile because of her village's code and cosequences for runaways.

Her thoughts were interrupted however, by a girl with shoulder length black calling her name.

"Kasumi-chan, Kasumi-chan!" the girl called out to the auburn haired girl.

Kasumi put her thoughts in the back of her head and looked at her friend questionably, "Yes, Kaede-chan?"

"So," her friend Kaede asked her, "have you seen him?"

"Seen who?" Kasumi asked, confusion clearly seen in her face.

"Well, the Shirawashi of course!" Kaede informed her friend with stars in her eyes.

"The Shirawashi?" Kasumi asked her friend, "Who is that?"

"You mean to tell me that you never heard of the Shirawashi?" Kaede questioned , to which Kasumi shook her head. She then sighed knowing that her friend was deep in thought again.

"Well the Shirawashi, is the name people gave to this guy who was reported to have killed murderers, stalkers, and rapists, a week ago," Kaede explained to Kasumi she then continued, "According to eye witnesses, before the offender was killed, they saw a guy dressed in a white hoodie with a hood that has a tip that looks like an eagle's beak and shadows the top half of his face coming out of nowhere stabbed the offender with a blade coming out of his hand."

Kasumi was surprised that Kaede sounded like a reporter, though not turprising since her parents are, she is, however, more surprised about this Shirawashi her friend is talking about. Who is he? Is he a ninja from her village, killing these vile monsters on the side? Is he a ninja from a rival clan who ran away and became a vigilante?

Her thoughts were interrupted once again, but this time, it was the school bell ringing, indicating that it's time for class to start. Everyone scrambled for their seats before the teacher comes to the classroom. Everything was settled once the teacher enters the classroom.

The class representative told everyone to stand and bow to the teacher.

"Thank you class," the teacher thanked the class, "Not all of you know this, but we will have a new student today."

The mention of a new students got the class riled up. Is it a boy or a girl? Is he handsome? Is she cute? All the questions involving a new student came to mind.

"Okay class, settle down," the teacher said with a smile on his face, he will be forever amused about the class's curiosity. Once the class settled down the teacher called for the mysterious student to open the door and come in.

The tension rose as the door opened and the student walked in. They all got a good look at the new guy. He seems to be of average height, has short black hair that is swept to the right, and sea green eyes that doesn't seem out of place with his Asian features. In fact, it makes him more exotic. He got a good look at the class and noticed girls eyeing at him flirtaciously and guys who looked at him malicously. This made him want to back up a little bit.

"Come on, don't be shy and introduce yourself," the teacher said encouraging the young man to introduce himself.

"H-hello," the new student started shyly, which the girls squeel since they find it cute, "M-my n-name is Hishou Akira. I-I like to read, to learn, and to meet new people. I-I hope that w-we could all get along."

His introduction gained different reactions from different people of the class. Some think that this guy is a nerd and isn't worth their time. Some girls, think that this guy is cute because he is shy and his hobbies suggest that he could be a scholar. Other's just don't care, since they don't see what so ineteresting about the guy.

To Kasumi, thanks to her ninja training, could see that he is acting. Albeit good acting and it could easily fool even a comptent ninja, hose sea green eyes are the dead give away. They are calm. Even when he looks on edge, they calmy move around the room observing tha class as a whole, like he got it under control.

Akira was calmly observing the class for a bit until he noticed an auburn haired girl looking at him differently, like if he's a threat or something. He could tell that she's different from the others. All those years of training to become an Assassin, showed how to identfy someone by how they act and how they look at things. He was wondering why she was looking at him until the teacher spoke up.

"Okay Hishou-san," the said gaining Akira's attention, "You may sit on the empty seat beside Goto-san over there. He pointed to the seat next to the auburn haired girl near the row farthest to the right, close to the window.

"H-hai," he nervously said and walked near Kasumi, "H-Hello Goto-san, hope you don't mind."

"It's okay Hishou-san," Kasumi said hoping that he won't act like he would break down, "I don't mind."

"T-thank you," Akira thanked and sat down on his seat. All of a sudden, his vision turned a very dark blue. He would panic, but years of staying calm makes it second nature to him. The student's seem to fade into darkness. In fact, everything except Kasumi and a few students does fade into darkness. The students are highlighted in red, but Kasumi, on the other hand, is highlighted in yellow. Then as fast as it appeared, his vision went back to normal.

Akira started blinking rapidly, and started rubbing his eyes. He is confused and wondering if there's anything wrong with him. He then noticed a now worried Kasumi looking at him.

"Hishou-san," Kasumi called him out, "Is everything all right?" She is actually worried. Just as he sat down, his eyes went blank, but his face showed signs of shock. Then just as fast, his head slightly recoiled back, and his eyes returned back to normal. He looked confused and started rubbing his eyes.

"Everything is alrtight, Goto-san," Akira responded and looked at her, "Thank you for worrying."

Class continued without a fuss and Akira showed a really high intellect by answering every question asked by the teacher correctly, impressing students and teachers alike. The same could be said for the next class.

During lunch, Akira was about to get out of his seat when Kaede walked to him. Knowing that ignoring her would blow his cover as the shy, smart kid, he decided to stay put.

"Hi there, Hishou-san," she called out to him, "My name is Itsuki Kaede! One of Kasumi-chan's friends!"

"Kasumi-chan?" Akira asked her, not knowing who this Kasumi-chan is.

"That would be me," Kasumi told him with a slight blush on her cheeks, embarassed by her friend's antics, "Kasumi is my given name."

"Oh," Akira blushed pink, embarassed at the sudden revelation. He then looked at Kasumi and bowed his head in an apologetic way, "I'm sorry Goto-san, I-I didn't know.."

"It's okay Hishou-san," Kasumi tried to reassure him, "It happens everytime Kaede-chan introduced herself to everyone I know." She then made a look at Kaede. Kaede ignored the look and talked to Akira again.

"So Hishou-san," Kaede continued, "You wanna join Kasumi-chan and I for lunch?"

"It's okay Itsuki-san," Akira tried to decline, but Kaede grabbed his arm and pulled him closer to where Kasumi is, preparing to take out her bento.

"Nonsense, Hishou-san," Kaede told him, "Besides, you're the new guy, how are you gonna make friends if you don't socialize. Especially with a pretty cute girl like Kasumi-chan here." This caused both Akira and Kasumi to start blushing red.

"K-Kaede-chan! Stop that you're embarassing him!" Kasumi yelled at her friend. Akira on the other hand is in a panicked state. None of his Assassin training prepare him for this! Now think. Nope. No solution on how to deal with pushy girls without blowing his cover, so he has no choice but to deal with it. Akira was brought out of his mind when Kaede started talking again.

"You should also try her food too, its really good." She told him, making his stomach growl, the scent of the meal coming out of Kasumi's bento isn't helping him either.

"O-okay," Akira reluctantly agreed, "Can I just grab my lunch first?"

"Sure!" Akira went to his desk and grabbed a bag with a sandwhich inside.

Kaede, and even Kasumi, looked at his lunch and asked him the same question, "Is that it?" Both said at the same time, though former is more vocal than the latter.

"T-This is all I know how to make in the least amount of time," Akira told them with a confused look, "What's wrong with it?"

"Well, it's really..." Kasumi trailed off.

"Small," Kaede finished, "It's really small." She then grabbed a pair of chopsticks, and used it to pick up one of the octopus shaped sausages in Kasumi's bento, without Kasumi's consent, "Here, try one of Kasumi-chan's cooking!"

Akira looked reluctantly at Kasumi who nodded her head with a smile. Akira nodded in return and ate it the sausage. His eyes brightened up when he tasted it.

"Wow," thats all that he could say.

"I knew it," Kaede said matter-of-factly, "Even the new guy liked your cooking Kasumi-chan!"

Kasumi just smiled and what is going on.

"So, Hishou-san," Kaede started after Akira was brought back to reality, "Have you ever heard of the Shirawahsi?"

"Shirawashi?" Akira asked her.

"You never heard of him?" Akira shook his head which made Kaede sigh, "You're just as unimformed as Kasumi-chan." this made Kasumi glare at her friend. "Well, let me explain..."

And so, lunch went on without a problem, the girls, mainly Kaede, asked what school did Akira go to before he started going to their school, what's his favorite color, and the usual questions you are asked in a survey about yourself. Kasumi just asked a question or two, but not important.

Gym proved that Akira isn't mister perfect. He tends to act regularly and not standing out in the group. Kasumi, with her ninja trained perception, noticed that he is holding back. She now knows that he's definitely hiding something, but she won't pry since she's on the same boat as well.

After school, Kaede, with Kasumi in tow, were looking for Akira. However he seems to have disappeared in the crowd once the afterschool bell rung.

"Grr," Kaede growled at no one, irritated by Akira's disappearance, "Where is he?"

"Calm down, Kaede-chan," Kasumi said, trying to calm her friend down, "I'm sure he wen't home like everyone."

"Still, when tomorrow comes, I will tell him you just don't ditch girls without saying a word of good-bye!" Kaede shouted, "let's go Kasumi!"

And with that we move on to where Akira is right now. He is walking down a street thinking back on what happened during the beginning of class today. "What was that," he thought, "It's like it identified improtant things for me. He then had a gut feeling that he was followed. Knowing that gut feelings are usually right, he turned to an alleyway. He coninued walking with his head facing the ground and noticed his vision going dark blue again. He looked up and noticed two red highlighted people block the alleyway. He turned around and found three red highlighted people behind him. He now knew the situation.

He is surrounded, and knowing the automatic meaning of the color red, they are hostile. All of a sudden, his vision turned to normal and noticed that they are kids from school. "Damn," he gritted his teeth at the thought. Now his back is against a corner.

"Listen 'ere new kid," one of them said trying to intimidate him, "We just gonna give it to ya sraight away."

"O-oh yeah, and what is it?" Akira asked the punk, still acting shy and is now looking for a way out without causing violence and not blowing his cover.

"Look, we don't want you thinkin' that you is high mighty cuz you smart," another thug said, "An' today, we gonna show you why." To further prove what he said, he punched the palm of his left hand and used it to crack the nuckles on his right hand.

Now knowing that there's no way out, Akira was left with one simple solution. Beat hisway out of the alley. He then adopted the Assassin's fighting stance and waited. The punks, thinking that he's just a nerd playing karate master, laughed. Then of them decided to throw a punch.

One minute and twelve seconds later, Akira is seen casually walking out of the other side of the alley with a left hand on his pocket and his right hand carrying his book bag over his shoulder, and not having a scratch on him.

"Now that's out of the way, time to suit up." And Akira disappeared once a crowd surrounded him.

Kasumi is getting ready to fight right now. Just after she split up with Kaede, she felt that someone is following her. She doesn't want to lead this person to her home so she decided to make them think she's vulnerable and let herself get trapped into a corner. Now she is surrounded by four, not so nice people.

"Hey there cutie pie," one of them said in a lecherous voice, he and another thug are holding knives, "Just give us all your money, and entertain us, then we will let you go."

Kasumi just stayed silent, knowing what he meant about entertainment. She adopted the Mugen Tenshi fighting stance knowing she will have to fight her way out.

"Ooh lookie here," one of them said, "Seems like she wanna fight." They then started laughing.

"Even better!" Another one continued, "Besides, I love the fie-"

He never finished his sentence because in that time, a figure landed in between him and another thug, with his hands on their necks pushing them down. It's left hand then reached for something on its back and made a throwing move to his left side, which hit the third thug's neck. After that, he reached for his side, now arming himself with a silenced handgun and fired to shots to the last thug. One to the chest and one to the head. All of this happened so fast that the thugs didn't even know what hit them.

Kasumi saw the entire thing since she's used to seeing things really quickly thanks to her training. She realized what the person is wearing: a white hoodie who's hood has a tip of an eagle's beak, covering the top half of the person's face with darkness. This is him. This is the Shirawashi.

She saw him take something out of his pocket: A white feather. He then wiped it on one of the deceased thug's neck, staining it with blood, and left it there.

"Heiwade yasumu anata geretsuna deki sokona," he said to them with disgust in his voice. He noticed Kasumi, who is still in her fighting stance. He raised both his hands up as a sign of peace. Kasumi dropped her stance, but still have her gaurd up knowing what this man is capable of. "Are you alright miss?" He asked her, concern in his voice.

"Yes, I am," she answered, "They never laid a finger on me." She noticed that he sounded familiar, but who, she doesn't know. the man then nodded and decided to walk out of the alley.

He was about to exit the alley when...

"Wait!" Kasumi shouted to him. This made him stop and look at her, his face still covered by shadow. "Who are you?"

"You already know." With that said and done, he disappeared into the crowd leaving her in the alley by herself.

Here is chapter 2 guys. I hope you enjoy it, and I also hope that I got Kasumi's personality right. If I made her OOC, then I'm sorry and I'll try to correct it as best as I can. Thank you for taking your time and reading this guys.

* I decided to give Kasumi a last name while she is in hiding. Let's face it, it will be weird to go live normally without a family name. It's really obvious.

Heiwade yasumu anata geretsuna deki sokona: Rest in peace you vile bastards.