Someone wrote saying that this seems familiar trust me that one part may seem
similar but Ryo is a bit different than he seems thus far. His problems
haven't even started yet. Ego trip part 6: little ninja girl
	
	Ryoko looked as Ryo swung with full force at the boy on the ground and the
dark look in his eyes. She turned away in horror as she knew that a blow like
that struck where he was aiming would kill the boy. Behind her she heard
nothing. Then laughter. She dared to look up. Ryo's fist was touching the
boy's shirt, and both of them were laughing. Ryo helped the boy to his feet
and grabbed his shoulder the two started talking and walked off like two old
freinds. Ryoko sighed in releif. "They are old freinds." she said to herself.
Still Ryo was swinging full force it took an incredible amount of strength and
skill to stop like that. "I'll teach that jerk to scare me like that
tomorrow." she grummbled. 

	Ryo walked through town with his old freind in tow. "So how have you been? I
haven't heard from you since Australia." he inquired. Martin looked at him for
a moment. "Thats right we haven't seen each other since that thing in uh...
where ummm....." Martin looked at Ryo for amoment in frustration.  "Sydney?"
offered Ryo. "Yea thats it!" said his friend. "It doesn't seem like five years
does it?" said Ryo. "Nope." agreed Martin casually munching on one of the
apple they had picked up from a vendor earlier. Ryo flipped his into the air
and caught it idly. Several shadows watched from the alley as they passed.  

	"That looks like a good test." said a large figure from the shadows. "Yes get
the the apple from the gaijin in the school uniform." agreed the other large
figure. The smaller figure bowed and lept away.  "This is your final test
Yamichisai. Pass and you will be granted the honor of initiation into our
clan. Fail and you will live in exile." Said the tallest shadow.

	Ryo rounded the corner into an ally and heard a familiar rush in the air. He
quickly ducked and saw three throwing stars enbedded in the wall behind him.
"Ninja." he said droping into a familiar stance. Martin was crouched behind a
pile of trash. "What are you doing? lets get out of here!" he said looking at
him. "There is only one, besides if we run we'll die before we get to the
street." he said to him. He backed into the wall and carefuly fingered the
stars behind him. "Those could be poison." warned Martin. "Its not a Yokake
ken clan star." he said to himself unfamiliar with the design. "What?" said
Martin. Ryo raised his hand and cried "THERE!" as he blasted a section trash
out with a chi blast. A young girl tummbled out from behind it and rolled into
a crouching stance. She was about fourteen and had a blond tuff of hair that
covered her eyes the rest of her hair was a natural red color. She was dressed
in a worn dirty looking brown ninja outfit and had her mask pulled down around
her neck like a turtle neck. She also had a short sword drawn and was facing
Ryo meanacingly.

	The girl looked at Ryo angrily "What the hell was that?" she wondered more
than a little unerved by the blast. "But to show fear would be a weakness."
she reminded herself. She Charged him slashing at his hand with the apple in
it. "Damn he is fast." She thought bitterly as he dodged around her slashes.
She tossed several throing stars at his hand. He jerked to the side dodging
her throwing stars  stopping the last one by catching it beteween his fingers.
Ryo looked at the apple in his hand. The girl slashed at it and he narowly
shifted causing her to miss again. "This is what your after?" he asked tossing
it to her. "If you wanted it that bad you could have asked." he stated looking
at her. The girl took it and lept away. 
	
	"What was that all about?" asked Martin as he rose from the pile of trash he
had been useing for cover. "Don't ask me. Mabey she was hungry?" Said Ryo
looking at where she had disapeared. "Whats this Yoake ken thing?" asked
Martin looking at Ryo as the two walked off. "Its this clan of ninja we had
some trouble with a few years back." replied Ryo as he exited the alley.

	"You failed." said the largest shadow. "B-but..." said the girl. "Yamichisa,
you were to take it from him. He gave it to you out of pitty, he thought you
were a beggar." said the larger man. "You said only to get it you did not say
how." countered Yami. "Silence. If you try to contact us or even return to our
places of meeting you will be killed. Now go leave my sight." groweled the
shadowy ninja. Yami looked up pitifully and lept away. "Pitty she showed such
promice." said one of the other ninja. "She failed I will not hear such
insolence from you." said the other. "Her failier has saved her life." said a
new voice.

	 The ninja lept into battle ready stances as they looked for the source of
the words. "Boo." said the tall man behind them. They turned to face a tall
man in long purple robes, he had long white hair that flowed to the middle of
his back and a long face, his eyes were almost consealed by his bangs he
looked up revealing his purple eye color. "I am Gall. join me or die." he
said. "You dare try to order the-" started one of the ninja when Gall lifted
his hand and sheot a white ball from his hand that burned a six inch hole in
the top of his chest slowy, the man screamed until it reached his heart then
he fell forward leaving behind the scent of burning flesh. "Take him." said
the larger ninja as several other ninja appeared around him. Gall smiled and
began to glow.

	A few moments passed and an elderly man stumbled into the alley way.  A
strange smell lingered in the air. He tripped over something in his drunken
stuppor and kicked it. He looked down and saw what it was. A slow realization
came over him as he looked around him at the bodies that surrounded him. Every
where were scalded and charred bones and flesh mostly in pieces. He began to
scream.
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OOh an evil villan.... Next time on Ego trip, 
Fond memories...
see ya there!