Hattori Hachi - The Revenge of Praying Mantis by Jane Prowess

Hatti is just a normal girl, learning to defend herself, from her mom(Chiyoko). Like staying inside the lake for fifteen minutes or till the enemy passes away, fighting with whatever is available, defending at the right moment and stuff like that. Her mom has started an orphanage and maintains it. She is a Japanese and has married a Britisher. Hatti's father works in the police force. Her father does not know about all these trainings. Whenever he sees them doing their training he would just assume that they are playing. She has a friend in the orphanage and his name is Mad Dog. She never knew his real name and never even bothered to ask him. Her father always used to tell her to stay away from that guy because he had a dragon tattoo on his head and he never grew his hair and, thus, he looked scary. One day, Mad Dog came to her house to take her mom somewhere. Before going, her mom gave her a necklace with a key in it. Hatti thought her mom would come back. That day she didnt return nor that night. It became days and she didnt return. She had an old lady living dowstairs who used to do all the laundry. Her name was Yazuki. After two days, her father became restless and he didnt do anything properly. He couldnt even sleep. Even Mad Dog dissappeares. Hachi started suspecting Mad Dog of kidnapping his mom, but she didnt tell anyone about it because she had second thoughts. After a week, the police confirm that her mom and Mad Dog were going to the orphanage and there had been a fight there as they had found blood there. The police force started searching for Mad Dog as they accused Mad Dog to kill Hatti's Mom. One day, she realized that Yazuki was no ninety year old lady, but a lady who was in her fifties. Then Hatti finds Mad Dog in a room in the orphanage. Mad Dog saves her from an attack from the Kataki warriors who are in search for her. Yazuki comes to the rescue and keeps Mad Dog with her to train him. Soon Hatti realizies that her real name is Hachi and her mother's family is from the oldest ninjutsu family. The ninja warriors have made two groups- Ninjutsu and the Kataki. The Kataki are in search of her because she is the golden child and if they kill her all their problems will be over. Its the kataki who have kidnapped her mom and she has to go free her mom from there. Because the training had stopped, Yazuki did the same thing Chiyoko would do to train Hachi. Meanwhile, in her karate classes there is a knew guy called Toby and he is showing off. He is trying to get close to Hachi and know all her secrets. Her friend Nina, being interested in guys tries to get close to Toby though Toby becomes close to Hachi's enemy. Once, when Hachi is with Yazuki, she comes to know that there is something called disguise in nijutsu and Mad Dog is using it all the time. Once, there was a party in the neighborhood and that is why her dad and she went there. To her shock even Toby was there. She could smell Toby's after shave and it smelled bad. In the middle of the party she went to her house to find someone sneaking around there. There was some smell coming and it smelled like Toby's after shave. When Hachi tried to follow him, he ran. After some time, a lady called Suzi came to them telling that she was Chiyoko's sister. Hachi took her to her father. It felt good to have someone just like her mum. They became very close and having her was like having her mum back. Meanwhile, Hachi's training was over. Her mum had left her some riddles and she couldnt solve the last one. She posted it onto the fridge to remind her about it. Suzi saw it and got very excited. Infact, she was the one who solved the riddle. Just seconds after they had solved the riddles, her dad came. Suzi went to open the door and started talking to him outside. Meanwhile, Hachi opened the box with the key on her chain ad saw a manuscript inside. She had always had a doubt on Suzi on why she took matters concerning her very seriously. So, she scanned the document in her computer and closed it. She was about to put the box inside when her father came. She hid the hole and drove her father outside whle gesturing to Suzi to keep everything inside. After Suzi was gone and her father was taking a nap, she went into her room and saw the box again. The manuscript was not there. Her suspicions for Suzi were real. She worked for praying mantis. She decided that they should have a new treasurer and she was ready to apply. Though she told, she would need some time to arrange everything. In this some time Hachi found out that Toby works for Praying Mantis and her mom has been in captivity there. During the day of the ceremony, Suzi takes the pen with which her father would sign the documents. Hachi goes down to rescue her mom. At last, we see that Praying Mantis is been carried away to Japan, Toby dissappeares and Mr. Bill is killed. And, of course, CHiyoko is rescued.