>>721158625

techincally a friendly allied clan, its not untrue to say she can operate for or on behalf of the hayabusa clan, shes 'on mission' for ryu hayabusa in ninja gaiden

in the doa story mode games, shes operating within her own clan and ryu helps out as an ally

seeing as how hayate got captured and memory wiped, hes no longer the clan leader, and neither kasumi as she 'ran away' trying to save hayate and was also captured and cloned, so no one really knows who or what the real kasumi is anymore

leaves ayane as the last remaining leader of their clan, even though she was brought up as the a part of the sekrit rogue sub clan, shes basically considered in charge on paper now