Disclaimer- I don't own the tekken franchise or the characters

I know there's a bunch of Xiaorang stories, but this one is mine! I know sometimes thing Xiaoyu is annoying and childish, but this story is going to try to change people's impression of her. I want people to witness the transformation I'm going to take her through. Hopefully, by the end of the story Xiaorang haters will like the pairing and grow fond of the pig-tailed teenager.

Of course staying true to characterizations and personality traits, I put in some humor, sarcasm, love and immaturity in this story. Say no more, enjoy !


"Run, run as fast as you can."

His voice was scary, it sounded nothing like what it used to be. I heard no trace of the soft-spoken boy I knew in high-school. An evil man had replaced him.

XIAOYU

Wanting to save Him and talk sense into Him, I pursued Him, but because of the militarized nature of the Zaibatsu I've been unsuccessful. The King of Iron Fist Tournament had always given me an opportunity to reach the head of the Zaibatsu, like Heihachi, so when the sixth tournament had been announced, I immediately entered with the hopes of seeing Him.

I fought through many of His enemies and saw the path of destruction He had left. In one of my seven bouts, I encountered His long time rival, Hwoarang on the main floor of the Zaibatsu. He, too, was looking to defeat Jin. After what seemed like hours, I beat the Korean and promised him that I would bring Jin's reign of terror to and end.

"Just be careful, kid. He's not the same anymore." he warned, wiping blood from his lip.

His concern was greatly appreciated and made me smile. "I will."

When I got to the seventh round, the gargoyle's perch, I finally, after nearly three months, got to see Him.

Jin.

He was sitting in a throne, the eerie room was full of gargoyle statues. There was a glass floor in the middle of the stage and I was very reluctant to step, let alone fight on it.

I almost felt intimidated to look Jin in the eyes. He was glaring at me. Usually his demeanor was quiet and mysterious, I could never figure out what he was thinking, but now I can see what he is thinking and how he feels. Its obvious that he is unhappy to see me. This person was not ashamed to stare daggers at me, I bet if he could, he'd stab me. I felt like I was preparing to fight a complete stranger, not Jin.

"You've made it this far. I'm impressed, Xiao." He said, giving me a glance over. "You look different. More mature."

I suddenly felt self-conscious, "I am more mature, Jin. I've changed..."

He got out of his chair and sauntered toward me. "Yes, and so have I. We can no longer be friends. You see the world in a different way than I do. You will only interfere in my plans."

He was right. I have every intention on getting in His way, but only to save Him and the world.

"Please stop this, Jin." I begged before he could say anything more. "You don't have to continue doing these horrible things."

Jin glared at me. The look shot a tingle down my spine that almost made my knees shake. "You are delving into matters that do not concern you, Xiao." he spoke. "You will leave. Now."

I planted my feet firmly into the ground as I took my fighting stance. "I will not."

I charged toward Jin, prepared to jump and kick Him, but he saw that coming. While I was in mid-air, he took hold of my foot and tossed me to the side like a toy he didn't want to play with anymore. Before, I could even kip-up, Jin was standing over me. He grabbed the crook of my elbow and yanked me off the ground. I tried to pull away, but his hold on me was too firm.

"Jin, let me go!"I shouted.

I lifted my foot and aimed it toward his head. I thought I moved fast, he was quicker. He caught my ankle in his free hand and stopped my foot from even making contact with his face.

"I warned you, Xiao." he whispered, as he flipped me over on to the glass floor.

Under my body, the glass cracked.

Unlike the last time I hit the ground, I was slow to recover. The wind was knocked out of my lungs. Not one to attack his opponents when they are down, Jin waited patiently for me to rise to my feet.

"Don't hold back. Its not very becoming of this 'new you'." he spoke, slightly annoyed with my lack of fire.

I rubbed the arm I landed on before taking my stance once more. "Don't underestimate me!"

Several minutes later...

I stopped fighting like some scared schoolgirl sparring with her friend and got serious. I was going to take Jin down no matter what. Each time he punched, I spun from his reach and punched him. When he kicked, I dive rolled. Finally, when I hit him, I was relentless. I managed a ten-hit combination that ending in Jin falling to ground. Coincidentally enough, he slammed down on the crack I made causing a large split to crawl from under his body.

"End this now, Jin." I demanded, pointing at him.

Slowly rising from the ground, Jin took of his jacket and threw it to the side. "Or what?"

I retracted my arm and dropped it to my side. I really didn't have an answer. What exactly would I do if he didn't stop? What could I do?

He began unbuttoning his shirt, I stared suspiciously. How could he be undressing at a time like this?

"What can you possibly do, little girl?"

"Uh, I-I..."

"...can't do anything to stop me!" he roared.

I flinched at the strange sound that accompanied Jin's voice. What was that noise! It wasn't Jin's voice.

"I will end you, girl!" Jin hissed, tearing his shirt off completely.

What I saw petrified me. On his chest and forehead, were these black marks and they were surrounded by a violet aura. Jin hunched over and ebony wings sprouted from his back.

He looked like a dark angel.

Suddenly bull-like horns and claws shot from his head and hands.

"More like a devil." he said.

Had he read my thoughts? How did he do that?

Jin flapped his wings and the gust forced me to my butt and caused the windows to shatter. I began to inch backwards, but before I could get far, a red laser beam, shot from his eyes and hit a gargoyle behind me. The stone chimera burst into pieces and scattered around me. Some bits landed on the floor and others flew out the already broken windows. Instantly, I rose of the ground and began running toward for some type of cover.

"Run, run as fast as you can." he sang.

Wanting to play with me, Jin shot more beams at the surrounding gargoyles. Each time a gargoyle would errupt, I'd scream and cover my head. Jin cackled at me, unfazed by my fear. As I was running, I failed to notice the piece of stone in my path and slipped on it, falling into the center of the glass floor.

When there were no more gargoyles to use as target practice, Jin started to aim at me.

"Jin, what happened to you?" I asked, trembling with fear.

Jin truly wasn't the same person. Hwoarang was right!

"You've gotten in my way for the last time girl!" Jin said before coming toward me...

END POV

HWOARANG-

Jin's girl was tough, she defeated me in battle, but I didn't think she was strong enough to fight Jin. I don't know why I allowed her to go up there to Jin alone, but I did. I lost fair and square. Jin and his girl's fight was none of my business, but a part of me worried for her.

As I was leaving the building, I thought about the last time I saw Jin. After the fifth tournament, a demonic version of Jin attacked me. I woke up in the hospital and vowed to become stronger and defeat Jin. I obviously didn't expect some little girl to beat me like she did. Unfortunately for her, she'd have to fight that bastard.

While deep in thought, shards of glass came down over my head. Several slivers fell into my hair and I merely shook them out. When large pieces followed, I dodged some, but the others sliced my arms and face. It hurt like hell, but the wounds weren't deep. When the glass shower ended, I looked up. I had this sick feeling that the girl was in danger.

"Damn kid." I exclaimed, as I ran back inside the building. "She told me she'd be careful!"

I took the elevator and it shot up the shaft like a bullet through a gun. Once I got to the last floor, and the elevator doors opened, I saw him and her. Devil Jin was choking her and preparing to blast her with his energy. His face seemed to be glowing a bright red.

I pressed the "door open" button and ran toward Jin. I don't know what the chick said to him, but he was distracted enough that he didn't notice me approaching. I did a flying side kick and made complete contact with the side of his of the blow to his head, Jin's laser beam missed the girl and hit the glass floor.

As Jin was stumbling backwards, he stepped on a weak spot and fell through the floor. Taking the opportunity to escape, I scooped the tiny girl off the ground and carried her toward the elevator, which was closing.

"Shit!"

I ran faster and practically launched myself in the elevator. As if on cue, Jin flew up from the, now empty, platform and came full speed toward the elevator. I left Jin's girl on the ground and frantically pressed the "door close" button. I must have pressed a thousand of times, but the doors would come together. As if the button were a person, I yelled for it to work. I was not trying to die tonight.

Jin's arm was pulled back. He was getting ready to knock my head clean off.

Finally, the doors began to shut and when they did, Jin began punching the door. Indentations of his clawed fist, formed in the center of the doors until they began to open.

Jin's hands began to pry open the doors, but then the elevator shot down to the main floor.

I fell on my butt and sat next to Jin's girl, who looked like some lifeless doll.

"We're safe,okay? No need to look so bummed." I said, trying to reassure her.

"He's changed. He's not the same Jin anymore."

"Look, kid, I told you that!"

Once the elevator reached the bottom floor I stood up and held my hand out to help her up. She slowly took my hand before rising from the floor. She was moving too slow, Jin could come at any moment. Yeah, I told her that we were safe, but I said that to make her feel better. That homicidal Jin was definitely flying after us.

Not a second after that thought, I heard a large thud over head. Jin was on top of the elevator.

I held the girl's hand tightly and began to run toward the exit...

Knowing that escape by foot was all but possible, I decided that it was best that the girl and I hide. We ran toward what appeared to be a small alley. The narrow space was a perfect place to remain unseen, but we both couldn't fit without sandwiching together. Although she didn't say a word since we were in the elevator, I could tell she wasn't to comfortable with pressing herself against me, even if it would save both our lives. Because she didn't verbally protest and Jin was hot on our trail, I pulled her petite body close to mine and slid us in between the tight walls.

I heard Jin fly away overhead and waited several minutes before moving or speaking.

We both stood there silently, motionless.

After running, I was breathing like an asthmatic, but Jin's girl was breathing slowly, calmly. She seemed as if she didn't just have a major fight with Jin Kazama.

"I think he's gone." I sighed, relieved to have made it out of the Zaibatsu alive.

Just then, Jin's girl began siffling. I could feel a something wet on my chest. She was definitely crying and using my shirt as her tissue. Great! This what I've always dreamed of. A girl using my favorite shirt to wipe her snot.

"That wasn't Jin. That was something else!" she whined. "It would even say my name! He just kept calling me, 'girl'."

I stood there awkwardly. Here's this girl, crying over some guy I couldn't stand. A few minutes ago, he was straggling her and she's crying because he didn't say her name? She's out of her mind. Seriously, how do I get myself in these situations?

"I bet you don't even know my name!" she began yelling at me. "You always call me 'kid'!"

Come to think of it, I don't even know her name. I know I've heard it before but it always slips my mind. I've always just referred to her as "Jin's girl", but what the hell? Why was she yelling at me? She was messing with the wrong guy.

"Maybe if you were cuter, I'd remember your damned name! Usually, I have no trouble remembering the names a of pretty girls, but you? Can't even think of it!" I retorted.

She wiped her tears with her hand and hit my head. "Now I see why Jin hates you! You're horrible!"

I wanted to hit her back, but since I was bigger than her I had a harder time moving. I did fight her back with my words though.

"Hate me? I wasn't the one He getting ready to kill just now was I?"

That comment made her shut up. Before she could even think of a reply, I slid myself from her and the wall. "You ungrateful, little...I just saved your life and you're arguing with me. Next time I won't do a damn thing for you." I walked away from her and as I was leaving, she whispered something that her usual bubbly, optimistic self, would be ashamed of.

"You should have left me to die."

I pivoted on my heels and faced her. "I think you're being a bit melodramatic. You don't deserve to die."

She began crying some more, slid down the wall and buried her face in her tiny hands. She looked so pathetic, it kind of made me uncomfortable. Vulnerability seems like such a weak quality to have, even for a woman.

She lifted her head to speak."Why do you care? You don't even think I pretty enough to know my name."

I was astonished. She is still trying to toss blame at everyone but Jin.

"What? I bet you don't even know my name?"

"Hwoarang." she said dryly.

Okay, she knew my name, but that didn't keep her from crying and I wanted her to stop as soon as possible. "Would it make you feel better if I know your name?"

I was ready to do anything to shut her up.

"Maybe, I dunno."

"Okay, what's you're name, kid?"

"Ling Xiaoyu."

"Wait, you're chinese?"

"Yeah, I came to Japan when I was sixteen and I've been here for three years. I might as well go back. There's nothing here for me now. I can't reach Jin."

So she's not exactly a "kid." She may be of legal age, but she acts like such an air-head. Her behavior is quite deceiving.

I nodded in agreement. "True, but you shouldn't tie yourself down to one person. I know I don't."

"What do you mean?" she inquired, her innocent little mind not grasping into any word I've said.

"Get yourself another boyfriend...boy-friend, or whatever Jin used to be to you."

A lightbulb went off in her head, before her eyes dimmed. "We weren't anything. Just friends."

Okay, so she never was "Jin's girl". She may have wanted to be, but he definitely doesn't want anything from her except her life.

"Oh, I see. Well, he's an idiot anyway. Move on, kid, I mean Xiaoyu."

Xiaoyu nodded, she seemed to understand, so I decided to end this life lesson.

"Alright, Xiaoyu, I'll see you around."

I repeated her name to prove I had learned it.

As far as I was concerned the conversation was over, so I turned around and prepared to leave, again.

"Wait, where are you going?"

"None ya' business, kid."

"Can I come with you?"

"No. Don't even think about it."

She ran up behind me and hugged me. I tried to wiggle her off but when she nuzzled her face in my back, I kind of, sort of, melted. Damn, girls and their charms.

"You're not going to leave me all by myself, are you? What if Jin comes back for me?" she said, squeezing my chest.

If she were holding me any tighter, she probably would have felt my heart pounding. Why? I do not know. I'll assume its because, I was getting annoyed with Xiaoyu's immature antics and not because I can feel her breasts on my back.

"Hwoarang, please, protect me from Jin until I become strong enough to beat him." she pleaded.

Xiaoyu holding me like this made me wonder if she used this girly tactic on Jin to get what she wanted. Finally, after careful thought I gave her an answer.

"Fine! But I need something from you in return. Nothing in this world is free."

Just then Xiaoyu released me and backed away, slowly, almost cautious.

"I won't give it to you." she whispered.
I raised my brow. "What exactly is 'it'?"

She folded her arms over her chest and I caught the subtle hint. "Jeez! I don't want that! I'm talking about money!" I rubbed my fingers together. "Besides, you're definitely the last person I'd do that with. Yuck!"

Xiaoyu gaped, feeling offended. "You are so...UGH! I take back my request." She turned her face from me.

Jin used to do that "I rebuke you" crap and it irked me , and just like him, she was pissing me off. I would have just left her there to fend for herself, but I needed money and I'm sure since Xiaoyu was going to a prestigious school (I've seen her wearing the uniform during the tournament.) she could afford my price.

"Listen, Xiaoyu, I didn't have to help you earlier, and I don't have to help you now."

Of course I do. I need the money.

"...but considering the situation I'll make an exception, so you better fix your attitude and get over it, 'coz I'm helping you."

Xiaoyu's face lit up like the fourth of July.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" she exclaimed, glomping me.

I felt my cheeks heat up and immediately felt awkward. I grabbed her little waist and plucked her off of me. I really don't know how Jin put up with this chick. She's literally a handful.

"Too much," I said. "Seriously, way too much."

"Sorry 'bout that." she rubbed was twiddling her thumbs.

"If I'm going to be your bodyguard, I'm going to give you a set of rules that you have to swear by."

I found it ironic that I hated rules and rarely followed them and here I was making a set of my on laws. "No hugging, no crying, no whining, no talking about Jin and finally, no Pandas!"

"What? Panda's my friend!" she yelled in protest.

"You're a weird chick, you know that? I don't care if its your friend, I don't want it in my sight!"

"You're a mean boy, but I'm sure you know that!"

"Yes, I know am an evil man, but its either you swear or don't care."

Xiaoyu, pouted, lifted her right hand and nodded. "Fine! I swear by your stupid rules!"

I gave her a high-five and then pet her head. "Good girl. Now let's go!"


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