100 Prompts: Vengeance
Post Tekken 5 Xiaoyin
I've been obsessed with Tekken again. Takes me back. Except now I can relate to Xiao. She's my spirit animal.
Vengeance, that's all that's been on his mind for as long as he can remember. And that's all that's going to be on his mind, for as long as he can imagine. If there was one constant in this world, it would be that Kazama Jin would forever be hell bent on vengeance. Even if he ever did complete his goal one day, it would haunt him for the rest of eternity. He knew he simply could not find another way to live, without the concept of vengeance looming about in his life.
It was a dark feeling. It lingered in his life in every aspect. Perhaps he was once carefree, loving, and kind. But he couldn't remember a time when he wasn't so obsessed with revenge, anymore.
If he was going to be honest, he liked it. It was such a powerful word to him, it was his drive. It has been embedded into his essence so deeply, that he wouldn't have it any other way.
So when another thing had begun to inch its way into his mind, Jin was a little more than surprised. Since he saw her after the fifth tournament, all he could imagine when he thought of human contact was her, not his fist digging into Kazuya's face as he set him to his demise. Or his foot driving Heihachi off the cliff once and for all.
'No,' he corrected himself. Vengeance. That's what it's always been about, and that's what it always will be about.
She hated his way of thinking. She thought it was absurd and would only fuel the bad blood and this so called curse they always spoke of. Sometimes it made him consider what his mother would say about all this nonsense too. But she never did, only Xiaoyu expressed her disproval of their ways. So it was easier to brush off.
Or was it?
Because now he was thinking about her again, instead of his beloved vengeance.
Vengeance had always been his thing. He wondered for a moment if the reason for that was simply because he knew it would never leave him. Or rather, he would never leave it. His mind drifted to Xiaoyu again, and her promises to stand by him no matter what.
Jin drove his fist into a wall out of sheer frustration. She was such a distraction! He hadn't even spoken to her since he won the tournament. He just mysteriously disappeared again. He told himself it was because he was a very busy man, and he had to sever many ties in order to accomplish what needed to be done. He told himself that she would only be put in more danger, which he simply would not have after seeing her risk so much to join the Fifth Iron Fist Tournament.
Or was it because, had he stayed with her, he would want nothing more than to just be with her?
Well, now he wasn't even sure.