A/N: I don't think this is very good, but it's one of those situations where you have a writer's block while writing another story and then another idea pops into your head and you can't concentrate properly on the other one until you get the new idea out of your mind. Don't know if that makes any sense… but yeah lol now I've written this out I can focus :)

I don't know for how long i'd been asleep in the car, but I was awoken by Sebastian's voice.

"Miss Rochefort, we arrived"

I opened my eyes, yawned, and looked outside the window. A big, nice-looking mansion! Surrounded by grass, animals, and mud. Ew. I wasn't very fond of the countryside, but I had Sebastian open the door for me and stepped out. I reached inside the car to get my beloved cat ChooChoo, so I could carry her in my arms to the door while Sebastian got my suitcase.

I looked at her while I played with her whiskers. She was so white and fliffy that I was scared she would eventually get dirty while we were there. Why was I there anyway? Sebastian rung the bell and the main door was opened by a standard cyborg. I looked into the main entrance and saw several fighters getting settled. Then I remembered: I had gotten a letter saying that if we wanted to participate in the next Iron Fist Tournament, we should have to go to this… place, and spend some time together to see that we were fully committed to participating. I didn't see the point, though. Why bother having more bonding time if we will have to fight each other sooner or later? Anyway, there I was and now I couldn't go back.

I was zoning out when I heard a familiar voice talking to my butler.

"Hola Sebastian, let me get that from you so you can go rest already"

I turned to see. As I thought, it was Miguel. He and I had sort of become friends during the last tournament. Actually I was glad he had talked to me, since I couldn't make proper friends with any of the people my age because Asuka Kazama had become very popular, and if she hated me, they all did. Xiaoyu, Christie, Leo… they didn't talk to me anymore. When Miguel and I started talking he introduced me to many of the guys he had become friends with, so despite having some friends much older than me, I was tagged as "the mini-whore" by many.

"Hi Miguel!" I smiled.

"Hey Lili, don't you think it's too hot to be holding a scarf?" he pointed at ChooChoo.

"That's not a scarf, you idiot, it's my cat!" I held her up at him so he could see. I had to stand on my toes though, he was so tall.

"Yes, Yes, I can see! You can put her down"

I looked at her. Her blue eyes seemed to glow, and I know what that meant. She wanted to go explore the place. "Ok ChooChoo, go look around, girl" I put her down and heard Miguel laughing as she walked away.

"What's so funny?" I put my hand on my hips.

"For starters, your cat's name is ChooChoo, and why is she so short? Hahahaha!"

"She's not 'short'! Her breed is supposed to be that way!"

"What breed, sausage cat?"

"It's actually called munchkin"

He burst out laughing again. I was too busy glaring at him to notice Steve Fox coming up to us.

"Hey guys what's up?"

"Hello fish and chips, when did you get here?"

"Like an hour ago, Mexican"

"DON'T CALL ME MEXICAN!"

"You have a funny accent, therefore you are a Mexican"

"You have a weird accent too!"

"because I'm british"

"Shut up!"

"Hi Lili" Steve looked at me while he blocked one of Miguels' attacks.

"H-hi" everyone was looking at them, and it made me feel awkward.

"Steve have you seen Lili's munchkin?" he chuckled.

"Lili's munchkin!"

I sighed "I have a munchkin cat"

The his eyes lit up "Really? I bought my cat too! He's out there exploring right now, but he's a Siamese"

"Cool!"

"Yeah, super cool" Miguel said rolling his eyes "hey blond committee, let's go see what rooms we got, I hear we will have roommates"

The three of us were walking toward a big announcement board on the right side of the room dragging our stuff along. Well, technically Miguel had my stuff but whatever. Unfortunately, we had to walk in front of Asuka and Christie.

"What's the matter, Lili? Too dumb to handle one suitcase?" Asuka then turned to the guys "and you, aren't you tired of babysitting?"

"I'm only like a year younger than you, Asuka!"

"I'm way more mature than you, get over it"

"Whatever" I continued walking "at least I'm not related to Jin Kazama"

"What did you say?"

"I SAID: AT LEAST I'M NOT RELATED TO JIN!"

"Take that back! It's not my fault I'm related to him!"

"Face it, Asuka: your cousin is a douche, and his whole family have big family issues, you are included!"

"You little-"

"Let's go, Asuka, she's not worth it" Christie held her back from launching at me, and they both walked away.

I lowered my head for a second.

"Lili don't worry, Jin and his family are all douches" Miguel put his arm around me "an here we are! Let's see who we've got"

He let go of my suitcase and put a finger on my name. He traced the dotted line until he came to another name.

"You got Alisa Bos… Boscon… Uh, Yeah, you got Alisa"

"The robot?" I said.

"She's a hot robot!"

Steve rolled his eyes "Hey who did I get?"

"Let's see… you got… aha!"

"What?"

"Guess what? You got the true Mexican"

"King?"

"Yup. Good luck with socializing with that freak. I always try to talk to him because we speak the same language, but he only growls. Can he even speak?"

"Ok so I got someone who growls, who did you get?" Steve pushed Miguel out of the way and traced the dotted line to the name.

"HA! Sergei Dragunov! Good luck with that one, mate!"

"What? No way!" Miguel pushed Steve to see it for himself "Maaaaaan! That guy doesn't even growl! He says nothing!"

"And you said mine was a freak! Haha, sucks for you!"

While they were fighting again, I looked at the name. Sergei Dragunov. He, like me, had only participated in two tournaments, and I had already noticed him. He was so quiet, so creepy, so mysterious, sometimes scary. I was curious, would Miguel's personality make him speak?

I decided to pick up my suitcase and head to my room.

"Boys, I'm going to my room to leave my stuff and then I'll go look for ChooChoo. It will be dinner time soon and she needs to eat a lot. She's expecting kittens soon" I smiled.

"Cool, mini-munchkins! Well, see ya!"

"Yeah see ya- Lili watch out!"

"huh?"

Too late, I had bumped into something. Rather, into someone. I fell to the floor, shook my head and looked up. It was Dragunov, and he was just staring at me with those icy eyes. I scanned him quickly. He wasn't wearing his usual military attire (it was summer, obviously he wouldn't wear that!). Instead he wore jeans and a white shirt. He was dressed pretty casual but he managed to look elegant, professional and sophisticated anyway.

I couldn't help but blush when he slightly bent over and offered his hand to help me up. He wasn't wearing his typical leather gloves, just his bare hands. I reached out for it and felt a shiver down my spine. He was, literally, so cold!

"Thanks!"

He ignored me and walked over to the announcement board. I turned around to watch as Miguel patted the Russians' head saying "seems like you're with me! Let's have a European party, huh?"

"Um, Miguel" Steve started "isn't Russia in Asia?"

"Well, it's uh… it's… her Sergei, is Russia European or Asian?"

No response. Dragunov simply walked away into one of the elevators, grabbing a big bag on his way.

"Way to be ignored, dude"

"Whatever, he will talk to me eventually!" Miguel then turned to me "Hey don't you want me to help you with that?"

"Um, no thanks! Besides, I don't know if guys are allowed into the womens rooms"

"Meh, but that's supposed to be the fun part!"

I giggled, then grabbed my stuff and ran to another elevator, waving Miguel goodbye before he could reach me.

"TELL THE GIRLS ABOUT ME!" I heard him shout from below.

I smiled to myself. He had only participated in one tournament, yet he already had the reputation of being a womanizer, and very social with everyone. He was friends with almost all the guys who hated Jin Kazama. That is, until it was fighting time. In the Arena he was fierce and almost unstoppable. Street fighter, like me.

Ding.

I got lost for a few minutes and went the wrong way, so when I eventually got to my room I was surprised to see Miguel leaning over the door, talking to Alisa.

"So, can you physically drink anything?"

"Miguel, what are you doing?"

"Turns out there isn't a separate section for men and women, we're all mixed up!" he smiled so widely it looked like his cheeks would burst.

"Good for you. Now would you mind leaving me and my roommate alone?"

"You're so boring!" he said, but he walked away.

As I turned to watch him leave I saw Dragunov at the other end of the corridor with one knee on the floor. Shockingly, ChooChoo was walking around him in circles, and he was just looking at her with no emotion at all.

When ChooChoo saw me, she ran towards me and into the room. Dragunov stood up and out eyes met, so I smiled at him. Again, no response. He just walked away into his room, with Miguel behind him screaming and jumping.

Maybe this wasn't going to be so bad after all.