Unmasked

By: Youri Kai Kamachii

I'm a bit sad that my fic didn't get a lot of reviews, but it WAS only the first chapter. By technicality, I did get 5 reviews (my real life friends count as 2). So a special thank you to R.E.A251821, buffdaddy92, santabandicoot, all the people who bothered to read / wait for this next chapter (a review from y'all would be nice), and my friends Rai and Tora. Now without further wait...Heeeereesss JOHNNY!

Disclaimer: Tekken and the characters belong to NAMCO Bandai. The cover picture is ObeYecow's from deviantART.

Chapter 2:

Julia pauses. "Wait! How do you know my name?"

King also wondered how did he remember her name and so quickly at that.

"...I fought you over a year ago."

Julia did fight for fun before her mother scolded her about it. So she couldn't exactly remember the middle-aged man who claimed to know her, but then he brought up the tournament to jog her memory. "The jaguar...Was you?"

"Yeah. I'm sorry I-"

"Well it was a fair fight...minus the part where you threw me across the arena"

King sighs heavily and facepalms himself.

"...I found my mother either way so it doesn't bother me."

Without having to ask Julia explained her situation.

"My mother…she was kidnapped by Heihachi Mishima." She looks around the bar to see if anyone else was listening to her conversation and whispered to King. "Believe it or not my mother's pendant drew out the legendary Aztec Ogre."

A shocked look appears on King's face. "I believe you. Ogre...he killed my very first mentor."

"I'm so sorry...Wait, you're an orphan?"

"Yeah. Don't remember my parents or anything. Just that my mentor took me off the streets and raised me."

"If it makes you feel any better I'm also an orphan."

"I thought you said you have a mother and you rescued her."

"Yes but she actually found me when I was very little...I don't remember any of my life before that."

King and Julia talked some more. From both of their childhood up until why they both entered the third King of Iron Fist Tournament. This was very unusual for both to be this open with each other since they don't share personal information with other people. King used to talk to the orphans about his life every once in a while, but it wasn't the same since most were children and were many years younger at that, so King often had to spare a lot of details. Julia only had her mother who pretty much knew all of her life. She had a few colleagues from college as well, but Julia felt they didn't need to know her past experiences just yet, her government-protected biological research, or the fact that she fought in a world tournament over a year ago.

The small groups of people and few bartenders gradually started to leave until only Julia and King were left.

"Hey Jules, we're closing up!" The young male bar manager shouts from the back.

"OK!" Julia tells King to wait while she quickly walks to her locker in the back area of the bar. "We should leave. Our boss doesn't like staying any longer than he has to."

King nods and walks outside in the slightly chilly weather with Julia. He insisted that he'd walk Julia over to her mother's place for the night. They walked in silence for a while.

"Why does someone such as yourself work at that bar? I'm curious."

"To make extra for my mother and my research project. Why did you come to Arizona of all places?"

"Both my mentors are gone and I myself don't make a lot outside of wrestling. So the orphanage lost a lot of funding though it's still standing. I'm looking for people and other companies to help fund it and I hear this place has a good wrestling base."

"Well...I'd be happy to help with the orphanage whenever I can, but I can't help fund it. I'm sorry."

"It's fine..."

Then an idea popped into Julia's mind. "I just remembered something…Do you want to enter a tag-team tournament together? We could get a lot of cash if we win. I'll even let you have it all. My job is enough for me."

"You don't have to-"

"I insist. Your ment- Armor King would want this, right? And I want to help too. I'm a lot tougher than I look and when I fought you. I've trained more since then."

King sighs. "...Fine."

"Great! Meet me in front of the bar around noon tomorrow. We should sign up first thing."

"OK"

"Adios...what's your name?!"

"King"

"Your real name?"

"No one calls me by it anymore."

"I want to call you something other than King. That was your first mentor's name."

"It's Rey"

"It sounds a lot better than King."

Awkward pause. The two continue to walk slowly until Julia comes to a stop.

"Well...My place is around the corner and I can manage from here. See you tomorrow!" Julia waves to King.

King gives Julia a small wave before she walks off towards her mother's house. "Hasta mañana"

The houses had very large spaces between them, so King took a while to find his way out the neighborhood. It gave King the time to think about the woman he met at the bar, his search, and other things he planned.

'I'll have to look for him later...'

A/N: First off, I tried to avoid using Rey as King II's name to avoid confusion with the WWE wrestlers Rey Mysterio (Sr and Jr). BUT I feel as though the name is so fitting with the nature of King and this fic. Secondly, I would have made King and Julia's bar conversion longer with more revealed with my fic's universe, but that'll be for future chapters. Lastly...When Julia mentioned the tag-team tournament, this IS referring to Tekken Tag Tournament, but not just that. Hopefully, you guys will stick around for the next chapter to see what I do with that. I'm planning for this tournament to take up quite a few chapters alone. It's pretty difficult for me to write since I want this to be as technical as possible, but hopefully it'll be fun for myself and my lovely reviewers. Please review!