Asuka loves the attention they immediate receive as they walk out of the black limo and walk towards the tournament's registration building. She is walking hand in hand with Jin, who is wearing a slimming black suit and black leather shoes. People make way for them and whisper amongst themselves.
Asuka feels like she's floating on air in her geisha dress, with enough of her legs being exposed to show off her new Japanese tattoo of the word "Bonded" written on her inner thigh on her left leg. The only issue is that her red heeled sandals are hell on feet.
The male fighters look her over more than the female fighters, but she's comfortable with the mix of lustful and judging stares. Her chest is perfectly covered by the cloth strip and the kimono is being held perfectly together by the long red sash. The blue braided cord around her hip took her several tries to look just right but it was worth having the slimming look she has now.
She smiles, lightly touching her hair that is tied up in a loose bun with pink flowers tastefully placed through it, as Lili, wearing her stapled white satin skirt dress outfit, does a double take and grinds her teeth.
Asuka waves hello to Lili, while showing off her new, large wedding ring in the sunlight so it glitters as much as possible. Lili leans forward, preparing a punch, but Lili is held back by her old man servant.
Asuka laughs at her before she continues walking with Jin. She feels Jin lightly elbow her to get her attention. She looks at him with an innocent smile.
"Did I miss something?"
Asuka smiles at him lovingly and then rests her head against his arm. "Not when you're with me."
Sitting on a chair surrounded by a wooden booth by the fighting ring is a short bald man in a cheap suit. He has a tag on the jacket, written on it is "Announcer Yu." He looks over several papers in front of him.
Announcer Yu yells out loudly, "Jin and Asuka Kazama versus Jack and Paul Phoenix!"
The crowd of men yells, "Asuka…Asuka…Asuka!"
Asuka smiles, ignoring the butterflies in her stomach, as she walks out towards ring in her blue sleeveless suit with black leather attachments and a zipper going down from her neck to the stomach. She missed wearing her long white gloves with the blue elbow and hand protectors, and a comfortable black belt. But her black boots with blue protectors were a welcome change for her feet.
As she walks unto the ring, she notices that the applause is replaced with loud sighs. She understands, although she lightly laughs; she was feeling bad about not having her ring on, but now she feels better when looking at the men's disappointed faces. She may have looked great in her geisha dress, but she's not risking putting sweat stains on it or breaking those sandals.
In the spirit of compromise, she opens up the outfit by moving the zipper to her abdomen, revealing a little more of her blue halter top; being a little flirty, but not trashy. The reaction of getting whistles makes her laugh before she starts to stretch.
She watches as Jin casually walks towards and unto the ring. He's wearing black leather jeans with a silver chain around it for design, his fighting gloves, and black shoes. And he's topless, which she always loves. But she maintains herself, as he has his game face on.
As they stretch, Jack and Paul Phoenix makes an entrance with colorful lights, special stage explosions, and loud rock music. Even as the show ends, they get the crowd pumped as they stand in prepared muscle poses.
Asuka can't help but watch along with the crowd until Jin says, "Take note of how Jack clinks and clanks smoothly like the emotionless, well oiled, killing machine it is. He's the sixth generation model of the robotic advancement program. Show no hesitation or mercy."
Asuka looks Jin as he looks at Jack and Paul with cold, fighting calculations running in his head.
"Paul has worked his upper body, but is mid-section is weak…do you see Asuka?"
She understands. She recalls the sparing, the preparation, and the mental training. They can't have any conflicts on any level. They must be united to take their components down.
Jin asks again, "Do you see Asuka?"
Asuka looks Paul and Jack over with a focused mind. She sees that they have arms the size of bowling bowls but made no progress with their hips or legs. "I see."
Announcer Yu yells, "Fighters are you ready?"
Jack stands ready as Paul takes a few steps back.
Jin says, "I'll take Jack, cover Paul."
"Understood," Asuka answers. Then she takes a few steps back as Jin stands ready. She takes a brief look at Paul.
Announcer Yu yells, "Fight!"
Asuka feels her body fill with the hot fire of anticipation as Jin and Jack charge each other. Jin dodges Jack's well aimed series punches. Her mouth opens as Jin punches its head heavily and the crowd yells with excitement.
Jin pounds unto Jack's body with rapid combinations of punches, not stopping even when Jack's electrical circuits show through its exposed chest and Jack's internal gears start grinding against each other.
Asuka sees Paul running in to the rescue and she sprints past Jin and Jack. She surprises Paul with an immediate kick to his stomach, grabbing his arm and shoulder, and flipping him quickly with ease. The combination makes Paul tumble out of the ring.
She looks back at Jin just as he's using a string of punch combinations at Jack's chest. Asuka puts her hands down, it is no longer a fight it is an execution. It was as Jin said - no hesitation, no mercy.
Only when Jack's circuits crack and sizzle, causing a white smoke to flutter out, does Jin stop his assault. Jack falls to the ring floor on its back. The lights from Jack's eyes slowly dim to black. Then Jin's eyes shoot up at her with intense, murderous intent that makes her feel a chill down her back.
Announcer Yu yells, "Jin and Asuka Kazama win!"
Asuka raises her arms in victory, the yell from the crowd follow. Jin's face relaxes and he briefly raises his arm in victory, an action that makes Asuka feels comfortable enough to walk to him and wrap her arms around his waist and places her head against his chest, ignoring the thought simmering in her head about his horrible and angry look.
Asuka is knocked to ground again and Jin covers for her, again. She slowly gets up to gather her thoughts and cradle her ribs. She knew Anna Williams and Lars Alexandersson would be a tough team. Jin even went over their fighting style of attacking low to the body with fast kicks in the morning and before the match, but she didn't know they'd constantly switch. She's been having too much trouble getting hits in, let alone getting enough time to adjust to the switch of attack styles in a moment's notice.
But she thinks Jin is still sticking with the plan, get them tired by getting in a few power attacks in, and finish them off with a quick power combo to finish them off. She's thankful that Jin is built like a tank, but she assumes that since he's been taking most of the damage he'll most likely be covered in bandages after the end of this match.
She suddenly sees that Lars is holding up Jin and Anna is sprinting towards them.
"No," Asuka yells as she runs and breaks Lars hold on Jin by diving into his knees; a shady but allowable move accordingly to the Tekken Tag rules that they were told during registration.
Hearing Lar screaming in pain isn't as pleasing compared to see him suddenly rolling around on the ground clutching his knees. She sits on top of him and punches him in the face as she hears Anna yell in pain herself, she imagines Jin is exactly his own revenge for the several cheap shots she's taken on his body.
But Asuka can't stop to look at Jin's handiwork; she has to finish Lars off before he can slip away like he's done the entire match. She continues to punch until Lars can only mumble. Her arms feeling like pudding, she takes a deep breath. But she jerks to the left when she hears a body hitting the ring floor, as if getting slam into the ground from a great height. She comforted to see Jin angrily looking over Anna, who is knocked out cold.
Announcer Yu yells, "That was unbelievable! Jin and Asuka Kazama win!"
Asuka is comforted by the crowd applause; it means that the match is truly over. She stands up as Jin walks to her, she smiles at him even though he doesn't smiling at her. In fact, she saw that he had no expression on his face what so ever.
Asuka says happily, "It wasn't pretty, but we won."
She watches him as he ignores her as if she didn't exist and walk off the ring. She bites her lips, as to not get emotional in front of the public. With a brave face, she waves to the crowd and follows Jin to their locker room.
Announcer Yu yells out, "Jin and Asuka Kazama versus Mystery Woman X and Ling Xiaoyu!"
Asuka walks towards the fighting ring with Jin. Ling is already ready standing on the ring with a woman with her hair and most of her face is covered by a black hooded scarf. But most of her attire Asuka didn't find threatening; a white shirt, white pants with one leg having a pattern based around birds, and dark colored sandals.
"Are we going to talk now or do you plan to blame me after we lose?"
Jin replies blankly, "Our problem isn't Ling, it's the hooded woman. Her defense is incredible; it's as if she knows what move is. Be mindful of it."
Asuka is happy to hear his voice; even it has some venom in it. "Ok, mix up my attacks."
As they walk onto the ring floor, Asuka is happy that there is no audience; she's not in the mood for waving because since the last match their fighting has left her emotional drained. As Asuka starts to stretch, she sees that the hooded woman is unable to keep her attention off Jin.
Asuka asks, "Why is she looking at you like that?"
She turns to Jin and she sees that he's glancing back at her with the same intensity. She feels like snapping him out of it with a right hook to the face.
Announcer Yu yells out, "Fighters are you ready?"
Asuka watches as the mysterious woman stands in the middle of the ring and Ling walks back. Jin begins to walk towards the center but Asuka cuts in front of him.
"I don't think so!" She watches him stand back, before she puts her attention on the woman.
Asuka stands ready, watching with indifference as the woman just stands straight with her hands at her sides. But then she takes another brief look at Jin and slightly grins. Asuka's fists tighten as her blood is boiling.
Announcer Yu yells, "Fight!"
Despite her brief conversation with Jin, Asuka leads in with her usual punch combinations; she needs to punch that smirk off the woman's face. The problem is that woman gracefully dodges her attacks and slips out of her holds before Asuka could hold her arms or waist to flip her.
The woman says smiling, "Don't feel threaten by me. And…he still loves you."
"I didn't ask you! Shut your face!" Asuka rushes at her with a left hook, unable to calm her anger, hence why she wasn't able to see Ling cutting in with a kick. The force to her chest knocks Asuka to her back.
Asuka looks up and in that moment Jin is front of her, punching Ling in the face hard enough to knock her down on her back. Asuka watches as Jin goes to follow up his attack but the woman cuts in front of him, putting her hood down.
The action makes Asuka's mouth drop, but more importantly makes Jin stop in his tracks. It is Jun Kazama, wearing the same white headband in Jin's picture of her. Asuka watches her touch his face with a loving touch.
"You've…gotten so big," Jun says in a loving, gentle voice.
Jin says with shock, "It's…impossible."
She then looks at Asuka; Asuka feels her heart beating faster as Jun's soulful eyes seem to pierce into her. "Only love can keep the devil at bay."
There's a bright flash of light and they are surrounded by a flock of white doves that are flying around them. Jin stands up straight and watches as the birds fly away towards the blue sky, disappearing in the sunlight.
Announcer Yu yells, "Um…KO! Jin and Asuka Kazama win! We have our challengers for the champion fight tomorrow!"
Ling furiously yells, "What!" Ling gets up and storms towards the announcer booth.
The announcer yells with concern, "Security!"
As Ling is taken away kicking at the large men in security uniform, Asuka stands up, walks to Jin, and stands in front of him. She's not sure if he's able to feel her hand as she wipes away the one tear off his face as he continues to look up at the sky.
