When he returned to the VIP box, some days later, Lee was quite ashamed of himself. Heihachi, who had not deigned speak to him all this time since his defeat, told him on a scornful tone:

-You should have stayed hidden. You disappoint me greatly. You only deserve punishment for that lame performance... Once the Tournament is over...

Heihachi had also some news about the Michelle case. They had also found in the backstreet some slight drop of type O blood and some type A blood, Lee's blood type. Someone said they saw a car matching the description of Lee's car in the area... So Heihachi began once more to suspect Lee of having betrayed him. He ordered to inspect Lee's car behind his son's back for any hints about it and to analyse that blood's DNA. Lee remained troubled by the harsh welcome as Heihachi continued speaking:

-You told me last time that you had a date with a woman the day Michelle Chang disappeared. But someone saw your car on the freeway with a blond woman inside your car but also a woman over the roof.

Beginning to smile, Lee replied:

-Really? I'm more popular than I thought! Wow, women jumping over my car... I hadn't noticed...

-Stop kidding! What was that exactly? What happened?

-Well I think the one kidding is the one saying there was a woman over my car roof... That is such an absurb assertion...

-Some other witnesses saw it as well.

-Well, then it wasn't my car. I would have known. Beside why would Michelle Chang or another woman jump over my roof? I hope you don't really believe this story? It's ridiculous!

Heihachi thought that since his American stay and mostly since he came back now, Lee seemed far more cheeky than before. He would never have dared answer back before... He definitively deserved that major spanking. And right now. So he moved toward his son and before Lee could do anything, he grabbed him and began to violently spank him.

-Ow! Why are you punishing me? Ow! I told you I have nothing to do with this! Ow!

-No, this is for your insolent way of answering me! You're not being respectful enough! Since you came back you're acting in such an impertinent way! And it's also for losing the fight!

Trying to disengage from his father's extremely strong grip, Lee kept protesting:

-I'm twenty-five years old! Ow! I don't need spanking!

Unable to free himself, Lee hoped no one was actually gazing at their VIP box. At least the VIP box was high and they were mostly at the back right now...

-You're still my son and even when you'll be fifty years old, I'll still spank you if you deserve it!

Having punished his son enough, Heihachi then threw Lee on the floor. He didn't have any more time, he had to prepare for his fight against Kazuya, that other rebellious son... Much more rebellious son... The truth about Lee and Michelle Chang shall have to be uncovered later... Pointing a finger at Lee, he then told him:

-Now I'll show you what it takes to be the real King of Iron Fist!

Heihachi left, leaving his even more troubled son in the VIP box with Kuma who was quietly eating some meat.

The finale's opening was far more spectacular than any other fights. Once more like for the first opening, many fireworks were displayed as both the contestants walked toward the ring under the many spotlights. People were cheering and yelling, expecting a spectacular fight between the father and the son. As they walked toward each other, Kazuya once more didn't show much emotions except determination and hate as he glared at his loathed father who also looked quite determined. This time no need to gaze toward the VIP box where, for painful physical reason, Lee was still standing up while Kuma had exceptionally now taken his own seat, which he never did before, to look at his beloved master's fight. This spectacular entrance didn't really lighten Lee's mood who seemed sad as he asked Kuma:

-It feels bad not being there, right? We could have won...

-Grrroarr... Grrrr... Rooarrr... (Now you think about how I feel for my loss... You never seemed concerned for me before you got beaten... You even smelled hostile toward my wins sometimes...)

-What do you think Otousama will do now? Do you think he will punish me more? Do you think he will kill Kazuya?

-Grrooarrr... Grraaoorr... Grrr... (If you betrayed him, yes, he'll probably punish you. I don't trust you. And yes, he'll kill that monster who smells so evil... I really hate him... I wish I could maul him... But I wouldn't eat him, yeurk!)

Lee didn't understand what Kuma was saying but the bear didn't seem really friendly right now so he stopped talking to him and looked at the fight. Anyway he didn't even know why he addressed him. He was probably feeling lonely... and Kuma probably didn't really answer like he seemed to have done... He was probably just telling him to shut up...

Meanwhile Heihachi and Kazuya were now face to face. Despite trying not to show it, trying to look calm and scornful as always with his crossed arms, Kazuya was now boiling with rage and Heihachi was not trying to cool it down with the arrogant expression he was now showing to his son.

-What's the matter, Kazuya? Scared?

-Humpf.

-You have so much conversation... As always. I thought that after, what? Five years? You'd have something to say...

-I hate you.

Heihachi smiled at him and said:

-I hate you too. Well, shall we begin?

Heihachi gazed at the commentator who quickly gave the starting signal for the fight. Then the father told his son:

-Don't worry, I'll be quick with your death!

Heihachi launched at Kazuya and they began to punch and parry each other. The fight was full of electricity surges coming from both of them and they fought for many hours but after a while, Heihachi began to have the upper hand. His far more years of experience were showing over his son who began to feel like when he was a small child, getting beaten by that brutal and heartless man who was supposed to be his father. Kazuya was feeling confident in the beginning of the fight, he had beaten everybody else along the way, most very easily, but was now losing that confidence as he remembered how that monster Heihachi used to scare him and hurt him... As he kicked him in the chest, Heihachi told him:

-You're weak! You came back too soon! You should have come back when you were ready to fight!

Kazuya fell down on the ring as his father laughed:

-Hyahaha! No one can defeat me!

Kazuya got up and tried to kick his father but the older man quickly grabbed his feet and while still holding it, kicked him back instead, making Kazuya lose his balance and fall on the ground once more.

-I'm disappointed, you didn't improve much, Kazuya... You looked better against the others...

Kazuya glared at his father before he quickly got up and tried to hit him.

-Doruya!

But Heihachi once more parried his son's powerful strike before he retaliated with a double kick in the air hitting with one feet after another. He then grabbed Kazuya and brutally slammed him, head first into the ground. As his son was still dizzy, Heihachi quickly jumped on him and began to punch his face. Blood came from Kazuya's mouth, nose and even from the many bruises his father was giving him. One of his eyebrows was full of blood going into his eye and Kazuya felt some panic at the fact that he would not be able to beat his father once more. In fact it felt more like despair and hate. He had to kill the old man! He lived only for that! He had to avenge his beloved mother! Avenge himself! And maybe even his grandfather... That monster couldn't remain unpunished for his crimes!

As Heihachi was now overpowering his son, sitting over him and punching him non stop while smiling cruelly, Kazuya suddenly grabbed his father's shirt, screamed loudly and bringing Heihachi toward him, slammed his bloodied head over his father's chest as if he did a headbutt, yet it was not only a headbutt; Kazuya had decided to invoke the power of Devil and as he was very close, a third eye appeared on his forehead and shot his father in the chest with some kind of beam coming out of it.

With the closeness of their bodies, the crowd only saw some kind of light, yet since those Mishimas had some electrical powers and were using it since the start, they didn't think it was anything more than something like that. But Heihachi suddenly grabbed his chest in pain and fell down from Kazuya, surprised and even scared by the devilish attack. His chest was burned, a slight smoke was still apparent and it hurt deeply but Heihachi was now more worried of the fact people could have seen what happened, he still wanted to hide that shameful secret to the world... He gazed around in worry before he quickly kicked back his son who was now jumping on him while doing a somersault. Despite not wanting to, Heihachi was deeply troubled and afraid by what just happened. Getting up and backing away, he muttered to his son, who had quickly turned back to normal after the hit:

-Damned Devil...

Satisfied by the fear he now gave his father, Kazuya smiled and said:

-Humpf. That Devil will kill you. You'll go to Hell now, Oyaji... You deserve it...

But those words only infuriated Heihachi who summoned his own power. Even more electricity appeared around his fists and screaming in rage, he stomped the ground and hit his son with a powerful punch, sending Kazuya in the ropes. Kazuya fell down and almost slid out of the ring. Holding his painful chest wound, Heihachi smiled in satisfaction before he began to walk toward Kazuya to kick him in the face.

Yet that devilish beam he took in the chest seemed really painful as Heihachi kept grunting in pain at each moves he was doing, it was somehow weakening him... Kazuya got up and parried his father's attack before he kicked high in the air and slammed his foot on Heihachi's head, sending him straight on the ground. Heihachi painfully got up and quickly parried his son's next attack before he replied by throwing Kazuya on the ground. They fought for a long time again but people could now see that Heihachi seemed clearly wounded and in pain yet they could not see the wound since it somehow was hidden by his half opened shirt.

After a while, Kazuya sent him on the ground and Heihachi almost fainted. Yet with a surge of electricity, he found the strength to get up and go on with the fight for a while but Kazuya furiously attacked again and with a powerful kick, he sent his father to the ground once more. Looking at his suffering father with satisfaction, Kazuya thought he would not get up but Heihachi grunted in pain and got up once more. Kazuya growled in anger and quickly went toward his father, spinning as he gave him a kick.

Grabbing his father, Kazuya tried once more to hit him with his beam but before he could bring him toward him to still hide that attack, Heihachi struggled to get free. Yet Kazuya was satisfied; he could feel the fear and panic his father was feeling. Heihachi normally always was so confident but now he was losing some of his self control... It was the first time he was experiencing Kazuya's devilish powers... Kazuya exulted and smiled in satisfaction and Heihachi noticed it. The older man told himself he had to calm down or he would lose to that Devil...

Staring at his father getting beaten, Lee was quite surprised, he had never seen his father looking so weakened... or even apparently... scared? What happened? Kuma, also noticing it, furiously roared as he slammed his paws and large body into the bulletproof window of the VIP box, trying to break it and jump into the ring. Yet the window was made to resist even a tank shell so an angry bear was no match for it... Yet Lee also got scared by Kuma's attitude and decided to discreetly leave before Kuma would decide to take the door. As Kuma was still distraught by his beloved master's beating, Lee went out by the door and locked it behind him. As he feared Kuma's reaction toward him, he also feared Kuma could get dangerous for the crowd...

Lee walked toward the ring to get nearer and see the results of the confrontation more closely. Apparently Kazuya was winning the fight... Heihachi the invincible fighter, as Lee always knew him, was losing... How come? What happened? Lee was troubled, somehow he didn't really believe what was happening. His father, getting beaten... He also thought about another very disturbing fact... He would lose the Mishima Zaibatsu...

When Lee arrived just beside the ring, Heihachi was still getting beaten by Kazuya. Despite trying to, this time, he could not reach his inner force, too dizzy, he fell on his knees and would probably have fallen face down if Kazuya had not kicked him in the face, sending him tumbling on his back. After two seconds on his back, Heihachi grunted and tried to get up but Kazuya ran to him and violently slammed his foot in his face.

-Will you STAY down? Die! DIE!

Then taken by some frenzied rage, Kazuya began to kick and punch Heihachi who was already down. The older man had now lost consciousness since a while but Kazuya kept on beating him. Blood was spilling everywhere and people began to think the fight should be interrupted, beside it was over now, Kazuya had clearly won. But it seemed that the Mishima Zaibatsu wasn't the only thing Kazuya wanted. He wanted Heihachi's death more than anything.

Lee assisted to the beating and somehow didn't really know what to think... He wasn't sure if he felt much sadness for his father. There was something slightly satisfying into seeing his father getting beaten... After all Heihachi had done to Kazuya or even to him, or to so many people, he deserved that beating... Lee also thought his father may know all about Michelle with the many allusions to punishment he made all along the Tournament and that last conversation... Heihachi was getting very suspicious... Maybe Kazuya's victory saved him from some severe punishment... worse than that spanking he just received... Yet it didn't save him from losing the Mishima Zaibatsu...

Too shocked by what was happening, Lee didn't react or gave any orders to the Mishima guards and medical personnel who passed by him to go on the ring to try to stop Kazuya who seemed determined to kill his father, never stopping from beating him. Right now, they knew better than him what to do...

Kazuya was still hitting his father when some guard told him that he had won the Tournament. He first didn't seem to have realized it since he was too furious against his father but as he was being told, he began to realize all the consequences of his victory and his usual lopsided grin appeared once more as he calmed down. He now had the power of the Mishima Zaibatsu, he had won... He lifted his arms into the air and the crowd cheered over his victory. Kazuya enjoyed the feeling of total victory he was now experiencing and closed his eyes in happiness thought one was already forced close with the blood that leaked over it... He had gained his revenge and power...

After a moment, Kazuya had completely calmed down and let the medical personnel take away his almost dead father on a stretcher as the crowd kept on screaming and applauding. As his adoptive father passed beside him unconscious on the stretcher, Lee stared at him with a distressed look, almost teary eyes, some people would think it was for seeing his father in that state but in fact, still angry at his father, Lee was sad because he had lost the Mishima Zaibatsu...

Kazuya was exulting over his victory but Lee was definitively not. Kazuya had just stolen the Mishima Zaibatsu from under his nose... But being diplomatic and polite anyway, he got over himself and went on the ring to congratulate his older brother as his position required. Beside, he had to keep his job... Kazuya would probably make some rearrangement in the personnel and Lee intended to still have a good place. After all he was his brother, he knew the corporation very well, he deserved some high position... He also was full of debts, he had much to pay: His new car, his five credit cards... Inside Lee was boiling with jealousy but what could he do? He had lost the fight and didn't want to lose even more...

Lee went to Kazuya and bowed down to him.

-Congratulation Kazuya. I recognize you as the King of Iron Fist and new CEO of the Mishima Zaibatsu.

Using some towel a nurse had given him to wipe the sweat and blood from his face, Kazuya, now seeing with both his eyes, looked at his younger brother and only replied a small:

-Humpf.

Then added:

-You came to beg?

Lee thought that Kazuya was annoying with his begging allusions... but he took an assured tone and replied:

-No. I did not come to beg. First, as official representative I came to tell you that the official ceremony for the Mishima Zaibatsu's hand down shall take place tomorrow at the office. It would have been Otousama who would have taken care of this but it seems he won't be able to do so for a while, so in case of some problem, I had been appointed to do it. But I also came to offer you my assistance. I know much about the Mishima Zaibatsu, you have been missing on it since quite a while. I can help you in keeping up with the progress it made since your... huh, disappearance.

Kazuya had been once again scornful toward him but somehow Lee didn't mind that much. At least, Kazuya didn't hate him like he hated Heihachi, Lee didn't try to kill him like Heihachi had, and he was among the few who had not been sent to the hospital, meaning Kazuya had not specifically intended being too hard on him, so he probably had a chance to get good relations with him again. Somehow all that happened, all his troubles with Kazuya since childhood happened because of Heihachi's mistreatment of his son, because of Heihachi's dirty schemes to pit them one against another. Lee was now blaming everything that happened on their father while now welcoming back his brother. Once the crazy father out of the way, maybe they could finally act like real brothers... Lee always wished for a brotherly relationship, maybe it was still possible... Still crossing his arms, Kazuya listened to him with his normal stern face and replied:

-Indeed. You know much. Fine. You'll be among those I will think of when I reshuffle my office staff.

-You won't regret it, Oniisan.

Kazuya made a small lopside grin at the familial mention and Lee didn't know if it was that he liked being called like this or if he thought that Lee was now being a suck-up to him since Kazuya often called him like that when they lived together. But then he was to Heihachi...

Suddenly Lee and Kazuya heard something. Now that the crowd had calmed down it was more noticeable; Kuma was still growling in anger and distress in Heihachi VIP box, still trying to break the window. The bear seemed completely distressed over his master's brutal beat up and his transport to the hospital. Lee asked:

-What will you do with Kuma?

-Get rid of him.

At first Lee thought that Kazuya wanted to kill him. After all it was a wild animal, only trained by Heihachi... Kazuya already wanted to kill him since a long time... But Kazuya added:

-He belongs in nature. He will be happier in the woods.

Lee never was close to Kuma, he even often feared Kuma's violent attitude. It would have been sad but somehow expected if Kazuya had wanted to kill him, they probably wouldn't keep him at the mansion for the time Heihachi was at the hospital, Kuma would try to kill them and Kazuya had now complete control of the area, the corporation, the mansion, so he had control over Kuma as well... Yet he was pleasantly surprised that Kazuya seemed to have some heart now... He wasn't as bad as he remembered... Maybe he changed with his time out of the crazy family. Definitively, they would be better without Heihachi... He smiled at his brother, gave him a thumbs up and added:

-Excellent!

Thank you for everybody who read until now. :)