Chapter 14: Right Behind You

Heihachi hobbled down the street as fast as his legs would allow him. It hadn't been easy escaping from the clutches of his grandson and his friends, he'd been working on those bindings for days and his wrists hurt like hell. Waiting for the right moment to make his escape had taken a little longer than Heihachi had thought, with Jin checking up on him every ten minutes it left him an exceedingly small window of opportunity in which to make his bid for freedom, so when his grandson had stormed out of the house leaving only the red headed Korean in charge he had seized the moment, his injuries had held him back slightly as he floored Hwoarang and bolted through the door but he didn't let it bother him until now.

"Stupid boy, who does he think he's messing with?" He snarled through gritted teeth, the pain in his right leg was getting increasingly worse and it was slowing him down; it didn't really matter though, he was way ahead of Jin and would be long gone before his grandson even made it back to the house and realised he had managed to escape. With a chuckle Heihachi rounded the corner and made his way down the main street.

"Where do you think he's gone?" Asked Ling as she jogged alongside Jin,

"I'm not sure, but at a guess I'd say he's probably headed for the main shopping district, it's pretty busy there and one can easily get lost" Replied Jin,

"We should head there then, he's pretty badly beaten so someone is bound to have seen him,"

The pair headed down the back street and rounded the corner onto the main street. It was only a five minute walk to the main shopping district, when they arrived Ling saw an old man sat on a nearby wall and ran up to him,

"Excuse me sir but have you seen a man go by here? He's been pretty badly beaten and needs help," She politely asked, the old man nodded;

"Yes, he went by about ten minutes ago. I think he might have been headed towards the old Geisha district," He replied and pointed out the way, Ling thanked the man and ran back to Jin,

"He says Heihachi went by about ten minutes ago and he thinks he might have been headed that way," She said and pointed across the road, without saying a word Jin set off, he needed to be quick and catch up to his grandfather before he caused any more damage to himself or others.

Ling ran to catch up to him, her little legs struggling to keep up with Jin's long strides,

"What are you going to do when we find him?" She panted, Jin shrugged;

"I don't know yet," He replied, "short of killing him there isn't much I could do. If I locked him up he'd only find a way to escape, as he's just shown us," They crossed over the road and into the old geisha district, it wasn't used anymore; most of the geisha had never come back after the great depression, and the few who did found that they could no longer earn a decent living. They meandered down the deserted streets and past the decayed and decaying okiya's, they had been put up for sale but no one had ever bought them and the city council refused to demolish them. Every now and then a child would rush past them, taking a shortcut to the main roads but there was no sign of Heichachi.

Heihachi sat in the doorway to one of the old geisha houses, crippled with pain in his leg; he figured he'd gotten far enough away and so took the risk to let his injured leg rest a little while before setting off again.

He'd only been sat a few minutes when he heard voices, and familiar ones at that. With a groan the old man tried to heave himself out of the doorway but ended up falling back down to the ground, he tried concealing himself in the shadows but there weren't a great deal. Making himself as small as he could inside the doorway Heihachi held his breath and waited,

"Jin the place's deserted he's not going to be here, we've looked down every street and haven't found him, he's probably long gone by now,"

"I'm going to find him," came Jin's blunt reply, Heihachi dared to look around the corner of his hiding place and see how far away they were. It wasn't because he was scared of Jin and what he might do to him, it was more because he had big plans to take care of and being caught again would put him seriously behind schedule.

"I'm going to find him and when I do he's going to regret ever crossing me," Jin said menacingly, Heihachi heard Ling sigh,

"Fine, we'll look down this last street and then we give up, he's probably going to be long gone," The two of them began searching behind the trash cans and in the door ways, Heihachi began to panic, there was no where for him to run and they were getting closer. He frantically began searching for a way to escape, he tried the door he was sat in front and had to stifle a groan when it stayed firmly shut, Ling and Jin were in the doorway next door… only yards away. Heihachi's heart began to race, if they caught him all his plans would come undone, and that wouldn't do, it just would not do at all.

Ling tugged at Jin's arm,

"Come on already he's not here, he's long gone," She wailed, her feet hurt and she was getting bored with searching for Heihachi.

"No, there are plenty of places he could be hiding in around here, he's not getting away!" Jin replied once again, he had to admit he was getting tired of looking for the old man himself but there was no way he was going to let him get away and carry out whatever atrocities he had in his twisted mind. He decided to make one final sweep of the street they were in and head home, he began trying every door in the street; looking for one that was either open or had been opened recently and quickly began to get annoyed as he was met with locked doors at every door step. Suddenly a noise from behind a trash can alerted Jin's attention and he ran over to inspect,

"Well, I don't see how we could have missed you on the first time round," He said with a small frown, he bent down and grabbed Heihachi by the scruff of his neck and dragged him down the street and out of the Okiya's. Heihachi cursed his foolishness,

"You're still not getting anything out of me," He spat, Jin chuckled

"Oh that's alright, because I quite enjoyed our little chats before and can't wait to have more like them," Heihachi gritted his teeth as he was marched down the street, this was not the way things were supposed to happen, caught twice by the person he was supposed to be plotting against and beaten. There was one small consolation, Jin had thrown everything he had at him and he still hadn't broken him, well, in the mental sense anyway… his nose felt a bit tender and his leg still hurt but that was about it.

"I'll only escape again," He hissed, Jin just shook his head,

"I don't think so old man, not this time." He replied icily, the two of them hurried across the road, narrowly missing two cars on their way over, Heihachi's weight slowing them down ever so slightly as the half marched half dragged him all the way back to Ling's apartment,

When they arrived home Hwoarang was sat on the floor with an ice pack on his head, he looked up as the three of them entered and looked shocked when he saw that they had managed to recapture Heihachi,

"What are you going to do with him this time?" He asked, Jin shrugged,

"I don't know, he's going to need constant supervision this time though, there's no way he's escaping again," He said, glaring at his grandfather, Heihachi glared back at the young man who had been successful in capturing him not once, but twice within the space of a week. He doubted that Jin would have anything more to throw at him to try and make him spill the details of his plan but he was his father's son and so Heihachi knew he would have to be careful, very, very careful indeed.

Author's Note

Sorry "hides" life has been a little hectic since the last time I wrote anything, this isn't the only fic I've abandoned for a year or so. I do try and keep updating but it doesn't work sometimes. Anyway, hope you all like.