A/N: Ok, I know this is a day late from what I promised, so I'm sorry but I did my best to post this within Friday but I couldn't come home early enough. For the record though, it's just 1 am in the morning of Saturday, so please forgive my one hour late post.
Oh, and yeah, Jin is finally going to be a part of the story for the next chapter and so on. Let the Jin x Xiayou, begin.
AsukaEnergetic1: I wish you enjoyed your time in your favorite asian fanfics site, hmm, I'd love to visit that too. :D the road to proving shamming Gayness is wrong is a big one in this story so just wait for that!
Trapstarjohy: hah! I told you you'd love Hwoarang here, and we're not even getting to the good parts on him. Wait on! and always thank you for the wonderful comments!
21) DISTANCE
Still in Monaco, Lili was inside her bedroom, sitting at the middle of her bed. As per usual, her bedroom is the only thing untouched by the downfall of the Rochefort. All of her expensive furniture's and stuff were still there. One may even be doubtful that their family is bankrupt if they only enter her bedroom. Lili was silent, exhaling now and then, staring at the pink curtains of her canopy bed, and thinking.
She was thinking of two things, simultaneously. The first thing that she was thinking about is her girlfriend. She's been home at Monaco for three days now, and she hasn't contacted Asuka even once.
Lili was under grounding by her father for one week. Mr. Rochefort promised his daughter that he will let her come back to Japan after her grounding, but for the meanwhile, she can't have contact with anyone so her father took her cellphone from her.
The second thing she was thinking about was Jin; she wished every hour that there will be a hit on him. Her father had let her keep the alarm tablet and also promised to let her leave if ever there was a hit on Jin. Yes, she had told her father everything, causing a great shock to Mr. Rochefort.
Mr. Rochefort was worried about her daughter's plans, and tried to tell her to back out, but the blonde head persisted that she will be able to do the mission. Mr. Rochefort gave Lili her grounding in order for her to think about things more.
After another series of exhaling, Lili propped out of the bed and walked to the big, tall window at the end of her room. The shining sun outside made the glasses reflective enough that Lili could see her whole reflection as if staring at a mirror.
"One week without talking to Asuka...daddy, you're killing me." She said, seeing how lonely her own face looked at the glass. The blonde was wearing white silk pajamas with the alarm tablet always in her pocket. She paced around her big, wide, being so bored and agitated to just go back to Japan.
She wanted to sleep so that time will come by faster, but that's all she's ever done in the past three days. There's a limit to how much one can sleep, since even if she tried, Lili couldn't push herself to sleep anymore.
Her food was delivered by Sebastian inside her room, and Mr. Rochefort would come by in the afternoon and before he sleeps. Although he agreed to let Lili do what she wanted, Mr. Rochefort still gave insinuations about the fixed marriages. Always and always, Lili rejects him even before he finishes talking. The blonde even wished sometimes that if her daddy is only going to talk to her because he wants her to agree to the fixed marriage, then he shouldn't just come at all.
Again, that night, Mr. Rochefort visits Lili again, he didn't tell about the marriages anymore so Lili felt a little happy, but he did bug her about Asuka.
"I'm telling you daddy, I love her." Lili was sitting up in her bed, ready to fall in a long sleep again. Her father was at the side, standing in his own gray pajamas.
"Lili, what kind of future do you even expect with her?" Mr. Rochefort's voice was again melancholic, and persuading to haunt Lili's fears.
But again, Lili wasn't close to be affected. She answered her father with a sharp, confident look and tone in her voice.
"A good one, daddy, a future you will be proud of me."
Mr. Rochefort, nodded a little, feeling lost to her daughter's powerful, promising remark and at the same time, awed at Lili's resolve. He can't imagine the future as beautifully as Lili, nor can he trust his daughter's words, but he's had enough of a proof to know who his daughter wants to be with the most.
"How can you be so sure?" Mr. Rochefort wanted to know what his daughter expects in the future.
"Because, whether it's bad or good, as long it's with her, it's always going to be good."
Mr. Rochefort let out a little chuckle and patted the top of Lili's head. "You're very good with your words, Emilie. Every time you answer my questions, you make me accept you little by little."
Lili smiled at her father, happy to hear about his slow acceptance of her. "But the choice you made right now is a very hard one. Triple the times of what straight couples experience." Mr. Rochefort, placed his palm on Lili's cheek and squeezed it a bit.
"But I promise to be there for you."
Lili's smile widened more, making her father smile too. Mr. Rochefort kissed Lili in the forehead before leaving the girl's bedroom and going to his room.
For a big chunk of time, Lili just looked at the ceiling, thinking again but this time, it was about her father. She had a mindset that one day her father will fully accept her, and then she can make Asuka meet him, and the two of them will be close and then….
Lili's train of thoughts stopped. Her breathing stopped. Her body turned frozen.
She felt the alarm in her pajama pocket going beeping with a loud tone. The screen lights up in red through the white silk fabric. Quickly Lili stood up from her bed, immensely happy, that she can finally go back to Japan now.
Leaving at the middle of the night, Sebastian brought Lili to the airport for departure. Mr. Rochefort was asleep now, but Lili left him a letter at his bedroom desk, while at the same time, taking her cellphone back.
Once Sebastian left, Lili wheeled her one luggage, which was her pink suitcase while excitingly opening up her cellphone. As soon as the systems go on, hundreds of messages flooded the inbox, making continuous ringtones play in the cellphones speaker. The people around the airport started to look at Lili, who immediately muted her cellphones volume.
At the line for the airplane boarding, Lili checked all the messages and missed calls, all coming from only one, and no other person but Asuka. It would seem like the ebony was having her own time of missing Lili at Japan. The blonde head laughed lightly to herself, thinking how Asuka must be frantic that she didn't reply to anything the ebony texted, and for not even answering her calls.
Lili wanted to give Asuka a message right then and then, but she stopped herself, knowing that she will see the ebony by tomorrow morning. She can just explain everything there.
When she arrived at Japan, she took the taxi to get to Asuka's house in Osaka. She knocked on the gate a lot of times, but no one was opening it. Then it came to Lili that the girl must be at the dojo. Lili straddled her way up the hill and arrived in front of the dojo. The doors were opened ajar, but she couldn't hear the familiar yelling of those training martial artists. Quietly and slow, Lili opened the door wider, seeing Asuka standing near the end of the dojo, alone, with no else inside.
The whole dojo was clean and quite except for Asuka whowas doing breath exercise. The wooden floors were shining with the little shards of hot sunrays coming through the awning windows at the top of the walls. Humid wind also came in through those same windows, creating a comforting temperature and nature like scent inside the dojo.
Asuka, who was breathing in and out, wasn't aware of Lili who had successfully entered the dojo. When Asuka stopped her inhale – exhale exercise, she moved her feet in a stride and cartwheeled up the air. She lands on her hands and knees, by an inch away from where she launched. She stood up again and did another cartwheel, this time; she also tried doing a low kick before stretching up to stand again. She rubbed her palms with training gloves on to dust off the dirt.
She was looking at the floor for no reason and only raised her head when something caught her attention. Coming from her back, and coming closer to her every second, Asuka could hear someone singing. But it wasn't just someone, because she knows whose voice that is. She might have only heard it once, but it's been engraved in her mind and heart since then. It was a voice, seductive, alluring, low yet temperate, and touches the very ends of Asuka's heart, like no other voice. It was her favorite music, it was her favorite sound. For a second, Asuka was afraid that she must have entered a delusional state by now. How was it possible that she could hear Lili's voice when the blonde wasn't there? And so, with a lot of courage and curiosity built in her, Asuka turned her head. She first felt surprise, before joy, when she saw Lili, definitely there, and was coming to her.
"Lili?" She said with a big smile on her face. It was a smile that didn't just express happiness, but also longing and confusion.
Lili was still making her way to Asuka, doing a sexy, but exaggerated catwalk in her high heeled white boots, and waving white frill dress. She was still singing the song she started, and didn't stop even after she finally reached in front of Asuka.
Asuka was patient enough to wait for her to stop, she didn't care, and she missed Lili's voice anyways. She just stared at the blonde, letting her end the song as she wants, but Lili doesn't finishes the song, and instead cuts it at some point.
"Was that the Emilie Style you were just doing?" Lili asked the ebony, so sure that what Asuka was doing a while ago was not a Kazama style but rather her style.
Asuka giggled, embarrassed to be caught in action. She nodded playfully at Lili and took the girl's one hand. "I was missing you so much, and tried doing that to remember you. If I only knew that could summon you, then I would've done it days ago."
Lili felt a tingling feeling inside of her. This made her happy beyond anything. Asuka missed her, and wanted to be with her. It was more than she could have ever dreamed of. She couldn't help but smile so genuinely at her rather unexpected, sweet girlfriend.
But this wasn't time to chitchat over those things yet, she was back there for a better reason.
She continued the song she was singing to where it left off, and stopped it again, asking Asuka if she knows what song it is. The ebony raised one of her eyebrows, giving an answer that she wasn't sure was correct.
"You and I by Lady Gaga?" Asuka's voice was even a question in its own.
Lili gave her a nod, this was correct, she was singing You and I by the notorious all out singer. And after she finished the song, she repeated its first three lines again.
It's been a long time since I came around
Been a long time but I'm back in town
This time I'm not leaving without you
She emphasized her voice, more like talking at the last stanza. After she sang it she took Asuka's wrist and clasped her hands around it.
"You're going to accompany me somewhere" Lili told the ebony before turning back, and pulling Asuka to come with her.
The ebony did her best to stop counter Lili's pulling, by standing firm on her place.
"Wait a minute" she said, before pulling her hand back along with Lili. Fast like the wind, she turned the blonde to face her and made their lips touch one another. Her hands traveled at Lili's back, pushing the blonde's body closer to her. Lili reciprocated the kiss by leaning her head lower for Asuka to just reach without having to tiptoe. It was a good thing no one was around the dojo, because they are able to fully enjoy their hot, possessive kiss. It is possessive as possessive can be, because they tried to own each other. They travelled each other's mouth and tried to get even deeper. After a few seconds in their literal burning kiss, Lili felt Asuka's hands travel lower from her back, until it reached behind her thighs. Fast and ungentle in a way, Asuka lifted Lili from the floor. Their lips separate for a little moment until Asuka could bring her girlfriend up to a nearby table and sitting her there. Their foreheads touched one another as they panted, and looked into each other's eyes. This time they were just the same height, which made it easier for Asuka to kiss Lili. Again, they kissed for a long time, embracing one another and just tasting each other's lips. There was too much action and too much longing in their kiss, that both their lips were red and almost bulging with a glossy texture when they broke away.
Asuka took Lili's chin and raised the girl's head to look eye to eye with her. "I think you're forgetting that you're with your girlfriend." She said with a big smirk in her face.
Lili smirked back at her, and raised her hands to grasp Asuka's hair, not able to control herself from clutching that short ebony hair. "You're right, I missed you." She said, before kissing Asuka in the lips again. "But we have to go now; I have a hit on Jin."
Asuka face seemed to reflect how she agrees with Lili, she nods once at the blonde and helps her get down from the table she sat her own.
Now inside a private jet plane, Asuka and Lili was standing at the end of the jet. The back entrance was opened, making strong waves of wind slap Asuka and Lili's face. Their hairs were flying to their back and they could hardly look outside.
"Want to go skydiving?" Lili asked Asuka, tilting her head to the open sky.
Asuka looked scared and excited at the same time. "We can do that?"
Lili shaked her head and made a slight giggle before closing the door, making all the strong winds refrain.
"No, unfortunately, that's not part of the budget." She walked back to the only two seats inside the mini jet plane. The two sits were brown leather cushioned facing one another, left and right, with a window view at the middle.
It was a bit sad that they have no time to sit around those comfy looking seats anymore since their trip will only last for half an hour, and most of that half hour was already spent in looking at the skies from the back door.
Once they arrived at their destination, the jet plane didn't park anymore; it just stopped for a while, setting out a rope ladder where Asuka and Lili went down on.
The place where Jin is right now is one of the smallest yet rich countries in the world. It's a country filled with more foreigners than its native citizens and very popular for its theme parks in the part of Asia. The two girls were now in the capital city of Hong Kong.
They arrived at the center of Tsim Sha Sui, a part of Hong kong's capital where dozens of foreign shops, hotels, restaurants and extravagant malls are erected. One place particularly at Mody Street in the Tsim Sha Sui, Asuka and Lili checked in at the five star hotel of Regal Kowloon.
The hotel was Islamic architecture inspired, complete with all gold and brass colored in the walls, with extensive colorful flowery ceilings and the fragrance of Islamic cuture swarming in the air.
The two girls were both carrying large black bags, but aside from that, Asuka had an extra luggage. She was also carrying a blue sports bag, where most of her and Lili's stuff are. Lili purposely chooses a room at the highest floor, and the last one to the right side.
When they opened the door of their room, it was a wide big square room. The left side had a mounted flat screen TV in the wall, a big air condition installed above the ceiling at the middle, a big wide, one bed at the other wall with a side table that had an electronic body where all switches can be found. There was a high coffee table by the big window at the end of the room, with two thin, red cushioned chairs as a set.
Lili placed her black bag there and began taking out her spying devices. Asuka puts the other black bag on top of the chair close to Lili and lets the sports bag fall to the floor, just next to the bed.
Asuka lays at her back, immediately in love with the cold, rich, soft texture of the bed covers and mattress.
"You actually chose a one bed room huh? I wonder what those check in staff thought about us."
Lili was setting up her recorders and alarm systems, when she couldn't help but laugh at Asuka's question. "I bet they think were on a honeymoon." She said, still laughing.
Asuka's eyebrows twisted confusingly, she sat up in the bed and bended her feet close to her. "Why would they?" She asked, laughing herself, but a bit hesitant than Lili.
Lili was just answering her with a laugh and tried to busy herself with the device set ups. Asuka pushed the question again, and this time, Lili was calm enough to answer her.
"Well, this room is what they call the Newly Married."
Asuka had a total astonished face. "No way, you totally said we were to them?"
Lili's face was wiped with more astonishment than Asuka. "No" She said and had to let her laugh out before continuing. "I only told them to give me the cheapest room in the last floor, so they gave me the two bed bedroom, but then they looked at you from behind me and one of the staff asked me if I was with you. I answered them yes, but then they asked me again, if I was with you, with you. I answered them yes again, quite confident too. After saying that, they promoted our room here with no extra charge and even a fifty percent discount!"
It was now Asuka's turn to laugh so hard. She had to embrace herself in the stomach just to control it. Lili also laughed, forgetting for a while that she was assembling something.
A few minutes later, Lili had finished all the devices needed. She a laptop opened on top of the coffee table, showing the graph where a red dot which represents Jin can be seen moving and moving. The laptop had two wires connected to it, one was connected to the recording machine, while the other was connected to a small telescope like device. The telescope like device had a microphone at the end, which is slightly placed outside the window.
Asuka checked the things that the blonde had fixed up; she touched them lightly and tried to study them for a while. "What are these for?" She asked Lili.
"Can you see that hotel right there?" Lili pointed her finger at a nearby hotel from the Regal Kowloon. The hotel she was pointing on was the Conrad – Hilton hotel, one of the finest and most expensive hotels in that country.
"Uh-huh" Asuka mumbled, looking at the Conrad Hotel.
"Jin is checked in there, our room is exactly parallel to his, which makes it capable for our recorder to get sound from this close distance."
Asuka nodded with a bit of doubt in her. "How'd you know where his room is?"
Lili took out another small device from her frill dress. "This one is something that will show everything of Jin's current records in travels, including what room he is given when he checks in at a hotel."
Asuka only looked at the device. "Swell, so what do we do now?"
Lili went to her laptop, and adjusted the recording machine to give out an alarm signal.
"All conversations in phones or through person will be received by the recorder, while everyone who goes inside of his room will be photographed by the camera. We wait for a change, and if theres a weak point in the gurading, we can attack."
"So, we're going to attack, just the two of us?"
The blonde shaked her head, left to right. "No, once we get the chance, I'll be calling for Xiayou and Hwoarang."
"Ooh, so we just wait for now?" Asuka began to pace back to the bed and lie on her back again.
"That or we can spend some quality time together until this alarm stops us." Lili said as she made her way to the space on the bed next to Asuka. Quickly their hands held each other but they lied silently for a long time. When Lili shifted her position, she rested her head on top of Asuka's chest, locking eye contact with the ebony.
"Why wasn't anyone at the dojo?" Lili has been curious of that fact for a while now, and after remembering it, it was the first thing she asked Asuka.
"Everyone went to a swimming trip." Asuka told her.
"Why didn't you come?"
Asuka raised her shoulders. "I didn't want to miss you if you ever came back. I guess my decision was right." Asuka felt the juddering of Lili's giggle above her chest. It sent shivers down her spine. "How about you? What took you so long? Why didn't you contact me? Why didn't ypu answer any of my texts and calls?"
Lili's happy feelings faded to half, this was a tough one to tell. "I was grounded by my daddy…..I told him about us."
Asuka's eyes went so wide with shock. "Did he made you stop being with me? Is that why you couldn't answer any of my messages or calls?"
Lili was averting her eyes, confused herself on what to say. "Yes, he did. But he's fine with me coming back to you, it's just, he can't accept it yet. He took my cellphone away as part of that dumb grounding, that's why I couldn't contact you or answer anything you sended to me. But I read them all before coming back to Japan, I'm sorry I made you worry and be sad."
Asuka had a sad look in her face, but she managed to give Lili a small smile as she shaked her head. "Apology accepted. I was totally freaking why you were suddenly ignoring me, I thought you've changed your mind and didn't want to come back anymore."
"That would never happen." Lili told the ebony, leaning herself closer to Asuka's head, and kissing her lightly in the lips. They parted fast this time, and remained indulged in their thinking, creating a silent atmosphere.
It was too silent, that the air condition could be heard in it's mechanism of blowing out the frozen air. The ambiance in the room had been transformed into something serious now, and Lili had to add something more to that. She swallowed deeply before she started to tell something.
"My daddy wanted me to get a fixed marriage." She confessed to Asuka, who was instantly taken by a troubled expression in the face.
"Don't worry, I didn't accept it." Lili added to comfort Asuka. The ebony head was clearly relieved. Asuka pulled Lili's body into a tight hug above her.
"Good, I don't want to share you with anyone."
Lili's heart skipped so fast, like it was the clouds in heaven that was embracing her. Her sweet, sweet, romantic Asuka, is really very, possessive of her. More than she ever imagined. It was at this time that Lili learned to trust in the saying of distance makes the heart grow fonder.