Quickly driving toward the place, exceeding the normal permitted speed since he had already lost much time at the office, Lee was still wondering if he should interfere in the meeting between Jun and Kazuya or try to stop his adoptive father from coming. Jun had told him to let no one come, it was already enough that Bruce Irvin was probably with them... If Heihachi was there, he would disrupt the exorcism that this woman was trying to do on Kazuya without any doubts. Heihachi never believed in kindness to repair anything. He'll probably say that this was crazy and will say that a fist can do much more to change Kazuya... But if a fist did something, it was the wrong way... And it won't help Kazuya who should remain calm to have that exorcism on him... If he see his father, he'll be overcome by hate and any thoughts of kindness will vanish... If he could still have some... Lee still doubted about this but Jun seemed so certain... But one thing was for sure: If Kazuya and Heihachi met, they'll both kill each other... Yet would it be a so bad thing?

Lee was still wondering about that idea of saving Kazuya and if it was worth it, or if it would even be possible, when he suddenly noticed Heihachi and his giant bear Kuma walking on the sidewalk. They were quite easy to notice... So he quickly drove toward them and stopped right in front before Heihachi could cross the road to go into the Todoroki Valley park entrance, his tires screeching as he abruptly braked. But before Lee could say anything, Heihachi then asked his adoptive son, as he held his hand over his heart:

-Lee! What's the idea of coming on that fast? You want to kill your old man as well?

-That's an idea worth considering...

-Well, you better keep it at the consideration state. I bet you just tried and wasn't even able to do it... You always fail at everything you try...

Lee made a displeased face.

-Because killing you was not my intention... then. Beside, you would stain my car. In reality, I wanted to ask you if you needed a lift...

-What?

-Have you gone deaf, Otousama? I asked if you needed a lift?

-I'm not deaf, maybe you just don't articulate your Japanese enough. Stop mumbling when you ask a question. No, I don't need your lift, I keep in shape by walking to where I have to go. Beside seeing how you drive... Not to mention that I'm almost where I want to go.

-I didn't mumble and you know I speak very well Japanese as I also drive very well! I even lost my Chinese accent and speak like a true native! You just never recognize my talents! And if you don't want a lift, fine! I won't get bear hair everywhere on my car seats! replied Lee, insulted by his father's reply.

-It's so easy to make you fly off the handle now that you hang out with Kazuya... Have you ever noticed he's a bad example? Don't follow your big brother in everything...

-Well, at least I get to still be paid, not live in the streets like you... You pretend your primary goal is to keep in shape but don't you regret when you had your limo taking you everywhere? You didn't care about walking to keep in shape then...

-You know I kept in shape in lots of other ways as well. Don't try to mock me or lecture me about my habits. With your own unhealthy habits, you'll probably die before even reaching my age. Tobacco, alcohol, party... and now driving recklessly... I never taught you such bad habits... You're such a degenerate... You poor upstarts never know how to dose it once you get some money... You've always been worse than Kazuya on the expensive futilities and luxuries...

-I don't abuse any of those... Beside I'm not a de...

Heihachi interrupted him:

-But still you don't qualify to be called a good healthy martial artist. You're just a garbage. I really picked you from a dumpster...

Pouting, Lee frowned and replied:

-Oh, really? We'll see once in the Tournament who's the worthless one!

-Oh, so you're participating as well? I thought you first were trying to suck up to me with that lift so that I would keep you in the Zaibatsu once I won. Sucking up from one to another... That's probably your talent you were talking about. And I don't think it's in a Tournament that you'll have any chances proving you're better than me at anything. You just picked the wrong area of expertise.

Suddenly changing the subject, mostly trying to ignore the answer, Lee noticed Heihachi's singular backpack that suddenly began to move and whimper.

-What's that? Another bear? You began working at the WWWC or what?

-No, he's my new bundle of joy. Better than Kazuya and you have ever been.

-Humpf. You can say and try to insult us like if we have always been worthless but I heard you loved Kazuya very much when he was a baby.

-Didn't you see how ugly he turned? My bears will always remain cute.

-Well, there's a family ressemblance... between you and Kazuya, not you and the bears. Sadly for you. And cute or not, I'm surprised they let you walk around the city with your menagerie...

-I'm surprised they let you drive around the city with your car... But me and my bears are quite an attraction. The kids love Kuma. And mostly little Kuma. We have to refuse all the cookies and candies they want to give him.

-Little Kuma? They are both called Kuma? Why?

-Why do you ask me? Kuma is the one who called his son Kuma. And have you ever heard of the term junior?

Kuma growled as if agreeing with his master. Not impressed by the answer he somehow found ridiculous, Lee asked:

-And what? Kuma II's cub will be called Kuma III?

Heihachi crossed his arms and proudly said:

-Yup. Then Kuma IV, Kuma V... Kuma one hundred... In fact it depends on what Kuma II will decide. Maybe it will be a little Heihachi...

-Eww... said Lee who couldn't repress his feelings at the thought of another Heihachi.

Heihachi seemed very amused by the conversation while Lee suddenly wondered why he was doing this. Why was he here, talking to a man who was constantly mocking him? He resented his father so much now and he also despised Kazuya as well, he didn't even think Jun would be able to do anything for Kazuya who was just a monster and who only kept worsening day after day. He tried himself to be friend with Kazuya and it never worked. Why has he been convinced it would work now with Jun? The Mishimas were all evil and insensible persons and Lee was now quite angry at any of them. The only person he cared about in all of this right now was Jun even if he barely knew her. But he was somehow putting her in danger right now for that stupid 'exorcism' that would probably not work... Leaving her alone with the possessed maniac and a gun-loving brute. Jun wasn't even able to convince Kazuya to not break up with her, how would she be able to exorcise him? Lee thought that maybe he shouldn't even try to stop Heihachi... Maybe his adoptive father would even save Jun from Kazuya if he arrived there... How much time does an exorcism takes? How much time does receiving a bullet in the head takes...? Beside, maybe Kazuya and Heihachi would kill each other... and he would be left with the Mishima Zaibatsu all to himself... Right now, why was he protecting this annoying father from Kazuya or vice versa?

-You know what? I don't even know why I'm speaking to you... Have fun with your teddy bears, I'm done losing my time here.

And making his tires screech as the car began to roll away, Lee left while Heihachi smiled in satisfaction. It seemed he won the first match against Lee... Lee could never hold his own against him... That petty kid...

Meanwhile Jun found Kazuya and Bruce. Kazuya had first been surprised by her presence and said (as he quickly hid his gun behind him, in his belt):

-Jun? What are you doing here? Go away!

-No. I need to speak to you. I really do.

Sighing, Kazuya turned toward Bruce and said:

-Go inspect near the temple. See if he's already there.

Nodding, Bruce left, leaving the ex-lovers together. Kazuya then turned toward Jun and asked her on an angry tone before he quickly crossed his arms again:

-Who told you I was here?

-No one. I just had to pass here to go to the Temple and I felt your presence. You do radiate a lot, said Jun, who could feel the evil coming from him.

He definitively was about to commit some evil deed... His Devil persona was strong tonight... Full of hate... Somehow it made Jun very sad. She had tried to change him all those times, she had felt that he had dropped some barriers... The night they conceived their child, during that lovely date at his mansion, he looked almost freed from that evil, he looked so at peace... but now...

-Leave now. Go on with your... temple worshipping, said Kazuya with a scornful air.

-No. I first have many things to tell you.

Jun was feeling awkward before Kazuya who was standing there, his arms crossed as if he didn't wish for any contact with her... In fact, she knew he didn't...

-You always cross your arms. What are you afraid of? What are you trying to protect yourself from?

-Stop with that, Jun, said Kazuya on a slightly softer yet annoyed tone.

Jun noticed a slight concern for her in Kazuya's eyes. She was glad to notice that her lover still had feelings for her, despite this cold air he had since she arrived. She knew he had a gun behind him but she also trusted him not to use it on her.

-I feel you are in an agressive mood tonight. Do you intend to hurt someone?

Kazuya looked at her with a small surprised expression: Jun was so good at reading his mind, his intentions... Yet she may have seen the gun but... she was also like that on their last date, she understood him on many things that he couldn't even express... And now she knew of his intentions... again...

-Leave now. You don't want to see this. I'll kill Oyaji once and for all and get my revenge. Then I'll be able to live normally as you wish.

-Yes, you told me before that you would be freed once this would be done. But if you fall into hate, you won't be able to get out and live normally after... Maybe your father is mean and have done cruel things to you but why don't you do like you did on our date and forget about him? You remember how you felt so much better and serene? Hate is not the solution, it never is. Hate sparks hate while love...

Jun still wondered if she should talk about their baby. Even if she was trying to save him, she feared Kazuya would not be a good example for the child yet maybe by telling him, he would try to be... But she had to protect her child first, and see to Kazuya's soul before she put her baby in danger... Kazuya interrupted her:

-I don't need any of your advices. If we see each other again another day, maybe we will talk. Now go. Don't ever talk about what happened or will happen here or I will have to send killers for you. I don't wish to but I will. I'm serious. Dead serious.

-Kazuya, you have to liste...

Moving toward her, Kazuya suddenly grabbed her arms and told her on a harsh and threatening tone:

-Leave the place... NOW!

First surprised by the sudden grip her lover had on her, Jun also firmly grabbed his forearms and told him on a determined tone:

-Kazuya! Listen to me, you're not yourself.

-I told you to leave! Stop with your stupidities!

Jun looked Kazuya in the eyes and said:

-I want to speak with Kazuya, not you!

Kazuya made his usual lopside grin and said:

-But I am Kazuya, Jun.

-No. Kazuya loves me. He's not cold like you.

-Humpf! You think I ever loved you?

-Kazuya did.

Kazuya sneered.

-You're so ridiculous!

Jun kept on holding Kazuya, as he was also holding her, and she looked into his eyes once more. His eyes showed evilness yet she had the feeling something good was behind but the evil was very strong... Like in the office... Covering all... Yet Jun thought with some worry that the entity could not take over so fast unless Kazuya permitted it...

-Kazuya, I know you're not like that...

Kazuya suddenly seemed to regain some sense as he lowered his head and told her on a softer tone:

-Jun... I told you to go.

But as he was releasing her arms, Kazuya brutally kicked Jun with his knee in the stomach. Jun fell down, holding her belly in pain. She feared for her child and angered by that attack on the baby, despite Kazuya not knowing about it, she lifted her head, looking angrily toward her lover with tearful eyes. Kazuya was gazing at her with a cold and scornful gaze... Getting up, Jun said:

-Fine. It seems I must put some sense in your head... in your heart... with the only way you will understand now...

Jun then quickly kicked Kazuya who fell down on his back before she jumped over him and grabbed his arms. Closing her eyes, concentrating and holding his wrists very tightly, some light then began emanating from her hands and Kazuya became even more furious, his brown eyes suddenly both turned shiny red and he said while growling:

-Arrgh! What do you think you're doing, you wretch!?

-I have to use the last resort to save Kazuya!

Kazuya lifted his head in a scornful expression and spitted:

-Humpf! Pitiful human! You're weak!

-You do not know me... said Jun on a resolved tone as she continued concentrating on the purifying energy.

She was now using all the spiritual power she could gather on her lover to purify him from the evil influence. Last time, she only used her proximity and it seemed to work but now Kazuya needed the whole powerful treatment, a real exorcism. And she was now fully mentally prepared. Kazuya began to scream in pain as the light seemed to invade his arms and between his screams of pain, he growled once more:

-You do not know me either...

Kazuya suddenly opened that hidden third eye on his forehead and shot at Jun who despite being surprised by the strange attack, quickly avoided it by rolling away yet leaving Kazuya free in the process. Kazuya quickly got up, then backed away, shaking his wounded arms to get the painful pure energy out of them. Then as Jun was still on the ground, somehow surprised by his strange attack, Kazuya quickly changed into his Devil form to fly and then drop on her.

But as he came down on her, Jun kicked him with both her legs before she got up. Devil Kazuya flew away in shock before he looked at Jun with intense hate and threw himself at her once more, intending to grab her, bring her up and throw her down. But before he could grab her, Jun quickly punched him in the face, stopping his attack. Yet she felt that with that horrible form, Kazuya was now completely possessed and she suddenly feared she would not be able to do much in the purifying sense... Meanwhile Kazuya threw himself at her with a spinning kick. Jun fell down and quickly rolled away when Kazuya came down on her with an electrical punch. She quickly got up and ran behind a tree to avoid the beam he was now trying to hit her with. Jun hesitated for a moment if she should flee or stay to fight Kazuya and exorcise him once he would be unconscious. She had her baby to think of...

But the Devil quickly flew to her and before she could do anything, the monster was just beside her, he brutally grabbed her neck and violently slammed her head on the tree. Stunned and trying to free herself, Jun grabbed the monster's arms and kicked him in the stomach. Devil Kazuya backed away before he came back charging with a kick that Jun barely avoided. They fought for a while in the darkness of the late evening but Jun couldn't shake that dizziness she felt since the violent head strike and couldn't fight back as efficiently as she would have wished. Devil Kazuya once more flew over her and kicked her in the back, making her fall down before he knocked her down with another kick.

As Jun was now unconscious, Devil Kazuya stared at her with a cold and insensitive look, crossing his arms once more. Then turning human once more, Kazuya suddenly regained some sanity, or mostly empathy. Kazuya knew he wasn't as innocent in this as Jun thought, he had allowed Devil to take over, he knew Jun would get hurt and even if it somehow still saddened him a bit, it had to be done. Kazuya then bent toward her and as he looked at her, a slight regret of having hurt her washed over him as he remembered their tender moments together. He softly brushed her face with the back of his hand.

-... Jun... I'm sorry...

But he quickly wiped his feelings away. She loved him, he probably, he did love her as well but it could not go on. It was impossible. She had seen something that he wasn't and even made him believe it for sometimes but it was all over. She had also seen tonight what he really was and she probably now wanted to really destroy him... Like she already wanted to destroy his ambitions... with all her annoying peace and forgiveness talk... which in a weird twisted way was also why he loved her... But he should kill her... Just like how Devil destroyed Angel in his dreams some times ago, after that attempt on his life where he realized that he was weak... Everything became much simpler after that...

He didn't want to see Jun anymore because all those Angel and Devil dilemma problems came when they met. He had to pick a side and he knew he needed Devil's strength to beat his father, he couldn't without it... Last time, he won only because of Devil... Jun could not take him away... Between Jun and Devil, despite missing his lover, Kazuya choose Devil. Devil saved his life when he was a child and saved it once more in that murder attempt last time. Jun only brought him weaknesses and dilemmas...

Yet Kazuya had the feeling she didn't walk in here by chance... She specifically came to stop him... How did she know about his ambush? She definitively had special powers... She was dangerous, he should kill her now... She witnessed his Devil form and would be a witness once Heihachi will be killed...

Kazuya grabbed his gun and looked at Jun once more.

He had to kill her... But he just couldn't... He already decided to cut his ties with her but he could not go to the point of killing her... No, they will change their plans, that's all... Kill Heihachi another day... Beside he just didn't feel like confronting the old man tonight... He knew he would kill him one day, nothing would change his mind, not even Jun but he just felt too troubled tonight for anything.

Then as Kazuya was still lost in his thoughts, Bruce came back. Noticing that Kazuya had settled the discussion with that woman by beating her, he dared ask:

-So... who was that?

Kazuya had always kept quite discreet with his love life, he also didn't meet Jun very often and Bruce never met Jun, despite being the closest friend Kazuya had. Looking troubled, Kazuya looked toward him and wondered if Bruce saw anything compromising. Did he see him turning into a monster? His shirt was still ripped in the back... Kazuya thought that maybe it could have been during a normal fight... Bruce would not think it necessarily was by spreading some wings... Which would be ridiculous for a normal person to think so...

-You didn't see what happened?

-No. Who is she? So you know her?

He probably had seen nothing, thought Kazuya with some relief. He did wonder what Bruce would say if he knew of his Devil side... He would probably turn against him... Kazuya was really troubled by both the pain of having to fight Jun and the fear of being discovered for what he really was...

-... She's someone I had a disagreement with, simply answered the Mishima CEO on a distant tone.

Knowing Kazuya wouldn't say more and walking toward the unconscious Jun while holding his gun, Bruce asked:

-Do we... silence her?

Lowering his head while lifting his hand to stop Bruce, Kazuya said on that still distant tone:

-No. We put her in the car. And leave.

-We leave? We don't kill the old fool?

Noticing Kazuya's troubled behaviour toward the woman despite trying to hide it behind his 'distant' tone, Bruce had deduced that Kazuya had some kind of 'feelings' toward her, some tie or at least a reason to not kill her, but Heihachi Mishima was a monster, Bruce never forgave him for how he had beaten Kazuya as a kid, for all the cruelties he did to his son. He was eager to see the old fool get killed... and was even more surprised to see Kazuya not share the same eagerness now... But Kazuya repeated:

-We leave. The old fool can get lost tonight. Nothing must happen to her. We're taking her to the hospital.

-Oh. Okay.

Kazuya was still troubled by all that happened but told himself that if they had not fought now, they would have done it later since she always came back to admonish him on something... She had not the same ideas as him, far from it... and he didn't intend to stop anything of what he was doing... Jun's lovely eyes won't stop him from reaching his goals... Total domination of the world... She had to leave his life or change... But since she would never change and he was too weak to kill her, at least he would keep her away... She would now know she should never come back... and probably wouldn't talk about him...

Bruce was rather confused; That woman was someone Kazuya knew and somehow 'disagreed' with her... Yet Bruce had never seen Kazuya look so troubled in front of someone he just beat. He really seemed to care for that woman... in his own way at least, since he did beat her... And mostly, this woman seemed important enough so that Kazuya interrupts his scheme of killing his hated father tonight... Which was something... Who was that woman?

But whatever, after all, it was Kazuya who knew that woman, who had organized that plan... If he wanted to stop, they'll stop... Kazuya was the boss, it was none of his business and Bruce had nothing against that woman, he even felt somehow relieved that they didn't kill an ordinary innocent person if she was, so as Kazuya picked Jun in his arms, Bruce went to the car to open the doors so they could bring her to the hospital... All along the way, Bruce didn't ask anything and Kazuya didn't say anything.

Sometimes later Heihachi, Kuma and Kuma II walked along the small road. Suddenly Kuma began to snif the area and went to the side of the road. He looked on edge.

-What is it, Kuma? asked Heihachi as he looked around suspiciously.

-Groooarr! Rrrroooarrr!

-It stink? Kazuya? Oh, he's trying to ambush me now...

-KAZUYA! SHOW YOURSELF! COWARD!

After a while, nobody showed up and Kuma calmed down. The scent had faded... Heihachi smiled; First, Lee fled before him, now Kazuya fled as well... This was a very good omen for the Tournament... Heihachi began to laugh victoriously before he and his bears continued their way through the wood toward the Temple.

I didn't know that when I wrote the chapter but apparently many Chinese parents will tell their children that they found them in the trash when their children will ask them where they came from to avoid the real answer where babies come from, so somehow Heihachi telling Lee that he picked him from a dumpster is fitting with his adoption.