Chapter Twelve: If You're Not The One (JIN'S POV – Again, inspired by a Daniel Bedingfield song)

I missed Calleigh…plain and simple, or maybe I should say, pain and difficult. I was completely alone now, and I had completely disassociated myself from almost all people, aside from people I chanced to meet in the grocery store. I had a picture of Calleigh wearing my jacket, which I'd managed to get from her tournament profile. I still kept that jacket, mainly because Calleigh had worn it, and it was one of the few reminders I had left of her. Her scent had faded from it, but I still kept it because it was a reminder of what I could have had. Could have…if it wasn't for the devil gene that had inhabited itself in my blood. That girl was the best thing to ever happen to me, and now she was gone. I should have just told her about the devil gene when I had the chance, but I had to wait, and wreck everything.

If she wasn't right for me, why did I feel like my entire world had collapsed in one day? I knew something was seriously wrong. She was only my friend, and I was taking it like we had been an item for years and years. Had I really loved her that much? Was I stupid enough to need to ask that? Of course I loved her, and I still did, too. Of course, I guess I should have seen this coming, then, because everything I love in my life gets taken from me sooner or later. My mother was gone, and she had been gone most of my life. Heihachi had betrayed me in numerous ways. Kazuya wanted me dead, and now I'd lost Calleigh due to my own stupidity. I stared out the window, wondering if Calleigh had gotten my letter yet. There were so many more things that I wanted to say, but I didn't know how to word them. I wanted to tell her that I loved her, and that I wanted to be with her for the rest of my life, but if I'd said that, she would have thrown the letter away. I sighed, and stood up to put a movie into the VCR. I figured that would take my mind off of her. I chose 'The Jackal,' one of my all time favorites, and put it into the VCR.

I sat back down, and pushed play. Just thinking about her, tears welled up in my eyes, and my heart started to ache. I imagined her telling me not to cry, and holding me close to her. Calleigh was the most amazing woman I would ever meet. How could I have just let her get away like that? I reached over to my right, and held the picture of her in my hand. She was so beautiful. Even with my jacket over her head, she looked like an angel. I hated myself. I just felt like keeling over to die right there. No one would have known I was gone, so what difference would it have made?

Ok, I'll admit it, I was depressed. But wouldn't you be? Losing an angel because of the devil (literally), wouldn't you be depressed? I let the tears flow down my cheeks, but unlike the last time I had cried, Calleigh wasn't there to hold me. I leaned into the chair, and cried myself to sleep.

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"Damn it, Calleigh. Where is Jin?" Kazuya asked Calleigh, holding her by one wrist over a bridge, which led to the Mishima Fortress. "You're the only one he would have told, so why don't you just let out with it now, before I finish you?"

"I don't know, Kazuya!" Calleigh screamed, tears streaming down her cheeks. "If I knew, do you think I'd be here?" it was obvious her grip on Kazuya's wrist was weakening. She rushed to tighten her grip, only to have him loosen his.

"Stupid girl! You'd rather die protecting him, than just tell me where he is?" Kazuya knew that she couldn't hold on for much longer, so he kept his grip as loose as it had been. "If you tell us where he is, we'll let you live!"

"I told you! I don't know!" Calleigh was crying uncontrollably, only to have her grip give in a second later, and fall to her doom on the rock plateau below-…

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"CALLEIGH!" I sat bolt upright, in a cold sweat, to the blaring sound of static from my TV. Apparently, my movie was over, and the VCR had shut itself off, leaving the TV snowy. I had slept through the whole movie. Now, that surprised me. "A dream…it was only a dream…" I stared at the TV for a second, and then the sound started to become an annoyance. I got up, and shut the VCR off. I could feel the dried up tears around my eyes, so I went into the bathroom, and washed my face. You're a mess, Kazama…what if you're hoping for something that will never come back to you? What if you lost her for good? I asked myself, as I splashed water onto my face. No, that couldn't have happened. People like Calleigh don't just abandon you.

That dream had terrified me. I wondered if she was ok, or if something to that effect had actually happened to her. I walked to my door, and looked outside. It was a bright, sunny day, with no clouds in sight. I looked over to my car, and was taken by surprise when I saw a flyer. "They do that in people's driveways now?" I asked myself, as I opened the door, to go get the flyer. The sun took me by surprise. It was really bright, in comparison to the dark demeanor of my house. I blinked two or three times, then headed toward my car. I reached down, and picked up the flyer, and was almost shocked out of existence.

I read to myself. 'Think you got what it takes to be the ultimate fighter? Enter The King of Iron Fist Tournament Six…grand prize: whatever your heart desires. To enter, come to the newly built Heihachi Mishima Iron Fist Arena, in New York City on June seventeenth.' I wondered if Calleigh would be there. Just to be on the safe side, I was going to enter, anyway. You never really know. I was going to find out.

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Cause, I miss you body and soul so strong that it takes my breath away.
And I breathe you into my heart and pray for the strength to stand today.
Cause I love you, whether it's wrong or right,
And, thought I can't be with you tonight, you know my heart is by your side.
I don't wanna run away, but I can't take it, I don't understand.
If I'm not made for you then why does my heart tell me that I am?
Is there any way that I can stay in your arms?
~~ 'If You're Not The One' – Daniel Bedingfield ~~