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(a/n): Thank you so much for your lovely compliments. I really didn't think no one is going to read this because most of the people are obsessed with the new characters. I'm glad you like my story. Well thanks for reading and here is Chapter 2. Enjoy! ^_^
Chapter 2: The Dream
Jun went out of the shower with a towel around her. She came into her bedroom and sat down in front of the large mirror, looking at herself carefully. She was a woman with hope seeping out of her little by little. She had tried so hard but she just can't do it anymore. She was too tired and she feels like she is giving up on her father.
Her father was a great man and everyone knew his name at home. A man so powerful and intelligent that people only dared to whisper his name. She remembers how proud she was of herself to have such a father. She still is proud of him, but because he was a powerful man, many people wanted him out, wanted him dead.
Now, he is nothing but a memory. A memory that soon will be washed away forever. She doesn't remember how he looks like anymore. How ashamed she felt. All her life she is telling herself that she loves him and will always love him. How can she say that if she doesn't remember his face? His smile that always made her smile?
Jun closed her eyes to pull her tears away. No, she won't cry, tears won't help her they will only hurt her. She is strong like her father before her. She will keep up the Kazama name. This is her destiny. She must follow in her father's footsteps and make him proud. She knew it was hard, since the beginning. It's hard to have a father who was so good and well known in his neighborhood. She was afraid of making mistakes but she knew, no matter how many mistakes she will make she must try and go on. Her father never gave up. She won't give up either.
Her relatives were all great people and they didn't need to be famous to be great. They would always help and care. She must keep up this proud name of her family, she must not falter, she must not give up. She will meet her demands she knows it. So why does she feel so uncertain. Why does she feel this strange presence that keeps telling her she is going to fail? Is she going to fail? Will she make it? Will she be strong enough? What if she is lying to herself?
Jun can't take it. She always knew where to go and what to do. She didn't hesitate to make actions and she didn't stop her pursuit of her ultimate goal. Now, she feels helpless like her light has gone out. Like she has overworked herself and there is nothing left within her now. What have she done to herself? What will her father say?
She has done nothing but break the laws of her family. She has stopped training her most precious and rare ability, the physic power. She has given up so often and became weak. She is like a dieing flower in winter, slowly failing to face towards the sun and falling towards the ground and slowly rotting and losing color.
How can she go on? How can she? She has done so much and yet nothing at all. She only has started on her journey and she already broke. She cannot stand strong anymore, she cannot fight anymore, she feels like giving up.
"Jun." She quickly turned around as someone whispered her name. "Who's there? Show yourself." She sounded very calm and as if she was in control. "Jun, don't leave me." The voice said in a whisper. Jun frowned, as she stood up, confused. "What are you talking about? Who are you?" She turned towards her opened door and gathered herself together. She had no clue whom it was. No one knows where she lives and these are woods. Who on Earth will even be here?
"Jun." Jun gasped when the door shut closed with a bang and the voice was no longer a whisper. Jun whipped her head around to see the owner of the voice and nearly fainted from shock.
"Father?" Her voice broke as she felt tears swell in her eyes. She didn't know her if she was crying because she was sad or happy but at this moment, she didn't really care. "Daddy?" She nearly whispered and gave in to the tears as he smiled his gorgeous smile. "Oh my god! Daddy!" She ran to him to throw her hands around him but, as she feared, she ran past him and fell to the floor.
She stayed there, to sad to stand up. Her father was right there in front of her, and yet she can't lay a finger on him. She started to sob as tears poured down her cheeks. All these years, all these years without him and she can only look at him.
"Jun, my daughter. My sunshine." He said softly as he came over to her. "I am not alive anymore." Jun looked at him from her teary eyes. "But how can you—" He silenced her by putting a hand up. "Remember when I told you about your gift?" Jun nodded slowly but still she didn't understand. She stood up and wiped her tears with her hand as she looked into her father's eyes.
"You have used that gift." Jun looked awkwardly at her father. She hasn't done anything. She didn't even try to do anything. What is he talking about? Jun started to believe that this was all a dream. "Father, I haven't used anything." She said calmly as a smile was forming on her father's face. "Yes, you have. This is why I'm here. You wanted me back you wanted to see me. You kept thinking about me in the mornings when you woke up. You thought what I think of you during your work and when you come home." He smiled more broadly this time. "Well, your powers have obeyed. You must train these powers my flower, so next time all you had to do was think about it once and it will happen."
Jun felt tears coming from her tears. Just when she thought she hasn't been using her sacred powers. Jun started to sob and she let the tears flow freely now. She didn't care anymore about being strong. Her father was in front of her once more.
"Daddy, please stay with me! I need you, father. I can't live without you, anymore." She pleaded but her father's smile faltered. Jun looked in dread, already knowing his answer. How could he stay with her? He is dead and she is not. He has died a long time ago and she lived without him for a long time. How, how can he stay if he is just a ghost?
"Jun—I cannot." Jun lost control as she broke down again and began pleading. She didn't hear anything else she said because she wanted him to stay. She didn't care how childish it sounds she wants him with her. "I'm sorry father that I have failed you. I tried my best but I had nothing to live for. All my life I lived in agony trying to do things that I thought would prove myself. I never wanted to let your face get out of my mind and so I worked hard, harder than I could. But I only failed. I have failed everything." She dropped to her knees. It was so hard to admit that she have failed. Everybody at her work looks up to her to always get the job done. And here she is, telling her father that she has done nothing but fail.
"But you do." Jun looked up at her father's words. "I do what?" She asked him, her voice breaking. "You don have things to live for and you have not failed me. You continued to carry your name and you have your future to live for."
Jun looked at him with a blank look. "But father, I don't have faith in me anymore. I have shattered the laws of faith!" She sounded very heart broken and she cried out each word with pain. "How did I not fail you!?" Jun didn't understand as her father smiled again.
"You haven't done anything but do your best." Jun softened at those words. "You must carry on. You are doing your best. All you have to do now is have trust in yourself. You must trust yourself in order to believe." Her father walked towards the closed door. "I promise you, tomorrow comes great news." "But father—" "I believe in you." And at that he has faded as she reached out to him screaming, "Father! Don't leave me!"
"Father!" Jun awoken from her own voice as she shot her eyes opened. She was sitting in the chair near the large mirror with a towel around her. It was just a dream. Jun exhaled heavily and looked back at her opened door but it was closed. She smiled as she noticed that it wasn't a dream after all. My powers are growing stronger. She thought. I will succeed you father I will make you proud. She took a brush and started to comb through her black wet hair. She looks forward to tomorrow. She knows she will find something.
She feels it.
(a/n): So? What did you all think? Was this a good chapter?
Was it a bad chapter? Anyway in the next chap, Jun will find another clue that
will leave her in questioning the Zaibatsu. Please review.
