You'll Always Be in My Heart By Duckie4rmabove

Chapter 2 - Founded Love

They arrived at the dojo and they saw Master Jubei sweeping the main entrance of his dojo.

"Master Jubei!" Andy ran to greet him.

"Ah........ Andy Bogard! What a fine surprise. What brings you here?" Master Jubei said as he stopped his sweeping.

"I am here to continue my training so that I can become stronger and faster." Andy bowed.

"And you?" Master Jubei looked at Terry and Joe.

"We were just here to see an old friend of ours, Is Mai here?" Joe answered with politeness.

"She should be back any minute" continuing his sweeping he looked at the dust on the ground.

As Mai had heard him she came in sight of the four men, but she did not appear alone. She was wrapped around a man's arm. Andy saw this and he clinched his fist without thinking first.

"Take it easy there" Terry whispered as he saw his younger brother's reaction. Andy slowly released his fist and finally realized that he even made a fist. But he didn't appreciate the fact that Mai was being replaced in her heart.

"I'm going up to the mountains to begin my training at once" with that Andy turned around and left.

Mai paid no attention to the dojo in front of her. All she cared about was the man whose arm she was cutting off the circulation off of.

"Mai!" Terry waved his hands in the air.

She looked up to see who had called her name and when she saw the two men she immediately knew who they were. She energetically waved back. She managed to pull herself away from the man's arm and ran up to greet her old friends.

"Terry! Joe! What pleasure do I own this?" The man came up slowly behind Mai as she was talking and smiled at Terry and Joe.

"We just thought it would be nice to see an old friend of ours and to train a bit" Terry explained while Joe looked at the man strangely

"Have we met before? You look oddly familiar" Joe finally blurted out.

The man smiled at Mai and looked up at Joe. "Well I know you are the famous boxer Joe Higashi. I don't know if we have ever met". The strangely familiar man said.

"It will come to me" Joe put his hand behind his head.

"Yeah we all know Joe can't remember a face for beans" Mai teased

"Mai! You didn't change at all!" Joe laughed but was glad to see his old friend again

Mai gave a smirked and everyone laughed. Mai grabbed the man's arm again and he looked at her slightly with a grin. The grin soon transformed into a smile on his face and he looked back up towards Terry and Joe. At that instinct Andy came walking towards them. He has changed into his fighting clothes, but has not gone up to the mountains to train yet. Mai tugged on the man's arm and whispered something into his ear. The man nodded and looked at the man in the white known as Andy coming towards them.

"Well we shall be leaving now. We will see you later goodbye" With that he and Mai turned around and left. Andy came up to them but has not taken his eyes off the two. "Who was that?" He asked curiously trying not to sound nosey.

"That was Mai's fiancée, he is extremely strong, if my calculation are correct he is both stronger that you Andy and Terry." Master Jubei answered Andy's question knowing that he misses Mai, but to afraid to show it.

Andy made a fist but he didn't know why. He watched them both walk away and saw how Mai hung all over him. But the man seem not to mind, he seem quite happy.

~*~

Later that night Terry and Joe decided to trained under Master Jubei for a little while, but mostly to keep an eye on Andy. After everyone was asleep, Andy was in his room, he heard some noises outside so he quietly slipped out of his room. As he followed the noise he bummed into something or someone.

"Hey there watch it Andy!" Someone said

"Who is it?" Andy quickly responded.

"It's me Joe"

"What are you doing up?" Andy felt his way around the trees and the things that were in front of him.

"I heard some noises out here, so I wondered what it was. Why are you here?" Joe was adjusted to the dark so he followed Andy.

"I heard some noises too" Andy whispered

"Come on, let go find out what it is" Joe took the lead

When they both arrived at the place of the sounds, it has stopped.

"Who's out there?" A man's voice called out.

"Who are you?" Joe yelled back

"What are you guys doing here?" The man was now behind them; Andy and Joe suddenly turned around and realized it was Mai's fiancée.

"The question is what are you doing here?" Joe demanded to know

"I'm just training, is that such a crime?" The man calmly answered

"At a time like this?" Joe questioned

"We have our own reasons for what we do, I don't ask you why you look at yourself in the mirror and I don't ask you why you make a fist every time you're near me" The man said to Joe then Andy.

"How do you know?" Andy surprised.

"MASTER! ARE YOU ALRIGHT? The sounds of your training stopped!" a tall, but skinny man came running up to them.

"I'm fine. Well if you two don't mind I will be heading back now. Goodbye" The man left with his pride in the air.

"That guy!" Andy made his fist again.

"Who is he?" Joe asked the servant

"That is my master" The servant answered

"Does he love Mai?" Andy just blurted out of nowhere.

"Love? My Master? He does no such thing!" The servant not thinking about what he was saying.

"Why is he with Mai?" Andy asked another question

Then the man finally realized what he was gotten himself into, so he didn't say a word, he hoped they wouldn't say anything about it. Hoping they would just forget what they had just talked about.

"Tell me!" Andy looked ready to break some bones

"I have to go I hear my master calling me" The servant lied and ran off praying that they wouldn't follow.

Andy jumped and grabbed on to a tree branch above him. He leaped from tree to tree. Joe was following him but on the ground, he was running after the servant too. Knowing the time was right, Andy jumped down from the trees and right in front of the servant that had just ran off.

"Don't kill me!" The servant begged on his knees

"Tell me why" Andy asked in a calmer deeper ready to kill voice.

"If I tell you my Master will kill me!" The servant began to panic and breathe heavily

"If you don't..... Tell.... Andy....I will... Kill you!" Joe said as his chest rapidly went in and out.

"Now I'm going to ask you one last time................Tell me why he is with Mai if he doesn't love her" Andy picked him up by his shirt and looked him straight into his eyes.

"Master please forgive me" The servant stumbled backwards as Andy let go of his shirt. He fell on both knees and hands. He faced the ground and he breathed heavily.

"C'mon we don't have all night here" Joe commented as he caught his breath.

"He wants his dojo..................Mai's grandfather own his place......he wants it for his own..... he says there treasure around here that buried......If he owns if he won't...................he won't get in trouble for digging holes everywhere....................if he marries.....Mai...he can own................this place.............once....he................has........it..................h e will................ kill................Mai!" He said as he ran out of breath.

"Mai!" Andy ran off to tell Mai at once.

"Andy!" Joe ran after him.

They both franticly ran back to the dojo, they weren't so quiet coming in. They woke everyone up with a loud bang.

"What is all the noise about?" Master Jubei came out. Terry also came out of his room and followed by him Mai came out with sleepy eyes and her fiancée by her side.

"HIM!" Andy pointed at Mai's fiancée.

"What's going on?" He asked

"You! You don't love Mai! You're using her!" Andy screamed at the top of his lungs. Then that is when he realized something why he was so mad. He loved Mai................ he didn't know it before but now he did! That is why he so angry......................... But thanks to his insecurities there was nothing to do about it since he was the one that brush her off like dust off his shirt.

"I don't know what you talking about" He said.

"I know who you are! I finally remember! Your Dave that kick boxer I beat that night!" Joe finally figured it out and said right in the most inappropriate time.

"Your halfway there Joe Higashi... I am Dave's younger brother.................Justin..................I was there that night.................... and that is one night I will never forget because that is the night was when I met Mai"

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Disclaimer: I do not own Fatal Fury or their Characters, I did not create Fatal Fury nor had a hand in making it, but I wish I did. I'm just a fan that's writing Fan Fiction.