Hopes and Dreams

Chapter 1: Broken Hearts and Broken Dreams?

A/N: Before you say, "THIS SUX" just read this will ya? This is me first fic on Fanfiction.net, and I probably ain't gonna do so well on it as I'm working on another book here. We're talking big, thick, 25 chapter book, SO DON'T JUDGE ME!! Or I shall use my secret weapon! :P So nya! Don't annoy me with flames and all that kinda crap, and I won't use my secret weapon. SIMPLE! :D Cause most peoples aren't man (or woman) enough to even sign in or put their email address. So if you know what's good for you, you'll read this and take heed! OR....NO OATMEAL FOR YOU! MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA! I also want to point out that I hate Lee, I am a J/X and H/J fan, and if anyone wants to complain about that, they can stuff it up their @$$! You mess with me, and I bring in the bazookas and nuclear missiles. You leave an email address, and I will get my friends to make your life hell, and I mean HELL! You understand ;P I'd like to also thank a few people, ie. kotou, skittles x-treme, forevermore, nextbigthing1, jes, hwoarang (the author), and a whole lotta people who I've forgotten! By the way, YOU PEOPLE I'VE MENTIONED LISTEN TO THIS! IF YOU DON'T KEEP WRITING FICCY'S I'LL PERSONALLY SEE TO IT THAT YOU ARE MOCKED AND TORTURED! lolz :P

Disclaimer: *Charmaine get's on stage* Alright, now listen up! I have just bought 99 million Namco shares, so I OWN Namco now! MWA HA HA HA HA HA!! Let's see, what can I make the Tekken endings to be...hmmm...I could put Lee in a shark tank...and Combot and Bryan can get married...OK OK! MAYBE I DON'T OWN NAMCO, BUT WHEN I PUT MY MASTER PLAN INTO ACTION, I CAN FINALLY STEAL HEIHACHI'S EMPIRE AND TAKE NAMCO OVER! MWA HA HA HA HA HA! *sees Heihachi aiming a bazooka at the stage* Well, er, gotta run, cya! *as Charmaine runs off stage, she points to Heihachi's thong* *Everyone, including Heihachi, looks down at it* MWA HA HA HA HA HA! *the crowd starts ROTFLMAO* *Heihachi drops the bazooka and starts running away, making a high pitched girlish scream while doing so* *as Heihachi runs off into the night, you can hear evil laughing echoing through the night air* I SHALL STRIKE AGAIN! :P

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"You wanna mess with me?"

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Jin stared at the figure in the window, the rain pouring down around him. Jin knew his chances were slim, but if he could talk to the figure in the window, he might be able to explain everything...

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At the same time...

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Hwoarang sat in the taxi, watching the city sights go by without really seeing them. In a few minutes he'd be able to see the university, and find out why she had deserted him, leaving his heart torn in two...

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One month earlier...

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Ling Xiaoyu was really upset. Jin wouldn't give her homework back. He just kept waving it around her head, and if she got into more trouble with her teacher, boy, would she really have hell to pay!

"Come on Lingy Ling, or the teacher won't be very happy with you!" he teased. Ling once again tried to grab her homework, but Jin just jumped onto the nearby park bench, neatly foiling her efforts.

"Jin, come on! GIVE ME BACK MY HOMEWORK!" she screamed, so fustrated that she almost performed a roundhouse kick on him. Ling had originally started to take this as a joke, certain that Jin would give in sometime soon, but he had not. She looked at her watch. Her eyes widened. Ling had spent one hour chasing her homework round the park!

"That's it!" she screamed. "You give me back my homework or I'll have to fight you!"

"Fight me? I don't think you'll be a match for me!"

"Alright! That does it!" Xiaoyu screamed, her face flushed with embarrassment. "A battle, right here, right now!"

"Fine, suits me." Jin shrugged his shoulders, hiding the fact he was shocked Ling would actually fight him for her homework! "Your move," Jin said. Ling settled herself into a fighting stance.

Ling started off with her Mistrust move (Back+O). Jin gasped as her foot connected with his stomach. Jin quickly fought back with a Double Chamber Punch (Square+Triangle). Ling fell back, her shoulder aching with pain. Jin looked at his own hands in surprise. He didn't hit her that hard. Ling counterattacked with her Dil Dil move (Square+X), but Jin dodged it with surprising agility. Ling did manage to slap him on the face however, hard enough to make him see stars.

Jin slammed onto the ground, winded. Ling crouched on the ground too, most of her energy gone, but she could still fight if she had to. She got up slowly and tottered towards Jin. Jin looked up, still dazed, as Ling leant against a tree, breathing heavily. Jin slowly got up.

"Well? Are you going to give me my homework?" Ling queried.

"Hey, can't you take a joke?" Jin answered.

"Very funny joke. If I don't finish this I'll get expelled!"

"And who would I annoy?"

Ling's cheeks flushed red, then she flounced off towards the Mishima mansion, leaving Jin to get up on his own.

Jin was really amazed at all this. How could Ling possibly be this serious about homework? And she wouldn't be able to get expelled, not that she had connections with Heihachi Mishima, practically the owner of the school! If only she wasn't so pretty....

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Xiaoyu ran straight into her room and closed the door. She leant against the door, panting heavily, then flung herself into bed. 'Why is Jin so annoying? Does he like me?' Ling thought. 'More importantly, do I like him? I thought that that was only just a silly crush, but now... Now I'm not so sure.'

Ling laid on the bed, totally exhausted, and casually glanced around the room. Her eyes came to rest on the clock above her desk. "Oh my god! It's that late! I'm gonna be killed when I hand in my homework... If I ever get it done on time!" Ling groaned.

She got her crumpled homework out of her school bag and placed it on the desk, trying to remember if Mt Everest was in the Himalayas or in the Rocky Mountains.

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Sometime later, Jin entered Ling room very quietly, to find her dozing, lying on her half completed homework. Jin very slowly slipped her homework out from under her arms, and crept out of the room.

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Ling woke up in a very relaxed mood, only to start panicking when she found her homework missing. She scrambled out of her chair, to find her homework completed, lying on her bed. She looked at the handwriting and recognised it was Jin's.

"Oh no!" she exclaimed. "If the teacher recognises Jin's handwriting, I'm in even deeper shit then I usually am! I have to rewrite it all now, unless...." Ling smiled evilly.

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Jin was eating breakfast when Ling came down the stairs, or rather, whizzed down the banister. Jin looked in amazement as Ling came to the end of her ride, neatly backflipped (O+X) and landed, to the applause of Jin and Heihachi, who had just entered from the toilet.

Heihachi immediately looked down at his thong, and ran back into the toilet.

Ling took out her homework and placed it on Jin's side of the table. "What's this about?" he asked.

"The teacher won't accept two different handwriting styles on the same piece of homework, so I thought, instead of me writing it out, you can do the whole thing for me!"

"And what makes you think I will write this out for you?"

"This!"

Ling beckoned Jin to follow her, and they ran up the stairs to Heihachi's computer, where a baby photo of Jin was on the screen, and a message, saying, "Are you sure you wish to post this?"

Jin immediately started to sprint towards the computer, doing those slow motion "NNNNNOOOO!!!"s. Ling tripped Jin, and Jin landed face first on the carpet.

"Now do you surrender?" Ling asked.

"Ok, ok!" Jin screamed, muffled because of the carpet.

"Yes!" Ling started doing backflips, until she hit the desk and fell over backwards. "Damn!... I mean...er... get to work Jin!" she said, hoping to put on a haughty air, but it didn't work because Jin kicked her ankle before running down the stairs, leaving her to pick herself up.

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The next day at school, Ling got up to hand in her homework, and couldn't help but notice that Jin was laughing at her from behind his hand. Ling strode away from the teacher's desk, giving him an icy glare.

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A/N: How was that? Huh, HUH?! TELL ME! By the way, I have a new rule. If you want to see the next chapter, I must have at least 5 reviews for each chapter! So write and scribble down a review, or you'll have to wonder for the rest of your life! MWA HA HA HA HA!