A/N: Some of you may have noticed… lol that the city Jin and Julia go to was named Okinawa, and then changed to Kamakura, well that's because I noticed Okinawa is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean an Island way off the mainland. So yeah they couldn't have driven there, so I changed it to a seaside city on the mainland. So in answer to some questions… no your mind is not playing tricks on you… this time ;)… This chapter is kinda long; I kinda got carried away with it.

Chapter Four: The Hots For Burnt Bacon

Julia woke up when she felt something warm next to her. Her eyes fluttered open as she looked beside her to see that Jin was still asleep. She smiled to herself propping herself up on her elbow. She laid there for a couple moments watching him sleep. He looked so peaceful, but she knew what thoughts and memories haunted his dreams. At times his facial muscles would tighten and the emotions he was going through could be seen, but just as soon as they came they were gone, leaving his face flawless. Never in a million years did she think she wake up to such an incredible man. Julia ran her finger over his cheek and then she brushed back his bangs away from his eyes. She was just about to place a kiss on his forehead, when Jin's eyes popped open. Causing Julia to jump back.

"Good morning" Jin said groggily

Julia sat back and looked at him. "How long have you been awake?"

"Not long… you kinda tickled me when you moved my hair." Jin leaned forward and grabbed Julia pulling her closer to him. She rested her head on his chest and wrapped her arms around his waist.

"Did you sleep alright?"

"Yeah, how about you?"

"To be honest with you, better then I have in a long time." Jin hugged Julia tighter to him but sighed when the phone rang. "Wonder who that can be." Jin said as he reached over Julia grabbing the cordless phone on the night stand. "Hello…"

"Jin"

"Hey Ling, what's going on?" Jin asked looking over at Julia who was laughing.

"I was about to ask you that same question..."

"Well everything here is alright… can you hold on a moment." Jin said covering the mouth piece with his hand. He looked at Julia as she got up from the bed and whispered. "Where you going?"

Julia looked at him and smile. "First off I have to pee and second brush my teeth… now if you'll excuse me… I'll be right back."

Jin laughed and went back to talking with Xiayou. "So how's your family?"

"What?"

"Your family, you know the people in China you went to go see?"

"Oh yeah… their good."

"Oh and by the way Ling… Thanks for calling Julia and telling her I was gonna pick her up and all." Jin said laughing

"Well what can I say; it would have lost that whole surprise aspect I was working."

"Yeah whatever…" Jin looked up to see Julia crawling on the bed towards him.

"Either way, where's Julia, I tried calling her cell phone all day yesterday but it was off?"

"Oh she right here." Jin said smiling towards Julia.

"She is?" Jin could hear the confusion in her voice.

"Well Ling it was nice talking to you can all but I have to go, so I'll see you when you get home. Here's Julia bye." Jin handed Julia the phone and headed out the room towards his.

"Hey Ling"

"Duckie, so tell me what happened between you and Jin? Anything good? And why are you guys together so early in the morning?" Julia laughed at her friends' enthusiasm and told her about what had happen.

When Julia hung up with Xiayou she walked down stairs to see Jin in front of the stove cooking. She leaned up against the door frame and watch as he worked. He had on an apron to protect his bare chest from the sizzling bacon.

"The breakfast of champions huh?" Julia said causing Jin to turn towards her.

"Well if that's what you wanna call it, but yeah, thought I'd take a bite out of the wild side this morning."

Julia laughed and walked up to him wrapping her arms around his waist from behind. Jin smiled and held on to her hands. "You wanna know what I noticed about us?"

"What?"

"Most people in our position would be acting all nervous and tense around each other. Yet here we are like we've been together for a while." Jin smiled and turned around to look at her.

"I think it's because, we are so comfortable with each other, and maybe we've both been wanting this for so long that it just seems right, seems natural… almost like we were meant to be, like god sent you to me to help me through my tough times and help me realize that there can be greater things out there, things to look forward to in life after all the bad things that I have been through."

Julia looked up at Jin speechless; she couldn't explain all the emotions he'd caused to run through her. All she could do was stand on her tiptoes and kiss him with all the passion and emotion he'd just shown her. Deepening the kiss Jin held Julia closer to him, losing himself in her taste. She pulled away kissing him once more softly before suddenly pushing him away.

"Jin the bacon, it's on fire!"

Jin turned around quickly grabbing a rag trying to put out the fire. "There's a fire extinguisher in that closet." He called out to Julia. She ran to the closet that was on the other side of the kitchen and pulled out the fire extinguisher. Julia handed it Jin, and stood back as he put out the fire. When it was finally out he looked over at Julia and laughed. "Well I say we heated things up a bit."

Julia laughed and hugged Jin. "Yeah well what can I say; you just bring out the hot in me."

Jin raised an eyebrow at Julia, "Do I now?"

Julia smacked his arm and began to blush. "You know what I meant, I was talking…about… about the kitchen thing with… the bacon… and stuff… oh shut up."

Jin laughed and pulled her closer to him "I've never seen you blush so much before." Jin said laughing at her. Julia hid her face in his chest. "Don't worry I know what you meant duckie."

"Still didn't stop you from trying to be funny about it." Jin leaned down and kissed her quickly.

"Yeah well... what fun would it have been if I would have let it slide?"

Julia rolled her eyes and looked behind Jin to see the burnt bacon. "Well what do we do now?" Julia asked pointing towards the stove.

Jin looked back and pulled away from her, he opened one of the cabinets and pulled out a box of cereal. "Full proof and burnt free." Jin said shaking the box a little. Julia laughed and grabbed the box from him.

Julia walked out on to the balcony and saw Jin relaxing on one of the lawn chairs. He looked up at her and smiled.

"Com here." Jin said grabbing Julia's hand and pulling her onto his lap. He leaned back pulling her along with him. He wrapped his arms around her waist as they just laid there. "So what did Xiayou say?"

"Well other than the normal chat, she's not really in China, she staying at Sachi's house." Julia said playing with Jin's fingers.

"Really?"

"Yep, it was all apart of her plan. Apparently she got tired of us tell her how much we liked each other and decided to do something to give us a little push as she described it to me." She jumped slightly when she felt Jin's chest move as he laughed.

"Is that right?" Julia nodded and gave a small laugh. "Yeah well, we'll have to take her out to dinner, or buy her something as a thank you."

"So honestly, what were you thinking when I walked into you that first day?" Julia asked out of the blue as she tilting her head so her forehead rested against his cheek.

"Honestly, I thought you were just some clumsy girl. But then when Xiayou introduced us at lunch and you apologized, I don't know you didn't look at me like most of the girls in that school do. There was something different about it… I don't know how to explain it."

"Really?" Julia asked laughing.

"Yeah"

"Well that day I saw you walking towards our table and all the girls giggling and pointing at you… my first thought was that Mishima High had its very own playboy." Jin looked at her and cringed.

"Playboy?!" Julia laughed and looked at him.

"What? You should have saw it… it was classic. Something out of a James Dean movie."

"Who's James Dean?"

Julia gave a small laughed and shook her head. "A legend back in the states, he was an actor from old movies that died, he was the rebel boy that all the girls giggled and pointed at."

Jin rolled his eyes and pulled her closer. "Either way I'm not a playboy…"

"What do you think is gonna happen when we get back to school?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean are we gonna be open about it, or not tell anyone but Xiayou? Are you gonna tell your grandfather? Should I tell my dad?" Jin bit his lip and looked at Julia.

"Depends on what you'd like to do? I'm not going to tell my grandfather because he's just gonna say I'm wasting my time and all this other crap. Let him find out on his own. Xiayou knows, I don't really mind about people in school knowing… I really don't give a damn what they think. Your dad on the other hand… well I don't know about him. May not be the best thing to tell him once we get back… I think we should wait a couple weeks before telling your dad. It wouldn't look right telling him we're together right after we get back form an unsupervised vacation together."

Julia nodded and put her head back. "Yeah that sounds good to me."

Julia pulled the towel closer to her as she walked out of the bathroom in to her room. She looked through one of the draws searching for some underwear.

"Hey duckie…" Jin stopped and quickly turned around when he saw Julia. She stood stunned and tightened the towel around herself. "Sorry I just… I never meant to… I just wanted to tell you that… um to wear something dressy for dinner."

Julia laughed. "Jin its fine… you saw me in a bikini, believe me I'm wearing more now then I was then."

"I know…" Jin turned to see Julia smiling at her. She saw that he was red and chuckled.

"Thanks for telling me."

"Yeah I'll see you later." Jin turned around and walked out of the room closing the door behind him. He leaned against the door and closed his eyes. He hadn't meant to walk in on her. "But I did get a nice view…"

Julia laughed and walked towards the closet, she pulled out a simple tan dress Xiayou had picked out. Julia walked over towards the bathroom and put on her undergarments. She looked at the dress and smiled, she remembered seeing it hung, and Xiayou was so excited she ran in and brought the dress without Julia even trying it on. Xiayou assured her that it would fit her perfectly.

Sighing she put on the dress and looked at her refection, she looked down and noticed that the dress showed off a little more cleavage then what she was used to. With a hand on her abdomen she turned looking at her reflection from different angles. She combed her hair, letting it hang loose with semi curls at the end from her braids. Happy with her appearance she walked out of the bathroom and put on her shoes.


Jin looked at his reflection fixing the collar of his shirt. He smiled and began walking downstairs. He had it all set up, he was gonna take Julia to a nice restaurant in town and then maybe take a walk in the beach, look at the starts. Jin laughed to himself as he thought about it. He looked at his watch and was about to walk into the kitchen, when he saw… her. Standing at the end of the stairs. Suddenly he couldn't remember his name, who he was, or even how to breathe. All he knew is that she was there and she was beautiful.

She smiled and walked up to him kissing quickly. "Are you okay Jin?"

Jin blinked and looked down at her. The same stunned and serious look on his face. "Yeah, you just look… you're beautiful. Simply stunning." Julia blushed and looked him up and down.

"You look wonderful as well."

Jin smiled and offered her his arm. "Ready for a night out on the town?"

"Very much so"

Julia looked around and noticed all the couples around them. Jin had brought her to a small restaurant right beside the beach. She smiled before looking back at him. "What are you having?"

"I don't know… what about you?"

Julia looked at the menu and sighed. "I was thinking, maybe soup and salad."

Jin looked at his menu "Where do you see that?"

Julia reached over the table and point to it on his menu. "There"

"Oh… hey that sounds good."

"Yeah it does… well my minds made up."

"Good" Jin said as he signaled the waiter.

The waiter nodded and quickly walked over to their table. "Ready to order sir, ma'am?"

"Yes, two soups and salads." Jin said closing his menu and taking Julia's.

"Dressing?" Jin looked at Julia.

"Italian"

"And for you sir?"

"Uh…roasted garlic vinaigrette"

Julia stiffed a laughed and looked up at the waiter. "Thank you."

The waiter nodded and walked away. Jin looked at Julia and smiled. "What so funny?"

Julia coughed and shook her head. "Nothing… roasted garlic vinaigrette." Julia said mimicking Jin.

He laughed and took a sip of his drink. "Shut up… its good okay."

"I bet it is… I never said it wasn't… I was making fun of the way you said it. All sophisticated like. It was cute."

Jin looked down and blushed. "Cute huh? That's why you're laughing?"

"Yeah…" Julia laughed a little as she grabbed Jin hand and laced her fingers with his. "This is really nice… Thank you."

Jin looked at her "You don't have to thank me Duckie… but your welcome."

They sat talking quietly until their food came. Making quiet conversation here and there as they ate. Once they were done and Jin paid they left. They were walking hand in hand towards the beach in silence. Julia looked up at the stars as they reached the beach. Jin let go of her hand and began taking off his shoes. Julia smiled and did the same. She watched as Jin took off his socks and balled them up putting them in his shoes. He looked at her and grabbed her hand once again before pulling her onto the sand. She smiled as she squished the sand between her toes. Jin let go of Julia's hand and put his arm around her pulling her closer to him. Julia sighed happily and rested her head against him as they continued walking.

"You know this feels nice" Jin said referring to the sand.

"Yeah it does…my very own free pedicure." Jin laughed and stopped, he pulled Julia in front of him

wrapping his arms around her waist as she rested against him. They watched the small waves come up onto the shore and the lights of the city behind them glitter against the water.

Pulling away from Jin, Julia walked down to the water and started moving her foot around. Jin just put his hands in his pockets as he watched her with a smile on his face. Her hair was wiping around her in the breeze, making her look more beautiful then ever. She'd turn and smile at him then turn back towards the ocean, running her foot across the surface of the water creating little ripples.

Jin tiled his head and smiled, taking off his coat he folded it as neatly and as small as he could. He placed it on his shoes and ran up to Julia splashing her with water. She screamed and tried cover herself from the water. He stopped and she looked at him through her wet hair.

"It is so on Kazama." Julia threw her shoes beside Jin's and walked closer towards Jin. She smiled at him and then kicked her leg causing a small wave of water to hit him. She could hear Jin gasp and began laughing, she splashed him again and ran when he lunged for her. He chased her as she laughed, water splashing with every step they took.

"Don't keep running Julia, it's only going to make it worse when I do catch you… and I will catch you." Jin said stopping.

Julia stopped and looked back at him. "Oooo I'm shaking now."

"Oh that's it" Jin said as he ran after her again.

Julia was laughing so hard that it was getting harder for her to run any faster. Jin caught up with her and pulled her to the water. He held her with one arm while the other splashed her. She was soaked but then again so was he. She got loose and then began slashing him back. There they were in the middle of a full blown water war. There was an elderly couple sitting on bench watching them. It must have been a sight, two young kids in formal clothes playing around in the ocean.

Julia stopped splashing Jin and put her hand on her stomach as she tried to catch her breath. Jin had stopped as well and walked closer to her. He grabbed her and pulled her against him. Julia smiled up at him and sighed.

Jin pushed the wet hair out of her face and kissed her forehead. "As soaked as you are, you still look beautiful."

"Yeah I always have preferred the wet look." Jin laughed as he pulled away, he grabbed her hand and they began walking towards the beach.

Julia looked up and saw the elderly couple watching them; she noticed that as they sat there they were holding hands. She smiled at them and snuggled closer to Jin.

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