Chapter 24:

Charades

The rain poured harder than ever before upon the windows. Jin sat silently in his bedroom chair, squirming and looking out of the window. 'You don't even know what you're looking for Jin, cut it out.' He thought to himself. Jin rubbed his arms through the black turtleneck and stared at his dark blue jeans. He sighed and watched the lightning crash and blot through the deep gray-blue sky. Unable to suppress his longing, Jin stood up and flicked the light off before leading out of his room.

Jun looked up at the ceiling for a moment.

"Kazuya," He looked up from his seat in a chair.

"Yes?" Jun paused before continuing.

"Did you hear that?"

"Hear what?"

"Surely you would have heard-" there were a sudden burst of running steps, coming from the stairs. Jun glanced at Kazuya and he returned the same look. They sprinted up, Kazuya leaving his book to fly behind the chair and land on the floor. Jin jumped the last few steps and slid a little before stopping in front of Kazuya and Jun, his heart pounding in his ears.

"JIN! What's wrong?!" Jun looked concerned and Kazuya looked confused.

"Kaziya's missing!" He breathed. Jun looked at Kazuya, who nodded and ran upstairs to search the bathrooms or the other bedrooms.

"Jin, honey, are you sure she's missing, I mean she could be-"

"Yes. Yes Mother. She's missing! I checked all of the rooms." Kazuya came back down seemingly shocked. Jun gave him a questioning look.

"In her condition, she couldn't have made it very far into the house. I'm having the workers check the other floors. She's not down here or on the second floor, either." Denise emerged from the staircase, Hwoarang close behind, staggering.

"Hwoarang! You poor thing! What are you doing out of bed?!" Jun said bringing him to sit on the couch.

"He's awake and he can move, but I don't think he got his voice back yet." Denise said. Hwoarang smiled a weak smile at her. "He refused to stay put. He can't stay in one place for long." Hwoarang tried a grin but his throat hurt. Denise sat down beside him. A frail young boy ran into the living room and stood at attention in front of Kazuya.

"Enough of that nonsense, boy. Is she here?"

"No sir. We've checked the whole house. She not here, Mishima-sama." Kazuya gave a deep breath.

"Thank you for trying." Jun commented. The boy smiled and bowed respectfully before leaving the room.

"I hope Kazi's alright...." Jin said almost to himself. Hwoarang grinned. They all looked at him curiously. Hwoarang's grin turned into a smile of happiness. Jin raised an eyebrow. "Do I really have to ask......" he sighed, "Do you know where Kazi is?" Hwoarang nodded fast like a child, smiling gleefully. Jin watched as Hwoarang mouthed some words. "Some where in Tuson, Tokyo?" Hwoarang gave him a 'stupid' look and mouthed it again.

"Compare Puson to Tokyo." Kazuya said for Hwoarang, who gave Jin another sarcastic 'you're-so-smart' look.

"Hm..." Jin ignored it. Jun looked at Jin.

"Jin, what type of city is Puson?" She asked him.

"Uh... A harbor city."

"Ok, what does a harbor city ALWAYS have?"

"Boats."

"Not quite..."

"The sea."

"Closer."

"Water."

"Good. Now compare that to right now, in Tokyo." Jin thought for a moment.

"It's raining. Wait. She's outside?!" Hwoarang gave him a 'duh' look. "Why couldn't you say that in the first place?!" Hwoarang mouthed something close to ' 'cause I CAN'T talk'. Jin sneered. Hwoarang stuck his tongue out at him like a child. "Childish." Jin muttered. Hwoarang shrugged his shoulders; he pulled the skin under his right eye down and stuck his tongue out at Jin. "Grr...." Denise laughed as Jun giggled and shook her head. Kazuya went and picked up his book from behind the chair. Hwoarang gave him another 'you're-so-stupid' look and tried to laugh but nothing came out. Jin snickered at Hwoarang, who stuck his tongue out again. Hwoarang pulled out his writing pad and sketched a weird and goofy looking Jin and wrote, 'My name is Jin Kazama', 'I'm a dork', and 'I'm so stupid' on it. Jin growled as Hwoarang leapt from the seat, silently laughing as Jin chased him. Jun shook her head,

"Boys." Denise nodded. Kazuya looked up and Jun laughed nervously. Kazuya rolled his eyes and went back to reading his book.