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Chapter11: Cruelty
Xiaoyu walked around the mansion, looking at some paintings, arts, and medallions that are scattered through hallways. She was thinking over what happened today this morning and she feels so much better. Sure it didn't start out as the best morning but it ended wonderfully. Too bad Jin had to leave so soon when he apologized. Heihachi's men called him up and Jin left immediately.
Xiaoyu always did wonder what was going on between the both of them. She didn't think they had the perfect grandson and grandfather relationship but she doesn't blame him. Xiao didn't have the best daughter and parents relationship as well. That's why she left because she wanted an adventure, something to love. She wanted to be strong and happy.
The halls were quiet as usual. It grew on her how everything is quiet here and no one raises any voices. Maybe that's why Jin is quiet, maybe not. She wants to get to know him so badly because she feels something towards him. She can't quite explain it but she feels something comforting when she's near him. Maybe she feels safe or she has a crush on him.
To anyone it might sound silly because she just met him a few days ago but she never met a person like him before. She met so many people in her life and not one can be compared to him. His a smart, strong, sensitive, good-tempered person and she would want to get to know him better as a friend at least. She just hope Jin won't starting pushing her away again. Because one day he is a really nice guy and then the next, he's a total stranger. She doesn't know how to put it into words. Stranger would be the best. And yet a stranger who knows a lot about something a normal stranger shouldn't know. She does feel awkward, but she hopes it will turn out for the better.
Usually Jin is very down after he talks to his grandfather because probably he always has bad news to say. She doesn't know and she doesn't think she will know. As Jin would say in a perfect well mannered sentence like "it is none of anyone's business to go in barging into other one's problem".
Maybe that's what made her crazy about him. The way he talks, his choice of words and his serious face—maybe not. She doesn't know but all she knows is that things are finally turning around.
Xiaoyu started to round the corner and went past an indoor dojo when she heard the old man speak in his calm, cruel voice. "Look at you. You are nothing but a doormat. How could you let this happen to you!?" Xiaoyu came closer and slightly opened the door to see.
Jin looked at his grandfather in shame as he stood before him, in his shirtless Gi, bandages showing on his torso, arms, and shoulder. "Is he stronger than you, Jin? What if he joins the tournament? He would win, not you and you will never defeat Ogre because you won't even get that high up the tournament. Why have you not started to practice with Ms. Ling? Why can't you defeat me yet?"
Jin had no answer as he just listened to his grandfather lecture him. "You will never see light, Jin, until you show me you will beat me! You will not leave this dojo, until you defeat me. And if you will not defeat me, than you will be living here, not meeting or talking to anyone because you will practice the whole day! I will come everyday to train with you and until you will defeat me, you will be kissing my feet for still letting you live!" Heihachi nearly spat at him.
Jin had nothing to say. He never did. He never did have anything to say to this monster. The monster he fears, the monster he has to love. "Now look at me, boy!" Heihachi grabbed Jin's hair and raised his head up so he looked at him. "You are not a little kid anymore!" He let go of him and turned around. "Now fight me, Jin."
But could he fight him? Did Jin have anything left within him to fight this man, to fight this monster? Jin still felt bruises from Hwoarang and now he expects him to fight him?
"What's the matter, boy!?" Heihachi looked dead into Jin's eyes. Jin looked away, avoiding eye contact and Heihachi smiled. "Alright, then." He said it in a very calm way that made Jin shiver when Heihachi came up to him. "If you refuse to fight me, then taste your defeat." Heihachi hit Jin with both of his hands that connected to Jin's broken ribs making Jin fall to the floor.
"You weren't even expecting that, did you? I didn't train you good enough, huh? Or maybe I had a bad student. You disappoint me, Jin." Jin started to get up but Heihachi stepped on his throat lightly. "I am warning you, Jin. Don't fail me, again." Even though he sounded very calm, Heihachi stepped harder on Jin's throat. "I don't need you, Jin. Remember, I don't need you. You either defeat me before the tournament comes, or you will never live to experience your 19th birthday." He brought his foot up and Jin started to cough as air filled his lungs.
"Get busy training." Heihachi said and hit him in the ribs which made Jin arc over and grab his torso. Jin watched Heihachi walk away. When the door of the dojo was closed, Jin spit out the blood he was holding in his mouth and wailed from pain.
Xiaoyu looked away when Heihachi hit Jin and quickly ran away from the exit. Heihachi exited and turned to walk off into one of the hallways that made up the maze of this house. Xiaoyu slowly came up to the door and slowly opened it as she saw Jin getting up.
"You heard everything, didn't you?" Jin asked her without even looking at her. "How did you know?" She asked him as she came up to him but he only walked away from her. "I am highly physic, I have been practicing this ability for quite sometime." Jin grabbed his side with his right hand and limped towards a mirror. "Jin." Xiaoyu slowly whispered as she came up to him.
"Let me look." She said but Jin grunted and refused. "You know, sometimes you just have to let people help you. You can't survive by being alone." "It's better to be alone." Jin said as he looked away and sounded hurt. "Jin. Have you tried again? I mean, have you given up that fast?" Xiaoyu watched Jin look at his feet so she pressed on.
"Where did the almighty Jin go, who doesn't give up and who is so strong that he could take on the world and not one person will stop him? Not one person would dare to stand in his way. Where did that Jin go? Where did he leave to?" Xiaoyu stood beside him and looked at him in the mirror.
She knew he doubted himself and she had to be there for him. "Look at you." She whispered into his reflection. "You are a soul with a fire dieing out while a few minutes ago that fire was so strong that not the fiercest wind will blow it out. Was I wrong Jin?" She turned him towards her and this time he didn't refuse. "Was I wrong about you? Are you not THE Jin Kazama that everybody fears? Are you not that person who is not afraid to face the truth?" Xiaoyu ripped a cloth off from her sleeve and wiped Jin's mouth from the blood that was still there.
"What truth?" Jin asked, sounding disgust. Xiaoyu simply smiled as she pulled away. "That you have everything in you, everything to get what you want." Jin looked at her with a questioning look. "Anything I want?" He asked. She only nodded. "Anything, Jin. You are a person who is stronger than steel. You have to stop doubting yourself."
"But I don't doubt myself." Jin tried to protest but she put a finger to his lips like he used to do. "Yes, you do. When you are with Heihachi, you think he is stronger than you. Therefore you doubt yourself. Look." She pointed towards the mirror. "What do you see?" Jin turned to look and stared for a couple of minutes. "I see me." He stated. "What do you see beyond that? What do you see? What do you see that stands out the most?"
Jin looked back to look at the mirror and stood their quietly. He didn't say anything to her. He just stared back. She knew he didn't want to say what he sees. It's something horrible, Xiaoyu can feel it, he is seeing something horrible that he is afraid to say.
Something that he has mentioned this morning, he feels something inside of him, calling out to him and he still doesn't know what it is. This is what he was seeing, probably, and he refused to accept whatever he is seeing. "Jin. Look I would like to tell you something." Xiaoyu said and Jin looked back at her. She smiled playfully and put a hand on his shoulder. "Why don't we go clean up your wounds and I will let you see a friend of mine. What do you say, tough guy!?" She saw Jin smile and she felt a lot better.
"I cannot. I don't want my Grandfather to be further disappointed than he already is." Suddenly Xiaoyu didn't feel better at all. But not all is lost. "Okay." She said. "Let's clean your wounds, then." Xiaoyu said and Jin nodded in agreement.
When Xiaoyu left, Jin felt like he was blessed with her. She was truly a wonderful person and he feels so lucky just by meeting with her today. He asked her to leave earlier this afternoon because he didn't want Heihachi getting a grudge against her as well.
Overall, Jin trained and kept his mind focused on what Xiaoyu have told him today. Maybe he was strong enough; he just had to believe it. Jin will show Heihachi that he is stronger than him or at least good enough. But first Jin needs rest. He is tired and the clock on the back wall of this dojo has informed him that its time for the sun to set.
Leaving this place came to Jin's mind from time to time but he didn't know if he should. His Grandfather is always serious and he means everything he says and ignorance is not tolerated in this house. Jin rubbed his throat as it throbbed with pain from his Grandfather's foot. He was also thirsty and Jin is about ready to leave this place.
Finally deciding with his decision, Jin comes up to the dojo doors and opens them to find a person standing there. Jin froze in place as he watched the figure of a woman, dressed in skintight clothing and a mask over her faces only revealing her eyes. She hit him with her straight fingers in his throbbing neck and he backed away.
She ran towards him and jumped on top of him, pulling her legs up and around his waist. Jin pushed her off of him and backed off, completely taken by surprise. The female got up and started to attack him with multiples of kicks as Jin began to back away. He backed into the wall, realizing he had no place to back to. The female turned and made a spinning kick which hit Jin's hands that he put up.
The woman lunged at his shoulders, quickly turning him, and launched an elbow into his broken ribs. "Ah." Jin screamed in pain from the blow and rolled away. The female ran at him, grabbing his shoulders again but this time flipped over him and launched him into the air. Jin hit the back wall and fell. He heard the woman chuckle as she bowed.
Anger started to take over Jin and this time, he welcomed it. Letting himself be taken over by evil that tried to get out for years now. Jin got up and walked to her fast which got him into a run. He tackled her and she pushed away, turning him with her. Jin didn't stop as he punched her twice and wounded a knee into her stomach. She arced over, clutching her abdomen and Jin made a Rising Uppercut from a dash and launched her into the air.
As he surrendered completely to evil, Jin made a backspin kick which made her fly into the mirror. The mirror shattered as the woman collapsed to the floor. "Ugh." She grunted when she stood up and took out two daggers from her boots and curled her fingers on the handles. "Die!" She screamed, running straight at him raising the daggers' point at his heart. Jin's eyes widened as she jumped on top of him, making them both fall to the floor.
Jin got a hold of her wrists as she tried to ram the blade into his chest. Jin protested and hit her head to head. She screamed and rolled over as Jin got up. He backed away giving himself space. Jin didn't know what to think but there was no time to think.
The woman got up with a quick flip and was on her feet with daggers in place. She turned her left knife and took it by the blade and threw it straight at him. It swiveled in the air and missed Jin by a centimeter when he rolled away and it rammed into the wall.
The stranger ran at him again and jumped onto him once more. This time she brought him down to the floor with her and she pulled at his left leg. He clutched his teeth from pain when the woman turned him onto his stomach and started to take his right leg. Jin kicked back and she backed off as he rolled away and got onto his feet painfully.
Anger swallowed Jin up completely as Jin started to feel so much energy surrounding him. He crouched as lightning shot off from him and he felt energy gathering up. He spun on his feet, still crouched and jumped into the air with his fist connecting to the woman's jaw.
Blood splattered on Jin's face and the woman flew into the back wall. Jin started at her. He ran and pumped up speed, ramming into her as the wall cracked behind her and she fell to her knees.
Just when Jin was about to wind up a knee in her face she took out the dagger from the wall, she through at him previously, and slashed his face with it, just missing his eye. Jin hurled away, grabbing his face from pain.
The woman took this to her advantage and grabbed his hand, hit him in the back of his shoulder and arced him down. Jin cried out when she pulled back, taking his shoulder out of its socket. She grabbed his neck and fell onto the floor with him. She didn't break his neck, but she could do far more worse. She took him by his hair and kicked him in the face.
Jin hit the wall in back of him and spit out the blood. The woman once again ran at him, this time she fell to the floor and tripped him. Jin fell hard, he tried to jump back up but he screamed in agony as the woman buried the two knifes into him. "Ahh." He gasped for air, realizing what just happened and sagged back onto the floor.
The woman got up and wiped her hands onto her suit as she watched him die. But Jin didn't die. He couldn't die. All of the talking of being able of doing things he wanted gave him pride, or more important, energy. Jin slowly got up and took the two daggers out of his chest.
He noticed how the eyes of the woman widened at that he is still alive. Jin wondered too, but there was no time to hypothesis. He ran at her and tackled her down to the floor. He punched her in the face without mercy, grabbed her right hand and pulled it out of the socket. She screamed in pain and Jin ignored it. He took her by her throat and through her against a wall.
"Who sent you!?" He screamed in her face. She struggled to get free as no answer escaped her mouth. Jin was enraged as he threw her down to the floor and kicked her in the stomach. She screamed again, completely falling to the floor with no energy.
Jin reached down to take off her mask but she stroke back like a snake with the same dagger he threw onto the floor. Jin fell onto his knee, grabbing his wound from pain.
"Jin? What's going on, Jin?" Jin heard his grandfather before he came into the dojo and the female escaped through the opposite exit. "Jin, what happened?" His grandfather ran to him with eyes widened. "Oh my lord." He whispered and helped Jin to get to the floor. "Hold on, everything will be fine." He said as he slowly took out the dagger from Jin's stomach.
Pain took over Jin as he strived to keep conscious. "She—she tried to kill me." Jin said as he looked at the bloody dagger next to him. Heihachi carefully pushed back Jin's bangs as he struggled. "It's getting worse." He nearly whispered. He watched Heihachi look at his wounds as Heihachi's eyes widened.
"Oh, no." He heard Heihachi whisper. "What?" Jin let out a breath. Heihachi looked at him with no expression. "Nothing. Nothing, you will be alright, kid. Wait here, I'll call the ambulance." Heihachi ran out of the dojo.
Jin sat up with pain and looked at his wounds, this time Jin's eyes widened. Jin watched his wounds slowly knit back together. "Oh my god."
(a/n): So how was this chapter? I hope you all like it. I worked my best on it. It took quite sometime to write it and I hope you all enjoyed it. Thanks for reading.
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