Life So Complicated
By Indigo Siren
Disclaimer: Tekken is © to Namco. I do not own any of the characters involved, besides the ones of my own creation. I am not making any money from this fan fiction; it is just for fun. All rights reserved.
Chapter 5
"I don't believe you. I'd never trust you, after everything that has happened!"
Miharu began to regain consciousness as these words snapped from Jin's mouth, directed towards his tired father. She lay there, feeling the comfortable bed beneath her, and wondering if she should even open her eyes and embrace whatever was going on. Well, she couldn't just ignore it.
As she began to open her eyes, she realised she had the biggest headache on the planet. The last thing she remembered was stepping in front of Kazuya when Jin turned Devil. She wanted to stop the argument, but received a blow to the head for her troubles. She groaned, a part of her wondering why she was still alive.
"Miharu?"
Jin's attention was away from his father and back to his lover, her was now awake. His hand caressed her cheek softly, giving her a soothing gesture.
"What'd I miss?" She asked softly.
"I managed to calm to the situation," Kazuya's voice travelled from the other side of the room. He'd made himself comfortable in a chair, watching the pair intently. Miharu could see as she sat up, that he wasn't too badly roughed up, and also, Jin was normal again. No markings or anything to say he'd ever changed. Minus his clothes though, they'd changed due to him ripping up his others.
"You caused the situation by turning up here," Jin said lowly to Kazuya.
"And you're saying that completely stressing out and attacking everything that moves doesn't count?"
"He's right you know," Miharu hated to agree and could see the disappointment in her lover's eyes. She held onto him though, head placed against his shoulder as she finally had gathered her wits enough now. Her stomach had finally settled after fighting the nausea that had threatened to topple her over. This sudden grip on him had been enough to keep him close to her, his arms enclosing around her carefully.
Kazuya spoke to Miharu. "If you want to know what happened after you passed out, simply, Jin gained some sense while I brought you in here. You haven't been out long, but I'm surprised you didn't wake up with how much my son was shouting."
Jin scowled at his father, hateful of the man's existence.
"Thank you," Miharu said, not able to think of anything to say to Kazuya.
Kazuya nodded in acknowledgement. "I'm sorry I had to come and burst your happy little bubble, but the situation is important."
"I don't care what is happening with you or grandfather. We just want to be left alone!" Jin told him angrily.
"What situation? Can someone tell me what's going on?" Miharu asked.
"It doesn't matter, Miharu. Once he goes, everything will be okay," Jin assured her.
"No, it won't. I want to know what's going on," she said, not in the least pleased that he was wanting her to be oblivious to all that had gone on and to anything said while she'd been out because of the blunt force of an attack. She wasn't going to have taken a hit over nothing.
"And I came here to talk… to both of you," Kazuya said as he rose up from his seat, giving Jin a sharp look. "I've tried to talk to my son, but we aren't on the best of terms. Miharu, I know you'd be more willing to listen."
"Just say what you have to say," Miharu said. "I will listen if this is important."
"Believe me, this is important," he said with a tone that nearly made her skin crawl away in fear.
"We can handle ourselves," Jin hissed.
"Let him speak," Miharu said quietly to Jin and turned back to the older man. "Go on."
"Miharu, it may be hard to believe, but you're being watched by informants of Heihachi Mishima."
Miharu's eyes widened to large circles, that turned from Kazuya to Jin, who met them with an uncertainty of what his father was saying. He turned away and looked down, resting his chin on her shoulder. At the moment his emotions were mixed between anger for his father and guilt for managing to knock Miharu out for the second time ever.
"I will admit to you now, I have been keeping my own watch over the both of you for sometime, but I haven't the intentions that my father has." Kazuya slowly began to pace. "My father wants the 'Devil Gene' and he's willing to do anything to get it. And Miharu, I think you should know that he knows you're pregnant. How I know this myself is through a mole that I have planted in the Mishima Zaibatsu."
Miharu gasped. "What! How? How could he know?"
"Informants, Miharu, like I said. It could be anyone and you wouldn't know it. In this situation you are going to have to be untrusting of everyone, even your best friends." Kazuya decided he'd rather sit down then pace, to not look quite so menacing. He took a seat at the end of the bed, watching Jin give him a dark, offending look. "He will get his hired hands to get hold of you Miharu. His interests are purely after you now. He knows he'd have fewer problems with getting his hands on you then Jin or myself. He has a crazy plan, and it is certain your life is in danger. And that's why I want to help you."
"Help?" Miharu parroted.
"Yes, I will protect you and your unborn child," he said.
"Why?" Jin asked flatly, turning his father's attention to him. "You have your own intentions. What are you going to get out of helping us?"
Kazuya let out a soft sigh. "Yes, I do ask for a price, but it's not as high a price as you may think."
"Well, what do you want?" Miharu asked, feeling herself curl up into Jin more for safety.
"I will never be able to fully control Devil unless I can fully harness the 'Devil Gene'." Kazuya saw his son tense up to that but gave him the most unthreatening smile he could. "No, I'm not asking for your life, Jin. I have discovered another way of completing my power and sealing Devil's consciousness within it for my use."
"Why should we let you have that power? You'll just destroy everybody!" Jin snapped.
Shockingly enough, Kazuya actually looked offended and stood, moving to the large window. Miharu gave Jin an unsure look, which made him put himself more in front of her protectively.
"That's what I thought I wanted to do. But all I really want is to end my father's dynasty and everything he created. I used to think he and the world were against me for the abuse that was inflicted on me in my youth." He sighed, sadly in remembrance. "But in these later years, so many people have been helping me. People who I wouldn't think cared saved my life. There is no reason why I should have to use my power of them when they deserve to live. The only ones who deserve to die are my father and his followers." He looked over his shoulder at Jin. "Destroying his company will see the end of this madness with the 'Devil Gene'. Nobody else will be inflicted by it and when it is learned to have been controlled, everything will be at peace."
"How can we trust what you say?" Jin said.
"That's up to you now, isn't it?" Kazuya slowly walked back towards the bed. "What's the point in me lying to you. Where will it get any of us? And what is the point of destroying Miharu within this hate we seem to have?"
Jin looked towards the young woman nestled in his arms and he rested his head to hers. He didn't want her to suffer at all. He didn't want her wrapped up in this whole 'Devil Gene' episode. He wanted to blame everything on his family, but he couldn't. He wanted to blame himself for getting Miharu pregnant, but he knew she wouldn't let him take all the blame. It was like a never-ending circle that trapped them all within.
"Jin?" The younger man looked up to the man he wanted to call his father. "If I took your power, I realise now that eventually Devil would overcome me with my use of his powers. What I need is for you to use the powers you have to help me suppress Devil. It's own power is something it can't beat. Maybe the power can envelop and destroy the Devil consciousness altogether. It may lead way for me completely the power with my own. With these ideas, maybe there is a way that you can control your own Devil. I realise it can't be totally removed from your blood. The Kazama blood seems to have a seal of purity, strange to believe, I know, but you can't get rid of it. You can just silence the feral side of the Devil side by trying, like me, to suppress the consciousness. I hope I'm making sense here?"
"Maybe…" Jin mumbled.
"We can find a way to help each other, Jin," Kazuya offered. "And I can keep you safe, and Miharu especially. Please, for once, trust me."
Jin turned to Miharu to see what she thought. She shrugged slightly.
"What else can we do? It's a risk we have to take," she said. "And besides, he could have hurt or even killed me years ago, but he didn't. I have some faith in him."
Jin sighed and turned to Kazuya. "Fine," he reluctantly agreed. "I hope I won't regret this."
"You won't, I promise," Kazuya answered.
"I don't trust you in any way. Your promises mean nothing to me. I'm doing this for Miharu's sake," Jin told him firmly, getting things clear between them.
"Whatever you want. Everything will work out and you will benefit from being in better control of your other side."
Jin ignored Kazuya and hugged tightly to Miharu. "I'm so sorry for everything," he whispered.
"Don't be sorry. You're a good man stuck in the most twisted situations," she murmured.
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A/N: Sorry that it is so short but it was basically just to fill in a little information so I don't bore you in later chapters. Sorry if Kazuya doesn't seem in character to you but I don't think he is as bad as he is made to seem. Well, a few better chapters will be coming up soon.
By Indigo Siren
Disclaimer: Tekken is © to Namco. I do not own any of the characters involved, besides the ones of my own creation. I am not making any money from this fan fiction; it is just for fun. All rights reserved.
Chapter 5
"I don't believe you. I'd never trust you, after everything that has happened!"
Miharu began to regain consciousness as these words snapped from Jin's mouth, directed towards his tired father. She lay there, feeling the comfortable bed beneath her, and wondering if she should even open her eyes and embrace whatever was going on. Well, she couldn't just ignore it.
As she began to open her eyes, she realised she had the biggest headache on the planet. The last thing she remembered was stepping in front of Kazuya when Jin turned Devil. She wanted to stop the argument, but received a blow to the head for her troubles. She groaned, a part of her wondering why she was still alive.
"Miharu?"
Jin's attention was away from his father and back to his lover, her was now awake. His hand caressed her cheek softly, giving her a soothing gesture.
"What'd I miss?" She asked softly.
"I managed to calm to the situation," Kazuya's voice travelled from the other side of the room. He'd made himself comfortable in a chair, watching the pair intently. Miharu could see as she sat up, that he wasn't too badly roughed up, and also, Jin was normal again. No markings or anything to say he'd ever changed. Minus his clothes though, they'd changed due to him ripping up his others.
"You caused the situation by turning up here," Jin said lowly to Kazuya.
"And you're saying that completely stressing out and attacking everything that moves doesn't count?"
"He's right you know," Miharu hated to agree and could see the disappointment in her lover's eyes. She held onto him though, head placed against his shoulder as she finally had gathered her wits enough now. Her stomach had finally settled after fighting the nausea that had threatened to topple her over. This sudden grip on him had been enough to keep him close to her, his arms enclosing around her carefully.
Kazuya spoke to Miharu. "If you want to know what happened after you passed out, simply, Jin gained some sense while I brought you in here. You haven't been out long, but I'm surprised you didn't wake up with how much my son was shouting."
Jin scowled at his father, hateful of the man's existence.
"Thank you," Miharu said, not able to think of anything to say to Kazuya.
Kazuya nodded in acknowledgement. "I'm sorry I had to come and burst your happy little bubble, but the situation is important."
"I don't care what is happening with you or grandfather. We just want to be left alone!" Jin told him angrily.
"What situation? Can someone tell me what's going on?" Miharu asked.
"It doesn't matter, Miharu. Once he goes, everything will be okay," Jin assured her.
"No, it won't. I want to know what's going on," she said, not in the least pleased that he was wanting her to be oblivious to all that had gone on and to anything said while she'd been out because of the blunt force of an attack. She wasn't going to have taken a hit over nothing.
"And I came here to talk… to both of you," Kazuya said as he rose up from his seat, giving Jin a sharp look. "I've tried to talk to my son, but we aren't on the best of terms. Miharu, I know you'd be more willing to listen."
"Just say what you have to say," Miharu said. "I will listen if this is important."
"Believe me, this is important," he said with a tone that nearly made her skin crawl away in fear.
"We can handle ourselves," Jin hissed.
"Let him speak," Miharu said quietly to Jin and turned back to the older man. "Go on."
"Miharu, it may be hard to believe, but you're being watched by informants of Heihachi Mishima."
Miharu's eyes widened to large circles, that turned from Kazuya to Jin, who met them with an uncertainty of what his father was saying. He turned away and looked down, resting his chin on her shoulder. At the moment his emotions were mixed between anger for his father and guilt for managing to knock Miharu out for the second time ever.
"I will admit to you now, I have been keeping my own watch over the both of you for sometime, but I haven't the intentions that my father has." Kazuya slowly began to pace. "My father wants the 'Devil Gene' and he's willing to do anything to get it. And Miharu, I think you should know that he knows you're pregnant. How I know this myself is through a mole that I have planted in the Mishima Zaibatsu."
Miharu gasped. "What! How? How could he know?"
"Informants, Miharu, like I said. It could be anyone and you wouldn't know it. In this situation you are going to have to be untrusting of everyone, even your best friends." Kazuya decided he'd rather sit down then pace, to not look quite so menacing. He took a seat at the end of the bed, watching Jin give him a dark, offending look. "He will get his hired hands to get hold of you Miharu. His interests are purely after you now. He knows he'd have fewer problems with getting his hands on you then Jin or myself. He has a crazy plan, and it is certain your life is in danger. And that's why I want to help you."
"Help?" Miharu parroted.
"Yes, I will protect you and your unborn child," he said.
"Why?" Jin asked flatly, turning his father's attention to him. "You have your own intentions. What are you going to get out of helping us?"
Kazuya let out a soft sigh. "Yes, I do ask for a price, but it's not as high a price as you may think."
"Well, what do you want?" Miharu asked, feeling herself curl up into Jin more for safety.
"I will never be able to fully control Devil unless I can fully harness the 'Devil Gene'." Kazuya saw his son tense up to that but gave him the most unthreatening smile he could. "No, I'm not asking for your life, Jin. I have discovered another way of completing my power and sealing Devil's consciousness within it for my use."
"Why should we let you have that power? You'll just destroy everybody!" Jin snapped.
Shockingly enough, Kazuya actually looked offended and stood, moving to the large window. Miharu gave Jin an unsure look, which made him put himself more in front of her protectively.
"That's what I thought I wanted to do. But all I really want is to end my father's dynasty and everything he created. I used to think he and the world were against me for the abuse that was inflicted on me in my youth." He sighed, sadly in remembrance. "But in these later years, so many people have been helping me. People who I wouldn't think cared saved my life. There is no reason why I should have to use my power of them when they deserve to live. The only ones who deserve to die are my father and his followers." He looked over his shoulder at Jin. "Destroying his company will see the end of this madness with the 'Devil Gene'. Nobody else will be inflicted by it and when it is learned to have been controlled, everything will be at peace."
"How can we trust what you say?" Jin said.
"That's up to you now, isn't it?" Kazuya slowly walked back towards the bed. "What's the point in me lying to you. Where will it get any of us? And what is the point of destroying Miharu within this hate we seem to have?"
Jin looked towards the young woman nestled in his arms and he rested his head to hers. He didn't want her to suffer at all. He didn't want her wrapped up in this whole 'Devil Gene' episode. He wanted to blame everything on his family, but he couldn't. He wanted to blame himself for getting Miharu pregnant, but he knew she wouldn't let him take all the blame. It was like a never-ending circle that trapped them all within.
"Jin?" The younger man looked up to the man he wanted to call his father. "If I took your power, I realise now that eventually Devil would overcome me with my use of his powers. What I need is for you to use the powers you have to help me suppress Devil. It's own power is something it can't beat. Maybe the power can envelop and destroy the Devil consciousness altogether. It may lead way for me completely the power with my own. With these ideas, maybe there is a way that you can control your own Devil. I realise it can't be totally removed from your blood. The Kazama blood seems to have a seal of purity, strange to believe, I know, but you can't get rid of it. You can just silence the feral side of the Devil side by trying, like me, to suppress the consciousness. I hope I'm making sense here?"
"Maybe…" Jin mumbled.
"We can find a way to help each other, Jin," Kazuya offered. "And I can keep you safe, and Miharu especially. Please, for once, trust me."
Jin turned to Miharu to see what she thought. She shrugged slightly.
"What else can we do? It's a risk we have to take," she said. "And besides, he could have hurt or even killed me years ago, but he didn't. I have some faith in him."
Jin sighed and turned to Kazuya. "Fine," he reluctantly agreed. "I hope I won't regret this."
"You won't, I promise," Kazuya answered.
"I don't trust you in any way. Your promises mean nothing to me. I'm doing this for Miharu's sake," Jin told him firmly, getting things clear between them.
"Whatever you want. Everything will work out and you will benefit from being in better control of your other side."
Jin ignored Kazuya and hugged tightly to Miharu. "I'm so sorry for everything," he whispered.
"Don't be sorry. You're a good man stuck in the most twisted situations," she murmured.
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A/N: Sorry that it is so short but it was basically just to fill in a little information so I don't bore you in later chapters. Sorry if Kazuya doesn't seem in character to you but I don't think he is as bad as he is made to seem. Well, a few better chapters will be coming up soon.