Author's notes: This story is mostly based on Tekken 4 and the currently (2004) released information on Tekken 5 and its characters. Though some infos were taken from Tekken Official, some situations, events and characters are all fanmade. This is also the sequel to my previous fanfic, Tekken 5: The Kazama-Mishima Connections. Rated G
Disclaimer: Kazuya Mishima, Jun Kazama, Jin Kazama, Asuka Kazama, Ling Xiaoyu, and all Tekken characters referred in this fanfic are the property of NAMCO. This is only a fan fiction from the imagination of an obsessed fan. No copyright infringement intended.
Chapter 5: Reunited
Jin sat on a hollow log, his elbows on his knees, his head bent down. He pulled down the hood of his white jacket, setting his flaring ebony strands free to dance with the gentle breeze. He picked up some pebbles and began throwing it against an uprooted tree.
Jin was once again, in the sanctity of the forests of Yakushima: the place of his birth. A light morning mist swirled around the trees that surrounded him. Kazuya had called him sometime after midnight and arranged for a meeting, of all places, in the clearing his mother had loved so much.
"How does he know about this place?" Jin wondered with a sigh. There was so much mystery in his family's past that he didn't know if he could wait a second longer to know the truth. But will he ever be able to handle it? So much possible answers had plagued him day and night, most of which, were not so pleasant.
Then, a dark form materialized through the mist. Jin stood up from where he sat and slowly walked over to the figure. Sure enough, it was his father. Kazuya raised his good arm and put his palm up for Jin, halting him in his tracks.
"Don't come any closer," Kazuya spoke ominously. "Because if you do, Devil might take over me again."
"You're late," Jin quipped, backing off several steps.
"You're early," Kazuya scoffed back, remembering.
Silence shrouded the two men as thick as the fog that now followed the wake of the mist. They can still see each other clearly, but their surroundings were wallowed up in white.
"Well?" Jin arched his thick brows, so similar to that of Kazuya's. "What were you going to tell me?"
"I have some information regarding your mother," Kazuya took out a crumpled paper ball from his pocket and threw it several feet towards Jin, who immediately picked it up. After a few moments of reading, his head shot up.
"What does all this mean?!" he shouted.
"It means," Kazuya gritted his teeth. "That unless we do something and do it quick, she'll truly be dead."
"They're...brainwashing her?!" Jin asked incredulously. "I thought she was already brainwashed to begin with!"
"I'm afraid we made the wrong assessment at the time," Kazuya sat heavily on a fallen tree. "She had amnesia. I'm guessing she remembers everything now. That's why they're trying to wipe out her memories and turn her into what they have always planned: a mindless biological weapon."
"Biological weapon?!" Jin echoed. "I don't understand! What's so special about Mother?! If the G Corporation should be experimenting on anyone, it should be you or me! You have the full Devil Gene while I have had half since birth! Mother is ju--" Jin choked on his words when he saw Kazuya's expression. "Mother is human...right?"
Kazuya slowly shook his head.
"She isn't human," he said, a strange wistfulness in his voice. "She's never been human"
"Are you saying Mother is some kind of monster?!" Jin clenched his fists. He's ready to kill anyone who dared taint his mother's memory.
"Far from it," Kazuya calmly answered. He stared up at the sky as if looking for a source of strength before letting out a heavy sigh.
"This isn't easy to explain at all," he began, "And I doubt you'll stop asking questions once I'm done but I guess I have no choice but to start from scratch," he cleared his throat. "As you probably know, everything in the world is created in pairs: man and woman, yin and yang, heaven and hell...it's what you call opposites in balance. Understand?"
Jin could only nod.
"Good. Now, when those two opposites come together and form a bond, they beget a new entity with the combined characteristics of the two, making it both similar and different from its sources. That's what happened to you."
"Me?" Jin arched his eyebrows. "What do you mean?"
"I thought you would have figured that out by now," Kazuya frowned. "We both transformed the night we fought Jinpachi, remember? There are differences between you and I, and yet we have similarities in our powers. You're wings are the most obvious difference."
"My wings...?" Jin's breath caught in his throat when it suddenly hit him. "Opposites...are you saying that...Mother is..."
"The complete opposite of a devil: an angel," Kazuya interjected. He waited for his son to laugh but Jin remained stiff. A flicker of understanding flashed through his eyes.
"So that's it, huh?" Jin spoke, his tone, strangely mellow. He recalled Kazuya's words the night they saw Jun on the Mishima Tower. "Is that why you called her angel?" he almost smiled when he added, "Your guardian angel?"
Kazuya didn't answer. He stood up and turned his back on Jin but the boy was undaunted.
"Mother's an angel, huh?" Jin mused. "So...What exactly happened between the two of you?"
"That's not important!" Kazuya snapped, turning back to Jin with his cold eyes. "What matters is that you have been brought to this world by our union. Thus, you are not human, nor are you angel or devil. You are a combination of both: a new being, so to speak, with powers that, I admit, surpasses even my own," Kazuya's lip curled up. "Hmm...a new being. It's clever of your mother to have named you Jin. Now, you know why."
"So, I'm half-angel, half-devil! Big deal!" Jin snapped back. "And what do you mean the past isn't important?! I need to know since I'm part of it!"
"I can't give you the answer to that."
"You can't? Or you won't?"
Kazuya and Jin glared hard at each other. After an interminable pause, Kazuya broke the silence.
"Once we retrieve your mother..." Kazuya said, his teeth clenched,"...you can ask her then."
"Fine. Then at least answer this," Jin moved in a little closer, causing his father to back off. "Tell me...how did you know about this clearing?"
"Clearing?" Kazuya was unable to hide his surprise. "What do you mean?"
"Mother's favorite clearing," Jin crossed his arms, a satisfied smirk on his face. "You described it in such great detail, I easily figured this was the place."
Kazuya stayed quiet. This was Jun's favorite clearing? He swallowed hard, contemplating for an explanation.
"She used to come around here a lot, you know," Jin informed, taking on a dreamy, far-away look. "We'd sit on that log over there and just wallow in silence," Jin pointed to where Kazuya had been sitting. "It's the same with the tree by the cliff. She goes there every afternoon."
Kazuya slowly closed his eyes, memories flashing through his mind in an instant. Shaking his head, he opened his mouth out to speak but someone else spoke first.
"I knew you'd be here..."
Jin and Kazuya whipped around to see two figures materialize from the fog. Dr. Larne stepped up first, smiling triumphantly at the two men, with Jun Kazama, following close behind.
Chapter 6