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A/Note: This chapter contains scenes NOT suitable for all ages. (But I think it's not that serious!).
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Chapter 49
Waiting for Tonight
KYUSHU
YAMAGAWA
18th AUGUST 2013
Jin and Ling were back in Yamagawa after a week. They had travelled to search for Jin's grandfather. They went to Hiroshima, to the temple that Mr. Misuno had told them, but they found out that master Kazama had died a few months earlier. The master was old and tired.
Jin and Ling had stayed in the temple for two days, to pray and because they had been invited by the new family who was now responsible for the temple.
Akane Shinto was about Jin's age and she was a member of that family. When Jin left with Ling, she gave him a letter that master Kazama wrote before he died.
On their way back, Jin read the letter. It seemed that Jun had wrote to her parents many times, to achieve conciliation, but that never happened. She had told them about Kazuya and also about their baby.
'I think they didn't like my father much!'-Jin said when the train stopped in Yamagawa.
'Why do you say that?'-asked Ling.
'Well, in this letter, my grandfather blames my dad for everything…I mean he says he put a curse over my mum…'
'She was their daughter…he was angry because she had left them.'
'But that doesn't give them the right to blame my dad…'
Ling smiled.
'Why are you smiling?'-Jin asked confused.
'Because all of a sudden you started to call Kazuya «dad», didn't you notice?'
'I did?'
'Yes. You always called him Kazuya or father…'
'Well…technically he's also my dad…'-Jin joked.
'I know…'
'Lets go home, Ling…'
Ling was happy, because finally she was seeing a new Jin.
'I'm really sorry for your grandfather…I know you wanted to meet him.'-Ling said.
'It's ok…I'm used to it…I never got much attention…well except from my Fan Club at school…all those beautiful girls after me…'-Jin smiled when he watched her face.
'What?'-asked Ling crossing her arms.
'I was joking…'-Jin laughed. –'You're cute when you're angry…'
'Jerk!'
'Were you jealous?'
'No!'
'Yes, you were!'
'You're an idiot, Jin Kazama!'-she said hitting his arm.
'The Fan Club wasn't that good…I was always late for classes because I had to run and hide from all the hysterical girls…some of them were really crazy!'
An hour later, they were finally in front of Jin's house. Jin stopped before he got in the house and grabbed Ling's arm. He had finally understood that he was now too close to her and that he didn't want to leave her alone anymore.
'Ling…Thanks!'
'What for?' -she asked.
'For being with me…'
Ling smiled and blushed violently. One day she would show him exactly what he meant to her. But in that moment they were interrupted by steps.
'Phoenix?' -asked Jin surprised.
'Hey…Kazama…Xiaoyu…'
'What are you doing here?' -asked Ling.
'I can ask Kazama the same thing, can't I?' I mean, imagine my shock when I was in the States and I got a phone call from an old friend telling me that you were alive and well!' –'I didn't know you were worried about us?' -said Jin.
'I wasn't worried but if you and Hwoarang died…it wouldn't be right…so I decided to come and see if you kids were alright.'
'What are you doing now?' -asked Ling.
Oh, you know…this and that…Actually I travelling with Forest and his father. Forest is giving Marshall some headaches, so he asked me to teach him some manners…
'You aren't here just to say that…are you?'-Jin asked.
'No, I'm not!'
'What is it, then?'
'The thing is, Kazama…you're special…I realised that the moment I saw you…Your father was special too, but he was too full of hate. You still can be what you most desire!'
'What do you mean?'
'The best martial arts fighter in the world!'
'How?'
'Haven't you heard?'
'About what?'
'The Iron Fist won't be cancelled…from now on the tournament is legal and it's going to be held every year!'
'Are you sure?'-asked Ling.
'Yes. The world Sports Committee recognised that this tournament is very important, so they are gathering some efforts to allow the fighters to enter the Iron Fist next year, in July.'
'I never thought this would happen.'-confessed Jin.-'After all the Iron Fist was only held because Heihachi wanted.'
'The Mishima Empire is over and I'm going to enter the tournament. It might be my last chance! I just wanted to let you know because a tournament without you will be very boring.'
'This means we have another chance to see who the best is.'
'Exactly.'
'And I can beat Hwoarang in the tournament too!'-Jin said excited.
'I'm going to prepare myself for our fight!'-Paul announced.-'I suggest you do the same!'
When Paul left, Jin looked at Ling.
Ling knew that Jin wanted to go to the tournament, she wanted to go too, but she also knew that this meant more training. Jin would leave her again to practice and she had to stay alone.
Ling grabbed her coat and left to the woods. She needed to stay alone for some minutes.
Jin knew what she was thinking and he was decided to do the right thing.
Ling only turned back when it was night. She obviously had been crying because her eyes were all red, but she seemed calm.
'Are you alright?' -he asked.
'Yes…I'm sorry I left…I just needed to think…'
'It's ok, I understand! I knew I was going to make you suffer…I'm sorry, Ling…'
'You couldn't guess that Paul was coming to tell us this…'
'Yeah…but I'm a Mishima…it's in my blood! I hurt people!'
'So…have you decided what to do?'
'No…I mean…I need to speak to you.'
'Well I think I know what to do!'
'What?'
'Stay with me tonight…'-she asked him.
Jin couldn't say no to that. He started to think why was he always the one who had to make sacrifices just because an evil gene was living inside of his body? Didn't he have a chance? He sure deserved that after all he had been through.
Even so when Ling kissed him, he pushed her away.
'Let me be the one to decide!'-she said. –'This is my life…'
'You'll ruin your life!'
'Then be it…I don't care…as long as we're together!'
Jin didn't have the courage to say «no» no more. He just let her kiss him and soon he noticed he was answering back with the same passion.
Now he finally knew how it was to be free. He didn't care about having the devil gene, or to give it to Ling. He didn't care about being a Mishima or a Kazama, he was enjoying that unique moment with the girl of his dreams. It was time to be happy.
As for Ling, she was giving him the pureness in her and she was happy to do it. She wasn't giving it up with some guy, it was Jin. She was glad she had waited. What if he had that stupid gene? Jun had never regretted her life with Kazuya, so why would she care?
Ling woke up before dawn. She was sleeping in Jin's arms. Now she was no longer a girl, on the outside she was the same old Ling, but she could feel some changes on the inside.
The problem was that her happiness would end soon. Jin would have to leave again and she would be alone. Ling started to cry and Jin, who had woke up, felt her tears in his chest.
'Are you alright?'-he asked worried.
'Yes…'
'I knew it…this shouldn't have ever happened! I should have resisted!'
'I wanted this as much as you! It wasn't your fault!'
'But now you have the devil gene as well…I can feel it! You're a target…like me!'
'I don't care! I'm crying because I'll be alone…'
'Alone? Why?'
'You will leave me to practice…I know you want to defeat Paul, and Hwoarang!'
'You're right…I do! I will defeat that pretentious red hair no matter what!'
Ling laughed.
'You are both like kids!'
'But I won't leave you alone!'-Jin said quietly.
'You won't?'-Ling asked looking into his eyes.
'No! After this? What do you think I am? An idiot?'
Ling hold him and kissed him. She was so happy that he had told her that.
'You know what, Jin Kazama?'
'What?'
'You will not regret this!'-she said smiling.
'I'm sure I won't!'
EAST-OSAKA
20th AUGUST 2013
Julia decided to go to America to see her family. She had bought her flight ticket and she was already packing. Maybe being away from Hwoarang for a while would give her courage to tell him what she felt when she got back to Japan.
Hwoarang didn't know what to do. He was sure about his feelings but he didn't have the courage to tell her personally.
That night, after everyone leave to the pub, he decided to have a word with Julia. He knocked at her door and waited.
Julia was putting some clothes inside her bag when he opened the door.
'Hi…So, you're leaving tomorrow, right?'
'Yes. The flight leaves at five p.m.'
'I can take you to the airport if you want to…'
'Thanks…I appreciate that!'
'Will you write, or call?'
'I'll be back in a few weeks…I will not stay there for too long…'
'Are you sure?'
'Yes. I just want to check on my family, especially Michelle! I want to be sure that she's alright…'
'Look, Julia…I want to say something…'
'Ok…I'm listening to you.'
'Well, the thing is I…'
'What?'
'Let me see…I…want to say that…'
Now that he was so close, he couldn't say it. The words didn't come out, but he wanted to say so many things to her. He wanted to say that he wanted her to stay with him.
Julia was waiting. He was acting pretty weird, for some reason he seemed blocked. Then she decided to act.
Julia took a deep breath and walked towards him. She looked at him in the eyes and they both blushed. Then, out of the sudden she kissed him. Hwoarang felt his temperature rise and he answered back that kiss. How could he ignore that? He had been waiting for that a long time ago. He wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her with passion.
Then after a few minutes, Julia broke the kiss.
'Do you…'
'Yes!' -she said without thinking. She didn't even know what he was asking. She only knew she wanted to kiss him again, and that's what she did.
Julia didn't bother to speak again; she just wished that kiss could last forever. In his arms she was feeling safe and complete.
Then Hwoarang pushed her over to the bed and Julia knew that there was no turning back. She wasn't afraid, she was just nervous because it was her first time. A half an hour later, their clothes were all over the floor and they were both wrapped between the sheets kissing passionately. In that moment all their problems were far away from that bedroom. They didn't care about anything else but that moment. The world could end and they wouldn't mind at all, they were finally together. Julia was ready to give herself.
'I want you…'-Hwoarang whispered to her.
'Then make me yours…'-she answered back.
'Are you sure?'
Julia embraced and kissed him. That was her answer. That was her special night; she just hoped it was as special to him as it was to her. They ended up falling asleep in each other's arms.
EAST-OSAKA
21st AUGUST 2013
When Julia woke up, she felt Hwoarang's arm around her waist and she smiled. She watched him in his sleep and he seemed a baby.
She had given herself to Hwoarang and she didn't regret a single moment of the previous night. It had happened exactly as she dreamed off. But then she remembered that she would have to leave that same day, and she felt really stupid. How could she leave him after that night? Julia got up and left the room.
Hwoarang woke up a few minutes later and he took some time to understand why he was in Julia's bedroom. When he remembered what had happened he looked confused, because he was in the bed alone. He started to think that it had been a dream. But it couldn't be, right?
He tried to get up, but he felt a pain in his arm. It was bleeding.
In that moment Julia walked in. She was wearing his sweater; she smiled and joined him in the bed.
They stood in silence for some time, thinking both about what to say.
'I'm not going…'-Julia said finally.
'What?'
'I don't want to go!'
'But you bought the ticket and your parents must be worried! You have to go!'
'I don't care!'
'But you promised your father you would return after the tournament!'
'Haven't this night meant anything to you? Was it just for fun?'
'No, of course not! You know what this night meant!'
'It seems that you want to get rid of me!'
'I would prefer if you could stay, but you would regret that later! Don't make the same mistakes I did…I left my family and look what happened!'
'So you think I should go?'
'Yes…just for a week…because if you stay there more than two weeks, I'll go there to get you!'
'Ok…I'll go just because I have to…'
'And I'll wait for you…anyway, it doesn't matter anymore…you're mine now!'
'And I'll always be!' -Julia said kissing him.
The rest of the day, Julia and Hwoarang tried to act normally around the others, but it was a bit difficult. Hwoarang was forced to call Roomax, because his arm was hurting more than usual.
'You were supposed to be better by now!' - Roomax said. –'What the hell have you been doing? Training again?'
'No! And it's no big deal!'
'Be careful, because you can have serious problems in this arm if you continue to do that!'
'I know…mother!'
At five in the afternoon, Julia was in the aeroplane. They had said goodbye after a long kiss, and she was missing him already. Hwoarang had asked her not to tell Lao what was going on between them, and Julia had agreed. Now the only thing she wanted was to come back.
USA
ARIZONA
PHOENIX
22nd AUGUST 2013
When Julia arrived to her home, her parents were taking the breakfast. Lao was completely euphoric when he saw that she was finally home, and she had arrived alone.
Julia preferred not to say to them that, once again she wasn't there permanently.
'You're mother starts her holidays tomorrow…'-Lao said.
'Then she can come with me to see grandma and grandpa!'-Julia said.
'Yes…sure…-said Michelle, noticing that her daughter was different.
'What about the tournament?'-asked Lao.
'It was fine…'-lied Julia. –'The same old thing…I didn't win…'
'I told you.'
'I was going to see Michelle now. Want to come?'
'Yes, mother! How is she?'
'She's moving her legs and arms…but she didn't wake up yet.'
Julia passed the day at the clinic with her sister and Mario. The cryosleep therapy was making a miracle and the doctors told her that Michelle would wake up soon. Julia was looking forward for that day, but even so, she wanted to go back to Japan.
At night, her mother joined her in her bedroom.
'Tomorrow morning we leave for the ranch…'
'Ok.'
'Your father will meet us later!'
'Ok.'
'Are you alright?'
'Yes.'
'I know you Julia…what's wrong?'
'Nothing…I'm glad I'm back…'
'But you will not stay…right?'
'How did…How did you know?'
'I know my own daughter…is that boy, Hwoarang…he is too important for you…'
'Yes…he is. I'm sorry, mother! I never meant this to happen, but it just did…'
'You slept with him?'
'-It wasn't like that! You make it sound cheap and horrible…and it wasn't! I gave myself to him because I love him.'
'Are you sure you did the right thing? I mean…he's still an outlaw.'
It felt right, mum…and I don't regret it! He loves me too…it was our special night…it was better than I thought!'
'I don't want to be in this country when you tell your father! It's going to be a blast!'
'I won't tell him. Not for now…he would kill me!'
USA
PHOENIX
25th AUGUST 2013
Lao had joined Michelle and Julia in the ranch. During the last few days Julia had wondered if she should do what she had promised Hwoarang or what Michelle had told her to do, which was to tell Lao that she was going back to Japan because she was dating Hwoarang.
'Tell him once and for all!' -Michelle told her daughter that night.
'He'll be furious!'
'He will have to know sooner or later! Do you really love that boy?'
'Yes…'
'And you want to be with him?'
'Yes!'
'Then there's nothing your father can do to separate you two!'
'Except killing Hwoarang!'
'He'll never do that!'
I'm not so sure!
'When you told us you were living with a group of renegades, I understood you were falling for Hwoarang. I didn't say anything because I wasn't sure if the things between you and him would work out…after all, you're so different from each other!'
'So?'
'I thought then, that it was just a crush…that you would understand he wasn't that handsome and you wouldn't adjust yourself to his way of life! I guess I was wrong…it was hard to accept that, but I did! And I can see that you are happy with Hwoarang, so he can't be so bad!'
'He's not!'
'Your father loves you…so you just have to explain to him that you won't be happy without Hwoarang!'
'That's easy to say mum…I don't care to say that I love an outlaw to grandma or grandpa or even the whole family, but dad is so…difficult!'
'Try…but it's your call Julia…you're the one who has to decide! I'm only trying to help.'
'I know mum…I know…but for some reason, I know that dad is not ready yet!'
