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 fanfics, Tekken 5: The Kazama-Mishima Connections & The Kazama-Mishima Connections 2. Rated G
Disclaimer: Kazuya Mishima, Jun Kazama, Jin Kazama, Asuka Kazama, Wang Jinrei, Ling Xiaoyu, Hwoarang, Steve Fox 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 10: Confessions
Kazuya paced back and forth in his office, his hands clasped behind his back. Jin and Asuka watched him from their seats, waiting with trepidation. Finally, Kazuya slammed both his fists on his desk so hard that the cup of coffee tumbled to its side, spilling the contents down to the carpeted floor.
"Who gave you the right to go snooping through my files!" he waved the folder in front of his children's faces. "WHO!"
"Before that, Dad, I believe you have some explaining to do to your daughter...don't you think?" Jin stated calmly, which surprised both Asuka and Kazuya.
"I thought you already told her!"
"I thought it would be better coming from you. Besides, I'd like to hear it again."
"Fine," Kazuya grunted and sat down. He put his hands at the edge of the desk and clasped them together. "I was watching from the balcony the moment she stepped inside the gates. Even from a distance and with that damned scarf, glasses and make-up, I knew it was your mother right away. I couldn't understand why she would hide under another identity, so I confronted her but she denied ever knowing me. That happened last night..."
"Is that why you got yourself drunk?" Jin asked.
"After I looked through these photos, at the same time discovering you had seen it," Kazuya continued instead of answering, "I felt the need to talk to her, even bringing some pictures with me for comparison. No doubt it's her, but she denied me again. She even laughed at me, saying that I must be some blind old fool who's too wallowed up in his painful memories to truly see what was real. I...I lost myself. I...tried to bring her back in the only way I knew. The rest, you know."
"The rest we know?" Asuka parroted. "You tried to bring her back...by forcing her!"
"I thought if I did what I did, she'd remember me," Kazuya stood up sharply from his seat and turned around to gaze through the window. The gray clouds loomed ahead and brought the start of a soft drizzle.
"That's stupid," Asuka mumbled, making Jin elbow her hard. They shot furious looks at each other again.
"It's not stupid. She remembers those times," Kazuya insisted and sighed. "I know I do. Every...single...detail...in every single waking moment since she came into my life. I couldn't get her out of my mind. I"
"So you admit you are obsessed with her," Jin interrupted, patting his father's folder loudly. "And these pictures"
"Should not have been seen by anyone else! NOT EVEN BY YOU!" Kazuya suddenly roared and snatched the folder away. "Whatever you may think of me, I don't give a damn! Hate me if you must, but I never...I repeat, never...forced your mother to do anything she didn't want to do! Yes, I was obsessed with her and still am! The first time I laid eyes on her during the second tournament, I was devoured with a craving but it wasn't lust or anything like that."
"Huh!" Jin looked up in surprise, as did Asuka. They didn't expect to hear such a confession. "What do you mean?"
"Did you...love her...at first sight?" Asuka spoke up in a hopeful voice, remembering what Lei Wulong had said about her mother almost a month before.
"Love...funny word..." Kazuya bent his head down and shook his head, silently cursing himself for his tactlessness. After a moment, he turned his back on Jin and Asuka again, staring intently at the now heavy downpour outside. He tightened his fists to fortify himself. He hated revealing, what he claims to be a miserable life, to anyone; but these were his children. There were just some things he couldn't or rather, mustn't keep from them.
"I didn't know what I felt when I saw her back then," Kazuya began with a voice devoid of any emotion. "Truth be told, I still don't know. But strangely, my first impulse was...to kill her."
A loud gasp escaped from Asuka's lips while Jin drew in a heavy breath.
"It was in my nature," Kazuya quickly explained. "Devil had his full hold of me at the time. I couldn't understand why I wanted to kill her, but I would later learn that it was because she's an angel: one of Devil's mortal enemies. I called her...into this very office. I had a gun prepared in my pocket while she tried to convince me to dismantle my Humaida experiments but strangely, I couldn't bring myself to even touch the trigger. She had me mesmerized...like I was put under some kind of spell. Then, she told me that she was the girl I had met in Yakushima forest back when I was twelve.
"Everything changed at that point. I told her she was mistaken, but she pursued. She showed me my locket which she had kept for over sixteen years and still I pushed her away. She left her assignment and followed me around, trying to make me remember. As the days went on, the situation became...out of control. I lost the desire to kill her...lost desire for anything else...but her. She awakened the emotions I thought I had buried along with my childhood memories and because of that, I put her to such a high pedestal, no other woman could ever compare to her.
"We had...a short-lived affair, in this very estate," Kazuya focused his eyes on his son. Jin instantly understood what lay between the lines. "It would've lasted longer had it not been for the fact that my father challenged me. Even with Devil's powers, I lost the fight. The G Corporation revived me and the rest is history."
"And to think all those years of us growing up, you never gave us a hint that you were alive," Asuka muttered angrily. Kazuya took on a dark look.
"Ingrates," he hissed. "If I showed up, the akuma would've taken you! And who do you think sent you money for your elaborate and expensive clothes! Who do you think gave you enough money for a private school in Tokyo! Who do you think pulled the strings so that you could get into 3WC's junior division! And you, Jin. Who do you think provided for you and your mother when she stopped working after the second tournament! Who do you think sent the three of you all those expensive gifts on your birthdays! ME! And now you tell me I never did anything for you! What about what I'm doing now! I'm trying to bring your mother back, aren't I!"
Jin and Asuka watched speechlessly as Kazuya sat down on his seat and began massaging his temples. The siblings were still trying to digest everything they've just heard. They had spent a lot of time uncovering the truth behind their father's back and yet here he was: confessing more things that they never even imagined he would. They began to wonder what their family would've been like if things had been different.
"I'll...I'll try to speak to Mother," Jin stood up from his seat. "Coming, Asuka?"
"Don't even bother," Kazuya snapped, bitterness dripping from his voice. "She didn't acknowledge me so why should you two be any different!"
"We'll never know unless we try," Jin replied. "Besides, we're her children. We came from her womb. We have more of a...biological connection with her, if that's how you like to put it."
"Fine, fine," Kazuya waved his hand, as if shooing flies away. "Off with you. And Asuka..."
Asuka turned to look into her father's eyes. There was something there that she thought looked like...warmth.
"Uhmm...mind your manners next time," Kazuya said softly and shifted his eyes away. He began arranging the papers on his desk. "And be careful. Don't let whatever she may say get to you. And Jin, watch out for those two idiots."
Jin nodded with a smile. He then leaned over to Asuka and whispered, "That's how he says he's sorry..."
"Hmm..." Asuka faced Kazuya again but this time, with a genuine smile on her face. "Arigato gozaimasu...Dad. And Oni-chan? What two idiots?"
"Let's go, Asuka. Mother could be anywhere by now."
"Before that..." Asuka gingerly approached her father's desk and put on the sweetest look she could muster. "Dad? D'you think I could have those red pair of sneakers? The...uhm...what brand was that, Oni-chan? Oh yeah! The Fireflight 7! Can I have it? It fits well enough and"
"YOU WENT THROUGH MY SNEAKER COLLECTION!"
In a flash, Jin grabbed Asuka by the arm and dragged her out the office.
Chapter 11