Gomenasai! I'm Sorry, Förlåt, Unskyld!
That's I'm sorry in as many languages as I know…
It has been a shit load of time since I updated. Well there's a reason you know.., My graphic card broke so I haven't been able to write… My brother has been generous enough to give me a laptop (God Bless You Micke!) and he also moved everything from my old computer to my laptop… There is no word that can explain my gratitude.
So this is good.., now I can write wherever I am (If I have the strength to take the computer with me that is.) Even though my life crashed for a while I have been revived! :P Very well I'm going to try and update more often now. And Since I've bought myself a copy of Tekken 3 Maybe the fights will be better in the future.. I'm not so good at writing then, that I am not :P [This weak I'm aslo watching Anime 24/7 since I have countless entry to my boyfriends computer…]
The next update I guess will be in the weekend next week.
Have a Good Reading now! ;D
Chapter 20 Sky High
-Knock knock knock-
"Who the hell is so sick to be up at this early hour?"
"Ryuu…"
"What?"
"The clock is past 14:00 hours…" Hwoarang stated for her.
"Oh… Well… Let me go tell them off then."
Hwoarang just laughed softly as Ryuu got up and wrapped the cover around her. She spotted the drink Hwoarang had left on the table before and took it. Well you shouldn't waste it… She drank it up and then put it down again. She frowned lightly before she continued to the door, half-warm half-cold drinks weren't her favorite exactly. She leaned against the doorframe and waited for the waiting person to knock again.
-Knock knock knock-
She opened the door and was met by a sight she really didn't want to see. But all she did was to smile.
"Ryuu" Sora confirmed with a dark voice when she saw her. Sora's eyes almost seemed to darken.
"Well… Hello Miss whatever-your-name-is…" Ryuu tilted her head and continued watching her.
Sora's simple ponytail did give her a somewhat hard face as no hair at all disturbed her face. The lines of her face were clearly shown. Well this time she wasn't going to give in to Ryuu. She was here to see Hwoarang and she wasn't leaving till se got what she wanted.
"Is Hwoarang in there?"
"'Course he is. Come in…" She said in a surprisingly nice tone and let the door slide open. "Talon…" She shouted. "You have a guest."
She turned around and walked into the room again. She met him in the door to the bedroom.
"Where are you going?" he asked her as she passed him.
"To bed… With you out of the way maybe I'll get some actual sleep." And with those words she closed the door to the bedroom.
Hwoarang just smiled and closed the zipper on his jeans and then looked up to meet Sora's eyes. He let his fingers slip through his hair and smirked.
"It's you." He nodded towards the sofa and meant for them to sit down.
"Yeah well... I said I'd drop by." She sat down in the sofa. And watched him light up a cigarette.
"Didn't expect you so soon." He said with a smile. Just what he needed… Sora seeing him with Ryuu.
"So you're with her?" She asked while she leaned over the table to grab the cigarette from him and smoke it for herself. Her hair fell to lie over her left shoulder as she leaned back.
If everyone else was going to play badass so could she. Hwoarang was a little surprised but said nothing about it. He just lit up another one.
"Depends on what you mean with 'with' her." He said smiling. "She can be real grumpy on Mondays…" He smirked.
The door from the bedroom suddenly opened and Ryuu stepped out. Dressed and all. Hwoarang looked over at her.
"Your idea of sleeping is strange…" He said for teasing her.
"Your idea of having sex is strange…" She replied quite fast letting her fingers slip under her hair to draw it out from the black ribbon.
"Well you seem to like it."
"I'm just playing nice…" She said before she walked towards the hall.
Sora knitted her eyebrows, nice conversation to be stuck in…
"You hurt me…" He said looking like a puppy that had been told that he was wrong.
Ryuu came out of the hall dressed with her black jacket on. She glanced over at Sora. She didn't like the girl. But come to think of it… Ryuu didn't really like anyone. She met the Korean's eyes.
"The phone?" She asked.
He nodded towards the table where the telephone was. She walked over to it and lifted the receiver. Then started to dial the number, a long digit number. At last she was finished and it didn't take long until someone answered.
"Let me speak to Yama… No I don't care… … … Just put her on the phone Paula."
She looked down at the floor and waited. Hwoarang and Sora stayed quiet. Sora watched Ryuu and Hwoarang watched Sora.
How could she be so close to that woman without doing anything? Sora had truly found one of her greatest rivals in life. But what she had seen the last night… She couldn't forget. It was no mere human she was up against. And seeing the looks in Jin's face she started to wonder if she was surrounded by demons. She looked over at Hwoarang, he was at least human. She smiled when she realized that he actually was watching her, not Ryuu.
Suddenly you could hear a -very- loud voice screaming from the phone. Ryuu held the receiver a bit away and when it got quiet she put it to her ear again.
"Finished?" And the voice started to scream again. "Apparently not…" Ryuu sighed and held it away from her ear again until the voice faded. "How about now?" And finally the person at the end stayed quiet. "I just have a simple question… Has he come back yet?" She sighed somewhat discreet. "All right." And she hung up and started to walks towards the hall to head out.
"Who's 'he'?" Hwoarang asked moving his eyes unto Ryuu.
"No one." She answered fast as if she was expecting the question.
She grabbed the black ribbon from the shelf in the hallway and disappeared out the door with a large noise. Sora crossed her arms with a strange look on her face.
"Are you the kind of couple that solves anything with sex?" She asked quite bold.
But Hwoarang just laughed. She arched an eyebrow at him.
"It's not the question really… To mentioned Ryuu and me as a couple." He shook his head "I think she wants a relationship even less than me. In -that- kind of way…"
"Still you could've killed her when you found out about Jin."
"That's different." He said and rose from the couch to walk up by the windows. "Jin is an enemy."
"Your enemy." She stated as if that was the sole reason.
"Not only." He said as his gaze at the Mishima Mansion got quite hateful. "No one of my men will ever look upon him with a happy eye."
Sora smiled.
"Then she is not one of your men." Finally something to hold between him and that woman.
He smiled a little as he crossed his arms. He watch the windowsill. What she said… It was half true… half false. Ryuu wasn't rally someone that you could take command over. In fact she had become just as much leader as Hwoarang was when you came to think of it. Besides… Hwoarang liked her. He liked her way of handling things, he liked her way of acting, and he liked her way of dressing and so on. Bud did he like -like- her?
"Your right… She's not one of my men… She's my girl… my equal." … "'Nuff said about that." He said before Sora could start digging deeper into his emotions and shit like that. "How about you?" He asked while he stubbed the cig in the ashtray and turned around.
* * *
Jin kept starring up at the roof of his room. What the hell happened yesterday? What was she saying? He's not human? He shook his head to get it out of his mind. Bullshit. She had to be lying. He sat up in the bed and looked down at his hand. It was true, that strength wasn't a human, least of all it wouldn't belong to an 17-year-old girl. So he had to admit that it was possible…
The bandage was wrapped around his index finger. It seemed that it wasn't really broken, only 'dislocated' or something like that. But still it was pretty amazing. He regretted that he didn't start out serious from the beginning. Then he might even have had a chance. Damn it… He didn't even get to warm up before. But really would it have helped? This whole Demon thing…
He shook his head in disbelief. He simply had to confront Ryuu again. Although she had told him to stay away from her. And why the hell did she do that? Well he was going to find out… one way or another,
* * *
Today there was a horde of people arriving at The Mishima hotel. The first games had even already begun. Ryuu sighed as she walked out. There was a lot of people who was going home with serious injuries. Right now she could kill some of them just because they were in her way. Finally she reached the parking lot for the motorcycles and walked up to hers.
"Nice bike you have there."
She heard a mans voice behind her. She turned her head around since she didn't recognize it and spotted a blond haired man, sitting on another bike. His hair seemed quite… odd. It stood straight up as if it created a platform ten centimeters above his head. She smiled a crooked smile.
"I know." She said and turned back her head and mounted the bike.
"You wanna race?" He asked in a challenging voice.
"Hmm" She smiled to herself as she tied the black ribbon around her head. "You wanna race me?"
"Why not…"
"Yeah… why not." Her hands dropped and she turned around to meet the man's eyes completely for the first time.
She smiled lightly and he did the same. She hadn't raced in a while. She hadn't done anything that she enjoyed in a while.
"You chose the target. I know Tokyo to good for it to be fair if I get to chose." She said starting up her bike and turning her head away from him again.
"How about Dock 37 on the harbor?" He mounted the bike and fired up the engine. "I have to attend to a round down there anyway."
"Sure" She smiled.
She also was ordered to go there to attend to her first fight. Since she was personally invited she didn't need to fight the peasants of the competition. That's the only thing she hated about tournaments. It always drew so many losers. Especially when the price was this high. But she knew that Heihachi never would let The Zaibatsu Empire out of his grasp. Why did she agree to be in this competition then? Well that was easy to figure out… She wanted revenge on Heihachi.
They both lined up at the road. The man and looked over at Ryuu. She raised an eyebrow and then looked at the road. The signs changed to green and the both of them disappeared quite fast down the road.
The first kilometers they both lay very close to each other. But soon Ryuu disappeared from the main course. She disappeared unto one of the sideways. The man just glanced on her and then disappeared into another sideway. The man raged trough sideways that you could think is impossible to drive through, but in some way he managed. He jumped over obstacles and so on, at last he could se the dock and speeded up, even more.
For Ryuu it was pretty much the same. Only she knew what was waiting for her at the next turn. She had got rid of several of stokers this way. Finally she could spot the sea. She let the motor have more gas. She couldn't see the man. Either she was first… or last.
Her engine died out and she leaned against at the back support. Her eyes scanned the area, slowly. She turned her head backwards and before she had turned it all the way she heard a voice shouting from behind.
"Not so bad raced there. You're the only one in a long time that was so close to me."
Ryuu smiled faintly as she recognized the voice of the man. She dismounted the bike and looked at him. She leaned against her bike.
"Are you as good at fighting as you are on driving that bike of yours?" She asked him calmly
"Why don't you watch me!" He said and pointed towards a building behind her. "Just listen for them to call my name, it's Paul. I'm supposed to fight some guy named Ryuu. Tell you what… if I win I'll buy you a dinner."
Ryuu had a hard time holding it in. Some -guy- named Ryuu? But why not just play along with it.
"Sure." She replied shortly and watched as he started to make his way to one of the doors. "Here we go again." She said calmly and started to advance towards another door.
* * *
"What -about- me?" Sora asked as she watched him sit down.
He sat down in the same sofa as her. With his back leaning at the arm stead and his right knee resting against the back of the sofa. His hands joined together and looked at her.
"You are a mystery." She was quite surprised at his statement. "Tell me something about you that nobody else knows…" He challenged her.
She looked at him. Could she trust him? Would she tell him? What would she tell him? Come to think of it her life was rather… boring. Well there was this thing about her mother… But that wasn't going out in the air. Maybe it wasn't so big of a deal to others… To her it was the worst thing that her mother could ever do. She cleared her throat to get her mind of it but Hwoarang wouldn't let her.
"What were you thinking about just now?" He asked her and still held his eyes firmly on her. And almost refused to have them anywhere else.
"Nothing." She assured him
"Oh, so it was nothing that disturbed your eyes?"
"What are you talking about?" She asked like she didn't understand.
If you saw her you could see that she was good at this. Concealing what she really meant and acting like she knew nothing. But also, Hwoarang knew how to read people. It was something you learned when you lived a life like his. She leaned forward and let the cigarette burn out in the ashtray on the table.
"Come on… just tell me…" He urged her.
She broke his eyecontact for a while and stared into the wall. She breathed slowly but lastly decided. No. Hwoarang was the last one to know. She put a smile on her pretty little face and turned towards him again.
"It's nothing." She said calmly.
"Oh it's something alright. And someday I'm gonna make you tell me." He said with one of his gorgeous smirks on his lips. "So... When's your first match?"
"Uhm not yet for a while." She answered a little surprised that he dropped the subject so sudden.
"No?" He asked and raised an eyebrow. "The tournament is in full going. They count the finals to take place in about three days. And you don't have any fights for a while?"
"Correct. I've on Heihachi's command already reached the finals." She watched his half impressed looks and then continued. "It's pretty soft. When's your first fight?" She asked with interest in her voice.
"Tomorrow. Against some guy named Eddy."
"Aah. He's quite good." She smiled. "But not as good as I am." She said in a luring voice. "To bad you don't fight girls... Isn't it?"
Interested Hwoarang arched an eyebrow. Was this girl, no woman, challenging him? He leaned forward a bit. A cheap way of coming closer to her.
"Are you challenging me, daughter of Baek?"
She turned around in the sofa so she would face him. She as well leaned forward towards him. And didn't stop until she was sure that she could whisper and he would still hear her voice. She scanned him from head to toe before she met his eyes again.
"I sure as hell am." She whispered in her ever calm voice.
He smiled vaguely. Their lips were only inches away. And their noses only millimeters. He couldn't kiss her! No he couldn't. He wanted to, oh did he ever, but he just couldn't. This was Baek's daughter for Christ sake! And he -couldn't- disrespect his master. No way.
And his thoughts were suddenly broken buy a pair of dense lips pressing against his own. Ripped into reality he saw that she had actually leaned forward and SHE had kissed HIM. It took a second or two before he figured out what to do. He decided to enjoy the moment and let his hand slip by her face and he held her in the back of her head. Her hair slipped through his fingers and she loved the feeling.
Right now she wouldn't even mind dying.
* * *
Ryuu heard the door close heavily behind her and a guy with a headset walked up to her looking down at some papers before he spoke to her.
"Who are you? Only the fighters are allowed through this entrance." He spoke quite loud to overpower the shouting and cheering inside.
"I'm Ryuu." She said coldly and looked down at the shorter guy.
"Hold on a minuet." He said and lifted a paper and read some lines. "Oh sorry, the other crew told me we were expecting a man. Right this way then Miss Ryuu."
Ryuu said nothing and just followed the guy. She looked at the battered man that was carried out on a stretcher. She raised her eyebrow as the man grabbed her wrist and looked down at him.
"Quit while you can… He's a monster…" He forced out from his exhausted body.
Ryuu only looked at him and raised an eyebrow and peeked in. She saw a man receiving the cries of the crowd. She frowned lightly as she saw something that looked more like a robot. Metal all over his body and mechanic red glowing eyes. She grabbed one of the crew.
"Hey, who is that?" She asked monotonous.
The girl glanced inside the arena and saw the robot(?) walking off the arena.
"Oh, that's Gun Jack. You wouldn't believe what kind of people that enters this tournament." She shook her head.
And she went of again. Gun Jack? Geez… if that's a robot someone had an extreme lack of fantasy when s/he named it….
"And our next challenger… PAUL PHOENIX!"
And everyone in the crowd cheered as the host walked around the ring and informed further about the man. Ryuu yawned and looked at the crowd. Geez a giant bunch of bloodthirsty cowards. Bet no one of them would ever think of entering that ring by themselves.
"And who would have though to see our next challenger here… A 17 year old street brawler. She has lived in Japan all her life and finally we get to see her in public! Sakamoto Ryuu!"
"She?" Paul knitted his eyebrows.
"Oi…" She said catching Paul's attention. "You have bad luck to face me before the finals." She said calmly.
"Hey it's you!" he said with a smile across his face. "You sound awfully sure about yourself…"
"Hehe…" She smirked. "It's my right."
"We'll just have to see about that wont we…" He said getting into fighting stance.
"Sure thing." She said silently and also stood in position.
"LET THE FIGHT BEGIN!" The announcer shouted loud.
A/N: For those who didn't exactly get the title of this fiction I can say that in Japanese "Sora" mean "Sky" Very well... As I said at the top.. Sometime around friday next week next updation can _probably_ be expected to happen around friday
That's I'm sorry in as many languages as I know…
It has been a shit load of time since I updated. Well there's a reason you know.., My graphic card broke so I haven't been able to write… My brother has been generous enough to give me a laptop (God Bless You Micke!) and he also moved everything from my old computer to my laptop… There is no word that can explain my gratitude.
So this is good.., now I can write wherever I am (If I have the strength to take the computer with me that is.) Even though my life crashed for a while I have been revived! :P Very well I'm going to try and update more often now. And Since I've bought myself a copy of Tekken 3 Maybe the fights will be better in the future.. I'm not so good at writing then, that I am not :P [This weak I'm aslo watching Anime 24/7 since I have countless entry to my boyfriends computer…]
The next update I guess will be in the weekend next week.
Have a Good Reading now! ;D
Chapter 20 Sky High
-Knock knock knock-
"Who the hell is so sick to be up at this early hour?"
"Ryuu…"
"What?"
"The clock is past 14:00 hours…" Hwoarang stated for her.
"Oh… Well… Let me go tell them off then."
Hwoarang just laughed softly as Ryuu got up and wrapped the cover around her. She spotted the drink Hwoarang had left on the table before and took it. Well you shouldn't waste it… She drank it up and then put it down again. She frowned lightly before she continued to the door, half-warm half-cold drinks weren't her favorite exactly. She leaned against the doorframe and waited for the waiting person to knock again.
-Knock knock knock-
She opened the door and was met by a sight she really didn't want to see. But all she did was to smile.
"Ryuu" Sora confirmed with a dark voice when she saw her. Sora's eyes almost seemed to darken.
"Well… Hello Miss whatever-your-name-is…" Ryuu tilted her head and continued watching her.
Sora's simple ponytail did give her a somewhat hard face as no hair at all disturbed her face. The lines of her face were clearly shown. Well this time she wasn't going to give in to Ryuu. She was here to see Hwoarang and she wasn't leaving till se got what she wanted.
"Is Hwoarang in there?"
"'Course he is. Come in…" She said in a surprisingly nice tone and let the door slide open. "Talon…" She shouted. "You have a guest."
She turned around and walked into the room again. She met him in the door to the bedroom.
"Where are you going?" he asked her as she passed him.
"To bed… With you out of the way maybe I'll get some actual sleep." And with those words she closed the door to the bedroom.
Hwoarang just smiled and closed the zipper on his jeans and then looked up to meet Sora's eyes. He let his fingers slip through his hair and smirked.
"It's you." He nodded towards the sofa and meant for them to sit down.
"Yeah well... I said I'd drop by." She sat down in the sofa. And watched him light up a cigarette.
"Didn't expect you so soon." He said with a smile. Just what he needed… Sora seeing him with Ryuu.
"So you're with her?" She asked while she leaned over the table to grab the cigarette from him and smoke it for herself. Her hair fell to lie over her left shoulder as she leaned back.
If everyone else was going to play badass so could she. Hwoarang was a little surprised but said nothing about it. He just lit up another one.
"Depends on what you mean with 'with' her." He said smiling. "She can be real grumpy on Mondays…" He smirked.
The door from the bedroom suddenly opened and Ryuu stepped out. Dressed and all. Hwoarang looked over at her.
"Your idea of sleeping is strange…" He said for teasing her.
"Your idea of having sex is strange…" She replied quite fast letting her fingers slip under her hair to draw it out from the black ribbon.
"Well you seem to like it."
"I'm just playing nice…" She said before she walked towards the hall.
Sora knitted her eyebrows, nice conversation to be stuck in…
"You hurt me…" He said looking like a puppy that had been told that he was wrong.
Ryuu came out of the hall dressed with her black jacket on. She glanced over at Sora. She didn't like the girl. But come to think of it… Ryuu didn't really like anyone. She met the Korean's eyes.
"The phone?" She asked.
He nodded towards the table where the telephone was. She walked over to it and lifted the receiver. Then started to dial the number, a long digit number. At last she was finished and it didn't take long until someone answered.
"Let me speak to Yama… No I don't care… … … Just put her on the phone Paula."
She looked down at the floor and waited. Hwoarang and Sora stayed quiet. Sora watched Ryuu and Hwoarang watched Sora.
How could she be so close to that woman without doing anything? Sora had truly found one of her greatest rivals in life. But what she had seen the last night… She couldn't forget. It was no mere human she was up against. And seeing the looks in Jin's face she started to wonder if she was surrounded by demons. She looked over at Hwoarang, he was at least human. She smiled when she realized that he actually was watching her, not Ryuu.
Suddenly you could hear a -very- loud voice screaming from the phone. Ryuu held the receiver a bit away and when it got quiet she put it to her ear again.
"Finished?" And the voice started to scream again. "Apparently not…" Ryuu sighed and held it away from her ear again until the voice faded. "How about now?" And finally the person at the end stayed quiet. "I just have a simple question… Has he come back yet?" She sighed somewhat discreet. "All right." And she hung up and started to walks towards the hall to head out.
"Who's 'he'?" Hwoarang asked moving his eyes unto Ryuu.
"No one." She answered fast as if she was expecting the question.
She grabbed the black ribbon from the shelf in the hallway and disappeared out the door with a large noise. Sora crossed her arms with a strange look on her face.
"Are you the kind of couple that solves anything with sex?" She asked quite bold.
But Hwoarang just laughed. She arched an eyebrow at him.
"It's not the question really… To mentioned Ryuu and me as a couple." He shook his head "I think she wants a relationship even less than me. In -that- kind of way…"
"Still you could've killed her when you found out about Jin."
"That's different." He said and rose from the couch to walk up by the windows. "Jin is an enemy."
"Your enemy." She stated as if that was the sole reason.
"Not only." He said as his gaze at the Mishima Mansion got quite hateful. "No one of my men will ever look upon him with a happy eye."
Sora smiled.
"Then she is not one of your men." Finally something to hold between him and that woman.
He smiled a little as he crossed his arms. He watch the windowsill. What she said… It was half true… half false. Ryuu wasn't rally someone that you could take command over. In fact she had become just as much leader as Hwoarang was when you came to think of it. Besides… Hwoarang liked her. He liked her way of handling things, he liked her way of acting, and he liked her way of dressing and so on. Bud did he like -like- her?
"Your right… She's not one of my men… She's my girl… my equal." … "'Nuff said about that." He said before Sora could start digging deeper into his emotions and shit like that. "How about you?" He asked while he stubbed the cig in the ashtray and turned around.
* * *
Jin kept starring up at the roof of his room. What the hell happened yesterday? What was she saying? He's not human? He shook his head to get it out of his mind. Bullshit. She had to be lying. He sat up in the bed and looked down at his hand. It was true, that strength wasn't a human, least of all it wouldn't belong to an 17-year-old girl. So he had to admit that it was possible…
The bandage was wrapped around his index finger. It seemed that it wasn't really broken, only 'dislocated' or something like that. But still it was pretty amazing. He regretted that he didn't start out serious from the beginning. Then he might even have had a chance. Damn it… He didn't even get to warm up before. But really would it have helped? This whole Demon thing…
He shook his head in disbelief. He simply had to confront Ryuu again. Although she had told him to stay away from her. And why the hell did she do that? Well he was going to find out… one way or another,
* * *
Today there was a horde of people arriving at The Mishima hotel. The first games had even already begun. Ryuu sighed as she walked out. There was a lot of people who was going home with serious injuries. Right now she could kill some of them just because they were in her way. Finally she reached the parking lot for the motorcycles and walked up to hers.
"Nice bike you have there."
She heard a mans voice behind her. She turned her head around since she didn't recognize it and spotted a blond haired man, sitting on another bike. His hair seemed quite… odd. It stood straight up as if it created a platform ten centimeters above his head. She smiled a crooked smile.
"I know." She said and turned back her head and mounted the bike.
"You wanna race?" He asked in a challenging voice.
"Hmm" She smiled to herself as she tied the black ribbon around her head. "You wanna race me?"
"Why not…"
"Yeah… why not." Her hands dropped and she turned around to meet the man's eyes completely for the first time.
She smiled lightly and he did the same. She hadn't raced in a while. She hadn't done anything that she enjoyed in a while.
"You chose the target. I know Tokyo to good for it to be fair if I get to chose." She said starting up her bike and turning her head away from him again.
"How about Dock 37 on the harbor?" He mounted the bike and fired up the engine. "I have to attend to a round down there anyway."
"Sure" She smiled.
She also was ordered to go there to attend to her first fight. Since she was personally invited she didn't need to fight the peasants of the competition. That's the only thing she hated about tournaments. It always drew so many losers. Especially when the price was this high. But she knew that Heihachi never would let The Zaibatsu Empire out of his grasp. Why did she agree to be in this competition then? Well that was easy to figure out… She wanted revenge on Heihachi.
They both lined up at the road. The man and looked over at Ryuu. She raised an eyebrow and then looked at the road. The signs changed to green and the both of them disappeared quite fast down the road.
The first kilometers they both lay very close to each other. But soon Ryuu disappeared from the main course. She disappeared unto one of the sideways. The man just glanced on her and then disappeared into another sideway. The man raged trough sideways that you could think is impossible to drive through, but in some way he managed. He jumped over obstacles and so on, at last he could se the dock and speeded up, even more.
For Ryuu it was pretty much the same. Only she knew what was waiting for her at the next turn. She had got rid of several of stokers this way. Finally she could spot the sea. She let the motor have more gas. She couldn't see the man. Either she was first… or last.
Her engine died out and she leaned against at the back support. Her eyes scanned the area, slowly. She turned her head backwards and before she had turned it all the way she heard a voice shouting from behind.
"Not so bad raced there. You're the only one in a long time that was so close to me."
Ryuu smiled faintly as she recognized the voice of the man. She dismounted the bike and looked at him. She leaned against her bike.
"Are you as good at fighting as you are on driving that bike of yours?" She asked him calmly
"Why don't you watch me!" He said and pointed towards a building behind her. "Just listen for them to call my name, it's Paul. I'm supposed to fight some guy named Ryuu. Tell you what… if I win I'll buy you a dinner."
Ryuu had a hard time holding it in. Some -guy- named Ryuu? But why not just play along with it.
"Sure." She replied shortly and watched as he started to make his way to one of the doors. "Here we go again." She said calmly and started to advance towards another door.
* * *
"What -about- me?" Sora asked as she watched him sit down.
He sat down in the same sofa as her. With his back leaning at the arm stead and his right knee resting against the back of the sofa. His hands joined together and looked at her.
"You are a mystery." She was quite surprised at his statement. "Tell me something about you that nobody else knows…" He challenged her.
She looked at him. Could she trust him? Would she tell him? What would she tell him? Come to think of it her life was rather… boring. Well there was this thing about her mother… But that wasn't going out in the air. Maybe it wasn't so big of a deal to others… To her it was the worst thing that her mother could ever do. She cleared her throat to get her mind of it but Hwoarang wouldn't let her.
"What were you thinking about just now?" He asked her and still held his eyes firmly on her. And almost refused to have them anywhere else.
"Nothing." She assured him
"Oh, so it was nothing that disturbed your eyes?"
"What are you talking about?" She asked like she didn't understand.
If you saw her you could see that she was good at this. Concealing what she really meant and acting like she knew nothing. But also, Hwoarang knew how to read people. It was something you learned when you lived a life like his. She leaned forward and let the cigarette burn out in the ashtray on the table.
"Come on… just tell me…" He urged her.
She broke his eyecontact for a while and stared into the wall. She breathed slowly but lastly decided. No. Hwoarang was the last one to know. She put a smile on her pretty little face and turned towards him again.
"It's nothing." She said calmly.
"Oh it's something alright. And someday I'm gonna make you tell me." He said with one of his gorgeous smirks on his lips. "So... When's your first match?"
"Uhm not yet for a while." She answered a little surprised that he dropped the subject so sudden.
"No?" He asked and raised an eyebrow. "The tournament is in full going. They count the finals to take place in about three days. And you don't have any fights for a while?"
"Correct. I've on Heihachi's command already reached the finals." She watched his half impressed looks and then continued. "It's pretty soft. When's your first fight?" She asked with interest in her voice.
"Tomorrow. Against some guy named Eddy."
"Aah. He's quite good." She smiled. "But not as good as I am." She said in a luring voice. "To bad you don't fight girls... Isn't it?"
Interested Hwoarang arched an eyebrow. Was this girl, no woman, challenging him? He leaned forward a bit. A cheap way of coming closer to her.
"Are you challenging me, daughter of Baek?"
She turned around in the sofa so she would face him. She as well leaned forward towards him. And didn't stop until she was sure that she could whisper and he would still hear her voice. She scanned him from head to toe before she met his eyes again.
"I sure as hell am." She whispered in her ever calm voice.
He smiled vaguely. Their lips were only inches away. And their noses only millimeters. He couldn't kiss her! No he couldn't. He wanted to, oh did he ever, but he just couldn't. This was Baek's daughter for Christ sake! And he -couldn't- disrespect his master. No way.
And his thoughts were suddenly broken buy a pair of dense lips pressing against his own. Ripped into reality he saw that she had actually leaned forward and SHE had kissed HIM. It took a second or two before he figured out what to do. He decided to enjoy the moment and let his hand slip by her face and he held her in the back of her head. Her hair slipped through his fingers and she loved the feeling.
Right now she wouldn't even mind dying.
* * *
Ryuu heard the door close heavily behind her and a guy with a headset walked up to her looking down at some papers before he spoke to her.
"Who are you? Only the fighters are allowed through this entrance." He spoke quite loud to overpower the shouting and cheering inside.
"I'm Ryuu." She said coldly and looked down at the shorter guy.
"Hold on a minuet." He said and lifted a paper and read some lines. "Oh sorry, the other crew told me we were expecting a man. Right this way then Miss Ryuu."
Ryuu said nothing and just followed the guy. She looked at the battered man that was carried out on a stretcher. She raised her eyebrow as the man grabbed her wrist and looked down at him.
"Quit while you can… He's a monster…" He forced out from his exhausted body.
Ryuu only looked at him and raised an eyebrow and peeked in. She saw a man receiving the cries of the crowd. She frowned lightly as she saw something that looked more like a robot. Metal all over his body and mechanic red glowing eyes. She grabbed one of the crew.
"Hey, who is that?" She asked monotonous.
The girl glanced inside the arena and saw the robot(?) walking off the arena.
"Oh, that's Gun Jack. You wouldn't believe what kind of people that enters this tournament." She shook her head.
And she went of again. Gun Jack? Geez… if that's a robot someone had an extreme lack of fantasy when s/he named it….
"And our next challenger… PAUL PHOENIX!"
And everyone in the crowd cheered as the host walked around the ring and informed further about the man. Ryuu yawned and looked at the crowd. Geez a giant bunch of bloodthirsty cowards. Bet no one of them would ever think of entering that ring by themselves.
"And who would have though to see our next challenger here… A 17 year old street brawler. She has lived in Japan all her life and finally we get to see her in public! Sakamoto Ryuu!"
"She?" Paul knitted his eyebrows.
"Oi…" She said catching Paul's attention. "You have bad luck to face me before the finals." She said calmly.
"Hey it's you!" he said with a smile across his face. "You sound awfully sure about yourself…"
"Hehe…" She smirked. "It's my right."
"We'll just have to see about that wont we…" He said getting into fighting stance.
"Sure thing." She said silently and also stood in position.
"LET THE FIGHT BEGIN!" The announcer shouted loud.
A/N: For those who didn't exactly get the title of this fiction I can say that in Japanese "Sora" mean "Sky" Very well... As I said at the top.. Sometime around friday next week next updation can _probably_ be expected to happen around friday