A/N: Well this is chapter 25.. I'm really busy with everything now... But I write on this fic whenever I get the chance.. so if I were you I wouldn't expect an update untill after X-mas or new year... I'll try my best though! Have a happy reading everyone! ^_^
Chapter 25 A bond hard to Break
Ryuu opened her eyes slowly. But only to find out that where she was, was just as dark as inside of her eyelids. She tried to move her arms but felt that they were tied together above her head. She tried to tear it down but heard the sound of chains clattering. She sighed heavily. Steel chains, it had to be. It was the only metal she couldn't effect for some reason.
She blinked and tried to figure out some contours but for no result. She was tired that was one thing she knew for sure. That sphere must still be inside her body. That was why it was aching all over her body. But nothing she couldn't cope with.
She felt a sudden change in the air and moved her head towards it. It was a smell. A slight flow that she could recognize. Soon a door opened and she looked straightly towards it. The sudden light from outside didn't bother her eyes. She adjusted after it faster than anyone would. The sight she met wasn't the most pleasant though.
"That face…" The old man smiled. "So serious, untouchable in a way. It does become you…"
"From where did you get the websphere?" She asked shortly.
"Oh so that's what it's called. Well it doesn't matter as long as it works. And it did… quite well." He stepped up to her. "But to still your curiosity it was a man who sold it to me. " He smiled.
"Give it up Heihachi. You'll never succeed with your intentions."
"We'll see about that." He smiled and walked up closer to her. "I guess I can't count on your cooperation this time either?" He raised his eyebrow.
"Never heard the word before."
She said as Heihachi started walking around her. Letting his eyes seek her body. She felt his wrinkled hand on her back as he stopped to let it slip over her shoulders.
"I'll discover your secret someday…"
"You're deluding yourself."
"We'll see." He smiled and walked up towards the door. "By the way, there is someone you should meet." And a figure covered the light from outside. "Dr. Abel. One of the more successful of our scientists. You'll be spending a lot of time with him. Well… I'll leave you two to get acquainted."
And while the smaller man stepped inside Heihachi disappeared round the corner.
"Young Ryuu I assume?" He asked smiling in malice.
* * *
"Mr. Kazama?" A young man popped his head out from a room.
"You're done?" He asked rising from the chair.
"Yeah" He said looking at both directions. "Come quick if the boss finds out about this it's my head that rolls. I found something quite neat."
Jin followed the youngster he had left the gun with into his room. It seemed like he had found something out on it. The man closed the door quickly behind Jin and locked it. He pulled out another chair for Jin to sit in. He walked up to the window and rolled down the blinds to. He sat down in the chair in front of the computer and a program asking for a code appeared. He typed it in the speed of light it seemed and then clicked up the information.
"Her name is Nina Williams. She was actually a test subject for this cooperation."
"For the Mishima Zaibatsu?" Jin frowned.
"Yes! Now look here…" He said and scrolled down the text. "Test subject #1 in the project of cryogenic research. (Captured during the second tournament.) Experiments were going fine until some weeks ago when she was brought out of the cold sleep and kidnapped." He read out loud. "But the strange is this... Read about the kidnapper…" He said and scrolled it further down and let Jin read for himself.
'Kidnapper - unknown. The ones who seemed to have spotted this being have not been themselves since. One rambled about a Semi-Human life form, taller than a human and well built. There are suspicions and theories that it was Toshin.'
"Toshin?" He asked silently and suddenly remembered something. Something from a long time ago. He blinked fast and stood up. "Thanks, you've been a great help."
"No problem man. Just.. don't speak a word of this." He looked a little worried.
"Don't worry." Jin smiled. "I don't even know what you're talking about."
"Nice."
And Jin stepped outside again. He instantly headed for the door. There was something extremely fishy about this. All right he probably wasn't too surprised by the company using a human guinea pig. That she had been forced to it. But Toshin… the description of him was scarcely alike something he had seen before. A long time ago. Something he desperately had tried to forget. He stopped by the exit. And with his hand of the door he silently, and oddly, thought of taking a stroll in the woods… (No I haven't gone insane… this just fits the story line -_-)
* * *
"In what mental institution did he find you?" Ryuu asked while she tilted her head.
"Amusing… I think I'm going to find that treating you will be quite amusing." He kept smiling.
"Well I'm glad to be able to please someone."
"Oh… did I sense sarcasm in that sentence? I've heard the rumors about you. You seem resistant to everything. And never show a hint of pain. We'll se if the same rumors circles when I'm done with you."
"I think you are mixing rumors and facts." She answered quite cool.
"Confident" He nodded and turned around to walk out. Talking to himself in a low tune.
And the two soldiers standing by the door closed it after him. The darkness engulfed the room once more. She sighed heavily. Last time it took her two years to get out of there. If only she wasn't chained by her feet too she would've already broken Heihachi's neck and would be walking in the free by now. But they wouldn't make the same mistake twice… She had broken the neck of the guard when she escaped last time.
"Just as long as I get to that devil before anyone else…" She sighed.
And with that an idea grew in her mind. Maybe… even from inside this place without knowing his exact whereabouts… Just maybe she could seal the demon inside of Jin? A shallow seal, probably enough in this world where no one had enough knowledge to break it.
* * *
Just when Jin pulled the handbrake to stop the car from rolling backwards he felt something. What he couldn't explain… it was just something he felt. He stopped for a moment before he got out of the car. Could it be 'that'? Inside? He sighed and shook his head. That wasn't the exact reason of why he was here.
He didn't bother to lock the door. He knew well that no one moved in these circles. Especially since a rare Legend was created. A legend which in this case was true. The larger road he was walking on soon turned into a smaller more savage path. At last it didn't look like a path at all. It didn't take long until the forest just suddenly opened itself. He stood in an open space right there in the forest.
He turned his head down and clenched his teeth. He wasn't supposed to come back here… ever again. He slowly lifted his head towards his right and saw the few burned branches that were left. The high grass that had grown over the years almost covered it completely. Like nothing had happened.
Well something had happened. Something that had etched to his memory and wasn't going to let him go, ever. He had lived here once.. as a boy… a young happy boy. As he looked around he could see the shadows of the memories plain alive in front of his eyes.
*Flash*
Jin as a two-year-old learning how two walk with help of his smiling mother.
*Flash*
A four-year-old was chasing a butterfly by the lines of a flowerbed.
*Flash*
A year later he was chasing a cat up a tree and fell. His worried mom came running towards a crying Jin and comforted him, relieved that he had no serious injuries.
*Flash*
A proud eleven year old training side by side with his mother. Learning and mastering the Kazama style of self-defense.
*Flash*
Flames… Wait… flames in a happy idyll?
Jin walked up to the burned down house and kneeled. His fingers slipped over the rough surface and rusty nails. He couldn't remember a darker nigh than that.
~FlashBack~
The night was turning out to be a quite cold one. And the wind kept howling around the corners of the house. But Jin, the fifteen-year-old little boy, slept tight. His mother, however, was walking around the little cottage. There was something that wasn't right. She could swear it. After a while of uneasiness she got up from her bead and took on her long jeans together with a camisole. Firstly she walked over to her son's room and checked if he was sound asleep. She smiled at him and closed the door.
Right at that second she could swear that there was a shadow on the door. But when she turned around… nothing was there. Her eyes narrowed and she felt the creeping cold down her spine. No something was definitely out there. She could feel its aura lurking around. She looked back at the door that led to Jin's room. She pulled out a drawer and took up a key, which she locked the door with.
She turned around and headed for the front door. She unlocked it slowly and carefully and then locked in the same manner when she was on the other side of it. The wind grabbed her clothes over and over again as if it wanted her to walk a certain way. Smiling towards the direction it blew she turned to go the other. She noticed how the wind increased in force but she just shook her head. She knew the nature. And this was its way of telling her there was a grave danger there that she shouldn't walk into.
But she had more than her own life to think about. She also had Jin's.
"Quite spirit for a woman… woman."
Suddenly two glowing eyes appeared in front of her and slowly the contours of a being formed. She realized rather quickly that this was not a normal human. If it even was human. She put her hand up in front of her in an instant.
"Who are you?" She demanded.
"I think a more desired answer would be…" And his full feature of a Semi-human appeared from the thick darkness. "'What is my purpose?'" And the 'thing' smiled.
Her eyes widened at its appearance. After seeing this she realized he was right. She was more anxious and scared about his purpose than who he was.
"Don't worry." His dark voice flowed. "Cooperate and this wont hurt… so long." He grinned.
And with a sudden and extreme speed he advanced towards her. She was lucky enough that a lightning struck down in a tree just next to them and somewhat scared the green man. She had the instant of a second to escape. And she managed to get her feet on the run. She glanced back just vaguely to see that he was still after her and didn't move against the cottage. Panic grasped her heart when she saw the man closing in on her quickly and at the same time she saw the burning tree to fall down on the house.
"NO!!" She screamed in panic remembering that she locked Jin's door.
***
Jin woke up suddenly in his deep sleep hearing some fuzz from outside. The young boy frowned and got up from his bed rubbing his eyes. He walked up to the door and tried to press down the handle to find out that his door was locked.
"What?" He asked surprised and tried to open it several of times. "Mother?" He asked but all he got as answer was the sound of a lightning and then branches hitting the roof of the house.
Jin looked up at the roof and after some seconds he could see smokes forcing its way in. He realized quick that he had to get out of there. He tried to burst the door open a couple of times but he saw the smoke coming from the frames to. So he turned and grabbed a vase that he threw out of the window. He broke of a leg from the chair by his desk and with the help of it he cleared the corners of the window from splinters. He jumped out and slipped around the corner of the house to get to the front door. He still didn't know if his mother had made it out in time!
But his concern was soon exchanged with chock. He saw his mother being held by this green creature by her throat so she could hardly breathe.
"Mother!" He shouted at his fullest.
The being reacted on an instant and turned his head towards him. With a faint smile he looked back at the woman.
"No Jin don't!" She shouted with her feet leaving the ground.
"Well what do we have here… So you are a mother to… I wonder how well his soul would taste…"
"You wouldn't dare!" She warned him between clenched teeth.
"You want to make a bet on that one?" He grinned.
"Powers of the earth…" She closed her eyes hard and shouted to the very core of the planet.
"What are you trying to do now woman?" He asked tilting his head.
"I never was much for the magic. But this will buy me some time." She whispered and raised her hand. With power out of nowhere she hit him.
The creature growled and made a quick exit into the forest. She knew that it wouldn't be for long though. Jin just reached his mother and kneeled by her as she had fallen down.
"Jin listen to me…" She panted with a soar throat. "There is a man in Tokyo-"
"Mother what's happening?" He cut her off.
"I said listen to me!" She said hard and grabbed his shoulders. "His name is Heihachi Mishima." She almost frowned at his name. She hoped that she never would have to reveal this truth to Jin. "He is your grandfather. You must find him and ask him to take care of you. Promise me Jin, promise!"
"Of course mother I promise but I… I don't understand? What was that? What's going on?" His eyebrows knit and he got a concern look on his face.
"Oh Jin…" She placed a hand on his cheek and spilled a tear from her eye. "I love you… You know that right?"
"What are you trying to say?" And his voice became harder.
"I'm sorry." She said and embraced him quickly and hard. She kissed him on the cheek and then rose quickly. "Don't follow me! Just get away from here as quick as you can!" And she turned in an instant to disappear into the forest.
"MOTHER!" He shouted and watched her disappear. He stood still at first. He realized what she was doing. And his fist clenched slowly. "Like hell I could just turn tail and run."
~End Flashback~
Jin rose and watched the place where he had first seen that green being. He walked up there but didn't stop. He continued into the forest just as he had done that night. He walked slowly until he reached a place where nothing any longer grew…
~FlashBack~
He ran… faster than he had ever done before. Branches were continuously hitting him but he ignored it. And if he fell he was up in less than a second. Until he came to a brute stop.
His eyes widened to the biggest extent. Below the large green being laid his mother… lifeless. The creature laughed in a very much evil overmighty kind of way.
"You…" He panted and anger spread out his whole body.
"Hmm?" With his superior appearance he looked down at the boy and a smiled crept across his face. "The woman has a child… Hmm?" He looked closer on Jin's forehead and saw a weak red light shining beneath his forehead. He got a smug look on his face. "Grow up boy."
And he disappeared into nothing right in front of his eyes.
~End Flashback~
That day Jin had buried his own mother with his bare hands. His whole world had fallen apart. Whether he liked it or not the memory had faded within his mind and had grown less painful. After he had met his grandfather things had changed so dramatically. But to regain his memory wasn't the reason he was here. It was the name… Toshin.
And the second he thought of the name he felt a chill wind around him. His every muscle became tense and he turned around to se if anyone… or anything… was there. But all that he noticed was that the sun had set.
* * *
"Come on now Jin where the hell are you…" Ryuu whispered concentrating in her mind.
What she was doing was searching for Jin's presence. She probably couldn't locate his exact whereabouts but she needed a good hunch. And after a while of concentration she could feel where his presence was. Not Jin's… but devils.
"I call upon the hidden power of the binding earth." And before her eyes she saw a lingering mark.
/-\
Jin reacted slowly on a feeling he started to turn his head slowly.
/-\
"To imprison a devil from ancient times, a lingering soul of the immortal."
/-\
A flash of light caught his attention. His head flung back to see a running light towards him.
/-\
"Hide his power until it is time." She opened her eyes to se the darkness engulfing her. "Until I see the sun again."
/-\
He felt a ripping pain on his upper left arm and grabbed it. He looked above his head and saw a blue shimmering figure. What caught his eyes was the strange lines of wings and the very distinguish eyes. Looking at him, into him. Only a moment later this… beast was gone. Jin watched it as the shimmering light disappeared and exposed the clear sky. He turned his head down and then to the place of the arm he was covering with his hand. He took away his hand and saw the black mark that stretched over his upper arm. (And that would be my explanation to how he got his mark-thingy.)
Chapter 25 A bond hard to Break
Ryuu opened her eyes slowly. But only to find out that where she was, was just as dark as inside of her eyelids. She tried to move her arms but felt that they were tied together above her head. She tried to tear it down but heard the sound of chains clattering. She sighed heavily. Steel chains, it had to be. It was the only metal she couldn't effect for some reason.
She blinked and tried to figure out some contours but for no result. She was tired that was one thing she knew for sure. That sphere must still be inside her body. That was why it was aching all over her body. But nothing she couldn't cope with.
She felt a sudden change in the air and moved her head towards it. It was a smell. A slight flow that she could recognize. Soon a door opened and she looked straightly towards it. The sudden light from outside didn't bother her eyes. She adjusted after it faster than anyone would. The sight she met wasn't the most pleasant though.
"That face…" The old man smiled. "So serious, untouchable in a way. It does become you…"
"From where did you get the websphere?" She asked shortly.
"Oh so that's what it's called. Well it doesn't matter as long as it works. And it did… quite well." He stepped up to her. "But to still your curiosity it was a man who sold it to me. " He smiled.
"Give it up Heihachi. You'll never succeed with your intentions."
"We'll see about that." He smiled and walked up closer to her. "I guess I can't count on your cooperation this time either?" He raised his eyebrow.
"Never heard the word before."
She said as Heihachi started walking around her. Letting his eyes seek her body. She felt his wrinkled hand on her back as he stopped to let it slip over her shoulders.
"I'll discover your secret someday…"
"You're deluding yourself."
"We'll see." He smiled and walked up towards the door. "By the way, there is someone you should meet." And a figure covered the light from outside. "Dr. Abel. One of the more successful of our scientists. You'll be spending a lot of time with him. Well… I'll leave you two to get acquainted."
And while the smaller man stepped inside Heihachi disappeared round the corner.
"Young Ryuu I assume?" He asked smiling in malice.
* * *
"Mr. Kazama?" A young man popped his head out from a room.
"You're done?" He asked rising from the chair.
"Yeah" He said looking at both directions. "Come quick if the boss finds out about this it's my head that rolls. I found something quite neat."
Jin followed the youngster he had left the gun with into his room. It seemed like he had found something out on it. The man closed the door quickly behind Jin and locked it. He pulled out another chair for Jin to sit in. He walked up to the window and rolled down the blinds to. He sat down in the chair in front of the computer and a program asking for a code appeared. He typed it in the speed of light it seemed and then clicked up the information.
"Her name is Nina Williams. She was actually a test subject for this cooperation."
"For the Mishima Zaibatsu?" Jin frowned.
"Yes! Now look here…" He said and scrolled down the text. "Test subject #1 in the project of cryogenic research. (Captured during the second tournament.) Experiments were going fine until some weeks ago when she was brought out of the cold sleep and kidnapped." He read out loud. "But the strange is this... Read about the kidnapper…" He said and scrolled it further down and let Jin read for himself.
'Kidnapper - unknown. The ones who seemed to have spotted this being have not been themselves since. One rambled about a Semi-Human life form, taller than a human and well built. There are suspicions and theories that it was Toshin.'
"Toshin?" He asked silently and suddenly remembered something. Something from a long time ago. He blinked fast and stood up. "Thanks, you've been a great help."
"No problem man. Just.. don't speak a word of this." He looked a little worried.
"Don't worry." Jin smiled. "I don't even know what you're talking about."
"Nice."
And Jin stepped outside again. He instantly headed for the door. There was something extremely fishy about this. All right he probably wasn't too surprised by the company using a human guinea pig. That she had been forced to it. But Toshin… the description of him was scarcely alike something he had seen before. A long time ago. Something he desperately had tried to forget. He stopped by the exit. And with his hand of the door he silently, and oddly, thought of taking a stroll in the woods… (No I haven't gone insane… this just fits the story line -_-)
* * *
"In what mental institution did he find you?" Ryuu asked while she tilted her head.
"Amusing… I think I'm going to find that treating you will be quite amusing." He kept smiling.
"Well I'm glad to be able to please someone."
"Oh… did I sense sarcasm in that sentence? I've heard the rumors about you. You seem resistant to everything. And never show a hint of pain. We'll se if the same rumors circles when I'm done with you."
"I think you are mixing rumors and facts." She answered quite cool.
"Confident" He nodded and turned around to walk out. Talking to himself in a low tune.
And the two soldiers standing by the door closed it after him. The darkness engulfed the room once more. She sighed heavily. Last time it took her two years to get out of there. If only she wasn't chained by her feet too she would've already broken Heihachi's neck and would be walking in the free by now. But they wouldn't make the same mistake twice… She had broken the neck of the guard when she escaped last time.
"Just as long as I get to that devil before anyone else…" She sighed.
And with that an idea grew in her mind. Maybe… even from inside this place without knowing his exact whereabouts… Just maybe she could seal the demon inside of Jin? A shallow seal, probably enough in this world where no one had enough knowledge to break it.
* * *
Just when Jin pulled the handbrake to stop the car from rolling backwards he felt something. What he couldn't explain… it was just something he felt. He stopped for a moment before he got out of the car. Could it be 'that'? Inside? He sighed and shook his head. That wasn't the exact reason of why he was here.
He didn't bother to lock the door. He knew well that no one moved in these circles. Especially since a rare Legend was created. A legend which in this case was true. The larger road he was walking on soon turned into a smaller more savage path. At last it didn't look like a path at all. It didn't take long until the forest just suddenly opened itself. He stood in an open space right there in the forest.
He turned his head down and clenched his teeth. He wasn't supposed to come back here… ever again. He slowly lifted his head towards his right and saw the few burned branches that were left. The high grass that had grown over the years almost covered it completely. Like nothing had happened.
Well something had happened. Something that had etched to his memory and wasn't going to let him go, ever. He had lived here once.. as a boy… a young happy boy. As he looked around he could see the shadows of the memories plain alive in front of his eyes.
*Flash*
Jin as a two-year-old learning how two walk with help of his smiling mother.
*Flash*
A four-year-old was chasing a butterfly by the lines of a flowerbed.
*Flash*
A year later he was chasing a cat up a tree and fell. His worried mom came running towards a crying Jin and comforted him, relieved that he had no serious injuries.
*Flash*
A proud eleven year old training side by side with his mother. Learning and mastering the Kazama style of self-defense.
*Flash*
Flames… Wait… flames in a happy idyll?
Jin walked up to the burned down house and kneeled. His fingers slipped over the rough surface and rusty nails. He couldn't remember a darker nigh than that.
~FlashBack~
The night was turning out to be a quite cold one. And the wind kept howling around the corners of the house. But Jin, the fifteen-year-old little boy, slept tight. His mother, however, was walking around the little cottage. There was something that wasn't right. She could swear it. After a while of uneasiness she got up from her bead and took on her long jeans together with a camisole. Firstly she walked over to her son's room and checked if he was sound asleep. She smiled at him and closed the door.
Right at that second she could swear that there was a shadow on the door. But when she turned around… nothing was there. Her eyes narrowed and she felt the creeping cold down her spine. No something was definitely out there. She could feel its aura lurking around. She looked back at the door that led to Jin's room. She pulled out a drawer and took up a key, which she locked the door with.
She turned around and headed for the front door. She unlocked it slowly and carefully and then locked in the same manner when she was on the other side of it. The wind grabbed her clothes over and over again as if it wanted her to walk a certain way. Smiling towards the direction it blew she turned to go the other. She noticed how the wind increased in force but she just shook her head. She knew the nature. And this was its way of telling her there was a grave danger there that she shouldn't walk into.
But she had more than her own life to think about. She also had Jin's.
"Quite spirit for a woman… woman."
Suddenly two glowing eyes appeared in front of her and slowly the contours of a being formed. She realized rather quickly that this was not a normal human. If it even was human. She put her hand up in front of her in an instant.
"Who are you?" She demanded.
"I think a more desired answer would be…" And his full feature of a Semi-human appeared from the thick darkness. "'What is my purpose?'" And the 'thing' smiled.
Her eyes widened at its appearance. After seeing this she realized he was right. She was more anxious and scared about his purpose than who he was.
"Don't worry." His dark voice flowed. "Cooperate and this wont hurt… so long." He grinned.
And with a sudden and extreme speed he advanced towards her. She was lucky enough that a lightning struck down in a tree just next to them and somewhat scared the green man. She had the instant of a second to escape. And she managed to get her feet on the run. She glanced back just vaguely to see that he was still after her and didn't move against the cottage. Panic grasped her heart when she saw the man closing in on her quickly and at the same time she saw the burning tree to fall down on the house.
"NO!!" She screamed in panic remembering that she locked Jin's door.
***
Jin woke up suddenly in his deep sleep hearing some fuzz from outside. The young boy frowned and got up from his bed rubbing his eyes. He walked up to the door and tried to press down the handle to find out that his door was locked.
"What?" He asked surprised and tried to open it several of times. "Mother?" He asked but all he got as answer was the sound of a lightning and then branches hitting the roof of the house.
Jin looked up at the roof and after some seconds he could see smokes forcing its way in. He realized quick that he had to get out of there. He tried to burst the door open a couple of times but he saw the smoke coming from the frames to. So he turned and grabbed a vase that he threw out of the window. He broke of a leg from the chair by his desk and with the help of it he cleared the corners of the window from splinters. He jumped out and slipped around the corner of the house to get to the front door. He still didn't know if his mother had made it out in time!
But his concern was soon exchanged with chock. He saw his mother being held by this green creature by her throat so she could hardly breathe.
"Mother!" He shouted at his fullest.
The being reacted on an instant and turned his head towards him. With a faint smile he looked back at the woman.
"No Jin don't!" She shouted with her feet leaving the ground.
"Well what do we have here… So you are a mother to… I wonder how well his soul would taste…"
"You wouldn't dare!" She warned him between clenched teeth.
"You want to make a bet on that one?" He grinned.
"Powers of the earth…" She closed her eyes hard and shouted to the very core of the planet.
"What are you trying to do now woman?" He asked tilting his head.
"I never was much for the magic. But this will buy me some time." She whispered and raised her hand. With power out of nowhere she hit him.
The creature growled and made a quick exit into the forest. She knew that it wouldn't be for long though. Jin just reached his mother and kneeled by her as she had fallen down.
"Jin listen to me…" She panted with a soar throat. "There is a man in Tokyo-"
"Mother what's happening?" He cut her off.
"I said listen to me!" She said hard and grabbed his shoulders. "His name is Heihachi Mishima." She almost frowned at his name. She hoped that she never would have to reveal this truth to Jin. "He is your grandfather. You must find him and ask him to take care of you. Promise me Jin, promise!"
"Of course mother I promise but I… I don't understand? What was that? What's going on?" His eyebrows knit and he got a concern look on his face.
"Oh Jin…" She placed a hand on his cheek and spilled a tear from her eye. "I love you… You know that right?"
"What are you trying to say?" And his voice became harder.
"I'm sorry." She said and embraced him quickly and hard. She kissed him on the cheek and then rose quickly. "Don't follow me! Just get away from here as quick as you can!" And she turned in an instant to disappear into the forest.
"MOTHER!" He shouted and watched her disappear. He stood still at first. He realized what she was doing. And his fist clenched slowly. "Like hell I could just turn tail and run."
~End Flashback~
Jin rose and watched the place where he had first seen that green being. He walked up there but didn't stop. He continued into the forest just as he had done that night. He walked slowly until he reached a place where nothing any longer grew…
~FlashBack~
He ran… faster than he had ever done before. Branches were continuously hitting him but he ignored it. And if he fell he was up in less than a second. Until he came to a brute stop.
His eyes widened to the biggest extent. Below the large green being laid his mother… lifeless. The creature laughed in a very much evil overmighty kind of way.
"You…" He panted and anger spread out his whole body.
"Hmm?" With his superior appearance he looked down at the boy and a smiled crept across his face. "The woman has a child… Hmm?" He looked closer on Jin's forehead and saw a weak red light shining beneath his forehead. He got a smug look on his face. "Grow up boy."
And he disappeared into nothing right in front of his eyes.
~End Flashback~
That day Jin had buried his own mother with his bare hands. His whole world had fallen apart. Whether he liked it or not the memory had faded within his mind and had grown less painful. After he had met his grandfather things had changed so dramatically. But to regain his memory wasn't the reason he was here. It was the name… Toshin.
And the second he thought of the name he felt a chill wind around him. His every muscle became tense and he turned around to se if anyone… or anything… was there. But all that he noticed was that the sun had set.
* * *
"Come on now Jin where the hell are you…" Ryuu whispered concentrating in her mind.
What she was doing was searching for Jin's presence. She probably couldn't locate his exact whereabouts but she needed a good hunch. And after a while of concentration she could feel where his presence was. Not Jin's… but devils.
"I call upon the hidden power of the binding earth." And before her eyes she saw a lingering mark.
/-\
Jin reacted slowly on a feeling he started to turn his head slowly.
/-\
"To imprison a devil from ancient times, a lingering soul of the immortal."
/-\
A flash of light caught his attention. His head flung back to see a running light towards him.
/-\
"Hide his power until it is time." She opened her eyes to se the darkness engulfing her. "Until I see the sun again."
/-\
He felt a ripping pain on his upper left arm and grabbed it. He looked above his head and saw a blue shimmering figure. What caught his eyes was the strange lines of wings and the very distinguish eyes. Looking at him, into him. Only a moment later this… beast was gone. Jin watched it as the shimmering light disappeared and exposed the clear sky. He turned his head down and then to the place of the arm he was covering with his hand. He took away his hand and saw the black mark that stretched over his upper arm. (And that would be my explanation to how he got his mark-thingy.)