Authors Notes: Okay people, I'm back with a new Xiaoyin fic. I wanted to try and put a little humor in my fic, just like my Hardships one, and hopefully it turns out right and hopefully even better than that one. This fic does not follow any storyline from Tekken, this is completely my plot, and the characters act exactly the way I want them. Setting is Japan, not exactly all modern during this time yet. This chapter would be entirely Xiaoyu's POV. Hope you enjoy. :)

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this fan fiction or Tekken. This fan fiction is simply the result of my wild imagination and weird dreams.

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Finding my way to you

Chapter One: Thrown out.

By: misao seta

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I sat quietly beside the window, my shoulder length raven hair was pulled back by a rubber band, my right hand was on the desk supporting my chin, my hand left silently twirled my pencil and my chocolate brown pupils focused on the soft 'pitter-patter' of the rain as it clashed with the window. Like most of the time these days I am unhappy and today the weather seemed to join me and my despair as it showered the city with big icy drops from the heavens.

"Xiaoyu, honey, why the long and sad face?" a voice from behind called, without looking back, I siletly murmured an answer to my concerned roommate, Miharu.

Ever since we graduated from college, Miharu, Julia and I decided to pull out our savings and rent ourselves an apartment. Our own flat. Our pad. Ours. Sounds nice huh? We felt the need for independence and staying and living with our parents was definitely not one way to attain it. Aside from the need of independence, we also felt pathetic still clinging to our parents now that we're out of college and perfectly capable to getting a job and finding a place to live in. Of course, money doesn't grow on trees, so we had to earn the money by ourselves and to get out of our parents' household quicker, we decided to share an apartment. It's working quite well actually, we all have our set of chores depending on our expertise, and every month we constantly brought out a small part of our savings to pitch in for the monthly apartment, electricity and water bill.

The apartment we rented was big enough for the three of us to have a room each, a dining roomand a living room. When you think about it, it is rather spacious, warm, comfortable, inviting and homey. This flat has been our haven ever since.

"Why do you bother asking me the obvious Miharu?" I replied in a rather bored and annoyed tone.

"Well someone here is grouchy. You woke up in the wrong side of the bed again girl? Come to think of it, you have been waking up in the wrong side of the bed for months." Honestly can't Miharu just move on and continue whatever she was doing before she started pestering me? I felt perfectly peaceful until she came and started bugging me with questions they have answers for. I waited for a few seconds, she was still standing there. Fine. You want to play toughie, I'll give you toughie miss Miharu.

I ignored her.

"Ugh! Xiaoyu, you know very well it doesn't help to ignore the question. I'm just a concerned my sweet, loving and caring friend trying to help. Come on dear, what's the problem?" Here's the problem. I glared at her.

"You know very well what it is Miharu, don't play innocent with me girl. It's what's been my problem for the past months of my life. Are you happy now? You could back off now." She wouldn't go away by being ignored then fine. Ultimatum. I'm being harsh.

"Hey what's this about? You two bickering again?" Great, more people. I shrugged as I watched Julia enter the room. Now I have two people to leave me restless, who the hell thought of this apartment sharing thing?!

"Hey Julia. This is nothing. Its just Xiaoyu acting like a pathetic love- sick high school girl." Miharu got another glare. She seems to want to get on my nerves today.

"Geez, chill Xiaoyu. You've been giving me the cold stare since awhile ago, I just want to lighten up your mood. Keep giving me that stare and I might melt." Well, it's not working Miharu, I think most people would back-off when their plan doesn't work. Maybe I would prefer you melted, that way you'd leave me alone and not talk at all.

"I'm happy. I'm jolly. Whoopee!" I gave her a sarcastic smile.

"Okay, seriously Xiao you're getting on our nerves." I looked at Julia as if she was insane. As if they haven't been getting on my nerves.

"You have got to get a grip girl. Sulking doesn't help you get over a guy." Wow, she's one to lecture. As if, she hasn't sulked over a guy for months before too.

"May I remind you Julia dear that you were also sulking before when, what's his name, didn't ask you to the prom." Hah, answer back to that. Miharu though, seemed to have lost her temper with me already.

"Ugh, just leave her Julia. There's no point talking to a wall. It won't budge no matter what you say to it." With that said, Miharu dragged Julia out of the living room, to her room. What was that about? I never thought I'd live the day when Miharu would give up so easily.

Finally the peace and quiet I've been longing for. I know I was harsh, but really, they should know that I want some peace and quiet. They know I have a problem and I know that they understand, I just don't get why they keep trying to bug me and ask me over and over again what my problem is when they know very well what it is!

After quite sometime, I heard them open the door to Miharus room, close it and open another room. What are they doing? Maybe they have some sort off... plan? Okay no matter what happens Xiao, be the rock. Say no, no, no and don't fall for their tricks. After awhile they went out and slowly approached me again. This time I turned around, getting ready to give them a telling off and just leave me alone, I did want some peace and quiet, but I found my throat dry, my mouth lost for words and my jaw dropping as I saw they were carrying a small suitcase with stuff that remained a mystery.

"Wh-what is that for? Are you guys leaving?!" Okay, I know I was rude, but they know how I feel. They know very well that I have short temper. Rejection from the guy you love hurts like hell. I never expected them to leave just because of what I said and did awhile ago. Oh god, look at this mess that I have made. I was already planning out my sincerest apology to stop them from leaving, but as Miharu spoke up, my brain blacked out, the soft 'pitter-patter' of the rain paused, my breath caught, everything stopped just for that moment.

"On the contrary Xiaoyu, you're leaving." It took awhile before Miharu's words had finally sunk in my thick skull. My brain had regained it's ability to work properly once again although it seemed to me as if it's still malfunctioning, I couldn't think straight. Questions started popping up in my head one by one until suddenly I couldn't take it anymore. I was bombarded by questions I couldn't answer... What in the world are they planning?

"You-you're sending me away now? Is that it?" I finally spoke up giving them the best cold, evil, piercing glare I could muster. It seemed to have worked, Julia immediately had this frightened look on her face and immediately raised both her hands up in apology.

"I swear Xiaoyu this isn't my idea. This is Miharus idea. Oww!" I immediately noticed Miharu's foot quickly stepping on Julia's tiny ones.

"And you're supporting it Julia" I asked her accusingly. If it was Miharu's idea, and she really doesn't like me to go away, then why is she joining in? Come on admit it, you want me outtie too. Ugh, and you call yourselves friends?

"Well... I feel... we feel as if you need a break from all this and maybe well... find a man." So that's what this is all about. Finding a man for me. Great idea Miharu, you couldn't have taught of a better way to tick me off! I don't just go pick up a man on the streets or some other place! Geez, I thought they were smarter than this!

"Find a man?! Are you two insane?! You want me to just pick up any man I see out there and bring him here?!" I am angry. I am frustrated. How could they think of such a thing?!

"We just think you could use a vacation, that's all. You don't necessarily need to find a man that would only be a bonus. You can come back whenever you feel like it." I knew she wanted to say you can come back when you've found a man. Can't they understand that someone like that can't be easily found lurking on the streets? You need to understand each other, like each other, share the same interest and views, you need to have chemistry. Tears pricked at the edges of my eyes, which made me even angrier. Am I not wanted here? Am I a burden? Or are they just tired of my moping? I do have to admit that my sulking has gone on for awhile now, maybe this would work. I got angrier. Why can't I just get the clue?

In my frustration, the pencil I had been twirling had broken into two pieces and now lay on the floor.

Silence...

I stood for awhile letting my thoughts take over. I know Miharu and Julia. Julia, maybe silent but she's incredibly stubborn. Miharu is an expert persuader and is also extremely stubborn. How am I supposed to win this battle?

Sighing and fighting back the tears that threatened to spill over my angered face, I shot one last look at my two ahem 'friends', trying to see if I still have a chance to escape their plan. Miharu looked determined. Julia looked determined.

I have lost the battle.

Shrugging my shoulders, I quickly approached them and picked up the bag they had prepared for me. God it weighed a ton.

"What's in this? Why is it so heavy?! Did you put a car in here?!" I looked at Miharu and Julia. They are crazy, they expect me to carry this around?!

"Well, your tent is in there an-"Julia never really got to finish her sentence now did she? My extremely short temper took just took another step forward.

"My what?! Did you just day tent?! You mean to tell me I would travel by foot?! You wont give me tickets to go to Hawaii or something?!" For a moment I looked at them once more hoping that they were just pulling another prank on me. They can't expect me to sleep on tents now did they?!

"Umm... Xiaoyu, we we're umm actually thinking of that. You know, it's refreshing to be in the great outdoors." The two even had the power to grin. What the hell. These two friends of mine had gone mad... they must have bumped their head somewhere, they aren't thinking straight.

"Great outdoors?!" I hollered. I had lost it. I couldn't help it anymore. My apologies to people sleeping 50-miles away from us.

"Yes, you know the fresh air, the animals-"

"Animals?!" Both girls winced as I hollered my throat off. What a mess they had gotten themselves into.

"Look Xiaoyu, think of it as a great big adventure. You'd meet lot's of new and good people. It might actually be fun you know. Just enjoy the great outdoors before technology ruins it." I was silent once again. I have to admit, traveling outdoors is not really a very bad thing. I guess it does have it's perks. These two gals are going to owe me... big time.

"Fine."

"Fine?!" The two chorused as if unable to believe I'm actually agreeing to their proposal.

"Yes, fine. Or would you rather I stay?" I asked them motioning to put the bag down again. "No, no, no. You should go. Now remember be careful girl, nasty stuff out there." Wow, thanks for the warning Julia, as if I have a choice. I smiled at the two of them and as if that was the signal that I wont bite anymore, the two quickly approached me and hugged me. Then they started to cry.

"Girls, what is this? Why are you crying? I thought you wanted me to leave?" They were really confusing me now... what did they really want from me?

"Yes we do, it's just... we'll miss you Xiaoyu!"

"I'll miss you two too..."

"Just, just take care okay?"

"Don't worry, I'll probably be back soon." The two could only nod in their tears. Honestly they were still like children sometimes, and it was times like those when I really couldn't resist them.

"Now don't stay up late. Remember your bed time." The two girls put out their tongue. I know I could never boss them around, but hey, it was worth trying right?

I hugged them one last time and finally, I got my bag, smiled one last time, reassured them I'd be alright and walked out of our apartment, getting ready for my new adventure.

Tsuzukeru...

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Authors Notes: So how was it? Our Romeo would be showing up in the next chapter. Just a bit of introduction for this chapter, not much humor in it just yet. More coming up real soon. :) Hope you all enjoyed.

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