"A Well Kept Secret"
Author's Notes: This story occurs before Tekken 3 Tournament. Though some information was taken from Tekken Official sites, some events, situations and characters are fiction and fan made. Throughout the story you will see Japanese words and phrases, the definitions are at the bottom of each chapter and the writing style used in this story is anime based meaning I created an image of the story on how it would be in an anime. Sorry for the late update, school and work you know how that goes.
Disclaimer: All Tekken characters in this story are owned and property of NAMCO. I do not own any of the Tekken characters; this is only a fictional story. No copyright infringement was intended.
Reviews: Just to answer some questions left by reviewers, I'm not Asian, I'm an Islander from the island Guam. Yumi and Rika are just made up characters that I pulled from other animes. From chapter one I forgot to translate the phrase "Gomottomo ayakarimono" it translates to "You are so lucky." Thanks for your reviews and feel free to ask more questions, it's there for that reason.
Chapter 3: The Young Master
It's now Tuesday morning; Xaio is still asleep from last night's encounter. The morning sun shines its warm rays onto Xaio still lying on her bed. She slowly wakes up stretching her arms and legs out. Her eyes widened now realizing she's awake; she sits up quickly holding her forehead still throbbing from her head injury. Just then a housemaid walks into the room.
"I see you're finally awake." She bows politely.
"My apologizes, I'm Sara Soujo, I'll be your caretaker from now on." Sara Soujo, one of the female maids from the Mishima Estate and one of Jin's personal servants. She's a bit taller then Xaio with long brown hair put up neatly in a bun with long bangs dangling on both sides of her face. Even though she's in her mid thirties, she is stunningly beautiful with soft, fair skin. Xaio still dazed from her beauty was confused of her presence.
"What happened?" Asked Xaio as Sara sat down on a chair near by.
"Why…you don't remember?" Sara a bit surprised Xaio can't remember. She then points at the table next to Xaio. There on the table was her camera and her money along with a note that says, "Thank You."
"Kono…" Flashbacks now racing through her mind with the whole run in with the gang and her being hit almost unconscious and a dark figure came out and saved her. Xaio spun her head towards Sara expecting to hear an answer.
"The young master called and said to meet him at this address last night. I wondered why he sent for me over here but I waited. A few moments later he came carrying you asleep in his arms. He used your key to get in, he set you down on your bed and told me to look after you." Xaio is now curious on who her savior and the young master was. Then a tall muscular man wearing a black suit and black sunglasses came in.
"Soujo-chan. It appears that the young master has bought a few more things for the young mistress here."
"So it seems. Eh? Oh! Gomen. Xaio, this is Kiro Bunto. He's one of the young master's personal body guards." Kiro bowed politely smiled at Xaio and went back outside when four guys came in, two carrying a twenty-eight inch plasma television set and the other two came in took Xaio's old computer and replaced it with the latest computer system fully loaded with a printer, scanner, fax machine and plasma flat screen. As the movers started installing the new equipment and taking the old, Xaio just sat there in awe. Soujo sat there placed a hand over her mouth and giggled.
"It seems that Jin-kun really appreciated you for finding and keeping safe his locket." Xaio hearing Jin's name quickly spun her head around.
"Jin? The young master is Jin?"
"Oh, so you didn't know that Jin-kun was the one that came to your aid last night?" Soujo surprised in Xaio not knowing Jin was the mystery fighter from last night.
"No, I didn't… it was dark out and I was hit in the head pretty hard so it was a bit blurry. So Jin took his locket. I'm glad."
"Hai. He treasures that locket very much, that locket used to belong and is a memento of his mother."
"So he still lives with his mother?" Sara shook her head.
"No." Xaio quickly asked.
"So does he live with his father?" Sara shook her head once more.
"No." Xaio didn't pursue the matter any further seeing the serious look on Sara's face.
"Soka…Gomendasai." Sara was a bit surprised about Xaio's understanding.
"No it's ok. Try to understand, Jin-kun's life is a bit complicated."
"No I understand." Sara gave a warm smile at Xaio.
"The young master is a bit secretive and keeps things to himself, it's hard for him to open up to someone even to us. Don't worry when the time is right he might tell you some of the things he has on his mind. Sigh… that boy has a hard life, it must be tough on him." The both just stared at the floor when Xaio's phone rang.
"Moshi moshi?"
"Xaio-chan!" A screaming and annoyed tone of voice came out of the phone; it was her best friend Miharu.
"Mi-chan? Nanda?"
"Did you forget already? I'm over here at the mall with Rika, Yumi and the others. We're waiting for you!" Xaio just then remembered they were all supposed to go shopping and she was thirty minutes late.
"Chatta matte! I'll be there real soon." She hangs up the phone and grabbed her purse and was running towards the door.
"Xaio-chan! Chatta! Kore." Soujo handed her 2,000-yen (2,000 yen 200 U.S. dollars).
"Soujo-chan! I can't take this." Xaio tried giving it back but she gave it back to her.
"The young master said it's for you. Don't worry he has plenty of it. Take it. Bunto-san will give you a ride to the mall." Xaio accepted the money and hugged Sara. Kiro then came in and motioned Xaio to come along.
"Arigato Soujo-chan." She left her apartment and headed downstairs to find a black escalade with twenty inch chromed out spinner rims. Xaio stopped immediately and couldn't believe how beautiful the car was. Kiro came down and opened the door for her.
"Goryounin." He bowed.
"Please Bunto-sama, Xaio is just fine." He nodded and she went inside and was even more amazed on how pimped out the car was. The entire interior was all leather; it had headrest monitors with headphones. You can pull out a try for when you eat and right underneath is a slot where you can pull and out pops a laptop computer. In between the driver and passenger seats was a small refrigerator, which held drinks; even with all this inside she still had plenty of legroom. Kiro got in and they took off to the mall.
"I assume you're not used to being in cars such as this?" Asked Kiro coolly as Xaio still tripping on all the modifications done to the car.
"No I'm not, I've never seen a car like this here in Japan."
"It's American made, the young master had American mechanics build him this." Kiro now observing Xaio closely.
"Soka…" Everything went silent for a while.
"Xaio-chan, if you don't mind me asking. But what are you to the young master?" Xaio now a bit shocked by the question didn't answer right away and began to blush."
"Ano…I'm a classmate of his but I don't know him that well. We're more like acquaintances." Xaio saying this with a soft shy tone of voice.
"Soka…Arigato Xaio-chan."
"Eh?" Xaio was taken back and was in a bit of a shock in hearing his response. Kiro then continued.
"As you might have seen or heard, the young master likes to keep things to himself. He hardly smiles. The young master sent for me last night, when I came over he filled me in on what happened. He then looked back at you still lying asleep on your bed and for the first time in a long while he smiled. Seeing the young master smile really means a lot to me, Soujo-chan and everyone else back at the estate. So thank-you Xaio-chan." They then pulled up in the front of the mall. All of Xaio's friends were sitting down waiting anxiously for her arrival; Miharu looked very impatient as she had her arms folded and tapping her foot on the ground and looking at her watch. They couldn't see Xaio because of the tinted windows but was soon attracted to the escalate.
"Sugoi!" Xaio's friends were all amazed.
"Maybe it's a famous Korean pop-star! It could be BOA, or Baby V.O.X!" Rika was getting all excited.
"Or it could be a famous American movie star! I've always wanted to meet Josh Hartnett's fine ass." Miharu was now hugging herself. Xaio then stepped out of the car and her friends just froze not moving.
"Kora! Heh." Xaio waved her hand to her friends and then immediately all her friends just fell straight to the floor all at once.
"Ano…Daijobu?" Xaio asked sarcastically scratching the back of her head with her right hand.
Back at the Mishima estate Jin is once again down in the basement level of the mansion training. It's a holiday, the other students are either out having fun or at their houses studying for their college entrance exams, but not Jin, he's different, he trains daily even after harsh training sessions with his grandfather. He still has his mind set on revenge on the person who killed his mother. As he continues delivering blows to the bag, memories rushed through his head.
Flashback
The memory of that fateful day, where that monster broke into their home in the middle of the night. And how both he and his mother were defeated and how he was knocked onto the floor broken in both body and spirit as he hopelessly watch and losing consciousness by the second as the dark figure grabs his mother by her throat and lifts her in the air with his right hand.
End of Flashback
"Okaasan…" Images of her lying on the floor lifeless flashed in his head.
"I will become strong and avenge you." Then he remembers last night's encounter where Xaio fought the gang and how she tried to protect and retrieve his locket.
Flashback
"Don't take that! That locket is very precious and dear to my friend." Xaio pleaded and ended up fighting to get it back.
End of Flashback
Jin stops to take a quick break; he looks over to one side of the room where a wall of solid steel stood. A huge dent was embedded into the wall of steel and near it were other dents but not nearly as huge as the first one. Jin looks at it with disgust as he remembers a harsh training session with Heihachi.
Flashback
Jin was on one knee grasping his stomach with his right arm and keeping his left hand up and trying to catch his breath. Heihachi towers over him.
"Hmph. Finish already? Pathetic! You're too weak to be my grandson, and you're supposed to be the heir? A complete waste of my time." Heihachi folds his arms as the young Jin struggled getting up.
"Nani…? Baka… I'm not…done…" The young Jin stood up but still grasping his stomach with one hand and the other held up trying to get back into stance.
"Don't even bother. I'll tell you what." Heihachi snaps his fingers; one of the guards took out a remote and pressed the button. Just then a six foot wall of solid steel rose from the ground. Heihachi got into his stance, he than took one step forward with his right foot and delivered a devastating right punch in the wall.
"Siii!" He punched the steel wall so hard that more than half of his arm was in the steel wall with electricity surging through his right arm as he pulled his arm out. The young Jin stood there in complete shock.
"If you can dent this wall at least by this much I will train and teach you. Then and only then, I will accept you at least worthy of being my grandson and heir. But until then become stronger, don't waste my time."
End of Flashback
Jin approached the steel wall and got into his stance; he took one step forward and gave a strong right punch.
"HAA!" He pulled out his arm with small amounts of electricity going about his hand. He made a huge dent in the wall but he barely dented the wall halfway to his arm but wasn't close to his grandfather's dent.
"Shimatta…Is this…my limit…?"
"It's useless boy." Heihachi came out from a dark corner of the room; he was watching Jin train the entire time. Jin just stood there unaffected of his grandfather's sudden appearance.
"I don't need your to cents." Says Jin in a soft cool tone of voice with his back still turned. Heihachi was a bit surprised that Jin knew he was there.
"Hmph. How long did you know I was here?"
"Long enough. What do you want?" Jin takes a hand towel and wipes his face.
"Why I came down to see how you were doing." Heihachi approaches the steel wall and looks at the dents.
"Well, well, well. Impressive. I see you've improved and got a bit stronger. However it's no where near my expectations. Give up your meaningless mission on avenging that worthless woman." Jin clinches his fists and his blood started to boil.
"Shut up…" Says Jin in a soft cool tone.
"Just admit it, you're too weak and pathetic to do anything. That's why you were defeated so easily, you weren't even able to save or protect that wretched woman." Jin's anger and frustrations rises as does his tone.
"Shut up…" Heihachi turns around and makes his way out of the room but stops to make a final comment.
"Don't worry, I don't blame you. You can thank that weak piece of trash, and she called herself a fighter. It's no wonder she was killed so easily…" At that moment all of Jin's emotions and anger shot straight up.
"SHUT UUUUUUUUPPP!" Jin took a step forward and delivered a devastating right punch as his entire arm sinks into the steel wall. Realizing what he did he pulled his arm out and stared at his hand in awe as red electricity surges all around his arm.
"Tsuini…" Heihachi couldn't help but smile as he leaves the room.
Jin still in shock closes his fists and lifts his head up in the air and closes his eyes as an image of his mother Jun Kazama filled the room.
"Okaasan…Arigato…"
Author Notes: Well there's chapter three for ya. Oh man there were quite a bit of flashbacks in this chapter, kinda reminds me of a couple of Naruto episodes with countless flashbacks. And yes for you anime freaks Sara Soujo is from the anime Futakoi. And the most important part…PLEASE SUBMIT A REVIEW! Trust me all your opinions and questions really do help out. The more feedback the better the story becomes.
Chapter Preview: Jin is now accepted by Heihachi who agrees to train Jin. Jin decides to pay Xaio a visit to properly thank her but to find no one home so he waits. But instead of Xaio coming home it's her roommate who just returned from the U.S. from her summer vacation. Tensions and emotions run high as several mishaps and embarrassing run ins with the two and things only gets worst as Xaio comes home to find the two of them in an awkward position. Hmmmmm…
Japanese Definitions: Even though there are many different definitions for these words, these are the most accurate and used…
Kono- This…; This is…
Gomen&Gomendasai- Sorry (Gomendasai is formal and Gomen is informal but both mean the same thing)
Hai- Yes, Yeah, Yes sir, Yes?
Moshi moshi- Hello (Used mostly when you pick up the phone)
Nanda- What?; What the?
Chatta matte- Wait, wait a minute, hold up, just a minute
Kore- Here
Ariato- Thanks, Thank you
Goryounin- Madam
Ano…- Well…;Ummm…
Sugoi- Amazing
Kora- Hey!
Daijobu?- Are you ok?
Okaasan- Mother
Nani- What?
Baka- Idiot, moron, stupid
Shimatta- Damn, Damnit
Tsuini- Finally
