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Chapter 12

Fate

TOKYO

NIHON-MURA HOTEL

29th MAY 2014

Lee was arriving to the Nihon-mura hotel and he had the feeling that Nina was there too. He asked for a room and after a quick shower he tried to search for her in the hotel bar and restaurant.

She wasn't there. Lee went to the elevator to go to his room in the sixth floor, but when an old woman stopped in the fifth floor he saw a blonde woman going to her room. He knew immediately that it was Nina.

He left the elevator and knocked at the door, hoping that he wasn't wrong. Nina opened the door and she couldn't hide her surprise when she saw him.

-'Chaolan…what are you doing here?'-she asked allowing him to enter.

-'You left without a word…why?'

-'I couldn't take it anymore…'

-'Was it something I did or said?'

-'No.'

-'Tell me…'

-'Do you think it's easy?'

-'What?'

-'To be me!'

-'What do you mean?'

-'I don't want to sound ungrateful, but I feel misplaced…'

-'Misplaced?'

-'I have fragments of memories back…I remember almost everything…except my childhood with my parents and Anna, and some details…'

-'Do you remember what happened between us and how we met?'

-'Yes…most of it.'

-'It was in a hotel too, do you remember?'

-'Yes…we were in Nara, and I was sent to kill your friend.'

-'He wasn't my friend; he was a possible partner…Mr. Fukasaku. He was going to give me some information about Heihachi's plans for the devil gene.'

-'Yes, and I killed him…'

-'You were following orders! There was nothing you could do.'

-'I could've stopped myself, but I didn't…do you know why?'

-'No.'

-'Because Heihachi was giving me everything I wanted. I was living in a big house, I had money to buy everything I wanted and I was free to do what I wanted…in return I only had to do some jobs for him.'

-'He was controlling your mind.'

-'Not all of it! And I was weak…I let myself be duped by him.'

-'We can't change the past, Nina…'

-'Exactly and now look at me…I have no life, I'm going to live with the ghost of all the people I killed forever, I have to fight with my paranoid sister who thinks I'm her enemy, and I have a son from who I know nothing!'

-'Things don't have to be like that!'

-'No? And how can they change?'

-'I don't know…yet! But you can make things right. Forget the past and live the present!'

Nina remembered that Lee had told her those same words in the second time they had met.

-'Why are you here, Chaolan?'

-'Because I care…believe me or not…I care for you.'

-'You changed…'

-'So have you.'

-'Not that much…you changed more…you were more ambitious.'

-'After you were caught by Heihachi in the third Iron Fist, I couldn't live with myself…I spent many months trying to figure out what to do.'

-'Why?'

-'It was my fault. I shouldn't have left you.'

-'It's ok…you saved Kazuya instead.'

-'I should've saved you too.'

-'It's ok…'

Nina hugged him and they both let the moment speak for itself. One thing was for sure, after all they had been through, fate was giving them a new chance to be together and now was up to them to take it or not.

Nina had never blamed him for what she had done in the past. She had done many bad things and maybe that was why her destiny wasn't allowing her to be happy.

She woke up a few hours later; Lee was sleeping next to her. She stood there watching him sleep and remembered some important things of when they had met. She was preparing herself to kill Mr. Fukasaku, she had prepared a trap. But Lee showed up instead of Mr. Fukasaku and she couldn't complete the mission. The plan was to pretend to be in troubles opening her room door, calling Mr. Fukasaku's attention, but it was Lee who offered help, and she couldn't refuse. When he finally opened the door, he asked her to have lunch with him the next day. She accepted, since then she couldn't focus completely on her mission, but two days later Mr. Fukasaku was found dead, and she disappeared.

Lee knew she was involved and he started to investigate her. He found nothing on her, not even a medical record. A few months later they met again by coincidence and Lee confronted her with the facts. He thought she had been sent to kill him as well.

Flashback

-'So we meet again, Miss Porter!'-Lee said entering her room in the middle of the night.-'At least that's the name you used when we met.'

-'What are you doing here?'

-'It was you, wasn't it?'

-'I don't know what you're talking about!'

-'Yes, you do Miss Williams…you killed Fukasaku, the man who was with me in that hotel in Nara!'

-'How do you know…?'

-'Your real name? Well I did a little research and all I got was your name…'

-'Did you call the police?'

-'Not yet. I need to know why?'

-'I followed orders.'

-'From who?'

-'My boss.'

-'If you don't tell me, I'll be forced to call the police. You'll be in jail for many years.'

-'Fine.'-Nina jumped out of the bed to prevent Lee from calling.

-'His name is Mishima, are you happy now?'

Lee was speechless. In the next moment, Lee pointed a gun to Nina's head and pushed her against the wall.

-'Did he send you to kill me?'-he yelled.

-'No! What the hell are you talking about?'

-'Does he know where I am?'

-'What's up with you and this guy?'

-'You work for him, and he didn't tell you about me?'

-'Who are you?'-Nina took her chance and she used a kick to make him let go of the gun. They fought for a few minutes.

-'Why do you work for my father?'-Lee asked with a note of disappointment in his voice.

-'Father? Heihachi Mishima is your father?'

-'Yes…'

-'And you are enemies?'

-'Yes. Why do you work for him?'

-'I have no choice, have I? Besides…he pays me.'

-'You kill people!'

Nina looked down. She wasn't proud of doing that.

-'How old are you?'

-'Twenty-one.'-Nina said.

-'Do you really think you should be going around killing people?'

-'No…but I can't do anything else!'

-'Where are your parents?'

-'I don't know…We don't talk much! I can't remember very well.'

Slowly Nina took the gun and gave it back to Lee.

-'If you want revenge for your friend, go ahead and kill me! No one will miss me.'

-'You're wrong. I will!'

-'What?'

-'You are beautiful…stay with me. Leave Heihachi and come with me.'

End of Flashback

TOKYO

30th MAY 2014

When Lee woke up it was almost lunch time. He was alone on the room and Nina's things were gone. There was a letter on the bed table.

Lee was expecting that. He took a shower and got dressed and only then he read the letter. It was short; she just wanted to say that she would go to the Iron Fist and that they would meet there again.

In the meanwhile, it was a very important day for Miharu. She was going to present Steve to her family. Her older brother wasn't there, he had married and he had to work, but Riuga was back from the Navy and he would be home until the end of July.

Steve was also nervous, but he didn't know why. He was a champion and he was never nervous before a fight, so why would he be nervous to meet a couple of people?

-'Nervous?'-Yuu asked in the living room while they were waiting for the lunch.

-'Nah…'-Steve lied.-'I didn't know you were living with Miharu.'

-'I have my own apartment, but they have a spare room, so…it wasn't my idea…they invited me!'

-'I'm not accusing you of anything…'

-'I just don't want you to think bad things about me…'

-'I don't…Miharu told me that you are one of her best friends…and that you're going to the Iron Fist with us.'

-'Yes…well…I'm not a match for you or the others. You're a professional boxer, Hwoarang is a Tae-Kwon-Do master, and Jin a Karate master, so I don't expect much.'

-'I'm glad you're coming too.'

-'Really?'

-'Yes…if you're Miharu's friend, you're my friend too.'

A few hours later, Miharu's parents seemed to enjoy Steve's company. He seemed like a good guy, and like Yuu had told them before, he was famous and an awesome professional.

Kenichi didn't seem too much interested in his sister's relationships, but he sure liked Steve. He had seen him twice on the TV, and he thought Steve was great.

Riuga was the problem. He didn't hate Steve completely since he had confessed that Steve was a very good boxer, maybe one of the best. But he wasn't pleased to know that his sister was dating a foreigner who didn't share the Japanese culture at all.

-'What's your problem, Riuga?'-Yuu asked when they were outside with Miharu.

Steve was teaching some punches to Kenichi.

-'He's not Japanese…'-Riuga said annoyed.

-'But he's a good person!'-Yuu said.

-'He's my boyfriend, Riuga.'-Miharu announced.

-'You said he was only a friend…and now he's your boyfriend?'

-'Yes…well, we're not official yet, but…'

-'I don't approve.'

-'Then I'm happy that you're not my father!'

-'You just need to give him a chance. He might not be Japanese, but I'm sure he respects our people, our culture and our religion.'

-'Yeah…sure…'-Riuga left.

-'Thanks for your words, Yuu.'-Miharu said thankful.

When it was time for Steve to leave, Miharu was disappointed with her brother.

-'I'm so sorry for my brother.'

-'It's ok. I understand.'

-'No it's not ok…he was an idiot!'

-'Yuu likes you…'

-'So?'

-'More than a friend…'

-'We didn't date, if that's what you're thinking.'

-'I know. If you did he would've told me. He's a good guy.'

-'Are you angry or something?'

-'No, I'm just trying to understand your family and friends a bit more.'

-'Thank you for being so…nice to my family, and my idiot brother.'

-'I'll see you tomorrow.'

Steve kissed her goodbye and left. It was the first time he had met his girlfriend's parents, and things weren't so bad. He only needed to prove Riuga that he wasn't just a foreigner.

TOKYO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

1st JUNE 2014

Anna Williams was back in Japan, and she was ready for a new confrontation with her sister and anyone who dared to be in her way.

But this time Anna had some doubts about something she had found out a few days ago, while she was redecorating her house.

She had found a briefcase with documents about her parents, but the documents had different names on it. There were two passports with pictures of Susan and Richard Williams under the name of Sophia and Jonathan Stone. She remembered her mother very well, more than her father, since he was always going out on business and taking Nina with him. But she didn't remember them being someone else. Who were her parents, and why were they pretending to be someone else?

Anna had confronted Carson with those documents, but the old house keeper didn't seem to know anything about it.

She decided to ask Nina before their fight in the Iron Fist, maybe she would remember something since she was always travelling with their father.

Anna wasn't very worried about that issue, but the curiosity was killing her. In the meanwhile she had one more thing to investigate: the identity of her nice or nephew.

Minutes later Anna was entering a famous hotel in Tokyo, when she saw a man and a woman asking some information in the reception and leaving. She looked at them closely and shook her head in despise.

-'What's up with those masks? Are we on Halloween?'-she asked the man in the reception.

-'I don't know Miss…'

-'Don't you have something similar to the Halloween in Japan?'

-'No…our holidays have to do with the kamis and important dates in history.'-the man explained.

-'What's a Kami?'

-'It's how we call the Gods…'

-'Oh…right…anyway, they must belong to a cult or something like that!'

The man nodded.

-'Did they check in? Because that won't be good to this hotel!'

-'Oh no…they were looking for someone, but he wasn't here.'

-'Lucky us, huh? I'm glad their gone.'

Kunimitsu and Yoshimitsu had searched every single hotel in Tokyo for Jin Mishima or Jin Kazama, but he was no where to be found.

-'He's twenty something years old, he has loads of money and he's famous, where the hell is this guy hiding?'-Kunimitsu asked furious.

-'It seems that our friend doesn't like to be popular.'-Yoshimitsu concluded.

-'Maybe he won't go to the Iron Fist too…I mean this year the media and reporters will be there.'

-'Oh…he will go.'

-'How do you know?'

-'Lets just say that a Mishima never turns down a chance to fight.'

-'Why?'

-'That boy is gifted…probably like his father was, and his grandfather and all the men from the Mishima family. You should've seen him fighting in the last tournament.'

-'Is he that good?'

-'I remember his fight against a red hair Korean…they were both great, but Jin Mishima was…How can I say it? I could feel his power…'

-'So we better stop searching here, right? I mean it's obvious that he's not in Tokyo.'

-'Yes. We better go to Fuji. Sooner or later, he will be there.'

-'And we'll be waiting for him. I can't wait to meet this Jin Mishima.'