x-Red-Eye-x : Thanks so much! Your review was so constructive, and I've been waiting for someone to notice my unique pairings! And I'm going to work on that... but we're going to skip back to DoA3 and DoA4 events and work on those a little more, before we go ahead, with all the tension. Do you think I should make a second triangle with Jann Lee x Hitomi x Ein?
P.S. WaFF - Warm and Fuzzy Feeling (but that won't come until a little later).
Dark Samarian : I am awaiting your next update. So here's mine.
Killing Time
A Hitomi x Jann Lee, Dead or Alive Fanfiction, Chapter 2
Hitomi shivered as she entered the ice caves. What a strange stage it was... it was completely icy, with stalagmites (or stalactites, she could never tell them apart) and a small pool of water near the entrance. She was pacing the icy floor. It wasn't too slippery... but it was so cold!
She was awaiting her next opponent. The 'Invincible Dragon', Jann Lee... supposably one of the strongest competitors of the Dead or Alive Tournaments, and one of the few that had been with it since the start. Her first real challenge.
She was good and warmed up. The first one was a large man wearing a silly orange beret, named Bayman. He wasn't as hard to beat as he looked, but he could've been more of a challenge if he hadn't underestimated her. The second one, she felt bad about... an older man named Gen Fu, who she found out only wanted to save his granddaughter. He was more of a challenge, and she was surprised to find that the Iron Fist technique was coveted for a very good reason. But it didn't win him the match.
She stopped as she heard footsteps and looked over. A very tan young man, about her own age, wearing red and white emblazoned sweatpants and matching red sneakers. Normal clothes, like her jeans and jacket and sneakers. She smiled warmly at him, even as he jumped and did a two-step kick. What followed was a strange set of steps, as if he was keeping rhythym with himself.
The connection was instant. It was as if they'd known each other for a very long time, or they were exactly the same no matter how many differences they had.
"You have to feel the power within." He said, his tone firm as he started to stare her down. Was he trying to intimidate her?
"I know. It's about what you feel inside." She replied, bring her fsits frward, and stepping with her controlled movements.
That earned her a nod of respect from the Invincible Dragon. They understood each other perfectly. "That's right."
Hitomi felt a tinge of pride as she smiled wider and took her stance. After all, they were there to fight!
The fight seemed to last forever. Once or twice, she found her back up against a cold stone wall, but she recovered quickly.
The match ended when she caught his kick and tossed him into the air, puching him in the stomach, and then, she cried, "Azuma!" using the hardest punch she could muster as a follow up. Jann Lee's body smashed against one of the ice stalagmites (or stalactites).
The ice smashed into a million shards, and his body slid limply to the floor. Hitomi stood still for a moment... then the match was announced in her favor, via knock-out. She rushed over to him, kneeling down and lifting his head up.
"Jann Lee! Hey, wake up!" She said, shaking him gently. She couldn't just leave him alone in here. In that outfit, he'd freeze and catch pnuemonia. She reached her gloved hand into the icy water, and splashed him.
He woke up, shocked, and jumped, knocking her to the floor with a soft 'oomph'. "Ah, shit, that's cold!" He swore. Then he saw Hitomi laying on the floor. "Oh... sorry..." He muttered, helping her to her feet.
"No problem..." She replied with a shaky smile, looking up at him. "I'm fine." She brushed some snow off her sleeve, then asked, "But are you alright?" She hadn't known she could knock someone out... let alone a very powerful someone.
"Yes... I'm fine..." He turned away from her, his pride hurt from being beaten and then helped by a girl. A pretty girl, but still a girl. And after all the times he shot Lei Fang's dreams of becoming better than him down... He got beat by a nobody girl. Sort of ironic.
"Well... you should probably get something warm to drink. You might catch a cold." She said quietly, keeping close to him as they walked.
He looked over at her, raising a brow in a 'what do you think you're doing?' fashion. "I can take care of myself."
Hitomi handled his stubborness and pride with ease. "I was just saying... I don't think you want to stay in bed for a week with a cold, huh?" She smiled up at him.
"Hn." There was something innately likable about this girl. She was persistent, but not annoying like Lei Fang, and she was both smart and strong, and seemed to be a caring person. The kind of woman that grew up to be a good wife and mother, and have the ideal sort of family. The kind of woman that made a man proud. Plus, she was cute and innocent looking, wearing jeans and a pink headband, with the bluest eyes...
"Um..." He was staring at her out of the corner of her eye, and Hitomi grew nervous. Maybe there was something on her shirt. "I'll make you some hot cocoa. If you want to come up to my room." She said this with her normal air of innocence, a polite offer, not an invitation for intercourse.
"Alright... I guess so..." He agreed.
I'm sorry it's so short... I had to do some research and yeah... the next chapter will be good. I hope.