Author Notes: Wewz! Two updates in one day! I'am on the roll you guys *lol* Anyways, this fic is actually real long and I'm proud of it! It's around 3,000 + .. So yeah, as usual Un-beta and I like.. Only read it once and it was only half then, scanned only once as well.. So yeah, just pretty much expect errors and whatnot here you guys.. .w.
Though, hopefully you guys will enjoy ~
The Mishima Bloodline: Façade Play
Chapter 03 : Playmates
It was what any normal kind of person could call, a beautiful day. And that thought exactly was what rambled on in Chaolan's mind; he was sitting beside a large window pane, idly gazing at their mansion's garden as he tried to listen to his tutor ramble on and on about the basics in Japanese culture. Lee would have been more than, thrilled to learn more about his family's history and whatnot about their country. But, the silverette was just too lazy to learn about it today.
'I wonder what Kazuya-nii is doing right now.' He wondered off in his thoughts, thinking about his older ravenette brother who was currently at his own school, learning and studying just like Chaolan - only he wasn't confined inside their home.
"Mr. Lee, please pay attention." The man - Mr. Howara suddenly called for the silverette's attention, which in return quickly snapped Chaolan out of his trance and gave a warm smile towards the other.
"I'm sorry Mr. Howara, please continue." Lee replied back politely, not wanting to get on his teacher's bad side - or more likely, not wanting to ruin his goody-two shoe image. Ever since he had moved in with his new family, Lee had to learn a whole lot of things and had to change his life drastically - though for a better one.
He had learned how to be polite, to show respect towards others, how to act properly and so many other things that Chaolan had to cram into his head in such short notice, though he wasn't complaining at all. It all just made life a whole lot easier and interesting for him, it was easier to control and manipulate people ( with the exception of Kazuya and their Father of course.). The silverette had found out how to wrap people or make they themselves wrap up in his pinky finger with just mere words, smiling and such was a powerful thing as well that it was all too good to be true when he had learned it all from the past couple of months.
The duration of him living in with the Mishima's was far too surreal; it was one of the best decisions Chaolan had made, getting adopted by the wealthy and ever so kind Heihachi Mishima.
Mr. Howara smiled back in delight to his student; they've only been able to meet each other last two weeks ago but, the man had already grown very fond of the silverette. So he wouldn't mind at all if the child was to doze off from time to time, Lee was in his opinion a very fine young man.
"Alright, back to our topic then."
"Kazuya-nii, Kazuya-nii!" Chaolan called out for his brother once he was finally allowed to escape from the dungeon of a library he had to stay at with his teacher for hours. He had already bid farewell to Mr. Howara and had parted ways with him when they had to take different paths from the hallway.
And at that time, Kazuya just had happened to walk by; the ravenette wore a traditional Japanese kimono. He was all suited up and looked more proper than, he usually was to; which brought a questioning expression to be plastered onto the silverette's facial features. Chaolan arched up one brow, caramel hues gazing at his brother from top to bottom - examining and taking in a better look of the elder as he tried to conjure an answer as to why Kazuya was wearing such fancy attire; was there a party of some sort that he wasn't informed about today? Or maybe, he wasn't invited to the said party?
"What are you wearing?" He asked in curiosity, circling around the other as he wanted to take a better scan of what Kazuya was wearing. The elder's clothes were of a dark blue colour from the top, accompanied by a traditional Japanese slacks that was a tint leaning onto light grey or dirty white. But, none of the less it looked amazing on his brother. Kazuya stood still on his place, eyeing Lee as well as the other had scanned him - sighing a little in inconvenience as he had guessed that the silverette was not informed that they were going to have visitors today, so being of best clothes today is a must.
"I suppose that you weren't informed Chaolan." The ravenette replied back, hand crossing against his chest as he stared at his brother, seeing him wearing casual clothes; a white sweater that had a turtle neck on it whilst the silverette dark blue wore jeans.
Lee blinked in confusion, only shaking his head in reply. A sigh left Kazuya's lips as he grabbed a hold of the silverette's hand and started to drag him off to Lee's room "I can't believe those useless good for nothing servants didn't tell you." Kazuya grumbled in a low tone of voice, though loud enough for Lee to hear.
"Tell me about what? What's with today?" Chaolan inquired, trying to keep up with the other's pace as he was walking or more like jogging a little too fast - almost in a hurry already as he dragged the younger to his room.
Kazuya opened the door and entered first, letting go of his brother's hand so he could go to Lee's wardrobe then, open and rummage through the younger's clothes.
"Hey! Tell me what's with today?!" Chaolan said off irritated, not at all pleased that the other had just wordlessly dragged him off to his room without giving him any sort of explanation.
"Guests." Were the words that spilled out from Kazuya's lips as he was busy searching through the other's wardrobe. Lee stared at the older in confusion, making Kazuya turn his head around for a moment "We're having guests today, and at all costs - we should be at our best if we don't want Father getting mad at us." The raven said off which got him an "Oh." reply from Lee.
He went back to looking at Chaolan's wardrobe, growling in frustration before finally shutting it back closed, an angry expression etched onto his features as Kazuya mumbled out words that weren't loud enough for the silverette to hear this time.
"Incompetent, no good people. You have no clothes to wear, this is bad." Kazuya informed his brother, which in return almost drained out all the colours from Lee's face. He trembled a little whilst staring at his brother's frame, eyes looking all around him for a second as he tried to think of any possible ways or ideas to get out of this sudden mess.
Chaolan gulped in his own saliva, biting onto his lower lip as the younger started to fidget and play with his own fingers "Wha-what should we do?" He asked in a low tone of voice, fear evident in it; he was afraid of disappointing his Father - it was the one thing Chaolan ever wanted to do in his life as of now. Though, how was he suppose to make his Father proud with him not being able to dress up properly in front of his Father's guests.
A grumble left Kazuya at first, not knowing as well how to solve this problem of them until-
"Mr. Lee! Mr. Lee! Where are you?" The voice of one of their chamber maids came into place, both heads turned around and their attentions were grasped as the owner of the said voice earlier drew in closer before she opened the door to Chaolan's room.
The maid huffed a little in exhaustion, hand holding onto the door for support as the other held a kimono, similar to Kazuya's "I've been looking everywhere for you Mr. Lee." The maid said panting, looking over to the young boy with a smile on her lips "You Father said for you to wear this." She continued off and weakly gave Lee his kimono.
A wide smile spread across Chaolan's face as he happily took the clothing from the other "Excellent!" He replied back loudly, eyes looking over his new kimono before he glanced back at the made and smiled one of his charming smiles "Thank you." He said again and the maid only bowed before the two were interrupted by Kazuya.
"Why wasn't Lee informed about today?" The ravenette asked with such superiority, that as soon as his voice was heard the smile was quickly wiped off from the maids lips and she stared at the boy with fear.
"I.. I.. Well, Mr. Mishima said not to disturb-"
"Do you know how messy it could have been if you never got Lee's clothes to him? My Father ought to fire you already for this!"
The maid was left teary eyed from Kazuya's words, her lips trembled and she wanted to try and say something back but, it all came out jumbled and stuttered. Lee on the other hand shook his head as it was his turn to sigh this time. He looked over to the older and tried to calm down the angry ravenette - as he didn't want anyone getting fired nor having a cry fest at his room "Kazuya-nii." The silverette started off in a soft tone of voice "It's alright, at least the kimono got to me; please calm down." Chaolan muttered off with a smile on his lips.
Kazuya shrugged the words off with a huff, looking away from his brother though he did try to stay calm - it was of no use to get angry over it anyways. Chaolan smiled in appreciation, a true genuine smile for his brother that it stayed intact at his lips when he turned around and told the maid that it was alright and that she should go and do her other duties.
The maid bowed deeply at the silverette's kindness, immediately running off as she didn't want Kazuya to see anymore mistakes and whatnot from her.
"Seriously." Lee started off as he slowly stripped himself off his casual clothes and started to put on his newly given kimono, not at all caring nor embarrassed if his brother was there to see his body "She went through all the trouble to give me this, at least let her off from the shouting Kazuya-nii." He said whilst putting on the grey-ish coloured slacks. His brother huffed in annoyance, eyes gazing and boring onto Lee's image as the other wasn't at all amused with the fact that his brother had just stood up and defended their ill-mannered servant.
"You shouldn't be too soft." Kazuya not even nearly gave a rueful reply as to comment about their maid. He didn't see the need to be nice to her, or to even give an ounce of respect and such to the said person.
Chaolan merely sighed and went on with his action of putting on his kimono "Can you help me with this?" The younger requested as the silverette was having a tad bit of difficulty with tying the knot on his kimono's belt. Kazuya walked closer to his brother, not uttering a single word as he complied and tied the said string on clothing onto his brother.
A smile formed on Chaolan's lips before his eyes fell on his own body. The silverette scanned the clothes he wore, twirling around even as to better see a different view "Does it suit me?" Lee asked in curiosity as he glanced over to the ravenette, waiting for an answer.
The older watched his brother for a moment, keeping silent before he replied back in a flat out tone "It looks good on you." And it really did in Kazuya's point of view. Even if the silverette wasn't Japanese, it seemed that anything he wore was going to be a perfect fit for him. Lee grinned, a cheeky expression plastered onto his facial features.
"Let's get going. Father's ought to be waiting for us already." Kazuya stated before he turned his heel around and went out of the room, with Lee following on his tracks.
"So nice of you to drop by and visit Mr. Kazama." Heihachi greeted his friend and business partner as the man went in their meeting room. Kazuya and Lee were right behind the older Mishima, bowing politely at their guest and greeting him with a good afternoon.
The man smiled, shaking Heihachi's hand at first before pulling the other in for a friendly hug "It is a pleasure to be here." Mr. Kazama replied back in delight as he pulled away and glanced to his back; two children as well were behind him.
"Yoshiki, Jun." Mr. Kazama beckoned his kids to come closer, his arms resting on either of the child's shoulders so that they were in better view for Heihachi to see "I'd like you to meet a friend of mine, Mr. Heihachi Mishima." The man said with a smile as he introduced his children; they both wore white kimonos - the girl's designed with a black patterned paper crane, whilst Yoshiki was just of plain white accompanied with black traditional Japanese slacks.
"Nice to meet you Mishima-san." The two kids said in a unison, bowing politely at Heihachi. The older Mishima only smiled and bowed his head as well, signaling for both Kazuya and Chaolan to come closer to him and stay at his side this time "The pleasure's all mine. I'd like for you as well to meet my sons." Heihachi continued off as he looked up again and turned his head towards Kazuya first "This is my eldest on, Kazuya."
The ravenette didn't say anything as he was introduced, only bowing politely and keeping on his usual stone cold face "And this is my other son, Chaolan." The man introduced the silverette this time, Lee smiling the most charming one he could muster and bowing politely as well. He stared at the two other kids, his caramel hues lingering a tad bit longer at Jun as he entranced for a moment at her beauty - quite captivated actually by the Japanese look.
As their greetings were exchanged for one another, the two families sat at the futons that were prepared for them at the middle of the room. There was a table that divided them from each other and a teapot as well as cup for it were served as well.
"Kazuya, Chaolan. I have some very important business to discuss with Mr. Kazama." Heihachi started off as they have shared and exchanged a few chats from time to time with the other family "I want the two of you to spend some time with Yoshiki and Jun. Play with them or haven them see our garden." The man said and both boys answered with a "Yes Father." Kazuya only being a second or two faster than, Chaolan.
The two stood up first, followed by Jun and Yoshiki before all four children went out of the room; where the two adults were left alone to have their own private talk.
"So, I heard your family has their own fighting style as well." Yoshiki said first as to stir up a conversation; they had only been together for more than, three minutes and either one of them had started to talk when they had entered the garden. So, the raven who was Jun's older brother thought of bringing up a topic.
"Yes, it's a form of martial arts that's been passed down for generations in our family." Kazuya replied back, gaining an "Oh." reply from Jun - amusement dripping from her tone of voice. The other boy merely nodded in acknowledgement, pleased with the other's reply.
"Our family's style has been passed down for nearly 13 generations now! Me and Yoshiki will be the 14th." Jun suddenly uttered out the small trivia in a soft tone of voice, though loud enough for everyone to hear.
Kazuya glanced over to the ravenette girl, earning a small blush to colour up the said girl's cheeks "Is that so?" He said back, earning a shy nod from Jun.
"I must say, your brother has a very alluring stroke of silver hair." Yoshiki changed the topic, his attention focusing on Lee's appearance this time, as his dark brown eyes glanced over Chaolan's hair.
The silverette only smiled at the compliment, turning around to face the other boy properly "Thank you." He said in reply, though not gaining any sort of an expressive reply from the older Kazama kid. Kazuya glanced over to his brother and Yoshiki, arching up one curious brow at the two who had suddenly started up a small chat for themselves.
"Did you get that from your Mother's side?" The boy asked as he walked closer to the younger and went to examine the silverette's hair. Lee blinked a few times at the question, not at all sure on how he should
"The flowers that the gardeners planted today look lovely." Kazuya said off this time, trying to take their conversation to a different topic as he saw the slight expression of distress that suddenly crept on Chaolan's features. Everyone's attention suddenly got caught on the ravenette's words, moving closer to the bed of flowers that were similar to the looks of a lili - though it had a maroon shade on its center.
The silverette drawled his focus on his older brother for a moment, smiling and saying a silent thank for Kazuya as to saving him from the very uncomfortable topic that Yoshiki had brought up earlier.
The Kazama boy hummed as they watched the flowers "We have these at home as well." Yoshiki stated off, pleased with the fact that they weren't the only ones that appreciated the fine things of nature and such as flowers like these were rather rare to see nowadays, so he gave another acknowledging nod for the Mishimas.
"They're called gloxinia's." Kazuya continued off, as if he had just added a sentence for what what Yoshiki was supposed to say. Chaolan's attention was on his brother, staring at him fascination as he tried to grasp on the words that escaped from the ravenette's lips - listening to everything he had to say.
"They're flowers that are usually from South America. Their name means-"
"Love at first sight."
Even before Kazuya could finish his explanation, Jun had finished it for him - cutting the Mishima boy off from his mid-sentence. The ravenette's attention turned to the little girl beside him "That's right. You know your flowers Kazama-san." Kazuya complimented Jun, making the younger's cheeks colour up a deeper shade of red as.
"Tha-thank you.. But, please. Call me Jun. Kazuya-san." The younger replied back soft tone of voice, looking up and smiling shyly at Kazuya.
The Mishima boy nodded at the other's words "Then, if that is what you wish. Jun-san." He replied back. Chaolan watched as the two continued on with their conversation, a small feeling of jealousy creeping up on him. He liked both Jun and his brother, though he couldn't help the feeling of wanting his brother's attention all for himself.
It sounded selfish and out of place, but he wasn't used to seeing his brother talking and interacting with other people - especially to kids of their age. He only saw the ravenette chatting with their Father then, talking to a few servants. And it was always Lee that he had talked to more than, often ( Probably because Chaolan would always force himself on the ravenette ).
"And you may call me Yoshiki as well, Kazuya-san, Chaolan-san." The Kazama boy then, said as he grabbed their attention this time.
Time flew by and their conversations ended more in silence than, getting to know each other more. They walked around the garden in silence, having small talks from flowers and family fighting styles from time to time - there would be conversations about school as well, but not all that interesting and big of a subject for them all.
Notes: Alright! Comments or anything? Was it good or bad? ;w; I added Jun here already though, I think it was a little too early but, I dunno.. This is practically just what my fingers and head wrote.. I dunno you guys, my hands are moving on their own *lol*
Anyways, as much as I didn't want to add any OC's or anything, it can't be helped. Though, they're not entirely OCs. Yoshiki Kazama would have to be Asuka's Dad, I kinda wanted to add that there because since in the later chapters of this fic, they'll be all grown up and stuff, so yeah. Yoshiki would have to be a somewhat important character as well *nods* And I don't know if I should name Jun and Yoshiki's Father as well ~ Maybe, I'd just stick to Mr. Kazama but, yeah.. Not sure ~
