meh! what is up? i am enjoying writing this so far! i'm giving tomomoko what seems to be a split personality...i don't know if i'm going to work that in the story or not...yeah tomomoko seems like a bitch so far, but she's just thinking of her company...and her company alone. it's all that matters to her, but you have got to undertand where she's coming from. every one she's ever loved is dead...and her grampa isn't too far behind them. well...enough sad stuff let's go!


"You're Tomomoko Ikami?" asked Jin disbelievingly for what seemed like the millionth time.

She sighed and rolled her eyes. She usually liked it when people were a bit surprised that the young billionaire did normal things and saw her out in public, but they never asked her so many times if she were REALLY Tomomoko Ikami. After the fifth time they usually believed her or asked her to show her identification.

"Yes…for the millionth time I'm Tomomoko Ikami!" she answered feeding him another spoonful of the steaming broth.

"You?" he asked.

"Yes," she answered rolling her eyes.

"What are you? Like 15?" he asked.

"17," she answered.

"How long have you been in charge?" he asked.

"In charge of what?" asked Tomomoko.

"Your business…you know Ikami Enterprises?" asked Jin.

"Seven years. My grandfather retired when I was five. Couldn't handle the stress and my parents took over raising me as the heiress. My parents were murdered when I was ten and I've been in charge ever since," she replied.

She said everything almost nonchalantly. Most women, even as high up in the world as she, couldn't speak of their parent's death as if it were nothing to them. This girl apparently had issues. She was all jokes one moment and serious the next.

"I'm sorry," he said.

"Don't be…every one dies," she said.

"Who's your grandfather?" he asked.

He could tell by the way she tensed she didn't want to talk about it.

"The old man," she said.

"The old man with astounding hearing and the memory of an elephant," said Grampa kissing Tomomoko's head, "It's good to see you again, young Kazama. I have been attempting to send you my condolences on the lost of your mother. Have you attained them?"

"No…" he answered, "You…knew my mother?"

"Yes. I knew your mother and became acquainted with you as well, young Kazama," he said.

"Funny…I don't remember you," said Jin.

"Aah…that would be because you were an infant. I have yet to meet an infant who remembers their infancy," he said.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"Nothing for you to worry about. In Tomomoko's spare time she will nurse you back to health," he said.

"What?" asked Tomomoko standing.

"You heard me," he replied.

"But grandfather I have no spare time! I run Ikami Enterprises! I'm there at least half the day! Then I go to the dojo to train and then I'm here helping to take care of things," she said.

She didn't like the thought of spending the little private time she was given with Jin Kazama.

"I have taken the liberty of hiring some one to run Ikami for the next few years…though you will still be the idol of Ikami Enterprise," he said.

"Years? Grampa! I can deal with a few days…maybe weeks…I can even live with months, but years?" she asked.

"We will be training him," replied Grandfather.

"Training me?" asked Jin.

"I'd assume you'd wish to forget the sinful Mishima style that haunts your spirit?" asked Grampa.

"You know Grampa…if you keep assuming things you're going to make an ass out of you and me," she said grumpily.

The two men glared at her, but she ignored them both.

"I would, but what can you teach me?" asked Jin.

He assumed that the Mishima style was much better than the style of karate.

"I can only teach you karate, but still…it is better than the Mishima style," he said.

"How so?" asked Jin.

"It teaches you discipline," stated Tomomoko, "Respect for yourself and others. It was born through pure spirits who were guiltless and used it as a way to punish those who did evil."

"Then I am willing to teach you. Tomomoko will begin your forgetting training," said Grampa.

"My what?" he asked.

"You'll find out," she said.

She didn't seem at all interested in training Jin. In fact she seemed to dislike Jin very much, but was that her reality? Or was she just putting up a front? Fact was Tomomoko liked him too much and she was afraid.


have you ever met a person so afraid to love that they'd die if it happened? if you haven't...you just have. that's the personality defect other than her split personality. i'll do her profile next! see ya!