Chapter 13

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Xiao watched as the prince talked to one of his captains. "I wish I'd learned how to lip read," she though in annoyance.

Jin turned around and noticed Xiao out of the corner of his eye pretending to clean the sai quite carefully. He ran a hand through his hair and sighed. "Tomorrow morning we'll start going through the path through the mountains. For now we all rest and store up. The captain bowed and walked quickly out of the half open tent.

"Xiaoyu!" The prince beckoned Xiao over into the tent. "Bring the blade as well."

Xiao took the sai carefully by the handle and walked into the tent. Her face was slightly grubby from helping to clear out one of the wheels from a cart out of the mud but other then that she was quite neat and tidy.

"I see the blade you have been cleaning…who's is it?"

"No ones," she replied.

"You mean that you stole the sai when I specifically told you that you weren't aloud to carry weapons?"

"I didn't steal it sir, I found it in the saddle bag. Besides if your going to drag me half way out to here I will be needing a sai!"

Prince Jin smiled at her, "you know what I like about you?"

"The fact I hate your company?"

"No, the fact your more feisty then my whole army put together." Prince Jin picked up the sai and inspected it. "Its not very good is it. Already rusting."

"I have to make do with what I've got," she reminded him.

He put the sai back down and carefully drew out his own sword, swinging it deftly. Xiao moved back thinking he was going to attack her. Without a moment's hesitation he used his other hand and threw up the sai, neatly slicing it in half as if it was a simple bit of cloth. The two pieces clattered to the ground. Xiao looked from the pieces to the prince. Both their eyes met and locked into each other for a short while before Prince Jin turned his back to her and approached a large pile of swords that were in excellent condition.

"If you really want a weapon…here!" he turned back around and tossed a familiar sword at her.

Xiao reached up with her left and caught it easily. She smiled and gazed at the familiar dark red smooth hilt of the sword. "I didn't think you'd still have it." She whispered, looking up and beaming a smile at him.

"I don't throw away excellent weapons like that one." Jin smiled back at Xiao. The smile wasn't sneaky, selfish or mean it was one of his rare happy smiles.

Without knowing exactly what she was doing she walked towards the prince and kissed him gently on the cheek. "Thank you!" she whispered before turning around and running out of the tent.

Prince Jin stood still in pure amazement.

Miharo sat down clenching and unclenching her hand and fingers. "What if something's happened to her? What if she's dead…I'll never forgive myself!"

Steve put his arms around Miharo. "Xiaoyu is a strong person, she has a lot of fire in her and don't forget she used to live in China. She'll be ok." He tried to reassure Miharo.

Tears were streaming down her eyes already. "But apparently she has a slow internal bleeding, she won't last long!"

"Don't underestimate Xiaoyu darling."

5 Days Later:

It was quite hot in the tents so Xiao had got up in the middle of the night and made her camp outside in the open air where it was a little bit cooler. She could see the stars and carefully looked for constellations that her mother had shown her a few times when she was little. As she dosed off she dreamt of the day when she was five and had just learned to fight.

Prince Jin lay down in his own bed, his face was boiling hot but not because of the heat but because of the being inside of him.

Jin's Dream:

When he stood up he felt chains rub against his skin, he looked at his left wrist and then right and saw huge chains of red hot metal. They were burning into his skin. He yelled out in pain and almost collapsed but then he started hearing someone laughing.

"I make you this powerful being and you still want to get rid of me!" the laughing and voice echoed in the dark room.

Jin felt a huge pain of burning on his bare arm; the scar was almost on fire. "GO TO HELL!" he yelled.

"We're already there!"

Xiao could hear Jin yelling fiercely. Silently she crept into his tent and approached him where he lay sleeping.

"I don't need this power…I don't want it!"

"Prince Jin…" she whispered, gently reaching out to his forehead.

"You wanted this power in the beginning, now you have to live with it!"

Xiao's hand flinched away from the burning up forehead. "What the?" "When I marry Julia I'll be free of you!"

She tore a bit of material from her trailing nightdress and carefully picked up and bowl of cold water by the side of the sleeping prince and soaked the material in it.

"She can't free you! Otherwise I would have killed her by now."

With care she dabbed the soaked cold cloth onto his forehead, trying to cool him down. From the corner of her eye she noticed his hand move slightly.

Prince Jin started to feel a bit cooler; carefully he placed his hand onto his forehead and felt coolness there.

"The woman who can free you will die by your hand!" yelled the devil spirit.

Instantly his hand shot out and caught Xiao off guard, he gripped her throat tightly. His eyes opened quickly and they were ten times darker then normal. He forced himself to sit up and slowly tightened his grip on the throat of Xiao.

"NO! Leave her alone!"

Xiao stayed sitting down but could hardly breath, instantly she punched him with her free arm.

"ARHH! She is the one."

The hand that had once gripped her throat let go. Xiao coughed a bit. She bent over the prince; his eyes were still so dark.

"She is the one? I won't let her die if she can save me!"

Prince Jin closed his eyes and opened them again to reveal he was nearly normal. Xiao gave him some room to sit up. Sweat appeared to drip down his face. She quickly and softly wiped it away with the still damp cloth. "Are you ok?"

"Yes, thanks to you." Prince Jin smiled at Xiao.

"What do you mean?" Xiao asked suspiciously.

Jin took her hand in his. "If I tell you…you must never tell another soul unless I say you can."

Xiao nodded and stared deeply into his amazing brown eyes.

"My father is a descendant of a cursed family line. His father before him was a truly evil man. He despised Kazuya for some reason unknown to me. One day in training he was so fierce with my father that he forced him off a cliff. My father made a pact with a devil being so that he could get revenge. Years after the incident my father fought my grandfather again. This time he won." Jin paused for a second and looked straight at Xiao. "Kazuya was became more and more evil as years went by, that was until he remembered Jun Kazama. He really loved her more then anything, but she was part Chinese and was a servant, his father forbade him to marry her. One day he saw her in the forest where he was hunting, the devil gene had overcome him but she saved him and the devil spirit disappeared completely. When I was born I had that same spirit inside of me somehow."

"So you have to find someone special enough to cure you…right?"

"Yes. That is why I'm marrying Princess Julia Chang after the war."

Xiao sat silent for a moment. She felt a tug at her heart inside. "Its not like I love him, is it?" she thought. "Sometimes…I get these nightmares. This man, he sometimes attacks me, I am able to se his face but when I wake up I can't remember who he is. When I was ten, I kept getting these dreams. I was older in them and this man was there. He killed me in those dreams…it seemed so real I actually believed that it would really happen."

"Do you still?"

Xiao closed her eyes briefly. "Yes…sometimes I do." Her eyes slowly opened and showed fear in them, a fear that could pierce the night sky.

Prince Jin couldn't help but draw himself closer to her. He wanted to put his arm around her and comfort her but guilt stopped him. Xiao leaned against him with no hesitation at all!

"Aren't you afraid of me?" he asked. "I could easily kill you if I the devil spirit consumes me."

"No. I'm going to die anyway aren't I?"

"What do you mean?"

"I have been getting these visions lately, I'm coughing out so much blood, growing weaker. I'm dieing in those visions." She closed her eyes dreamily feeling strangely safe with the prince beside her. "I'm bleeding allot somtimes..."

Jin didn't say anything. He wrapped his arms around her, sensing that she needed to be comforted. "I'm here Xiao, I won't let you die," he promised. With careful thought he placed a kiss on her cheek and waited until she was asleep which didn't take long. He picked her up in his strong arms and walked out of the tent, he pin pointed a make shift bed he presumed was Xiao's and gently laid her down on it. As he turned to go he heard her voice.

"Don't leave Jin…please," she whispered, staring at him with eyes full of fear of being alone.

Jin walked back towards her and knelt beside her. "I have to go and train."

"Please…just leave it for now," she begged.

"Ok then." Jin agreed almost readily.

Carefully he sat down beside a tree and leant his back on it. Xiao could tell he was little nervous, she got up and walked towards him, carefully she sat down and leant her head onto his chest. Jin brushed his fingers through her short and soft hair.

"I'm sorry…if I've ever hurt you."

"You don't remember…"

Prince Jin put a finger to her lips. "I don't remember much when it consumes me." He suddenly kissed Xiao right on the lips.

She looked him half in horror and half in amazement. "What about Julia?"

"What about her?" he asked, slowly bending his head, kissing Xiao again on the lips.

Xiao turned away from him and was about to stand but she felt Jin clutching her wrist.

"She doesn't really love me. She loves General Hwoarang…not me."

"I'm sorry," Xiao spoke guiltily.

"Don't be…I don't love her at all."

"Then who do you love?"

Jin grinned, "you of course."

Xiao smiled back at him and sat down beside him, leaning her head onto his chest. "Do you have to marry her?" she asked.

"No…not at all."

Writers Note:

Sorry again about the really late chapter post. But here it is, not much action I know but I thought I'd make it a bit more special, i.e for Xiao. Of course their is still gonna be a few more chapters yet!