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Chapter 14: Your Face, My Fist, Her Scars

The next tournament was just around the corner, Xiaoyu and Hwoarang decided that it would be better to seek Jin out rather than wait for him to catch them off guard. They lied to Wang, telling him they wanted to go on a date. Mikazuki was a smart child and quickly figure out what was going on.

"Why are we here exactly?" Hwoarang pulled the ignition key from his motorcycle.

Xiaoyu jumped off, waiting on him "We need to know for sure what we're dealing with."

Hwoarang wrapped his arm around Xiaoyu's shoulder as they entered "But a library? Can't we just go to an armory or something and buy a few guns? I mean if he does get out of control we'd at least have back up."

"…Hwoarang, honey? Shut up." Xiaoyu grabbed hold of the back of his shirt, obviously not amused by his antics.

He shrugged slightly, and sat on a table next to the isle Xiaoyu was on "All I'm saying is that I don't think it's a good idea to waste time here."

When Xiaoyu emerged into view, she had a stack of books in her arms piled higher than her head "You know, Haneul,"

He jumped up and took the books from her, sitting them on the table.

"so it's better to run around the world looking for a needle in a haystack?" She sat down and flipped a book open.

He sat back down on the table, "No," he glanced at the stack reading the titles "Seriously, Xiaoyu, folklore?"

"Got any better suggestions?"

He raised his eyebrow "The Demon Within? Devils on Earth? Accounts of Possession? …You really think he's evil?"

"I don't know what to think, but the amount of power he wielded in my dreams was immortal."

"They are just dreams though. Your worst fears are magnified in them."

She shook her head "Hwoarang, you know I don't exaggerate things, even when I dream."

"Xiaoyu Land?" he leaned towards her.

A slight blush graced her features "Um, well, okay maybe a little." Her blush worsened when he leaned closer with his usual drop-dead sexy smirk. She parted her lips slightly when he brushed his lips against hers. "We're never gonna get," she said in between kisses "anything done if you keep doing that."

"A Complaint?" he wrapped his arms around her lower back, pulling her up into the kiss.

Her only reply was throwing her arms around his neck. She knew that if her nightmares were premonitions then this was her last moment with Hwoarang.

Hwoarang pulled her into his lap and laid back.

Xiaoyu brushed her fingers from his neck, passed his ears to grip his hair. After he came home from the military, she convinced him to pierce his ears to add to his sexy-rebel-look. He currently had three tiny loops in his left ear, and two in his right. They drove her even crazier for him, which she had previously thought wasn't possible. She lifted her head back when his kisses traveled down passed her collarbone, that eerie feeling that someone was watching them shot through her once more and she opened her eyes. She gasped "-Jin-" she struggled up.

Hwoarang leapt up onto an elbow, he whipped his around so swiftly that his hair slung around his head.

Xiaoyu dropped down to the chair but missed it by an inch; she hit the ground with a light thud "Owwww!!!"

Even though he knew this wasn't the time, he grinned at her clumsiness while helping her up.

Jin stood still, completely unmoved. …And no feeling of awkwardness showed through his skin what so ever. This scared Xiaoyu, he was always unreadable during fights, but this was different. His aura was nothing short of sinister "I suppose asking if you missed me is out of the question."

Hwoarang pulled her behind him, popping his knuckles "Finding the dirt bag was easier than I thought it'd be. Kazama, you're goin' down."

Jin smirked, "You best catch me off guard first." He glanced down at the books piled on the desk "I see we're here for the same reason."

"What happened to you?" Xiaoyu whispered, clinging to Hwoarang's shirt.

"After defeating true ogre, a dark power awakened from within me. I feared its power, so much that I could not bear to remain in your company. I fled Japan and isolated myself in order to keep the people I love most safe. But with this power growing beyond my control, it is only a matter of time before I'm completely lost."

Hwoarang winced slightly; he'd been hoping all this time that Jin didn't leave out of love for Xiaoyu. Hearing it in person with her standing behind him made it all the worse. He remained silent.

"What about Mikazuki?"

"It was a mistake on my part, even though our son's power" his glance met Hwoarang's eyes as he spoke the words 'our', adding extra sharpness to it "isn't active, it still takes from my own. Weakening me and slowly killing me while I'm in that form. After leaving, I starting having dreams about him and out of my curiosity came back a few days before the start of the fourth tournament, hoping to catch a glimpse of you. As soon as I saw him, I was astounded. No one could have such a striking resemblance to me unless the said person was a part of the Mishima bloodline. Since then, the devil inside of me has become obsessed with him, it wants its power back and will stop at nothing. Speaking of our child, it seems you've gotten over me already."

She ignoring his last scathe "There has to be another way-" tears filled her eyes.

Jin shook his head. "One of us will have to die."

"And that's you, right now-" Hwoarang took a step forward.

Jin's eyes shimmered crimson "There are by standards here, that wouldn't be the wisest decision."

He glowered, he took a step forward "When Mikazuki's like is at stake you think I care about a couple o' strangers?!"

"Haneul!" Xiaoyu grabbed onto him, slightly calming herself down "This really isn't the place."

He defensively shook her off "What? So you're takin' the loon's side just 'cause he still loves you?"

Tears filled her eyes, she shook her head incredulously as he showed no sign of remorse for his accusations "…" she grabbed one of the books and ran down stairs.

"Fuck…" he smacked himself in the head, of all the retarded things he's said in the past, that was certainly the kicker. He heard Jin's knuckles crack.

"Apparently we're not done here."

He clenched his teeth, but was unable to hold his tongue "You really hurt her. I know I can't completely fix what you've done to her."

"It was the only choice I ha-"

"You didn't see her! I didn't even know how serious it was at first –she almost broke into two-"

"You saved her, none the less. Isn't that what you wanted? To be her hero, the only one she'll ever need?" he arrogantly smirked.

Hwoarang balled his fists and rushed him, his first two throws missing, the third connecting with his jaw.

Jin barely so much as recoiled, rubbing his jaw "I have no time for play right now." As he leapt forward and his knee connected with Hwoarang's gut.

He flew back, slamming into the table, shattering its legs. He recovered quickly, though, and scoped the area, it seemed that Jin had fled. He limped outside and saw Xiaoyu, still obviously upset, but absentmindedly staring at the upper floor's window.

She blinked twice and glanced at him, snapping out of it. "Oh my god-" she said swiftly, rushing to his side. "Are you alright? What happened to you?"

Despite the fact he was still hurt from Jin's words and her reactions from earlier, he still loved her and pulled her into a gentle caress "Better now that I'm back with you."

She wiped stray tears from her face "I'm so sorry, Haneul, I was –I'm so sorry!" she buried her head into his chest.

"Don't be. Don't ever be. I shouldn't have got so hot headed. It won't happen again, promise." He held out his pinkie.

She mournfully smiled and wrapped her pinkie around his.

"Come on, we should go home and regroup. We've got ourselves one hell of a fight coming up."

And that would be the end of this chapter, I hope it turned out okay. But if it didn't, hey, look on the Brightside… I quit my job today and Ohhh so happy. That place seriously sucked and it was time for me to move on. Since this is technically a summer break for me, I'll have lots of time to catch up with my hobbies before the next semester of college starts. So I'll probably update more frequently.