Rivals Reunited
Jin's hands squeezed painfully at Xiaoyu's neck as his face filled with malice and anger. He glared down at her, their eyes locked for a moment before he turned away.
Xiaoyu tried to scream but only a strangled cry came out. She flailed around but knew that it was no use. He was too strong and slowly, she felt darkness enclosing in on her.
"Foolish woman, I told you that you were going to die," Jin spat at Xiaoyu in a voice she could not recognize. He laughed and let go, only to start squeezing at her neck again.
"Why must you make me suffer like this?" Xiaoyu thought to herself, tears coming out from the pain and hurt. "But I must go on. I can't die like this."
Suddenly, Xiaoyu felt a whoosh of air coming back into her lungs. Her eyes snapped open and Jin was no longer on top of her. She coughed and heaved but managed to find her breath again. She rolled over to her side and found her best friend lying down next to her.
"Julia!" she cried, crawling quickly to Julia. But she was surprised to find Julia, still as death. "Julia!" Xiaoyu grabbed Julia by the shoulders and shook her hard. "Wake up! Wake up!" Xiaoyu shrieked, fresh tears streaming down her face, as she began to sob. "All this misery going about, I wish I were home again," she thought as she clutched Julia's body.
She heard a loud yell and looked up. To her surprise, she found the pervert who was sitting with her on the ferry and Jin, literally at each other's throats.
"Kazama! I'm gonna kill you! I swear, I'm gonna kill you!" Hwoarang yelled with menace.
"Why don't you try?" Jin smiled as he darted one of Hwoarang's powerful kicks. "You fight impressively for a buffoon."
"What the hell do you mean? We fought before!" protested Hwoarang, throwing a powerful punch at Jin's stomach. He knelt to the ground and wrapped his arm around Jin's neck, forcing Jin into a submission.
"No," Jin used a free arm and punched Hwoarang's face with the back of his fist. "We haven't."
Hwoarang fell back, startled but not finished yet. He quickly stood up and prepared to give Jin a powerful axe kick. But as he raised his foot, to his surprise, Jin fell down to the floor with a thud.
"Oh, come on, not now," Hwoarang growled and knelt down next to Jin's fallen body. It was apparent that he was unconscious but Hwoarang decided that he was just pretending. He punched Jin on the arm lightly. Jin did not stir. "This isn't funny! Finish what we were doing!" Hwoarang yelled.
"Don't you touch him!" a female voice shrieked. Hwoarang heard frantic footsteps and found the Xiaoyu girl next to him. She dropped to her knees and cradled Jin's head.
Hwoarang raised an eyebrow at this crazy girl. Has she seen what has been going on the past few minutes? Yet she still holds him as if she loves him with all her heart. "Are you crazy?! Did you see what he did to me?! Don't touch that-that monster!"
"What he did to you?!" she turned to him sharply, glaring at him. "You must've hurt him. I saw you two!"
"And you also saw him trying to strangle you! Jin's a monster!"
"That was not Jin!" Xiaoyu raised her voice to match his.
Hwoarang lowered his voice, seeing that he was only angering Xiaoyu. "Well, great, now we have an unconscious girl and an unconscious monster lying on the ground. What do we do?"
"He's not a monster!"
"Fine, an unconscious asswipe."
Xiaoyu ignored him, and bent down, her mouth open as she tilted Jin's head back.
"Oh shit! You're not gonna do that, are you?!" Hwoarang gagged as he turned away. "Julia!" He ran towards Julia's body, not too far away from them.
Xiaoyu ignored him and just as her lips hovered barely an inch from Jin's, he woke up with a loud yell. His head bumped with Xiaoyu and she fell back with a squeak.
"What happened?" Jin asked groggily, rubbing his head.
"No, you must rest for a moment!" Xiaoyu ran to Jin, caressing his head as she ignored the throbbing pain in her head.
Jin looked towards Hwoarang who was bent over Julia's body. "Strange," Jin thought. "What are those two doing here?"
Slowly, he got up, not aware that he had just brushed Xiaoyu off of him and walked towards Hwoarang.
"Hey, what just happened?" said Jin looking down on Hwoarang who looked worried.
Hwoarang clenched his fists and attempted to ignore Jin, too angry for the moment.
"I asked you once. What just happened?" Jin repeated quietly.
"Ahhhh!!! Can't you ever shut up?! You know damn well what happened! Now shut up before I smash your face in!" Hwoarang flew to his feet and started screaming, just inches from Jin's face.
"What do we do now? We can't leave her like this," Hwoarang turned to Xiaoyu who knelt down and stared curiously at Julia.
"You were the one that knocked her unconscious," Xiaoyu said informatively. "You should know how to wake her up."
"Yeah, I know how," Hwoarang nodded. "But do I have to give her CPR? Her hot air might go into me," said Hwoarang, trying to disguise the desire to place his lips on top of Julia's.
"Like it already hasn't," Jin muttered.
"Well, I can do it," Xiaoyu offered. "Of course, even though I prefer not,Jin can also do it-."
"NO!" Hwoarang accidentally yelled out. "I mean, no, Jin would probably give her the possessed disease. I'll do it." He tilted her head up tenderly and placed his lips over her barely open mouth.
As he did this, Julia began to stir, but Hwoarang did not notice and continued to breath air into her, stopping occasionally to pump at her stomach but then returning to her lips again.
Her eyes snapped wide open and she found Hwoarang on top of her, his soft lips over hers. She jumped up, knocking Hwoarang backwards.
"What the hell are you doing to me, you pervert!" Julia screamed, wiping at her mouth. "You're trying to take advantage of me! And where are we?! Did you drug me? I knew you were crazy! The minute you made me jump off the boat!" Julia continued to rave, not aware that there were two other people watching her, half amused and half surprised at her reaction.
"And then the time you kissed me," Julia paced, throwing her arms up in the air.
"He kissed you?!" Xiaoyu accidentally blurted out.
Julia stopped pacing and slowly turned around, surprised to hear a familiar female voice.
"Xiaoyu? Is that really you?" Julia took a step towards Xiaoyu, eyes shining with the happiest smile Hwoarang has ever seen.
Xiaoyu and Julia hugged each other in a tight embrace, chattering on happily about how they've missed each other and giggling excitedly to have finally found one another.
Hwoarang rolled his eyes and glared at Jin. "This isn't over yet," he muttered.
"What happened to 'Mr. I love Julia'?" Jin shot back quietly.
"What the-ew, hell no!" Hwoarang's face crumbled as he turned a shade of pink.
"I saw the way you looked at her, how you wanted to save her life," Jin smirked, surprised at his ability to embarrass Hwoarang when he had the chance.
Hwoarang found it difficult to find his words. He stuttered, "J-Julia's a hotheaded bookworm! Why would I want that?"
Jin smiled showing his perfect white teeth, "That's why you like her, stupid."
"I DON'T LIKE JULIA ONE BIT!" Hwoarang yelled out loud.
Instead of Jin's pressing taunts, he heard silence and looked over to side.
Julia and Xiaoyu had stopped their chatter and instead, stared at Hwoarang intently. Xiaoyu glared at him, which was apparent that she did not like Hwoarang.
But Julia's face held a different kind of look. She stared at Hwoarang, her eyes burned at him but Hwoarang looked away.
"But I like you."
TBCA/N: Okay, I finally updated. Sorry it took me so long but I had so much things going on at school. Oh well, the point is, I updated. Haha, the fighters have finally met again, reunited. Some of you may be disappointed that there will be no more time for the couples to be alone. But don't worry; it's getting interesting as ever. But what will happen now that everyone is together? Will it be smooth sailing as it goes along or will the of Jin and Hwoarang's rivalry turn this prolonged vacation into a storm? Find out on the next chapter!