A loud banging noise was resonating around the villa. Asuka, Xiaoyu, and Jun were stood outside the bathroom waiting for Panda.
"Hurry the hell up!" Asuka shouted while rapping her fist on the door.
Jun sighed at her niece. Where did she get this temper from?
"What's she doing in there?" Asuka directed her question at Xiaoyu.
"She'll be applying her make-up," she answered.
"Why does a Panda need to wear make-up?" Asuka face palmed.
Heihachi and Kuma suddenly appeared from their room, their eyes droopy and blood shot.
"Get in line," Asuka said to them. "I'm next."
Heihachi and Kuma laughed.
"Real men don't shower!" He spluttered.
"Rrroarghh! (Real bears don't shower!)" Kuma also said.
The two of them laughed all the way into the kitchen.
The girls shuddered at this revelation.
Finally, approximately one hour and thirty minutes after she had entered the bathroom, Panda emerged.
Asuka scanned her face for make-up.
"I don't see anything..." she murmured. "Whatever! Get outta my way!" She pushed past Panda, but watched in horror as Kazuya sneaked in. Asuka fell to her knees, threw her hands into air, and shouted, "nooooooooooooooooo!"
In the kitchen...
Lee was sat at the breakfast counter eyeing Lars curiously. Lars had apparently fallen asleep in his breakfast.
Lee watched Heihachi and Kuma laugh themselves all the way to the couch.
"What's so funny?" He asked.
"Only a real man would understand," Heihachi grinned at his dig at Lee.
Lee responded by throwing a rose a Heihachi's bald head.
Lee handed a cup of tea to everyone, including Kazuya and Jin who had just entered the room.
"Never get in the way of a woman and a bathroom," Kazuya groaned while taking a sip.
A couple of hours later, everyone had gathered in the room.
"So, what's the plan?" Lee asked.
"I'm going to put you all into pairs," Jun replied.
"It's like being at school again," Kazuya moaned.
"Well, you all act like children, so I will treat you as such," Jun said, annoyed. "You'll go with your partner, and you will try to get along."
The group exchanged awkward glances.
"Kazuya," she started. "You will go with your brother."
"Who?" Kazuya asked, genuinely confused.
Lee coughed loudly.
"Oh, you…" Kazuya looked at him with disgust. "You better stay out of my way."
"That's not the point…" Jun sighed.
She grabbed Kazuya by the ear, and moved him towards the doors.
"Lee, if you don't mind," Jun smiled sweetly at him.
"My pleasure," he replied as he slid open the doors.
Jun gave them a serious look.
"Be good," she said, as she stuffed them through the doors.
Outside…
The heat of the Sun burnt their skins, and the fishy scent of the sea flew up their noses as their feet came into contact with the sand.
"Oh dear…" Lee said as he looked back at the villa. "I forgot my swimwear…"
"You're not wearing those while I'm here," Kazuya warned, his face screwed up in disgust.
They both stood awkwardly for a couple of minutes before Lee spoke up.
"So, brother, what do you do for fun?"
"Murder," he answered, simply.
"But there are too many witnesses!" Lee gasped, as his eyes scanned the crowded beach.
"Then, we shall murder them, too," he laughed to himself.
Lee wanted nothing more than to please his brother. When he noticed a beach ball bounce towards him, he leapt into the air and landed on it, bursting it. A young boy looked up at them with tears in his eyes.
Kazuya began to laugh slowly, but it quickly turned until a full on fit of laughter.
Lee smiled at his brother's reaction.
"More!" Kazuya demanded.
The two brothers ran happily onto the beach to cause more trouble.
Only a few minutes had passed, but the whole beach was in chaos. Kazuya was Electric Wind God Fisting people left, right and centre, and Lee was bursting every beach ball he could find.
Nothing of what he was doing was sophisticated or elegant, but Lee was having the most fun he had had in ages.
For Kazuya, this was an everyday thing. He had to admit, watching Lee pop beach balls was amusing.
Lee suddenly leapt into the air. He executed a dazzling twirl, before flinging a rose at the last ball on the beach. Lee landed gracefully onto the sand, but he had a new target. He saw a young girl building a sand castle. Lee somersaulted forwards, thrusting his feet through it. It crumbled instantly.
He glanced towards Kazuya, expecting to see him looking pleased. However, he looked anything but pleased.
"You've gone too far," he grunted, as he placed a comforting hand on the sad little girl's shoulder.
Lee hung his head in shame.
Kazuya remembered back to his youth when he used to build sand castles. Well… dirt castles. His father never took him to the beach.
"I apologise, miss," Lee smiled down at her while handing her a rose. "We will rebuild it into the greatest sand castle there ever was!"
And so they did. Kazuya, Lee, and the little girl worked for hours. The Sun had sunk, and the Moon had risen.
The three of them stood and admired their masterpiece.
"It's just like the real thing," Lee said with tears in his eyes.
They had created the Mishima Estate, and suddenly, they felt homesick.
They said goodbye to the little girl and made their way back to the villa.
"We did a good thing today," Lee said, ignoring the unconscious bodies and popped balls they passed.
Jun was waiting for them in the living room when they got home.
"Well?" Jun asked expectantly.
"A holiday wasn't such a bad idea," Kazuya replied as he made his way to bed.
"Maybe this will all work out after all," Lee smiled at Jun, raising his glass at her.
Jun smiled awkwardly at him as she looked out at the destruction they had caused.