Hey guys! Sorry for the delayed update. I've been super duper busy with life...yeah. I'm feeling the way I typed this chapter...it gets a little touchy towards the end, but hey. We're all mature, right? Enjoy! :)

Chapter Nine

The night passed, and it was time for Teal to travel to Kobe, where her next couple of tournament rounds would be taking place. She had spent the entire plane ride figuring out who Kunimitsu was, and why she was sent to kill her. The woman was dangerous, no doubt, but if they were to meet again, Teal had to make sure she took her out, for good. Xiayou surprisingly slept throughout the plane ride, while Lili and Asuka bickered quietly behind her. Teal definitely since either some of type of hidden friendship between the two girls, or something more romantic. It made her chuckle to see her two friend argue, and she found it kind of cute. She had still unsuccessfully try to come up with a reason why the events the night before happened, and became upset. Ever since she became involved with this stupid company war, her life had literally became a living hell. She missed the carefree days when the only thing she worried about was what to wear for the next party she was going to, or what University she wanted to attend, instead of worrying about if she would even make it to the next day alive in one piece. When they had arrived at the hotel, the rest of the girls went to the poolside, while Teal stayed in her room. She just wasn't in a fun mood at the moment.

When she told Helena about her run in at the club, Helena automatically admitted that Kunimitsu used to work for the Zaibatsu when Kazuya Mishima was the head of it, so she was either sent by the G Corporation, or by Jin and the Zaibatsu. Teal asked her why she came after her specifically, and Helena didn't answer. Instead, she started to tell her the next assignment.

"The tournament will be in Kobe for the next three days, so that is where Kazama will be also. Tomorrow night, you are to go to the house where he is staying and break into his computer. Nina Williams made an announcement they are about to make a big decision, but she didn't say what it was. I want you to find it what it is. I don't want you having any contact with him, do you understand? None. It can put this whole operation in danger. You are to find out what the announcement is, and come back to the hotel."

"Okay, fine." Teal said, half-halfheartedly. In her mind, she already knew that if she would come face to face with Jin again, she would definitely give him a piece of her mind. She wouldn't mind giving him some busted facial features also.

"You have a whole day to figure out how you're going to get into the house without being noticed. I'm pretty sure it's heavily guarded, and there might be cameras around and in the house also." Helena said.

"What? You want me to break in his house, but you don't tell me how?" Teal asked.

"I knew you'd understand. Goodbye."

The phone hung up and Teal threw it on the bed, immediately checking it to see if anything had happened to it. This is going to be harder than I thought, she thought as she now try to think of a way to get into his house. This was making her have more and more hatred toward Jubilee Corp, and the Zaibatsu, and even G Corp. All of them. Hate is such a strong word, but that's exactly how she was feeling. Teal wished more than anything that she was back in Tokyo, living a normal life again, even if she wasn't so normal herself. Her phone began ringing again and she saw that it was Xiaoyu.

"Teal!" Xiaoyu said excitedly. "Are you coming to the pool? It's nice!"

"Um...yeah. Give me a minute to change." Teal decided. Might as well try to have fun well it lasts.

"Okay, hurry up!" Xiaoyu said, hanging up.

After Teal changed into her bathing suit, she slipped on a pair of her yoga short and slid on her flip-flops. She decided to keep her phone in the room, since she didn't want to get it wet, grabbed her towel, and made her way out of the room.

The next night, it was go time. She didn't have a problem finding Jin's house, but it was pretty secluded near the woods. He was always into the forest, she thought to herself as she stepped through the twig and branch covered trail that led to his house. Just as Helena said, the house seemed pretty guarded. There were three officers in the front, and three more in the back, and two on the side of the house. There were no cars in the driveway, so Teal assumed that Jin wasn't there.

"Damn! How the hell am I gonna get inside?" She cursed to herself.

After contemplating what she should do for five minutes, she came up with an idea. It's worth a shot, she said in her mind as she used her powers to make one of the trees in the forest suddenly blast, and fall to the ground. That seemed to work, as all of guards outside began to run into the forest to see what it was. She made her move quickly and ran inside of the house through the back door. The foyer was huge, and lit pretty brightly. Teal heard more guards coming her way and ran into one of the dark hallways. She tried her best to blend in with the darkness and hold her breath as they walked by, and it worked. Once the guards were out of the sight, she began walking to the first door in the hallway. She was locked, and she used her powers to unlock it. After turning on the light, she realized that it was just a regular bedroom, and nothing important was in it. She closed the door again and continued to make her way down the hall, cautiously checking every room to see if any type of computer, or laptop was in there, but to no avail. Teal made her way quietly up the stairs next, and began to check the rooms there. The first room was a study room, so she thought there could maybe be something there, but it wasn't. She was becoming discouraged and began purposely walking slowly down the hall.

"Ugh, where is that computer?" She said aloud, by accident.

Her complaints were cut short when she heard the front door downstairs, and footsteps.

"Where are the rest of my guards?" A voice said sternly.

"There was a commotion out in the forest, sir. They went to check it out." Another voice said.

"Hm, fine."

Teal realized that it was Jin's voice that spoke first, and that he was back from wherever he went. She heard footsteps coming up the stairs and ran into the next room, without even checking. Unfortunately, she had forgot to close the door all the way when she ran inside. When Teal entered the dark room and looked around, the only source of light was coming from the small computer screen in the front of the room. There it is, she thought as she quietly crept up to the screen. She began searching the computer for any types of leads. Everything she typed in at first, came up with no results.

"Damn, there's gotta be something here." She said lowly. "I didn't do all of this sneaking for nothing."

She tried to find some results again, this time typing in the word "Mishima". This time, some results had actually came up. She sighed with relief and began looking at some of the results. Before she could actually start to understand what was on the screen, it went black. She suddenly stood up straight and looked around. The room was completely black, and she felt another presence in there also.

"Are you looking for me?" Another unknown voice had said.

She froze in place and breathed slowly. "Depends." She said. "Who are you?"

"I think we both know who I am."

"Jin."

"Right."

Teal then felt his aura move closer to her, and she could sense the evil that was within him. It began to actually make her feel sick, but she said nothing. She did nothing.

"I thought there was a restricted sign on the door." He said.

"Since when do I listen to rules." Teal spat out.

"You're obviously listening to some rules now, otherwise you wouldn't be here."

He's right, she thought.

"I'm here for a reason." Teal finally said.

"Oh? And what reason is that?" Jin said.

It was quiet for a couple of seconds, before Teal answered again. "I'm not allowed to say."

Jin was finally close enough to where he was standing directly behind her. He tucked her hair behind her neck, and sniffed it.

"I don't sense any fear from you." He said lowly. "Are you scared of me, Teal?"

Teal breathed out slowly. "I was never scared of you, Jin."

"Are you sure? You aren't scared of what I'm slowly becoming?" He said. "I could snap your neck in half right now, if I wanted to."

"I'm not the same girl from middle school, Jin."

"You sure? You were a timid little thing back then."

"I'm not afraid of you." Teal said again, her voice even. "I could fight, and beat you, right now if I wanted to."

Jin smirked and went to hit her, but Teal sensed it and immediately turned around and grabbed his hand. They were now face to face, and she could feel him smiling.

"I must admit, you really aren't the same little Teal Yakima I knew." He said.

"I grew up, that's why." Teal said. "Why are you doing this? Do you understand how much trouble and turmoil you are putting the world in? For what? You wanna talk about how I'm not the same person, but you're definitely not the same person either."

"It's for reasons far too complicated for you to understand. But I'm warning you now, Teal. Go home."

"No."

"Leave, or I will personally drag you out of here."

Teal noticed his voice beginning to change, into a more demonic, evil voice. She then said a red glow appearing from his eyes, but she still didn't move, looking right into his eyes. It was only because she wasn't afraid, it was also because something was drawing her to him. Some type of powerful force that she had never felt before.

"Drag me out then." She said.

"With pleasure." Jin's now distorted demonic voice said.

He grabbed her neck from behind and attempted to throw her, but she grabbed his hand simultaneously and pushed him back, as hard as she could. Her purple aura began forming around her body as she began to let her powers take over, with ease.

"Teal." Jin's voice said, not as distorted as before. "I don't want to fight you."

Teal was confused, but she didn't show it. "You didn't say that just now."

"No, it wasn't...me..." Jin choked out. It was like something was keeping him from talking.

"I don't have time for your games, Jin! Fight me." She yelled, and charged at him.

She tried her best to get a good hit on him, but he easily dodged and ducked her attacks.

"Teal...stop..." He choked again.

Teal didn't stop, as anger began taking over her. Seeing his face again, and knowing how much he hurt her by up and leaving her, basically destroying the close friendship they had, made her irate. She didn't want to kill him, just hurt him as much as he hurt her. Jin realized that she wasn't even trying to listening to him and used all of his strength to grab her by her neck, and slammed her against the wall. She cried out in pain and try to move, but he had a pretty good grip on her.

"Stop, Teal." His familiar, soft voice said.

"No! Just fucking fight me already!" She cried out.

"I don't want to fight you. Calm down."

Teal began to calm down, and her aura began to fade away. Jin had let go of her neck, but she still had her back against the wall. Too many things were running through her mind, and she didn't even know where to start. The night before, she thought about how she would approach Jin if she would see him, and now that they were face to face, she was speechless. She had a vision while she was sleeping the night before, also. It was pitch black, and Teal realized that this must have been her vision.

"You have every right to be upset at me." Jin said.

"Really? You think so?" Teal said shakily. "I don't even know where to begin Jin! I haven't seen you in three years, and when I do see you, you're trying to take over the world?!"

"It's not that simple, I'm doing all of this for a reason. It has to be done."

"...That wasn't you talking to me a few minutes ago, was it?" She asked him.

"No...There's a lot of stuff you don't know about me...a lot of stuff I didn't want to tell you." He said.

"So leaving me was the best idea you came up with?!" She said, getting angry again. The tears soon began falling freely down her face. "You knew my father had just passed away! You knew it...and the one person I wanted to break down to wasn't even around...I've been holding it in for too long.."

The moon in the sky finally came from behind the night's clouds, and the moonlight shined in the room. Teal continued to cry and yell at Jin, saying how much she tried to hate him for what he did, but couldn't. He suddenly filled in the centimeters of space between them and gave her a long kiss. Teal's insides began heating up, and as much as she wanted to push him away, she couldn't. Jin finally broke away from her and grabbed her hands, pulling her in his direction.

"I don't think we should..." She stopped.

"We shouldn't?" He asked, kissing her neck. "Or you don't want to?"

"N-no, it's not that. I'm a..." She trailed off.

Jin smirked and nodded his head. "I kind of figured that. Don't worry, I'll go easy on you."

He pulled her in his direction again and Teal felt her feet moving, but said nothing. Helena said not to do this...but I want to...but I shouldn't...ugh, I don't know what I want! She was so busy fighting with herself that she didn't even notice Jin pick her up and place her on his bed.

"Wait." Teal heard herself say. Jin stopped unbuttoning her plaid shirt and looked at her. "I won't do this if there's no protection."

He suddenly pulled out the condom wrapper and held it between his two fingers. "Taken care of."

The thoughts in her mind suddenly slowed down, her heart rate slowed down also. Whatever doubts she had in her thoughts were going away, and she sighed and closed her eyes.

"Okay." She said softly. "I'm ready."