Chapter 7: In Pursuit of Kurow's Whereabouts

When Daigo finally joins with Jin and Ryu to find Kurow. Both seem to have a conversation about him as they talked.

"Jin... what do you think if Daigo is with us?" Ryu whispered and Jin silently replies.

"Since he's a gang leader. We need to change his wardrobe so that his subordinates will be surprised."

"Great idea, Jin... since he's going to travel with us." Ryu said happily agrees to his plan and both confronts Daigo.

"So have you made up your mind?" Daigo asked and Jin answered smiling.

"Yeah... we're gonna make you a fighter."

the trio went to the sports shop at the shopping district in Aoharu City where all the Gorin students buy some gear for training during physical education.

"So, why are we here at the sports shop? We never go there for physical education." Daigo said and Jin tells him.

"If you're going to travel with us you need a new wardrobe. Just like me and Ryu can do."

"You're gonna make me a fighter. Sounds interesting, I saw a lot people wear that during my training trip." Daigo said in excitement. "Okay then... Do whatever you wanted to do at me."

"Okay, Daigo... What wardrobe are you going to pick? Is it Ryu or me?" Jin points at Ryu and himself to pick in which he recognizes him as a Kazama like his younger sister.

"Hmmm... since you've become close to my sister. Well then I guess I should pick you." Daigo smiled as he picks Jin and Ryu happily tells him.

"Jin, I think he picks you."

"Very well then... let's do it." Jin smiled having his arm crossed and Daigo was excited to become a fighter like both of them.

The seamstress measures Daigo's waist and up as both Jin and Ryu watches him. He put on some different kinds of karate wardrobe in his size. In which Jin wouldn't like it. Then, he is seen in a blue-green karate pants with a large purple lines in both sides of his pants in which he accepts. Jin then looking for karate gloves where Ryu tries to tell him.

"Jin... he looks very nice if he wears the same as my gloves." Ryu smiled and Jin sighs.

"He never wear boxing gloves, Ryu. He appears to fight barehanded. Just like I fight in dress shirts or my trenchcoat."

Jin then found a blue wristbands and black and blue footpads to complete Daigo's new fighting gear. The seamstress was happy to see Daigo is now wearing blue-green karate pants with a large purple lines at both sides of his pants with a black and red karate belt with blue wristbands and black and blue footpads. The Gedo High emblem is on the left side of his pants to symbolize himself as a gang leader of his school. Both finally accepts his wardrobe.

"Jin, you are a genius. I never knew you're good on shopping some clothes." Ryu complimented and Jin smiles.

"Yep... his wardrobe is perfect. I think his friends would surprised him."

Back at Gedo High, Edge and Gan are staying at Daigo's office until the trio arrives. Both were shocked to see their boss' new wardrobe.

"Boss?! Why are you wearing like that? I know our school doesn't have the subject of physical education?!" Edge said points at his boss.

"Do you like it? I'll wear this for the time being to help both of them." Daigo said nicely to his subordinates.

"Edge... it reminds me of your gangster outfit you were wearing. You know you have a bandage on your stomach just like our boss does." Gan said nicely and Edge finally accepts it.

"Boss... you look perfect. Just to show your muscles to everyone in our school."

"Good... Cause I need your help both of you to make such dirty tricks?" Daigo said and finally orders his subordinates. "Jin was tricked by Momo when my sister was kidnapped by Kurow. I want the two of you to make a trap to capture her, It's my order."

"Okay boss, dirty tricks are my favorite specialty. Let's go, Gan." Edge smiled in excitement as he leaves to prepare a trap while Gan follows him.

"Jin, it's all up to you to lure Momo from our trap. She's the one who knows where Kurow is." Daigo said making Jin as a decoy.

"Don't worry about him, Daigo." Ryu said calmly. "Jin is neutral so he might act like a hero or a villain. That's how he is."

"Okay, Daigo... I'll deal that stupid brat to lure her out. She's got another thing coming." Jin smirked evilly as both agrees with him.

At the food stalls in Aoharu City, Momo was very happy to see Kurow again while eating her takoyaki. But she was unaware that he used her in order to capture Akira.

"I'm so glad Kurow was here. I have no idea why he is back? Shoma and his friends told me not to trust him anymore. But I like him, hehehe..." Momo giggles by herself as she got tripped by Jin as her takoyaki spills at her tennis uniform and cries. "Waahhhh! Who tripped me?!"

"Hello, crybaby... how's your takoyaki? Got spill in your cute uniform?" Jin smiled evilly to Momo in which she recognizes him.

"Hey... you're that hunkmeister with the girl in Seijyun High. How dare you to mess my uniform?!"

"Don't get me wrong you little bitch, You're the one who pretend that you're the lost girl. Now I'll get it back to you for smashing me with your tennis racket." Jin said in an evil smile.

"Nobody speaks to me that way? You're just gullible like the rest? Now if you excuse me...? I need to go now...?" Momo said in a bratty way and Jin pulls her hair intensively. "Hey... that's not's fair?! Let go of my hair, you bully...?"

"That's far enough to say that, you little brat? No one dares talking to me like that. If anyone dares calling me in such a bad way. I always giving them a severe punishment."

"Don't make me..." Momo then hits her tennis racket to Jin as he avoids causing them to have a fight.

"Now you think that I'm a bully... who's the first one to make such a dirty trick?" Jin said raising his brow and Momo does a Whale Serve hitting him with a tennis ball as he quickly grabs his tennis ball with an evil smirk. "Is that all you got...? Hitting me with your stupid balls...?"

Momo then dashes him to whack him out using the Spoiled Brat's Attack calling him an idiot as Jin still avoids but got hit from one of Momo's tennis balls.

"Ugh..."

"Hahaha... you're an idiotic duckbutted head." Momo laughs in a spoiled brat manner as she taunts him letting her tongue out childishly. "Nyah!"

"Grrr... Don't you dare calling me that, you little brat!" Jin yelled furiously while his upward spikes on his hair wiggles like a duckbutt as he angrily chases Momo. "Come back here!"

At the park, both Daigo, Ryu, Edge and Gan are waiting the right time to trap Momo as they saw her.

"There she is..." Gan said and Daigo orders Edge.

"All right, do it Edge..."

"Okay dokey, boss... cutting the ropes using my army knives, hee hee..." Edge then cuts the rope with his army knife as Momo successfully got in the net.

"Waahhh... who did that?"

"Pull it over, Gan..." Daigo orders Gan to pull it up.

"Count on me, boss..." Gan quickly pulls the rope where Momo was caught in the net as she was caught in the trap as she dropped her tennis racket.

Jin then saw Momo was caught by a trap set by Daigo and his subordinates and he evilly smiles to see her got caught and he got her tennis racket.

"Now we're even... At least I got your tennis racket."

"Give it back to me, you squiggling duckbutted head. Give it back!" Momo cries childishly to get her tennis racket as Jin refuses to give it to her.

"Not a chance, you spoiled brat. Now you tell us where Kurow just went off to?"

After capturing Momo, she got tied up tightly by Edge and Gan to be hanged at the branch of the tree in backwards where Jin still has her tennis racket and Daigo and Ryu finally confronted her.

"Okay Momo... I still remember you... you're that spoiled little girl who ordered me to deal with your students from Gorin High by the time I was brainwashed by Kurow." Daigo still recognizes her and he asked where Kurow is. "Now tell us where Kurow is?"

"I don't know what you're saying... you grown ups need to be some respect to a kid like me..." Momo angrily said to the five of them and Daigo orders Jin.

"Jin, break her tennis racket in half... She needs to learn how to respect older people."

"Noooohhhh! Not my tennis racket...!" Momo screamed while in tears.

"If you don't tell us where Kurow is? Then we'll broke your tennis racket in half." Daigo said harshly to Momo.

"Oh my goodness... he's very harsh to children." Ryu wondered and Jin tells him.

"Don't worry, she will tell us more and more until she keeps refusing to us."

"Get me off this thing or else!" Momo yelled childishly and Jin begins to broke her tennis racket as she cries again. "All right... all right I'll tell you... Kurow just went off the other game along with the girl from Seijyun High, Waaaaahhhhh!"

"He went off to the other game. Worst as I thought... he's definitely went to the other fighting game? It seems that he goes out to Game World Station while my sister was in his grasp. We better hurry." Daigo said as he orders both of his subordinates while Jin gives her tennis racket to Edge as he catches it. "Edge and Gan, I want you to take Momo back to Gorin High just for a visit. Tell Shoma everything about what's going on despite our rivalries with them."

"Count on us, boss." Edge smiled happily accepts Daigo's order. "I'll tell Shoma everything of what she had done. Come on, Gan."

"Gahahaha! No problem...! Let's go to Gorin High, Edge." Gan said while he lifting the tree where Momo was tied as both run back to Gorin High as she cries in agony.

"WAAAAAAHHHHH! DON'T MAKE ME DO THIS?!"

After getting Kurow's whereabouts, The trio are on their way back to the Game World Station until they run through both Xiaoyu and Ken finally reunited with their friends they been looking for.

"Jin!"

"Ryu!"

"I'm so glad that I found you..." Xiaoyu said finally hugged Jin in a friendly manner.

"Xiao... why are you here?"

"We've been looking for both of you nowadays? Why are you guys doing here in a different fighting game?" Ken said scolding at both.

"That's right... we've been looking for you after the 10th anniversary is over." Xiaoyu angrily said while putting both hands on her hips.

"Forgive me, Xiao. I tried to return back to the game we came from. But I can't..." Jin said sadly.

"What do you mean, you can't?" Xiaoyu cried worriedly to him.

"We tried to go back to where we came from. But it never worked. Both of us were stuck this the whole time." Ryu explained sadly as Daigo tells them both.

"So this is your friends, I'm impressed. They have reasons why they are here in this game? Kurow secretly cut off their data so that they are unable to access to return back to their own game by the time he made a black out."

"Jin, is that true... Your data was cut off?" Xiaoyu said as Jin replies.

"It's true... both Ryu and my data was been cut off by Kurow to make sure we cannot access of going back to our game we had come from. I supposed to go in the 10th anniversary. But I'm unable to make it because of Kurow's sinister plans."

Xiaoyu cries after finding out the truth and knowingly without them the game they appeared would be unplugged soon and she finally decides to help them.

"All right, Jin... we're going to help you and to recover both you and Ryu's data."

"Xiaoyu was right... I guess that I'll help you again, old buddy." Ken smiled and both finally agreed to help them.

"Thanks, Ken... and you too young lady." Ryu smiled and he comments. "Your clothes reminds me of Chun-Li."

"Don't compare me to the woman in a tramp clothes." Xiaoyu said angrily as Jin restrains her.

"Now now, Xiao... we better get moving."

Arriving at the Game World Station since no game characters are around. Both Jin and Ryu sensed something went wrong and Daigo tells them not to worry.

"It's all right both of you. Kurow set this up so that both of you will be caught."

"Hey... I think the other game is lighted up." Ken said as he points on the game Battle Arena Toshinden 3.

"That must be it. Kurow must be went through that game. I can sense my sister inside of it. Let's go..."

"Who's his sister, Jin?" Xiaoyu asked and Jin answers.

"That's Akira Kazama, Xiao."

"What? She's a Kazama...?" Xiaoyu said shockingly.

"We're not related, Xiao." Jin sighed and tells her. "Both sibilings have the same surname as mine and I trust them both."

"Let's go guys... we might see other fighters once we get inside." Ryu said as everyone finally went inside the game Battle Arena Toshinden 3.

Hang in there, Akira... I'm going to save you from Kurow and to dispose of him on getting my data back. I promise to you... Jin thought and everyone finally proceeded inside.

Trivia:

*Jin gets his spike hair wiggled after Momo calling him a duckbutt head is a reference to Sha Gojyo in Saiyuki where his bangs wiggled when he got angry at Son Goku after calling him a cockroach head with an antenna.

*The sport shop where Daigo made his new fighting wardrobe is a reference to the fashion shop that customize the characters in Tekken Tag Tournament 2.

*Momo's tennis racket which is a heart-shaped sign on her racket is a reference to the tennis racket made by Yonex.

*Jin arrogantly smirk towards Momo it's also reflects on his pre-fights and win animations in Tekken 6.

A/N: Now that everyone went to the other game. Kurow was still on the loose while Akira is been held captive. Find out on the next chapter.