3. KING Y ASUKA

LA COCINA

Ahh, La Cocina—from a great view to great food to great service, there's nothing like La Cocina…So King and Asuka walk in and their arrival has everyone in the restaurant buzzing.

"Grr, what the hell are they staring at?!" Asuka shouted irritated.

"Probably you, you are as pale as a ghost…" King joked.

"Well look at you trying to be a comedian, you're doing a lovely job 'cuz you ain't funny!" Asuka shouted.

Not far from where King and Asuka are is Kikay. She was ordering some food to-go until she heard Asuka yelling at King.

"This is great!!!! It looks like King and his partner are fighting—soon he's gonna wanna ask me to be his partner and his lover too~!!!!" Kikay thought. She smiled as she walked out the restaurant.

"So…is the food here any good?" Asuka asked calming down.

"Of course, hello wel—"

"Hey Miguel, small world, huh? Do you still miss Christie?" Asuka smiled.

"Yes I miss Christie!!!!!! Oh how my heart aches, it only beats for Christie!!!!!!!!! CHRISTIE!!!!!!!!!!!" Miguel shouted. Everyone was quiet and they stared at them.

"Uhh…" Asuka smiled sheepishly.

"……" King was puzzled.

"Umm, well what would you have?" Miguel finally said. After he had spoken everyone went back to talking and eating.

"I'll have the cheesy chicken enchiladas, and I want fruit punch, and for dessert, I'll have the strawberry cheesecake." King said.

Asuka stared at the menu. She was confused because it was in Spanish. She turned it all around and still couldn't make any sense of it.

"Ohh!!!!!! I'll just have what he's having!" Asuka blushed. Her entire face was red of embarrassment.

"Okay, your food will be with you shortly. Thank you for choosing La Cocina." He said walking off.

The table was silent when Miguel had left. King was drinking his water and Asuka was staring at him. It stayed that way until Asuka finally broke the silence.

"So why do keep that mask on?" she asked.

"Tradition, a masked wrestler must never remove his mask." King replied.

"But masked wrestlers remove their masks ALL THE TIME! They have a double life!" Asuka argued.

"Asuka, I am not removing my mask for a curious, nosey little girl!" King said irritated.

"MY BAD, I didn't know you were a whiny bitch!" Asuka said insulted.

"PERDON?!" King said shocked.

"WHAT, I can't flame ya back?! Fine, then don't flame me." Asuka huffed.

"My fault, I didn't know you were sensitive. I apologize." King said.

"Well, I'm sorry too, so if you won't take your mask off, would you at least answer my questions?" Asuka sighed.

"Sure." He smiled.

"Okay, here you two are! Now, I'll be back if you need me." Miguel smiled.

"Okay, first question, what color are your eyes?" Asuka asked taking a bite.

"Heh…heh, emerald green." King chuckled. He was pointing at his fork to tell Asuka to use her fork.

"Heh…heh, pretty…" Asuka blushed. She used her fork this time and smiled.

"It's not too hot for you?" King asked.

"Oh no, so are your lips thin or full?" She blushed.

"Do you want to find out?" He asked seductively.

"That's why I asked!" she laughed.

King slid over to Asuka. She looked at him with curiosity in her eyes. Just then King lifted his mask to show her his lips.

"Oh I see, they're fu—"

He kissed her, very softly, so tenderly. He quickly pulled away feeling his cheeks turning red. Her lips stinged form where he placed his. He slid back to his seat and chuckled when he had seen her turning pink and the astonishment on her face.

"So did that answer your question?" King asked, raising his eyebrows.

"Yeah…so how are you eating and drinking?" she asked, still caught in a daze.

King chuckled, "I have a hole in the mouth, see"

"Uh-huh, whatever, weirdo." She joked.

TIME TO TRAIN

A couple of days had passed and King and Asuka were getting close. As each day went by, they grew closer and closer. Anyways, they're in the WNW Arena training. Kikay is sitting down in the announcer seat watching.

"Sigh, I wish that was me he was training…." Kikay sighed. She looked sad and disappointed.

"If only I could get the courage to tell him how I feel…" she thought. "Then maybe…then maybe he'll say, he likes me too…"

"Kikay."

"I could picture it now; we'll be standing in front of each other, looking into each other eyes."

"Kikay?"

"I'd stare into his mask eyes and tell him how I feel..."

"Kikay!"

"Then he'll pause and think about what I said and caress my cheek…and tell me he felt the same way…"

"KIKAY!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"YAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kikay screamed. She jumped up and was bright red.

"Que pasa? Are you okay?" King asked concerned.

"Erm, yeah, I'm fine! I was just, uh, just—"

"Daydreaming???" James said smiling.

"YEAH!!! I WAS DAYDREAMING!" Kikay blushed.

"About what?" Asuka asked.

"She would ask that! Knowing darn well what the hell I was dreaming about! Think fast!" Kikay thought.

"Hmm, she was probably dreaming about sharks and the beach again—"Garrett shrugged.

"YEAH! THAT'S WHAT I WAS DREAMING ABOUT!" Kikay blushed.

"Well okay, the look on your face, I thought you were sick or something." Asuka smiled.

"Yeah well I'm not! I'm fit as a fiddle!" Kikay huffed.

"Well okay, no need to get an attitude, Kitkat!" Asuka said irritated.

"My name's Kikay, not Kitkat!" Kikay shouted irritated.

"MY BAD! I DIDN'T KNOW NICKNAMES MADE YOU ANGRY! Sheesh!" Asuka huffed. She stormed out with a frown on her face.

"Kikay, are you okay?" King asked.

"Didn't you hear me? I'm fine!" Kikay huffed.

"You sure, 'cuz you are being a diva!" James snapped.

"I'm fine!!!!!! I just need a little rest---"

"Well can it wait? James and I need you to help us!" Garrett said.

"Then my rest can wait, come on!" Kikay shouted running off.

"Ohh, I barked at King!!!!!!! Now he's never gonna like me!!! And I barked at Asuka when she was just trying to be nice to me!!!!!!" Kikay thought. "Maybe I can say sorry tomorrow?"

Meanwhile, things whined down and King and Asuka were thinking of names for Asuka.

"So instead of El Gato, The Cat, how about La Belleza, The Beauty?" King suggested.

"Hmm, I like it, so what move are you gonna show me now?" Asuka asked.

"The Full Nelson—"

Asuka got behind him and does a Full Nelson. King looked impressed.

"Okay, Buena, do you know how to do a belly to belly?" He asked.

"No, what's that?" she asked.

King embraces Asuka, wrapping his powerful arms around her. She was so startled and scared that she reversed the move and body slammed him. He looked at her with amazement.

"I thought you didn't know what a belly to belly was?!" King shouted shocked.

"Oh well I guess I do! Hah ha!" Asuka laughed slapping King's chest. When she did this, King let out a huge roar. Asuka jumped and fell backwards and looked at King with horror in her eyes.

"Asuka, are you okay?" King asked getting up.

"Umm yeah! I'm just peachy!" Asuka said with panic. She back-crawled to the nearest wall.

"Well at least let me help you—"

"NO! NO! NO! WHOO, what a workout, I think I'm gonna go hit the showers!" Asuka said bolting through the door.

"But—but, we're not done." King sighed. He looked at her and started thinking about why she was acting weird.

Meanwhile, Asuka walked into the locker room and opened up her laptop. She cut on her webcam and looked to see if her friends were on. When she found them she smiled.

"Ahh, familiar faces." Asuka thought. "Oh how I miss them."

"HEY GUYS!!" Asuka shouted as loud as she could.

"Gasp, IT'S ASUKA!" Christie shouted.

"HUH?! WHERE?!" Hwoarang and Xiaoyu shouted looking around.

"On the computer, you idiots." Lili sighed. She walked over to the computer and flicked the microphone on.

"Hi Suka!" Miharu waved.

"Hey Miharu, hey how are you guys?" Asuka asked.

"We're fine, did you get me something?!" Lili said. Everyone looked at her weirdly.

"So did you find him?" Christie asked.

"Yeah and the only way he was gonna help me was if I became his tag team partner." Asuka sighed looking down.

"What's wrong Suka?" Xiaoyu asked.

By now, King walked in and leaned over. Asuka sighed and answered her friends.

"It's his roar, no me gusta suya rugida!" she replied.

"I have no idea what you just said, but why stay there if you are scared of him?" Miharu pointed out.

"I'm not scared! And besides, I promised to help him and I want to help him!" Asuka protested.

"But you're scared!!!!!!!!!!" Xiaoyu disagreed.

"Xiao I'm not sc---"

"Just listen, pretend he's Panda when he roars!" Xiaoyu said.

"Xiao, how is pretending he's a huge bear gonna help?!" Asuka argued.

"Well try it anyways! And if it doesn't work you can always come back home! Fingers crossed that it doesn't work, come on!" Hwoarang smiled.

"Umm, Asuka…" King said clearing his throat. Asuka turned in fear.

"YAH!!!!!!!!!!!" Asuka yelped.

"WHAT?!" Christie and Lili shouted pushing Hwoarang out the way.

"King?!" Asuka said sheepishly.

"King?!" Xiaoyu and Miharu shouted pushing Christie and Lili out the way.

"Umm bye guys!!!!!!!!" Asuka said cutting her webcam off and her laptop.

"NO WAIT!" Hwoarang shouted. "Sigh….great now what?"

"Umm, how long have you been standing there?" Asuka asked.

"Sigh…tu no me gusto mi rudigo?" King said.

"Kinda, well, it scares me sometimes." Asuka said blushing.

"But why?" King asked.

"Because I'm afraid of lions, tigers, jaguars, panthers-basically I'm afraid of all the 'big' cats." Asuka sighed. "Ever since I saw this documentary, I've been scared…wow, I haven't told anyone this before."

"Really?" King questioned.

"Yeah plus, fear is a weakness!! I can't tolerate fear!" Asuka shouted.

"A weakness? Don't you know that fear can be your strength? Since you know what your are afraid of and you know how to defeat it, you can use your fear like a strength, y'know?" King said.

"No I don't know but I understand what you are saying, gosh, you sound like an old wise man!" Asuka laughed.

"Good, so look, I don't want to scare you, so when I scare you again, let me know, 'kay?" King said wrapping his arms around her.

Asuka giggled and King nudged her head. She looked up and he kissed her forehead. Just then Armor walked in with a female wrestler.

"King, keep it PG!!!!" Armor said.

King quickly pulled away and blushed, "Armor?"

"Hey man, who's the caliente chica?" Armor smiled.

"I should ask you the same…..who's she???" King said in a daze. He was mesmerized.

"Grr, that jerk! He can't even keep his tongue in his mouth!" Asuka thought.

"Well she is Senorita Gorgeous!!!!!!!!!" Armor beamed.

"No, I'm Confianza and who is your lady friend?" Confianza asked. She gave Asuka a weird look. "Is she a prostituta? "

"Trust me, I'm not a prostitute!" Asuka snarled.

"My mistake, so who are you?" she asked.

"I'm Asuka Kazama, King's partner." Asuka snapped.

"Well is that true King?" she asked.

"Hmm? Oh, no no! Well, not yet, I haven't decided—"

"HAVEN'T DECIDED?!!!!" Asuka shouted. She was furious at King.

King pushed Asuka to the side, "Quiet child! Um, would you be interested?"

"But of course!" Confianza giggled hugging him.

"Excuse me while I go and pick my face off the ground." Asuka said irritated.

"Well I didn't want to say anything but you do need some work done." Confianza agreed.

"WHAT?!" Asuka shouted.

"You look 20." She said.

"Because I am!!"

"But you can look 17; I have this great plastic surgeon!"

"No thanks, I'm fine." Asuka said politely.

"Yeah, she IS fine!" Armor agreed.

Confianza rolled her eyes then scoffed, "Whatever, I'll see you around King."

Confianza walked out and then Asuka punched King in his arm.

"OW! WHAT THE HELL?!" King shouted. He rubbed his arm where she hit him.

"Well that would've never happened if you didn't lie!" Asuka shouted.

"Lie? What the hell did I lie about?"

"You told Confianza that you didn't have a partner when clearly you did." Armor stated. King stared at him then punched him in the arm.

"Ugh! You're such a slim!" Asuka said storming off. They watched her walk off.

"Do you think I should go after her?" King sighed.

"Nah, let her blow off some steam…so, do you think she likes me?" Armor said smiling.

"UGH!" King huffed walking off.

Meanwhile Asuka is alone walking down the streets realizing she was fool for coming to Mexico. She stop at a beach, resting her head in her hands on the wall, staring at the blue water.

"Hwoarang was right, I should come back home." She sighed.

"What, and leave all this?" Eddy chuckled.

"Eddy? What the hell are you doing here?!" Asuka said confused. "Well I'm not in the mood to be bothered with."

"Then listen, I still hate you for setting up Christie with Miguel but I'm willing to make an offer you can't refuse." Eddy said.

Asuka looked at him confused. Eddy looked back at her and smiled.

"An offer? What is it?"

"I'll let you be co-owner of the Zaibatsu." Eddy smiled evilly.

"Hmm, sounds to good to be true, what's the catch?" Asuka asked.

"Me." Eddy said advancing to her.

"Wha—"

Eddy kissed her and Kikay seen it from afar. King decided to go find Asuka. But he may not be too happy about what he will see. What will happen next? Well read to find out.