DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN TEKKEN, NAMCO OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS.
Chapter Four
The next day...
It was morning and Xiaoyu was meditating in the garden. She finished sparring and had been meditating for about ten minutes. Just then, her cellphone rang. Xiaoyu opened her eyes.
"Ugh, I forgot to put my phone on silent." she thought to herself.
Xiaoyu, still sitting cross legged, stretched out her arm. She picked up her phone which was right next to her. She saw that Miharu was calling her. She and Miharu had been texting each other since they met up in the café. This was the first time since the café that either of them had called each other.
"Hey Miharu! What's up?"
"Hi Xiaoyu! How are you?"
"I'm good. How are you?
"I'm alright. Hey, I hope I didn't call at a bad time, but I really need to talk to you."
"Are you okay? What's wrong?" Xiaoyu asked, concerned.
"I'm okay. Um...it's just that um...boy, this is awkward asking you this..."
"Miharu it's me. You can ask me anything."
"I don't know how to ask you this though..." said Miharu "Okay...um...so the Revolt Group kind of…sort of, wants to meet you."
"What? They want to meet me? Why?"
"I'm sorry Xiaoyu. I told Panda, Bob and Julia that I had met up with you and well...word gets around. Now that I'm in contact with you, they asked me to ask you if you can come by."
"You didn't tell them about our entire freaking conversation at the café did you?" Xiaoyu asked, a bit angry.
"No! Of course not! I was just so happy that we reunited and I was all excited and happy. I told a few people that we met up and caught up. That's all I told them. I swear!"
Xiaoyu sighed.
"Xiaoyu come on...you know you can trust me! Whenever you confide in me, you know your secrets are safe with me. I haven't told them anything that you've confided in me."
"I believe you." said Xiaoyu. "So, why do they want to meet me?"
"They want to ask you for a favor. You don't have to come if you don't want to Xiaoyu. I'm just passing along the message is all." said Miharu. "But if you do come by...it'll be a great way for you to see your old buddies again...Panda, Hwoarang, Julia...I'm sure that everyone will be thrilled to see you. But it's up to you."
Xiaoyu pondered her decision for a few seconds.
"Xiaoyu? You still there?"
"Um, yeah. Can I come by in like 2 hours?"
"Yeah! I'll let the group know. I'll text you the address."
"Okay, see you soon."
"Yeah, see ya!"
Two hours later...
Xiaoyu drove her Ferrari until she reached the address that Miharu texted her. She saw a lot of abandoned brick buildings. She parked her car by the alley and got out. Xiaoyu was wearing a strapless white jumpsuit and golden, open toed heels. She wore earrings, a gold choker necklace and a gold watch. Xiaoyu recently dyed her hair. She had an ombre color of black and light brown. She let her beautiful, long hair down. Xiaoyu walked by the buildings and stopped in front of one building.
"Fourth building on the left with 'Tokyo' graffiti on the wall. Yup, this is the place." said Xiaoyu to herself.
Xiaoyu entered the building and walked into the kitchen. The stove, the cabinets and the fridge were all old, rusty and not working. By the kitchen was a wooden door. Xiaoyu went up to the door and knocked.
"I'm a visitor." said Xiaoyu. That's what Miharu told her to say after she knocked.
Miharu opened the sliding peephole to see who knocked. She smiled when she saw it was Xiaoyu. Miharu closed the peephole and opened the door.
"Xiaoyu!" said Miharu happily, giving her friend a hug.
"Hi Miharu." said Xiaoyu, hugging her back.
"Welcome to the Revolt Group's Headquarters." said Miharu, holding Xiaoyu's hand and showing her around.
The outside of the building was old and abandoned, but this room was really nice and high tech. There were flat screen TVs, couches and recliners. The floor was made of nice, vinyl tiles. There was also a fuse ball table and air hockey table.
"I know the outside of this place doesn't look very fancy." said Miharu. "But we had to disguise our headquarters and keep a low profile so that the Mishima Zaibatsu won't find us."
The Revolt Group members were Hwoarang, Asuka, Julia, Miguel, Panda, Bob, Lee Chaolan and Christie. Lars Alexandersson and Lei Wulong were not official members of the Revolt Group. Lars was busy being the leader of his own army. Lei was busy being a police officer. However Lars and Lei did help the Revolt Group whenever they needed their assistance.
Miharu took Xiaoyu to another section of the room. This room had many computers and TV surveillance of the entire city. There was also a conference table were Hwoarang, Lei, Panda, Julia and Asuka were currently having a meeting. The other members of the group were not at Headquarters at the moment. Miharu cleared her throat. Everyone stopped talking and looked at Miharu and Xiaoyu.
"Hey guys! Sorry to interrupt but um, as you can see...we have a guest." said Miharu.
Panda, Hwoarang, Asuka, Lei and Julia were happy to see Xiaoyu and they all went up to greet her.
"Long time no see stranger." said Hwoarang, giving Xiaoyu a hug.
"I know, it's been forever." said Xiaoyu, hugging Hwoarang.
"GROWL!" said Panda happily. Interpretation: "XIAOYU!"
"Panda!" said Xiaoyu, giving Panda a huge hug.
"Growl growl growl growl!" said Panda. Interpretation: "Xiaoyu my dear, I've missed you so much!"
"I've missed you too Panda!" said Xiaoyu, who was so happy that she had tears in her eyes.
After everyone greeted Xiaoyu, they all sat down at the conference table.
"So, Miharu told me you guys wanted to ask me for a favor." said Xiaoyu as she put her designer bag on the table.
Lei was about to respond, when someone walked into the room. It was Christie. The Revolt Group members thought that Christie wouldn't be present when Xiaoyu came to Headquarters. They knew that Christie disliked Xiaoyu. The Revolt Group members felt very awkward and they hoped that things wouldn't get ugly between the two women.
"Christie, um...what are you doing here? I thought you had a Tekken match?" asked Julia.
"It got cancelled. If I knew that she'd be here, I wouldn't have come by." said Christie, angrily staring at Xiaoyu.
Xiaoyu stood up and went up to Christie.
"It's good to see you Christie." said Xiaoyu.
Christie scoffed.
"I don't feel the same way Kazama." said Christie.
Xiaoyu sighed sadly.
"Just look at you with your designer clothes, shoes and jewelry." said Christie. "Do you know how many people are homeless and living in poverty? All thanks to your scumbag husband and his wars?"
"Oh boy...this is gonna get ugly." Hwoarang whispered to Julia. Julia nodded in agreement.
"How the hell can you sleep at night huh? How can you sleep next to that...that evil man? How do you live with yourself knowing that your husband is ruining people's lives?" Christie asked.
"I feel terrible about what Jin is doing. Every day I feel tremendously guilty about Jin's actions." said Xiaoyu. "But I love him Christie. I love him with all my heart. He will change and become good again. I know he will."
Christie laughed.
"You love him? You don't love him...you love his money. That's why you still stay with that psycho. He goes around destroying the world and you don't give a shit. As long as he keeps buying you fancy clothes and cars and diamonds and pearls, you don't care that he hurts people."
"I do love him!" Xiaoyu yelled. "And I do feel terrible about the bad things Jin does!"
Xiaoyu started taking off her yellow diamond earrings.
"I don't give a shit about money! I would give up all this money just to have Jin back to the way he was before!" said Xiaoyu, who also took off her watch and her choker. "You see these earrings? They cost $5000. This choker costs $200. This watch? It costs $800. But these don't mean shit to me!"
Xiaoyu threw her earrings, golden choker and watch to the ground and stomped on them. Everyone looked at Xiaoyu in shock except Christie, who was still angrily looking at her.
"Christie, I have apologized to you over and over again." said Xiaoyu. "I am sorry okay? I am so sorry for what Jin did to you and Eddy. I know you hate me and I don't blame you for hating me. I get that you're mad at me, but that doesn't mean that you should say awful things about me. I'm a good person. I am far from perfect but I'm a good person. And I love Jin. I would die for that man."
"You really feel bad? You're really sorry? Then prove it." said Christie. "Help the Revolt Group with our plan to overthrow Jin."
"Plan? Is that the favor you guys wanted to ask me?" Xiaoyu asked.
"Yeah." said Lei. "We want you to tranquilize Jin with a sedative. When he's fast asleep, tranquilize him. Since he'll be too heavy for you to carry, we'll come inside your home and carry him ourselves to Headquarters."
"I'm not going to betray my husband." said Xiaoyu.
"Xiaoyu...look...I know you love Jin. But you know that he's out of control. He needs to be stopped." said Miharu.
"You know Jin is like a son to me Xiaoyu." said Lei. "But as much as I care about Jin, we have to stop him from causing further world destruction."
"Also, Tekken 6 has been rigged by Jin and the Zaibatsu. There are matches, but no one gets advanced to the next round. In previous Tekken Tournaments, we fought until we reached the final round. But in Tekken 6, there is no final round." said Hwoarang. "We're not going to face Jin. There is no prize money. There are just matches. It's like…this is Jin's sick way of pitting people against each other for his amusement or something. It's like, people are just fighting for nothing."
"If I tranquilize him and you guys take him, you're going to kill Jin!" said Xiaoyu.
"What? No! Of course not!" said Lei.
"No, we're not gonna kill him. We're going to imprison him in Headquarters. We won't release him until he agrees to give up the Zaibatsu and end these wars." said Asuka.
"How do I know you guys aren't lying? You guys might say that you won't kill him just so I can go along with this plan." said Xiaoyu.
"Xiaoyu, come on...you know we're not killers." said Julia.
"We're fighters, not killers." said Hwoarang.
"Xiaoyu...I know that this is a hard decision...but you're the only one with direct access to Jin. You're the only one who can stop him." said Miharu. "If you do this plan, you're not just saving the world...you're saving Jin from himself."
Xiaoyu sighed.
"Jin isn't always around. He's always working." said Xiaoyu.
"And by working you mean world domination, right?" said Christie.
"Christie!" Miharu scolded.
"What day will he be home?" asked Lei.
Xiaoyu sighed.
"Tomorrow. He's on a business trip right now but he said he'll be back tomorrow evening." said Xiaoyu.
Julia got a small metal case and gave it to Xiaoyu. She opened the case and saw a syringe.
"Tomorrow night, when Jin is fast asleep, inject this sedative in his neck." said Julia. "Don't worry about hurting him...he won't feel a thing."
Xiaoyu closed the metal case and put it in her purse.
"I should get going." said Xiaoyu.
"It was good seeing you Xiaoyu." said Lei, giving her a hug.
"Likewise." said Xiaoyu, hugging him back.
"Don't be a stranger." said Hwoarang who hugged her.
Everyone except Christie hugged and said goodbye to Xiaoyu. Christie crossed her arms and glared at Xiaoyu. Xiaoyu sadly looked away from Christie and turned to walk out.
"Hey Xiaoyu, let me walk you out." said Miharu.
"Growl growl growl growl." said Panda. Interpretation: "I'll walk you out too."
Panda and Miharu walked Xiaoyu to her car. Miharu whistled when she saw Xiaoyu's car.
"A Ferrari?! Damn girl, you gotta take me for a drive in this one day!" said Miharu.
Xiaoyu chuckled.
"Hey, look...sorry about Christie upsetting you." said Miharu.
"Growl growl growl growl growl growl growl." said Panda. Interpretation: "We didn't know she would be at the meeting today."
"It's okay guys." said Xiaoyu. "I just hope she forgives me and Jin one day."
"I can't believe you smashed $6,000 worth of jewelry. I know you were pissed off, but you could have given those to me instead!" said Miharu, laughing.
Xiaoyu chuckled. Miharu always knew how to lighten the mood and make her laugh.
"Anyway, think about what we talked about today." said Miharu.
"I will." said Xiaoyu.
"Bye Xiaoyu." said Miharu, hugging her.
"Bye." said Xiaoyu, hugging her back.
"Growl growl growl growl." said Panda, hugging Xiaoyu. Interpretation: "Bye Xiaoyu. I love you!"
"I love you too Panda." said Xiaoyu, giving Panda a huge hug.
After embracing Panda and Miharu and saying goodbye, Xiaoyu got into her Ferrari and drove off.
The next day, 2:00am...
Jin had come back from his business trip two hours ago. He was absolutely exhausted. As soon as he came home he went straight to bed. As Jin was sleeping, Xiaoyu quietly got up from bed. She went to her closet and got out the metal case from her purse. She sighed as she took out the syringe. She tip toed towards Jin, holding the syringe. She had tears in her eyes as she brought the syringe to his neck. She was panting. She held the syringe to his neck for many seconds. She then quickly removed the syringe away from his neck. She walked out of the room, got her car keys and went outside. She opened the syringe and poured out the liquid sedative. She opened her Ferrari and put the syringe in the glove compartment. She would dispose of the syringe later. She didn't want to put the syringe in any of the trash bags in the mansion in case Kiyoshi saw it. She called Miharu.
"Hey!" said Miharu. "So, did you do it? What's your address so the guys can take him to Headquarters?"
"I'm sorry Miharu, but I can't do it."
Miharu sighed.
"It's okay. I understand. He's the man you love. I get it." said Miharu.
"I understand where you guys are coming from but...I still feel like I would be betraying Jin. I'm sorry Miharu but I can't help the Revolt Group. I don't like what Jin is doing, but I love him and I'm loyal to him."
"Like I said, I understand." said Miharu. "Hey, Xiaoyu...even though we're on different sides...I still love you. This doesn't change anything between us. You're still my best friend. You know you can always talk to me. Please don't shut me out again Xiaoyu."
"I won't." said Xiaoyu.
"Goodnight Xiaoyu."
"Goodnight."
Xiaoyu hung up the phone. She walked back inside the mansion and went to her bedroom. Jin was still fast asleep. Xiaoyu sat on the bed next to Jin. She couldn't do what the Revolt Group wanted. She just couldn't. She gently ran her hand through Jin's hair and affectionately looked at him. She laid next to him and put her hand on his strong chest. She then gently kissed his chest and his cheek.
"Mmm..." said Jin groggily. "Xiaoyu? What is it?"
"Nothing." said Xiaoyu, smiling. "You know I love you, right?"
"Mmm...I love you too Xiaoyu." said Jin groggily. He wrapped his arms around Xiaoyu and pulled her to him. He closed his eyes and went back to sleep.
Xiaoyu smiled, closed her eyes and slept in his arms.