A Tekken Story: Through the Years - Volume I | By : DarkRomancer Category: +S through Z > Tekken Views: 4725 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Chapter Summary: After a week of not seeing her ‘friends’, they turn
up out of the blue and try to make it up Akira, only she lands herself in some
very serious trouble.
Disclaimer: I do not own Tekken but I do own my OCs and plot. If
you steal, be prepared to suffer.
Chapter 19 – The Final Goodbye will be up soon!
A“I can remember the very first time I cried
How I wiped my eyes and buried the pain inside
All of my memories - good and bad - that's past
Didn't even take the time to realize
Starin' at the cracks in the walls
Cuz I'm waiting for it all to
come to an end
Still I curl up right under the bed
Cuz its
takin' over my head all over again
Lyin' awake watchin'
the sunlight
How the birds will sing as I count the rings
around my eyes
Constantly pushing the world I know aside
I don't even feel the pain,
I don't even want to try
Do you even know who you are?
Oh, yeah, yeah
A borrowed dream or a
superstar?
Oh, I wanted to be a star
Is life good to you or is it bad?
I can't tell, I can't tell anymore
Do you even know what you have?
I guess not, oh I guess not”
“Lonely Girl” – Pink
Chapter 18 – First Time I
Cried
“Ah, there
you are!” Nanaya greeted as I stepped out of the café after my shift,” We haven’t
seen you all week!”
That’s because you didn’t
answer any of my messages I left you.
“Sorry…I’ve been busy,” I adjusted my bag on my
shoulder,” So, what’s up?”
“We just wanted to see if you want hang out?”
“Now?”
“Well…yeah,” A ‘duh’ went unsaid.
“Sure, but I need to get changed. Meet me back at my
house in an hour?”
“Yeah…no problem,”
Nanaya and the others arrived on time, Nanaya waiting“So, where are we heading?” I asked as I bolted the car
door shut after I got in.
“Downtown, to an empty house we know about,”
An ice-cold sensation travelled along my arms,” An empty
house?”
“Yeah, no-one’s lived in there for years…we just wanna
have fun that’s all,” Nanaya peeked at me in the
rearview mirror,” What, you’re not scared are you, Akira-chan?”
I squinted at him,” Of course not,”
Shiki started making clucking noises from the front seat.
I kicked the back of his seat with the heel of my boot,
earning a small whimper from him,” Shut up,” I tossed my hair over my shoulder
and held my chin up,” I’m not scared,”
I’ve just never been to an
abandoned house with a bunch of misleading, disloyal punks.
“Good answer, otherwise we wouldn’t be friends, would we
now?”
Friends don’t eachother
drunk and leave them to get home on their own just because they don’t want to
get into trouble.
“Yeah,”
“Good girl,”
Patronizing fucker.
It was already dark as we cruised through town, the moon
producing a vaster gibbous glow than usual in the starless night sky, even
though the thin tufts of clouds that floated past. Shinjuku seemed almost
empty, there was hardly anyone pacing along the streets or driving past on the
roads. It was too open, like a spooky Halloween night you see in the movies.
The scenery made my blood run cold and my stomach drop to my feet.
Despite no obstructions during our voyage, the drive was
longer than I expected. I didn’t speak; I just stared out of the window with my
arms and ankles crossed, absorbing the robust conversation fluctuating around
me but looking reserved and diverted. My concealment was unmasked as we swung into
the gloomier part of the city.
This part of town was where most of the crime was
committed, including the murder of the Swedish
artist called Alexander Larsson who Mrs. Hayashi
discovered not long ago. We toured into a shadowy street with
irregular-blinking street lamps, dusky roads that howled with empty winds and
paths littered by torn pieces of paper and crushed cans. It looked like no-one
had lived there for at least a decade, maybe more.
“Still not scared, Akira?”
We pulled up to the house at the end of the
road. It was boarded up with no lights and in a desperate need of a paint job.
The patches of grass adjacent to it was overgrown and riddled with wild weeds.
Up close, I noticed that the windows had been shattered and the glass splinters
remained on the ground, so I treaded carefully as we made our way to the house.
Without a key, Nanaya accomplished opening the door
by ramming his shoulder into the door until it slackened and kicked it open.
The inside of the house was just as bad, the paint was crumbling off the walls,
the few portions of furniture that was there was overturned and damaged, the
floorboards were creaky and scratched as if people had been holding their own
private gatherings and the walls were cracked. To my surprise when Lulu
switched on the living room lights, they worked.
“So, what are we doing here?” I asked,
lowering on the side of the couch that wasn’t as badly tattered.
“We’re going to have a little party, just
the four of us,” Nanaya scraped a chair lengthways
across the floor and sat opposite me. Lulu sat on the floor below me, Shiki
took another chair and sat next to Nanaya while Hiryu hung back, leaning against the wall with the broken
window.
Great.
“I don’t know if you remember what happened
last time I went to a ‘party’ with you…,” I narrowed my eyes at Nanaya and Shiki as Lulu giggled like an annoying
schoolgirl, plaiting her orange hair.
Shiki pretended that he didn’t notice but Nanaya scorned in return,” Don’t worry, it’s not gonna be
like that party. No, ours is
different,” he stretched his arm into his jacket pocket, pulled out a clear bag
and tossed it onto the table separating us,” Here,”
Inside the clear bag was a dry, plant-like,
mossy-green tobacco substance.
Cannabis.
My throat felt tight when I recognised what
it was. Sweat beaded on the palms of my hands. My body felt like it was
immovable, like I was trapped.
Shit.
“Oh, it would seem that our little,
innocent Akira-chan knows what the main event is,” Nanaya
teased a singsong voice, making chortles erupt around me, sounding menacing,”
Still not scared, Akira?”
What
happened to you? I thought you were my friend…
“I-I’m not scared,” My hand that was grasped on the arm
of the couch contracted,” W-Why would I be?” Damn, my throat was dry all of a
sudden.
“Oh, you’re not s-scared, a-are y-you?” Shiki taunted my
hesitating, his eyes wide with terror, his mouth ajar,
both of his hands gripping the chair in fright.
“No? Are you willing to take some then?” Nanaya’s sickening grin only added the fuel of the panic
burning in my chest.
I swallowed, nodding;” Sure,” I leaned back on the
cushion and shrugged as if it was no big deal.
“Alright then,” Nanaya took the
roll-up paper from Shiki.
This is bad.
I examined fixedly as Nanaya opened
the bag, took a pinch of the drug and sprinkle it onto an open paper.
Very bad. Dammit, I need to get out of here!
I stood snappishly to my feet as Nanaya
sealed the roll-up close,” Where you going?”
I freaked, my thoughts jumbled,” I, ur,
I need to use…the bathroom,”
“Sure?”
I drew my smokescreen up again,” Of course! I just need
to use the fucking bathroom! It’s not like I need your frickin’
permission!”
I spun on my heel and dashed for the stairs, taking two
steps at a time. The corridor from the top of the stairs was coated a large,
black shadow, just like the street. After many minutes of fumbling, feeling
along the wall and choosing the wrong doors, I found the bathroom. I yanked
myself inside and locked the door behind me, releasing my breaths in deep
pants.
Goddammit! This is bad, very
bad! I need to get out of here…but how?
I had no-one to call, not my friends, not my family…all
because I pushed them away.
Like a goddamn idiot!
I flicked on the light and paced around the room.
Damn, damn, double damn!
What the hell am I gonna do? I can’t go back down there…but I can’t ask anyone
for help…
“They all care about you…I
do too,”
…can I?
“You’re just going to throw away everything…and everyone. Your family, your friends, me…us?”
Why?
“Who have I called before when I
needed someone?” I sat down on the closed toilet and pulled out my cell phone,
scrolling through my contacts.
Jin.
That’s right; I called him
when…he helped me.
Will he help me again?
After much consideration, I
undecidedly called Jin and held the phone to my ear, praying he would pick
up…and not hang up on me.
It was Nanaya,
I guessed out of his mind from his non-logical laughter.
“I understand, I understand!
Jeez, I’ll be out in a minute!” I bellowed back in aggravation to mask my real
distress-filled tone.
“Alright, don’t bitch at me!” Nanaya said through the door and few seconds later, his
footsteps dulled away.
I postponed any movement until I
was sure he was back below with others, wasting their lives away before
climbing back into the bath again, stepping up on the lip of the tub, and
reaching up on tippy-toes for the window. Once my fingertips were latched
around the windowsill, I elevated my weight up with my palms, twisting my torso
and pressing up against the slippery tiles for an extra boost so I would align
my body to get out the window. After much effort, I managed to pass my hips
through and swing my feet so I could drop down onto the small platform underneath
the window. It was narrow, so I had to balance on pads of my feet, my back
aligned with the wall and my arms spread out for stability. It was
uncomfortable, but I’d rather wait out here for Jin than go back downstairs to
my ‘friends’.
Man, what a mess…
I held on with all my strength
and self-motivation, even though my arms and legs started quaking with effort
and strain and the cold wind whipped my hair in my face, and about five minutes
later, I heard footsteps staggering through the untidy grass and towards the
house.
Jin!
He craned his neck up, his eyes
traveling up. He didn’t look pleased to see me; he looked more irritated than
anything,” Are you alright?” he whispered but not cautiously.
I nodded.
“Good. Alright, I need you to
jump,”
“Are you crazy?!” I hissed in a
low voice, my eyes roaming down the drop from the platform to the ground.
Jin’s unruly eyebrow raised a
tiny proportion, “Well, you don’t really have any other choice, do you?”
Smartass.
He lifted his arms out, towards
me,” I promise I’ll catch you,”
He’s right…
“Fine! But, if you drop me…,”
“Just jump!”
“OK, fine!”
Cautiously, inch by inch, I slid
my foot off the platform and jumped. I
didn’t screamed, but I shut my eyes to brace myself from contacting the floor
at a hard rate, the air rushing harshly against my arms and legs, thinking of
nothing but the loud thump when the floor broke my fall and the pain that would
follow…
Except,
it never came.
I felt no pain as
I crashed into the hard floor or any gasping and yelling. Instead, I felt something
steady under my legs and back, holding me against something solid. All I heard
was silence.
And when I opened
her eyes, I knew why.
Jin had caught me
at the right moment and was holding me in his arms against his upper torso.
Thank God…
He said nothing as our eyes
connected, his expression not altering in the slightest percentage. I don’t
know, but I felt like I couldn’t look away, tear my gaze from his. I
felt…imprisoned.
What?
Two seconds later, my
hidden-consciousness returned.
“What the hell are you doing?!
Put me down!” I shrieked, struggling out of his arms so I landed in a heap on
the ground.
“Wha?”
“I thought I told all of
you to stay the hell away from me!” I could feel my cheeks scald with
infuriation, “You bastard!”
I sprang to my feet and dusted
off my knees,” You stay away from me in the future…next time I may not be so
nice,” I revolved around and started to stride away.
Jin’s hand caught the back of my
elbow,” Hey! What’s the matter with you?”
I shook off his grip and carried
on walking, but with additional promptness,” I said leave me alone!”
“Wait! Why are you doing this?”
“I don’t have to explain myself
to you!”
His synched footsteps following wound
me up further,” You should! You’re my friend!”
“Fuck you, you’re not my friend!”
I picked my feet up so I could surge away.
“If I had not met you, I wouldn’t have the
friends I have today…you are a true friend,”
I could feel an ice-cold
sensation accumulating on my eyelashes as I heard Jin’s proximate, persistent
footsteps behind me,” Akira! Wait!”
“Just leave me alone! I don’t
care anymore!”
“Too bad I don’t care about all of you… There’s no turning
back. I don’t care anymore,”
“I just want to know why you’re doing this!”
I looked over my shoulder,” Stop following me!”
“Not until I get some answers!”
I braked to a standstill and twisted around, my
clamped fist clashing against his cheek on its own accord,” I told you to back
off!”
As I watched Jin skid along and recoil off the
ground, I realised what I had done, even though I never planned on acting on my
thoughts of hurting Jin so he would leave me alone…not even with my harsh
front.
What…have I done? I thought as I dropped my
now-relaxed fist.
“A-Akira…,” Jin struggled as he tried to sit
vertically, his arm holding his abdomen, his eye shut from the impact,” I know
why you’re doing this-,”
Enrage charred inside me again,” Shut up!” My
other hand tightened and smacked him squarely on his nose, resulting to him
lying horizontal on the ground again.
“Stop acting like you know me! You don’t know me!
Not anymore! I’ve changed!” I exclaimed at him.
Despite his injures, he managed to his lift his
head up to meet my eyes again,” Y-You’re wrong, Akira. You haven’t changed…,”
he sounded winded as he spoke,” You’re acting like this because…your father
died-,”
“Enough!” I sent a swift kick to his stomach,
causing him to groan excruciatingly and roll onto his side, wheezing,” I’ve
heard enough!”
Jin coughed a few times, struggling on the
ground, he murmured,” A-Akira, please…,”
I shook my head forcefully,” Stop saying things
like that! I told you before, I don’t care anymore! I never will, not ever
again! You’re mistaken!”
He fell onto his back again,” I believe…in you…,”
My body screamed with frustration, so as the
final blow, I upraised my arm, aiming to hit him with my forearm. But, before
the attack connected, Jin clasped my wrist, preventing my outbreak.
“Stop…this…,” he struggled to sit up straight
again,”…Akira, stop hurting yourself,”
I gasped as the ice-cold sensation accumulating on my eyelashes fell, making everything
around seem to progress in slow-motion, almost a fixed hold.
What…did he just say?
“You…,” I was barely able to
configure words, I was totally speechless.
“I understand why you’re doing
this…it’s because your father died, right?” He freed my arm but kept his eyes
permanently on me.
No use…how?
“You’ve been acting this way…because he died,”
I have to tell the truth…
I closed my eyes, allowing the tears to fall
freely in collected drips,” I’m sorry…I’ve cuased
everyone so much trouble…,”
It’s over. The disguise is over.
The unmitigated anger I had felt, the unmitigated
warnings I had made, the unmitigated torture I had induced upon everyone but
the unmitigated danger I had inflicted on myself…I felt it all that spilt
second. I knew what I had done, and I regretted it in an instant. Swamping
responsibility rocketed and devoured my mind.
This feeling…
My finger dug into the dirt, leaving behind
claw-like gouges in the dry earth as I screwed my eyes to block the spattering
tears, chokes caught in my throat,” Dad…It was my fault Dad died!”
My eyes didn’t have to be open to know Jin was
regarding me in surprise,” Akira…,”
I sponged my eyes with the back of my hand,” Do
you remember that day…when I fainted…in the rain?”
“Yeah,”
“I fainted because…,” The words wedged in my
throat like shards of glass,” I had a vision of my father’s death…a week before
it happened,”
I think Jin
may have ended his mouth to say something else, but he decided against it and
shut it again.
“My father
died…because I couldn’t save him!” More tears rolled down my cheeks, one after
the other, as the stifle I had been holding back built up and slipped through
my throat,” I did nothing! I saw what was going to happen to him…yet I didn’t
tell anyone or do anything to prevent it! It’s all my
fault!”
“Akira!” Jin’s
voice sounded urgent as he cupped my damp face with his hands, but I refused to
look at him,” Akira, don’t say things like that! Your father didn’t die because
you didn’t say or do anything. It’s not your fault,”
“It was! If
I had told someone or gone to London-,”
“It would
have no use,” Jin interjected,” What’s done is done, Akira…even if we don’t
like the outcome, we can’t change the past, right?”
How can you say that?
“Akira…look at me,”
With some
disinclination, my eyes fluttered open.
His mouth
was stretched into smile, but it wasn’t a smile of happiness, it was a smile of
consolation,”…I understand what you’re going through right now…what you’re
thinking…what you’re feeling…I experienced those when my mother died…,” I could
see his own tears glittering in his eyes,”…I said and felt those things too…but,
with time, people told me it wasn’t my fault…that if I hadn’t be too weak to
defend my mother…to prevent harm towards, she’d still be alive-,”
I overlaid
one of his hands with own,” But it wasn’t you fault, Jin! She didn’t die
because you were too weak!”
The corner
of his mouth jolted,” See? You’re doing exactly what I did – you’re blaming
yourself,”
“But…,” That’s different. I hiccupped from the
force aching in my throat,” What did you do?”
“People told
me it wasn’t my fault…and over time and thinking about it, I started to believe
it. I started to believe that it wasn’t my fault that Mother died,”
“…Do you
believe it’s not my fault that Dad died?”
Jin shook
his head and I could feel his fingertips touch my hair,” No, I don’t. I think
you should stop blaming yourself,”
Clean tears
swelled in my eyes again, replacing through the stains my previous tears had
made, only this time I didn’t hold back. Instead, I wrapped my arms around Jin’s
build and buried my head onto his clothed chest. Jin said nothing; he simply
allowed me to bawl irrepressibly and patted my back selflessly, holding me
close.
Jin laid his hand on my shoulder as I twiddled with a few blades
of grass,” They must hate me all now,”
“I’m sure
they don’t. After all, they did what they did because they care about you…very
deeply,”
“But what if
sorry isn’t enough?”
“Don’t worry,
they all love you so much, so deep down, I think they’ll find it in their
hearts to forgive you,”
“I hope so,”
I sighed and supported my head on his shoulder,”…I should really get myself
home, I’m sure it’s late,”
Silently, Jin
detached himself from me and bent down infront of me. I blinked at his back,
unsure of what he was doing.
He eyed me over
his shoulder,” You want to get home, right? Get on my back, I’ll carry you,”
The idea was
appalling (I was emotionally worn out) but it was the fact that Jin would be
carrying me that I felt uneasy about,” Er, are you sure? I’m pretty heavy…,”
“Don’t worry
about it,”
Unwillingly but
at the same time I swayed to accept Jin’s offer, I scrambled onto his back and chained
my arms his neck, securely but making sure I wasn’t suffocating him. He hoisted
himself to his feet, hooking his arms under my legs.
“Thank-you,”
I nestled my cheek onto his back as he began to stroll out of the forest.
I grumbled
as I gazed up at the house when we standing infront of the steps,” I really don’t
want to face anyone right now…,” I felt downright drained.
“Not a
problem,” Without warning, Jin bustled up the steps and propelled himself up, grabbing the roof that dipped above the door. I
squealed as he yanked us up onto the roof itself, so I held on more fiercely as
a reaction, scared of falling. To my surprise, Jin moved with such effortlessness,
it looked like he had done this before, possibly many times. Once both his
hands and feet were planted on the roof, he shifted me again so I didn’t
continue to slip off and crawled with attentiveness over the tiles, to the
other side – just above my bedroom. All the while, I was hanging onto him, not
anticipating falling and having to explain to my Mom why I fell off the roof.
When he reached the edge, he circled and stooped down, letting his body dangle
from his hands clutching the rim of the roof for a moment before liberating his
hold and dropping, landing faultlessly onto his feet on the balcony outside my
room.
“Will you be
OK getting in?” Jin asked as I rooted both my feet onto the concrete.
“Don’t
worry, it’s not like I haven’t climbed through a window tonight already,” I
heaved the handle on the lock and glided back the window.
I turned and
beamed for what seemed like the first time in years,” Thanks for today…and for
everything,”
Jin
shrugged,” I’m glad I helped…it’s good to you back to your old self again,”
I could feel
my cheeks tint as I said what I was thinking,” J-Jin, I know what I’m able to
say next may seem a bit…out of place, but I was wondering if you wanted to stay
with me tonight?”
This is dangerous…very dangerous!
His face
didn’t even flinch, not even in surprise at my advanced proposal,” Sure,”
“G-Great,” I
stepped into my bedroom, Jin followed closely behind me.
With obvious
devoid of an exchange between us, I flung myself into bed. Jin slinked in on
the other side of my bed and stretched his arms out, granting me to arrange my
body against his. His body fitted with mine as he bounded us together with his
arms. Within two minutes of curling up to Jin’s warm body, I found it difficult
to keep my heavy eyelids open, but before I submerged into drowsiness, I swore
I felt a nudge against my forehead, like a goodnight kiss.
Jin
Determined
to face the music sooner rather than later, I unhurriedly headed downstairs.
Mom was in
the kitchen, organizing tea and some breakfast for herself. I watched her for a
few instants, listening to her hum as she waited for the tea to boil and stroke
her small forming bump as she stirred her bowl of soup.
Out of
nowhere, I acknowledged myself to her,” Good morning, Mom,”
She aimed
her focus on me over her tray, trying her hardest not to look shocked,” Good
morning, Akira,”
I risked pacing
into the kitchen and relit the oven.
“What time
did you come home last night?”
I waggled my
head from side to side but couldn’t meet her eyes,” I don’t know. It was late
though, past my curfew. Sorry,”
“Akira-,”
With sudden
assurance, I whirled around,” Mom, I-I just what you know something,” I took a
deep breath,” Over the past few weeks…I want to apologize about my behaviour. I c-couldn’t have done the things I did…,” the common
ache around my eyes made me stutter,” I’m so sorry about everything, all the
things I said, all the things I did…I didn’t mean any of it. It was all
uncalled for. If you don’t want to forgive me, then I understand-,”
I stopped
short as Mom clinched me to an earnest hug,” Akira, don’t worry,” her own voice
fissured,” You’re my daughter; I always forgive you, no matter what. Just
promise me something,”
I squeezed
her attiring tighter,” Anything,”
“Whenever
something is bothering you, whatever it may be, we sit down and talk about it.
OK?”
“Deal,”
“Come on, I’ll
make breakfast and we can talk, But we’ll start by cleaning up your face. What
were you doing?”
“Urm, you
may want to sit down before I tell you,”
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