The Kazama Home

[Ling Xiaoyu]

It was early morning in the Kazama household, it was a Monday, normally a school day for Nesta but Xiao let her daughter take the day off from school since her 19th birthday was tomorrow.

Xiaoyu was downstairs as usual, making breakfast for the whole family. She's normally the first one up, followed by Nesta, Eiji and Jin are normally the two sleeping beauties in the house so she normally saves the leftovers for them.

While making breakfast, Xiaoyu took the time to reminisce about the past, as much as she couldn't believe it her little nugget was turning 19 in less than 24 hours, it was hard to come to terms with but damn, does time run fast. She could remember when Nesta started walking, and said her first word! Now, the conversations contain things about boyfriends and parties. Her little baby girl was all grown up now.

Not a lot has changed in Xiao's appearance, with being a mother and a wife, she managed to age flawlessly. She was still the bubbly, outgoing Xiao that many people seemed to love. Her once long flowing hair was now cut to her shoulders, something different that Nesta suggested, she managed to keep the grey hairs away with a head full of brown hair.

Age has done her good.

Once breakfast was done, Xiao walked over to her daughter's room upstairs and knocked on her door so that she wouldn't wake the two hard sleepers in the house.

"Nesta? Sweetheart, breakfast is ready..! Come down when you're ready to eat." With that Xiao walked downstairs and made herself a cup of tea, she made an extra cup for Nesta, this is how they normally bond over hot breakfast, refreshing tea and a few laughs here and there.

[rykezois]

As Nesta heard her mother's voice awaking her, she suddenly remembered that she was going to 19 tomorrow. It only felt like it was a short time, but it seemed longer to stay awake and wait.

As she got up she wiped her eyes and looked out of her window, seeing the sun glare and hearing the waterfall near them.

She changed from her pajamas to simple shorts and a black undershirt. She went downstairs and greeted her mother with a smile and a hug.

"Good morning Mom." She said as she sat down in the chair in front of her tea and began drinking.

[Ling Xiaoyu]

Xiaoyu kissed her daughter's forehead as she hugged her.

"Morning, love bug!"

Xiaoyu watched as her daughter as she sat down and started to drink her tea. Xiao joined her daughter, sitting next to her, just to spend some mommy, daughter time before the boys got up.

Taking a sip of her tea, she asked her daughter, "So, you excited for tomorrow sweetie? What kind of ideas were you thinking about having for your birthday?"

[rykezois]

To be honest, this was the most peaceful part of the day most of the time, just spending the morning with her mother.

"Mom you know I don't come up with the best ideas. I just want to see the rest of my family again. And even Lei's if they can make it."

A habit Nesta had was looking at other things rather than looking at people, trying to hide her eyes that had essentially turned from hazel brown to red, although a dark red.

Sometimes she realized she was doing this. Even to her own parents she finds it hard to look them in the eye.

[Ling Xiaoyu]

Xiaoyu ran her fingers through her daughter's dark brown hair, naturally her hair is jet black from her father, but Nesta had the idea to dye it.

"You know that we'll help you find something to do for your birthday Nesta. You'll be perfectly fine."

She noticed that her daughter developed a habit that she would look at items instead of making direct eye contact, and Xiao had a clue of exactly what it could be.

Xiao gently grabbed her daughter under her chin, to turn her face so they could see eye to eye. It was astonishing, her daughters eyes once were hazel now were dark red, and that could only mean one thing, Nesta was slowly giving into the Devil.

Furrowing her eyebrows, Xiaoyu was fed up with the devil gene wreaking havoc among her children's lives, they deserved to live normal human lives, not ones where they felt it was necessary to hide from the world.

"Me and your father are going find a cure for that once and for all. Enough of you dealing with that, Nesta. Along with your brother and your father."

Xiao wanted to help her children so badly but, she didn't know how to and that scared the hell out of her.

[rykezois]

Nesta sighed. The only downside to not making eye contact, especially with her mother, was that she would get extremely worried and pretentious about it.

"If father couldn't cure himself by killing Azazel which nearly killed himself, then there is no way to cure this. I haven't had an incident in 2 years mom I'll be fine. Just because I wear my grandfather's old gloves doesn't mean I'm becoming him..."

Normally she would wear contacts over them if she could but she didn't like wearing them.

[Ling Xiaoyu]

Nesta had a point. Xiao remembered those days when Jin tried his hardest to defeat Azazel, and once he did all of his hard work and effort came crashing down on him.

But, there had to be another way. There had to be someone else that Xiao could talk to about the Devil Gene, besides Jin. She would have to figure that our later once Jin got up.

"We'll get it straightened out Nesta. Don't worry."

By now, the sun began to rise, which meant that the boys were beginning to get their day started. Like clockwork, Xiaoyu heard the footsteps of Eiji as he came downstairs.

"Morning champ!" Xiao greeted her son, smiling at him.

---

Eiji came downstairs with a yawn, sporting a black shirt and blue plaid pajama pants. His hair, normally nicely done was messy and unorganized.

As if he literally rolled out of bed.

"Morning Mom and Nesta.." Eiji greeted his mother and oldest sister before dragging into the kitchen and pouring himself a glass of orange juice.

He was sleep deprived. Eiji had been having nightmares for the past few days, which lead to him not even wanting to sleep as much as he used to.

He was so distraught and sleepy, Eiji didn't even know that he filled the cup too much and it began to spill over. Wanting to clean up the mess, he walked over to grab some paper towels.

He didn't even finish cleaning his mess up before he fell asleep on the counter with his arm under his head...

[rykezois]

Nesta simply just didn't say anything. She hated talking about it and hated the gene itself even more.

"Good morning Eiji." She said in response. She watched as he overflowed with the orange juice and fell asleep on the counter.

Nesta sighed, "I swear he could've asked one of us to get it for him... I'll go clean it up."

She got up and finished cleaning the orange mess and slapped him gently on his face to wake him up.

"Eiji. Eiji.Eiji." She said over and over.

[Ling Xiaoyu]

Xiao sat back and observed her children, smiling and shaking her head. It amazed her how much her children have grown to become such amazing people.

Her children inspired her to do so much, and it triggered a spark that she never knew she even had. Xiaoyu loved her children and would do anything in her power to protect them from the grips of their father's bloodline.

---

"Huh? I'm up! I'm up!" Eiji exclaimed as he bolted out of his sleep, sitting completely upright. He rubbed his eyes as he tried to wake himself up.

His hazel eyes looked at his sister, and he gave a small smile to her, "Thanks for waking me up Nesta." Eiji went to fix himself some of the leftover breakfast that his mother made, making sure to save some for his father. They normally have quarrels when it comes to the amount of food left over between them.

Once he fixed his food, he walked over to the living room, turned on the television and began to munch on his meal. "Nesta! I have the perfect idea for your birthday tomorrow! Since you like horror movies so much, you should throw like a scary themed party with all your friends!"

[rykezois]

Nesta smiled back as she watched her brother wake up. She loved her family and she's grown up without many problems in terms of family life.

"Please, if I were to host a party like that I'd probably be the only one having fun.
Good try though." She said as she sat down with her brother to watch TV.

The father of the family, Jin Kazama, came down the stairs and greeted his family, he was dressed in a simple bath robe.

"Good morning sunshines.' He said as he pet Xiayou on the head and kissed her temple.

'are you ready for your birthday tomorrow Nesta? I still can't believe you're turning 19."

"I guess I am. I can't believe it either."

Jin came over to Nesta and Eiji and rubbed both of their heads.

"Eiji don't start any trouble tomorrow okay? Try to be nice for your sister's sake." He said in a playful manner.

[Ling Xiaoyu]

"Hey honey!" Xiao said to her husband as she stood up on her tippy toes to give him a gentle good morning kiss, damn her shortness. She would hope that with being older, meant she would grow more in height.

Guess not.

Xiao giggled at her husband, he always walked out of their room with nothing but a bath robe on, it may have seemed weird to the kids, especially Eiji, but Xiao didn't really mind it was nice to see that Jin's physique didn't go to waste either even after all these years.

"You and that robe of yours Jin, you always have to flaunt yourself, haha!" Xiao teased her husband.

---

Eiji was just about done with his food until he noticed his dad walking past him and his sister wearing nothing but a robe...again. This made Eiji cover his eyes, not wanting to get a glimpse of anything under that robe, just in case.

"God dad, would it kill you to toss on some clothes?" He continued to eat his food with the best of his ability, "I don't want to see anything that created me under there."


He groaned a little as his father rubbed his head. On the outside, it seemed as though Eiji hated the gesture but deep down, his father is much like his best friend. Virtually inseparable.

Eiji listened to his father's favor, and still with his eyes closed, he scoffed, "Ha! Please? Are you kidding? I'm a little angel, I wouldn't do anything to ruin Nesta's day tomorrow!"

There was a hint of light sarcasm in his voice, hinting that he may stick behind his word.

[rykezois]

Nesta simply stared at him with a glare and Jin just laughed.

"Well enjoy your day off Nesta, you deserve it.' He said as he kissed her head.

'And Eiji don't act like you don't run around in barely any clothes either. "

He said as he went to Xiayou and sat down with her. With a smile on his face.

"So Nesta doesn't know this,' he whispered, "But Lars is coming over tomorrow. Lee and Asuka said the same. Hwoarang said he might not be able to but he'll try his best."

[Ling Xiaoyu]

Xiao leaned into her husband as he whispered something in her ear, when he was done, she smiled at her husband and kissed him signaling him that she would keep it a secret between them, apparently, there was a surprise birthday party for Nesta but she has no clue about it.

Looking at Eiji, Xiao smiled jokingly, as she playfully began to tug on Jin's robe attempting to take it off.

"Hey Eiji!"

---

Eiji scoffed at his father's comment, but turned to his mother when she called his name, now with his eyes uncovered he saw that she was trying to pull his father's robe off.

If that thing came off, it would be Eiji's deathbed.

His eyes widened in surprised at his mother, "Mom! Do you really have to do that here? You have a room for that!"

[rykezois]

Jin smiled at Xiao and looked back at his son and daughter, the daughter of which looking away embarrassingly.

"Well anything can be a room Eiji. But for Nesta's sake I'll restrain myself for now." He said as he winked at him.

"You know you two, your Great Uncle Lars is hosting the next Tekken Tournament soon. This is the first one in nearly 2 decades. Are you ready for it Eiji?

Even though Nesta didn't participate in tournaments any more, she normally ran around Osaka and Yakushima, but today she decided she would run around Osaka and Kyoto, just to push her limits.

[Ling Xiaoyu]

Xiao nodded her head to agree with her husband, laughing at how embarrassed her children were. Before long, she started to run her fingers through Jin's hair, like she normally did.

"Don't worry kids, we'll save that for later, haha!" Xiao said jokingly, or.. did she?

It soon dawned on her that not only was it Nesta's birthday tomorrow but the day after that it would be her 18th wedding anniversary, and Xiao was hoping that Jin didn't go snooping in the closet trying to find his gift like he did virtually every year.

But, to stop his habit, Xiao hides his anniversary gifts in different spots every year so he wouldn't have to go through the trouble of trying to look for it.

---

Finishing up his meal, Eiji got up from the table and went into the kitchen to wash off his plate. He overheard his father ask about the next tournament.

Drying off his hands, Eiji prepared to answer his father, eagerly, "Of course dad! I was born ready!" He motioned over to his older sister with his head, "I just hope slowpoke here would be able to keep up with everyone, haha!"