Untitled Ch. 5
By Blankman

8:00 p.m. the Master's Mansion...

Ryu, Ken, and Dan where sitting in the living room, waiting for the girls. The Christmas bash would be held tonight at one of the most high priced hotels in San Francisco, and guests would be arriving soon. Ken had hired a tailor to fit them into the appropriate dress, and he'd done a pretty good job of it. Ken and Dan were wearing tuxeedos, while Ryu, who wanted to be dressed as casually as possible, settled for a black, Armani sportcoat, with matching dress pants. The catch was, he had to wear a tie. The group had decided to go to the hotel in pairs. Ken would be joined by his wife, Cammy and Chunli had sparred over who would go with Ryu, because no one wanted Dan; Chunli won, much to Cammy's dismay.

Ken and Dan sat down to watch Saturday night football, while Ryu tried to figure out how to put on the tie.

"They've been up there for hours," Ryu said, still struggling with his tie.

"I know," Dan replied, "chicks are like that."

"Well they'd better hurry up, I think my hairs turning gray," Ken put in.

Ryu's hair was slightly dishevelled. Partly because he wasn't used to being without his headband, but mostly because he was anxious to see Chunli. They still weren't talking to each other so he felt uneasy about the two of them going as a pair. *What are we going to talk about?*, he thought, *everytime we try to have a conversation, we end up argu...*

"Here we come!", came Eliza's voice from the staircase.

"It's about time!" Dan said under his breath, "I think I was growing a beard."

Eliza came down the staircase, wearing a sleeveless black gown and her hair was held up with a gorgeous diamond tiara. Ken seemed to glow as he watched his wife. He greeted her with a kiss, then they hooked arms and walked outside towards the limo.

Then Cammy came down, and was dressed to party! She wore a metallic, boatneck shirt,and metallic nails to match, with a black mini-skirt. Her hair was tied in two pig tails and her face was lightly adorned with facial glitter.

"Well, well, well," Dan grinned, "if it isn't my favorite spice girl," he said wrapping his arm around her.

"No,no,no," Cammy replied, "you can look, but you can't touch." They also hooked arms and went outside to the limo.

Ryu was now alone, and grew anxious. He struggled to get the tie on as fast as he could with no avail.

"Want me to help you with that?", came a sweet voice.

Ryu quickly looked up, and then his jaw dropped open.

There, on the staircase, stood the most beautiful creature he had ever laid his eyes upon.

Chunli slowly walked down the staircase, wearing a long, form fitting, burgundy, spagetti-strap dress, with a square neckline. She also wore a sheer voile patterned wrap that she tucked casually around her bare shoulders and let it trail seductively along her waist. She let her hair fall to its natural length, highlighting her gorgeous brown eyes. Her lips were filled in with a sensational berry lipstick, that made her look even more kissable.

Ryu tried to speak but nothing came out.

"What?", she asked, noticing he'd been staring at her for quite some time, "does it make my butt look big?", she asked turning around, showing off her curvaceous figure as she did so.

Ryu snapped out of his trance and replied.

"Um...you look beautiful," was all he could muster.

"Thanks," she replied sheepishly, "you're not so bad yourself."

They stared at each other for a moment, when she spoke up.

"Would you like me to help you with that?" she asked, pointing to his tie.

"Uh...yes please," he replied, blushing slightly.

She walked up to him slowly, placed her hands on his tie, and was about to knot it, when their eyes met and linked. An instantaneous, inexplicable, tension flared. They stared into each other's eyes and drew nearer towards each other. For a moment they hesitated, then leaned in dangerously close to one another. Their lips made contact and they began to kiss lightly, for a few seconds, before Chunli instinctively pulled away. Her mouth tingled and her heartbeat zoomed spontaneously to 120 miles per hour. Ryu seemed to be in shock, his breathing hard, as a thousand thoughts and questions rushed through his mind. But those thoughts were soon discarded as Chunli tilted her head for another kiss. He gradually leaned in and they kissed, one more sizzling time, this time with more feeling. The passion in their kiss increased as the moments went by.

Meanwhile in the limo...

"Dan could you go and get those two, they're probably arguing with each other again," Eliza said.

"Will do," Dan said as he got out of the limo and walked towards the mansion. He walked up the stairs, opened the door and what he saw made hime gape.

"Holy..."

The couple didn't seem to notice Dan, ( or maybe just didn't care), for they continued kissing passionetly. Dan watched on with a look of disgust, and yet his mind was screaming, *yeah baby, yeah!!"

"Geesh you guys, get a bed!" Dan said.

The couple continued kissing.

"You do realize that the brain stops functioning after five minutes without oxygen, don't you?", Dan continued.

This time the couple broke off their kiss.

"Shall we go," Chunli asked.

"Uh...sure,why not," Ryu replied catching his breath.

They linked arms and walked out the door, as a dumbfounded Dan followed behind.

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