From a Woman's Point of View

New Threat?

Sub-zero took a deep breath before opening the doors. Hanzo was on his bed, running a hand up and down his sword. He had not let it go yet. Paranoid, Sub-zero thought. She had no intention of killing the boy. She sighed and sat on the edge of his bed. Hanzo jumped and looked at her, as if he had only noticed her arrival.

"Hanzo…" she started to say.

"I know, Grandmaster, and I'm sorry." He looked away as he dropped his sword on the bed. "I was just…"

"You were just…?" she asked coldly, but she tried softening her tone a little bit.

"I was so…angry…frustrated. I didn't know how to suppress it. Instead of destroying the room, I just took it out on the blind guy."

"His name is Kenshi." She told him. "I would rather have you destroy this room than have you try to kill one of my closest friends."

Hanzo kept quiet. He obviously had no idea what to say. Sub-zero continued.

"Kenshi has been with me through thick and thin. He's saved my life numerous times as I have saved his a few times."

"Close friend. Psssh." He mocked. "Why would a close friend be pinning you to the ground? If he were only a close friend, why did you dine with him in a private room instead of having him dine with us?"

"That," Sub-zero stood up. "is none of your business." She said scathingly.

"Oh, isn't it?" he challenged. Just then, Sub-zero's fist collided with his cheek. Hanzo stared at her, surprised.

"It isn't any of your business. But in the same way, why would an apprentice try to make advances on his master when he knows very well how large their age difference is? Why would the said apprentice try to kill his master's close friend?" She spat at him. Hanzo, still shocked, stared up at her.

"Grandmaster, I love you." He said quietly.

"It would be impossible, Hanzo." She shook her head. Hanzo stood up.

"Why would it be impossible, Grandmaster? Wasn't there anything going on between you and Frost?" he speculated.

"No!" Sub-zero looked at him in disgust. She wasn't aware that there was a rumor spreading around the stronghold about them being in a romantic relationship. "There was nothing between me and Frost. I was her master and she was my apprentice. She was like a daughter to me. Well, now, she's merely a traitor." She sighed. "Hanzo, you know too well that I am too old for you."

"It doesn't matter to me!"

"I was once a guy, and I don't plan on staying as a woman forever." She eyed Hanzo's expression. He looked shocked for a moment, but he gained his composure.

"I love you!" he shouted to her.

"And I don't!" she stood up, shouting at him with equal force. He looked absolutely horrified. "I don't love you, Hanzo. At least, not in that way." She added quietly.

"So, whom do you love? That blind gu-Kenshi?" He corrected himself immediately as he saw Sub-zero's withering glare.

"No. I don't love Kenshi that way either. I wish I could though. He's given me everything and I still rejected him." She sighed as she sat back down.

"So, who is it?" he swallowed.

Sub-zero looked out the window.

"It's all right if you don't want to tell m-,"

"Someone…a person whom I know can never love me. We had shared, at least for a few months, happy moments, until I destroyed it all with my stupidity." She cupped her chin with her hands.