By: D2U_Oni Queen
Chapter 3
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Hey, If you miss a chapter it your own fault! I’m talking to you Doug!
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Jill carried the wounded and bleeding Jack, one arm around her shoulder, up some stone stairs on the mountain. Jill tied a bit of clothing on Jack’s shoulder tightly, but it was still bleeding on the steps. "Hold on. We’re almost there." Jill spoke to Jack. Jack opened his eyes weakly.
"where?…are we going?" Jack asked weakly.
"Shhh….. Don’t talk, where going to a house not far away." Jill looked at Jack’s wound. "your a tough guy you know." Jill and Jack’s pace quickened a bit, Jill saw the end of the stairs ahead. "almost there big guy." Jill said, Jack slid a bit from Jill’s roost of a shoulder. Jill stood him back up, "what’s your name? I didn’t catch it."
" how can you catch it when you attack me?" Jack coughed a bit, "They call me Jack." Jack said.
"well they call me Jill. I’m sorry for attacking you, I thought you where one of those bikers back for more." Jack and Jill reached the top of the stairs.
On the hill was a Japanese like house, it had steps leading up to a deck that led to a sliding door. "AHHH!" came a small child screaming, a small girl in a pink kimono ran out of a house, a boy, wearing a blue tunic, and a samurai hair cut, ran after her making a face.
"I don’t wanna go out I don’t think I can, cause I’m to afraid of the Tommy knocker man!" he said in a singsong voice. He chased the girl outside.
"Makato! Leave Hikari alone!" yelled a teenage girl, she wore a white tunic and had long blonde hair tied back. She chased the small boy. The girl whined when the boy jumped on her and held her down. He laughed.
"Your such a scardie cat!" He laughed, he looked up and gasped. "Chidori." He whispered.
"Makato get off of Hikari." The teenager said pulling the boy off of her.
"CHIDORI!" he jumped up and ran forwards. The girl looked up and saw Jack and Jill, walking towards the house. The boy ran up to Jill and hugged her, He started to cry.
"Makato, go get Bara." He nodded and ran into the house. The teenager and the small girl walked up to Jill. "Help me Undine." Jill asked. the girl nodded and put Jack’s other arm around her and brought Jack into the house.
"Obaa-chan! Obaa-chan!" Makato yelled running up the steps of the house and ran inside.
An elderly woman ran out, she carried a cane in her hand and wore a tunic with dark blue pants, "Makato, bring Hikari inside. Get the boys." Makato nodded and ran inside. Jill, Jack, and Undine walked up the steps into the house.
Jack awoke, he laid on futon bed on a traditional tatami mat floor. Jack groaned and moved his hand over his wound, something small and rice like but moving was inside the wound. Jack picked out one of the rice like worm out. he looked at the Worm, "Maggots?" Jack looked at the worm.
"Don’t pick at them, they’ll clean the wound." Jack looked at the voice, He saw Jill sitting in a chair in the darkest corner. She had a blanket wrapped around her. She walked over to Jacks futon bed and kneeled by Jack. "how are you feeling?" Jill asked.
"Sore." Jack said straining a bit. Jill ran her hands down Jack’s chest. "I’m a bit hungry."
"You should be, you been out for 3 days." Jill stood up, she wore a blue Kimono. "I’ll see what I can do." She put the Blanket on Jack. She walked over to the sliding door, she opened the door, before exiting she glanced over at Jack, then left. Jill walked on a hard wooden floor, she played with her hands while blushing. Suddenly two teenage boys came rolling out of one of the rooms. "GIVE ME THE REMOTE!" Yelled one boy.
"BITE ME!" said the other. Another boy peeked out the door, he had short red hair, and glasses.
"Please can’t we settle this?" He begged. He looked up at Jill. "Chidori." He gasped. The two boys fighting looked up, the jumped to their feet and bowed at Jill.
"Please Kaito, don’t call be Chidori." Jill waved her hand. She looked at the other 2 boys, one with short shoulder length hair, obviously Native. The other Caucasian, had blonde spiked hair.
"Well I wanted to watch ‘Iron Chef’ but Cyrus won’t let me." The native boy spoke pointing at the boy with blonde hair.
"Hey its not my fault I find Japanese Food disgusting." He looked at Jill. "No offense Jill."
"None taken. How about you two figure this out while you wash, and wax the training room floors." The two boys groaned. "Hurry now." The two boys ran down the other side of the hall into another room. Kaito looked at Jill, Jill picked up the remote and passed it to him. Jill continued down the hall.
Jill, entered another room, a small kitchen. She saw the old woman, cooking. Her cane not to far away. The blonde girl, Undine, was sitting by a small low table, with the small girl, Hikari, and two more girls. The small girl smiled and ran to Jill, she hugged Jill’s knees happily.
"Ah…Your out of his room, he must be awake." Said the elderly woman.
"He’s a bit hungry obaa-chan." Jill said lifting the small girl into her arms.
"Yes, he will join us for dinner then." The woman gave Jill a tray, a bowl with crushed up leaves, and a large blue leave.
"Yes Obaa-chan." Jill bowed, and she and the girl left.
"Bara-san. I don’t understand. What good will those leaves do?" said the one girl, who looked Chinese.
"Yes, his would was very bad, he lost a lot of blood. Luckily Jill was so eager to volunteer." Said the other girl with short black hair.
"You will learn, it too is apart of your lesson." She looked at the three. Jill entered Jack’s room, one hand the tray, the other a small girl. Jack looked at the girl, she giggled and scooted closer to Jack. "Who is she?" Jack looked at her.
"Thats Hikari, she doesn’t say much. We found her in the forest one day, just a baby too. We raised her here." Jill started to clean the maggots out of Jack’s wound. "Hmm…They cleaned out all the dead skin, good." Jill started to smash up the blue leave with the already smashed up green leaves. "Dead skin is dangerous when we heal a wound." Jill put the paste on a white cloth.
"what is that suppose…." Jill put the cloth on Jack’s wound. "AHHH!" Jack screamed.
"Sorry, should have told you it would have stung." Jill started to repeatedly wipe the wound with the cloth, Jack tensed up with every stroke.
"I thought you where going to get me something to eat." Jack said.
"You will eat at our table." Jill said.
"But I am to weak." Jack said.
"Not any more." Jill stopped wiping the wound. Jack looked where the bullet wound was, there was just clean skin, not even a scar.
"How?" Jack put his finger’s over where it was.
"This forest is covered with plants that heal. You just have to learn how to use them." Jill stood up, "Supper will be in an hour, get some rest. I will bring you your Gi." Jill walked to the door, Jack then realized that all he wore was a blanket. The young girl giggled.
"Come hikari. Leave Jack alone." The girl ran out, Jill stepped out and closed the door.
Jill turned, she saw a small Boy in front of her, a rather messy Samurai Haircut, and a martial art’s tunic. "Did you say Jack?" he said excitedly.
"get supper ready Makato." Jill turned.
"It’s Samurai Jack isn’t it?" Jill looked at the boy. "I KNEW IT!" The boy started to shake with excitement. "I’ll go get my kendo sticks! Maybe he’ll autograph ‘em!" he ran down the hall, Jill sighed.
Jack, miraculously was strong enough to get out of his bed. Now wearing his Gi, and his Katana always ready by his side, he wandered around the small house. The main entrance to every room was one Hallway, on the left was 4 bedrooms and the bathroom, on the right, a living area, and a large training room. The large training room had a hard wood floor, on the walls was a selection of weapons. Jack stepped into the room, "the house is bigger than I looks on the outside." Jack looked to the left side of the room, several sliding doors where. Jack opened one, it lead to a court yard.
"Hey!" shouted a boy, Jack turned. He saw a native boy standing behind him, "Supper’s ready." He said.
"Thank you." Jack said. The boy turned and Jack followed the boy. "So what is your name?" Jack asked.
"Name’s Derek." Derek and Jack walked down the hall. "Your Samurai Jack right?" Jack nodded."I knew it! man it is great to meat you." he happily said and shook his hand.
"Thank you." Derek opened a door. Inside Jack saw 4 girls; one Hikari, and 3 boys, all sitting around a rather long, low table. The smallest boy got up and ran strait to Jack.
"Your Samurai Jack right?" the boy was bouncing with Joy.
"Yes I am." Jack said, the 3 eldest Girl let out an adoring Sigh.
"He’s so hot." Said the Chinese girl.
"I’ll spar with him any day." Said the girl with short black hair.
"Jack please sit down right here." the Blonde girl petted a spot by her. Jill entered the room.
"Jack will sit by me." Jill took Jack’s arm and sat him on the farthest away form the 4 boy and Girls. The girl’s groaned.
"Jill will you tell me who they all are?" Jill nodded.
"You met Derek already," Pointed at Derek. "The boy with spiked blonde hair next to him is Cyrus." Jill pointed out. "The little skinny boy with glasses is Kaito." Jill turned to the girls. "The Chinese girl is Mei-line. The girl with short black hair is Ruka, and the girl with long blonde hair is Undine." Jill said.
"and the small boy?" Jack looked at the small boy.
"that is Makato, He is……" Jill stopped, Jack looked at her. "He’s my brother." Jack nodded. The elderly woman walked in, every body stood. Jill told Jack to stand.
"Sit every one." She said as she sat, every one sat down on the mats.
"Who is she?" Jack whispered to Jill.
"That Is Bara, she is my teacher, and master. She taught me everything I know. She is also my grandmother."
"You may now give thanks." Bara said, every one bowed their head. Jack noticed they all spoke different tongues, Derek spoke a native Indian language, Mei-line spoke Chinese, Cyrus spoke in Hebrew, Kaito in Italian, Ruka in Ukraine, and Undine in French. Jill too bowed her head and said a short prayer in Shinto. After they said thanks, they opened the pots on the table. They all scooped out food onto their plates.
"I noticed, that all of your family speaks a different tongue." Jack spoke to Jill.
"Yes, they all came from different regions. Where Aku had destroyed their home’s or people. All they brought with them, was their faith." Jill started to eat some of her sushi on her plate.
"Blech! Not sushi again! I hate the fact that raw fish tastes good." Ruka said looking at the sushi.
"Oh and rice wrapped up in lettuce is good?" Derek said.
"Don’t make fun of Holupchi!" Ruka nearly yelled.
"well they are defiantly better than those stupid dumplings, what are they called, Paraguay ?"
"PEROGI!" Ruka started to turn red. Jack looked at Jill.
"They always do this, don’t worry." Jill said continuing to eat.
"Guys can’t we resolve this?" Kaito spoke.
"SHUT UP!" They both yelled. "Go cook a Pizza!"
"Hey! we cook more than Pizza!" Kaito said.
"Oh yeah lasagna and Spaghetti. SO nutritional!" Derek mocked.
"Oh go grow some Corn!" Cyrus yelled at Derek. Jack started to get worried, Jill didn’t seem to care, the two younger children where to busy eating to care, and Bara was just as calm at Jill.
"Oh…why you!" Derek grabbed up a piece of meat. "Look! I’m eating pork! And its so good!" Derek started to eat is slowly.
"We’ll your eyes and taste buds must be out of commission cause that is Chicken." Cyrus said, Derek grumbled. Mei-line started to laugh.
"WELL at least I don’t eat Cats!" Derek said looking at Mei-line. Mei-line, grabbed a hand full of rice.
"Eat this!" she threw a fist full of Rice in Derek’s face. Derek grabbed some of the meat, He threw it at Mei-line. But his poor aim, and he hit Ruka. Then the entire table blew up in a food fight.
"You have to stop this." Jack looked at Jill, Still calm.
"Don’t worry Jack, what every lands on them, they have to eat. They’re is not wasting food here." Jill said drinking some tea. Jack looked at the Food fight, Bara on the other side of the table held up a Umbrella.
"Tell me, I must be in a mad house." Jack groaned. Then Out of no where, Jack was hit in the head, with a bowl of noodles. Jill looked in shock, the entire room was quite and looked at Jack. Jill, looked at Jack and noodle’s started to slide down his face. Jill then burst out laughing, "AHAHAHAHAH!" she pointed at Jack.
"Is Chidori laughing?" Makato looked at Jill. Jack looked at Jill slowly, she was nearly falling down laughing. Jack reached into his bowl of rice, then shoved it in her face. Jill was quite in shock, the room started to giggle, Jill grabbed her last sushi and smeared it all over Jack’s face. Jack and Jill started to grab random food and shove it in each other’s faces. The food fight continued. Bara on the other side of the table looked at Jill in shock first, but she saw both Jack and Jill laughing, she then smiled.
Later, several of the student’s had mops, rags, and where cleaning the dining room. They where all still covered in food, Including Jack and Jill. "Do all your suppers end like this?" Jack asked.
"Not all the time, one time we actually ate our food." Undine said. The boys laughed.
"You made all these comments on their foods, but you are still friends." Jack looked at Derek and Ruka.
"Yeah, She’s knows I was kidding." Derek put his arm around Ruka. Ruka laughed.
"You have vegetable’s in your hair." Ruka picked out a mini corn cob. The student’s laughed. Jill was mopping up the floor by the door.
"Jill, may I see you?" Bara said outside the door, Jill left the room and closed the door.
"Yes Obaa-chan?" Jill said a bit worried. "I’m sorry I grew out of control." She bowed.
"Not that Chidori. Today was the first time I ever saw you laugh, ever since Aku." Bara said. Jill lowered her head a bit sad.
"Yes I know, it was the samurai." Jill giggled a bit, Bara smiled.
"It is good to see you smile once more granddaughter." Bara hugged Jill,Jill hugged her back.
Back in the dinning room, Cyrus asked a peculiar question. "So do you and Jill have a thing or something?" Cyrus leaned up against his broom.
"A thing?" Jack lifted and eyebrow, not totally misunderstanding the question.
"Do you like each other or some thing?" Ruka clear the air.
"Yeah, Jill said that you saved her from some bikers, then she carried you 15 miles here." Mei-line said.
"Then when you where in your bed, she was the first to offer her blood." Undine said.
"Really?" Jack wondered.
"Yeah! and until the blood fades your like my big brother!" Makato said cleaning the table.
"Don’t be silly, Jill is way to anti-social for anything. even a boyfriend." Ruka said.
"Who wouldn’t be? after what she saw." Kaito said.
"What did she see?" Jack asked.
"she doesn’t like talking about it, she especially doesn’t like it when we talk about it behind her back." Ruka said.
"she saw something terrible, I can see it in her eyes." Jack said looking over at the door where Jill was.
"Jack, if these freaks won’t tell you then I will." She looked over at Makato playing with Hikari out of earshot. "when Jill was young, her palace was burned down by Aku, she saw her own parents killed by the hands of the demon Aku." Mei-line said quietly to Jack. "But we never told you, okay?" Jack nodded.
The door opened, and Bara and Jill walked in. Every one stood up with respect at Bara. Bara looked at every one, still with food all over them. "You should all know to have better manners than that, especially in front of a guest." Bara looked at Jack. "tomorrow morning, you will wake up 2 hours in advance, and run around the mountain 10 times!" the group groaned.
"You better get cleaned up, cause tomorrow you will train extra hard." Bara said leaving.
"Great…." Derek said a bit angry mad. Jill walked over to Jack.
"Train?" Jack asked.
"they are all learning to be Ninja’s. much like I am." Jill looked at Jack, she picked out a stray noodle from his hair and ate it. Jack smiled at bit at Jill, she started to blush. The three girls started to whisper and giggle.
Jack laid in his Futon bed, what he learned today was strange, Jill was the most enigmatic woman he ever met. Jack closed his eyes to sleep, but then the sounds of ‘weeping’ were heard. Jack arose in his bed, Jack opened the door to search for the source. He reached Jill’s door, he opened in a peak, he saw Jill in a fetal position on the floor crying. Jack watched her cry herself to sleep on the floor. He then walked in, Jill’s face had a dry crust of tears on her face. Jack picked her up and placed her in her Futon bed. "Its all right, sleep Jill." Jack said covering her with her blankets.
"Jack?" Jill said quietly opening her eyes and looked up at Jack.
"I heard you crying, I am sorry for intruding." Jack said bowing .
"Its all right Jack." Jill said. "Thanks for checking up on me." Jill said, Jack smiled and walked out of the room.
The next morning, Bara, Hikari, and Makato stood on the steps on the front of the house. "Jack you are welcome here when ever you want." Bara said looking down at Jack with his sword on his waist ready to go.
"Thank you." Jack bowed.
"Here is some supplies, just in case." Bara gave Jack a bag.
"You are to kind, If I ever come this way again, I am sure to visit." Jack said. Jill came out from the door way. She wore her black body suit and held 2 swords on a strap on her back.
"I will leave with Jack." Jill said stepping down the steps.
"No!" Makato cried grabbing Jill by the legs. "You just came back!" He wined.
"Makato let go of me." Jill calmly said.
"NO! for two years I prayed you would come back! now you have to leave again?" Makato began to cry, Hikari now grabbed onto Jill also and began to cry.
"Makato I cannot promise I will return." Jill said. Bara grabbed the two and lifted them in the air away from Jill. "But I will return, in death as spirit, or body and soul." Jill said. She looked at Bara, Bara bowed lightly. Jill then turned and began to walk down the path to the stairs that lead to bottom of the mountain.
"Your paths will meet again Samurai." Bara said, Jack turned to leave and followed Jill.
Both Jack and Jill walked down the stairs, Jill ahead of Jack by 3 paces. Once Jill was a the bottom, the road split into 2 roads, right and left. "That way will lead you to town." Jill pointed left. "I must go right, and honor my parents once more." Jill said turning right.
"will we meet again?" Jack asked. Jill sighed.
"Who knows, the fates have been known to play tricks." Jill then turned to look at Jack. "But know this, we are not friends, merely rivals." Jill said, Jack nodded. They then split up, Jill right, and Jack left.
Jack couldn’t help but glance over behind him, to see if Jill was behind him. Jack entered a field of wild tall grass, he only just met the woman and weird feelings came over him, none he had encountered before. He actually felt happy inside, the cold loneliness of his quest felt a bit less today. He turn around a again to see if Jill was behind him, nothing. A small tear rolled down the Samurai’s face.
Jill was walking down a forest path on the mountain, she looked in a clearing in the trees and saw the ruins of her village. Jill sighed and continued down the path, "Jack……He reminds me of me in some way. I can see in his eyes that his own home was destroyed by Aku. Of course we both have different missions, he wants to save his past, I simply want to find a warriors end." Jill turned behind her to see if Jack was there. "Nothing, and there will always be nothing." Jill said a slight tear rolling down her cheek. "I will always be alone……."
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