Yuki no Kodoku (the cold of loneliness)
Chapter 2
one day I awoke and decided to write the rest and try real hard to do it, to preoccupied I guess with everything. I just want to ask a question, do any one of my readers want to see Aku in future fics of the ‘Jill series’ (wait series? It took me like 2 months to finish this chapter!) never mind I plan to put Aku in but I just need inspiration.
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Jack awoke, surrounded by blankets and hot water bottles. The air was filled with hot steam. And Jack couldn’t see over the towel that was wrapped around his head. He sifted his eyes to his right, and saw what was a head of black hair. Jack tried to sit up, he saw a familiar face. Jill, sleeping next to him. Jack Sighed and sat back down. The weight of the blankets, and hot water bottles held him down. He moved his hand, under the blanket. To the form that was Jill laying atop. Jill opened her eyes a bit and saw Jack’s had under the blanket, rubbing her chest. "Jack?" Jill sat up. Jack smiled. "Sleep Jack." She covered his eyes.
"Ji.." Jack started, but Jill shushed his lips.
"sleep." Jack closed his eyes and drifted to sleep.
When Jack awoke, he was now in a normal bed. He sat up and looked out the window that was the only light in the room. He saw people skiing down a mountain. "what?"
"Jack your awake, lad!" He heard a familiar voice enter the room. Jack turned to the door and saw Syd, happily smiling.
"where am I?" Jack asked looking around the rather bare room.
"Your at the Ski resort just a few miles away from the city." Syd brought a small wooden stool and sat by Jack. "The bounty hunters caused us to move you several times until we brought you here."
"Is Jill here?" Jack looked to see if she where to enter.
"Who? Miss Ninja? She left 4 days ago." Syd said, Jack lowered his head. "Sorry Jack, she said she had to leave in a hurry." Syd then heard the loud ‘roar’ of one Samurai’s stomach. "I best get you some food, Sugar." Syd sat up and walked towards the door. She looked back at the saddened Jack. She sighed, "She told me not to tell thee but she ran up the mountain for something." Syd exited the room.
"The mountain?" Jack wondered, he looked out the window.
Up the mountain, a black figure rode a red Ski-doo (**so sue me! I’m Canadian, its actually a Snow Mobile). A black snow suite with a black shaded helmet covering the face of the driver. She stopped the ride and stepped off the machine. He stood before a ice covered temple, ancient writing over the walls. The woman walked up the icy steps she took off her helmet and her black hair flew our every where. She threw the helmet to the ground, Her hair blew out from the back. Jill looked up at the temple, Jill reached to her back and took out a flare from her back.
Jill entered the temple slowly. "I saw her when I saved Jack. She has been following him for days. And I will find out."
Back at the resort, Jack was dressing into his ghi and sheathing his sword as Syd entered. "Jack! Sugar! You can’t be up! its to cold out!" Syd placed the plate of food she had brought Jack down.
"I must find Jill." Jack said as he tied his waist band.
"I’m sure she’s fine. But the mountain is more cold than when we found you." Syd grabbed Jack’s shoulders and made him sit down.
"then will you get me something to wear for the cold then?" Jack looked at Syd. Syd smiled.
"hon we’re in a ski resort! Of course!" Syd ran to the door. "Say here, okay?" Jack nodded.
Back on the mountain, Jill continued to walk down the frozen temple. Careful not to fall on the slippery ice. Jill walked by several frozen bodies that laid on the floor. Some wore ancient clothes, laid on the floor, or caught escaping. Some where resent, wearing new fashion snow suits. Jill walked into what was a thrown room. Jill reached to her back and took out small daggers.
"I knew you would come." Said a female voice. Jill turned and threw a knife at the voice. It just pasted a blue faced woman barely. Only cutting small strands that fell to the floor and shattered like glass. Jill took out more daggers. "Please." the woman said walking to a thrown made of ice. She wore a blue kimono which dragged across the floor, it was designed with snowflakes.
"I want to know, why you have been following the samurai!" Jill demanded. The woman smirked.
"I’ve been following him forever." The woman smiled. "chidori, you know that now."
"Don’t say that name!" Jill threw another dagger at the woman. She rose her hand and it froze in midair. The woman sat up.
"Please sit chidori." Wind blew at Jill and she fell into an ice chair which appear from no where. "The Samurai. He has a coldness in his heart, as well as you." The woman walked around Jill. " Yuki no Kodoku." She but her ice cold hands on Jill’s shoulders.
"the cold of Lonliness." Jill and the woman said in unison.
Jack was wearing a red and blue ski suit, his pants held his sword behind him. Syd smiled at her work. "Beautiful!" syd gave Jack from goggles and a head band. "Now I rented you a snow mobile, they’re easy to control." Syd put the head bands along with the goggles on his head, very much like a mother would her child afraid to catch a cold.
"I’ll be fine, thank you Syd." Jack said, he held her hands. Syd blushed.
"No thank you Sugar Jack. You gave me some hope that Aku will be defeated." Syd let her hands go. "Now get going!" Syd pushed Jack outside.
Jack looked at the snow mobile, he some how started it by turning a silver key. He pushed a button on the handles and went forward. Jack held himself from the force of the machine going forward. "Waaaah!" Jack screamed as he went forward up the mountain.
Jill sat in the cold chair, the ice began to crawl up her side. Her hands where frozen over, and her feet began to freeze as well. "What are you doing? do you enjoy watching me as I freeze to death slowly?" Jill looked up at the woman.
"Don’t worry, Jack will save you." she put her hand to her face. "If not, then I will enjoy watching you freeze. Then I can haul your frozen carcass to my master Aku."
"I knew it! you work for Aku! You purposely tried to kill Jack in the city!" Jill moved again trying to get out of her ice prison chair.
"Yes, You see. My plan was to freeze the samurai with my powers to manipulate the cold. But then that woman saved him, so I got some petty bounty hunters to bring him out. I would have killed him, but you came. When I heard you claim him. I thought, Is she saved him, then he will save her. when people belong that’s what they do for each other." she stood from her chair. "I see it in your eyes, you love the man but are afraid." Jill growled and turned from the woman. "afraid to be hurt again." The woman looked out the door. "your love is here." she walked out.
"No!" Jill tried to get out of her ice prison once more. " Jack you idiot!" Jill thought.
Jack stopped next to the other snow mobile. "Jill was here." Jack said looking at the black machine. Foot prints lead into the temple. Jack past her helmet and entered the temple. passing the bodies, Jack heard Jill’s grunts of efforts. "Jill?’ Jack yelled. Jill Gasped.
"Jack! You idiot! Out! She’s going to kill you!" Jill yelled, Jack ran into the trown room, he saw Jill in the ice chair with a sheet of ice on her hands which still held her knifes. Then Jack was blew out of the room by hundreds of snowflakes.
Jack hit the frozen ground hard. Jack Unsheathed his sword an stood in a fighter stance. "I knew you would come, too." Out came the woman. Jack gasped, but held his sword still ready.
"Who are you?" Jack questioned.
"I am Yuki onna, and I will be your death!"
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Muwahaha! I'm evil. don't worry you won't have to wait for me to write the third chapter like I did this one.
