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War Of Shadows	By : TurtleNinja Category: +S through Z > Samurai Jack Views: 3353 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Mad Jack

The following morning, I awoke and rolled over onto my back, stretching. Mm...that felt so good. I turned a little to my right and saw the nude, sleeping form of Ekirei lying next to me, her long hair splayed out on the bed and over her black wings.

Sitting up, I watched her sleep, smiling to myself at the thought of enjoying another night of wild sex with her, but knew that it'd have to wait. Annoying as she could be, she'd been exceptionally ferocious in bed. Yet we weren't going to win this war for Lord Aku on our backs in bed.

I stood and dressed, running a hand through my ruffled hair before heading back out into the Demon's Den. The bar was empty this time of day, save for perhaps a few stragglers. I walked over to a table and sat down, looking at the newspaper that was sitting there.

SAMURAI JACK DOES IT AGAIN!

And reading lower...

MYSTERIOUS WHITE SAMURAI ESCAPES AKU ONCE AGAIN

I growled softly and clenched the newspaper tightly in my hand, intending on magically burning it. There wasn't any end to it! Damn Minamoto and his little angel. If we didn't stop either of them soon, it was going to be us whose heads Aku hung from his mantle.

A few nearby bounty hunters quickly scattered, not wanting to be anywhere near me. The bartender also appeared nervous, but didn't dare speak up against me. He knew exactly who I was and who I worked for. But I wasn't in the mood for a drink this morning.

"Good morning, handsome."

I paused and looked up, seeing Ekirei standing there. Instantly, my mood brightened and I set the paper aside, gesturing for her to sit in my lap. As soon as she had settled herself over my legs, she leaned down, kissing me hungrily.

I kissed back, my hands finding themselves comfortable on her shapely rear as my tongue found its way into her mouth. She gave a soft moan and pressed her hips up against mine tightly before slowly pulling away. The lust was quite visible in her dark green eyes, but now was not the time for it.

"Good morning, Ekirei. Sleep well?" I asked.

"As if you have to ask, MJ. Did either of us sleep much last night?"

I chuckled softly as she slid from my lap and moved over to a chair.

"What's with the paper?"

I looked back to the very rumpled newspaper and growled a little. Ekirei ordered a glass of orange juice, raising a brow at my reaction. I'd almost forgotten about the original, but she had to bring it up. It was just as well.

"Just another stupid paper praising the efforts of my original."

"Forget about it, MJ."

I turned quickly on her.

"Forget about it?! Eki, are you nuts?!"

"No, but he'll be dead in a day or two, remember?"

"You're wrong. He won't die that easily."

"How can you be so certain?"

"Because I can feel it along my connection to him. He's slowly recovering from that orb you dealt him."

"That's impossible, MJ. nobody can survive the blue orb."

"Yeah, well, it seems that my original's gonna be the first."

She set her glass of orange juice down on the table and looked at me, watching me carefully. I could see the contemplative look in her eyes before she picked up the glass again, taking a sip of its contents. If she knew I was speaking the truth, then it didn't seem to bother her.

"Odd. Nobody's survived that orb before. He can't possibly be doing it all on his own." she said.

"Chimitsu?"

She paused, looking into her drink, then swirled its contents and set it down.

"No. Chimitsu can't heal illness. Wounds, but not illness. That's why I thought he'd be dead for sure. She wouldn't be able to do anything to keep the blue orb from killing him."

"But he's surviving. I can feel him hanging on, fighting to recover. Something or someONE is helping him."

"It can't be Chimitsu. We know she can't do anything to help him and her sisters are all dead, so they can't be the ones either."

"He has plenty of friends, but if you said there's no cure to that spell orb you shot him with, then no medicine in existence can help."

She sighed heavily and finished her juice.

"The bottom line is; it doesn't matter who's helping him recover, just that somehow, he's recovering, which means we've failed yet again and we can't go back to Lord Aku without another plan. As it is, we'll be lucky if he doesn't destroy us." I said.

"MJ, stop worrying so much. The demon can't destroy us. Well, technically, he could, but...if he did, our own Elemental Circle would be disrupted and screw up his plans worse than any failure of ours did."

I paused and watched her trace the rim of her glass with a slender finger. It seemed that she had some brains after all, instead of just an incredible sex drive. She was right. Aku couldn't destroy us, no matter how many times we failed.

"All right. The most he can do is bitch us out. So what's our big plan, Eki?" I asked.

"Planning's your department, MJ. I just think of why Aku's not going to kill us both for our failures."

I snorted and looked over the newspaper again.

"Well, we already did think of a couple of plans last night, didn't we Eki?"

"Yeah, so, are we going through with them or not?"

"I have to say, I like the idea of dressing as my original and turning all those who believe in him against him. Without people to believe in him, he'll be completely crushed."

"And nothing would tear at his heart more than to know that people think it's his fault all those people, all those children, died at his hands."

I laughed softly, watching the sadistic glint in her eyes.

"Oh yes. That would definitely tear at his honor. If we're lucky, he'll drive himself to seppuku to restore the honor." I said.

"I wouldn't go that far, MJ. First of, he'd know it was us, know that it was you that caused such havoc, and even if he didn't figure it out, Chimitsu's there and she'll keep him from doing such a thing."

I sighed a little and nodded.

"All right, perhaps him being driven to seppuku is a bit much to ask for, but it would tear at his honor to know that those kids died thinking their hero had turned on them."

"And when they come to fight us, we take the other. I'll go for your original, you go for Chimitsu. They won't be able to predict our moves then and it'll be easier to battle them."

"I know, I know. Still, I don't like the idea of combat. We can destroy some of their friends, but there's always going to be more people out there who will believe in the white warrior."

"Perhaps. We'll just have to destroy them, then, won't we?"

"Destroy them? MJ, do you know how long that'll take to find every last person out there who believes in Minamoto and kill them? Aku won't like that idea one little bit."

"There are three others out there, aren't there?"

"The other Dark Elementals? What, we're dragging them in on our failures now?"

"Noooo...but they can certainly cause a lot of chaos out there."

"What are you suggesting?"

"I'm suggesting that it's time we stopped fooling around with those two."

A waitress brought two glasses of orange juice over, one for me and a second for Ekirei. I took a brief moment to eye her up, watching the short skirt bounce off her butt and hips before Eki gave me a kick to the shin. I growled and looked back at her.

"What do you mean, stop fooling around with those two?" she asked.

"We've got Elemental powers, why don't we use 'em."

She raised a golden brow as she took a sip of her drink.

"What are you getting at, MJ? How is using our powers going to help?"

"We invoke our powers on the world, throw it into chaos. When people are fighting starvation, death, disease, and war, how can they possibly think of the white samurai, much less believe in him?"

"So that is your plan? We bring ultimate chaos about the globe? We can't do that without Aku's permission, you know that."

"Then we go to him and get it. When the world is full of chaos, we're bound to bring down his friends, tear him and Chimitsu apart at the heartstrings, and possibly kill them both in the process. They can't fight us and the whole world at the same time."

I gulped down my drink, setting the empty glass down on the table. Ekirei watched me, her fingertip tracing the rim of her glass again. She appeared to be thinking of something else, her eyes showing a very dangerous spark.

"Now what are you thinking, Eki?" I asked.

She chuckled softly and I shifted a bit. She was beginning to irritate me now, questioning everything I thought of this morning. She didn't know the samurai like I did. She couldn't possibly know what would destroy him and what wouldn't.

"Just about him and Chimitsu." she said.

"What about them?"

"Well, we both agreed last night that they were falling in love with each other, but didn't know of the other's feelings. Sure, they've kissed a few times, but we both know that Chimitsu's being hopeful and your original is so innocent in terms of romance that he doesn't know if she's serious or not."

"All right. So what are you saying?"

"I'm saying that what if they discover their feelings? What if they realize how the other feels?"

"That would drive them through all the chaos we create. So long as they had each other, believed in each other, then no amount of chaos or destruction we bring about would keep them from trying."

"Then that means we have to do something to tear them apart. So long as both of them are alone, then they'll be at our mercy."

I sighed a little, rubbing at my temples. We'd tried this before, too, and it had failed like everything else. There wasn't any way I could think of to separate Minamoto and Chimitsu, not when they were both so admant about sticking together.

"What would make them separate?" Eki finally asked.

"Something completely out of character and heartbreaking."

"I always liked the idea of infidelity."

I raised a brow, looking at her.

"And how do we propose to do that, Eki? Neither my original, nor yours, would ever be unfaithful to the other once they learned of their true feelings for each other." I said.

She eyed me up and down, grinning nastily. I almost didn't like the look on her face had I not known that it meant that she had a devious plan in mind.

"You look like him, don't you?" she asked.

"Your point being?"

"Separate them long enough for her to see you, dressed as Minamoto, with another woman, preferrably in the midst of some wild, nasty sex."

"Eki, that's too far out of character for my original. First off, he's a virgin. He'd have to have slept with Chimitsu first for that to work. If he hasn't done that first, she'll know something's up."

"And how is that?"

"Baka. You remember how he reacted when you tried putting the moves on him, how innocent and shy he acted? Tell me, why would a man who had trouble simply kissing a woman suddenly get into bed with one?"

"Point taken. But I still say him doing something adulterous would drive her away from him, at least something within his bounds in case they haven't slept together yet."

"A juicy kiss will work just fine, Eki. If she sees me, dressed as Minamoto, kissing another woman rather hungrily, that'll be enough."

"And what about him?"

"That's your part."

"MJ, I only look like Chimitsu to a point. My wings are black, hers are white, it won't work. He'll see the black wings and know it's not her."

"You can draw them into your body just like her, right?"

"Yeah, so?"

"Well, when she's regained her wings, she'll likely explain that's how she was able to deflect that green orb of yours. She kept her wings hidden until it was time to reveal that she'd regenerated them. All you have to do is dress like her, keep your wings drawn into your body, and start making the moves on another guy besides me. He sees you, thinks it's her, and also turns away as she turns away from him when she sees him with another woman. By the time they figure it out, we'll have destroyed them."

She sighed a little and looked at me.

"I dunno, it seems a bit flimsy, but if you're sure it'll work..."

"Oh, it'll work. My original will be too shocked at the thought of her thinking he'd been with another woman and in enough emotional strain at the thought of her being with another man that it'll take them both awhile to put two and two together to realize what we've done."

"And when they figure it out, there'll be enough havoc created around the world that they won't be able to stop it."

"Exactly."

She laughed softly and downed the rest of her juice, eyes shining with a sadistic joy. I glanced back towards the crumpled newspaper and thrust a dagger into the image of my original on the front page. Soon, he and the Wind Elemental would be thrown before Lord Aku to suffer at his whims.
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