Authors note: okay this is a jack/ rai fic, it'll never be as good as "crouching dragon, hidden genius" or "vanilla", btw slash fics I adored, but I hope to at least get a couple of reviews (; man I feel pathetic), so enjoy
Prologue: (troubled warrior)
Raimundo let out a long sigh as he got up, across from him was an old man with pale blue eyes, he stood in a battle stance, but on his face was a look of worry
"Why do you not fight back young one?" master fung asked
"You're just too good for me master fung" raimundo laughed weakly, thinking back on how master fung just threw him at the ground, but he knew that wasn't the case
"I seriously doubt that raimundo, is there anything on your mind?" he looked concerned
raimundo hesitated should he tell master fung of his worries, the burden of being leader and having everyone trust in you, the fact that he now has to spar with master fung made him feel anything but important, it just showed how much he was needed, and raimundo didn't really want that, responsibilities tying him down, making him feel that he just cant handle it
"Nothing" raimundo replied at last, not wanting to think about his greatest concern
"Well then young dragon of the wind, why don't you take the rest of the day of? Hmm?"
"yes sir" raimundo smiled then ran out of the training hall where he and master fung were just sparring, instead of heading towards his friends he headed towards the forest to clear his head, if he hadn't been so concerned with his greatest worry he might have noticed the bird circiling over head
"Well isn't that interesting" laughed the voice belonging to Hannibal bean; in his root like hands he held the mind reader conch
Chapter one: (the start of a plot)
raimundo looked into the reflection of his own worried green eyes, the wind around him lashed out at trees pulling at his own chocolate brown hair, tugging raimundo's robes revealing his strong bronze colored shoulder, creating a miniature tornado around the agonized shoku warrior, his repressed emotions voiced by the howling of the winds, an eerie laughter seemed to echo through out the scene, yet it was unheard by the distressed monk, a pale teen looked down at this scene with his dark crimson eyes, the laughter still ringing in his ears
"do you see why I called you here?" asked the voice of Hannibal bean, jack repressed a shudder but was sure that the bean had noticed as he was sitting on his shoulder, wiry tentacles stroked jacks pale ears "have you realized what only you can do for me?" he continued nearly spitting in jacks ear
"n-no" jack stuttered wishing he knew why he now sat here uncomfortably in Hannibal's tree watching an image of the leader of the xiaolin monks through Hannibal's magical birds, ying yang's, eyes
"Can't you see what raimundo's thinking?" chortled the bean
"No" answered jack but he wished he could after looking at raimundo's distressed state
"Oh but my dear boy, I can" Hannibal chuckled
"wha- what is he thinking?" jack asked after a while
"He's worried about reverting to the heylin life"
"Huh?! Why!? He's the leader! So why?" jack asked in surprise
"Because he thinks the xiaolin life pales in comparison to the heylins"
"So why are you telling me this?" asked jack
"Because you're the one who's going to have to bring him to the heylin side"
"What why me?!"
"Because out of all the criminals raimundo likes you best"
Jack felt his cheeks going red "why?" jack asked wishing Hannibal would stop stroking his ears
"Because you have the most in common, if there ever was a guy raimundo would have preferred to be friends with it would be you" Hannibal cooed "that's part of the reason he wants to be on the heylin side"
Jack blushed even harder; Hannibal continued "so I need you to seduce raimundo to the heylin side"
"S-se-seduce?!!" flushed jack
"Yes silly boy" Hannibal threw back his head and laughed
'What if I don't want to?" jack asked defiantly yet shaking in his one size fits all jet bootsu's
Hannibal drew back a tentacle and thrust it through jacks' earlobe piercing it drawing droplets of blood in the process, jack screamed with pain and shock
"then this would happen, but only if " Hannibal crowed, Still hanging on to jacks ear, squealing jack grabbed the bean and threw him off his ear only worsening the pain, Hannibal landed on ying yang's back laughing "next time it'll be your lungs"
"What you're too tiny!" jack exclaimed sounding more confident than he felt
"But chase isn't" threatened Hannibal "and you know how much he loves exterminating pests like you"
Jack's thin frame trembled at the thought of chase's claws piercing one of his lungs; he bit his lip then nodded silently
Authors note: I know it's really short, and kinda creepy how Hannibal kept stroking jacks ear, but I'm trying to keep him in character, as I type I am hoping you may forgive this insolent, sluggish, idle excuse for an author, and please review or I'll burst