Man, I haven't written in months, it's so nice to start again. I do plan to update my other stories, especially as some of them have been waiting for literally several months, I was just really in the mood to write Xiaolin Showdown fanfiction. While I feel like I should update the Bleach fanfictions first, I gotta follow my muse. I do plan to update them soon though.

A couple of things before you start reading this. I started watching Xiaolin Showdown again recently because I got bored and I got really into it and I just had to write some fanfiction. However I'm only on episode 7. I watched it when I was a kid, but I really can't remember much, so I apologise if things are out of character or don't quite fit in with the show. As I watch more of the show hopefully my fics will get better. Anyway this is a JacKim fic. While RaiKim is my OTP for Xiaolin Showdown and I don't think the JacKim pairing would work out long term but I do think there is a lot of chemistry between them and honestly I think it's a pretty hot pairing, so I figured I would give writing a fic a go.

Speech is in speech marks, when the text is in italics with quotation marks it's the character's thoughts, and plain italics without any marks is for emphasis.

I do not own Xiaolin Showdown. Credit for the picture goes to Ninjatic on deviantART.

Chapter 1: Chance Meeting

Kimiko groaned as she sat up, rubbing the back of her head a bit. There was a pretty big bump, but she clearly didn't have a concussion or anything serious. She was just knocked unconscious for a bit. Depressingly that was something you got used to after a while. 'To think I've been knocked out that many times. But I supposed it has been a few years now.'

Earlier while fighting Jack and Wuya for the Shen Gong Wu she ended up getting flung away from the battle, and apparently knocked unconscious, god knows for how long. Kimiko sighed and she started to stretch her muscles and inspecting herself to check that she hadn't gotten any other injuries. Luckily the Xiaolin Dragons had a system for when things like this happen, which was basically stay in roughly the same place while the others find you. It wasn't flawless and sometimes it took a lot of time, but before the system was put in place because beforehand both the separated Dragon and the the group of Dragons would look for the other and more often than not it would end up taking more time because they were both moving around, potentially, and most likely avoiding the other without realising.

Kimiko sighed again and stood up, stretched her legs and took a quick look around. The Shen Gong Wu that revealed itself was in England, but it wasn't London. Kimiko looked around for any and all landmarks. Certainly not London. It was definitely a city, but it was nothing special. Kimiko found a nearby bench and took her backpack off before she sat down. She pulled her PDA out of it and started playing games, figuring she could be there for a while. After a while she heard a familiar voice call her name out of surprise. She looked up to see Jack Spicer with a confused expression on his face. She rolled her eyes before talking. "What are you doing here Jack?"
"I could ask you the same question. Where are the other pyjama freaks?"
Kimiko gave him a dirty look before replying calmly. "God knows, probably looking for me."
Jack raised his eyebrow. "Doubt it."
"Why?"
"Well another Shen Gong Wu revealed itself. But Wuya decided it was useless and that it was a waste of time, but of course you lot go after every one you can." Kimiko sighed, realising that she could be here a lot longer than she originally thought, Jack cocked his head to the side slightly before continuing talking. "Are you lost? Or rather, did they lose you?"

Kimiko threw him another dirty look before putting her PDA away and crossing her arms. "I am not lost. I'm just waiting for them to come and get me because they would worry otherwise."
Jack smirked. "Oh really? Then where are you?"
Kimiko shrugged as she answered. "England, where else."
Jack sat down next to her. "I meant where in England."
Kimiko didn't answer the question which caused to Jack to laugh. Kimiko glared at him until he stopped. "You know, you never answered why you're here.""None of your business." Kimiko punched him somewhat lightly on his arm. "Ok ok, my dad is in England at the minute, and he told me that he'll meet me here so we can get together and 'catch up'."
"Oh. So, nothing evil then?"
"Well no evil on my part anyway."

Kimiko took a moment to try and figure out what he meant. Not being able to come to a conclusion, she asked him what he meant.
Jack scoffed. "Let's just say my father isn't exactly the nicest person."
"Oh." Kimiko looked at Jack and saw a sad expression on his face. She couldn't help but feel sorry for him. "So a nice childhood then?" She asked sarcastically.
Jack smiled sadly and replied sarcastically back. "Oh the best." Jack sighed as he leaned back on the bench. "It's a little depressing when you deem moving out of your parents house your biggest achievement."
"But you can build all those robots and stuff. I mean as much as I hate to admit it, you are clever. How is moving out of the house your best achievement?"
Jack looked at her with cold eyes. "Because it means I finally escaped. Look I know a lot of kids say they had a bad childhood, but when I say it, I do actually mean it."

Kimiko looked away from Jack, honestly having no idea what to say. Jack Spicer, the self proclaimed evil boy genius, who despite acting childish and cowardly at times, was usually pretty sure of himself, fairly confident, was sitting next to her talking to her, honestly, about his past that sounded less than pleasant. Kimiko thought back to the time when Jack kidnapped her and replaced her with the chameleon robot. She was trapped in that damned cage for a while, and obviously Jack wasn't going to sit there and watch her for the entire time. She remembered him working on his robots in front of her, and to do that he took off his long black trench-coat, as it only got in the way when he was building. She remembered seeing a few scars on him, but at the time she thought nothing of it. Her eyes widened slightly when she realised that Jack may have been beaten when he was living with his parents. As if on cue, Jack took his off coat. "It's a lot warmer than you'd think England would be huh?" He joked, attempting to lift the mood. Jack was wearing a blood red sleeveless top, which revealed his shoulders. When Jack realised she had a sad expression on her face his eyebrows knitted together in confusion. "What?"

She looked up at his face before darting back to the scars on his shoulders. Jack, realising what she was looking at, tried to put his coat back on. Kimiko stopped him and pulled back his top a bit. The scars were long and thin, old, but she didn't think they would ever fade properly. She pulled his top back down to where it was and looked at him with a questioning look. Jack gave her a brief dirty look before rolling his eyes and speaking. "Ugh fine. Whenever I misbehaved as a kid, my father used to beat me. But then he started going away a lot, so I thought it would stop. So I started getting a little adventurous, and starting conducting experiments. There was one time when I seven, when I accidentally broke the TV and my mother got really mad at me. She pulled out one of her belts and beat me for ages. Seeing as I never touched the TV after that she figured it was an effective way of disciplining me, so she did it whenever I did something wrong. She managed to become a worse version of my dad. She stopped when I was around 14 though, when she realised that I could overpower her."

Kimiko raised an eyebrow and spoke in a joking tone. "With what upper body strength? You couldn't even overpower me when we first starting fighting over the Shen Gong Wu."
Jack deliberately put on a hurt expression. "To be fair, I didn't want to a hurt a little girl."
Kimiko scoffed. "Yeah so that's why you always sent robots after me and put me in an electrified cage."
"Hey I wanted to conquer the world, you just got in the way."
"Wanted?"
"Oh, well I mean, it would be cool to rule the world and all, but I'm a little more realistic than I was then."

Kimiko looked at Jack. While he was a teenager back then, he did act really childish. But not as much any more. He was taller then he was back then, his jawline was a little more defined and honestly she doubted he could get his voice to get as high as it could back then. He had grown, both physically, and mentally. But of course they all had. Even Omi. Kimiko went back to the conversation. "You're still on the evil side though."
"As I should be. Believe me, if you got in my way I would not happy. I may not have been able to overpower you back then, I can certainly overpower you now."
Kimiko let her temper get the better of her. "Yeah right."

Jack narrowed his eyes. "Just because I don't train all the time does not mean I am not strong." He got closer to Kimiko, his eyes a little menacing. "I could overpower you if I wanted to."
Kimiko scoffed.
Jack's eyes narrowed further for a brief second before he swiftly grabbed her wrists, put her arms together above her head, changed his position so he was now holding both her wrists with one hand and he used his free hand to push her down so she was lying across the bench, causing her to gasp. He moved so he was now hovering over her, smirking at her surprised expression. He moved his head closer to hers and whispered in her ear. "See, I can overpower you." He moved away from her, letting go of her wrists while he did so and winked. She blushed, which made Jack smirk again.

"You're blushing. Not falling for me are you?" He asked playfully.
Kimiko rolled her eyes. "Oh please. Why would I fall for you? Anyone girl would blush if a guy pinned her down like that."
Jack raised an eyebrow. "Oh? When did you stop being so innocent?"
"Oh shut up. I'm not a little girl any more in case you didn't notice."
"Oh I certainly noticed."
Kimiko managed to stop herself from blushing that time. She was about to make a snarky reply when she heard Omi's voice calling her name. Kimiko put on her backpack while standing up. "I gotta go."

She gave a little wave to Jack before running in the direction she heard Omi's voice. Jack watched her run away with interest. He really did wonder when she stopped being so innocent. Admittedly he did have a bit of a crush on her when they were younger, but it had been years since he felt that way about her. He always saw her as a kid, although maybe that's because she looks younger than she actually is. Kimiko was quite small and petite, which gave off the impression of a child. But when he thought about it, over the years she had lost her puppy fat, her face was slimmer, more mature. Her eyes had gone smaller, or rather appeared smaller now, like every woman. Hell, like every person. Jack couldn't say he knew what else had changed, except for her height. He really did see her as a child, he always saw her as younger than him (which she was), it didn't occur to him that she was closer to an adult than she was a child these days. But now that he thought about it, that was obvious. His attention was torn away from his thoughts by a tall man standing in front of him. He looked up and nodded in acknowledgement. He spoke coldly. "Father."

Can't say it's the best I've ever written, but I kinda liked the way it turned out. They're a couple years older in this fic, I hope that came across. I've got an idea of where this is going, but I haven't got a plot as such, so this could be interesting. (Haha last time that happened I ended up writing my most popular story and managed to get it over 80,000 words.) So yeah, this will be interesting. I can't wait to see where it goes.

As it's been a while since I wrote and I've never written Xiaolin Showdown fanfiction before so reviews would be even more appreciated than usual. :)