Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Past and Present. Enjoy the 1000-word chapter. I don't own Samurai Jack, Genny Tartakovsky, Adult Swim and Warner bros do.

Kishi leapt onto the top of a hill as he watched Jack destroy a massive Beatle bot before sighing.

"Aku still thinks that we have the sword, that monster must never find out the truth." The boy waited for Jack to get onto his motorcycle before using the enhanced speed his armor gave him to race through the trees alongside his teacher.

Neither of them noticed the tripwire.

Kishi flew back, his armor stopping the blow before he leapt out of the way of a rain of attacks.

"Ambush!?" Kishi cried out as he looked over to see that Jack had been ravaged by the attacks and retreated as he used explosives to cover his retreat.

"Blast it." Kishi whispered as he turned his sword into its sniper form once more and took aim, the warriors that had attacked Jack seem more interested in Jack then killing him.

"Your mistake." Kishi whispered as he took aim at the warrior with the Kusarigama, he watched as the heard the bullet too late and fell.

"Guess none of you were prepared for an apprentice." Kishi growled under his mask as the 7 assassins turned before Jack sprinted towards the temple.

"Leave him to me, sisters, kill the Samurai!" The 6 other sisters nodded as they rushed in.

"You're not laying a damn hand on him, you want him, you go through me, princess." Kishi spat as the warrior, which Kishi could see was female twirled her weapon.

"Traitor to Aku! The Daughters of Aku will end you!" Kishi and the daughter leapt at each other as the rain poured down on each other.

Jack ran, he saw his apprentice facing one of the attacks and ran.

"His death will be just another failure for you to live with." The ghostly version of himself all but screamed as Jack fled deeper inside.

"He will prevail, I trained him." And with that Jack looked for a place to hide.

The daughter slammed into the tree, she growled, she had been trained for killing the Samurai. Kishi noted that their moves were based around countering moves from an experienced warrior.

'They were trained to fight Jack, they didn't expect an apprentice.'

Kishi thought as he kept the warrior on the defense with his sword as he transformed it back between rifle and sword to keep the assassin guessing. Kishi wasn't as skilled as he teacher, he wasn't even in the same league, but one thing he did well was improvise, something the daughter didn't have much experience with. He aimed a bullet at the girl as she dodged it by leaping off the tree before Kishi bashed her backwards with the hilt of his blade.

"Your good, but you can't fight me and win, you're not trained for me, princess." Kishi taunted as the daughter growled and round house kicked him into a tree.

"Blasted fool, you serve our enemy, you must die!" Kishi blocked the chain weapon with his blade.

"Your one to talk, my master is more skilled then all of your sisters combined!" Kishi dodged the sickle chain as it cut into a tree behind him. He leapt over the blow as the girl retreated into the trees.

"There isn't a place you can run to, lady!" Kishi leapt up before transforming his weapon.

"Your weapon won't save you." Kishi grinned as he looked at his weapon.

"Want to bet?" He fired the weapon at the tree.

A sonic blaster.

The Assassin screamed as her ears ached and the tree branch snapped, she tumbled into the snow.

"Aw, too much?" The Girl wrapped her weapon around Kishi's waist.

"Crud." Kishi cursed as he tumbled into the snow before recovering and firing the sonic cannon again as the girl climbed to her feet, she lost her balance from the shock wave as Kishi turned the sword into its blade form once more.

"Your good, just not good at improvised fighting." Kishi said as the girl stabbed at him with a Kunai before he caught the dagger before it left her hand by grabbing her wrist.

"Who do you work for, why did Aku send you?" Kishi questioned as the girl kicked at him only to hiss as the kick bounced off his armor.

"Snake! We were given blessings by Aku himself to hunt down and burn out the Samurai that corrupts the perfection of this land!" Kishi was about to respond when the temple exploded.

"Jack!" Kishi cried before another voice cut him off, barely hearable from the temple.

"Ashi, we are trapped!" Kishi turned to the girl as she flipped out of his reach.

"Your blood will paint the ground." Kishi growled as she reached for a smoke bomb.

"Oh, no you don't!" He tossed one of his few trackers which landed on the girl he now known as Ashi, the tracker attacked to her neck as she disappeared. Kishi fired a grappling hook from his armor as he was pulled towards the river.

"Alright, Ashi, I guess it's a race to find Jack before you and your sisters do." He fished out a blade from the water.

"Scaramoush's tuning fork dagger." He looked up in time to see the rubble blocking the temple be destroyed as the daughters dragged out a girl dressed in their attire and with a visible slit throat.

"Looks like the old man killed one." Ashi looked up and spotted him as she and her sisters leapt away, Ashi's masked eyes never leaving Kishi's masked eyes.

"Alright then, it's going to be a race." Kishi activated the bio tracker in his mask as he vanished into the forest.

"She's good, maybe even as good as Jack, but the way she handled fighting me? She wasn't ready for a fighter who thinks and fights differently." Kishi took that advantage to heart as he raced to find his master before Ashi and her siblings did.

Author notes

Wow, over 200 views 13 follows and 15 favorites after one chapter!? Thanks guys, I had no idea how this story would be before I posted it but you guys make me happy to write this. Anyway, Kishi was able to fight Ashi due to her training, she was trained to kill Jack, the High Priestess didn't know about Kishi, she didn't train Ashi for improvised fighting like Kishi uses. I also wanted to have somewhat of a short fight because I think the events of the episode happened in 20 minutes? Anyway, next chapter will be either tomorrow or next Friday. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!