Authors Note
Well, a two parter, never thought I wound do this, but I did. But don't worry, I just like to watch you all worry in angst and nervousness. Shout out to Invader Johnny, thx for your support and help with this story, anyway, I hope you enjoy, and like always, plz like and review, thx again.
Now onto the story...
It was a sunny day in the village, and Jack was doing his usual prince/samurai duties of watching and protecting the people who where in it, with his Katana by his waist.
He looked around and saw many smiling faces, they had new hope and purpose now that Aku was gone.
But, with all the peace it the world, there was also bad. Since aku's tyranny and influence had plagued his people for so long, many people were not "really" ready to go back to being civilized people. There had also been rumors of people who where still loyal to Aku, even though he was gone and dead, this saddened Jack greatly.
So as Jack glanced around at his people, he mostly found good things such as children playing and shops and businesses open. But then everything changed when Jack hear a desperate plea of help...
"Help!...help me please!" a loud voice and scream coming from and eastern direction, but it was then matched by the sound of choking.
""Quite you worthless women!, I told you never to plant the carrots here, but since you did, your now gonna pay!" A voice said with a furious, almost purposely meant to draw fear into the person they were yelling at.
Jack then heard enough, he then ran closer to the confusion and yelling. When he did arrive, it was at an old garden with a bamboo fence around it, and a house, which looked like it hadn't been dusted in months with spider webs big and small around it. There Jack saw one of the most horrific sights he had ever seen...The man was strangling his own wife...
"Since you didn't obey orders!...you must go!" The man said as he scowled at her with his hands around his throat.
Jack's emotions were now in full force and power. The rage he felt when hurting a man is one thing, but a women just for the sake of a veggatable? Jack was beyond mad, even his insanity from when he was in the future couldn't match this.
Jack then runs over to the man and immediately gives him a sock in the face with a punch, his eyes filled with fury, he continued to punch and lift him off the ground and slam him down. When Jack was finished with him, the man was covered in blood in the face and around the arms and was cursing in all sorts of ways that cannot be accounted by writing, and the wife just looked in shock and fear.
Jack looks down at the man with a grimace expression of discuss. He then lifts him up by the shirt collar and says to him directly...
"How dare you do something so evil, so malice, so disrespectful!" Jack yelled as he put him down. The man, now sweating and red in the face with embarrassment..."W-well y-you see..she didn't plant the-"
"And that gives you the right to strangle her!" Jack says with a furious expression.
The man then stands up and dusted himself off with one eye still bleeding, then looked at Jack with a scowl in his eyes when he realized who Jack was.
"So what do you care prince Hiroto!, but don't think this will change anything samurai!, I'll be back and kill you...BOTH OF YOU!" He said as he pointed his arms at both of them. Then he jumped over the fence and ran into the forest area, by this time, he was too quick to catch up with.
Jack looked at the women, who was on her knees crying with her hands on her face. Jack goes over and comforts her...
"There, there, I promise you that you husband will not come back and hurt you, and if he does, me and the soldiers will come and take him away" Jack said as he came to comfort her.
She had medium length brownish black hair, and she looked around her mid thirties, but her stress could be shown in her eyes and grayness of her hair.
The women looked up at Jack with eyes of despair and sorrow...
"Ohh prince Hiroto, you don't understand. That wasn't my husband, they kill him because he owed them money, so when they did kill him, they left it to me to pay it instead. The man you saw was one of the men working under him, they are a gang of men they entitled themselves as..."The Aku loyalists".
The women finished with the story and looked around at her crops, they were either all taken and yanked out of the ground, or seeds budding, but most were destroyed.
Jack looked at the women sympathetically, it remained him of when Ashi was corrupted by Aku and was using her against her will, it was something he could relate to her struggle.
"Don't worry Ma'am, we will find this gang and stop their tyranny on our people" Jack said as he looked out in the forest, seeing if the man had come back.
He then stood up and was about to leave to send a search party, but then looked on the ground to see hundreds of seedlings on the ground and soil. He then looks at the women and looks with concern.
"I feel sorry for her, her husband is dead and has no one to help her" Jack pondered for a moment. Then Jack had made up his mind, he was going to help the women resolve her problem, by helping her replant her garden.
Jack turned around and walked back up to the women..."You seem to need help with your garden, is it okay if I help you" Jack asked politely as he held on hand out to help her up.
The women looked at Jack confused, no one very asked to help her before except her husband, so with a mildly grateful expression, she accepted.
Many people though, had seen the incident happen before and passed by, thinking there was nothing they could do about it. So as you can imagine, it was a shock when Jack ran over to help her and run the man off.
She stood up, and dusted off her clothes and got to work. She then told him how and what to plant where. She then gave him some beetroot seeds and they started to plant them. While they were working, many people passed by and were curious why the prince would help a women plant seeds in her garden when he could be doing something else, so many came over and asked. Jack then explained her story to them, after that, they would join the two and help them.
Before you knew it, there were about 12 other people working in the garden helping them. Many came over to the women and we're sorry that the event had happened to her, which put a smile on the women's face, she never felt this excepted since her husband and her got married.
They worked very hard that day, until the evening was apon them. By that time, someone announced that the last seed was planted in the ground, they then all cheered, and the women was soaking in tears of joy, as her fellow village people had helped her, and she thanked everyone for their help.
But in the midst of the cheering, danger approached then. Jack looked forward then woods and saw torches, many torches, about 25 of them.
Then came out the woods, a ground of men in tree bark masks came toward the garden. The men then lined up in two columns, and in between the columns of men, their leader came out with a jack knife in his hands.
It was a large, muscular man with brown monk robe on him. He looked around and saw the group of people that were in the garden, then asked a question with the up most anger and fury in his voice...
"Where's the women... WHERE IS SHE!" the man's voice boomed, which scared the village people.
Instead of the women coming out of the crowd of people in the garden, Jack did, and this time, had his Katana out, ready to defend his people if needed.
The man in the monk robe took one look at Jack and knew who he was and what he did.
"YOU!, YOU are the one that killed master and beat up one of us! Now prince Hiroto aka SAMURAI JACK, and come fight me like a man!" The man said as he had his fist clenched up and ready to fight.
Jack saw the man's motives and Immediately put his sword in the air and said...
"I'm giving you a choice now!...leave her
and live, or stay and face your desti-"
"SHUT UP!" One of the men in the columns said as he cut Jack off.
Jack bowed his head slightly "Very Well then, you've chosen your path, now you shall face the consequences".
The men with the torches then walk forward toward the garden. While they were marching toward them though, Jack had an idea, he then whispered the plan to the group that were in the garden, then they agreed and got in position.
The group got very close together and left the women in the middle, when they got close enough together, they got close enough to the point where they could sneak the women away into another house into the village.
Then Jack gave the.signal "Three...two...one...Now!", then two of the strongest men from the garden group lunged forward and tackled one of the two men with the torches on the ground, and from there, the torches lit the grass around them on fire, but it wasn't over yet.
Jack then runs toward the leader without his sword, the leader is shocked by this, but continued anyway. The.man rips a bit of Jack's GI off, but Jack manages to trip the leader up and he falls on his face. The man looks at Jack with anger and defeat and screams...
"What are you waiting for, KILL ME!" the man screamed as he shouted with discuss.
Jack looked at the man and saw nothing but hurt and pain in his eyes, so, he decided to help him up. But then the man struck him again, only this time, he punched Jack in the face and he was then flung into the fire that was in the grass.
All Jack could remember, were the screams of his fellow people, and then it all went white...
