Qui-Gon, no sooner voiced a threat of his own to Obi-Wan's kidnapper than Ja' Reen reacted to being captured. He elbowed Mace in the ribs. When Master Windu bent over to catch his breath, Ja' Reen fought his way out of the Jedi master's grip. Sierra stepped forward a little to see about her master. When she did, Knight Ja'Reen jerked her toward him to make himself a human shield out of Obi-Wan's older sister. Obi was still out of his reach and Qui-Gon stood his ground, his saber now glowing and ready.

"Tsk, Tsk, Master Jinn. You wouldn't want to be the cause of your new little apprentice watching his sister die now would you? Just step back."

Jinn grabbed Mace by the arm just below the elbow and pulled him with him. Mace fought him at first. He wanted to do something to help his apprentice.

"Hold on my old friend. Jumping in there would only cause even more trouble. Let's just do what Riley wants, O.K.? Knight Riley what is it you *DO* want?"

Ja'Reen kept his gaze fixed on the two Jedi masters as he stepped backward, dragging Sierra with him. He paid little or no attention to the little apprentice just to his left but out of eyesight while watching the masters. Obi-Wan could see Riley Ja'Reen inching his way further and further away, his escape imminent. That would not have been so bad had he escaped. However, he had Obi's sister, who fought against it, but would remain an unwilling hostage for ever how long Obi's former master wanted to keep her..

Lots of thoughts ran through Obi-Wan's mind, but the most important one was his sister's welfare. He remembered the lessons taught through the reading and knowledge of the samurai warriors' creed. Sometimes they were caught without weapons, although they had numerous sized ones, even down to the smaller one which they carried to bed them.

Tiajutsu or as some called it later Ju justsu was a term used for grappling with ones opponent when a samurai for some reason became unarmed. In that moment Obi-Wan knew what he must do.

He quickly discarded his robe and flew in the air toward his sister's captor, Ja'Reen. His left was leg bent behind him and the right one extended out in front of him as his weapon. Luckily Sierra's reflexes were quicker than Ja'Reen's. She saw the human projectile coming straight for them and she got out of Obi's path with just a quick sidestep while the knight still kept his grip on her. However she did not remain a hostage long when Obi-Wan successfully landed his blow.

With the flying leap, the Jedi apprentice's foot landed squarely and full force in the middle of Ja'Reen's chest. He automatically let go of Sierra who ran toward her master while she activated her saber.

Qui-Gon watched in amazement as Obi-Wan landed on both feet only to do a complete turn around and with each turn he picked up one foot then the other and used them as weapons. The Jedi boots became weapons themselves as Obi-Wan kicked at the man's face while in mid-air. The once confident, sure Jedi knight was now on the ground on his knees and Qui-Gon supposed the way his head was reeling around, he was out of it, didn't even know what hit him.

Knight Riley Ja'Reen didn't know that the very thing he criticized the child for, his knowledge of the samurai warrior techniques had taken him down. Yes Jinn's little Jedi-turned-samurai warrior, Obi-Wan Kenobi was the one who saved them all with his antiquated Samurai moves.

Sierra and Mace took care of Ja'Reen. Mace used a force hold on the knight before he had time to counteract it with anything else.

Obi-Wan looked up at his Qui-Gon with the most sheepish grin on his face that Qui-Gon matched with his own.

Had everyone not been around, Obi-Wan would have liked to have run to his future master and jump right in his arms, but after all,

//I am a Jedi apprentice, I can't be seen cuddled in my master's arms. Well my almost master.//

The new little apprentice turned three shades of red when he was answered by his future master through their ever-growing training bond.

//I feel much as you do Obi-Wan, but of course I am the staunch Jedi master and I can't be seen cuddling my apprentice out here in the public. It is enough to know we both feel the same way. When we get back to *OUR* quarters, I will show you how to make the best Qualla frost sundae on this planet. I am famous for it. You'll see!! //

The twinkle in the big Jedi's eyes and along with his smile let Obi-Wan see how pleased he was with the outcome and the prospect of him becoming his apprentice.

Still with a blush to his face the little apprentice smiled as his sister and Mace walked over. His sister's master put his arm around Obi's shoulders.

"I have never seen moves like that!! I have watched your katas done in the samurai tradition but this hand to hand combat, well it is something we need to teach our padawans. I plan to discuss it with the other saber instructors once I have spoken to the council about it. We might need you along with some copies for study of the Samurai history."

"O.K. Master Mace. Thanks for the compliment. That hand to hand combat is called grappling. Well it was back in the feudal days of the Japanese Samurai."

Mace lifted his arm from Obi's shoulders and as soon as he did Sierra knuckled her brother's head on his spiked hair hard enough to hurt.

"Alright Show-Off, my master didn't mean we had to start a history class right now."

"Oh Sierra, I didn't mean….. I just wanted to tell him what it's called, correctly called."

Obi thought he really had done something wrong. Qui-Gon pulled the boy to him as Sierra and Mace went back to their prisoner.

"It's alright Obi. You will have to learn to lighten up. Your sister was just teasing you."

""I am sorry Master. With my old master their was very little teasing share between us.."

Obi-Wan looked at the man who failed miserably as his first master.

"I wasn't really allowed to relax….You know have fun and everything."

Qui-Gon only nodded his understanding to the boy. He realized how hard it must have been to be under the edicts of such a master as Ja'Reen had been to Obi-Wan. He would have to strengthen the boy's faith in himself. As for Master Jinn, he had all the trust and faith in the boy he needed. He did not need anything to strengthen his trust in Obi-Wan. The lack of confidence in stilled in Obi-Wan by his parents only continued in relentless abandonment by Riley Ja'Reen.

//Obi-Wan will listen well and become a great Jedi knight. He just needs confidence instilled in him and I will see that it is. That is of course if I can keep Master Yoda from spoiling his new grand padawan.//

###Two weeks later#

A bedraggled looking Master Mace Windu hurried down the hall. He knew exactly where he wanted to go, the master's meditation area. It was a large room with tables and chairs in a kitchenette, a library small but efficient for reading, and a lounge area for *MASTER'S ONLY*. The council set it up but it really wasn't for meditations, although one could meditate there. It was a place that the master with padawans who just wanted to get away from it all. Just like parents even master's needed a break from their *children* and Mace could think of no better time to take that break. He just spent two hours trying to convince his stubborn apprentice, Sierra Kenobi that she could not change the fourth rotation movement in the Seventh ribbon kata or it wouldn't *be* the seventh kata.

//I wonder if Qui-Gon is having this much trouble with his little Kenobi as I have with the big one? //

When he opened the door to the master's private area his mental question was answer. Jinn sat slumped over on the common area couch, head in hand, deep in thought, and a pained expression on his face from those thoughts.

"That bad Master Jinn? Rough day training?"

Even though Mace had just gone through a similar day he guessed he wasn't past teasing his friend.

A smirk and an unfriendly one at than formed on Jinn's face.

"Just shut that door behind you and do me a favor, lock it."

"What if another master wants to shirk his responsibilities for awhile? What will he do?"

"He'll have to find his own place to hide. I don't feel like being ribbed by another young master who has the most "perfect of padawans", or so they say."

"AH….Parenthood, isn't it grand? Although I must confess I didn't think you would fit."

Jinn raised his head out from his clasped hands that cradled it and glared evilly at his friend who stood before him.

"What are you talking about Windu? Fit …Fit where?"

"I didn't think that overgrown, over stretched body of yours would fit around Obi-Wan's little finger, but evidently you do. I can see that fuzzy confused look that says I have done everything the kids ask of me, now what."

Jinn got up straightened his tunic and went to grab a cup of tea.

"Bull, you don't know what you are talking about. It's not just Obi-Wan. I am ganged up on by my own former master. If it were only a small child, I wouldn't have these difficulties that I do. Let me assure you I can one little apprentice without the help or direction from you, * old wise one*."

Mace sat down where Qui-Gon had been and looked up at his old friend.

"Sure you can handle just anything that comes your way. How come I don't believe that? Just what difficulties is it you have with your new little padawan. Is he disobedient? Does he not try? Is he lacking in training you thought he should have already."

"No, no it's nothing like that. You are not listening Windu. Open your ears. Obi-Wan is a good apprentice. Well he is good and dutiful when I can keep that old crony of a master of mine away from him. I don't know how many times I have tried to impress upon Yoda that Obi still his Jedi saber training but does he listen?"

Mace slapped his knee, leaned back on the sofa and stretched his long muscular legs.

"So it's not only a padawan issue. It's an old master's inference that has you look like you haven't slept in a week."

"Yes, here take a look at this."

Jinn went over to one of the numerous holo view screens hooked up to the just as many training rooms. A master could put their apprentice in a training room and watch unknown to his apprentice, their practice session from the Master's rec room.

The holo view switched one revealed Jinn's former master and present apprentice in the grappling exercise Obi-Wan successfully used on Knight Riley Ja' Reen. That is why he was incarcerated for kidnapping charges and when released would be banished from the temple and Coruscant forever.

"Well what is wrong with that? Master Yoda said he wanted to teach one of the samarium classes himself. He can't very well teach it until he learns it, can he? "

Jinn sat down along side Master Windu and slumped his shoulders.

"I suppose not, but I have little time with my own apprentice. Yoda snaps him away from me."

"Oh, so you are suffering from padawan withdrawal."

"Mace you have totally lost your mind. Did Sierra do that to you? What in the name of sith is padawan withdrawal?"

"Simple you can't stand to be around them sometimes, but yet you can't stand not too."

Jinn laughed, but it was a laugh out of pure frustration and not humor..

"I suppose you are right. I do miss him around. This past week he has spent every spare moment with Master Yoda."

The holo view screen was still switched on and through the intercom came the commanding but cracking voice of Yoda. Both Jinn and Windu looked up to see the little green master with his face pressed right up against the holo camera in the training room.

The surprised expression on both of their faces was from being caught in the act of *gossiping* about the high master of the Jeid council.

"Put a sock in it, you will Qui-Gon. Overheard you I did. You, I also heard Mace Windu. Twitching ears sure sign it is spoke of I am. Felt that I did. Good thing it was, turned the comm on from here I did. After today, have your padawan all to yourself you will. Help me he has to learn the samurai ways. In turn I help the others. Selfish you are. One day come to me you will and beg me to take the child off you hands awhile. Do it, I will not. Raise him yourself you will."

Both masters laughed. Mace did not doubt Yoda's words. He had almost successfully trained one Kenobi to knighthood and if Obi-Wan was half as much trouble as Sierra was then Jinn would have his hands full.

//I have a feeling the boy won't be half as much trouble. If I am right, Obi-Wan Kenobi will be *DOUBLE* the trouble his sister was for me over the last eight yers, though I enjoyed every precious moment of it.. Jinn will acquire a few more gray hairs by the time he successfully trains this one, no doubt. With Sierra almost ready for knighthood, my child-rearing days all but over, all I have to do is kick back and watch!!//

Qui-Gon, no sooner voiced a threat of his own to Obi-Wan's kidnapper than Ja' Reen reacted to being captured. He elbowed Mace in the ribs. When Master Windu bent over to catch his breath, Ja' Reen fought his way out of the Jedi master's grip. Sierra stepped forward a little to see about her master. When she did, Knight Ja'Reen jerked her toward him to make himself a human shield out of Obi-Wans lolder sister. Obi was still out of his reach and Qui-Gon stood his ground, his saber now glowing and ready.

"Tsk, Tsk, Master Jinn. You wouldn't want to be the cause of your new little apprentice watching his sister die now would you? Just step back."

Jinn grabbed Mace by the arm just below the elbow and pulled him with him. Mace fought him at first. He wanted to do something to help his apprentice.

"Hold on my old friend. Jumping in there would only cause even more trouble. Let's just do what Riley wants, O.K.? Knight Riley what is it you *DO* want?"

Ja'Reen kept his gaze fixed on the two Jedi masters as he stepped backward, dragging Sierra with him. He paid little or no attention to the little apprentice just to his left but out of eyesight while watching the masters. Obi-Wan could see Riley Ja'Reen inching his way further and further away, his escape imminent. That would not have been so bad had he escaped. However, he had Obi's sister, who fought against it, but would remain an unwilling hostage for ever how long Obi's former master wanted to keep her..

Lots of thoughts ran through Obi-Wan's mind, but the most important one was his sister's welfare. He remembered the lessons taught through the reading and knowledge of the samurai warriors' creed. Sometimes they were caught without weapons, although they had numerous sized ones, even down to the smaller one which they carried to bed them.

Tiajutsu or as some called it later Ju justsu was a term used for grappling with ones opponent when a samurai for some reason became unarmed. In that moment Obi-Wan knew what he must do.

He quickly discarded his robe and flew in the air toward his sister's captor, Ja'Reen. His left was leg bent behind him and the right one extended out in front of him as his weapon. Luckily Sierra's reflexes were quicker than Ja'Reen's. She saw the human projectile coming straight for them and she got out of Obi's path with just a quick sidestep while the knight still kept his grip on her. However she did not remain a hostage long when Obi-Wan successfully landed his blow.

With the flying leap, the Jedi apprentice's foot landed squarely and full force in the middle of Ja'Reen's chest. He automatically let go of Sierra who ran toward her master while she activated her saber.

Qui-Gon watched in amazement as Obi-Wan landed on both feet only to do a complete turn around and with each turn he picked up one foot then the other and used them as weapons. The Jedi boots became weapons themselves as Obi-Wan kicked at the man's face while in mid-air. The once confident, sure Jedi knight was now on the ground on his knees and Qui-Gon supposed the way his head was reeling around, he was out of it, didn't even know what hit him.

Knight Riley Ja'Reen didn't know that the very thing he criticized the child for, his knowledge of the samurai warrior techniques had taken him down. Yes Jinn's little Jedi-turned-samurai warrior, Obi-Wan Kenobi was the one who saved them all with his antiquated Samauari moves.

Sierra and Mace took care of Ja'Reen. Mace used a force hold on the knight before he had time to counteract it with anything else.

Obi-Wan looked up at his Qui-Gon with the most sheepish grin on his face that Qui-Gon matched with his own.

Had everyone not been around, Obi-Wan would have liked to have run to his future master and jump right in his arms, but after all,

//I am a Jedi apprentice, I can't be seen cuddled in my master's arms. Well my almost master. //

The new little apprentice turned three shades of red when he was answered by his future master through their ever-growing training bond.

//I feel much as you do Obi-Wan, but of course I am the staunch Jedi master and I can't be seen cuddling my apprentice out here in the public. It is enough to know we both feel the same way. When we get back to *OUR* quarters, I will show you how to make the best Qualla frost sundae on this planet. I am famous for it. You'll see!! //

The twinkle in the big Jedi's eyes and along with his smile let Obi-Wan see how pleased he was with the outcome and the prospect of him becoming his apprentice.

Still with a blush to his face the little apprentice smiled as his sister and Mace walked over. His sister's master put his arm around Obi's shoulders.

"I have never seen moves like that!! I have watched your katas done in the samurai tradition but this hand to hand combat, well it is something we need to teach our padawans. I plan to discuss it with the other saber instructors once I have spoken to the council about it. We might need you along with some copies for study of the Samurai history."

"O.K. Master Mace. Thanks for the compliment. That hand to hand combat is called grappling. Well it was back in the feudal days of the Japanese Samurai."

Mace lifted his arm from Obi's shoulders and as soon as he did Sierra knuckled her brother's head on his spiked hair hard enough to hurt.

"Alright Show-Off, my master didn't mean we had to start a history class right now."

"Oh Sierra, I didn't mean….. I just wanted to tell him what it's called, correctly called."

Obi thought he really had done something wrong. Qui-Gon pulled the boy to him as Sierra and Mace went back to their prisoner.

"It's alright Obi. You will have to learn to lighten up. Your sister was just teasing you."

""I am sorry Master. With my old master their was very little teasing share between us.."

Obi-Wan looked at the man who failed miserably as his first master.

"I wasn't really allowed to relax….You know have fun and everything."

Qui-Gon only nodded his understanding to the boy. He realized how hard it must have been to be under the edicts of such a master as Ja'Reen had been to Obi-Wan. He would have to strengthen the boy's faith in himself. As for Master Jinn, he had all the trust and faith in the boy he needed. He did not need anything to strengthen his trust in Obi-Wan. The lack of confidence in stilled in Obi-Wan by his parents only continued in relentless abandonment by Riley Ja'Reen.

//Obi-Wan will listen well and become a great Jedi knight. He just needs confidence instilled in him and I will see that it is. That is of course if I can keep Master Yoda from spoiling his new grand padawan.//

###Two weeks later#

A bedraggled looking Master Mace Windu hurried down the hall. He knew exactly where he wanted to go, the master's meditation area. It was a large room with tables and chairs in a kitchenette, a library small but efficient for reading, and a lounge area for *MASTER'S ONLY*. The council set it up but it really wasn't for meditations, although one could meditate there. It was a place that the master with padawans who just wanted to get away from it all. Just like parents even master's needed a break from their *children* and Mace could think of no better time to take that break. He just spent two hours trying to convince his stubborn apprentice, Sierra Kenobi that she could not change the fourth rotation movement in the Seventh ribbon kata or it wouldn't *be* the seventh kata.

//I wonder if Qui-Gon is having this much trouble with his little Kenobi as I have with the big one?//

When he opened the door to the master's private area his mental question was answer. Jinn sat slumped over on the common area couch, head in hand, deep in thought, and a pained expression on his face from those thoughts.

"That bad Master Jinn? Rough day training?"

Even though Mace had just gone through a similar day he guessed he wasn't past teasing his friend.

A smirk and an unfriendly one at than formed on Jinn's face.

"Just shut that door behind you and do me a favor, lock it."

"What if another master wants to shirk his responsibilities for awhile? What will he do?"

"He'll have to find his own place to hide. I don't feel like being ribbed by another young master who has the most "perfect of padawans", or so they say."

"AH….Parenthood, isn't it grand? Although I must confess I didn't think you would fit."

Jinn raised his head out from his clasped hands that cradled it and glared evilly at his friend who stood before him.

"What are you talking about Windu? Fit …Fit where?"

"I didn't think that overgrown, over stretched body of yours would fit around Obi-Wan's little finger, but evidently you do. I can see that fuzzy confused look that says I have done everything the kids ask of me, now what."

Jinn got up straightened his tunic and went to grab a cup of tea.

"Bull, you don't know what you are talking about. It's not just Obi-Wan. I am ganged up on by my own former master. If it were only a small child, I wouldn't have these difficulties that I do. Let me assure you I can one little apprentice without the help or direction from you, * old wise one*."

Mace sat down where Qui-Gon had been and looked up at his old friend.

"Sure you can handle just anything that comes your way. How come I don't believe that? Just what difficulties is it you have with your new little padawan. Is he disobedient? Does he not try? Is he lacking in training you thought he should have already."

"No, no it's nothing like that. You are not listening Windu. Open your ears. Obi-Wan is a good apprentice. Well he is good and dutiful when I can keep that old crony of a master of mine away from him. I don't know how many times I have tried to impress upon Yoda that Obi still his Jedi saber training but does he listen?"

Mace slapped his knee, leaned back on the sofa and stretched his long muscular legs.

"So it's not only a padawan issue. It's an old master's inference that has you look like you haven't slept in a week."

"Yes, here take a look at this."

Jinn went over to one of the numerous holo view screens hooked up to the just as many training rooms. A master could put their apprentice in a training room and watch unknown to his apprentice, their practice session from the Master's rec room.

The holo view switched one revealed Jinn's former master and present apprentice in the grappling exercise Obi-Wan successfully used on Knight Riley Ja' Reen. That is why he was incarcerated for kidnapping charges and when released would be banished from the temple and Coruscant forever.

"Well what is wrong with that? Master Yoda said he wanted to teach one of the samarium classes himself. He can't very well teach it until he learns it, can he? "

Jinn sat down along side Master Windu and slumped his shoulders.

"I suppose not, but I have little time with my own apprentice. Yoda snaps him away from me."

"Oh, so you are suffering from padawan withdrawal."

"Mace you have totally lost your mind. Did Sierra do that to you? What in the name of sith is padawan withdrawal?"

"Simple you can't stand to be around them sometimes, but yet you can't stand not too."

Jinn laughed, but it was a laugh out of pure frustration and not humor..

"I suppose you are right. I do miss him around. This past week he has spent every spare moment with Master Yoda."

The holo view screen was still switched on and through the intercom came the commanding but cracking voice of Yoda. Both Jinn and Windu looked up to see the little green master with his face pressed right up against the holo camera in the training room.

The surprised expression on both of their faces was from being caught in the act of *gossiping* about the high master of the Jeid council.

"Put a sock in it, you will Qui-Gon. Overheard you I did. You, I also heard Mace Windu. Twitching ears sure sign it is spoke of I am. Felt that I did. Good thing it was, turned the comm on from here I did. After today, have your padawan all to yourself you will. Help me he has to learn the samurai ways. In turn I help the others. Selfish you are. One day come to me you will and beg me to take the child off you hands awhile. Do it, I will not. Raise him yourself you will."

Both masters laughed. Mace did not doubt Yoda's words. He had almost successfully trained one Kenobi to knighthood and if Obi-Wan was half as much trouble as Sierra was then Jinn would have his hands full.

//I have a feeling the boy won't be half as much trouble. If I am right, Obi-Wan Kenobi will be *DOUBLE* the trouble his sister was for me over the last eight years, though I enjoyed every precious moment of it.. Jinn will acquire a few more gray hairs by the time he successfully trains this one, no doubt. With Sierra almost ready for knighthood, my child-rearing days all but over, all I have to do is kick back and watch!!………//

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