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Summery: On contact with the "tenn'yo" Yuuko, both Jack and she display similar and disturbing abilities in revealing the names of the each other -- without being told. Now SG-1 has been invited to the temple, but they are wary and worried...

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Jack felt agitated as they followed Yuuko.

Disturbed because he'd just terrified his teammates by slipping and copying Yuuko's little trick. Mentally, he cursed himself. What had he been thinking, showing off like that?

Jack had always been able to tell that sort of thing about people. What their positions might be, able to guess their names with a fairly high success rate. But he'd never been able to exactly know, never having enough incentive to practice.

It was a family ability from his father's side, a bloodline technique; he supposed you could call it. The fact that he got it from his father -- a Russian, and a man Jack hated with a passion – rankled in him deeply. Competence would come with practice, he had found out from careful contact with his grandparents, but he had always hated his bloodline limit, and so refused point blank to develop it.

But now it had come to him full force, and he had no idea why. True, it had been becoming stronger over the past few years, but he had attributed that to a build up of genetic pressure or -- something like that.

No way could he convince himself of that now, though. Especially when the strengthening coincided with when he had first begun traveling through the Stargate.

The beauty of the planet did nothing to improve his state of mind. As they entered the village, he automatically noted that the houses were typical medieval Japanese, with red slanted roofs and white walls.

Then a ball cracked sharply into a wall. A group of children rescued the ball, pausing briefly in their play to watch the team as they passed by. They all promptly bowed, staying that way until the group passed. Then they went back to their game.

Casually, Jack strode forward until he came level with Yuuko. "Was that for you or us?" he murmured.

"To all of us, Colonel," Yuuko joined her sleeves. "After all, it would be discourteous to not greet you, would it not?"

"You people get visitors through the Stargate, then?"

"Often enough that the spectacle no longer amazes us as it once did. That's actually how I found out about you. A bounty hunter came through once -- Aris Boch, I think his name was. He described all of you perfectly."

She was a good liar, he'd give her that. "That's a lie and you know it. Boch might have come through, but he never told you about us."

Yuuko's eyes tightened slightly, but that was all the reaction he got.

He stopped and grabbed her elbow. "Just what the hell are you!" Jack faintly realized that he was probably committing a gross breach of propriety by touching her, but suddenly he didn't care.

Anger was bubbling inside him. Whatever she was, it was somehow affecting him too.

Yuuko's jade eyes were cool. "I'm a priestess, Colonel, and a tenn'yo. You would do well not to trifle with me."

Jack was about to let loose a sharp retort when Daniel suddenly appeared and gently touched his arm. He led a snarling Jack away while Teal'c took his place.

"That -- arrogant -- lying little --" he was actually sputtering.

"Jack, what did she say?"

Jack suddenly deflated. "I don't want to talk about it," he grumbled.

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"O'Neill is upset," Teal'c murmured.

"Yes," Yuuko agreed blandly. Inside however, she was bursting with questions. O'Neill had risen to both her challenges -- one verbal, the other...not.

He hadn't at all liked the ripples she had sent in his direction. Yuuko wondered what would have happened if Doctor Jackson had not intervened.

Would he have unleashed the full extent of his powers on her? Did he even have any? And if so, how strong where they? Earlier events had indicated that he did, but she could not be sure.

Humans were the anomaly out of all the species of the galaxy. They could easily become pregnant with the children of the most unlikely species. That woman from Krema for example. The poor child had died, but it had made a point -- one that had lasted for the past 6,000 years. It was an almost certainty that there had been genetic mutations in the race by now.

They wouldn't be very advanced naturally, but they would still be there. But a small voice in the back of her mind said, no, that's not it, not with this one, and she had learned a long time ago to pay close attention to that voice.

She pursed her lips in thought. A problem.

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Jack stayed behind Daniel the rest of the way to the temple.

It wasn't out of any conscious desire to watch him walk. Jack had brooded for a few seconds before deciding that it would be better if there was plenty of space and people between him and Yuuko. To keep her throat safe from his fingers, if nothing else.

But when he actually got behind, the half-baked notion went right out of his head, and before he knew it, he was taking far too much pleasure in watching Daniel's six.

The moment he realized it, he swept his head up and locked on to the back of Daniel's head, desperately concentrating on not blushing.

I should be too old for this, he thought bitterly.

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When they arrived at the temple after a half-hour of walking (Jack was desperate to sit down) Yuuko took one look at the buildings and pronounced several words that he suspected belonged more to the barracks then a theological seminary.

"Wait here," she growled at them, before talking off at a dead run, hiking up the skirts of her kimono.

There was silence for a long minute.

Then Daniel said, "What was that?"

Sam shrugged as well as a person could with a P90. "I guess we'll find out in a minute. She looked pretty angry -- whatever it was."

"A beautiful place," Teal'c murmured intent on ignoring the conversation at hand.

It was true. Beneath the scarlet torii gate a wide stone path lead up into a set of elegant, black-roofed buildings. Jack had seen other shrines in Japan before, and they had been very lovely. But there was a peculiar...something, about the place. A kind of sparkle.

Irritated by his whimsical notions, he stepped forward and examined the two statues by the entrance. One fox was on either side of the gate -- guards, if Jack remembered correctly. The male fox on the right held a rod, while the female on the left held a small ball. He frowned.

"Daniel?" He beckoned with a finger. When Daniel saw the two statues he frowned as well.

"That's odd," he said. "Foxes are supposed to guard Inari's shrines. I mean -- providing these people worship Tsuku-yomi."

"I know. But we can ask Yuuko when she gets back." Daniel suddenly gave him an odd look. "Hey, gimme a break. I spent some time in Japan in '84."

"Ah." Daniel's lips quirked. "So, it wasn't one of your premonitions?"

"Hey!"

Daniel's gentle teasing was cut short by a mild explosion coming from the shrine. SG-1 stared wide-eyed as black smoke billowed from the hole that had suddenly appeared in one of the buildings.

"Do you think they need help?" Daniel asked, alarmed.

At that moment (naturally) Yuuko was walking up the path near the torii gate. Jack supposed she could have heard Daniel's question from that distance, but somehow he doubted it.

She answered it anyway.

"Thank you Doctor, but the offer is unneeded."

"What happened?" Sam asked.

"One of the acolytes was experimenting with minerals." Yuuko shrugged. "He used too much sulfur."

Carter blinked. "...I see."

"Yes. Shall we go in?"

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As speedily as he could, he hid the robe. Then he brashly waited underneath the tree, waiting for her to notice.

It seemed like a long while (though it probably wasn't) before she finished and she began swimming back to the shore, and towards the tree.

Then...