AN: I'm sooo sorry for the late update, but I got really busy with school and all... :hides in shame:

It's not beta-ed either, so once that is done I'll upload it again!

Chapter 5

Everyone was stupefied the next morning when they heard of Wolverine's departure. Gambit was the only one who seemed to understand; he too had always run away from his problems in a failed attempt to outrun his feelings of guilt.

Especially Rogue was having a hard time dealing with Logan's sudden departure. He had never left her before without saying goodbye, and she was worried for him.

Jubilee also was hit pretty hard by his departure. She retreated back to herself saying she had a headache, and not even Gambit could talk her out of it.

Two days later the mansion was again shaken up. Jubilee had left a note in the kitchen saying that she had to take care of some things, and please not to worry for her.

"Where the hell can she be? And why didn't she say anything? She even took one of the jets!" Cyclops yelled frustrated and angry.

Nobody understood why she had left, especially now, except for Gambit.

He was pretty sure she went to find Wolverine, and he only hoped that she would take good care of herself.

"She'll get back, mon amis! The petite can take care of herself" Gambit said calm in an attempt to calm Cyclops down.

"YOU! You know where she is don't you!" Cyclops said accusingly.

Gambit's eyes glowed red from held back joy. He had never liked Cyclops much, and the fact that Jubilee hadmanaged to getsuch a rise out of him amused him to no end.

"Now what makes you think that?" Gambit said in mock innocence.

But before Cyclops could react to that Jean came in between.

"Okay knock it off you two! This is not going to help us find her…" she said stern.

"Maybe the petite doesn't want to be found…." Gambit said thoughtfully.

Everyone looked at him confused.

"For if she wanted to be found she would have said something or let us know where she went, non? She'll contact us soon though…" Gambit explained.

But when the hours were ticking away and she still didn't contact them he too became worried, although he knew she could very well fend for her own.

Jubilee had 'borrowed' on of the small jets in order of her little 'rescue mission' as she liked to call it.

"okay…now what would be the use of this flickering light?" she wondered out loud.

She had been flying for hours on end and was suffering a major headache, which was staring to cloud her senses.

She was getting very tired to the brink of exhausted when the motor of the jet suddenly seemed to stutter and finally decided to come to a halt altogether.

"Oh oh, that is so not good!" she mumbled worried.

The jet was loosing altitude rather fast now, and with more luck than anything else she could barely land the jet rather roughly into a rice field.

When the jet came to a screeching halt she climbed out of the wreckage only to fall three metres down into the watery rise field.

Her headache was killing her by now, and she was starting to see black spots.

"I don't think this was what Beast meant when he said I had to take things easy for a while…" she mumbled relieved that she somehow had made it out alive.

When she painfully got back to her feet and turned around she saw that she had been surrounded by a group of armed Japanese swordfighters.

"Well, at least I am getting close…"she said ironically at seeing the Japanese.

"But why do I have the feeling they are not so happy to see me?..."

The men had surrounded her and were closing in on her.

"Ehhh..Hi!...I..eh…" she tried, but they didn't seem to understand her.

Suddenly two of them lunged for her, both with drawn swords.

She ducked them both easily and even managed to take out one. The men kept attacking her and it was obvious that they were well trained.

Jubilee knew that she couldn't fight them off much longer since she was still very weak and recovering from a concussion and several splints. Besides she was stiff and tired from the long journey she had made.

She was able to take down a few more before she was taken down herself.

Roughly she was pulled back to her feet. She could hear rapid commands in Japanese, and in the distance she could see people coming over. From the reaction of the men she could tell it was probably their leader.

'…Oh boy, this sure doesn't look good Jubes!...'

She desperately tried to break loose from their hold on her arms, but they didn't budge.

"Jubilee!"

At hearing that voice her head shot up.

Wolverine looked at her unbelieving, but recovered and gave a rapid order in Japanese on which she was immediately released.

She ran over to Wolverine and clung to him like she would never let go. "Wolvie!"

Wolverine was still mesmerized to see her there.

"Jubilee! Are you alright?" he asked worried looking at the still smoking remains of the jet.

She nodded.

Still stunned about her appearing he held her at arms length "Jubes….why…how on earth did you find me!" He still couldn't believe it, and didn't know whether to get angry at her or be happy.

Her face clouded and looked at the ground contrite "I..eh..I though that maybe your leaving had something to do with me…" she said softly. "But if you want me to leave, I will…I just wanted…I.." she continued excusing.

Wolverine layed his arm across her shoulders. "Come on, we'll talk later…"he said leading her back to a road.

Jubilee looked up at him smiling. For a moment the was afraid that he would be angry with her for following him.

"I want to introduce you to someone kid…" Wolverine said when they were back at the road.

A beautiful Japanese woman was waiting patiently and Wolverine looked at her.

"Jubilee this is Yuriko. Yuriko this is Jubilee" he introduced them. Yuriko smiled friendly to Jubilee, and although Jubilee usually was a little shy around strangers she seemed to like Yuriko. Yuriko said something in Japanese to Wolverine and hurried back down the road.

Jubilee and Wolverine also started to walk down the road, but at a far slower pace.

"Is she your girlfriend?" Jubilee asked curious as always.

Wolverine had to smile at her observation skills. "She's a good friend, yes…" he said deadpan.

"Just a friend?" Jubilee asked innocent looking up at him smiling.

"Yes, just a friend. Nothing more!" he answered explicitly.

"Anyways, who were those swordfighters?" she asked curious.

For a moment Wolverine didn't seem to understand who she meant, then he realised who she had meant.

"Oh those! They are Samurai. They protect the neighbourhood against invaders" Wolverine explained.

"Hah, I hope they don't welcome in all tourist like this!" she said laughing and rubbing her still aching shoulder.

Wolverine laughed too. "Well, not all tourist literally come falling down form the skies!" he said pointedly.

Then a man came walking up to them. He bowed to Wolverine and said something in Japanese. Wolverine answered the man in fluent Japanese (much to Jubilee's surprise) on which the man left again.

"Otoko no Tou-san?" Jubilee repeated confused.

"Yeah that's what they call me here. It means 'man of steal'" Wolverine explained.

Jubilee looked at him with her browse still raised in confusion.

Wolverine drawed his claws. "Get it?" he said.

Jubilee waved off his claws "That's adamantium, not steal. Or don't they know that stuff over here?" she said pointedly.

Wolverine just rolled his eyes and laughed "Smartass!"

"You wouldn't have it any other way!" she reacted merrily knowing full well that she was right...

AN thank you all for reading this chapter and especially for those who left me all these wonderful reviews! It really means the world to me! (i'm sorry but I heard we're no longer alowed to thank reviewers personally, but you all know who I mean:D