Chapter 2: "I am No One of Consequence"

Hey guys. Sorry about the spelling errors. I'm normally very good when it comes to spelling and stuff, it's just that when I'm on a really good writing day, my hands are slower than my brain XD. I'll be sure to check my spelling/grammar thoroughly before updating a chapter. Oh, yeah, and soooo sorry it took forever to give you guys a new chapter. I don't have internet access at home... I hate it!!!!!!

Thanks for pointing out my spelling and the review, Kaeley Mel. I'll update again as soon as I can! Please be patient with me, because I'm very busy aside from writing these, as I mentioned in the opening of the first chap.

NOW, on with the second chapter :) Please review. I would appreciate your feedback!!

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Xiaolin Showdown or anything affiliated. However, I DO own Ameko Ronotaro, her family/friends, and any other characters which are unfamiliar to you, unless of course I point out what they're from.

HEADS UP!! long descriptions up ahead!!!!!!

The four monks stood in awe of the ninja-ko before them. Dojo had peeked out from under Clay's hat; his jaw now hung down.

Jack was sitting on a branch with Wuya hovering nearby. Before the ninja had appeared, their eyes sparkled with admiration for Chase Young. Now, both of them looked a tad nervous.

The ninja-ko was quite tall for a Japanese woman, about 5' 5". She had long, shadow-black hair wrapped up in a thick bun with the rest of it hanging down in a ponytail that brushed her lower back. She wore clothes similar to Ino Yamanaka's, only she didn't have the white things on her arms, and her clothes were ocean blue where Ino's are purple. Also, she had black spandex long shorts that went down to her knees, and Dojo and Chase Young recognised as black dragonhide armor on her shins, knees, shoulders, elbows, forearms, and wrists. Like Kakashi Hatake, the young woman had black clothing that prevented people from seeing the palms of her hands and the bottom half of her face. She also had a dark-blue Naruto-style headband with the Japanese symbol for fire on it. A kunai pouch was on each of her legs, and one shuriken pouch was on her right leg. (I know that this description is long, but I put a lot of detail into MY characters).

The trait that stood out the most to Chase Young was the woman's eyes. Slanted upwards at the far sides like the natural shape of the Japanese eye, their color was far from normal for the Asian race. They were dark emerald-green spheres with shards of crystal blue and amber yellow towards the pupil.

(How could he NOT notice her eyes of all things?! She was almost point-blank to him, after all.)

Not letting the intrigue sparked from the woman's appearance show on his face, Chase Young smirked amusedly.

"So I have the, how did you put it?" he said, almost mockingly, "I have the 'right to inquire, but not to know'? Interesting word choice."

The ninja-ko slightly raised one of her delicately angled eyebrows. "Yeah. Basically, 'you can ask but I won't tell.' "

She had a pretty nice voice. Confident, bold, maybe even headstrong and a little sarcastic, but still feminine.

Wuya was the first to snap out of the spell the ninja-ko's entrance had put on everyone (except CY, of course). Around the woman's neck was a pendant similar to Arwen's (LOTR) with a tear-dropped shape ruby in the center (pointed end up), and silver, flaming, outstretched angel wings at the top.

"It's there, Jack, look! Around her neck!" she shrieked, pointing her... hand at the woman. "It's the Phoenix Heart!"

Jack remembered why he was there too, as did the monks and Dojo. "Ok, lady," Jack said shakily. "Fork over the Wu and nobody gets hurt...!"

The woman fingered her necklace and glanced down at it boredly. "Oh, is that what this is called?"

(Yeah, I had her outward personality like Kakashi's too! big grin)

Cue prat-falls from everyone but Chase, whose interested look changed to slight boredom.

"Don't play dumb!" A vein on Jack's forehead was throbbing and threatening to pop. "Just hand it over or else!!"

Mischievous sparks danced in the ninja-ko's eyes. "Is that a challenge?" she taunted.

Jack looked taken aback. "H-hey, don't look at me like that! I'm not afraid of you...!" his voice broke. "What makes you so confident?"

"I'm a jonin," she said warningly. "Get me?"

Chase Young's eyebrows raised slightly. Really? A jonin at her age? Intriguing.

When Jack didn't speak, the ninja-ko did. "Unless you say or do something soon, I'm going to take your silence as cowardice. Are you going to attack or not?"

"I thought that a real jonin would be more cunning than this," Omi whispered to the other monks. "She seems impatient."

Raimundo shrugged. "Maybe she's new."

"Not likely," Dojo said. "They don't let hotheads become jonin."

Chase Young suddenly appeared behind the monks, startling them quite a bit. "Exactly. She already knows that Jack is an imbecile. She's manipulating him into doing something stupid."

"I am NOT A COWARD!!!" Jack shrieked. "Jack-bots, annihilate-ify!!" (I love that line. It's so stupid, it's funny!)

As the robots surrounded her and prepared to fire, the ninja-ko sighed boredly. "What a drag. I hate it when my opponents attack head-on," she muttered disappointedly under her breath. "It shows lack of brains."

The Jack-bots fired, and dust kicked up, obscuring the robots and the ninja-ko from view. Sounds of bullets ricocheting echoed through the trees

"Did I get her?!" Jack wondered outloud. "I got her...?"

The dust cleared, and the robots were all in ruins. The ninja-ko, however, was nowhere to be seen.

"What the -- ?!!" Jack stuttered. "I thought that I --"

"-- Unless you see a smoldering corpse, don't get cocky."

Jack froze with fear.

"Never let your opponent get behind you."

(You guys remember that one episode of Naruto when the group was fighting Kakashi to keep from going back to the Academy? It was like the fourth episode of the first season. Anyway, Kakashi said the exact same thing as the ninja-ko and... well, this'll be funny for those of you who remember that episode. I know I do!!)

The ninja-ko was hovering behind him, just high up and close enough to aim at the middle of his back. Her hands were positioned like so: the last two fingers of her right hand were over the last two fingers of her left hand, which were curled up. The index and middle fingers of both hands were straight. (You'll have to actually do this to get the visual)

Ooh, the sign of the Tiger. Well, Jack's doomed. Chase Young thought with a smirk.

"A THOUSAND YEARS OF PAIN!!" the ninja-ko cried, pulling back her hands (still in the sign of the tiger) and jutting them into the middle of Jack's back.

Jack could've passed for a launching firework. He zoomed off into the air, the middle of his back smoking, and his high-pitched shrieks fading into silence.

The monks were once again awe-struck. Dojo whistled and said, "Yikes. Nice Secret-Finger-Jutsu." The ninja-ko nodded respectfully.

"Dude, I would LOVE to be able to do that!!" Kimiko said, her eyes sparkling.

Wuya proceeded to flirt with Chase. "Oh, finally! That idiot's gone! Now then, Chase, let's talk about getting me my body back so that we can --"

"Go away, hag!" Chase butted in disgustedly. Much to Wuya's horror, he walked over to the ninja-ko.

(NOTE: the following dialogue is between Chase and the ninja-ko ONLY)

"So," Chase got back his suave voice. The ninja-ko groaned annoyedly under her breath. "A reflective-shield jutsu followed up by a substitution jutsu and a 'Secret-Finger-Jutsu'. Very nice."

"Actually, I didn't do a substitution jutsu," she said informatively, but still mildly respectfully, "I did an easy form of transportation jutsu to get behind -- What was his name? -- Jack."

"Ah," Chase said, acting as if this were a normal conversation. "Still, I'm impressed. Who are you?"

" 'Who, as a derivation of 'what', and what I am is a ninja-ko in a mask."

"Beg pardon?" Chase Young said, getting close to being annoyed.

"Oh, nothing," the ninja-ko said playfully. "I was merely commenting on the paradox of asking a masked ninja who she is."

"Very well," Chase Young decided to play along. "May I have your name then?"

The ninja-ko seemed to smile under the, well, let's just call it a mask. "Yet another paradox. Don't you know that a ninja's identity is one of their most prized possessions?"

Chase Young started to look infuriated.

The ninja-ko laughed and said, "Irritated a little, are we? Well, my identity will remain unknown to you, I'm sorry to say. Let it suffice that I am no one of consequence, until you give me a reason to be otherwise."

"So, by 'otherwise', you mean if we should become enemies, you would then tell me your identity?" Chase Young mused.

"Well, don't you have to remember the name of your new enemy?"

Chase Young laughed. "Yes, that would help with hostilities, wouldn't it? I'll remember that."

The ninja-ko shrugged passively and said, "Whatever. Just don't fly into a wind storm on your way back."

Chase Young jumped back and flew off. Very interesting. I shall have to keep an eye on that one.

Time to get back to the monks, with of course, one of Rai's sarcastic remarks. "Sheesh. Talk about a wierdo."

"Don't worry," the ninja-ko said, walking towards the monks, "Where you guys are going, no wierdos are gonna be able to get in, especially that one. Come on, let's go in shall we?"

Once again, SOOOO sorry it took me so long. I'll get to working on the next chap really soon! Please review. If you have any comments, don't hesitate to say so.

Love ya lots!!

Your ever gracious author, Violet Phoenix Rising