You Remind Me

Bellaluna

Chapter Six

Disclaimer: Guess what! I still don't own Xiaolin Showdown! Sadface.

Author's Notes: Sorry for the delay guys. I just started college and things have been a bit hectic. Hopefully I'll keep up at a steady pace now. I'm glad so many people are enjoy the fanfic! Well here we go, enjoy!

Chapter Six

Life was good.

It had been almost two months since the memory stricken Kimiko had appeared at Jack's door and things couldn't have been better. Out of numerous Xiaolin showdowns the Haylin side had only lost three. His Shen Gong Wu collection had vastly grown and the spirit of the Xiaolin warriors had defiantly been dampened. Within Kimiko under his power he was invincible! Kimiko was amazing, not even batting an eye as she beat down the other Xiaolin warriors and took their Wu. Of course he did his part too…yes. It was true though that Wuya had been paying far more attention to Kimiko than him lately. Only a few months ago that would have really bothered him, but now Kimiko was there and she always seemed to have time to spend with him, even if they only spoke for a few minutes in the day. It was Kimiko though, so naturally there were times where her temper would spark and they fought, but in the end things always seemed to work out.

After counting over the Shen Gong Wu inventory, Jack retreated back to his lab to fix up some Jackbots as usual. For the first time though, he honestly didn't feel like working on them. Going up to Kimiko's room for a visit sounded much better at the moment, but unfortunately it was late and she was probably already asleep. With a shrug of his shoulders Jack went to work, wondering when the heck hanging out with Kimiko was more interesting than working on his plans for world domination.

Kimiko had been in her room reading all afternoon and evening and was now quite bored with it. She marked her spot in the book by folding the corner of the page and tossed the book carelessly to the floor. She hadn't seen Jack all day so she decided it was about time she made a visit to him in his lab. Being careful to avoid anyone who wasn't a servant in the house, Kimiko made her way down to the basement where Jack's lab was. On her way she devised a plan in which she would sneak up behind Jack and scare him, but upon entering the lab she saw that as usual, Jack was at his work bench, but he appeared to have fallen asleep.

Holding back a laugh that threatened to erupt, Kimiko walked over to where Jack was hunched over and fast asleep. She noticed that he had taken off he coat since he had been working, which was a rare sight for her really. Jack usually always wore his coat, even when had been with her in the middle of the night he had been wearing it. Hm, a sleeveless top with Frankenstein's monster on it? An…interesting look to say the least. Kimiko's internal fashion sense was buzzing about but it was quickly distracted when she saw how soft and vulnerable Jack looked while he was sleeping. You'd have no idea that this was an evil genius sitting here sleeping with all the innocence of a two year old. With a smirk and a roll of her eyes Kimiko searched around the lab for Jack's coat which had been laid out on a table covered with all kinds of spare pieces for Jackbots and other inventions. She picked it up without causing any of the pieces to move and make noise and then quietly crept back over to where Jack was sleeping. She gently covered him with the coat making sure not to wake him. She didn't want to risk being face to face with a half asleep and cranky Jack. No way.

Just when she had secured the coat on him Jack shifted a bit in his sleep, grumbling incoherently. Kimiko gasped and tried to back away so that she wouldn't wake him entirely. However Jack's arm suddenly reached out, grabbing the sleeve of Kimiko's borrowed shirt. Jack muttered something again but Kimiko couldn't make it out. Not that she was really trying. She was more shocked by Jack's hand grabbing her sleeve. He looked so…well, so vulnerable as he sat there sleeping. As she stood there starring at him in panic, she couldn't help but have her eyes soften as she watched him. At that moment she really just wanted to reach out and comfort him, the way he had comforted her during her first few nights there. She wanted to help him, protect him, and do whatever she could for him. She wasn't really sure that what he was doing was the right thing, but she knew that as long as that was what he wanted; world domination, then she'd help him. As long as he needed her by his side, she'd be there.

Carefully Kimiko removed Jack's hand from her sleeve and let it rest on the table. She reached out her own hand and brushed a few of the red stray hairs out of Jack's face.

"Goodnight Jack."

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The next day Kimiko managed to con Jack into playing some video games with her after they had had some lunch. Much to her pleasure she was kicking his butt. For a boy genius he wasn't very good at playing video games. Though he was good at pulling out some really cheap moves every once in a while, but she didn't let that stop her from beating him down. In the middle of their 25th round Jack began to become quite irritated by the fact that he was losing yet again.

Jack's eyes darted back and forth, looking from the television screen to Kimiko who sat next to him on the couch. Then with all the stealth he could muster he reached over to her with one hand and poked her in the side.

"Hey!" Kimiko yelped and squirmed in her seat. "Stop that!" she said, her eyes not moving from the screen.

"Stop what?" Jack asked feigning innocence. Once again he reached out to Kimiko and poked her again.

"Hey, no, stop!" she squirmed even more.

Again Jack poked and tickled her, forcing her to squirm as her concentration allowing him to fight back in the game. He smirked as she shouted at him to stop, but he didn't until her beat her character down to a complete K.O.

"You cheated!" Kimiko shouted as she tossed her controller to the floor and leapt to her feet, starring at Jack angrily. "Why did you do that!?"

"Because!" Jack shouted back, not feeling even a bit of remorse. "You were winning. I needed to do something!"

"Oh…you're such a cheater!" she growled. However, soon a sly grin slid across her face. "Hm."

"Hm?" Jack repeated as a sudden sense of dread overwhelmed him.

Without warning, Kimiko leaned towards Jack and began to mercilessly tickle him in revenge for her loss.

"Hey, hey!!" Jack shouted and wheezed as he gasped for air as her twitched and squirmed on the couch. Lamely he tried to fight back at counter Kimiko's tickling. "Stop it Kimiko! I said stop!"

"No way!" Kimiko replied. "You're not getting off that easily!" she sneered as she continued her torture on the boy genius. As a reflex to the tickle attack Jack's leg shot up, his knee hitting Kimiko in the stomach, causing her to shout and collapse forward, which of course meant that she landed right on top of Jack. For a moment the two of them sat there silently, both needed to catch their breath from the tickling, but all too soon they realized that once again they were in quite to awkward position. Kimiko was sitting on Jack's lap, her legs on either side of his and her hands where tightly gripping his shoulders. When Kimiko had fallen Jack's hands had instinctively reached out to grab Kimiko by her hips to stop her from hitting him too hard. His pale, pale cheeks where just pink enough to be visible to Kimiko as she starred down at him, her face only inches from his. They were so close that Kimiko's black tendrils of hair tickled his face. Neither of them blinked or said a word as they sat there starring into each others eyes.

"JACK!" The shrill call of Wuya echoed all the way from the hallway. In a matter of seconds Kimiko leapt off on Jack's lap and scurried over to the other side of the room, near the television. Jack awkwardly leaned back on the couch, hoping to make himself look as if her were comfortable there, watching the TV which was annoyingly flashing the 'game over' screen.

The ghostly Heylin witch floated into the room, completely unaware of the activities that had just taken place in the living room. She made her way to Jack and anxiously hovered over him.

"What is it?" Jack asked her, not looking directly at her as he was still blushing over what had just happened.

"Another Shen Gong Wu of course!" Wuya hissed. "Get going you fool!"

"Right, right," Jack replied and stood up, lazily shoving his hands in the pockets of his coat. "Come on Kimiko, let's go," he said without even glancing her way.

"Right," Kimiko said quickly and followed him out of the room so that they could leave as soon as possible. She was certainly glad for such a distraction. A showdown would be the perfect thing to clear her mind of all the thoughts bouncing around her head at that moment. She could help but wonder just what Jack was thinking about at the same time. This thought made her blush more than she could have ever wanted to. She starred intently at the ground as they made the trip down to Jack's lab where they could gather the Wu and some Jackbots to go with them. Kimiko really hoped the Xiaolin warriors were ready for a fight, because she could really use a good one to take her mind off things.