A/N: I don't own Kickin' it or any of their characters. I only own Blaze, my original creation.
Jack was standing in the middle of his dojo with his eyes closed as he placed the palms of his hands together in front of his face. As if summoning some sort of energy his eyes shot open and he launched a powerful palm thrust in front of him. Then he began to spin as if he was doing some intricate dance. As he span he lifted his left leg off the ground as he leaned back his body soon becoming horizontal, and then he lifted his other leg as he began to spin horizontally in the air. Bringing down his left leg he delivered a devastating downward kick to a piece of wood snapping it in two. Standing up he turned his back to the piece of wood and snapped his fingers as the cinderblocks along with the piece of wood cracked and broke apart. Jack smiled and he felt very proud of what he just accomplished. It took him months to master that move and even longer to be able to break the cinderblocks that held the piece of wood up.
Looking at the clock realizing that his friends would be here soon he walked over to the bench and picked up one of the towels. He placed the towel to his head whipping off the sweat that was drenching his forehead and making his hair stick to his forehead. He tried to remember the last time he sweated so much, but couldn't bring back a memory. Realizing he was still alone he slowly took off his clothes, and he normally would do this in a place more private, but seeing as no one was in the building he felt comfortable taking off everything except his boxers. He stood off to the side of the dojo in nothing but boxers.
Blaze was lurking in the ventilation system above the dojo and he was quietly looking down through one of the many vents. He watched as Jack broke the board as well as the cinderblocks and Blaze had to accept that this boy had some skill, and he was about to strike until he saw the boy undress. His eyes widened and his mouth dropped as he saw the male's drop dead gorgeous body. Normally Blaze wouldn't be swooned by a cute face, but something about this boy made Blaze freeze and watch the partially nude boy go over to his locker. He looked Jack over noting his tan skin, his long shaggy brown hair, and his light brown eyes. Blaze shook his head as he tried to focus on his mission.
Blaze was about to strike again, but the doors swung open and he saw a group of people walking in. He mentally cursed himself for getting so distracted by his attractive frame and not doing what he was supposed to do. He watched as a young blonde girl walked in followed by a Hispanic looking boy, and African American boy, and a red headed boy. He sighed with regret as he also saw the sensei walk in behind them. Blaze's eyes darted back to Jack seeing him already dressed in his Gi. He silently watched the scene proceeding.
"Jack, you just have to come early every day don't you?" The blonde girl spoke as she crossed her arms obviously jealous of the boy.
"Kim, I just wanted to practice my new move before I showed it to all of you," Jack responded his voice calm and collected.
"You came up with another new move?" The red head whined loudly sitting down on the bench looking at Jack, "At this rate I'll never catch up."
"Don't worry Milton. All of you will be as good as Jack one day," The sensei spoke as Kim turned to him.
"Oh please Rudy, Milton, Eddie, and Jerry will never be good as Jack and me," Kim said her voice dripping with arrogance.
"Kim, you're not even as good as Jack," Eddie spoke causing Kim to give him a death stare causing Eddie to hide behind Jack.
"Alright enough, Jack you spar with Kim, Eddie with Jerry, and Milton….just practice some kicks," Rudy said heading into his office.
"Jack, you're going down this time," Kim said raising her fists.
Jack didn't even bother to respond to her, because he realized it'd be like talking to a brick wall. Jack raised his left hand and made a motion indicating that Kim was allowed the first move. Kim scowled and launched a simple punch at Jack who faded to the left dodging it. Kim then followed it up with a spinning kick towards Jack's face which Jack dodged. Getting annoyed now Kim began sending a fury of punches at the male, and Jack began dodging and blocking the honestly weak punches. Jack smiled and Kim scowled at his arrogance and couldn't believe he could actually be smiling during a spar. Kim launched forward launching a sideways kick towards Jack's upper body and Jack jumped back. Kim now taking advantage of Jack being off guard she jumped forward and placed her right foot down as she launched a powerful palm thrust to Jack's stomach. Jack barely had enough time to block and the force of the blow made him slide back.
Blaze watched their spar from above and noted how the girl named Kim used her anger blindly rather than in a more restrained and positive manner. He thought that she could never become an accomplished assassin, because she has no self-restraint, but he had to accept the fact that like the male she possessed some skill, but nothing compared to his own. He thought that she would become rather troublesome if she wasn't away while he completed his mission. He continued to watch their spar anticipating who would win.
Jack, regaining his balance, looked Kim directly in the eyes and scowled. He decided he was done playing around with her, because obviously she meant business. He raised his fists and Kim looked at him as if this was exactly what she wanted. Kim rushed forward jumping into the air and then coming down with a powerful sweep kick. Jack flipped over her and then launched a backwards kick that made Kim stumble forwards she turned around to see Jack launch a punch at her. She stepped to the right avoiding it, and then she spun launching her elbow at him, and he jumped back avoiding it. Using her momentum she spun forward launching the back of her hand into Jack's face, and Jack looked at her as if he couldn't believe she had just slapped him.
He growled then took the offense this time, and he stepped forward launching a weak punch at her which she blocked. She smirked thinking that she had tired him out, but the punch was just a testing punch and distracted her from the kick that was launched to her lower leg making her go to one knee. Looking up she saw Jack's leg coming down on her head and she placed both of her arms crossed each other as she blocked it. She hissed from the pain that the blow delivered and rolled out of the way as Jack did a horizontal kick. Kim stood up and now she was getting really, really tired and Jack looked like he had just warmed up. She didn't know how much longer she could keep this up.
Blaze looked upon the fight with awe; he was amazed with the boy's stamina, and couldn't believe that he wasn't tired yet. Blaze thought this boy was beyond any normal karate fighter and was sad to realize that he would have to kill him soon, and Blaze thought if they met under different circumstances than Jack would've become a master assassin just like himself. He pitied the fact that this would be the last day that Jack would ever have. He looked back down to watch the ending of this spar.
Jack had enough with Kim, and had enough of sparring. For some reason he couldn't shake the feeling that he was being watched and he looked around the dojo. Besides the view of his friends he couldn't see anyone watching him. Jack turned his attention back to Kim who seemed to be still egging him on. He sighed and realized she didn't know when to give up. He rushed forward and focused his energy like he had done before, but this time he would reduce the amount of force he put into the attack. He first, as he did before, launched a powerful palm thrust into Kim's stomach catching her off balance and then lifting his first leg off the ground and leaning back he began to become horizontal again and then he lifted his other leg as he span and delivered a semi-powerful kick to Kim's shoulder signaling the end of the spar.
"Alright, that's enough!" Rudy said and Jack didn't even realize he was there as he went over to Kim who was holding her shoulder, "Are you alright?" He asked looking at her shoulder.
"Yes, I moved back just quickly enough to avoid most of the kick. My shoulder is fine," Kim said and Jack was surprised and didn't even notice that she had moved.
"Jack, that move was amazing! Was it the one that you made up all by yourself?" Jerry asked patting Jack's back and Jack smiled.
"Yep," He replied modestly.
"You have to teach me, what do you do first?" Jerry asked standing beside Jack who gave him a look like he was crazy.
"Okay…well, first you concentrate and then you launched a palm thrust. After you lift your left leg off the ground and lean back and then bring up your other leg while spinning," Jack explained slowly.
"Like this?" Jerry asked as he tried to recreate what Jack had done, and ended up spinning into the wall causing everyone to do a resounding "Ooh" and making a face saying "That must've hurt" and even Blaze who was still creeping up in the ceiling did that mentally.
"Maybe you should stick to moves that keep you on the ground, Jerry," Milton said helping Jerry up and Jerry sat down on one of the benches.
"Maybe you're right, but man I am so hungry. Who wants to go get some pizza?" Jerry said and everyone smiled.
"Yeah, sounds like fun," Kim said smiling, because secretly she was a pizza addict.
"I love pizza," Eddie said because secretly he was Kim's pizza addict partner.
"Well, we deserve a break, c'mon guys let's go get some pizza," Rudy said as they all headed for the door, but Jack stayed behind, "Aren't you coming Jack?"
"I'll meet you guys there I'm just going to hit the shower first," Jack said and Rudy nodded as they left and Blaze realized this was it.
Blazed quietly opened the vent and lowered his body through it as Jack's back was turned. He dropped to the ground and pulled something out of his pocket. It looked like a small remote and he pressed it as the vent silently fell back into place. Blaze now stood before his target and Jack didn't even realize he was there. Blaze thought this was going to be easier than he thought and he slowly approached Jack, and then the worst possible thing could happen. As Blaze was walking towards Jack, Jack turned around and he jumped with fright as his eyes grew wide. Blaze cursed himself and thought this would be easy. He would have to just go with it because all that Blaze could do was trust his training.
"Jesus! You scared the crap out of me!" Jack yelled at Blaze who stood their silent as Jack yelled and then thought of a brilliant idea to handle this.
"Oh my god, are you Jack? THE Jack?" Blaze said in a voice that resembled a boy version of a fangirl and Jack stood their confused.
"Yes, I am Jack," Jack said still confused.
"Oh my god, I am your biggest fan. I have seen all your fights and I am your number one fan," Blaze said and Jack seemed surprise to hear this.
"You've seen all my fights? I didn't even know I had fans. This is so cool," Jack said beginning to ignore Blaze and then Jack turned to Blaze, "So do you want an autograph or something?"
Blaze shook his head, "No, you see I do martial arts too," Blaze said in an innocent tone and Jack looked at him oddly.
"Oh did you start because of me?" Jack said again with his amazing modesty.
"Something like that," Blaze lied still acting completely and utterly innocent.
"Oh, well did you want to meet your idol to inspire you? Is Karate hard for you?" Jack asked Blaze who was beginning to get annoyed with him.
"No, I didn't come here to get 'inspired', and I don't do Karate," Blaze responded slowly getting annoyed by this male.
"Oh? What kind of martial arts do you do?" Jack asked sitting down on the bench taking a sip from his water bottle.
"Oh, I do ninjitsu and the way of the assassin," Blaze said his voice getting a little bit lower and Jack froze and turned to him.
"The way of the Assassin? Y-you don't say? By the way w-who are you?" Jack said getting a little bit nervous as he stood up.
"You can call me Blaze, Jack. Have you heard of the Shadow Claw Clan?" Blaze asked Looking Jack in the eye and Jack looked back at him uneasy.
"Well Blaze I can say that I haven't heard of this 'Shadow Claw Clan'. Are they some roleplaying group?" Jack asked becoming very uneasy.
"No they're a clan of assassins that get missions to kill people that the master say are a threat to them," Blaze said getting closer to Jack.
"You don't say? And how do you know about this clan?" Jack asked backing up a bit.
"Well, you could see I'm the star member. I'm like you, except better," Blaze said his voice getting even lower.
"And, why are you here Blaze?" Jack asked afraid to even hear the answer.
"Well, I'm sorry Jack, but I have to kill you. Don't even try to run, because you will not make it to the door," Blaze said smiling and Jack backed away frightened.
"Why do you have to kill me?" Jack said pleading, "You don't have to."
"Oh, but I do. Master wishes it and whatever master wishes I do, so please die quickly," Blaze said angrily.
"I won't let you kill me without a fight, you sick son of a bitch!" Jack yelled as he ran forward and tried to punch Blaze, as he was about to connect Blaze raised to fingers and placed the vertically in front of his face and before the punch hit he disappeared and then reappeared behind him, "What the hell?"
"Oh, have you never heard of Nippon? It's Japanese Ninjitsu arts, and with your measly Karate you don't stand a chance," Blaze smiled as Jack ran at him and tried to kick him, but once again Blaze disappeared and reappeared behind him, "Now I'm angry! Nippon: Shadow Dance" Blaze yelled as he disappeared in a puff of black smoke and appeared to the left of Jack slashing him with what looked like a sword. He repeated these actions three or four times appearing all around him. Finally appearing before him he snapped and Jack felt the slashes from underneath his skin.
"Ah fuck! What did you do to me?" Jack yelled as Blaze pushed him down and drew his sword pointing it at Jack's neck.
"A little trick, and now you die!" Blaze said, but he sensed someone coming and he concentrated as he saw Rudy, the boy's sensei coming, "You sensei is coming, breath a word of me, and everyone shall die. I will be back, Jack. I promise," Blaze said disappearing ad Rudy ran in.
"Jack? What happened, are you okay?" Rudy said helping Jack up and Jack was amazed because the pain was gone.
"Yes, I just fell," Jack said looking around. What the fuck just happened? Who did I piss off?