A/N: This is my first ever Samurai Jack fanfic! My creative muse is back! I have been so busy with life and trapped in the deep, dark pit of reality for an entire year. I have watched the show ever since I was kindergarten and it has always been my favorite show that I'll continue loving until the day I die. I wasn't even thinking about writing one until Tartakovsky brought Season 5 into our lives along with Ashi. The chemistry of Jashi is so powerful that I just have to go back to writing.

XXIV: Jack is Naked is my all-time favorite episode. Yes, I do ship Jashi. I hope you enjoy it and all reviews are welcome. A huge thank you to orenashii for the encouragement and advice.

Samurai Jack belongs to Genndy Tartskovsky

Jack and Ashi walked side to side together as they wandered through a jungle while covered in mud. They had run into some trouble with a vicious robot slug at a swamp, the results of the battle ended with the beast dead and with the victorious winners coated in swamp muck. They soon stumbled upon a large isolated pond with a waterfall. They smiled with relief.

"Finally, a place where we can clean up," Ashi commented.

Jack turned to Ashi with a bashful smile as he said. "You can take a bath first if you like. I will be over there, giving you some privacy."

He turned to walk away to give her privacy but Ashi grabbed his hands. "Actually, how about we take a bath together?" she asked.

Jack looked at Ashi and immediately blushed when she suggested that idea. They have enjoyed the joys of being lovers, and there has been some time where they'd been very intimate with each other. "Ashi, I-I don't think i-it's such a g-good idea."

Ashi giggled from his embarrassed (and adorable) stuttering He's so cute when he's flustered. "But Jack, you really need a bath too and since we don't know this area, it would be safer for us if we both take one together."

"Hmm, well when you put it that way," Jack said, briefly considering the idea until his mind went back to being proper. "Wait. No, Ashi. Men a-and women bathing together is c-completely inappropriate." he tried to respond properly but failed.

"Are you forgetting the time when we've had done some inappropriate activities?" Ashi responded with a sly smile.

Jack closed his eyes and groaned Why does she have to bring that up He opened his eyes, her eyes shining directly on his. "Please?" she asked sweetly. He sighed and eventually gave in.

Ashi smiled brightly as she propped her spare kusarigama down on a large rock and begin removing her clothes. Jack watched as she slipped out of her reed boots, slid the single strap of her leaf dress down from her shoulder, and pushed it down to the ground. His eyes travel down the delicate curves of her body. Beautiful was an amateur word to describe her. She moved forward into the water and swam only a short distance. She called out to Jack to come join her, his mind was made up there.

He set his sword aside on the same rock where Ashi's items are. He then carefully untied his obi, removed his gi and fundoshi, and placed them on the rock as he took off his sandals. Ashi shamelessly smiled and admired his strong muscular physique as he stripped down. Once nude, he stepped into the water and swam only a couple feet from Ashi. They could feel their insides getting giddy as they waded face to face with each other.

"Looks like you could use a good scrubbing on every inch of your body," Ashi whispered seductively, rubbing both her hands on his shoulders, massaging away the tense she feels on his biceps.

"Hmm, or perhaps I should do everything I have in my power to scrub you clean as well since you seem a lot dirtier than me," Jack responded in a deep tone and a sly look of his own, rubbing his hands up and down her back and massaging away the stress he feels on her.

"Really? Or maybe you're just as dirty as me." She responded with a laugh and Jack joined in.

Once their laughter decreased, Ashi wrapped her arms around his neck as she reached for the pin from his topknot, releasing his long, dark hair and burying her hands in it as she kissed his cheek. She took his hands, dragging him with her to the waterfall. They took deep breaths and dived in. Once underneath the waterfall, they both began to wash each other, scrubbing away all the dirt and filth from their hair to every inch of their body. Jack caressed the mud off Ashi's face, tilting her head to look into her eyes. Ashi leaned in and closed her eyes as her lips brushed against Jack's lips, who was the same while holding her close to him.

A few minutes later, they resurfaced from the waterfall, Ashi giggled when she noticed that Jack's hair was blinding his eyes a bit so she helped by pushing his hair back. Jack chuckled as their eyes locked. "So, do you feel clean now?"

"Actually, I feel a lot dirtier," she answered, causing Jack to flushed hot red.

Jack swam underwater to the edge of the water with Ashi following suit. He surfaced, tied his hair back in its topknot, and lay back on the edge with a relaxed sigh. He raised his head up a bit that Ashi hasn't come up yet. Jack started to get worried. "Ashi? Ashi?" he called out to her, but there was no response. Ashi soon appeared in front of him, wringing some of the water from her hair. Jack could his breathing getting stiff as she rose up from the water.

"This is so relaxing, isn't it?" Ashi commented as she settled down on his lap. A silent gasp left Jack's throat as she sat back against his chest. Ashi smiled to herself with pride when she felt some poking on her backside. They looked around and enjoyed the beautiful scenery of the jungle with the tropical sounds of the birds.

It took him a couple of minutes to give his reply with a whisper in her ear. "Yes, more than relaxing actually." As he snaked his arms around her waist. Ashi let out a small gasp when Jack's lip pressed against her neck, kissing his way up to her ear again. Feeling consumed by passion, she turned around, to look at him straight into his eyes and pulled him in for a kiss. Jack held her closer to him as he deepened their kiss. She began to place her arms around his neck as she felt his lips kissing her back. Jack brought a hand up to her the back of her head, caressing her hair while rubbing her back up and down with the other one.

Just as their lust was about to heighten, their lips parted when they heard a strange rustling like metal clanking. They turned their heads to where the sound was and came from where they put their clothes and weapons. Suspicious, Jack gently told Ashi to wait in the water for a minute while he checks on the noise. Ashi watched as he rose up from the water which rose up to his knee. Jack stepped out of the water only to noticed that their clothing and weapons were gone. He let out a shocked gasp which Ashi took notice as she stepped out to see what was wrong. She gasped at the source.

"Our clothes!"

"Our weapons!"

They frantically scanned around the jungle for their missing items. Soon they noticed a white rabbit hopping away with Jack's gi and sword along with Ashi's kusarigama and leaf dress, and glared with anger despite the bizarre of an animal stealing their stuff. They chased after the rabbit together through the bushes.

"Rabbit? Rabbit! Come out, Rabbit!" Jack called out.

"Jack, over there!" Ashi said, pointing out to the movement of the bushes that was heading forwards. The chase began again as they ran after the little furry thief. They stopped for a moment, searched around the trees until Jack ducked down into the bushes and found rabbit footprints.

"This way!" As he got up and he and Ashi followed the footprints. They ran for a few minute until they suddenly fell down a mysterious rabbit hole together. They screamed as they kept falling to what seemed like a dark abyss. Jack quickly grabbed Ashi by the hand and pulled her towards him, embracing her body tightly against his chest with his arms covering most of her body, and then whirling his body over his back to protect them from the incoming impact.

Ashi's eyes flickered open as she tried to focus her vision, not recognizing her surroundings. She tried to stand up but felt something strong pressed against her back, stopping her from raising up.

Her vision finally focused and noticed that it was Jack's arms preventing her from standing up, as they were clinching tightly over her protectively with him lying under her.

Ashi gasped in fear, her hands quickly reaching his face as she tried to shake him awake. "Jack...Jack! JACK! Wake up, please!" she urged him, fearing the worst.

She let out a relieved sigh when she felt him stirred slightly under her. "Ashi? He said hoarsely as he tried to focus his vision.

As his vision cleared out and before he or Ashi could ask if they were alright, they noticed an unusual colorful car was heading straight towards them. Jack quickly got up, picked up Ashi as they avoided the car and a few others, hauling her bridal-style in his arms and running away from the incoming traffic.

They took cover behind a bus bench, panting from the sudden brush with motor vehicles and Jack was sitting against the back of the bench with their backs turned. He turned to Ashi who was still in his arms. "Are you okay?"

"Yes, are you?" she asked, caressing her hand on his cheek if there were any injuries and when he replied yes, she smiled in relief. When he found no injuries on her person, he let out a sigh that he never knew he was holding and smiled at her. They continued looking into each other's eyes for a few seconds until the sound of a car honking broke that silence, he set her down on the ground.

They slowly stood up from behind the bench to look at their new surroundings which was quite a strange place. The buildings had roofs were like mushrooms with spots, oddly-shaped motor vehicles with a few taxi cabs floating in the air, and some of the people appeared to be animal-inhabitants.

"What matter of place is this?" questioned Jack.

"Look up," Ashi said as she and Jack looked up at the sky, but there was no clouds, moon, sun, or even the sky. Except for the hole they've fallen in. "That hole that we fell into must lead to an underground city."

"Yes, a very unusual one." Just as they can process more on the city, a blue-skinned man who was dressed in a striped sweater, dark grey jeans, and black boots with a black mask around his eyes, a brown beret, and was had a cigar in his mouth and was carrying a large burlap sack over his shoulder was running down to where they stood and bumped into the samurai.

"Watch it!" Ashi yelled at the man.

The criminal turned to them with an annoyance in his voice. "Watch it?! Why do you and this guy watch where ya both-NAKED?"

Bewildered by the burglar's words, the samurai looked at Ashi and he saw that she was still completely naked, he could feel his entire face flushing. As he turned his head away, he looked down and realized that he too was naked as well. They've been so wrapped up in capturing the rabbit who stole their clothes that they've completely forgotten about their own state of dress or rather undress. His hands flung to cover his private areas and felt embarrassed, but then he noticed that the man's eyes were drifting up and down Ashi's bare body and the perverted smirk on his face showed how he felt what he was seeing. This made Jack's blood boiled in anger.

Ashi was so surprised and shocked that they've forgotten about their nudity, that she didn't notice that the criminal was gazing at her. What she did notice was Jack quickly stood in front of her with his arms spread out, shielding her from the burglar's lecherous stare. He had forgotten about his own personal privates, but it didn't matter to him anymore as he glared at the man, who dare invaded his love's modesty, with his signature samurai scowl.

"Sir, I must borrow your clothes and I am not sorry for what I'm about to do to you," Jack growled at him.

"My what?" The man asked before receiving a punch in the face by Jack's fist, resulting in him getting a bloody nose and a few broken teeth. Ashi wasn't sure what had just happened until she realized that the man was probably staring at her, she was very grateful that Jack helped out.

Jack dragged the man by the feet into an alley. Ashi followed too as she watched as he undressed the burglar and dressed in his clothing with his back facing her. She saw he adjusting the tight collar of his borrowed sweater with an uncomfortable expression on his face. "Are you okay with wearing these clothes?" she asked him.

"Well, although they lack the comfort, duality, and style of my gi; these humble garments will have to hold me till we regained our proper attiiIRRRE!" his explanation was interrupted when he turned to see Ashi still exposed behind him. Flustered Jack quickly faced away from her with his voice cracking. "Ashi, you're still naked!" He said without looking at her, giving privacy to her undressed state.

Ashi looked down and realized she still didn't have any on. "Uh oh," Although it amused her a little to no end, how he'd flusteredly look away from what he'd passionately played and had seen many, many times, she knew that she needs clothes immediately.

She poked her head out from the alley to see if anyone would walk by so she can rob them of their clothes. She noticed a woman about her height was coming by wearing a dark blue jacket, black sweater, long jean skirt, black boots, and had on a red beret. Deciding that she will do, Ashi grabbed the woman by the shoulder and pulled her into the alley. Before the woman can even process on what's going on, Ashi knocked her unconscious with a lid from a nearby trash can. She stripped the woman from her clothes and put them in.

They both soon step out of the alley in their temporary wardrobe. Jack glanced at Ashi's new clothes and he had to admit she looked very lovely in a sorta criminal way. Ashi glanced at Jack's new clothes, and she had to admit that he looked very handsome in a sorta criminal way.

Jack picked up the abandoned burlap sack."Now to go find that rabbit," he said as they made their descent down the sidewalk side by side. While walking, Jack and Ashi couldn't help but wonder what was inside the sack, but soon their question was answered when they turned to a corner and jumped in surprise when they encountered an angry looking mob with pitchforks.

"That's the hoodlum that stole me cats!" The pink short, fat lady said, pointing at Jack.

"Mine too!"

"And mine."

Realizing that the mob has mistaken him as the man who stole their cats, Jack tried to explain but Ashi beat him to it. What?! No! We didn't steal anything from you." But that went bad quickly when the mob believed that she was his accomplice in his crime.

"So, you're with him too, eh? Get both of them!" The mob shouted out.

"Wait, please! We did not-" Jack tried to explain again, but failed as he and Ashi began to run away from the angry mob while carrying the burlap sack.

"You two will never get away you not-good...uh" the pink woman paused for a moment along with the mob, waiting for her response.

"Go on, say it!"

"Cat burglars!" As they began to chase the accused-couple again.

Jack and Ashi did everything they to outrun the mob away from them, had no success as they kept chasing them with their only on intent. They looked back at the mob, wondering how can they escape them. It wasn't long before a floating taxi cab hit Jack, plummeting him to the ground. "Jack!" Ashi cried out as she went over to him and leaned down to him, checking to see if he was okay. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine," Jack replied, rubbing the sore spot on his head from the unexpected impact.

The driver of the taxi stepped out of the cab, went over to where Jack and Ashi was, and apologized. "Oh, I'm terribly sorry mister. Do you two need a ride?"

Once they noticed that the mob was coming at them, they immediately took his offer with a frantic manner as they ran towards the ballon-taxi. "Yes, we love to!" Ashi said as Jack dragged the driver to the car. "Please quickly, take us away from this faculty!" Jack requested to the driver as they all entered the cab. They watched from the backseat as the mob was heading closer to them and shouting at them in anger in their voice.

"It seems as though that angry mob is trying to get both of your attention." the taxi driver commented.

"Yes please, we must leave immediately," Jack said, grabbing the driver's arm.

"The urgency in your grip tells me you two are in grave danger. l will take you the heck out of here." As the driver began to start the car to float but nothing happened.

"We're not moving!" Ashi commented.

"It seems we are too heavy. l will release some ballast." The taxi driver opened the trunk of the cab and a mechanic arm pushed some ballast out. The ballon-cab rose up by a few feet but it wasn't high enough. It was only high enough for a person of the mob to throw a bottle at the passengers but missed as the samurai and former assassin quick wits helped them avoid the glass bottle.

"We have to get higher," Jack said.

"I'm afraid we are too heavy." The driver shrugged out. Then the taxi tilted when one of the mob jumped up to the car, holding on the door edge on Ashi's side. Ashi grabbed the man's hand and bent his fingers backward, cracking his finger bones. The man yelped in pain as he fell down to the ground. Few others jumped up to the cab, holding on to the cab and trying to get the accused thieves. Jack knife-hand strike their hands while Ashi bent the fingers, getting them off the cab.

"We gonna get out of here," Ashi said, bending fingers off the car.

Jack couldn't agree more. "I agree, but the only way we will be able to rise higher if only we had some weight left to drop,"

Ashi took notice of the sack of stolen cat that Jack still held in his hand. "Uh, Jack?" Pointing at the bag in his hand.

Jack looked at the bag in realization. He let out a silent embarrassed oh as he opened up the sack and released all the cats, thus lifting the ballon-taxi up into the air.

"Well, the cat's out of the bag now my friend." The driver joked as he drove the cab up in the air.

Ashi and Jack took and released deep breaths in relief. They leaned back a bit as their eyes looked at the bizarre surroundings of the city as they rode by. The Suddenly, a strange tiny elephant-fairy flew by them. It turned and stared at them for a minute before disappearing into a poof. "What was that?" Jack asked the taxi driver, but he wasn't paying attention.

"Oh, look at that. A white rabbit." The driver pointed out, pointing to the right down to the ground.

"Wait, what?!" Ashi exclaimed in surprise as she leaned forward to her side to see where the driver was pointing at.

"White rabbit?" Jack too exclaimed as he leaned over to Ashi's side. They looked down and spotted the white rabbit running down the road. They leaped from the taxi and a few buildings and chased the rabbit through the alleyways, but trouble came back again when they ran into the mob again. "Are you kidding me?" Ashi expressed out her annoyance.

"Up there!" Jack pointed up at an open window of the building that was in front of them. He allowed Ashi to climb up first and followed foot as they made it to the room. They found that it was a dressing room filled with costumes. They heard banging downstairs, looked out outside, and saw the mob was kicking their way into the building.

"We have to get out of these clothes and put on something else," Jack said as he scanned through the rack of clothing. Ashi, looking around the room, noticed a long blonde wig where a golden crown rest on it was propped on the dressing table. As she grabbed the wig, she turned to Jack who was holding a blue dress with a white apron and a red, white, and gold prince charming costume.

"Quick, put this on," Jack told Ashi, holding out the dress out for her.

But Ashi had something else in mind, as she looked at the wig and Jack again. "Actually, I have another idea, princess." She said with a tone of playful wickedness, walking towards him with the wig in her hand.

Jack saw that her lips curled into a dark smile and quickly recognized the look in her eyes.

Oh no.

The mob made their way into the building, up the stairway, and to the door with a star. The lean man with a pitchfork banged his hand against the door. "Open the door or we're coming in," he shouted. When there was no reply, the mob was about to break their way through the dressing room but stopped when the door opened and the samurai came out wearing the dress, apron, wig, and crown.

Jack never felt so humiliated in his life as he feels right now, but he kept that to himself as he sheepishly smiled at the mob. "Hello." he greeted them with an attempted feminine voice.

The mob immediately dropped to their knees and pleaded in an apologetic manner. "Oh, forgive us, lady. We was in pursuit of a couple of thieves. You haven't seen one or two of them about, have you?" the man asked the recently disguised samurai.

Ashi soon stepped out of the dressing room, wearing the prince costume and a shoulder-length black wig. She also had a saber in her hand " No, good sir. I'm afraid we haven't." She responded in a deepened voice.

"They must have gone this way. Come on!" The man said as he and the mob went down the stairs and left the building.

Once they made sure that they were gone, Jack and Ashi let out deep sighs of relief. The samurai turned to the former assassin with a frown of annoyance but Ashi didn't care as she laughed quietly at his new clothes.

"Wow, didn't know blue was your color." She teased with a grin.

"You know I could have had the suit instead." He replied with a sly eyebrow arch.

"It still worked, didn't it?"

"Indeed it did, my beautiful prince. But let us not mention this to anyone." He wrapped his arms around her and kissed her forehead.

"Don't worry, we'll just keep this as our secret, my samurai princess." She kissed his cheek.

They broke apart as they ran downstairs to find the exit, but bumped into a redhead man with some paper rolled up in his fist.

"Oh, there you are." The man said, dragging Jack out the room. "We've been looking all over for you. Have you any idea what time it is?"

"What?" Ashi exclaimed as she followed the director, who was dragging the disguised samurai to a different room. "Wait, there's been a mis-"

"Quiet!" The director cut her out. "Your part isn't up yet! Now hurry you're on!" As he pushed Jack on stage.

Jack quickly regained balance from the shove, he realized that he was now standing on a stage with an actor, who was holding a staff prop, and in front of a lot of people watching the play. He stood there wondering what have he and Ashi gotten themselves into.

Ashi watched worryingly from behind the curtains. Oh boy, what have we gotten ourselves into

Writing my fanfiction for an entire year is incredibly fun to write. I almost forgot how much fun writing is and makes me smile and I finished this on my birthday too. I'm having this as my late entry to jashi month (combination of day 19 and day 28). I'll be back with Pt 2.

Thank you so much for reading!