Disclaimer: I don't own Mortal Kombat.

A/N: This takes place before the first Mk game.

It was a normal day at the enourmous castle that housed the great Outworld ruler Shao Kahn. Well, actually it was more of a small city. Shao Kahn may have been and evil man, but he lived in style. And so did his warriors. Even mere foot soldiers were given master bedrooms to live in. But that's not what's important at the moment. What is important is the warrior named Rain. He was well respected in the army of Kahn, both as a warrior and as General. But by this days end, we will see this proud, well respected man turned into a bawling, crying mess.

Rain sat in his room preparing for his mission in Orderealm. Then, Baraka entered.

"What do you want Tarkatan?" Rain asked.

"Rain, look. I know you and I aren't the best of friends..."

"Of course we're not! I hate you and you hate me! Hell when I had the flu you tryed to kill me!"

"So! When we were on that mission in the Neatherrealm, you tossed me into a pile of oni!" Baraka yelled

"Well if you hadn't told Kahn I tryed to sleep woth Kitana..." Rain said

"Enough! Just listen. Like I said, we aren't friends but I feel obligated to warn you." Baraka's face became worried when he said this.

"Why? Is someone plotting against me?" Rain lowered his tone incase someone was listening.

"Well, sorta." Baraka said.

"Well what is it?" Rain's tone was still low.

"Me and Reiko were talking yesterday while sparring and...well he confided in me." Baraka said

"Confided in you about what?" Rain was lost.

"Well, I said how being Tarkatan is rough because our race has so very few females. Then he said how that was minor setback for somebody like him. When I asked what he meant, he got real quiet. About three minutes later he asked me if I ever had a crush.and I said yeah Mileena. Boy, if she were a Tarkatan.(remember, at this point everyone still thinks she wears the mask because she is scarred.) I would love to raid her village. She's so cruel. So violent. So deadly. She's so hot. If I got my hands on her I would..."

"Baraka! Get a hold of yourself. Now so far this sounds like a bunch of feminine banter. What does this have to do with me?" Rain said.

"Oh yeah. Well he said he asked because he had a crush. I asked who it was on and he said...you." Baraka said lowering his head.

"...your kidding right?" Rain was in shock.

"Do you see a smile on my face?" Baraka asked.

"I've never seen you smile." Rain said

"Yes you have! See?" Baraka then smiled a huge and horrible smile(think how he looked on those MKD promos)

"Oh God! Put that thing away!"

"What thing?" Baraka asked.

"The teeth, the smile, the face, all of it! Just stop!" Rain pleaded

Baraka followed orders and continued "But I wasn't joking. He went on for like a 3 hours just talking about you. About how dreamy your eyes are. About how hunky you look commanding the troops. About how much of a sexy beast you are..." Baraka said.

"He said all this?" Rain said

"Yeah. He even called you a sexy beast and said how if he ever got a hold of you ..."

"Please stop!" Rain was disgusted.

"Oh yeah! He told me to give you this. I didn't read it but I think it's a love note." Baraka handed Rain a piece of paper."So like I said, watch your back around him. He really fancies you."

Baraka had left Rain to read his note. I wont go into detail about what the letter says because no person in any place should have to hear the things he wrote. Rain was so busy reading that he didn't notice Reiko standing there.

"I see Baraka gave you my letter." he said.

"Oh. Yes." Rain said.

"So...do you feel the way I do?"

"Um, no."

"Rain there's no need to be shy." Reiko giggled.

"I'm going to train." Rain said heading towards the door

"Just make sure your ready for our mission tomorrow."

"What do you mean 'our' mission?"

Reiko giggled again."Your so silly. Don't you know I'm your partner for the mission to Orderrealm?"

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Rain yelled as he ran out of the room.

Jade and Kitana sat in Kitana's quarters having a friendly conversation when Rain burst into the room looking like he was insane.

"Rain what the hell do you think your doing in my room?" Kitana asked.

"Kitana, Jade, you gotta help me!" Rain said

Help you how?" Jade said grabbing her staff." Is someone after you?"

"Worse! Reiko likes me!" Rain said.

"...your kidding right?" Jade and Kitana said in unison.

"NO! See, read this!" Rain said handing them the letter.

As Kitana and Jade read, they had two different reactions; Kitana looked sick to her stomach while Jade doubled over laughing.

"I hardly find this funny! Especially seeing who has a crush on you!" Rain said

"You promised you would never bring that up!" Jade yelled.

"Somebody has a crush on you?" Kitana asked.

"Yes! And the person is none other than Rep..."

"Shut up! All right we'll try to help. What can we do?" Jade said not wanting the name of the man who liked her to be spoken.

"Well me and him are partnered up for a mission tomorrow. I need one of you to take my place." Rain said.

"I wish I could help, but as you can see, I'm unable to fight." Kitana said pointing to her left arm which was in a sling

'What about you Jade?" Rain asked

"No can do. Me and Ermac have to go to Chaosrealm in the morning. Have you tried anybody else?" Jade said.

"Reptile is in Earthrealm protecting Shang Tsung and Baraka has a mission with Mileena. I bet he'll love that..." Rain said.

"Come on." Kitana said."We'll talk to my father about changing your mission."

And with that, the three Edenians left to see Shao Kahn.

Will Kahn be able to help? Will we find out who has a crush on Jade? Will Reiko ever get a hold of Rain? Find out next chapter!