It's not when it happens
Or where it happens
It's who it happens to
Heaven's Charm!
Nightmare Grip!
If you saw it then tell me this:
do you believe in magic
(Hannah Takumi Kinomoto,Boy From Rio, Girl From Japan:Kimiko's Secret Chapter Two)
(AN: This is a Xiaolin Showdown Fic. I also do not own XS. It belongs to Christy Hui.)
Sunset's Roses
(Twin Reflections)
Fifteen year-old Kimiko Tohomiko looked at her reflection in the Temple's wishing pool. She moved her head as a glint caught her eye.
Suddenly she saw the sunset,reflecting its heavenly rays off the lake's surface, like a seashell on a beach in the sky on a warm moonless night, being illuminated by a candle's romancing flame. Kim pulled out a rose and whispered:
"Several times I cry for help:why does no one hear?
A heartless soul falling to the abyss
my lips in a soulful kiss.
This is a wish on my lips:
let my soulmate's love become my sixteenth kiss".
She cast the rose into the pool,lightly,just as fifteen year-old Raimundo Pedrosa came to cast a rose also. When he saw her, he thought, 'Wow Kim is quite gourgeous with her hair down! ' Once he saw her saddend face, he thought again, 'She looks just like her mother.' and tripped over a root in the ground and fell... right into Kim's arms. He muttered a "Gomen nasai" and stood up and Kimiko asked if he was all right and he said he was fine. Kim looked down at her kimono and saw that a bit of dirt from the garden at the pool's edge had gotten on it. Hearing a sudden sound, she quickly gazed upward to see Raimundo holding a boquet of silver roses. "Rai, they're beautiful! Wh- where did you get them?", she stammered out of surprise. "Get them? I created them out of my element . Sure, they're beautiful, but not as beautiful as you, my Xiaolin Clow mistress of fire," he said in that voice that made Kim melt. "...Oh, my kami-sama...", she gasped as Raimundo pulled out a velvet box and got on one knee and smoothly said, "Kimi, you are the most beautiful-no, gorgeous girl I've ever met in my life. When I first met you here, you seemed just like a snotty, picky, rich girl with fire magick. But when I looked underneath all that pickiness, I saw you were a smart girl genius being ridiculed, humilated, and even degraded by her classmates! Saddened, but detrmined, she began to sing, becoming a small girl from a small town who came back to face the crowds as a superstar who earned respect with honesty and popularity. Kimiko Tomoyo Sonomi Daijoudji Tohomiko, will you marry me?" Kim's eyes were shiny with tears as she said "Yes." Kim sighed as he slipped the ring on her finger and lovingly kissed her on the summer night of her sweet sixteenth, her wish came true. The words her mom spoke were the words that made the difference:
IT'S ALL RIGHT daijoubu, daijoubu, daijoubu
Kiseki datte okoseru...
The end