Disclaimer: I do not own Xiaolin Showdown.

This is a brotherly fanfiction about Omi and Raimundo.

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Raimundo sighed as he walked down the hallway down to his 'room'. He still thought that he should at least have a bed to sleep on and not a mat. Lost in thought he only realized he was in his 'room' when he heard crying. It was coming from Omi's space at the other end.

"Omi? Are you alright?" Raimundo asked walking over to where Omi was. The little yellow boy was curled on his mat arms wrapped around himself.

"I do not know, I am stuck between a boulder and a brick wall." Omi sighed. Raimundo thought for a moment.

"Do you mean 'a rock and a hard place'?"

"I suppose."

"Talk to me Omi, I haven't seen you so down before." Raimundo sat next to the smaller one.

"I do not want to cry over split water though." Omi sighed sitting up from his position on the floor.

"Its over spilt milk and I really don't care. You're obviously hurting and I want to help you." The air dragon was completely serious.

"It's about my family." The water dragon mumbled. Raimundo almost flinched at the defeated tone in the other's voice. Only a week ago Omi had set out to find where his family was and though he had smiled at the presents and joked around and bragged like the same old Omi Raimundo saw that the little guy was much more hurt than he let on. "I just wish that I could know that they are out there somewhere. Master Fung, Dojo, Clay, Kimiko, and you say that we're family but how should I know I do not know what that feels like."

Raimundo smiled at the little one, "Friends are the family you choose Omi. Even if we aren't blood related our hearts picked you and we hope that your heart picked us as well."

Raimundo expected being blow up at or Omi bragging about how of course they picked him but that wasn't what happened. Omi tackled to Raimundo into a huge hug and buried his face into the brunette's shoulder. The taller felt tears hit his shoulder and rubbed the one he held.

"Shh, it's alright Omi. I'm here for you and so are the others. If you never find your parents we'll still be here, if you turn evil we'll sill be here, and if your parents are evil we'll still be here. You can't get rid of us short-stack, even if you want to." The air dragon laughed. Omi smiled a little his eyes still holding some tears. He rubbed at them harshly. "Its alright to cry you know."

"Know I'm a warrior."

"And? You're also a little kid that has just gone through a traumatic experience trying to find his long lost parents. I think that even if its just this once you're allowed to cry." Raimundo crushed Omi to himself. "I'll let you cry anytime, just come to me. I know what it feels like to bottle things up inside of you and it isn't good in the long run. I'm one of the youngest of my family, the only one younger than me is my sister and she doesn't like talking to me, she acts like she is older than me actually. Let me be you're older brother, let me do something for you."

Omi gave another smile but this one showed that he was healing if only a little bit.

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