The Blood-Stained Rose
As Raimundo and Kimiko spend most of the week together, because Kimiko has just broke up with her boyfriend. Raimundo is ready to tell Kimiko how he really feels. Outside in a moonlit night, he gives the girl of his dreams her favorite flower...A white rose. What happens when that rose isn't white anymore...but red?
Chapter 1...Simple Questions
Kimiko sat on her mat with her PDA in her hand. She was singing slightly to herself, because she was also listening to her IPod.
Raimundo was walking by quickly, but stopped when he heard Kimiko. "Damn! That girl has such a great voice!"
"The minute you walked through my door I knew this love is forever more, but then you told me all these lies. See the tears filling up my eyes!" Kimiko sang quietly to herself, making Raimundo's heart sink. He hated to see her sad, but then again he was angry at her.
'Kim...Why would you go out and get a boyfriend, when I almost know for sure you liked me.'
'No Raimundo, don't think that way about her. It's selfish!'
Raimundo sigh in his head, 'I know...'
He walked on, Kimiko's voice getting fainter and fainter. He was so spellbound to his thoughts of Kimiko, he was looking half at the floor, therefore bumping into Clay.
"Oh...sorry Clay." He got up and walked on.
"What no smart remark?"
"Huh?"
"Well you usually give me a smart remark. What's up?"
"I hate seein' Kimiko this upset. You know she just broke up with her boyfriend."
"Didn't she only have him for about a month?"
"Yeah, but y'know Kimiko thinks she found 'love at first sight.'"
"Ahh...who was he?"
"Not sure, but I do know that if I ever found him, I'd kill him."
"Heh...well maybe, you should go try and cheer Kimiko up?"
"Good plan Clay...Thanks!"
Raimundo was already half way to Kimiko's 'room' when Clay even opened his mouth to answer. Aftering seeing how Raimundo sped away, he just closed his mouth and shook his head.
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Raimundo went and knocked on the side of the small but thick wall right next to the edge of Kimiko's curtain. "Umm...Kimiko...can I talk to you?"
"Sure Rai, one sec!" She tried to sound happy, but truthfully, she didn't want to talk to Raimundo at the moment. When she opened the curtain, she didn't expect him to be right there. She thought he'd be like turned the other way or being impatiently pacing by her curtain, but him being so close made her step back. She hoped to god he didn't see it, but he did.
"Kim? What's wrong? What's the whole, step back for?"
"It...It's nothing Raimundo...What do you need?"
"Umm...I wanted to talk to you..."
"Okay..." There was a moment of silence when Kimiko waited for Raimundo to speak. "Well?"
"Kim...I'm really sorry, about what happened...I mean..."
"Save it Rai...I'm done with him, I don't care."
"Yeah Kim...You do."
"Raimundo. I'm not in the mood for arguing. I don't care!" she was beginning to get irritated. She really didn't care, but Raimundo thought so. She was upset, because if she didn't have this boyfriend, she couldn't make Raimundo jelous. Her whole point in getting that boyfriend was so that she could get Raimundo to notice her, and tell her that he really loved her, because she had ALWAYS liked him, but now that plan was ruined.
Raimundo was taken back a bit. "I...I'm sorry Kim..." He turned, thinking now wasn't the best time.
"Rai..." She regreted raising her voice the very moment she did it and saw his face.
"Kimiko...I just thought I might cheer you up, but you know if you don't want to talk to me at the moment, it's cool." he tried to control his temper, but it wasn't working to well. She could hear the hurt and anger in his voice.
"Raimundo, I'm sorry okay!"
He suddenly dropped all feeling. He didn't expect her to say sorry. He expected her to say something like 'Fine, I guess I don't!'
It took all of his willpower not to smile his cocky smile, but he just took a deep breathe and took it down to a stupid grin as he turned. "Does this mean...?"
"Yes...I suppose you could try something to cheer me up." she sigh, but then really thanked her consious for telling her to go for it.
"Okay cool! Come on!" He took her hand and pulled her outside. He grabbed the Golden Tiger Claws from the Shen-Gong-Wu vault then came back out to a confused Kimiko.
"Rai where are we-"
"GOLDEN TIGER CLAWS!" He tried to block out her question, and surprisingly it worked. He pulled her close, and he caught something that made him smirk. She blushed! It made him a little confused, but it also made him a bit happy too. He jumped through the gash and they landed by a small lake.
"Raimundo...where are we?"
"I don't have a clue really. All I know is that we're going to sit down here and have a little chat."
Kimiko giggled, "Okay." They both sat down, beginning their 'chat' right away.
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"Soo...favorite color?" Raimundo asked Kimiko casualy.
"I really like the color red...but Sky Blue's gotta be my favorite."
"Damn so's mine!"
"No it's not!" Kimiko argued. She was surprised Raimundo said the same thing, but she wondered if it was really a lie. "Come on Rai! You're a horrible lyer!"
"No...Dead serious, sky blue is my favorite color...that and an average green, but still!"
Kimiko laughed...she believed him! "Okay...my turn."
"Shoot!"
"Favorite moment!"
"Oh this is climbing the charts fast!" They both laughed at Raimundo's answer. They weren't even sure why, but I guess...it was just because it was funny how something happening that moment, could be your favorite. Especially if that question was just asked.
"Okay...Last question."
"Okay...Go ahead."
"Favorite kind of flower?"
Kimiko thought for probably around two minutes. She was still thinking when Raimundo broke the silence that was surrounding them. "Come on! There aren't THAT many flowers girl! Just pick one!"
"Raimundo! How would you know ANYTHING about flowers! You're...you!" she laughed, "besides...you can't just pick a favorite flower...if you JUST pick one...there would be no meaning in asking the question!"
The silence started to surround them again until Raimundo spoke, "Huh?"
"Rai...giving a girl their favorite kind of flower would mean a sign of affection, so no girl can just PICK one!"
"Oh..." Raimundo smirked to himself. This was going to work out perfectly!
"A white rose." Kimiko said quietly, evedintly, to quietly.
"What?"
"A white rose." she said a little louder.
"A what?"
"A white rose! You idiot!"
"Hey I can't help it!"
"I know...but that's what's cute about you." Kimiko giggled for a second until she thought about what she said. Her eyes widened and she mentally kicked herself.
"Wha-what?" Raimundo was also shocked at the moment considering she had JUST broke up with this guy.
"Nothing! Nothing...Hey Rai...I think we should be getting back."
"Oh...Okay. Well...maybe, you wanna do something later?"
"I'd like that..." She had to look down to make sure Raimundo avoided the scene of her blushing. She mentaly kicked herself again, thinking Raimundo's eyes were widened as well.
'You know he's enjoying this!'
'Shut up! He does NOT like me!'
'Are you sure?'
"Yes!" Kimiko then clamped a hand over her mouth while Raimundo looked at her strangely.
"Kim?"
"Let's go!"
"Okay! okay...sheesh!" he muttered, just loud enough for Kimiko to hear.
"What was that?" she asked angerly.
"Nothing...I just think you're a little crabby that's all."
"Me?"
"Yeah you!"
"I am NOT crabby!" she practicly screamed it. Then she quieted down to just a snooty voice, "I'm just irritated you won't hurry up and take us back to the temple!"
"God, why are you like this!"
"Like what?"
"This! Kimiko, why do you have to be such a fricken hot head?!" his anger bubbled a little too high (sorry I don't usually use fricken either).
Tears whelled up in Kimiko's eyes, as they started rolling down her cheeks, running her makeup. She was bawling by the time she quickly grabbed the Golden Tiger Claws away from Raimundo and made the portal, then jumped through quickly.
"KIMIKO!" Raimundo tried to call after her. He sigh, jumping back through the portal.
'Wait ago Raismootho!'
'shut up!'
'you know she's not mad!'
'Yeah she is! She was totally pissed. Porbably will be at me the whole night!'
'I doubt it, just go to her room a little later, and apolagize.'
'Yeah right!'
'Get Clay to do it for you then.'
'Hmm...Good idea! Man my head is awsome!'
'...Right.'
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A little bit later Master Fung announced that there would be an extra training session.
"Everyone will work with their signature Shen-Gong-Wu." Master Fung instructed, handing Raimundo the sword of the storms, Clay the fist of Tebigong (sp?), Omi the orb of Tornami and Kimiko the Star Hanabi. "You will each go up agains the person who's element cancils out yours, then move on...If you lost you will go up against the other who also lost, and winners will go up against eachother.
No one quite got the second part, but they did do the first. Kimiko and Omi went up again eachother and Clay and Raimundo went up against eachother.
"Orb of Tornami! water!" Omi splashed, but before it hit her she called out.
"Star Hanabi, fire!" She twirled it around in her hands, making a huge circle of fire, turning the water and fire mixed, into a hot steam. The steam encircled both Omi and Kimiko, and they couldn't seem to find their way out.
They both began breathing hard as they were getting really hot...The steam wasn't clearing up either. Finally, at the same time, Omi and Kimiko both fell out of the steam at the same time. You could only tell that Kimiko was hot because instead of her hair being totally perfect and flipped out, it was drooped down and frizzed at the end. Omi and her were lying on the ground breathing heavily and Omi raised a little water to cool them off.
Kimiko smiled and hugged him breifly. "Thanks Omi..." she breathed out slowly.
"Master Fung...who won?" Omi asked.
"Omi...I'm pretty sure you did...you DID cool us off at the end." Kimiko smiled sheepishly.
"But you blocked the attack!" Omi stated.
"I made the steam in the first place...so Omi, you go up against..." her voice dropped as she saw Raimundo lose against Clay, "...Clay."
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Raimundo took a deep breathe before facing Kimiko. His mind wasn't quite on the whole...beat the other person down with your element. It was more on, Kimiko, I'm sorry, please don't be mad!
"Begin!" Master Fung called. Omi and Clay did as instructed, but Kimiko and Raimundo gazed at eachother.
"Kim...I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to make you mad." He pushed a little breeze toward her to try and cool her off more.
"You didn't Raimundo! You made me upset! You...you...scared me..." she whispered the last part so no one else heard. Then out of the blue she struck fire up into the air to encircle Raimundo.
"Star Hanibi, fire!" The flames danced around Raimundo, getting closer and closer, but he spoke before he defended her attack.
"Why were you scared Kimiko?"
"You yelled! I've never seen you get that mad!"
"I...I didn't mean to, I swear it! I just...You were angry with me...I didn't want you to be, and I guess that's the way it came out." He suddenly noticed that the fire was very near him. "Sword of the Storm! Wind!" he pushed his weight on the sword so it whipped around in a circle, making the flames fly around, gradually breaking up, and making the circle wide but faint. Fire was headed toward Kimiko, but she couldn't reflect it. She screamed in fright, but Raimundo came from no where and landed infront of her.
He made a small tornado sucking up the fire, then setting it down into a light smoke. He turned to Kimiko and hugged her, "I'm sorry."
To his surprise, she didn't hesitate, instead she hugged back. "I'm sorry too."
"You have no reason to be..."
She smiled, "we still on for later?"
"Of course!"
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Okay, there's your first chapter! I hope you like it! I mean...I liked writing it, it should get to be more fun! Sorry, 'Simple questions' isn't a very good title for the chapter, but you know...favorite color may become very useful in the furture and her favorite flower will definatly become more important. Please review, keep reading and tell me what you think! Thanks guys:)