Chapter 1: New Girl

Her sapphire eyes scanned the quad for her best friend as it dawned on her that she, Kimiko Tohomiko, was now attending a public high school. It had taken a lot of convincing for her father to finally agree to allow her to go to public school, despite the fact that he had wanted her to enroll at an all-girl boarding school.

Her arms were folded against her chest as she waited, a bit impatiently, for her friend to arrive. The school had been very generous and had given her special privileges the second she arrived, knowing who her father was. She guessed that they all knew who he was in the gaming industry and how much money he had. Her friend Keiko had predicted that the school would do such thing.

A smile appeared on her face when she saw her friend's familiar raven colored hair with pink streaks through it. Same old Keiko, Kimiko thought as the girl came closer to her.

"Kimmy!"

"Keiko!"

Both girls shrieked and squealed with happiness as they hugged each other.

"Wow, you've grown!" Kimiko gushed, looking up at her friend. The last time the two girls have met, they were both the same height. It made Kimiko a little jealous that she was still as short as always and that now she only came up to Keiko's shoulder.

"You have too!" Keiko said as she linked her arm with Kimiko's. She looked up at the sky in front of them and her face immediately scrunched up. "I was planning on taking you to the beach later today, but something tells me that it's not going to be a beach day."

Kimiko followed her friend's gaze and she found herself frowning too. From what her alarm clock had said when she had woken up earlier that morning, it was suppose to be a sunny day. "How strange," she muttered.

"Come," Keiko said, giggling with her friends. "We must compare our schedules… and I want to give you a heads up about someone that might be in your life soon."

Shaking the thoughts about the weather out of her head, she smiles weakly at her friend. "Okay."

-x-

As he tried to figure out how to score with Kimiko Tohomiko, he lazily kicked the ball back and forth until the sudden gust of wind snapped him out of his trance. Shuddering, he grabbed his shoulder as he kicked the soccer ball towards the benches, where his friend, Omi, was practicing his martial arts.

"Did you feel that?" Raimundo asked as he sat down next to Omi. "It's normally not that windy in the morning."

Omi raised a brow at Raimundo. "I have no idea what you're talking about. I didn't feel anything at any."

"Anything at All," Raimundo corrected, rolling his eyes. He sighed as he looked at the sky in front of him. He had always enjoyed going out early in the morning before school to their school's soccer field for two reasons. One, it gave him peace and quiet for him to concentrate on his soccer. Two, the sky was always a beautiful color of orange, pink, yellow, and blue. From the gray clouds that blocked the beautiful colors, he took it as a sign that it was going to be a depressing day.

"Are you going to come by after school?" Omi asked, smiling at his friend as the two of them headed to the lockers.

Raimundo looked at his friend and shrugged. "Don't know, Omi. My parents weren't so happy with my grades and they threatened to take soccer away if I don't keep my grades up. Besides, I don't think Fung is going to be happy to see me after last time."

"You should come!" Omi persisted as the two of them headed to their lockers. He gave Raimundo his best puppy dog looks, knowing that Raimundo would reluctantly agree to it. "Clay's coming too."

"Fine," Raimundo said, rolling his eyes. He didn't understand why it was so chilly and windy as he shoved his soccer ball into his locker. The forecast that the weather lady on their local news channel had stated that it was going to be a dry, hot, and sunny day. He wanted it to be hot and sunny. He needed an excuse to go surfing. Slamming his locker shut, he was shocked with how bright the sun was. That was when he realized that the gray clouds were gone—just as he wanted them to be. Shaking the thought out of his head, he muttered, "C'mon Omi. Let's go find Keiko and her new friend."

Omi rolled his eyes. "You just want to check in Keiko's friend," Omi said, folding his arms against his chest.

"Check out," Raimundo corrected.

"That too."

He rolled his eyes. He gave one of the girls walking by his trademark smirk and wink, knowing that it would make the girl giggle at the fact that he had winked at her.

Clay had caught up with them just when Raimundo slammed his locker shut; his blond hair messy under his cowboy hat blocked one of his baby blue eyes indicated that he had ran from down the hall just to catch up with them. Nodding curtly towards the two of them, he took off his hat to quickly fix his hair.

The three of them began to walk towards their classes.

"From what I heard," he started, his voice thick with a Texas accent that Raimundo and Omi were used to, "from Keiko's friend Leila a few minutes ago is that Miss Kimiko is on campus."

Stopping in his tracks, Raimundo looked at his friend. "Really? Now where is this girl so I can work my charms?" He raised his eyebrows in a suggestive manner, causing Omi and Clay to roll their eyes in disbelief towards their friend.

"You know that Keiko doesn't want you to flirt with her, let alone be near her," Omi said, smiling innocently at Raimundo.

"Stay out of this, chrome-dome," Raimundo replied. He looks at Clay. "C'mon, Clay! Where is Miss Kimiko?" He made sure to enunciate the last few words with a Texas twang to mock his friend's accent.

"Far away from you, I'm sure," Clay replied, oblivious to the fact that Raimundo had mocked his accent. "Now, Raimundo, I hope that you take it as a sign to stay away from Miss Kimiko. You should focus more on your studies and less on the opposite sex."

"But the opposite sex is more appealing," Raimundo casually said as the three of them began to walk to their classes. He saw Keiko's pink and black hair as she exited the classroom he was about to enter. He quickly hollered, "Keiko!"

Turning around on her heels, her eyes narrowed the second she realized it was him that had called out for her. "What do you want, Rai?"

"Kimiko, but it seems like there's a certain Keiko that stands in my way from gaining what I want," he said, smirking at her.

Clay and Omi shook their heads in disbelief and slowly walked away to their classes, leaving Raimundo to spar with Keiko alone.

His smirk faltered when he realized that she was grinning with evil written all over her face instead of scowling at him. "What did you do?"

"I had a nice chat with my best friend about a certain Brazilian man whore we all know and love," Keiko said, still smiling at him. She poked him on the shoulder just to agitate him. "Let's just say that it was a very nice conversation..."

He scowls at her. "I didn't know that you would sink this low, Keiko. Jealous that she's my next target and that you're not?"

She let out a shrill laugh. "As if, Rai! I'm just looking out for her. She's not like me—"

"I certainly hope not."

"Rai! As I was saying, she's not like me. She has more of an innocent view on the world," Keiko said, her brown eyes boring into his forest green ones. "However, if you want to date her, that's fine by me."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa girl! Raimundo Pedrosa does not date girls," he interrupted, chuckling at the thought of him dating anybody at all. He thought that it was absurd that she would even think that he would want to date someone.

"Whatever you say, Rai," Keiko said, shrugging at him. "For your information, you should just stay away from Kimiko."

"Threatening me now, eh?"

"Rai, I'm serious. Either you date her or stay away from her. There's no other choice."

"And why is there 'no other choice'?"

"Because every guy who meets Kimiko ends up falling for her. I've seen it happened many times and I don't want you to end up hurt."

"Raimundo Pedrosa does not get hurt," he said.

"Will you stop talking third-person about yourself?" she huffed, rolling her eyes. "I don't want you to hurt her, and I surely don't want to see you hurt yourself when you attempt to hurt her. Just stay away, Rai. Stay away." And with that, she turned away on her heels in a dramatic fashion and walked off, leaving Raimundo to stare at her, stumped.

"Que?" he muttered, confused. Shaking his head and quickly forgetting Keiko's warning, he entered the classroom and quickly went to his seat before his physics teacher could drill him for missing homework and assignments. He rested his head on the lab table in front of him and was about to fall asleep when he felt a light tap on his right shoulder.

Looking up, he couldn't help but smirk when he realized who had just walked up to him. "And Keiko said she warned you to stay away from me…"

"Pardon?"

"Nothing," he said, still smirking. He couldn't believe his luck. Running his hands through his hair, he decided to use his boyish charms on her. "What do you want?"

Before he could even attempt to do something, she asked, "I'm curious to know what you guys have learned so far in this class. See, I'm knew and I'm not sure if I'm ahead or behind."

He looked at her and blinked. "What class is this again?"

She looked at him with disbelief. "Physics…" It was obvious that she was going to say his name, but she blushed when she realized that she didn't know what his name was at all. "I'm sorry, but I don't know your name." Her sapphire eyes crinkled as a friendly smile appears on her pale face.

"Raimundo."

"Oh."

"What?" He knew his oh's and he knew that that 'oh' wasn't a good one.

"Nothing… it's just, Keiko told me about her friend who's also named Raimundo. She said some very interesting things about him."

"Well, I hope she talked about what a sexy beast I am."

Raising a brow at him, she said, "Nothing like that at all. She did tell me what a nice guy you are."

"Really?" Raimundo said, shocked. It was too good to be true. "Wait… what did she say?" He knew Keiko well enough to know not to trust her and her big mouth.

"Umm," Kimiko said as she began to dig through her purse, "she talked about how you're like a brother to her, and, um, about how you're gay." She smiled at him as she pulled out a pen to write with.

Raimundo couldn't help but drop his jaws. "Que? Gay? Girl, I'm not gay. I mean, look at me! Does it look like I'm gay?" He was shocked that Keiko had told her that he was gay. Of course she was going to try to sabotage your game, idiot! He told himself.

She shrugged. "Well, Keiko told me—"

"Are you that stupid enough to believe every word that girl says?" Raimundo shouted, loud enough for their physics teacher to look at them.

Scowling at him, she said, "Did you just call me stupid? And what are you trying to imply about Keiko?"

Before he could even reply, he was interrupted when their teacher cleared his throat. Both of them looked up to realize that their physics teacher was standing in front of their lab table holding two detention slips in his hands.

"What?" Raimundo demanded, looking at the slip in disbelief. He was about to tell the teacher to jump off a cliff when he saw Kimiko's face when she was handed her detention. So he quietly accepted the slip as a smirk grew wider on his face.

"What is this for?" Kimiko inquired as she looked at the slip as if it was a poisonous spider.

"This is for not paying attention, talking while I'm going over today's lesson, and interrupting my teaching. If the two of you have something to discuss, do it after school today when the two of you are serving detention," Turning his back to them, he headed back to his desk to resume his lesson for the day.

Glaring at Raimundo, she hissed, "Thanks a lot, Rai." She waved her detention slip in his face. "Up until now, I have always had a perfect record—"

"Records are like rules… They're meant to be broken," Raimundo replied, smirking at her still.

"Ugh!" she turned away from him. "Wipe that stupid smirk off your face. This is all your fault."

"Hey," he said, still smirking at her, "it takes two to tango." For some reason, he was becoming more and more fascinated by her. He loved her feistiness and he already knew that he was going to have some fun with his new target. Especially since they were going to spend an hour together after school to serve their hour detention. He knew that an hour gave him plenty of time to work his charms on her. After all, most girls fell for him in just a few minutes. "Welcome to Valon High, new girl."

"Don't call me that!" she hissed, glaring at him with a scowl on her face. "My name's Kimiko, not 'new girl'."

"Whatever you say, new girl." He couldn't help but smirk once again when he saw the look on her face. She was indeed different from any other girl he had ever met in his life, and it fascinated him that she didn't fell for his charms right away. Most girls usually would. Finally, he thought as he looked at his blank notebook, I get the challenge that I have always wanted. And if Keiko's correct about what she said, then trying to score one with her is going to be in fact a challenge.

When he looked up from his notes to sneak a peek at the girl next to him, he quickly realized that a pair of sapphire eyes was on him.

A/N: Thank you for reviewing the last chapter! I really did appreciate it. I normally update fics once every week, but I decided to update this one right away for some odd, unexplainable reason.

Things will get more interesting/better as the fic gets more and more developed.

Chase, Wuya, Jack Spicer, Ashley (Katnappe), Master Fung, Dojo, and a few others (I'm still deciding whether or not if I want them in the fic or not) will be in the story sooner or later.

Comment/Review? It'll be very much appreciated. Thank you for reading!