Wind, Fire, and Keiko
Chapter 3
The Message, The Surprise, and The Roof
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Moody 1656: Yay, this chapter is so fluffy!!!
Clay: What do 'ya mean?
Rai: She means it's full of romance stuff. You know what girls like.
Kimiko: What do you mean what girls like!!! Just because someone is a girl doesn't mean we all like romance!!!
Rai: So you don't?
Kimiko (blushing): SHUT UP!!!!!
Keiko: They look so cute when they fight!!!
Kimiko and Rai (Blushing madly): WE DO NOT!!!
Omi: Now they are talking at the same time!!! (Laughing)
Rai: Wudai Star Wind!!! (He yelled knocking Omi on the floor)
Moody 1656: Anyways on with the story!!!
Kimiko's POV
"They were making out!!!" Keiko yelled causing everyone to stare blankly. I couldn't believe my best friend just said that!!! I so have to tell her what's coming to her.
I ignored my first thought and looked over at Rai to see what his reaction was, and it was surprisingly worried. "Uh well-" I started but was caught off by Raimundo.
"Kim was actually chasing me for her diary, then we tripped on Dojo and when we fell our lips touched, we weren't making out okay." he said calmly as the others snickered.
'Wait what the hell!!! Why is he so fucking calm!!! This IS MAJOR!!! Maybe I was right, he doesn't like me!! Oh my gosh, just say something Kim.' I stared blankly for awhile and realized if I didn't stay quiet and said that he actually did kiss me then I was gonna be more than embarrassed. I stood up to go to my room to think about some things, "Well, I'll be in my room if anyone needs me."
Rai's POV
"I'll go with her." Keiko said following Kim to her room. I stared after them wondering if I said something wrong.
"Hey Raimundo, do you really kiss that bad, for Kimiko to run off like that?" Dojo asked laughing his head off.
"Funny." I said sarcastically
"Actually I found that very amusing, Raimundo. I mean you always say how big of a chicken magnet you are, and for this to happen to the great Shoku Warrior is very amusing!" Omi continued.
"For your information 1) it's chick magnet, 2) we never kissed, and 3) you've never even kissed a girl!" I yelled as Clay and Dojo broke into a bigger fit of laughter.
"He got you there little partner!" Clay laughed.
"Clay you've never had a girlfriend either!" I retaliated making Dojo the last one laughing, "And Dojo I've never even seen you with a girl! So none of you should even laugh at me when you're all even worse off than me!"
"Yeah, well…" Dojo began, "…wind's a stupid element!"
"Yeah, that's what I thought!" I laughed walking away.
As I walked off the last thing I heard was Clay say, "Wow, he's good."
I continued chuckling as I headed over to the garden.
Keiko's POV
"Hey Kim, what's wrong? Is it because of what Raimundo said, because if it is I can break his head in in a heart-beat!" I offered. Seeing her back was still facing me I decided to get closer to her. "Kimi?"
"You know what sucks, Keiko?" she started her back still facing me, "When you can't even trust your best friend!" Kimiko finished glaring at me intimidating.
"What are you talking about?" I yelled at her.
"You just couldn't keep your big mouth shut, could you?" Kim kept yelling, "That was totally private! Just because you walked in on us doesn't mean you have the right to go and tell the rest of my friends!"
"I'm sorry Kimi." I started.
"NO!!! You know something, you got me really stressed! Because of what you said he may never even talk to me again, Keiko. This is really bad, and not only will Rai probably even speak to me again, but everyone is never going to let me live it down." She said falling on the floor in what seemed to be frustration.
"I-I didn't mean for something like that to happen Kimi. You know I would never do something to hurt you…" I apologized then began smirking, "…or your chances with Raimundo."
"Hey!!!" she smiled throwing a pillow at my head, "Well, I guess I'm sorry for saying you have a big mouth."
"Yeah, you better. 'Cuz if you didn't I wouldn't be able to tell you who's dating Buck." I continued grinning to probably my ears.
"Buck, as in Bucky Bucktooth?" she asked dumbfounded, "Someone's actually been dating him, who?"
"Tomoko, you know the cheerleader."
"No flippin' way!!!"
30 minutes later
Kimiko's POV
(Phone rings)
"Hey Kimi, I think your phone's ringing." Keiko pointed out.
"Hm?"
(Phone rings)
"Oh, hold on Keiko." I said picking it up. As I flipped open my phone I saw it was a text message.
"Who is it Kimi?" Keiko asked eagerly.
"It's fro-" I started but was interrupted.
"Kimiko, Keiko, Master Fung sent me over to tell you we have a most important meeting going on in the garden." Omi said at our door, "He suggested that we move as fast as we can, it is of the outmost urgency."
"You two go on I'll catch up." I replied.
"Very well Kimiko, but hurry. Who knows what he has to say!" Omi said, "Probably something about a mistake to name Raimundo leader!"
"Okay, Omi," I giggled turning back to my cell phone. 'Why would Rai send me a text message? Probably it has to do with how much he hates me now.'
Kim, I know you probably hate me right now and don't ever want to speak to me again because of the kiss, but I need to talk to you. Since it's already 11 I was thinking we could meet on the roof in thirty minutes. I'm sorry for lying to everyone, but I saw how worried you looked so I just said what I had told Master Fung. Either way even if I hadn't told a lie, I don't think it would've lessened what the guys were throwing at me after you left. Don't worry I set them in there place so they won't be saying anything more.
'I should probably send something back.'
Rai's POV
'Sure meet you there, and thanks. Oh, and before I forget Omi is still jealous of you getting Shoku Warrior position. He and Keiko should be there like in 5 seconds.'
I smiled as I finished reading the reply I had gotten. I had been about ready to laugh when as soon as I put my cell phone away, Omi and Keiko came outside.
"Hey Keiko, where's Kim?" I asked even though I knew perfectly well she was barely coming. 'This'll be good.'
"I am sorry Raimundo, but I do not wish to speak to you at the moment, or any other moment for that matter."
"Uh, okay?"
"Yes, where is Kimiko, Keiko?" Master Fung asked with Dojo on his shoulder.
"She's just coming, Master Fung." She bowed politely sitting down next to Omi.
"I bet Raimundo asked first to see when he could have another make out session." Dojo said about ready to burst in laugh. I decided to simply glare at him, and as soon as I did he took out a little red book, "I can say it, I found my little black book."
"Dojo, that is a red book, not a black book." Omi said puzzled as ever.
"Omi, I think your taking this in wrong, he m-" Keiko started, as Kimiko sat down next to her.
"Keiko don't even bother, he won't get it even if you try for an hour." Kimiko interrupted her.
"Ah, now that you are all here it is time to tell you all a little surprise," Master Fung said once we were all sitting on the ground listening intently.
"Let me guess, Dojo finally got a girl?" I tried, infuriating said dragon. "What, it's just an innocent question."
"Ha-ha funny! No the real surprise has to do with Keiko-"he started before I interrupted again.
"Dojo I knew you were desperate, but that's horrible. Not to mention illegal!" I said suppressing laughter.
"No more, Raimundo let Dojo speak. You must show your respect to him, or he might just decide to drop you in midair during a Sheng gon wu trip," Master Fung warned.
"Fine, we'll finish this later gecko," I said still fumed about that make out session remark.
"Someone's crankier then my Uncle Dave's 600 pound black bull on a rainy day," Clay stated in his weird English bending ways.
"Uh, should I know what that means?" Keiko asked Omi.
"No one usually does," he shrugged.
Kimiko coughed getting all of our attention, "Um, not to be rude but CAN WE JUST HEAR THE FRICKEN' SURPRISE ALREADY!!!!!" she yelled huffing.
'She looks so hot when she's mad. C'mon Rai stay focused on the meeting! Oh god, I have to stop talking er-thinking to myself.' I tuned back to what Keiko was going to say.
"Oh, yeah the surprise, the reason I have come to China is not for a visit," Keiko started, "I'm actually here because I have come to train."
"Why have you come to train if you are a girl you can't possibly be here to train to be a xiaolin dragon," Omi said quite stupidly since he was between both Kim and Keiko.
10 seconds later
"I mean what element are you?" a cut and bruised Omi asked.
"My element is light, and I won't be slowing you down, me and another monk have been training at Master Guan's temple for a few months he should be here in three days or so. You already probably know him since he would always talk about why he had decided to return to be a monk. He's the dragon of sound, his name is Jermaine!" Keiko finished.
"Jermaine will be training here again, how absolutely wonderful. I have looked forward to defeating him in basketball once more!" Omi 'bragged'.
"Uh, yeah wonderful. Can we go now Master Fung?" I asked bored out of my head.
"Yes, go on young dragons," he dismissed us.
"Finally, I was so bored I'd rather listen to Spicer brag about nothing," I said starting to walk away. "Wudai Star Wind!" I yelled flying over to the big oak tree in the garden.
Kimiko's POV
"Wow, Kimi, I can't believe you've lived with that for over a year and never made a move," Keiko whispered in my ear clearly staring at his ass.
"Keiko!" I yelled shocked at her actions.
"Hey, you know I'm right," she smirked.
"Keiko," Omi said from behind us as we started walking, "I was wondering if you could show me how your element works, please!"
"Uh, sure, do you wanna see Kimi?" Keiko asked me.
"No it's okay, Keiko. I was going to go have a snack right now so it's okay," I smiled seeing how eager Omi was to see something she could do.
"Okay, Kimiko. Now Keiko let us make like apples and split!" Omi exclaimed already heading to the training grounds.
"It's 'banana and split' Omi!" I called after him.
"Same difference!!!" he shouted still walking away.
"So Kimiko, do you want a sandwich? Jesse says I make the best sandwiches in Texas! And a complement from Jesse is always the truth!" Clay smiled down at me.
"Sure, Clay! I guess rice just didn't do it for me this time," I smiled back as we entered the temple.
"And while I make them I was wondering if you and I can have ourselves a little chat!" he said very politely compared to what Dojo said next.
"Yeah we were wondering about that little mini make out session you and Raimundo shared this afternoon!!!" Dojo said before breaking into huge laughter.
"Dojo," I started pausing to see if I got his attention.
"Yeah?" he asked wiping a tear from his eye.
"Do you really want your face beat in?" I threatened clearly scaring both him and Clay as we entered the kitchen.
"Sorry."
"So Kimiko is it okay if we talk about it?" Clay asked getting out the bread and everything else from the fridge.
"Sure Clay, but only if Dojo isn't here," I said bitterness in my voice when I said Dojo's name.
"Sure Kimiko!" Clay answered almost immediately and turned to Dojo.
"What? I want a sandwich," Dojo whined. He immediately stopped once he saw my glare. "Fine, you and Raimundo sure are bitter today." He said starting to crawl out.
"Bye Dojo!" I said through gritted teeth.
"Hold on one more question." He said his head popping out through the door.
"What?"
"Are you this bitter because he kisses that badly?" he asked barely dodging a fireball I threw at him. "Geez, it was just a question!"
As I heard him mumble something about mine and Rai's temper being the same I looked over at Clay. The first ting I saw was him stacking different meats and vegetables on a piece of bread that were towering to about 5 inches. Once he was finished though it was at about 10 inches including the bread. He had two each on a plate. He pushed one of the plates over to me, "Here you go Kimiko, bottoms up!" he exclaimed taking a huge bite out of his.
"Thanks Clay," I said before taking a hesitant bite myself. "Hey these are really good!!!"
"I try," he said smiling widely.
"So what did you want to ask me?" I asked half way through the sandwich.
"I wanted to hear you side f the story to the kiss. We heard what Rai said and everything, but by the way he made a big deal out of things after you left I can't help but to doubt the guy's story." He said placing a glass of water by me. I looked at him hesitantly, doubting if I could trust him. "Don't worry this here is for mine and your ears only, I'll keep my mouth as shut as a glue eating armadillo."
"Uh, I guess I can," I replied giving in. Out of curiosity I picked up my phone to see what time it was. "What, it can't be 11:45 already" I sort of whisper yelled.
"Uh, Kimiko?" Clay asked to see what was probably taking me so long.
"Sorry Clay, I'm late for….something. I'll tell you tomorrow!" I told him rushing outside. I knew it was rude but it was ruder to make Rai wait for 15 extra minutes. 'Ugh I bet if he didn't hate me before that he does now!!! C'mon Kim what's done is done, no use stressing over the past.' I thought to myself in an attempt to calm down. I soon reached a pathway in between two parts of the temple and jumped from one side to another going up.
Once I reached the top I saw Rai leaning back on his elbows looking at the sky. It didn't seem like he noticed me so I decided to sit next to him. "Hey Kim." He said still not looking at me.
"Hey Rai, sorry I took so long, it's just that Dojo got me mad, Clay made me a sandwich, we were talking and……well sorry." I apologized turning my head to look at him easier.
He turned to his side and smiled, "Hey don't worry about it Kim! This isn't that big that being like 10 minutes late would cause me to get angry or anything like that."
"It's actually 15 minutes," I mumbled. "Well, no matter what's done is done, so what did you want to tell me?" I finally asked lying on my side as well.
"First I wanted to ask you something," he started. I was confused but I just laid there waiting for him to continue. He sighed before continuing, "Well, are you mad that I kissed you?"
"No, why would I?" as soon as I saw his smirk I caught my mistake and managed out, "I mean if you didn't I would've probably done it…since we were so close and, um…I, never mind."
"What?" damn why I would even open my mouth in the first place is beyond me!
"I…" I started again trying to think of anyway to get out of this. "I kind of…liked it." I managed out along with pretty profusely red blush.
He stared at me with a blank face trying to probably make out what I said. 'Figures he's really cute, good kisser, but still really dull.' I thought to myself. I started to wonder how long he could keep that face, since he was still staring at me blankly, "Um, Rai?"
"Oh, sorry Kim, I sort of zoned. Must've hear wrong, what was the last thing you said?"
"I liked it," I repeated a little mad I had to repeat myself.
"Oh, you did? He asked smirking, "Well, I shouldn't be surprised you were practically all over me."
"Sure, whatever Rai," I said turning back on my back. "Either way you still wanted to tell me something remember?"
"Oh, yeah," he said and from the corner of my eye I saw him lay on his back as well. "Well, is it okay if I show you something first?"
"I guess so, what is it?" I asked turning my head on its side.
"Close your eyes first," he said turning his head as well. I grumbled at this, I mean it's like one of the most annoying things anyone can ask of you. "Okay now just wait."
"Fine Rai," I said and suddenly felt is arms pick me up, so that I was standing. I could feel his arms grab onto mine, and I soon felt that there was no ground below me. "Uh Rai, what are you-"
"Don't worry just hold on," he said trying to calm me down. Just the calm in his voice soothed me a little, okay a lot. Soon I felt my feet land on something hard, "Okay you can open your eyes now."
When I opened my eyes I was able to see over the whole temple grounds. We were on some sort of hill facing the training grounds so we could make out a big yellow head and someone else by the head. 'Wow' was the only word that could escape my mouth at the moment. I looked over to my side and saw Raimundo looking at me smiling.
"You like it?" he asked me, but all I could give as a respond was a nod. "Yeah, you know how after training I'm always not around for a while?"
"Yeah."
"Well this is where I usually am. Master Fung said I should train an extra 20 minutes to develop my element or something, so he told me about this hill. He said it would help since it's a good place to fly around because of some obstacles, plus Omi would say something if I trained extra over on the training fields. Probably about how I could improve and become as good as he is with his element, or how I need the extra training. Either way it's pretty cool up here, especially at night." He finished, leading me over to where some boulders were piled together. "The good thing about this place is if they need our help or something like that you can still here Omi's or Dojo's screams, Dojo's being the loudest."
"Hey why were you two fighting?" I asked abruptly.
"What? Oh that, it was just something that Dojo did to get me mad," He explained a bitter tone in his voice after he said 'that'.
"What, did he talk about the kiss or something about me?" I asked still remembering how mad that gecko made me.
"Yeah, he's was asking me when you left the dining hall if I really kissed that bad for you to run off like that. Then when we were waiting for you at the garden and Keiko came I asked her were you were and dojo said I only asked to see when was the next time I could make out with you!" he exclaimed throwing his arms in the air sitting on top of the boulders. "Hey are you really that obsessed to kiss me again or did he do the same thing to you, because for you to have guessed what the thing between me and Dojo was…"
"Funny Rai, he actually did the same thing to me. When Clay offered to make me a sandwich clay asked if he could talk to me about something, and then Dojo said a whole bunch of stuff and I threw a fireball at him since he asked if I was in a bad mood because you kiss bad," I said a fireball in my hand as I remembered what happened.
"That's funny, I wish I was there. I mean that little dragon can be great and all but he has to be the nosiest lizard I ever met!" he laughed looking down at what seemed to be lightning forming in the training grounds, "So do I?"
"Do you what?" I asked confused.
"Do I kiss bad?" he asked facing me.
"N- Hey wait your stalling aren't you?" I asked suspicious.
"What are you talking about?"
"You still haven't told me why or what you wanted to talk about!" I said looking straight into his eyes half glaring.
"Oh, yeah, sorry I forgot," he said rubbing the back of his neck, "Well you're my best friend here right?"
"Well yeah, but I still don't know what you're getting at."
"Just hold on," he insisted.
"Fine, I will."
"Well I can trust you with anything, right?"
"Yes, just tell me already what you needed to." I said getting angrier by the second.
"Just hold on." He repeated.
"I am Rai, that's what you keep telling me and it's getting frustrating. I've been waiting for you to tell me what you wanted to this whole time, I've been waiting for you to actually stay on track and say whatever it is, and I can't take it Rai!!! If this is something important then fine whatever, but if this isn't stop making me wait. Since I got on the roof you've told me to hold on when I closed my eyes, when you were flying us over here, and now. Just tell me Rai, I want to know if this is something I want to and should here, if not just tell me and you have to tell me to hold on anymore."
"I…I, this is hard to say," he said and stood up, I figured should've too so I did.
Rai's POV
As Kim stood up I realized it was now or never, "I…Kimiko, I think I l-"
"RAIMUNDO, KIMIKO!!!! WHERE ARE YOU!!!!" we heard Omi yell.
"Hey you were right." Kim said smiling the anger gone from her eyes. "We should probably go."
"Yeah, I guess so," I sighed summoning up my element. "Wudai Star Wind!" I exclaimed turning into my Wudai Orion form. "C'mon lets go Kim."
"Okay she said getting closer to me so I could fly us off. 'I guess I can tell her later. Or maybe this is fate's sign that it won't work. Who am I kidding when did I even care about fate. If fate ever does get in my way then I'll just find away around it.'
Once we landed at the training grounds we were surprised to see no one there. "They were here just a few seconds ago." I said looking for any sign of anyone.
"I know it's weird." Kim said looking around as well.
Suddenly I felt a strong presence right behind us, "Kim, don't say a single thing." I whispered to her.
"But-" she started but I stopped her from saying anything else with my hand. Not even a half second later did we hear rustling in a nearby tree, a bush a few feet away, and a pot ahead of us by at least 5 feet.
"Wind!" I yelled out sending gushes of wind in those three directions. As I looked over at the tree I saw Omi, Dojo, and Keiko sitting on a branch. Well Dojo was sort of clinging onto Omi's head. Then I turned to the bush and saw Clay dusting off his hat from dirt that blew over there. When I finally looked in front of me I was shocked to see no one.
"Um, Rai?" Kim said, I looked over at her and saw she was pointing up and side stepping to the left. "AH!!!!!" I yelled as something, or better said someone tackle me to the ground.
"Still can't take a hit, huh Raimundo?" a very familiar voice said. I opened my eyes and saw Jermaine with his hand out to me.
"Thanks," I said as ha helped me up. "We thought you weren't coming for a few more days."
"Oh yeah, it turned out to be a change of plans. So Omi told me how mistakenly you got the position of Shoku Warrior."
"He did, didn't he?" I asked turning to glare at Omi. "Well he's still a little mad about that. So how did you trick me anyway?"
"Oh, easy just used my element. I tricked you by making some specific vibrations below the pot to move it a little. The rest was just your gullibility." He said as everyone else got to where we were.
"Oh, yes Raimundo can be most gullible." Omi said smiling.
"Remember what we talked about Omi," I warned him.
"So Jermaine how long ago did you get here?" Kim asked as Keiko went over to her.
"Do you remember when Omi yelled your and Rai's name?" she nodded, "That's pretty much exactly when."
"Yeah little dude, that was a pretty loud scream. Even though I was far away it still hurt my ears," I complained rubbing my ears for effect.
"Yeah speaking of which, where were you and Kimiko," Dojo asked crawling up to the both of us.
"Shut up, Dojo. You didn't care where we would we would be before!" Kimiko yelled reading another fireball in her hand.
"Hey, chill out Kim," I said surprising everyone except but Jermaine. "He's just a nosy dragon, literally (sp?) and figuratively." I said suppressing a laugh as he touched his nose to check if it was big. "If you really want to know I took Kimiko to a hill overseeing the training grounds. I wanted to talk to her without any of you saying stupid stuff." I replied calmly. But I was far from calm, I was about to tell the girl of my life that I love her. I was surprised how going to the dark side can help you hide your emotions, even if it was only once for real.
"Well, we might as well kick the sack!" Omi exclaimed.
"It's hit the sack, Omi, and don't forget about our little match tomorrow." Jermaine said heading inside.
"Oh I will not!!! For I will be victorious!" he said following inside. Which left the rest of us to walk in behind.
"Rai, hold on," Kim said pulling me behind everyone else.
"Hey, I thought you said you didn't like that," I said smirking.
"Ha-ha, you're so funny," she said rolling her eyes, god I love her eyes. "What was it you were going to tell me?"
Damn it!!! "Oh, well…here follow me," I said grabbing her hand and leading her into a supply closet. "Well I wanted to tell you that-"
SLAM
"There you are Kimi!!!" exclaimed Keiko smiling at her best friend. "Uh, did I interrupt something?" she asked looking down at our hands, since I still hadn't let go of her hands.
We both suddenly out of reflex dropped the others hands and were blushing. "What is it Keiko?" asked Kim blushing even more than before.
"Oh, I wanted too show you how my room is decorated, but if you two have something to do I'll wait." She said smirking.
"Fine, I'll go." Kim sighed. "Tell me later Rai." She said leaving."
"Sure, Kim," I smiled trying to sound as calm as ever. As I exited the door one last sentence escaped my mouth for the day, "All I really wanted to say were three words, is that too much?"
Moody 1656: I know bad ending, sorry.
Jermaine: At least I'm finally part of the story.
Keiko: Yeah that's good.
Moody 1656: well ignore them. Hey since it took me so long to update I believe I deserve an apology from everyone, or is it the other way around? Oh well. Just review and don't worry I do plan to bring Jack and Wuya and every other villain in soon. Oh and the Naimenteki Medallion will be used, eventually.
Jack: Yeah so when are you going to reconsider my offer anyways?
Moody 1656: Hm, how about at a quarter past never! Either way people, review!