Here is a new one-shot. This one was inspired by the fact that it hasn't snowed where I live yet. *Sad face* But any way it's a long one-shot, but I like how it turned out.

Title: Hysteria

Rating: K+

Summary: It was the first snowfall. This only meant one thing; the annual snow down the shirt prank. But what happens when it doesn't happen? Hysteria.

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Snow fell down from the sky above the temple. It was the snow that would be perfect for packing, meaning they could make snowmen and snowballs very easily. Or it also meant that Raimundo would be able to conceal it, until he decided who's shirt that partially ball of snowflakes would enter.

Clay shuddered at the very thought. Mainly because he was from Texas, and snow usually doesn't fall in Texas. Also, the lowest temperature was maybe seventy degrees. Raimundo loved to use that to his advantage, seeing as he was Raimundo's main target when the snow fell.

He never did understand that though. Raimundo himself was from the warm climate of Brazil, and also admitted he didn't like the snow much. He should have said he loved the snow, so Raimundo wouldn't have even bothered as much. Probably would have focused on the resident Dragon of Fire. After all, Kimiko always did like to stay away from the cold as much as possible.

Now he just hoped that Raimundo wouldn't rip off Kimiko's window this year. Last year he did that, and with the temple being so far out in the middle of no-wheres-Ville, no one wanted to come out and fix it, and Raimundo only knew how to take the window off. So that whole winter, Clay had to share a room with his leader, because as Raimundo's punishment, he lost his room to the furious Kimiko.

Now he was wondering, where was Raimundo? It had been snowing since this morning, and Raimundo had not been seen. There weren't even any footprints in the snow. Clay decided to look around.

He walked towards the rooms. He peeked in each one. No one was in either of the rooms. He walked towards their recreation room. He had found no one once again. He then decided the kitchen would be the next best. He walked in, but had only found Omi.

"Hey Omi buddy." Have ya happened to see Raimundo anywher'?" Clay asked leaning against the counter.

"I only saw him once today, and that was when he went to take a shower." Omi answered. "He seemed as you would say galaxy."

"Ya mean spacey right." Clay then added. "Shouldn't you be getting slang better, I mean we have been her' like five years constantly correcting you!"

"Perhaps you should become a better teacher. I do know that if the characters were in opposite, I would be a magnificent teacher."

Clay rolled his eyes, and decided to change the topic. "Have ya maybe seen Kimiko?"

"Kimiko I believe she has also been looking for our leader. She seemed suspicious of his disappearance." As an afterthought, he added. "She was here about five minutes ago."

"She ain't the only one that's nervous." Clay muttered before walking off."

….

Her straight black hair was down today, and her bangs stopping just before her eyelashes. She scanned the vacant hallway, but nothing showed up on her scan. She started walking again, her hair swaying. But as soon as she started to walk, she heard other footsteps intermingle with her own. She quickly darted behind a decorative pillar, planning on surprising, who she was almost sure was Raimundo. He hadn't been seen all day. That only meant one thing; he was up to no good.

She heard the footsteps were very close to her hiding spot. She waited to hear a few more steps, so she would be sure to tackle him perfectly, and foil any attempts of putting any snow down her shirt. She leapt out from behind the pillar, ready to tackle Raimundo.

She soon realized that whoever she was in the process of tackling was not Raimundo. For starters she was nowhere close to getting her arms around the waist of this person. Also she realized that this person seemed considerably heavier, just for the fact that she almost bounced off the person when she jumped out.

"You're not Raimundo!" Kimiko exclaimed at the same time Clay did.

Clay then got up, and helped Kimiko up. "Sorry Kim. I thought that yous was Raimundo tryin' to get me with a snowball." He apologized. "If I would have known it was you, I wouldn't have thrown ya down like I was hog wrestling."

Kimiko scrunched her eyes shut, shaking her head back and forth just trying to forget what Clay had just said. "That's okay. If I knew I would have been tackling you, I think I would have thought better of my decision." She assured rubbing the back of her head.

Clay nodded, not sure if there was really anything he could say to respond to her. So instead he decided to change the topic. "So I hear and have witnessed that ya tryin' to find the missing leader as well."

"I am. I haven't seen him once today, and that just doesn't make sense to me." Kimiko answered, her eyebrows furrowing in confusion.

"That's one reason, but it is the first snow taday, and usually the first snow is when he starts all his pranks involving snow, and the back of ma shirt." Clay said pointing his thumb towards his back.

"Me too." Kimiko said. "I just wish that he would put snow down Omi's back, or take away his window." She complained.

"At least he didn't build a pillow outta snow that looked exactly like ya pillow." He shuddered at the thought.

Kimiko shrugged in response. "He probably doesn't go after Omi with snow anymore because it's just Omi's element frozen."

"Besides, the first and last time Raimundo tried doing that to Omi, he got turned into an icicle." Clay laughed to himself at the memory.

Kimiko laughed along with him, but a thought popped into her head. "What would you say if we were to team up to look for Raimundo?"

"That's a mighty fine idea."

Raimundo looked over the corner of the wall, and laughed to himself. This was going to be his best prank yet. He walked away from the corner as the other two walked down the hallway, and stared after them. Oh yes, this would be very fun.

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For the rest of the day, Clay and Kimiko searched every nook and cranny of the temple for Raimundo. They even dared to look outside, making them even more vulnerable to any attempts Raimundo could have had. They looked in the scroll room, probably one of the last places he would be caught dead. They searched every room in the temple, and checked for anything that could easily be made of snow, that would take them by surprise if they tried to use it.

Kimiko sighed, looking at the clock in the meditation room. It was already six, and they almost missed dinner, if it wasn't for Clay's stomach always reminding him when he needed his meals. They both grabbed meals to go, but waited a little to see if Raimundo would show up, which he didn't.

"Clay, where could he be?" Kimiko said exasperated. Her hair had become a frizzy and knotted, and she even looked exhausted. She was also now on edge. This whole time, Raimundo couldn't have just been avoiding them accidently. He had to be up to something.

"I don't kna where he could be. It's driving me slowly insane. I just know that he will behind the corner, just waiting to get me." Clay admitted, looking over his shoulder.

Kimiko looked at Clay. His robe was wrinkled, and his belt was also looser. His pants had black marks on it from crawling on the ground, and were also wrinkled. His hat was also a tad lopsided on his head, and his hair looked unkempt, like he hadn't even brushed it in days. "I am also on edge." Kimiko agreed. "I feel like every time we enter a different room, we are being watched.

"I just want him to get us already!" Clay yelled frustrated. "This anticipation is eating me up like a spider eating a fly."

"Ew."

After ten more minutes of nervously looking around each other, both decided to call it quits. They got up and left the meditation room. The whole time they made the trek back to their rooms, both Kimiko and Clay grew more nervous. The suspense was now starting to build up in them even more so. What if Raimundo got them well they were getting ready for bed? What if the reason he was missing all day was because he was planning something huge, something bigger than just a snowball down the shirt.

Kimiko then slowed her pace. She decided if Raimundo was going to jump out from behind something, let him get Clay. She knew he wasn't behind them, because they both checked the connecting hallways, or any other hiding place for that matter three or four times before completely moving forward. So she discretely walked behind Clay, hoping she would be safe from anything frozen.

Clay noticed Kimiko slowed her pace, but wrote it off as her being nervous, like he was. Besides Kimiko was like his sister. So he decided that it would be his job, because he knew Kimiko saw him like a brother, to protect his sister. Although, he wasn't sure if he liked the idea of being hit with the majority of the snow Raimundo was sure to have somewhere. He hoped that Raimundo would just happen to come up behind them.

"GAAHH!" Both Kimiko and Clay shouted as Omi happened to walk out of a hallway in front of them.

"Omi!" Kimiko screeched. "What do you think you are doing just walking out of hallways like that!"

Omi raised an eyebrow at the pair. Clay was just getting his breathing back under control, and Kimiko still had her hand over her heart. "You both seem quite leapy tonight."

"Jumpy." Clay corrected automatically.

"Then why are you jumpy?"

Clay and Kimiko glanced around them, and Kimiko bent down to Omi's height and whispered, "Raimundo hasn't pulled a prank on us today, involving snow."

"Why are you whispering?" Omi asked only to be shushed.

"We don't know where Raimundo is, and we haven't even seen a trace of him all day!"

"You know after you two left the kitchen, he came in for dinner about five minutes later."

"What!" both whispered harshly.

"Why didn't ya tell us!" Clay scolded.

"He said he saw you two, so I figured that you saw him!" Omi yelled getting frustrated. He didn't like being yelled at.

"That means," Kimiko started, gaining both boys attention, "Raimundo already set the trap!" She then grabbed onto Clay's shirt sleeve stepping closer looking behind her. "It could be anywhere."

Clay paled, glancing every direction. What if Raimundo had sent Omi as a distraction, and they were standing on the 'X' that marked the spot. "What was the last thing you and Raimundo talked about?"

Omi rolled his eyes. "You two are becoming extremely paranoid."

"Don't ya change the subject!"

"We talked about training!" Omi yelled.

Kimiko jumped. "What was that noise?"

"What noise!" Omi yelled.

"No wait, I think I heard it!" Clay yelled.

"I am leaving! This is nonsense!" Omi steamed as he walked off. "You are both going crazy!"

"Just keep on walking melon head!" Kimiko called after him. "You won't catch us off guard either. I know you are probably in on this!"

Omi turned the corner, and Clay let a smile play on his lips! "We sure showed him who is smarter!"

Both then bent lower to the ground when they thought that they heard another noise. "We shouldn't stay in the same spot too long."

They slowly started to venture off looking all around them. Raimundo had to keep himself from laughing. They both looked like crazy people who would walk up and down the streets in Rio looking for their long lost brother Ricky, who also happened to be some sort of animal. Maybe he should let them rest easy for the night. After all, they had been crazy since about two o'clock this afternoon.

Clay was no longer composed like normal, and was constantly looking all around him. His close were all dirty and wrinkled, and after knowing Clay for this long, he knew that Clay hated his close being all dirty and looking well like what the reputation of a cowboy is, a country bumpkin basically. Then there was his Kimiko.

He had never really seen Kimiko look that exhausted, and that on edge unless they had just been fighting, or new a big battle was coming up. Then her appearance. She normally would never be caught dead with a hair out of place, let alone her hair being a frizzy mess, and her clothes wrinkled.

Raimundo smiled to himself. He had his fun, and he would rest well tonight know that his prank was much more fulfilling than just putting a snowball down a shirt. He may as well let Clay and Kimi have a nice sleep too.

He walked into the area that held their rooms, and noticed that things were being flung out of Clay's room, and Kimiko's. He laughed to himself, this worked better than he thought. He walked silently towards the frame of Omi's cubicle, the first when you entered, and leaned against it.

"What are you guys doing? Cleaning Aye?" Things stopped being thrown, and silence filled the air, instead of a scuffling noise.

Clays head was the first to poke his head out of his cubicle. His hat was no longer on his head, revealing his disheveled hat hair. His eyes were narrowed, and he seemed to be scrutinizing him from head to toe. He then saw Kimiko walk out of her cubicle at the very end, her pillow in her hand, and her eyes also narrowed, but she looked skeptically at him.

"You two look like you have had a long day." Raimundo pointed out.

"Okay enough with this innocence crap." Clay blurted. "What did ya booby-trap?"

"I didn't do anything. I was being my lazy self all day, like usually."

"Oh please Pederosa! You have been up to something. It was the first fricken' snowfall of the year!" She yelled.

Raimundo could see her grip tighten on the pillow, and saw Clay stand out of the corner of his eye. "Yeah I know." He stated, shrugging his shoulders.

"What do ya mean ya know!" Clay yelled walking up in front of Raimundo, causing Rai to stand straight as well. "Every single year when the first snowfall falls, you always put snow down one of our shirts," Clay said pointing his thumb at Kimiko. "But you have been mysteriously missing all day, on the first snowfall!"

"It has made us both paranoid all day!" Kimiko added in. "We were just waiting for you to get us."

"Hate to disappoint this year." Rai grinned.

"Ya know what, since it probably ain't the best idea to hit the leader, I'm going to go take a nice relaxing shower, and get rid of my worries from this damn day!" Clay yelled walking out of the cubicle area.

Raimundo watched Clay leave chuckling to himself, then he turned to look at Kimiko, who had moved closer to him. "I haven't seen you all day menina." Rai smiled at him.

"Don't you dare menina me!" She yelled. "I have been paranoid all day because of you! I was worried at breakfast when you didn't show, but when it started to snow, I was only expecting a wet cold back!"

"Kimi, relax. You're going to rip your pillow." Rai said, trying to relax her. "And I clearly didn't put snow down your back, or take your window off."

"Oh no, what you did was much worse! You knew we would be expecting something, so you purposely let me, and Clay psych ourselves out until we went insane!" Kimiko yelled, gripping her pillow even tighter if possible.

"How do you know me so well?" Rai questioned her, his trade mark grin on his face.

Kimiko started hitting him with her pillow, over and over, venting her anger. She became more furious as she heard Raimundo laugh, and hit him harder. Raimundo started to run to his room, and she of course followed.

Raimundo picked up his own pillow, and started hitting her back just to retaliate for pure fun. He continued to laugh the whole time, even though Kimiko was still mad. When he heard Kimiko start to laugh as well, he knew that she was not too angry anymore.

After a few more minutes of the pillow fight, Raimundo dropped his pillow, and grabbed Kimiko's out of her hands, and threw it back down by her room. He was still smiling at her as she looked at him confused, but still smiling.

"What are you doing?" Kimiko questioned as she backed away slowly. She saw him put his hands behind his back, and wasn't sure what he was doing.

"Nothing." He grinned at her.

"AAHH!" Kimiko turned her head towards the direction of the scream, which came from Clay.

Kimiko was going to ask if Raimundo had anything to do with this, but suddenly Raimundo was right in front of her. Before she could react, he reached behind her and pulled at her collar, shoving snow down the back of her robes.

"Rai!" Kimiko screeched, shoving him away.

She jumped around trying to get the snow to melt and drop out from her back. Once she had successfully rid her back of a major chunk of the snow, she turned to Raimundo, who was laughing. "You, you… smartass!"

"The fact that both of you thought you were safe, priceless." Rai laughed. "I knew Clay would want to head off to the showers after a day like today. I just happened to turn off the warm water."

Kimiko hit him in his shoulder, which disrupted his laughing. "It was the first snowfall." Rai laughed at her again, and looked down the hallway, wondering if Clay would yell at him now or wait till he took a proper shower.

He brought his attention back to Kimiko when she wrapped her arms around his neck. He raised his eyebrow, but still put his arms around her waist, not wanting to pass on the chance to hold his girl. She was smiling at him, and suddenly something in his mind clicked. But before he could get the chance to pull away, Kimiko shoved the chunk of snow that fell out of her back, down his.

"Cold,cold,cold." Raimundo repeated even after the snow fell out of his robes.

Kimiko was laughing at him, with her eyes closed, holding her stomach. He took the opportunity to pick up his pillow and walk up to her with it and hit her.

Kimiko opened her eyes, ready to retaliate again, but stopped herself when he stuck his hand out towards her. She looked at him waiting for him to explain.

"Love, I offer a truce."

She looked at him skeptically, but shook his hand, and started laughing again as he pulled her into him again, snickering as well. He brushed some of her frizzy hair out of her face, and rested his hand behind her head.

"This truce better last for a long time, because I never want snow down my back again." Kimiko smiled up at him, as she wrapped her arms around his neck again.

Rai only leaned down and gave her kiss, which she gladly accepted. They would have gone further in their make out session, if Clay didn't storm in.

"I hope you realize you can't apologize to me that easily." Clay glared at the Brazilian.

"Good thing I don't plan on it." Rai grinned, rocking him and Kimiko back and forth.