Updating again because I really don't feel like waiting until tomorrow…

His Past, Present, and Future

Chapter 11

Kimiko hardly got any sleep for the next few nights. She'd always have nightmares involving Chase and then she'd wander to the bathroom and she'd argue with her older self until Master Fung came in and took her back to bed. Clay had gotten Hannibal as his villain; lucky him. Omi got the Cyclops. Everyone was affected by what they had found out, but as the boys quickly saw; none like Kimiko. Kimiko was an emotional wreck since the day she came back from her quest. They were really getting worried about her.

Kimiko would always freak out when she saw Chase; Showdowns were hell for everyone. The last one they went to, two days ago, was terrible. Kimiko had gone to get the Wu, but Chase had said something and had thrown her completely off. Chase seemed suspicious, but he saw Kimiko's green face and red eyes and assumed she was just sick. And when he had commented on her condition, he had asked, "Why is it that you monks seem incapable of nurturing your female back to health?" And the wording had made Kimiko burst into tears; though none of them understood quite why.

It had been a week since her quest, and a new Wu had revealed itself. They all went to look for it at one point, and Jack had been bragging about something or other and had distracted Kimiko and the others for a brief moment.

Jack had been idiotic. He was flying around, singing happily and bragging when he knocked into the mountain side near them and his jet pack exploded. Rocks came tumbling down at them and Kimiko was thrown out of the way, up into a tree, as someone was thrown into her by Raimundo, who was trying to jump out of the way of one really huge rock that Clay had deflected. (Confusing enough?)

Kimiko's head was slammed into the tree, and she felt someone else's head slam into her bosom and then she felt the impact of Raimundo slamming into them, respectively. The triple impact made her head ache worse than it already did after crashing into the tree.

Kimiko groaned and blinked her eyes open a few times before she finally was able to lift her eyelids all the way open. Kimiko felt the person who was slammed into her lift their head away from her chest and her heart literally stopped when she came face to face with very familiar golden eyes.

Her breath hitched in her throat. Chase…! She didn't know what to do; run, or faint. Judging by how her knees were beginning to give out underneath her, it looked like faint was becoming the more likely option.

Chase stared at her for a moment; taking in her appearance. She looked like death! Kimiko's normally flawless, creamy skin was tinted with green and there was a firm red outline to her eyes that wasn't make-up. Her hair was frizzled and she had a sleepy look in her eyes, but at the same time, she looked horrified and…love-struck? Was Chase imagining that last part? She looked so sick, how could she possibly be in love? She appeared to be about to die any moment!

And she fainted. Just as she fainted, however, Chase distinctly saw her cheeks redden with a blush. But then she became limp, and Chase had to catch her before she would fall and hit her head once more.

Raimundo got to his feet quickly and took Kimiko from Chase, who was still confused as to what had happened to Kimiko to make her so sick.

"She just hasn't been herself since that darn quest," Clay commented, as Raimundo put Kimiko on his back and placed her arms around his neck in a piggy back fashion. Chase blinked and listened in curiously as to what 'quest' they were talking about.

"Perhaps we should ask Master Fung what action to take?" Omi suggested. Raimundo figured that was their best option.

They took Kimiko to Dojo and set her on his green back. As soon as they got back to the temple, Kimiko woke up.

She hurried off to her room and screamed into her pillow. "FINE! Fine! I give up!" she wailed, tears pouring from her eyes, "I can't take this anymore! I can't!" She sobbed to herself and Kimiko grabbed her papers and she began scribbling down on it.

"Papa! I can't take this anymore! Do something and make Chase happy! Please!" she whimpered, choking on her tears and her snot as she scribbled fervently. "Maybe if I can just make him happy thing will be fine…! Maybe I can just satisfy Chase and then I won't have to marry him..! Nobody said I had to give him anything…! Papa can do it! He can make Chase happy for me!"

And she ran to the vault and used the Golden Tiger Claws to transport her letter of desperation. Kimiko collapsed in tears as she tried to regain control of her spasmodic nerves.

Far away in Tokyo, Kimiko's father received a letter. He read Kimiko's request. To give Chase something, anything, to make him feel like he mattered. So that she wouldn't have to face these emotions by herself. So that she wouldn't have to live with his life. Her papa read slowly and carefully understood that his daughter was lying to herself.

He knew his Kimiko well enough to tell that much. Kimiko was lying to herself and saying she wanted him to make this Chase fellow happy so that she wouldn't have to and so she would be disconnected from him; what she meant behind what she said to him was she wanted to make him happy and she wanted desperately to be the one to make this fellow happy, but she was so afraid of what could happen that she just couldn't. Kimiko was afraid of possibly creating something she couldn't control, but it was obvious she was madly in love with this man. Why else would she want him to feel like he had someone in the world who cared for him?

Toshiro Tohomiko smiled and shook his head with a chuckle. He understood. If Kimiko was that in love, then he'd work his magic. Time to call a mister Chase Young to his office…

Kimiko's papa knows her better than she knows herself! Think about it, he's her only parent, he's gonna understand his child perfectly!