A.N: Ok, I was alot more careful in this chapter, but even in the midst of all that, there are bound to be typos in here. Thank you very much reviewers!
Kim woke up first. She was laying on the floor in her room next to Rai. She glanced over at him and smiled. His hair was a mess, and he was snoring, quietly, but snoring nonetheless. He was like a little kid. It was so cute. She waved her hand in front of his face.
" Rai?" she said softly. " Rai?" he didn't stir. She sighed in relief and got up. She stretched. Since he was asleep, she could get dressed, but she would have to hurry up. She started to pull her shirt up, and was half way to exposing her bra when-
" Ok, now you're just setting me up..." Raimundo said.
Kimiko wheeled around to see him with his arms behind his head looking up at her with an eyebrow raised. She blushed and smiled weakly. She chuckled in embarassment and put her shirt down.
" Shutup.." she said.
" I'm starting to think you want me to see you, but then again, why wouldn't you?"
She smacked him in the head.
" Don't flatter yourself..." she said.
" You know, if I was you, I wouldn't smack me so much..."
" If I were you, I would be annoying..."
" And smooth, and charming, and hot and-"
" Oh please..."
He stood up, smiling at her deviously. Then, he held out two pictures. One of them was Kimiko and another boy sitting next to her holding her hand. The other was of Kimiko also, but she was with a different boy who was holding her around her waist. In both Kimiko looked about thirteen or fourteen. Kimiko's eyes widened.
" Gimme those!" she said, glaring at him and reaching for the pictures.
He held them high above her head.
" Go on Kim, get them.."
" Rai, I'm warning you..."
He noticed writing on the back of both pictures.
" ' To: Miki, Love Makoto' " Rai read the first one aloud.
Kimiko slapped a hand to her face, blushing furiously.
" 'For Ai, I love you girl, Ryu' " He read. The rest was in japanese, so he skipped it.
" Miki?Are these from your boyfriends Miki?" he taunted.
" GIMME THEM! AND DON'T CALL ME THAT!" she screamed, struggling to get the pictures from him. Raimundo opened the door and ran down the corridors of the temple.
"This one must've been your boyfriend, since only he got to call you Miki!" Rai teased loudly so everyone could hear. Clay and Omi looked at Kimiko, who blushed even redder. She chased after Rai, gaining on him. He was laughing and calling her Miki.
Kimi's anger burned inside of her. She did a flip and landed in front of him. Then, she punched him in the stomache.
" What-was-that-for?" he gasped.
She snatched up the pictures and stalked off to her room, slamming the door so loudly it practically made the whole temple shake.
" Whaddja do to her partner?" Clay asked.
" All I did was take her stupid pictures. I was just playin around like we always do. Kim always overeacts!"
Kimiko sat on her bed, staring at the pictures she heldin front ofher.Her face turned red with anger." Stupid Rai", she thought, " What does he know? He's such an idiot...I didpunch him really hard, but he DESERVED IT!...Maybe if I just told him why...NO! He doesn't deserve to know! Jerk! He's to full of himself anyway...Listen to me, after everything that happened last night I'm saying he's full of himself? Maybe I'm the one full of myself...RIDICULOUS! I can admit when I'm wrong, and I KNOW I'm right on this one... he's supposed to be my best friend...UGH! Why did he have to go and ruin it?" she struggled in her internal battle. In all her frustration, she decided to go training, which she was probably late for. She put on her tunic and went out.
" Very glad that you could join us, Kimiko..." Master Fung said as she approached.
She bowed in respect. " Sorry Master Fung..."
" Very well..."
Rai glanced over at Kimiko. She looked like she wasn't mad, but with her, you could never tell. Kimiko saw Rai out of the corner of her eye, but she didn't look at him, nor did she look away. She looked like she was actually listening to Master Fung. He didn't get Kimiko. He always teased her, why did she always get so mad? The training session started.
" STAR HANABI, FIRE!" she screamed.
" GOLDEN TIGER CLAWS!" Clay yelled. He sliced at the air opening up the portal thing and jumped through, narrowly missing Kimiko's shot. He got out behind her and wrapped his arm around her neck.
" Ooohhh..A most unwise decision.." Omi said, watching Kimiko flip him over.
She grabbed the golden tiger claws, smiling in triumph.
" TANGELED WEB COMB!" Clay shouted. The hair wrapped itself around Kimiko. She sliced through it with the tiger claws.
" JHUDALETT FLIP, FIRE!" She jumped high up.
" FIST OF TEBIGONG!" She heard him call out as she was plunging down. She gasped, almost starting to panic.
" She must act or else she will smash into the most hard Fist, which is likely to give her a murdering headache..." Omi said to Rai who wasn't listening. His eyes were on Kimiko. She never fought like this before. He didn't know how she managed to keep her focus in all her anger.
" GOLDEN TIGER CLAWS!" She sliced the air she was plunging into, and instead went through the portal just as she was about to hit the Fist of Tebigong.
Clay, who was not expecting her to do this, stood wide eyed. She got out behind him, and kicked the Tangled Web Comb out of his hand, catching it. It flew high into the air.
" FIST OF TEBIGONG!" Clay shouted, but she jumped up, missing the punch. She grabbed the comb, and in mid air called out.
" TANGELED WEB COMB!" The hair shot out and wrapped itself around Clay. Kimiko landed on her feet in a fighting stance. She raised the Star of Hanabi, but was interrupted by Master Fung.
" Well done Kimiko." he said. She lowered the Star, realizing that she had won. She smiled, fairly pleased with herself.
" Wow Kim, that was some fight...Now could you get me out?" Clay asked. Kimiko smiled and nodded, using the claws to slice him out.
" If he were Jack spicer, you would've left him with only one Shen Gong Wu. You are improving greatly Kimiko.." Master Fung said.
" Yes, you fought like a true Xiaolin Warrior, almost as good as me." Omi said, smiling and pointing to himself.
Kimiko smiled and rolled her eyes.
" Omi, I would be honored if you would show me your oh so spectacular moves." She said, bowing, but not really meaning it. " Will you please be my adversary in this round?"
Omi beamed with pride. " Your words are true, and flattering. I will gladly accept your proposition Kimiko."
Kimiko rolled her eyes again, but not so that Omi could see. The fight began.
Rai sat down, watching. Clay sat next to him.
" What's up partner?"
" Nothing...Just...Nothing.."
" Just a fesity-little-black-haired-japanese-girl named Kimiko?"
Raimundo chuckled a bit.
" Yeah, that's it.."
" ORB OF TORNABI!" Omi yelled. Kimiko gasped as she saw the water fly up and plunge toward her.
" STAR OF HANABI, FIRE!" It shot up and turned the water to steam.
" What happened?" Clay asked.
" I dunno... She freaked out over those picturesremember?"
" The ones of her with those other fellas?"
" Yeah.."
" Why?"
" I dunno..."
" GOLDEN TIGER CLAWS!" Omi shouted.
Kimiko looked around. Omi emerged form the portal above her. She gasped and raised her arm.
" FIST OF TEBIGONG!" she screamed. Omi's eyes widened. He shrieked as he plunged to the fist.
" MORPHING MASK!" he yelled, changing. Raimundo was now plunging to the fist. Kimiko's eyes widened, she put it down, letting him land on his feet.
Kimiko's eyes narrowed. She growled in determination and slight annoyance that Omi had used Rai against her. Then again, she was mad at Rai, so it made her try harder.
Rai saw her put down the fist when she thought it was him going to be hit with it, even though it as Omi. It made the corners of his mouth twitch slightly. His smile disappeared when Kimiko kicked Omi(who was on the form of Rai). He cringed.
" Earth to Rai!" Clay said, snapping his fingers in Raimundo's face.
" Huh?"
" What? Was there something important about them?"
" Yeah, I guess...They're of her and her boyfriends or something..."
" Whoa."
" JHUDALLET FLIP, FIRE!" Kimi shouted.
" ORB OF TORNABI!" Omi fired back, drenching her, she began to fall, but was not easily defeated. She flipped in the sir, thrusting herself toward Omi.
" FIST OF TEBIGONG!" she yelled. Omi stood speechless, gawking as the fist fell.
" GOLDEN TIGER CLAWS!" He came to and jumped through the portal. The Fist dug deep into the ground. Kimiko took it off and hopped out of the fairly large hole it had made, searching for Omi.
" Well, I dunno why she even has them. When you break up with someone, shouldn't you wanna forget them?" Rai said, slightly annoyed.
" I think you got a little green monster on your back Rai.."
" Uh, english man..."
" You seem jealous."
" What? You're nuts!"
" TORNADO STRIKE, WATER!" Omi exclaimed, still in the form of Rai.
Kimi gasped, and thought quickly. She jumped into the hole the Fist had made, making Omi miss her narrowly. Omi stood slightly confused, catching his breath. Kimiko Jumped up and kicked him. He blocked it, and tripped her. A smile spread across his face.
" NO!" she said, she glanced around for a Shen Gong Wu, a distraction, anything! Then she spotted something, and a mischievious grin appeared in the place of her disappointed face.
" OMI! JACK SPICER!" she lied, pointing behind him, her eyes wide in false fear. Omi wheeled around, at which time, Kimiko crawled away and grabbed something.
" Kimiko, you're try was indeed very good, but you cannot trick-"
" Yah!" she said, kicking the Golden Tiger Claws off of his hand.
" TANGELED WEB COMB!" She screamed. The hair quickly wrapped around Omi, who sat in utter shock. Kimiko spun around to catch the Tiger Claws, and smiled triumphantly.
" Dude!" Rai said, pointing to Kimiko and Omi.
" Kim beat Omi!" Clay said in amazement.
Kimiko took the Mask off of Omi's face, at which point, he returned to being himself. He looked bewildered, and a bit crushed.
Kimiko was breathing hard, and sweating terribly, but her smile stuck. She cut Omi out of the Comb's hair.
" Boy Omi, you sure gave me a run for my money!"
" I do not understand you Kimiko, but I am...Most...shocked..." he said a confused look on his face.
" Man, a girl just beat you."
Kimiko gave Rai a look as if to say 'SHUT-UP!'.
" Barely!" she reassured, " And you almost had me, it was just my luck that the Tangled Web Comb was lying there on the ground!"
Omi scratched his head. " Well...I suppose...I must say Kimiko, you put forth a very difficult fight. It was quite long, and quite hard. But, you won, and I am most proud! The Butt-kicker and person who's butt is being kicked, have switched places.." he said, bowing and smiling. " Of course, I am still the greatest Xiaolin Warrior ever..."
" I think you got competition now partner.."
" Yes, but she learned it all from ME!" Omi said, dusting himself off, and walking into the temple.
" Well, it seems that his confidence was not at all bruised.." Kimiko said, laughing.
" That's Omi for you.." Clay said.
Kimiko walked around a little, to calm herself down. Her heart was racing. Fighting Clay and Omi did seem to take her mind off of Raimundo and how mad she was. Not to mention it was the first time she had beaten Omi since...she couldn't even remember! Clay and Rai sat, still talking.
" So anyway, I am NOT jealous! I don't care if she still has some stupid uglypictures that her boyfriends gave her probably like a million years ago and she got mad because I readthem aloud and called her by the pet name one of themused to call her which was stupid because everyone knows that Ki Ki is way better than Miko!" he said quickly and all in one breath.
Clay stared blankly at him. " Raimundo, did you just hear yourself...what the heck did you say anyway? You talk faster than a jack rabbit being chased by a rattlesnake on a hot summer day..."
Raimundo replayed everything he had said back to himself in his head.
" NOT JEALOUS!" he said.
" I think you're in denial Rai.."
" I AM NOT!"
" Well how do ya even knowthose were her boyfriendsgave it to her?"
" Uhh..."
" Why'd ya assume that they were? Maybe one, but why BOTH of them?"
" Umm.."
" Did you even ask her about it before you decided to tease her with them?"
" No..."
" Then who's fault is it really?"
Raimundo glared at him. Stupid Clay. All, right and stuff..
" FINE! I'll talk to her then! But I BETthey ARE bothher ex boyfriends.."
" Mmm hmm, you just hurry up and go talk to her.." Clay said, rolling his eyes and going inside to eat.
Raimundo came up behind Kimi and poked her on her right shoulder. She turned, but he moved too fast, so no one was there. Then he poked the other one. The same thing happened. He did it again. And again. And again. And again, until..
" UGH! Stop it Rai!" she said.
He smirked. " Sorry."
" Yeah, whatever.."
" Kim what is your problem?"
" WHAT'S MY PROBLEM? I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU RAIMUNDO PEDROSA! HOW COULD YOU EVEN ASK ME THAT? LIKE YOU REALLY DON'T KNOW!"
" Ok..ok..I know, but what's the big deal? We tease eachother all the time. You get pissed, I get pissed, and then we get over it. You don't usuallypunch me that hard."
" Well, if you would've just given back the stupidpictures and stopped calling me Miko, then I wouldn't have HAD to kick you!"
" WHY won't you just talk to me? Huh? Tell me whythese pictures areso important to you? Because your boyfriends gave them toyou?"
" Oh would you just SHUTUP ABOUT THAT ALREADY!"
" I will when you tell me! How can we even be friends if we don't TALK TO EACHOTHER?"
Kimiko scowled at him. He was right, and she knew it. That was what sucked. She sighed.
" FINE...I'll tell you..." she said, sitting down on the little edge/seat thingy on the fountain.
" Ok then.." He took a seat next to her.
" Makoto WAS my boyfriend-"
" I knew it.." Raimundo interrupted, an annoyed look on his face yet again.
" Would you shutup!"
" Sorry.."
" Now, like I said, he was my boyfriend, but he was my friend first. I have known him since I was 7, but we didn't start going out until I was 12-"
" Wow, talk about starting early-Aye!" he said as she smacked the back of his head.
" Like I was saying, We didn't go out til I was 12. His family knew mine, so we spent alot of time together. We went to the same school, had all the same classes, everything..."
" Mmm hmm..." Raimundo said, not really enjoying the story very much.
" One time, while we were going out-" Rai cringed, "- Oh please, we were thirteen- we went to Mount Fuji on a trip together. My family, as in me, my dad, my aunt and uncles, and my cousins, and his-him, his parents, brother and sister, and cousins. He and I were hiking-"
" By yourselves!"
" Yes, now let me finish! We were hiking, and we were playing tag...sort of...actually, I ran off and said he would never catch me and he chased me. I started to climb a tree, which I am good at, for one reason or another, and he climbed up after me. I was just going higher, and higher, and he was following. But then, his branch snapped, and he fell down from the tree, and hit his head on a huge rock. I screamed, and we left right away to take him to the hospital..."
" Did he...die?"
" No...He suffered bad brain damage. He doesn't remember me, and he doesn't really talk that much. He can't do alot of stuff he used to be able to do for himself, and he can't really walk that much. It was all my fault for being stupid and climbing that tree in the first place.We took that picture on mytenthbirthday..."
" Oh..." Rai said, looking down, ashamed of himself. " I'm sorry Kim.."
" Me too. I shouldn't havehit you so hard. But now you know, do NOT touch thatpicture ever again. Got it?"
" Yeah...So, he was 10 when you guys took that. I thought your boyfriend just had really bad handwriting..." he said.
Kimiko laughed and punched his arm playfully." Shutup! Your handwriting isn't much better."
" Wait a minute, what about the other picture?"
" Huh?"
" The one with that other dude?"
" Oh!...Umm..That one's with someone else..." she said, slightly blushing. Rai's face grew annoyed mixed with a little anger. She started to giggle.
" Yeah, I kinda got that. WHO?"
" Umm..Ryu..." she said softly.
" Who's that?"
She rolled her eyes. " My ex boyfriend."
" Oh? And does he remember you?"
" I dunno..."
" Yeah right."
" Well...Most likely..."
Raimundo got madder. " OH REALLY? And why is that? Did you guys kiss?"
" What is with all these questions? Do I ever ask you about your ex girlfriends?"
" Answer the question." he snapped.
" How about YOU answer MY question. Are you jealous Rai?" she asked, smirking.
" WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP SAYING THAT!" Kimiko burst into laughter. She stood up and started walking.
" HEY! Wait, you didn't answer my question! Did you kiss?"
Kimiko smiled.
" YOU DID DIDN'T YOU?"
" YES, but it was all screwed up!" she said.
Raimundo's eyes widened with terror(and disgust), and then he relaxed.
" What happened?"
She gave an annoyed groan.
" Come on! I'll tell you about mine."
She turned to face him. " Ok.." she gave in.
Raimundo smiled in satisfaction.
" Him and me were walking home from school, and we walking past the park and decided to stop there, and then we sat down the bench and it was really weird and quiet and stuff. Then, I was uncomfortable, so I started talking, and then he leaned in and kissed me. It was so...perfect..."
Raimundo rolled his eyes.
" AND THEN, he went and killed it by trying to make it french and almost choking me by shoving his tongue down my throat." she said, an irritated look on her face.
Raimundo cracked up. " What did you do?"
" I gagged and then he stopped. He said he was sorry and I was like, ' Oh it's ok." So then we tried again, and it was a little better until he started trying to feel me up and I had to smack him. Then he apologized again, but I was still pissed."
" That was your first kiss?"
" Yes, that was my first kiss."
" Wow. That's a really sucky first kiss, but mine was WAY worse.."
" Let's hear it then."
" Ok, well, me and this girl that I was going out with were on the beach with some friends. I finally had a little free time, so i decided to go see her. All my friends were telling me to kiss her and making fun of me because I hadn't yet, so I made upmy mind to kiss her. Only...she got me first. But I didn't do it right and we were both really nervous and we got my gum stuck in her braces, and then she took it out and I tried again, but I missed her mouth and ended up getting her chin. It was humiliating. All my friends were dying laughing at us. "
Kimiko snorted. She cupped and hand over her mouth, and out one finger in front of Rai as if to say ' Gimme a minute'. She closed her eyes and sighed.
" Wow, that really, really sucks." she said when she knew she wasn't going to laugh.
" Yeah, I told you it was worse."
" Did they get better?"
" Yeah, but I haven't kissed a girl in a really long time..."
" What? Raimundo Pedrosa? The smoothest, most charming Xiaolin Warrior there was?" she asked in sarcasm.
" I know. It's been real hard, what with all these chicks wanting to kiss me all the time and stuff..."
" Whatever..." she said laughing.
Rai laughed with her. " Kiss her...NOW! You know you want to..." he thought.
" Whoa!"
" What's wrong Rai?"
" N-Nothing..." he said. " What was that?" he thought." What about you?"
" What about me what?"
" Have you kissed anyone since then?"
She smiled. " Forget it."
" WHAT!"
" Let's go eat.." Kimiko said, walking into the temple.
Rai was still sorta freaked out by that weird thought. Kim was his friend. There was no way...Was there? " Shutup man.." he told himself mentally.
Kimiko got her food and sat down to eat next to Clay and Omi, noticing that Rai had a funny look on his face. She started to eat, pretending she didn't see it.
Raimundo stuffed his face wth food, as if it could help him forget what had just happened. It wasn't really working. He glanced over at Kim. " She's so cute when she eats...BLAH! SHUTUP!" Rai nearly choked on his food. Where the heck were these thoughts coming from?
" Rai, chew your food, you're an animal..." Kimiko said giggling.
" Mmph mmph mmph mmph.." Rai said through a stuffed mouth full of food.
Kimiko smiled and giggled even more.
Clay gave Raimundo a mischievious smile. Rai glared at him.
The next day, they went to go and find the Spear of Ember, which had activated itself early in the morning. Raimundo found, but at the same time as-
" Jack Spicer, I challenge you to a Xiaolin Showdown!"
Jack just nodded, a dazed look in his eyes, just like before. Rai shrugged it off.
Kimiko shook her head in horror. "Rai should NOT be doing Showdowns. Where Jack is, Wuya must be close behind..."
" Uh..Ok, well anyways, first one to get hit with a snowball, loses. My Sword of the Storm against your Reversing Mirror."
Jack nodded again. Raimundo raised an eyebrow.
" Let's go XIAOLIN SHOWDOWN!"
The icy scenery around them changed. It was still icy(they were in the Yukon), but now, they were on a lake of ice. The warrior's tunics changed. One one side were the monks, and on the other were just Jackbots as usual. Rai was a little suspicious. " Where's Wuya?" he thought. They were surrounded by ice, and two snowmen on either side of the little..er...box.
" GONG YI TAN PAI!" Rai and Jack yelled in unison.
Rai ran aroun the lake imediately. The snowmen began hurling snowballs and the two of them began hurling snowballs at them. Then, the lake broke, and it was just chunks of floating everywhere. Jack and Rai skipped over the chunks, dodging the snowballs. Rai had nowhere to run, and snowballs were flying at him.
" SWORD OF THE STORM!" he shouted, using the sword to create a tornado, sending the snowballs spinning toward Jack.
" Reversing Mirror!" Jack said, sending them flying back at him.
Raimundo nearly lost his balance and fell into the water as he dodged the snowballs.
Jack pulled out another Shen Gong Wu from his backpack.
" SHROUD OF SHADOWS!" he called, disappearing beneath it.
Raimundo gasped in anger, and was suddenly kicked, nearly falling off of his ice chunk.
" NO FAIR!" Kimiko screamed, nearly jumping from the big cliff thingy they were on. " STUPID SPICER!" She threw punches at the air and Clay and Omi struggled to hold her back.
Rai struggled to dodge the snowballs, keep his balance, and fight an invisible opponent. Jack threw kicks and punches and everything else at Raimundo. Each time, he narrowly missed a snowball, or almost plummeted into the water. Then, Jack felt a heavy weight on him. It must've been Jack. Rai wrestled around with the weight, and if you were watching from afar, it looked very strange. Finally, just as a snowball flew his way, Raimundo ducked. The snowball hit the invisible Jack, who fell backwards to the water, dragging Raimundo with him
Then, everything went back to normal. Raimundo held the Spear of Ember, The Sword of the Storm, and the Reversing Mirrortriumphantly.
" All right Rai!" Kimiko said, hugging partly from being proud, and partly because she was freezing.
" You did most well, Jack Spicer is a dirty cheater." Omi said.
" That was some Showdown partner!"
They all laughed happily about the victory, except Kimiko, who was searching for Wuya. She knew she had to be near, and she just hoped that Rai was ready.
Raimundo saw the look on Kimiko's face and knew right away why it was there. He began looking around for Wuya too, but all they saw was Jack and his Jackbots. Jack didn't even look phased or affected by his loss. It was so...un-Jack-Like. Usually he would be pouting.
" Kimiko, what is wrong?" Omi asked.
" Yeah, you and Rai both look more suspicious than a raccoon by a knocked over garbage can in the middle of the night."
" Oh come one guys, think! Jack's here-"
" So where's Wuya?" Rai finished for Kimiko. Clay and Omi nodded in agreement. They were right. They looked around, giving Wuya plenty of time to sneak up on them or cackle disgustingly or something, but nothing happened. They started to walk toward Dojo, thinking that Wuya wouldn't show up. it was very confusing.Kim, Clay, and Omi mounted Dojo, and waited for rai, who was still looking around.Wuya did show up.
" Raimundo?" she hissed in his head.
A.N: Wow, this was a very sucky chapter. I am so sorry, but the next one will be better. I know it will. So, please look forward to that one, kay? R&R!