SweetGlade: That wasn't a cliff hanger was it? If it was then I'd expect a bunch of knives in my back. But, seems like there aren't! April 19th, 1712.

Chapter 8: I'm Not Going Back. Ever Again.

Time seemed to stop as the rusty blade flew through the air. "Kim!" Raimundo had just noticed she was sitting on the branch.Not knowing what to do, he lifted up his hand again.
After a while, Kimiko unshielded her eyes. "You could have killed me stupid!" she gasped.
He thought about getting the sword, surprisingly enough, the hilt of the sword was already in his hands.
"I didn't do anything! I mean... Look! I'm not magic or anything like that!" Mage. Kimiko stared into space.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"You did do that." she whispered.
"Did not!"
"Did to."
"Not." Raimundo shot back.
"I know you did it!" She reached for the sword but her hand went through the blade.
"What is wrong with that sword! My hand just went through it!" Raimundo placed his hand on the pointed edge and furrowed his brow.
"I can touch it, maybe something is just wrong with you." he muttered.
"How is something wrong with me? That is a perfectly normal sword, and it's not like your a magic... Thing!" Kimiko exclaimed.
"It's not like you are magic or anything either!" Raimundo scoffed.
"Fine. I'm leaving, you can go back to your palace."
She said with finality in her voice. "Wait." Raimundo touched her shoulder and she turned around.
"I'm not going back home." And he was serious.

"How are you not going to go back to your palace? You live there!" Kimiko faltered." she justified."I'm not going back, and that's final. Charon, Lucia, and Sophia are such snobs. You can't make me go back."
Her heart rose a little when he motioned Sophia... "Well you have to stay somewhere, and you can't wait around for the guards to find you!" Kimiko explained as she touched his cheek softly.
"You've changed too." she added.
Raimundo gazed at her. "Then where can I stay?... Maybe I could stay with you."
She felt that little fluttery feeling in her heart... Her past haunted her still. So she couldn't let him reach her feelings.
"I can't let him know." Kimiko muttered.
"Excuse me?"
"I didn't say anything. Come on, we need to go back to the Temple."
Disappointed, Raimundo watched as her charming azure eyes turned away from him. "What's wrong?" he asked.
Silence.
"What's wrong?" repeated Raimundo. "Later Raimundo. I... Need to go make another potion."
The Wind stopped blowing for a while, rejection wasn't something that he was used to. But he excepted it from Kimiko. After all she was a bit more special than everyone else... To him. "Come on." Raimundo followed behind her, to Temple Sage.
His new home...

"I'll open the window, and you leap in. Somehow I have to reason with Master Fung too..." Kimiko opened the door.
"Stay here, don't go anywhere!" Raimundo crouched onto the ground and peered at the bedroom, the window was too dirty to tell.
This place wasn't all that good.
Kimiko walked into the room and quickly shut the door behind herself.
"Coming!" She hissed when Raimundo rolled his eyes.
Kimiko yanked on the window, but it wouldn't budge.
He simply pointed his hand at the window and it shot up, knocking Kimiko on the ground.
"Lay low when you're here, I don't want anyone knowing a Prince is hanging around the Temple... Wait for me, I need to get something."
She jumped through the window and landed on the ground, with much more grace than Raimundo thought.
"Don't dare follow me either!" Kimiko ordered.
"Stop making me do stuff!" He mumbled to himself.
Kimiko gave him a sharp glare and skipped through the town.
No one would go where she's going...

Kimiko shifted her glance around the town.
She would have to be pretty good at sneaking to the castle without being noticed by any of the towns folks... Most of them knew her.
"Where are you going Kimiko?" Omi asked. Kimiko, startled, backed up into a wall.
"Who are you!" asked Kimiko a bit too frantically. "I am Omi. The servant of Great Prince Raimundo of Xiaolin."
He bowed low and kissed her hand. She wasn't charmed.
"Okay... How do you get in the palace?"
You could just tell that Omi was the kind of person that would tell you everything that he knew about the subject.
So this was going to be easy!
"Oh! There is a vine of ivy that leads to the Prince's chambers. I haven't seen him all day though. Do you think he went to the bar again?"
Omi pondered on this while Kimiko turned the other direction.
"Thanks for telling me, now watch out for anyone that might know what I'm up to." Kimiko crept into the undergrowth and sighed.
Chores for a Prince? But he was friendly... "You! Do not pass to the castle! Do not look in those bushes either!" Omi shouted.
Knowing she would have to find the vine soon, Kimiko closed her eyes and felt around on the walls of the palace. Why was she doing this for the Prince anyways?

Found it! Ha! That was too easy! Kimiko dug her fingers into the stone wall and looked at her surroundings.
Trees.
There were a bunch of them, and no one could see her.
"Now time for the hard part." She used all her upper body strength to hoist herself up, which is hard when rocks are digging into your skin.
"I'm doing this for Raimundo."
Words still floated around in her head; now wasn't the time to shoo them away! "Oh please!"
Kimiko was nearing the beautiful stained glass window, and she heard someones voice. A women's voice. Sophia's voice.
"Don't do that! You'll mess up my dress." Cautiously, Kimiko climbed to the window, and snorted. Sophia was there, in Raimundo's room, with a bunch of servants around her.
"I want this dress perfect! Once Raimundo comes back I'll be right on the bed, and he'll want me!" Sophia laughed.
"Don't be so stupid Sophia," A blond servant remarked, "You don't even have any royal blood."
No royal blood? Then that meant Raimundo must have chose her own his own... Kimiko felt as though she was going to drop off the wall.
She maintained her balance and listened to their words.
"Have you heard the rumor that a servant girl is catching the Prince's eye? I think she might actually be a Princess! Even though I haven't seen her I know she's gorgeous. The Prince loves the best."
That stung. Kimiko wiped away a tear from her eye and kept holding her ground.
She wasn't going to let a couple of idiots talk of her like that!

Minutes passed, and finally Sophia was finally done with her dress.
"Leave me at once you stupid servants, before I make my valiant Prince come to the rescue."
They all shot her rude glances and exited the room, now was Kimiko's chance.
"Ha!" Kimiko kicked open the window, and got into a fighting pose.
Sophia didn't move, she kept her cool and stood up. "So what do you want rat?" Sophia got up from the bed, still her ridiculous dress.
It was slutty.
They seemed like random pieces of fabric connected together.
"Nothing, just get out of my sight or I'll pin you to the ground again, and you'll beg for my mercy again."
Kimiko smirked when Sophia wasn't able to say anything back.
"I could just call the servants on you... Or-"
Slide kick. Sophia On the ground.
"You want to play rough girl? A commoner never beats a Princess!"
"You wish you were a Princess!" Kimiko punched her in the face, which knocked her out.
"So long Sophia." Before Sophia blacked out, she saw a dazzling ruby, and a whip of shiny black hair.

"You didn't have to do this." Raimundo whispered.
"I had to, or else you would complain your Majesty." She replied, a little sarcastic.
"I could have survived! I bet I can stay in these exact same robes for three days."
"Really? I have been wearing this for months!"
Kimiko stuck out her tongue. He let her win that time!
"How did you keep Keiko out of this room?" asked Raimundo. "It's called Master Fung knowing and making Keiko go somewhere else. But I'll see her at dinner. Could you pass me that bottle of... Never mind. It's just a bottle with white liquid in it."
Raimundo gave it to her, ignoring the fact that she was bleeding. Kimiko applied the substance to her hands, which hurt a tiny bit.
"Aren't you going to say something?" Kimiko asked after a while.
"No." He mumbled dully.
"Surely there is something! Why do you always act so negative to me? I don't get you!"
Her blue eyes glinted when he frowned.
"Maybe it's because my life is going no where, and I'm some sort of freak!" Raimundo cried.
She didn't question about that he was talking about. Kimiko knew he was a freak, but not the fact of him being a mage. Kimiko wanting to start a new conversation, murmured "So, where did you put that sword of yours?"
"I don't know..."