Chapter 12: Is That What You Call... Smooth?
Raimundo was
deep in thought. What was he even talking about? All this fuss over a
simple girl, and she wasn't that great looking.
But there was that certain flare about her.
Clay jerked Raimundo's attention to Kimiko again.
"Raimundo, after all my years of experience, I know that yer going to
happy in the end." Clay chuckled to himself and pushed Raimundo's
shoulder playfully, which bothered Raimundo.
"I think I need to go now." Raimundo brushed off whatever the bartender got on him and walked over to Kimiko.
"Have fun with Clay?" she asked.
"He's a very... Hardy person." Raimundo replied.
"Are you only being nice because I'm around Raimundo?"
"Nonsense. It's very nice to have Clay and all your friends around..."
His voice was a bit sarcastic though, Kimiko couldn't really pick that up.
"Oh I'm glad you think so Raimundo! Come, come. We need to go to breakfast. After that I have a little experiment."
Kimiko grabbed him by the arm and waved to Clay on the way.
"Don't forget that Raimundo is coming back too!" Kimiko shouted to Clay.
Raimundo frowned and again and allowed himself to be dragged along in the dirt.
And yet he thought this was not peaceful!
"What's your little experiment?" asked Raimundo.
"It's a tiny thing I cooked up, you should like it. You're my test subject if you didn't know..."
"Again, I ask what you are going to do to me." Raimundo repeated, for the fourth time.
"Just wait a second! I still have to add a pinch of salt... There! Good, now open your mouth..." Kimiko instructed.
Raimundo clamped his mouth shut and crossed his arms, a habit he developed from Kimiko, and that habit wasn't really good.
"Raimundo! Open your mouth! It's only a potion!" Still, he closed his mouth.
Kimiko knew this was the only way to get him to open up.
Well there was another way but she would save that for plan B.
"Raimundo is a... Pig," Kimiko waited for him to respond. It didn't have to come to this.
"You asked for it."
Raimundo edged slowly away from her.
What's was she going to do?
Turn him into a pig or something like that? Kimiko took a quick breath and hugged Raimundo.
"Not going to open your mouth yet?" she asked.
Raimundo, in turn; shook his head.
"Fine,
you'll get this treatment once... Or more than once," Kimiko pulled him
toward her by his collar, "And this is going to be... Interesting."
Raimundo couldn't take it anymore, before Kimiko could kiss him, he crashed his lips into hers.
Kimiko always imagined it like this. With all that passion.
Raimundo meanwhile was feeling different.
Was he the one that 'lunged' at her lips?
But her kisses were passionate like fire when they wanted to be. Like fire...
They broke away. Both blushing madly. "That was... Interesting." Raimundo commented after a while.
"Do want your potion now?"
"Just try and make me drink it."
Kimiko sighed and leaned forward.
She kissed him lightly on the lips, and waited for him.
She had to take him by surprise...
Raimundo felt her hands on his shoulders, he was being pushed back onto the bed.
"What was that for?"
Kimiko poured all the clear liquid into his mouth.
"Ha! Kimiko Tohomiko is victorious. So? It's not like this potion is going to make me do anything... Is it?"
Raimundo got up from the bed and felt his head.
"It didn't even give me a headache, nice try Kimiko."
Kimiko smiled faintly at his remark and asked "Raimundo, what do you think about me?"
"I think Kimiko is a very cute person."
Raimundo slapped a hand over his mouth and stared at Kimiko.
"You made a truth potion didn't you!" Kimiko shook her index finger at him and asked again "Does Raimundo think I kiss good?"
"Her kisses are like fire, and sure; I'd want to do it again..."
Raimundo sat down on the bed covered his mouth.
"Do you want to do it again?"
"Yes."
"Do you like me more than a friend?"
"Kind of."
"Then
let's go." Kimiko said airily. For some reason, Raimundo felt his mouth
forming into a smirk, something he did often to himself.
"Let's go then."
Raimundo smirked at her even more when she scooted away from him.
"Why are you staring at me like that?" she asked.
"No reason. Have you ever heard of the saying, 'Smooth?' I hear it's a new phrase." The Prince noted.
"Yes, something about being very... Cunning in relationships. I wish I had a relationship."
Her eyes danced in the candle light, even thought it was early in the morning she loved having them alight.
"You could, if you tried Kimiko." Kimiko raised her eyebrows at the thought.
"How could I be more than friends with? No one I know is my type. Not counting you of course." she muttered.
"There is a possibility with me Kimiko... If you know what I mean." Raimundo winked at her.
"You're being smooth aren't you? At least you're trying." Kimiko laughed.
Raimundo, feeling that unbearable urge to grab her and kiss her; took her hand.
"Kimiko. If you are thinking hard enough ask me a certain question, and
I'll answer it with my own mouth, instead of your potion making me."
Kimiko looked him in the eyes.
He was serious.
"Do you love me?" she asked softly. Raimundo's gaze locked with hers and he nodded. "If I think I know what love is, then I do."
So that was when their love began.
"Kimiko, what exactly do people these days call two people how are in love?" asked Raimundo, lacing his fingers with hers.
"I don't know, a couple? A team? How about girl and boy? But we're still friends, so it's girlfriend and boyfriend! Or something like that..."
Kimiko mashed up a leaf and sprinkled it in a thick paste, another potion she was making.
"Do you want your trustworthiness removed?"
"I
can live with it Kimiko. Why don't we go for a walk, and don't push me
into a deserted hallway again," Raimundo murmured, "And get dirt on my
reputation!"
Kimiko's mouth twitched into a smirk, something she picked up from Raimundo.
"We'll see about that, Prince."
Kimiko opened the door and nodded, no one in the hallways to foil her plan. Or plans?
"Raimundo, the hallway is empty. We need to pay a visit to someone."
Raimundo cocked his eyebrow at her.
"Don't make me go back to that bar."
"It's not the bar, it's a place where you're quite familiar with."
Kimiko giggled to herself, and pulled along an aggravated Prince.
"If you make me go back to the palace, I'm going to run. If you take me to the bar, I'm going to run. If you take me to the-"
Kimiko, just sensing someone walk through the hallway; 'hid' Raimundo in the other hall.
It was Master Fung! Kimiko wasn't even supposed to be out at this time of day! It was to late, she was scheduled for something!
She couldn't remember though. Kimiko dropped on the ground, which seemed a bit too soft, and she waited for Master Fung to pass.
"You can get off me now Kimiko." Raimundo mumbled.
"What?"
Kimiko suddenly realized why the ground was so... Soft.
She was lying on top of Raimundo!
But she was starting to get lost in the charming color of his eyes again...
"Kimiko."
No one moved.
"I see you are... On schedule."
Kimiko lifted her head up to see... Master Fung.
"Hi Master Fung." In the position Kimiko was in, it looked as though
she was straddling Raimundo's hips, and his hair was tousled.
But that was his regular hair-do, not like Master Fung could tell.
"You
are late for lunch Kimiko, and you too Prince. See to it you make it to
the table in time..." Master Fung seemed to fly away...
"So this is what it's like to be on the bottom, brilliant." Raimundo said.
Kimiko removed her hands from his shoulders and practically... Well, she fell off him.
"You couldn't keep your hands off me?" he asked, trying to be smooth again.
"Hush up! I still have that friend I want you to see, and don't think I won't get revenge on what happened right now!"
Kimiko got up from the ground, and hoisted him up forcefully.
"We just might be keeping that person waiting, and I suggest you go under cover,..." She took a hood and cape from a peg and smirked. "You never know when someone is going to hunt you down Raimundo. Especially because you're on the wanted list, precious Prince."