that's right. I'm back. And I am truly sorry that I kept everyone waiting, but my Microsoft Word was refusing to work, and for a second, I thought I was totally screwed. lol. Today, I am posting two chapters, because...(you're gonna kill me for this if you hate to wait for more of this story)...I'm going on vacation until next saturday, and i wont be able to update from there! Oooh, I am so sorry. (cry)

but i will update again ASAP when i get home, k?

and THANK YOU all reviewers! hugs

SaphireStars- Yeah, this is my first XS fan fiction... honestly!

and

dragon of wood - hm...I never really thought about it that way before. and i'm really not sure if this is going to become a rai/kim story, (cuz i'm not finished yet) but i'm really considering writing one.

And everyone with the whole 'why is Omi being mean?' Answer: Hm, well, I guess i was just trying to bring up the tension between them. who knows why. lol

(and...i do not own XS... but I DO own the SGW i make up.)

ok. let us get on with it.

Kimiko closed her eyes as she tried to get to sleep. She hadn't seen much of Raimundo all day… She wondered what he was thinking about…

Her eyes shot open. The Red Robin, she thought as she began to creep out of her room. It was now or never…

Master Fung had warned them about using the new Wu. He had said that they shouldn't use it against each other, because if the person you were invading on was normal, he or she would be pretty pissed off if they found you in their mind.

But Kimiko was determined not to be caught.

She tiptoed to the Shen Gong Wu vault, and opened it silently.

When she finally had the Red Robin in her hands, she sat down Indian style and whispered, "Red Robin."

She suddenly felt weird. Like she was floating or something. She opened her eyes to see her seated body. Hmm, it's kind of like using the Serpent's Tail, except you're an almost invisible mist and you leave your body behind, she thought as she made her way to Raimundo's room. Her misty form phased through his door, and she went into one of Raimundo's ears, entering his mind.

It was a strange, dark place. Kimiko guessed that was because Raimundo was asleep. Now the only problem was: Kimiko hadn't a clue as to where she was or where she was going.

So she, being restored to her human form, walked aimlessly through different "chambers". The first chamber she visited showed Jack Spicer laughing evilly, and Omi kicking Jack-Bot butt. Then the vision changed, so it now showed herself saying something.

Wait…I remember that! Kimiko thought. This must be where Rai's memories are…

The images began to flip faster, and the picture got hazier.

Flash! Another view of Omi, asking, "What are you doing with the Serpent's Tail, my clever friend?"

Rai had said, "Uhh, stealing it."

Flash! Kimiko got a very foggy vision of two people lying in a pool of blood. The image quickly erased, and Kimiko got out of there. She shivered at the image of the two dead people.

She then entered another chamber, full of thoughts. She quickly left that chamber, in fear that Raimundo might somehow sense that she was there.

So she trotted into the next room and saw an open book on the…'ground'. Kimiko picked it up and read the cover. It was entitled The Book of Raimundo's Secrets.

What an original title, Kimiko thought as she cracked open the book. But the inside was blank.

Her eyebrows creased in confusion. But I want to know… is the joyfulness that was Raimundo an act? Or not? And did he just change when— Her thoughts got cut off when letters appeared on the paper of the book.

It read: Raimundo was indeed happy when he was here—half of the time anyway. The joy was not always a front. There were times when he covered up what he was really feeling. But don't you do that sometimes?

He did always think that he did not fit at the Xiaolin Temple. He kept trying to do better. But when Kimiko, Omi, and Clay got promoted, the feeling of not being good enough increased. He had just done what he had thought was right at the time when he had disobeyed orders and went back to the temple when Mala Mala Jong was attacking. He did not want Master Fung to die, and he was never the one to sit around and do nothing.

Kimiko's eyes widened. This book has all the answers! she thought as she pondered her next question. Why did Raimundo go to work for Wuya?

The plain black text disappeared, and blood red ink faded into existence. He did not deserve to be around the three Xiaolin Apprentices. He thought that he should have never left Brazil. Raimundo missed Brazil. Missed the run-down town where he had grown up in after his parents died. Missed being free, without a care, without being judged. But without friends? No…

And when Wuya came to talk to him, dangled his dreams in front of his nose… He didn't know what was happening. He was confused and uncertain. Wuya had said that he would have mighty power. Said that maybe she would be able to tell him what had really happened to his parents. He was only a child when they died, but he knew enough to know that it couldn't have been just an accident. The thought tore him up for years…

Raimundo had wanted more than anything to talk to his parents… Maybe they would show him everything that all kids were supposed to know. Every child had their parents, and if they were orphans, they almost always got adoptive parents. But he didn't have any parents of any sort. And when he finally turned, he knew he had done something terribly wrong. There was no power waiting for him. But he knew he couldn't go back, his friends would never accept him. So he tried to make the most out of it. But it did not work.

Raimundo had tried his best when he came to the Xiaolin Temple. But he figured his best was just not enough. To them, his best was their worst. That just made him feel more useless. Knowing that the best he could do just wasn't good enough.

So we hurt Raimundo…more than we knew, and we forced him to go work for Wuya, pretty much. And one of the reasons he went was because he wanted to know what happened to his parents? Kimiko asked in her mind.

Yes, the book wrote.

Kimiko snapped the book shut. She didn't want to figure out more private stuff about Raimundo. She cradled the Red Robin, which had traveled in Raimundo's mind with her, so she could get out. And what did that thing mean, 'what really happened to his parents'? Whatever happened, it was an accident…right? She shuddered.

She wandered into the next room, and the "door" slammed behind her. The room's "walls" were made of a weird black-purple liquid, and Kimiko spotted Raimundo in the distance. Wind was whipping everywhere as Kimiko made her way to her friend.

She was about seven feet away from Raimundo before she noticed someone next to him.

It was Wuya, in the flesh, laughing in Raimundo's distressed face.

"I told you, Raimundo, dear, that your friends will always treat you like you were a young, stupid, impudent fool! You will never be as good as them. Omi was right, you do not deserve to be an apprentice," Wuya said. "I was the only one who accepted you. Gave you everything you ever wanted. But you betrayed me!" She glared at him murderously.

"You didn't tell me what really happened to my parents!" Raimundo shouted, pointing an accusing finger at Wuya's chest. "You lied!"

"That is what evil does. Lie. Even witches have limits, you know." Wuya smiled. "I knew that if I promised you something very important to you, you would help me. And look! It worked! For a little while anyway…" She paused as she watched Raimundo's expression carefully. "Did you really think I could just go back in time and figure it all out? Honestly, I didn't think you could be that naïve."

Kimiko saw Raimundo clench and unclench his fists over and over again.

Wuya laughed her soft, evil laugh as she faded out of existence. And just as she disappeared, three more people came out of no where.

Of course Kimiko recognized the three people immediately. It was herself, Omi and Clay.

"I can't believe you, Raimundo. I mean, we knew you were bad at this whole Xiaolin warrior stuff… But when you went to work with Wuya, we saw that you were much, much worse," Kimiko's double said hotly.

"I don't know why Master Fung even let you back, you snake," Clay snarled.

"What I do not know is why Master Fung even brought you to the Xiaolin Temple in the first place!" Omi said. "You…are…so…," he broke off, sputtering angrily under his breath.

"You just weigh us down!" Kimiko Two shouted.

Raimundo covered his ears, and Kimiko could hear him whispering, "It's just a dream, just a dumb, unrealistic dream."

The three other monks kept throwing accusations and insults at him, and finally Raimundo turned away from them. It was then when he saw the real Kimiko.

Kimiko knew that Raimundo would be really angry if he found out that she was poking around in his head, so she decided to try and act like a part of his dream… Maybe he wouldn't notice her… Maybe she would have enough time to get out of there.

All she had to do was act all insensitive…right?

Raimundo stared at her for a second, and it was then when Kimiko knew she had to make her move.

"Umm…you're so stupid, Rai. You so completely suck at everything," she said, cursing herself when she heard the uncertainty in her own voice.

Raimundo looked astonished for a split second, and then glanced down at Kimiko's hands. He then scowled slightly.

He came over to her and looked her in the eye. "So. You decided to use the Red Robin to sneak into my mind!"

Kimiko looked down at her hands. Yes, the Red Robin still cradled there gave everything away. Damn! I should have been more careful! Kimiko reprimanded herself. She looked to Raimundo cautiously, and, as she had thought, he looked as mad as hell.

"Uhh…ummm… Red Robin!" she cried, as the Red Robin took her out of Raimundo's mind.

She found herself back in the Shen Gong Wu vault, and she sighed in relief and distress. Rai is so gonna kill me!

She quickly got up and put the Red Robin away, and then turned to go back up the steps so she could go back to her room.

But she gasped loudly in surprise when she saw Master Fung blocking her way.

"Kimiko, what were you doing with the Red Robin?" he asked coldly, the expression on his face never changing.

"I…umm…"

Master Fung sighed inwardly. "Whose mind did you enter?"

Kimiko shuffled her feet nervously and hesitated. "Raimundo's," she mumbled.

"What is that?" Master Fung asked. "You will have to speak up, young one. My ears are not what they used to be."

Kimiko cleared her throat. "Raimundo's," she repeated.

Master Fung's expression still didn't change. "And did he catch you?"

Kimiko nodded shamefully.

Master Fung sighed. "What you did was wrong, Kimiko. I will have to punish you… You will hand-scrub the Great Hall's floor."

Kimiko finally met his gaze. "But Raimundo did that the other day…"

"Strange, I do not remember giving that job out…," Master Fung said thoughtfully. He knew Omi usually told the other young ones what he had told them to do, and Omi must have gotten…confused. "Then you may not use any of your electronics for two weeks. And that includes Goo Zombies 3."

Kimiko bowed her head again. "Yes, Master Fung."

"Good. Now hurry off to bed. We need you to have a full night of sleep tonight, or tomorrow you will not have a good day off."

Kimiko was standing in front of the door to her room when she heard a noise.

She strained her ears, and it finally came in nice and clear. A loud blowing noise…

Wind, Kimiko realized.

She instantly felt guilty. It was her fault that Raimundo was blowing stuff around uncontrollably again. He probably woke up after she had left and couldn't get back to sleep.

Kimiko could even feel the drafts of the cold wind coming out of the crack beneath Raimundo's door and brushing her bare feet. She shivered at the temperature of the wind as she quickly crept into her room and crawled into her bed.

But as hard as she tried, she couldn't get away from the guilt that was flooding her.

tsk tsk tsk, what a bad girl Kimiko Tohomiko is. (just kidding!)

Okay. I'm off to put the next chapter on...so...be patient, cuz this thing could take awhile...

-Kaisa