Wind Blows Fire Away

Chapter 11...Deja vu?

Kimiko stopped when she saw Raimundo just across the grass sitting by the pond. She smiled and went over to him. "Raim-"

"What?" he asked a little coldy.

"What's wrong with you?" she put a hand on his shoulder, but he shook it off. "Rai!"

"Is that all you wanted to ask?"

"Raimundo, I'll tell you if you drop the cold act!"

"Fine, I suppose I won't ever know, because I don't see anything wrong with what I'm saying."

"Okay fine Raimundo. I wanted to say I was sorry and-"

"That's cool!" he got up and walked off. Kimiko stood there stunned, and blinked furiously. She started to breath heavily, and now the blinking couldn't stop the tears from streaming down her cheeks. Her happy and forgiving mood shattered like glass.

'Did, did Raimundo just reject me?' she thought to herself and she started to limp back to the hotel. 'Yeah Kim, he did. He doesn't want you back now. You lost your chance!' Kimiko stopped dead in her tracks. She knew that wasn't her voice, but she knew the voice well. She turned around to see no one standing there, so she turned back around and started to walk again. 'You know it too Kimi.' It then struck her. It wasn't her voice, it was that dreaded Sam's voice! It was inside her head, and it would get out. She continued to walk, but argued with the voice. 'You, get out of my head! I don't want you in there!' 'Aww why not Kimi, it's pretty cool in here. Plenty of happy things to taint!' 'Get out!'

As Kimiko got to her hotel room she held her head as her vision started to spin. "Get out!" she muttered, starting to pace the room. Omi walked in and watched slightly confused. The voice in Kimiko head disappeared and she looked up.

"Omi!"

"Kimiko, what is down with you?"

She smiled and said, "I think you mean what is up with you."

"That too!"

"Omi, I'm just a little shaken up from what happened is all," she sat on the bed. Omi knew it was a lie, and Kimiko knew he knew (confusing sorry!).

"Care to talk about it?" he said sitting next to her. He knew he trapped her, so now she had to talk.

"Omi, you know about the notes Raimundo sent me don't you?"

"Yes."

"His second note, he sent me my locket back with it. I finally decided, that was enough to prove he loved me. So I went to find him and tell him I'm sorry. I did, and he was surprisingly cold to me. Then he wouldn't even let me finish," she played the memory back inside her and shuddered. "Then, when I was walking back to the hotel room, Sam was in my thoughts, messing with all my happy ones, and well now I'm here talking to you." She sigh as he looked slightly worried.

"Kimiko, I'm sure Raimundo is just being angry because of what happened today. He will go around and back." He paused to let Kimiko say something.

"He will come back?"

"That too! Anyways, I believe that Sam in your thoughts is just a part of you being upset. Perhaps sleep might help?"

"Yeah you're right." Omi smiled and got up, while Kimiko lay down and fell asleep almost instantly. He glanced back at Kimiko before walking out of the room.

With (once again shudders) Sam...

Sam still sat on the ground thinking about what happened. It wasn't really thinking anymore, she was just sort of swaying back and forth. She knew that the blows that Kimiko gave her, really caused some damage. Her stomache was quite frail and her cheek burned, along with her right foot, because of the sweeping kick Kimiko did to knock her off her feet. She started to come around enough to get up and go sit down on a bench. She closed her eyes and took deep breathes, she cleared her mind of everything except breathing. About 15 minutes later she opened her eyes and smiled. She felt a whole lot better and decided to get up and try to walk around. As she walked she saw someone in the distance. Raimundo. She encouraged herself enough to start to run. Surprisingly, he said nothing to her as she walked by his side.

"Raimundo."

"Yeah, what Sam?"

"What's up, Kimiko not take you back?" Sam knew this could be her only chance.

He stopped and looked her straight in the eyes. Her caring, big, green eyes looking at him on a slightly tilted head. His eyes softened from a raged emerald green to just pretty angry. "You know, she had her chance and she blew it!"

"Oh Rai, you have me."

"No! I don't want you! I-I don't know who I want," he sigh and looked down. Sam attempted probably four more times to get him and herself back together. After 30 minutes of arguing a thought flickered into Sam's head.

'Girl, give it up. You know he wants Kimiko. Can't you just be a good friend and support him on that?' Sam shook her head slightly. 'No I can't, because we were made for eachother.' 'Sam, I won't leave you alone until you admitt it. I mean, he would have gone for you after the kiss. Right after he broke up with Kimiko, or anywhere in between. Face it, there is another guy out there for you. Just trust me on that.' Inside her head Sam sigh loudly. "I-"

With Kimiko...

Kimiko awoke lazily and yawned. Getting up she looked at the clock. 7:00. She opened the door and went out to the dinner hall to see Clay, Omi and Dojo eating. She grabbed a plate that was prepaired a little bit earlier and sat down next to them.

"Hello Kimiko, how did you sleep?"

"Good, thanks Omi, it helped a ton."

"You are quite welcome!" he smiled brightly.

All three of them talked, and had a good dinner. They decided to go outside and practice some martial arts while they waited for Raimundo.

With Sam and Raimundo...

'...Face it, there's another guy out there for you. Trust me on that.' Inside her head, Sam sigh loudly. 'I-'

'I-I guess...It's true. I will find someone a LOT better than Raimundo, I mean, he wasn't all that great anyways. I couldn't stand his cold snaps. Haha! It's funny how I messed it up for him too!'

"Uhh, I got to go!" Sam dashed off in the other direction and Raimundo barely noticed she wasn't there anymore, besides the fact he wasn't arguing with anyone anymore. He made his way back to the hotel and went to eat dinner. After he was done he went to where the other monks where and they all completly stopped.

"What?"

"Raimundo! We need to talk."

"Save it, because honestly. I don't want to hear it!" He shot Kimiko a nasty look after his cold tone and choice of words. Kimiko's eyes got wide with tears, and her sapphire blue eyes got glazed with a watery sheet. Omi went over and embraced her into a hug, and Clay finally decided to talk.

"What's your problem Rai? Kimiko's just tryin' to talk."

"You guys are the problems! I don't get what's up with all these questions! Sheesh!" He shot back to Clay's defensive voice, and walked off.

"I believe we shall stop training for today," Omi broke the hug between Kimiko and himself and began to walk back to the hotel room. Clay put an arm around Kimiko and they started to walk back aswell.

'I've never seen him act this way. I wonder if he's okay!' Kimiko bit her lip as her mind filled with depression and sadness. Omi, Dojo and her sat in silence on one bed and listened to Clay and Raimundo shout at eachother.

"She just wanted to talk!"

"Yeah, well she can talk to one of you, because I'm not interested in talking to you guys!"

"What is wrong with you Rai? You never used to act like this!" Suddenly the yelling stopped and a female voice cut in with a loud knock.

"Excuse me, there have been several noise complaints from neighbooring rooms."

"Uhh, sorry. We'll quiet down!" Clay called in the direction of the door. Raimundo muttered under his breathe while Clay gave him a look.

"Okay, the hotel and the guests staying here would greatly appriciate that..." the voice trailed off, and all of them thought she had already been walking away when she finished her sentence. Everyone sigh, but Dojo and Raimundo. Dojo was deep in thought and Raimundo was just blowing off steam, thinking, and talking to himself inside his head. There was an akward silence for about 5 minutes until Clay and Raimundo started talking quietly to each other. Fortunatly for Kimiko and Omi, they were still loud enough to be heard.

"I'm going to bed!" Raimundo mumbled loudly.

"You can't run away from this forever you know."

"Well I can for tonight!" With that Raimundo kicked off his shoes and dove under the blanket to his bed, then rolled over. He started to snore loudly as though he was asleep, but was really listening for what Clay would do next.

Clay sigh in defeat as he went into the bathroom and changed from his cowboy clothes to his pajamas. Then he pulled back the blanket and jumped into the bed, recovering the bed, with him in between the matress and blanket. Raimundo sigh and decided just to go to sleep. He drifted off, swearing he could hear the distant voice of his friends in the room across from his own.

Kimiko smiled as she and Omi hugged tightly. She felt comfort with Omi, him being so funny and fun loving. She felt as though sometime, he was the best person to be with, as he comforted her a lot while the others just put a hand on her shoulder and told her it would be okay. As she broke the hug, good-nights where said and the sad, hurt Kimiko curled up in bed, falling asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow, didn't even bother pulling the blanket back over her.

Dojo smiled and pulled the blanket over her as best he could (being as little as he was), then went up to her pillow and curled up to sleep.

Omi smiled as he drifted into his perfect dreams just as instantly as Kimiko. They all hoped tomorrow would be better.

The next morning, things weren't better. No one dared talk to eachother, but Dojo, Omi and Clay observed that Kimiko and Raimundo were acting the same, just switched sides. Kimiko was now the depressed one and Raimundo was now playing hard-to-get. And they were all thinking the same thing. 'Deja vu!'

Suddenly someone burst into the kitchen of the hotel, and everyone stared in horror.

Okay, sort of an obvious cliff hanger, but I really wanted to make up for having you wait so long for me to update last chapter. Hope it was good and not to short, and man! I really don't like Sam either. Please review and tell me what you think:)