Wind Blows Fire Away

Chapter 18...Troubles

"She now knew she had feeling back in her legs, so she got up and went over to help Raimundo, but just as she started fighting, something happened. Something big."

Jack Kimiko and Raimundo all three looked down.

"The ice! It's starting to crack!" Kimiko back up, but Raimundo and Jack suddenly started to fight again.

Out of one of his pockets, Jack took a tin, cylander, container and threw it at Raimundo. Then he ran backwards, grabbing Kimiko as he did so.

"Raimundo!"

Raimundo stepped back, his mind was trying to calculate what it could be, but it didn't go fast enough. The container opened and a greenish yellow gas surrounded Raimundo. Jack smirked to himself, 'Perfect!'

As the gas cleared Kimiko ran over to Raimundo who had a confused expression on his face.

"Jack..."

"Rai? What's wrong?" Kimiko tilted her head slightly.

"You're stupid gas didn't work!" Raimundo smirked, but then stopped. Jack was smirking too. They both narrowed their eyes and ran at one another to attack once more. Kimiko watched them for about five minutes then cut in. She was mad, so she gave Jack all she had. Since Raimundo was getting tired, Jack turned his attention to her, but before doing so, he kicked Raimundo backwards.

Just as Kimiko was about to kicked Jack, the ice cracked once more, but this time, it was more sevre.

The ice had cracked, collasping under Kimiko and Jack. They both fell in, but then, they couldn't find their way out. Raimundo was in a panic.

"Kimiko!" He ran over to the whole and looked for her red and pink hair, but still couldn't. He then took his hat and scarf off then dived into the whole. The water was numbing right when he touched it, which only made him want to find Kimiko more. She had no snow clothes, which would mean she would get cold faster. He swam down about eight feet before he found a glimpse of Kimiko's hair.

As Raimundo grabbed Kimiko's arm, he saw Jack going by, using his perpellers (sorry, bad spelling error there I know) to increase his speed to the surface. Raimundo just noticed by the time they fell, it had stopped snowing, except for a small sprinkle. He thought Jack would try and fly to the nearest warm place he could.

Raimundo's clothes were getting heavy, plus carrying Kimiko, he was getting tired. When he finally got to the top, he had trouble finding where the ice had broken. He flipped over, making his feet go upwards, and kicked in places he thought it might be. Then, after his foot went higher than it had been, he flipped back over and heaved Kimiko up onto the ice, and then scambered onto the ice as well.

Spuddering and coughing Raimundo looked around for a blanket to give to Kimiko, as he lost his backpack somewhere in the deep snow. He found the blanket he had grabbed, laying under a small bit of snow, but Raimundo was sure it wasn't too wet. It was nothing compared to how wet Kimiko was.

When he was finished wrapping her in the blanket, he picked her up bridle style then sigh. "I really hope you end up okay. Wind!" Because the snow had cleared out a little, Raimundo was able to use his wind power to go faster.

Just as they were about half way back to the hide out, Kimiko's eyes fluttered open slowly. "Rai? Raimundo?"

"Kim!" Raimundo almost lost focus and fell, but caught himself.

"Raimundo, I'm so sorry!"

"So am I Kimiko! I never meant for any of this to happen." He looked down. He was moving slower now, but he didn't mind, nore did Kimiko. They both thought that talking to each other was way more important to getting to the hide out more quickly than they were already going.

"Raimundo. Rai, please, I'm so sorry about what happened, I just wanted to make sure that you cared enough to win me back! It was stupid of me to do it."

"Yes, but it was my fault. You were ready to talk, but I...had...a-"

"It's okay. Sam actually helped for once and talked to me about your 'cold snaps' so, I finally decided to talk to you." she looked down, sadness filling her eyes. "I guess I was a little late."

"We're back together now though...right?" Raimundo started to speed up once again.

"I wouldn't want it any other way!" she shivered as the hide out came into sight.

"Must be cold!"

"Yeah" she sneezed, "Sure am. Freezing water does a lot to a person!"

"Yeah I know what you mean!" Raimundo chuckled. Kimiko just remember he had jumped in after her.

"You cold too than?"

"Yeah, but I'll be fine."

"Rai?"

"Yeah?"

"Thank you. For everything."

"I should be the one saying that to you." Raimundo sigh, landing by the door he went out of, but, what he thought was the door, was just a wall covered by snow. "Uhh, this could take a while."

"What's wrong?"

"Don't know where the door is."

Kimiko sneezed before she answered, "Let me down, I can help."

"Kim-"

"Just do it!"

"Okay okay, sheesh!" he let her down, and she shivered before continuing.

"Judellet flip, fire!" Kimiko flipped and melted the snow away from a small section of the wall.

"Oh hey good idea girl! Typhoon boom, wind!" the snow blew up, and over their heads, making an icy wave. It landed behind them, building an even wall.

They kept doing this until finally Kimiko couldn't use her power anymore. "Kim? What's wrong?"

"I-I don't know. I think, I must be too numb, that I can't create the fire." She sigh, "Better start digging." Before her hands could touch the snow, someone grabbed her wrists. She looked up and smiled.

"It's okay. I found the door!" He pointed over to the right a little. Then he picked up Kimiko and ran through the door. Once inside they headed to the corridor.

With Omi, Dojo and Clay...

Clay sigh. He watched Omi's eyes close then shoot back open hoping he hadn't missed the arrival of his friends, but everytime his eyes closed, they stayed that way for a second more. Everything soon got quiet, because Dojo was just sitting there watching the door.

Clay knew that silence had spread across the whole hideout, that even from five feet away in the corridor, you could here a pin drop. That's why a confused expression formed on his face, when he was the only one the hear on coming footsteps. Then he heard a sneeze. Although, he thought, 'Jack doesn't sneeze like a girl. Or...does he? I mean, he does scream like one. Wait, there are two footsteps at a time, but if it was Jack, there would only be one. That would have to mean that Kimiko and Raimundo..." He started paying full attention, sitting straight up in his spot on the couch. Dojo's head perked up and Omi was now wide awake.

The door slid open quickly, but to all of them inside the room and out, it felt like an eternity. When it was fully open, Kimiko's eyes met with Omi's and Raimundo's eyes met with Clay's. Then they all just looked at each other before rushing in and talking all to fast.

"Kimiko!"

"Omi!"

"Clay!"

"Raimundo!"

"Kimiko!"

"Dojo!"

"Dojo!"

"Rai!"

"Clay!"

"Omi!"

"Kimiko!"

"Raimundo!"

They all laughed, because of their responses to each other coming into the room.

"Rai.." Kimiko said turning to Raimundo.

"Kim..." Raimundo did the same. Kimiko jumped up and hugged him tightly. As she pulled back she looked into his emerald eyes, and saw kindness, love, and happiness. She smiled to herself, her loving, sweet smile that Raimundo knew all to well. Kimiko leaned back in and locked lips with Raimundo. They both closed their eyes, not caring that the others were smirking at what was going on.

"Ehm!" Dojo coughed loud enough to break Kimiko and Raimundo apart.

Raimundo let Kimiko down, and they both blushed. "Sorry."

As they all went to sit down to talk, Omi spoke, "Kimiko, please tell us the true story of what happened to you."

"Uhh well Omi, I was just sort of sitting out by the lake outside the hotel, and Jack came along. He knocked me out, brought me here, chained me to a wall, and..." she trailed off, thinking of the horrible memory of what happened after Jack spat the 'truth' at her.

"Kim?" Raimundo, who was sitting next to her, put his arm around her and she snapped back to attention.

"Uhh, well, he told me a whole bounch of stuff...Then...then I stopped breathing." She closed her eyes waiting for everyone to yell, and not to her surprise they all did.

"WHAT!" Everyone else said together.

"But I'm here now! That's all that matters right?"

Everyone sigh and agreed.

"As I was saying...After I woke up I tried finding something that could help me know where I was, but it didn't work so well. So I decided to go to sleep. I-" Kimiko stopped and started crying. She burried her face into Raimundo's chest and he stroked her hair softly.

"Kim, it's okay. Just tell us what happened." He said gently, and although no one could see she smiled. Kimiko was happy that Raimundo was here with her, and nothing could break them apart at the moment. She knew that he was right there, it was his chest her head rested on, and that she hadn't killed him, and he hadn't been with Sam talking to HER father. Real life was nothing like her dream...Nothing like it.

Kimiko looked up and sniffled. Then she continued, "I had this dream. And in the dream, I was first at Tohomiko Electronics, I ran to my father's office...An-and I saw you Raimundo."

"Me? Anyone else?"

"Yeah...You and..." she closed her eyes and took a deep breathe.

"Come Kimiko, you can tell us!" Omi encouraged.

"You and Sam." She stopped and looked at everyone's expressions. Each face was different, but all the expressions were the same. Shock, and horror.

"Wha-what was she doing with me?" Raimundo almost immidiatly regretted asking, because Kimiko's glazed eyes started to drain.

"You...and her...I think, were...asking my father about...som...something for...a wedding!" she said through sobs. (yes I know I didn't mention any rings, but she did scream in horror and in the news clipping it said Sam's fiancé)

"Oh Kim.." Clay trailed off not knowing exactly what to say.

"Kimiko." Raimundo firmly took a hold of her shoulders and looked into her soft sapphire eyes with firm emerald ones. "I love you, more than anything in the world. More than my own family, more than any girl I ever dated, more than life itself. I would give the world to you if I had the chance! Sam and I, we were done last Valentine's Day, it's never going to happen. Trust me on this one." As he said his last sentence his voice turned soft and he embraced Kimiko into a tight hug, making her giggle. Just as he wanted her to do.

"I love you more than anything as well Rai, but you can never-"

"No, don't even think like that. Don't even wonder, because I'll be with you forever and more. Even if I die, I will always love you."

"Raimundo...why would you talk about dying right now?" Kimiko tilted her head, curious as to why he brought it up.

Raimundo clamped a hand over his mouth, he hadn't meant to say anything, but it just popped out of his mouth. Why was he thinking about dead anyways? It was weird, even for his mind...

No one knew what was wrong with him. It was truly odd he would bring that up, considering all they had been through. But...Then again...no one knew that Jack's gas really had an affect on him...

Wow! I'm terribly sorry that I haven't updated. But school is starting tomorrow and I've been really stressed. Hope you all aren't too mad. :) Thanks for reading, and please review. To all that do they get a big smile. This time I won't ramble a lot...I guess. Tomorrow is school, wish me luck! lol I'm done. Please review and Thanks again:D