Wind Blows Fire Away
Chapter 19...Truth or Lies
...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...
"Rai?" Kimiko asked quietly, not wanting to upset Raimundo.
"Huh, what?" He said shaking his head slightly.
"You've been staring into space for the last three minutes, is something wrong?"
"No..."
"Okay." They sat in an akward silence for a few moments. Omi and Clay had gone with Dojo, to try and convince him to flying them all back, because the Silver Manta Ray had been stolen, probably when Jack took Kimiko. At least, that's what they all assumed. Omi and Clay decided to let Kimiko and Raimundo share the bedroom, and they would get the couches, so the couple was left alone until good nights were said, then put back together.
"Kim..."
"Yeah?" she looked toward him, worry but care filling her eyes.
"I-I don't know why I brough, um, death up. I swear I-"
"Rai!" she put a hand on his shoulder, making him look at her. "Relax, we all don't know why you said anything, but it's okay." she smiled reassuingly, but it was broken by a small cough she tried to hide.
"Kim, I know you're coughing! Come on, let's go to bed."
Kimiko sigh and nodded, flopping onto her back on the bed she watched Raimundo put a hand to his head. "Raimundo? Rai, what's wrong?" she then sat up looked at him even more worried then before.
"Ah it's nothing. Just a little headache is all."
"Okay..." she sigh and scooted over for him to crawl under the covers slowly and wrap his arm around her waist. "Raimundo, please don't scare me anymore, okay?"
"How have I scared you?"
"You brought up that...Death thing...Jack's gas could have affected you...you almost fell through the ice-"
"Oh but there, you scared me!" he kissed her on the lips, so she couldn't object. Instead she closed her eyes and broke the kiss. Raimundo knew from that smile she agreed to go to sleep.
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Raimundo watched Kimiko as she breathed quietly, sleeping peacefuly, and soon he found himself stroking her hair gently. He chuckled softly to himself when a smile danced upon her lips.
"I love you Rai..." Kimiko mumbled still half asleep.
"Love you too Kim," Raimundo soon rolled over on his back to look at the ceiling, but still felt a hand on his. He sigh, but then he hoped Kimiko didn't hear it. Unfortunatly, she did.
"Raimundo, are you sure you're okay?" Kimiko asked, now sitting up.
"Yeah Kim, why do you ask?"
"Umm-"
"A sigh of, can't fall asleep, woke my girlfriend up?"
"Oh that's a new one!" she smiled, getting up from the bed, grabbing the pillow with her. She walked lazily over to where you could actually see the clock, beyong all the clutter. "Wow, 5:00. You think it's still too early to wake up?"
"I'm sure if Omi is sick, no one wi-" his sentence was muffled short by a pillow covering his mouth. Soon after the pillow fell to show a shocked and confused expression plopped upon Raimundo's face. "Girl what was that for?"
Kimiko's eyes flickered with excitement as she smiled. Raimundo shook his head, and smirked, but then his cocky eyes mellowed down to a soft worry. Kimiko was now twirling a foot around on the ground in a small circle (you know T.V. shows if a person did something wrong and they were trying to explain that, they will do the same thing Kimiko is doing), and looking down. Her black hair cast a dark shadow over her eyes.
"Kim?"
Really, since Raimundo couldn't see Kimiko, her eyes were filled with the sense of laughter and it was taking all of her will power not to smiled or crack a laugh.
"Kimiko." Raimundo got up and went over to Kimiko, but stepped back after he suddenly got hit with another pillow. "Hey!" He then took up a pillow and swatted Kimiko in the back. She had a bit of shock on her face when he did it. She had always been quick in pillow fights but never experianced a pillow to the back that quick. Still recovering from her last hit, she recieved a blow to the face. Raimundo stepped back to smirk at Kimiko, but as soon as he did it, he regreted it. Just as his foot hit the ground, he smacked in the stomache with larger pillow.
After around ten minutes later, all the pillows in the room were in the middle. Kimiko was at the left side of the room standing with her hair parted oddly, and laughing at Raimundo who was panting at the other side of the room. After Raimundo's face turned dead serious, Kimiko stopped. They both gazed at each other for a moment, then looked at all the pillows. Glancing back up at each other only once more, they both dived for the pillows, hitting and dodging, they both laughed so hard that they finally had to stop hitting eachother for a split second. Kimiko took a deep breathe, put a pillow infront of her, and then tackled Raimundo.
"Hey, Oww!" he moaned as Kimiko sat ontop of him, inches from his face, with a pillow between them both. She leaned down close, now only about an inch from his face. Raimundo closed his eyes waiting for a kiss, but then heard a small whisper.
"I won..." with that she giggled and climbed off the pillow.
"Aww, no love?"
"Nope." she turned hugged him, wrapping her arms around him slowly, latching her fingers together on the other side of him. Raimundo, with no hesitation wrapped his arms gently around her, making sure to not embrace her chest too hard, so she couldn't breathe.
They stayed that way for a little more than a minute, Kimiko not wanting to let go of the warm brazilian figure she clung to, Raimundo thinking the same. (but he was thinking Japanese figure)
Finally Kimiko broke the hug and she began to walk to the door. "It's getting late, Omi will be up soon, so we have to find some sort of medicine to help him." She shivered, trying to hide it from Raimundo, but it didn't work.
"Kim...You feelin' quite cold?"
"No, no...I'm fine!" she insisted, although a little too hard because she and Raimundo both knew it was a lie. She didn't want to face him, because she knew by the expression on her face, he would be convinced.
"Kimiko..."
"Really Rai I am!" she should have shut up right there and than, but she didn't. Her anger started to boil, but she didn't understand why. "Can't you trust me Rai? I say I'm not cold, that means I'm not! God!" she turned to the door, regretting what she had just said, before she had even finished it.
"Kim I'm..."
Kimiko waited to see what he would say to her, but to her surprise, it never came. She turned and tilted her head. Raimundo stood, swaying back and forth. He had a hand to his head and his eyes were closed. Kimiko opened her mouth to say something, but suddenly Raimundo collasped to the ground slowly.
Kimiko screamed in horror, and she could hear whispers from the other room, and swift footsteps coming to the door.
When the door opened Clay, Omi and Dojo were all in the doorway. Shocked at the sight of: Kimiko standing still, shaking her head, seeming pretty out of it, and Raimundo on the floor not moving. Omi, Clay and Dojo all rushed over to Raimundo, and Clay checked to see if he had a pulse.
With Jack and now Wuya...
...Wuya has just found Jack after the whole pay before you leave at the hotel insident...
"Jack you fool! You leave me in a hotel, with no money, I can't even pick it up, I almost couldn't leave. If I hadn't remembered I could go through walls, I would have been stuck there!"
"Oh relax! You're here aren't you?"
"What were you doing in Alaska?"
"I kidnapped Kimiko, THAT'S WHY I couldn't take you with me, it would have taken too long. Get with it Wuya, you're like what, 1500 years behind here!" He laughed at his own joke, even though it wasn't funny.
Wuya smacked her head in discust. "Idiot.." she mumbled low enough so Jack couldn't hear. Instead he was gloating on about how his evil plan worked.
"And that's what happened!"
"Jack, if you kidnapped Kimiko, why didn't you take her with you?"
"Man Wuya, do you even listen?"
"Not when you gloat no..." She snickered to herself, and Jack rolled his eyes.
"I said...The other Xiaolin Losers went after Kimiko, I took her out into the cold snow storm, Raimundo came after her. Kimiko and me fell into the ice, Raimundo got her out, and that's where they split. Oh yeah, forgot to mention I threw my latest gas at Raimundo, and the best part is. He didn't even move!"
"Kimiko and I Jack!"
"Did you listen to anything after that?"
"No."
"He-"
"Although I did hear something about gas, whaty ou going to do, blind him by that nasty green color?"
"Wuya, Wuya, Wuya. You just don't understand my artistic ways."
"Right."
"I suppose I could tell you about it, but that'd be gloating. You don't listen to me when I gloat!"
"Jack...Don't be a fool!"
"You already said I was, so haha!" Wuya sigh in discust, and Jack continued.
"You see Wuya, my gas was created to slowly kill Raimundo. First, he will be totally fine, and at the strangest feeling, not get really cold." Wuya looked at him strangely. "What I mean is...for those who don't understand...Someone who jumped into freezing water, walked out in the cold snow storm, and whatever else he did to get himself cold, he should be cold right?" he didn't let Wuya answer, "Right, sooo if he isn't that means my gas is working."
"Don't ramble Jack or I won't listen!"
"Fine, fine! Don't interrupt me! As I was saying...He will be perfectly fine, then go into acoma, then he just won't come out of it...and well, I think you know the rest."
"Brilliant Jack! Most evil, but..."
"But?" Jack perked up a bit, because of what Wuya had said.
"Ah never mind."
Jack shrugged, "Whatever."
With the dragons and Dojo...
...When the door opened Clay, Omi and Dojo were all in the doorway. Shocked at the sight of: Kimiko standing still, shaking her head, seeming pretty out of it, and Raimundo on the floor not moving. Omi, Clay and Dojo all rushed over to Raimundo, and Clay checked to see if he had a pulse...
Omi and Dojo checked Raimundo for any signs of injuries, and things like that. Clay went to Kimiko, got to her level and put his hands sternly on her shoulders.
"Kim, what happened?" he asked in a strong, but soothing voice.
She just shook her head and didn't answer, still staring at Raimundo.
"Kimiko! What happened to Raimundo!" Clay got a little louder, and the soothation (don't know if that's a word lol) in his voice dropped. She still did nothing, just stared at Raimundo. Clay took Kimiko's hand and pulled her over to the bed, he sat her down, then kneeled down himself. "Kimiko." she still did the same thing as before. "You are Kimiko Tohomiko, age 14. You live in Tokyo, Japan and your father is Toshiro Tohomiko, the owner of the piggest toy company in Asia. You found out that you were a chosen one and soon went to live at a temple in China. There you met three others. Clay Bailey, that's me, Omi, and Raimundo, all age 14. You found out you can control one of the four elements. Your element is fire. You have a very bad temper that matches your element too, but you're also very nice, and loyal. You're now dating Raimundo! Now...what happened to Raimundo?"
Suddenly Kimiko looked into Clay's eyes and ever so slightly tilted her head. "C-Clay? What happened?"
"You were out of it Kimiko, like really out of it."
Kimiko glanced behind Clay and remember Raimundo. "Oh my god! What happened to Raimundo? Is he okay? Is he still alive!" Clay was bombarded with questions, and soon put his hands back on her shoulders and shook her gently.
"Kimiko..." she started tearing up, ready to cry. She soon burst out in tears and embraced Clay in a hug.
"What if he's dead Clay!" she said between cries.
"Kimiko." he whispered. She stopped crying so hard to listen. "He's going to be okay..." she broke the hug and smiled at him slightly. Then they all went over to Raimundo, to help Omi and Dojo.
'I hope you're right Clay. I really do.' Kimiko thought to herself.
Around an hour later, they put Raimundo in the bed, and told Kimiko to go to bed, as they were going to do the same. After Omi, Clay and Dojo left, Kimiko stealthed to the door and put her ear up to it, making sure they were gone. Then she managed to dig out a chair from a whole lot of Jack-bot Junk. She seated it next to the bed, and pulled Raimundo's hand to into hers.
"Rai..." she whispered. "I-I know you can't talk back to me, and I don't even know if you can hear me..." she paused. "but, please...don't die. I'm begging you, and you can't. I need you. Clay, Omi and Dojo needs you. You're family will need you. Master Fung needs you, the monks at the temple need you...The world needs your Raimundo Pedrosa, so don't give up now. Just please, wake up soon." she lay her head down, as tears started to fill her eyes. As the time slowly passed, her eyes soon got heavy and slighty closed a little more every thirty seconds, until finally they were shut all the way. Kimiko quickly drifted into a light sleep, making sure of it, because if Raimundo woke up, she wanted to be there with him.
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Kimiko's eyes fluttered open lightly at the strangest sound. It was Clay talking and eating at the same time, yet, that was always strange. But there was something else. It sounded like sneezing. It was...Omi...He must have been going through a sneezing attack. She sigh soon remembering where she was. The upper part of her body (waist up) shot up. She looked down at Raimundo who's hands were very cold, yet when she felt his forehead, it was hot. She worried, 'What if Raimundo is in some sort of acoma, but is having a fevor. There would be nothing to do for him! That means he could...' she drifted off blinking furiously, trying to hold out the thought of Raimundo dying. Although, she couldn't cry, she felt horrible.
Getting up, and going into the bathroom, she found her brush which Raimundo had in a bag he brought for her, knowing that when they found her, she would like some new clothes. Brushing her raven hair, she quickly got dressed into a white long sleeve shirt with a baby blue vest over it. Then she put on an (again) baby blue scarf, wrapping it around so both ends hung infront of her. She put on a white skirt that went down to about her knees, then put on baby blue tights. She tied her hair up in a bun (make a ponytail, then pull it almost all the way out, that kind of bun) but then put clips in it to keep the bun up on her head (sort of like what they do from prome hair styles). Before oepning the door, she slipped on ankle high, white boots that had a medium sized heel (not too thick, not to thin). When she opened the door, everyone stopped and smiled at her. Indicating that she should come sit and have breakfast with them.
Kimiko giggled before she spoke, "You expireance your first sneeze attack Omi?"
"Sneeze attack? I do not recall..." he trailed off.
"It means you sneeze none stop for a little bit." Kimiko said, but her first words began to get muffled, because she then sneezed.
"Ah yes, I did...But Kimiko...you are too?"
"No Omi, Kim just sneezed once, but you sneezed more than four times, aka, sneezing attack."
"I see!" he smiled brightly, before put his head down and sneezing.
"I see you are both sick!" Dojo slithered up to the table, almost dragging himself. You could see he snuck into the kitchen and ate some things before Clay was suppose to bring it all out.
"Well let's see Dojo...You've known Omi was sick, but incase you didn't pay attention when I told everyone, I fell through ice!" Kimiko rolled her eyes, obviously filling with great annoyance.
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As the day went on, Kimiko decided to go try and find Jack. And surprisingly, she knew where he was. She thought it was creepy, but she also decided to go alone. She grabbed the Golden Tiger Claws, Shrowd and Shadows and the Ruby of Ramsees. (wow, they brought a lot of Shen-Gong-Wu with them :P) She quietly passed through the main room of the hideout and into the garage-type room.
"Golden Tiger Claws!" she slashed a gash in the air and jumped through. As she saw the second gash open she got ready to land. She had closed her eyes, ready to land evenly on the ground, but she found herself slanted. As she opened her eyes, she saw she was on a hill, just outside where she wanted to be. As she sprinted down the hill and into the little Secret Admirer shop she had discovered, looking for romantic places to shop in America. She found it on the outskirts of Washington D.C. (not really one there, I made it up lol as you might be able to tell) Walking in she went to the section where a person sat in a chair behind a desk.
"How may I help you Miss?" the lady asked.
"Hi, I need a note written, and to go, but it's not romantic, I'll tell you what to write."
"I'm sorry miss, my handwritten annonymus notes are only for romance!"
"I'll pay you..." she dug in her purse until she found a one hundred dollar bill. "I'll pay you an extra hundred!"
"What would you like written on this note of yours?"
Kimiko spoke to the person quietly, but she kept nodding her head and writting.
Around ten minutes later Kimiko left the shop, and slipped the Golden Tiger Claws on once again. "Golden Tiger Claws!" she jumped through the gash once again and landed in Jack's evil lair. She looked at the ceiling and could hear Jack's footsteps as he talked to Wuya. Kimiko had to act fast if she wanted to her plan to work. She put the note on his table (with the world map on it) and then once again whispered, "Golden Tiger Claws!" and jumped. Just ask the gash was getting ready to fully dissapear, Jack turned the corner on his stairs and would have seen Kimiko if she was a second later.
Going to his map, not even listening to what Wuya had to say, he found the note. "Wuya, a note, be quiet for a minute, would ya?" he grabbed it and read it, mumbling these words to himself:
Dear Jack,
I've decided that you're just too good, and deserve these Shen-Gong-Wu more than I do. So please, take the Ruby of Ramsees from me. It will be waiting for you at the middle of the biggest basketball court in New York City. Hurry though, otherwhise someone could take it...
Katnappe (can't get the thing over the e...sorry
"Wuya...I need to go to New York real quick, stay here!" without another word, or without an answer, Jack left.
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As Jack landed in the basketball court he saw the Ruby of Ramsees sitting right in the middle. He ran over and touched it, but it began to glow.
"Hey, I think this thing is broken! It's glowing, but no one is here!" Jack said to no one in particular.
"That's where you're wrong Spicer!" Kimiko said in a stern tone from under the Shrowd of Shadows. "Jack, I challenge you to a Xiaolin showdown!"
Jack stood confused for around ten seconds before saying something, "Kimiko! No! Katnappe sent me a note, this Shen-Gong-Wu is mine!"
"Jack...are you honestly that stupid?" she asked with a snickering tone in her voice. There was no reply to Kimiko continued. "Come on idiot! I sent you the note!"
Jack grunted but answered, "Cruel and evil! I like it!"
"Don't even think about it Spicer! My heart belongs to someone else!"
"Oh dang!" Jack said, his words full of sarcasm. "Whatever, just name your game!"
"Anywas...My Golden Tiger Claws against your..." she looked at him, tilting her head. Signaling that he should pick what he uses.
"Ummm...Let me see here!" he dug around in his pockets and finally pulled something out. "The...Mantis Flip Coin?"
"Fine! The game is Truth or Lies, first one to fall loses!"
"Okay Kimiko, I accept your challenge!"
"Let's go, Xiaolin showdown!" They both said at once. The scenery started to change, and ballons were formed from the blacktop of the basket ball court, but turning into actual balloons. Kimiko, in her ninja outfit, stood on a balloon across from Jack. "Gong Yi Tan Pie!" They bothed again yelled at once.
"Jack, truth or lie! Did you use some sort of acoma gas on Raimundo?"
"Umm...Would you kill me if I said yes?"
"Depends..."
"No then." the balloon turned to a lie symbal. Then it popped. "Mantis Flip Coin!" he jumped to another balloon.
"So you did!"
"Don't hurt me! I bruise easily!" he shielded his face with his arms. "...Kimiko, truth or lie. Would you seriously have gone back to Raimundo if you had the chance back in Alaska?"
"Of course I would, don't be stupid!" the balloon again turned to a lie symbal and popped. "Eeek! Golden Tiger Claws!" just as she was at the end of the boundary the gash opened and she fell through. Another appeared, dropping her on a balloon a little lower than Jack.
"What?"
"Okay, so I wouldn't have, but only because I was freezing. And the only way I could have ever been with Raimundo again, is if I sat tight and waited for him to come to me. Otherwhise I would have froze to death trying to reach him." the balloon turned to truth. "Jack..Truth or lie, Why did you use that gas?"
"It's all part of my plan!" the bubble turned to truth, and he smiled. "See I'm an honest guy!" the balloon then turned to lies. It popped, but Jack again used the Mantis Flip Coin to reach another. "Kimiko, truth or lie, why did you trick me?"
"I wanted to know what was wrong with Raimundo. He fell into an acoma this morning...I..." her eyes started to tear up, but she pulled herself together. "I wanted to make sure he was going to be okay, so I set a trap for you, making sure I got to pick the showdown and that no one came with me. I picked Truth or Lies to get answers. That's why." The balloon turned to truth.
Kimiko's eyes cracked a nerve in Jack and he sigh. Something inside of him was saying 'Yes, you finally hit evil Jack!' and another part was saying, 'You never meant to kill anyone.' and another part was saying, 'Right?' his mind wasn't sure if he wanted to kill anyone, or just get revenge. All he really wanted was Sam.
"Jack." Kimiko broke Jack away from his thoughts when she spoke in a shaky tone, "Truth or Lie...Will this gas kill Raimundo?"
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DUN DUN DUN There is your chapter people! Hope I didn't take too long to update, just really busy...school, homework, friends...crap like that :P Thanks to all who reviewed the last chapter and read this one, means a lot to me :). Umm well, what will happen to Raimundo? What will Jack's answer be? and What will Kimiko's reaction be to Jack's answer? I will be updating 'Foreign Exchange' next, so you gunna have to wait, and keep reading to find out. Although this cliff hanger was pretty obvious, sorry bout that, but the cliff hanger really means, Kimiko doesn't know, what will Jack say to her, and what will she do. What will everyone do? We all don't know, of course, except for me! haha I love being the author of my story :P otherwhise well it wouldn't be my story...enough with my rambling, I do that a lot don't I...moving on, please review and keep reading, tell me what you think:) And oh my god, it's actually a long chapter! Yay!