Title: Revealing Memories
Fandom: Xiaolin Showdown
Characters: Rai, Kim
Prompt: 090:Home
Word Count: 614
Rating: G
Summary: Kimiko is at home and looks through a photo album.
Author's Note: Had help from Nickelback's 'Photograph'.
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I flopped down on my bed. It's great to be in Tokyo again. Even after all this time, it still feels like home. But I can't help but wonder what the others are doing right now. Raimundo in particular. I mean with all the people that I spent time with at the temple, it was always him that I would talk to. Sure he can be arrogant, and he pulls pranks on a daily basis, but deep down, he's a really sweet guy. He cares a lot about me and the others and would be dead if evil conquered the world. I guess that's why he was chosen leader then.
But still, after spending five years in the temple, it felt like a new home for me. Where I had brothers that watched over me. Well, Clay and Omi were more like brothers then Raimundo. He's more like a protector for me. Listen to me, I'm talking about him like some preteen whose madly in love with the school jock. Well, I wouldn't say that I loved him, I did, but more as a best friend than anything else.
Clay always teases me about Rai and I. Every time he does I would just tell him that we were only friends. Where would he get the idea anyway? It wasn't like we were doing anything. Just doing friend like things. Him pulling pranks while I throw fire at his butt. That was all.
I sat up reached over to the photo album that lay on my nightstand and brought it onto my lap. I turned to the first page and it showed a picture of us on our first day of training. I was only thirteen then. I found my eyes glaze over at Raimundo's smirking face. He always did have that face. I turned the page and it was of the time where I found absolute focus and Raimundo is sitting there laughing at me while I was holding that ten ton tea cup. I skipped a few pages and came upon when Raimundo came back from the Heylin side and I gave him a kiss on the cheek. Is it me or is he blushing? Why would he be blushing? It's not like there was anything there, right? I skipped over a couple of pages to when he was made Shoku Warrior and he was giving me this look. His eyes were half lowered and his big bushy eyebrows were raised slightly as he held me. Why is he looking at me like that? Does he... No, it couldn't possibly... There's no way.
While I was shoving the idea to the back of my head, I went ahead to when I was going out with Theo, a guy from the village, and we were just about to leave and catch a movie. Then I saw Raimundo hanging around in the background and he was scowling. SCOWLING! Why would he be doing that? I remember that he didn't really like Theo but I couldn't really fathom why. Maybe... No... We were friends. There's absolutely no way he did. Is it possible? Even if he did, why didn't he do anything? I mean of all the time we spent at the temple, he could've done something. We were there twenty-four seven, unless we were Shen-Gong-Wu hunting, and he had plenty of opportunities.
Wait, why am I making a big deal out of this? I mean, it's nothing, right? But why can't I break my gaze away from him? Great ghost of Dashi. Is Clay right? Was there something between us that I was too blind to see?
Do I like him?