Title: Dark Trust
Fandom: Xiaolin Showdown
Characters: Rai, Kim, Omi, Clay
Prompt: 074:Dark
Word Count: 1,414
Rating: PG
Summary: Omi and Clay accidentally lock Rai and Kim in the Shen Gong Wu vault.
Author's Note: Very funny I should say. :D

Omi and Clay walked into the Shen Gong Wu vault with the Golden Tiger Claws and Third Arm Sash in their hands. But they stopped short when they saw that it was open.

"Clay, do you think Jack Spicer is down there?" Omi whispered.

"I'm not sure, partner. But there's one way to find out," Clay whispered back as he walked over to the chimes and entered the combo. The stone stairs closed up, sealing whoever was in the vault. "If it is Jack, there would be no way he can get outta there."

"Oh very clever, my friend." The two went out of the vault with laughter pouring into the grounds. Unbeknownst to them that it was not Jack that they just sealed.

"RAIMUNDO!"

"What?!"

"What did you do?!"

"I didn't do anything!"

"Than why is it pitch black in here?!"

"How should I know?!"

"UGH! It must be Omi and Clay then."

"Can't be, not even Clay is that stupid."

"He would if he thought Jack was down here." Kimiko let out another groan. She was so frustrated in fact that she threw her arms up and her fist made contact with something soft. She heard the source make an 'oof' sound and then tumbled down the stone steps. Then she heard the stumbling stop midway down and panic took over her demeanor.

"RAIMUNDO!" She raced down the stairs with her hands feeling the walls. That is, until she stumbled on something soft and she lost her balance and fell down and landed on that soft landing. She felt warmth coming onto her body.

"Kimiko?" she heard the source of heat say. She felt her face flush.

"Rai? Are you all right?"

"I dunno. Light up your hand and we'll see." Kimiko summoned her element and her hand lit up like a torch. The light traveled and revealed her laying on top of him with her face hovering over his. Thank goodness the light was too dim to reveal her blushes. But it did reveal the side of his head bleeding. Her eyes widened and she quickly got off him and helped him in a sitting position with his back on the wall.

"Where does it hurt?" she asked.

"Just my side." With her free hand, she took off his sash and manage to take off his tunic. "What are you doing?"

"I'm seeing how bad the damage is. Does this hurt?" she added while she placed her hand on his side, until he winced just above his rib cage. "Sorry. It looks like a broken rib." She took her hand off and surveyed him. "Not to mention there's blood dripping the side of your face. Let me take care of that." She quickly extinguished her hand and ripped off her sleeve, ignited her hand again and dabbed it on his head.

"Thanks nurse Kim, but couldn't you just use the Dragon's Tooth Shen Gong Wu?" Her eyes widened and mentally slapped herself. Of all the Wu that could heal wounds, she had to forget the Dragon's Tooth. She looked at his smirking face and threw a punch on his arm.

"Hey, I'm injured. Remember?" She scoffed off and went to get the Dragon's Tooth. She retrieved the Wu from the drawer. She went back to Raimundo and pointed the Wu to his head.

"Dragon's Tooth," she said and the bleeding stopped. She wiped the left over blood with her ripped off sleeve and did the same with his broken rib. "How do you feel?"

"Like a million bucks. Thanks, I owe you," he added with a solemn smile.

"It's not a problem and you don't owe me anything," she said as she walked back to the drawer and put the Tooth back.

"No really. If you weren't here, I don't know what I'd do." She looked over at him with a curious look on her.

"Really?"

"Yeah. You're like my support system or whatever." She smiled at him as she walked back to him and sat down in front of him.

"So, if I didn't come to the temple, what would you do?"

"I dunno. I'd probably still be that jerk from day one."

"Not to mention totally careless."

"Right." She looked at him furtively.

"You've changed a lot since that day," she said.

"Well, I wouldn't say a lot."

"Are you kidding? Remember your first Xiaolin Showdown?"

"Yeah. What about it?"

"Well, after you lost the Sword of the Storm, you've done a lot of research and Shen Yi Bu dared Tubbimura and won it back."

"So?"

"So, you've changed that day and I don't think you've truly changed until... y'know... when you..."

"When I what?"

"Y'know... joined the Heylin side," she added meekly and he stared at her with a surprised look. "But it wasn't until you came back that you matured a lot."

"OK, fair enough. And I'll admit, a lot has happened since then."

"Yeah, but what has really amazed me is that you didn't let Omi's comments put you down."

"Yeah, it took him a long time to trust me again."

"If I recall, the longest out of all of us."

"Yeah. What about you?"

"What do you mean?"

"How long did it take you trust me again?" She thought back to that time and she couldn't help but feel the betrayal of when he left. But she did manage fast forward through that time to when she thought it was best.

"I think it was when you tried to protect me from evil two headed Dojo," she responded. He considered that time and a thought struck him.

"Wait a sec, that was after I moved up to you guys. What gives?" She looked away from him and down the dark passageway.

"I dunno. There was still something about you that I couldn't make out."

"Like what?"

"I think it was something along the lines of whether you cared or not."

"Kim, you know I do," he said defensively.

"I know. It was just the timing. That's all." He then sat up and grabbed her hand and stared directly at her face.

"Kimiko, even then, I would die before anything happens to you." She stared back with raised eyebrows.

"Really?"

"Really."

He was so close to her that she can feel his breath on her lips. Her heart raced at ten miles per hour as he appeared to be coming closer. He then raised his hand that was on hers to her bare arm and gently traced upwards. Her body was trembling that she wasn't even aware that she put out her flame. Their lips were about to touch when light suddenly flooded down the vault. Footsteps were racing down the stone steps.

"Sorry, partners. We didn't know that you were down here. We just thought it might have been Jack and..." Clay stopped short as he spotted the two. It wasn't a good scene either. Rai was shirtless and Kimiko's sleeve was ripped off. His hand was on her bare arm and their faces were so close. They looked at him with surprised faces. Then Omi came up behind Clay and question marks appeared over him.

"Kimiko, Raimundo, why are you sitting so close?" he asked. Then the two in question gazed at each other and then jumped three feet away.

"It's not what you think. After you idiots locked us down here, I fell down the stairs," Raimundo said defensively.

"Yeah and he had a broken rib and a cut on his head so I was helping him," Kimiko added in. Then Omi appeared in front of Raimundo and surveyed him.

"You do not seem injured to me."

"That's because I used the Dragon's Tooth to heal him." Omi then turned to Kimiko.

"But that does not explain why your sleeve is missing."

"That's because she used it for my head. I was bleeding pretty good." Kimiko retrieved her blood soaked sleeve and showed it to Omi. He let out a defeated sigh and started walking up the stairs. Kimiko followed behind. But Clay remained behind as he watched Raimundo put his tunic back on with a smirk on him. Rai noticed.

"What?" Clay just continued to stare and Raimundo blushed. "We were just talking, OK?"

"I didn't say a thing."

"No but I know what you're thinking and I'm telling you, nothing happened."

"All right, but you didn't need to be so defensive about it." Raimundo's eyes widened as he watched Clay leave.