Chapter 4…….Giving Up

"You know now your not talking?" his sister said.

He gave her a dirty look and walked back into his room. He reached for the phone in his pocket but then remembered it was lying outside. He half didn't believe a word she had just told him but he knew that Toshiro would do that.

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Kimiko threw the phone in her purse and walked into the kitchen where Kieko was looking at a magazine.

"Oh my god you told him!" Kieko said looking at Kimiko's frown on her face.

"He didn't say anything, what does that mean?"

"He's pissed!"

"Oh my god killing Jack is starting to sound really good!"

"No Kim we can't do that we'll go to prison then you'll never see him again!"

"I know he's coming over for dinner again tonight total gag!"

"Well you can always get a divorce,"

"Yeah and then my dad loose his company, of course it's not like my dad has done anything for me!"

"He ruined your life,"

"Yeah I know I have to go, I'm supposed to buy a new outfit for tonight or something, I'll call you later!"

"Okay bye,"

Kimiko walked back to the car and down to some stores at the edge of town.

"To cute, to cute, still to cute, eww, to cute, cute!" she pulled out a short summer dress in light green.

She walked it up to the front counter and pulled out her credit card. Then she was on to her shoes. When she got back to the house she had more bags then expected but she carefully snuck them upstairs. She was sorting them all out when her dad came upstairs.

Knock knock

She kicked some bags under her bed and opened the door.

"Be down in 15 minutes their here,"

"Okay whatever," she said closing the door on him.

She grabbed the dress and put her hair back in a ponytail. She walked slowly and elegantly down the stairs and walked into the living room. The only open seat was next to Jack. She sat down faking a smile.

"Toshiro, I think we should move up the wedding, how about two weeks?" the plump man asked.

Kimiko's eyes popped open and her mouth opened slightly.

"But we can't," she said standing up.

"Kim!" her dad snapped forcing her to sit back down next to Jack, "That sound perfect but why so soon?"

"Do it or else loose ever profit you have," he said standing up, "let's give these two some alone time."

The two left the room talking about something leaving Jack and Kim alone on the coach. Kimiko quickly stood up away from him and sat in a chair. Jack was twiddling with his fingers. Kimiko tapped her freshly painted nails on the table next to her. The scent of the roses drifted through the air. No one said anything.

"Kim," Jack started.

"Shut up!" she said putting a hand up.

He was irritated by this but never said so. It's not that he loved Kim it's that well he wanted her to at least like him.

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Raimundo had snuck out of the house and was now walking around town in the middle of the night. No one was out and the only light came from the moon and the few light posts they had up around his town. He yawned and looked down at his scratched up cell phone. It was late but he wasn't tired just bored and confused.

"I wonder who she's marrying." Rai said to himself as he kicked a soda can around.

For a second he could have sworn he saw her out of the corner of his eye but it was just a figment of his imagination. Kim was probably flirting or even worse kissing her new fiancé. He shook that thought right out of his head. He decided to go see the person he was here for and walked up the street to the hospital.

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Toshiro came back in and saw Kim sitting across the room from Jack looking out at the sky. They hadn't talked and he knew it. He nodded at Jack and he got up and left the room bowing to Kim who rolled her eyes at the gesture.

"Kim it's disappointing to see you disobey me,"

"Dad I'm not disobeying you I'm just not doing what you had in mine for me."

"The weddings in two weeks and then you will never be able to see or speak to that boy again."

"What?"

"I don't want you ever thinking about him, he's not right for you."

"How can you say that you've never talked to him or met him or anything!"

Kimiko stormed out of the room and ran up the stairs to her bedroom. She started to cry into her pillow. The picture of her dad with her was sitting on her biro. She looked blankly at it with no emotion or feeling at all and knocked it off smashing the glass into pieces. She took a lighter from her desk and burnt the wooden frame.

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Raimundo took the elevator up to the third floor where his brother was staying and sat on the chair he had been in before. He fell asleep there because he didn't want to go into his brothers room until tomorrow. The next morning the lights shined bright making his eyes sparkle. He looked at the nurses who walked in and out of his brothers room and decided to go for it. He opened the door slowly and looked at his brother who lie helpless on the bed. His once tan face had turned pale and wrinkly. The once bright and big eyes and turned dull and small with dark circles that formed under them.

"Raimundo is that you?"

"Yeah hey what's up?"

"Nothing I can't believe you're here did mom call you or something."

"No I saw it in the paper."

"Oh I guess their advertising it everywhere."

"Yeah I came to visit and I'm going to stay as long as it takes."

"Thanks,"

Raimundo grasped his hand into his brothers who lie limp on the bed. Wires and machines were everywhere. He stayed there until his brother fell asleep at the end of the day. The once squiggly lines on the heart machine were beginning to fade into short straight ones and doctors came rushing in. Raimundo left and sat down at his chair, scared at what just might of happened.

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Kimiko cried for only about an hour even though it felt like years to her. She had to contact Clay, he knew how to make her feel better.

"Hi Clay," she said through small sobs.

"Kim what's the matter you sound terrible?"

"Raimundo hasn't told you?"

"Nope I haven't heard from him since he landed in Brazil."

"Oh I'm getting married."

"Wait don't you mean were getting married like you and Raimundo?"

"No the reason I was wanted in Tokyo was because my father arranged marriage to the Spicer son."

"Kim that's terrible!"

"My dad is making sure I don't ever talk to him again or see him again after the wedding in two weeks,"

"I wish I could help you but I know that you will see him again no matter what it takes."

"Thanks Clay I knew you would help,"

"No problem I have to go though bye,"

-

Raimundo was awoken by a man in a blue scrubs.

"Are your Raimundo Pedrosa?"

"Yeah that's me, why?" he said groggily.

"I'm Doctor I'm Dr. Silva, your brothers doctor, he's not doing to well and he most likely won't live but he wants to see you one last time."

He walked inside his brothers room where the rest of his family was gathered around his brothers bed.

Authors Note:

Okay I'm going to be gone for awhile so I won't be able to post for two days but don't worry their will be another chapter after this one before I leave so that I don't leave you hanging! Thanks for all your reviews their so awesome! So please do it again and I'll update soon! I forgot my disclaimor! here it is I don't own Xiaolin Showdown but i do own most of the plot to this story, i had some help from zestychicken2!