So this chapter is basically one of those lighter chapters, like after a fight. It kinda shows bonding time for Raimundo, Kimiko and Chase. But you are going to have to read to find everything out.

P.S. thanks for your reviews, they make me smile.

P.P.S- i don't know what happened with the bold and underlineing, it wasn't like that on the saved document on my computer, so Thank You Kosmic for pointing that out in your review.

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Later

Raimundo appeared in Chase's thrown room, Kimiko in his arms. Her right side was pressed against his chest, as to mind her left leg, which was burned, thanks to Wuya. Her arms were wrapped around his neck, and Raimundo was painfully aware of the body contact. This girl was bringing his Latin blood to set her on the edge of the fountain, for his benefit more than anything, and also hoping to avoid Chase and his mocking eyes. Raimundo knew it was useless, because Chase was always good at reading emotions, and his emotions were an open book presently.

"This place is huge! You train here!" Kimiko's voice brought Rai out of his worsening thoughts, which he didn't mind.

"Yeah, for the last few years. It loses its majesties after you clean the floors though." Rai frowned, recalling the memory.

"That would be true, but cooking spray on the floor was only funny to you." Chase coolly spoke, making Kimiko and Raimundo jump.

"You need to wear a bell or something." Rai groaned.

Chase shrugged his shoulders and turned to Kimiko, and raised his eyebrow at her condition. Her leg was burned very badly, her cloths were tattered. Her skin was littered with scrapes and bruises, not to mention dirt. He could also see the bruise on the side of her head.

"What happened?"

Kimiko was intimidated by Chase. He seemed to drip with power, and his gold armor made her scared for some unknown reason. She managed to stutter out a response after collecting her nerves. "Well… umm… Wuya and I fought… umm… and, and… she really hates me."

Chase knew there had to be more to the story, but decided to question it later, after she cleaned up, and was properly healed.

"Raimundo, carry her to the infirmary, so we can heal her wounds, then show her to her room. You can take a shower once to your room. Cloths will be waiting for you when you are done." Chase explained.

Kimiko nodded, and gave a squeak of surprise when Raimundo lifted her up again. Chase looked back, after hearing the squeak only to see the blush on both of there faces.

'This is going to be fun' Chase grinned as he turned back around.

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Omi, Clay, Master Monk Guan, and Master Fung sat in the temple vault. Omi just finished explaining who the Dragon of Fire was, and the fight she had with Wuya.

"That's great! Kimiko is no longer with Wuya, but where is she?" Guan asked.

"Well dats the bad news. After her fight with Wuya, she vanished, we tried looking for her, but there was no trace of her." Clay said depressed.

"Don't feel ashamed Clay. You discovered the Dragon of Fire. Now we can attempt to locate Kimiko now." Fung justified.

"Master Fung, that is not all. We have more bad news." Omi announced, his head down. "Wuya has been free for two years, not a month."

Omi looked up to meet his masters faces. Guan's face was scrunched together in shock and confusion, probably trying to figure out how he missed it, Omi figured. He then turned to Master Fung. Fung's eyes were wide, and his mouth hung open, as if he were about to speak. Omi then looked back down, not likening seeing his mentors so lost.

Dojo, not liking the uncomfortable silence, cleared his throat a few times, which caused Guan and Fung to return to reality.

"Well this is interesting." Fung stated.

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Kimiko just got out of the shower. Chase had healed her leg pretty well, and also the rest of her injuries. Her leg that was burned still had to heal some, but she was not in pain. She wrapped a towel around her body as she stepped out of the bathroom.

She had to say, joining Chase was great so far. She had her own bathroom, and her room was amazing. The room itself was huge, about the size of Jack's basement. The walls were a bright yellow, and made the room seem almost bigger. The floor was stone, but it had a black area rug, that took up almost the whole floor. She also had a walk-in closet, that was currently empty as of right now, but she could easily fix that. Other than that the room was pretty much empty. Rai had been right when he said Chase wasn't much of a decorator.

Her favorite part of the room though, was her bed. It was a canopy style bed, and had a red comforter, and she could see yellow silk sheets poking out of the bottom. There were about five pillows, two being red, and the rest yellow. 'Just like fire' she thought.

She then looked around the room, looking for the cloths Chase had promised her. She spied them sitting on a red arm chair next to her door. She went over and picked them up, but immediately frowned. She then noticed a note that said dinner was in half an hour and groaned.

"You got to be kidding me."

Thirty minutes later, dinner was waiting, and so were Raimundo and Chase.

"She has to becoming down shortly! Why can't we just eat without her." Rai said, staring greedily at the food.

"We wait because it is proper." Chase sighed as he swatted Rai's hand away from the bread. Chase himself though, was getting quite hungry, and also impatient. He was about to call one of his cats to go fetch her, when he heard footsteps coming down the hall.

"You see she is coming." Chase addressed Raimundo.

Raimundo then looked up to see Kimiko entering the room, and almost fell out of his chair. Kimiko was in a yellow sports tank top, and pants that seemed big for her, and looked familiar. They were black pants, that were baggier around her thighs, but tightened the further down they went, and dragged on the floor. Keeping the pants up was a black piece of cloth tied around her hips. Rai then realized why the pants looked familiar.

"You gave her my pants!" Rai yelled. Chase merely smirked, enjoying Raimundo's discomfort.

Kimiko sat down, blushing madly, not really knowing what to do. She looked from Rai's bewildered face, to Chase's grin, and started to get mad.

"Well are we going to eat!"

"Yeah, yeah, defiantly." Rai practically screamed, finally tearing his eyes away from her, and started loading his plate with food.

Chase watched Rai with knowing eyes. Whenever Raimundo was nervous or flustered, he always ate a lot of food. They then ate in silence.

When dinner was over a lion and a cheetah started clearing the table.

"Well I'm tired, I think I'm going to bed." Kimiko said, and stood up. The whole time no one talked, and she knew why. Whenever she looked over at Rai, he would be looking at her, well shoveling food into his mouth. She was just in the hallway when Chase yelled after her.

"Your training begins tomorrow morning at five sharp."

Once she was out of earshot, Raimundo glared at Chase.

"You did that on purpose!"

"Raimundo, I can assure you I don't know what you are saying." Chase grinned, containing the urge to chuckle.

"You gave her my pants. My. Pants." he enunciated.

"I don't have too many cloths around here for girls, in case you didn't notice."

"You had four weeks to make her cloths! Did the seamstress get behind because she was making you a straight jacket!" a flustered Rai spoke.

"How was I supposed to know she was going to accept the offer." Chase laughed.

"You are a bastard sometimes!" Rai insulted as he got up and left.

"By the way, her robes won't be ready until next week" Chase called after him, causing Rai to pause, then start on his way again.

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"Guan we have a problem." Fung said coming out of his mediation. "Kimiko has joined Chase."

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Three days have passed since Kimiko joined Chase. She was exhausted to say the least.

She was stuck wearing Raimundo's pants till next week, until her robes were ready. That was the only problem, Chase planned on having her and Raimundo training together by next week, making training that much more stressful.

She didn't completely mind though. In these three days she's learned more than Wuya taught her in two years. Her training started at five in the morning, and went to five at night, with a thirty minute lunch break. She meditated in the morning for an hour, then trained on controlling her fire till lunch at noon. After lunch was martial arts, which she didn't mind so much, considering she knew how to fight. What got her though was the weapons training, she had never held a sword before in her life, until yesterday.

The most hated part about her training though, strength training, which was the last thing before dinner.

Currently she was sitting in the lotus position, but the only part of her body that was touching the ground were her hands. She had been sitting there for ten minutes, and her arms were burning.

"You can now rest."

Kimiko crashed to the floor breathing heavily. She looked up at Chase who showed no emotion on his face.

"You have done well these past few days. You are a much better listener than Raimundo, and its quite nice." Chase praised.

Kimiko smiled, then asked a question that had been bugging her for awhile.

"Where did you find Raimundo, if you don't mind me asking. How did you come to train him?"

Chase was taken aback by such a question. He would never admit this to anyone but himself, but he had come to care for Raimundo like a father, or maybe an older brother, after living and training him for two years. Chase sighed, and decided to tell her the basics.

"When I sensed that the Wind Dragon revealed, I wanted to train them. Don't ask me why, I just did." Kimiko closed her mouth and then kept listening.

"When I found Raimundo, he was in Brazil. When I went to his house, his parents didn't want him to go, saying he had a responsibility or people counting on him." Chase explained. "Well to put it simply, he and his parents got into a yelling match in Portuguese. I couldn't quite understand everything, but what I did understand was Raimundo was sick of being held back." Chase then sighed remembering the incident.

"Well his parents asked me to leave, and I did, but I told them where I was staying if they wanted to talk. Well I figured they wouldn't want to talk, but I stayed the night nonetheless, just in case. Good thing I did too. Later that night, there was a knock on my hotel door, it was Raimundo." Chase then closed his eyes and took a breath. "He basically ran away from his home to come train." Kimiko gasped. She couldn't imagine running away from her papa.

"It gets a little more depressing." Chase spoke. "He hasn't talked to his family in two years, they have not a clue where he is at, and I believe that Raimundo has never been happier."

Kimiko could feel her heart almost breaking for Raimundo. She never would have guessed what he had been through.

"Is that why you care so much about him?" Chases face faltered. He didn't think she could be able to pick up on that, but he recovered.

"He is my student and nothing more." Chase lied.

"You know the one thing Wuya did teach me." Kimiko said. Chase just stared at her. "She told me that the Dragon of Fire isn't just aggression, and anger, but they know compassion, and caring as well. I can sense you care for him Chase, but you can keep lying to everyone else if it makes you feel better." Kimiko whispered.

Chase was about to excuse her when a crash was heard, and blue smoke was coming from the east wing of his palace. Both him and Kimiko stood up to see what happened. When they walked in they saw Raimundo laughing on the ground holding his stomach. Chase looked up to see two of his servants (not in cat form), completely blue, along with most everything else in the room.

Chase rubbed the bridge of his nose, and snapped his finger. When one of his cats came, he whispered to the cat, which then left.

"What on earth possessed you to do this!" Chase yelled glaring at Raimundo.

Raimundo looked at Chase still chuckling. "Your glare doesn't scare me as much anymore" Rai said, but gulped when Chase showed his teeth. "Well, I was actually practicing spells, like you told me to, but it kinda didn't work, and this was the result." he explained.

Chase went over to the spell book, and looked at the spell. He frowned, when he realized the spell was for a smoke bomb. He turned back around and Raimundo was still chuckling.

"This wasn't a mistake, was it." Kimiko then piped in, after seeing the look on Chase's face, and the grin plastered on Rai's.

Just then the jungle cat returned holding a toothbrush in its mouth. Chase grabbed the toothbrush, then turned to Raimundo.

"Do to your actions, you get to brush all the cats teeth tonight." Chase ordered.

Raimundo's laughter stopped when he saw Chase holding his toothbrush. "Vamos lá. Foi uma brincadeira." Rai whined.

"Yes, and I have warned you about that before." Chase scolded, then turned to Kimiko. "Let this be a lesson for you as well. Oh and Raimundo, you can start with Adegoke first."

Raimundo turned towards the cheetah, that sat down, whipping it's tail around.

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"That brat. I gave her everything!" Wuya screamed.

"Technically you gave her nothing, she was just part of a plan." Jack said.

"Well it was my plan, she was lucky to even been alive." Wuya snapped.

Wuya sat one on of Jacks stools sulking. What was she going to do now. She had no way to keep tabs on the girl, or anyone else for that matter. All she had was Jack. Wuya scoffed at the thought. Maybe though, her being on her own won't be so bad, she still won't be learning anything. But those monks know she isn't with her anymore, they will be looking for her.

Wuya then perked up. The monks will be looking for Kimiko. Wuya formed a plan in her mind. She just needed to borrow something from a certain someone.

"Jack, do you have plans tonight."

"Well I was planning on making a new Jack-bot." Jack replied.

Wuya stood up and marched over to him. "Not anymore you are not, I need you to go get the Looking Glass" Wuya yelled as she grabbed him by his collar.

"Okay, okay. By the way, when is the last time you brushed your teeth, or had a mint?"

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Kimiko wandered around Chase's palace. She kept getting lost, and she couldn't even find a cat to lead her back to her room. She huffed in anger as she turned the corner, only to find Rai. She had to aww at the sight. Raimundo sat against the wall with his eyes closed, while stroking a white tigers back.

Raimundo opened his eyes when he saw Kimiko. "Lost again princesa." Rai joked, as the tiger lifted its head to look at Kimiko.

"Are you done brushing the cats teeth." Kimiko shot back.

Raimundo glared at Kimiko, but she sat down across from him anyway. They stared at each other for a few minutes, till Rai closed his eyes again. Kimiko sat there a little uncomfortable, not really knowing what to do. She couldn't come up with small talk or anything, so she started taping her fingers against the ground.

Raimundo shot an eye open upon hearing the nose. "Could you not do that, it kinda annoys me, not to mention Candida." Raimundo said pointing to the cat.

"Sorry." Kimiko then stared at the cat for a minute. "She really likes you, I haven't seen to many of Chase's cats that mellow."

"Its simple, she is mine." Rai replied, eyes still closed.

"Really, he let you have one of his cats?" Kimiko said astonished.

"Actually, this isn't a warrior Chase has defeated, he actually went to go get this one from a litter. She is an actual tiger."

"He did that for you, that's sweet." Kimiko smiled. Rai couldn't help but smile either.

"Actually, he got Candida for me so I would learn responsibility. I hated her at first if you could believe it." Rai said as he scratched behind her ears. "Clearly she has grown on me since. Want to pet her?"

"will she let me?" Kimiko said nervously.

"Of course." He then used his wind powers to bring Kimiko to the closer to him and Candida. Candida started to growl ever so lightly, which only made Kimiko more nervous.

"Let her smell your hand first." Rai commanded gently. He saw she wasn't moving, and reached his hand over, and grabbed her hand, holding it in front of Candida's nose.

She sniffed her hand for a few moments, then slowly got up, standing on Raimundo doing so. Her action caused Rai to let go of Kimiko's hand, and leaving Kimiko completely frozen. Kimiko could hear Raimundo talking in Portuguese, probably scolding her for standing on him.

When Candida was standing on all fours, she took one step towards Kimiko, then promptly laid down across Kimiko's lap. Kimiko was shocked to say the least.

"Princesa, she likes you!" Rai exclaimed. He then scooted closer, petting Candida on the head.

Kimiko hesitantly ran her hand across her back, then looked at Rai who was smiling at her.

"She is really just a baby, but she would most likely protect me if she had to." Kimiko nodded as she continued to pet the cat.

Rai's hormones were racing, as Kimiko sat there petting Candida. He couldn't help it, but Kimiko wearing his pants, and sitting in a red sports tank top, that hugged her body, wasn't helping much either. He than shifted his eyes upward. Her hair was down, ending just above her chest, and Rai wanted to know if it felt as silky as it looked. He then reached his hand out, pushing one side behind her ear, without realizing he had done so, until Kimiko jerked her head up.

Rai then only realized what he did, but couldn't bring himself to move. Her hair was smooth, but her milky skin was so soft. He then realized that he didn't just like her looks, but could actually feel himself falling for her personality as well. Her stubbornness, and her kindness, even her anger. Yet when she was calm, he found himself very attracted to her.

Kimiko's heart was pounding in her chest. Why did he do that, why hadn't he pulled away, why was she hoping he wouldn't move his hand. Her mind raced as she sat there frozen. He really was cute, came somewhere in the back of her mind. His tan skin, his muscles, those eyes, damn those eyes.

His attitude though, was what she really liked though. His cockiness, and his child like demeanor, she couldn't help but to be drawn in. Tonight though, when she came across him with Candida, she saw his gentle and caring side, she was officially a goner.

Both sat there staring at each other, frozen. Kimiko then made the first move and leaned into his hand lightly, for reasons unknown. Raimundo then ran his thumb across her cheek. What they were about to do next was a mystery to the both of them, when Candida stood up, and started growling, walking to the end of the hallway.

Both Kimiko and Raimundo were blushing madly when they stood up, but followed Candida anyway.

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So the tigers name, Candida, its an actual Portuguese name that means white, funny right. Also Vamos lá. Foi uma brincadeira means come on it was just a joke. I hope you can figure princesa out. But also, Chase has been alive for 1500 years, I think he had time to study languages. Also I'm sorry if the description of the room sucked. Please let me know what ya think.