Hey yall. Another chapter. Thank you all for the lovely reviews, they are amazing, they brighten my day. Anyway, what you really want to read…
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Raimundo walked towards Kimiko's room after changing into a pair of jeans, and a semi tight green tee shirt. His head was still spinning after Wuya's attack, and emotions were running hay-wire through his body. He felt sad for Kimiko, mad for her, frustrated for her, any emotion she was feeling, he felt it. He came to Kimiko's door, and lightly knocked.
"You can come in."
"You almost ready?" he questioned as he slowly opened the door.
"Almost." came her disheartened voice. She then walked out of the bathroom in a pair of jeans, and a simple black v-neck, and a yellow tank top underneath. Her hair was still in a pony tail on the top of her head. What Rai noticed the most though were her still red eyes.
She walked over to her bed, and grabbed a messenger type bag, and put it across her body. "Ready. How are we getting to Tokyo?" She breathed, probably trying to keep herself from crying all over again.
"Do you have a picture I could look at of Tokyo?" Raimundo requested. Kimiko dug into her bag, and pulled out a PDA, and clicked a few buttons, then turned it so Raimundo could see it. It showed a giant building, which had people walking in the background, but Kimiko smiling hugging a short man, that was graying; who he assumed was her dad.
"Okay, umm… you may want to hold on tight." Rai said cutting off, as he spread his arms as if he was going to hug her.
"You…what do you mean? Hug you?" Kimiko said with wide eyes, and a small blush.
"I normally don't travel with a person, so I need to concentrate that much more, so yeah, a really tight hug." Raimundo said blushing.
Kimiko then walked towards him, and rested her head against his chest, and her arms around his waist, then interlocking her hands. She really needed to get to her dad, and a hug also sounded good. She then felt Raimundo put a hand across her shoulders, and the other around her lower back.
"Take a deep breath." He whispered into her hair. She did as she was told, and felt the wind circling her, and sending chills through her body. She then heard people talking and cars, and other big city noises.
She opened her eyes, and lifted her head from Raimundo's chest, but not breaking the hug, and saw she was standing in front of her papa's building. She then blushed when she saw people staring at her and Rai, and gently pulled away. She then grabbed Rai's hand and dragged him into the building.
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"Master Guan, we found the Fist of Tebigong, and trounced on Jacks backside!"
"Congratulations, young monks." Guan beamed. Their collection of Wu was growing, and this meant that Wuya would not gain more power.
"Have ya found anything out 'bout Kimiko? It's been a week, and she was hurt." Clay asked, with a worried tang to his voice.
"Master Fung, and the other elder monks are working on that matter as we speak. They believe that she is in a magic protected area, but once she leaves, we will be able to find her. Dojo then jumped onto Guans shoulder.
"Speak of the devil, here comes the Fungster." Dojo pointed out.
"We have found Kimiko, but she is not alone." Fung frowned.
"Well that mean she's got some much needed help, after all she is a girl." Omi said, but Clay kicked him in the side, making him shut up.
"It's who she is with that concerns me. She is with Raimundo." Fung clarified. "So undoubtedly she is with Chase."
"Where are they now?" Guan asked.
"Tokyo."
"Omi, Clay, go there, and find them. Just talk." Guan dictated as Fung nodded in agreement.
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"Kimiko, shouldn't we be heading to a hospital?" Raimundo questioned from inside the elevator.
"No, he doesn't want news crews, and cameras flashing, and reporters gabbing about him being in the hospital." Kimiko said with a monotone voice.
"Who's your dad?" Rai asked curiously.
"Torisho Tohimiko." Was all she said, causing Raimundo to go bug eyed, but kept his silence.
The silence carried all the way to the top floor of the enormous building, until the doors dinged, opening to the penthouse. Kimiko ran off the elevator, leaving Raimundo standing by himself.
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"Dojo, are you sure we are going in the right direction." Omi asked, well also trying not to get stepped on.
"I am positive; I can sense her power, but also Raimundo's as well. You see when two dragons are together, the power reading is off the charts!"
"Thank ya fur the lesson Dojo, but how close are we? Crowds aren't really my thang." Clay complained.
Dojo took a moment to sniff the air before responding, "Not that far away, maybe hundred more feet." Clay and Omi then took that cue to start to walk faster, wishing to escape the crowd as soon as possible.
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Kimiko had taken off no more than thirty seconds ago, but Raimundo felt he was standing in front of the elevator for thirty minutes. What was he supposed to do? He had no idea where Kimiko took off to, and he didn't think exploring around her home would be polite, even though he was very tempted. From what he could see of her home, he was guessing it was high-tech, and very colorful.
The walls were bright yellow, and then had digital picture frames covering the wall. Each frame switched from photos, that mostly contained Kimiko, and who Raimundo was guessing Torisho, her dad. He couldn't help but smile at the photos, she loved her dad, and he clearly loved her.
Raimundo jumped out of his skin as a finger tapped his upper arm. He slowly turned around, afraid of whom it was, and how would he explain what he was doing here, and having whoever it was believe him. When he was fully turned around, he saw a shorter man standing there. He was short, and had black hair, that was slowly starting to grey. His eyes then enlarged as he realized who was standing in front of him.
"I-I-I…" he stammered, but composed himself enough to speak a sentence. "You're her dad, yo-uu're Torisho Tohimoko."
"By her I sure hope you mean my Kimiko."
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"Turn here, the building!" Dojo shouted from beneath Clay's hat. Omi and Clay shot out of the crowd, bursting the front doors of the building open. They stood in the lobby receiving odd looks, and glances, and their fair share of glares.
"Where are we going from here?" Omi addressed the hidden Dojo.
"Well I can sense that they are here, but I don't know where here."
"Hows 'bout we look at tha directory." Clay informed pointing his thumb at the English directory.
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Raimundo shifted nervously as Torisho studied him. He didn't think he made the right first impression. Then he remembered Torisho was supposed to be deathly ill, and he was up walking around, looking very healthy.
"I thought you were supposed to be sick." Rai asked, his curiosity getting the best of him.
When Torisho gave him a questioning look, Rai started to get suspicious. Could this have somehow been a trap by Wuya? He didn't think so, Wuya wasn't that smart.
"Where is my daughter, and who are you again." Torisho demanded, getting suspicious of Raimundo as well.
"Raimundo Pedrosa sir and she is looking for you. She got a letter saying that your cancer returned, and you, um, didn't have um, um long." Rai said becoming awkward, as he rubbed the back of his neck.
Torisho's eyes widened and worry etched upon his face. Who would send a fake letter to his daughter? He then focused back on Raimundo. "You brought her here?" he double checked.
"Yes. I don't know where she went; she took off as soon as the elevator opened." Rai explained further.
"Follow me." Torisho spoke as he started walking away. Rai hesitantly followed, not sure if Torisho believed him or not.
When they turned the corner, Torisho and Kimiko ran into each other, both making an oof noise. Raimundo kept himself from laughing, but a small grin still spread to his face. It was almost comical.
When Kimiko realized her father was who ran into her, she leapt into his arms, but pulled back, when she saw he looked fine. "Papa, I-I thought that, that you were sick." She sniffled.
"I am clearly fine. Whatever you received notifying you I was sick was a lie."
"Who would do that?" Raimundo asked for Kimiko. Kimiko then turned her attention to Raimundo, not realizing he was there.
"I don't know."
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"We could've just flew up, would have made it there faster." grumbled Dojo from Clay's hat.
"People might get suspicious of that." Dojo quipped.
"Like they aren't suspicious of a Cowboy, and short bald kid with yellow skin." Clay argued.
"Maybe the peculiar stares have something to do with you talking to your hat." Omi chimed in, making both Dojo and Clay stop talking.
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Raimundo was busy awing the gaming system in the Tohimoko household, but also allowing Kimiko and her father some alone time. If he was meeting up with his family, he would love to have some alone time with them, well mainly his brothers and sisters. A slow beep brought Rai's mind back to the game, making him realize he was just killed.
"Damn."
"Did the note have my name on it?" Torisho questioned his daughter.
"I don't know. I just saw that it said you were sick again, and I assumed the worse." Kimiko admitted, taking a sip of her tea.
"Do you have the letter, perhaps it was sent to the wrong person." He justified to his daughter. "They could have easily looked above or below the person they actually wanted to send it to."
Kimiko cursed to herself, for not reading the correct name on the envelope. That should have been the first thing she looked at. She slowly reached in her bag to grab the letter, and check the name. She looked down at the name on the letter. Sure enough her papa was correct, in was meant to be for an Eri Takeda. She now felt terrible, what if she didn't realize that her own father was ill, but she still felt a wave of relief wash over her.
Torisho then decided that it was time to change the subject, and he knew what subject. "So how do you know Raimundo over there?" Kimiko's face flushed, and looked towards Raimundo, who was standing in front of the TV yelling in Portuguese.
"He's a friend. He volunteered to take me to see you." Kimiko said, trying to avoid her father's eyes.
"Mmhhmm." he was clearly not buying it. "You like him?" He asked nonchalantly.
Kimiko spit some of her tea back into her cup, and blushed. "Its, um, umm. Hows the company?" She said desperately trying to avoid the question.
"I mean, it seems that he may have gone out of the way to take you here, and it shows that he cares about you." He continued on, ignoring her question. "So do you like him." He continued to push.
"Papa, I don't feel comfortable talking about this."Kimiko said getting frustrated.
"It's a simple yes or no…" he continued on calmly.
"Papa!"
"Just a single word…"
"This may have worked when I was younger, you continuing on like this, but I'm older!"
"The most common words in the English language, yes and no…" he took a sip of his tea.
"FINE! YES I DO! ARE YA HAPPY?" Kimiko hollered."
"I knew it." Torisho smiled.
"What's all the yelling for?" Rai asked coming into the kitchen.
"Nothing." Kimiko said flustered, getting up and walking to the kitchen, taking her and her papa's cup with her.
"That was very kind of you to bring my daughter. That must have put a hole into your schedule." Torisho spoke, folding his arms across his chest.
"It wasn't a problem sir." Raimundo assured.
"You must care about her." Torisho carried on, pulling the same stunt as he did on Kimiko.
"Sh-e's a g-goo-d friend." Raimundo's voice cracked in panic.
"Friends huh? Well being a young man once myself, I can tell when a boy likes a girl." He said in a sing song voice.
"Ha, he, a-a-a-a…"
"So just admit you have a thing for my Kimiko.
"Ha, ha, ha…" Rai broke out in a nervous laugh, not really knowing what else to do.
"Speak! Do you have a stuttering problem? Do you like my daughter? It's quite an easy question.
"No I don't." Raimundo then panicked, when he realized Torisho might think he was talking about Kimiko. "I mean yes… I mean, I don't stutter."
"But you like my daughter; I'm assuming that was the yes in that mangled sentence."
Raimundo was only able to give a nervous smile, causing Torisho to grin.
"Let me tell you this though, if you hurt my daughter, or disrespect her in any way, I can very easily make you disappear." Torisho warned, taking on his role as father.
Raimundo only stared at him in complete horror.
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The elevator doors slid opened, revealing a foyer leading to large double doors. Omi and Clay hesitantly walked to the door, not sure that Raimundo and Kimiko were there. Apparently this was the Tohimoko Electronics headquarters and the residence as well. They had at first tried to take the elevator that would take them directly into the pent house, but they needed a password, so they had to take the regular one.
"What are we going to say?" Omi nervously spoke.
"We will figure that out I guess." Clay replied, equally scared.
They marched up to the door, and Clay stopped before his hand made contact with door, and then took in a breath before knocking. His three knocks echoed in the foyer.
Voices could be heard from the other side of the door, then the handle started to turn. When the door opened fully, Kimiko was standing opposite from Clay and Omi. They stared at each other for a few moments, until Omi broke the silence.
"Kimiko, it is nice to see you healed. Now if we could continue are conversa…" Omi flinched, and stopped talking due to Kimiko slamming the door.
"We just want to talk!" Clay yelled.
(On the other side of the door.)
"Kimiko, why did you slam the door?" Torisho asked well Raimundo raised an eyebrow.
"Sorry papa, but Rai and I have to go." Kimiko explained.
"Rai?" He grinned at his daughter, who gave a glare in return.
"May I ask why Kimi?" Raimundo inquired.
"Oh, Kimi!" Torisho smiled, receiving a deeper glare from Kimiko.
"Omi and Clay are here."
"We will break the door down if we have to." A voice yelled from the other side of the door.
"What have you two gotten involved in?" Torisho asked looking towards Raimundo.
"This isn't his fault papa. This has to do with my ability." Kimiko said with an apologetic look.
"Does he know?"
"Papa, he can control the wind, like I can control fire." Kimiko explained.
Then the three jumped back as the door swung open, slamming against the wall.
"Look, were sorry 'bout tha door, but we need to talk." Clay apologized.
"Sorry, we don't talk to people who break in homes." Rai replied, and through a small gust of wind at them, enough to push them back.
"Come on papa!" Kimiko said as she grabbed his hand, and ran back into the pent house with Raimundo behind. They ran into the dining room, Kimiko closing the pocket doors behind them.
"I'm sorry that I have to cut the visit short papa, but we have to go." Kimiko explained.
"It was nice meeting you, sir." Raimundo smiled.
"Raimundo." Torisho called.
"Yeah?"
"Take care of my daughter." Raimundo nodded and smiled, as Kimiko blushed because she knew what her papa was trying to do.
Raimundo pulled Kimiko into him, and disappeared in to a sudden breeze.
"That was cool!" Torisho cheered as soon as Clay and Omi opened the doors.
"Where did they go?" Omi demanded. "I am getting sick of this wild chicken race!"
"That's a wild goose chase, young man." Torisho corrected. "But if you don't mind, I would like you to leave." He said as he pulled out a cell phone, and sent a message. Impossible fast three body guards appeared, escorting them out.
"This is most infuriating!" Omi frowned.
"Not to mention embarrassing." Clay muttered
Once Clay and Omi were outside, Dojo started to shake violently. "We have to go to New York! We have a hot one!"
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Raimundo and Kimiko landed in a heap on the floor of Chase's throne room. Kimiko lifted herself up slowly, only then realizing she was straddling Raimundo. Her face flushed crimson, as she pushed herself off.
Raimundo didn't open his eyes until Kimiko got off of him, letting out a breath he was holding. His stomach also unclenched as she rolled off.
"I wasn't expecting you back so soon." Chase said entering the room after hearing the landing. "Is your father okay?"
"He is fine actually. The note wasn't met for me, it got sent to the wrong person." Kimiko clarified standing up.
"The monks interrupted." Raimundo explained more.
"That makes me mad, I hate that they had to ruin that! Can't they just leave me alone? I mean we weren't even doing anything, and how did they even know where we were at. What are they, STALKERS?" Kimiko ranted, well pacing.
Chase's crow then flew into the room, and landed on Chases shoulder, then proceeded to whisper in his ear. Chase slowly grinned, then returned his focus back to Raimundo and Kimiko.
"Would you like some revenge?" He stated.
"We get to go fight." Raimundo perked up.
"Consider it a test for your upcoming mission. Retrieve the Wu that has revealed in New York, and you may fight the monks. It will allow me to see how far you have come in your training Kimiko." Chase expressed.
"YES!" Raimundo exclaimed. "Wait, what mission."
"In due time Raimundo, now go." Chase calmly stated well leaving the room.
"Ready?" Raimundo asked Kimiko.
Kimiko quickly saw what she was wearing, but decided she wanted revenge a little more than fashion, and stepped closer to Raimundo, who put his arms around her like a hug, and disappeared into the wind.
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"We haven't even been here fifteen minutes, and Omi has gone missing!" Dojo screamed in panic.
Clay rubbed the bridge of his nose, wondering how he was supposed to find a Wu and Omi, well avoiding the Heylin.
"Great." He sighed.
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"Dog, what is up with your threads?"
"Threads?"
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So just saying, you are gonna like what I got planned for the next chapter, just sayin'. But anyway, tell me whats you think.