Author's Note: New chap! YAH! If this one isn't long, I'm sorry.

Chapter Three: Meeting Raimundo

Not knowing what to do, Raimundo jumped behind one of the trees. Once the figure went right passed the tree and out of sight, he noticed that it was a lady with a black dress, red hair, and green eyes, he stepped out from behind the tree and began to walk up the stairs. He looked around and opened the door. He walked in clenching the scroll in his hand. 'Wow!' he thought 'This place is huge! I wonder-' he felt something hit his head. He fell to the ground unconscious.

Kimiko let out a squeal and ran towards her room and got Dojo who was sleeping on her dresser and took him to the boy. "What do you want? I was taking a nap!" Dojo saw the boy on the floor. He then noticed that Kimiko was holding a pan in her hand. He moved onto her shoulders, crossed his arms and said, "Did you knock him out?" asked Dojo a little shocked by her actions.

"What? I had to! It just walked in! What is it anyway?" Kimiko asked holding the pan in front of her incase he woke up.

Dojo leapt off Kimiko's shoulders and slithered over to him to take a closer look. "Yep, it, as you call him, is a boy. The complete opposite of a girl." He replied.

"I know what a boy is!" she said a little crossed. "It's just- I've never seen one before." She said lowering her voice. She walked to where Raimundo was lying. She lowered her pan to take a closer look. All of the sudden his eyes popped open. Kimiko panicked and hit him with the pan knocking him out… again.

"Ouch, double hitter." replied Dojo.

Kimiko looked down and saw the scroll he was holding. "What's this?" she asked turning to Dojo.

"I don't know, but it looks kind of familiar." he answered scratching his head.

Kimiko put the scroll into a loose floorboard not even noticing she didn't put back on the tile all the way. "What should we do with him?" she asked returning to Dojo and the boy.

"What if we tied him to a chair, incase he's a monster or something." suggested Dojo.

"That actually doesn't sound like a bad idea, and we could question him on why he's here. But I'm not sure he is a monster Dojo." replied Kimiko. She got up and got a chair while Dojo tried to find some rope. She and Dojo then got Raimundo and tried to put him in the chair with Kimiko pulling him by the arms and Dojo pushing him by his feet. Once in a while Dojo would accidentally let go of his feet, thus, making Raimundo tumble over onto Kimiko. "DOJO!" Kimiko would shout.

"Sorry." Dojo would reply back. Finally, they were able to get him onto the chair. Dojo climbed onto his shoulder and started poking him. Getting really impatient with waiting for him to wake, he then gave Raimundo a wet-willy. Raimundo shot up feeling the wet finger in his ear, but by shooting up so suddenly; Dojo went flying off his shoulder.

"What? Where am I?" asked Raimundo looking around to see where he was. He realized he was in a chair and tied up.

"I think you have some explaining to do!" said Kimiko. She was hidden in the shadows making it very hard for Raimundo to see where she was.

"Who are you?" asked Raimundo still looking around. Kimiko then came out of the shadows tightly clenching her pan ready to strike. Raimundo starred wide-eyed at Kimiko.

"I think the question is 'who are you?'" asked Kimiko raising her pan. "And why are you here?" she walked closer.

Raimundo cleared his throat and said in a weird polite tone, "I am but a lonely boy who stumbled into this place and unexpectedly found you. But now that I have found you may I just say, hi." He said the last word in a 'flirty' way. Kimiko cocked an eyebrow and looked over at Dojo, who was on her shoulder, he shrugged. "The name's Raimundo. How's it going?" asked Raimundo. He always thought of himself as a 'ladies' man'.

Kimiko lowered her pan a little confused of what he was doing. "I'm doing….. good." she replied. She noticed that his eyes were a beautiful color. 'Where have I seen those eyes before?' she shook the thought out of her head. She raised the pan again and said, "If you don't tell me what you're doing here now I'll- I'll hit you again!"

Raimundo stopped his starring and flirting and said, "That was you who hit me?"

""Yeah, and she'll hit you again if you don't answer her!" stated Dojo.

"Oh great! First a girl hits me on the head, now a gecko can talk? I must be losing it!" Raimundo said looking over at Dojo.

Taken aback Dojo replied, "Gecko? Oh you're gonna lose it all right!" Dojo turned into his forty-foot version and glared down at Raimundo. "Don't ever call me a 'gecko'!"

"M-my mistake. Won't happen again." he stuttered looking up at Dojo with fear.

Dojo turned back into his small self and landed on Kimiko's shoulder. She turned her attention to Dojo and said, "I hope you won't eat him before we can question him." she pointed her pan towards Raimundo just barely missing his face.

"What do you want to question me about?" he asked.

"Oh, well for one thing, what are you doing here?" she turned to him and glared.

"Look scary lady-" he began.

"Kimiko."

"Whatever. Look, I was running through the forest came here and-" he stopped realizing something. "Wait, where is my scroll?" he asked looking all around.

"I've hidden it." said Kimiko crossing her arms.

"WHAT! Do you know how much that scroll could be worth?" he asked.

"No, and I have a feeling you don't either."

Raimundo realizing that she was right said, "Whatever, can I just have it back?" he asked giving the puppy eyes.

"No. You have to earn it back." she replied.

"What? What do I have to do?" he asked a little annoyed by this remark.

Kimiko thought about this and turned around and took Dojo into her hands and started talking. Raimundo tried desperately to get away by moving the chair back and forth. When Kimiko turned around he stopped wriggling and she said, "Alright, I'm prepared to make a deal." she walked up to him and started explaining, "You see, every year there are these 'lights' in the sky, and they aren't stars, and I want to see them."

"Oh those things. Yeah I know what you're talking about. And I know where they are." he remarked.

"Great, then you can act as my guide and take me to them. And after I see them I will return the scroll to you." she said.

"Yeah that's going to be a problem. You see I know where they are but the people there and I don't exactly 'get along.'" he explained.

Kimiko looked over at Dojo who pointed to the pan and made a swing movement. She turned back to Raimundo, took the back of the chair and pulled it close, that way she was almost nose to nose with Raimundo and said, "Look, if you don't take me to the lights then you'll never see your precious scroll ever again." her eyes were blazing like fire as she said these words. "I don't care if the people there don't get along with you, you will take me there or you will regret it."

After a long moment of thinking Raimundo replied, "Fine, I'll take you to see the lights."

"Really?" Kimiko, having forgotten that she was holding the chair, let go of it and Raimundo went down with it. "Oops." she said looking down at him and the fallen chair.