The Blood-Stained Rose
Chapter 10...A White Rose
Kimiko woke up the next morning not in her own bed, but with her head resting on Raimundo's shoulder. She could sense Raimundo was awake, but he just didn't want to move because he didn't want to wake Kimiko up.
"Rai?" she asks softly. She could feel his body jump slightly, but then it relaxed a bit.
"Hey Kim...sorry, we sorta fell asleep last night. Hope you don't mind."
"No not at all." she kept whispering.
"Hey Kim?"
"Yeah?"
"Why are we whispering."
"Not sure." she said in her normal tone.
"Okay."
"What time we going out?" Kimiko asked changing the subject.
"Later, like very much later tonight." He replied.
"Okay then." she got up and walked off with her notebook. Raimundo looked a bit puzzled, but then he just sort of shrugged it off, and got up to follow.
When Raimundo looked at his clock it was later than he expected, and he should have already been training for four hours! He usually started at 6:30, but it was now 10:30. He went screaming through the temple.
"WHY DIDN'T ANYONE WAKE ME UP?!? MASTER FUNG'S GUNNA KILL ME!!" He ran outside and skid to a stop where Master Fung sat.
"You're late."
"I know, I'm horribly sorry. You see, I sort of fell asleep and no one woke me-"
"Begin!"
A little dumbstruck Raimundo stood there for a moment, just blinking at his master.
"Raimundo?"
"Oh umm...sorry." He began his training as from inside the corridor Kimiko watched him and smiled.
"Kim!" The voice made her jump, but she turned to see Jermaine.
"Hey Jermaine, how's it going?"
"Pretty good. I've had to catch up on training, so while umm we couldn't find Raimundo...or you for that matter..." he paused and smirked as Kimiko sent him a death glare. "Ow girl, I can feel that glare burnin' a whole through me!" he joked.
"Just go on!" she laughed.
"Anyways...we couldn't find Rai to train, so I've been training with Master Fung for the past four hours."
"Well that's great!" she smiled. "You need any help with anything?"
"Nope I'm good for now, thanks though."
"No problem! See ya."
"Coo', bye."
Kimiko walked back to her room after her breakfast and looked at her notebook. It was filled with designs and she thought it was time to get started.
"Omi!!" she called as she heard small but quick footsteps rushing to her cubicle.
"Yes Kimiko?"
"You want to help me? I'm doin' this for Clay."
"Oh most certainly Kimiko!" They got the Golden Tiger Claws, took some money and set off to find their supplies. When they came back, they trained for a while, then Kimiko took a really quick shower and then her and Omi got to work.
"Orb of Tornami!" He called, washing out the room.
"Star Hanabi, controled!" (I don't know, but whenever Kim uses the star hanabi, the fire lets loose, so umm if she adds control to it, maybe she can control it? stupid I know, but go along with it please and thank you :))
They used a couple other Shen-Gong-Wu, until finally the place was clean, then they got to work. They painted to walls, and moved some things around. They then snuck out to where Master Fung waas clearing out Clay's things, and dragged all of it into the room. They put up all of his posters and put all of his things in there, just making a room for Clay's memory. Just as they were finishing, Kimiko's phone alarm went off.
"Oh no! it's 4:30! I have to get ready!" Before Omi could say anything, Kimiko flew out of the room and into her cubicle. She grabbed a blue-jean mini skirt, jean jacket and pink tanktop then scrambled to the bathroom. She quickly took a shower, put on her clothes, went back to her cubicle and got some hair supplies, went back and blowdried her hair. She was about to put dye in it, but then she thought that Raimundo might like it it's natual color and natual length.
She brushed her hair and took two little clumps of hair, braided them (they're both on seperate sides and right in the front) then she pulled them back and tied them with a pink ribbon. She then put make up on and finished it off with a glaze of pink lip gloss. Smiling at the mirror, she looked at the time and saw it was 5:50. 'Wow...I need to find a faster way to do things!' she giggled a little and went back to her cubicle to put on black boots that went to her high-ankles and had a three-inch heel. Then she took a small, jean purse with pink fuzzies around the rim. (Not sure what to call them, so fuzzies are the best I could think of lol). She put inside a little money, just incase, her cell phone, PDA, back up make up and her arrow sparrows.
"Just incase." she whispered.
"Kimiko! Ready to go?!" Raimundo called.
"Yeah, be right out!" she got up and walked to where she heard Raimundo's voice. He looked hot and was still in his black (and red dragon), silk tunic.
"Umm sorry, had no time for a shower." Kimiko stepped back as Raimundo shook his hair as it drooped into his face. He smoothed it back down with his hands and shot Kimiko a smirk. "Shall we?"
"Let's go!"
Just as Kimiko was about to take his arm, she stopped. "Wait!" He could hear her boots click on the floor, then a pause, then clicking back. She handed her his Blade of the Nebula as he smiled in confusion.
"Just incase." she whispered once again, but more to herself than to him, although he heard it. "Now let's go!" she said taking his hand and beginning to run. They got the Golden Tiger Claws and Raimundo blind folded Kimiko. "Rai!" she moaned.
"Golden Tiger Claws!" He jumped through with Kimiko close.
Kimiko's feet landing in something soft. As Raimundo lifted her blindfold, the scene formed infront of her eyes. She gasped as she saw she was at a beach, standing in the soft sand and a sun, about four hours from being set.
"Raimundo!" she sigh, totally melting into the scene.
"Beautiful, isn't it?"
"Yes!" she squealed hugging him. "You're going to show be that sunset, aren't you?"
"How'd you guess?"
"Luck maybe?" she giggled as he glared.
"Well come on!" he pulled her to a little shack on the beach and they went inside.
Someone came and seated them. As Kimiko's wondering eyes moved around the window sight, Raimundo ordered.
After three and a half hours of dinning, talking, laughing and finally finishing the desert, Kimiko and Raimundo finally went outside and took their shoes off to walk hand in hand on the sand.
"Raimundo, this has got to be the best night of my life!"
He was just about to reply, but a very sly voice replied for him. "Oh trust me...it's going to get ten times better!"
They both turned to see Wuya, Chase, Hannible, Jack, nearly fifty jungle cats and around two hundred and fifty jackbots.
"Wuya!" Kimiko snarled.
"Kimiko!" she snarled back.
"Chase and Hannible!" Raimundo growled.
"Raimundo!" they both snarled back.
"Hey what about me?!" Jack whimpered.
"Shut up Jack!" They all shot at once, completly shutting him up.
"What do you want!?" Kimiko demanded. "You've already taken one dragon, you don't need another!"
"Oh but that's where you're wrong my deary!" Wuya crackled.
Kimiko, being the hothead she is, dug in her purse and brought out her arrows. "Arrow sparrows!" she screamed, taking out two jungle cats and six jackbots. She was aiming at the main bad guys (discluding Jack) but they all dodged.
"Sure! Don't aim at me!" Jack whined. "Be that way! Jackbots, attack!"
"Jungle Cats, hunt your pray!" Chase ordered.
And soon all hell broke out. Each Kimiko and Raimundo took twenty-five jungle cats, one hundred twenty-five jackbots, Raimundo took on Jack and Hannibal, but Kimiko took on Chase and Wuya.
Raimundo finally took out Jack. To his surprise, Jack was a lot harder with Hannibal one his side. While trying to take down Jack, he had fought off five of his jungle cats and forty-two of the jackbots. Hannibal slammed him into the shack Kimiko and him had eaten at, just a small while earlier. His back felt a bit sore, and his wrist was beginning to swell. He had a laser burn, and some scratches/bruises but otherwhise he was okay. He glanced at Kimiko who was by the looks of it getting beaten badly. He soon had a new spark of energy and more quickly fought off his enimies.
"Blade of the Nebula, Wudai Star, Wind!" he yelled and spinned around to make a huge tornado that took out all the rest of his jackbots.
Kimiko just popped her head out of the water and she began to swim to shore.
"Wudai Mars, Fire!" she sprang out of the water and threw two fire balls at Wuya, as she had a purple ball in her hand. One fire ball stopped the purple fire, and one burned her hand. She screached and landed on the sand.
"Oh that bitch!"
"Me? Ha! Wuya, you need a serious BITCH SLAP!" She threw an arrow sparrow at Wuya, and it hit her in the hand.
"Arrgh!! You little, spoiled Bi-AHH!" she got hit with another fire ball in the same hand. "That's the third and final time!" She blasted Kimiko in the right arm with more powerful black magic, and Kimiko yelped.
"Star Hanabi, Controled!" Kimiko yelled and controled fire, as if it were a flame thrower, finishing off her jungle cats and half of what she had left of her jackbots. "Such an Uber Bitch Wuya! You can't even take care of anyone on your team, including yourself!" Kimiko pulled a match from her pocket and set her hand on fire. Dodging a couple of punches from Chase, she managed to let the fire engulf her hand. She then did the same with her foot. "Wudai Mars, Fire!" The flames increased and Chase couldn't even get close without getting burned. She punched him in the face as he staggered back. Wuya watched how Kimiko did this, and did the same, except, she pulled out a small rod and opened it. She let the black magic engulf her hand and foot, then kicked Kimiko square in the stomach.
Kimiko moaned and she could see stars for the first time in her life.
Raimundo killed his last jungle cat and now focused completly on Hannibal.
"That's for me!" Raimundo punched his gut.
"That's for Kimiko!" He punched him in the face.
"That's for Master Fung!" he kicked the bottom of the bean.
"That's for Omi!" he flipped around and drop kicked Hannibal in the back.
"And this...this is for CLAY!" Raimundo grabbed his Morby Morphers and squeezed so hard, the became too tight on Hannibal's tenticle arms and then broke. Having this happen, Hannibal returned to his normal jelly bean size and fought not to be stepped on.
Raimundo had to give up on that to help Kimiko. He ran to her and destroyed all of the remaining Jackbots that had hit her four times. Then he worked on Chase, who he easily slammed down and knocked unconsious.
An enraged Wuya dazed Kimiko and Raimundo both for enough time to get Chase consious again.
Chase went up against Raimundo and Wuya against Kimiko.
"Wudai Star, Wind!"
"Monkey strike!" Chase lunged at Raimundo, and although Raimundo knew Repel the Monkey, his last wind attack was still just getting over with.
"Re-" Raimundo had only just started it, and moaned in anger as he got knocked backwards into the water.
Chase went over and punched Kimiko in the back when she was caught off guard. She yelped and knelt down, letting her guard down enough for Wuya to punch her in the stomach. Her eyes widened, and as Wuya pulled her hand away, Kimiko fell face flat on the ground.
"KIMIKO!" Raimundo yelled, punching Chase harder than ever, and faster than anyone had ever punched before, with the help of some wind speed. He hit him square in the nose which made Chase call out to Wuya.
"Wuya you fool! Get us out of hear!" he sounded sort of funny with his nose broken, and Raimundo would have laughed if Kimiko wasn't lying in the sand.
"Another Day perhaps, dragons!" She ran to Chase and a green bubbled surrounded them, transporting them to an unknown area.
Raimundo ran over to Kimiko and rolled her over. She opened her eyes slowly and smiled. The spark was returning in her sapphire eyes, and they both stared at each other for just a little bit.
"Kim! Are you alright?!" Raimundo finally spoke.
"Yeah...yeah I'm fine." She said getting up. Slowly but surely the continued their walk.
"Only about five minutes to sunset."
"Good...I can't wait!" Kimiko smiled.
Raimundo stopped Kimiko and smiled. "Hey Kim...You remember about a week ago how we played that question game?"
"Sure did Raimundo."
"Well you know how you said your favorite flower was a white rose?"
"Yeah...Rai...where are you going with this?"
"Here." He pulled out from behind his back, a single, healthy, nonwilted and most pure white rose she had ever seen.
"Raimundo, it's wonderful! Ohh it's beautiful!"
"I'm glad you like it!!"
(two minutes to sunset)
"I don't like it Raimundo! I love it!" she smiled and looked up at his eyes with joyfilled ones.
"Theres...something else here that I would hope that you love."
Kimiko tilted her head at him. "Rai?"
(one minute to sunset)
Raimundo looked down at the rose and spoke, "Kimiko Tohomiko...I L-" suddenly, Raimundo's eyes widened. For the purest whitest white rose he'd ever seen, had turned a pure red! He looked up at Kimiko to see where it had come from and saw.
Her blue eyes only had about sixteen percent of the spark they were suppose to. He watched a single tear roll down her cheek and he followed the line it would take until he came to her chest. It looked like it had been stabbed, and blood was coming out and dripping onto the rose.
Wuya crackled. "She's dead Raimundo! And there's nothing you can do about it!" All along Wuya had been watching for the perfect moment. She must have cast some sort of magic into Kimiko's chest to make it seem like she'd been stabbed.
Raimundo was now crying as he just stood there. Thoughts flooded his mind all to much, and paralized him in his place. Holding onto Kimiko's hands that clutched the bloodstained rose.
The sun had just set.
Kimiko Tohomiko never heard the words I Love You from the one she secretly loved. Raimundo Pedrosa never got to tell her the words he so longed to say.
Kimiko Tohomiko only got to see the only sign of true love affection she would ever get from someone. She got the best night of her life...and that was it.
Kimiko Tohomiko never got to say good-bye to her friends, or family. Never completed the quest for the Shen-Gong-Wu, never got to train or find Wu with Jermaine on their team...
Kimiko Tohomiko never got to see the sunset she was promised by her true love...Raimundo Pedrosa.
Sniff Sniff It's over! Ohh that must have been sad for readers...because it was even sad for me to write the end! I almost cried...still on the verge too. I know...pathedic lol...I hope you all liked it! Thanks to any readers and reviews! And thanks to anyone who will review this chapter! I know it's sort of short, but it was my first tragity. I know the end might seem a little rushed, but I didn't have a CLUE what sort of detail to put in there. What bad luck for Raimundo. He was just about to say the last three letters in 'Love' and the word 'you' but he never got to tell her how he really felt. So for all of you out there who have a major crush on someone...tell them, before it's too late. You won't ever have felt happiness until you've loved, I'll tell you that! (that was from a quote by the way lol) The worst that could happen would be rejection, and even though that's bad...it's not the end of the world...because of you think your 'true love' just rejected you, they aren't really your true love! I'm sorry, I guess I should stop talking, but :D hope you liked it! Thanks everyone, it was a blast!! Keep readin' my other stories! Toodles Kudos:D
-Zestychicken2-
I suppose I should start doing this...Disclaimer: I don't own Xiaolin Showdown, otherwhise...Kimiko and Raimundo would totally be together!! lol lol ('.')