Chapter 1: Prologue

2 Years Earlier

The Temple

"Kimiko," a male's voice whispered.

She rolled over onto her side pulling up her sleeping mask and staring into familiar emerald eyes, "What do you want?" she spat staring up at the boy.

He had one bag to the side of him, and was dressed in his street clothes and sneakers. She sat up and stared at him, "What are you doing?" she asked pointing to the bag and waving her hand up and down at his attire.

He sighed and grabbed a bear that's head was sticking out the side of his bag and shoved it into her arms. She blinked once staring at the dirty ratty mess that was put in her arms, it was warm and had Rai's smell to it though, she couldn't help but hold it a bit tighter realizing it was his favorite thing in the world.

"Keep it," he said standing up and staring down at her.

She stood up, not near as tall as him but more close then her sitting down position, "What do you mean?" she asked befuddled at his sudden give away.

"Keep him safe though," Rai said nodding and shoving his hands in his pocket.

She tried to keep her voice in a whisper but he was giving up his most loved position to her of all people and it was irritating her that he wasn't telling her why.

"Because," he said again biting his bottom lip and nodding his head up and down.

"Because why?" she said through her teeth clutching the bear a bit tighter.

He smiled from ear to ear, "I'm leaving,"

She blinked, "And your happy about this?" she asked dumbfounded by his statement.

"Yeah," he nodded grabbing his bag in his left hand.

"What do you mean your leaving?" she asked crossing her arms.

"As in, I'm gone, out of here, forever," he said bringing her outside and staring out at the world around him.

"Why in the world would you do that!?" she cried her legs feeling weak as he kept ranting about his latest mission.

He shrugged, "I have a dream Kimiko, and it's out their not in here," he rested a hand on her shoulder.

She ripped away from him, "It's all because of your stupid fight with Clay isn't it! Raimundo come on that was just some measly guy drama, it'll blow over tomorrow,"

He shook his head, "It's not because of that,"

"Then what made you change your mind about being here?" she said clutching his wrist tighter then she was clutching his teddy bear.

He pulled away from her and started walking into the night, "Keep Ninja Fred safe," he called out to her before sprinting in the darkness, his bag flopping behind her.

She stood their, did he really just run away from her and the temple and his friends. Did he really just leave her there with Ninja Fred as the only memory of him? She turned around, tears flooding her eyes, they were the last tears she would ever shed and she knew that as she let them fall. She wiped her eyes and turned around to see if she could still him in the distance but even his shadow was long gone. She started walking back to the temple but took a detour over to her and Raimundo's spot. A spot they found themselves at quite often when the two of them needed some alone time. She climbed up the cherry blossom tree and sat on the highest branch staring out the way he had gone. Their was just darkness all around, even the moon seemed dull, her bright clothes seemed dull, and the only thing that had any sense of light to it was the teddy bears glistening eyes. She smiled at it and jumped down returning back to her area and drifting off to sleep.

Raimundo trudged along, his bag was getting rather heavy and he was breathing rather hard from all the running he had just done to get away as fast as he could. Anger was rushing through his veins from himself and from Kimiko, he was hoping she would of tried to stop him more, or ran after him, or maybe they could of kissed, or something along the lines of a fairytale romance but that just wasn't the case, it wasn't who Kimiko was and he should of known that. As he walked he stared around, the dark was kind of creepy and it didn't seem like it was going to get brighter anytime soon. With no Ninja Fred, no friends or anything Rai had never felt so alone but a figure came out of the darkness putting a hand up to stop him. With piercing yellow eyes and hair that swayed with the wind, Rai knew who it was but wasn't about to run away from the figure.

"Chase Young," he said trying to sound confident but if it wasn't Chase he didn't want to feel stupid.

"Raimundo," the voice said nodding along, hands intertwined behind his back as he paced back and forth until he arrived by Rai's side.

Raimundo backed up away from Chase with fear twinkling in his emerald eyes but something about Chase made the night seem warm and welcoming.

"Come with me Raimundo," Chase said motioning for Raimundo to come.

Raimundo had no other options, he couldn't go back now and he didn't know where to go from here so he did the only thing he could do and that was follow Chase into the night.

Authors Note: What did you think? Good? Bad? Okay? I promise you next chapter will be longer; this was just my prologue to see what everyone thinks of it! So if you like it review, if not, you can do whatever your heart desires, thank you for reading non the less! :)