The wait of a certain, very patient reviewer is finally over- it's the ChaseRai chapter! This one was extremely difficult to make plausible, but I tried my best. Could be considered one-sided, and possibly contains a bit of one-sided ChaseOmi, but that's all of that pairing you'll probably ever see from me. Anyways, hope you like it!

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Watching

Raimundo has always found Chase Young fascinating. Everything from the graceful way that he moved while fighting to the way his eyes darkened when he was plotting something intrigues him. The way the inky hair and bronze armor shine when the light hits them entrances him. Every pointed gesture, every angry glare, and every dark smile captivates him. He desires nothing more than to defeat Chase Young, but in spite of himself, takes every opportunity to watch him work.

He watches, and Chase knows he watches, and Chase watches back. And it kills Rai that he isn't the one Chase is watching.

Because Chase, like everyone else, only has eyes for Omi. He watches, waiting for the diminutive monk to gain the power to join him. And Rai works as hard as he can to gain that power first- to prove his worth to his enemy. He teeters on the edge of evil, not wanting to leave his friends, but at the same time becoming increasingly weary of watching. He doesn't want to just watch anymore; he wants the other senses. He wants to hear and smell from up close; he wants to touch, to taste, and to be.

And on the day he first wears the sash of the Shoku warrior, he can't wait to watch again. Because he knows that he has finally surpassed his rival, and that the eyes of the one he watches will finally be on him.

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R, R, and R!