Time Slip (Xiaolin Showdown Fanfic - Original Version)

Goodbyes

Kimiko knew very well that her time in the past was coming to an end… Dashi had told her to be prepared. She glanced through her purse to see what items she actually had in them. All of them were feminine necessities and none of them the necessities that she would need for fighting. She had to be happy with the fact that she had a change of clothes with her.

This made Kimiko laugh at the irony of the whole situation. Had it not been the comment as they had left the temple that there had been no time for her to go and change clothes, or the idea that was what she had wanted to go after, she wouldn't be without her Wudai Weapon. But then, possibly that had been for the best.

"Master Dashi says only he and Dojo shall follow you to the place that he will take you to go home," came a voice outside of the room she was in.

This caused Kimiko to quickly stuff her clothes into her bag along with her other things then walked to the door. "It is rude to pry into a girl's private matters."

"Talking about you leaving is prying into your private matters?" confusion was evident on the boy's face.

"I was messing with girl matters in my room," Kimiko commented, narrowing her eyes at him.

"I am supposed to understand what that means?" he asked. "Or is this something I don't want to understand what it means?"

"Yes and no," Kimiko sighed. "I figured Chase would get a lot more things then he does."

"Is that supposed to mean something?" he asked, causing her to blink all of a sudden.

"What does what mean? I can't believe you're still confused." Kimiko's face read that she was the one becoming confused.

"The… never mind, none of it matters, does it?" came his reply.

"What do you mean by none of it matters?!" Kimiko's cheeks were beginning to puff out in anger. "When ever I will have the picture of Ching kissing me, I'll imagine Chase kissing me. What if I didn't want you to be my first kiss?"

"I said I was sorry… and this thing about Chase and Ching… we're the same person, so what exactly is the problem?" The boy was missing the crucial point of the problem, but then he wasn't privy to certain things like Kimiko was.

Kimiko, not quite clicking that this was the case continued. "That is the problem."

"Oh… so, what you want me to do about this little problem of yours, try and fix it?" he snapped in irritation, glaring at her as he did so.

"As if you could possibly fix is. I have without a doubt that you can't."

"I bet I can," he snapped again. Kimiko suddenly found herself being kissed by him again, this time with the boy being surer of himself, not to mention that he was irritated with her round about way of saying things.

"What was that for?" Kimiko pulled away, anger in her eyes. She waited for his response before she decided to slap him or not.

"You said that by kissing Ching, you couldn't help imagining me kissing you. We're the same person!" and with that he turned and stormed off.

"Chase you know… was trying to say goodbye to you," Gaun came up shaking his head at her.

"He misunderstood what I was getting at," Kimiko steamed.

"Lian-Li… I couldn't help thinking the same as he did, except I figured your words might be… a bit cryptic,"

"Cryptic?"

"You know things that we don't… so your perception of things is defiantly going to be different then ours," Gaun sighed. "Anyways… Dashi says to change and to meet him outside. He and Dojo will take you where they will send you home."

"What about Chase?"

"Don't worry… I'll work on calming him down, understand he's more of mad that you're leaving then anything else… he's never been good at socializing and expressing himself outwardly,"

M

Dashi was finding himself very sad that the young Fire Dragon was leaving; however, he knew it was for the best. He got a great satisfaction from her being there and a great laugh at her new outfit, though he hadn't gotten to see the previous one, though he had the feeling it was just as wacky… the best way to describe it.

"Goodbye Master Dashi," Kimiko bowed to him.

"Goodbye Kimiko," he grinned mischievously, as if he knew what was going to happen.

"I think you and Chase would have made a good couple," Dojo suddenly commented. This statement from the Dragon caused the one eye of each Kimiko and Dashi to twitch, both knowing the truth of the matter.

"Dojo!" Kimiko stepped on his tail and hit him hard on the head. "Remind me to do this again double punishment."

"You can't come back to our time," Dojo moaned, blowing on his tail. "Dashi is going to destroy the Silver Lion claws."

"So that's why the location is a volcano," Kimiko breathed out a sigh. "When I go through, you are going to toss them in."

"Of course," Dashi bowed his head. "The Wu is to unpredictable even for me… oh, and I have an idea for your Wudai weapon in the future."

"But you never saw it…"

"I get more inspiration that way. Silver Lion Claws," a portal formed and Kimiko stepped through, the portal closing behind her. Then Dashi removed the Wu and tossed it into the volcano where it sunk down and disappeared.