a 'Xiaolin Showdown' AU in which a girl and a boy are thrust into a dangerous and insanely lethal adventure of a sick little game crafted from the minds of two unknown enemies who have her father and his youngest sister. Kimiko 'Tomye' is just having a normal morning in hers and her roommate, Jermaine Rhynch's, apartment when she suddenly sees an envelope at her doorstep from a mysterious sender. it entails information about the sender, whoever they were, having her father as their hostage. she is also told to find one Mr. Raimundo Pedrosa, whom she finds and meets in a neighborhood known to all New York residents as the slums. needless to say, she's pretty hesitant to trust him. actually, the two of them are both really hesitant to trust one another, even after she tells him that whoever has her father also has his youngest sister. turns out he's a former Interpol agent who resigned from the force out of guilt of what he'd done to his best friend on the force, and her real last name is not 'Tomye', but 'Tohomiko', and she's the daughter of (one of) the richest CEOs from the entire continent of Asia as well as the heir to the company. they still need to find a way to save Kimiko's father and Raimundo's youngest sister. only problem with their need to save their loved ones is that they can't seem to trust one another enough to team up, what with all the secrets that the two of them both keep from one another. will they find a way to trust one another in the long run of the dangerous game with which they're being forced by their unknown enemy to play along? how would their friends react to their joint situation should they find out about it? and most importantly of all, just who is the unknown enemy holding Kimiko's father and Raimundo's kid sister for ransom?
15 parts