Confessions

Hey!!!! This is the first fic in our series.  The chapters may be a bit muffed, as the original version was not in chapters.  Please R&R.  Enjoy!!!!!!

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Chapter1

Rei sat with his hands flat on the table in front of him.  Suddenly ha dropped his head onto the table with a resounding thump.  Tears sprung to his eyes and ran freely, Rei not resisting them.  The sounds of hotel bustle and Tyson yelling made Rei sit bolt upright.   As the door to the common room opened, Rei wiped his face and prepared for questions.

"Hey!  Rei, why'd you leave the party?  It was just getting fun!"  Max said as he, Tyson, Kai and Kenny came in and sat down on the chairs near Rei.  None of them noticed Rei had been crying.

"I didn't feel-,"Rei was cut off by Tyson.

"Yeah!  You should've seen Kenny he-OW!"  Tyson yelped in pain as Kenny kicked him in the shin.

"Don't even think about it Tyson!  I still have Dragoon and can easily dispose of him!  Understand?"  Kenny asked his voice tinted with anger.

"Ok, ok!  I won't say anything!"  Tyson held his slowly bruising leg and began to moan.

"It wasn't that fun, but why did you leave?"  Kai asked coldly over Tyson's moaning.

"I didn't feel well…I still don't."  Rei said looking up at Kai. "I'm going to bed, I'll probably feel better in the morning."  Rei stood up and ventured out the room, feeling bad for lying.

Once Rei had left, Kai got up and went to the door.

"One of you two please make sure Tyson isn't still moaning when he goes to bed!"  Kai said to Max and Kenny before leaving the room to his and Rei's hotel room.

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Rei closed the door then collapsed on his of the two double beds.  He began to sob hysterically.  The door opened gently and Kai entered.  Rei continued to cry.  Kai came and sat down beside Rei.

"Rei?  What's wrong?"  Kai asked.

Rei looked up.  Through his clouded eyes he stared into two red pools that were Kai's eyes.  Kai broke his gaze by looking at the door.

"What's wrong?"  Kai asked again.  Rei sat up and wiped his face with a Kleenex.

"Oh, Kai!  You wouldn't understand!"  Tears welled up in Rei's eyes again.

Kai felt the need to say something nasty.  To tell him to stop acting like Tyson's latest girlfriend when it was the wrong time of the month and Tyson said something wrong.  But he couldn't.  Seeing Rei in this state, his amber eyes misted by tears, Kai just couldn't say anything nasty.  Instead, he pulled Rei into an embrace.

"What's wrong Rei?"  Kai repeated his question for the third time.

"I…I…I can't tell you.  You just wouldn't understand.  You'd think I was being petty and stupid!  Kai…I…" Rei paused and drew in a few shaky breaths.  "…I can't tell you Kai!  I just can't bring myself to tell you!"  Rei fell out of Kai's arms and collapsed back onto bed.  His wrap became loose and when reached for another tissue his hair fell out over the bed.

"Excuse me a minute."  Rei grabbed a large t-shirt and went into the en-suite bathroom.  He locked the door then slowly got undressed down to his boxers, leaving the bandages on his arms.  He pulled the t-shirt on, folded the clothes into a neat pile then went back through to the bedroom.  He put the pile of clothes on the floor beside his bed the wriggled under the duvet and lay down to go to sleep.

Kai, realising Rei didn't want to talk, got up and did the same.  After climbing into his bed reached for the touch lamp between his bed and Rei's.

"You don't mind if I switch this off do you?"  There was no answer so Kai just switched the lamp off and settled down to sleep.

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So, there you go.  Chapter one.  What's happened to Rei, why doesn't he want to talk about it?  Read the next chapter to find out, when it's up.-Kano^_^