When Night Arrives
By: Hisoka Lover
Disclaimer: I don't own anything here just the storyline.
Summary: What will happen when Tala is no longer there to protect Kai from the dangers of the abbey?
"Kai, wake up! Wake up, Kai!" A voice called out from the void. Startled, Kai awoke and looked around feverishly but to no avail: no one was there with him.
"Damnitt, not again!" he screamed to the silence, and lay back onto his bed with a plop. 'Why has this been happening more frequently now?' He asked himself. 'And why does it only happen when I am alone? Ugg...this is so confusing!' He hit his head with his hand.
After a while of lying awake and pondering over the possibilities of what could be happening to him, he gave up and got into the shower. Hopefully he would relax more afterwards.
After fifteen minutes in the shower he got out and dressed in his normal attire. Soon after that, a knock echoed through the room. Upon opening the door, he was tackled to the ground in a rush of tears by Hilary.
"O my god. Kai I just heard you must be racked with grief! But don't worry I'm here for you." She said giving him a hug.
Pushing her away he gave he a look that said, 'who are you and why the hell are you touching me?'
"What are you talking about Hilary? Racked with grief?"
"You don't know yet?" she looked down at the floor. "I really should not be the one to tell you this but…" she paused as if getting up the courage to tell Kai what had happened. "Kai sit down" she said and he did so. "Tala he's well…he's uhhh dead."
Kai now understood why she had him sit down, for if he had not his knees most certainly would have given out on him.
"W-what?" he asked not believing what he heard.
Hilary reached out to him but he flinched away from her touch. Any normal person would have broken down at the news considering Tala was like a brother to Kai and was the only real friend he had. But not Kai, for he was trained to hide his emotions and let them eat at him from the inside. He recollected himself from shock, stood up, and then went to the nearby window stared for a while then asked the all too important question. "How?"
"Nobody knows. They told Mr. Dickenson that they found him in a cell from the abbey, you know?" She said. Then, she looked up at Kai to see that his face was nothing more then a cool table of stone. Slowly he nodded to her question then busied himself with making the bed. "O yeah I almost forgot that Mr. Dickenson wants to see you right away," she said, nodding, and grabbed Kai by the arm and dragged him to the office of the BBA headmaster.
"Come in my boy. Hilary will you wait outside please?" Mr. Dickenson said as he saw the pair entering his office.
"Yes sir," Hilary said then shut the door. 'Please help him…even if he does not seem to need it, he does he hides his emotions so well it is hard to see the real him. The one that needs help now more then ever is him. He needs someone who understands what he has been through but the only one who could help is now dead…' She thought, hoping somehow Mr. Dickenson could hear her silent plea.
"Please have a seat Kai." Mr. Dickenson said seriously. As Kai did Mr. Dickenson turned his back to him. "Now I know this time can be trying on someone who just found out that a special person….." He was rambling and Kai just decided to tune him out.
After a while Kai found himself thinking about all the time he had spent with Tala and all the memories he would have to wipe away to keep the pain in him from showing on the outside to others.
"Kai…..Kai, KAI!" Mr. Dickenson almost yelled at him. Kai looked up at him showing he had heard the elderly man. "I asked if you wanted to go get something to eat with me and Hilary right now." It was only then that Kai had noticed Hilary was standing protectively next to him with her hand on his shoulder. He shrugged her away.
"No not really," he tried to say but his voice gave him away as to needing something. Anything to keep him from staying alone, again. He looked up at the pair in front of him.
'Look Kai we understand' the looks on their faces were saying to him "it will be okay" they said second. Inside he felt like screaming. 'How would you know how I feel inside now? Who are you to tell me everything will be okay? You did not know him like I knew him, how close we were…we had almost become brotherly.'
As they walked Kai distanced himself from the other two enough to collect his thoughts again and hopefully not over react when someone told him it would all be okay. 'Okay so, step, breathe, step breathe.' He thought.
A little ways back Mr. Dickenson and Hilary were talking in hushed tones. "He is so closed to the world if we don't get him to open up soon he will explode or do something stupid that he will regret." Hilary was saying. Mr. Dickenson just nodded in silent agreement. Then he said, "Who does he trust? Well he trusted Tala, but now he can't be here. Hmmm who else does he trust?" they pondered for a while. Then Hilary busted out, "REI! He trusts Rei more then anyone else but Tala. We need to find him." With that Mr. Dickenson turned and left.
Hilary and Kai were at the restaurant and seated. "So what do you want?" Hilary asked him. All Kai did was shake his head. If he ate he would just throw it back up later from the pressure he felt now. "Look mister," she said pointing a finger to his face, "You are going to eat in all my time with you I have never seen you eat more then a little bit okay? So I will ask you again, what do you want?" she added sternly with a dead set look in her eye that could melt a man's pride. Kai sighed and picked up a menu and started looking at it. "There now was that so hard?" 'Trying to help him is like pulling teeth' she thought. When it came time to order Kai had chosen a small order of pancakes and an orange juice. "Now what's wrong with you?" Hilary asked bluntly as Kai was picking at his food.
"What do you mean?" he asked in a quite voice very unlike his own
"What do you mean what do I mean? Can't you see your self you're falling to pieces and won't even let out all your sadness that I KNOW you have locked away inside of you?" She looked on the verge of tears yet again.
Kai stood up fiercely with fire in his eyes but said calmly "You know nothing," and stormed away. He was half happy to leave and half confused as to why she would say that to him. Around Kai, Hilary would not speak her mind if it would go directly against Kai's views or ideas, she would on the other hand go against Tyson's ideas in a second because Kai hated it when Tyson went against him. Tyson with dragoon and Kai with dranzer were complete opposites in every way possible.
Hilary sat stunned at the table left confused and feeling alone and sad as she watched the fleeting image of the man she loved walk right out of her grasp. Soon thereafter, Max came to the table with Tyson and Kenny at his heels.
"So Hils what's up?" Max asked sitting and flashing one of his famous smiles.
"Nothing, why are you guys here shouldn't you be training?" She asked sitting straight and moving over so Tyson could slide in next to her.
"We should but Mr. Dickenson told us what happened to Tala and shoved us out the door to talk to Rei of all people." Came Tyson's reply over the menu. "He said he cancelled it, but according to Kai he has no right to cancel something he knows nothing about so... we were not sure who to listen to today." Tyson rambled off.
"So you decided to go eat did you?" They nodded. "Well I think you guys should be where Kai told you to be and not give him more of a reason to hate his life, and you, more then he already has GOT THAT!" They nodded and were about to run off when it occurred to Hilary why Mr. Dickenson would want Kai to be alone with Rei for. She quickly yelled after them "wait maybe you could stay, at least until you eat." At this the three boys ran and sat back at the small table almost knocking it over with the force of their stop. "Well it sure took an arm and a leg to convince you to stay." She muttered under her breath.
"Well I sure as hell am not going back there in any hurry." Tyson said over his menu. "Kai is just going to kill us with work outs." He almost whined
"Yeah" Kenny agreed "Whenever something like this happens he puts the whole team through their paces, expecting us to be able to keep up with him and his moods but we just can't" he pouted over his own menu.
"Speak for yourself, you barely have to do anything, you don't blade with him." As this argument continued on for what was like forever the waiter cam took the menus and their orders too.
"So" max suddenly said turning to Hilary "What is going on with Kai and this whole Tala thing? I mean he IS upset right? Or is he keeping his thoughts to himself?" Hilary just shrugged kicking back the chill going up her spine. "Well I know he can do that sometimes," Max went on. "And believe it or not we are all worried about him." By this time the others had stopped the argument and were listening intently to their conversation now.
"Well here's our food" Hilary mumbled hoping to get some peace to collect her thoughts in silence. As they ate the small group chewed in almost quiet except the minimal attempts to strike up another conversation by a now over hyper Max.
Back with Mr. Dickenson, Rei and Kai.
"Okay boys I'll leave you be to talk" Mr. Dickenson said with a smile to both and a reassuring pat on the back to Kai. He left and the room took a quiet feeling. Kai walked over and slouched against the wall.
"So Kai what's wrong?" Said an overly blunt Rei. "And don't say nothing because I don't believe you for a second most would because you scare them to death but not me, so out with it. What is bothering you?"
Silence from Kai for maybe ten minutes. Finally he gave a deep sigh. "it's not just the Tala thing either, if that's what your thinking. Lately at night I've been having these…." He trailed off not sure what to call them himself. Rei waited patiently for him to compose himself. "these dreams, no, more like horror filled nightmares." He paused again not wanting to sound crazy by telling the other part to Rei.
"Yes?" asked Rei urging him to continue because to any moron it was obvious this is what Kai needed an open ear and a person who would not judge what he said, or did.
"Lately I've been hearing voices too."
Hisoka Lover: Well there you have it my very first chapter in my very first fanfiction. Any comments just leave them with my inbox. Any ideas or criticisms are welcome but please understand if I don't use them or particularly like them at all. Thanks for reading.