Dunno where this came from… Just, I dunno.
I own nothing, not even my precious foster kitten Misty because we can't keep her and when she's old enough, she's going to have to be adopted… (Cries) I love my Misty-Princess.
Everyone knows that Tyson and the rest of the BladeBreakers are afraid of Tala and Bryan. The world champion's fear is easy to see, in his eyes when they cross his path or in his voice when he berates Kai about his friendship with them.
"They're heartless." He scolds, as if he is trying to protect Kai from harm of some sort. As if Kai's oldest friends are going to hurt him. "They aren't even human. They don't care about anyone."
Kai just shakes his head.
Tala and Bryan are different, yes, but human. They may have sealed themselves off from Tyson but they feel. When Tyson or Max or Rei shrinks away as they walk past, and they pretend they don't see, it hurts them. They've gone through more then Tyson could think of in his nightmares and they pretend to feel nothing so it doesn't hurt as much as it does. They've been through a lot, and they made it through and they'll keep making it through because they are not the sort of people who ever go down, and they will never, ever go down with out fighting to the bitter end.
Everything for them has been a battle and they've gone through it back to back, looking out for each other. On the bitter, winter streets of Moscow when a chill wind blew through and coated the world with it's icy fury, they curled up together in an alley and tried desperately to stay warm. They spent a year like that, eating out of trashcans and hiding behind dumpsters and always cold and hungry. They knew each other's stories, where they were from and what drove them to run away and escape to the streets. Tala knows about Bryan's mother dying and what his father did and what he took from his son, innocence and future and all hope. And Bryan knows Tala's mother abandoned him to his father who beat him and treated him like dirt and broke Tala in ways that regular people can't imagine.
And then the Abbey. Tala won't talk about it, the memories are just too painful. He leans against Bryan who glances at him and shakes his head. They don't want to relive those days when everything went wrong, or more wrong. They got through that too, back to back, like they always are. No one gets past Bryan's watchful eyes and the same goes for Tala. Always on guard, they never relax because no one else cared about them.
They seem invincible sometimes, like nothing gets to them but Kai knows that it is Tala who wipes off Bryan's tears when he starts to remember the past, and it's Bryan who forces Tala to eat when he just wants to die. Tyson has no idea how ill Tala really is, he thinks of the red-head as someone much like a stone, but Tala has been suicidal for years, he was ten when he first tried, and it's always been Bryan who catches him.
So Kai just laughs when Tyson says they're heartless because Kai knows they aren't. And he walks away when Tyson can't understand what's so funny, because Kai knows the truth and knows that Tala and Bryan may seem mean, may seem empty, but they're the bravest people the phoenix knows and no immature Japanese brat is going to stop him from doing his best to help them.
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