Friends, Romans, Countymen, and men and women from everywhere else (and women from my country. Geez, that quote sucks!) I bring to you MAD KAI! This is a very angsty fic, I'm warning you now. There's a lot of bad things that have happened and will happen to Kai. Lots of them. But...on with the madness! Muwahahahahaha!
"Kai? What are you doing out here?" Kai turned to find Tyson standing beside him. He blinked and then looked away. "Kai? Hello-o? Earth to Kai?"
"What?"
"What are you doing out here? It's freezing!" As if to emphasise his point Tyson shivered, tugging his jacket closer around him. Kai sighed inwardly. Moron.
"In case you've forgotten, Tyson, I was brought up in Russia." He smirked slightly. "It snows in Russia, you know." Tyson laughed nervously.
"Oh yeah! Right. Um...so are you coming back inside? Rei's making cookies!"
"Lovely. Enjoy your highly fattening sugar-high-inducing snacks. How much did you have to beg before he agreed to bake for you?" Tyson cried out in protest.
"He offered! Well...Max kind of asked a little bit-"
"Precisely. Go on, go and enjoy your...'cookies'."
Tyson looked slightly glum and walked away, leaving Kai leaning against the wall. Tyson was so...strange. He was just...so strange. He stood up and walked into the house, up to his bedroom, and flumped down on the bed, closing his eyes and sighing. Seemingly seconds passed and then someone knocked at his door. "Mm?" The door creaked and someone padded in.
"You asleep, Kai?"
"No, Tyson. Strangely enough, some people close their eyes when they want to think. Not of course that I'd expect you to understand that."
"Oh. Um. I...I just wanted to know if you wanted to come watch a movie with me and Max and Rei..."
"No."
"But...you don't even know what it is!"
"Okay, I'll guess. Is it a cartoon?"
"Well...yeah..."
"Is it about some kind of ninja?"
"Yeah..."
"Does the title contain the word 'whacky' or 'groovy'?"
"Yeah."
"There you go then."
He was suddenly moved by the weight of someone sitting on the end of his bed, opened his eyes. Tyson was looking at him sadly, and as Kai watched, a tear trickled down his cheek. The younger boy sniffed and wiped it away, while Kai looked on, awkwardly. "What's the matter with you?" Tyson sniffed again.
"You know what, Kai? I don't get you. I just don't. Whenever anyone tries to be nice to you, you just get sarcastic and act like a jerk! What's so wrong with being nice to you?" Kai blinked, and Tyson, shifted closer, getting angry. "Tell me! Or is the mighty Kai just too good to accept kindness from anyone else?"
"If I said yes would you cry more?" Sneered Kai. "Why should I want to eat cookies? I don't like cookies! Why should I want to watch a movie with you and the others? I don't like stupid cartoons! I don't like giggling blondes! I don't like stupid, cheerful morons like you! Leave me the hell alone or I'm going to end up killing you! GET OUT OF MY ROOM!" Kai yelled, face flushed red with rage. Tyson burst into tears and stood up before running out of the room.
Kai watched him run down the stairs, then lay back down, closing his eyes once again. "Kai?" More disturbances. "Kai, what did you say to Tyson? He's just run past me crying, and I heard you shouting at him."
"Oh go away, Rei."
"No, I won't! What do you think you are, some kind of god?"
"Get out of my room."
"I'm not in your room you bad-tempered goat." Kai opened his mouth and found Rei leaning against the door frame. "He's only trying to be friendly, Kai. All of us are. You might think you're five times better than the rest of us, but it wouldn't kill you to join in every once in a while."
Kai closed his eyes again. "I don't engage in frivolous activities. They waste energy and degenerate the mind."
"Oh, and what textbook did you get that out of? If we're going for statistics, Kai, did you know that laughing is actually good for your health? I've never seen you laugh. By rights you should be an ill wreck. But you're not. Huh, maybe you're a robot, that might explain why you treat the rest of us like dirt."
"Go away."
"Make me."
"Stop wasting my time."
"-Make- me." Rei said threateningly. Kai sat up, opening his eyes again, and found that Rei had moved inside his room, standing on his tiptoes, feet digging into the pile of the carpet. He reached into his drawer, and pulled out his handgun. "Get out of my room, leave me alone, and stop wasting my time." Rei looked at him witheringly.
"So go on then. Shoot me."
"Go away."
"I'm not going to." Kai sighed. Verbal threats had not worked. Physical threats had not worked. Therefore, the only thing left was to remove Rei. He put the gun down and stood up, moving over to Rei and grasping his arm. Rei yanked it away and moved, sitting down on Kai's bed and bouncing. "I'm not like Tyson. I'm not scared of you, Kai. Someone has to break it to you. You're an idiot. You might be in some posh school, you might be a good beyblader, but you have NO people skills. You repel people. You even repel them consciously. He's only trying to be nice, Kai. Being nice isn't a crime."
"Get. Out."
"No." Kai gave a yell of rage and raised his fist, but Rei caught hold of his hand before the blow connected. "I'm not going to let you hurt me, Kai. And I'm not going to hurt you. That's what you expect, isn't it? Some kind of pain? It's not coming, Kai, from either side. What now?"
Kai made a choking noise in the back of his throat, and a bead of sweat appeared on his forehead. This was wrong...Rei was messing with his head. But it was right this way! It had to be like this! To receive no pain, there had to be no connections! "No!" He growled. "With connection there is weakness. Corruption. It's better to be alone than to be weak."
"You're an idiot, you know that? He's stronger than you, Kai. He's stronger than you, and he isn't a soulless chunk of flesh!"
Kai flinched, turning away his face as if he'd been struck. "He can't be stronger..."
"He is!"
"It's not...right!" Kai wrenched his hand away and turned his back. "Why should he be the one? I'm sorry, Grandfather..."
"What? Kai, I'm not your grandfather..."
Kai turned. "I'm sorry. I've failed you." Somewhere in the back of his mind he knew that it was Rei sitting on the bed, but he could only see his Grandfather, with his stern gaze and demanding presence. "I'm sorry. I know I'm not worthy..." Kai bowed his head. "What...is my punishment?"
"Punishment?"
"Grandfather..."
Kai's vision blurred before him and he jerked backwards, feeling a blow to his face. He fell to his knees at the next, and then further, until his nose was buried in the carpet...but...his Grandfather's house was all floored with wood...but...
Rei looked down at Kai and stared. Nothing had happened, and yet Kai had fallen as if he were being beaten, dropped to the floor, eyes shut tight, shaking. He knelt down beside the Russian and shook him gently. Kai whimpered. "I'm sorry...I won't fail you again..."
"Kai...Kai, I'm not your grandfather...I'm Rei, Kai. Rei from the Bladebreakers."
"I promise...I'll do anything..."
Rei folded an arm around Kai and hugged him gently. Kai shuddered violently and immediately clenched up. "Anything but that! Please! Grandfather, I know I'm not worthy, but please! D-Don't hurt me again..."
Rei let go of Kai as if he were aflame, then ran to the door. "Guys! A little help here!" Tyson ran back up the stairs, stepping into Kai's room warily. As soon as he saw Kai lying on the floor he dropped next to him, reaching out a hand and laying it on Kai's shoulder. Kai whimpered again, like a thrashed dog, and curled up tighter, a comma of fear and terror. "N-No!"
"Kai?"
"P-Please! D-Don't hurt me!" Tyson looked up at Rei, puzzled. Rei shook his head.
"He seems to think he's with his grandfather, and that...he... He started moving, falling like he'd been hit by someone...and then he asked his grandfather not to hurt him again..."
Tyson gave a gasp of shock and flung his arms around Kai, hugging him tightly. Kai let out a strangled scream and reached out, hands shoving him away weakly. "I promise I won't let him be stronger than me! I promise, Grandfather! Please just leave me alone!" Tyson let go, confused, and Kai started to cry.
"Kai, your grandpa isn't here!" Tyson cried, worried.
Kai shivered again and raised his head slightly, blinking, obviously confused. "Kai, you're not with your grandpa, you're here with us. With me and Rei." Kai looked at him blankly for a few seconds then fainted clean away, head dropping back to the floor. Rei crouched beside Tyson, and reached out, rolling Kai onto his back. "There's something really wrong going on here..." He said quietly. "Get his arms." Tyson obliged, and between the two of them they got Kai onto his bed. The Russian laid there, deathly still and pale, breathing so softly it was almost unnoticeable.
"He said his grandpa hurt him?" Asked Tyson, disbelievingly.
"No, not exactly. Well. Yeah...he said 'don't hurt me again'." Rei sighed. "God, I feel so guilty, now. I was being an idiot, but it was only because he's horrible to you...to all of us. He...he -expects- people to hurt him, Tyson. And he doesn't want friends because he thinks they'll make him weaker..."
Kai stirred suddenly, groaning, and Tyson and Rei backed away instinctively. Kai rolled onto his side, away from them, and sighed softly. Rei and Tyson looked at each other, unsure of what to do. "Should we...call Mr. D?" Asked Tyson tentatively. Rei shook his head.
"He'd kill us if we got Mr. D involved. This is obviously something he doesn't want people kn-"
"What are you doing in my room?" A cold voice, harsh as the icy country it hailed from broke into Rei's speech. Kai sat up slowly, eyes glinting dangerously. "Get out."
"Kai, look-" Began Tyson.
"I said 'get out'. Not 'stand around and be a moron'. Although I'm sure you can't help it, seeing as it's your natural state..."
"Kai!" Rei admonished. "Kai, we know about what your grandfather did to you, and-"
"You know NOTHING!" Kai growled, standing up. "Now get out of my room!"
"Kai-"
"Get out. Get out before I -make- you get out."
Tyson looked up at him, eyes filling with tears. "We only want to help, Kai...he's evil...why didn't you tell us before that he beat you u- AGH!" Before Tyson had a chance to finish speaking, Kai had grabbed a shoe off the floor and hurled it at him. "Hey, don't!" He rubbed the reddening patch on his cheek that the heavy boot had hit, feeling like something out of a bad movie.
"Get out of my room or I'm going to kill you. I have no more patience!" He picked up his gun again and fired it into the wall a few inches away from Tyson. Tyson gaped at him. "Leave me alone. I don't want to be friends with you. I don't want you to like me. If we weren't on the same team I wouldn't have anything to do with you! I hate you! I hate you as well, Rei, I hate all of you! Never let it be said that I shamed the Hiwatari name!"
"What, by having friends?" He abused you, Kai! What have we ever done to you? It should be your grandfather you hate, not us!" Kai turned and Rei looked deep into his eyes. Terror washed over him. Kai was past caring now, he needed to be incapacitated or he'd hurt someone. But the gun was already aiming at him, right in the centre of his chest...
He threw himself to the floor as a shot exploded near him. This was just so wrong...wrong, wrong, wrong. But what could he do? Kai had gone psycho, he had a gun, and, if he was really looking for truths, he'd provoked Kai too much to hope he'd survive. But then Tyson started to scream. As he'd seen Rei drop, he obviously thought Kai had actually shot him, and he was panicking. Kai turned to him for a brief second to tell him to shut up, and Rei leapt, with strength he didn't know he had, forcing Kai to the floor and squashing his wrist until he let go of the gun. "Tyson! Shut up!"
Tyson thankfully stopped screaming, and Rei sat on top of Kai, knee dug into one of the pressure points on his back, fingers jabbed into the side of the Russian's neck. "I'm sorry, Kai, but I'm not going to let you shoot me."
"Veeblyadok! Poshol nahuj!" Kai growled into the carpet.
"I don't know what you're saying so you might as well save your breath."
"Fuck you, you son of a whore! Get off me! I'll KILL you!"
"You're not going to do anything, Kai. Tyson, go and phone Mr. D, tell him it's urgent." Tyson walked out, and Rei sighed. "Jesus, Kai, what is -wrong- with you?" Kai twitched and muttered something. "What?"
"I HATE YOU!"
"Why?" Asked Rei exasperatedly.
"Because you all make me feel WRONG!"
"What?" Kai shifted, uncomfortable with the pressure Rei was exerting on his neck and back.
"You don't understand -anything-!" Spat Kai. He gave a frustrated growl and lapsed back to muttering what Rei could only imagine were Russian obscenities. With a sigh, Rei shook his head. He hoped Mr. Dickenson would come soon...
Note, the literal translation of what Kai says is: Fuck you, son of a whore! I got it off a website, so sorry if it's wrong, because I don't speak Russian.
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