Chapter 2

Finishing the last touches on dinner, Rei saw the clock read five till six. He placed the plates that he had set leaving the leftovers in the pan just in case that they had more people over or if his highness wanted more. Just as Rei set the chopsticks next on the table, the door close and Kai appeared in the kitchen door.

"What did you make for dinner?" he said as he walked in the room.

"Oh it's just nikujaga," Rei replied as he turned to face Kai.

"And what is nikujaga?" asked Kai as he sat at the head of the table.

"Oh, it is just meat and potatoes."

"Why couldn't you just say that you made meat and potatoes?" he replied as he poked the mixture with his chopsticks.

"Because of the way that you cook it makes it Japanese and that is why I didn't refer to it with its American name," Rei answered as he sat down across from Kai and started to eat his dinner. Kai just sat there perplexed at what Rei had said. "Could you explain to me who Tala is?" came Rei's quite voice.

"Oh, Tala is just a friend of mine nothing to worry about," said Kai hiding who Tala really was.

"Oh, thank you," he replied before he stood from the table empty plate in hand and walked towards the sink. Rei stood there looking at the dishes and grabbed the sponge and started to wash them. Finishing what was on his plate, Kai walked over and sat it next to the sink and then walked out of the room. Rei finished the dishes before he went to the fridge and pulled out a bottle of diet water. He glanced around the room for any dishes that he might have missed. Seeing none, he walked towards his room only glancing towards Kai's before he walked into his room and shut the door.

Rei started to walk towards his bed when he spotted something moving in his closet. He set the diet water on the night stand then walked towards his closet; footsteps muffled by the plush carpet. Rei stood in the doorway as he watched a figure try to hide. As Rei approached the figure they turned and tried to run out of the closet only to run into Rei and fall on the floor. "Who are you?" Rei demanded as he stood over the figure.

"What does it matter to you?" they said.

"Well you are in my room and you don't belong here," he said.

"So that doesn't mean you need to know who I am," the person commented.

"I believe that I have more of a reason than you do," said Rei for the first time noticing the boys green hair. "Now why don't you get up and we'll sort this out?"

"Fine," the boy answered as he stood up. Looking at the boy, Rei also noticed his short stature.

"Ok, now who are you?" he asked as he started to walk out of the closet.

"Like I said before: what does it matter to you?" the green-haired boy asked. Then there was a knock on Rei's bedroom door.

"Yes?" replied Rei to the knock on his door.

"What is going on? I can here you in my room," Kai said as he opened the door.

"Well Kai since you are wondering also, I believe that it is time for this midget to explain," Rei said as he pulled the other boy in front of him.

"Well who are you?" said Kai as he walked towards the boy.

"Like I said to him: what does it matter to you?" he replied

"Well let me see. I don't know maybe because this isn't your dorm or the fact that you have broke into my dorm and you will tell me who you are," Kai replied as he grabbed the front of the boy's shirt.

"I only came here to find out who he is," the boy said nodding in Rei's direction.

"What does it matter to you who he is?" asked Kai as he started to let go of the boys shirt.

"Nobody really knows who he is or why he his here," he answered as he tried to pull his shirt out of Kai's grip.

"You give me some information and I will give you some information, deal?" Kai said as he completely released his grip on the boy's shirt.

"Deal, what do you want to know?" he asked.

"Who are you?" asked Kai as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"Kevin Guo. Who is he?" Kevin said nodding at Rei.

"Rei Kon and why do you need to know?" Rei asked tired of them talking about him with him present.

"I was sent here to find out who you were by a girl that lives down the hall," replied Kevin.

"Oh and who is this mystery girl?" Kai asked as he knew everybody who lived in this hall.

"Just a girl," was all Kevin would say.

"If you won't answer the question with a name then that is all the information that you get. And now you will have to leave," Kai said as he grabbed Kevin's shirt again and dragged him out of the dorm. Rei just stood there dumbfounded. 'What just happened and who wants to know who I am?' "Rei you do remember that your inner monolog doesn't work?"

"Yes and thank you," replied Rei as he walked towards the front door of their dorm. "Ok, so who do you think wants to know who I am?"

"There are only two girls that live on this floor. Emily and Mariah, and as far as I know Emily is going out with some computer geek that lives across the hall from her. But I don't know about Mariah," Kai said as he shut the door and walked over to one of the plush couches. "If I was you I wouldn't leave this room unless I was just going to classes. And the only reason that I suggest that you do this because I've seen what Mariah will do when she is obsessed with someone and it isn't pretty."

"So I have the best chance if I just hid in our dorm all day and don't leave unless I have a class?" Rei asked as he sat at the couch across from Kai.

"That would be your best bet," answered Kai as he stood and walked towards his bedroom. Rei just sat dumfounded on the couch not really knowing what to do about this girl that wants to know who he is. 'It isn't like anybody really cares who I am, well maybe Kai does but you can't tell with him. I just don't understand why they would send someone to find out who I am. And why would they have them hide in my closet--' Rei's train of thought was broken when he heard Kai yelling at someone in Russian. Standing and walking across the room, he could see that Kai was pacing back and forth across the length of his room. Noticing the cell phone in his hand, Rei figured that it might be Tala or one of his other friends.

"я ненавидеть вы," Kai said before he looked towards his door and say Rei looking in. He walked towards the door and slammed it shut before Rei could here anymore. Lowering his voice Kai walked to a wall on the outside of the dorm, "I don't know why you insist that I go after Rei. You know that it wouldn't last very long and you also know that things will go haywire because we are living in the same dorm."

"Oh you know that you want Rei. I can tell and you don't even have to be around me for me to tell," came Tala voice from the receiver.

"But you know that I can't date anyone unless my grandfather approves of it," Kai said as he sat on the window sill.

"What your grandfather doesn't know can't kill him. And I never said anything about dating him," Tala remarked before he hung up.

Rei was sitting on the edge of his bed debating on if he should take the medication that his doctor gave him before he left for this school. I don't want to have to take these just to suppress some genes because my mother and father want to hide what I really am. It isn't like they aren't neko-jins either, it is just that they don't show it a physically as I do. Rei thought to himself before he threw the bottle of pills towards one of the random corners in his room.

He didn't want to hide who he really was but what his parents wanted was him to look like a normal human and not someone who they liked to call a "freak". He wasn't a freak; he was unique just as he thought everybody else was. Not only did his parents think that he was a freak, they called him a freak when they talked to him. It wasn't until his father died that his mother decided that she didn't want him around because he looked to much like his father. So she gave him half of the life-insurance and kicked him out on the streets so he had to figure things out for his self. But when he went to school one day they had an application for this special boarding school just on the other side of the country. Rei didn't know if it was worth filling out the application but he took the chance and filled it out. Not more than a day later, the school called back saying that they are accepting Rei as a student and they are giving him a full scholarship. SO now he had a place to live and still he is still able to go to school.

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