-I'm sorry it took me so long to update, we had a test in school you see sigh hope you like this chapter!-
Chapter 3: Same Sentiments
The screeching of the tires stopped, and Kai wished that time itself could stop…
He opened his eyes and dared to look...
he saw Mao stunned on the ground...
he saw the driver get out of the truck and run...
he walked slowly as if in a dream...
towards the front of the truck...
but there was nothing, as the authorities would discover later...
there was no blood...
no little girls that were run over...
the pavement was as clean as if the asphalt had been newly coated...
Kai stood there disoriented, where were they? did they just vanish? Tears started to flow down from his eyes and even if he wanted them to stop, they just kept coming, and finally Kai broked down...they were his responsibility, Saya had entrusted them to him...and Riku too...but he was rooted to the spot and could do nothing but cry...
"Otou-san? Kai Otou-san? Why are You crying..."
Kai looked up when he heard Kaya's voice...but there was no one...he whirled around, still no one...He heard light laughter...
"Doesn't he see us?"
"Hehe, I don't think so..."
"Hey! Kai Otou-san! Were up here!"
Kai looked up, and there ontop of the Omoro, sat the two little girls with big wide smiles...
"I guess he's seen us now Hisa..." grinned Kaya
"Hmm, I guess so..."smiled her twin
Kai heaved a sigh of relief and from the otherside of the street he heard Mao do the same. He raised his hand to wave at them, when he caught sight of a dark figure behind the twins...Kai's face became serious...
"Why don't you girls come down here..." he said in a hushed voice
"Okay!" said Hisa cheerfully
"Could you please take us down..." whispered Kaya to the dark figure...the figure nodded and in a swift motion the girls were down on the ground with Kai...
"Kai-chan!!!!!!" they cried and he caught the two girls in a fierce embrace
"Don't you ever get me that worried again! You two almost gave me a heartattack..." said Kai in between sobs...
Hisa giggled, "We're very sorry Kai otou-san!" Kai nodded and looked up at the person who had saved the girls, and Kai knew that this person was the very same one who left a pink rose infront of the Miyugusku family grave, where Saya slept...he put down the girls, and gave a faint smile...
"Uh...gee thanks!" he offered up his hand, but the other didn't take it, Kai shrugged...
"You don't know how much we appreciate what you've done..."
"It is my duty to protect them...it was what she wished..." said the man in a low voice...
"Saya..." whispered Kai...he looked up to see the man already taking his leave...
"Hey Haji!"
Haji stopped and turned to Kai, his black hair rippling in the summer sweet wind...
"Why don't you consider staying with us..."
Haji looked at Kai strangely, as if he didn't understand what Kai meant...
"I mean you'd be a whole lot closer to the girls...it would be easier to protect them..."
Haji shifted uncomfortably
"And besides...we're both waiting for the same person...aren't we?"
Haji's eyes seemed to glitter as if the unbreakable man of stone would shatter into tears at any moment... but Haji kept his cool and tilted his head slightly, signaling that he would be thinking of Kai's offer...he gave Kai an ecncouraging look and once again jumped into the air and dissapeared into the vastness of the city...
Kai sighed and and brought the jumping twins inside, he gave Mao a wink and she replied with a quick smile...
Lately people could say many things with one glance, one turn, one sigh and one sign...but as Kai cleaned up the dishes he couldn't help but think about what Haji felt...Haji had been around for a long time, more than 3 full-life spans of a normal human being in fact! But Kai did wonder about what Haji felt, he imagined how the lone chevalier would spend hours walking in deserted alleyways, and silent streets, waiting always waiting...
"Hehehe!"
Kai looked up
"Hahahahaha!"
'what was that?' Kai asked himself as he curiously peeped around the hall...
The girls were deffinetley awake, he smiled to himself...
Barely ten minutes had passed by when the girls fell silent and stopped their giggling . Kai knew that they coudn't sleep without him reading thema bedtime story , or craddling them in his arms. All of a sudden Kai was gripped with fear, he quickly ran to the twins' room but nothing was wrong...As usual Kaya was sprawled in her bed, her barney plush toy put lazily on her stomach, Hisa quietly tucked in bed with a book about fairies beside her...Kai heaved a sigh of relief...he scratched his head...
"You know, you don't have to sulk there in a corner..."
Somewhere in the darkness a shadow moved, no not a shadow, Haji...
Kai put his hand on his hip "Its pretty knid of you to put them to bed..."
The chevalier said nothing...
Kai sighed again, he looked at the twins and he could not help but smile...
"You know Haji, they can be pretty hard to deal with, but they're good kids..."
"Yes" was Haji's cryptic reply
"Why don't you sit in the dinner awhile, I'll fix something up for you..."
Haji slowly shook his head...
"I'm fine..."
Kai shrugged his shoulders...
"Well will you be staying then?"asked Kai
"I will visit now and then..."
"Why don't you stay!?! The girls would be happy with you around, you're some one they can relate to and..."
Kai stopped in mid-sentence as Haji's firm hand rested upon his left shoulder...
"You think to poorly of yourself Kai...you are also some one they can relate to, even though you knew you didn't stand a chance, you put your life on the line for those children, and that is worthy of admiration..."
That moment Kai saw first-hand the real strength Saya's chevalier had... a strength that Diva's chevaliers did not have...
"T-Thank you..."
Haji nodded and in a flash he was gone...
Kai looked out the window...towards the full moon...
"Nankurunaisa..." he murmured
everything would be alright...he would raise the twins to the best of his ability...that was his responsibility, his promise...to Riku, Saya, their father, and to himself...
