Ah, back from break! It's so nice to be back. No long note, just start the story--

Everyone: Hold it!!

Sakura: (ears ringing) Ow...

Brian: Who the hell won that stupid board game?!

Sakura: You all still care about that?

Everyone: Yes!

Mariam: As victims we deserve to know!

Sakura: I thought it was obvious. Tysa won.

Everyone but Tysa and Shui: TYSA?!

Lee: But wasn't Kai the leader?

Sakura: Shui, explain. I have a headache...

Shui: In return for saving Kai from the giant clam, Tysa asked for the reward of switching places with him and getting his roll.

Kai: I never asked to be saved!!

Tysa: When have I cared on what you want? (Everyone fumes at Tysa) ...I take it it's time to make a speedy exit

Sakura: Yep. Better run fast.

(If you don't get this note, see my break story Shui's Game)

Chapter 4: A Dangerous Being

Kai woke up in his room in the Granger house. It was originally one of the many guest rooms in the bigger-than-expected house, but Tysa had given it to him. It was originally weird that she was able to give him one of the rooms, but he had (been forced to) accepted it. Maybe she had given it to him as an escape from the Hiwataris, mainly his grandfather. There was really no surprise how he had gotten here. He knew he had collapsed during that battle. He groaned and fell back on the pillow.

"His name...Kaji." Maybe it was because he looked familiar, but there was something more that vexed him. "...Kaji..."

There was a knock on the door and the youngest Granger walked in. Even though he was eight years old, he seemed to be more mature than his older brothers. That was probably because the insanity of adulthood hadn't attacked him yet.

"Kai? Are you awake?" Shui asked, looking curiously over Kai's body. Kai turned his eyes to Shui in a response, and the little boy nodded. "That's good. Nee-san's making lunch." Kai's eyes widened a little more than normal. Lunch?!

"She was really worried." Shui continued. "Tyson wanted to draw on your face with a marker, but she threw a frying pan at him." Kai's eyes narrowed.

A frying pan?

"Anyways, you should get up soon before Tyson eats everything." Kai stood up and was a little relieved that his clothes seemed cleaner, then followed Shui to the kitchen.

"Hey, Kai, you're up!" Tyson stated from the den, turning around from playing the video game with Max. Max turned around as well.

"You've been out for two days, Kai." Max told him. "We thought we might have to send you to the hospital if you didn't wake up."

"What was wrong?" Tyson asked. Kai shook his head.

"Nothing. I just haven't gotten much sleep recently." That was a half-lie. He had collapsed before, but never willing slept to avoid the nightmares.

"Hey, if you read one of my dad's college lectures, you'll be cured." Tyson offered. Kai shook his head a bit and continued to the kitchen, where Tysa was testing the soup's taste.

"Tysa?" he asked, making her jump slightly. It wasn't so much he statement as the quiet tone he used.

"Kai! Holy crap!" she screamed, turning around to him, her hand on her frightened heart. "Heh. Sorry. Wasn't really expecting you to wake up. I mean, kinda. I mean..." Tysa shook her head, and attempted to try again. "How are you feeling?"

"Better." Kai admitted. The Granger house always had that familial warmth he lacked. Not that he cared he it was present or not. He mainly came for beyblade practices, or to see Tysa. Not that he would admit the latter. Tysa nodded.

"Ray just went out for more food." Tysa stated. "Which is good, because you just woke." Kai nodded.

"Tysa..." Kai walked closer to her. "What do you think of me?"

"..." Tysa's face looked deep in thought. "...What do I think of you?" Kai was a little surprised at the blunt answer. "I dunno. I guess you've become like a brother...I think." Tysa replied.

"What if I...what if I wasn't human?" At this point, Tysa was pretty lost. Something wanted to question that, but she shook her head.

"Well...would you still be Kai?"

"Well..."

"As long as you're Kai, I don't care what you are. Not even if you're an asexual organism." Tysa beamed. Kai glared.

"I hate you."

"My heart bleeds."

"Tysa, I'm back." Ray interrupted the moment at the right time. Kai had nothing else to say. "Kai, you're up." Kai nodded.

"Ray, come over here." Tysa pointed at the soup. "I need your opinion." Kai understood why Tysa would value Ray's opinion when it came to food, but he found it awkward and annoying as he silently watched Tysa spoon-feed him.

"It's fine, Tysa." Ray told her. Kai shifted a bit. It was known but unspoken between the two boys that they both liked Tysa. Tysa, of course, had no idea of their affection rivalry. Even still, Kai felt that Tysa was more attentive to Ray for the past few weeks, and that really bothered him.

You could easily be rid of him.

Kai felt a shiver go up his spine, and it wasn't unnoticed.

"Kai?" Tysa asked. "Are you ok?" Another headache throbbed in Kai's head, but he ignored it. Tysa's normally cheerful and slightly apathetic face seemed nervous, and he wasn't going to make that worse.

"Yeah. I'm fine." He lied, but Tysa wasn't convinced.

"Go back to your room." She commanded. "I'll bring you soup." Kai wasn't about to turn down room service from Tysa, so he gave a 'feh' and walked out.

Now what's this? What's with the extra effort to put me down? You had no problem with it before.

"Shut it." Kai growled softly as he entered his room. "Go away."

Asking me to go away is like yanking out your heart. I'm a part of you. I just want to help.

Kai was vexed by the teasing tone in his head. The headaches started to become more intense, but he bit his lip and tried to bear it.

Hey, now don't do anything rash. It's just that...you could easily have that girl all to yourself if you didn't keep holding me back.

"I-don't-need-your-help." Kai said through his lip-biting. "Leave me alone!" He heard a tsk-tsk in his mind as a his head throbbed harder.

Of course you do. At the level you put yourself in, you're just human. Now, with me—together you'd have the power of a dark spirit. Enough power to make even Grandfather envious.

Kai didn't respond. Instead he staggered over to the table in the room. Trying to keep consciousness, he grabbed Dranzer. Before anything happened, he needed to leave the Granger house.

"Kai." Tysa opened the door to Kai's room with the soup, surprising Kai with her horrible timing. "Kai, I have your soup."

"Ty...sa?" Throughout the pain and his blurring vision, she was the only thing he could see clearly. Tysa noticed the sweat drops in Kai's face and his uneven breaths. And he looked shocked to see her in her own home. She put the soup on a smaller table and went to Kai's side.

"Kai, are you ok?" she asked, putting her hand on one of Kai's arms. Kai tried to get her to let go.

"Let...go. Leave me...a...alone."

"Are you nuts? You're obviously sick, Kai!" Kai shook his head.

"No...no...not sick."

"Kai, this is no time for a macho act!" Tysa yelled, but he continued shaking his head.

"No...not...s-sick..." He knew Tysa could never appreciate how difficult it was for him to talk to her. Despite his actions, however, Tysa placed in his bed.

"Kai, you need to tell me what's wrong!" Tysa commanded. But Kai kept shaking his head. This idiot...

Slowly, it was getting hard to see Tysa as the headaches got to him. The voice had gone, but he was still losing consciousness from the headaches. A silver aura was starting to seen around Tysa. Warm...

"Kai?" Tysa should've felt relieved to see Kai sitting up on his own, but she felt a bad feeling, especially when he didn't answer. "...Kai?" Slowly, he leaned towards her and he could feel the silver aura brushing his nose.

Soft... he thought, slowly placing his lips on hers. Tysa had no idea what to do. Normally, she'd punch him for trying something like this, but he was sick. Sometimes people do weird things when they're sick (which is true). So, as she tried to figure out what to do, she picked temporary option C: Just freeze up and let him kiss her.

"Tysa, are you and Kai ok?" Ray asked, starting to open the door. And to add to Tysa's freezing technique, Kai didn't stop kissing her.

"Ok, and freeze." Ray stopped opening the door, Kai lips stopped moving, the birds outside stopped chirping, and Tysa was shivering. "...You weren't enjoying it that much, did you?" It was then she also realized that her lips were still on Kai's, and Ray almost caught them! She slowly backed away from Kai and fell back on Dev's legs. "Good afternoon, 'zuki." Tysa got up so fast, Dev thought she was going to head butt him.

"He was—" she pointed at Kai. "He was—" She pointed at Ray. "I was—" she pointed at herself.

"And "I was", yes, yes. It's not uncommon for a girl to be kissing another guy right as her boyfriends walk in. You can't believe how many women in Hell have that same scenario—sometimes, it was the scenario that caused their deaths, but I digress..." Tysa shuddered a bit as Dev moved Kai to a sleeping position.

"...This isn't a social call, is it?" Tysa asked, narrowing her eyes at Dev. Dev moved his red eyes towards Tysa and smirked.

"Of course not, my darling niece." He teased, took of Tysa's cap and ruffled her long hair. "It's the fact that you were being kissed by one of the most dangerous beings in hell and Earth. Lucky you."

"...Huh?" Tysa seemed more confused than ever by Dev's statement. "What are you talking about?"

"Well..." Dev turned back to Kai. "He does seem only human. Half-human to be precise."

"Huh??" Dev slowly took off Kai's scarf, to Tysa's surprise. No one took off Kai's scarf. He'd grab their arm in his sleep and stop them even. Then, she reminded herself that he was frozen in time. It would be scary if he did stop him. And even scarier the aftermath. When the scarf was off, a small mark that looked like a black flame was seen on the side of Kai's neck. "...a tattoo?"

"Not quite..." Dev muttered. He then breathed something inaudible and touched the mark. Instantly it started fading away. "Now that temporarily stopped the process..." He started to put Kai's scarf back on.

"What process? What was that mark? And what made you think Ray was my boyfriend?!"

"On the wrong pages at the wrong times, as usual. And I don't recall thinking he was your boyfriend." He pointed at Ray. "Actually..." he turned to Tysa was a look that seemed almost...brotherly. Fatherly even. That wasn't right. Tysa felt so nervous and scared by the unfamiliar face, she thought she might piss herself (we all have those moments...). "It would be better if you went with anyone but him." Tysa became even more confused.

"Not that I care about what you think about my love life, but why...?" Dev sighed and scratched his black-purple hair.

"Well..." he was interrupted by a beeping sound in his pocket.

"...the devil has a beeper?" Tysa asked as he looked at it.

"You try ruling Hell. Eventually you'll want one of these damn things too." Dev told her. "Oh, one more thing before I stop all Hell from breaking loose in the Supposedly-Mythological-Creatures Sect." He moved his head closed to her looking serious. "When people do polyandry, normally the men involved know about it." Before Tysa could throw something at the Dev, he disappeared in the shadows and time started moving. Kai was sleeping peacefully, unlike before.

"Tysa?" Ray asked, opening the door completely. "Tysa, why is your hat off?"

"Uh..." Quickly, she fixed her hair. "Nothing! No reason!" Ray looked at the soup on the side table.

"Kai didn't eat?" he looked at Kai's sweat-dropped face. "Guess he is sick..."

"You didn't believe him?" Tysa asked. Ray was stuck for an answer. The reason he wasn't sure was because he felt this was just a way to get Tysa's attention, but he wasn't about to admit that.

"No...I mean, yes! Yes, I believed him!" Crap. How pathetic would it sound if I said I was jealous of a sick man. Actually, that might override the pathetic scale...

"Ray?"

"Tysa!" Ray snapped out of his thoughts, slightly surprising Tysa. "Um...I...I was wondering...about this Sunday..."

"Yeah? What?"

"You...you're not doing anything, are you?" Ray asked. Tysa thought about it. Usually, she planned her day as she went. And if she did plan something, she could never remember it except on that day.

"Not that I remember. Why?"

"Would you...could we go out somewhere?" he asked. And that alone was probably the worst way to ask someone out.

"Sure, I'll go out with you." She said, being the great translator of 'guy' that she was. She wasn't going to press details, as Ray already looked like if he talked about it anymore, his brain would stop functioning all together.

"Really? I mean, that's great!"

"Yep. Now can you go check on the soup for me?" Ray nodded and went out of the room, relieved. Tysa sighed, remembering Dev's warning and Kai's question.

"What if I wasn't human?"

"He's probably one of the worst things in hell and Earth."

Tysa took a deep breath and looked at Kai's scarf. "Stupid. He's still Kai..."

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(Yawns) Wow, i'm tired. I always get tired around by birthday. Anyways, I forgot to give out thank yous. For those who haven't threatened me yet:

THANK YOU!! You're the nice ones, who probably don't own any weapons.

For those who have threatened me:

THANK YOU!! You're the ones I hear in the back of my mind when I have no artistic inspiration, scaring me into writing.

For those who haven't reviewed but have loyally followed my work:

THANK YOU! (yep, only one exclamation point) You're all the reason I still write! As Tyson's Twin has reached over 20,000 hits, it inspires me more and more to write. After all, this whole flow of randomness mixed with drama all started on an idea I got in Utah (well, there's one place I don't live), and it moved into two years of hard work. Or semi-hard work. Or whatever amount of work you imagine I do.

Mizuki Sakura