A Surprise

There was a long eerie silence that filled the car. Nothing was said as Kai and Hiro watch Brooklyn get chase by an old lady who was wildly swinging her purse about trying to hit him. Hiro breathe through his nose and look up at the ceiling of the car, "I'll ask once again, what are those cuts on your arm?"

Once again there was no answer but Hiro heard Kai sigh and place his hands on the steering wheel. After a while he heard Kai's voice, "I had a personal problem that I couldn't get through. I...figured that cutting myself would be the best way to help me get through it because it felt good. Then I found out that I didn't have to cut myself in order to feel good."

Still looking at the ceiling Hiro questioned, "I assume that Rei helped you with this situation of yours?"

There was silence that filled the car in answer to Hiro's question. Both men who sat in the car turn their attention to Brooklyn who was now approaching a man who was leaning against the wall with his head bowed and a bottle covered in a brown paper bag in one hand. Kai grunted his response and continued to watch Brooklyn, who has draped his arm around the man leaning against the building.

With a husky voice Brooklyn leans unto the man and whispers into his ear, "Hey there sexy, how about you and me have some fun?" Eyeing the bottle in the man hand, Brooklyn adds, "More fun than you can have drinking that drink of yours."

With a hiccup the man turn his head towards Brooklyn and give a half smile, "Ju would wrely have fun wit meh?"

Trying not to visibly cringe at the smell of the man, Brooklyn held his breath before answering him, "Yea baby, I'd like to have some fun with you."

Turning around the fully face Brooklyn the drunkard dug in his pockets and pulled out a wad of cash, "I only haz American moniez." His words slurred and jumbled together, he managed to make out, "Howz about 500 American dollars? Dat enough ta buy ya?"

Brooklyn shrug his shoulders and held out his hand, "Yeah, that will do." Taking his eyes off the man, Brooklyn look back to the car where Kai and Hiro were in. Only when he felt something cold on his wrist did he look back at the man then down to his wrist then back to the man in shock, "What the hell?"

No longer having the hiccups or a slurred speech pattern, the man looked Brooklyn in the eyes and pulled out his badge, "You'll be coming with me down to the police station. You are being arrested for indecent exposure in public and prostitution." The officer cuffed both of Brooklyn's wrist and escorted him to his car. Walking past the jet black car, Brooklyn saw Kai and Hiro staring with open mouths before quickly trying to unbuckle their seat belts and get out the car. Brooklyn's vision was cut off when the officer open the back passenger door and pushed him unto the seat, slamming the door shut. He watched as Kai and Hiro ran to the officer trying to get his attention before he got in the car.

Hiro who caught up to the officer first spoke to him in a rushed voice, "He's with us. The guy in your backseat, he is with us."

The officer eyed the out of breath man then the shorter man walking up behind him, "He's with you, you say? Do tell why your friend was out in the cold, nude. Also explain why your friend is, from what I got from the situation, a prostitute?" Just as Hiro was about to open his mouth the police man held up his hand to stop any words, "You know, I don't want to hear it. You can come to the police station in the morning to retrieve your friend, if and when his bail sets."

"We can't bail him out tonight?" Kai asked eyeing the officer.

"That's what I just said right? Now go home." The police officer watched Kai and Hiro until they started to walk back to their car. Seemingly satisfied the officer got in his car and took off towards the police station.

Food was the one thing on everyone's mind. Not only have they not eaten since early that morning, but Tyson was demanding to know where the food was and why was there not any in the house, like…at all. Still on his rampage in the kitchen, Tyson look at Rei who was in conversation with Mystel, "You know I thought that Kai would have had some food here or ordered something for us to eat…" he trailed off as he open one of the storage closets in the kitchen, "or something."

Hilary shook her brown hair and made her way over to Tyson, "I'm sure with a place this grand there are personal chefs to cook us our meals. We will just have to wait until the appropriate times to eat, that's all."

Tyson stop his search and look at Hilary as if she grew an extra head, "But Hil, what if we get hungry in the middle of the night! Or, or, or we want to have a little snack to hold us over until the next meal. What if we just CAN'T wait until the next time to eat! What then Hil? What then!"

Smacking Tyson on the back of the head on the way out the kitchen Hilary ignored his rant as she heard a chime ring throughout the house. Making her way over to the seating room she saw Spencer approach the door at the same time Kai's butler did. Spencer shoo'ed the butler away and look through the peep hole, "Who is it?"

The muffled voice on the other side of the door expressed that he was Jin. With a raised eyebrow Spencer turn to the group of people at his back, "Any of you know a Jin?"

Mariah, who was standing behind Eddy in the back, push her way past everyone past Spencer and to the door, opening it. The members of the White Tigers look at each then to the back of the room at Rei who was leaning against one of the sofa chairs. Lee made his way over to Rei, his former team mate and best friend, and stood next to him watching Mariah escort Jin into Kai's home, "Are you ok with him being here?"

Eyes narrowing at the scene, Rei kept his voice low, "I don't feel comfortable with him being here." Kevin and Gary came to Rei and Lee side and look at Rei silently being there for him. "I will be alright." Rei assured them, he look once again towards the front of the house where Jin and Mariah was, "Kai should be getting home soon. Since Mariah has invited him under our account he is our responsibility. We will make sure nothing goes wrong." All of the tiger featured men nodded and Rei took his leave of the group.

Rei makes his way toward the newcomer who had made himself comfortable in the loveseat with Mariah sitting on his left. Giving a short bow of his head he greeted the man, "Jin."

Smiling a smile that made even the straightest of men fluster he returned the greeting, "Rei. How are you my kitten?"

Mariah cleared her throat at the kitten comment but was ignored by both men. Eye twitching at being called such a thing, Rei took a deep breath through his nose to calm himself before answering, "I am well. I did not expect to be seeing you. Why exactly are you here?"

Feigning the look of hurt Jin responded, "Now kitten, you sound as if you might not actually WANT me here."

Before Rei could dish out a response Mariah interrupted their conversation by interlacing her arm with Jin's and pushing her body against his, "Rei, where will Jin be sleeping?"

Annoyed at the interruption but intrigued by the question Jin looks at Rei, "Yes kitten, where exactly will I be sleeping?"

Sharp golden eyes glared at the couple before muttering, "Let me call Kai." then walking off fishing his phone out of his pocket to make a call.

Watching Rei walk off for a moment, Jin turns to Mariah who was busy looking at her pink fingernails. His unexpected move causes her to gasp as he tighten his hold on her arm and took one of her hands into his. He lean in close to her so that he was talking in barely a whisper, "Mariah it seems that we need to have a little chat." He squeezes her hand a little harder, causing her to gasp a little louder. This causes Kenny who was typing away on the couch across from them to look up at them, Jin gave him a small grin which made Kenny shrug and go back to typing on his computer. Making sure Kenny's attention was no longer on them Jin looks back down at Mariah who was trying to get away while he was momentarily distracted. He chuckled and bends down, "Now as I was saying. We need to speak. I will only tell you this once. Rei is mines. He has always been mines. It will be best, little girl, if you go find another love interest elsewhere. I will have him. He will be mines." He lean forward and lick the shell of her ear, "No one can resist me, no matter how hard they try." Jin let Mariah go and walk away from the couch going to explore the rest of the house.

With Jin now gone Mariah sat in the loveseat a little bit shaken. A little bit of a self motivation talk and she was damn near determine not to let what he said get the best of her and she was once again back to her normal self. Just as she was about to get up and find Jin to give him a piece of her mind when a tall, slim but well built pale skin red head came over to her and sat down next to her. For a while they both sit there in silence, one not really willing to break the silence. Well one not in a rush to do so and the other trying to figure out why the other has approached her. After a few moments of silence and it being clear that the red headed man wasn't going to start conversation Mariah began to get up when a hand shot out pulling her back down to her seat. Once again pulling Kenny's attention, but seeing it was Tala he just shook his head and resume looking at his computer screen. Grinning at the fuming pink haired girl, Tala twists his body so that he could fully look at her without straining his neck. After a few more moment of once again silence Mariah huffed and turned to glare at him, "You know I'm sick of being man handled and tossed around like a rag doll. What is it that you want Tala?"

Playing with his tiny golden hoop earring in his ear Tala hummed to himself, "So you're the bitch inviting people and causing trouble I see." He chuckled at her face when the word 'bitch' left his lips.

"Excuse me? What did you just say?"

Nodding to himself Tala stood up brushing the wrinkles out of his clothes, "Hmm well now, not only are you stupid and a bitch but you also seem to be a tad bit on the deaf side."

Mariah stood up as well to retort but he help up his hand silencing her, "Understand this girl, this is my home as much as it is Kai's. You bring a stranger into my house, you are held accountable for him. Something goes wrong, anything goes wrong, and it'll be your ass that I'm coming for. If you think Kai is bad," he steps close to her. His forehead touching hers, his nose touches hers, and his lips just ghosting over hers, eyes boring into her causing hers to water and droplets to fall down her face. "I promise you, I'm ten time your worse fucking nightmare."

Rei ran his fingers through his hair as he tried for the second time to get Kai on his phone. He looks back over to where he left Jin and Mariah and notice that Jin was no longer there but instead Tala had now taken his place. Shrugging his shoulders Rei dialed Kai's number again for the third time. Finally after the first few rings Kai's voice comes through the other end of the phone.

His voice sound hurried, "Rei? What's wrong? Everything ok at the house?"

Running his hands through his hair once again Rei sighed, "Yea…No…Yea…I mean…it's about as good as it can get here."

There was a pause on Kai's end of the phone, "What do you mean?"

"Well there is another guess here. He's a friend of the White Tigers."

"Ok. What makes him so bad?"

A silence from Rei's end caused Kai to question if he was there. Confirming that he was indeed still on the phone Rei continued, "He's my Ex. We didn't end on the best of terms. He's always up to no good Kai. He just reeks of it. I don't trust him here at all, but it's nothing that I can do about it."

"I'll be home as soon as I can. The prank went a little too far and Brooklyn got arrested. Hero and I are going to bail him out as we speak. I need you to hold the house together until I get back. Get help from Tala and Bryan if you need to, but by no means to do I want to come back and my fucking mansion is set ablaze."

"Alright Kai, I'll see you when you get here. Much love."

The line was disconnected and Rei stuff his phone back into his pants pocket. He turn around expecting to see Mariah and Tala still in the loveseat but was surprised to see only Mariah still there looking lost. Deciding it was best not to approach her, Rei went in search for Tala. Once he found him he motion for him to follow him to one of the entertainment rooms. Once there Tala leaned against the wall waiting for Rei to speak. Rei took in a deep breath then look at Tala then let it out, "While Kai is gone I'm going to need your help keeping everything in order."

Tala nodded and pushed himself off the wall, "Of course you are. Bryan and I are better at scaring people than you are." He looked at Rei and chuckled.

They shared a laugh for a moment before Tala turn serious, "Who is Jin?"

Golden eyes turn towards the ceiling suddenly finding it very interesting. After a long pause he answer Tala question, "He's a ex. I'm pretty sure Mariah invited him here to get back at me, she's conniving to do something like that."

Grunting Tala walk over to the door and open it, he was about to step out before he stop and look back at Rei, "Don't worry about her. I've already handled her; she's no longer a threat. Him on the other hand, he is someone that I must talk to. I do believe that's my queue." With that Tala walked out the door shutting it behind him.

Rei stayed behind in the room for a while staring out the window at the view. He could only think to himself how not only would this be one fucked up sleep over, but also one fucked up tournament IF they could all survive the sleep over. May Buddha be with them.