Spaz: Here is another chapter! Thank you for reviewing. I hope that you all like this chapter. Sorry about the late update

Might be a little confusing in the beginning, but will make sense later on.

Sorry That chapter 8 looked really bad, I'll try and fix it as soon as I can.

Next Chapter should be up sooner than this one was. I am free of babysitting. YAY!!

Sorry its short, next time I will try to make it longer.

Embracing the Future and Dodging the Past

Chapter 9: Too Much To Handle

"Kathleen Ann!"

Kathleen Ann ignored him and just kept on walking as fast as she could to get away, from everything.

"Kathleen Ann! Slow down!" Tyson yelled.

Kathleen Ann stopped in her tracks and turned to face Tyson.

"What? We have to find Ryo, so hurry up." Kathleen Ann said.

"We have been looking forever, the guys probably think we ran away or got kidnapped." Tyson said.

"You didn't have to come, this is something that I have to do." Kathleen Ann told him.

"I didn't want you to get hurt."

"Go! Leave this to me!"

"What are you going to do when you find him? Hmmm?" Tyson asked.

"I don't know, why did he come back. Why did he betray us? Something along those lines." Kathleen Ann replied.

"Lets just go back to the dojo and finish looking for him tomorrow. Its getting late.' Tyson said hoping that she would agree with him.

"Fine." Kathleen Ann said.

With Ryo, Rei, Max, and Kai

"Well, this is were they went off to." Ryo said to them.

The area they ended up at, was empty and not a soul in sight.

"Well, there not here." Kai said bitterly.

"I know." Ryo said. "I haven't seem either them."

"Than why did you tell us that you did?" Rei asked.

"I need an excuse." Ryo quickly pulled a small gun from the back of his pants and pointed it at them.

"Now, lets talk about your blades." Ryo said with an evil smile. Rei grabbed Max and pushed him behind him.

"Put the gun away." Rei told him.

"Where's the fun in that. Now, hand over your blade or lead will bea shootin." Ryo said.

"Just put the gun down." Kai demanded.

"Here's the deal, give me your blades and no one gets shot. Or don't give me your blades and you'll get shot and so will Tyson and Kathleen Ann. I will also make it as painful as possible." Ryo told them.

"We cant do that." Rei said. "We promised the Saint Shields we'd keep them safe."

BANG

Ryo pulled the trigger on his gun and Rei fell to the ground.

"Rei!" Max yelled as he kneeled next to his lover. "How could you!" By this time Max was hysterical and unable to hold his tears. He shook Rei and kept saying over and over:

"Please wake up, I need you."

"Now, give me the damn blades." Ryo yelled.

"Ryo!"

Ryo look over his shoulder and saw Tyson running towards him, unaware of the gun in his hand.

"Go away! He has a gun!" Kai yelled, but it was to late Tyson had already spotted Rei on the ground and rushed to his side.

"Rei! Ryo, how could you?" Tyson asked, Tyson than turned to Max and said:

"We have to put pressure on his wound, and keep track of his breathing. Alright?"

Max just nodded his head and applied pressure to the wound.

"Give me your blades or his gonna die." Ryo said this time pointing his gun at Tyson.

Max looked at Kai and he just nodded. They started to pull out their blades, when

BAM

Another blade came out of nowhere and knocked the gun out of his hand. When doing so, the gun shot out another bolt, this time hitting Ryo in the leg.

"ahhh." He yelled as he fell to the ground in pain.

The blade breakers look to see where the blade came from and saw Kathleen Ann running towards them.

"I called 911, they should be here soon." Kathleen Ann told them.

An Hour Later At The Hospital

"Why aren't they telling us anything?" Max said pacing up and down the hallway.

"Max, the doctors well tell us as soon as the know something," Kathleen Ann said hoping to claim the boy down.

"Maybe some of us should go home, shower and rest, than come back and switch off? It would be better of all of us. Mainly Max." Tyson said to Kai and Kathleen Ann.

"I'll take Max, and come back later." Kathleen Ann said.

"Okay." Tyson said while Kai remained silent.

Kathleen Ann walked over to Max and grabbed his hand. She basically dragged him out of the hospital, dragging his feet all the way.

"Kai, please say something." Tyson said.

"Hn."

"That doesn't count. Tell me what's going on in your head or something random that makes no sense or something." Tyson said.

"I wasn't able to save him. And he pointed the gun at you and there was nothing I could have done about it. But Kathleen Ann, she, she was able to save him. And you. With out her both of you might have died." Kai told him.

Tyson kissed Kai lightly on his cheek and said:

"But we didn't die and I know you would have done anything to save us." Tyson told him.

Kai didn't say anything, so Tyson crawled over the seat in-between them to get into Kai's lap. And cuddled into his chest, Kai in response put his arms around Tyson and held him close.

At The Dojo

"Why did we have to come here?" Max asked for the tenth time in one minute.

Kathleen Ann tired of ignoring him, answers him:

"To take a shower, eat, and rest. Than we go back and Kai and Tyson can come here and do the same."

"Oh."

"So, the quicker you shower, the quicker I can shower. Than we can go back. And don't worry Tyson will call as soon as he hears something." Kathleen Ann told him.

"Fine." Max sighed as he left the room.

RING RING

Kathleen Ann quickly answered the phone hoping Max didn't hear it ring.

Hello?

Its me.

Tyson, baby, what's wrong?

I have some bad news, are you sitting down?

Yeah, tell me and leave nothing out

Alright, well…..

Spaz: There is the chapter and it's a cliffy!! Thanx for reading and reviewing

LovelySinner7- yes Ryo is a bastard

Shebajay- hey good guess, you had there, one of your guess might be true

RobbXmonXlover- yup there trouble and a lot more to come