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Warning: Angst and a bit of yaoi! If you don't like it...well, if you don't like it, I'm surprised you got this far in the story!!
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A/N: -groans- so not bothered typing anything that would make sense.
On with the chappie!
Chapter Nine: Missing and Phone Calls
"Kai, turn on the TV and switch to the news, there's something you need to know," Lloyd's voice held an urgency and anxiousness that Kai had never heard, and he found himself complying to the instructions immediately, and what he saw shocked him enough for him to drop the phone…
"The body of Tala Ivanov has gone missing from the morgue of which he was held, since the post-mortem that was carried out a day ago, which showed that Mr Ivanov had not been murdered, therefore Mr Hiwatari has been acquitted since his arrest late last night. Detectives are genuinely baffled, as just before Mr Ivanov's body went missing at 4am this morning, the camera's all simultaneously ceased functioning, therefore there is no evidence, or clues that could help in this investigation. Also, the five dead men found at the scene of the crime on the night Mr Ivanov died, are linked to a hit-man company, known to be regularly hired by the Russian Mafia. Post-mortems have been carried out on all of the corpses, and all that can be found is a broken neck, a few fractured ribs, and in one, a severely broken jaw. There will be more news later on in the day…"
"Kai? Kai!! Are you there, Kai!!" Lloyd's voice yelled through the phone receiver, frantically.
Kai could distinctly hear the sound of a door opening, before his eyes rolled into the back of his head, and he promptly collapsed.
"Kai!" shocked, Rei ran forward, roughly hoisting his towel back into place, before dropping to Kai's side, shaking him in an attempt to wake him up, "Kai! Kai, wake up!"
"Rei?"
Startled by the sound of his name, Rei looked around, confused, shrugging his shoulders, he turned his attention back to Kai.
"Rei? Is that you?"
Rei blinked, and looked around once more.
"Rei!"
Focusing on the phone, he picked it up, placing it to his ear hesitantly, "Hello?"
"Rei? Thank God it's you! Where's Kai?"
"Lloyd? What's going on?"
"Where's Kai?"
"He…he fainted…Lloyd, what's going on?" Rei demanded, manoeuvring the phone to sit between his shoulder and neck before effortlessly lifting Kai up and placing him back on his bed.
Lloyd sighed, "Rei? Have you seen the news yet?"
Rei shook his head, then realised that Lloyd couldn't see what he was doing, "No, why?"
"The TV's still on, right?" Lloyd questioned.
"Yeah…"
"Just watch, and you'll find out. I'll have to call you later, Rei. Tell Kai, that I'll be keeping in touch with the authorities, to see if anything's progressed."
"Wait! Lloyd, What-" Rei didn't get the chance to finish his sentence, as Lloyd hung up on him.
"'s going on…" Rei took the phone away from his ear and frowned, "O-k."
Sighing, Rei swivelled his head towards the TV, wanting to find out just what was going on. Plopping down on the floor and crossing his legs, he watched the news with rapt interest, waiting for something that would be of importance to him. Suddenly, 'Breaking News' flashed up on the screen and Rei could only listen in shock as the news hit him.
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Kai groaned, and opened his eyes, groggily. He moaned and shook his head, sitting up slowly.
'Oh, great…I fainted…again…that's gotta be like the third of fourth time in the last two days.'
Swinging his legs over the side of the bed, Kai stood up, only to stumble at the sudden throbbing up his leg. 'Oh, yeah…I'm hurt,' Kai though wryly. Straightening up, Kai headed towards the kitchen, mildly aware at the fact that the TV was switched off. Shuddering slightly, at the memory of what it had revealed to him.
He frowned at the sight of Rei sitting at the table, head in his hands, mumbling incoherently. Silently trekking forwards, Kai placed a hand on Rei's shoulder. Rei's head shot up, and he forced a smile at Kai's presence.
"Kai? How're you doing?"
"Well…three days ago, I got shot and on that night, I find out that my fiancé, Tala is dead, got arrested because some witness thought I killed him, and woke up this morning, only to find out that Tala's body's gone missing, but other than that…I'm fine."
Rei laughed and pulled Kai on to his lap for a hug, "Ever the one for sarcasm, Kai. I'm glad that hasn't changed."
Kai gave a wry smile, burying his head into the cloth of Rei's shoulder. "Yeah."
There was silence for a few minutes, until Rei spoke up.
"What are you going to do?"
Kai sighed, leaning back, "I…I don't know…I mean, it's not everyday when you hear that your fiancé's body's gone running off somewhere."
"Well…you seem to be awfully calm about it…any reason for that…if I were you, I would've been freaking out and getting all hysterical right about now."
"Rei…I've dealt with some hard things in my life, and I had to learn to deal with it without causing a fuss, so I guess, old habits die hard," Kai explained solemnly.
Rei shrugged, "Good enough reason, I guess…oh yeah, Lloyd said that he would call you if he hears anything new, I mean, anything…yeah…"
Kai chuckled lightly and stood up, wincing slightly at the numb feeling in his leg, trying to cover it, but failing as Rei scooped him up a second later. Annoyed and embarrassed, Kai squirmed, attempting to wriggle away.
"Rei! Let go! I'm fine!"
"Yeah sure. Just let me check your leg. I haven't cleaned it or changed the bandages for a day, so let me take care of it, and I'll leave you alone."
Kai stopped wriggling and settled on pouting instead, slightly miffed, his actions only causing Rei to laugh again, before depositing said teen, none-to-gently, on his bed, before setting off to find the first aid kit. Kai frowned and crossed his arms over his chest, pout still present on his face, looking every bit like a petulant toddler who had just been refused candy.
Rei stepped back into the room and had to stifle a laugh. A few years ago, Kai would never have pouted, let alone a lot of other things he was fond of doing, like sticking his tongue out whenever he was in a childish mood.
"I'm back!" Rei called out cheerfully, rewarded with a pink tongue poking out of Kai's mouth. Rei allowed himself a light chuckle, 'I rest my case.'
Rei quickly set about, unwrapping, cleaning and wrapping a fresh roll of gauze around the injury, knowing that Kai was getting steadily agitated. Once finished, he sat back and watched Kai with an inquisitive expression, which Kai caught on to easily, causing him to scowl.
"What?"
"Are you ever going to tell me exactly what happened that night? You have to tell the police as well, they have a right to know, especially if you want to know why you and Tala were attacked. And you have to tell the rest of the team…oh, and talking about teams, do you think the rest of the Blitzkrieg Boys know about all of this," Rei inquired.
Kai cocked his head to the side, "Um…I'm pretty sure the rest of the Blitzkrieg Boys know what's going on, I'm just surprised they haven't called me yet…"
"Do they know about you and Tala?"
Kai turned a very bright shade of pink at the question, "Uh…ye-yeah."
Rei rose an eyebrow, slightly amused, "How do they know about this, I hardly think that you or Tala told them, so that would leave…" Rei's eyes widened, "Did they catch you both making out?"
Kai flushed an even darker shade and minutely shook his head.
"No? Then what?"
Kai mumbled something softly, refusing to look Rei in the eyes.
"What? Say that again, and you know, add some volume," Rei teased.
"They caught us…together…in…in bed," Kai stuttered.
A grin broke out on Rei's face, as his shoulders shook in suppressed laughter. Kai looked up and glared, hitting Rei upside the head, only causing the teen to launch in to laughter, tears springing to his eyes.
"Rei…it's not funny," Kai whined, pout once again back on his face.
Rei managed to control himself, grinning like an idiot, "No…course it isn't," he snorted before laughing again.
Kai glowered, standing up and shoving Rei to the ground with his foot, before stalking off in to the living room, plonking down on the sofa heavily and glaring at the fire place. Rei came in a few seconds later.
"I'm sorry, Kai, but…what a way to find something like that out…whew," Rei sat down on the sofa as well, Kai shifting away from him, immediately. "Kai? Oh, Kai, come on! You know I'm just teasing you!"
"Hmph!"
"Kai! Don't be like that!"
"Hn!"
Rei sighed and stood up, walking into the bedroom, "Fine, fine, I'll leave you alone."
Kai smirked and chuckled lightly, and flopped back on to the sofa leisurely, stretching and taking up as mush space as his small frame could. He groaned when he heard the phone ring, sitting up in a huff.
"Kai! Could you get that! I'm busy!" Rei yelled out from the bedroom.
"Yeah, sure…it might be Lloyd anyway," Kai sighed and stood up, reaching for the phone and putting the phone to his ear, "Hello? Kai speaking." There was silence on the other end of the line, and Kai could feel a muscle in his left eye twitch in annoyance. "Hello? Who is this?" more silence accompanied this and Kai could feel himself getting extremely vexed, "Whoever this is, you better answer or hang up the bloody phone before I-"
"Kai…it's Bryan…"
"Bryan? Uh, hi…why didn't you…why didn't you answer when I first picked up?"
"I-I didn't know how to start," for the first time since Kai had know the stoic, lavender haired teen, Bryan had never sounded so unsure.
"Bry…what's wrong…what's happened? Is it about Tala? I'm sorry I didn't get in contact with you to tell you, but, the number was at Tala's house, and I haven't been there since-"
"Kai, I know what happened…but there's something you need to know, something really important."
"So? Tell me? What's happened?"
"It's about Tala's body…you must've heard the news already, his body went missing…"
"Bry…get to the point, what is going on? What do I need to know?" Kai paused, suddenly suspicious, "Bry, why didn't you call me earlier, you've had enough time to do so, and it's obvious you had my number, so, why didn't you call me?"
Bryan sighed, "Kai…we need to talk, face-to-face…I can explain everything. Come over as soon as you can, you have the right to know the truth."
"Bryan Kuznetsov, tell me what the hell is going on!" Kai demanded.
"I…I can't. Not over the phone! We have to meet face-to-face! It's the only way! That way, everything will be explained properly! Please!"
Kai ran a hand through his hair, shaking his head, "Okay, okay. I'll be there in a half hour, and you better have an explanation."
Kai slammed the phone down, and took a deep breath. Rei poked his head around the bedroom door, face set in curiosity.
"Who was that?"
"I need to go out for a while. I might not be back till later on tonight," Kai stated, side stepping the question and walking towards the front door, grabbing his coat and his keys.
"Huh? Wait…where're you going?"
"I need to go and meet someone." Kai shrugged on his jacket and reached for his mobile.
"Uh…don't get back too late," sighing as the door clicked shut, Rei went back to the bedroom.
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Knocking raptly on the door, Kai waited impatiently for the door to open, shivering in the cold air.
"Come on," Kai mumbled, "Open the damn door."
Knocking again, he was rewarded with the porch light flashing on, and hushed voices.
"Bryan! Open the door!" Kai called out, relieved when the door finally swung open.
He glared as Bryan's face came into view; said teen stepped back to allow Kai in. Swiftly crossing the threshold, Kai wriggled out of his jacket, placing it on the coat rack, walking to the living room he had become so familiar with over the last few years. He nodded a quiet greeting to Spencer who was sat in a recliner, glasses perched on the edge of his nose, eyes skimming through the lines of his book meticulously.
Kai looked towards Bryan, ushering the hesitant teen to take a seat, "So, what's going on? What was so important that you couldn't tell me on the phone?"
"It's not up to me to explain," Bryan said softy.
Kai rose an elegant eyebrow, clearly confused, and turned his head towards Spencer who merely shook his head.
"Then, what am I doing here? If you're not going to explain and Spencer's not going to explain, there what's the point in me being here?
"It's so I can explain everything…"
Kai froze…he knew that voice; it was so familiar, so heartbreakingly familiar. He turned his head towards the direction of the voice, his heart pounding loudly in his chest.
"Tala…"
To Be Continued...
Hehehehehehehehe...another cliffie!!!! -dodges rocks and other VERY dangerous flying objects- Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! I'm sorry!!!!! It's a habit!! Hehe!
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