Chapter 10 Fight or flight

Tala and Jade still sat in the living room, the others had returned not long ago but neither of them had noticed that. The two sat close together, Jade leaning on the older boys shoulder her head in the crock of his neck. Tala grinned as the girl snuggled closer into his chest, he reached out and put his arm around the neko-gin, resting his hand on the small of her back.

Jade purred happily at the contact, she knew she had made the right decision. The girl smiled as the boys firm abs rose and fell beneath her, she could hear the steady beat of his heart, the sound made her feel happy and safe. The neko-gin blinked her silver eyes up at the boy, who brushed her ebony locks out her eyes and kissed the top of her head, the girl grinned and pounced on him, she had made the right decision alright.

Flashback

The red headed boy sat with his back against the arm of the sofa, Jade sat inches away a pink tinge across her cheeks. The girl was always very forward with any kind of emotions and she made no exception with her feelings for Tala, the girl crawled along the sofa towards the boy until her face was inches from hers. "With the others gone, we could have some fun of our own" she purred batting her long eye lashes at the boy.

Tala went a deep shade of red and he could feel his heart trying to leap out his chest. "What kind of fun?" he gasped. "Silly puppy, what kind of fun do you think I mean?" jade giggled playfully. The boy blinked at her, did she mean what he thought she meant? Jade lent in even further toward the boy. Tala could feel her breath on his face and smell her soft skin, she smelt of flowers. Tala gasped, this was all too good to be true.

Jade smiled softy at the boys dazed expression and leant in for the last time, tilting her head slightly the girl pressed her lips on the Russian's and to her relief the boy kissed back, wrapping his arms around her back and pulling her close to his body. The girl pulled back with a small giggle of delight. "Hey don't stop there" Tala growled playfully and Jade was only too happy to comply.

End flashback

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Kayla blinked around the kitchen, her brother sat opposite her his face a emotionless mask, his purple eyes cold and hard. The girl sighed and knew she was in for a lecture luckily she wasn't alone. Next to her sat sally, she glared back at Kai with extremely annoyed look on her face. Kayla smirked she noticed a small smirk appear on her brother's face as his eyes meet the red heads but the smile quickly faded as Kai began his rant.

"So can either of you tell me just what was going through your heads?" Kai asked, his voice laced with menace. The Russian watched as Sally trolled her blue eyes dramatically and his sister suppressed a smile. "We just went for a walk, that's all" the duo locked girl muttered, turning away from him. "Alone?, you two know the rules, we go out in groups of three..Kai growled. "I know" Sally mumbled still looking away whilst Kayla's eye flicked between the two. "Anything could of happened to you" the boy added. "I know" sally repeated louder than before. "you could have been killed, Boris is an extremely dangerous man" Kai finished, folding his arms across his chest and glaring at full force.

"I know, I know, I know" Sally snarled in furry. Kai and Kayla both stared at her , their looks made the girl feel uncomfortable "I know just what his like, I've been there" she added before storming out the room, the girl disappeared down the hallway and upstairs towards the roof and her usual hiding space.

Kai blinked "What's biting her!?" he asked, annoyance and confusion etching his face. Kayla sighed and patted her brother's head, receiving a death glare. "Kai you really need to find a better way to show your feelings towards Sally" the younger girl said, still ruffling his hair playfully. Kai blushed "I don't know what your talking about" he snapped defensively.

Kayla smirked "yeah sure you don't...anyways you should be nicer to her, we were fine after all and we learnt something didn't we?" she said finally releasing her brothers blue bangs. The boy frowned up at her "and what was that" he grumbled still blushing. "God Kai weren't you paying any attention earlier, Sally attack Boris because she knew him !, and he knew her" the girl said in disbelief, her brother was being unusually slow.

Kai blinked his purple eyes at his sister, he had thought that Sally had just been being her usual volatile self and as much as he hoped it wasn't true it explained a lot. Sally had no past and no memories from her childhood, or none she would talk about at least. They could find any trace of the girl in any files; she didn't exist just like most of Biovalt's experiments. Kai shuddered "your thinking what I am right?" Kayla said in his ear, the boy nodded "if sally was training with us, she was down in the labs in one of those glass tubes" he finished.

Kai gulped, in all he and his friend years in the Abby they only knew of one person who survived those experiments, Tala. The red head lived but he like Sally had no memorise of his past. He only remembered life in the green tube starting when he was about seven and ending when he was released and made to battle the blade breakers. "Shall we ask her about it?" the boy wondered out loud.

"I think if anyone it should be you Kai, she likes you best" Kayla said thoughtfully. "You could tell her you fancy her while you're at it" she added with a grin, nudging him in the ribs playfully. Kai scowled at her "how about I do that when you tell that dame cat, that you like him" he said coldly. Kayla fell over anime style and blushed a violent red, that hadn't been the answer she hoped for. "Where did you get an idea like that" she babbled, waving her arms. Kai got up and smirked down at her, he knew he had the girl right where he wanted her "that what I thought, just remember what i said" he stated before wandering off towards the roof.

Kayla glared after him "stupid jerk" she muttered, this was not what was supposed to happen. She had suspected Kai to deny his feeling until she eventually nagged him into admitting them but That scheming brother of hers was trying to use her feelings for Ray against her. "Of all the sneaky, underhanded things to do...well at least his not denying this feelings completely" the girl said to herself.

"Who isn't denying their feelings?" Ray whispered in Kayla's ear. The neko-gin chuckled lightly as the girl yelped and jumped in the air. "Ray you big....big..big...oh I can't think on anything to call you" the girl finished with a groan, thumping the boy on the chest lightly. "Kai usually sticks to, dame cat" ray said with a toothy grin "though there are some less polite phrases but he usually saves them for Tala" he added as he watched the younger girl fidget in front of him, the was a faint pink tinge on her cheeks.

Ray's amber eyes gleamed with amusement and Kayla just blinked up at him, Kai's last words echoing in her head. "So I'm guessing it's your brother who has annoyed you, what's he done?" the neko-gin asked. The girl let out a exasperated sound "his being a jerk, he won't admit tell Sally how he feels unless I...unless I..." Kayla trailed off. "Unless you what" Ray said looking excited, "he said I have to...." Kayla sighed; she couldn't do it not just yet.

"It's not something I can do right now" Kayla said, looking rather awkward and embarrassed. Ray smiled softly down at her "well at least his not denying his feelings, to you anyway I'm sure he wouldn't talk to me about it but knowing Kai he'll do the right thing eventually, so don't worry about his blackmail" he reassured. Kayla nodded, she still wanted for it to happen quickly though. The girl smiled up at the neko-gin "well I've never been one to give in, I'll just have to work in a sneaker way from now on" she said, a glint in her eye. Ray laughed "well I'll be sneaky with you then we can start by spying on them up on the roof" he chuckled. Kayla smirked "that's a very good idea" she said, this plan may help her find another way of bringing Kai and Sally together and as a bonus it meant she could spend more time with her raven haired friend.

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Later that night......

Kayla, Ray, Kai , sally, Tala and Jade all sat in the living room, the group all sat space out across the floor and the was a serious tone in the air. Kai sat in front of them all, Sally lounged next to him her chin resting in her hands her legs kicking out behind her. "I'm board cant I go back on the roof" the girl grumbled. Kai frowned at the girl and bonked her gently on the head with a pillow. "No I need everyone here that includes you scruffy" the boy smirked. Sally glared "I'm not scruffy no more" she mumbled with a pout, giving him a half hearted push.

Ray and Kayla exchanged a small, knowing smile. Their spying had witness the two usually mean people open up to each other just a tiny bit more whilst on the roof. Well Kai had told Sally off for always hiding out on the roof and she had told him off for being a bossy know it all. Sally's past hadn't come into discussion which annoyed Kayla a little but she didn't really expect that part to come easily between the two, Biovolt was a difficult conversation for anyone. Kayla smiled as the two continued in there play fighting, then she turned her attention to the last pair of the group.

Tala and jade were in the room physically but clearly somewhere else in mind, the two were sitting very close so close they were almost touching. No one knew what had happened since they had been out but now Tala's blue eyes fixed to jade's silver orbs. Ray glared at the two and nudged Kai, who scowled at being disturbed from his own fun. "When did this happen" the neko-gin said, his eyes narrow slits and both Kai and Kayla sweat dropped "stupid cat there like that for hours" the boy snapped, while Kayla scowled "it's not his fault Kai, half the time the two are of hiding together. I knew something was up but...I'm not sure when they got quite so..." she trailed off. "lovey dovey, sappy, possible bed buddies" Kai smirked causing Kayla to snicker and Ray to hiss angry at the two teens.

Sally meanwhile got another idea the girl got a mischievous glint in her blue eyes and crept slowly forward. Tala and jade were still looking intently at each other, whispering about earlier events that day. Neither of them saw the incoming danger, "Down boy!"Sally yelled down Tala's ear canal and the boy leapt up with yelp. The boy landed with a bump on the floor glaring at the red head girl "your such a pain one minute your all mean the next you're like an annoying little sister or something" he grumbled. Sally frowned and was about to show the dumb dog a thing or two when Kai dragged her back into place by her ankle.

"Right now that we're all here, and not being anti- social (Kai looked at Sally) playing with kittens (he looked at his sister) playing with our girly hair (Ray glared at Kai's smirking face) or making goo goo eyes at each other (Tala and Jade both went red) we can begin" Kai said, finishing his provoking comments. "I suppose your perfect then" Sally muttered under her breath. "Well yeah, of course you lot need something to aim for (whole room sweat drops) anyway let's get this meeting underway" Kai said smugly.

"Now we need do decide what were going to do, Boris has final found the right city and thanks to a certain two people he knows were close" Kai said, his glared at the two girls who both rolled their eyes and stuck there tongues out at him. "Well, I don't see what we can do really we can't stay here" Tala said his eyes flicked to jade. "We need to get everyone out of here , it's not safe anymore" he added.

As tala finished Sally began to rant her own opinion "I think we should fight, I'll do it I kill him, I'll smash his face into a bloody pulp I'll rip of his arms I'll..." "Calm down Sally you're going to kill Kayla's kitten" Kai interjected as the girl's began chocking Ray with his own hair, caught up with her own imaginings. Sally squeaked in surprise and released the boy "sorry" the girl said sheepishly. "No problem" the neko-gin gasped as Kayla helped him sit up, glaring at her brother. "I say we run for now at least, we have no idea what these guys are up to we can't fight without knowing what were up against" she said.

Kai frowned this was true, this had been going on for a while now just what were his grandfather and Boris up to surely this couldn't all be about revenge and if it was were the other blade breakers safe. "I think we should head back to Japan" Kai muttered "check in on Tyson and Max" he added. "Sounds like a good idea" Ray said, he too had been worried about the others. "Sound good to everyone?" the neko-gin asked and the was a murmur of agreement.

"So then it's decided, tonight we head for Japan we get the others and find somewhere safe to plan the next move, Tala I want you to try and hack into Biovalt's system before we leave see what you can find out" Kai said and the red head nodded and went to work. "Ray I need you and Kayla to make a few paper trails for Boris and the others we need to get them off our tails for a bit" duo locked boy continued and the two said teens left happy they had been paired together. "Jade you need to get the trip organised" Kai instructed and the female neko-gin disappeared with a cheer.

Sally blinked at Kai from across the floor. "So wot do i getta do" she said, frowning slightly. Kai smirked back "first I'm going to teach you to talk properly.....I'm joking !, you just stick by me I'll find something for you to do" the boy said, he didn't really have much for he to do all he knew was that he wanted her close to him for the next few days, just in case.

Hope you all liked this chappie, my first couple tighter yah !!, they were deffo the easiest to work with unlike sneaky kai and his poor sister kai's gonna find out that Kayla is just as smart as her though XD, hum now just how will I get the others all paired up ? stay tuned to find out and please comment on what you think so far please XD