Cookie: Ownage of, not mine. Etc. etc.

Kai chuckled even though it hurt to do so, he was gonna take an "I like you too" for now but eventually, he feared both of them would invest more than they could afford…

4 months later chappy break

"Hey Hiwatari, there's a funnily stamped letter here for you." Rei threw a medium-sized brown envelope at the blunette before grabbing his mail and walking towards the entertainment room

Kai looked at the Russian postage stamps and his heart fell in dread. This. Is. Not. Good...

He ripped open the letter;

Congratulations! You have managed to escape Russia for almost two years before our satellites traced you, but you'd have to do better than that Kai. If you really couldn't keep yourself hidden for at least twenty years then we need to keep training you here at the Abbey. You didn't really think you're grandfather was capacitated enough to remember to write you a will did you? All of this has obviously been a test for us to see how capable you are. You have proved to have some pleasing results but as I aforementioned, further training is required of you. I have sent a couple of men to fetch you within the next week so be prepared to leave, say goodbye to your little girlfriend. She's quite the cute one.

--Boris--

Kai dropped the letter, a cold crept over him like nothing he had ever experienced before. What will happen to Corinne? Can I escape? Can I fight... shit, no way am I strong enough to fight their men and there's nowhere to run or hide. I guess I'll have to live this out and see what happens.. But I don't want to leave her, hah, since when has my wants ever been significant to Boris. I have to push her away before I can hurt her. Before I let them hurt her too...

Corinne traced a dribble of water from her sweating iced tea glass, waiting sucked, especially waiting alone for a date. Kai has never made her wait like this before! Half an hour! God, the nerve! He better have some pretty freaking good explanation for this. Another ten minutes passed. Oh screw it, he can go to hell.

She stood and stomped out of the cafe, so angry she didn't notice she walked straight into Rei and whacked her forehead against his shoulder (yes she was that short).

"Ow, shit... sorry..." mumbled Corinne, "Oh, Rei... hi."

"Hello," replied Rei with a bemused smile, quickly replaced with an all serious face, "sorry I'm late, I was supposed to be meeting you in place of Kai and well... I got distracted."

Corinne rolled her eyes, we all know what 'distracted' means for Rei. "Yeah okay, why couldn't he make it himself?"

"Because Kai's chicken shit, he's not big enough to break up with you himself so I as best friend melodramatic sigh get the honors of breaking your heart." Said Rei, in a matter-of-fact manner.

The brunette was sure this wasn't the first time Rei's had to discharge one of Kai's girlfriends, and I was beginning to like the bastard too. What a waste of emotions, fuck Kai.

"Corinne, are you alright?" asked Rei, he seemed genuinely concerned.

"Of course I'm fine," she gave a small laugh, "why wouldn't I be? It's not like we dated very long anyway and besides, I couldn't stand the guy, he was so full of himself! He's not even that cute! And he's totally losing that six-pack and we kissed like, a few times and ugh, I don't care about Kai Hiwatari one bit. Good riddance to him, thank god it's finally over. Oh look at the time, hey I really have to finish something down at the garage so I'll see you around, maybe. Bye."

She smiled once more then jogged to her Skyline and pulled into the road, as fast as possible away from Rei. Unaware of where she was headed, Corinne was surprised when she found herself outside Kai's house. What the hell is wrong with me?! What am I doing here? I must not be thinking... geez.

Corinne was about to drive off when she noticed a Mercedes in the driveway, one that was unfamiliar... ALREADY? HE JUST FUCKING BROKE UP WITH ME AND ALREADY HE HAS A FREAKING SLUT ON CALL?? OMFG I CAN'T BELIEVE I EVER DATED THAT GUY!

She sped off and screeched into the reserved parking spot at the garage.

"That's gonna get you through those wheels real quick," joked Michael, walking towards the car. The Asian girl didn't respond.

"Yo, Cori. What's up?" he asked knocking on the window, she turned to look at him, tears winding their way down her face at incredible speeds.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, come here girl, Mike's got you," the redhead opened the car door and took her into his arms. She cracked and sobbed loudly onto his shoulder, aromatics of car grease and paint drifted into her nose from his shirt.

"I hic didn't think hic I would care," she cried into his shoulder, all Michael could hear was a muffled oomph.

"Hey, you're saying that fucking Russian kid hurt my favorite girl?" growled the redhead, "he's going to have some explaining to do!"

Corinne shook her head violently still into his shoulder, a salty stain was spreading over his black work uniform.

"Shhh, it's okay, he doesn't deserve your tears. No one deserves for you to cry for them, except maybe me," the redhead grinned cheekily.

The brunette choked on a giggle, "shut up Mike."

"Now that's more like my girl, come on, I have a couple of newly imported utterly awesome rims I know you'll love." He took her by the shoulders and led her away into the store-room.

"So… you say he's just gone home? Gone back to Russia? Without so much as a goodbye? In like 2 days?!" said Corinne, an unbelieving look written all over her face.

"That's what the school said," replied Keiko, seemingly equally as confused, "you don't know how many hearts that boy has broken at our school, yet people were so sad to see him go."

"People were distraught? Over Hiwatari? I can definitely believe he broke hearts but the latter is somewhat difficult for me to contemplate." Muttered Cori, gulping down a ristretto (3/4 shot coffee  yum! When made good :P)

"I'm not lying! For some reason people were just attracted to him!"

"Yeah, everyone who was was probably incredibly shallow."

"Maybe, I don't know…"

"It's not right! He wouldn't just leave like this! I'm going to go check something out, I'll catch you later love."

"Bye Cori."

She drove over to Kai's "house" (mansion really) and banged heavily on the door, thunk thunk thunk

A half-awake Rei opened the door, he ruffled his hair and yawned, revealing the gorgeous cat-like fangs.

"Mmm, nyup nyup hey…" mumbled the neko-jin.

"Hey, I uhh… left something here, did Kai say anything about it?"

"Well, he left all his things here and told me I could stay for as long as I liked. So I presume it's ok for you to go up and look for whatever it is."

"Great, thanks."

"Just uh… I have company okay?"

"I know what to do Rei," Corinne rolled her eyes and hopped inside.

Up in Kai's room…

Clean, clean, clean… geez this place could pass hospital sanitation tests. She fumbled through draws looking for anything that would give her a clue, anything at all… the floor soon accumulated school reports, old newsletters, concert pamphlets and in general a lot of useless junk. Next, the book shelf. Corinne pulled out every book and flipped through it, finding everything useless and joining the pile of junk on the floor she was about to give up.

Until she remembered one last thing, she bounded over to the bed and felt under the pillow and pulled out a small, old copy of "The old curiosity shop" by Charles Dickens.

The brunette flipped through it and found the letter, quickly scanning through it her expression changed from shock to pure disgust. How could anyone talk to another human like they were some… some experiment?!

She decided then and there that she would find Kai, get him back and save the world! Or perhaps just the first two. Now however, to conquer the parents.