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Chapter 11

The night went really slowly. Kai and Kaira had finished their dinner and were now just sitting around the fire. The food wasn't half bad for someone who was cooking the first time; I guess what they say about Hiwatari's being born lucky must be true.

Kaira was now feeling really cold and the fire wasn't helping much either, but she didn't show. "How's your arm now?" Kaira was really worried about Kai.

"It's alright, I guess." Kai wasn't worried much but he was still shocked by the kiss he had gotten from Kaira earlier. "Kai if there's something you want to tell me, feel free to." Kaira could see that something was bordering Kai and she wanted to know.

"Well fine, I'll ask you something." Seeing that Kai wasn't going to response then she would have to pick a conversation up herself. "So Kai, why did you leave your family?" Kai was in no mood to answer these questions but he had to get her of her back.

"Look, Voltaire took me away." Kaira wasn't satisfied with the answer she got. "Kai I really think you can give a better answer then that. I mean you got angry with him for announcing our engagement at your birthday then why did you go with him? Don't you know what happened to your parents after you left?"

"Of course, I know. They were killed, Voltaire told me everything." Kaira stared at him confusion, "What are you talking about? Kai your parents weren't killed. Your mother passed away giving birth and your father died in sorrow of losing his only son and then his beloved wife. My parents were killed not yours and they were killed by Voltaire's men." Tears were rolling down her eyes and she couldn't stop them. Kai could see that Kaira was really upset. "I really sorry." Kai looked down at his feet in shame. "Why are you sorry, you weren't even there for your parents and you weren't there for me when I was in need of a friend. Oh!!! That's right you were having a hell of a time. I think the thing you said this morning about never being loved, I think that was the other way around. I think you never thought of me as your friend. I think it was all a lie." With that Kaira got up in anger, but Kai was faster on his feet this time and before Kaira could leave he caught hold of her arm. Kaira fought him so she could loosen Kai's grip and that she might be able to get away but he didn't let go, "Kai let me go, NOW!!! Let go of me." Kaira was in tears and then something shocked her, she had her head resting on his shoulder. He was trying to calm her down. He actually had some feelings. Kaira had her head resting on his shoulder, on Kai's shoulder. She calmed down a little quicker this time.

Kaira stood there in his arms for 10 minutes, which seemed like a miracle. It seemed like Kai also liked the position they were in. Then he broke the embrace and held her at arms length. "I'm sorry Kaira, but I didn't know anything about what was going on with your life and I wasn't having a fun time myself. I soon realized that Voltaire was just using me. He had kept me in Balkov Abbey and it's not a place where you would like to go. I was beaten and forced to never loose. The children who would loose battles would never live to see the day again." Kaira was shocked to hear this and looked at Kai; she looked straight into his eyes and knew that he was telling the truth.

"I'm sorry Kai, it was just I was really sad when you left and I had nobody with me after my parents died except for William. He really misses you and there is something you should know. It's about your only siblin—

"Not right now. It's too late and your really tired, maybe in the morning. Plus you need to get a good sleep for tomorrow; we are going to practice and solve the problem between our bit beasts. Good night." With that Kai left and went into his tent. "Why are you hiding your feelings and why are you treating me like a stranger? We already had fights on the beginning of our journey. How are you going to react when you find out you have a sister?" Kaira also went in her tent and was fast asleep as soon as she lied down.

Kai didn't want to have any more conversations about his life or Kaira's life because he knew it would only bring sorrow, to both of them and Kaira especially. "But what was that thing Kaira was going to tell me?"

Kai hadn't slept the whole night because a thought made him think intensely about his future. "He cussed to himself for even thinking that he could 'love' pfah! He barely knew the meaning let alone how to love. He was not going soft! Or was he??" He shuddered at the thought. Why did he have to think about things like that?

Kai had left his tent the moment the sun came out and went to look for some fruit but all he could find were berries so he took lots of them. Kaira saw him enter camp. She had woken up just a few minutes ago and was looking really fresh.

"How's your arm, Kai?"

"Its much better now. Which reminds me, we have to practice today. Plus we have to find out the problem with our bit beasts. After breakfast, of course." Kaira had gotten some sandwiches from Hilary and they each ate one sandwich with lots of berries. They really enjoyed the berries because on their way to find a perfect ground to practice, they picked some more berries and ate it on their way. Finally after some walking they found the perfect spot to practice. It had the same stream on the side that would make it easier to remember their way back. It had and open field in the middle, "Hey maybe we should practice blading with each other's elements. I know this might sound stupid but I think it's a good idea. If we are going to blade side by side then we have to make our elements work side by side." While saying this she took her blade out and ripped it. It landed on the surface of the water and froze the stream. "Now all you have to do is try not to melt the ice and spin on it. Basically your blade has to survive on the surface of the water and try and not melt it."

"Great idea!! I'll make a circle of fire and lets see if you can handle the heat." With that Kai ripped his blade and told Dranzer to make a circle of fire. The fire was well controlled by Dranzer and so it would not leave the circle. "Sure lets see if we can handle each others elements." Their blades then entered the different zones and stood there spinning. Kai's blade was skidding and couldn't balance itself on the ice. Kaira was also having trouble keeping her blade in the heat; she was also feeling the heat herself. It was too much so she called her blade back to her, that's where she made a mistake, "OWWWW!!!! SSSSSS!!!" She fell on the ground holding her hand. She had burned it. Since her blade was in a very warm zone and had stayed there for sometime, it carried some heat in it, but it would take sometime before her blade cooled down. Kai retreated his own blade and ran to her; "Are you alright?" he was worried, it was like he knew something like this was going to happen. "I think so, I just burned my hand. My blade got really hot and didn't realize it until this happened."

"It doesn't look too bad, it could have been worse. I think you should come over to the stream." Kai was still holding Kaira's hand from when he had taken it in his hands to examine the burn. Kaira lead by Kai went over to the stream. Kai made her sit down and sat down himself, he then took a rock and cracked and broke the ice on the stream. Still holding her hand dipped it in the water, "OWWWW!!!!! Its really cold Kai. My hand is hurting. Kai please take it out." Kaira was begging Kai to take her hand out of the water but he was not listening, "Your hand needs to touch a cold surface so that later on it doesn't pain later on." Kaira could see he was very determined and was very busy in what he was doing. "Kai I know but—

"No buts. Stop complaining, do you know how I felt when you dabbed that cloth, it really hurt." Kaira knew that it had hurt him when she dabbed the cloth, "Ohhhh!!! I'm sorry but you never complained. Anyways you deserved that for not telling me you were hurt."

"Oh sure!!! Blame it on me. I'm not the one who wanted to keep the cub, now was I?"

"Hey I did say I was sorry."

"Sure you were sorry, and now I'm taking revenge that stupid bear incident."

"Oh so what you mean is that you on purpose had the temperature of the fire that high and you knew I would burn my hand. So you had all of this planned."

"Of course not. It wasn't my idea to 'lets practice with each others elements' and I didn't know you would be that dumb to actually retreat your blade when it has been in a hot zone and is boiling hot."

"Are you calling me 'dumb'?"

"Oh no not you, of course you." Kai had a lot of sarcasm in his voice. During the fight they didn't realize how close they had gotten. They could feel each other's breaths when Kaira realize what was going on and Kai also realizing what was going on drew away from each other. Kaira was blushing real bad and Kai had just looked away.

"Um…Kai you're still holding my hand."

"Oh… Sorry." Kai let go of her hand and thanks to Kai and his forcing her hand felt much better now.

"Thanks Kai, my hand feels much better." Kai gave her a small smile and Kaira gave him one too.

"Anytime, just returning a favor. Lets just cancel practice till tomorrow since you can't do much with the hand, just incase it hurts. Lets go back." He held out his hand for her to take which she took without hesitation. They made their way back to camp, hand in hand.

"What's happening to you Kai? You've finally changed for the better. I'm so happy that you're finally opening up." Kaira thought to herself.

"What's happening to me? I'm actually showing feelings. Kai get your head back in gear. What happened during your fight today? You were only inches away from he lips. OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!" With that thought Kai let go of Kaira's hand and Kaira just looked at him in a shocked kind of way, "Well I guess I spoke to early."

There you have it folks, chapter 11. If you think Kai was being a bit to verbal in this chapter, then you are right. I purposely made him verbal in this chapter to show that he is trying to open up and around Kaira he starts feeling like the old Kai. Well please review and drop your comments in them and please tell me about my quick updating. Till the next chapter, BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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