Here is Chapter Twenty-One of Mizugusuri, enjoy!

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"Blah" – talking

'Blah' – thinking

Change of place/time

Chapter 21

"Kai! Kai! Are you alright can hear me?" shouted Hilary as she gently touched his shoulder only for him to scream out in pain, she instantly recoiled her hand.

Hilary stood there shocked the same thing running through her head, 'This is my fault, my fault that he's in so much pain, my fault, it's all my fault'

Hilary's train of thought was broken as she saw Tala tending to the chibi, ignoring his screams of pain as he touched his skin.

"Ray," she whispered turning to look at the neko-jin tears filling up her eyes, he only stared back at her with sorrowful amber eyes.

A few moments later Kai went limp and Tala placed him on his back and reattached the drips that had come lose before heading towards the bathroom.

Hilary just stared at her hands wanting to turn back time so that this awful incident never happened. She felt a hand on her should and feared that it was Tala and quickly turned around to see Ray and let go of a breath she hadn't realized she had been holding.

"Hey are you alright?"

"No!" she said a bit harsher than she intended, "oh, I'm sorry Ray I'm not mad at you. I'm mad at myself, how could I have done that?"

"It's not just you, it was me as well. I'm not proud of myself; I know we hurt him real bad and who knows what other side effects there could be," Hilary nodded as his words sunk in.

A few moments later Tala came out carrying a small basin of cold water and a cloth.

"What's that for?" asked Max. Tala chose to ignore him and placed the cloth in the water before ringing it out and putting it on Kai's forehead.

"Does he have fever then?" timidly asked Hilary not looking at the redhead.

"No, I thought I'd do this for fun," sarcastically replied Tala not looking at the brunette.

Hilary sighed as she tried to stop the tears from making their way down her face.

The basin was placed on the bedside table by Tala as he then sat on the edge of the bed his back facing the others.

"There's no point in you staying now you've seen what it's done," said Tala.

Hilary stood up and practically ran out of their bumping into several people on the way out as Ray ran after her Max, Tyson and Kenny not far behind. When they finally made it out of the hospital they saw no sign of Hilary.

"Hey guys, go back to the hotel, I'll look for Hil okay," said Ray not really waiting for an answer as he ran off to find the upset girl.

The dark haired neko-jin searched the hospital grounds and couple of restaurants and shops nearby before finding himself in the park. The gentle sound of the swing and sounds of someone sniffing reached his ears, so he followed it until he saw the petite brunette gently swinging to and fro as the late summer sun caught her tears making them shine.

"Hilary," he softly said, this caused her head to snap up before falling again. Ray took the swing next to her.

"It's my entire fault Ray," she mumbled.

"No it's not it was both of us, I could have said no or said I didn't have it on me; so it's my fault as well. Please don't beat yourself up over this; you don't have to take all the blame."

"But why does it feel like Tala's just mad at me," she sniffed as more tears tumbled down her cheeks.

"Because you think it's your entire fault."

"I want to be able to go back in that room and see Kai, and I can take Tala hating me, but I don't want Kai to hate me," Hilary cried as Ray comforted her.

Tala still remained on Kai's bed watching him sleep, every now and again his face would screw up in pain and Demolition Boys Captain would feel the worry race through him but it soon disappeared as his face went back to neutral.

Mayumi came in around 8:30pm and saw Tala asleep on Kai's bed; a smile crept onto her face as she gently woke him up.

"Tala, I think you might want sleep in your own bed, it might be more comfortable," she smiled. He nodded rubbing his eyes before trudging over to his own bed.

Tyson, Max and Kenny sat on the sofa trying to watch the TV but their minds were on the other two people not in the room right now. The three of them quickly turned to face the door as they heard the click of it opening.

"Hi," said Ray while Hilary said nothing and trailed off to her room.

"Is she okay?" asked Max his smile disappearing, Ray shrugged his shoulders before taking a seat in one of the armchairs.

They sat there for the remainder of the day, watching TV, Hilary not coming out once. Once it started to get dark Ray decided that he should go and make dinner. He knew that Hilary would not come out of her room, so he brought the food into her, even though she probably didn't want it.

"Hil, I brought you some dinner," he said closing the door behind him. Ray found Hilary lying on the bed staring at the ceiling.

"Thanks Ray," she mumbled getting up. "Ray." The aforementioned blader looked at the girl.

"What?"

"I want to go see Kai tomorrow, but I don't want him to be mad at me."

"I don't think Kai would be mad at you, Tala might still be. But I doubt Kai will," Ray reassured her. Hilary nodded and took the tray off of Ray. He made sure she was alright before leaving to eat his own dinner.

The next day the Bladebreakers took their time getting to the hospital. All of them nervous as to what had happened to Kai.

As they reached the room Tala and Kai shared, Max and Ray peered through the small window on the door to see the redhead sitting on the chibi's bed, probably waiting for him to wake up.

Tyson was the first one to go in, this caused Tala to turn round and look at them, but once he saw them he quickly turned back round. They heard Hilary sigh at this. All of them pulled up a chair and sat round Kai's bed as an awkward silence fell about the room.

Hilary sat there her eyes fixed to her hands; Ray glanced between her and Kai every now; while Tyson, Max and Kenny tried to entertain themselves.

Tala wanted to say he was sorry for the way he had acted yesterday, he knew he had a right to be angry at them because they gave the potion to Kai, but he could have said why he was so angry. The redhead hoped that nothing other than what he was thinking would happen. As he knew there was only once place they could go if something was wrong.

Movement from the bed that Kai lay in caused them all to look at the sleeping boy. Kai had just moved in his sleep, a sigh escaped their lips as they went back to waiting.

As Tala looked up his ice blue eyes met Hilary's chocolate brown ones. She could see an apologetic look in his eyes, while he could see hurt and worry in hers. Hilary felt herself smile as Tala did look sorry; she just wanted him to say it now. Tala now felt worse after he had seen that hurt and worry in her eyes, he felt responsible for it. Ray could now feel that Hilary had relaxed somewhat after locking eyes with Tala.

Kai lay there aware of the stillness and silence around him. He had moved as his back was hurting him, only for people in the room to move. Why, were they waiting for him to wake up, maybe he was being silly. It was probably Tyson or someone moving in their sleep.

The bluenette wanted to open his eyes, but felt so tired so he decided to lay there for a few more minutes. He was the first to get up anyways, and it would be at least an hour and a half until Ray woke up. It's not like he would care.

Kai then began to get restless and opened his eyes only to reveal a white ceiling, not the wooden roof of Tyson's Dojo. He sat up quickly earning gasps from the people around him. He looked around and saw that everything was white and figured that he was in a Hospital. He then realized that his team was in here and so was…Tala!

Now he was really confused at what was going on, maybe it was all a dream and that if he closed his eyes and thought hard enough he would wake up. But he didn't really think so, as usually strange stuff like this happened to him anyway.

"Where am I?" he asked looking around at Tala. They all looked at him funny before noticing that his voice was still chibi like but it seemed more serious.

Tala was the first to get over the shock and said, "You're in a Hospital, remember Kai?" He shook his head.

"Kai we're in Australia for the tournament dude, you gotta remember that," said Tyson. Kai turned to look at him.

"Yes, and you were bitten by the snake, then we came here, then Boris tried to get you but you somehow got away, then he got you again," added Hilary.

"Then we came to get you and rescued Tala as well, now we're here," finished Ray.

"I don't remember anything, except for the tournament that Tyson just mentioned." Tala mentally slapped himself suddenly realising what had happened.

"Tyson gave you a potion a day before you came here, turning you into a chibi, then yesterday Hilary and Ray gave you another one, and this must have converted your six year old mind back to 16 while your body stayed the same."

"You did what?" Kai angrily shouted glaring at him as well. Tyson and Max just ended up laughing.

"What is so funny?"

"When you got all angry, it's just looked really cute, you can't really scare us when you're six Kai," laughed Max.

Kai just huffed and crossed his arms and muttered, "I'll scare you," which caused Tala to smirk.

Ray and Hilary were just glad that Kai was alright.

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