HI!!!!!!!!!! How are you doing? I hope it's nice and warm and the birds are singing and the fairies are playing in the air and the sun is smiling wherever you are. It should always being like that, right? Don't you agree? I mean, why should there be rain and thunder and pretty lightning… … … Anyway! It should always be a bright and shining day, I think. That way people will have a reason to smile and sunbath. Come on!! Who wouldn't like to sunbath? The warmth of the sun surrounding you as you chill back, listening to your favorite music, or maybe the sounds of nature. Totally could go for that! But, I guess if it was like that everywhere, we would either be Mercury or Venus… I'm betting Venus since it's hot everywhere there, but there isn't a lot of sunlight… And Mercury is only hot on one side… Darn.

Byakko had suddenly turned around when Kai noticed the sound that he probably heard. He looked into the forest to see a herd of rabbits that were gray furred and standing on their hind legs. They looked like they were going to do something, or that they found something before Byakko launched at them. Kai noticed that Byakko had dove into his animal side, trying to eat the creatures that were killed instantly under his paws. Before Kai could think of something to bring Byakko back, Byakko took off running.

Kai was running after Byakko, with the team following after him. He didn't know that tigers could be so fast. He was barely keeping up with him. By the way that Byakko was running, he was probably going after something that he could eat. Byakko jumped over a log that was too big for Kai to do the same. Kai stopped short of it, catching his breath.

"Move!" Kai heard Max yell. Kai looked before moving, seeing that Max was getting ready to punch after clapping his hands together. He punched straight through the tree, but kept on running without pausing, "I'm tracking Byakko right now." He said back at him. Kai followed after his team went through.

Max was glad that there was a reason for them to run. He was also glad that he thought of this as well. Since running helps keeps the blood flowing and the body temperature warm, it was the best way to keep out the cold that creeps in after using alchemy. He also realized what happened to him when Byakko transformed. Byakko had, probably, subconsciously suck Max's energy to force the transformation since Max wasn't using a lot of energy at once since he needed to keep some for Kai. Max had also noticed that Byakko had also forced the remaining connections needed for the transformation. It probably was brought about because of the danger they were in.

He was also amazed that Byakko knew what to attack and didn't attack them as well. Even though he was barely able to comprehend anything while coughing, he did understand that something was different about Byakko's behavior after he finished fighting. Max can also tell that the transformation itself changed the body greatly. Having plenty of times scanning humans during this trip, he could tell that the body they were chasing after wasn't human. Sure, there are a lot of similar structures and similar configurations, but there were many more difference to make up for the similarities. It was like what he was scanning was never a human before. He wondered if all animals were like this, though figured so since they need difference things to survive.

As they were still running after Byakko, who was less than a kilometer ahead of them but more than 100 meter, and thus, out of their sights. Max looked at Kai. He was still leaking out this world's element. The wounds weren't the source of it either. Max was now a bit more focus on Kai, since he didn't want to have another attack on them while they were running after Byakko. He figured that this would be a good way to lose any creatures that were following them through this. He noticed that the source of the leak was his chest, and it was also where the element was the most concentrated. It even looked to be a shape. Max wondered why he never noticed it like this before. It wasn't like it being in a shape would make it blend easier. Kai was still mixed, and even though it was a shape in his chest, it was still mixed with Kai.

Max started to look into what would plug the leak. He figured that it wouldn't be like his fight, since that was the complete plug. He didn't want Kai to suffer some kind of pain if he did this, since that would be annoying to deal with. Max felt something from his amulet, which made him look at Draciel. He then remembered that the creature is able to conceal his element by making it appear to be smaller. Maybe that was the answer. Kai wasn't leaking when this shape wasn't there, so that shape is the actual problem. He looked to see if he could separate it into smaller parts since he couldn't just shrink it like the creature. Max stopped, breathing hard from the run. Byakko was still running towards his prey, which happened to be in a shape of a deer.

"What's wrong?" Tyson asked, everyone else was tired as well.

"Byakko is heading towards his dinner." Max looked at Kai, "Let me fix you before we go after him."

Kai nodded, though also very tired. "What do you need to do?"

"Relax as much as you can. This will probably hurt a lot." Draciel made a circle around Kai.

Kai started to breath in slowly, something that Rei had taught him to help him relax. When his breathing was going back to normal, he looked at Max, keeping his mind as calm as he could get it. Max closed his eyes before taking a small step into the other circle that was made. Kai was in pain, much like what happened when they entered this world. He was keeping up with the breathing, focusing as much as he could on it. Tyson wondered what was going on, since Kai was trying to not show that it was hurting.

Max looked at Kai, realizing that something was happening on its own. He had managed to separate the shape into six even pieces, but once he did that, it started to move on its own. They quickly lined themselves up down his body, and those spots lit up before sealing up the power. Max was surprised how well it had, since all leaking suddenly stopped. Kai fell to the ground, becoming really weak all of a sudden. It was like this had zapped most of his energy.

"Are you okay?" Tyson asked, going over to him.

"Am I?" Kai looked at Max, who seemed surprised by something. Wasn't what happened his doing?

Max nodded, "It's sealed… I hope you get some answers to what happened here, because this world is weirder than I gave it credit for initially."

"What happened?" Kenny asked as Tyson helped Kai onto his feet.

"Once I separated the element into six evenly pieces, those pieces lined themselves up and completely sealed off the leak. I don't even understand why, so I won't be able to give any explanation."

"Where did they line up?" Kai asked out of curiosity. Max pointed to the points that Rei had mentioned to him once. They were known as the chakra points. They weren't all of them, since there were points on the hands and feet. He figured that the line up was probably due to that, though figured that Rei would be able to give a theory, since this would be more of his thing than Max. "What was with the light?"

"Your guess is as good as mine." Max pulled his jacket more around him, "Let's get going. He's getting close to the deer." He turned around and walked towards Byakko.

"Do you need another jacket?" Ed asked as everyone followed.

"Yeah..." Max didn't want to admit, but had to. "Where are the other ones?"

"Here." Kenny got the bag from Tyson and headed up to Max. He pulled out the blankets that they had. Max wrapped one of them around himself, knowing that this would be good enough as they walked.

"Thanks." Max smiled, "This is good enough until we camp."

"Are we still heading in the right direction?" Tyson asked.

"It's still within my range, but it's to the left of us right now. I'll take another look tomorrow morning. We're actually a lot closer to it as well, so I should be able to scan another fifty to see where we need to go." He coughed a bit.

"Should we keep running?" Kai asked, hating that he's already too weak to walk on his own.

"Why ask that?" Max looked back at him.

"That seems to help you. Obviously, we won't right now."

"If I use my alchemy in a certain way, then I would like to run. Otherwise, we can keep our normal pace. I understand the conditions that get me like this."

"Okay, let us know then in the future." Kai said, understanding that Max didn't want to say. He could tell that Ed also understood the conditions as well. Kai wanted to know, not because he had kept it from them, but because he wanted to be prepared for it. If there was something wrong with Rei, Kai knew enough about Rei's condition to do something about it and to help him.

Kai then realized with a mental laugh that his wounds weren't healed. He figured that he would allow them to remain. After all, the ones that Rei gave him on the way here didn't get healed, so the ones that Byakko gave him should stay as well. There was feeling back in his hand, so he figured that everything was alright. He also wondered how far Byakko could sense things. After all, this was really far from their original position. Unless Byakko became a super tiger, there shouldn't be a way for him to smell something this far away.

"Damn deer." Max said, "Can you run Kai? The deer noticed Byakko." Max looked at him.

Kai wanted to yell that he could barely walk, but got off Tyson just the same, "Let's go."

Max nodded and they all took off running. Max could tell that everyone else, including Ed, was using everything they had to keep up with Max. Max also realized that because of his special condition, his muscles and body chemistry wasn't as used up as the others. Byakko was still running after his prey, who knew the forest a lot better than Byakko. Max felt sorry for the deer, but really did wish that Byakko had killed it upon striking. Max was also surprise at how fast Byakko was. Even though the deer knew the terrain, Byakko wasn't that far from the heels. In little time, Byakko got a hold of the deer and killed it. Max kept them running, since they needed to reach him faster anyway. The mark was just about it at his range before he had them stop.

"How far is he?" Kai asked, the most obvious tired one.

"He's up ahead. He caught the deer, so I figured that we should catch our breaths before we get closer. Also, the mark is right at my range, but we're pretty much parallel to it."

"We'll think of it when we camp, or tomorrow." Kai said, really wanting to get some sleep. He sighed, figuring that he probably couldn't since the others would need their rest. "How is everyone else?"

"Good." Tyson said, with the signs of fatigue on everyone's face, but Max.

Kai straighten himself up, "Let's go to Byakko."

Max nodded and led the way. Max started to wonder why Byakko couldn't sense his scan. He didn't want to blame it on the fact that Byakko was eating like there was no tomorrow, since that shouldn't stop his senses. Though, by the fact that they were able to enter into the clearing that showed Byakko's back and the dead deer without him noticing them, it was probably the most plausible one. Max called back Draciel, since they needed to be very cautious right now.

Kai was kinda surprised at the sight, and the fact that they were able to get so close without Byakko noticing. Kai remembered that Rei had told him that since he witnessed the death of the only creature they killed that he wouldn't be eating meat to honor it. That's probably what got Kai the most right now about this sight. Even though Byakko needed to do this, Kai wondered what Rei would do if he saw this.

"Should we try to get closer?" Tyson asked, knowing that they had to be more cautious since this wasn't a Byakko that would listen to Kai.

"What do you think?" Max asked Kai, since he has to be the one to handle Byakko in the end.

Before Kai could give an answer, Byakko suddenly looked at them. There was blood all over his face before he started to roar at them. This was obviously a Byakko that had embraced the animal that he was. Kai started to walk forward. There's a way to deal with angry tigers. Kai heard a female voice say. Kai didn't understand why he was listening to it, believing in it as much as he was. He stopped a bit before Byakko, who was still roaring at Kai with all intentions of attacking if provoked. You need to open your heart and arms, Kai did that as he closed his eyes, lower yourself to his level, Kai got himself on one knee, and let him know that you mean him no harm. Can you do that for me, Kai? Can you open your heart to him so he knows he's safe? Kai opened his eyes, smiling at Byakko, believing in their connection to bring Byakko back to him. "Byakko, it's okay. I'm here now."

Everyone else was surprised to see this side of Kai. That wasn't an expression that he would show, ever. Byakko had stopped roaring and was staring him down, walking over to him slowly before remembering him. Byakko started to rub his head against Kai's, with Kai petting him, "Byakko." Kai couldn't even begin to process the overwhelming happiness that was surging up now that Byakko had finally returned. Byakko started to lick him, eventually pinning him down to the ground with his body and not letting him go.

"So he's back?" Tyson asked, seeing that Kai was happy. Byakko looked at them, though it was clear that he didn't recognize them.

"Byakko, they're okay." Kai said, realizing that not all of Byakko's memories were back. "You can check them out for yourself if you don't believe me."

Byakko got up and that's when Kai noticed something he didn't realize before. Byakko walked over to his team as he got himself up from the ground. Byakko believed Kai when he said that they were okay, but Byakko just wanted to see why they knew Kai. It was then that Byakko realized that time had passed. Byakko went back to Kai, sitting down next to him as if guarding him.

Kai got himself up, "Let's set up camp here." The night had already came, but there was moonlight that they would be able to use to see.

"Should I use my Alchemy?" Max asked, since that was the fastest way to get things ready. Tyson and Kenny were already getting the wood for the fire out, placing it near Kai and Byakko.

"Show Byakko how you would make a flame." Kai said before looking at Byakko, "What he's about to do isn't going to hurt me, okay?" Byakko nodded before looking at the boy that spoke. Max clapped his hands together and produced a flame in one for a moment before letting it go. Max could tell that Byakko didn't notice that Draciel had already created a circle where the wood is. He even thought it was weird that Byakko had looked at Kai, as if he could do the same thing. Kai smiled a bit, thinking it was funny how Byakko was urging him on to do the same. "I can't do the same thing."

Byakko seemed to have pouted. "I guess not all of his memories are back." Tyson said as Max lit the wood.

"Oh, Byakko is a girl." Kai looked at everyone, seeing everyone was shocked, "I noticed just now."

"See!" Max pointed at Kai, "Even you couldn't separate the two."

"Rei always referred to Byakko as a guy." Kai said in his defense, "and considering that he could actually see her, I figured he would know." Kai also realized that Byakko herself didn't realize, since Byakko had always used the masculine form of things when referring to himself. Kai looked at Byakko, "You know what gender you are, right?"

Byakko nodded before rubbing her head on his hand. Kai petted her, wondering why she was so sad. Byakko gently took his hand into her mouth, bringing him over to her kill. She let go to tear out a piece of meat, lifting it up to give to Kai. Kai got a feeling that this was very similar. He smiled to Byakko, "Thanks." He took it in his hands. Byakko pushed him back to the fire before going back to her kill.

"I guess the rest of us get fish." Tyson said, thinking that Byakko wouldn't share. The portion that she gave Kai was only enough for him. They all got the things ready to cook as Kai was looking at Byakko. Once they prepared the sticks to roast everything, Kai handed his piece of deer meat to Ed before going over to Byakko.

"What's wrong?" Kai asked in a low voice so the others wouldn't hear. Byakko kept on eating her deer, ignoring Kai, it seemed. "I don't remember my past." Kai sat on the ground. Byakko looked at him, "So if we had met before, I don't remember it." Kai looked at her, smiling at her, "But, we got to meet again and I still love you." Byakko rubbed her head on Kai's, spreading the blood on his cheek. Kai lay his head on hers, "Around you, I tend to let my emotions out more. I'm also slowly remembering things about my past, but there's nothing solid there yet. I'm glad that you were able to come back to me, though." Byakko started to purr. "I'll answer anything you're wondering about when we're done with dinner, okay? I haven't told them anything about what I do realize about my past so I don't want to reveal that you were part of that."

Byakko went back to her kill, though pulling out globs of meat and bringing it over to the fire. She did this a couple of times before pulling Kai off the ground. Kai went over to the fire, sitting down next to her pile as she went back to eating. "So, what happened?" Tyson asked.

"This is Byakko before becoming a spirit." Kai said. "Not all of her memories have come back."

"So how does she recognize you?" Ed asked.

"I was one of the first people to meet her. I don't think that Rei even had allowed his kin to see her."

"I guess she probably wouldn't make an effort to remember us, huh?" Tyson commented, "Why did you do that thing you did to get her to calm down?"

"I had to do it once, so I figured it would work a second time." It wasn't really a lie, since the voice that instruct him was from his past, so he figured that he had to have done something like that before. Kai figured that he would focus on that voice later, since it was a different female voice than the one that had mentioned something about new eyes.

"Can you hear her voice now?" Tyson remembered that Kai said that only Rei could. He wondered if the conditions had changed.

"She hasn't spoken yet, so I can't say for sure." Kai could tell that much. Even though she was very expressive, she hadn't spoken yet.

"How can you hear her speak?" Max asked, already wrapped in the most blankets, "She's an animal. Sure, her expressions can be read, but that's about it."

Kai looked at Byakko, seeing that she wasn't caring about what Max was saying. She was obviously listening, but Kai thought that she was probably using this to understand the world that she was brought back into. This allowed Kai to know that the Byakko that appeared later was probably affected by the strong emotions that they had for each other, but not the understanding of it. The other Byakko would've shown an expression to Max that probably would've told him to back off. "Rei could hear her voice. I can also tell when she wanted to speak to me before. Since she couldn't do so with her voice, I came to understand what her movements and gestures mean."

"Are we allowed to take the meat for tomorrow?" Ed asked, "It would be very helpful."

Kai looked at it, seeing that Byakko had left some meat on there, "We'll see what she says tomorrow morning." He looked back at everyone, "Have her comfortable with your Alchemy before using it to scan her tomorrow." Byakko looked at Kai, looking like she didn't want to have a scan. Kai petted her head, wondering why she didn't want one. "It isn't like the one they give at a zoo. There's a way that he scans that doesn't hurt and you stay conscious throughout it. It's safe." Byakko looked at Max before going back to her food.

"I wonder if the other Byakko is going to come back once Rei's body returns." Tyson pondered, since he was sure that the reaction the other Byakko would've given would've been a lot more glaring.

"I'm guessing not." Kai said, still petting her. He figured that when they get Rei's body back that Byakko would then remember the time that had occurred both before dying and after. Though, he wondered if the others couldn't see that this was the same soul. Kai could tell, though he also knew that the experience from her previous life didn't surface at all. It was probably because Byakko was within Rei's body that Byakko herself thought that she was a he. "I think that creature knows what happened to me when we entered here." Kai suddenly realized.

"Why think that?" Max asked, being the one that analysis things this well.

"He mentioned that I was shining too much… And that someone that I'm never supposed to see will stop at nothing to have what I have once it becomes known."

"How does that translate that he knows what happened to you?"

"… It was because of how I got Dranzer to appear." He looked at everyone, "I think I needed to open the gateway for them to appear, and since he can see the spirit of things, I think he realized that I was the one that opened it. It could be whatever had given me the element you keep referring to."

The food was done so Kenny was handing it out. "Why do the Demolition Boys think of Rei as a broken tool?" Max asked, looking straight at Kai. He just remembered about that, going through his own memories for something that would've revealed if the creature truly did know something about what happened to Kai. Though, the fact that he could control the Bit Beast would probably mean that there was something that he did know about their connection to this world.

"I'm not sure myself." Kai was glad that he didn't have to lie.

"He seemed to point out being beaten to submission when we were talking about pawns. I know you two told us of a beating he received, but were there more?"

"I wasn't with Rei the whole time.. I wasn't allowed to see him a whole lot, either. I don't know what they did to him." Kai wasn't going to mention anything about those other marks on his back. The only beating he saw was to make him submit to follow Boris, but there were other times. "I was told that Rei was involved in something that they were forcing him to do. I don't really know all the details, since the term was never used when I was there and Dmitriy never explained to me what it was… He also seemed to know what was happening to Rei as well."

"Why didn't you press him, then?" Max asked.

"We only met twice before we left. Sophia interrupted before he could tell me and the second time was just before we left. We needed to get out as quickly as possible the final time I saw him. So I never got the chance to have him clarify."

Max looked away, "The creature seemed to have made that a point to mention… It sounded like they tried to force Rei into something."

Kai looked into the fire, knowing that they were. He had always lost his matches, losing his will after each match as they took him away. When Byakko moved, Kai looked to see that she was cleaning herself. "I can't say for sure if they did or not. Like I said earlier, I wasn't around him enough to know.." He took a bite into his deer meat. He hoped that his true knowledge wasn't showing on his face. "Let's hurry up and get some sleep."

Max wondered if Kai was keeping anything from them. He was either looking into his memories to see if there was something there that could've given him a clue, or there was a clue and he just didn't want to mention it. Max didn't want Kai to have all these answers. It wasn't fair to the rest of them. He wanted to know Rei just as much as Kai, even if it wasn't possible. He wanted to have that fair shot.

They finished up and everyone got a place around the fire. Kai was moving slowly since he wanted to know if anyone else could've watched the camp. Seeing how they all went to sleep, and soundly by the looks of it, he figured that he had to stay up until he couldn't and hoped that would be enough to protect them. Byakko started to clean up Kai, making him smile a bit. "Where do you want to sleep?" Kai asked once she was working on his hands.

She grabbed his hands in her mouth again and pulled him over to a log that was there. Kai sat down next to the log and she laid over his legs, but having her body cover a good portion of it. Kai petted her, "Thanks for the meat."

She started to purr, rubbing her head against his hand. Kai looked at his team, wondering why they had to bring up Rei's experience again. It wasn't like he knew any better than when they first told them. Sure, they were keeping things away from them, but that was because they needed to keep the story somewhat continuous. With Rei not remembering anything, they didn't have all the pieces of the puzzle. Kai placed the blanket that he had grabbed for himself over Byakko. "The past that I know of is one that revolves around my Grandfather." Byakko looked at Kai, though he could tell that she recognized who that was. "Yeah.. but I'm starting to regain memories from a time when I was with a father… when I was with a family that had loved me… I don't know who these people are, but I'm trying to find them. I'm going to guess that I met you from that past as well, right?"

That's right. Kai blinked for a moment before realizing that the voice he heard was from Byakko. He started to tear up, bending over to hug her, "I heard you. I heard your voice." Kai buried his head into her fur, covering from the rest of the world his joy. Her voice was that innocent voice that was always mixed with Rei when Byakko was out. "Right now," Kai stayed where he was, "you're a spirit that is with Rei. He gained you so that he could place the skills he obtained for some mission, since he needed to appear to be the same. I'm sorry that you were taken away from your rest, but I'm also really glad that we got to see each other again."

Byakko rubbed her head against Kai, Have you met any of your family?

"No, I haven't. There's someone called Seto Kaiba that thinks he knows my father, but other than that, I haven't met anyone… We're in a tournament and Jade and Krypton are our coaches that were taken away from us. There's someone here called TK and I think he's part of my past as well, but I want to get Jade and Krypton first. There's also a creature from here that seems to know my past as well."

So we're not in our world?

"We're not. We're in some other world that has creatures that can attack. TK has one of them, called Patamon."

I see… She moved to look at Kai, Though, know that you haven't changed much. Kai noticed that she was smiling.

"I doubt that. I had been very cold-hearted until recently. It's really hard for me to allow myself to show a lot of emotions to the others over there."

You care for Rei, right? You want to protect him and be his support.

Kai thought about it for a moment, "I think he protects me a lot more than I protect him, but you're right. I do want to be there for him and protect him. He's the first person that I could really consider a friend and he's starting not to hide from me… He has a past that he doesn't want a lot of people knowing. It's a past that involves a mother that's not his real mom, but he considers her his real mom… I don't know why he needs to keep it a secret, but I think because of this, he doesn't allow a lot of people to see the true him."

You'll know the truth when you get your family back. She laid back down on his legs, And I was right, you haven't changed at all. Tell me of the life that you know.

Kai started to tell her of the life at the abbey and with his Grandfather. He even included of what he had gained back, about the man that he ran into after Dark Dranzer who brought him to his Grandfather. When he was feeling really horrible of the life he led, she comforted him by moving closer to him. He also didn't leave anything out when going through their tournaments. He realized that there was always something a bit different about Rei's behavior throughout their travel but he never thought that it would be connected to Mr. Dickenson. He only thought about it now because of recent events when involving him. It almost made him want to ask Rei about it, since it wasn't something that would've been seen otherwise. Kai also realized how much Rei was hiding, and yet how open he pretended to be. Kai started to feel sleepy when he was getting towards recent events of this tournament, still not leaving out anything since Byakko knows Kai from before. He was glad that she was going to let him discover his past. Or it might just be that something was making her realize that she needed to allow him to discover his past on his own. Either way, it felt right that she didn't tell him about the past he is longing to know.

See, you haven't changed. She said, You're still the same kid I met all those years ago.

"The thing I did today, did I have to do the same thing during that time… I was hearing a voice that instructed me to do so, which is why I followed. It was different from the voice that allowed me to bring out Dranzer."

You calmed me down the first time you did it… And the voice was probably your sister…

"I have a sister?"

You have two, though I only met one since the other was far away.

"Tell of me of your past."

.. Alright. When I was a little one, I was taken away from my mother. I don't know if the humans had killed her or not or what happened to my siblings, but they brought me to a place where I was being tormented to fight. I fought against so many, growing up in such a place. I grew to be very strong and very dangerous. I had also mistrusted humans, since they were the ones that were tormenting me. I could also tell that I was the only one out of all the animals that kept something of myself. I couldn't hear the other animals when they were fighting against me. I was allowed to kill, but I never ate the opponent. I saw many others did, though.

We were eventually rescued from that place. I was placed in various places, showing that I wasn't going to accept their kindness. I don't know why they never put me down, since I saw a bunch of others being put down. By the time that I was moved to a zoo in Japan, I decided to let myself stay there. I never bothered with the other tigers there, and I also never bothered with the humans until they brought over the food. Once I noticed that humans liked going up against this glass that separated me from them, I decided to give them a little scare. It was my thing to do, but I never got in trouble since I would only do it enough to get them scared before going away. I wasn't doing the same thing when I met you, but I was planning on it.

"What happened last time?" Kai was just too curious not to know.

You were claiming someone was more beautiful than me.

"Really? So I guess I apologized, huh?" She nodded her head. "Did I hear your voice before?"

Yes, you could also hear the birds as well. When you see your father again, don't worry about him being disappointed in you. I'm sure he won't be.

Kai didn't realize that he would be worried, but figured that he probably was. After all, he knows that he's not the same boy as before. He had changed into something that his Grandfather wanted. "I'll remember that." Kai said, though kinda wondering how true that will be. "Was I able to understand the other tigers, or just you?"

I was the only one that had a voice, really, but they never bothered with me when we talked. They could speak, but it wasn't anything like me.

"I also realized that I can understand Chinese. Do you know why I do?"

You were learning it. You wanted to go to China for the longest time. You can also summon fire into your hands.

"Is that why you were urging me to do the same?" She nodded. Kai lifted his hands, looking at them. "Do you have any idea on how?" She shook her head. Kai closed his eyes, wondering if it comes from inside of him. He remembered Rei saying that all energies are concentrated near the center of the stomach, so maybe that's where he needed to gather it from. He instantly felt something that was very similar to what was happening when the creature was within another creature. It was before he was knocked onto the ground. He wondered if he was able to pull it up when in danger. There was a flick before he noticed heat between his hands. He opened them to see a flame there, "Wow… Where does it come from?"

You knew that everyone knew where it probably came from, but they never told you. They were probably waiting until you had a better understanding of the world around you. No one thought that you would be taken away and never to be found again.

Kai let go of his flame, for some reason feeling excited about showing this to Rei whenever he comes back. He laid his head on hers, "Sorry. I guess I never found a way to escape." He figured that she passed away from loneliness once it was told to her that he would never come back. And now that he was here, he wanted to go to sleep. "Man, I'm really tired."

I'll keep watch for you. She got a bit more comfortable for Kai, Go to sleep.

Kai started to relax, "Thanks."

WOW!! Kai could've gotten all of his answers and then everything would've been solved. Oh well, if he wants to remain in the dark, he can remain in the dark. I mean, if it was me, I would've milked her for all the information that she could've given me. I mean, come on. He's been searching for his family and here was a piece of the puzzle right before his eyes and he doesn't take it. Though, I guess it was probably before she didn't really offer much either. She could've just spilled everything to him, but she didn't. Maybe, just maybe, they're both weird. That has to be it. They're both weird.