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Chapter Five – Being Fifteen, Being Kai

Sarah lay on the large double bed in the enormous room Ray and Tyson had helped her to.  She assumed that it was the master bedroom, but before he left Tyson informed her that it was indeed her room and that his room was the next one down the hall.

Taking in the sights, she looked up at the big white ceiling above her and wondered what it would look like if someone painted a large mural on it.  It would probably look more exciting for sure.

There was a knock at the door.

"Come in," Sarah called.

The door opened and in walked an old man with long grey hair and a cane.  Sarah looked at him and assumed he was this Mr Dickinson that Kenny had mentioned beforehand.

"I'm okay, I don't need anything," she said.

The old man walked over to the bed and sat on the edge.  He frowned for a moment and Sarah realised he looked familiar to her.  Maybe she'd seen him on TV.

"You do not recognise me Kai… mayhap you incurred slight amnesia after your 'fall'," the man said in a deep elegant voice.

Sarah didn't like the way the man said the word fall.  He had stressed it slightly as though he thought it hadn't happened.  She sat up and blinked at him confused.

"Maybe I do recognise you, but I just don't feel like saying who you are," she commented, thinking it to be something Kai would say.

The old man smirked, "Well at least you didn't lose your attitude… Sarah."

Sarah's jaw dropped open in shock.  Finally someone had called her by her true name.  The man leered at her, knowing that he was correct in saying that.

"What… what's going on?" she stammered, now quite frightened of the man, her brain processing the information and learning that this man was not Mr Dickinson, because Tyson had described as a happy old man with glasses.  She hadn't noticed it before, but this man was not wearing any glasses and her inner sense was screaming that he was in no way nice.

"Sarah… I know this may come as a shock to you.  The body your soul now inhabits is my grandson Kai's.  I have used him, and you, as part of my new experiment.  I wanted to see how well a blader could perform if they were put into a different body.  I wanted to know if they could still use the same blading style or if the changes made them blade in a different way."

Shaking her head, Sarah stared at the old man.  She couldn't believe… didn't believe that this was just some sick experiment.  She had thought it was a freak accident or something, but to find out it was actually planned was alarming.  Suddenly in her mind, something clicked and she remembered who this man was.

"You're Voltaire… you're supposed to be in jail! It was on the news!"

Voltaire smiled, "Yes I was, but I am a very rich man and money can buy you in or out of a lot of things."

Sarah glared at the man, inwardly pitying Kai for being related to such a horrible monster.  She got up off the bed and started to walk towards the door.  Voltaire grabbed her arm.

"You have to come with me.  As soon as my experiment is finished, I will return you and Kai to your original bodies."

Sarah yanked her arm out of his grasp and snarled, "I'm not going anywhere with YOU!"

She remembered that Tyson had said his room was next door and she ran as well as she could to the other side of the room and pounded on the wall.  Voltaire's eyes widened.  He stood up and went for the door and slammed into Tyson, pushing past on his way out.  Sarah hurried over to the door and pulled Tyson up.

"Tyson! Are you okay? What was he doing here?!" Sarah took deep breaths, her eyes dilated in fear.

Tyson shook himself off and rubbed his head in a comical fashion, "No damage dude, except maybe to my ego."

He looked behind him to see where Voltaire had gotten to, but the grey-haired man was nowhere to be seen.  Tyson looked back around at Kai, who he realised was shaking something terrible.  He pushed him inside the room and closed the door.

"I don't know how he got here man, but isn't your gramps supposed to be in the slammer?" Tyson asked, making Kai sit on the bed.

Sarah looked at Tyson and nodded, "That's what I thought.  But he told me he paid his way out," she growled and clenched her fists, "And people ask why the justice system is messed up?"

Tyson tentatively put his hand on Kai's shoulder and watched as Kai lent his head against Tyson's chest.  Tyson blushed, but didn't do anything to make the blue-haired boy get up.

Sarah sighed and leaned back onto the bed, pulling the oblivious Tyson with her.  Tyson glanced at Sarah and blushed brightly and then she blushed in return, as she'd never been this close to a boy before… especially alone… in a bedroom.

Tyson coughed and looked out the window, "So what did he say?"

Sarah struggled to keep her wits and replied, "That he wants to use me in his new experiment… and that he will get me, no matter what I do."

She avoided mentioning the part about how he'd told her that he knew who she was and what he'd done to her and Kai.

Tyson nodded, thinking about it and moved to go, but Kai gripped him around the waist and murmured, "Stay with me… he might come back."  Tyson rubbed his head nervously and lay back down on the bed, turning towards the pale-faced teen.

Sarah smiled softly, forgetting what Tyson had said about Kai not smiling and closed her eyes, her head placed on the extremely soft goose feather pillow.  She peered through the corner of her eye and watched Tyson do the same.  Pausing for a moment, she lured enough courage and pulled Tyson closer.

Tyson couldn't believe that Kai was doing this.  To him of all people.  He thought that if Kai wanted to be with someone it would be one of the pretty fan girls that followed him around at Beybattles.  But no, Kai was holding him, and it was intensely obvious from his body language that he felt more than just friendship towards him.  Even if Kai was this way inclined, Tyson was sure he would rather be with Ray than him.  He watched Kai's face, wondering if he should go after Kai fell asleep.  He moved a tiny bit and Kai made a small whimpering noise and clung to him tighter.

Sarah slowly drifted off to sleep, her arms staying around Tyson as she did.  She felt safe this way.  She had thought she liked Ray better but Tyson gave her the tingles.  She wondered what Kai would say if he found out she was making him out to be yaoi, but shrugged it off.  Kai was probably doing all sorts of strange things to her body, so why should she care?

As soon as he heard Kai's breathing slow and relax, Tyson figured he was asleep.  Now if only he could get out of his grip without waking him up… Tyson rolled his eyes as the arms tightened around him as though they had heard his thoughts and gave up, wrapping his own arms loosely around Kai's neck and getting comfortable by intertwining himself with Kai.  Tyson rested his head beneath Kai's and pressed his face into Kai's neck, an irresistible urge to nibble the pale neck swamping him and making him blush again.

Soon two lots of soft snoring could be heard coming from the bed.