Ok, so I haven't finished typing chapter nine yet, but I do have good news.
I have finished writing the point form notes for this story in my notebook
so I can tell you all how many official chapters this story will have.
Eleven. It's not exactly the happy ending everyone is hoping for, but I
needed some sort of conflict between Rei and Kai... okay, maybe I've said
too much. Read on...
Immortal Blood
Chapter 8: Of Virgins and Poison Ivy
***
The next morning, Rei woke up, the previous day's incident behind him. He looked up at Kai and realised he was still asleep. He grinned sneakily and poked him in the stomach. Kai groaned and swatted his hand away. He snickered.
"I don't want to get up." Kai mumbled. Rei sighed. Kai wasn't likely to be easy to wake up. Rei just had to make him 'want' to get out of bed.
"I bet I can screw you better than Rei." He whispered into Kai's ear, a dead-on impersonation of Takao.
"Fuck off and keep dreaming." Kai muttered. He moaned and rolled away from him. Rei snickered at Kai's response.
Struck with an idea, Rei scrambled over Kai's body and began to kiss him. He felt Kai's mouth form a grin and he began to kiss back, but he still wasn't out of bed. Rei rolled Kai onto his back and straddled his waist with his legs. He began to rock his hips against Kai's groin in rhythm with the kisses. Kai moaned long into the kisses. Rei could feel his plan working, just a few more things. He moved his head down the side of Kai's neck and nipped at his ear before licking his neck, just below his ear. He growled low into Kai's ear and moved his hands slowly lower. Kai still hadn't moved anything but his mouth.
Rei moved his lips back to Kai's and his hands rested on his hips. Kai started to move his hands to Rei's head to put more passion into the kiss, when Rei pulled back and jumped off the bed. He was grinning like mad.
"Rei." Kai moaned and cracked one eye open to glare at the boy who stopped.
"You'll get more if you get up." Rei snickered, watching Kai think it over in his head. He opened his other eye and gave him the worst look he could manage. Rei continued to find amusement in Kai's anger.
Suddenly, Kai jumped from the bed with fluid grace, and pinned Rei to the wall behind him. He kissed Rei hard and smiled when he felt no hesitation in Rei's response. He was glad to see that Rei was over his near-rape.
Rei wrapped his arms around Kai's neck and lifted one leg to curl it around Kai's. He began to mould his body into Kai's. Within seconds both of their shirts were gone and Rei had his thumbs hooked into the waistband of Kai's boxers. Kai wrapped his arms around Rei's neck, pulling them closer.
A knock sounded from the door and an irritating voice called out through the wood. "When you two are done screwing each other breakfast will be cold." Takao taunted through the closed door, not realising how lucky he was not to be in Kai's immediate reach. They stepped back from each other, both out of breath and blushing bright red at how far they went.
Rei chuckled nervously as Kai pulled up his boxers. They had managed to slide from his waist to just a few inches below his hips. Rei pulled back on his shirt and handed Kai's to him as he walked out of the room. Kai followed and they went into the kitchen.
"How are you feeling now?" Max asked Rei hesitantly, afraid that he'd upset Rei. Rei smiled at him.
"It's all behind me." He replied. Everyone sighed in relief. Kai began to fidget with his hands, attracting Rei's attention. He raised an eyebrow at him, but Kai kept his eyes on his hands.
"Everyone knows about me now." He said softly. Rei looked surprised. He thought back to just before he fell asleep and realised what he was really asking of Kai. He gasped and put a hand to his mouth.
"Oh, shit." He cursed. "Gomen, gomen nasai." He apologised. Kai looked up at him, his eyes hardened, but his mouth gave Rei a tiny smile.
"It was unavoidable." He said. "I don't really care what they all think anyways." Rei nodded. They sat down at the table and Takao opened his mouth, which, surprisingly enough, had no food in it. Yet.
"So I guess you're no longer a virgin, ne Rei?" he asked, waving his fork suggestively. Kenny and Max looked appalled that he would even bring that up.
"Takao!?" Max cried. Rei blushed.
"That's not the kind of thing you ask at breakfast... or any other time either." Kenny exclaimed. Kai looked pale.
"Who said I was a virgin to begin with?" Rei asked quietly, attracting all eyes to him, except Kai who spat out the food he had been chewing and started choking.
"What?!" They all screamed. Rei laughed.
"You're all assuming I was a virgin before me and Kai slept together." He stated. Kai's face went from pure white to deep red.
"Now wait a minute, we didn't..." He trailed off at Rei's glare.
"In answer to your question, Takao, Iie. I'm still a virgin." Rei answered. Everyone let out the breath they were collectively holding. Rei snickered at their expressions. "I've never slept with anyone. Not even Kai." He added.
"But all those noises." Takao whined. Kai rolled his eyes and Rei blushed slightly.
"What about the noises?" Kai asked shooting the younger boy a sharp glare.
"Well, there's the moaning, the groaning, the bumping into walls, the bed creaking, and the list goes on." Takao listed, ticking off his fingers. Kai stood up from the table and snorted.
"You're such an asshole, Takao." He replied, walking back to his room, not liking the breakfast conversation.
"So what about your virginity, Hiwatari?" Takao called out before Kai left the room. He stopped for a moment, as if caught in a memory and almost looked back to the table.
"I-I don't want to talk about it." He stammered and slammed the bedroom door shut angrily. Everyone looked at each other in surprise except Rei. He was still staring at the spot where Kai had been.
He jumped up and followed Kai into the room. The door wasn't locked and he quietly opened the door. The door slammed shut when Rei walked in, revealing Kai behind it. Rei spun around to face Kai and stepped closer.
"What did you mean by 'I don't want to..." he trailed off, seeing it plainly in his eyes. "You're not a virgin, are you?" Rei asked, knowing the answer. Kai looked down.
"Sorry." He muttered, sounding disgusted with himself. Rei was surprised. "If I had been asked that question before we went to Europe two years ago, I could have declared my virginity with as much honesty as any of you." Kai explained, sitting down on the bed.
"You slept with someone after the tournament?" Rei asked, not wanting to believe Kai would sleep with just anyone.
"Hell no!" Kai exclaimed, abashed. "Not while I was attracted to you." He added.
"But you said-" Rei pointed out. Kai interrupted him.
"Repressed memory." Kai tapped his head. "Returning to Russia, I began remembering everything from my childhood there."
"Haven't you lived in Japan since you were seven or something, or that's what Takao told me?" Rei remembered what Takao had told them when they first formed the Bladebreakers team, and he had been warned to stay away from Kai.
"Hai." Kai nodded. Rei gave him a confused look.
"And this happened before you left Russia, right?" he asked, trying to sort everything out in his mind.
"Hai." Kai nodded again.
"But you were nothing but a child, how could you-" Kai interrupted him again
"I didn't." he whispered, knowing where Rei was going. "At least, I didn't want to. That's how I knew how long mortals should have been knocked out for. When I was first bitten by my grandfather, he brought me my first blood. He was a man-servant and although I was thoroughly disgusted, I was so new to it and I couldn't control the urges. I guess a few months later he decided to repay the favour." Rei gasped.
"The servant?!" he cried. He couldn't believe that someone working in his house had gotten away with something like that.
"Hai." Kai exclaimed softly. He didn't want to look at Rei. "He was my grandfather's closest advisors and I'd be terribly surprised if my grandfather didn't know about what happened long before it occurred." This confession disturbed Rei the most. He couldn't conceive of a man who would allow such a thing to happen to his own flesh and blood. It almost mad him want to hurl.
"Kai, you don't have to tell me all of this." He whispered, offering his support by placing his hand gently on Kai's shoulder. Kai looked up, his expression cold and emotionless. He shook his head.
"I know, but I need to, I want to." He replied. "He... he pushed me down onto the bed in my room." Kai looked back down to his lap and began shaking, allowing his memories to resurface.
"Kai..." Rei whispered, disturbed at the effect this was having on the normally unshakable boy. Kai began to relive the event in his mind, not fully aware of Rei's presence anymore. Rei pulled Kai closer to him and held one of his cold hands.
"I screamed for help, like you. I kicked and punched but no one came. I think he got frustrated with me fighting him and tied me down. I must have stopped screaming when he told me it turned him on, aroused him. Somewhere in the midst of it all, I began to cry. Maybe it was before he ripped off my clothes or maybe it was right in the middle of the whole thing. He just... he just laughed at me." A lot of what Rei was hearing was beginning to frighten him. To know that what almost happened to him last night really did happen to his lover, scared him deeply. Kai would be scarred for life with this.
"Kai, you don't have to do this to yourself." He offered, hoping that Kai would stop and let himself get back in control of his emotions. He knew Kai wouldn't and he didn't want to think of what would happen to him if he did let it all sink beneath his consciousness again. "You don't have to torture yourself like this."
"I can't keep this inside anymore, not when I could see him anywhere." Kai whispered. His hands were shaking and his eyes were closed, but he didn't cry. "Around every corner, in every shop, in every seat in every Beystadium. He could very well be the next person to walk through that door, and if I don't have someone else who knows then I might start to believe his words again. That I brought it on myself. I deserved it. I caused it to happen." Rei pulled Kai into his arms and gently stroked his back.
"No, Kai." He whispered. "You're never going to be alone with me and the others around. I'll make sure you never sink low enough to believe you caused that."
"Thank you." Kai spoke quietly into Rei's ear. He was still shaking, but Rei's embrace seemed to calm him down a bit and give him the courage to keep going. "I remember that laugh. Sometimes in the worst nightmares I can hear his laugh and it sends chills down my spine. His grip was so tight on my arms and his nails left marks all over my body. And it hurt. Shit, it hurt. Like my entire body was being punched over and over, when it was only one spot. Then he left me. Tied to the bed, body sticky and sheets covered in what I now know to be lots and lots of my blood. I must have stayed there for a few days before I sat up and finally untied my hands and showered. I scrubbed and scrubbed until my skin was raw, hoping to get rid of his marks, but I still felt like shit and in my mind I still saw the scratches everywhere. I got out and when I looked in the mirror I saw a tear-stained stranger looking back at me. I couldn't wash away the tears either, so I came up with the next best thing. Face paint." He brought a hand to his cheeks where the ever-present triangles were. "I thought if no one could see the tears, no one would know what happened. But he did. I had made myself forget... until I returned to the abbey." Rei was shocked.
"The one we all visited?" he asked, pulling back a bit to look Kai in the eyes. They were a bit glazed over, but they didn't look like they were close to tears. Kai had taught himself not to cry, under any circumstances.
"Hai." He snarled, remembering the day they went to visit the abbey. "He was there, smug bastard. And at first I didn't even recognise him. He was nothing more than another person we met with Mr. Dickenson, but when I went deeper into the tunnels I began to remember the screaming and the pain. And when I joined the Demolition Boys, he tried to tell me what to do, but I ignored him. I just wanted it all to go away and leave me in peace. But he wouldn't let me forget." He narrowed his eyes at a space just over Rei's shoulder. Rei looked at Kai seriously and drew his face so that he was looking straight at Rei.
"Kai, who was the servant?" He demanded. He needed to know who that man was in order to keep Kai away from him. "Who... who raped you?"
"It was Boris." Kai exclaimed, looking down at his lap once more. "Boris." He repeated.
"I'm never going to let him lay one slimy finger on you." Rei said, knowingly. He winked at Kai and gave him a smile, trying to lighten the mood. "If he does, I'll have to go 'Psycho Kitty' on him and bite his head off." He smirked. Kai looked up at him and smiled, too. Rei's humour was contagious.
***
A few minutes later they were lying on Kai's bed, back-to-back, elbows locked and legs tangled together. They had decided to switch topics.
"Have you ever ate a house plant?" Rei asked, trying vainly to stifle giggles. Kai almost turned his head to give him a nasty look.
"You *ate* a house plant?" he asked disbelievingly. It just so happened that nine times out of ten, the question being asked had already been done by the asker. Rei snickered and nodded.
"Yeah, but it wasn't a house plant tough." He explained. "I was eight, I think, and me and the other village children were playing outside. Gary said it was a plant you could eat. No body really believed him, so Li dared me to try it. I did and it ended up being a poison ivy leaf." Kai shuddered. "You have no idea. I began to choke on it and they all brought me to the healer. When we described the plant to her she laughed and told us what it was. Li said he knew exactly what to do to fix it. He told us that when ever he was playing in the poison ivy his grandfather would douse him in camomile lotion. By then the healer had gone on to treat another patient in need of care, so she didn't hear what Li was saying. He found a bottle in one of her cupboards and made me drink the entire thing, saying it would make the itchies go away." Kai burst out laughing. "Well I spent two weeks in the healer's house trying to get over the poison ivy AND the camomile drink." Kai was having trouble speaking, he was laughing so hard. Rei smiled. He had never heard Kai laugh so much, and it gave him great pride to know he had caused it, even though he was laughing *at* Rei and not with him.
"Well that's pretty gross." Kai exclaimed when his laughter subsided. "But, no I have never eaten a plant. Not that I remember anyways. I have, on the other hand, swallowed money." Rei snickered.
"How did you manage that?" He asked, bewildered.
"My grandfather was going to 'keep' all my money for me to inherit when I got older, but I didn't want him to have all my cash... so I swallowed all of the coins." Rei couldn't stop the giggles.
"How many?" Rei asked.
"I think I had about ten or so." Kai replied. Rei was killing himself with what he was learning from Kai. So far he learned that Kai had drugged someone's drink with sleeping pills, entered a karaoke singing contest (but dropped out at the very last minute), and injured himself to get out of eating dinner with one of his grandfather's clients. Kai had learned that Rei was indeed a wild cat. So far Rei had confessed to attacking a police officer, seeing Li's grandfather nude (not a pretty sight), writing his name in the snow in urine, and tying someone's shoes together to see them fall. It had been an ongoing war between him and Li to see who could fall for it the most. Rei won.
"Ok, have you ever... slept with a stuffed animal?" Rei asked.
"What?" Kai asked, his mind on other things. Rei snickered.
"I mean as in cuddled with a bear or something as a child?" he elaborated. Kai shook his head.
"Iie. I was never allowed to have any toys." He explained. Rei sighed.
"You sure lived the rough life." Rei stated. Kai nodded.
"Have you ever been dressed in girl's clothes?" Kai asked.
"Yeah, all the time." Rei laughed. He couldn't picture Kai in a dress. "That was one of the disadvantages of living with Mariah. She loved to play dress up. And when Li and me would bury her dolls she began to use us." Kai laughed. "You were dressed in girl's clothes?" Rei asked.
"Hai. Before my parents died, we used to have a neighbour who was a girl. She'd come over everyday and dress me up. I hated it, but since our parents were friends I put up with it." Rei chuckled softly to himself.
When they had run out of embarrassing things to outdo each other with, they began to see who had the most depressing life.
"Well, I saw both of my parents murdered." Rei shot back to counter one of Kai's statements. Kai snorted.
"Me, too." He exclaimed, not impressed. Rei frowned and tried to think of something else.
"Well I was nearly raped." He said the first thing that came to his mouth. Kai laughed.
"I was raped." Rei could almost hear the smirk in Kai's voice.
"I tried to commit suicide." Rei forced out. He had hid that from everyone he knew. "I tried to hang my self and Li found me before I was through and cut me down. Then he proceeded to beat the crap out of me for trying to escape my problems." Kai remained silent for a few moments.
"I never actually tried, but I have thought many times about killing myself." Kai replied, reassuring Rei that he wasn't alone. Rei smiled.
"So I guess I've got you on that one." He commented.
"How about this, I was beaten in the finals by Takao." Kai retorted.
"I have you beaten on two counts there." Rei replied. "I forfeited the semi- finals to Takao and I was literally beaten up by a girl."
"Not only did I lose, not a chance of a win, but it was TAKAO!" Kai exclaimed. Rei burst out laughing.
"Ok, so maybe you do get that one." Kai snorted, knowing full well how humiliating it was.
"Well, my first bit-beast refused to listen to me." Rei put in.
"You mean Driger wasn't you're first beast?"
"Nope."
"Well my second bit-beast tried to take over my life." Kai came back with. Rei laughed. "Not to mention I'm a vampire and I've basically lived underground for the first half of my life." Rei shook his head.
"You're really desperate to have the most depressing life, ne?"
"Hn." Kai replied, coolly.
"So, my first girlfriend only wanted to go out with me to get back at her ex-boyfriend for cheating on her. She slapped me across the face to make him mad and then kissed me. I have never been so confused in my whole life. And then her ex-boyfriend came up to us and introduced me to his fist a number of times. I never saw her again after that." Kai laughed at the picture Rei painted in his mind.
"I lost my bit-beast in the finals." Kai thought back to the Russian tournament. Rei laughed.
"I've got you beat there." He explained. "I lost my bit-beast outside of the tournament. And it wasn't to a spirit sucking blader, either." Kai laughed, remembering when Rei had lost Driger battling Kevin.
"I guess we tie then?" he asked. He couldn't think of any more depressing things.
"Oh, you giving up?" Rei asked, smugly. He couldn't think of anything else either, but he wasn't about to let Kai know that. Kai didn't reply, instead he unlocked their elbows and rolled on top of Rei. Rei looked into Kai's eyes.
"You don't have to do this." He exclaimed, reminding both of them of the confession just minutes earlier. Kai shrugged.
"I'm used to forgetting things, remember?" He smirked. Rei sighed. He rolled his eyes and gave Rei a withering stare.
"I don't like reliving it, but it's in the past." He said calmly. "I'm not going to let you ruin the mood." He lowered his lips to Rei and kissed him with enough fire to rival any other kiss he had given him. Rei kissed him back, holding their heads together.
"Why are you always on top?" He whined when they broke the kiss.
"Because I want to be on the top." Kai whispered, his voice full of authority. Rei shook his head.
"No, it's because I let you." He retorted, and stuck his tongue out playfully. Kai caught the tongue with his own and sealed their lips together again, growling at Rei's comments. They began a battle for supremacy which only ended when Rei fell out of the bed and onto the floor. Kai began laughing. Rei shot him a glare, which he pointedly ignored. Rei walked slowly over to his bed and pushed it together with Kai's.
"Why didn't you do that sooner?" Kai asked, smoothly.
"I was slightly busy with more important things." Rei replied and pounced on him, proving how important those other things really were. Kai smiled and they began their fighting again.
***
"They're at it again." Takao exclaimed, rolling his eyes. The rest of the breakfast table laughed at this.
"Did you hear anything interesting?" Max asked, interested in why Kai and Rei left the table so quickly. Takao shook his head.
"I thought for a moment I could hear Kai crying, but maybe I need to get my ears checked.
"Kai, crying?" Kenny asked.
"No way." The all exclaimed at once and laughed, finishing their breakfast.
~Finis
Okay, that really wasn't supposed to be the ending of chapter eight, but I just realized that it was so long... it would have been almost as long as chapter four. So that means that there'll probably be one more chapter. Hmm... so this will end in about three chapters. Oh, no!! I'm falling behind. I haven't properly finished chapter nine yet! I guess I'll have to write more in my notebook before I type up anymore. (I'm also hoping most of you have forgotten what I said in the first part about Kai and Rei's ending... )
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Immortal Blood
Chapter 8: Of Virgins and Poison Ivy
***
The next morning, Rei woke up, the previous day's incident behind him. He looked up at Kai and realised he was still asleep. He grinned sneakily and poked him in the stomach. Kai groaned and swatted his hand away. He snickered.
"I don't want to get up." Kai mumbled. Rei sighed. Kai wasn't likely to be easy to wake up. Rei just had to make him 'want' to get out of bed.
"I bet I can screw you better than Rei." He whispered into Kai's ear, a dead-on impersonation of Takao.
"Fuck off and keep dreaming." Kai muttered. He moaned and rolled away from him. Rei snickered at Kai's response.
Struck with an idea, Rei scrambled over Kai's body and began to kiss him. He felt Kai's mouth form a grin and he began to kiss back, but he still wasn't out of bed. Rei rolled Kai onto his back and straddled his waist with his legs. He began to rock his hips against Kai's groin in rhythm with the kisses. Kai moaned long into the kisses. Rei could feel his plan working, just a few more things. He moved his head down the side of Kai's neck and nipped at his ear before licking his neck, just below his ear. He growled low into Kai's ear and moved his hands slowly lower. Kai still hadn't moved anything but his mouth.
Rei moved his lips back to Kai's and his hands rested on his hips. Kai started to move his hands to Rei's head to put more passion into the kiss, when Rei pulled back and jumped off the bed. He was grinning like mad.
"Rei." Kai moaned and cracked one eye open to glare at the boy who stopped.
"You'll get more if you get up." Rei snickered, watching Kai think it over in his head. He opened his other eye and gave him the worst look he could manage. Rei continued to find amusement in Kai's anger.
Suddenly, Kai jumped from the bed with fluid grace, and pinned Rei to the wall behind him. He kissed Rei hard and smiled when he felt no hesitation in Rei's response. He was glad to see that Rei was over his near-rape.
Rei wrapped his arms around Kai's neck and lifted one leg to curl it around Kai's. He began to mould his body into Kai's. Within seconds both of their shirts were gone and Rei had his thumbs hooked into the waistband of Kai's boxers. Kai wrapped his arms around Rei's neck, pulling them closer.
A knock sounded from the door and an irritating voice called out through the wood. "When you two are done screwing each other breakfast will be cold." Takao taunted through the closed door, not realising how lucky he was not to be in Kai's immediate reach. They stepped back from each other, both out of breath and blushing bright red at how far they went.
Rei chuckled nervously as Kai pulled up his boxers. They had managed to slide from his waist to just a few inches below his hips. Rei pulled back on his shirt and handed Kai's to him as he walked out of the room. Kai followed and they went into the kitchen.
"How are you feeling now?" Max asked Rei hesitantly, afraid that he'd upset Rei. Rei smiled at him.
"It's all behind me." He replied. Everyone sighed in relief. Kai began to fidget with his hands, attracting Rei's attention. He raised an eyebrow at him, but Kai kept his eyes on his hands.
"Everyone knows about me now." He said softly. Rei looked surprised. He thought back to just before he fell asleep and realised what he was really asking of Kai. He gasped and put a hand to his mouth.
"Oh, shit." He cursed. "Gomen, gomen nasai." He apologised. Kai looked up at him, his eyes hardened, but his mouth gave Rei a tiny smile.
"It was unavoidable." He said. "I don't really care what they all think anyways." Rei nodded. They sat down at the table and Takao opened his mouth, which, surprisingly enough, had no food in it. Yet.
"So I guess you're no longer a virgin, ne Rei?" he asked, waving his fork suggestively. Kenny and Max looked appalled that he would even bring that up.
"Takao!?" Max cried. Rei blushed.
"That's not the kind of thing you ask at breakfast... or any other time either." Kenny exclaimed. Kai looked pale.
"Who said I was a virgin to begin with?" Rei asked quietly, attracting all eyes to him, except Kai who spat out the food he had been chewing and started choking.
"What?!" They all screamed. Rei laughed.
"You're all assuming I was a virgin before me and Kai slept together." He stated. Kai's face went from pure white to deep red.
"Now wait a minute, we didn't..." He trailed off at Rei's glare.
"In answer to your question, Takao, Iie. I'm still a virgin." Rei answered. Everyone let out the breath they were collectively holding. Rei snickered at their expressions. "I've never slept with anyone. Not even Kai." He added.
"But all those noises." Takao whined. Kai rolled his eyes and Rei blushed slightly.
"What about the noises?" Kai asked shooting the younger boy a sharp glare.
"Well, there's the moaning, the groaning, the bumping into walls, the bed creaking, and the list goes on." Takao listed, ticking off his fingers. Kai stood up from the table and snorted.
"You're such an asshole, Takao." He replied, walking back to his room, not liking the breakfast conversation.
"So what about your virginity, Hiwatari?" Takao called out before Kai left the room. He stopped for a moment, as if caught in a memory and almost looked back to the table.
"I-I don't want to talk about it." He stammered and slammed the bedroom door shut angrily. Everyone looked at each other in surprise except Rei. He was still staring at the spot where Kai had been.
He jumped up and followed Kai into the room. The door wasn't locked and he quietly opened the door. The door slammed shut when Rei walked in, revealing Kai behind it. Rei spun around to face Kai and stepped closer.
"What did you mean by 'I don't want to..." he trailed off, seeing it plainly in his eyes. "You're not a virgin, are you?" Rei asked, knowing the answer. Kai looked down.
"Sorry." He muttered, sounding disgusted with himself. Rei was surprised. "If I had been asked that question before we went to Europe two years ago, I could have declared my virginity with as much honesty as any of you." Kai explained, sitting down on the bed.
"You slept with someone after the tournament?" Rei asked, not wanting to believe Kai would sleep with just anyone.
"Hell no!" Kai exclaimed, abashed. "Not while I was attracted to you." He added.
"But you said-" Rei pointed out. Kai interrupted him.
"Repressed memory." Kai tapped his head. "Returning to Russia, I began remembering everything from my childhood there."
"Haven't you lived in Japan since you were seven or something, or that's what Takao told me?" Rei remembered what Takao had told them when they first formed the Bladebreakers team, and he had been warned to stay away from Kai.
"Hai." Kai nodded. Rei gave him a confused look.
"And this happened before you left Russia, right?" he asked, trying to sort everything out in his mind.
"Hai." Kai nodded again.
"But you were nothing but a child, how could you-" Kai interrupted him again
"I didn't." he whispered, knowing where Rei was going. "At least, I didn't want to. That's how I knew how long mortals should have been knocked out for. When I was first bitten by my grandfather, he brought me my first blood. He was a man-servant and although I was thoroughly disgusted, I was so new to it and I couldn't control the urges. I guess a few months later he decided to repay the favour." Rei gasped.
"The servant?!" he cried. He couldn't believe that someone working in his house had gotten away with something like that.
"Hai." Kai exclaimed softly. He didn't want to look at Rei. "He was my grandfather's closest advisors and I'd be terribly surprised if my grandfather didn't know about what happened long before it occurred." This confession disturbed Rei the most. He couldn't conceive of a man who would allow such a thing to happen to his own flesh and blood. It almost mad him want to hurl.
"Kai, you don't have to tell me all of this." He whispered, offering his support by placing his hand gently on Kai's shoulder. Kai looked up, his expression cold and emotionless. He shook his head.
"I know, but I need to, I want to." He replied. "He... he pushed me down onto the bed in my room." Kai looked back down to his lap and began shaking, allowing his memories to resurface.
"Kai..." Rei whispered, disturbed at the effect this was having on the normally unshakable boy. Kai began to relive the event in his mind, not fully aware of Rei's presence anymore. Rei pulled Kai closer to him and held one of his cold hands.
"I screamed for help, like you. I kicked and punched but no one came. I think he got frustrated with me fighting him and tied me down. I must have stopped screaming when he told me it turned him on, aroused him. Somewhere in the midst of it all, I began to cry. Maybe it was before he ripped off my clothes or maybe it was right in the middle of the whole thing. He just... he just laughed at me." A lot of what Rei was hearing was beginning to frighten him. To know that what almost happened to him last night really did happen to his lover, scared him deeply. Kai would be scarred for life with this.
"Kai, you don't have to do this to yourself." He offered, hoping that Kai would stop and let himself get back in control of his emotions. He knew Kai wouldn't and he didn't want to think of what would happen to him if he did let it all sink beneath his consciousness again. "You don't have to torture yourself like this."
"I can't keep this inside anymore, not when I could see him anywhere." Kai whispered. His hands were shaking and his eyes were closed, but he didn't cry. "Around every corner, in every shop, in every seat in every Beystadium. He could very well be the next person to walk through that door, and if I don't have someone else who knows then I might start to believe his words again. That I brought it on myself. I deserved it. I caused it to happen." Rei pulled Kai into his arms and gently stroked his back.
"No, Kai." He whispered. "You're never going to be alone with me and the others around. I'll make sure you never sink low enough to believe you caused that."
"Thank you." Kai spoke quietly into Rei's ear. He was still shaking, but Rei's embrace seemed to calm him down a bit and give him the courage to keep going. "I remember that laugh. Sometimes in the worst nightmares I can hear his laugh and it sends chills down my spine. His grip was so tight on my arms and his nails left marks all over my body. And it hurt. Shit, it hurt. Like my entire body was being punched over and over, when it was only one spot. Then he left me. Tied to the bed, body sticky and sheets covered in what I now know to be lots and lots of my blood. I must have stayed there for a few days before I sat up and finally untied my hands and showered. I scrubbed and scrubbed until my skin was raw, hoping to get rid of his marks, but I still felt like shit and in my mind I still saw the scratches everywhere. I got out and when I looked in the mirror I saw a tear-stained stranger looking back at me. I couldn't wash away the tears either, so I came up with the next best thing. Face paint." He brought a hand to his cheeks where the ever-present triangles were. "I thought if no one could see the tears, no one would know what happened. But he did. I had made myself forget... until I returned to the abbey." Rei was shocked.
"The one we all visited?" he asked, pulling back a bit to look Kai in the eyes. They were a bit glazed over, but they didn't look like they were close to tears. Kai had taught himself not to cry, under any circumstances.
"Hai." He snarled, remembering the day they went to visit the abbey. "He was there, smug bastard. And at first I didn't even recognise him. He was nothing more than another person we met with Mr. Dickenson, but when I went deeper into the tunnels I began to remember the screaming and the pain. And when I joined the Demolition Boys, he tried to tell me what to do, but I ignored him. I just wanted it all to go away and leave me in peace. But he wouldn't let me forget." He narrowed his eyes at a space just over Rei's shoulder. Rei looked at Kai seriously and drew his face so that he was looking straight at Rei.
"Kai, who was the servant?" He demanded. He needed to know who that man was in order to keep Kai away from him. "Who... who raped you?"
"It was Boris." Kai exclaimed, looking down at his lap once more. "Boris." He repeated.
"I'm never going to let him lay one slimy finger on you." Rei said, knowingly. He winked at Kai and gave him a smile, trying to lighten the mood. "If he does, I'll have to go 'Psycho Kitty' on him and bite his head off." He smirked. Kai looked up at him and smiled, too. Rei's humour was contagious.
***
A few minutes later they were lying on Kai's bed, back-to-back, elbows locked and legs tangled together. They had decided to switch topics.
"Have you ever ate a house plant?" Rei asked, trying vainly to stifle giggles. Kai almost turned his head to give him a nasty look.
"You *ate* a house plant?" he asked disbelievingly. It just so happened that nine times out of ten, the question being asked had already been done by the asker. Rei snickered and nodded.
"Yeah, but it wasn't a house plant tough." He explained. "I was eight, I think, and me and the other village children were playing outside. Gary said it was a plant you could eat. No body really believed him, so Li dared me to try it. I did and it ended up being a poison ivy leaf." Kai shuddered. "You have no idea. I began to choke on it and they all brought me to the healer. When we described the plant to her she laughed and told us what it was. Li said he knew exactly what to do to fix it. He told us that when ever he was playing in the poison ivy his grandfather would douse him in camomile lotion. By then the healer had gone on to treat another patient in need of care, so she didn't hear what Li was saying. He found a bottle in one of her cupboards and made me drink the entire thing, saying it would make the itchies go away." Kai burst out laughing. "Well I spent two weeks in the healer's house trying to get over the poison ivy AND the camomile drink." Kai was having trouble speaking, he was laughing so hard. Rei smiled. He had never heard Kai laugh so much, and it gave him great pride to know he had caused it, even though he was laughing *at* Rei and not with him.
"Well that's pretty gross." Kai exclaimed when his laughter subsided. "But, no I have never eaten a plant. Not that I remember anyways. I have, on the other hand, swallowed money." Rei snickered.
"How did you manage that?" He asked, bewildered.
"My grandfather was going to 'keep' all my money for me to inherit when I got older, but I didn't want him to have all my cash... so I swallowed all of the coins." Rei couldn't stop the giggles.
"How many?" Rei asked.
"I think I had about ten or so." Kai replied. Rei was killing himself with what he was learning from Kai. So far he learned that Kai had drugged someone's drink with sleeping pills, entered a karaoke singing contest (but dropped out at the very last minute), and injured himself to get out of eating dinner with one of his grandfather's clients. Kai had learned that Rei was indeed a wild cat. So far Rei had confessed to attacking a police officer, seeing Li's grandfather nude (not a pretty sight), writing his name in the snow in urine, and tying someone's shoes together to see them fall. It had been an ongoing war between him and Li to see who could fall for it the most. Rei won.
"Ok, have you ever... slept with a stuffed animal?" Rei asked.
"What?" Kai asked, his mind on other things. Rei snickered.
"I mean as in cuddled with a bear or something as a child?" he elaborated. Kai shook his head.
"Iie. I was never allowed to have any toys." He explained. Rei sighed.
"You sure lived the rough life." Rei stated. Kai nodded.
"Have you ever been dressed in girl's clothes?" Kai asked.
"Yeah, all the time." Rei laughed. He couldn't picture Kai in a dress. "That was one of the disadvantages of living with Mariah. She loved to play dress up. And when Li and me would bury her dolls she began to use us." Kai laughed. "You were dressed in girl's clothes?" Rei asked.
"Hai. Before my parents died, we used to have a neighbour who was a girl. She'd come over everyday and dress me up. I hated it, but since our parents were friends I put up with it." Rei chuckled softly to himself.
When they had run out of embarrassing things to outdo each other with, they began to see who had the most depressing life.
"Well, I saw both of my parents murdered." Rei shot back to counter one of Kai's statements. Kai snorted.
"Me, too." He exclaimed, not impressed. Rei frowned and tried to think of something else.
"Well I was nearly raped." He said the first thing that came to his mouth. Kai laughed.
"I was raped." Rei could almost hear the smirk in Kai's voice.
"I tried to commit suicide." Rei forced out. He had hid that from everyone he knew. "I tried to hang my self and Li found me before I was through and cut me down. Then he proceeded to beat the crap out of me for trying to escape my problems." Kai remained silent for a few moments.
"I never actually tried, but I have thought many times about killing myself." Kai replied, reassuring Rei that he wasn't alone. Rei smiled.
"So I guess I've got you on that one." He commented.
"How about this, I was beaten in the finals by Takao." Kai retorted.
"I have you beaten on two counts there." Rei replied. "I forfeited the semi- finals to Takao and I was literally beaten up by a girl."
"Not only did I lose, not a chance of a win, but it was TAKAO!" Kai exclaimed. Rei burst out laughing.
"Ok, so maybe you do get that one." Kai snorted, knowing full well how humiliating it was.
"Well, my first bit-beast refused to listen to me." Rei put in.
"You mean Driger wasn't you're first beast?"
"Nope."
"Well my second bit-beast tried to take over my life." Kai came back with. Rei laughed. "Not to mention I'm a vampire and I've basically lived underground for the first half of my life." Rei shook his head.
"You're really desperate to have the most depressing life, ne?"
"Hn." Kai replied, coolly.
"So, my first girlfriend only wanted to go out with me to get back at her ex-boyfriend for cheating on her. She slapped me across the face to make him mad and then kissed me. I have never been so confused in my whole life. And then her ex-boyfriend came up to us and introduced me to his fist a number of times. I never saw her again after that." Kai laughed at the picture Rei painted in his mind.
"I lost my bit-beast in the finals." Kai thought back to the Russian tournament. Rei laughed.
"I've got you beat there." He explained. "I lost my bit-beast outside of the tournament. And it wasn't to a spirit sucking blader, either." Kai laughed, remembering when Rei had lost Driger battling Kevin.
"I guess we tie then?" he asked. He couldn't think of any more depressing things.
"Oh, you giving up?" Rei asked, smugly. He couldn't think of anything else either, but he wasn't about to let Kai know that. Kai didn't reply, instead he unlocked their elbows and rolled on top of Rei. Rei looked into Kai's eyes.
"You don't have to do this." He exclaimed, reminding both of them of the confession just minutes earlier. Kai shrugged.
"I'm used to forgetting things, remember?" He smirked. Rei sighed. He rolled his eyes and gave Rei a withering stare.
"I don't like reliving it, but it's in the past." He said calmly. "I'm not going to let you ruin the mood." He lowered his lips to Rei and kissed him with enough fire to rival any other kiss he had given him. Rei kissed him back, holding their heads together.
"Why are you always on top?" He whined when they broke the kiss.
"Because I want to be on the top." Kai whispered, his voice full of authority. Rei shook his head.
"No, it's because I let you." He retorted, and stuck his tongue out playfully. Kai caught the tongue with his own and sealed their lips together again, growling at Rei's comments. They began a battle for supremacy which only ended when Rei fell out of the bed and onto the floor. Kai began laughing. Rei shot him a glare, which he pointedly ignored. Rei walked slowly over to his bed and pushed it together with Kai's.
"Why didn't you do that sooner?" Kai asked, smoothly.
"I was slightly busy with more important things." Rei replied and pounced on him, proving how important those other things really were. Kai smiled and they began their fighting again.
***
"They're at it again." Takao exclaimed, rolling his eyes. The rest of the breakfast table laughed at this.
"Did you hear anything interesting?" Max asked, interested in why Kai and Rei left the table so quickly. Takao shook his head.
"I thought for a moment I could hear Kai crying, but maybe I need to get my ears checked.
"Kai, crying?" Kenny asked.
"No way." The all exclaimed at once and laughed, finishing their breakfast.
~Finis
Okay, that really wasn't supposed to be the ending of chapter eight, but I just realized that it was so long... it would have been almost as long as chapter four. So that means that there'll probably be one more chapter. Hmm... so this will end in about three chapters. Oh, no!! I'm falling behind. I haven't properly finished chapter nine yet! I guess I'll have to write more in my notebook before I type up anymore. (I'm also hoping most of you have forgotten what I said in the first part about Kai and Rei's ending... )
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