Identity Thief: Thanks to those who have reviewed and just to let you all
know my Social Studies teacher is an old crack pot without a backbone. The
only thing I EVER learned in his class was the exchange rate for Russian,
Italian, and German money. That was it, and all because he likes to talk
more about the war and things than teach us about history.
Kai: Yeah she really, really, really hates the guy.
ID Thief: Umm yeah. he is not a good teacher, I mean I have more fun in Math!
Kai: Jeeze and that's saying something since you actually only DRAW in that class!
ID Thief: Hey I'm on honor roll.
Kai: Yeah... but you need to use math.
ID Thief: Shut up and let me live in my own little world!
Kai: okay, hey turn up the tunes!
ID Thief: On with the fic! ::Turns up ROCK 101:: Let's go!
Bonds of Unbreakable Steal
By: Identity Thief
Chapter 4: I want you to see me
(Kai)
Rei got ready and soon we were walking down the hall to the elevator at the end of our hall, and going down to meet the others for breakfast. My nerves were jumping a few hundred miles per hour and made me jumpy. Rei looks over at me and smiles slightly, and I nod, knowing he knows I'm out of it right now. The door opens and I see the other's standing there, waiting for us. Max is happily talking with Mr. Dickinson whom is smiling his usual cheery one, while watching Tyson run around like a lunatic. I shake my head and step from the compartment and made my way over to them, automatically putting on my icy mask, and them kicking myself for it.
" Look Mr. Sourpants is here! Let's go!" Tyson says, loudly and stalks off to the restaurant, leaving the other's to look at me. Okay originally that wouldn't have hurt me, but now that I am actually trying to show them ME. I look over at Rei and he shrugs slightly, and turns to walk after the other's. I stand there for a moment, recomposing my thoughts and feelings, and them move quickly after Rei.
" Okay kids, you all enjoy your breakfast and day off, but make sure you pack up tonight, and be on the plane at 7:30." Mr. Dickinson tells the others as I walk up, and I stop. That's right tomorrow we are on the plane, and going back to Japan. I shudder despite myself and draw the attention of Mr. Dickinson.
" Kai?" He asks looking at me with a worried look.
" Yeah, sorry." I look briefly at the other's and see the shocked looks at my apologetic words.
" Here is some money for the team to go off and enjoy some of Russia's sights. Make sure they spend it right and don't use it all in one place." He hands me about five hundred rubles, and smiles before turning.
" Mr. Dickinson? Can you please drop off this script to the pharmacist when you get back in Japan?" I ask lowering my voice so the other's wouldn't hear. Mr. Dickinson takes the piece of paper and looks at it before nodding his head and smiling.
" No problem, I hope you all have a good trip." He says and walks away, leaving the other and I to watch as he and Tyson's family walks away. When they were gone Tyson went into the restaurant and sat down, automatically looking over the menu and counting off the things he wanted. We all sat around him and the other's picked up their menu's.
" I'm getting the Pancakes, Sausage, French Toast, Homefries, grits, and a milk shake." Tyson informed the rest of the group and then looked over at me, expecting to be told to cut down on the order like I usually told him. I only nodded and waited until the other's were ready. Tyson just stared at me, and I tried to ignore it, but something's will never change with me.
" Will you stop staring?" I ask and Tyson's jaw drops. The other's stop looking at their menus and also look at me.
" What?" I ask. But I know what they are staring at. I have been so cold, distant and such a bastard to them for so long that they are shocked to see me actually be nice. Man I have created a bugger hole for myself than I first thought.
" Look can you stop staring? And Tyson put your Jaw back on the runner." I tell them, and don't go any further because the waiter has now showed up.
" What can I get you today?" He asks in Russian and I had to translate for them all. Tyson tells him his huge order, then Kenny who is only getting an order of pancakes. Max goes and I feel my eyes widen as he orders a stack of Chocolate Chip pancakes, and a fountain soda. Rei orders eggs and a milk shake, which is usual I swear one of these days he's going to sprout feathers!
" And you sir?" The waiter asks and I look up at him in simply
" I'll have a cup of black coffee and an order of toast." I usually order that, and he walks away saying he will be out with our drinks. I nod and wait patently. Tyson is still staring at me, and I try my hardest not to look over and stick my tongue our. I'm fighting the urge, it's getting harder to fight, oh hell what could it hurt? I crane my head to look at him and cross my eyes, then stick out my tongue. Tyson falls over.
" Kai?" Max asks looking at me and I smile while looking over at him.
" Yeah Max?" I ask, and see his eyes go all shadowy, he leans over to Rei still watching me and asks
" What did you give him for his head ache? He's not acting normal." I sigh and put on my best outside face, but on the inside I'm crying. I have wronged my team so badly, all because I didn't want them to see what was on the inside. I thought that if I push them away they will never realize just how screwed up and beaten down their leader is, but in the long run all I did was ruin the only chance at friendship. Man I need to find some way to undo everything I have done, I don't want them to know that mask, I only want them to know me.
" Guys Kai is acting normal, you're just not use to it." Rei's quiet voice tells them and Tyson, who has finally picked himself up off the floor and was now scoffing at that.
" Yeah right, Kai acting like he wants to be part of the group? Please it's a good joke but it's not April fools day." I look over at Rei and see his golden eyes flash with anger, then sadness and then they shift to me, and I see grief, and something I hate, pity.
" It's not a joke Tyson." I ground out, fighting back the tears that threaten to fall from my eyes. I bite back a sob as Tyson laughs and says ' yeah whatever.' Maybe I was better off not doing this, maybe I should just hold my head high and go back, trapping the real person deep down, and living a lie. The waiter comes back and hands us our drinks, then leaves again. I sit there for a long time just staring at my cup of rich black coffee, black like my life, and bitter like what I was. I can't stay here, not break down in front of them like I did Rei this morning. Getting to my feet I leave, walking straight to the door and rounding the corner not even stopping or acknowledging the calls from the other team members.
" They don't want to believe that I have vowed to change." I whisper to myself as tears spill over my eyes and down my cheeks.
' What reason did you give them to believe you?' my other side asks, and I snarl to myself and beat it back down to where I can't see it. I hate that side of me, that cold hating and selfish side. I walk from the hotel and down the cobble stone street, not caring where I am going, but only going somewhere.
(Rei: still at the table)
I watch as the young man leaves the table with a barley but back sob and curse. He was trying to show them he was different, but now he won't want to try.
" Kai come back!" I yell, drawing the attention of the other patrons and staff, but do they really understand? Nope. Kai rounds the corner and I catch the slight heave of his chest and see the sparkle fall from his eyes. The he is gone.
" Rei?" Max asks, looking back from where he watched Kai leave. I am shaking with rage, Max, Kenny, and most of all Tyson get glared at.
" Do you all realize what you just did?" I ground out and watch as they shake theur heads no.
" Kai was trying to show you the true Kai. You all blew it with your close mindedness." I tell them and see Max look down at his hands and Tyson look away. Kenny sits there, still and staring at where Kai's black coffee is cooling.
" You mean, Kai was trying to be nice?" He asks, and I nod.
" Yes! He couldn't keep the cold mask he has created up any longer. He wanted to show you all the true him before he couldn't."
" Why won't he be able too?" Max asks, his bright blue eyes lined with moisture.
" Because his parents are taking him back! He thinks he won' be able to survive and he wanted you all to see the true Kai." I bite back getting up.
" Wait what do you mean? We don't understand!" Tyson says also getting up. I sigh frustrated, I know Kai should be telling them this but they need to know now, not later.
" Okay, well Kai was abused when he was little by his biological parents. They did drugs and nearly killed him, so the court system sent him to live with his Grandfather who was no different. Voltaire was actually fighting to keep Kai from going back to his real parents, but now that he was sent to jail, Kai's custody automatically goes to his parents." I sum it up, not telling them the full story but enough to get them to understand.
" We never knew." Max mutters and I snap.
" Of course not! That's why he tried to put distance between us and him because he has a fragile mental state, and he didn't want you guys to hurt him, so he put up a mask that keeps people from getting too close." They all start as I yell at them, and turn my back.
" We have to find him, he should know that we know." Kenny says and they other two get up and we all walk out of the hotel and run after the leader we know so little about. I was about to step out of the door when I feel someone grab my arm, turning I see Tyson.
" What do you mean he won't survive? And fragile mental state?" He asks and I stop.
" I can only tell you what I know. His parents abused him so bad that he had a very low self-esteem, and he is terrified of people. I have this feeling that he knows that what happened to him when he was young will happen again."
" I will NOT let that happen." He moves away anger etched on his every feature and I suddenly know I can count on Tyson, I know he won't allow anyone to touch Kai. Although Tyson acts like he hates the older blader, he actually looks up to him as a mentor, and older brother. We all do, I mean I always had Li and they other white Tigers but nothing like Kai. Even when he was distant form us and after he betrayed us, he still seemed like the protector and older brother. We counted on him and he came through for us, and now when he asks for that favor returned, we will do it two fold. No one is going to touch Kai, even if we have to kill someone, nothing is going to happen to him.
The official view of the world has changed
In a whole new way
Live fast cause if you don't take it
You'll never make it
ID Thief: Okay that was chapter 4. I know it sucked soooooo bad. All my stories suck like that.
Kai: oh don't pay attention to her, it's raining and she's sick of rain so she's in a crappy mood.
Sable Flame: Yeah, I hate the rain!
Fire Kin: Don't we all? I mean it's been raining for over two weeks now.
Kenyon: yo what was that song any ways?
Lexi: what the one Rock 101 is playing now? Or the one in the fic?
Kenyon: Both.
Lexi: Oh that was Nitro by the Offspring and the one on the radio is.. Umm. Aerosmith.. Something I don't know.
ID Thief: It's Twisted Sister you fools and it's 'We're not Gunna Take it.'
Kai: Okay well all you nice people Review so Thief can get the next chapter started so then she can work on the next story. That's going to be a whole new gear! It's an AU and a little humorous with an Action/Adventure twist! Scary huh?
Kenyon: REVIEW! REVIEW! REVIEW! REVIEW!
Kai: Yeah she really, really, really hates the guy.
ID Thief: Umm yeah. he is not a good teacher, I mean I have more fun in Math!
Kai: Jeeze and that's saying something since you actually only DRAW in that class!
ID Thief: Hey I'm on honor roll.
Kai: Yeah... but you need to use math.
ID Thief: Shut up and let me live in my own little world!
Kai: okay, hey turn up the tunes!
ID Thief: On with the fic! ::Turns up ROCK 101:: Let's go!
Bonds of Unbreakable Steal
By: Identity Thief
Chapter 4: I want you to see me
(Kai)
Rei got ready and soon we were walking down the hall to the elevator at the end of our hall, and going down to meet the others for breakfast. My nerves were jumping a few hundred miles per hour and made me jumpy. Rei looks over at me and smiles slightly, and I nod, knowing he knows I'm out of it right now. The door opens and I see the other's standing there, waiting for us. Max is happily talking with Mr. Dickinson whom is smiling his usual cheery one, while watching Tyson run around like a lunatic. I shake my head and step from the compartment and made my way over to them, automatically putting on my icy mask, and them kicking myself for it.
" Look Mr. Sourpants is here! Let's go!" Tyson says, loudly and stalks off to the restaurant, leaving the other's to look at me. Okay originally that wouldn't have hurt me, but now that I am actually trying to show them ME. I look over at Rei and he shrugs slightly, and turns to walk after the other's. I stand there for a moment, recomposing my thoughts and feelings, and them move quickly after Rei.
" Okay kids, you all enjoy your breakfast and day off, but make sure you pack up tonight, and be on the plane at 7:30." Mr. Dickinson tells the others as I walk up, and I stop. That's right tomorrow we are on the plane, and going back to Japan. I shudder despite myself and draw the attention of Mr. Dickinson.
" Kai?" He asks looking at me with a worried look.
" Yeah, sorry." I look briefly at the other's and see the shocked looks at my apologetic words.
" Here is some money for the team to go off and enjoy some of Russia's sights. Make sure they spend it right and don't use it all in one place." He hands me about five hundred rubles, and smiles before turning.
" Mr. Dickinson? Can you please drop off this script to the pharmacist when you get back in Japan?" I ask lowering my voice so the other's wouldn't hear. Mr. Dickinson takes the piece of paper and looks at it before nodding his head and smiling.
" No problem, I hope you all have a good trip." He says and walks away, leaving the other and I to watch as he and Tyson's family walks away. When they were gone Tyson went into the restaurant and sat down, automatically looking over the menu and counting off the things he wanted. We all sat around him and the other's picked up their menu's.
" I'm getting the Pancakes, Sausage, French Toast, Homefries, grits, and a milk shake." Tyson informed the rest of the group and then looked over at me, expecting to be told to cut down on the order like I usually told him. I only nodded and waited until the other's were ready. Tyson just stared at me, and I tried to ignore it, but something's will never change with me.
" Will you stop staring?" I ask and Tyson's jaw drops. The other's stop looking at their menus and also look at me.
" What?" I ask. But I know what they are staring at. I have been so cold, distant and such a bastard to them for so long that they are shocked to see me actually be nice. Man I have created a bugger hole for myself than I first thought.
" Look can you stop staring? And Tyson put your Jaw back on the runner." I tell them, and don't go any further because the waiter has now showed up.
" What can I get you today?" He asks in Russian and I had to translate for them all. Tyson tells him his huge order, then Kenny who is only getting an order of pancakes. Max goes and I feel my eyes widen as he orders a stack of Chocolate Chip pancakes, and a fountain soda. Rei orders eggs and a milk shake, which is usual I swear one of these days he's going to sprout feathers!
" And you sir?" The waiter asks and I look up at him in simply
" I'll have a cup of black coffee and an order of toast." I usually order that, and he walks away saying he will be out with our drinks. I nod and wait patently. Tyson is still staring at me, and I try my hardest not to look over and stick my tongue our. I'm fighting the urge, it's getting harder to fight, oh hell what could it hurt? I crane my head to look at him and cross my eyes, then stick out my tongue. Tyson falls over.
" Kai?" Max asks looking at me and I smile while looking over at him.
" Yeah Max?" I ask, and see his eyes go all shadowy, he leans over to Rei still watching me and asks
" What did you give him for his head ache? He's not acting normal." I sigh and put on my best outside face, but on the inside I'm crying. I have wronged my team so badly, all because I didn't want them to see what was on the inside. I thought that if I push them away they will never realize just how screwed up and beaten down their leader is, but in the long run all I did was ruin the only chance at friendship. Man I need to find some way to undo everything I have done, I don't want them to know that mask, I only want them to know me.
" Guys Kai is acting normal, you're just not use to it." Rei's quiet voice tells them and Tyson, who has finally picked himself up off the floor and was now scoffing at that.
" Yeah right, Kai acting like he wants to be part of the group? Please it's a good joke but it's not April fools day." I look over at Rei and see his golden eyes flash with anger, then sadness and then they shift to me, and I see grief, and something I hate, pity.
" It's not a joke Tyson." I ground out, fighting back the tears that threaten to fall from my eyes. I bite back a sob as Tyson laughs and says ' yeah whatever.' Maybe I was better off not doing this, maybe I should just hold my head high and go back, trapping the real person deep down, and living a lie. The waiter comes back and hands us our drinks, then leaves again. I sit there for a long time just staring at my cup of rich black coffee, black like my life, and bitter like what I was. I can't stay here, not break down in front of them like I did Rei this morning. Getting to my feet I leave, walking straight to the door and rounding the corner not even stopping or acknowledging the calls from the other team members.
" They don't want to believe that I have vowed to change." I whisper to myself as tears spill over my eyes and down my cheeks.
' What reason did you give them to believe you?' my other side asks, and I snarl to myself and beat it back down to where I can't see it. I hate that side of me, that cold hating and selfish side. I walk from the hotel and down the cobble stone street, not caring where I am going, but only going somewhere.
(Rei: still at the table)
I watch as the young man leaves the table with a barley but back sob and curse. He was trying to show them he was different, but now he won't want to try.
" Kai come back!" I yell, drawing the attention of the other patrons and staff, but do they really understand? Nope. Kai rounds the corner and I catch the slight heave of his chest and see the sparkle fall from his eyes. The he is gone.
" Rei?" Max asks, looking back from where he watched Kai leave. I am shaking with rage, Max, Kenny, and most of all Tyson get glared at.
" Do you all realize what you just did?" I ground out and watch as they shake theur heads no.
" Kai was trying to show you the true Kai. You all blew it with your close mindedness." I tell them and see Max look down at his hands and Tyson look away. Kenny sits there, still and staring at where Kai's black coffee is cooling.
" You mean, Kai was trying to be nice?" He asks, and I nod.
" Yes! He couldn't keep the cold mask he has created up any longer. He wanted to show you all the true him before he couldn't."
" Why won't he be able too?" Max asks, his bright blue eyes lined with moisture.
" Because his parents are taking him back! He thinks he won' be able to survive and he wanted you all to see the true Kai." I bite back getting up.
" Wait what do you mean? We don't understand!" Tyson says also getting up. I sigh frustrated, I know Kai should be telling them this but they need to know now, not later.
" Okay, well Kai was abused when he was little by his biological parents. They did drugs and nearly killed him, so the court system sent him to live with his Grandfather who was no different. Voltaire was actually fighting to keep Kai from going back to his real parents, but now that he was sent to jail, Kai's custody automatically goes to his parents." I sum it up, not telling them the full story but enough to get them to understand.
" We never knew." Max mutters and I snap.
" Of course not! That's why he tried to put distance between us and him because he has a fragile mental state, and he didn't want you guys to hurt him, so he put up a mask that keeps people from getting too close." They all start as I yell at them, and turn my back.
" We have to find him, he should know that we know." Kenny says and they other two get up and we all walk out of the hotel and run after the leader we know so little about. I was about to step out of the door when I feel someone grab my arm, turning I see Tyson.
" What do you mean he won't survive? And fragile mental state?" He asks and I stop.
" I can only tell you what I know. His parents abused him so bad that he had a very low self-esteem, and he is terrified of people. I have this feeling that he knows that what happened to him when he was young will happen again."
" I will NOT let that happen." He moves away anger etched on his every feature and I suddenly know I can count on Tyson, I know he won't allow anyone to touch Kai. Although Tyson acts like he hates the older blader, he actually looks up to him as a mentor, and older brother. We all do, I mean I always had Li and they other white Tigers but nothing like Kai. Even when he was distant form us and after he betrayed us, he still seemed like the protector and older brother. We counted on him and he came through for us, and now when he asks for that favor returned, we will do it two fold. No one is going to touch Kai, even if we have to kill someone, nothing is going to happen to him.
The official view of the world has changed
In a whole new way
Live fast cause if you don't take it
You'll never make it
ID Thief: Okay that was chapter 4. I know it sucked soooooo bad. All my stories suck like that.
Kai: oh don't pay attention to her, it's raining and she's sick of rain so she's in a crappy mood.
Sable Flame: Yeah, I hate the rain!
Fire Kin: Don't we all? I mean it's been raining for over two weeks now.
Kenyon: yo what was that song any ways?
Lexi: what the one Rock 101 is playing now? Or the one in the fic?
Kenyon: Both.
Lexi: Oh that was Nitro by the Offspring and the one on the radio is.. Umm. Aerosmith.. Something I don't know.
ID Thief: It's Twisted Sister you fools and it's 'We're not Gunna Take it.'
Kai: Okay well all you nice people Review so Thief can get the next chapter started so then she can work on the next story. That's going to be a whole new gear! It's an AU and a little humorous with an Action/Adventure twist! Scary huh?
Kenyon: REVIEW! REVIEW! REVIEW! REVIEW!
