ID Thief: Chapter 5! Yay!

Kai: very nice...

ID Thief: Okay well thanks to those who reviewed and To a Cutie Cherry: Ya know I really liked ur flame, very nice. I printed it out and shared it with a few of my pals from shop, they all thought the same thing... (They all swore so I can't write that in and just incase it offends anyone.)

Kenyon: yeah.. Well they are not going to be in Russia long, this chapter they go back to Japan. Oh yeah!

ID Thief: ::head bangs to Disturbed::

Rei: Can we get on with this?

Tyson: yeah, I'm hungry, can we listen to something better?

ID Thief: go eat compost. And NO WE CAN'T!

Tyson: But we listened to this while collating books in shop, and while driving, and well I hate your music.

ID Thief: Eat my Sneakers Tyson!

Kai: Tyson don't piss her off, didn't you see what she did to Edger and Edwin?

Tyson: yeah but I need to get rid of my.. Oh.. Never mind.

ID Thief: Alright! Here we go! :: Turns up Krosby on Rock 101.1::

Tyson: This sucks!

ID Thief: watch it, I'll but you through the folder and I will make sure the folds are complicated!

Tyson: ::Gulp:: :: backs away::

Bonds of Unbreakable Steal

By: Identity Thief

Chapter 5: I send the pain the pain below.

(Kai)

I have no idea how long I have been walking, but I do know I am now hungry and tired of all this shit. Sitting down on the cold bench in one of the parks I put my head in my hands and sigh. I hate this, I mean this is my last day in a place I have grown to hate, but now I have to go back to people I fear and despise. What is wrong with this picture?

" This always happens to us!" I look up from the bench. My eyes go to a group of boys, all familiar. I groan and stand up, not truly wanting to deal with them but knowing I can't run from them forever.

" There you are!" Tyson shouts and stalks over to me, an angered look on his face. He stops and glares menacingly at me for a few minutes while the other assemble around him, I can simply stand there looking at him, hiding nothing.

" Kai I'm sorry for what I said." Tyson says and reaches his hand out to mine, I can only look at him, blinking.

" Stop blinking Kai, your eyes will fall out." He laughs and I smile slightly, and grasp his hand, he squeezes it and I widen my smile slightly. Kenny still grasping Dizzi to him and I absently wonder where the umbilical cord it attached between the two.

" Umm. Kai." the smaller teen looks at me and I let go of Tyson's hand and put it at my side, and look down at him, trying to look him in the eyes, but failed to find them under his chestnut hair.

" Kenny, just say it." I tell him and wince as my voice gets that natural icy edge to it. Kenny looks at me and he continues.

" We are your team Kai, even if you don't want us to be. We need to know everything about you, now that your situation affects us all." He says boldly, holding his head high and noble. I shift my gaze to Rei who shrugs, I shake my head and look at them.

" Okay, but not here. Let's go back to the hotel." I say and step forward, Max walks beside me, and he suddenly asks

" What kind of music do you like? When's your birthday? Hey what's your favorite anime? Do you even like anime?" I only look at him and laugh slightly at the hyperactive smile and crazy eyes.

" While we were trying to track you down, he was thinking of questions to ask you." Rei says from my other side. Wow, they were serious about wanting to know everything.

" Alright Max, I like hard rock. Like, Theory of a Dead Man, and Linkin Park, Metallica, God Smack, stuff like that. My birthday is December 29th and I like anime." I rattle off, feeling like this is the most natural thing, almost like reintroduction's.

" Cool!" Max shouts happily and bounces ahead of us, followed by Tyson and Kenny. Tyson was yelling something about a food vender. You know, they are really not all that bad of people. They are innocent, naïve and young, like normal children should be. I have never been a normal person, probably never will.

" They really were worried about you Kai. They want to be your friends." Rei's soft voice says from beside me and I jump, not knowing he was there.

" Yeah, they are a good group of guys." I smile and walk into the hotel. Great group, to bad they have to be close to a tainted person like me.

(Rei: Up in the hotel room)

Tyson, Max and Kenny take a seat on the couch, while I sit on the floor, reclining slightly and Kai on the chair. We all kind of sit there, not saying anything and not wanting to interrupt each other's thoughts. (a/n: You know that kind of silence ^.~) Tyson cleared his throat, drawing all our attention to him and he looks at his hands, which are being rung nervously.

" Could you um.. tell us what would happen when you go back?" I look at Kai and see him close his eyes briefly, then sigh.

" I can't really tell you what will happen, who knows they might have changed. I highly doubt that though, they never will change and neither will what they did to me." He re-opens his eyes and reaches up, untying his scarf and pulling it off from around his neck. Once exposed my eyes widen in shock, Kai's neck is lined with white, rugged lines about the width of my little finger. Scars that show white against his tanned skin. How I missed those that night I took him in from the balcony I have no clue, but now he is showing them freely.

" My parents use to chain me to the wall with a leather strap around my neck, and every time I inhaled it would rub against my skin, and it left these." He runs his hand over his neck, wincing as if they still hurt. They probably do the memory still fresh and never healed.

" I will never doubt you again." Tyson says shaking his head. Kai turns his head to look at him but Tyson refused to meet his gaze, and as I watch I see the anger flash through the crimson eyes.

" Tyson you were right to doubt me, I have never given you a reason to not to. I have never been kind, and supportive to you, only cold and harsh." Kai explains and then shifts his gaze to the other two, anger flashing once again. I look at Max who seemed to be extremely sad, and Kenny was shaking his head in a sad way.

" I'm sorry Kai, I never knew." Max mutters and Kai shakes his head with an annoyed snort.

" How could you? Only reason why I never allowed anyone near me was because I was afraid of allowing anyone near the true me. Only way I knew how to protect myself was by being cold and hateful. It kept people from knowing the truth, and knowing harmful things about me that they could use. It was something I couldn't do."

" Still, you should have been." Kenny starts but Kai cuts him off with a wave of a gloved hand.

" There are to many 'should have' and ' what if'. Trust me Kenny, I have thought of them all and they all had the same result, I would end up at square one. So I didn't even try to allow you to see me." He looks away sadly, and I look at the others.

" We're here for you Kai, if you need anything all you have to do is call. We will come." I say and Tyson nods, laying a hand on Kai's shoulder and the older blader jumps and tenses. Then sighs, relaxing.

" I really don't deserve you guys, after everything I have done, said, and caused you shouldn't even have to be near me, I'm not worth worrying over." He looks up and right into my eyes, eyes full of pain and hidden emotions.

" Hey dude, we are your friends! What kind of people would we be if we didn't stand by you?" Tyson asks, his goofy grin etched on his face.

" Yeah, we would be a really bad team if we didn't." Max smiles, and Kenny nods.

" Anything Kai, just call. We will do anything possible." Kai looks up and smiles, then laughs.

" Do you realize you guys are me very first true friends?" I start at that, are we really the first people to break down the ice wall that surrounded Kai Hiwatari?

" Hey umm. we should start packing up huh?" Max asks after everyone lapsed into a silence. Everyone nods and gets up from where they sit, moving off. Kai reties his scarf around the scars, hiding them. Yeah we are Kai's true friends and nothing is going to ruin this new friendship. Nothing.

i tried to kill the pain

but only brought more

i lay dying

and i'm pouring crimson regret and betrayal

i'm dying praying bleeding and screaming

am i too lost to be saved

am i too lost?

ID Thief: Urg I hate this! ::begins tapping splint::

Kai: yeah I could see why.

ID Thief: Yeah I just had to go and sprain my little finger! :: Pokes Kenyon::

Kenyon: OW!

ID Thief: makes a good poking weapon though!

Lexi: when am I coming into this story?

ID Thief: not for a bit girly. Oh and the song was Tourniquet, Evanescence.

Kai: Review! Please! REVIEW!