Something by Yaoi Girl

'This...I know this, but from what?' Kai thought as he and Rei walked through the park, deciding to sit next to the pond beneath a weeping willow.

"Is something wrong?" Rei asked as he sat down and leaned against the tree, looking up at the still standing boy.

Kai shook his head, getting rid of the feeling of deja vu before he sat next to Rei. "No, everything's fine. I just...this looks really familiar."

"Have you been here before?"

Again Kai shook his head. "Not that I know of, but maybe when I was little and I still lived with my parents. Grandfather would never come to a place like this with me. I'm not worth it."

"I think you are," Rei replied as he rested his head on Kai's shoulder.

The boy said nothing; he simply wrapped an arm around Rei's waist.

There was still about another half hour at least until the sun would start to set, but they wanted to get away from the other three as soon as possible, as Mariah had called and told Kenny about what she had seen earlier that day. Needless to say, Tyson wouldn't leave Kai and Rei alone unless they told how good the other was at kissing, so they ran.

The crimson-eyed bluenette yawned, something coming to mind to break the silence. "What did you first think of me when you joined the team?"

Rei's eyebrows furrowed in though, wondering where such a question came from. "Well, I thought you were a perfectionist and an ass. But I knew there was a reason why; I could just see the real you screaming inside. That's why I wanted to become friends with you, to bring out the real you. When you started to become more open to me, I realized that I was falling for you, for that person inside of you that wanted released." There was a short space of silence before Rei asked, "What did you think of me?"

Kai smiled. "I knew you were weaker than me, at least in blading. We both found out just how strong you could be after our first real fight; you could easily have taken me down with as much determination as you had. But you stopped, and I knew then that you weren't a fighter. You weren't one to hurt people; you tried to make friends with them, unlike me. At first, I was irritated by you always following me around and asking me questions, but I grew to enjoy when you would talk to me, even if I didn't respond. You always smiled and continued to talk, never getting angry with me for my silence, knowing that I was at least listening to you."

"When did you realize that you liked me?"

Kai sighed, not really wanting to talk about it, but he responded anyway. "During that vacation time we had, when everyone went home for a week. For some reason, I couldn't get you out of my head and I started to question how strong our friendship had become. By the end of the week, I knew that our friendship had grown into something more, and I was afraid."

"Of what you felt for me?"

"Yeah. But when we were all back together again at the airport and I seen you, I couldn't deny that what I felt for you was wrong, that it was perfectly right because I knew you wouldn't hate me; you like everyone for who they are."

"Except for robbers, killers, and rapists," he laughed in response, noting then how the sky was beginning to change color from sky blue to light orange, pink, and purple.

"What about torturers?" Kai asked, his voice soft, his head lowered, causing his hair to conceal his yes.

Rei stopped laughing and hugged his boyfriend. "And I also hate your grandfather. No one deserves to be put through what you had to endure," he replied as he recalled in horribly vivid detail what Kai had once told him about his past.

With his mind in the past and not wanting to cry on their 'date', Kai laid down on the ground, resting his head on Rei's lap.

The raven-haired boy smiled down at him and ran a hand through his hair, knowing that Kai wanted some time to think and be comforted only in this way while he went about sorting out his past.

While the pair sat in silence, Rei reached next to him and picked a wild flower from the ground, gently pulling each petal off, thinking as he pulled each one off. 'He loves me, he loves me not...'

As the sun began its decent behind the trees and horizon, Kai sat up slightly and Rei stopped pulling petals. They watched until the sun was nothing more than a golden arc over the trees.

Night was rapidly upon them, but they didn't mind. It was a nice, cool evening with no bugs out to bother them. Rei went back to pulling petals, Kai never noticing.

He began to shake, causing Rei to look down at him only to see crimson eyes concealed tightly behind his eye lids, tears forming in the corners.

There were two petals left, but he didn't need to pull them off to get the so called answer.

Neither boy heard the scream from somewhere inside the park, nor the gun shot as Kai opened his eyes, forcing himself to stare into Rei's eyes as he said, "I'm sorry, Rei, but I love you."

The raven-haired boy smiled down at him, the smile almost instantly vanishing as Kai shoved him away, his mind finally realizing why this place was familiar. It was the place from his dream.

Rei cried out in pain as he clutched his shoulder and fell forward into Kai, blood seeping out and ruining his and Kai's new clothes.

'At least he'll live from this,' Kai thought with a little relief as he scooped Rei up and ran with him to the nearest phone.

To Rei, it was all a blur from there. He remembered Kai shoving him, vaguely remembered him talking frantically into the phone, and didn't remember a thing about how he got to the hospital. But at least his boyfriend was at his side.

He had apparently gone through surgery for stitches and the like, as the bullet had gone completely through his shoulder. He didn't remember anything about getting the stitches, but there they were, and there was Kai, sitting on the edge of his bed, staring down at him with tears in his eyes and a smile.

"I guess you really do care about me. You kept me alive."

"I was lucky. I knew it was going to happen after I though long enough about where we were. I knew that everything there meant something to me, but I couldn't recall the dream until it was happening."

"I don't care how lucky you think you are," Rei smiled as he sat up, wincing slightly at the pain as he did so, and hugged Kai. "What matters is that you love me. And I love you."

They sat there, embracing each other for a few moments before Rei spoke up again. "When do I get to leave? Are the guys coming to visit?"

"You can leave tomorrow afternoon after the doctor checks to make sure everything is alright. And yes, they'll be here first thing in the morning. Max and Tyson are too tired to make it tonight, so you can guess what they've been doing, if you want to give yourself brain damage, and Kenny doesn't want to come here all alone."

"Are you staying with me tonight?"

"Do you want to be alone tonight?"

"Are you crazy?! After what I just went through and being in a hospital! I don't want to wake up in the middle of the night by myself and find a ghost at the end of my bed!" he cried, having experienced a ghost before when he was in the hospital and staying the night in a spare bed when Lee had to have his appendix removed. He wasn't really afraid of the ghost, it just scared him when he woke up and found the girl there staring at him. She seemed like she meant no harm, so he had smiled at her and went back to sleep.

The bluenette laughed at the boy's words and the manner in which they were said as he laid down next to Rei, holding him as tight as he could without causing the boy more pain. And for the first time in months, Kai slept soundly.

TBC

I've got a couple ideas for the last chapter, so hopefully you'll like it. And I know for the most part what I'm going to do for a sequel!!

Hope you enjoyed!!