Meanwhile deep inside the Hiwatari Mansion Kai slowly gained consciousness...

Kai's POV

My eyes flicker open and slowly adjust to the dim light as I looked around the room I let out a small gasp as my eyes fall upon the study desk and the man sitting behind it his cold eyes glaring at me unblinkingly. I felt a sudden rush of dread flow through me as my blood runs cold, I knew exactly where I was, I had been here many times before; it was my grandfathers' study.

I watch as my grandfather Voltair slowly gets up from behind the desk and walks over to where I'm lying, though never once does he take his eyes off me. I tried to get up but I'm roughly pushed back down onto the floor.
"What do you have to say for your self boy?" His questioning me, his voice is cold, hardened and full of menace. I don't answer his question made no sense, though I didn't want Voltair to know about Rei. I mentally shudder at the thought of what would happen to me, to Rei if Voltair was to find out.

Voltair moves quickly giving me a stinging slap across the face, I guess it wasn't the best idea.
"I asked you a question boy and when I do I expect you to answer me," he yells at me.
I put a hand to my face and a thought hits me this was just all to familiar, it was then that I remembered my cursed nightmares that haunted my sleep; they all started off the same, they all started off like this. I managed to guess what was coming and sure enough from behind my grandfathers back emerged the cane, I had seen it before, felt it before, and it wasn't just in my nightmares but in my life before I joined the BladeBreakers. This was the past I had buried away hoping to never think about it again but that wasn't to be so; I was here now and there was nothing I could do about it.

I know what's coming, Voltairs' bamboo cane has one purpose and that purpose was to teach what he called discipline. I mentally scream as a feel the familiar sting of the cane against the side of my head and slowly but painfully everything begins to get darker and as every stroke strikes my body everything begins to blur.

Normal POV

When Kai finally re-gained consciousness he ached all over, his body felt like he had been hit twice by a car at high speed, he was also covered in blood; his blood. Kai tried to stand up but his legs gave out beneath him and he just collapsed back down onto his hands and knees. His head was killing him, he put a hand to his temple and felt a deep gash above his left eye, and then he realised that he was now only in his boxers and he had other deep cuts and bruises all up and down his body all of which were the mark of the cane.

Kai looked up just in time to see his grandfather sitting smugly behind his desk. He glared at him with pure hatred but his icy glares had no effect on his grandfather like they did on his team-mates. Voltair just smirked back at him as he got up and walked around his desk towards Kai, cane in hand and ready if it need be used again.

"Are you ready to do some explaining Kai?" he questioned, though it might have sounded like a question Kai new better, that was an order for all those who knew what was good for them, but Kai was stubborn and wasn't going to give in and endanger Rei. Voltair had now lost his patients with Kai and raised the bamboo cane and brought it down hard twice, once across Kai's lower back and upper thigh and another across his shoulders. Tears were now streaming down Kai's cheeks as the pain seared through his body and after a few more beatings Voltair stopped the tortures blows.

"You have disgraced your family," Voltair snarled at him before calling to a butler that Kai noticed for the first time to be standing in the corner of the room. Kai was sure that for watching his torture the butler would get good pay to be quite about what went on in here, they all did.
"Show him out when he can stand," Voltair ordered, and with that the butler left to get the rest of Kai's clothes. After the butler had left, Voltair told Kai that he expected him to return in a few days and hopefully by then Kai would've learnt the error of his ways. He too left the room having guessed that his grandson wanted nothing to do with his mission. It didn't bother him it was the betrayal and failure to obey orders that did, he didn't need Kai for the mission anymore Tala would do good enough maybe even better, when Kai returned he'd tell him that he would be no longer needed.