It snowed all the way back to the hotel and when they finally arrived there it was long past dark and they were all freezing, Tyson who was dying of starvation by now went off to the all you can eat dragging Max along behind him. Kenny had gone with them so Rei headed off back to their room with Kai to try to get him to have a shower so he could clean the gashes along his back. When the finally got to their room Kai must of been exhausted as he had almost fallen asleep in Rei's arms and only wanted to lie down and sleep. When Rei tried to convince him to go have a shower he refused.
Rei sighed and carried Kai towards the shower and Kai just looked around at him frowning as Rei put him down, he trembled and Rei smiled putting a reassuring hand on Kai's shoulder,
"sshhh Kai, don't cry, everything will be ok now," he whispered. A thought had hit him when he reached the bathroom, he decided he would just run a bath for Kai then he could clean the wounds at the same time.
Rei put Kai down and pointed towards the bath and Kai sighed trying to give him a half smile, he knew Rei only wanted to help him so he let Rei get away with telling him what to do even though he was in no state to do anything about it.
Kai slowly lowered himself into the bath in only his boxers and winced as the warm water stung his cuts but soon relaxed. Rei slowly washed away the blood on Kai's back , he looked so venerable and dejected just sitting in the bath arms wrapped around his drawn up knees. Every so often Kai would lay his head on his arms looking away from Rei, as he cried not wanting to make him worry even more about him, though Rei would hear him sobbing and would try to comfort him. Since Kai had been through a lot that day Rei decided it would be best if he didn't ask about what had happened back at the mansion.
After awhile Rei managed to calm Kai down and stop him from crying, Kai looked up and smiled at Rei with tear stained eyes now enjoying Rei's company and the fact that he cared so much about him to bathe and look after him. When Rei had cleaned away all the blood from Kai's cuts he left to get some clean clothes for Kai. When Rei had left Kai lay down in the bath enjoying the warmth on his aching body wishing Rei would come back and he did with his clean clothes only to leave again to go and try and find some bandages for the deep cuts across Kai's back.
Kai sighed and got slowly out of the bath drying off and putting on his clean clothes, leaving off his shirt so Rei could deal with his back and walked out into their bedroom to find Rei sitting on the bed waiting for him with the bandages, Rei motioned for him to sit down in front of him.
When Rei had finished bandaging up his back, Rei suggested going down to join the others for dinner but Kai just shook his head and stared sadly at the floor. He was to tired to deal with all the questions that would be asked by the others though he told Rei that he could go join the others and that he would be fine but Rei wouldn't hear of it. Kai sighed as he lay down on the bed, exhaustion taking over once more. Rei ran his fingers through Kai's hair and soon he was sleeping peacefully, Rei quietly left and went down to join the others for dinner.
"Hows Kai?" Kenny questioned Rei when he arrived at the table the team was seated at,
"He's sleeping now and was shaken pretty bad," Rei said with a sigh, "he took some bad beatings but I cleaned up and bandaged the cuts."
"Do you know what happened?" Max asked.
"No...I didn't want to push him to tell me until he has got over the shock of it all."
Max and Kenny nodded, they both thought that Rei had done the right thing by Kai, Tyson on the other hand was to busy eating to say anything. After eating his fill, Rei decided to leave the others to go to bed and check on Kai.