Disclaimer #2: I don't own the song Cool Moon, the rightful owner is Kimi O Nemurasenai.
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Tears of Twilight
ch 19
"Cye, you and I, we're not that different." Kaye said quietly as she looked down upon him.
"Kaye, wha..?" Cye started to ask as they continued to rock back and forth.
"Funny choice of words there Cye, have, father and love. Hugh, I never thought that I would hear those three words used in the same sentence." Kaye replied.
"Kaye?" Cye asked as he started to calm down. Kaye let go of him and they both leaned back into the headboard. She kept her eyes away from his, because she didn't want him to see the hurt that was still inside.
"Have...wrong tense, you should have said had. But then again, I've never had a real family to begin with. I spent most of my life being a lone wolf, drifting from place to place, not knowing where I'd end up from one day to the next. Do you honestly think what my father did was out of love? He took me away from you and mom when I was an infant. Later, when we found out that Lightning was my actual father, he was warned when he turns back into a human, he was destined to die. How can I say that I even had a father, let alone a family? Come on Cye, you're the lucky one, not me, you have a family, a real family." Kaye replied quietly. Cye stared at Kaye with a slight frown. And then it hit him, Kaye was right, they weren't that different from each other.
"And now, so do you." Cye said as he gently laid his hand on top of hers.
Kaye slowly looked over towards Cye, "yea, I do, don't I?"
"Yea, you do." Cye replied with a warm smile.
"Cye." Kaye said with a small smile back.
"You know, there a few movie producers that I know back in the states. They would love to produce something like this as the movie of the week." Thunder replied with a teasing grin.
"Thunder!" Cye and Kaye said at the same time.
"What?" Thunder asked with a smirk.
"Kaye, sing something." Cye said as he looked over to her.
"What?!" Kaye asked as she looked back at him in shock.
"You heard me, sing something, come on, I know that you can." Cye urged.
"Cye, you've got to be joking." Kaye said with a look of disbelief.
"No, I'm not joking," Cye replied as he started to give a puppy dog look towards her. "Please."
"Oh no, not the puppy dog eyes, anything but the puppy dog eyes," Kaye said. "I have a hard enough time with Kento doing that, now you too?"
"Please." Cye pleaded as he turned on the puppy dog eyes even more.
"I don't believe you, Cye! Thunder, would you please help?" Kaye asked as she looked over at him.
"Ok." Thunder replied as he too was now giving Kaye the puppy dog look.
"Thanks a lot, Thunder," Kaye said as she rolled her eyes. "Ok, you guys win, but I'm only singing once, and that's it. Understand."
"Yea yea, so go ahead and sing already." Cye replied as he and Thunder got comfortable.
Kaye shook her head as she closed her eyes, and started to sing softly. "Gazing at a transparent moon. My heart calls for someone. Only tonight hold me tight. In those arms, hold me like a sleeping child. Show me please, open the other side of the door of dreams. Tomorrow only the smile of the person I'll meet, please let me see it..."
Kaye's voice was still quiet but steady as she continued to sing. "Moonlight it penetrates like blue ink. Until the dawn close me tight, singing sorrow until you return...Tell me please, the reason you broke this heart of glass. Softly into my ear, the whisper disappears..."
Cye and Thunder became a little more relaxed as Kaye was getting close to the end of the song. "Only tonight hold me tight. In those arms, hold me like a sleeping child. Show me please, open the other side of the door of dreams. Tomorrow only the smile of the person I'll meet, I want to see...Tell me please, the reason you broke this heart of glass. Softly into my ear, the whisper disappears..." Kaye sang as she finished the song.
"Pretty good, maybe you and Flash could get together and do a duet," Thunder said, "who knows, you two could make a cd."
"You think?" Cye asked as he raised an eyebrow at him.
"Sure, I mean..." Thunder replied.
"Ah! You guys, I swear, are impossible," Kaye said as she threw up her hands, "I don't know what I'm going to do with you two."
"I don't either, but I do know what I want to do with you, my little song bird." Jakada replied while he stood there in the doorway, as he looked hungrily at her.
"Kaye, get behind me." Cye said as he glared over at Jakada.
"How quaint, little brother is trying to protect his sister. You should know something, Torrent, there will be a time when you won't be able to protect her. And when that time comes, I'll relish in the fact that you would have tried, but failed. The look on your face, when you realize that you were too late will be one of the many things that will bring me pleasure." Jakada replied with an evil grin.
"Why you..." Cye seethed as Thunder glanced over at Cye and noticed that his birthmark started to flare, and Cye's eyes suddenly changed in color.
"Cye, don't!" Kaye said as she grabbed onto his arm. "Please Cye, he's just trying to taunt you into fighting him."
"You're just going to let him talk trash like that, Kaye?" Cye asked as he glanced back at her. As he did, Kaye saw both the birthmark and his eyes flare.
"He can talk trash all he wants, Cye. But I know that you'll always be with me," Kaye replied as she looked into his eyes. "Besides, I can't lose you like I did with Lightning."
"Lightning?" Thunder wondered in slight confusion. Then he remembered the conversation that Kaye and Cye were having not too long ago. "Cye, calm down, you can't fight him now, you're injured."
Cye glanced over at Thunder, Cye knew that he was right, so he finally calmed down, and went back to normal. "Jakada, I thought that I told you to retrieve Torrent and Tiger so we could continue the interrogation, not to start a fight." Talpa said as he entered the room.
"Of course Talpa, I was about to do just that," Jakada replied. "Alright you two, let's go."
"No, we're not going anywhere with you." Kaye said as she glared angrily at him.
"Fine then, we'll continue the interrogation right here." Talpa replied as he motioned for Jakada's ninjas to separate them a bit from each other. Then as they were separated, Talpa activated the collars and then the ninjas vanished.
"Now where did we leave off? Oh yes, I remember now, you were going to tell us what the form that you saw in your dreams said to you, dream walker." Jakada said as he slowly circled her.
"I told you before, the form didn't say anything! Why can't you get that through your thick head!?" Kaye asked angrily.
"And I say that you're still lying!" Jakada replied as his eyes turned red, and then his teeth turned into fangs as he went behind Kaye, and bit down on that place between her neck and her shoulders. Kaye squeezed her eyes shut as she screamed in extreme pain as he bit down even harder. Kaye's screams of pain delighted Jakada as he bit deeper into her flesh. He then wrapped his arms around her. His left arm went diagonally up her shirt to her upper right rib cage. And then he took his claws and scraped down diagonally to her left hip.
Kaye tried to hold back from screaming, but the pain was too much. "Stop it! That's enough! I'll tell you what the form said, just leave her alone!" Cye said as he winced through the pain that he felt through his link with her. Jakada lifted his head from her and then slowly backed away.
"Well Torrent, what did the form say?" Talpa asked as he looked over to him as he waited for Cye's answer.
"The form wasn't making any sense. It just kept talking about opposites." Cye replied as he glared over at him.
"Opposites? What do you mean, Torrent?" Talpa asked.
"Opposites, like water, and fire...earth, and sky, things like that." Cye replied.
"Is what he says true? Tell me!" Jakada said as he grabbed onto Kaye's arm and dug his claws into her.
Kaye held back from screaming before answering, "yes, it's true, that's all it kept on saying, opposites." Jakada let go of Kaye's arm and then started to walk away from her until he heard, "get a manicure, you filthy mongrel."
Jakada then turned around angrily and back handed Kaye right across her face, making her violently flinch her head to the side. "He told you what you wanted to know, now back the fuck off!" Thunder warned as he started to get really angry.
"I guess that we can conclude the interrogation. We got what we needed, Jakada, we're leaving." Talpa said as he walked over to the broken door. "Jakada!"
"Yea, I heard you Talpa." Jakada replied as he left the room. Talpa stayed behind just a little longer, making sure that Jakada was far enough down the corridor to release the hold on their collars, and then left.
"Kaye!" Cye exclaimed as he and Thunder rushed over to her as she was about to fall over.
"Cye, why did you tell him? Why?" Kaye asked as tears were now falling from her eyes.
"I couldn't let him keep hurting you like that. I had to say something." Cye replied as he and Thunder laid her down onto her bed.
"Hold still ok, this will only take a minute." Thunder said as he laid his hands onto her wounds. Kaye gave a slight nod and then closed her eyes as Thunder was healing her. When Thunder was done, he stepped back and sat down on Cye's bed. Kaye slowly sat up and then Cye sat down next to her.
"I..I think that I'm going to go and get cleaned up." Kaye said as she got up from her bed, walked over to her dresser and pulled out some clean clothes.
"Kaye, are you..?" Cye started to ask as he looked towards her in concern.
"Yea Cye, I'm alright, or actually, I will be." Kaye replied as she locked the door to the bathroom.
"Damn it! If it weren't for these bloody collars..." Cye cursed angrily.
"I know Cye, I feel the same way, and I'm sure that Kaye does too. But at the moment, I need for you to calm down, I still need to heal you yet." Thunder replied. Cye nodded and then Thunder started to heal him. Then when he was finished, Kaye came out of the bathroom with a silver t-shirt, a long black sleeveless vest, and black jeans.
"Kaye how do you feel?" Thunder asked.
"Much better, thanks. You know, there's never a bond fire when you need one." Kaye replied.
"Kaye, stop." Cye said as he looked over to her with a slight frown.
"Stop what, Cye?" Kaye asked back in slight confusion.
"You know what I mean. Stop being the strong one all the time." Cye replied.
"Sorry Cye, but I can't do that." Kaye said.
"Care to tell me why?" Cye asked.
"You really wanna know? Alright, ever since I can remember, I've always been a lone wolf. I got use to it for a while, and then one day, I met you and the others. Something inside of me changed, I can't explain it, but after I got to know all of you, I convinced myself that you guys were my family, except for Kento, it was pretty much the old saying of love at first sight. And so I brought it upon myself to make sure that you and the rest get taken care of. There was no way that I would allow anyone, and I mean anyone to hurt any of you in any way. That's why I have to be strong, Cye, now do you understand?" Kaye explained.
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Tears of Twilight
ch 19
"Cye, you and I, we're not that different." Kaye said quietly as she looked down upon him.
"Kaye, wha..?" Cye started to ask as they continued to rock back and forth.
"Funny choice of words there Cye, have, father and love. Hugh, I never thought that I would hear those three words used in the same sentence." Kaye replied.
"Kaye?" Cye asked as he started to calm down. Kaye let go of him and they both leaned back into the headboard. She kept her eyes away from his, because she didn't want him to see the hurt that was still inside.
"Have...wrong tense, you should have said had. But then again, I've never had a real family to begin with. I spent most of my life being a lone wolf, drifting from place to place, not knowing where I'd end up from one day to the next. Do you honestly think what my father did was out of love? He took me away from you and mom when I was an infant. Later, when we found out that Lightning was my actual father, he was warned when he turns back into a human, he was destined to die. How can I say that I even had a father, let alone a family? Come on Cye, you're the lucky one, not me, you have a family, a real family." Kaye replied quietly. Cye stared at Kaye with a slight frown. And then it hit him, Kaye was right, they weren't that different from each other.
"And now, so do you." Cye said as he gently laid his hand on top of hers.
Kaye slowly looked over towards Cye, "yea, I do, don't I?"
"Yea, you do." Cye replied with a warm smile.
"Cye." Kaye said with a small smile back.
"You know, there a few movie producers that I know back in the states. They would love to produce something like this as the movie of the week." Thunder replied with a teasing grin.
"Thunder!" Cye and Kaye said at the same time.
"What?" Thunder asked with a smirk.
"Kaye, sing something." Cye said as he looked over to her.
"What?!" Kaye asked as she looked back at him in shock.
"You heard me, sing something, come on, I know that you can." Cye urged.
"Cye, you've got to be joking." Kaye said with a look of disbelief.
"No, I'm not joking," Cye replied as he started to give a puppy dog look towards her. "Please."
"Oh no, not the puppy dog eyes, anything but the puppy dog eyes," Kaye said. "I have a hard enough time with Kento doing that, now you too?"
"Please." Cye pleaded as he turned on the puppy dog eyes even more.
"I don't believe you, Cye! Thunder, would you please help?" Kaye asked as she looked over at him.
"Ok." Thunder replied as he too was now giving Kaye the puppy dog look.
"Thanks a lot, Thunder," Kaye said as she rolled her eyes. "Ok, you guys win, but I'm only singing once, and that's it. Understand."
"Yea yea, so go ahead and sing already." Cye replied as he and Thunder got comfortable.
Kaye shook her head as she closed her eyes, and started to sing softly. "Gazing at a transparent moon. My heart calls for someone. Only tonight hold me tight. In those arms, hold me like a sleeping child. Show me please, open the other side of the door of dreams. Tomorrow only the smile of the person I'll meet, please let me see it..."
Kaye's voice was still quiet but steady as she continued to sing. "Moonlight it penetrates like blue ink. Until the dawn close me tight, singing sorrow until you return...Tell me please, the reason you broke this heart of glass. Softly into my ear, the whisper disappears..."
Cye and Thunder became a little more relaxed as Kaye was getting close to the end of the song. "Only tonight hold me tight. In those arms, hold me like a sleeping child. Show me please, open the other side of the door of dreams. Tomorrow only the smile of the person I'll meet, I want to see...Tell me please, the reason you broke this heart of glass. Softly into my ear, the whisper disappears..." Kaye sang as she finished the song.
"Pretty good, maybe you and Flash could get together and do a duet," Thunder said, "who knows, you two could make a cd."
"You think?" Cye asked as he raised an eyebrow at him.
"Sure, I mean..." Thunder replied.
"Ah! You guys, I swear, are impossible," Kaye said as she threw up her hands, "I don't know what I'm going to do with you two."
"I don't either, but I do know what I want to do with you, my little song bird." Jakada replied while he stood there in the doorway, as he looked hungrily at her.
"Kaye, get behind me." Cye said as he glared over at Jakada.
"How quaint, little brother is trying to protect his sister. You should know something, Torrent, there will be a time when you won't be able to protect her. And when that time comes, I'll relish in the fact that you would have tried, but failed. The look on your face, when you realize that you were too late will be one of the many things that will bring me pleasure." Jakada replied with an evil grin.
"Why you..." Cye seethed as Thunder glanced over at Cye and noticed that his birthmark started to flare, and Cye's eyes suddenly changed in color.
"Cye, don't!" Kaye said as she grabbed onto his arm. "Please Cye, he's just trying to taunt you into fighting him."
"You're just going to let him talk trash like that, Kaye?" Cye asked as he glanced back at her. As he did, Kaye saw both the birthmark and his eyes flare.
"He can talk trash all he wants, Cye. But I know that you'll always be with me," Kaye replied as she looked into his eyes. "Besides, I can't lose you like I did with Lightning."
"Lightning?" Thunder wondered in slight confusion. Then he remembered the conversation that Kaye and Cye were having not too long ago. "Cye, calm down, you can't fight him now, you're injured."
Cye glanced over at Thunder, Cye knew that he was right, so he finally calmed down, and went back to normal. "Jakada, I thought that I told you to retrieve Torrent and Tiger so we could continue the interrogation, not to start a fight." Talpa said as he entered the room.
"Of course Talpa, I was about to do just that," Jakada replied. "Alright you two, let's go."
"No, we're not going anywhere with you." Kaye said as she glared angrily at him.
"Fine then, we'll continue the interrogation right here." Talpa replied as he motioned for Jakada's ninjas to separate them a bit from each other. Then as they were separated, Talpa activated the collars and then the ninjas vanished.
"Now where did we leave off? Oh yes, I remember now, you were going to tell us what the form that you saw in your dreams said to you, dream walker." Jakada said as he slowly circled her.
"I told you before, the form didn't say anything! Why can't you get that through your thick head!?" Kaye asked angrily.
"And I say that you're still lying!" Jakada replied as his eyes turned red, and then his teeth turned into fangs as he went behind Kaye, and bit down on that place between her neck and her shoulders. Kaye squeezed her eyes shut as she screamed in extreme pain as he bit down even harder. Kaye's screams of pain delighted Jakada as he bit deeper into her flesh. He then wrapped his arms around her. His left arm went diagonally up her shirt to her upper right rib cage. And then he took his claws and scraped down diagonally to her left hip.
Kaye tried to hold back from screaming, but the pain was too much. "Stop it! That's enough! I'll tell you what the form said, just leave her alone!" Cye said as he winced through the pain that he felt through his link with her. Jakada lifted his head from her and then slowly backed away.
"Well Torrent, what did the form say?" Talpa asked as he looked over to him as he waited for Cye's answer.
"The form wasn't making any sense. It just kept talking about opposites." Cye replied as he glared over at him.
"Opposites? What do you mean, Torrent?" Talpa asked.
"Opposites, like water, and fire...earth, and sky, things like that." Cye replied.
"Is what he says true? Tell me!" Jakada said as he grabbed onto Kaye's arm and dug his claws into her.
Kaye held back from screaming before answering, "yes, it's true, that's all it kept on saying, opposites." Jakada let go of Kaye's arm and then started to walk away from her until he heard, "get a manicure, you filthy mongrel."
Jakada then turned around angrily and back handed Kaye right across her face, making her violently flinch her head to the side. "He told you what you wanted to know, now back the fuck off!" Thunder warned as he started to get really angry.
"I guess that we can conclude the interrogation. We got what we needed, Jakada, we're leaving." Talpa said as he walked over to the broken door. "Jakada!"
"Yea, I heard you Talpa." Jakada replied as he left the room. Talpa stayed behind just a little longer, making sure that Jakada was far enough down the corridor to release the hold on their collars, and then left.
"Kaye!" Cye exclaimed as he and Thunder rushed over to her as she was about to fall over.
"Cye, why did you tell him? Why?" Kaye asked as tears were now falling from her eyes.
"I couldn't let him keep hurting you like that. I had to say something." Cye replied as he and Thunder laid her down onto her bed.
"Hold still ok, this will only take a minute." Thunder said as he laid his hands onto her wounds. Kaye gave a slight nod and then closed her eyes as Thunder was healing her. When Thunder was done, he stepped back and sat down on Cye's bed. Kaye slowly sat up and then Cye sat down next to her.
"I..I think that I'm going to go and get cleaned up." Kaye said as she got up from her bed, walked over to her dresser and pulled out some clean clothes.
"Kaye, are you..?" Cye started to ask as he looked towards her in concern.
"Yea Cye, I'm alright, or actually, I will be." Kaye replied as she locked the door to the bathroom.
"Damn it! If it weren't for these bloody collars..." Cye cursed angrily.
"I know Cye, I feel the same way, and I'm sure that Kaye does too. But at the moment, I need for you to calm down, I still need to heal you yet." Thunder replied. Cye nodded and then Thunder started to heal him. Then when he was finished, Kaye came out of the bathroom with a silver t-shirt, a long black sleeveless vest, and black jeans.
"Kaye how do you feel?" Thunder asked.
"Much better, thanks. You know, there's never a bond fire when you need one." Kaye replied.
"Kaye, stop." Cye said as he looked over to her with a slight frown.
"Stop what, Cye?" Kaye asked back in slight confusion.
"You know what I mean. Stop being the strong one all the time." Cye replied.
"Sorry Cye, but I can't do that." Kaye said.
"Care to tell me why?" Cye asked.
"You really wanna know? Alright, ever since I can remember, I've always been a lone wolf. I got use to it for a while, and then one day, I met you and the others. Something inside of me changed, I can't explain it, but after I got to know all of you, I convinced myself that you guys were my family, except for Kento, it was pretty much the old saying of love at first sight. And so I brought it upon myself to make sure that you and the rest get taken care of. There was no way that I would allow anyone, and I mean anyone to hurt any of you in any way. That's why I have to be strong, Cye, now do you understand?" Kaye explained.