Sandra: Sorry for not updating in a long time!

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Chapter 7: Flashbacks and Dreams

*Kai's P.O.V.*

I walk into the house from the fields, training is the only thing left to do, I honestly don't know what there is to do in here! Hmm….something smells…burnt…there's grey smoke coming from the kitchen…SHIT!

I run towards the kitchen and Rei's just standing there in front of the stove stirring flames…What is the matter with him! "REI!" I yell, but he doesn't respond, argh! I run and get a bowl of water and throw it into the pan.

Cough, cough, argh! I fan the smoke out of my face and look at Rei who was still stirring the now smoking pan…argh!

"REI!" I yell out, and pat his cheek lightly, he still doesn't answer…

"OH MY GOD! DRIGERS GONE LOOSE!" I yell out, he's still stirring that pan…

I smack his cheek harder, still no sign, argh…I go fill the bowl up with cold water and pour it on him… he's now stirring a pan of water…argh!!

"Oh hi Tala, how are you?" I say out sarcastically…

"WHAT?!?!? TALA? YOU BACK?" Rei looked around, but Tala isn't really here.

"Huh? Oh hey Kai… I was just cooking breakfast…What happened to my pancakes??" Rei asked me, now poking his so called pancakes underwater.

"Rei, you zoned out and didn't even realise the pancakes were on fire, and you also didn't realise me calling you, hitting you or even pouring water over you and turning your breakfast into soup." I said in one breath.

"Hehe, sorry Kai." Rei said, he looked at he pan, and oh no, your not zoning out on me again.

"Rei." I say, yes, he never zoned out.

"Are you still thinking of Tala?" I ask him, I'm sorry, but he's not fit for anything ever since Tala became NORMAL again.

"Huh? No, of course not! You guys asked me that before!" He exclaimed, a little bit too fast as well.

"Rei, don't lie to me, you was thinking about Tala, I mean, if this house was on fire, you wouldn't even notice!" I said to him accusingly, well, it's true though!

"Look Kai, what I do and think is none of your business, so before accusing me for anything, please rethink about what you are going to say before saying anything at all." He just walked right past me…woah…

Stupid Rei, I try helping him, he tells me off, I'm team captain, I'm just looking out for his well being… stupid Rei!

I storm up the stairs and storm down the hallway towards my room, as I walk past Rei's room, I swear I hear prayers… I walk backwards and slowly towards Rei's slightly open door and listen…

"…I really want Tala back, I need him, it's so hard without him…"

I knew he was still thinking about him!

"…I would give anything to have him back, anything…"

He's being so stupid over this! I open the door and see Rei curled up in a ball hugging his pillow as he sobs into the puffy material…

"Rei, there is no point mourning and whimpering over something that's past." I say to him. He looks up at me with angry, glazed over tear filled eyes.

"What are you doing here?" He hisses, feisty…

"I'm just concerned about your well being, you are beating yourself up inside for a stupid thing like this! Just take the facts, Tala is not coming back to you! Go find someone better! There are plenty of fishes in the sea Rei!" I lecture him.

"Your not the one who just lost someone you really cared for! In fact, you NEVER cared for anyone in your whole god damn it life!" He screamed…

"You don't even know half of my life so before saying anything like that, you should rethink what you said to me earlier and use your own advice!" He was taking it too far!

"Why are you even in here! Get out of my room and mind your own business! I can mourn and cry all I want! It's my life! Not yours! You don't own me or anything!"

"I'm your team captain!"

"Team captain, shmeer paptain, I don't care, I could just quit the team!"

"Go on right ahead!"

"THEN I WILL!"

"FINE!"

"FINE!"

"FINE!" I growled and stormed out of his room, slamming his door on my way out, but it doesn't drown out his, "FINE!!"

Argh, he's just so stubborn and ignorant, I'm trying to help, he throws it all back in my face! Why should I bother, I should just let Max or someone deal with his pathetic life!

I get to my room and plop onto my bed, argh, Rei's got me all worked up! Stupid Rei! I rolled over and looked at the photo frame on my bedside table, apparently, Max insisted we all had one each… it was a photo of the team after the tournament.

From the left to the right, it starts off with Kenny holding Dizzi, then Max who is piggy backed by Tyson who's up in the air, then there's Rei who's leaning on me with one arm over my shoulder and me holding onto Rei with my arm around his waist…is Rei blushing in that picture?! Whatever… I turn away and this time end up greeting another photo but this time hanging on the wall, it's a big frame with many different pictures stuck on it. Max again, insisted we all had one.

There was a picture of Kenny and Dizzi doing some papers…hmm…there was a picture of Tyson's Grandpa dressed up as Santa Claus with Mr. Dickinson in a Rudolf outfit and Tyson's dad in an elf outfit…hmmm….there was another picture of Tyson and Max playing Monkey Ball on Gamecube at Christmas, and by the look on the screen, Max was winning…

Then there was a picture of Rei in the kitchen cooking Christmas dinner…and the picture beside that…I can't believe they snapped this one of us!

I was in the kitchen with flour in my hair and cake mix on my face and ei the same, both of us were laughing…

Then there was a picture of us in the snow, well, Tyson and Max lying on the snow, Kenny is seen in the house through the window, Rei and me was dashing snow balls at each other…

There's a picture of Rei dressed up as an angel…WHAT? When was this? I blinked a few times and re looked at that picture, no, I wasn't wrong, Rei had his hair down and was dressed up in a white angel suit…he looks beautiful…damn…no! No! Bad Kai! Can't hit on Rei! Can't hit on Rei! Can't hit on Rei! Hit on Rei! No! Can't hit on Rei!

Great, now I'm hitting on my fellow team mate, the one I was just arguing with a few minutes ago! This is stupid! Stupid emotions…

I sit up and fling me legs over the side of my bed and walk out of my room, as I walk down the hallway, I can't help but stop at Rei's room, maybe I should go in and apologise…no, then that proves how weak and wrong I am…but I was wrong…argh, I'll just go in and check on him, and if he asks, then I'll say I think I left something in there, that's it!

I open the door slowly and peer in, Rei's asleep on his bed now…sigh…I walk over to his bed and sit on the edge.

I pull the covers over his body and watch him sleep, he's really peaceful asleep… I wipe away his bangs and felt his smooth face, I lean down a bit, I can hear his steady breathing…I kiss his lips, gently, and get up, that was quite nice actually, even if he was asleep, damn Max for letting me watch them soaps… "Rei, hey Rei. I'm sorry ok?" I whisper into his ear and get up, stroked his hair once more and left.

*Rei's P.O.V.*

I watch Kai's leaving back…he just kissed me, I didn't dream that…I close my eyes again and wait to hear the sound of my door close…click.

I open my eyes and pinch myself, "Ow!" Ok, maybe that was a little too hard…Oh my god, Kai just kissed me…

Sure I might have dreamt about this way back, I mean, I liked Kai a lot back during the tournaments, but do you see how mean he is, you think I'd take the risk, but then I told myself after the World tournament, to get over him cause if I can't say it to him, and he won't feel the same, then there's no point to like him…

"Oh my god… Kai kissed me…" I'm sorry, but the surprise hasn't exactly washed out yet…

I snuggle into the covers and close me eyes, he can wait…

*Tala's P.O.V.*

I yawn as I wake up and look at Ian, he's still asleep…sigh…I carefully pick up the smaller one and wriggle my arm free and get up, I walked towards the door, I step out, Bryan and Spencer and playing cards again.

"HA! GOLDFISH!" Spencer said as he showed Bryan his deck…

"What's there for breakfast?" I ask them, Bryan dealed the cards and stared at his cards before saying, "Pot noodles, you gotta boil the water though, apparently, these ones you have to boil the water, pour it into your cup and leave it for 5 minutes then add the seasoning."

(A/N: Sorry if I never gave a description what a pot noodle is, it's instant noodle, ok?)

I just nodded and went to the kitchen, opened the cupboard and pulled out the cup, boiled the water and poured it in. Now to wait…

Ok, waited long enough, I opened the lid and put the seasoning in…now eat some…yuck… I'm sorry, but this stuff tastes like Tyson's cooking…huh? Where did that come from…whatever…

I throw away the rest of the noodle and head back to where the others were, I see Ian awake now.

"Ian, you wanna come out and get breakfast with me?" I ask him, he just scratched the his and looked at me, "We have plenty of pot noodles Tala!"

"They're nasty, don't like them!" I say to my boyfriend.

"But we used to have it all the time! You used to love it!" Ian screeched.

"Ian, they taste like crap!" I say to him.

"But…Tala…that's why I bought so much, you used to love it! You had them for breakfast, lunch, tea, supper, even snacks." I cringed as he listed any other time I would have them…

"Look, Ian, let's just go get something to eat out ok?" I say, he pouted, I kneeled down and gave him a kiss, he nodded and we went out.

*Kai's P.O.V*

I launched Dranzer into the dish, but apparently, I zoned out, I wonder what Rei's doing anyway…

Just then, I felt a pair of arms wrap around my stomach and someone rest their head on my shoulder.

I turn my head slightly and see Rei smiling at me.

"Uh…Rei…"

"Hey Kai! Practicing?"

"Uh…yeah…" What the hell is he doing?

"You wanna…go out…for um…breakfast?" What is he doing?

"Uh…Rei, you ok?" I ask him, he just chuckles.

"Never felt better." He said giving me a kiss on my cheek…WAIT A MINUTE! A kiss?

"Well Kai? You wanna come or not?" He asked me, I just look at him and blink, once, twice, three times, I'm not dreaming…

"OW!" I jumped and looked at my shoulder where Rei just bit me, he smiled cheekily at me.

"You're not dreaming!" He said…

"Uh….alright…where do you want to have breakfast?" I ask him, I think the temperature rising…

"Aww, Kai, you're blushing!" he chirped.

"Rei, are you ok?" I asked him again, this time, I'm facing him.

He leans up and kisses me full on the lips, before I had time to respond back, he parts, "Does that answer your question?" I just blushed, I swear I look like the traffic lights…

"Let's go have lunch! I want McDonalds breakfast!" He said and pulled my arm, I turn back to the beydish and call Dranzer back.

*Normal P.O.V.*

"One Breakfast meal and one happy meal" Tala said, the girl behind the counter smiled sedentary at him, and said, "That's £5 please." (A/M: Sorry, I dunno what the price is. And I don't know what the price is in Japan either. Hehe, sorry.) Tala fished out his money and handed it to the girl, she stroked Tala's hand before taking the money and gave him a sexy wink, Tala just sent a death glare at her which made the dumb girl think he was flirting back. Once she brought over their meal, he took it and noticed the paper on his tray, he opened it with one hand, 'How about you and me catch a movie after I finish work?' It read, he looked at the girl who was smiling at him, he stuck his middle finger up at her, walked over to a geek boy sitting on his own and said, "You see that girl behind the counter, she told me to give this to you." The geek adjusted his glasses and took the note and read it, started to hyperventilate and then took a breath out of his asthma pump, he looked at the girl and waved shyly at her. The girl ran to the bathrooms and started to puke.

Tala smirked, him and Ian walked past one of the entrances and went to sit down.

Rei and Kai came through the entrance of the McDonalds and came to the counter, the same girl that took Tala's order came, and she smiled at Rei, and Rei smiled back, making her grin, "May I take you order please?"

"Yes, can we have two breakfast meals please?" Rei said in a polite way. The girl grinned at him and said, "That'll be £6 please (A/N: Same apologies as above!)" Rei fished out the money and handed it to her, she stroked his hand, and Rei quickly pulled back and Kai growled at her. Once she came back, Rei took the tray and the girl left another note on the tray, Kai glared at her, wrapped his arms around Rei's waist and kissed Rei on the cheek, causing the girl to faint of shock. When they sat down, Kai got up and took the note on his way saying, "I need to go to the bathroom."

As Kai entered one of the toilets and shut the door, the one next to him opened and out came Ian, he jumped and jumped but couldn't reach the sink, and then a man smiled and helped him up to the sink saying, "Here you go." Ian just nodded and started to wash his hand.

"Did you bump your nose? It's awfully big." The man said, but was splashed in the face with water as Ian jumped off his arms. And left.

Kai came out of the toilet and looked at the man's drenched hair and face. "You do realise that these sinks are used to wash your hands, not your hair." Kai said and washed his off and walked out.

Kai walked down the path and passed a red head and midget as their back was facing him, "Hey, sorry I took so long." He said and sat down. Rei just smiled at hi and munched on his food.

"Come on Ian, let's go, you done?" Tala asked, Ian just nodded, the two got up and turned towards the exit next to the toilets put away their tray and left, "Where do you wanna go?" Ian asked.

Tala thought, and answered, "I wanna go to the park." Ian smiled, and thought, 'How romantic, this is like a date, he should've told me.'

"Rei, you want to go to the park?" Kai asked his now boyfriend, Rei smiled and nodded. The two walked hand in hand out the exit only to be greeted by an ambulance as they escorted the girl behind the counter onto the vehicle on a stretcher. Kai smirked and Rei felt sorry for the girl.

"It's not a laughing matter Kai!" Rei said nudging his boyfriend.

"She deserves it." And with a glare from Rei, then a passionate kiss that Kai started off, the pair left for the park.

Tala and Ian walked towards the fountain and sat down on the edge, Ian was smiling like an idiot as all sorts of lovey dovey thoughts ran through his head. Tala just sat there and stared at the water, "bubbles…" he muttered out.

"What was that Tala?" Ian asked, Tala just shook his head and looked the shorter one and smiled, "I just said nice weather." Ian practically melted under that smile.

Kai and Rei walked towards the fountain and sat down, Rei ran his fingers through the glistening liquid and Kai just stared at Rei, Rei just sighed.

"What's wrong?" Kai asked, Rei just shook his head and said, "Nothing, just the weather."

In a far off distance, you see a large fountain spraying up water, making a wall between the two couples.

"Hey, check it out, a bey battle!" Rei and Ian said at the same time, Rei dragged Kai and Ian dragged Tala, they stood on opposite sides of the crowd.

"NO I LOST!" A kid said, some people laughed, and then another person came up. Kai watched boredly, these kids were pathetic, but earned a hard jab in the ribs by Rei.

"Come on, let's go, I'll buy you some ice cream." Kai said, Rei pouted and said, "I'll wait here, I wanna watch the game." Kai just shrugged and went.

"Tala, I can't see! I'm going to go near the front!" Ian said and with that, he started to squeeze past peoples legs up to the front, Tala just sighed and started to look around.

Rei saw a bird fly past and watched it, and then gold met blue, sunshine met ice, eyes meet eyes.

"Tala…" Rei whispered out and back away from the crowd.

Tala just stared, he felt like going over to the Bladebreaker, just then, he noticed Rei's eyes becoming glassy, and then tears came from them.

"Rei…" Tala moved away from the crowd and around towards Rei, Rei stepped back some more and started to run out of the park.

Tala was about to run after him when someone pulled at his trouser leg, he looked down and saw Ian's big nose facing him, "Where were you going to go?"

"No where. Come on, let's go."

"This can't be happening! This just can't be happening! Why now? WHY?!?!" Rei screamed at himself and ran, running past Kai, Kai stared at his boyfriend and ran after him.

Rei ran aimlessly and didn't take in anything around him, until he heard a loud beeping sound, he stopped and looked up, like a deer in headlights, he couldn't move, as the BMW truck halted with a shriek, but not quick enough, before Rei got hit, he saw Kai but couldn't hear what he was saying, and then his world went black.

Kai ran to Rei's side and shook him gently, "Rei, wake up!" but it was no use, Rei was out, and bleeding.

Kai picked up his lover and ran towards the hospital in break neck speed.

"Honestly, these kids should watch where they're going! It's not our fault Steven doesn't want them easy break tyres, instead, he insists we have the smooth good looking ones!" Michael said as he drove on, "No Michael, YOU told Steven to get the good looking and sexy ones, he wanted the battle truck ones!" Eddy said.

Tala and Ian walked, Tala still thinking about Rei, 'Why is he in my head, I can't help but feel like something bad has happened to him, as Tala drifted off into his own world, he then snapped out of it as a beeping again and being pushed out of the way by Ian as Ian got hit again by the BMW truck. Tala's eyes widened and then a flashback of the BMW truck hitting him appeared, he growled and ran to Ian's side, he picked up Ian and walked towards the door of the truck, opened it and glared at Michael, "It's you!" Michael said and pointed at Tala, Tala used one arm and pulled Michael out onto the road side, got into the passenger seat and put Ian on Eddy's lap and drove off.

"Doctor!!!! Someone just got HIT!!" Kai yelled out as he ran down the hallways of the hospital.

"Doctor!!!! Someone just got HIT!!" Tala yelled as he also entered the hospital, leaving Eddy in the truck.

As two stretchers came out and got the two patients, they both quickly ran towards the elevator, causing them to crash, the cloths still hasn't fallen off the two patients.

"YOU!" Tala and Kai pointed at each other, just then, the doctors mumbled a few things and then nodded and continued to run. Tala just followed on set and Kai followed the other.

A few hours as both boys waited in different waiting rooms. The doctors came out.

"Doctor, how is he?" Tala asked.

"Is he alright?" Kai asked.

"Well, apparently he got hit pretty hard." replied the doctor to Tala.

"But he's ok." replied the doctor to Kai.

"Your lucky you got him here on time." the doctor lectured Tala.

"Or else, he would've died." the doctor lecture Kai.

"He's lucky he hand that bind around his head so injury wasn't that bad." The doctor informed Tala.

"He's lucky his nose is so big, it took most of the impact." The doctor laughed to Kai.

"What?" Both boys asked.

"You can go see them now." The doctors said.

Kai and Tala entered the rooms.

*Tala's P.O.V*

I walked into the slightly dark room and looked at the person on the bed.

"Rei…" I don't know what has possessed me to go over to him, but I did, and I was worried.

"What happened?" I whispered, just then another flashback happened as I was sitting on this bed and Rei was beside me…

"Rei…" I looked at him, and stoked his cut cheek. Just then, he started to stir and then he opened his eyes and looked at me and then his eyes filled with tears which came flowing down again.

"What are you doing here?" He choked out.

That's a good question, what am I still doing here…

"Are you ok?" I ask him.

"Tala, what are you doing here?" he yelled at me, I suddenly felt the urge to burst out into tears, but held it back, why is Rei being so mean to me…

"Are you here to tease me cause I like you? Cause you know I've been waiting for you for so long? And prayed every night for you to come back to my side?!" He screamed at me…

"Did you know that every night I would be crying cause your not beside me when I fall asleep or when I'm awake, all I can think of is you. Were you just playing with my feelings all this time? Cause you did a good job, you succeed, congratulations! You just love hurting people's feelings don't you, you love doing things to annoy people! You are just…" I cover his mouth with my hand, honestly, he's talking too much!

"OW!" he bit me! Argh!

"Why are you even here! You are just so…" I use my other hand, only to be bit again… uh…

I kiss him hard on the mouth, I can see his eyes widen in surprise as he struggles to get away form me, but then he starts crying again, and kisses me back, but it was barely noticeable.

Just then, another flashback came to me as Rei tried to feed me some cake and I didn't eat it, then he chewed it and I ate it from his mouth…then another flashback followed of me and Rei playing bubbles, then another flash and another one… one by one, they followed.

I parted from Rei and looked at him, into his eyes and then a flashback of the two of us under the tree, then one last one when I told Rei to get off me and he left…

"Rei…I…" I didn't know what to say…

"Rei1 there you are! What are you doing Tala? Get away from him!" I turned to look at Kai, I just get up and left.

*Rei's P.O.V.*

I watched Tala leave…why did…what just…Tala….why are you such a jerk? Kai came to my side and I buried my head into his shoulder, he started to whisper soothing words to me.

"It's ok Rei, shhhh, I'm here."

"Kai…" I just sob into his shoulder, not caring about anything at the moment.

"Kai… I'm sorry…" I say to him, he looks at me with questioning eyes.

"I can't forget about Tala…" I say, he looks at me, I was expecting him to leave me but instead, he held me closer.

"It's ok, I knew from the start it won't work out between us." He said, I just looked into his crimson orbs, they held pain, jealousy, anger, love , worry and all sorts of feelings in them.

"Kai… I love you, I really do, but I love Tala more…" I said, he just shook his head and said, "You did love me." I just look at my hands guiltily.

"Rei, can we share one last kiss?" I look at him but he leans down to me and I kissed him, pulling him closer as I wrapped my arms around his neck. It was a long passionate kiss, his tongue wanting entrance to my mouth, I let him, we shared a kiss, it felt like forever, but it only lasted 10 minutes as we parted for air.

I rest my head against his chest and slowly drift off, not before hearing, "I'll always be here for you Rei, always." and then I went to sleep.

*Kai's P.O.V.*

I knew Rei never forgotten Tala…but I'll never forget Rei either… I look down at the neko-jin lying on my chest. I place him down gently and pull the covers over him.

"I'll always be here for you Rei. Always." I say to him, stroking his cheek once more before leaving the room and heading back home.

*Tala's P.O.V.*

I look at Ian who was asleep on the bed. If only I never met Rei, if only none of this would happen, maybe things will be much more different.

I sigh and sit on the chair next to my boyfriends bed, "Ian, what can I do? What should I do?" I whisper as I slowly drift off.

'I looked behind me, the guards were chasing me, why I was running, I don't know, but I knew that if I didn't run, they'd kill me, why is this so familiar? Just then I ran into someone, I looked up and see Boris, he smirked and gripped my arms, I turn my head and see the guards running up and surrounding me, I wriggle about and break out of Boris' grip, as I run I turn and see them catching up to me, then I turn back and I see the rest of my team, "Wait!" I yell out, they looked at me, then turned and walked on, just then, as I ran towards them I stretched out my arm and was about to grab a hold of Spencer when my arm went right through them and I fell into the ground, down and down when I saw the ground nearing, I closed my eyes to take in the impact when I felt someone catch me, I opened my eyes and saw a dark figure, the darkness hid their features, then they let me down and walked off, but I remember the scent that radiated off this person, it was a mixture of strawberry and cream. As I stood there wondering if I could make out any of this persons features, I felt a sharp pain go through my back and out my front, I looked down and saw the blood pour down from the hole where I believe a bullet went through, I turned and saw Boris smirking and I fell, the guards and Boris himself surrounded me, they kicked me and stomped on me, then, Boris laughed manically and raised his foot, it came down fast towards my face…'

"Uh!" I get up and look around…it was that dream again…why? I look at Ian…

"You won't abandon me right?" I ask the sleeping form.

I look out the window, it was raining…

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Sandra: I hope that this chapter makes up for my time away? Sorry that there was only a little bit of Kai/Rei, I got to stick with the main couple Rei/Tala!