Mizu_Tenshi: I apologise to those who don't want this to be TyKa but I've already got everything planned so I'm afraid I'm going to stick with my plans. Sorry to those who are disappointed but if you don't like yaoi then don't read.

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Chapter Two - Eyes

(Tyson's POV)

I was awake, I had been awake for some time but I refused to get up because a) it was snowing and it was cold and b) Kai was already awake.

I told myself that if I got up he would make me train straight away but I knew that was not entirely true.

He turned round and I quickly shut my eyes, pretending to be fast asleep. I could feel his eyes on me and my insides squirmed.

Kai always had that effect on me.

"Stupid Tyson," I heard him mutter.

I thought he was going to finish by saying, "I know you're awake so stop being an idiot and start training," but he didn't say another word.

'Stupid Tyson...' So he thought I was stupid? Yeah, I already knew that. I knew he thought that I was lazy, fat, ignorant, and childish and a thousand other negative words.

Before, I wouldn't have minded so much but now it seemed to hurt like icy knives stabbing through me and I didn't even know why. I guess I'm over- sensitive.

With a sigh I heard him get up and walk away.

I waited a moment before I tentatively opened one eye. He was gone and I was left staring at the spot where he had stood as the snow came falling down.

He thought I was stupid, so what? I think he's arrogant, conceited and...uh...other stuff.

Shaking of my thoughts of Kai I decided to wake the others. There was one thing you could do with snow and one thing only; play in it!

(Normal POV)

The coldness around him abated slightly and the feeling of a warm but heavy material draping over him was introduced.

Slowly, Kai blinked away the haziness from his vision. Imaged flashed like an old, flickering film and the sounds of people around him sounded muffled and distorted like hearing someone speak with your ears underwater.

"Hey, are you okay? Can you move?" someone asked.

A man knelt by Kai's side by the ruins of what had appeared to be a small building.

Kai did not say anything, he did not even show any indication that he had heard a single word the man had said.

Inside his head images still flashed around and the pain of his past cut deep as if he was reliving the very moment again.

Despite his inward the struggle Kai's face was strangely serene. Eyes the colour of dried blood stared up at the snowing sky but not really seeing it.

"Listen, I'm going to get you to the hospital, what happened?" the man continued to question Kai but the most he got was a slight blink of the eye.

"Hello, can you hear me? Talk to me!" The man cried.

No answer.

In the distance Kai heard the alarmed whispers of others get sharper and the sound of sirens wailing in the distance getting closer and closer to him.

He then felt hands lifting him. Was Biovolt capturing him again?

He tried to struggle but he was too tired to do anything.

He just stared blankly up at the sky as he was put onto a stretcher, he just stared at the snow kissing his cheeks until the warmth of the ambulance embraced him and the doors shut.

The crowds that had formed parted to let the ambulance drive past while snow came down.

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Temperatures were below zero; a new barrage of snow was falling heavily upon the icy streets as the gang played in front of the sugar-topped dojo.

After being hit with the hundredth snowball that day Ray walked into the welcome warmth of the dojo, feeling the numbing coldness around him abating in the fiery heat.

Inside Kenny, wrapped up in his winter gear, was still typing away on Dizzi with a cup of hot chocolate by his side.

"Not going out?" Ray the younger boy asked cheerfully.

"I find typing on Dizzi to be better than being outside in the freezing cold. We should be training anyway," Kenny replied.

Ray pulled a face, "you sound just like Kai," he teased. "Where is Kai anyway?"

Kenny shrugged, he looked as if he was about to say something when the phone rang.

"I'll get it," Kenny sighed, rising with a little difficulty from the dojo floor.

"Hey, Ray, get back out here!" Max called.

"In a minute!" Ray yelled back, he wanted some time in the warmth before returning to the snowy ground.

"What's the matter? Scared I'll pelt you with snow again?" Max teased from outside.

Ray just shook his head, concealing a smile from no one in particular when Kenny came back, white face and shivering.

"What's up, chief? You haven't been out in the cold, have you?"

"Ray," Kenny began slowly. "Get the others, I think I know where Kai is."

Ray stared quizzically at Kenny but he knew he would only get an explanation when the others were rounded.

Walking to the very front of the building, he called Tyson and Max in as the snow continued coming down.

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"Where is he? Where is he?" Tyson ran around the hospital calling out and disturbing many of the patients.

"Calm down, Tyson, I'm sure he's okay," Kenny reassured the anxious teen.

Ray, who had done the logical thing and went to the counter, came back to inform his friends of what he had discovered. "I checked with the nurse; it's room twenty but the nurse said that - "

Tyson was off, speeding down the polished corridors before Ray had even finished his sentence.

"Tyson, come back!" Max called.

Hearing Maxi's voice, Tyson looked back on his friends as he ran...

Straight into the doctor coming out of one the rooms.

There was a loud 'clang' as the two collided and fell in a dizzy heap on the floor

"Tyson, you should watch where you're going!" Kenny scolded as Ray and Max helped Tyson and the doctor up.

"Sorry," Tyson apologised to the man he had just bumped into. "I was in a rush, my friend Kai - "

"Kai Hiwatari?"

"Yeah, you know him?" Tyson asked curiously.

"I'm the doctor treating him," the man explained.

Ray took a step forward to meet the doctor "Is he okay? Can we go see him?" he asked.

"He was caught in an explosions but, miraculously, he was not that hurt," the doctor began. Some of the tension visibly disappeared from the atmosphere as the group allowed themselves to breathe out a sigh of relief.

"However," the doctor broke off the relaxed atmosphere.

"However?"

"However, the explosion seems to have caused him some psychological trauma and...well he's mute now."

"He's what?!" Tyson gaped.

"It means he can't talk," Kenny explained.

"I know what it means!" Tyson snapped. "How'd he get caught in an explosion anyway?"

"I don't know; he can't talk so he can't explain it to us, he won't even respond to our questions," the man shook his head sadly, shrugging his coat. "You go in but he is very unresponsive; I doubt he'll even notice you," he called back as he walked away.

The groups took one pausing glance at he retreating back of the doctor then turned to the door marked 'twenty.'

Ray was the first to push open the door. It creaked slightly and they all peered in like adventurers exploring the rooms of a haunted house.

Kai was sitting up in one of the hospital beds, his head bowed and hair hiding his face in shadows.

The boy did not look up as the door widened and his team piled in, he just stared at his now glove-less fingers, looking at every detail but not really taking anything in.

"Kai!"

No response.

"Kai?"

"Kai, hello, it's us!" Max yelled, snapping his finger in front of Kai's bowed head. "You're not deaf as well as mute so look at us! Hello!"

"Guys, remember what the doctor told us?" Kenny said. "Maybe we should come back at another time," he suggested.

"Yeah but - " Max began to protest.

"It's no good talking to someone who acts like a zombie, we better leave him to recover," Kenny pointed out.

Silence hung over the room but they all knew that the chief was speaking the truth.

"Um, well get better soon, okay?" Ray waved goodbye.

"Yeah, Kai, come back soon," Max added as the group filed out of the door leaving only Tyson standing by Kai's bed.

Tyson cocked his head to try and catch a glimpse of Kai's face, he out- stretched his arm but he didn't dare shake the blue haired boy by the shoulder so instead he whispered, "Kai," and predictably, received no answer.

Tyson frowned at the boy ignoring everything around him. "Kai," he said loudly.

Like someone that had been given a quick electric shock, Kai's head shot up a fraction of an inch, just enough for Tyson to see his face.

Their eyes met, dried blood coloured eyes staring into pools of sky blue and vice versa.

They stared at each other, neither saying a word and all the while the snow came down.

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Mizu_Tenshi: You know, I thought of putting Hillary in it but I'm not used to writing fics with Hillary so what do you think? Should there be some Hillary in this?

Thanks to: daisuki, Chibi-TyKa, Timberwolf220, turbo, DragonBlade, D.G., yhhh, chaos, JadesRose, Child of the Stars, Tenma Koneko, KaiKurtRavenWizy, Krixel, Yoshimi Ono, Mariana1, Deathstopper, Rumi-chan, Techno Ranma, Identity Thief, Feelin Glayish, Nancys-little-Obsession, Kiina and Skittles the Sugar Fairy.