"Kai! I'm fed up of being in bed, I wanna get up!" Tyson whined.
Kai smiled as he walked through the door with a pile of freshly washed bandages in his hands.
"Well you're not getting up young man! You still look pretty rough."
He sat down on the side of the bed and began to examine the remainder of the cuts and bruises on Tyson's face.
"But I feel great!" Tyson exclaimed, glomping him to prove his point.
Kai looked somewhere between amused and annoyed as the bandages were unravelled and strewn all over the floor.
He looked over at Tyson with a wicked glint in his eye.
"Erm...hehe...oops!" Tyson rubbed the back of his neck and grinned. Before he could brace himself, Kai pounced, knocking them both back onto the floor, though he was careful to avoid Tyson's bruises.
Tyson giggled and pulled Kai down into a tender kiss.
Kai responded gently before pulling away and gazing down into the stormy depths of his koi's eyes.

He stood up slowly and held out his hand to pull Tyson up. He hugged the boy close to him and they fell back onto Tyson's bed. They lay side-by-side, gently stroking each other's skin and occasionally placing tender kisses on each other's foreheads.

Sometime later, when Tyson had fallen into a peaceful dreamless sleep, Kai pushed himself up regretfully, and tiptoed out of the room.

He paused at the bottom of the stairs, smiling fondly at the scene before him.
Max and Rei had fallen asleep on the sofa halfway through a fantasy romance movie.
Max was snuggled into Rei's muscular chest, mumbling to himself softly, while Rei had both arms wrapped protectively round his shoulders and was purring soothingly.
Kai shook his head, but smiled contentedly at the soppiness of the whole thing.
They were all happy now; he just had some unfinished business to see to.
He eased the front door open gently, so as not to make any noise, and slipped out into the warm sunshine. He knew exactly where he was going, but he dreaded getting there all the same. He held his head high with determination, and set off at a reluctant, but steady pace towards the outskirts of the city.

Kai cringed distastefully at the fungus-infested walls as he walked down the narrow, harshly lit corridor. Time had not done the Tokyo Juvenile Mental Health Institute any favours.
The building was in a bad state of disrepair, and for a fleeting second, out of pity for the lost soul he was visiting, he was tempted to offer some of his inherited wealth to fund renovation for the dilapidated shell of a building.

His breath quickened as he reached the reinforced iron door at the end of the corridor. He peered into the darkness beyond through the small slit of a gap, which was only just at his eye level. He could see the dust in the air as it floated around in the one beam of light permitted in the room via a barred hole in the ceiling, which gave light from the full moon.

"Hillary?" He called out her name softly. He felt a chill go up his spine as a dangerously thin figure limped out from a shadowy corner, and stood in the middle of the room.
Her head hung low and her shoulders slumped, her arms hung limp at her sides.
"Go away." The voice was barely a throaty growl of a whisper, but he heard it quite clearly.
"Not until you tell me why you did it." Kai growled.

The scraggy hair shook as the figure flinched, and then her head shot up again, her hazel eyes flashed in disgust, and her whole body shook violently with anger.
"Because you both disgust me!" She spat, charging towards the door, arms flailing wildly, and nails spread like claws. The ancient iron door squeaked in protest as she crashed into it with a sickening thud.
She sunk down to the floor and began to cry softly into dirty hands.

Kai paused for a moment to think.
"What did we ever do to you?" He asked, bewildered beyond belief.
Hillary growled again. "What you are isn't just disgusting, it's unnatural!"
Kai raised and eyebrow. "So you caused all this trouble just because you're homophobic?"

He jumped back startled as a pair of hazel eyes suddenly snapped into view.
"You caused the trouble not me! If it weren't for you, Tyson would have been normal. I couldn't let you turn him like you! I was trying to protect him!"

Kai smiled pityingly. "You can't force him to be something he's not Hillary. He was always lost to you, and he always will be."

The figure behind the door groaned in agony, and clawed at her head, covering her ears. "NO! I won't listen to you! You're wrong! I could have saved him from you!"

Kai shook his head and spun on his heel. "Goodbye Hillary." He whispered, thinking of Wyatt as he walked back down the lonely corridor.

"Get well soon."