Kenny did a double take when he saw Tyson in the practice room the next morning. He blinked at his friend, who was currently battering the hell out of Kai's custom-made silver dish. "Tyson! What are you doing here?!" He yelped, gesturing wildly at his wrist watch. "I presume I have the right to train whenever I choose to?" Tyson raised an eyebrow. "But it's barely five a.m.!" Kenny exploded incredulously. "Chill out Chief, he made me get up too." Kai piped up from his place in the corner. He was currently curled up on a pile of cushions attempting to go back to sleep. "Oh no you don't!" Tyson launched himself over to the pile. "I'm not having you slacking off kid!" "Hey, who're you calling kid?!" Kai protested weakly. "Well I don't see anyone else here acting like one." Tyson towered above him, arms folded, and one foot tapping with impatience. Kai sighed resignedly and got to his feet, while Tyson shifted his glance to Kenny. "What're you staring at?" His eyebrow arched dangerously, mimicking one of Kai's famous death glares. "Hadn't you better go see if Rei's still in one piece?" The corners of his lips raised slightly into an amused smirk. "Oh no! I totally forgot about him!" Kenny immediately bolted through the door.

As soon as Kenny was out of earshot, Tyson let out a long suppressed yawn. "I can't believe I went along with this." He groaned. "Well you have act like me for it to be believable." Kai responded evilly. "Well surely the great almighty Kai had a lie-in once in a while." Tyson pouted as he looked at his leader imploringly. Kai shook his head. "Nope, not once." He replied with a grin. "So," He began, changing the subject less than subtly. "Did you enjoy last night?" "Yeah it was cool." Tyson replied enthusiastically, then his face fell. "I'm not much of a dancer though." "I didn't mean that." Kai pouted, knowing that Tyson was deliberately teasing him. "So what did you mean?" Tyson asked innocently. Kai moved forwards and placed one arm on Tyson's waist. "I think you know." Tyson looked up to where Kai's stone grey eyes burned down on his face intently. He hesitantly placed a hand on his leader's chest, feeling the rock solid muscles under Kai's tank top tense beneath his fingers. Kai leaned down slightly and cupped Tyson's chin in his other hand. By now, their lips were just inches apart...

"TYSON!" The two startled boys jumped apart quickly as they heard Rei's voice. The neko-jin dodged them both as he flew through the door and dove behind the sofa. "Tell him I'm not here!" He hissed. Kai looked perplexed, and Tyson was about to ask who he was supposed to distract when a blur of blonde and blue sped through the door. Max, who was still wearing his teddy bear pyjamas began scanning the room with manic ocean blue eyes. "Where is he guys?" He shook Tyson by the shoulders. Kai giggled, and instantly found himself faced with an attempt at a death glare from a very dizzy Tyson. "How am I supposed to know where he is?" Tyson sniffed when he'd regained his sense of balance. "I'm not here to baby-sit you kids!" Max pouted. "Tyson don't be so mean, you're acting like Kai!" "HEY!" Kai yelped indignantly. "I'm not mean!" Max however, didn't hear his protests as he had already bounded out of the door.

Tyson turned back to Kai. "So, where were we?" Kai smirked impishly and pulled Tyson back towards him. "I seem to remember we were quite rudely interrupted." He stroked the back of Tyson's neck gently with his fingertips, smiling as he heard Tyson breath catch, and he was close enough to feel his pulse soar. This time Tyson didn't try to pull off an innocent act, and grabbed the back of Kai's neck, pulling the older boys lips down onto his own. In his shock, Kai wasn't prepared as Tyson's weight pulled him forwards, and the fell in a tangled heap on the sofa. Tyson snorted in discomfort as Kai's two-tone grey fringe flopped across his nose. "Sorry koi." Kai murmured, planting a soft kiss on the dragon's nose and running his fingers through the wild mane of Tyson's silky storm coloured hair. Oblivious to the fact that their antics had alerted a certain neko-jin who had fallen asleep behind the sofa they were lying on, they continued to kiss and grope feverishly.

Kai's ears pricked instantly the minute a small "EEP!" reached his ears, and he opened one eye slightly. A second later, he jumped out of Tyson's arms and glared at the intruder.