I'm sooooooooooorry! I know it's been forever since the last update… but it's harder than you think to come up with a plot suited to 5 year olds.

Thank you to all who reviewed.

I know this is short… but hopefully this will appease your appetite for chibiness

R&R

Chapter 3:

Kai gripped Rei's hand tightly as they found themselves lost in a sea of legs. They had both somehow wondered into the hustle and bustle of the daily ritual of getting ready for "big kids'" school.

A large boy with pale hair and silvery eyes bumped hard into Kai knocking him over onto Rei, causing the smaller boy to mewl in pain. Kai bristled with anger 'How dare he use me to hurt my Rei?!'

"Hey!" Kai yelled to the older boy "You should watch where you goin'! You could hurt somebody!"

Rei watched the unfolding of the scene with huge, terrified eyes. The sight of Bryan terrified most of the kids here, especially Rei who Bryan seemed to really like picking on since he was so small. Rei struggled to his feet and tugged desperately on Kai's hand. The both needed to leave now!!!

"Excuse me?" Bryan asked sarcastically "What gives you the right to talk to me this way?"

"Excuse ME! But you is the one who made me fall and hurted Rei-chan!" Kai exclaimed angrily.

"Listen here you little squirt," Bryan began menacingly "I'm the big kahuna around here—"

"More like the big buffoon-a, right Bryan?" A taller boy with flame coloured hair asked calmly.

Now it was Bryan's turn for his eyes to widen with fear as he looked at the boy's stern face "Heh yeah. That's right…"

Before anyone could blink Bryan was gone.

"TALA!!!" Rei cried happily, running and glomping their savior.

Tala laughed as he scooped the tiny boy into his arms "Rei!"

Kai glared at Tala. He wasn't entirely sure that he liked this red-headed kid who was obviously such a good friend of the frail little Chinese boy; judging by Rei's excited squealing a moment ago.

While Kai was trying to form an opinion on the older boy, Rei was telling him exactly what had just happened with Bryan and Kai was pleased to note that his friend was greatly embellishing the details of his 'heroic act.' Rei eventually wriggled out of Tala's strong grip and ran over to where Kai was still standing very still, and glaring at the nine year old. Rei smiled at the silly expression on Kai's face and slowly managed to tug him over to where Tala was watching them both with an odd expression.

"Tala onii-san (1), this is Kai-kun." Rei introduced proudly, beaming at both boys.

His smile fell however, when he realized that the other two boys were still glaring fiercely at one another.

 "Why you no like each other?" Rei asked sadly, bottom lip starting to tremble.

Before either boy could respond the werewolf look alike returned. He appeared to be on the war path.

"You!" The werewolf look alike growled angrily at Kai, while gently scooping up his tiny little 'cousin' "You hurt Rei-chan! How dare you?!"

Kai blinked innocently at the older boy, not understanding what he was talking about. Rei was fine. He looked slightly wrinkled and a little bit squished…but he was fine, wasn't he? It wasn't his fault he fell on Rei, why was Lee mad at him?

"I didn't hurt Rei-chan!" Kai cried stubbornly "It was the big buffoon-a!"

Tala giggled, this little kid was pretty cool. It made sense though, Rei was the best judge of character he had ever met.

"Wei-chan!! Wei-chan!!" The small pink-haired girl behind Lee gurgled, trying to jump up at him "Wei-chan!! Whee!!"

Rei chose to snuggle closer to Lee when this happened, small face etched with fear.

"It wasn't Kai's fault Lee-kun," Rei tried to explain "He was trying to protect me."

Lee looked skeptically at his little 'cousin' "Are you sure Rei-chan?"

"Absoplutey!" Rei grinned.

"Fine then." Lee replied, setting the tiny boy down, and leaving to get ready for school. Leaving behind the scary pink blob.

Poor Rei… and Kai… and Tala for that matter… wonder how this will turn out?