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Final Part.

Part 3: Rei - Imaginary.

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Two weeks had passed and Tala's condition still had not improved, fortunately, it had not deteriorated either. It had just ... stayed the same. He was still on the ventilator and hadn't regained consciousness, but the doctors were optimistic. Kai had stayed by his side the entire time, leaving only to go to the bathroom and when Bruce Granger had literally thrown him over his shoulder and taken him to get some rest.

Rei leaned against the door of Tala's ICU room, watching on sadly as Kai kept a civil watch at his bedside. He sighed dejectedly and pushed himself off of the doorframe and walked away.

After Kai had left with the doctor to see Tala, Mr. Dickinson had informed them to the current situation and how the Demolition Boys had gotten away from Boris.

His answer had shocked all of them.

"Voltaire had saved Tala!" Was the one question on everyone's mind.

According to Mr. Dickinson and the BBA, Voltaire had returned to the Abbey to reprimand Boris on his loss at the Championships and the reason why the Russian police is now hunting him down, but what he found, shocked him. Voltaire had discovered the brutal punishing of Bryan, Ian and Spencer at the hands of the guards and immediately sent them away. In an act of selflessness, he had called the police and ambulance to get them to the hospital, not realizing that by doing so, he had turned himself in.

Voltaire is an evil man, but even his wickedness had its limits, and torturing innocent children was it.

Apparently, Voltaire had long wanted to leave the Biovolt Corporation, but stayed on because he had invested his entire fortune in it. And to abandon it, would mean instant bankruptcy. Which was something a member of the Hiwatari clan knew nothing of.

Rei shook his head slowly; the idea of Kai's evil grandfather helping someone was still hard for him to believe. He told Kai about it a few days ago, but Kai didn't believe him, or he didn't want to believe him. Rei didn't know. Kai was such a mystery to him. From his past, the way he is and his family. But one thing he had been sure of for quite a while was that Kai had feeling for the redheaded captain of the Demolition Boys, and vice-versa.

Rei sighed, fully knowing that his feelings could not compare theirs, that he had no chance of getting Kai to return his feelings. But lately, the thought hadn't disappointed him as much as it used too, not since that day he had walked into Bryan's room. He had been admitted for a fractured pelvis, a few broken ribs, a concussion and some minor internal injury. Thankfully Voltaire gotten there when he had, or else ...

Rei shuddered at the thought. 'Boris is a creep.'

He had apologized profusely after accidentally tripping on a over turned IV stand and went sprawling into Bryan's room, though, the lilac haired blader had found it to be pretty funny and started snickering. Rei, who was pretty embarrassed at his entrance, just stayed on the ground too dumbfounded to move. After that they both had started talking, and Rei found that if he wasn't ordering his bit-beast to rip you to shreds, Bryan could be a pretty nice guy, much to the disbelief of the others, especially Tyson.

For two weeks now, Rei had visited Bryan where they both chatted. Bryan apologizing for nearly killing him three times, and Rei apologizing for Tyson, who still skeptic of Bryan and the others trustworthiness and kept peeking in and giving him odd looks a few times.

As the time passed, Rei found that the pain he felt was slowly going away. A new feeling was taking its place. Rei didn't know exactly what it was. It was like a fluttering feeling in the pit of his stomach, strangely enough, the feeling only came when he was around Bryan.

Unknown to him, he was slowly developing feelings for the lilac haired blader.

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It was time to celebrate. After four painful weeks, Tala had finally woken up.

Kai was ecstatic and this time, the feeling was one he couldn't conceal. His happiness showed on his features and in his body language. The team felt happy that their Captain was happy.

It had happened suddenly that morning. Rei had been there.

Kai, as usual, was seated next to the bed, keeping a vigil watch over his lover. Tala's hand constantly clutched tightly with Kai's own.

Rei shook his head sadly. Even though in the four weeks they had spent together, he had started to slowly develop feelings for Bryan, he could not help but feel a slight pang of jealousy every time he sees Kai's eyes shine with lust whenever he looked at Tala. Rei knew that he shouldn't, but somewhere deep within his heart, he had hoped that Tala would not survive. Then maybe, Kai would come to him for comfort, to help heal his broken heart. But every time those thoughts surfaced, Rei would shake them away. He knew, that if Tala were to leave this earth, Kai would follow him, and there was nothing anyone could do about it.

Rei sighed and was just about to turn to leave when he heard a shocked gasp coming from inside the room. His head snapped back, and saw to his astonishment, Tala's eyes were open. Kai was leaning over him, staring; too overcome with shock to speak. Rei moved his body too the right a bit so that he was hidden behind the wall and just watched them.

Kai just stared at Tala's icy blue orbs with disbelief, but as quickly as the feeling came, it was gone. Kai's eyes started to glimmer with happiness and unshed tears. His lips slowly curled into a smile.

"Tala ..." he whispered just loud enough for Tala's ears. Kai reached over and stroked his cheek with the back of his hand, "I missed you, Tala."

Rei watched them, sadly.

Tala's eyes also started to fill with tears, and he looked up at Kai.

Kai, unable to hold himself back anymore, leaned over and wrapped his arms around Tala and pulled him into a hug. Tala, too weak and injured to move, just let himself be hugged by the one person he had been dreaming of in his slumber. He felt cool droplets of water drip onto his hair and smiled. "I ... missed you too ... Kai ..." he whispered out, his voice hoarse, but Kai heard him nonetheless.

"Tala." Kai said, bring up Tala's face to meet his own. His usually blank face, shining with joy.

"Mmm?" Tala replied, feeling himself to drained to give an answer, and savoring the warm and safe feeling he was experiencing in Kai's embrace.

"I love you." He hugged Tala tighter, but at the same time, careful as to not aggravate his injuries. Although it had been four weeks, and most of the wounds were healed or were healing, Tala had suffered traumatic internal injuries as opposed to the others he received at the hands of the cruel director. Kai did not want to hurt Tala even further, so he was cautious of his own strength.

"... I love you too ..." Tala leaned back into the embrace, burrowing his face into Kai shirt and promptly fell into a peaceful slumber.

Kai looked down at sleeping figure of his lover, and rested his head on Tala's. He ran his fingers through the soft red strands and leaned back against the wall. With his hands still gripping Tala's form firmly, he too fell into a peaceful sleep. The first on he's had in a long time. His heart finally at peace, knowing that the love of his life, was finally safe and in his arms.

He would never let go again.

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Rei backed away slowly from the door, soft tears threatening to spill down his face. He knew Kai loved Tala. He thought he could handle it for when time came that Tala would get better, that Kai would take him and leave for a faraway place. He thought he was ready to hear the truth coming from Kai's mouth ... but he wasn't.

Each word uttered was like a double-edged sword stabbing him through the heart and was being twisted around. He shook his head, and with one look at the occupants of the room, he ran.

He didn't know where he was headed, nor did he care. He needed to get away from there as fast as he could. He ran around for then minutes, until his whole side started to burn. He finally stopped in a hallway when his heart could not take all the blood that was being pumped anymore, and felt like it was going to explode.

He looked around at the white, empty hallways, likening it to the state of his heart.

Rei took a deep breath. He could no longer hold in the sadness he felt. He leaned his back against the wall and slid down to the floor. He pulled his knees up to his chest and rested his face in the palm of his hands. He sobbed as the pain and anguish that he had been feeling over the past month finally coming back to plague him.

He wanted someone to be there to comfort him, to tell him that this wasn't the end of the world. But that one person wasn't there. He was never going to be there, and Rei was left all alone to drown in his misery. He felt like retreating back into his dreams, where Kai was his, and only his. The world he had built himself, to escape the harsh truth that was reality.

Because in reality ... he had no one ...

"Rei?"

His red, puffy eyes looked up slowly, only to stare into concerned lilac ones.

No ... he did have someone.

"Bryan ..."

His eyes started to water even more; he looked away and put his head back in his hands.

Bryan stood perplexed. Nothing that he had been thought at the Abbey had prepared him in how to handle raw human emotions. He didn't know what to do. He wanted so hard to do something, to comfort him in someway, but he didn't know how. It was never part of the training at the Abbey. He dug deep into his memory for something to help the situation.

He vaguely recalled something Ian had said a long time ago when they were still new to the Abbey.

"When I was sad ... my mom would hug me to make me feel better."

A hug. That was what Rei needed.

Bryan didn't know the reason for his distress, but subconsciously, he could guess. He kneeled down before the boy, and, though somewhat awkwardly, pulled him into a gently hug. Rei seemed a bit shocked at first, but soon eased up and leaned closer to Bryan, his head rested his shoulder. His breath hitched and he wiped his eyes with the back of his hand.

Bryan sighed. "It'll be okay." He whispered into Rei's ear and rubbed his back.

Slowly, the tears stopped flowing, and Rei began to feel a little better. He felt comfortable in Bryan's arms; it was like it had been made just for him. Bryan's strong arms held him tight, ensuring him no harm.

It was then, that Rei realized, that hard as it may be ... everything would get better.

--

Rei and Bryan stayed like that for what seemed like eternity. Rei, who had obviously tired himself out with the entire running and crying episode, fell asleep in Bryan's arms.

He sighed, for once agreeing with Boris. 'Emotions really are bothersome.' He looked back at the sleeping boy in his arms and shook his head, 'Kai ... you are such a heartbreaker.' He slipped his arms under Rei's legs and back, and slowly stood up, Rei still in his arms.

He looked down to the crutch under his armpit and sighed again. "How am I supposed to get back to the room?"

After a few tries, he decided to give up and just fell back into one of the plastic chairs that had been lined up there.

He looked down to the serene face of the boy, who he had almost killed, he mentally added. Rei looked so peaceful when he was asleep, as opposed to all the emotions swirling around in his eyes just a moment ago. When he thought back to the determined opponent he faced at the championships before, and back at the fragile looking figure in his arms, he would never have thought them to be the same person.

Rei had looked so calm and collected back then, but just now ... Bryan shuddered at the thought of what emotions could do to someone. He could not help but imagine himself in Rei's place, sobbing like there was no tomorrow, just because the person he loved did not return those feelings back. Bryan knew how Rei felt, more so than the boy could ever imagined.

He too loved someone who didn't love him back. Bryan, though, was not as distraught as Rei. He had always known that you couldn't always have what you want. He believed that.

Tala's heart is and will always belonged to Kai.

A sudden stirring in his arms caught his attention. He looked down to the golden eyes of Rei.

Rei blushed crimson and stood up. He took a seat next to Bryan, not daring to look at the other boy, or too ashamed.

Bryan smirked. "You're not the only one that that's happened to."

"What?" Rei asked confused, his eyes looked at Bryan for a second before turning away when he turned to him.

"Kai."

"Oh ..." Rei looked at his feet.

Bryan's gaze lingered on him for a long second before standing up. "Let's do lunch."

"Huh?" Rei was half-shocked at the sudden change in subject.

"Lunch. You know, when you eat food during the day, so that you don't starve before you get to dinner," he raised an eyebrow, "do you know food? It's the –"

"I know what lunch and food is." He replied, standing up.

"Good. Then lets go get some. I'm starving." Bryan winked at him cheekily.

Rei just stared at the retreating form of Bryan, puzzled, but soon smiled weakly and dried off his puffy eyes.

Yes ... he could get through this.

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Two weeks later, the Tala was finally fit enough to leave the hospital. The other three had already left the previous week, but the doctor wanted to keep Tala longer for observation. He had no complaints for the matter since Kai had agreed to keep him company.

Mr. Dickinson had rented four rooms at the finest five star hotel rooms available for the boys to stay while waiting for Tala to be released.

Now that Boris had been arrested, and set to start the beginning of his fifty-year jail sentence, the Abbey had been shut down. All the boys were sent home, and those who didn't have a home, were put in a special orphanage that was sponsored by the BBA.

Voltaire had been given a lighter sentence due to him turning himself in, and because of the statement that Mr. Dickinson had given at the trial. He was sentenced to twenty years in prison, but was eligible for parole after ten. All of his assets were left to Kai, as was the Abbey. Kai handed it over to the BBA to be reconstructed as a training place for amateur bladers. He didn't want to ever be associated with the place ever again.

Ian and Spencer stayed in one room. Tyson, Kenny and Max in the other. Rei had insisted he have his own room, which he shared with Bryan.

Mr. Dickinson only snickered cheekily when Rei had walked up to him, blushing greatly, and stuttered out his request. Unbeknownst to Rei, he had known of the boys' feelings towards Kai, and could only watch sadly as he fell deeper into his misery whenever anyone mentioned Kai and Tala. Mr. Dickinson cared deeply for his team, though, Kai a little more than others since he had known him the longest. But he still felt whenever one of them was sad.

But ever since Bryan's appearance, Rei had not been as sad as Mr. Dickinson had seen him earlier. He had been pretty shocked at first when Rei had asked for Bryan to be his roommate, truth be told, seeing as their first encounter hadn't been the most pleasant of the kind. But love had always a strange way of making itself known.

They were now all gathered at the airport, prepared for their final goodbyes as most of them were going their separate ways.

Kai and Tala (as Rei had expected) decided to leave for New Zealand where Voltaire had a summer home. Ian and Spencer were going with them, seeing as they had no other place to go. Kai finally believed that Voltaire had turned a new lead, and before going to the airport, he had taken another route and went to visit him in the Lubyanka, a Russian prison where he was serving his sentence. Kai had thanked him, for saving Tala, and agreed to come visit him from time to time.

Voltaire in turn, had apologized profusely for his actions, because he was too greedy and selfish to realize. He apologized because when he did realize that his actions meant dire consequences for others, it had been to late to take it all back. Kai was touched by the amount of emotions his normally strict grandfather was showing, that he momentarily let his guard down ... saying that when the time came that Voltaire had completed his sentence, there was a possibility of rekindling their lost relationship. Kai was, in fact, Voltaire's only living blood relative, and vice-versa.

Because, as Kai realized, no matter how much he hated Voltaire, there was somewhere deep in his heart where he knew, he still cared about his grandfather.

"Make sure you take some photos of the Lord of the Rings locations." Max chirped up. Kai just sighed at the over ecstatic boy and nodded.

Max was going with his mom back to America for a few months. His dad was already there.

"I'm really looking forward to some good old ramen." Said Tyson rubbing his stomach.

Tyson and Kenny were returning to Japan. Along with Mr. Granger and Bruce. Since his contract with the BBA research expedition had expired, he decided to spend more time with Tyson to get to know him better.

Mr. Dickinson said that he had business to take care of in South East Asia, and will soon drop by to see the boys when he was done.

"I'll miss you guys."

Rei ... well ... he had managed to talk Bryan into returning with him to China. The boy had been hesitant at first, but after some begging on Rei's part, he agreed. Some down-to-earth, technology free atmosphere was something that he needed to get himself into shape.

Rei looked over to Kai and saw that Tala's hand was grasped firmly in his own. For once, Rei noted that he didn't feel anything ... not anger, nor jealousy. To him, now, they were just a couple, like him and Bryan. His relationship with Bryan was going slowly, but at least it was going. That's the reason whey he insisted Bryan return with him, so that he could spend more time with him ... alone.

The time had come. Kai flight was leaving the same time as his was.

He hugged a tearful Max and Tyson. "Don't worry, guys, it's not like we won't see each other anymore."

Tyson then went over to Bryan and held his hand out. Bryan smirked, but took it anyway.

"Guys ..."

The three of them turned to Kai.

"Watch yourself –" He managed to say before Max and Tyson jumped over and hugged him. He just sighed exasperatedly and allowed them to do so.

"That's really cute, Kai." Tala snickered from beside him.

"Are you jealous, Tala?" Kai mocked him playfully.

"No –"

"Of course he is. This is Tala we're talking about," Bryan walked up next to Tala and smirked at him, "I'm surprised anyone actually dared to lay a hand on his Kai?"

"Shut up, Bryan."

"See, Kai?" he nudged his head in Tala's direction.

FLIGHTS 619 FOR NEW ZEALAND NOW BOARDING AT GATE NUMBER THREE AND FLIGHT 752 FOR CHINA NOW BOARDING AT GATE NUMBER SEVEN.

"That's you, boys." Mr. Dickinson said to Kai, Tala, Spencer and Ian then Rei and Bryan

"Take care of yourself, Bryan." Tala held his hand out.

Bryan took it graciously. "You too, Cap."

"Watch yourself, Bry." Kai nodded to him.

"I'd say the same to you, Blue. And don't do it, too much." Kai elbowed him in the stomach, but had an amused look on his face.

After they had all said their goodbyes, Kai and his group left for gate three while Rei and Bryan in the opposite direction.

A few meters into their way, Rei stopped and turned back. Bryan looked on, puzzled at his action.

"Kai!" he jogged up to him.

"Huh?" Kai turned back.

"I ..." Rei looked like he was making his mind up about something. Suddenly, Rei leaned over and gave him a peck on the cheek.

Kai looked shocked at his actions, but before he could do or say anything, Rei just grinned and ran back to Bryan, without looking back.

"What was that about?" Kai looked at Tala.

Tala just sighed exasperatedly and looked at him. "You really don't realize?"

"Realize what?"

Tala just shook his head and walked away, Ian and Spencer followed, sniggering, leaving the confused Kai staring at their retreating form.

"Tala!"

"Satisfied?" Bryan asked when Rei reached him.

"Pretty." He smiled and took Bryans hand in his own and led him to the plane.

On the plane, Kai was still bugging Tala about his answer before. Tala just shrugged it off and continued his staring out the window. After a few more tries, Kai gave up and leaned back in his seat.

Tala turned his attention to Kai, his eyes glinting deviously. He leaned over to Kai, and Kai, fully knowing what was about to happen, smirked and leaned closer to him.

While on the other plane, the same thing was going on with Rei and Bryan.

The two couples got in closer to each other, their noses almost touching and in a split second, they kissed.

Soul met soul on lover's lips.

The End.