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Forth Chapter

Revelation

Kai saw a thing with bluish hair and a face that looked like the moon, eating a pile of food, which was laid on a picnic cover and became nothing in a few minutes. The Russian wasn't sure if this thing was human or just someone, who had a stomach like a whale; a tub without a bottom. It wouldn't surprise him if this 'person' would bite his hand off, if there wasn't anything else to wolf down on.

"Oh! Rei! Over here!" They saw the blonde boy again, waving manically with a broad grin on his lips while he motioned the 'boy' next to him to stop gobbling and to have a look at their new guests.

"Tyson! Look, Rei is coming with his boy friend o " But the raven haired waved a 'no' with embarrassment, took a place beside Max and began with making numerous signs with his hands, which Kai of course couldn't understand again. It seemed that the blonde boy had also the ability of the language of gestures and had this grin stuck on his face as always.

Kai's POV

Why did I have the feeling of being the sucker? Maybe due to the fact that I didn't have clue of what Rei and this sugar high boy, I think his name was Max since Rei has told me on the way to 'their' place, were talking about. But watching the other one with the dumb face I wasn't the only one, who couldn't understand them.

"Hi! My name is Tyson! Wanna eat something?" He offered me a piece of chocolate-cake which I simply ignored, since I hadn't the attention to speak with someone else.

"Hey! Are you also deaf and dumb like Rei?"

I span my head in his direction and glared down to him, feeling annoyed of his voice and his whole being.

"No, I'm not." I retorted and snatched his piece of cake out of his hand (Wohoo! First time we see Kai eating something sweet! . ) and started to eat it. I can't explain, why I behaved like this, but seeing how Rei is so happy with this guy with whom he can freely talk, it made me feel like boiling.

"Hey! You don't have to act that touchy! I'm also not able to talk with Rei like that! ò.ó " I still gazed at him down from my wheel chair while I ate this kinda tasty cake piece. At once a hand broke the eye contact between me and this glutton and waved up and down. I blinked at it annoyed and looked down to Rei, who sat there with this warm smile and made a few gestures. My face resembled a question mark.

"Rei said, if you don't want to join us on the cover - " translated Max for me and pointed to a free spot. I looked to the side and said in a huffish tone, that I wasn't interested in their little party, caused by this chubby boy a sulking-corner on his lips. Why I let myself be persuaded by Rei to come along with him at all although I strove against it?

"You don't want to be alone."

I twitched a little, hearing a voice from the side, and turned my head back to look into a charming smile from Rei. For a moment I thought he had spoken those words aloud when I noticed that it was Max' voice again.

"Rei said this because you've got this absent-minded stare. Is something worrying you at all?" I wanted to answer harshly again, if Rei didn't have this weird gaze on me, taking my voice. I let this drop and just shook my head.

At this moment a person came near, audible by the footsteps over the crunching gravel.

"Hello Kai! I've nearly forgotten your investigation you'll have by Doctor Fukuzawa. Come on, I'll take you to his consulting room . " Again this woman, who caused me and now also Rei so much trouble. Speaking of him I saw him looking at her contemptuously, which she responded with an excusing expression in her eyes, but he didn't give in for mercy. Her shoulders hung limp like cut off strings of a marionette and her features inclined to the ground like being pulled down with weights.

Being not affected I saw sadness flickering in her eyes and set in motion without saying something. She walked next to me and left Rei and the others behind, her head lowered like a guilt corroded criminal after his death-warrant. She was in many ways a bundle of nerves.

"Stop looking like that! If he had been really that pissed off of you, he would have simply ignored you." I stated ill-humoured and rolled energetically over the ramp into the entrance hall. "After all I don't think he's one of those people who are so resentful." I glanced in her direction and discovered this pitiful appearance again, which established firmly though and showed me her real nature again: head risen up and standing erect.

"And something more..." I got her full attention "...if there's something about Rei, then I want to hear it from his mouth and not from someone's else." She nodded timidly at my 'order' and finally attended to her job as nurse with taking the wheel chair and shoving me to the doctor. I heard her sighing with relieve.

Normal POV

Rei still sat next to Max and Tyson and was now in a bad mood. Seeing Sister Go wasn't quite pleasing for him which was what both boys noticed at once.

Rei, what happened to you and Go-chan?

Rei shook his head as a sign of not wanting to talk about this subject and took a sip of his plastic cup with orange juice. Max knew very well, that it was more than rare to see their friend with such a sour face, which is why he didn't let him got with this so easy. He took his head in both hands, since he refused to look in their direction, and said right in his face:

"Stop being that stubborn! Are we friends or not?!"

Rei gaped at him confused, didn't know why the blonde was so excited about him. He nodded slightly and took off his hands. Then he started to tell hesitantly his friends, with Max translating him for Tyson, what Sister Go almost blabbed out...his cruel secret.

"Oh, that's not good." said Tyson with a frown while he gorged another sandwich (Didn't he have indigestion a little while ago...? .; ).

Of course he and Max knew about Rei's true nature, that he was able to speak anyhow. But even they couldn't do anything to elicit a word from him. Nevertheless Tyson and Max could understand Rei's momentary situation.

"Do you actually want him to know this?" asked the blue haired seriously, feeling his hand squeezed by Max. Rei didn't 'answer' and took a Pocky stick (1) in his mouth corner. The quite happy atmosphere has turned into an indisposed silence, which seemed to be unbreakable, when a certain blonde couldn't bear this anymore.

Hey! Let me ask you one thing: Max thought over briefly Are YOU trusting him?

Max was aware, that his boy friend wasn't a master of the language of gestures, which is why it was not very fair in front of him to do this, but he also knew, that it was the only chance for Rei to be more 'spoken' up. Hesitating Rei raised his hands and explained:

Well, I don't really know if I can trust him, cause he doesn't want to trust me.

Tyson saw the concern in his eyes, but didn't mention something, knowing, that this would break the filmy contact between Rei and Max. He understood what Max was aiming for, which is why he kept still.

Rei: He's the first person in my whole life I can't quite get.

Max: And this makes you feel in a way powerless, right?

The neko-jin nodded like being in trance.

Max: Why didn't you talk with him about this?

Rei: About what?

Max: About the fact, why he doesn't want to trust you.

Rei: I didn't want to hurt him.

Max: And you think this can go on like this?

Rei shook his head vehemently. NO! Max saw his confusion and was likewise infected from it.

Suddenly he felt a tug at his shirt, looked to the side to Tyson, who implied him to come near therewith he could whisper something into his ear. Rei didn't notice their conversation because he had lowered his head in grief. But feeling a motion from the side he took a look and caught up some words from Max' lips till the blonde cupped it with his left hand.

"Really? Are you sure?" he read and saw the kinda shocked face of him.

'What has Tyson told him? =oO= ' He tapped on Max' shoulder to make him look again to his side. The freckled boy turned surprised to him and was now happier than before as though he has gotten a big ice cream cup and chocolate sauce.

"Rei! You will manage this. I know it! XD " And a cherry above all.

Now the raven haired was looking more than puzzled.

Rei: What did Tyson say, that you now act that weird?

=oO=

"You will find this out by yourself . " He gave the Chinese a little push. "Now go after him!" The neko-jin was visibly confused but obeyed Max' order.

At Fukusawa's consulting room

"Hm, 'kay lil boy, just say 'Aaah'." But Kai did not like that and sat there in his wheel chair with crossed arms and a glare like

'Don't touch me or I will bite your hand off!'.

For Kai it was waste of time and kid's stuff, apart from what he was treated like a child.

"sighs Come on, boy, just be nice and open your mouth." But Kai wasn't nice and turned his head away from the wooden thing which looked like the stick of a popsicle.

"Phew. Is he always like that?" applied Doctor Fukuzawa to Sister Go.

"Most of the time . "

All at once she felt something pulling at her white coat making her look around. Everything she saw was just a smile tugging on the Chinese's lips, what made her exceedingly glad. Apparently he had forgiven her .

"Oh! Hello Rei!"

Kai raised his eyes to Sister Go, seeing him stepping forth from behind her back. His mouth opened slightly in astonishment.

"Finally you cooperate! "

And yet the Russian had the stick on his tongue. "Aah!" He cried in surprise and looked back to the doctor (quite famous, this scene, ne? X3 ).

"Here we go! Was it that bad?" Kai just sent him about a half million of death glares to shut his mouth, but this left him cold.

"Now we have to get rid of your shirt. Please disengage yourself."

At one eye wink the slate haired cheek's flamed up red, thinking of Rei seeing him half naked. But since when was he so shy?

"Oh, Rei, could you maybe get me something to drink? Kai needs his pain-killers to swallow soon." Rei did what was told him and went after a glass with water.

"So, now you can take off your shirt o "

"No."

Silence for a moment. "No? Why?" Sister Go thought Kai didn't want to because Rei was there, but seeming this wasn't the only reason.

"What are you hiding from us?" asked Doctor Fukuzawa with a touch of seriousness in his low rough voice. Kai sighed a bit and pulled off slowly his white hospital shirt.

'It doesn't matter anymore.' Then sooner or later it couldn't be missed anymore.

Sister Go had to cup a hand over her mouth to suppress a small cry: The whole back of her patient was covered with welts; streams which flashed up red and lilac; many short ones and less as long as a half yard.

Scars, which will never leave him in his entire life.

How could a boy like him suffer so much? How could someone be so cruel to his own flesh?! Then it was obvious for Go-chan, that Kai got this pain from the same person like the laceration and the effusion.

"Ho..how..?" She wasn't able to continue her sentence since her throat felt like strangled.

"When I was taken to hospital, I insisted on changing my clothes on my own. And this went on till now so nobody has seen my marks." Kai stared at Doctor Fukuzawa, in his eyes a hidden question.

"We won't say anything to Rei nor to anyone else. It's my professional direction as a doctor." Kai nodded and let his eyes closed.

Yet it sufficed, that everyone has seen his scars at his upper arm, and he wanted to leave it like that. Especially Rei shouldn't know this...

At the time when he pulled off his shirt due to the attacks of our male nurse (snicker) his back turned off from Rei's sight, so that he only saw the scars on his arms.

"Okay, we're done with the examination." Doctor Fukuzawa put his stethoscope away and made some notes for his documents. "It's better to wear your shirt again in doing so Rei won't see them." said Sister Go in a lower voice and passed Kai his white top, which he pulled over a bit hastily.

Right this moment the mentioned came back with a smile gracing his face and gave Kai the wanted water. Without a word of gratitude the Russian accepted this and swallowed his given pain-killers unresisting, always with one eye to the raven haired, which still shone with his kindliness. He nearly got a bad feeling about his gross behaviour to him.

"What are you grinning for?" asked Kai in not such a big voice while he emptied his cup. Rei looked a bit helpless because he didn't know how to explain this to Kai without using his hands, since the slate haired has left his blotter in his room. "Ah, whatever."

Slowly he addressed himself to Doctor Fukuzawa, because his urge drove him to gratify his impatience.

"How long do I have to stay here?" It sounded like he wanted almost to break out of the hospital. "Well, we'll have to have a longer look on your leg and your newer injury at your head for avoiding any future problems." The doctor cleared once his throat "I guess you're out in about three weeks.

"What!" Now the slate haired had to stay one week more in this cage of sick people, always taking the fact in to consideration that his grandfather still can seize the opportunity to teach him another lesson. Not a very comforting feeling...

All of a sudden he snapped out of his thoughts when someone took his wheel chair and shoved him out of the consulting room back into his room. A glint over his shoulder told him, that it was Rei, who still had this soft smile, but didn't notice Kai's look. Apparently he was told by Sister Go to take Kai back.

He spaced out in a way, but was aware at the same time, that he didn't bump into someone with the vehicle.

Kai wanted to say something e.g. that he could go by himself, but...having a chauffeur wasn't also that bad (Sure... ).

The day drew to close and the sky coloured red, dipped Kai's room in a smooth orange and lightened it for the last time before the night came on with its dull dark blue. Rei was the whole time at Kai's side sitting on his bed and always tried to start a conversation with him, which was more or less successful.

Rei: How did you break your leg?

Kai: looks at him strange I climbed up in a tree and fell when the bough under my feet gave in.

=o.o=

Rei made the gesture of giggling, but apologized at once.

Rei: Sorry, but you don't really look like a booby. =.=

Kai: grumbles ...

Rei: Do you like climbing? Or why did you do these aecrobatics? =oO=

At this moment Kai kept silent for a while and avoided any eye contact, which of course didn't escape the neko-jin's notice. He just wanted to write, that he didn't have to answer to this, when he was interrupted by his vis-à-vis with snatching the note book away.

Kai: I've tried to flee from my grandfather's house.

And put it aside afterwards.

Now Rei's expression slipped off into a stunned one. He wasn't prepared to this. Kai was starting to trust him with telling him one of his concerns instead of writing to him, that it wasn't one of his businesses!

=o.o=

What. asked Kai with an annoyed (writing) character (Can I say this in that way? . ) and fanned a bit with his blotter before Rei's face. The Chinese woke up from his absent-mindedness and took puzzled the pad.

Rei: It's just

He stood still in his doing for a few secs.

Rei: I'm happy

Kai frowned at him with the question in his countenance, what made him so happy, till someone knocked at the door and opened it slightly. He turned to it to see Sister Go standing in the door frame, induced Rei to look in her direction too. She made some motions with her hands, what made him flinch for short.

Kai sensed this surely, but didn't ask about the matter. Then he saw a man stepping forth from the back of the nurse and reached out a hand for Rei's.

The man was about thirty, had dark short hair and bluish eyes, which seemed to be tired and lusterless. Not like his skin, radiating an almost white, that his skinny face showed up a kind of transparency. A very light smile lay on his lips, which were thin like a line.

Rei got off Kai's bed and walked slowly to this guy. He gripped the offered hand, waved the Russian a fast good bye, whereby he didn't dare to look at him properly, and went out of his room. At this he looked so small next to the lean man, as though he was 10 and not 16.

The door closed with a soft 'click' and left only Sister Go and her patient alone in the room. Kai still wondered, who this guy was, when his question was answered:

"That was Rei's father."

...

TBC

(1) You know those long salt crackers just without salt but with a chocolate or strawberry mantle? (watched "Gravitation" . )

A/N: Again it ended up with Go-chan and Mr. Coldheart X3 I hope it won't take long next time. And Devlinn: Never mind!!! XD