Chapter Four

A lie that you know is true.

"What?" Tyson didn't really know what else he could say. 'What are they talking about? Is this some kind of joke?'

"Tyson I'm so sorry," Ray got up and put a reassuring hand on his shoulder.

"Get away from me," Tyson said moving away from Ray. "I don't know what you three are playing at, but I want you to stop it now!"

In the background you could hear silent sobs coming from where Kenny was sitting. Knees huddled close, trying to hide from what was happing around him.

"And you stop your crying there is nothing to cry about!" Tyson yelled pointing over to where Kenny was sitting. "Max is alive I know it!"

"Hey don't yell at him, you have no idea what he has been through. What we have all been through, over these past weeks. No idea," Kai told him as he stood up to talk to the angered blader. "We have tried so hard to come to terms with Max's death as much as we possibly could."

"You're lying!" Tyson cried.

"No we're not!" Kai yelled back as he saw that Ray had too started to cry.

"You are, you stupid fuck you're lying..."

"Were not Tyson don't you understand we were there! We were saw the whole thing happen! We were there to see Max to draw his last breath! We were fucking there" Kai said noticing that he had started to cry again.

Tyson collapsed to the ground. Ray, Kenny and Kai crying that was enough to show him that the boy that he loved, his Max was dead. But how, how could this happen to his Maxie.

Everyone watched on as they saw the blue-headed blader collapse to his knees. Shock starting to set in, as he knew that they were all telling the truth about their teammates death.

Kai walked over to stand near Ray, who was now uncontrollably crying. "It's going to be ok," Kai, said putting a hand around Ray's waste.

Ray turned to look at Kai and in a quite voice said. "No its not."

Kai looked at Ray with shock. Only a few moments ago he had said that he would try and put a side the feelings of wanting to kill himself, to stand tall and help everyone else with the death of their dear friend.

Fresh tears began to form in Ray's eyes as he lowered his head.

"Ray I..."

Ray no longer wanted to hear him talk; he no longer wanted to hear the painful sobs of Kenny at the other end of the room. Ray pushed Kai away from him and run up the stairs running towards the room that he and Kai shared.

"Ray!" Kai shouted as he moved to go follow him, but stopped as he heard Tyson begin to speak.

"How could this possibly happen, Max was perfect...he was" Tyson sobbed as he put his head in his hands.

Kai wasn't sure how to handle this, he wasn't used to all this emotion, and he wasn't trained for this. 'Get me out of here!' his head screamed as he headed out the back door to leave all the boys to there own sadness as he dealt with the feelings inside that he had to get rid of.

Kai screamed as loud as he could, falling to his knees in the process. Letting every feeling of emotion that was in him pour out. He could no longer handle the crying, the continuous sobs that he heard from Ray during the night, any of it. "Why can't this all go away? Why can't this go back to the way it was?"

Kai looked out beyond the garden that was situated in front of him, to the lake. Kai Remembered happy memories, from times when the team had won tournaments, when they spent so much time together.

Flash Back

"Tyson you're getting distracted! Concentrate!" Kai yelled from the wall that he was leaning against to watch Tyson and Max battle it out in Tyson backyard dish.

"Of course I'm getting distracted, you keep yelling at me. How can anyone concentrate with that!" Tyson shouted back as he watched his blade get knocked around by Max's Draseal.

"Can you two cool it I'm trying to win here," Max said as he watched his blade try and knock Tyson's blade out of the dish.

"Not so fast," a voice said as a blade came flying out of nowhere to land in the dish and to knock out Max's Draseal.

"What the...?" Max said as he looked around to see where the unknown blade could of come from.

As Max continued looking for where the blade had come from he still had no idea. Until he looked over to Kai.

"It's to bad that all cats hate water," Kai said as he produced his Dronzer and set it to launch into the dish.

Max new exactly what Kai meant by that statement and went in search for the hose.

Kai launched his blade into the dish knocking Tyson's blade out wanting to take this battle for himself.

"Oh come on man, I was just starting to beat this guy," Tyson said as he went to pick up his blade.

"I will finish it," Kai said with a slight smirk, as he knew that the white tiger that they all knew would get his just deserts.

"Well I hope you have fun then," Tyson said with a bit of a sigh as he saw what max was doing out of the corner of his eye.

Max was now right behind the tree that the tiger was sitting in to watch his blade knock around Dronzer.

"Now Max!" Kai shouted as Max hit Ray with the cold water and Kai knocked Drigger out of the dish.

With the force of the water Ray was knocked out of the tree that he was sitting in and fell on an unaware Tyson.

"Hey that was cold," Ray said as he was still sitting on Tyson.

"Well that is what you get for interrupting a battle that you were not meant to be participating in," Kai said walking over to Tyson and Ray.

"Hey get off me!" Tyson shouted from underneath Ray, pushing him off in the process.

"Here let me help you up," Kai said as he held out a hand for Tyson and helped him up. Then held a hand out for Ray.

"Who's idea was it for the water," Tyson said with a shiver as he turned around to look at Max.

"Kai's," Max said squirting the water at Tyson getting Kai and Ray in the process.

"Great now its your turn," Ray said pulling Kai down to the ground.

As they rolled around for a bit on the ground getting extremely wet and muddy, Ray eventually won being on top. As Ray sat there for a moment with Kai under him, he smiled.

Kai went to say something, but before he could Ray moved in and planted his lips on Kai's.

End of Flash Back

Kai smiled these were the good times. The first time him and Ray had kissed, the moment that had changed him for good.