Chapter Seven

Battle with the conscious

Ray awoke when he could feel the younger teen move underneath his arm. Ray looked down to Tyson's tear drenched face. It took him awhile to get the broken hearted boy to sleep. He had so many questions, which Ray wasn't ready to answer, this was the kind of thing that he needed Kai for. Kai was the strong one; he was the one that they all depended on, for support in tuff situations.

Slowly and as softly as he could he moved away from Tyson. He didn't want to wake him up as he new it would be difficult for the teenager to start a brand new day with the knowledge he has.

"I hope that you will find the peace that you need, Dragon," Ray said softly said as he quietly left the room to go in search of his love.

Ray walked down the hall and past Kenny's room until he got to his own which Kai and he shared. When he opened the door and walked in, the room was flooded with sunshine.

Once Ray's eyes adjusted to the light, he noticed that Kai wasn't in their bed. He walked over the bathroom to see that he wasn't in there either. Ray walked out of the room and down stairs and looked into the lounge room to see that one of Kai's navy blue shirts rested on an armchair.

"Dranzer!"

Ray turned to look to the kitchen, as he knew beyond that was a phoenix trying to win. Ray smiled and looked around the lounge room to find his blade, and left out the front door to go around the back to surprise Kai.

"Dranzer!" Kai shouted as he released his blade into the dish. Kai shook his head; he knew that he shouldn't be thinking about backing out now, not after he told Ray that they had to let things out in the open. "I can't. I won't, I can't let myself push these things back into the past like I have done before."

Kai readied his blade to release it again into the dish that was situated in front of him. He closed his eyes as he took a deep breath as the wind cooled off his sweaty body that was exposed, as readied himself. The Bladebreakers had a competition coming up, and Kai wasn't going to force anyone to train, not after all that they had been through, he would wait until everyone thought that themselves were ready to come back and train.

Kai opened his eyes and starred at the dish then stood in position to release his blade. 'Dranzer will be ready. He always ready for everything.' Kai released his blade, with it hitting the bottom of the dish and began to spin.

Ray looked at Kai deep in thought, he had always wondered what he thought about, sometimes he thought it would be scary to be Kai. Always in control, always knowing what was wrong and what was right, he thought that Kai never really had a life.

Ray saw Kai ready his blade. 'This is my chance,' he thought as he also readied his blade from where he stood.

He saw Kai release his blade with a grunt. 'Time to dance with the Drigger Kai.' Ray released his blade with as much force as he possible could. 'You can do this Drigger, I know you can.'

Kai watched his blade silently, and was shaken from his concentration when he heard what sounded like another blade come towards the dish. As it hit the bay stadium he noticed that the blade belonged to the tiger that had haunted his thoughts. "Ray," he breathed as he looked around him to notice the teen near the wall behind him.

"I guess you don't always have the sixth sense," Ray said walking over to the dish, where Kai was standing.

Kai looked back to where Ray's and his blade were battling. He couldn't look at Ray, as his heart and head began to fight with one another.

"I think is time that we had that talk," Ray said as he too looked into the bay stadium.

As Ray looked he noticed that Dranzer was out of control. He was spinning at a rapid rate and was losing balance as he spun around the dish.

Ray looked in surprise as he looked to Kai that was also looking at his blade. In theory the blades energy usually flowed from it's keepers emotions, and Kai's emotions where usually in tacked due to his training from the abbey. "Kai?"

Kai looked at Ray, whereby his blade flew out of the bay stadium and into a tree.

Both the bladers looked at the tree where Dranzer landed.

"Kai what is going on?" Ray asked wondering if he had finally cracked due to all emotion around him.

"Nothing," he said as he gained his composure and walked over to tree where his blade was imbedded. "I think I'm just having a bad run today."

"Are you sure?"

Kai looked at Ray and smiled to him, trying to cover what was beginning to break him inside.

"Are you not telling me something?" Ray asked knowing that there was something wrong with Kai.

"Can you please stop asking me that," Kai said as he came over to Ray and leaned down and gave him a quick kiss on his lips. "There is nothing wrong with me. I just came out here for a quick blade to think."

Ray looked at him as if he wasn't telling the truth.

Kai kissed him again. "Now if you're done with the twenty questions, I'm going to take a shower."

"Yeah sorry, I just thought there was something that you need to talk about," Ray said as he placed a hand on Kai's sweaty chest and he felt the muscles move under his hand.

"No problem. We look out for other in the time of need, you just thought it was my time, so there is not biggie," Kai said as he picked up the hand that Ray had placed on his chest. "Now it is my time to go and have a shower, so I'll see you later ok." Kai kissed his hand then walked up the steps and went into the house were he continued his way up the stairs and into Ray and his room and went to have the shower.