Authoress' Notes: Finally…the last chapter! It's a Halloween fic that's taken me a long time to write! U Eh heh… Anyway, this one just wraps things up, and there is a LEMON, but not if you're reading this on ff. net. shrugs Sorry, but I don't wanna get booted again for that. So see below for where to go for the adult content…and be advised that if you're underage, I am not responsible for you!

Disclaimer:Don't own! Don't sue!

Warnings:Yaoi, language, fluffiness, etc. FanFiction. Net readers: if you're looking for the NC-17 version of this fic, go to either my homepage (see my bio), Only TyKa Hotness, Mediaminer. org (FireKali), or Aff. Net (Yami FireKali) – though I haven't gotten that far yet…sorry about that.

Pairing:TyKa! Hints of ReMa and Kenny/Hilary, too.

Hallowed

Part 07

The team trained until nearly 9 pm that evening. When it was done, Tyson was just so worn out that he simply stripped down to his boxers and crawled under his covers, collapsing into a near-dead sleep with little effort.

Kai, on the other hand, was still very much awake. Still, he decided it would be better if he got as much rest as he could so he wouldn't be yawning at the tournament in the morning.

With that decided, the dual-haired blader had a quick shower and changed into his night clothes. When he got back out to the bedroom, however, he had to stop and look back and forth between the two beds.

Oh, the temptation. He thought wryly, sweatdropping at his own indecision. I really should avoid it, and sleep in the other bed…but I just know if he wakes up and I'm not in bed with him, he'll jump to the wrong conclusion and freak out on me. Kai watched Tyson sleep a moment longer then sighed resignedly. It had sounded like no more than an excuse, even to him – and a really lame one at that.

Admit it. He told himself, going to the occupied bed and gently shoving Tyson over a bit so he could slide in with him. I want to be close to him as often as possible and I want to sleep with him – even if its only to sleep this time. Settling onto his side, facing Tyson, Kai sighed and relaxed, closing his eyes and waiting for sleep to claim him.

Hell. I'm so hopeless when it comes to you, Tyson. Was his last thought before he fell completely asleep.

He was jolted awake the next morning by the shrill ringing of the phone. Kai grumbled a curse under his breath and reached out, grabbing the phone and listening to the pre-recorded message of the hotel's wake-up call before slamming it back down again and reaching blindly for the covers to yank them up over his head again.

Discovering that took too much effort, he gave up and just lay there in a state of half-wakefulness.

However, the crimson-eyed phoenix was slowly becoming more and more aware, and eventually he noticed there was a familiar weight pressed to his back as he lay on his stomach. That weight shifted when he groaned, and Kai cracked open an eye owlishly when he felt Tyson's soft lips dropping small, loving kisses slowly over his shoulders and to the nape of his neck.

"Tyson…what are you doing?" He mumbled into the pillow, not moving a muscle.

"Hmm…saying good morning, my love." The bluenette replied between kisses. A calloused hand joined in the 'greeting' and slid under the bottom hem of Kai's tank-top, slowly stroking circles over Kai's bare back. "I like waking up next to you, Kai."

"Are you always this cheerful and affectionate in the morning?" Kai inquired in a sleep-roughened voice.

"Couldn't tell you. I've never had a significant other to sleep with, before." Tyson smiled against Kai's shoulder blade. "Want me to stop and leave you alone?" He asked after a pause, removing his hand from under Kai's shirt.

The older teen blew out a breath and rolled over to face Tyson. He reached out and slid an arm around Tyson's waist, pulling the shorter teen closer to him and resting his forehead against Tyson's.

"No, I don't want you to stop." He murmured, kissing the tip of Tyson's nose. "But we can't start something we won't have time to finish. That's the problem." Kai felt obligated to point out that little glitch, then proceeded to memorize his dragon's facial features with his lips, brushing soft kisses across dark blue eyebrows, over closed eyelids, and down across Tyson's cheek. Tyson made a husky purring noise and rolled them both over so that Kai was on his back with the bluenette straddling his waist and lying chest to chest on top of him.

Pouting, Tyson ran his fingers through Kai's dual-shaded hair. "No fair. Couldn't we let the others sleep in? Just this once?"

Kai shook his head, staring up into sexy, sleep-heavy blue orbs that were darkened to a smoky blue-grey with love and desire as they stared back. "Sorry, love. I'd really like to say 'yes,' but…"

The bluenette sighed and smiled reassuringly. "It's okay. There will be plenty of time soon. I can wait."

Kai smiled back. "I promise it will be sooner rather than later, Tyson. Now…go have a shower and get dressed while I go wake everyone else up." He instructed, patting Tyson on the backside and grinning when the younger blader gave him a mock glare and wriggled against that hand in reaction.

"I thought you said we didn't have time to play." Tyson smirked, dipping his head to capture Kai's mouth in a lusty kiss. He felt Kai's hand on his butt squeeze and broke away with a laugh, fighting back the covers and crawling off the bed and his boyfriend before temptation could overwhelm them both and they forgot that they had someplace to be. Grabbing his clean clothes, Tyson disappeared into the bathroom for a shower.

Kai ran a hand through his rumpled hair and took a few moments to fight off his raging hormones. Then he got dressed and went off to wake the rest of his team up and get them moving.

The tournament was a short and sweet one for the team. They won their matches, and enjoyed them immediately, even if they were only exhibition matches and not official competitions. Max had practically wrapped himself around Rei when he'd won his own match against Aaron from Barthez' Battalion – though that was normal. They had been with each other for long enough now that everyone was accustomed to it. Tyson, on the other hand, was able to use that impossible strength of will he possessed to keep from attaching himself to Kai when he won his own match against Johnny from the Majestics.

And Kai, realizing that Tyson was restraining himself for his sake, couldn't help bestowing a small smile on the dragon.

After it was all done, the team returned to the hotel to get ready for a banquet being held that evening.

"You don't have to get all dressed up, Tyson. It's just a meal." Kai watched his boyfriend go through a fit of fashion crisis, taking clothes out of his bags and tossing them all over the room as he tried to find something he wanted to wear. His eyes widened as a pair of brief underwear landed at his feet, and for some reason he felt a bubble of laughter well up. Kai snickered, covering his mouth with a hand to try and hide his own amusement.

"Do you like this shirt, or this?" Tyson held up two different shirts. Kai just looked at him and the bluenette made a frustrated scream in his throat and tossed both on the bed on top of the growing pile. "You're lots of help! Mr. I'm-always-in-style."

Kai smirked. "It's a gift."

"Argh!"

"Okay, okay. Calm down and come here, Tyson." Kai stood and held out his hands. Pouting, Tyson walked over and allowed Kai to push him down on the bed to sit. "Let me see…" he began going through Tyson's clothes and the bluenette watched with reluctant interest. Kai was making questioning noises at some items, sounding sort of baffled.

"You have strange taste, Kinomiya." He shook his head and handed a pair of black jeans and a couple different shirts. "Here. Put those on."

"Um…okay." Tyson complied, stripping down to his underwear and changing into the ones Kai had picked. When he finished, he stood and looked down at himself dubiously. "Are you sure?"

Kai unconsciously licked his lips and crossed the floor littered with Tyson's clothes to lean in and kiss the dragon lustfully. When he pulled away, he straightened a dazed Tyson's shirt collar and said casually, "Does that answer your question?" Then he grabbed his jacket and walked to the door.

Blowing out a breath, Tyson slipped into his shoes and hurried after his captain.

It wasn't only bladers at the banquet. There were various BBA representatives and officials present, also, as well as some local politicians and a few other people Tyson had no clue who they were.

Dinner was served, and conversations flowed over the tables as the teams ate.

"So what exactly happened in Salem, anyway?" Max asked at one point. He gained the attention of the Blitzkrieg Boys and the Majestics, who were seated at the same table as the Bladebreakers.

"Salem? So that's where you two disappeared to this weekend." Robert gave Tyson a disappointed look. "And here I was hoping to get in a battle with you, Tyson."

"Sorry, Robert. But hey! I promise you we'll get one in sometime soon." Tyson grinned eagerly.

"I'll hold you to that, Tyson."

"Wait…" Tala raised a red eyebrow at them. " 'You two?' Who went with Tyson?"

"I did." Kai answered with typical shortness. He continued eating as if he hadn't said a word. Tyson smiled peacefully and took a bite of his chicken.

"He practically insisted on it, too – well, as much as Kai insists on anything." Max grinned wickedly. Kai paused in cutting up his food and gave the blonde a hard glare.

"I did not. Clam up, Mizuhara, or a certain neko-jin is going to be very lonely tonight because you'll be on the couch."

"Hey! I didn't do anything!" Rei protested. Max made a zipping motion across his lips and turned his attention back onto his plate.

Tyson nudged Kai under the table and met his crimson gaze when it turned on him. "Lighten up, Kai. Quit threatening your team."

"Shut up, and eat, Tyson." Kai forked up a large bite of Tyson's food and shoved it in his mouth when the bluenette opened it to make a scathing retort. The phoenix went back to his own food, satisfied that the conversation was being dropped when the others laughed and made comments about their typical squabbles, forgetting about the hints of a deeper relationship between him and Tyson as they did. Tyson frowned around his fork and pulled it out of his mouth, chewing petulantly.

A few covert glances were exchanged, however, but no one dared comment on anything. No one liked a pissed off Kai, after all.

The meal ended and the mingling began an hour later. It went on and on, and while Kai didn't mind seeing old friends and rivals, he was getting to the point where the only thing he wanted to do at the moment was throw Tyson over his shoulder and haul him up to their room.

Gods. He groaned at his own thoughts and watched Tyson from across the room as the chatted with Miguel from Barthez' Battalion, Oliver, Mariah, and the F-Dynasty twins, Julia and Raul. What am I? A caveman? No…I'm a hell of a lot smarter than that. Let's see…how to get Tyson upstairs? This calls for strategy…

Five minutes later, strategy formulated, Kai left the wall he was holding up and wandered across the room toward Tyson.

"Welcome, Kai!" Oliver greeted him as he approached, and the bluenette glanced back over his shoulder at his boyfriend. "Care to join us?"

The phoenix gave a short nod. "For a moment. I'm going in a few minutes, I think." He stopped beside Tyson and waited.

"We were reminiscing." Mariah smiled. "The last Worlds were so exciting!"

Kai merely nodded and listened. When he felt that everyone's attention was away from him once more, he picked Tyson's pocket, taking the dragon's hotel key-card and slipping it into his pocket after sticking on a post-it note he'd written a message on earlier. Again, he listened and waited.

When the conversation got boring, Kai made a show of checking his watch and looked at Tyson.

"I'm leaving, Kinomiya." He said in Tyson's ear.

"Oh! Okay." Tyson looked up at him. Kai took out the key-card and held it in front of storm grey-blue eyes so Tyson could see the note. "What…?"

"Be more careful, Kinomiya. I found that on the floor." Kai lied smoothly. "It would be very bad if you lost it."

Tyson flushed and nodded, taking the card and reading the note. His eyes widened and he put the card back in his pocket. "Yeah, it's mine alright. Thanks, Kai. I'll be more careful."

"Good. Good night, everyone." Kai briefly nodded at the group of bladers in farewell and turned, walking away.

A thrill of anticipation ran through the dragon as he thought about the note, and he shifted restlessly on his feet.

Wait 5 min. then meet at elevator.

He waited four minutes.

Making up some sort of excuse, like he had to go to the washroom, Tyson left the group of his friends and disappeared.

Tyson slipped out of the room without anyone noticing. He moved quickly through the halls of the hotel until he reached the bank of elevators in the hotel lobby, and pressed the 'up' button.

Tapping a foot impatiently, he glanced at a clock on the wall, kitty-corner to where he stood. The elevator pinged, drawing his attention back to it, and the doors swished open – revealing his patiently waiting, dual-haired boyfriend. Smiling, Tyson stepped inside and the doors swished shut behind him.

Kai pushed the button for their floor. "Hi." He murmured. "Any trouble getting away."

"Nope. I told them I had to 'go to the washroom,' and I'll just not come back." Tyson winked and stepped up close to Kai, reaching up to straighten his jacket lapels. "That was very sneaky of you, by the way."

"Hmm?" Kai made a questioning noise, pulling out Tyson's hair tie and combing his fingers through it, admiring the texture of the silken, blue-black strands.

"I didn't know when you managed it, but taking my key-card and pretending you found it to slip me that note was very clever." Tyson complimented him, sliding his hands back behind Kai's head and drawing him down a little so he could brush his lips across the phoenix's tantalizingly.

"Thanks. I have my moments." Kai muttered lowly and tried to press his mouth to Tyson's more firmly, but the bluenette pulled away just as the doors opened again to their floor.

"We're here. Come on, love." Tyson dropped his hands and took Kai's in his grasp, leading him down the hall to the door to the Bladebreakers' suite.

Tyson took out his key-card, pulled off the post-it note and crumpled it up to throw away later, then unlocked the door. It was difficult, however, because he was thoroughly distracted by the hands on his hips and the hot breath wafting against his skin at the curve of his neck, where Kai had buried his face from behind Tyson.

"The card goes in there, Tyson." Kai breathed huskily, pointing at the lock-box next to the door on the wall. Tyson rolled his eyes and managed to ignore the phoenix long enough to slide the card in and open the door when the little green light signalled the door was unlocked.

"Happy, oh smart-assed one?"

"No." Kai replied, nudging Tyson inside and closing the door behind them. "I won't be happy until we're naked and rolling around on a bed." He nearly purred that statement, shrugging out of his coat and quickly hanging it up in the suite's coat closet. Tyson sighed, blushing, and took off his shoes. Then he waited for Kai to do the same before pushing him up against the wall and capturing his mouth in a needy, passionate kiss that Kai immediately responded to, moaning in his throat and fisting his hands in Tyson's hair.

"You…don't know…" Tyson ground out between kisses. "…how badly…I've…God, you taste good…uhn…wanted this…Kai…"

"Oh yes…mmm…Tyson…I do." Kai returned against the bluenette's lips. He gasped and let his head fall back, allowing Tyson access to his neck when he felt his hands slip under his shirt and his fingertips slide just under the waistline of his pants, teasing. "I want this, too, Kinomiya." He sighed in disappointment when those hands were removed and the soft lips at his neck left him.

"That's good." Tyson chuckled and grasped Kai's hand, twining their fingers together and pulling Kai down the hall to their bedroom. "Come on, love."

A/N: See above for places to find NC-17 material!!!! However, none of it will be posted until Jan. 09 or 10!

Sometime later, after Kai had passed out beside him, Tyson had to get up and get something to drink. So he slipped out of bed and tucked Kai back into the covers, grinning when the phoenix made this cute little noise and snuggled into the warm spot Tyson had left behind.

Putting on a pair of boxers and his sleep-shirt, Tyson yawned and stretched as he quietly snuck out of the room and went down the hall to the kitchenette. He was pouring himself a glass of water when the door to the suite opened and the remainder of his team mates walked in.

"Tyson! There you are!" Max got this huge look of relief on his face and glomped the bluenette. "We were worried because we couldn't find you anywhere!"

"Huh? Kai and I were tired so we came up to go to bed. I mean, come on, guys…" Tyson shied away from the stony looks from Hilary, Rei and Kenny. "It's nearly 2:30 in the morning. You guys stayed down at the banquet really late."

"For your information, Kinomiya Tyson," Hilary scolded with a dark scowl. "We were out searching for you for the last hour or so! Oliver said you'd gone to the bathroom and never came back, and we got worried!"

"Uh…whoops. I'm sorry!" Tyson waved his hands defensively. "I ran into Kai and we decided to go to bed. It's been a long day and we're still tired from Salem, too…"

Rei sighed and patted the younger blader on the shoulder. "Okay, well, next time make sure you tell one of us before you just disappear like that. No harm done."

"Yeah." Kenny agreed, adjusting his glasses. "Now, I think we should all go to bed. We do have to catch our flight home tomorrow, after all."

Tyson grinned at them and finished up his glass of water, then followed them down the hall where they split up into their rooms. Tip-toeing back to the bed, Tyson took off his clothes again and crawled back under the covers with Kai.

"Where'd you go?" The dual-haired teen's voice startled Tyson in the silence.

"Ah! Geez…I thought you were asleep." He blew out a sharp breath. "I wanted a glass of water. The others are back, now, by the way."

"Hn. Come here." Kai muttered sleepily, wrapping his arms around the bluenette and pulling him closer so that Tyson was spooned against Kai's front. The phoenix buried his face in Tyson's hair with a content sigh. "Go to sleep, Tyson. Now I can, too."

"You mean you couldn't without me? How sweet…"

"Shut up, Kinomiya."

Tyson just smiled and closed his eyes.

Some things would never change.

Authoress' Notes: And…it's done. Fin! Ende! Owari! I hope you all enjoyed this Halloween fic…that turned into a full-fledged fic. sweatdrops It happens every time… oh well. Please R/R!!!!

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