I'M BACK! As you can see -.-; *sinks on knees* GOMEN NASAI!!! ___ One of my longest updates and that's all fault of...of...okay, I admit. Sometimes I was really lazy. But not always! The last three weeks made me busy with university, matriculation etc. And now I had planned my time so that I've also some for my fanfic.
Ty: Woohooo! World record for the longest update!
CS: You can save me your sarcasm ;__;
Max: *patpat* But look at the length of this chap O0O!
Rei: She exceeded herself! =^o^=
Kai: What you cannot say with grammar and expression.
CS: Ó.Ò ... T.T
Ty: Grumpy, can't you shut up! Ò__Ó
Kenny: Maybe some reviews make her happy ;D Like last time from VAMPIRE NEKO or JUST-SOME-GIRL1
CS: *sighs*
Rei: =Ó.Ô= Anyway she doesn't own Beyblade incl. the figures. Let's start the fic! =^^=;
Chapter Eight
One shock on another
With time they accustomed to the thought that their team mates and also friends were inhabitants of heaven and hell behaving differently by no means towards the others. Well, maybe yes. "Max! Give me my bento box (1) back! NOW!" Tyson cried noisily after his chum and flew through the entire bus on the way to the house, in which Mr. Dickenson freighted, them cause the shrine had to be closed for a sanitation. But the boys had also one week before they should set out for America.
The house was old and a little brittle. It was the only one which was left then
1. every other apartment house was engaged and
2. it was said this house was haunted why nobody wanted to live in it.
Except our five budding beyblade world champions ^o^ "Pah! With ghosts or without ghosts, *I'm* not in a blue funk! ÒoÓ " Tyson couldn't keep to himself, bursting with spirit of adventure. Not like his friends Max and Kenny. Normally there was nothing what could take Max' humour away but this house even took his complexion. Stockstill he took his baggage when he got out of the tour bus watching the house from the outside. Not any pleasure ran through his limbs so much gloominess was sent from this building. He didn't feel well at this view.
"Are you coming, Max?" Rei called after him smiling at the front-door and waving for him. Max brought about only a nod and went to the entrance shuffling along. He didn't feel quite at his ease and if he's honest: He didn't want to move in this eerie house. A cold shudder went over him to the core, tenacious and alarming, and with time he wished himself back to the kingdom of heaven where he could be together with his friends and parents, safe and sound. None the less Max had to chill out if he wanted to fulfill his mission. And nothing could stop him from his object. When our blond entered the house, first of all a load of dust came to welcome him. He had to cough awfully, trying to fan this dust cloud away from his face and tripped over an arm-chair covered with a white sheet, so that dust was raised once more. "Damn, Mizuhara, look where ya go!" Kai barked at him who was coming back from his inspection. This building seemed to be left for years, the furniture were that dust-laden. So they came to their first task: CLEANING!
"Mizuhara and Kenny, you guys undertake the second floor. The sleeping rooms must be swept and wiped." At once they wanted to search after the utensils for this. Tyson also wanted after them when Kai didn't shout with a raised voice: "You stay here, Baka! Here in the first floor *you* will clean everything with Rei. Or else I will cancel your supper." Kai menaced the dragon and wanted to set up for himself if Tyson didn't throw a duster after him which was caught by his hairs: "Ah, and who do you think you are getting off that easy?! You should better do and lend a hand!" Tyson's temper wasn't curbed again. "Besides: Why shall we actually clean the entire house when we beat it in any case after one week?! Huh? Tell me!" This provocative mobbing didn't give raise to a flinch in Kais's cold expression. He wanted to stand that hard and inexorable, didn't react to the idle talk of Tyson, but a certain angel, and I don't talk about Max, cast a strange look at him like it would contain 'Don't let everything accumulate in yourself till you burst out'. It sounded logical for the phoenix cause he's also one of those person who don't let push himself. 'On your risk, Rei' he said to himself. He folded his arms across his chest, put on a moody face and started making it hot for the blue haired youth: "If my team suffocate cause of the dust, it's *my* fault! I have the responsibility for our team not YOU! Get it?! As if you know what responsibility is!" This didn't please the dragon that Kai put on airs. "PAH! If I were the leader, there weren't either one dispute!" Sparkles were flying between both Bladebreakers. Death glares on the one hand, an enraged face on the other. Until someone set himself between them and put a stop to this. "Why not? That's a quite good idea, Tyson =^-^= Why don't ya take Kai's job and prove us, what talents as captain you have =^o^= " Everyone stared at Rei in disbelief. Did he really take this serious?! Even Kai was big-eyeing when Rei made this suggestion and asked himself if the Chinese was hit by something at his head. "I think it's an good idea giving Tyson the leadership for today." Kenny cried from the second floor and stepped just now downstairs to the others. "Maybe he will appreciate your qualities as team leader *grins*." "Oh guys, come on! Don't tell me you think to be the leader is that difficult!" But a smile obtruded on Kai's face. Not a content or a sad one, no. It was crafty, even roguish and if he didn't keep in check, he had burst out in laughter. "I don't mind. He shall get his chance as captain." All of them weren't actually less surprised about the prompt decision of the as a rule taciturn blader, Rei included. This changed abruptly when on a sudden Tyson started laughing triumphantly and his arms were akimbo. "Now *I* show you what a leader has as quali...quali..." "Qualifications?" Max added, sweatdropping lightly. "Exactly! And we just talk about it: Now that I'm captain of the team for this day I hafta eat accordingly that much, therewith I don't become weak for this duty." The blue haired made a bee-line for the kitchen and disappeared, being on the hunt after something to eat while the remaining bladers stood over there gaping at the swinging door like a handful idiots. They realized one thing: Tyson was *not* a good example as leader ^-^"
~~An half hour later~~
After the new captain chowed down everything until his paunch drew the line, he rubbed gently over its arisen spherical form while walking back into the living room, where he found three bored Bladebreakers and a busy strategist before himself on arm-chairs and couch. Max was fidgety, always moving his legs and wasn't able to sit still. This house made him feeling uneasy that much. Kenny was like always: he typed incessantly and was lost in his own world yet a while ago. Rei sat next to Kai on the couch and didn't know it better than to start playing with the end of his braid and yet humming silently a song. And Kai? Well, what do ya guess he did? Got it! Nothing! Nothing at all. With crossed arms and closed eyes he seemed to be in a state of meditation which he apperently didn't renounce that soon. Until a hand seized harsh his shoulder (like companions) and managed that he opened one eye. "What, leader?" Kai emphasized the last word with a sharp accent and loured at Tyson who only gave a conciliatory smile back and poked slightly on the shoulder of the for the time being put into cold storage captain. "Now don't look that grim, Grumpy, first of all we take the cue from you: cleaning the house from top to bottom ^-^ " Oh my, it's rare hearing such rational from Tyson. At that if it's about cleaning ^^; But as long as we already know Kai, he wiped the hand off his shoulder with a disapproving glare, got on his feet and put his hands onto his sides, at which he turned his back to the others. A little confused the dragon looked after him and scratched embarrassed his head. "Um, okay, let's do this in that way: Kenny and Rei see to tidy up the rooms in the second floor, Max and I the first floor and Kai...*sqints at him*..you will have a look around in the cellar if there hide some cleaning utensils ^o^ " "Hn." Right away the phoenix betook himself to the lower vault of the house and left the others alone. Suddenly something crashed in the upper floor and terrified the four left boys in the living room, making them jump up. Max began to quiver, but suppressed it and looked in every corner with unsteadiness: "W...what..was...that?!" Puzzled the blond whirled his head around in every direction and even flushed with anxiety. He could sense that something scary filled the air.
Tyson, who saw scandalized at his best friend in that state, felt all at once some kind of protector instinct towards Max. But he couldn't expose himself, now, when he accepted the responsibility over the team. "Guys, don't go nuts! It's likely only some loose window shutter, which banged at the house wall. Rei! Kenny! Go for it and close the shutter properly. Now we start with the action 'House cleaning'!" Up to the present Kai returned, his hands full of buckets, cleaning rags, scrubbers and dusters. Normally this kind of work was strictly not up to his level, but what ought he to do else. However he had provocated that Tyson could act the chef in his place. *sigh*
Later all of them were working with something in the house, always be busy getting it in order.
~~In the second floor~~
"Hey, Max! We don't have to wipe over the windows, do we?" Rei drew a line with the index finger over a window-pane where in a jiffy a thin ray shone through and left behind a bright spot on the tiger's shirt. A glance onto his finger was enough as answer.
Now you ask yourself why Max was instead of Kenny's place at the side of Rei ^-^ The Bladebreakers found out in a quick that their computer genius couldn't bear the dust, which caused him a coughing fit with every contact. That's why Tyson sent him to himself and replaced him with Max, so that the turtle now worked with the Chinese. More to his displeasure ^.~
"*grins* I fetch some detergents and cloths." Max called legerly and put his feather duster, with which he just had caught the dust from the bookshelves, onto the side-table next to an ash-gray arm-chair. Apart from the two sleeping rooms there was namely also a small library in the upper story, brimful with old books and many atlas, which weren't taken in hand for years.
When Max came back with the utensils and handed them over to Rei, he wanted to take up his work at the bookshelves again, if he didn't ascertain, that his cleaning tool disappeared without leaving a trace. "Where's the duster gone? I put it on this small table!" Amazed the angel searched for it and couldn't stop scratching his head. "Rei, did you take my duster?" Right this moment the added one was busy with cleaning the windows and looked over his left shoulder to Max, who seemed to be jerky and clueless. "Nope, only watching the windows getting clean =^-^= " Rei answered and wanted to reach for the cleansing agent when this was also kidnapped, didn't stand at its place on the ladder he stood onto. "Hey! Max, this isn't f..." Rei intended to gripe at his team mate, but something caught in his eyes, forcing him to stare bewildered: a floating bottle in the middle of the library. "What the..!!! =O0O= " He was interrupted by the blood-curdling cry of the other angel, who was deadly pale and trembled like an aspen-leaf. Right now the flying object rose a few inches only to fall noisily right after onto the ground. The blue liquid of the detergent gushed over the floor and crept into the rabbets of the parquet flooring. It really left a lasting impression on either boy especially the one who screamed. Max' legs lost their strength and didn't give support anymore, so that he broke down on his knees, grasping his own shoulders. A picture of horror.
The same blond, who usually jazzes things up a bit, was now just wretched, whimpered like a kid. Although it wasn't so terrible. At least for Rei, who watched Max in his manner. 'Why did he react that way?' He couldn't help but jump from the ladder and ran to his friend for hugging him tightly therewith he could calm down and recover from his shock. In the meantime Tyson, Kai and Kenny stamped upstairs (okay, only Ty did this -__-; ) to look after what happened in the second floor. The dragon crashed into the room only to find Rei embracing his Max. 'What...!' "What happened here?" Kai asked, not interested what he saw. 'Ts.' Rei looked up, still holding Max in his arms, but not as scared like him. But he also didn't say something, yet he kept silent, his golden eyes paralysed with fear. But the Chinese didn't want it to be noticed. He loosened his grip from the turtle and smiled a little afflicted. "Eto, we saw something that was totally impossible =^-^=;; Perhaps the excitement before the championship in America =^o^= " A really lousy excuse but at least his team mates believed it. He thought.
~~After house cleaning back in the living room~~
Max, Tyson and Rei sat exhausted on the couch not like Kai and Kenny who took place on a chair in each case. Each Bladebreaker had scrubbed and polished every corner of this ramshackle house, a statement from Tyson, until they could be sure, not to share their beds with any mites or even cockroaches (brrr, Xb ). Likewise Max was relieved now, that he couldn't feel this weird stinging in his neck anymore every time he got when he wandered round the house outside as well as inside. But now the atmosphere reached a low. Nobody was in the mood being talktive after this agitation and nobody did something against their unbearable quietness. 'That doesn't feel right.' Rei thought annoyed while he watched Max looking like he'll have sleepless nights this day. "Buddies, I hate this silence! Let's talk about something before I go nuts! 0 " That was Tyson who complained in doing so he wagged his legs with restlessness. 'Yoshi!'
"How did you find out of your real identidy?" Rei questioned with curiosity in his voice while he crawled forward to both friends sitting next to him. He noticed their flash on their cheeks being sort of embarassed. =Oo=? "Ano..." Max scratched his back of the head. "...it was a quite funny situation..." Tyson continued sheepishly. Even Kai bent forward to listen to their story.
~~Flashback~~
Our sugar high teen took a hot shower while Tyson watched a movie in the living room (yeah, they also have electricity ^o~ ). After that the dragon decided to take also a bath, fetched his changing cloths and walked into the bathroom near the kitchen taking it for granted that it's empty. But what he saw gave him a quite clueless and shocked appearance.
O0O!
Not only he saw Max stark naked his back to him, no, but also that there were a pair of white beautiful wings Max intended to wash them too. "Uh...hi, Maxie! ^o^;; "
~~End Flashback~~
*collective sweatdropping (even Kai)*
If you could see this priceless image. Max and Tyson giggled out of nonplus; Kenny blushed, so that he might take a job as traffic light; Rei tried to hide his flashing face by pretending he had to rub his eyes. And Kai...he cleared his throat and span around cause he didn't want to present his likewise crimson cheeks.
After he could suppress his slipped 'inconcentration' he showed his cold behavior again and interjected a question in the room: "And what's your reason to be on earth?"
Everyone gave a startled look at their team leader, everybody but Rei who's expression was more afraid than startled. 'Gee! What shall I do now?! Nobody may not know about my real purpose! And I'm not allowed to lie. Please God! Make me find a resort out of this predicament!' he pleaded instantly. It seemed to be that no one is against this question besides Rei.
The first step took Kenny (I think he shouldn't be always that anxious ^-^ ): "E..eto...my task on earth is to preserve the hold together of our team especially between Kai and the others." His cheeks heating up by his nervousness what led him to hide himself behind is laptop.
~*~*~ "Woah! Such cute!" ~on stage~ Kenny becomes more red cause of this compliment. "Hey CS! Don't make him embarrass more than he is!" Tyson yells to backstage. "Oh come on! You're only envious because I didn't mean you!" *smirks* "Hmph!" he pouts. *smirks more* ~*~*~
Next ones were Max and Tyson grinning from ear to ear as though they would plan some tricks on the others. But it weren't smirks...these were distressed grins. "Ano..." Max started at a loss for words when Tyson supported him again by continueing their talk. "Well, buddies, we're sent here for the reason that Max and I must learn about sense of life." the dragon explained with pride in his chest.
~*~*~ "Sounds good, ne? But the truth is, their superiors weren't able to bear either of them, too hyperactive you know so that they got rid of them sending to earth with the pretext to find what life makes worth." *filthy acting* "Hehe. Oh, hi Tyson! oO Woah, put my keyboard down!" *vanishes ~*~*~
Everyone gave a sweatdropping look on Tyson even Max.
"Ah...yes." It wasn't able for Rei but he had to doubt the two teens that they could find the answer of their asked question. Then he himself as God's representative, one of the greatest you know, was not able to uncover this secret anyway how many lives he had saved. And he didn't really feel that great, more petty and weak cause he had still not found his charge. Maybe... "Rei?" someone's hand found on the tiger's shoulder waking him up out of his thoughts.
*~Rei's POV~*
"Huh?! What?" I stuttered as I whirled around to meet Max's nose to mine eyes filled with care and cheering up at the same time (Is this possible? Òô ). "Woah!" I backed away totally startled and perplex. I've lost in my brooding too much. I've overreacted, I know.
When I saw in the corner of my eyes the astonishment on every face also on Kai's, even though not showing it clear, I gave in a goofy laugh. *scratchscratch* "Hehe, my fault. I shouldn't dream at day, ne?" Oh, oh, I've to pay them more attention than to my assignement. By the way wasn't I supposed to...
"...answer my question, yes Rei." Kai continued my train of thoughts. 'Uh oh, what shall I tell them?!' I was not really in the position of lying nor would I'm able to this.
I sensed the intense glance of the demon which entailed tensing me up more and more. My hands were quivering, couldn't elude to fidget with them. Sweat builded up on my forehead and I felt like going crazy and dizzy together. 'Why can't they let me alone with it? I've enough problems to deal and now this idiotic demon has to ask such a thing! He couldn't think over something better than this...'
" 'kay, leave it. If you don't wanna tell us I won't shit around."
'Wait a sec...was...this...KAI?! Was this my team captain, normally known as cold-hearted antisocial bastard who doesn't spell or even think the word sympathy?'
*~Normal POV~*
At that day it was staring day. If this happens a few more times all of them'll get goggle-eyes ;b
And the best thing Kai was one occasion. Then: "Thank you *very* much." It was addressed to Rei, who looked at him with a muddled impression, didn't know for what Kai thanked him. The whole team was staring at him cause it was a rarity to hear their leader a 'Thank you' out of his mouth and nobody couldn't guess why he did this. Until...'Oh shit! I'm in a jam! =@0@= ' He really forgot it! The slate haired had the ability to read their minds! And now he must be pissed off. Oh my... "You said it. *smirks* You're in a jam, *Rei*." he spelt his name with a kind of seductive purr, making the Chinese crook for a sec in uneasiness. In addition it had another effect, too.
The others got once more into confusion which they expressed with exchanging their sights from side to side between the two boys like in a tennis match. "Guys! Are you talking in your minds again?!" the blue haired one gave into the round and didn't observe for the time being, that something dripped from Rei's chin. " O.O Um, Rei...your...nose is bleeding!" Max stated unhoped-for and pointed at the rill of red liquid running down over the raven haired's lips to the end of his face. "Ah! Nani...?" 'Did I get this cause of...' Rei stopped thinking immediately since indeed he knew of his captain's qualities and turned a little red, rubbing his bloody nose with a tissue Kenny gave him. Suddenly the tiger felt a tickle anew at his left ear, rose his hand to it and touched the spot only to find something red at his fingers. The rest of the team gaped at him to a greater extent, losing slowly their complexion. It looked like some blood also trickled from his pointy ear, but his instinct wasn't right at this. 'Weird. Since when did blood smell so...sweet?' Rei frowned at this sticky, sirup like stuff and without any second thoughts he did something which wasn't truely an angelic behavior: He stuck his finger into his mouth and tasted it.
"REI! What crap are you doing?!?! It's blood! Ò0Ó!!!" - Tyson (as if he doesn't eat it ^.~ )
"That's nasty! O!" - Kenny
~.~ - Max
Ò.Ó - bursts *nearly* out
Also Kai couldn't believe what he saw: Rei, an angel, tasted blood! There was no disgusting face, on the contrary! He seemed taking a fancy to this. How confusing! 'He's not serious!'
Rei couldn't help but had to try this to find any corroborant for his guess. And luckily he was right: the reddish substance was nothing else than
"Strawberry jam!" Now everbody's face slipped at once, couldn't believe what they've heard. "You've got a bad slap, Rei! Do ya really think we believe your phantasies..." Max went curiously to the neko-jin and tried it, too. "...originating from your head?! MAX! Don't!" But it was too late. The blond licked a bit of it and started like Rei to grin like hell like someone who knew better. "He's right, Ty! It tastes like strawberry jam! Very delicious ^o^ " and sucked amusing the rest of it from his finger.
No one could foresee the slate haired's reaction, which happened out of nothing. In one sec Kai rushed to Rei, made a stroke with his index finger under the other's nose and licked the red substance without turning a hair. The tiger blushed even more cause of this action and held his nose as a precaution, therewith he could avoid another nose-bleed. Why was he reacting like this?! Why did this embarass him particularly in front of *Kai*? Anyway Rei wanted to stop his tearing heartbeat with in- and exhaling in calm intervals, but what he got was more fluster.
"But this is real blood." Kai said briefly and penetrated Rei again with an indescribable look which contained curiosity among other things. For a moment Rei got the feeling to be seen through, all his emotions and thoughts presented on a silver tray. Some goose bumps showed on his forearms he hastily covered with his hands and he would resemble a tomato much more if a hand didn't waved between them all of a sudden: "Hello~~~o! Stop flirtation, you lovers! We've something better to do e.g. planning agendas for the one week we'll be here!" Now both boys asked themselves if the real Tyson was kidnapped by aliens or the job only overgrew him and took his sense. Since when was Tyson so responsible? And did he just say 'lovers'?! "WE ARE NO LOVERS!" it came sychronous from two momentary hot-blooded blader which resulted in more embarassment than before.
~~In the evening~~
After many arguments Tyson gave up and left this case. He wasn't good at discussing things and he didn't feel like he could manage Kai's job. The only one, who stayed always at his side and didn't leave him alone, was Max, still living in dread with what he and Rei saw and wasn't able to hide completely his nervousness. And if this atmosphere wasn't tensed enough, everywhere were innumerable sounds, making worry oneself to death. Inside as well as outside, in the wood and even the chimney made noises like creaking, crackling or cracking which were ample trigger to make Max' inward jump up.
~~Flashback~~
"Max, darling, I'm so sorry but I have to go. Soon I'll work on earth and it's very important that you stay by your father." She said it that easy. But that's not the whole truth. The real reason was that Max' parents couldn't get along anymore. They kept quarreling night and day and each trifle aggravated the discord between them. Max was no exception. Many nights when he sat in his room, already in bed, he could hear them shouting at each other:
"YOU ARE ALWAYS BUSY WITH YOUR WORK! CAN'T YOU SPENT SOME TIME WITH YOUR FAMILY?!" "AND YOU?! YOU ARE NO BETTER IF YOU'RE IN YOUR HOBBYSHOP! WHY DO YA ALWAYS BLAME ME FOR EVERYTHING!" "I'LL SEEK A DIVORCE!" "BEFORE YOU CAN DO THIS I'LL HAVE SETTLED THIS!" "BUT I WILL TAKE MAX TO ME!" "YOU WON'T! I'M HIS MOTHER!" "AND I'M HIS FATHER!"
Terrible. All this went terrible. And nobody else could stop this. Alone in the dark the lonely angel started to cry, loud into the night, so that he could escape the scary cold shadows, which were instead of his parents and their warm light. Neither them nor anybody else heard his cries cause father as well as mother were louder than his desperate calls. Nobody else, who stopped the trembling in his weak heart.
~~End Flashback~~
"Max?" Again this warm soliticious voice which substituted for the hand rubbing over your back to make you feel better. With a side glance the turtle met the golden pools of the neko-jin, trying to cheer him up. With success. A little smile appeared on Max' lips reaching the same reaction to Rei. 'Rei is so nice to me. He's truely a warmhearted person, always ready to help, always someone on whom you could have a crush *^o^* ' A grouchy grumble came from one corner of the living room and a grim Kai swept through the kitchen door out through the backdoor at which he slammed with such force the walls were forced to vibrate. "Hey! What's the matter with Grumpy? oO?" Tyson asked while he chowed down some onigiri (2) with leek flavour (*drool*). "Dunno. Maybe he's jealous ^____^ " Max' grin grew wider (in that way: ^_______^ ) when he watched the other's funny looks cause of his odd statement.
O.O
OoO
=O_O=
Only he knew why the phoenix left the room in that mood. And only he knew who could bring him back. "Rei, could you call him back? I'll take care for supper with Ty and Kenny ^o^ " "Sure! =^-^= " The raven haired went to the kitchen followed by Max who pulled their friends onto their feet dragging them afterwards.
~~Outside~~
'What did I think taking leave of my manners that easy?! Why was I furious about the way Max thought about Rei? Gah! Fuck off! That's not my business and I don't have interest in this!' Sourly he crossed his arms behind his head and leaned at a huge maple in the near of the house whose leaves were quite fallen. 'In summer...?'
The door of the back side was opened and the feline angel peered out in search of the tall stature of Kai. The light from the kitchen, which fell through the door and illuminated a part of the court, was a little help for him looking for the real leader. Yet twilight was over and the night came on, turning everything into shadows and unreal forms, which had a dusky and obscure nature. But this didn't give him reason to be scared cause he knew that the darkness could be also your friend. In that case Kai's one. "Kai! Are you there!" Rei shouted into the blackness "Wanna make supper but not without you! Kai, please, say something!" A figure showed itself, dragged his feet slightly and mumbled something like "Don't be so noisy" till an excited yell from inside pierced his ears. "Wha...!" Rei turned just an inch to where the cries came until unexpected the door before him went its own way, shut itself with a bang and locked up properly. "MEW! =OxO=!" The tiger jumped up with shock and had to keep to himself not to cry one more time when he discovered a place which didn't look like a kitchen anymore. Rather a hell of mess and chaos! Wherever you looked, nothing but devastation was to be seen. And the mischief didn't seemed to be over. "WOW!" Just now a pan passed Rei's head by a hair's breadth and continued its laps above the neko-jin where many other things like pots, glasses, many kinds of food and particularly sharp knives disported themselves at the ceiling. It looked like they would make fun of the four flummoxed boys.
*~Tyson's POV~*
Damn! I didn't know, what crap happened there but there was no time being indecisive.
When Max pushed us into the kitchen for making supper nothing of the utensils were supposed to attack us! And at first it wasn't terrifying us, too. While Rei opened the back side door for calling Mr. Sourpuss back, I wanted to take a carving-board and a knife to cut the vegetables. Our meal for this evening: curry o At least I worked with what I'm used to this thanks to this old fogey also known as my grandpa -___-;; But the knife I almost touched wanted to take me! Like with invisible threads the kitchen stock began to go astray as if they got life and decided to flew around like a flock birds! Of course I was frightened and I had rather taken to flight out of this crazy shop when there weren't my friends I had to place in safety. Kenny's consternation couldn't be missed but his interest into this phenomenon was bigger than this ^-^;;; "I've never seen such odd apparitions! o.o " Nor did I. And I wasn't really keen on this. Rei got a funny look when he turned around to the tumult which presented to him. Not so afraid as Max but still excited. Oh boy, Max!
*~Normal POV~*
The angel, Tyson thought he knew him, wasn't behaving normal: He was laughing, laughing and crying. Like mad. It was like someone had told a joke at a funeral with the exception, that Max was the only visitor of this tragedy. He did also nothing but laughing even when a knife flew towards him, stopped in front of his face and directly passed his right cheek, left a scratch on it and bored through the cabinet. 'Huh..? oO?' Tyson raised an eyebrow questionably, also worried about his best friend. But it didn't bother Max. He held his stomach and laughed further while tears still streamed over his reddish skin, on one side mingling with the exuded blood, so that it entailed a stinging pain. "He's going crazy!" the dragon whispered to himself, didn't want to believe what he saw. In that moment something or rather someone banged on the door from outside and always yelled unintelligible words to them. "That must be Kai!" Kenny called to his friends who were busy with dodging adroit the objects.
~~Outside~~
"What the hell is going on here?!?" For fifteen minutes the slate haired tried to force open the door but nothing moved. Although it didn't look that stable. Kai could hear the activities inside and what he heard didn't please him at all. Properly he knew this kind of occurrences then he had often dealt with such cases when he was a child. Ghosts and other creatures of the night weren't unknown for him as it was told in the beginning, especially since he spent time with them. That's why he thought about this with a little scepticism until a strident scream filled the air after the light of the entire house broke down. Kai knew that it was nobody else than Max, who was the only one with jitters in the group when they arrived at this old mansion. At the first sight he could tell that the blond felt insecure in the near of this building why he arranged this cleaning gang to draw a red herring across the trail.
"I have to find a way in!" He looked round to find another entrance. 'Maybe...' We shouldn't forget that our Russian wasn't a normal boy ^o^
~~Back into the kitchen~~
Now Max reached his maximum. He left this state of being funny and sad in the same time. Then the dread carried him to extremes and made him mad with horror running in panic out of the kitchen like a headless chick. Not a beautiful sight for the others who meanwhile forgot their fear. This time their team mate wasn't sugar high of joy, no, fright and confusion pressed him to this outburst. Tyson was the most shocked of them cause he had never expected that Max would react that way. He always knew him as stolid, a person who never gave up a thing and never showed his...weakness. But now everything was out of control, acted up. He had no idea who or what attacked them instantly let alone what they could do against this 'thing'. At this moment the blue haired teen was conscious of the responsibility Kai burdened him with or rather he got into trouble by himself. He had to face the music. "Yoshi! Buddies! When I make the sign, run out and search for Max! I will stay here and keep them in check. Get it?!" "But..." "NO BUTS! Do what I told ya!" "Then I'm going to stay at your side, Tyson!" Kenny protested and since they hadn't enough time for a discussion, Tyson agreed. "'kay.." he whispered and pointed to the exit "...RUN!" he cried thunderstruck and everyone took to their heels through the swinging door. Every tool and appliance got into the persecution after the fugitives but they were wrecked wretched at the door bouncing off it. On the other side Tyson and Kenny pressed against the exit of the kitchen to keep those monster cutlery away from them. "Rei, go upstairs to Max! We'll manage this!" Tyson panted while he leaned against the rattling door. "O..okay." In great haste the tiger took three steps at the same time and disappeared in the second floor. "Great. Now we give our best! Right?" "Right! ^-^;; " "I doubt that you idiot will do it proper." someone said causing both boys to turn into the direction where the voice came. "Kai?!" The Russian stood there with folded arms, from top to bottom covered with black soot, and watched them with an incredulous look. "I guess you must go off the stage and let me do the act." "I don't absolutely mind ^^; "
~~Somewhere else~~
"Max! Doko da?! (3)" Rei had no clue where the other angel hid himself so that he had to trust his instincts. And his instincts told him to have a look into the library. Voilà! There we have our consternated kid! (Isn't sarcasm a wonderful thing ;b ) Under the desk tremulous like of cold and hands over his head, Max sat there as though the world would crash down at any time. "Max." Rei called him again, a bit gentlier, and kneeled under the desk too. "Please, Max, be more reasonable." No response from the other one, but an anxious look without any recognition from Rei. He backed away to the bookshelves where he apparantly triggered a mechanism at one of those lower books which let a wall-chest moved aside.
o.o
=O.O=
Behind it there was a small chamber, maybe a hiding place or something like that. Irresistible the turtle climbed in and took place anew in this motionless sitting carriage, was reminiscent of people in the lunatic asylum. 'My God, I have to do something before we lose him forever.' With this thought Rei crawled after Max, sat right next to him and took him into his arms timidly. "Everything will be alright." he whispered into his ear and rubbed gently over the shivering back, brooding over a solution. After a while it seemed that Max calmed down cause he stopped trembling. But the emphasis is on 'seemed'. He raised abruptly his head to look into the golden orbs of the Chinese for a moment occasioning a gasp from the owner of those eyes. Then he did something what he couldn't avoid either. Within a wink the blond had captured Rei's lips and before he closed his eyes, he gave a 'begging his pardon'-look and sqeezed his hands urgently.
A low creak accompanied the closing wall-chest.
~~Back to the rest~~
(MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!! ____ )
While Max and Rei lingered in the second floor (hehehe), Kai undertook his job as team leader again. First of all he built up a magical rampart for protecting the other two so that they could withdraw from the swinging door which looked very battered. Then he opened the door without dropping the rampart to see what concealed in the chaotic kitchen. His doing almost produced a heart-attack by Kenny and Tyson, but when they discovered the whole equipment frozen between door and hinge, they breathed freely and sank onto their knees. "Now who gave you the right to act on your own?! Answer me!" the Russian thundered annoyed at the invisible figure while he scowled his fiercest scowl right into the kitchen. "Come out or I will put an end to your existence!" He underlined this with showing his jet-black wide wings what also gave Tyson and Kenny the chance to take a look to them, making them speechless.
~*~*~ "Luckily I chose the spot before the kitchen cause there was no other room where Kai could extend his wings ^.^; You should know, we've tried many different places but always he overturned something e.g. vases, in the kitchen glass or even one of the others ^___^;;; " "Ts. And who did we owe this?! *grumbles*" " ò.ó One more thing of yours and I will make you wear a pink fluffy tutu! Ò^Ó " Kai: Ò_Ô ... -__-" - gives up ~*~*~
It looked like Kai's menace had effect on the mysterious creature cause the cutlery wandered back to its drawers as the remaining kitchen inventory to their proper place. After this something bluish flabby formed in the air in front of the slate haired and looked like a slimy ball without a face. Kai stood there like he scolded a little child what was naughty. Until... "Shu?" Suddenly the phoenix seemed to recognize this flying slime clot and went up to it a few steps. The called Shu wasn't sure what he should expect right now, his head lop-sided. "M..Master Kai?!"
*~Kenny's POV~*
This image was too funny to be able to describe it: First he wanted to make us believe he could distinguish this figure from another especially when it had no face, only two wobbling arms and a tail there where should be the legs. Then if it wasn't strange enought he acted to this ghost, I guessed it was one, as if he found again an old friend. At any rate there were no doubts he had met someone from the past making him look happily or what it was called happy in Kai's vision. I cleared my throat to have his attention cause there were more important things to do than to revel in the past. "Kai, before we ask your friend..." "HE ISN'T MY FRIEND!" "...yeah, yeah, it's okay. But we have to look for Max and Rei upstairs now we know what the point is." "Hn." Tyson and I ran upstairs in search for our missed chums while Kai told his 'friend' to stay in the kitchen. After this he followed us who were messing everything up what we cleaned the entire day. "Tyson, have you found them?!" I cried from the study. "Not a bit!"
*~Normal POV~*
Kai couldn't suppress a sweatdrop at the back of his head (nobody would see it) thinking of the effort they're brought up to create this decayed building into something domestic. A fist was to be seen and if he wan't a person with cool nature he'd rather made use of it. "Hmph. I'm not so tempered like Tyson." "Did ya just say anything?" Speaking of the devil. Also Kenny came back, disappointment on his face. "We can't find them! Where could they be?! ó.ò " The sorrow in his voice and in his face couldn't be ignored, that was certain. "If you both didn't found them, then I know where they are." While he inspected this spooky house he discovered accidentally a secret place with enough space for two people. At once Kai walked ahead straight to the library and actuated a switch in the lowest bookshelf which let the wall shoved aside. But it revealed to him a view, dumbfounding him, made his heart stand still for a moment: Rei...and Max..were kissing.
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TBC
(1) lunch pack
(2) rice balls
(3) where are you
A/N: Yes! Finally! FINALLY THE END!!!! Of this chapter of course ;b My, my, it took me sooooo much time to write this and I can't say anymore how much I'm sorry for the long update ;______; You read the reasons in the beginning, why. And now I can't promise, that it would be faster next time cause I MUST learn for university. But I will NOT leave this fic incompleted, that's my promise! And I hope you, my beloved readers, will read on this in future. And if you liked this chapter or any other or maybe even the entire story, make me happy with a review ^o^ Flames are also welcomed ^.~ *waves*
P.S. Gomen nasai for the cliffie! I had to put an end to this chap T___T
P.P.S. Does anyone maybe like to be my beta reader? –x- The first, who writes a review for this job, will be my mistake-terminator ^o^°