A/N: Hi! Okay, my last update was about nearly two months ago, but I was really very busy with uni -.-;; But in two weeks I will also have holidays like you all T-T And thank you very much for your reviews!! X3
To Kitty: Sorry for the delay! ;-; I hope you will enjoy this too!
To Songs make me cry: Yes, some time you will find out the truth about Rei and his mission . And yes, he will die! That's decided! XD My, I'm really a meanie! X3 Hmm, if God tests Rei...I haven't think that far ;; But I think so. No, no, he doesn't intervene in Kai's and Rei's business! They'll find out by themselves.
To Siver-eyes Magician Girl: Here you are! I'm madly sorry, that you have to wait so long!!
Italics = Letter / "rapid" scene change
Bold = my babbling
Thirteenth Chapter - At home
In the hotel room
Ty: I've never thought that your mum would take this so easily oO
Max: Well she has always said that love doesn't depend on the person's looking's or his sex X3
Ty - blushes
Max -blushes
Kenny -blushes
TyMax: HUH?!
Ken: Sorry for the disturbance, but someone is standing outside, who wants to talk with you points at Max
Max: With me? o.O
Ty: WHO is that? seethes
Max - chu
Ty - blushes
Our blond tuft stepped out of the room only to find a man clothed in white. Was this possible...?
Max: Who are you?
First the stranger didn't answer with embarrassment, but then he got an envelope out of a well hidden pocket in his robe.
"My name is Jun, Sir, and I came here to give you this message from my master Rei.
O.O
Max looked at him like a car. Sir?! MASTER Rei?!? What was going on?!?! Then even the fact, that someone older levelled him up so much, embarrassed him
Max: o.o Uhm..uh..takes letter Where...is Rei?
Jun: My master is at home again with this rude boor
Max: Oh, I see o ... WHAT?!
His eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. When he understood this properly that Rei was in heaven back again. And with Kai too if he was meant with the 'rude boor'. Oh my, how will this end up? A demon in heaven?! As though Tyson has sensed it, he also came out of the room and put his hand on the shoulder for soothing him and just said:
"Everything will be alright with them, Max. And for what I know, demons were allowed to be in heaven though. Or what do you think, how I come into being? . "
Max gaped incredulously at the dragon, as if he wanted to hoax him, but it seemed that Tyson took this serious. "Na, don't you want to open the letter? shortkiss"
OxO - Max
O-O - Jun, not used to this
When the turtle settled down again, he put out the message of the envelope and read the following:
Hello Max! In order to not worry you, I've sent Jun to you to let you know that I will stay here for one angel week for making some investigations for my mission.
Ty: That's about a day on earth - Man, the people upwards must organize everything more complicated again -.-;
Max: Why? oO
Ty: In the underworld the time is the same like on earth -.-;;
Max: o.o
Ty: What?
Max: How do you know so much about the angel's world? Actually I should know about this and not you oO
Ty: Well...Go on with the letter! Maybe Rei has written something important!
Max: Hm.
Oh, don't wonder, if you can't trace Kai anywhere because he's here at my place. Don't ask how this came about. He just came along... In any case I have an eye on him! Ah, something more:
"Don't call me 'master' before other people, Jun!" read Max aloud and watched the addressed one, how he flinched by the sound of his name and then put on an apologizing face. Even here Rei knew although he wasn't there, what activities his helpmate did ;
"Okay! When both of them simply made off, we will match them smiles " cried Tyson joyfully and packed his and Max' things in the quickest way into his suitcase, left a quite confused turtle.
"What..do you mean by this, Ty?" Max feared what would happened next to him.
"We travel to hell to my house "
. . .
O.O
. . .
Max thought he had heard wrong and asked again: "WHAT?!" "Max, since when can't you understand our language? We likewise go home! . " The usually freaky boy was now still and pale like uncle moon.
"Say, are you feeling alright?! touches Tyson's forehead Helloo! Already forgotten, that I am an angel?!" Tyson took Max' hand away from his head and held it fast.
"So what? Nothing happened to Rei too, when he got Kai back. Besides as long as you don't reveal your wings, nobody will notice this. So come with me, I have the right to show my father my boyfriend . "
Max was already red when Tyson has gripped his hand, but after this, what he said just now, he flamed up like a lighthouse. "I..I..." He was only able to stutter, he was that excited. Then it was very special for him to be present to his parents (something like meeting the parents-in-law X3 ).
"O..okay!" he agreed and fetched a piece of paper and a pen to write Rei with a shaky hand:
Hello Rei!
It's okay with us. We let also Lee know about your absence! Tyson and I will also go home, go to his home... Well, if something happen to you, you know what you have to do. Later I will follow you to heaven and visit you. Remember us to Kai, when he has a 'better' mood some time! .
Max
At the last sentence Max had to giggle, when he caught from his eye corner the expectant look of Tyson. He took the letter, put it into the envelope of Rei and handed it over to Jun with the words: "Please give him our greetings and that he doesn't have to worry about us " The other angel nodded, made a short bow and changed again into a white sparrow for flying out of the window, which bordered on the hotel corridor. Max watched after him surprised until Tyson touched him again at his shoulder. "Do we go?"
"Yes! XD "
At Rei's house
"Now, do you want to get ready or not?"
"Ts, who said I want to come along." mumbled Kai into his mouth, but loud enough for Rei's ears.
"Nobody compelled you to do this. sighs I guess I must dance with someone else at the great ball..."
The Chinese was visibly disappointed, that his captain didn't want to go with him. Then he didn't like to go alone to this, since he normally celebrated it with Lee. The people there weren't unacquainted with him of course, but yet they differed from Lee. He couldn't meet them with so much trust...
Suddenly he perceived a warm light and turned to Kai. There was he, completely clothed in black. His flashy white scarf was replaced with a close turtle-neck collar (funny word XD ) of a sleeveless shirt. The pants had two buckles on the right side and four on the left instead of the cargo pockets, showing the skin slightly. The whole thing was studied with black elbow long wristlets, whereby the left one was embroidered with a small red feather. Rei had to admit black was a colour, which suited Kai very well.
"Is this okay or are you staring because it's dumb?" Kai woke Rei up gruffly out of his dreaming and walked to the house door. "Uhm, yes..wait!"
The sun already started setting and dipped the clouds in a deep red orange. Soon the night would appear for the day. Rei was beside himself, what turned up with walking restlessly next to Kai and always had a squint to him.
"What are you gaping at, Kon?!" snapped Kai at him and trudged further through the clouds without paying his attention to the building, which he passed. When he noticed Rei not being at his side anymore, he turned surly and saw him standing before it with a smile, got angry about his carelessness. Yet Rei went up a few stairs, which were embedded before the opera-like house, however he stayed on the next to the last step. With turning around he said subdued:
"You...look awesome." and took to his heels to disappear in the entrance.
Tyson led Max to an old mammoth tree and knocked once at it. The trunk opened before them with a noisy creak and made Max' eyes grew bigger and bigger. "And here we shall go through? ó.ò "it sounded anxiously out of his quivering voice and he seized Tyson's vest a bit. He didn't like the gloominess, recalled the time to memory, where he sat alone in his room while his parents were quarrelling...
"Max?" The addressed one listened attentively and looked right into Tyson's sorrowful face.
"It's okay. It's just..."
His gaze moved back to this scary nothing, made him paler as he was. "You're afraid of the darkness, aren't you?" Max looked up to the blue haired, only sadness and fear were to be seen in his deep blue eyes. This shocked the dragon; he had never seen anything else but cheerfulness or frolicsomeness in those pools, in which he lapsed every time when he wanted to dream. But he'd never forget the event in the ghost house...
First he raised his right, then his left hand, touched slightly the other's face for enveloping it gently und pulling it slowly to him. The taller one saw, how in those beautiful eyes now astonishment was reflected before they closed and welcomed his lips.
"I won't allow this, that something will befall you." it came under his breath before his mouth went on travelling and was found again on Max's. A shiver went over the entire body of the angel and his fingers dug into the texture of Tyson's shirt. His heart bumped until his throat, although the kiss didn't last for long. And though it gave him the necessary serenity and also the courage being able to give in into the depth. The security, which Tyson promised him, upheld him, but didn't make him cautious, when he tapped through the dark passage and suddenly "KYAAA!!!" fell promptly in a hole, disappearing from the scene.
Ty: Honey! Why are you in a hurry? XD
Max: AAAAaaaah! gets more silent
Ty: Na, I should go after him jumps also down Wait for me, Sweety!!!
Kai still stood there and stared at the spot, where Rei has stood a little while ago. Did he listen right? Or has the angel really said that he...liked his outfit? Probably he'd stayed there a bit longer, if Rei's voice didn't call him to come in though. Glaring again he walked up the stairs and found two angels standing at a huge massive gate, welcoming him heart fully. Astonishment has graced his face, when his mask wasn't so iron.
Rei led Kai in a great splendiferous decorated hall which radiated so much warmth and pleasant sensation Kai never found in his world. In hell there're not much more distinctions in opposite to heaven aside from the maybe more darker mood, but the demons, with whom the phoenix kept company, had never given him the feeling to be welcomed. Neither Boris nor his grandfather (Ha. Ha. Good joke.) nor anyone else.
Uhm respect, yes, but never the feeling to be needed. Rather abused.
But all these emotions which were inundating him he repressed by force. The only thing what he learned was: Don't show your weak points on any account! And at this place it didn't change his point of view. Each guest who greeted them got a distrustful look of our demon gratis, shunned him perplexed.
In addition to this he was the eye-catcher of the entire event. Why? Well, would you miss a black sheep between white ones? Then in a sense he was it namely. His deep black clothes and his dark appearance had the glances attracted to him but it didn't matter to him. He only asked himself why he actually accompanied. He couldn't stand such parties and everything in that way, cause of this he avoided them regularly (Yes, they made parties in hell. And how! ). And should he make an exception here and now? Thus the demon turned round and wanted to leave the hall right away if a certain angel didn't grip his arm.
"Don't run away."
Oô . . . -.-
These few words set him thinking, made him decide to stay there ignoring the stares of the other angels.
BOMM! ROLL! POF!
Kind in this way Max landed on his bottom at first, rolling further like a ball and then extending all his limbs while lying on the back. Thereupon Tyson followed sliding out of the loooong chute, got on his feet gracefully (WHAT? That's possible ) and walked to his lover ( blushes).
Ty: Well, we should practice this a few more times
Max: How funny, Tyson.
Ty: Come on, I'll help you up . pulls him up and draws to himself
Max: o.o ... Hey!
Tyson amused himself very well, seeing Max so coy, and gave him a kiss on his forehead. "Come! I'll show you my house o "
"O...okay..."
After the festivity was called for inaugurated, the air was filled with music and laughter and everyone delighted at the present day. Rei went away for short while to get something to drinks for Kai and him and left the Russian alone at a pillar for a moment. Properly he could make off from there at any time and throw the angel over but for a not to be found reason he didn't want to disappoint him. Not again.
"Slowly I'll really become as soft as him." Kai grumbled while his view wandered over the whole party. Everybody was wearing white robes, each of them in his individual way like the one of Rei. But Kai couldn't get it out of his head that the Chinese stood out of the other angels, shining upon them.
'I only fancy this' was his next thought and waited cooly till Rei came back. 'Only the thing missing is that Tyson and I get best friends!' (Wait and see! ;b )
"Here, Kai." the tiger gave him a mug with a colourless liquid. "But be careful. It depends on you what you want to drink." Kai threw a slight puzzled expression what was understandable, I guess ; Rei let out a chuckle cause of this. "Well, you should know that's one of God's tricks smiles If you think what you want to drink, you'll really drink it. Try it!" The scepticism could be read in Kai's face while he gave a look into the mug.
'I don't really know what I should think of it but I run the risk.' Finally the Russian imagined something simple while he sipped at it: orange juice. And as a matter of fact: He tasted the purest orange juice he had ever drank in his whole life. Even a quiet "Oishi" he wasn't able to suppress. "Isn't that so?" Rei smiled amused and also took a sip. "But you must pay attention at which you think else you get suddenly the taste of grass in your mouth for example or something worse."
oO? 'Grass?'
. . .
And forthwith the slate haired spat disgusted his drink back into his mug looking a little astonished at the giggling angel.
"You see. I meant that X3 " Then someone called after Rei who begged to be excused at the demon leaving him alone for a brief moment. This one gave a nod and concentrated again for orange juice while he sipped at his mug. When he saw how Rei was greeted sincerely from his acquaintances and subsequent also hugged, he got all of the sudden something or should I tell someone in his mind. All at once he had the strangest but also the most exceptional taste in his mouth for what he chid himself mentally: 'What overcame me to think of such crap?!' looks into his cup . . . Let me say it in that way: It wasn't that bad .
Kai emptied quickly without noticing his mug till the last drop and put it on a table somewhere. Directly afterwards Rei came back followed by music, angelic like himself (Hmmm, isn't he this automatically? -.-;; ).
"Come on, Kai! Let's have a dance!" the raven haired smiled motioning him to the dance platform. Kai scolded at him:
"I. Don't. Dance. arms crossed"
'This was expected.' Rei sweatdropped but also grinned slyly. "Ano, you would be more conspicuous if you don't make one of the party because this dance is tradition. And every man has to join it."
Hm, that was evident for the demon but nevertheless he didn't want, showing it with a head shake. This didn't make the angel outburst, not at all. He simply snapped the other's hand and dragged him in a straight line to the dance floor.
"Woah! That's hooot!! XD "
Max could hardly restrain his joy, when he faced the house, which was Tyson talking about. On the occasion he had trembled like an aspen-leaf a little while ago, as they walked through the passages and paths of the underworld. Amazing, that someone could change the mood that fast . Tyson thought the same, when he watched his boy friend jumping up and down like a small child before his first lollipop. "Now come down in the world, Max, it's just a house ; "
"JUST a house?! It looks like a Japanese one with many rooms! 0 "
"Only five ; "
"WAIII!!!"
The turtle could barely keep his gladness back, so breath-taking was Tyson's accommodation
"Ah, come one, Kai has surely a house just as well, maybe a bit bigger . "
O.O
"Coool!! XD " Now he got crazy -.-;;
"HEY! Let me go! Count me out!" Kai complained and marched unconsciously after Rei. "Didn't you hear what I said?!" the phoenix hissed in a sharp threatening voice, but didn't try to break away.
"Don't pretend." the Chinese whispered so that only Kai could perceive it.
'What?!'
"Or you'll be seen as wall flower at this party X3 "
"WHAT!" And before he was aware what happened, he already stood amid other men who were waiting excited longing for the dance.
'Why I always embark on such things... --; '
Rei nudged him at his shoulder to wake him up out of his thoughts.
"Do what I tell you. Don't worry, you won't ridicule yourself." grins Then the music struck in.
("Toss the feathers" by The Corrs XD )
Kai was unsure how to move to it and for running away it was too late. How could he lower himself in such a level?
"It isn't that difficult like it seemed at first. Be only my reflected image. You don't have to be afraid."
"I'm not afraid!" Kai hissed angrily and followed the tiger's instructions. After a few minutes he got used to it dancing more and more fluent until some people shouted: "Rei! Please dance for us!"
"Yeah Rei! You're the best in this!"
"Naaa, don't be a kill-joy!" ...
The phoenix turned to him who smiled back. "Sure."
A drum solo sounded which drove Rei to perform a great tap-dance; whirling around and also did some acrobatic tricks. All eyes were fixed on him even Kai's ones. And it amused the angel to present himself.
The solo came to an end with spreading his wide white wings for short, which lost some feathers steeped with the odour of rape-seed and everyone applauded him enthusiastically while the other men joined in again to the proper music. Rei called on his silent team mate to get in the dance again which he did without complaining. After a while the music ended slowly and the dance crowd dissolved.
"And, was it that terrible?" the raven haired asked when they fetched something to drink again at the buffet.
"Yes." was Kai's answer, alluring Rei for a warm laugh. 'Well, better a smirk than a scowl, ne? oO; '
"I'll give you a scowl at once." the Russian mentioned casually and drank his 'water' at present. But nothing spared Kai...:
"'kay, this is my sleeping room. I hope, you don't mind sleeping on a futon." o.o "Hm, I guess, my question has finished . " Then when Tyson saw, how his boy friend made himself at home in his futon, he had to drop his doubt and sat next to Max at the head.
"Max?"
"Hm?"
"I...I.." The blonde boy sat up right and looked at his friend with a gentle smile.
"What is, Ty? - "
o.o
"I...I.." Slowly the blue haired came near and wanted to whisper it over the other's lips, when...
"Hey, Tyson? Are you there again?"
"O-NIIIIIIIIICHAAAAAAAN!!!!!!"
A small quite jumpy angel boy hopped through the crowd, when he discovered his 'big brother' beneath the people, and caused a sensation with his shouting ; Everybody turned their heads to Kai, how he was overthrown by the just five hour old new-born and cuddled sincerely.
"Damn it! Get off from me!!" called he upset. Immediately a murmur went through the party guests and the mood got noticeably awkward, since every glance yet lasted on the three. "Kai!" whispered Rei embarrassed to the phoenix, to which he'd kneeled down
"In heaven it's not allowed to curse!"
"I fuck on it! Take this bundle from my chest! NOW!" Kai had nearly exploded with rage cause of this predicament. And also exactly before Rei's eyes, who was embarrassed in this situation. The angel tried his best to convince the little burr in seizing his shoulders for tugging him down from Kai, but it stuck further on the demon like a suction cup, if the parents hadn't thronged through the watchers.
"DEVI! Get down from the young man!" called presumable the mother of the boy, a quite young woman in a simple white dress and flaming red hair, the totally opposite of her son, whose hair was snow-white, standing with an expecting face and crossed arms before her son, who still sat on Kai's chest and didn't make any arrangements for moving away (I know, that white isn't the contrary colour of red, but who mind this? . ).
But when he perceived the ring of his mother's voice, he raised his head amazed and looked then happily in her face, which let her eyes wide. Then he climbed down from Kai after a quick embrace, and went in a slow walk to his mother for burying his face into her stomach.
"I'm really sorry, that my son has attacked you! bows very low I can't understand, what has driven him! ó.ò " Kai mumbled something not understandable and got on his feet.
"Darling?" A man stood behind Devi's mother and stepped also forward now. It seemed to be Mister Father, who yet touched his son at the shoulder and cared for him. In the meantime the gazes of the presents had lost the inducement of this affair and dealt with the proper thing, the party, and disengaged the line. Finally Rei came forward and explained to the parents, what happened to Kai and him at the 'nest' a few hours ago, whereupon the father went to the demon and shook him vigorously the hand, what of course perplexed Kai visibly.
"I'm very obliged to you! We almost had given up our hope to our son!" Kai got nothing anymore, tore himself away disgusted from the man and presented himself like always in his typical unfriendly manner. The mother turned to Rei, also thanked him.
"You should know, that our Devi hadn't still hatch after two years and we worried cause of this, that he would be perhaps...born dead." The angel woman kept to herself briefly, but went on with telling.
"But when the watcher came to us with Devi at hand, we were more than happy and couldn't quite believe this. He did tell us, that we owed this to a boy with dark mood..." A bad murmuring from Kai "...but he couldn't tell us his name. We just wonder why he kept a secret from us, that the former came with you in company."
"Hehe, well, I do also not know."
"What is your name, young man?" asked the man friendly, turning to our Russian, while his wife left off with her son and stepped beside. Kai wanted to answer á la cold-hearted bastard, if Rei hadn't hold him back with an exhorting glance. "Kai." grumbled the phoenix and turned his head away from the still smiling parents. Slowly he had enough of this happy fuss and generally of this pomp.
On a sudden he was embraced heartfelt. First from the mother, them from the father. Both of them pressed Kai to themselves and said graces like "Thank you very much, Kai!", "How could we compensate this?!" or "You was sent by God!".
"Na, this fit wonderfully to our demon -.-;;; Now his repute is ruined! -;; " Max: "Hey! You didn't do this long time ago, babbling in your fanfic o " "Well, well, it had to be done. Oh! You see Kai's tomato head? XD " Max: "Yes, right! But why? oO " Kai: "...this will have a sequel...-draws sushi knife" "Oh, oh, he didn't do this for long, too! O=O - disappears "
Kai struggled in their embrace and pushed them away with mild force.
"It's..it's okay! Now just let me go!"
Rei's POV
=o.o=
Did I see right or was Kai shy in this moment? He got truly red in the face! The small Devi joined me and pointed always at Kai. "O-niichan! O-niichan!" he laughed and tugged at my robe.
"So I see! Therefore you are 'O-niichan', who our son has spoken about the whole time. This was his first word, when he hatched, as the watcher has told us, and he didn't want to talk about nothing else anymore . " Devi's mother took Kai again to her chest and I could see, how much this distressed him. Every single muscle was flexed; his eyes were paralysed like with fear. And there I discovered it without further ado: these normally cold-blooded or blood-curdling glares of those eyes were exchanged at present for a gentle and, I think, gleaming gaze, which expressed both, blissfulness and satisfaction. Was...this really Kai...?
But then he drew out of the hug of the warm-hearted woman and backed away a few steps. Moreover he likely tried to keep his redness under control, which in my point of view had be left there, then he kinda looked cute with it...
Wait! I didn't think that, right?! At least not loud enough, that he 'heard' it sweats, then his sure face came back at its old place and made Kai to the unmerciful captain again, I knew. Actually what a pity...
"Come, Devi! It's time for you and your first ablution . " mentioned his mother happily and took her son by the hand. Kai's head swung over to me, constantly the glare in those blood red eyes, mixed up with a silent question.
"The ablution is the duty of every angel for being pure and possible to fly."
"Hn." Again he had nothing better to say =-.-= But that's his way...
Some time we had enough of the entire bustle and set out to my home. The night had already covered the sky with its stars, which lighted us the way and accompanied us by our quiet night ramble. Arriving home, I said to him, that he could sleep in the bed of my parents, whereupon I saw his eye brow rising.
"Well, we don't have a guestroom and I don't want you to sleep on the couch. So you spend the night in my parents' bed."
"Aha. And what happen to your parents?"
Sooner or later it had to come out.
"I don't have any parents." I responded with a smile on my lips and disappeared in the bathroom to change my clothes. The last thing, I've seen, before I closed the door, was confusion reflecting in his eyes.
Normal POV
Kai still stood in front of the bathroom and stared on the closed door. Was this true? Did Rei really have no parents?
"I'm home!"
But why did he...it was totally inconceivable for the Russian. But he also couldn't worry about this the whole time, then Rei would soon come out and before this moment he wanted to be changed. He didn't have any rags anyhow, so he had to sleep in his boxers; in the bed of his parents. This sent him shivers down his spine.
"Kai!" it came out of the bath. The addressed one listened up. "You can go right ahead taking some clothes out of my closet in my room. I don't mind."
Ty: "Wouldn't it be easier, if he produce some with his magical abilities? ô.ó " "Hey! I need an excuse, therewith he can have a look in Rei's room, Baka -.-;;; " Ty: "Ah so." "Shouldn't you be by Max?! Your scene comes soon! ò.ó;; " Ty: "Oh! Really?! vanishes " "Next time I look after some better actors... -.-;; "
So Kai plodded through the room (It's also laid, covered whatever with clouds XD; ) into Rei's, which the neko-jin went in immediately, when Kai entered his house for the first time. Slowly he stepped in and looked around in this little room. It was dark in spite of the open window, but none the less bright enough to recognize something there, also if it was only shadowy.
A white desk was to be seen, which was occupied with documents and sheets all over. Apparently Rei was very busy in heaven, so high were the heaps of instructions and papers. At the top there was a folder, which probably described the actual mission of Rei and was always near in hand. Normally it was easy to have a short look into it, but it wasn't Kai's manner to do this. He wanted to hear it from Rei's mouth, what his task was, and not to find out by spying. So he let his gaze wander again through the room.
In the middle of it there stood the bed of the angel, plain frame and white bed linen. Kai had supposed by Rei, that he sleeps still with a plushie, but called to mind again, that we didn't speak about Max -.-; So he went on looking around, although there wasn't very much to see anymore. No pictures of his parents or someone else, only a painting hanging at the wall and shining in such a deep red, that it just couldn't be seen at best with tied eyes in this usually bare white room. On the picture were just different nuances of red and a bit blue and Kai thought, how such dullness has found its way into this room, till he was hit by the idea, that a sundown is concerned, whose clouds played in the most intensive colours and were painted so life-like on the canvas, that you nearly dipped into this picture.
'Since when I'm so interested in art?' wondered the Russian crossed and turned off for picking out some sleeping clothes out of the closet. The door went open creaking and almost just white and black garment appeared. Besides the Chinese wore normally such colourful rags. But this made no difference now. Without thinking too long Kai pulled out a black shirt and white pants and put them on, then directly Rei entered in a white shirt with short sleeves and black boxers and wanted to ask, if his team mate saw his way. But the former just sent him a disapproving glare and went his way to the sleeping room, which wasn't really hard to find in this small cloud home. Thus Rei marched back into his room and got in his bed.
Also Kai lay now in the nuptial bed of Rei's parents and stared at the cloud ceiling. It felt quite odd sleeping in someone's parents' bed, who didn't even have them. And Rei wanted to make him believe, that this represented no problem in outmanoeuvring this fact with a smile.
"Why do you always try to pretend something for us?" whispered Kai extremely low, since there were just two doors in this house: the front-door and the one for the bathroom. Otherwise there wasn't much privacy X3;;
Suddenly Kai heard a crack and thereupon a crash in the adjoining room, followed by the cry of our Chinese. He propped up himself on his elbows and wanted to jump out of the bed, if Rei didn't stop him in calling at him that everything was alright. Then he perceived someone shuffling over the floor and watched Rei pass his sleeping room with a cover and a pillow on his arm.
"What are you doing?" asked Kai in a rough tone, for his terms still too friendly, and made Rei turn his head to him.
"I'll take my nap on the couch, because my brittle bed has crashed down." answered Rei back went off again, if Kai didn't hold him up with the next statement:
"Wouldn't it be easier to sleep here?"
=o.o=
. . .
#=o.o=# - means blush, cause ff.net doesn't let stars through -.-;
Rei wasn't able to hide his redness and why his heart beated that extreme, he didn't know as well, but before Kai withdrew his offer and he had to pass the night on the sofa, which was not really proper for sleeping, he seized the opportunity.
Thuds were heard when he stepped in his parents' sleeping room unsure, while Kai moved over to the edge a bit. It seemed that he didn't feel the same way like Rei, who lay down quickly and threw the cover over his head. "Since when are you so nervous, Kon?" Did the Chinese hear an arch smile? Just wait!
"And why did you move so far to the edge? So that you actually also could sleep on the floor?" pulled Rei his head out and sneered cheekily at his opposite. The former hadn't anything to add to this, got a bit more colour on his cheeks (As though his blue wasn't enough! XD ) and stared at Rei with plate-big eyes. The angel wasn't able to hold back his laugh, hid his nose under the blanket.
"To see you like that is really rare - grins " At once this astonishment converted into this typical 'Get-lost' face again and nearly gave him the cold shoulder, if Rei hadn't changed the mood and had thanked him with this strange expression, didn't look at him.
Again there was this quietness, which was over them. Nobody led off, why they continued their silence. Rei's glance got into vacancy. He remembered these days in the past, when he was a child. He always slept in this bed and absorbed the fragrance of it, which existed still till today in the linen and played a prank to his senses. But this turned out in a different way in course of time, and then he couldn't bear this anymore and began to spend the night in his own room.
Properly he didn't want to sleep next to Kai in the bed of his parents, because it reminded him of them, who got just an idea of them with pictures.
'Why...'
"Why what, Kon?" Again Kai simply interfered in Rei's privacy, but he tried to sound as nice as possible and not to obtrude on him.
Rei: Kai...?
Kai: Hn?
Rei: I have a first name. So make use of it.
Kai: Rei?
Rei: - twitches What?
Kai: Why have you never talk about your parents?
Rei looked up to him; sadness took place in his eyes. Then he turned his gaze away and concealed his face half under the cover.
"Since when are you so interested in such things?" he slurred into the fabric,but didn't get any respond from his captain of course.
"Well, you should know, my parents were already dead before my birth, hence I've never met them draws his face forth smiles But I put up with it and had no reason to worry you unnecessarily."
Right away the Chinese was thumped over his head from Kai, slight but still painful. As well stupefaction as anger were written in Rei's countenance.
Rei: OW! - rubs the spot What was that for?!
Kai: Why do you always lie to yourself?
The tiger hesitated in his motions and stared into the penetrating crimson red eyes, which seemed to manifest everything always barricaded in his inner self. As well they tried to hide everything of his own inner life, being easy for him with this cold expression.
"I..I..."
"I ask you: Since when are angels allowed to lie?"
Every word of Kai's mouth gave Rei a shock, even if it was just minimal.
Why was Kai able to this? Why could he have a look into him? Or was it that obvious? (Hmm, I'm yet reading a few passages in "Little sins" -; )
"Why...why are you doing this?" His voice was only a whimper, and then he hardly could fight back his tears. Actually he wanted to 'keep' them up, when he was alone, but the pressure, which Kai has caused him, was too great.
"Why do you ask me those things nobody has asked before? Why is it always you, who tortures me anew?! fist clenches"
Rei got louder with every phrase he spat out, like his heartbeat, which boomed in his ears and made his blood pulsate. His outbreak contrived him to tremble and he kept shut his ears. He wished that all of this had an end. Soon the first tear appeared which was caught up carefully from the other one and being wiped out. Again the neko-jin had to twitch, his eyes burst open, which he'd squeezed shut, and directly his chin was lifted up. An eye contact with Kai was the result.
"I am not the one who does this pain to you...but you yourself - wiping out the next tear"
Kai himself couldn't believe, what he was doing, and then he didn't belong to those people, who weren't such consoler. But seeing Rei in such a condition, how he fooled himself, which was the last straw. He couldn't watch this any longer, how the angel kept suffering with his own nightmares and apparently has never learnt to disclose. And it wasn't that difficult to recognize, that Kai was presumable the only one, who wasn't tricked by Rei. So Kai was also the only one, who had to point out the facts.
"You always try to pretend to be someone you aren't truly. You think, you can protect yourself and your grief not to be noticed but for a reason it is always just me, who sees through it."
In the meanwhile Rei could be heard sniffing many times. He sobbed silently. Like in the hotel room realization hit him hard, only with the exception, that this time he wasn't able to keep his tears anymore. This time he wasn't in the position to hide himself. At Kai's presence he also had the feeling, that he didn't need to be embarrassed and that he was allowed finally to give in. And as though his still wish was heard, Kai took him slowly into his arms and pressed him to himself, his face placed on his shoulder.
Was this true or did Rei just dream? From all people, he had never expected this from Kai. But this didn't concern him at his moment, it felt so good.
Back to Tyson's house
Immediately both of them backed away from each other and fixed the paper door of the room, which directly went open:
"Good day, my son! Nice to see you again at home! o "
For the first time Max met Tyson's father and he was deeply impressed of him. A tall (in his eyes huge) portly man, from who Tyson got the eyes and expressions definitely, like also this broad smile (not as broad as yours, my friend . ) and this cordial aura. Something decisive came into his mind though:
Where was Tyson's mother on the whole?
"Oh! Hello! I didn't know, that Tyson wanted to bring someone with him - " Point-blank the husky man stepped for the meanwhile shrunk boy and shook vigorously his hand. Yet Max thought his arm would fall off, when Tyson's dad hadn't let off again ;
"Father." Tyson came near; his voice occupied with gravity "This is Max." He paused briefly, but didn't brood for long, what he really wanted to say.
"Father, Max is my boyfriend."
Max: O0O - megashocking -meegablush
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TBC
A/N: Phew! Finally one chapter more!! And also many thanks like always to Devlinn Reiko-sama!! X3 My, my, ff.net is kinda stressing with its new layout and doings -.-;;; The next chappie will also come soon, if my holidays will come ;-; Please give me some reviews for the late chapter!