Chapter 14: Tempest of temperaments

Kai woke up. He glanced at the clock, it was 6.10 am. He got up and dressed himself. He couldn't sleep anymore so what was the point in lying in bed.

He walked down the stairs and was heading to the living room when a sound caught his attention.

Instead of going to the living room, he turned to the kitchen. He walked in and saw Kira with her back turned to the doorway. Kai looked at his sister. Was she...

sobbing?

Kai couldn't believe his eyes. This was Kira, she didn't sob, not to mention cry. Kai cleared his throat, making his presence known.

Kira jumped at the sudden sound and turned around to face him. Kai saw she had been crying.

"Don't say it!" Kira snapped. "I know."

"Know what?" Kai replied.

"I look terrible and you want to know why," she stated. A tear made its way down her cheek. "What are you looking at! Not ever seen a girl cry?"

Kai could see she was fighting, not to let the tears fall.

"Not you," he responded shortly. "Crying is for weak, I thought you weren't."

Anger and humiliation reflected from Kira's eyes as she sent her brother an exact copy of his death glare. This made him startle a little. He didn't expect it.

"I see you have learned something," Kai said with a sarcastic tone, pushing the limits on purpose.

Kira leaped quickly close to him and let out a string of curses in Russian, straight to his face. Kai waited calmly for her to calm down.

"Kira, you need grab a hold of yourself," he stated calmly.

"Look who's talking," she snorted.

"Think about what people will think if they knew," he continued.

"So what?" she answered.

"Your reputation, that you have worked so hard for, would go down the drain," he explained.

This made more tears come down Kira's cheeks. The dams were about to be broken.

"I can't help it," Kira said, sounding pathetic.

Suddenly Kai slapped Kira hard across the face. Kira looked at him – stunned.

"Kira what ever it is you're hurting for isn't worth that. Now pull yourself together and go clean up your face," Kai said harshly.

Kira walked away to the bathroom. Kai headed for the living room.

He turned on the Gamecube and sat down on the couch. The menu-screen of a game came to view. He hesitated as Kira walked into the room.

"Wanna play?" he asked and smirked.

"Sure," Kira said and a smile came to her face.

After a few minutes of playing Kira spoke...

"Thanks," she muttered quickly and quietly.

"For what?" Kai asked.

"For bringing me back to my senses," Kira replied. "Even though you had to slap me to do it."

"Hey, don't forget that you are a Hiwatari and what people think of you affects me too," Kai stated.


It was 7.45 am when Rei and Anya came downstairs, talking about something. It looked like they were really into the conversation.

Kai glanced at them and felt a jolt of jealousy. Rei had his arm around her shoulders. He noticed there was something weird about Anya. Then it came to him.

She had been crying. It was obvious. He remembered hearing an argument yesterday. Did Anya and Kira fight? But what for? They are best friends. He was tempted to ask Kira, but decided not to. She wouldn't tell him or anyone else for that matter.

After an hour or so a smell of breakfast came from the kitchen. They gathered around the table. Veronica and Hilary appeared, chatting cheerfully. Soon Max appeared too.

"I can't get Tyson to wake up," he stated.

"Just let him sleep," Rei suggested.

"But shouldn't we..." Max started but was cut of.

"I'll wake him up. I know how to do it," Kira exclaimed in frustration and shot up from her chair, leaving the room.

They followed her quickly. Kira came out of the bathroom with a bucket that was filled with water.

"Kira, you wouldn't be that evil?" Max asked.

"Try me," Kira replied and went to Tyson's bed.

He was snoring loudly. Kira looked at him with disgust written on her face. Next she splashed the water from the bucket on the unsuspecting sleeper. Tyson shot up immediately.

"Cold water of course. Freezing," Kira stated and smirked at Tyson.

"You," was all Tyson could say.

"Yes, me," Kira replied with a dangerous voice.

That was when a wild chase began. Needless to say that Tyson didn't have a chance on catching Kira. Kira laughed while she ran. The others caught up with them in the living room.

Tyson had Kira cornered, or at least he thought so. Kira opened a big window in the corner and jumped out. Unfortunately, Tyson caught her in mid-air. Her hand grabbed a branch from the tree, while Tyson was holding her from the wrist of the other hand.

Kira's hold on the tree was slipping. She knew Tyson couldn't support her weight, even though she wasn't fat.

"Let go," she ordered.

"No way!" replied a soaked Tyson.

"You are going to get us killed!" Kira shouted.

"I'm not going to let you get away!" Tyson shouted back.

"Fool, idiot, moron, stupid!" Kira exclaimed in fury.

"Don't call me names!" Tyson argued.

"I'll do what ever I want! Now let go OR ELSE!" Kira shouted. She was starting to panic as her hand slipped.

Tyson looked like he wanted to say something, but he never got the chance because Kira decided to pull her hand to herself. Tyson lost his balance and fell. Somehow he managed to grab the open window. Kira lifted herself on to the tree, now that she could use both of her hands. Everyone rushed to the window.

"AAAHH!" Tyson exclaimed as he was about to fall.

"Hold on Tyson!" Max yelled.

"Easy for you to say," Tyson retorted.

Then there was a heart-stopping voice heard. (A/N: Guess who it is?)

"What the hell is going on here?"

They were all quiet. Not even Kira could say anything.

"Mister Granger and Miss Hiwatari, I want to see you in my classroom. You have 10 minutes to come there."

"Yes, Miss Montana," Kira replied, with a venomous smile on her lips.

The teacher turned and left. Kira was down from the tree in a matter of seconds, but getting Tyson from the window that was swinging freely outside above nothing was harder. Kira appeared soon below Tyson with her camera.

"Smile!" she ordered and there was a series of flashes from the camera.

After that she put the extremely small camera to her pocket and headed to the school.


"Close the door Granger," Ms. Montana said as Tyson walked into the classroom.

Tyson shuttered. She was scary, really scary. The teacher turned to glare at them. As Tyson sat next to Kira in the front seat.

"I want an explanation," Ms. Montana stated.

Tyson opened his mouth but Kira cut him of. She was good at making excuses and lying. Ms. Montana said that they would get a punishment and would start by writing 100 times "I promise to behave properly in the future." on a paper.

After that they were ordered to do push-ups. Last, but certainly not the least, they both had a private conversation with the teacher. First was Kira then Tyson. Tyson couldn't believe his eyes when Kira just walked out of the classroom door and smirked.

"Your turn," Kira said as her eyes flashed evilly.

Tyson went inside and Kira sat down to wait for him. It was going to be one hilarious picture, when he came out. She snickered to herself.

It was about 20 minutes after Tyson had gone inside, that the door opened. He had cold sweat and was shaking everywhere. There were three flashes from a camera. Tyson looked in its direction and spotted Kira.

"You know where this is going," she stated and smirked.

After that she was gone.

Tyson headed out of the school too. He couldn't stop the shaking.

'Damn she was freaky,' he thought as a picture of the Ms. Montana came to his mind.


Kira threw the door open and it slammed against the wall as she stepped inside.

"Hey Hils! You have got to see this!" Kira yelled, laughter in her voice.

"What is it?" Hilary asked as she got to Kira.

"Come on, I'll show you. Something for Code Red," Kira stated and smirked.

She turned on the computer in her room and connected the camera with a cable to it. Soon the images were transferred and Kira opened one of them. A picture of Tyson hanging from the window came to view.

Both of the girls burst out into laughter. Veronica and Anya appeared behind them and as soon as they looked at the picture filling the screen, they started laughing too. Tyson heard the laughter and rushed to it. A deep blush covered his face when he glanced at the picture.

"Nice picture, isn't it?" Kira asked, her voice dripping with sarcasm.

"No," Tyson answered.

"Too bad," Kira retorted. "Because tomorrow the whole school will see it."

"Kira, you wouldn't be that mean to Tyson?" Veronica asked.

"Of course I would," Kira replied with a smile.

That was when Tyson decided to make a desperate dash to the computer. Unfortunately Kira reacted to it quickly before any damage was inflicted to the pictures.

It turned into a fight, that Kira was quickly winning. Kai looked at the situation with an amused expression on his face. Anya tried to hold Kira back but it was a useless attempt. Instead she got a scratch from Kira's long finger nails. She jumped back with yelp. Blood came out of one of the scratch-marks.

Kira pinned Tyson to the floor. At this point Kai decided to interfere with the situation.

"Hey Kira! Think Tyson has got enough?" Kai pointed out.

Kira looked at the boy in her feet. "Yeah, maybe he has."

She walked to the computer and started working on the article.

They all cleared out of the room, only Hilary stayed to help Kira. But eventually Kira asked her to go too, saying she needed time to think.

Hilary was confused. 'What's going on with her?'


Anya walked in later. She glanced at Kira, wondering if it was safe to approach.

"What do you want?" Kira asked with a bored and slightly annoyed tone.

"Umm, about yesterday..." Anya started.

"What about it?" Kira asked coldly.

"Oh, never mind. You are going to publish that thing about Stacy?" Anya responded.

"Yeah. Why do you ask?" Kira replied, now eyeing Anya suspiciously.

"Well, it was kind of harsh. If you could change it a bit it would be better," Anya explained.

"Okay, so yesterday you had a problem with the way I deal with things and today it's about the way I write," Kira said as her eyes flashed.

"I'm not saying that, it's just that..." Anya started, but didn't know how to continue.

"Spare me the excuses. Just remember that I've been doing this a lot longer then you and I know what people like," Kira stated.

"Fine. Be that way. See if I care!" Anya shouted.

"With pleasure," Kira retorted with a venomous smile on her lips.

Anya stormed out of the room in frustration.

'Why does Kira have to be like that?' she asked herself. 'I try to talk to her and she gives me the cold shoulder.'

While muttering to herself she walked into someone as she turned around the corner. It was Kai.

"Watch where you're walking," Kai said.

"Why don't you?" Anya snapped back. "Hiwataris"

'Hiwataris? I hope she hasn't been talking to Kira,' Kai thought and went to see his sister.

"What is it that YOU want?" Kira snapped.

"Why are you snapping at me?" Kai asked, forgetting the reason he came to see her.

"I'm NOT," Kira answered, annoyance clear in her voice.

Kai rolled his eyes. "Sure you're not," he replied with sarcasm.

"Just get out!" Kira yelled.

Kai rolled his eyes and left. The door slammed shut and the lock turned.