Kay: Hi, everyone. Sorry this took me so long, but homework was hell this week (meaning a paper on the Battle of Fort Sumter and a lab report), pluse yesterday was graduation pictures.

Jay: Yeah. She streghtened her hair, and it looked really nice, for once.

Kay: For once, I'll agree with you. Now, if only my hair was always this way ((sigh)). Anyway, here's chapter two of Adopted at Last?, so enjoy!

Chapter 2
A Special Surprise?

"Kai, we have a very special surprise for you," a young woman with wavy blue hair and blue eyes said to her son.

The young man at the table simply stared at his mother. Ever since the fire, she had been different. Things had changed. Her best friend since childhood, Molly Granger, was dead. Molly's husband was dead. Four of Molly's children were dead, and the other two had been sent away to separate orphanages. After that, she always smiled a painfully false smile.

His father took a different approach, drowning himself in his work, so that people wouldn't see him cry.

And the young man at the table? He wore a cold mask of ice and stone, not letting anyone see how hurt he was. How much he missed him. 'Tyson…..'

"Kai, darling, your father and I have adopted you a little brother!" Anna Hiwatari said to her son. Kai's expression remained blank.

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Kai sighed as he looked out his bedroom window at the mansion next door. Or, at least, it used to be a mansion. Now, it was a desolate pile of ash.

Noticing a car pulling into the driveway, Kai sighed again and walked over to his bedside table. Opening the top drawer, he picked up the gun that was in there, and attached the hilt to his belt. He wasn't really going to use it. He always carried it around to seem intimidating.

Turning back to the drawer, he picked up the picture that was in there. It was a picture of him, and three other boys. The one behind him looked exactly like him, except two years older, and with long hair that reached the middle of his back and was tied in a pony tail. That was Kai's older brother, Anthony. He had disappeared a few years ago, and nobody had been able to find him.

Kai and Anthony had been particularly close. Their parents were the heads of Hiwatari Arms, a successful weapon company, which was why Kai was able to keep a gun in his room. But it meant his parents were hardly home, so Kai and Anthony had spent a lot of time together.

Next to Anthony was a boy about a year older than him, with sky blue hair and coffee colored eyes. He was Hiro Granger, the oldest of the six Granger siblings. He had been Anthony's boyfriend, and spent a lot of time at the Hiwatari mansion, more specifically, in a dark room. Alone. With Anthony (if you catch my drift). He had often brought Tyson, his little brother, along with him, to keep Kai occupied. Tyson and Hiro Granger, the youngest and oldest of the 6 Granger children, and the only two boys in the bunch. They had been regular guests at the Hiwatari mansion.

It was Tyson who stood smiling next to Kai, in front of his big brother in the picture. It was Tyson who had given Kai a wring with the words "Kai Hiwatari, Property of Tyson Granger," Inscribed on the inside. And it was Tyson's image that Kai lovingly ran his finger over time and time again, as he was now.

With a final sigh, >>1>> Kai put the picture down, closed the drawer, and left the greet his new "brother," who was undoubtedly in the car in the driveway.

Kay: Here y'all go! I hope you liked it. Just to clear things up a bit, the "mansion" that caught Tyson's eye in the last chapter was the same "mansion" that Kai was looking at in this one. And if you guys think the next chapter is going to be a reunion...you don't know me that well. n.nU

>>1>> Kai sighs a lot in this chapter .