I got so many reviews for the last chapter...I feel so happy! Well, here's the last chapter. It's a bit longer than the last one, but not as long as I'd have liked it to be...oh well.

FF: The BBDR fic isn't done yet, I'm still tweaking it! BBDR stands for Bye-Bye-Die-Rei. The original BBD was Kai, after I killed him in 'Something Begins'. Peachmelba said it and it just stuck, somehow...that's what I always say when I kill someone off...pity that's most times...My latest BBD is the Rei one, the info for it is on my profile if anyone's interested...

Chinese Fairy: Happy? Yeah. I was in the mood for some happiness after all the crud I put Kai through...

Darkangelintheshadows: There's more info about the Health Spa and Scary Boris fics at the bottom- thanks for being so enthusiastic about voting!

A/N: To all who gave an opinion, thank you- the result is at the bottom of the page.

Kanilla- Master of Fluff: Heh, thanks for being so kind about it!

Just that good: Wait no longer! The last chapter is here, and it's a damn sight happier than the others...

Renanimeangel: I'm glad you're still enjoying it!

Lullaby Lily: I'm English, so the subjects are all included in one course. I've met the head of the department and he's cool- I mean come on, he's called Geoff (I love the name Geoff. Or Jeff.).

Delores L: Thanks for being so nice about my writing...you made me feel all fuzzy inside...

Helen: Wahoot! Ten out of ten? Thanks!

Ellen: Yeah, the last chapter...I'm sorry...but I'll post another story soon!

Hi: Glad you like it!

Endoh Chiaki: It probably would help in real life, but this is fiction and I'm evil so Kai is alone- ALONE! Muahahahahaha!

Bloodyshadows: Alas, 'tis indeed the last chapter. But like I said before, I have other fics I'm writing at the minute so I'll be posting them soon!

Yumi-Ulrich4ever: I could have made it all go wrong...I was going to at one point, but in the end I decided to give them a happy ending- I can't -always- be cruel to them...

Element crocodile: Aww, thanks. You made me feel all nice and happy inside.

Silver115: Um, no, no championships, I'm afraid- I'm not very good with the actual beybattles, truth be told. Maybe I'll try one someday, but for now, this is the last chapter.

Mourir: Another kind person who made me feel all squishy and happy! Thank you!

Lemmingsrule: Dramatic? It's not really dramatic...it's more a sort of wind down. There's a lot of self doubt, and Kai gets a bit -over- dramatic...will that do?

Animeobsession: Oh, I'm definitely going to post both of them! I just wanted to know which one you guys wanted to see first, s'all.

A/N: Both the scary Boris and the health spa fics will be posted, in case anyone was wondering, but one will get posted before the other!

Kaei kon: The bit with Max saying he thought Rei was mad was at the end of the chapter when he was looking at him funny- sorry if it wasn't clear!

Skimmie: I took your eternal advice, an lo, I have updated!

Miriam906: Aww, you made me feel happy, being all nice about my fic like that!

Helen: ...Did you review earlier, or was that another Helen? Anyway, I liked that sauna idea...I'll have to find some way of putting it in the health spa fic now...it's nearly finished, I'm just changing bits here and there to make it better before I post it...

MichikoCamui630: Please don't cry! Here, quick, read more, it might make it better!


Sunday passed. Monday passed. Tuesday passed, then Wednesday and Thursday. And then...Friday did as well. By that point, Rei was becoming depressed again. It was Friday night, and he was the only one up. He was sitting on his bed, reading and re-reading all of Kai's letters and crying over them. When his eyes started to hurt he curled up on his bed, ready to let sleep claim him.

He heard the sound of a car pulling up, and voices. Probably the neighbours or something. Sighing, he rolled over. Sleep was evidently not forthcoming, so he went to the toilet. On his way back to his room he heard the voices from outside again, only louder than before, and then...the door opened.

Rei stood at the top of the stairs, helpless, as someone walked into the house, head bowed, dropping their bag in the hall and closing the door behind them. A pale hand ran its way through a mop of slate-grey hair. "Home again..." Whispered a voice that Rei hadn't heard in so long...

"Kai?" He asked breathlessly. Kai swallowed and stared up at him.

"R..." He trailed off. Before he could open his mouth again Rei had sprinted down the stairs and flung his arms around his neck.

"I missed you Kai..." He whispered, tears choking his voice. "God I missed you so much..." Kai blinked, dazed, and put his arms around Rei's waist.

"I..." Kai stopped again as Rei pulled away slightly and looked up into his eyes. "Rei...I'm sorry..." He sniffed, tears filling his eyes. "I-I'm sorry..."

"It's okay..." Rei shook his head and burst into tears. "I'm just so glad to have you back...I missed you..." He kissed Kai's cheek, then his lips. "Are you alright? Are you...okay and everything?" Kai just stared at him, mouth open slightly.

"Rei...I...I didn't...I didn't...you..." He let go of Rei and backed away. "You don't...hate me?"

"Of course I don't!"

"B-But I..."

"Oh Kai...you -can't- think I hate you...not after..." He laughed suddenly. "I wrote replies to your letters...I keep forgetting I wasn't allowed to send you them!"

"You...did?" Kai wiped his eyes. "Can I...read them? If-if you...don't..." His voice dropped to a whisper. "If you don't...mind?" Rei blushed.

"They're...kind of..." He caught the slight look of fear and self-doubt in Kai's eyes and smiled. "They're sort of...slushy...but you can read them! You can laugh at them if you want to..." Kai shook his head and followed Rei up the stairs. Rei kept looking over his shoulder, sneaking glances at Kai. It was almost...surreal, seeing him again. The Russian averted his eyes as he passed his own bedroom, a look of pain stealing into his eyes.

"I...there's...it's..." Rei turned, frowning.

"Kai?"

"I'm sorry..." Rei shook his head and grabbed Kai's wrist, pulling him into his bedroom and kneeling down, scrabbling under the bed and pulling out a box. He held it out and Kai took it, opening it warily. "I...I'm sorry I wrote things like this..." He pulled out the first letter he'd sent, reading over it and looking ashamed. He went to put it down and found another sheet of paper stapled to the back. "You...you really did write replies? Even though...they were so horrible?"

Rei blushed and nodded as Kai looked through his replies, face growing steadily more shocked. "Y-you signed them all..."

"'I love you'. Because...I do..."

"But...I was so awful to you..." Kai whispered. "I...didn't think you would be able to forgive me..."

"Oh Kai..." Kai's eyes were swimming with tears that spilled over as Rei hugged him tightly. "Of course I forgive you...just promise you won't ever make me worry like that again..."

"I...I promise... Rei...when I sent that letter...I didn't think you would..."

"Like you back? Kai, I liked you for ages, even before all...that stuff. I just didn't think you were into men." Kai sniffled and wound his arms tightly around Rei's waist.

"I don't deserve you..."

"Let -me- be the judge of who deserves me, Kai. There's no-one I want but you."

"I love you, Rei..." Kai drew back, looking deep into Rei's eyes.

"I love you too." Rei smiled and leaned his forehead against Kai's. "So...maybe...we could...start over together?" Kai nodded, swallowing.

"Rei...I...I'm sorry..."

"I know you are, Kai. But if you keep being sorry you'll make me worry again, and you said you wouldn't!"

"But I-" Rei grinned wolfishly.

"Kai, just shut up and kiss me."

Kai obliged, just as Tyson and Max appeared in the doorway of the room. "So you're back." Kai jumped and broke away from Rei, turning. "I..." He swallowed. "I...I'm sorry!" Tyson regarded him expressionlessly, making Kai fidget and feel uncomfortable. Before he had the chance to formulate another apology, Rei had stepped forwards. "Tyson, I smashed a teapot over your head once and I'll do it again! Stop being so disgustingly rude!"

Kai shifted, then walked to the door. "I...I'll go and book into a hotel or something...I asked Mr. Dickenson if I could before but he said no...but I don't...want to cause you any more trouble..."

"No! Don't go!" Rei grabbed his arm and pulled him back. "You can't leave me now! You can't just come back and leave again!" He turned to Tyson. "Are you going to ruin what I've waited for for months? Do you want me to go back to snapping at you every other second? He never hurt you, he hurt me, so if I can forgive him, and I have, then so can you!"

"Rei...don't be angry with him...he has every right to-" Kai trailed off as Tyson came over to him and hugged him.

"Don't ever hurt him like that again." He said quietly. Kai nodded and Max joined in the hug.

"We all missed you. It was just a bit of a shock seeing you again."

Kai sniffed. "I didn't think...you would want to see me ever again..."

"If you thought that, Kai, then you're the stupidest clever person I know." Tyson said, grinning. Kai laughed and started to cry again. Rei shuffled his feet a little, then smiled.

"Seeing as you've only just got back, Kai...are you hungry?" Kai opened his mouth to reply, and Rei clapped his hands. "Good! Tyson, go and put the oven on while I tidy up up here..." Tyson ran for the stairs with Max in hot pursuit. Kai put his head on one side, puzzled.

"There isn't any mess...you don't have to tidy-" Kai stopped short as Rei pulled him down to sit on the bed beside him.

"I love you, Kai. You have to promise me...that you'll never take drugs like that again."

"Rei...I...I -can't-, even if I wanted to. I-I don't, but...I mean, well..."

"Hm?"

"I...um...I know this is going to sound bad however I say it, but...I..." Kai looked down. "I had the main dealer in the town killed. I-I'm not ashamed, though. He ruined my life, and other peoples' as well... That was how I got into it...I tried some, just once, just to see if it could make me feel any better about myself and...I couldn't stop... When I was...you know...in rehab...they said I have self-esteem issues." Kai finished, blushing. "Rei..." He sighed. "I know you love me...and I love you...but I don't think...I'm the kind of person you should be with."

"Why?"

"Weren't you listening? I'm half psychotic! I did drugs! I had someone killed! I could have killed -you-, pushing you down those stairs!"

"Are you sorry?"

"Of course I am! But that makes no difference to what I did!" Rei smiled and crawled onto Kai's lap.

"It does to me."

"Rei, look...I...I got caught up in seeing you again earlier, I-I think-"

"Stop thinking then."

"Rei, I-"

"Kai, I don't care what you've done! If I was the kind of person who cared, do you really think I would want to be here with you now? If I cared what you'd done, do you really think I would have waited for so long to see you again? I didn't write those replies because I hate you, Kai, I wrote them because I love you and I want to be with you -whatever- you've done!" Cried Rei.

Kai swallowed, tears filling his eyes. "Rei..." Rei cut off Kai's words with his lips, winding his arms around Kai's neck and pushing him backwards, so they were laid on the bed, lips locked furiously. Rei pulled away, breathless. "We've forgiven you, and we all accept you for what you are -now-, not what you used to be. So stop worrying about your past. We...actually, no, -I- care about your future. Maybe...when you learn to like yourself again...we could have a future together?"

"I've never liked myself..." Rei laughed and kissed Kai's nose.

"Well that'll have to change!"

"REI! Max is stealing the sugar again!" Came Tyson's voice from downstairs. Rei shook his head and stood up, pulling Kai up with him. Before he could go anywhere, Kai grabbed him and pulled him into a crushing embrace, whispering. "Thank you..." Rei smiled.

"Come on, we'd better go and make sure those two don't blow up the kitchen..." Rei grabbed Kai's hand and pulled him back out onto the landing. Tyson and Max started shouting from the kitchen, calling for Rei to mediate their war about the sugar, and Rei started to run down the stairs. Halfway down, Kai stopped, jerking Rei's arm.

The neko-jin turned, looking up at Kai enquiringly. "I...I'm..."

"You've said it more than enough times for me to know you're sorry. I don't blame you for what you did, and I don't care about it any more. Do you understand that?" Kai nodded. "Well then, come on. If you're that sorry..." Rei's eyes took on a mischievous glitter. "You can make it up to me later, sometime..." He tugged on Kai's hand and they went down into the hall. Rei stole a quick kiss before pulling Kai into the kitchen. Everything was okay now. Kai was back, and Kai was safe, and that was all that mattered.

A few minutes later, Rei was cooking again, using the sugar that had been argued over to make muffins. As Kai looked over at him from the other side of the table, Rei smiled contentedly. Even if Kai was still unsure of himself...Rei wouldn't let him be for long. He had waited too long to let Kai leave him again. There was probably some metaphor to describe this new, almost perfect situation, but Rei couldn't think of one. He laid down his mixing bowl and licked the spoon thoughtfully, deciding to try something. "Guys...do you think we should get a cat?"

Tyson looked puzzled. "A cat? What would you want a cat for?" Max bounced, the effects of the sugar taking him over.

"Whee! Meow meow meow!" Kai looked down at the floor, then up again.

"We don't need another. The one we have already is wonderful enough." Tyson gave a wolf whistle and Kai glared at him. Rei picked up his bowl again, pouring the contents into a baking tin, sighing happily. Everything was back to normal. Or...as back to normal as Tyson's house ever got...

Fin


Okay, okay, so I gave Kai issues- I mean, come on- he spends half of his time just standing there brooding! There's got to be -something- going on up there...

On the matter of the next fic to be posted- the Boris the Perv one won by one vote. I said it up top but I'll say it again down here as well- both fics will be posted, I just wanted to know which one you guys wanted to see first. I'm really sorry if you wanted to see the health spa one first, but this way I have more time to change a couple of things I don't like about it while I post the other one! Even if you don't like the sound of them, please give both fics a try- they're quite different, so I'd like to know what people think of each type. If anyone was wondering why I suddenly decided to ask about it, I think it was 'cause we've just had a general election over here in the UK, an I was in a democratic sort of mood! Meh, it wasn't like I got to vote on that anyway...stinkin' voting age... Oh well. Next time I'll be able to vote...

PS: Voting for the fics has ended- sorry people, but it's been decided.

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