Shattered Past
By Kitty-Kris
Chapter Five: Nice to meet you! (or not?)
The next morning, Tyson woke up with the smell of food coming from the kitchen, and in less than a second, he was standing in the entrance sniffing the air "Hum! I smell bacon!"
Melody glanced at him and smiled "Well, if you're that hungry, you'll have to help me out a bit..."
The boy rushed to the counter "Ok! What do I have to do?"
"Hum, for now just set the table... where's Kai?"
"Oh, he's probably still asleep, I didn't check before I left the gym..."
The girl frowned "He can't still be asleep... He wasn't in his bed when I woke up..."
Tyson shrugged and turned to the cupboard to start setting the table "So, did ya know that today you'll meet the rest of our team? How does that feel?"
Melody kept a stoic expression as she made some toast "I dunno, what am I supposed to feel like?" she mumbled
Tyson shrugged again and finished setting the table in no time. His newest house guest soon finished preparing breakfast and served it "Hey Melly, where's Deenix?"
"Hum, I sent her out to buy me some groceries, she'll be back soon..."
"Oh..."
(O)(O)(O)(O)(O)
Kai was walking down the street, hands in his pockets and his usual serious thinking expression. 'That girl... the way she acts, the way she battles... I can't stop thinking I've seen stuff similar to that somewhere... and the way she jumped on us when she realized who we were... almost as if she hated us. What was that all about?'
He was so distracted, he didn't notice the small robot walking in his track, only against it, and since the robot had a huge bag of groceries blocking it's view, the bump was inevitable.
In a second, Kai was sitting on the ground with a bemused look, and in front him, was Deenix rubbing her head plus a bag of groceries lying next to her.
"Ow... WHY DON'T YOU WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING, YOU-" the robot glanced at him and blinked in surprise "Kai-Chan? What are you doing here?"
"I should ask you the same... shouldn't you be with Melody?" he stood up and helped the robot up too.
"She told me to go shopping for dinner. Since your friends will be arriving today... Aw man! The EGGS! Melly-Chan's gonna kill me..." the robot fell to its knees sighing and feeling terrible.
"What's all the drama for? Only a couple of eggs broke." Kai stated
Deenix stared at the box and sweatdropped "Guess so, hehe...Well er, are you coming home with me?"
Kai nodded and picked up the groceries bag "Ok. Deenix, could you answer me some questions?"
"Hum, depends on what you're gonna ask me..."
"I've been thinking you see... and I can't get this thing out of my head."
"What?"
"Why did she snap at us when Tyson told her we were the Bladebreakers?"
Deenix jerked her head "Well, huh... You see, er... It's er, sorta hard to explain and I er, sorta can't tell you neither, 'cause if I did, Melly-Chan would skin me alive... if I had any skin that is..."
Kai turned his head towards their path "It's ok... but it's strange... you could almost swear she hated us for some reason..."
Deenix blanched "H-hate you? Why would she? Hehe..." she laughed nervously.
Kai stopped his track and smirked "She does, doesn't she?" he turned to the robot and kneeled down beside it "Well? I really don't care about them, but why does she hate me? Whatever did I do to her?"
"N-nothing... she doesn't hate neither of you! You're just imagining things... that's all..."
Kai glared at the robot "You're lying! I remember you asking us not to mention the World's in front of her 'cause she has some bad memories from that time. What bad memories were those?"
Deenix just stared at him, really wide eyed and started to tremble "I- I can't tell you... I'm sorry but I can't... let's just go, ok? Melly-Chan will get worried if we don't get back-"
"I DON'T CARE! Now tell me what you meant by "bad memories" NOW!"
It was Deenixes' turn to glare at him "I said NO! It's none of your business, and even if it was, why do you care?"
Kai stood up and just kept walking and grumbling "I don't! Let's just go!"
The robot smiled and ran all the way until they finally arrived at the dojo "MELLY-CHAN! We're back!"
A purple haired girl showed up smiling at the just arriving couple "About time too! Oh, you found Kai on your way?"
Kai was going to start with the same questions again, but when she approached him he forgot he had the gift of speech.
"You better go to the kitchen fast, or Tyson will eat your breakfast..." she took the groceries from his arms and turned around on her way to the kitchen. Deenix threw him a weird look and quickly followed Melody.
Kai just stood in the hall for a few moments confused 'What the hell? Why did my brain just stop when she came near me? What's wrong with me?' he shook his head and walked towards the kitchen, knowing he'd find Tyson stuffing his face with HIS breakfast.
(O)(O)(O)(O)(O)
Three boys and a girl with a robot on her lap waited at one of the airport's platforms for their friends, who should be arriving at that moment.
The voice they had been waiting for suddenly echoed through the whole airport "The flight 123 from New York has just arrived"
Tyson stood on his chair and started looking around the platform. In about two minutes he started dancing and jumping on the chair "There! Over there! HEY MAX! RAY! OVER HERE!"
Kenny jerked his head in embarrassment while Melody and Kai just looked at anywhere except at Tyson. They soon saw two boys running in their direction. The blond one, jumped at Tyson making him fall down from the chair and everyone stare at them "TYSON! I missed you so much!"
Tyson didn't reply immediately. He was too dizzy and was being crushed by Max "Get off me...Can't breathe..."
Max blinked "Oh, sorry!" he stood up and smiled at Kenny and Kai "HIIIIIIII! How are you guys?"
The other boy just sweatdropped "Max, I thought I told you NOT to have those chocolates..."
Kai rolled his eyes and leaned against the wall, while Kenny greeted the two just arriving boys "Hi Max, hi Ray! So, how was the flight?"
"Not bad at all, but you still haven't introduced us to that cute girl over there…"
Melody glared at him "I have a name, ya know?"
Ray grinned "No I don't know… I'm Ray, this is Max, and you are?"
Since she apparently refused to answer, Kenny giggled nervously and answered for her "Er, this is Melody, we met her yesterday and she's staying at Tyson's…"
Max jumped in joy "Oh goody! Now we have two girls with us! So cool! n-n"
Kai quirked an eyebrow "Max, have you been drinking? Melody's only one girl…"
"I know that! I'm talking about my cousin Jessica! She came along too! Hey JESS! Where are you?"
Ray flinched "Do you have to call her? Can't we just leave her here and hope some suitcase falls on her head?"
Max ignored him and kept searching. Suddenly, his face lit up as he found what he was looking for "HEY JESS! WE'RE HERE!"
No one could describe accurately what happened next, but it looked like the same to all of them. A cloud of pink passed through them all and glued itself on Kai, squealing "Like, OH MY GOD! KAI HIWATARI! Like, AAAH!"
Kai stared at the pink thing sticking in his arm with disgust "And who are you?"
She smiled at him and threw back her long bleach blond hair "Why I'm like, Jessica, Max's like, cousin! So like, tell me, you like, free tonight? We could like-"
She was interrupted by someone's hand pulling her by her neck "Like, what the?" she was turned around to meet a pair of red glowing furious eyes "Hands off bitch…" the owner of the eyes sneered.
"Melly-Chan! Put her down!"
The girl glared at her robot and threw the girl against a wall "Oops…" she grinned as she watched the blond bimbo girl crash against the wall "Sorry, was that too hard?"
Everyone stared at Melody wide eyed and the other girl just glared at her new rival "What do you like, think you're like, doing? What like, gives you the right to like, throw me against a wall you- you bitch!"
"Shut it or next time I'll be throwing you into a turbine…" she sneered.
Deenix ran towards Jessica and helped her up "I'm sorry about Melly-Chan, she's just very temperamental and can't stand high pitched noises…"
The other girl squealed in indignation "High pitched? When did I like, make high pitched noises?"
Melody growled and charged against the girl "That's it!"
"AH! Someone do something! She's gonna kill my cousin!" Max yelled.
Kai sighed and grabbed Melody around the waist just in time. "Hold it spit-fire… You'll kill her later… Let's just go now…"
"Let me go! I'm gonna turn that thing into a leaky piece of meat! LET ME GO KAI! Or I'll make sure you'll never be able to grab anyone for a long time!"
Kai chuckled a bit and tightened his grip on her "Let's go before she attracts even more attention…"
The boys, Jessica and Deenix sweatdropped and nodded, leaving the airport as fast as they could.
About ten minutes later, they arrived at a restaurant nearby and went in for lunch "Table for eight please…" Kenny asked the waiter.
They sat and started searching through their menus "Um, let's see now… I'll have that, that, that, that, a LOT of that and let's not forget a bit of that!"
Jessica rose an eyebrow at Tyson "You shouldn't like, ask for everyone, you don't know what we like, want…"
"Everyone? No, I was asking for me!" he grinned sheepishly
Everyone on the table fell over, and yelled at him "TYSON!"
"What?"
Kai took his menu and ordered instead of him, which made Tyson pout and hold a grunt until the food finally came. The boys helped themselves and kept talking to each other about what each of them had been doing lately. "So Tyson, how did Kai end up staying in your house?" asked Ray while taking some mashed potatoes.
"Oh, he said his grandfather is wanted by the FBI now, so he doesn't have anywhere to go, and since Grandpa's always liked him, I asked him to stay over. You guys will stay at my house too, right?"
"Sure! We'll have lots of fun! You'll see Jess! His grandpa is so cool!"
The blond girl just shrugged and continued trying to talk to Kai, who regretted stopping Melody from killing her. As for the purple haired girl, she was looking at her knife and the other girl's forehead as if she wanted to put one through the other one. She couldn't take much longer of that "So Kai, are you like, single? You still haven't told me if you're like, free tonight or not… we could like, go to a really fancy restaurant I know… what do you like, say?".
Kai was looking as if he wanted to kill her, and was hoping that the girl on the other side of him would not have as much self-control as he did.
"Huh, Max, why did you bring your cousin along too? I mean, she doesn't blade, does she?" Tyson asked between two stakes.
"My mom made me… she said Jessie needs to travel around and Japan is a good place to start. Don't worry, she won't stay with us for long… I hope…"
Ray shuddered "You have no idea how the flight was… she wouldn't shut up about her friends' boyfriends and how she'd "like, get a famous boyfriend and oh my God I'm so like, excited!" ugh!"
The three boys looked at the trio in front of them and giggled silently.
Kai was getting really tired of the blond bimbo, so he decided to try and talk to Melody, at least she didn't throw herself at him like the rest of the girls "Hum, aren't you eating anything else?"
"No, not very hungry. Pink slugs take my appetite."
Kai chuckled at her statement "I'm tired of the pink slug too, why don't we go outside for a slug-free walk on the park?"
Melody rose an eyebrow at him "Is the great Kai Hiwatari asking me out?" she couldn't hold back a grin as he blushed a bit and grumbled something "Never mind, I was only joking… let's go. Dee, you coming?"
"If you don't mind Melly-Chan, I'd rather stay and talk to Dizzy-Chan here."
"Ok, we'll meet you at Ty's house then. Bye!" they stood up and left the restaurant and Jessica behind.
Outside, they made their way to the park talking about the faces of the people on their table, especially Jessica's "Did you see the way she glared at you? It was as if you had just took her favorite toy away or something… what a slug… and she wouldn't shut up!"
Melody giggled "Yeah, I noticed. I was hoping I'd get a chance to stick my knife in her forehead. But that probably wouldn't work, I doubt she has any vital organs in her head."
Kai laughed and sat on the bench near the fountain. He let go of a chuckle as he remembered Melody pushing the boy into it. They just sat there for sometime in silence, until Kai heard someone humming beside him. He turned his head to find out it was Melody, who was watching the clouds and had started humming something.
"In my field of paper flowers,
And candy clouds of lullaby.
I lie inside myself for hours,
And watch my purple sky fly over me…"
"Not bad…" he whispered
Melody snapped back to reality "What?"
"Your singing… not bad."
"Hum, thanks…er, what time is it?" she blushed and tried changing the subject.
Kai shrugged "Who cares…"
The girl quirked an eyebrow at him "Whatever, let's go back before they get worried. You don't know how Dee gets when she's worried, no one can go near her… Come on!" she pulled him by the hands to make him stand up "C'mon you lazy ass!" she clasped one of his hands and dragged him out of the park to go and meet up with the rest of the boys at Tyson's house.
As soon as they arrived there, Melody made her way into the kitchen and started getting dinner ready "Hey Kai-Zer! A little hand here would be nice!"
Kai grinned and went inside the kitchen "Will you help me get dinner ready?" she asked him smiling.
"I- er... sure!" he stuttered as she approached him.
"Great! Then please set the table and after that, could you make some noodles?"
"Huh, sure, whatever you say..."
The girl smiled again and got back to chopping the carrots, while the slate haired boy did as he was asked. In about an hour, they had finished getting dinner ready.
Melody yawned while making her way outside and sat down on a bench under a tree to rest a bit. Soon, she felt someone approach her "Kai? That you?"
"Huh, yeah, I think so..."
The girl blinked "Huh, whatever... is something wrong?"
"No, why?"
"You look weird..."
Kai smirked and sat down "I'm still curious you know..."
Melody frowned "Curious? About what?"
"I still want to know why you snapped at us yesterday..."
The girl blushed "Oh, that... you see, I er... was thinking and stuff... and I do realize that what happened was my fault, and blaming you guys won't exactly help so... I'm sorry..."
"Your fault? What happened?"
"Er, I- er..."
"HEY KAI! MELLY! ARE YOU HOME YET?"
Kai rolled his eyes 'Damnit Tyson, can't you be late for something when people want you to?'
Melody, on the other hand, looked pretty relieved "We're here Tyson, what do you want?"
Tyson quickly appeared from inside the house with a huge smile on his face "Hey you guys! C'mon in! We're playing Scrabble!"
Kai stood up watching Melody follow Tyson inside hurriedly. 'Don't think you'll get away with that girly... I'll know your secret, sooner or later... it's only a matter of time...' he sighed and went inside too, hoping that they wouldn't make him play the stupid game.
R&R PLEASE! n-n
