Thankyou's

toboewolf7: I think it's only natural that Ray roots for Kai

Forfirith-on-a-sugar-high: Of course Kai cares....in his own insane little way...00

TNTiggris: Good, cuz there'll be quite a bit of spoilers on the way

Hyperness: Yup, Kai was a meanie, but it's the flow of story, so I got to stick, no matter how much it makes me crysniffs And Halloween was a blast! I got two bags full of candy! You?

autumnburn: When Ray powers up he looks freaky...meep!

ChibiNekoSakura: Yes, GO KAI!

RAY'S POV

So, Tyson won his battle against Max and in two days he'll be going against F-dynasty, then he'll be up against Kai. I so longed to be in the finals, to show the world just what I can do. More over, I wanted to show Kai what I could do...but I blew it. The only chance I had to prove to Kai that I can be all that and more, to at least gain some respect from my icy ex-captain. What am I saying, of course Kai has respect for me, these past few days did more than prove it.

Which reminds me, I need to get up out of bed and change my dressings. If I don't, who knows what unruly neighbors will be crawling under my skin. I shuddered at that thought.

Yawning and stretching groggily I stumbled out of my plush queen bed and grabbed onto the wooden frame of the bathroom door to support my weight. I sighed and shook my head, reaching for the toothbrush I failed to notice that half the toothpaste was in the sink than on my brush.

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I collapsed back on the bed but forced myself to stay awake, I needed to do up my bandages. Stripping of my sleeping shirt I was left in boxers, now to find some cream...and gauze.

"Great..." I groaned moodily, I didn't have either cream or bandages. Another trip to the local drug store, joy...

Grabbing my wallet I bumped straight into the rest of the whitetiger x team on my way out.

"Ray, haven't seen you in a while. How you feeling?" Lee asked, patting me on the back and leading me down the hallway.

"Great, thanks." I lied, throwing a smile into the mix.

"That just wonderful Ray." Mariah cooed in her oh-so flirtatious voice, "That means you can accompany us to breakfast!"

"Yeah Ray, we promise we won't steal your food when you're not looking." Gary said, placing his hand over his heart.

"...umm..." I stuttered, what can you say to 4 pairs of prying eyes begging for answers, easy, "I really can't guys, sorry."

"What, but Ray!" Kevin whined stomping his foot, another one of his infamous temper tantrums.

"Stop acting like such a baby Kevin!" Mariah scolded, Kevin was so afraid he was now shivering.

"Listen guys, I'd love to come but I really need to do some shopping." I smiled and ran down the rest of the hallway before they could ask anything more.

Running got me pretty fatigued so I was glad that the elevator came quickly, at least I'd get some rest in there, 16 floors down seems like a long way when you're stuck in morning rush hour.

KAI'S POV

"KAI!!!"

Damn that Tala, what the hell could he want now? He's already called me 20 times in the span of 15 minutes. He just had to crash at my place, and he just had to bring Bryan and Spencer with him. The reason Tala called so much was because everything in my suite was so new to him that he practically needed to be potty trained.

"Kai! Didn't you hear me? I was calling and calling, if I didn't know any better I'd think that you were ignoring me!" Tala huffed, standing in front of me, clearly furious with very damp clothes on.

"You know Tala." I began to mock, "Most sane people take off their clothes before entering the shower."

Tala glared at me so I continued, "The whole point of that rather simple procedure is to cleanse your body and not the clothes, that's the job of the washing machine."

Tala finally came around to notice that I was insulting him so he came up with a sharp reply, "If someone me told how to turn on the stupid shower maybe then I wouldn't be in this situation right now."

I could tell Tala was making a desperate attempt to stay calm so I decided to test his patience further, "If you had any common sense, which I doubt, by the way, you'd have noticed the 'shower head on' knobs located at the bottom of the shower."

I smirked when I saw Tala turn a very unpleasant shade of red that matched his almost as bright hair. Tala puffed out his cheeks once more and stomped out of the living room and into the guest bedroom. Where he was bust complaining to his boyfriend Bryan at what a jerk I was.

I snorted at the last line I heard, 'But Bryan! Kai's such a meanie! Can we please throw him out the window?' If it's anyone being thrown out the window it's Tala, he and Bryan won't stop with their annoying kissy, kissy routines every morning at breakfast. Honestly those two make me sick.

What I found odd was that as they continued to taunt me with that annoying routine every morning, I actually found myself pinning to be able to greet someone I love that way every morning and not worrying about something for once in my life.

Frequent pictures of Ray popped up in my mind and instead of shaking them away like I used to I let them linger there for a second longer, wondering what it'd actually be like to be with him. It may seem unlike me to do things like that, but I realized, I'm mature enough to admit I have something for the cute little neko, instead of running away from my problems like I used to.

Someone cleared their throat nosily behind me and sneezed full force onto my back.

I turned around and growled, "Can't you turn you head when you have to do that...thing?"

"You mean, sneeze?" Tala snickered cocking an eyebrow in response, "You know Kai, one can't control these things."

"Fine, but if I get sick don't go crying to Bryan that I'm sneezing all over you." I scoffed, turning back around to finish making my coffee.

Tala grunted behind me and clomped over to the medicine cabinet and creaked it open to look for the specific medicine.

"Kai, don't you have any cold medicine?" Tala asked digging through the contents, that were once neatly arranged.

"Can't you find a better method to look for it?" I grumbled, sipping at my bitter coffee, just the way I liked it.

Tala turned around to stick his tongue out at me before returning to mess up what was left of my organizational skills.

"Seriously Kai, where is it?" Tala cried, turning in defeat.

"How was I supposed to know you catch a cold, in Australia, where it's hot not cold." I smirked when Tala began panicking.

"I must have caught it from someone in the plane...don't tell me you have no cold medicine in this house."

"I don't." I answered simply and watched as Tala began to hyperventilate.

"Kai!" Tala pouted, "Can you get it for me? I look a fright, I can't go out like this!"

"You got one thing right, you do look a fright." I chuckled when Tala began to fake a cry.

"Kai that's not fair you're not funny!"

"Who's laughing?"

"Kai!" Tala was getting restless, he did look a bit sick though.

I sighed reluctantly, "Fine, I need something from there anyways."

"What's that?" Tala asked, brightening instantly.

"I'm running low on ointment for burns, with Dranzer for a bitbeast I need to be prepared for anything." I answered, walking straight out the door.

So it was a lie, I had loads of ointment. But I didn't want Tala knowing that I wanted to do something out of the goodness of my heart, now did I?

RAY'S POV

"Stupid cuts, stupid wind, stupid day." I cursed under my breath, getting a few weird looks as I almost knocked down unsuspecting pedestrians.

I was having the worst day so far:

1) I tripped multiple times over rocks.

2) I was surrounded by reporters, asking when I betrayed the Bladebreakers.

3) I'd been to at least 7 drug stores that didn't have the right type of cream, or gauze.

4) They all said I needed to go to a medical supply center.

5) The medical supply center is 45 minutes away.

Thankfully, I got a bus fairly quck and I'm 10 minutes away from arriving at my destination.

But my bad luck followed me into the bus:

1) I was dead tired from waling.

2) The seats in the bus were all occupied, so I had to stand.

3) Someone forgot to apply deodorant and now the bus stinks.

4) My sensitive nose can't take more of this smell.

The speaker on the bus croaked to life, announcing my stop had arrived. I breathed a sigh of relief and hopped out the bus in search of the so called medical supply center.

I didn't have to search long since I only had to walk 2 blocks till I reached the small, red, white and yellow building. Stepping inside I was greeted with the cool air from the fans above and the soft scent of roses...owned by someone who obviously has some taste.

I skimmed through the headlines on top of each row and stopped in front of the one that said, 'minor cuts and burns.' I nodded to myself and proceeded down the row, stopping briefly to snatch up gauze and non-stick sterile pads. I checked of those items in my head and wandered down the store in search of cream.

'Creams and common medicines.' I smiled and hastily made my way down to the cream section, I was almost done.

I stood and gawked at the dozens of different types and brands of the same cream. What was I supposed to chose? I can't go home with the wrong one, this place is too far away to come all the way back...great, just great, my bad luck follows me here.

I almost jumped out of my skin when a ivory coloured hand reached out, barely skimming by my left cheek to grab hold of one of the many creams in front of me.

"This is the one you should be using."

"Huh?" I turned around and yelped in shock, "Kai!"

Kai just rose an eyebrow at me, "Hello to you to."

I blushed in embarrassment, "Hi, sorry, you just startled me...what were you saying?"

"I said, this is the cream you should be using." Kai repeated once again, opening out my cupped hands and placing the small white tube within it.

"You sure?" I looked down at the tube, it didn't look like what the doctor used.

"Positive, it works wonders." Kai smirked and turned to leave.

"Wait, Kai!" I called, "What are you doing here?"

Kai stopped midway and waited for me to catch up before speaking, "Buying cold medicine."

"You're sick?" I looked up at Kai, he didn't look sick.

"Tala is." Kai answered, "That's bum's to lazy to get it himself."

I giggled at the tone of Kai's voice, he was truly exasperated, "It's nice that Tala has someone to fall back on."

"If he wants someone to do his dirty work, he should pick on Bryan." Kai grunted and placed his bottle of medicine on the counter and grabbed my stuff and placed it together with his.

"Bryan?" I cocked my head to one side, I was confused with what Kai had just said.

"They've been going out for a while now."

I practically jumped with joy, for a second there I was boiling with jealousy in the begining at the thought of Kai already having someone like Tala. Then a thought hit me, what if Kai was straight? That would certainly explain the tone of his voice.

Before I could stop myself the words came tumbling out, "And you're ok with that?"

Kai turned to look at me, while pulling out a leather wallet, "If I wasn't, that'd make me quite the hypocrite."

I was so giddy I could barely talk, I could only smile like a lunatic. Kai gave me an odd look and paid for the items.

"You coming?" He asked holding the glass door open with his foot.

I mentally shook myself and ran out the door, fishing through my pockets all the wile. I pulled out a ten from my wallet and flagged it in front of Kai, whose attention I finally got.

"I hope you don't mind American money, I didn't convert anything yet." I apologized, smiling sheepishly.

"You don't have to pay me, consider this my good deed for the day." Kai smirked and handed me one of the two bags.

I grinned and accepted the bags, "Thanks Kai."

We walked in silence, going nowhere until Kai spoke up, he sounded very uneasy.

"About what I said earlier." He started, "About being ok with the whole Tala and Bryan dating thing, remember what I said?"

What was he getting at? Kai seemed awfully jumpy all of a sudden, he wasn't acting like himself at all.

"Yeah, you said, 'if I wasn't, that'd make me quite the hypocrite'...right?"

"I did, and about that, are you-"

I cut Kai off midway, I knew what he was getting at now, I smiled widely, "It'd make me quite the hypocrite if I wasn't."

NOTE: I have to say, Halloween has to be the best time of year! free candy Well of course it can't be better than Christmas, 'Free presents!'

I hope you all had fun, and if you didn't that's ok! This will brighten you up, candy rots the teeth.

Terrible, but no one can live without candy, care to back me up here?

Review please, and please, this time I had 6 reviews!-- but i still posted this chap up this weekend since I underatand that last week was the night of Halloween, no time for anything I certainly didn't get any writing done o tata!