Hello my little pigeons! Thank you all so much for the reviews and I'm sorry again for the updating problem. I'm trying to get these posted but my computer has a virus and it's causing a lot of problems.

Anyway here's the next chapter for you. Enjoy! Don't worry I'm not leaving a cliffy on this one.

A Life not worth living

Chapter five – You break one you break them all

Tyson and Kenny fell through the doorway to Max's room, causing Max and Ray to wake. They stood up again trying to catch their breath so they could speak. Kenny went to speak but just fell to the floor again.

"What? Tyson what is it?" He tried answering his blond friend and finally spoke after a few more gasps for air.

"It's your Uncle. We know where he is"

"We THINK we know" Kenny's hand peeked up from the floor for a second before falling back down again.

"We found this outside a large warehouse" He opened his hand to reveal Dranzer as Ray took it from him. "Kai was no where to be found" Max took the blue blade from Ray and just stared blankly at the elegant phoenix.

"You couldn't see him anywhere?" asked Ray. Tyson shook his head. Not the answer they were hoping for. Max closed his hand on the blade and closed his eyes. Kenny sat back up and looked at their sad faces.

"Guys we'll find him, don't worry" It didn't seem like they were listening to him. Without warning Tyson ran out of the room, ignoring the shouts from his team-mates.

"I'm NOT running after him again!"

"I'll go. Kenny wait here with Max" Ray followed Tyson down the three flights of stairs calling his name. When Tyson reached the bottom he ran straight for the payphones. Fumbling with the change in his pockets he didn't notice Ray appear beside him. He picked up the phone only to have it slammed down by another hand.

"Tyson what do you think you're doing?"

"If that monster is the warehouse then wouldn't be a sensible thing to send the cops there?"

"But you don't know if he is there"

"He has to be, Kai followed him and I'm sure his blade wouldn't be lying outside a random warehouse if everything was alright" He did have a point. Ray sighed and took his hand off phone.

"Alright, go ahead"

"Hey Chief, think Kai's alright?" Kenny stood up and brushed himself down.

"I'm sure he is. He one of those people who doesn't like being pushed around or told what to do. He's a tough cookie"

"Guess you're right. Maybe Dranzer just, fell out of his pocket or something…" His voice trailed off and Kenny knew that Max didn't believe that. He sat beside him and smiled reassuringly.

"Don't worry Max. He's fine, I'm sure he is"

Never again. That was the last time that will ever happen. He crawled away from the wall and towards the window. Pain ran through most of his body but he tried to ignore it. Pulling himself up he peered through the window, hoping to catch a glimpse of his friends. It was still dark and he had no idea what time it was. His heart sank when he saw the street across the grounds empty.

He was sick of being used like that. Why was it always him, why couldn't people just leave him alone? He had to lie back down as the height was starting to make him feel sick. He felt so dirty and the pain was really starting to get to him. Now he knew how Max felt when it happened to him. Max's Uncle had disappeared somewhere, not that it bothered Kai. He tried to sit back up but it was very painful around his waist. Huro, as the man told him his name himself, had clamped his hands down on Kai's small waist, preventing him from moving.

How no one heard his cries of pain he'll never know but he really didn't care at that moment. He had had enough. His friends were a cries' distance away from him and they left him, left him to be ra…he wasn't even going to think of that word. That was it, he vowed never, never to let anyone touch him again.

"And where did you find your friend's…thing?"

"Blade sir, I found it outside an abandoned warehouse about five miles from here. I'm sure that's where Max's Uncle is hiding, the man who hurt the young boy upstairs"

"You're sure about this?" Tyson was getting annoyed with this cop, was he not willing to understand or was he really that stupid?

"Yes! Why would I make it up?" The cop thought for a minute before agreeing to let Tyson lead him to the possible crime scene. The policeman followed Tyson's directions to the warehouse and then called for backup. They got out and the cop advanced to the building with his gun drawn. They entered the dark building and look bewildered at its size.

"Stay close" whispered the cop. They walked up a couple of flights of stairs before a groaning sound entered the air. It sounded like someone in pain and, with his gun aimed the cop and Tyson walked through what used to be a doorway. They both looked shocked at what they found.

"KAI!" Tyson ran to his friend's side, taking him in his arms. The older male slowly opened his eyes and coughed.

"It's okay buddy I'm here" Tyson noticed the pictures and articles on the walls and felt slightly scared. The cop knelt down beside the boys and used his radio to call for an ambulance as the arrival of other police cars were heard arriving outside. Tyson saw that his friend's scarf and jacket was missing and he saw something else that made his blood freeze. His trousers were undone and covered in blood.

The cop used his hands to check for serious injuries and asked the bluenette to tell him where it hurt. His arms and legs were fine but it seemed his waist area wasn't as he shifted slightly everytime the cop touch there. "I'm not going to hurt you so try not to move" He lifted up the side of the teen's shirt and saw large hand marks on his sides. "That's a really bad sign on someone"

"What? What does it mean?"

"When the victim feels pain around here" He hovered his hand over the boy's waist, "It can mean they've had a heavy amount of weight pressed on them and it's been crushed" Tyson's face had a shocked expression on it.

"You mean someone did this to him on purpose?"

"Could be but the amount of blood around his crotch area I'm thinking something else happened and that the person had used himself as a weight against your friend here to stop him from moving"

"You mean he was raped?" The policeman nodded and walked away. Tears fell from the young boy's eyes as he buried his face in the older teen's neck. "Oh Kai…"

Ray and Kenny amused themselves with games on Dizzi while Max lay on the bed with is eyes closed but he wasn't sleeping. They all jumped as Tyson came storming in the room panting from running up the stairs.

"Ever heard of an elevator?" asked Kenny. Tyson walked over to the bed ignoring the Chief's question.

"It's Kai, we found him"

"And? Where is he?" Ray asked. Max sat up wanting to hear what Tyson was about to say. Tyson explained everything to them, the warehouse, the articles on the wall and what had happened to Kai. They were just as shocked, as Tyson was he found out the truth, it was too terrible to think it real. Max brought his knees up and hid his face in them.

"It's all my fault" He whispered. His friends looked at him.

"What! Of course it's not, you didn't cause this"

"Yes I did Chief. He did this to Kai because he tried to do it with me but didn't succeed. Now he's after you guys. See Ray, this is what I meant" Ray sighed, Max wasn't kidding after all.

About five hours later they all went home but Max had to stay in the hospital until he was well enough to find a new home. He opened his eyes again to find the clock on the wall read 2.30am. Why couldn't he sleep? He sat up and rubbed his eyes, climbing out of bed. The cold floor hit his feet like ice and he didn't have any slippers. Tip-toeing out of his private room he slowly walked down the dark hallway. He wanted to find Kai's room but he didn't know where they put him.

Remembering a clipboard that one of the nurses carried he headed for the reception on his floor. He was on the third floor and there was a small reception desk on every floor. He knew what the clipboard was; it held the rooms of the patients on that floor so it was worth a try to see if his friend was on the same floor. He sneaked around the counter and searched through the drawers for the board.

"Got ya!" he whispered. He pulled it out and read the details on the front and smiled, Kai was on the same floor, just a couple of rooms down from where he stood. He quietly put it back and then jumped when he heard a door shut nearby. He looked down the hallway and saw a doctor closing a door and head towards him. He turned around to hide behind the reception desk and covered his mouth to stop him crying out in pain when he banged his side on the edge.

His stab wound from a few days before had been bandaged up but was still tender and hurt at the slightest touch. He closed his eyes tightly as a few tears fell down his cheeks, his other hand still over his mouth. The doctor, thankfully, walked straight past Max's hiding place. Max stood up and wiped the tears from his eyes and checked that it was clear. It was so he headed for his team-mate's room. He dreaded opening the door incase his friend was hooked up to support machines or something.

Slowly opening the door he entered the private room. A sighed escaped his mouth as he saw his team captain lying peacefully with no machine in sight. The bluenette was lying on his back with his head tilting to one side, facing away from Max. The blond walked quietly towards the bed and a sad expression appeared on his pale face. There were a few cuts on his face but because he had on a dark blue T-shirt he couldn't tell how bad the rest of him was.

Seeing a couple of sheets of paper on the table beside the bed he picked them up. There was also a strange item on the table as well but Max just left it. The first one just had Kai's details on it so he went to the second one. It was all the tests they had to do on the teen and when the blond read the last one he threw the sheet on the floor, so that was what the strange item was. They had to run tests to make sure he hadn't caught any sexually transmitted diseases and that angered Max. It was all because his Uncle was a dirty .

Max sat on the chair in the corner and rubbed his side. It felt slightly numb and he was starting to feel sick. A few more tears of pain fell as he thought of the news the doctor told him when his wound was treated. It was quite far down and deep creating permanent damage so he couldn't…he looked to the floor. He could kill his Uncle right now, if he was able to. The sick feeling wouldn't go away even when he rubbed his stomach. "It's not fair" he whispered.

"Life's never fair" Max near fell of the chair as another voice answered his. He looked towards the bed to see two eyes looking at him. He smiled and climbed off the chair, sitting on the bedside.

"Glad to see you're awake"

"I actually wished I wouldn't wake but he I am"

"No, don't ever think like that, please. Do you have any idea how much we would all miss you if you went?" The bluenette smiled and shifted so he was lying on his side. "It's the truth"

"You guys would actually cry for me?"

"Of course we would"

"Well, you saw I wasn't dead so why were you crying? You still in pain?"

"Yeah, I banged my side before I came in here" Max's smile disappeared when he thought of the news again.

"What's wrong?" Max shook his head.

"It doesn't matter, I'm just feeling a bit sick" They fell silent for a couple of minutes before the older male spoke again.

"That's not what's bothering you is it?" Max looked away so his hair covered his eyes. "Max, tell me" The blond shook his head again, not wanting to talk about it. "Please tell me, I'll understand"

"Promise not to make a big deal over this?" Kai nodded. "Okay, remember my stab wound?" Again his friend nodded. "Well, when my doctor examined it he noticed how deep it was and told me that, because it's so deep, it's created permanent internal damage. But that's not what's bothering me"

"What could be worse then?" Max let more tears fall from his eyes before speaking again.

"It's prevented me from having kids" The older male sat up with a shocked face.

"You're kidding, right?"

"No. The knife cut something inside me and now I can't impregnate a female because my body can't produce sperm"

"Oh Max, I'm so sorry" The bluenette couldn't believe it either.

"I really wanted to be a dad when I was older but now I can't"

"Why don't you adopt?"

"I don't believe in adopting," he said quietly. He buried his face in his hands and didn't make a sound but tears seeped through his fingers. The older teen didn't know what to do so he took his younger friend into a hug, much to his surprise. The blond returned the hug and stopped crying.

"You know" began the bluenette, "I would probably be in the same state as you because one of my life wishes is the same as yours" Max pulled away from the hug and looked at him. "I wanna be a dad too" The blond smiled and wiped his eyes.

"I didn't expect that to come from you"

"I didn't know it was one until three years ago, when I was fourteen, I helped a little kid build his first blade. I saw the look on his face as he showed it to his dad and since then I dreamed of having my own kids"

"I guess you are a normal teen after all"

"What? You thought I was some kind of cold hearted monster?" They both laughed and talked late into the morning before Max decided to sneak back to his own room. He crawled into his bed and for the first time in days slept soundly.

Well, what you think? I'm feeling kind of emotional so I made the chapter like that. Now all you have to do is push the pretty purple button. Don't worry, the story is (obviously) not finished!