I have become addicted to anime but I love it the only problem is I need more money to buy the DVD's oh well I still have my fanfic's and there freeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Also I have been greatly inspired by tomb raider for my character Meiley so for the record I do not own tomb raider. Eep so cold I love winter oO;

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chapter 7 desires bind broken souls

"I can't believe this storm picked up so quickly" yelled Meiley over the thunder and rain cascading over them, Meiley tightened her grip on Kai and picking up speed.

Kai sped up with Meiley keeping a firm hold on her to try and prevent them from slipping over. "We're almost there" he could see the outline of his mansion everything around it was in a grey haze, they were drenched from head to toe the sky was getting darker as time went by distorting their vision even more.

The two ran up the long and slippery driveway eye's stinging from the rain pounding against them, their body's felt like they were frozen to the bone, the stinging sensation in their eyes eased when they finally reached the front entryway. Though they were sheltered from the rain the cold howling wind still blew fiercely, they could have sworn the water on there skin was turning to ice.

Kai let go of Meiley's hand and burst the door open relieved to feel some warmth at last, though the stone wall's didn't do much justice for them.

Kai closed the door behind them immediately silencing the howling and thunder outside.

He looked over at Meiley she was shivering like he was and her lips were blue, her hair was dripping wet and her fringe was sticking to her face she wiped it out of her vision and stared back at Kai.

Kai wasn't any better, his baggy pants were too wet to stick to his skin but they outlined his legs, his scarf was so wet it was see thru and his shirt was moulded to his muscular chest outlining every muscle.

Meiley looked down at herself and instantly wished she was wearing a black top instead of a pale blue one, her top had gone quite see thru revealing her black lacy bra, and the fact that her top was sticking to every single curve didn't help her situation much either.

She attempted to cover up by crossing her arms over her breasts but her efforts were futile all she could do was try and dry her top off before anyone noticed but alas Kai did, he couldn't help but stare, through her top he could see the suttle outline of her abs and the crease of her bell button.

The light blue fabric was plastered to her slender waist but Kai took more notice of her black bra underneath the soaking fabric moving to the rhythm of her heavy breathing.

Meiley blushed furiously when she saw Kai looking at her she felt trapped in his gaze, Kai blushed and pretended to look away but he was still looking at her in the corner of his eye it was the hardest thing to tear his gaze away from her.

Meiley could have shyly folded her hands over her chest and cover herself up at least that much and call Kai a pervert, but Meiley was never the kind of person to be openly bashful. Instead she acted like she didn't notice then casually reached for the cold soaking strands of blue fabric hanging from her shoulder, as if to squeeze it dry she held it in her hands ready to let the water drip just then she cocked her head up at Kai grinning mischievously and without warning splashed a hand full of freezing cold water right in his face.

Kai was caught off guard the water hit his numb face startling him "what the…" he said stunned and wiped his face clear and glared daggers back at Meiley who had a satisfied grin on her face. "OH you had it coming" she said slyly, flicking the ends of the wet fabric onto his face, and with a splat it landed across his eyes and forehead.

He groaned at the impact and with two fingers picked the clothing of his face "hey… okay enough I'm sorry I couldn't help it" he instantly wished he had said something a little more innocent, Meiley's eyes widened and raised her eyebrows at him she gave him a short cold glare then with the flick of a wrist attempted to flick him in the face a third time.

But Kai saw this one coming he caught the strap of clothing in the air, he smirked at her before he wrapped the strap around his arm making her twirl into his grasp, but she slipped on the pool of water beneath them and was about to land painfully on her back, quickly Kai caught her with his arms around her just as she was about to hit the floor.

Her body slid between his legs she reflexively wrapped her arms around his neck for some stability. her heart was pounding against her chest, Kai was crouching over her, his strong capable arms held her gently beneath him, it took them a moment after Meiley fell to realise how close they were to each other.

Their noses almost touched Meiley could feel Kai's hot breath against her frozen lips her eyes went wide then sharply focused on Kai 'oh god what's he gonna do now there is no way he would ever let me get away with splashing him like that without trying something'

Kai watched the emotions in her beautiful green eyes guessing what she was thinking, he never tore his eyes away from hers, then he thought of something he leaned in closer to her, in her eyes he could see that she was becoming confused then nervous as he came even closer, supporting her weight with one hand he used his other free hand to reach for the floor,

Meiley could feel that his arm was moving away from her but still his eyes were on her she went along with it knowing he was up to something, she gave him curious and still nervous look that he returned with a very sly smirk.

He finally leaned in so close to her that all she could see were his eyes gazing deep into hers 'holy shit is he going to kiss me?' thought Meiley, her nerves were getting the better of her and her heart was beating against her chest to fast she could tell that Kai felt it too.

He could tell what she was thinking from the look in her eyes which was exactly what he wanted, he finally put some distance between them but only enough to let her see his free hand come up to her face he smirked then flicked the icy water he scooped up from the marble floor right in the middle of her face.

"revenge is sweet" he said teasingly, she scrunched her face up and wiped the water of her face slowly and gave Kai a look to say he was dead "indeed it is my friend" she said in the same tone as him then flicked the tip of his nose making him flinch.

They gave up and both started laughing at each other "well that was fun can I get changed now or are you gonna warm me up like this" Meiley said quirking an eyebrow at Kai and shivering, Kai looked at the position they were in and couldn't help but blush he pulled himself and Meiley up and started to shiver.

"Let's get changed before we get sick I'll put the fireplace on in my room" Kai said releasing Meiley and crossing his arms he began to walk upstairs. Meiley walked past him allowing Kai to look at her one last time, but his gaze was not drawn to her chest but to her emerald green eyes that moments ago were so soft and friendly.

But now he saw great pain and suffering so much of it he felt his breathing stop it scared him to see all that torture hidden behind those eyes.

She had tricked Kai like she had so many others by conveying the wrong emotions in her eyes, she had perfected the skill of making others believe that she was a happy normal teenage girl when in reality her very soul was tainted with dispar and pain.

'what happened to you' thought Kai concern gracing his usually emotionless features.

Meiely turned noticing that she was walking alone her eyes instantly changed back to a positive aura but this time Kai wasn't fooled he had seen a glimpse of grief and pain within her, he could now sense she was suffering and wanted to know why.

"You coming?" she said with a small encouraging smile, he gave her a single nod and walked along side of her not saying a word.

"I'll come bye your room in a minute ok" said Meiley opening the door to her room, he gave her another silent nod and continued to walk down the large hallway to his bedroom,

'He's been kinda quiet' she thought shutting her door behind her, she tugged of all her wet clothing and chucked them into a pile in the bathroom, she was about to take of her bra and undies but stopped when she caught her reflection in the full length mirror in her room.

she looked at herself with sad eyes. She had tanned skin like her mother's she, remembered her father saying things like she glowed like the sun or her face light up his life, she remembered all the happy moments she and her father had and she also remembered the day those moments would only exist in her memory's that was the day she lost the last member of her family her father whom she dearly loved and helplessly watched die in front of her very eyes.

She slowly brought her hand up and laid it flat against her well toned stomach, she traced the outline of her left side until she felt it.

The physical scare that binds her broken soul and painful memories to her body, from the left side of her body starting next to her breast was a painful looking scar it was the result of a wound that almost killed her the night she lost her father, it was jagged and resembled a twisted dragon that ran from the side of her breast skimming past her abs and ending just past her belly button.

She brushed her fingers across her scar, it was soft to touch, over the years the wound became smoother though she could still feel a chunk missing from her skin, the only pain she feels are from the memories of how she got it.

A single tear slipped down her face even now she could hear herself as a young girl screaming for her father from simply looking at her old wound.

Suddenly a pink bolt of lightening hitting the powerlines outside put an end to the screaming in her head, the lights began to flicker but managed to stay on dimly. Meiley removed the rest of her clothing and added it to the pile she dried herself off then picked out something else to wear.

She put on a pair of white silky PJ pants and a grey tank top. she didn't want to get changed again so she wore something she could wear straight to bed.

She rummaged through her bags and found her black silk dressing gown. she through it on and was about to head for the door when she spotted something familiar on the bed side table.

It was the memory box she gave Kai the day she left the Abby. She smiled at the thought that he had kept it all these years, she decided that she would take it to Kai and they would open it together she couldn't even remember what she put in it but she new it was special for them both.

She took the box and placed it on the bed so she could stuff all her things back into her bag. She had untidily crammed most of her cloths and things into the bag but hadn't bothered to close it, she picked up another bunch of cloths and plopped it on top of the rest when she saw her first aid kit lying on the floor.

She felt her heart sink she had completely forgot about her medication, she opend the container and pulled out a small bottle that read experiment dose 13B patent Lady Meiley Saderah Croft. There were also 4 other bottles two of the same as the one in Meiley's hand and 2 other anti depressant drugs used for patents suffering from sleep paralysis.

Meiley sighed she really didn't want to tell anyone about her condition but Kai had the right to know if she was to sleep in his house. "well I suppose I would have to tell him sooner or later" she said to herself regretfully.

She picked up the memory box and the first aid container and put them in a small bag then walked out of the room and down the hall.

She was half way there when a huge clash of thunder and lightening shook the ground and cut the electricity, 'gees the hallway was dark enough already and know this' she thought to herself, she was getting a little freaked out know it was pitch black and could hardly see anything except for when the lightening flashed casting a faint light on everything in the hall.

Meiley clutched her bag tighter and started to become acutely aware of anything that moved around her.

Taking one step at a time she moved closer to the end of the hallway she couldn't see Kai's door anywhere, she had to be getting close though it felt like she had been walking for ages.

'Maybe I should just call for him…' another burst of lightening graced the sky startling her a bit she had an odd sensation like someone was watching her.

She reached out to touch the wall and started to walk along and feel for something like a door, her heart was beating faster know the sensation was all around her like she couldn't escape it she felt vulnerable and alone and she didn't like it.

All she could feel were the stone cold walls she was annoyed that she couldn't find his room and was about to give up and call for him but jumped as another earth shattering lightening bolt flashed straight past the window making the windows shake.

At that moment she felt a hand firmly grab her shoulder, she felt a chill run down her spin but unfortunately reacted faster then she thought, as suddenly as the lightening struck Meiley grabbed the hand on her shoulder twisted It then sharply spun down to the ground and with lightening speed tripped the person behind her over.

She crouched on top of the person and was in a position to jab them in the throat but stopped when she saw Kai's face beneath her.

She sighed and let her hands fall "don't ever sneak up on me ever again" she said to him in a firm but relieved tone "I'll keep that in mind, but you should not attack me ever again" said Kai in a deep and dangerous tone, he had expected her to scream at the most, but he was actually very intrigued by her abilities it was a turn on for him.

Meiley got up off him so she was now standing over him, Kai got up in a fast movement unaware of how close Meiley was to him he unintentionally brushed up against her chest making her clothes rise,

She backed away a little and gave him more space but somehow managed to brush her lips against his cheek, Kai felt his insides melt at the feel of her soft lips lightly brush up against him.

She backed away a little further now, thankful that it was dark and he could not see her blush, Kai felt his cheeks burning red, he could still feel her touch against his skin it sent a shiver down his spine, he felt the urge to have her lips touch his he wanted to know her taste, the feel of her soft warm lips around his own.

"Kai are you alright?" he heard her voice snapping him out of his daydream "hmpf" he grunted as a reply not trusting himself to speak until he composed himself.

His foot hit something strange, curious he bent down and picked up Meiley's bag "umm that's mine, thanks" she said, Kai handed it to her seeing a glint in her green eyes 'wait did I just see her eyes glowing!' Kai sharply turned his head to look her straight in the eyes

she was fidgeting with her bag making sure the contents were safe so she didn't see Kai's intense gaze. It was unmistakable her eyes were glowing just like cats eyes at night they were almost hypnotic.

She blinked and the glow was gone, another loud burst of thunder and lightening startled them both they could hardly see anything outside the window Kai shrugged of the sight of her glowing eyes and convinced himself that it was just his imagination,

Kai took Meiley's arm and took her into his room. They were greeted by a warm glow from the fire.

As far as Meiley could see his room was very big the walls looked dark blue and his king size bed had a blue and black cover on it there was a bey dish in the middle of the room and t.v on the wall, his room was decorated with trophies and posters of rock bands and his school books were piled on his desk overall his room was very tidy.

Kai walked over to the fireplace and sat on a double size beanbag that was in front of it.

Meiley had a quick look around his room her eyes dropped on Kai sitting peacefully on his large beanbag.

She admired his handsome features from where she stood he had changed into a dark grey pair of track pants and a black T shirt, she couldn't deny it Kai was hot he had grown so much over the years it was like looking at a completely different person.

He looked at her through the corner of his eye not moving his head, she smiled at him warmly in return he did the same.

She walked over to him silently and stopped beside the beanbag Kai was sitting on she gave him a questioning expression "and where I am supposed to sit?" she said placing a hand on her hip,

Kai looked up at her with a faint smirk on his face "there's plenty of floor space" he said nudging his head to a spot on the floor next to his beanbag, she glared at him with fire glinting in her eyes "pah! such a gentleman you are" she had heavily dropped her bag at her feet and grumpily sat on the floor so her back was leaning against Kai's beanbag.

She gave him one last death glare then turned her attention to the warm and comforting fire in front of her, Kai smirked at her mischievously.

Meiley felt a pair of hands come under her arms and before she new it Kai had pulled her up onto the beanbag with him, he dragged her body up over his legs and sat her next to him, he brought her up high enough so he could whisper into her ear

"I never said I was a gentleman but a lady such as yourself should never sit on the floor" his deep voice tickled her ear forcing her to cringe against his shoulder.

"Men" she grumbled jabbing his chest hard enough to make him feel it in the morning, she was amazed at how firm his chest was

"Jesus what the hell have you got under there a bullet-proof vest?" she said while poking his chest feeling the toned muscle under his shirt.

He blushed her prodding was tickling him making him laugh and he regretted doing so, an evil glint was in her eyes and she smirked at him "so Kai's ticklish" she pounced on him pinning him beneath her and started tickling his sides

He fell back with her on top of him, he usually wasn't very ticklish but Meiley seemed to know all his sensitive spots, he laughed deeply at her touch and smiled broadly Meiley had never seen him smile like this before it melted her heart, an idea struck her

She whipped out her camera phone and took a picture of him smiling "heh heh heh blackmail material…sweet" she said looking at him mischievously "I don't think so" he said plunging for her phone, she saw that coming and quickly raised it in the air above her head so Kai couldn't reach it.

"Wrong move" he said slyly her hands were in the air and no longer at her defence, Kai took advantage of this and wrapped his arms around her waist and tickled her back

The room erupted with laughter the phone had fallen out of her hands and skidded to a corner in the room but Kai persisted in his tickling torture.

They had rolled off the beanbag and were tumbling around on the floor, Meiley was on her back laughing to the point tears cradled in her eyes Kai had her pinned down between his legs and was very much enjoying himself.

"okay okay okay enough…ha ha… Kai… come on enough hahaha" Kai finally stopped tickling her, he looked down at her and smiled the same heart melting smile as before,

Kai had his muscular arms on either side of Meiley supporting his weight, she looked up at him and smiled back looking at his muscular form "you've really fill out" she said, Kai blushed and returned her comment "the same could be said about you"

"We're not little kids any more are we" said Meiley gazing deep within his eyes, she could see the warmth within his eyes all focused on her.

Kai shook his head slowly "no we're not" his heart was pounding against his chest this unknown feeling was coursing through his veins and he welcomed the feeling

He tore away from her eyes to look at her full rosy coloured lips his greatest desire was to kiss them, she was perfect to him and he couldn't have wanted her more.

Meiley could feel his warm breath heating her skin her heart skipped a beat as his head lowered inches away from her face their eyes locked Meiley could feel herself being drawn in by his deep purple gaze her breath fell short as she closed the gap between them

Her soft lips met his timidly, the feel of her soft warm lips wrapped around his own was intoxicating Kai felt braver and passionately deepened there kiss wanting more of her sweet taste. he lowered the rest of his body on top of her but supported his weight on his elbows,

She brought her hands up around his arms and gently caressed his back and more energetically kissed him, he rolled his tongue over her lower lip and was granted access to her mouth,

She rolled her tongue over his sending a wave of heat through his body, the smell of vanilla and jasmine filled his senses, the smell and feel of her was like ecstasy and left him wanting more.

Instinctively he slipped a hand down her waist with the intent of sliding it up her shirt. Meiley had become so lost in his kiss that she didn't notice until she felt his hand touch the bare skin near her hip.

Her eyes widened and she shot up breaking there kiss "NO" she said wrapping her arms around her mid section fear trembling in her eyes, Kai was concerned at first he thought he had taking it to far but the fear in her eyes told him it was something else, she was clutching her stomach for dear life "I'm sorry…" he started before he was cut of

"no" she said a little softer " don't apologise you did nothing wrong… I just. Don't want you to see…" Kai was relieved that he did nothing to upset her, but he still didn't understand what set her off if it wasn't him.

"What don't you want me to see?" he kneeled in front of her and placed a hand under her chin so she could look nowhere else but at him.

"You mean a bit more to me then you think so if there's something wrong with you then I would like to know" he said in a calm but determined voice,

She looked him in the eye and smiled weakly. she was afraid of what he would say and she new what he was going to ask, she felt so self conscious at that moment, but deep down she new that Kai would never judge her he wasn't that kind of person to her.

"hmmmm I…I have a scar" she said timidly and looked up at his face that was screwed up and almost confused it didn't take a genius to know what he was thinking "yeah I know you think that's a stupid reason for me to freak out but it's not for me ok" she said rolling her eyes frustrated.

"Why do you care so much about a scar, I have plenty of them and I couldn't give a shit…see" he took his shirt of and revealed a number of faint scars on his chest and arms most of them from beyblading and training.

Meiley forced herself to focus on the cuts on his body rather then his bear chest, "aww poor baby… that's nothing but a couple scratch marks" she said irritably

"HA scratch marks she says these were hardly scratches when I got them. But now you show me, lets see this scar of yours" he said eyeing her down,

Meiley stood up glaring holes through his head she grabbed the hem of her shirt ready to show him but her nerves stopped her, she froze.

Kai could see the seriousness in her eyes but he still thought she was overreacting but he still wanted to see it for himself he didn't want her to feel bad about herself he always hated it when she was upset like this when they were kids.

He put his shirt back on and stood up at his full height Meiley was tall but she only came up to his eyes when he stood up, she had her head down so her fringe covered her eyes making her even smaller to him.

He came up close to her and gave her a reassuring hug, he moved his hands down her arms to the hem of her shirt and tightly gripped the fabric.

"show me" he whispered into her ear softly.

Giving up Meiley lifted her shirt up high enough to cover her breasts, he watched the shirt rise revealing more and more of the huge dragon shaped gash in her side.

His eyes widened at the shear size of her scar he had expected it to be something small but noticeable, he dropped to his knees so he was level with her stomach, he touched it making her muscles reflexively flinch "how did this happen" he said while running the tips of his fingers along her scar feeling every inch of it.

"you know how my father was killed in a boat accident, well I almost died that night too, right after dad was killed the boat exploded and I was impaled by a shard from the deck. It pinned me down and I nearly drowned but I managed to get away, I lost a lot of blood but I survived" Meiley saw that question coming she prepared for it well.

This was all news to him but it was way better then the news he got saying she was dead all those years back. He wanted to know where her nearly fatal scar started and finished he followed the dragon like trail underneath her shirt and realised she didn't have a bra on, he looked up at her and smirked broadly, she rolled her eyes "I don't wear a bra when I go to bed so sue me" she said giving him a dangerous expression.

"So your not bothered by it .usually when people see it they get kinda freaked out and don't stop staring" she said to him raising an eyebrow,

Kai shook his head and stood up "what bothers me is how you got it…is that why you were so reluctant to show me?"

"more or less" said Meiley shifting her eyes from Kai and remembered her bag and what was inside it

"umm Kai there's something else I need to tell you if I am to stay here with you" she said twitching her thumbs "yeah what?" Kai gave her a suspicious look but listened intently.

"well I suffer from a certain sleep paralysis" she said it casually like it was nothing but clearly it wasn't "what kind of sleep paralysis?" he said raising an eyebrow

Meiley sighed and pulled out one of the small labelled bottles from her bag and passed it to Kai, he took it and read a label reading experimental dose 13B (night terror) he gave her a worried look. a week smile lay across her features and answered his question.

"I have frequent night terrors, sometimes very violent ones and that's an experimental drug that's supposed to help me with them"

well that was a long chappie!1 hope u all enjoyed it coz a certain SOMEONE kept nagging me to have Kai and Meiley kiss so there u go. Also if u don't know what a night terror is I shall tell u all In the next chapter so REVIEW AND IT WILL BE POSTED SOOOOOOOOOOON!