Tyson: Welcome back to the next chapter!

Lee: Lil Bre is not to be found at the moment...

Mariah: She is afriad to leave her err... "hiding place" since what happened last chapter.

Tala: Yep. She was hit with a chicken, threatened with a katana and a knife, one of her reviewers cried, and one ran off with a clown car and crashed.

Kai: That's kinda sad...

LilBre: ::where ever she is:: the chicken just wouldn't stop attacking.... NOW I KNOW HOW MY BROTHER FEELS!!! ::sniffs:: AND GET BACK TO FIXING MY CEILING/FLOOR!

Kai: -_-;

Lee: Care to do the disclaimer slaveboy?

Kai: ::gives Lee his death glare:: Don't call me that... Lil Bre doesn't own anything... but the plot... and some fish...

Chapter 31: Age 17 III- Regretting

As soon as Kai ran home, he went through the back door. (He left his truck? o_O;) When he walked past the living room breathing hard, he saw Tala playing a game of Star Wars Battle (Is there such a game?) with his greatest opponent, the little white tiger known as Luke. Tala had a huge grin on his face.

"You can't beat me Lukey," Tala taunted playing with Darth Vader. "You can't beat a human this time little tiger, we have thumbs. You can't beat me, you can't beat me. You-" Tala stopped when he saw that Darth Vader lost and Luke Skywalker had 'winner' on top of his head. "You beat me..."

Luke have him a tiger grin showing his teeth.

"Just because you beat me 9 times doesn't mean anything!" Tala yelled turning off the PS2. He then turned to his brother who was slowly walking up the stairs. "Hey lil' bro, have was your day? What happened to your nose?"

"I don't wanna talk about it," Kai said still walking up the stairs.

"Okay then," Tala replied raising his eyebrows, "you know where I am of you DO wanna talk." He then grabbed the remote and started flipping through channels when he saw something that caught his eye.

~*~On the Tube~*~

News Dude: This dog has just saved a little's boy life by- ::gets another sheet of paper:: NEWS FLASH! Reporters find out that Kai and Mariah has broken up!

~*~Reality~*~

Tala, Duke, and all of the tigers' jaws dropped when he saw giving more information on the news flash.

In other places, Lee, Mark, Kenny, and many many others that knew the couple jaws dropped also in disbelief.

"More news at 10." Tala then turned off the television and turned to the stairs where his brother slowly walked up. He got up and decided to walk to Kai's room. When he got there he saw that Kai was under his bed doing nothing. "Um... are you SURE you don't want to talk about it?" Tala asked leaning on the doorframe.

"I'm positive."

"I know what happened, dude."

"How did you know?!" Kai demanded sliding out from under the bed.

"Dude... it was on the news."

Kai facefaulted and walked over to his closet, sat on the floor, and closed and locked the door.

"So you're just going to stay in there?" Tala asked.

"Darn straight," Kai replied.

"Well, you can't stay in there forever. School's tomorrow and you have almost every class with her this semester, too," Tala stated matter-of- factly. Kai soon unlocked the door and opened it.

"You're right. What am I suppose to do?!" Kai said shaking Tala violently.

"You'll have to face her one day. So... tomorrow might be the start," Tala said while trying to make Kai let go of him.

~*~Next day at school during lunch~*~

The beginning of the new semester wasn't all a bowl of cherries. Kai and Mariah stayed as far away from each other as possible. Everyone was whispering to each other all day about what they were seeing from the couple.

At lunch they both finished getting their lunches and were face-to-face with each other. Kai's eyes softened while Mariah lowered her head and they both passed each other. Everyone in the cafeteria that didn't even other to look at the news gasped in shock. The group sighed as they watched each other pass by and sit at a table by themselves. The groups decided that the boys should go talk to Mariah while the girls talked to Kai.

"Hey, Mariah. What's up?" Rei asked sitting next to the depressed girl. She didn't respond and kept playing with her rice.

"Uh... how about that weather today? I think it's going to," Max tried to cheer her up but his smile faded, "snow?" Still no response.

"CAN YOU AT LEAST SAY HELLO?!" Tyson yelled across from her. She just continued playing with her food. Everyone just sweatdropped.

At the other table, they haven't gotten a reply from Kai either. He just kept on eating his sub sandwich while the grls were trying to get through to him.

"Come on Kai. You have to speak to us sooner or later!" Jackie said. He just kept on eathing his sandwich.

"Kai, if you don't answer us, I'll beat your face in!" Hiromi threatened balling up her fists. Kai slowly turned to Hiromi and just stared at her without blinking.When Hiromi was getting freaked out, Kai punched himself in the cheek with lightning speed making his cheek turn a bright red very quickly.

"I'll do that myself," Kai replied. All of the girls just stared at him in shock. He then got up, threw his lunch away and left the cafeteria.

Kai walked up a flight of stairs to get to his locker. While he was putting in the combitnation, Dunga walked up to him and gave him a super evil grin.

"Hey there, Hiwatari," Dunga said closing Kai's locker as soon as he opened it. "I heard about your little break up."

"Leave me alone," Kai said reopening his locker, "I'm not in the mood for you today."

"Just because you can't keep anything-" Dunga began.

"I don't think you should be messing with him, Dunga," Ozuma said cautiously.

"What's he's gonna do? He lost his girlfriend, his dad, AND his grandfather doesn't like him! What is he going to do to me?" When Dunga started laughing, he was slammed against the lockers by Kai and Kai started punching Dunga in the face repeatedly.

"DON'T. EVER. TALK. ABOUT. MY. FATHER!" Kai said punching him each word he said. Everyone ran into the halls and saw the event and the vice principal and the principal had seperated them.

"What is going on here?!" Principal Mildro demanded Dunga to explain.

"He just got angry and attacked me," he replied.

"Is this true, Mr. Hiwatari?" Vice Principal Takashi asked. Kai just turned away. "Well, I wonder what your mother will say after this one." With that, Takashi took Kai another direction from Dunga to his office.

"All Hiwataris are the same," Dunga snorted, "they're violent, they can't keep anything, AND they can't find any love."

Kai's face turned from red to crimson in a matter of seconds and he unleashed himself from the VP's tight grip, race down the hall where the principal and Dunga were just about to go downstairs, and he jumped on Dunga's back which made him fall down the stairs. Kai then started to beat the living crap out of the poor boy. Everyone that was anyone ran into the stairs to see them beating. Tala and Gary had to pry Kai off of poor, beated up Dunga.

"DON'T NEVER. EVER. TALK ABOUT MY FAMILY EVER AGAIN!" Kai yelled trying to jump him again. Dunga scuttled off somewhere to make sure that he never messes with Kai Hiwatari EVER again.

"Mr. Hiwatari," VP Taskashi said grabbing him, "You are so suspended. Older Mr. Hiwatari," he said referring to Tala, "I want you to take him home. You mother will be down tomorrow."

~*~A block away from home~*~

It was kinda quiet on the wlak home because either of the brothers would talk. Tala kept looking at his brother while Kai just walked looking at the ground angry.

"... You know you miss her," Tala began. Kai's eyes jolted up and then he looked back down to the ground again. "Come on, look at yourself! You don't talk anymore, you've bene fighting, AND you're very uncoordinated! You better apolgize before you do something extremely stupid."

"THAT'S THE PROBLEM!" Kai yelled back. "I don't HOW to apoligize. I've never apolgized before... what should I do?"

"I know SOMEONE who you can talk to," Tala slowly pointed to the Wong's house, "you can talk to Sgt. Major Wong. He's home. I gotta go dude. Good luck."

"... Yeah... just let me get beaten down because I broke his daughter's heart....." Kai mumbled as he walked up his door and unlocked it and went inside. ________________________________

Whoa... I suspended Kai... Oo;;;; Now I'm REALLY GONNA GET IT!

Rei: That you are....

Don't copy Kenshin's words!

Rei: oO;; Soorrrryy....

AND GET BACK TO WORK

Rei: o_o yes ma'am... ::runs off::

Max: Please review! WEE! I'm out of my casts! ^_^_^_^