I do not own the Teen Titans. Well the last chapter revieled a lot about Kaiser's/Kevin's past. But trust me there is a lot more to it. Now to the story.
Chapter 5: Call me Kevin.
Kevin went to his room before any of the others saw him. He lifted the matress in his bedroom to take out the stuff he uses to make the fake skin on his arm and leg. It looked like it was in long sheets the length of his arm. I apperead to be made out of latex, but not that cheap B movie stuff. This was professional stuff the kind used in high budget movies for like fake faces and masks. Man was Kevin glad he saved that guy. He quickly took out two sheets and layed them on the floor. He then took off his pants and placed his leg on the first sheet. He clasped his hands together and placed one on the latex and the other on his leg. The skin like substance appered to melt in his hands and then was tranfered to his leg. The material started to form around his leg covering all the metal. He checked his leg to look for any patches he missed, but everything looked good. He then took the other sheet and placed it on his arm and did the same thing. He then took the fake nais out from under his matress and placed them on his hands and feet with strong rubber cement. He checked his work and was pretty good, better than what it use to look like. Kevin, at first, had the worst trouble with it when he first did it always leaving a few patches and he would always put the nails on crooked. But he got better with time. He then got up and put on his pants and shirt, and walked out of his room feeling happy that he actually could talk to someone about his past. Raven never really looked like the type that would talk to people, but he was glad he was wrong for once. He really didn't like to hide things but he felt like everywhere he went everyone never wanted him around. School, the people around him, the adults, his brothers, well he didn't really care about that last part. The farther he was from them the better. Kevin reached the living room where he saw that everyone was awake and already eating.
"Sup everyone." Kevin said as he sat next to the others grabbing a bowl of cereal.
"Hey Kaiser morning man." Beast Boy said.
"Yes how are we on this wonderful morning." Starfire said with a smile on her face.
"I'm doin pretty good. But can yah stop callin me Kaiser? I'm startin to hate that name." Kevin said as everyone was surprised he said this. Everyone except Raven didn't know his real name.
"Well then whats your real name?" Robin said figuring that the name he gave them from the start was bogus.
"So you knew about the lame name." Kaiser said putting another spoonfull of cereal in his mouth.
"Yeah it wasn't that hard to figure out." Robin said.
"Well my real name is Kevin Michaels." Kaiser said to everyone.
"Nice name." Cyborg said.
"Thanks. My mom named me after my grandfather." Kaiser eating more of his cereal. "Now that you all know my name, can I know yours?" Kevin asked.
"Sure why not. Mine's Garfield Logan." Beast Boy the first to step up.
"Mine's Victor." Cyborg said.
"The names Richard. but everyone calls me Dick." Robin said.
"And my birthname is Koriandr." Starfire told Kevin.
"What about you Raven." Kevin wondering.
"It's just Raven." Raven said in her monotone.
"Oh no nick name?" Kevin surprised
"No." she answered simply.
"Cool. Well now that were on a first name basis watcha wanna do today." Kevin said putting his emtpy bowl in the sink and rinsing it off.
"Hey let's go to the mall." Beast Boy said. "It's been a while since we went there."
"I'm game." Cyborg said.
"Alright. I never really got to check the place out when I first went there." Kevin remembering his encounter with Jinx, Mammoth, and Gizmo.
"Oh by the way I finally made the T Car bigger so we can all fit in it." Cyborg told Kevin when they reached the car.
"Great I always wanted to ride in it. You know when I'm not passed out." Kevin got in the car amazed by the interior. Robin took the passengers seat, Cyborg was driving as usual, he didn't like it when other people drove his car, Kevin took the window behind Robin then it went Raven next to him Starfire, and then Beast Boy.
During the whole drive Kevin was silently looking out the window listening to the music over the radio. Next to him Raven would occasionaly glance at his arm. She was amazed he could make his arm look so real. She wondered if Kevin could feel anything through it. But she didn't want to be rude, but she just kept wondering. She started to carefully move her hand over to the arm. Kevin didn't seem to notice. She then took her finger and felt his arm, it even felt lke real skin. She then took her hand and slowly pinched the skin, nothing happend. Kevin didn't say ouch, he didn't look over, nothing. It was almost strange knowing that his arm was metal but hiding it from everyone. They arrived at the mall and everyone got out of the car and started to stretch.
"So what do you wanna do first." Kevin said waiting for everyones response.
"Let's see a movie." Beast Boy said.
"No let us shop for clothes." Starfire said.
"How about we split up do what we want and meet back in the center square in about three hours." Robin being the planner of the bunch.
"Sounds good to me." Kevin said.
"Make sure you guys have your communicators with you and on at all times. You never know." Robin said as he started to enter the mall to do his own thing.
Everyone started to leave and entered the mall. Kevin quickly caught up to Raven. "Uh...hey Raven. You wanna...um hang out...or something?" Kevin rubbing the back of his head while he asked.
Raven was a little reluctant to answer his question. "I don't know." Raven a little anxious to hang out with Kevin. Although she did like to have someone to talk to on rare occasions.
"We can do whatever you wanna do. I don't care." Kevin asked as he continued to follow her.
"I guess." Raven answered as she kept walking.
"Thanks."
"Don't mention it...ever." Raven said in a slightly jocking manner. Very unusual for her. They walked to a book store, it looked pretty dark and mysterious. They had many different books there all on different subjects.
"Cool H.P. Lovecraft." Kevin said as he looked over the book.
"You read Lovecraft?" Raven surprised he actually knew who that was.
"A little. I've only read like two of his books though. I've read a lot of Stephan King though. I just like to read horror novels." Kevin said as he saw a bunch of different Stephen King in a row. "And this was my favorite." Kevin picked up a copy of The Dark Half. "I don't know why but I just really like this book. This and 'Desperation'." Kevin then looked at the price and saw that he did'nt have enough money and put it back. Kevin saw that Raven was looking at magic books. "So do any of those books actually work."
"Some, yes. But not many. Company's just put out these books to make money." Raven said as she looked through the books on the shelf.
"Now this is the book for me." Kevin said as he picked up a copy of 'The Idiot's Guide To Magic' and put a smile on his face trying yet again to make a joke around the dark and mysterious girl he was in front of.
"Amusing." Raven said as she peered over at Kevin.
"Aww common lighten up a little. It's not like it's the end of the world or something. If he only knew what Raven was hiding. Raven picked up a couple of books while Kevin looked at the other stores near the book shop, and then he saw it. The holy grail of entertainment. He started to slowly walk towards it in a hypnotized manner.
"Kevin are you all right?" Raven asked wondering what he was doing.
"Must play, need to play. My god it's DDR." He walked into the arcade and immediately got two quarters and put them in the machine. "My god I have missed this soooo much. Time to dance." He then climbed onto the dance pad. Raven walked in to see what Kevin was doing and saw that he was standing on the Dancing video game.
"What are you doing?" Raven asked.
"Please I just gotta play this once." Kevin then set the game to heavy difficulty and selected the song A Renisance. The song started up and the arrows slowly started to creep to the top of the screen. Kevin hit the arrows with perfect timing, not missing one. The music then stopped and then all of a sudden the song and arrows moved much faster up the screen. It was hard to see them they were moving so fast, but Kevin kept going not missing one arrow. The arrows were comming closer the together yet Kevin kept hitting them in unison to the song. Then the song got to the end and Kevin landed the last two arrows in a hold backwards. "Man that felt great." he said as he got off the machine. "I havn't played in months. That was great."
Raven looked at Kevin impressed with how fast he could move his legs and see the machine at the same time. "Thats was pretty good." Raven complimenting him.
"Thanks. I used to play that game all the time. I saw the game in a town I travelled through and it looked fun so I tried it out. I've been playing ever since for about two years." Kevin said gathering his breathing. "Well you ready to go find the others?"
"Sure lets go." Raven and Kevin then left the arcade and proceded to go the the main squre near the food court.
"Well we still got about ten minuets before the other's show up. What do you wanna do."
"How about we just sit down." Raven said moving to a table. They both sat down across from each other at the table.
"Hey Raven thanks for letting me hang out with you. I really appreciate it. Not many people let me hang out with them before." Kevin said
"No problem. It's the least I could do after the presant you gave me. It was nice." Raven said.
"Thanks. Also I wanna thank you for not telling anyone about what I said this morning. That really means a lot to me. And thanks for listening too." Kevin told her.
"Glad I could help. We loner's gotta stick together." Raven actually smiling after this.
"Did you just make a joke?" Kevin said with a smile on his face. "I knew I'd get to you eventually." Kevin feeling proud of himself.
Just then both of there communicators went off and Robin's face came on. "Titans Trouble."
"Well let's go." Kevin said as they both got up.
Well there's another chapter for ya. And don't worry there will be plenty of action in the next chapter. Who knows whos gonna show up. Also Plese Review I like to hear what people think of my work. And any sugestions you night have.