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Lemon Drops in the Forest

By: The Plagnister

Chapter 2: Kits for Grab

They had been traveling for some time now and Kai scowled and mumbled from the moment they left. Tyson seemed to deflate a little, believing that he had somehow got Kai mad. He couldn't figure out why. So he brooded, thinking someway to make Kai not mad at him. Then he stopped and looked at Kai quite seriously. Kai turned around to see that Tyson stopped and looked at him curiously.

Tyson's voice then took on a serious edge. "Kai, I want that lemon drop."

Kai sweat dropped, almost loosing his awesomeness and anime falling, but this is Kai. But he will never anime fall, it was totally out of his nature. "You can have it, but only if you lie with me and rest."

'That sounded so wrong.'

They both blinked at each other, thinking the same thing, and blushed a deep red. Ty was speechless. 'I can't believe he just said that!'

After a brief moment, Ty was able to shake his shock off and sat down under a particularly shady tree. "Alright. Fine. Now, the lemon drop if you please."

Tyson Chester grinned at Kai's dumbfounded look and crooked his fingers at him. Kai, as if he was a puppet on strings, he came immediately to him and sat down cross-legged in front of Tyson. Kai seemed to have shaken from the momentary stoop he was in and shook his head. He then noticed that Tyson's hand was held out, palm up to him. He stared at it in confusion, wondering what he was to do with it. Oh, he had ideas of what to do with it, but he wouldn't act upon those ideas.

"Are you going to give me the lemon drop or do I have to take it from you?"

Kai lifted an eyebrow at that, imagining all the things that Tyson wrestling him for the candy could lead up to. Especially out here in the middle of the forest, on the ground, in the mud. He sighed at that futile fantasy and glanced up. Dark grey clouds were rolling in, fat bellied with water. He then looked back at Tyson and smirked.

"Tell you what. You can have the candy and stay her, but I'm going further up a head and staying in a nice warm, dry cave. I don't want to be caught in this rain."

Kai rose gracefully as a cat and started on some invisible trail that only he knew. Tyson had to scramble to his feet and hurry after him in the darkening forest. It started pouring down ten minutes before they reached this cave of Kai's. They both stumbled into the cave, completely drenched, nearly collapsing in weariness from the mad dash the last forty yards, scampering over wet, slippery rocks.

"I huff thought this huff was still here."

Kai grabbed a few logs from the side of the cave and placed them in a stone circle that seemed to have been there for years. He set them up around a bunch of leaves and twigs. He then lit the kindle on fire and nursed the flames to a roaring fire. He quickly pulled out the sleeping bag and laid it out next to the fire to dry out. Once that was done, he handed Tyson a broom like branch, grabbed one himself and headed into the back of the cave.

They chased off all the small animals and Kai returned to the fire and started to strip out of his wet clothes. Tyson wasn't paying much attention at the moment, for he heard a noise at the back of the cave. Following the sound, he came upon two small, wriggling creatures. Coming closer, he saw that they were kits. On impulse, he grabbed them, and nearly dropped them at what he saw. Their mother lay close by, but she was stiff, meaning that she had been dead for a while.

"Kai! Look at what I-"

He froze in mid-step, watching as Kai dropped his pants and pulled on a drier pair; he didn't even bother with a shirt. Kai turned around to see that Tyson was staring at him with wide eyes. The Russian boy raised an eyebrow at him, wet hair dripping, and Ty blushed. A yip brought his attention to Tyson's arms. He scowled at the baby foxes and looked back up to Tyson's face.

"Put the back Tyson. We cannot take care of baby animals. Especially wild ones. What if their mamma starts looking for them?"

"Can we please keep them Kai? Their mamma is dead stiff back behind the rocks. Looks like she starved to death."

"Tyson… " Kai gave the Japanese boy a warning glare.

"Aw, come on Kai. Look, they're starving and their ribs are showing. Please Kai, I'll do anything."

Kai's scowled disappeared as he lifted an eyebrow at that. 'Tyson looks so cute like that when he's begging.' "Anything?"

Tyson blushed at that, but didn't look away from Kai's intense gaze. In fact, he raised his chin a little higher. "Anything."

Kai sighed and looked away, disgusted with himself. If he was to have Tyson, it wasn't going to be forced into on either account. It wasn't right to seduce Tyson like this. "We'll talk about it tomorrow. Make them a bed, for now, with your torn up clothing."

Tyson did as he was told in confusion. First Kai acts like he wants him, then pushes him away and broods. It was enough to make him scream in frustration. But he daren't, not without knowing Kai's true feelings.

The two kits romped around in their small, makeshift den-bed. That's when Tyson noticed something about them. One was a little longer legged than the other and skinnier, also the fur being light grey on top and darker grey on the bottom. The other was a blue black and seemed to have more energy that just sitting there and glaring a whole in the wall. Tyson smiled to himself, knowing what he was going to do with them. He returned to the sleeping bag where Kai sat tailor-style.

"Kai, I want that lemon drop now."

Kai's head whipped around towards him, closer to doing an anime fall than any other incident made him. The Russian seriously thought that Tyson had forgotten about the candy. He sure did. He froze for a second before facing Ty. He smirked knowingly at him. Tyson seemed a little thrown back by this. Kai had some thing lurking in the back of his eyes.

"Oh, that lemon head… I already ate it." He pulled another lemon head out of his mouth. "This one, I just put in. The deal was for that other candy, but it's no longer here."

Tyson looked hurt at that and turned away. Kai froze, seeing the pain in Ty's eyes the brief second he was able to glance at them. It felt as if someone gripped Kai's heart and squeezed it. What made it worse was that he caused it. He spit the candy back into his hand and handed it to Tyson.

"Here, you can have this one."

Tyson glanced back and snatched it away, as if Kai might change his mind, and put it in his mouth. He almost moaned aloud at tasting Kai along with the sourness of the candy. Then, without thinking, Tyson flung himself on Kai. Kai, completely unprepared for the sudden weight, ended up toppling over, Tyson lying on top of him. They blinked at each other for a moment, then Ty hastily pushed himself up, and they adverted their gazes, both mentally cursing themselves; Ty for not taking the slight advantage and Kai for losing the moment.

"Tyson…"

"We should be getting to sleep. We gotta leave early tomorrow to catch up with the Rabies Gang."

To prove his point, Tyson plopped down onto his shoulder, his back facing Kai. Kai frowned at Ty's back, then faced the fire again, staring into it. He soon heard Ty's breathing slow to someone in slumber. With a long suffering sigh, Kai laid down as well, but on his back, arms beneath his head, staring up at the ceiling.

The rhythm of the pouring rain and the heat of the fire lulled him into a kind of stupor between the Waking World and the Dream Land. He was just about to be completely embraced by the Dream Lady when he heard mumbling beside him and felt something press against his side. Eyes snapping open, he looked over to see Tyson snuggled on his shoulder, in a comfortable position. He stretched his ears a little to hear what Tyson was saying. He smirked and surrender himself to the Lady, Ty's words his last thought.

"Kai, you're like a Lemon Head. You're sour on the outside, the shell around you. But you're sweet on the inside, you just have to keep going deeper until you find that sweet-gooeyness."

Well… not exactly his last thought. His last thought actually was, 'That could be twisted around in so many ways.'

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