Forever

Chapter 1. Come back

Kai walked down the street, his feet crunching softly in the snow, his path lit-up by streetlights. He let out a long sigh and ran a hand though his hair. He couldn't get his mind off Rei, no matter how hard he tried to. He would have to repeat to himself sometimes, 'It's for the best.' That's what they had agreed on at the time any way. He was now 22 years old, Rei would probably have got himself a girlfriend. Kai doubted that Rei was still gay. You know that whole teenage thing were you like the same sex for like, what, a week or two? They were having a get together and Tala managed to talk him into it. It was just a pathetic reason to get him out the place so Tala and Bryan could be alone. Kai stopped outside of the dojo. Glancing over it. He wondered if they'd changed…If Tyson was still ignorant and ate too much. If Max was still a sugar high freak. If chief was still a computer nerd. If Rei was still gay and single. He shook his head and went in, knocking on the front door. He heard some banging from inside and sighed. This was going to be a long holiday. He heard a big bang and opened the screen a little to see a moaning Rei laying flat on his back. He still had long black hair, but he wore a wooly sweater and black baggy pants. Kai raised an eyebrow.

"I take it that was your pathetic attempt at opening the door?" Rei looked up at him with big gold eyes, star struck. Kai walked in took his shoes off and walked over to Rei, he crouched down. Rei blushed, heart beat getting faster. Kai put out a finger and…poked him. "You still alive?" Rei puffed his cheeks.

"Of course I am you idiot!" He shot back. "That's a nice way to say hello!"

"Good, I've been practicing." Rei growled. Kai smiled softly causing the neko-jin to blink. Kai stood up and pulled Rei up. He started walking into the living room. "You gonna stand there like a dummy then, is that your job?" Rei got angry again.

"Kai! Don't be so rude!" Kai entered the living room, bad thing. As soon as he opened the door he got attacked by hugs. He looked up to see Tyson and Max sitting up.

"Hello!" Max said.

"Yo, what up?" Kai smiled again. No one had ever seen that smile. It was like a proper smile, warm and cheery. "Hey Kai! You can smile!" Max laughed a bit and Kai sat up.

"Long time no see, how are you?"

"You sure you're Kai?" A female voice from the door asked. A girl with mid-back length hair stood there.

"Hillary?" She smiled and nodded. "You let your hair grow." She shrugged.

"I got bored of having to go to the hairdressers every now and then, so I just grew it." She said simply.

"Oh, wow Kai! I thought you'd be like ten feet tall by now! But I'm your height!" Kai heard Max say.

"Rei stopped growing to." Tyson said pulling Rei next to Kai and practically pushing them into each other's sides making them both blush a little.

"Aw! Even after all this time. You still look so cute standing next to each other!" Hillary said, putting the tray of minced-pies down. "Kenny! Come here, I want a photo!" Max stood next to Rei and Tyson stood next to Kai. Kenny stood right in the middle in font. Just as Hillary was about to take a photo, Kai yanked on the back of Rei's hair. He let out a ear-piercing scream and Hillary put the camera down and rushed over to him. "You ok Rei?" Rei glared at me.

"Fine, do I have to stand next to him?" They all looked puzzled. Then Hillary figured it out.

"Kai, don't pull on peoples hair, Rei, yes." She ran back to the camera and got ready to take a photo again. Kai's foot swung back and hit Rei's ankle with such force that he fell on the floor.

"Rei!" Max said, crouching by him. "You ok bud?" This time. Rei smiled evilly at Kai making the Russian step back.

"I see what's going on." He said. Everyone looked at Kai as Rei pointed at him, still smiling evilly. "You're still camera shy!"

"You've GOT to be joking!" Tyson said. Rei shook his head. Kai tried to run but Tyson swung him to the floor and sat on his back. Max sat next to Tyson, Kenny on the other side, and Rei stood behind him, putting his hands on Tyson's shoulders. Kai glared at Rei and Rei smirked at Kai.

"Ok, done!" Hillary said as a click went.

"See Kai, that wasn't THAT bad!" Rei said.

"What do you mean! That was worse!" Kai shouted at Rei making the shorter boy's smile get even wider. "Burn it!"

"Hell no! I want a copy!" Rei said running towards the camera and grabbing it. Kai started to run towards Rei who disappeared and reappeared at the door. "There's a photo shop down at the end of the road right?"

"Rei!" Kai said starting to run. Rei ran out the door and out the house, disappearing at the road. "Stupid neko-jin…" Kai murmured going back into the house. "He's evil…" Hillary smiled at him

"But that was a good photo!" she said.

"But that's NOT the point!" Kai said sitting down with his arms crossed.

"Don't worry, he'll be back soon!" Hillary reassured him, not that it did any good.

"But I thought you said you had a picture of Kai and Rei from a while ago?" Kenny asked.

"I do!" She got out her purse. Kai glared at her but did little. She showed Kenny who almost choked. Kai blushed as they surrounded it.

"Dude! You got a picture of them making out on the couch!" Tyson exclaimed.

"Yes Tyson, and the whole world does NOT need to know." Kai said his face lighting up. Kai heard a click and looked at Max who had his camera phone out.

"And now, we have Kai as a tomato." Max said as if he was a reporter. Kai glared at Max and Tyson who where laughing.

"Rei still likes you, you know." Kenny said sitting next to Kai. "And I have lots of photos of you all, so get over the whole camera shyness ok?"

"Rei doesn't like me, and I am NOT camera shy!"

"Sure…" Tyson said as max fiddled with his phone.

"What makes you so sure of yourself?" Kenny said, ignoring Tyson.

"He was the one who dumped me, didn't you know?" They all looked at Kai. "What? He was suppose to tell you before he left."

"I asked him how you were once in my letters seeing as we thought you guys were still seeing each other, and he said you'd broke up before you left 'cause you thought it was the better and he didn't want to talk about it…but there was wet stains on the paper." Tyson said. Kai looked at him shocked.

"We all thought after that you'd dumped him in some way that upset him really badly." Hillary continued. Kai shook his head.

"He said he thought it would be best if we split up before I left for Russia. When I asked him why he just sort of looked down and said he had someone else back in the village. That's why I left early, I never told anyone, but it kinda hurt me, that he left me for a girlfriend he'd already had. I couldn't really settle then. I don't know if Tala told you, but I built up my bad reputation and became…well…"

"A slut?" Tyson said. Kai looked at the floor. "He did tell me, he asked what we'd done to you, I just thought that was 'cause you got sad like Rei, guess I was right."

Z

Rei looked down at the floor. He hadn't meant for that to happen. But he couldn't help it. He ran out the front and down the street. He didn't know where to, but he hared someone call his name. He couldn't go back, so he just kept on running.

Kitty-cat: I got bored so I decided to write a sequel. Tell me what you think!