Tyson: I hate you now.

Kai: You've read through it already?

Tyson: Yes.

Me: Ah, but we all need some drama sometimes, Tyson. Read on!

Answers to questions:

- Kai is currently 13

- Angels can change lovers like normal people do, providing it's with another angel. If it's a charge, it's for life (or eternity I guess) because the charge gives themselves to the angel. And Tyson won't let Kai kill himself just yet xD. I know it's vague, but it will clearer in tiiiiime.

Snapping his suitcase shut, Voltaire straightened and thrust the leather case in a waiting butler's arms, motioning for him to hurry out and place his luggage in the boot of his expensive car.

Kai shuffled his feet as his grandfather regarded him silently, the old man huffed and crossed his arms, "you better do well in your studies Kai, and I'm not letting my successor be a slacker with bad grades." He narrowed his eyes dangerously, "I assume you've studied for your exam coming up soon?"

"Yes…" Kai murmured, avoiding his grandfather's gaze to look outside as the driver seated in Voltaire's car beeped the horn to signal it was time to go. "I think you have to leave now." He muttered quietly, feeling slightly glad that the old man had to leave on a business trip, he preferred when he wasn't looking at him like a hawk at times.

"I am aware of that." Voltaire responded gruffly, striding out of the open door and shooting his grandson one last stern look, "I expect good results, understand?" After receiving a nod from the teen, he whirled around and signalled for a maid to shut the door behind him.

Kai glared at the place he'd last seen his grandfather hatefully, wishing that the old man would fall down the stairs or something. Turning around, he was about to head back up to his room when he was met face to face with the ruffled appearance of his angel.

It turned out that even though Tyson didn't no longer needed sleep, he could drift off when he wanted to regain energy and generally recharge when tired. Last night the bluenet had obviously chosen to doze off, judging by his mussed hair and rumpled looking feathers.

Kai raised an eyebrow in slight amusement, "awake?" He questioned, watching as the older teen stifled a yawn and rubbed his eyes sleepily.

"Yeah… the vulture gone?" The angel asked, looking sleepily out of a nearby window to find Voltaire's expensive car missing.

"At last." Kai muttered bitterly, walking over to his angel's side, "your wings look terrible." He told him lightly, glancing at the white feathers, fighting down the urge to run his fingers through them and make them neat and tidy again.

"Should I be offended by that?" Tyson responded huffily, placing his hands on his hips and frowning at his charge in mock annoyance. "I'll preen them then if it's bothering you." True to his word, he unfolded his left wing and began running his fingers through them.

The younger teen rolled his eyes in exasperation, "not here, Tyson…" he muttered in a long-suffering sounding tone. He grabbed his angel's wrist gently and tugged him in the direction of the sitting room, which would hopefully be empty in the morning, and he would look unsuspicious being in there.

Plopping down on the sofa and smiling at the comfiness of the cushions, Tyson settled down happily and resumed his previous activity, unaware that his charge was watching him almost avidly.

Kai reached out on a sudden whim and halted his angel's hands in their movement, "may I?" He murmured quietly, not sure just why he wanted he to preen the feathers, he felt an unspeakable want to. At the angel's surprised, small nod, he began tidying up the angel's wings carefully. Fully enjoying the feeling, Kai felt his shoulders slack and relax, even though he wasn't the one receiving the affectionate attention.

Tyson smiled happily and leant forward slightly, he felt his wings fluff up at the pleasant attention and he shivered slightly. "You're very good at this chibi…" he murmured quietly.

Kai scowled at the nickname, Tyson had bestowed him with it a few weeks back, and in all honesty, Kai found it rather degrading than cute (as Tyson thought it was). "Do you have to call me that?" He questioned unhappily, stopping in his task of preening Tyson's wings.

Tyson almost whimpered at the lack of attention but stopped himself, "what's wrong with it? I'm older than you, and taller."

"I'm still growing." Kai pointed out, "I might be taller than you later."

The bluenet made a face, "can you… stop growing then?" He asked, eyes twinkling with humour and he folded his wings, assuming that they were done.

Kai rolled his eyes and slid off of the couch, feeling slightly disappointed at not being able to preen his angel's wings anymore. "Of course not, and I need to study if I don't want my grandfather yelling in my face again." He muttered bitterly, heading in the direction of his bedroom.

"When is your exam again?" Tyson asked him, leaping off the sofa to follow his charge up the stairs.

"Tomorrow."

"Ok… so what can't you do in Math anyway? It's your best subject, you shouldn't need to study."

"That doesn't mean I'm weak in a few areas." Kai replied quietly, flipping through the pages of his textbook, not really taking in much of what was written on the pages. "Every exam has an algebra question, and… I can't do those very well." He stopped on a chapter labelled 'Algebra' and turned to look at his angel with a questioning glint in his eye, "I don't suppose you remember anything about it?"

Tyson blinked, confusion dawning over his face. He reached out wordlessly and picked up the textbook, eyes scanning over the words, his brow furrowed. "Hmm… it looks familiar but…" He gave Kai a sheepish grin, "you have to remember I haven't been to school to learn in over 50 years, but I'll try a few questions and see."

Kai watched quietly as his angel began scribbling down the various letters and numbers making up the complicated algebra equations. After a few attempts, the angel through down the pen he'd borrowed from Kai's desk and shrugged at his charge apologetically. "Sorry, I don't understand either."

The dual haired teen sighed and ran his fingers through his hair quickly before leaning his elbows on the desk and resting his head in his palms, reading over the words in the textbook.

Tyson was nearly twitching out of lack of something to do by the time his charge had spent an hour reading over the instructions and writing down some notes and practice equations. As much as he was fond of Kai, the feeling of sitting down and doing absolutely nothing but watch various facial expression dart across Kai's face was driving him insane. "Kai. This is boring." He stated.

"I know." The younger teen replied simply, "I've nearly got the hang of this."

Tyson's left eyebrow twitched, "are we going to be sitting here for another hour?" He questioned, voice holding a note of panic at the prospect of being forced to sit down and scan Kai's bedroom yet again.

The corners of Kai's lips twitched up into a faint smile of amusement and he shut his text book and pushed it away, letting his pen dropping from his hand the roll on the floor. He looked up at his angel and shook his head, "no."

"Finally!" Tyson cried in relief, jumping up from Kai's bed and stretching quickly, "now I say we doing something fun and not academic for the rest of the day. Or at least until dinner." He grabbed Kai gently by the upper arm and heaved him out of seat. "Does a quick flight outside sound good?"

It was one of the many times Kai had been grateful to have the older teen there with him, both as his angel and a friend. He'd only just managed to give him a small nod with a matching small smile before the angel beamed at him and carted him off towards the front doors and outside.

"Kai, wake up kid." Tyson poked his charge in the shoulder lightly, receiving a light slap from the younger teen's hand for his efforts. The bluenet placed his hands on his hips and scowled down at Kai's sleeping form. As much as Kai looked adorable lying there, deep in his slumber, he had an exam and needed to get up.

"Chibi! Wake up!" He said sharply, forcing down the temptation to kick the dual haired teen in the side in favour of shaking him slightly roughly instead. This time he received a groan and the sight of Kai's eyelids fluttering open to stare back at him sleepily.

"Tyson…?" He mumbled, sitting up and rubbing his eyes to remove the sleep from the corners of his eyes. He swung his legs out of bed and stood up, looking at his angel disdainfully, "did you have to wake me up? I wouldn't have needed to sit that exam then."

Tyson tutted mockingly and ushered him to get dressed, "and risk getting shouted at by the wrinkly old vulture again?" He questioned, smiling in amusement at Kai's long suffering expression, "cheer up, if you do fine in your test you won't get yelled at!"

"I'm starting to wonder whether that's a good thing…" Kai mumbled, pulling on a pair of socks, "he likes to nag."

"He's old. Old people do that." Tyson replied dismissively.

"You're old… and you like to nag." Kai pointed out.

"I do not nag!" The bluenet replied, feigning mock hurt, "now hurry up and get dressed, or you'll miss breakfast, that's the most important meal of the day you know."

"See? You're nagging."

"I am not. I am pointing out the facts of meals and food!"

"If you say so."

Kai sat down at his desk, aware of the fact the class seemed quiet and subdued rather than noisy. Then again, the large letters on the board at the front of class reading, 'keep silent!' probably kept the students quiet until the exam was finished.

On his desk was his paper, labelled with his name and everything. Tossing the materials he needed on his desk, he sat down and glared at the teacher's back in annoyance, wondering what exactly the point of the stupid test was.

Tyson looked around the classroom, eyes searching for a spare chair he could 'borrow' to beside Kai while he did his exam. Finding none, he frowned unhappily and stood beside his charge with a slight sulk. "I just know my legs are going to cramp up later." He mumbled, feathers ruffling in his irritation.

"You could always sit on the floor." Kai replied, earning a half hearted dirty look from the bluenet for his troubles.

The teacher clapped her hands at that point to catch the class's attention, "students, you may revise for five minutes, use the time wisely." She then took a seat at her desk and surveyed her pupils quietly.

Kai watched his classmates around him remove their bags and got a small sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. Something told him due to the rushed morning he'd had, he had forgotten to bring his notes to study from. Reaching into his bag, his assumptions were corrected and he groaned.

Tyson, sensing Kai's feelings of dread, looked over at him in concern, "something wrong?"

"I forgot my notes." Kai stated sourly. "I might not have done if you hadn't rushed me this morning." He knew he shouldn't really be annoyed with his angel, even though he was being thoughtful; he had still put him in a disadvantage.

"Ah, sorry about that chibi." The bluenet apologised, looking sadly at him for a few moments before brightening up. "But I can get your notes to you now if you like!"

The dual haired teen raised an eyebrow, "you can't fly fast enough to get back to my house, get the notes and come back here in five minutes." He pointed out, "plus I have to study them before you even get back."

"I'm not going to fly. Where did you leave them?" Tyson replied patiently, shutting his eyes.

"Tyson…"

"Just answer the question Kai."

"On my desk…"

"Right…" Tyson's brow furrowed in concentration and a strange, glowing aura engulfed his body, making him sparkle and his wings shine faintly.

Kai gaped at his angel with wide eyes, wondering what the older teen was doing and how he was doing it. A small fizzling noise in front of him caught his attention and he turned to look at a spot on his desk, the centre giving off that same unearthly glow that covered Tyson. A small pop and his notes landed with a small 'flump' on the desk before him, intact and ready to read.

Tyson opened his eyes and looked at the notes he'd just conjured up there proudly, "there we are!" He grinned at Kai.

"How… in the world did you do that?" Kai managed out, picking up his notes and leafing through them.

"Good aren't I?" Tyson smirked. "I can bring small, light things from a short distance to where I am. It's a useful ability; I guess we were given it in case forgetful charges left things behind." He gave his own charge a cheeky smile.

"Hmm… useful." Kai murmured, eyes scanning over his notes.

Tyson was experiencing a case of deja vu by the time Kai was halfway through his examination. Shifting, he lifted his weight off of his right leg in favour of his left, shaking out his right limb to get the feeling back into it.

Blue eyes stared at the clock, watching the seconds hand make it way slowly around the face. Only ten more minutes and Kai would be finished, then something interesting would happen, hopefully.

Kai was staring unhappily at an algebra question when he was sure he heard his angel mutter something above him and he turned his head slightly in curiosity. The bluenet had touched his fingers to his forehead and was massaging gently, a small wince spread over his face. Concerned, Kai kicked the older teen gently in the ankle to get his attention.

Tyson looked up. He'd been perfectly fine until a rather large headache had come over him and pulsed behind his eyes. "Hmm?" He made a noise to shown he was paying attention to Kai and opened one eye to look at him.

Kai, knowing he wasn't be allowed to speak due to exam rules discretely placed a finger to his temple and tapped, hoping the older teen would get the message.

"Head?" Tyson murmured. He winced a little; the pain in his head was really start to become bothersome. His charge nodded, now pointing his head instead. "Oh, my headache?" Another nod of confirmation and he managed a small shaky smile in an attempt to reassure, "I'm fine, it'll go away in a couple of seconds."

Kai looked unconvinced, but he went back to finished his test without prying any further.

The last ten minutes went by slower than Tyson would have hoped, he wanted to just get out and get some fresh air. But, as teacher announced the test had finished, the noise the students collectively made as they got up from their seats to hand their papers in made the pain throbbing in his head skyrocket and Tyson moved towards and open window abruptly, climbing out and dropping outside.

Kai had just come back from giving in his exam paper when he saw the angel jump outside and sit down by the wall, massaging his head slowly. Truthfully, Kai was worried, but he knew not to disturb the angel just yet. If he had a bad headache, the best thing to do was to leave him alone for a bit. Confident in that decision, Kai hefted his school bag onto one shoulder and headed out of the door after his classmates fro his next lesson.

Even as he walked along the halls surrounded by rushing and laughing pupils, Kai couldn't help but feel lonesome with the bluenet walking beside him and chattering away.

Tyson sighed in relief as the ache in his head was washed away gently. Resting his head on the concrete wall behind him, he stared unseeingly into the school grounds. In his mind's eye, all he could see was when he was alive, all those years ago and not looking any different. Minus the extra feathery limbs of course.

He could just vaguely remember that on some days he got headaches like the one he'd just had for no apparent reason at all. One time, though the memory was hazy, he could recall a storm coming a few hours after one of his pains. He'd put it down to coincidence in the end, and still regarded it as a coincidence, but he couldn't help but wonder why it was coming but to nag at him now.

Sighing, he shook his head faintly and stood, mentally searching out the presence of his chare and re-climbing the through the window of the math classroom to head in the direction Kai's emotions were leading him.

He knew it hadn't been right or fair to leave Kai alone suddenly like that, but the need to clear his head had been a little too great to be in the crowded building with him at that point. He made a note to apologise to the younger teen and headed out of the classroom door.

"Kai?" Tyson called, peeking his head from around the oak tree's thick trunk. He'd had a hard time navigating the school halls (even with Kai's emotions to guide him) and ended up getting lost for a good while before the lunch bell rang and he had been forced to look outside for the missing dual haired teen.

Kai, hearing his name called, swivelled his head up to look up into his angel's face. Sighing, he placed the apple he'd been just about to eat in favour of questioning the sheepish looking bluenet instead, "are you alright?"

"Fine! Perfectly fine!" Tyson assured him, coming all the way around the tree to plop himself down on the grass beside Kai. "I had to clear my head is all."

"You're sure? You look… distant." Kai noted. Indeed, to him, the angel seemed unresponsive and vague.

"I'm fine."

"If you say so…"

Since lunch and afternoon lessons had finished, Tyson had eased into a better mood, and was acting like he normally did; cheerful and happy. Right now they were flying over the city en route to Kai's home. Unfortunately, the skies above denied a peaceful flight home.

Kai frowned at the dark clouds that loomed overhead. Flying with the promise of a storm approaching was a bad idea. Glancing down at the ground, he sighed, then again... stopping flying over the middle of a busy, crowded city was a bad idea too.

Looking up into the worried face of his angel, he asked him a question, "can't you fly faster to escape those clouds?"

"Don't think so." Tyson replied grimly, grimacing as few raindrops splattered on top of his head, indicating the storm was already upon them, "since it's already here."

Kai clung a bit tighter to his angel's shoulders, not wanting to fall off. Below him, tiny dots of people dashed about, trying to escape the downpour.

A harsh wind from the left sent the blue haired angel spiralling to left, wings flapping madly in the effort to keep on course for Kai's house. Battling the howling winds and driving rain was hard; the water droplets were already soaking him and his charge completely, his hair dripping and wings feeling heavy and waterlogged.

Kai couldn't see much in the blurring rain, he squinted about, catching the vague sight of his angel wobble slightly in the air, his harsh breathing barely audible with the wind drowning it out. "Tyson!" He shouted, but the wind swept away the words, making his shouts silent to the struggling angel. Shivering, chilled from the rain, he buried his face in his angel's shoulder to try and keep as close as possible, and hopefully helping the other to fly easier.

Clutching his charge closer to himself, Tyson growled in annoyance as he was batted about in the wind, feathers heavy with water dropping off of his wings. He was so tired from trying to keep a steady pace while carrying an extra weight with heavy wings, but he had to get Kai somewhere safe, somewhere dry. Shaking his head to banish light-headedness, he was aware of his altitude slowly dropping, his body and wing muscles no longer able to keep him airborne for much longer.

Looking about dazedly for a spot to land safely, he almost cried out in relief as he spotted the strip of lawn that was where he landed on the side of Kai's home. Tilting his body to head in that direction, a sharp blast of wind sent him veering sharply off-course, his exhaustion logged mind unable to concentrate in his wing position.

Kai looked up fearfully at his angel, at this rate Tyson was going to drop out of sky out of exhaustion if the wind didn't beat him to it. His stomach flew into his throat as the blue haired angel suddenly plummeted, his startled yelp swallowed by the winds. Clutching desperately to Tyson, he hoped that their landing wouldn't be too hard or painful.

Tyson was aware of his body plummeting sharply to the ground, no longer able to flap his wings let alone get them into a safe flight pattern.

Curling his soaked arms around his charge, he weakly flipped them over, so his back was facing the ground so as to protect Kai from harm.

Thud.

Kai was vaguely aware of the wind being knocked out of him, and the sickening crack of a bone snapping, his angel's arms tightening around him while his wings fell limp on the wet ground.

The rain splattered down onto their faces as they laid there on the muddy lawn, the dazed stupor they were both in subsiding slightly and Kai opened his eyes slightly, squinting up into the grey sky, rain falling down and causing him to blink away the cold moisture.

"Kai…? Are you alright?" Tyson's voice echoed in ear, soft and croaky.

The dual haired teen nodded vaguely, regaining his breath slowly and rolling off his angel's body, knees splattering on the sloppy mud. He shook his head to try and regain his senses, glancing over at his angel.

The bluenet was lying on his back still, panting as he ran a wet hand through soaked midnight blue bangs. His wings hung at odd angles, the feathers caked in mud and rainwater. Sitting up slowly, the angel swayed a little.

Kai grabbed his shoulders and steadied him, shivering slightly in the freezing cold rain. "Where are you hurt?" He asked, grabbing his angel's right arm and looping it around his shoulders, preparing to heave the older teen to his feet.

"My wings are broken." Tyson gasped as his charge yanked him to his feet. He teetered slightly on his feet and took deep breaths to fight off the dizziness so he could look into his charge's crimson eyes with his own sad blue ones. He could vaguely feel concern radiating from the younger teen, which soothed away his guilt, but still… "I'm sorry… I'm supposed to protect you from harm…"

"And you did!" Kai told him, pulling him in the direction his house, thoughts running wild, "I'm not hurt… but…" he glanced at his angel's broken, exhausted form sadly, "you are…"

Tyson swallowed thickly, his legs feeling heavy as his damaged wings were dragged through the thick mud, "I'll be fine…" he croaked, eyelids shutting closed as his body refused to take part in any physical activity anymore. His limbs were heavy, but he couldn't just collapse now… not until Kai was safe and dry in his house. Forcing his eyes open, he glanced at his charge wearily and attempted a weak smile of reassurance.

The dual haired teen felt his chest wrench at the sight his angel attempting to make him feel better. The smile he was forcing on his face was tired and didn't reach his eyes, which were glazed over with tiredness and pain.

Neither said anything more as Kai dragged the angel through the mud and pouring rain. Both pairs of legs grew heavy and cold and both pairs of knees collapsed. Tyson's body slumped to the floor, Kai's to his hands knees.

As the crimson eyed teen attempted to awaken his unconscious angel, a bright, shimmering light blinded his gaze. He looked forwards, wondering what it was, car lights? A torch?

It was a simple golden ball, hovering in mid air, lines of lights shining out and illuminating the entire area, bathing Kai's muddy body in a golden, warm light. The ball bounced up and down a couple of times and expanded, the light reaching all around, the walls of the house, the flower beds, the large stretches of muddy lawn, the fountain… everything.

Kai jumped back, scrambling backwards as the glowing ball grew big enough to engulf him and his angel. Covering his eyes with an arm as the light grew too bright for his eyes to stand, he braced himself as the ball of light swallowed him and Tyson, a weird rushing feeling spreading through him.

A sharp pain between his eyes, and he lapsed into unconsciousness.

Tyson: You see? This is why I don't like you anymore

Me: Aww, Tyson, you know I won't let you stay crippled forever

Tyson: Should I be comforted by that?

Kai: Probably

Me: Review!