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Lhune: hee, your review was far too nice. 'Bout your ficcy I just wish Tala will realize Kai was not willingly... who's your other half? Wakizachi is little katana cool. Don't know Kenshin don't buy it is it good? Mmh... 'Bout mine, Tala's still not remembering as you may have realized. Neither Kai. Hee hee... and this is a supernatural, look at their eyes... hint hint Well, the Abbey is still there so mmmh...

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RATING: R...

DISCLAIMER: looking into trunk nope, I don't have it anywhere...

"talking" 'thinking' "talking into other languages" beatbeast language """"""dreams sequences, flashbacks, memories""""""

BREATH OF LIGHT

CHAPTER 04= Awake and healthy?!

Old dreams plague my mind avoiding every sane thought trying again to free myself never managing to have what I need; like tears of Angel are the drops of blood coming from my soul, when paradise blossoms in Earth Hell is the only thing I meet: still tainted, still trapped in myself.

All the waiting room was silent: no one of the bladers or the adults was willing to make any conversation, since they all were deathly worried for their friends.

No words were spoken, no hope raised, nothing except guilt blossoming in everyone's mind. It wasn't their fault but all the presents blamed themselves for the current situation.

And they were wishing with all their hearts Kai would be okay.

For once, even the loud pink freak was quiet, looking slightly ashamed at the opposite wall: it didn't matter if Kai stole her BitBeast once, because he was now on the good side and she forgave him. And now in this situation she too was worried for him.

It was strange, how much the loss of their captain affected the BladeBreakers: they all thought before that he wasn't necessary, that without him no one would feel he was gone. But it wasn't true. Kai was more than a Team Captain, he was their friend -no matter how much he tried to deny it- and it seemed that without him something was missing.

Kai was the oldest of the entire group, and the most mature of them, and he always remained behind them, helping them in such a subtle way that none of them realized it... until now.

Even Tyson, who always bickered with Kai for everything, was now worried, it seemed he was the most worried. He couldn't stay still, roaming through the room up and down, fuming with rage at the nurses for keeping them there and with despair since he couldn't do a thing to help Kai.

Ray sat on a chair, glancing every few seconds towards the door, wishing with all his heart Kai would be okay. He couldn't just believe he may never see his eyes open anymore.

Max and the Chief sat silent, one clutching his laptop, the other his jacket, both scared, with nothing to hold onto. Strange enough, when they were afraid, it was Kai who in his rough way helped them through, acting fearlessy in order to reassure the younger ones.

Kenny kept thinking about Kai's pale face during the race towards the hospital.

Max kept praying Kai would be okay.

They all needed him, no matter what.

In such situation, the cold white of the walls was really unnerving: the intent of the one who painted it was to give peace and calmness, but instead the white was giving the whole waiting room a sensation of all but warmth. Al the bladers instead of being relaxed were even more on edge.

Then the door cracked open and the same nurse from before appeared; she had a pale face and a determined expression, rage burning deep into her green eyes. Seeing the three adults in the waiting room she stormed towards them, clearing her throat as she approached.

Bruce, Grandpa G and Mr. Dickinson stood up from their seats, looking expectantly at the nurse, a little confused by her angry face. They could not understand why she was so angered.

Tyson stopped in his tracks and all the others lifted their heads.

"How is he?" Bruce asked, his voice full of concern.

That phrase made the nurse forget all her composure, and she raged on them, "How can you ask such a thing?! That poor kid looks horrible and you know it! How can a sane man do something to a boy of his age! Abuse so much of him..."

Bruce and the other two looked at each other frowning in confusion, while the teens, not understanding a single word, looked back and forth from the nurse to the adults. None of them could understand the fierce furious stare the nurse gave them, neither.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Mr. Dickinson politely asked to the raging nurse, resuming his collected expression. "He has a huge fever and we have nothing to do with it".

Mr. Dickinson's heart tightened in anticipation hearing the nurse talking about abuse. He was in here for a pneumonia, maybe worse, but her words made a chill run down his spine.

The nurse frowned slowly, then a flash of understanding passed in her clear eyes, realizing these people didn't know what she was talking about. Somehow they didn't know how bad he was or what happened to him.

"I'm sorry" she mumbled, blushing slightly in embarassement. Her green eyes were full of grief. "I just thought... it was your fault, that's all. When I bump into such things done to a young boy I can't think straight".

"What things?" Bruce asked, now annoyed. Was the nurse nuts? She kept babbling nonsense...

The nurse cleared her voice again, then looked at them all.

"Just follow me inside and" she cast a glance to the teens "leave them here; it's not a good sight for these kids".

The three nodded and followed her. Noticing this Tyson and the others headed towards them too but Grandpa G blocked them.

"Just sit and wait here, we'll be back as soon as possible".

With that the four entered the room leaving the worried and annoyed teens.

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The doctor was still working on Kai's many injuries when the nurse came back with the adults. He glanced at them and approached, his face serious but sad. He hated it, when he had to explain such things.

Bruce looked at his nametag and spoke "Dr. Nikolai, what's happening?"

The brown haired doctor sighed and led the three to the bed Kai was lying on, at the sight they all gasped in shock. They saw the whip slashed back and the scars, the bruises, and other strange little scars.

That was not good.

Kai really looked messed up, and none of them could understand how he managed to stay strong after enduring such horrible things. At the same they all knew where he got all the bruises, and Bruce gritted his teeth clenching his fist.

The doctor pointed at the purple bruises "Beatings" then he pointed to the angry red stripes "Whip marks" then he pointed at the smaller, his face darkening as he growled "the worst".

Bruce bent down slightly, frowning: they looked so little and unimportant compared to the bigger ones. How could they be worse? What...

"What are those?" Grandpa's voice blocked his son's thoughts.

Doctor Nikolai grimaced looking away.

"Bruises from electrocution".

The three snapped their attention towards the doctor. Electrocution?!

"That can't be possible" Mr. Dickinson whispered, astonished. "They elettrocuted him..."

"I'm not sure and I won't be until I X-ray him, but I swear a couple of ribs are broken, and some others were but are now healed" continued the doctor with a busy voice. He wanted to keep distance from the patient, because he knew that if he sympathised too much he would make mistakes... such as going in search of the boy's abuser to make himself known. It was difficult to remain still seeing all this.

Something so horrible was only born from some insane man. He saw a lot of child abuse in his life as a doctor, but this was the worst. He never saw so much torture all on a kid, and he questioned himself as to how the teen managed to hold it inside himself for so long.

This was terribly wrong.

Again, the same thing all the people in the room were thinking. And no one knew the answer.

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"Balkov Abbey?" the other's voice was curious now. "Isn't that the place where kids learn how to Blade?"

The kid seemed to have forgotten where he was, maybe he didn't even know where he was. And the young slate haired boy knew for sure that the other kid knew nothing about the real Abbey, or about the treatements they all received.

Kai snickered. So that one was a newbie. In all his life inside the Abbey Kai never bladed with someone else just for fun: he bladed just to beat them and make himself stronger, never training with another human being, only with machines.

Besides, who could want to train with the freak?

So he knew no one and he befriended with no one.

Mmh... and this kid was a rookie. He didnt knew anything about the hellish place he was now in.

"Did you came here willingly?" Kai asked, curious. If this one was new, he may not know of him.

"É WellÉ no. They came and took me from my 'home'" Yuri's voice was blank but he stressed the word 'home'. "I can't say I'm sad" he added after a moment.

Kai glanced to the other's shape with an emotionless face, even though the other couldn't see him. "Huh?"

"I lived in a orphanage" explained the kid. "They used to beat me regularly. I think I'm lucky I'm out of their hands"

The new kid remained silent then, like he went through something more than this after all, but Kai did not complain. He didn't care about him.

"I'm sure here I will be treated better then in my previous home" added the other kid as an afterthough, in a somewhat optimistic voice.

Kai couldn't restrain a laugh. It was a sad one, but still.

"What are you laughing at?" growled Yuri a little annoyed. Why was the strange kid before him laughing at him? Did he find his situation amusing? Or his words?

If it wasn't for the dark, he surely would have looked into the other's eyes threatening him to repeat that again, but since it was all black, he couldn't find his eyes anywhere.

"I'm sorry, pal" was the sad answer. "You just head for the worst".

Yuri frowned slightly, the voice was really sad and grave, like he really was sorry for him. But how could the other one be sorry for him now he was safe from the orphanage?

Nothing could be worse than that.

He didn't have time to think because the door opened and light filled the dark room, blinding the two kids. Blinking a few time their eyes accustomed to the brightness and they looked at each other.

Kai noticed that the other kid had fierce icy eyes, he did not mistake when he thought they glowed in the darkness of before, they sure looked...

...different. A tinge of brown was almost imperceptible, but there it was. And a second later it was vanished.

Was he...

"Bloody Hell, you look a mess!" Yuri yelled, and Kai could see his flaming red hair flash in the sudden light. "Who did you met, the Devil?"

Despite the situation Kai would have laughed.

Kai's eyes met the fierce icy blue ones, and shrugged while the aforementioned appeared in the doorway with a grey mask with shiny dark red eyes.

"Speaking of the Devil" he muttered. "You're going to meet the one and only"

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Kai's eyes opened slowly, as he fought with the dizziness again. Mentally he slapped himself: did he faint again?

Why did this all happened to him? Why him, of all people? Was it a curse? Would it have no end?

Such humiliation...

His head was spinning but he remained still, closing his eyes again. He decided he needed to calm down, ne had to understand where he was and what the heck happened.

Under his back he could feel a soft, smooth mattress and his head rested on a comfortable pillow. A nice coolness spreaded from his face to his burning body, cooling him down, and he raised his left arm to his face wincing from the little pain it brought. His fingers met a soft, damp cloth on his forehead that was cold against his skin. For a moment he pondered if he should take it away but decided otherwise.

It was too good, since he was burning by internal fire, so he sighed deeply and lowered his arm, trying again to open his eyes.

This time they did not hurt, and he noticed the white ceiling above him.

Shifting his aching body slightly he looked to his right, spotting a man in white overalls busy with something. He had brown hair and brown eyes and he was writing on a block of sheets with his pen, never raising his head from his work.

Funnily enough, Kai could see every detail of the pen, even the small printing of the little dog on its surface.

When the man turned a little Kai noticed a nametag. 'Hm, so his name is Dr. Nikolai...' Kai thought absently, looking with mild interest at the man. 'He seems nice... wait one sec, rewind... Dr.? As in, Doctor?!'

His eyes flashed to his left, finding a white curtain and a table full of needles and medecines.

Kai started to panic.

'No, that can't be... please, no'.

But the smell. The awful, familiar smell of clean and antiseptic, was too strong to negate the evidence.

'I'm in a hospital. SHIT'.

He strightened on the bed standing up in a sitting position, his heart pumping fast.

What. Had. Happened?! How?! Why?!

His first thought was for the BladeBreakers, Mr. Dickinson, Grandpa G and Bruce. The last thing he remembered was moving towards the BBA's bus, his head spinning, then... nothing.

"You're up" the Dr.'s voice was calm and nice. "How are you feelÉ hey, what are you doing?!"

Kai registered in his mind Nikolai's protests as he stood up, grimacing when he noticed his clothes were gone, replaced by one of these ugly hospital gowns. Shit and even more shit.

Shit, shit, shit. For Heaven's sake, why him?

'Okay, calm down' Kai ordered himself, shutting out the noisy doctor's voice from his head. He needed to concentrate on his first priority: retrieve his clothes. 'Top. Pants. Scarf... gloves. The rest can wait I hate this gown'.

His eyes darted around the room, exploring each corner searching for his clothes and when he though they were not in there...

'Bingo'.

He spotted his clothes lying on a seat near the bed and he started putting them on, while doing this he heard footsteps from somewhere behind him. He turned in time to see some hospital guards walking through the door towards him, with determined expressions.

'Mh, so Dr. Nikolai wants me to calm down... baka, why couldn't he leave me be?'

Obviously they wanted to restrain him... no such luck today, pals. He felt great and ready to fight.

Shifting his weight on his left leg he kicked the nearest guard in the stomach with his right one. He 'humpf'ed and fell on the floor, while the other sped towards him in a rush.

Kai smirked, totally concentrated on the battle, forgetting that some minutes ago he was deathly sick. Evading his attack with easy grace he punched him on the neck, resulting in the second guard falling on the other one with a strangled cry of pain. Not even one minute and the guards were KO.

Kai smirked in satisfaction. Nice fight, no luck, try again next time.

Without paying attention to the shocked doctor he finished with his clothes, then gripping tightly his faithful Bey he let the Beast's warmth fill his body. She glowed slightly, giving him comfort by their shared bond and he breathed heavily, feeling full again.

Okay, next priority.

Glancing at the Doctor, Kai smirked: he wasn't an obstacle since he was completely shocked by Kai's performance. He sure wasn't expecting a near-dead guy to fight like a karate champion with two built guards.

Even if it was not karate but Kempo.

He looked at the man with a frown, but the doctor was already backing away from him, afraid he could attack him in a few seconds.

Kai raised one eyebrow and scowled, how predictable.

He walked towards the door and exited the room, finding Bruce right in front of the door.

'Shit' he though again. 'Never a rest'.

Bruce's eyes widened seeing the teen that till some minutes before was nearly dead now walking like nothing had happened. "Kai?!"

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MasterFranny: still at it, no matter what! REVIEW!! And sorry for the shortness... To the ones who reviewed my 'Just Say it...' thanks, but since I was thinking of it to be a mere one-shot... well, you see how hard it is. Any suggestions are welcomed give me your best shoots. And I must say to you 'I Am Nothing' will be late because I'm having problems, since I can't seem to receive my Beta's check for the eight chapter. But it's my fault since she's on vacation, I asked too much to her. And I must tell you next week I will not post anything because my dad is out of city for a work and I won't go to his home so I won't use internet... that is gonna be awful and hard since I will miss the net a lot. I'm sorry and sad... just wait, and don't leave me. I promise I will do better chapters! Just remain with me!