A/N: Okay, here's another part. Hope you like it.

Oh, KaRe fans btw... This is the part you've been waiting for! Feelings FINALLY openly spoken.


Tyson gasped as if he was drowning as she shot up in his bed, heart racing from the nightmare he'd just had.

" It was just a dream… Just a dream…", he tried to tell himself, but didn't manage to sound too convincing.

" Tyson…".

The weak, small, yet so familiar voice made his gaze wonder up to the figure that had slumped against the wall, looking at him with desperate, auburn eyes.

" Kai!" he cried out, rushing to his love's side in less than a second. He tried to touch the boy, who was crying harder than he'd ever seen anyone cry before, but Kai dodged. Just then he saw the deep, blood-covered gashes in both of Kai's wrists and gulped. " What… What happened to you?".

Kai looked at him in the eyes, eyes filled with such pain that it made him cry as well. The Phoenix opened his mouth to speak, but the words his lips formed were soundless. Crying even harder, Tyson reached his hand out to touch the boy, but as soon as his fingers met Kai's face, the Russian shut his eyes tightly and screamed in pain, in a voice that tore Tyson's heart apart.

" Stop it… Please… You're… you're hurting me…", Kai managed to whispered in a strangled voice, eyes still tightly shut. And with that, Kai turned into silvery, glittering dust before Tyson's shocked eyes.

" Kai!" he called out, voice filled with tears. Desperately, as if it could've brought Kai back, he took the dust into his hands, but it slipped through his fingers, just like Kai. " KAI!".

Tyson screamed out loud as he woke up, just then noticing that he was still in the plane, next to his dad. His father gave him a worried glance.

" You alright? It seemed to be quite a nightmare you were having".

Tyson refused to reply. Instead he turned his gaze to look out of the window, feeling his heart still pounding heavily for the dream. He frowned slightly. For some reason, it was hard for him to believe that what he'd just seen was just a dream. Sighing desperately, he pressed his hand against the cold glass, as if that would've brought him back to Kai.

Oh Kai… What's going on?, he wondered.


After crying for hours, Hilary finally gathered herself and decided that if she really had to go, she had to explain the boys – especially Kai – what was happening.

Making sure that her mother was fast asleep, she sneaked out of the room and rushed out to the street, taking a taxi towards the cabin.

As soon as the huge, beautiful building came to her view, she frowned, getting a strong feeling that something as deeply wrong. Unable to shake the thought away, she paid for the ride and rushed towards the door with a speed that suggested there was someone chasing her.

" Guys?". Her dark feeling only grew stronger as she noticed that the door was slightly open and, hesitantly, she pushed it fully open and stepped in. " Are you in here?".

No reply came and, feeling cold shivers go down her spine, she slowly started to make her way towards the stairs. On the way, she noticed that everything was a mess, as if the boys had left in a hurry. She frowned, feeling an uncomfortable weight in her heart.

What the hell's going on!

Suddenly she froze, one foot on the first step of the stairs, as she saw the view that greeted her behind the wide-open bathroom-door. She started shaking all over and let out a small cry. There was blood all over the floor, far too much for her liking. In the middle of the blood laid a razor, which the suspected to be the cause of the horrible sight.

" Oh my God…", she gasped, covering her mouth with her hand, feeling tears well into her eyes as sudden understanding washed over her. " Kai… No… You… you can't be… Right?".

" Hilary?". She could barely hear her mother's call. Unregistered by her, her mother carefully stepped in, fearing her daughter's possible reaction. She began to approach Hilary, but froze just a little behind her and paled as the view of the bathroom greeted her. " Oh my God…".

World was spinning in Hilary's eyes and, unable to support herself, she took a desperate hold of the handrail of the stairs, squeezing it so hard that her knuckles turned white. All the while tears rolled over her cheeks and pain, worse than she'd ever felt before, crushed her heart, making her whimper and press her free hand tightly against her chest.

" Kai… No…", she whispered, repeating the two words over and over again, as if unable to believe them.

Her mother had tears in her eyes as well as she looked at her daughter. Eventually she decided to forget about all carefulness. She was her mother, for goodness' sake! Slowly, taking one step at a time, she approached her daughter and eventually pressed a calming hand to her shoulder. Hilary shuttered under the touch, but didn't have the strength to pull away.

" Oh Hilary…", she whispered, so quietly that her daughter couldn't hear her.

Suddenly, without a warning, Hilary let out a cry of pain unlike anything she'd ever heard before, and promptly fell into her arms, shaking uncontrollably and crying hysterically. She was obviously in a shock.

" Hilary!" she exclaimed, carefully trying to shake her daughter back into her senses. " Hilary, it's… It's alright… Calm down!".

All of a sudden, so quickly that it scared her, Hilary stopped from shaking and crying. She watched helplessly as her daughter's eyes suddenly slipped shut and she fell into her arms. Only one word escaped from Hilary's lips before she fell into unconsciousness.

" Kai…".


Early in the following morning, the mood in the hospital-room was far from joyful as the remands of the Bladebrakers had gathered around their captain. Kai lied in the bed, face terrifyingly pale, looking almost like he was sleeping. He had a peaceful, almost happy look upon his face. The only thing reminding the boys of the fact that he wasn't just sleeping were the thick bandages wrapped around his wrists.

" Is he going to be alright?" Ray finally asked, piercing the silence that had occupied the room for a long time.

Dr. Gary Nichols, who'd been tending Kai, let out a sad sigh.

" I'm sorry kids, but it's impossible to tell just yet. Your friend lost a lot of blood". Dr. Nichols looked at Kai, seeming puzzled. " To be honest… I've never seen anything like this before".

The boys blinked, not understanding.

" What do you mean?" Kenny finally asked, voice filled with curiosity.

" Your friend… He should've died of that blood-loss. But…". Dr. Nichols shook his head. " He should be awake now. He's not in a coma, not even unconscious… I don't understand why he fought so hard to stay alive and now chooses to give up like this!".

The last words caused the trio to freeze in horror.

" What do you mean by he's giving up?" Ray asked in a raspy voice.

Dr. Nichols looked guilty, as if he'd said too much, and couldn't meet their eyes.

" I really shouldn't be telling you this, but I think you deserve to know. You obviously care about him a lot". Now looking at them, the doctor seemed sad. " I'm sorry for having to tell you this, but Kai's vitals are fading, fast. His pulse and heartbeat are dropping". The doctor shook his head, looking at Kai. " As I told you before, I've never seen anything like this before, and neither have my colleagues".

" There's gotta be something you can do!". Max blinked his eyes furiously, trying to stop the tears

of pain. " You guys are doctors! Shouldn't you cure people!".

Dr. Nichols looked at them again, eyes filled with compassion and understanding.

" I know that this must be hard for you, but…".

" No", Ray, who was usually calm and sensible, hissed through clenched teeth, eyes directed to Kai's pale, fragile form. " You don't know a shit".

Taking the words and the looks upon the trios face, Dr. Nichols figured that he'd be no use there. Giving them all a sympathetic, sad look, he started to take his exit.

" As I said, I'm sorry". He sighed, hand on the door-handle by then. " We'll do everything we can to make your friend as comfortable as possible, but…". Shaking his head, the doctor who'd seen almost everything imaginable, cut the sentence as he understood that for a first time in his life, he couldn't say or do anything to help.

With the doctor gone, Max sighed and started phasing around the room.

" I can't understand why Hilary isn't here already!" he sighed, deeply irritated. " I've left her about thousand messages!".

" She'll be here", Kenny, who stood before the window, staring out with blank eyes, murmured, and crossed his hands over his chest, just like Kai always did. " It'll be okay. Everything's gonna work out".

Max sighed deeply as he looked at his friends. As Kenny continued his staring into space, muttering something he couldn't make out, he let his gaze wander to Ray. The Chinese sat beside Kai's bed, where he had remained ever since they'd been allowed into the room, squeezing the Russian's limp hand desperately with both hands, as if the touch could've forced Kai to come back to them. The look upon Ray's face, pail from the lack of sleep, hurt him deeply. He'd seen Ray upset before – after loosing Driger, after having a fight with Mariah – but this… This pain was beyond anything he'd ever seen before. Ray's intent, begging gaze was locked to Kai's snow-white face, and tough the neko-jin's lips weren't moving, Max could clearly see how much the boy was speaking to Kai. He suspected that Ray didn't even know the rest of the world existed.

" Kenny, would come with me to buy some coffee?" he more demanded than asked. It was obvious that Ray needed a moment alone with Kai to mouth all the words running through his head, and he needed a moment to at least try to clear his head – and so did Kenny.

" Yeah, whatever", the brunette muttered.

Nodding, he looked at Ray, although he knew that the boy didn't even see or hear him.

" We'll be back in a while", he announced, and with that he headed towards the door, with Kenny on his tails.

Gradually Ray became aware of the fact that he was alone with Kai, and felt a selfish flush of satisfaction. Secretly, he'd been begging for this moment since the nightmarish events of the night before. If Kai truly was slipping away from him like this, this was his last chance to let the Phoenix know the secrets of his heart. Letting out a shaky breath, he squeezed Kai's hand tighter than he had before, half expecting it to squeeze back, and felt a single tear roll over his cheek as it remained limp.

" You have no idea of how much I hate you right now", he whispered, letting his fingers briefly brush the thick, white bandage on the wrist. " I refuse to believe that the Kai I know would let his entire life go wasted like this!". Tears were now rolling freely over his cheeks. " Damnit Kai, you're so much stronger than this, we be both know it!". Sobbing and shaking uncontrollably, he lifted Kai's hand and pressed it against his forehead, closing his eyes. " I hate you for making me feel this confused, koneko. I… I just don't know what I feel anymore! You're messing my head, and…". He shook his head and sighed. " But it's not your fault, I know. I… This is all my doing. It's just that… It's so easy to blame you". He smiled faintly, still not opening his eyes. " And it's easy to love you. So easy that it scares me". He let out a small, low laughter. " You try so hard to push everyone away, to be untouched. But still you do it… You make everyone love you".

Getting his emotions slightly back into control, he slowly opened his eyes and let his hands, still

holding Kai's, fall back onto the bed. His eyes were still filled with tears as he looked at the calm, angelic face of his friend. He could almost see life slowly leaking out of Kai, and knowing that there was nothing he could do to stop it made blood boil in rage he'd never felt before. Amber eyes burning, almost like Kai's own once had, he looked at the boy as a sudden realisation came to him. There was something – or someone, actually – that could bring Kai back.

" I'm not going to watch you fade away", he whispered. " I'm gonna bring Tyson and Hilary here, no matter what it takes. I can't bring you back, but they can".

In a sudden rush of emotion and adrenaline, he leaned forward, closing his eyes, and landed a tender, gentle kiss onto Kai's unnaturally cold forehead. If only he'd been the right prince to wake up this sleeping beauty… He pulled back with a sigh and opened his eyes to look at Kai, small smile playing on his lips.

" I have to go now, but I'll come back – and I promise you that I won't come alone". His smile faded. " Please, don't give up. You have to stay strong, just for a little while longer".

Slowly, afraid that his legs might not support him, he got up and, taking a one last glance at Kai's unmoving form, and headed towards the door – bumping into very confused looking Max and Kenny.

" Ray, where are you going?" Max asked, sounding almost scared. " Are you leaving too?".

He shook his head, feeling more determined than ever before in his life.

" None of us can bring Kai back, but I know who can", he explained. " This is his last chance".

Both Max and Kenny (who now seemed slightly more like himself) nodded, knowing exactly what he was about to do. Letting his emotions take control, Max suddenly threw his arms around Ray and hugged the Chinese tightly.

" Good luck", the blonde whispered.

" Yeah". Kenny gave Ray an encouraging smile. " Everything's gonna work out eventually. I just know it".

Ending his hug with Max, Ray lightly returned the smile.

" Yeah". Letting out a deep breath, he started to leave. " I'll call you if anything happens".

The duo nodded, and after receiving few wishes of luck and saying bye, he took his long, coffee-brown jacket, put it on and left, unable to look behind him. Had he seen his friends, especially Kai, once more, he would've broken into tears again, and that was the last thing he wanted. He had to be strong now – for his sake and Kai's.

I hope Chief's right, he thought while pressing a button to order the elevator. Because this is a battle that I can't afford to loose. He sighed, stepping into the elevator as it came. None of us can.


Making sure that no-one was following him, Dr. Nichols slipped in from a thick, metallic door that clearly said 'Do not enter'. Inside, there was a huge, fancy room with the best furniture money could buy. Before a huge window stood an elder man, hands crossed behind his back.

" Good morning, Dr. Nichols", the man greeted him, not turning. " Any news?".

He sighed, knowing that this man would not be pleased with what he had to say.

" I afraid not any good ones, Mr. Voltaire", he replied. " Kai's state is growing worse by each minute. I… I afraid that there's nothing more we can do for him".

At this point, Voltaire turned around and he found himself shutter under the soulless, powerful glare.

" Do not force me to get him another doctor, Dr. Nichols. I don't like being disappointed with people", the man snarled through clenched teeth.

" I'm not a God, Mr. Voltaire!" he exclaimed in a desperate tone. " Kai is dying! There's nothing I can do to stop it!". He gulped. " I… I think he needs those… Tyson and Hilary… or he'll die".

With a speed of a lightning, Voltaire graphed him by the collars and threw him against the wall.

" I don't think you understand, Dr. Nichols", the man snarled, eyes glowing darkly. " My grandson's destiny is perfection, not love". The man slowly let go of him and walked back to window, taking the pose he'd had when Dr. Nichols entered. " Whatever it takes, you must keep Tyson Granger and Hilary Tatibana away from Kai. They only make him weak. Love only makes him weak".

Dr. Nichols gasped.

" But… Kai will die without them!".

Voltaire peered him over his shoulder, locking his inhuman, devilish eyes into his.

" Then it shall be his destiny".

TBC.


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