+ Ties of Friendship +

Erika goes up stairs with Kaiser on her arms, crying… as usual. The girl was becoming patience less.

"I swear to myself I'll never forget Kai Jr's dummy, …" says Erika. The Russian girl enters in a bedroom and becomes scared. "Oh, my God! KAI!" Erika puts Kaiser on the bed and grabs Kai who laid on the ground, unconscious, bleeding a lot from is mouth. "Kai! Hold on… I'm getting your medicine."

Erika opens one of her bedside table's drawers and takes out an injection with Kai's medicine and put it on Kai's arm, giving him the sedative. Erika was looking to him, waiting for the blood pressure to fade. Kai continued unconscious on Erika's arms. Kaiser stopped crying when he noticed his mommy sadness and worry. Kai was very pale and breathing very slowly. The blood stops coming out. Erika cleans Kai's mouth, looking to his eyes desperately waiting for them to open.

"Erika, I heard you scre…" says Tyson, but stops noticing the blood pool on the ground. "Oh God!"

"I don't know what to do anymore, …" cries Erika. Tyson kneels downs near her. "Kai is collapsing a lot…"

"Don't worry! Kai is strong." Calms Tyson. Erika continued looking to Kai. Kai opens slowly his eyes, looking confused to the ground. The Russian felt warm, protected, desiring to stay like that forever… "See! He had awakened!"

Erika looks to Kai, smiling.

"Sweetheart…" whispers Kai, looking nebulous. Erika hugs Kai tightly.

"Don't speak. You need to rest." Says Erika. Tyson helps Erika getting Kai up and they put him on Tyson and Ray's bedroom. Erika accommodates Kai, making him nice and warm. "Have a sleep. I'll give you your medicine in an hour." Kai grabs Erika's hand, holding it tightly.

"You're always so careful… you take care of me… always… you're always there for me, …" says Kai. Erika sits near him, putting her hand on his face.

"I love you, Kai! Even if you were attached to a bed to the rest of your life, I'll never leave your side." Says Erika. Kai smiles and falls asleep with tiredness.

"He's fine now." Says Tyson, holding Kaiser who also fell asleep. Erika looks to them.

"Could you take care of Kaiser for me? I… Kai need to be watched." Asks Erika. Tyson smiles.

"Don't worry. I had never complain about taking care of Kaiser." Lies Tyson. Erika looks to him, noticing his lie. "Ok… maybe a little. Bye! I'll call you when dinner's ready!" Tyson leaves Erika looking to Kai, preparing his medicine.

Tyson sits in the living room sofa. Mysteriously, none was home… Hilary enters and sits near Tyson.

"Babysitting?" asks Hilary. Tyson looks to her and decides to joke.

"Once you don't want to have sex with me, I need to do something to amuse myself!" says Tyson. Hilary trickily smiles and gets near Tyson.

"Who said I don't wanted to?" she said, licking Tyson's ear. Tyson blushes and looks to her. "I thought a little…" Hilary gets up and turns her back to Tyson, untying her chemise. "And I decided that I'm… well… both of us are adults and responsible for our acts, so…" Hilary turns to Tyson, taking her chemise and showing Tyson her naked breasts. Tyson becomes red, looking to them openmouthed and drooling. "I decided that you should see a little bit of me… before you try. But don't touch!" Hilary bends down near Tyson, putting her breasts closer to him. Tyson didn't even blink. Hilary smiled to him, feeling that will be the best moment of her life. Hilary was about to kiss Tyson, but she made an angry face. "I told you not to touch!"

"I'm not touching, …" says Tyson. Hilary felt something pulling her breast.

"Tyson!" she said, waiting for him to say the truth.

"I swear! I'm not!" says Tyson. Tyson and Hilary look down and see Kaiser, grabbing Hilary's breasts and opening his tiny mouth ready to suck some milk… both Hilary and Tyson smiles. "Oh, Kai Jr, that doesn't have milk." Tyson puts Kaiser on the sofa. "Hilary doesn't make milk… at least… not until now." Tyson hugs Hilary, pulling her to the sofa and laying above her, pulling her tiny skirt up and feeling her legs. Hilary unties Tyson's trousers and his boxers.

"Are you sure about this?" asks Hilary, while Tyson gets ready.

"Now it's to late to stop… I'm already stiff…" says Tyson and the two start having sex in the sofa. They were very amused and happy.

Ray and Max entered by the house door with they hands full of purchase's bags. The two looked to the sofa and froze, blushing a lot. Tyson noticed them and blushed even more.

"WE SAW NOTHING!" said Max and Ray, turning back. The BladeBreakers see Tala and Brittany.

" What are you waiting for? And why are you turned back? Let me see!" says Tala breaking through. Ray and Max tried to stop him, but Tala has a metal arm. Tala enters and sees Tyson and Hilary in an inappropriate position. Tala collapses.

"WWWWHAAATTT!" screams Tala. Hilary blushed a lot and tried to find out something to dress, but her clothes were too far. Tyson looked to Tala, without knowing what to say. "Did you even thought that we sit in that sofa everyday and every time! Shame on you! Hilary! Oh! I thought you were decent! This world is lost. We cannot trust anyone anymore!" Tala noticed something and becomes really mad. "MY… MY… MY NEPHEW! YOU WERE HAVING SEX IN FRONT OF MY NEPHEW!"

"Tala, mon Cherry, calm down." Brittany enters and tried to calm her boyfriend. "They're young… they were alone, it's normal they would like to have sex."

"But not in my sofa… in front of my four months old nephew!" reclaims Tala. Brittany makes a funny face.

"Don't be bad…imagine if were we…"

"We will be on our right once this house is mine." Says Tala, looking to Tyson and Hilary. "At least you could ask your naked girlfriend to put some clothes on!"

"Naked girlfriend!" Brian enters and looks to Hilary, showing his tongue. "What a woman!"

"EH!" says Tyson. "She's my girl."

"Here, dress this!" Hiro gives his coat to Hilary, who ran out of the living room.

"Hilary!" Tyson raises his hand, calling Hilary, but she was too embarrassed to appear. Tyson runs after her.

"Pfft!" exclaims Tala. Brittany smiles and hugs him.

"Tyson could be more careful." Observes Max.

"I agree." Says Ray. "There's always a lot of people in this house, anyone could see them in that sofa. Do you think we should talk to him?"

"Let Hiro do that, after all, he's his older brother. Well, let's put this purchases in the kitchen." Says Max and the two go to the kitchen.

At dinnertime, neither Tyson nor Hilary appeared. Ray was taking care of Kaiser, once Tyson was to busy trying to find a way to appear again in public. Tala was kissing Brittany, but in a discreet way. Max was checking his emails and King was giving Princess her milk. Ray was looking to Kaiser wondering how his baby would be different from Kai's son.

"Strange…" says Alexa. "Erika no hay aparecido para lo comió. " All looked to her, waiting for Hiro to translate.

"She said Erika hasn't appear for feeding." Says Hiro. "It's better someone to check her. She should be exhausted."

"I'll go." Ray gets up and, with Kaiser on his arms, goes to Tyson's room. Tyson was not there… he was on Hiro and Alexa's room. Erika was on the bed, sleeping. Ray could saw on her face her tired. The Chinese puts Kaiser on his baby bed and sits near Kai and Erika. Ray looks to the clock and notices that was time for Erika to medicine Kai. Ray knew that Erika was very tired and decided not to awake her. The blader takes out an injection from the drawer and picks Kai's arm, readying it. Ray gives the injection, waiting until it's empty.

Kai wakes up and sees Ray medicating him. Kai looks to him. Ray didn't notice Kai's awakening. Ray continued taking very well care of Kai, giving him all the medicines. After fifteen minutes giving Kai injections and cleaning his arm, Ray decided to meager his temperature and notice Kai had his eyes opened.

"Kai? How long have you been awaken?" asks Ray. Kai raises his arm and puts his hand above Ray's, pushing it to his face.

"The long enough to see you taking care of me." Says Kai. Ray blushes and looks aside. "Even with all the love you feel for Erika, you took care of me… you could…"

"You're my friend Kai… ah… it doesn't matter if we love the same girl… we'll always be friends. Isn't it?" Ray looks to Kai smiling. Kai smiles. "Well… I'm still in love with Erika… and she is going to have a baby with me… but..." Ray starts caressing Kai's face. "I owe you something…" Ray remembered his father with Kai's mother. "Kai… I…" Kai puts his hand on Ray's leg, caressing it.

"Ray… if someone owe something, that one am I. You took care of Erika and Kaiser. You were the one supporting them when I was not here and they past through a lot of things…" Kai pulls Ray near him. "I'll not deny… I thought in leaving Erika. She's young and pretty, I don't want her to be arrested to a guy like me… who cannot offer her all the love a guy can offer… but, when I noticed her love for me," Kai puts his other hand on Erika's head. "I realized if I done that she would feel even worst. I need someone to take care of me… I have no family… just Erika, my fiancée, and my son. That's why I need my friends at my side. Hum! I never thought I'll ever say this to someone…"

"Don't worry Kai… you have us." Says Ray. Kai looks to Ray with his eyes wet.

"Kai…" Erika wakes and looks to her love. "Are you better?"

"Yeah! Thanks to your caring." Kai hugs Erika. Ray gets back, smiling for seeing them happy.

"Oh, Kai! You're forbidden to scare me like that again!" Says Erika. "I almost collapsed when I saw you in that pool of blood."

"Erika..." Kai looks down. "You have got to care more about yourself." Says Kai. Erika looks to him. "You have a baby in your belly. That baby is a new life... I'm... I don't know how long I'll last... you need to take care of that baby. He's a new life." Erika felt sad for Kai denied her treatments. "Don't be like that, sweetheart!"

"But you're asking me to forget about you!" says Erika, crying.

"No, I'm just asking you to take care of your baby! It wouldn't be fair with Ray…" says Kai. Erika looks to him and Ray too. "Ray took care of you and our son. He already had done a lot… What kind of friends would we be if we don't take care of Ray's baby?" Erika realized Kai was right and smiles. Ray felt better.

"Oh, Kai! I'll try being a better mommy!" says Erika, caressing Kai's face. Ray decided to leave the room, happy for seeing that Kai didn't hate him.

Tyson was in the garden, mad with the world. King, with Princess on his arms, sees Tyson and sits near him.

"Brian told me about what happened in the sofa." King says. Tyson puckers his eyebrows. "Ray was not home, why didn't you do that in Ray's bedroom?"

"Because Hilary took the clothes of in front of me when I was on the sofa!" Tyson explains.

"Couldn't you pick her and go to the bedroom?" King asks. Tyson looks to him.

"It doesn't matter anymore… Now Hilary said if I wanted to have sex with her we need marry." Tyson says. King smiles.

"Hilary just want to marry you… and you just want to have sex with her… you are going to make a very big mistake." warns King.

"What are you saying?" asks Tyson.

"If you had sex with someone else... would you still want to marry Hilary?" asks King. Tyson looks to him, without knowing what to say.

"Well… I…"

"Poor Tyson!" King puts his hands on Tyson face. "She just want to marry you because you win a lot of money from the BBA and you're going to work there when you grown up. She just wants to be famous and to appear in every magazine."

"No! Hilary wouldn't do that!" says Tyson. King puts Princess gently on the ground and gets near Tyson.

"Wait some more years and you'll see." King looks to Tyson's mouth. Tyson blushes. "Until then… let's see if you'll want Hilary after having sex…" King kisses Tyson.

"Stop it!" says Tyson, pushing King.

"Why, if you were enjoying?" asks King. Tyson blushes.

"I…" Tyson looks to King's pulse and sees a name tattooed there. "What's this?" Tyson holds King's pulse. "From who is this name?"

"Name?" King looks to his pulse. "That's a birth sign. It's not a name!"

"Are you sure? It looks like a name… perhaps in Arab or Hebraic…" says Tyson.

"Since when you know those alphabets? You're ignorant." Insults King. "It's a birth sigh. Now forget about Hilary and lets…"

"NO! I love Hilary and I'll marry her." Tyson runs. King looks to him and trickily smiles.

"No you won't, Tyson. Crazy like you are… you'll mess it all up before you marry." says King, picking Princess.

And the days pass by. Spring hits Russia cleaning the snow of the ground and brushing it with flowers. Max went to USA to visit his mom and Tyson, Hilary, Hiro and Alexa went to Japan. Kai asked Ray to stay with him and Erika so he could take care of his baby and Kaiser. Ray, noticing he'll be seeing Erika everyday, decided to stay. Tala disagreed but decided to accept, once now Kai was his boss. As always, summer comes after spring and autumn after summer.

Tyson and Max came back to Russia to start they studies on Biovolt's School for Pro's university. Erika was already with a very big belly and Kaiser had grown up a lot, but Ornulu stayed the same.

"Kai, you're dog hadn't grown up?" says Tyson, looking to the tinny dog on Erika's arms.

"I already told you. Ornulu is one of the genetically changed dogs of Biovolt. He's cute like he's now." Kai caresses Ornulu who shakes its tail. Kai looked weaker but very happy. Max and Tyson noticed that Erika had been taking care of Kai very well. Ray was also there, already dressed up with the school uniform. "So guys, are you ready to be praxed?"

"What?" Asks Tyson scared. "You're going to praxe us?"

"Of course not, Tyson." says Kai closing his eyes. "I have an enterprise to rule. But Erika, Spencer, Whiteay and Tala will be pleasured to do that."

"Erika!" Tyson looks to Erika. She smiles.

"Come on, Tyson, it will be fun!" says Erika.

"No it will not!" whispers Tyson, cursing his luck.

They went to the school. On their way, Erika started to felt bad and her colors fade. Kai noticed that.

"Are you ok, sweetheart?" asks Kai. Erika looks to him.

"I think I'm going to have the baby." says Erika. Kai blushed and became confounded.

"What? Now? But…" Kai looks to Erika.

"There's no time to have a baby… when the child wants to come out, I need to help him…" Kai looks to Erika and then to his fellows.

"Tyson, tell the motorist to turn back and drive us to the closest hospital." says Kai. Tyson looks to him and does what he said.

They entered in the hospital. Kai tried to remain calm, but it was a little difficult, once Erika was holding his hand tightly. Ray was very nervous looking to Erika, after all his baby was birthing.

"She's going to give birth soon." The doctor said, looking to Kai. "Mr. Hiwatari, let's go in." Kai, Erika and the doctor entered in the birth room. The BladeBreakers stayed outside looking to the room's door.

"Well, Erika is on one of the best hospitals in Moscow, she'll be fine with Kai." Says Max. Kaiser makes a baby noise, raising his arms to the door, expressing his will to meet his mommy. Tyson looks to Ray, seeing his worry ness.

"Erika…" says Kai, seeing her suffering. Erika looks to Kai and smiles.

"I'm happy that you're here…" Erika holds Kai's hand. "As long as I have you, I'll fear nothing or none." Kai smiles caressing Erika's face.

"Erika… I know you love me and you know I love you, but…" Kai hesitates, Erika didn't like that 'but'. "It's not my child… I… Good luck." Kai kisses Erika and leaves the room.

"Kai! Wait!" Erika calls, but Kai already had leave.

The BladeBreakers found strange when Kai appeared in front of them.

"Kai?" says Tyson surprised.

"What are you doing here?" asks Max.

"And Erika? How's she? And the baby?" asks Ray. Kai looks to him.

"I… I remembered I missed my son's birth and I'm sad about that. Any father would be sad about that… so… go there Ray. It's your child birthing." Says Kai opening the door to Ray. Ray smiles realizing some tears and enters the room. Kai closes the door.

"That was a noble act, Kai!" praises Max. Kai looks to him. "It proves you have a good heart." Kai grabs Kaiser.

"Ray deserves to see the birth of his child. He took care of Erika, me and my son. He's a very good friend."

Ray enters and sees Erika on the bed. Erika looks curious to him.

"Ray? Where's Kai?" asks Erika.

"Don't worry. He's fine. He just wanted me to see you giving birth." Says Ray holding Erika's hand. "I'm here."

"Ray…" Erika looks to him and starts screaming in pain.

Outside, Kai was hearing her screams and becomes worried.

"That's normal, Kai! You'll see it will be a very beautiful Maya.

"Michelle!" says Max.

"No! It will be Maya!

"Michelle!"

"Ray wants Inês…" says Kai. Max and Tyson look to him and they hear a baby cry and look down. It was not Kaiser. Then…

"Congratulations!" says the doctor inside the room, showing Ray and Erika a very small skinhead baby. "It's a strong and healthy girl." Ray picks carefully his daughter.

"A girl… I'm father of a girl… a beautiful pretty girl…" Ray cries seeing his baby. "Erika… our daughter… I'm a father… Erika!" Ray couldn't fit on himself of joy.

"Yeah… she's so pretty." Says Erika, breathing hardly.

"Thank you." Says Ray to Erika.

Ray went with Erika to another room where she and the baby could rest. Ray gave birth to the baby and dresses her. Erika was resting on the bed when Ray appeared with Kaiser's sister.

"Have you chosen the name?" asks Erika. Ray looks to her, smiling.

"I already told you. She'll be Inês." says Ray carefully lying Inês on Erika's chest. "She looks just like you."

"She just had born! How can you say that?" asks Erika.

"Because I know your face very well." Says Ray putting his hands on Erika's face. "You're the best thing that happened to my life." Ray gets closer and kisses Erika on the mouth. Ray already missed that kiss. He couldn't remember the last time he kissed her, so Ray decided to kiss her for a very long time.

Kai was allowed to enter the room and see Erika. The Russian felt bad seeing Ray kissing Erika, but Kai remembered he also wanted to kiss Erika when she gave birth to Kai Jr. Ray noticed Kai entree but decided to continue kissing Erika once she have noticed not. Kai looks to them…

'My Erika… How I wish to kiss her like that… but… I'm only causing her troubles… and if…

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Sorry for the waiting but finally this chapter is ready. Luckily my exams are over.

Stay tuned for the next chapter "Fu Bo Kon, the priest of Eris"