Disclaimer : Same as chapter 1
JeLlYbEaN RuLz : I am dreadfully sorry for the long wait for any kind of updates from me recently. You know what to do. At the end of the chapter, review my stories ! (smiles) peace out readers and reviewers !
Just to add, to make you think of the kinds of voices Kin and Amaya have, I'll try and describe them : Kin has a voice like Avril Lavigne's (is that how you spell her name ? I dunno lol) and Amaya has a voice like Amy Lee from Evanescence. (a/n How the hell do you own Amy Lee and Avril Lavigne ? I DON'T OWN OR HAVE ANY CONNECTIONS TO THEM SO DON'T ASK ME ! lol)
"Blah" talking,
'Blah' thinking
&Blah& Bit-Beast talking
£Blah£ someone talking to their Bit-Beast
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Chapter 8
"Really ? You never told us !" exclaimed Daichi, with a big grin on his face.
"I only got it yesterday" informed Kin, "and I did, only that hardly anyone listens to me anyway"
"Christ" simply said Tyson.
"And I was giving Mr. Hiwatari here a massage a while ago" said Kin, nodding toward Kai.
Tyson slid over to him (a/n you know, the way sometimes characters move without moving their legs ? that's what I mean) with little beady eyes and a grin which showed all his teeth.
"And I think Mr. Hiwatari enjoyed it" said Tyson smugly, nudging Kai in the bare ribs.
Tyson's elbow hit the gap between two of Kai's ribs, catching him off guard. He didn't want to admit it in front of Tyson especially, but that did hurt him and he prayed to God above that he didn't wince, jerk or buckle under the pain. His eye merely twitched.
"What the hell Tyson !" snarled Kai.
"Kai ?" blankly asked Tyson.
Kai's face was goin redder and redder with 2 mixed emotions : anger and extreme embarrassment.
"You think that cause she gave me a massage, something happened between us ? You are so perverted Tyson ! She's my friend ! Now if you would excuse me" snapped Kai storming away to the massage building to collect his things and he walked past the rest of his team, not noticing his team-mates at all and stormed off to his apartment shared with the 2 girls.
They all watched him go with open mouths. Every male then looked at Kin, who had a cheerless frown on her pretty oval face.
"Don't worry, that's Kai when he's in a really bad mood with me" reassured Tyson, patting his hand on her shoulder.
When Kin's frown didn't turn upside-down like it usually did nor did she react in any way, he sat down in the seat opposite her.
"Hey Kin, I always do that to him. And his reaction is always the same, though its still scary watching him" chuckled Tyson, smiling.
Kin looked up and smiled, but the teenagers weren't entirely sure it was a happy one.
"Ok Ty, I'll take ya word for it" she said, smiling.
But inside her mind, it was a muddle.
Kin's P.O.V
Did really he mean that nothing did happen between us ? I thought there was something there. I certainly thought he felt a little something more special toward me. Now I really do feel like a complete moron. Amaya was right, I defiantly do go for the wrong guys, I always like the ones that had something quite different from the rest of them, and most of the time...the "little something" is usually a bad thing. I know I'm still a virgin, but I have been watching and liking the "wrong" guys. But is Kai the "wrong" type ? Is he a no-good asshole ? Now I'm thinking like Amaya, even though that is not a bad thing. Sure Kai has his faults but doesn't everyone ? He can be caring one moment...then a complete jerk the next, what does he think he's playing at ?
&You know, this could be something you have to watch out for...&
£Don't get me wrong Dranti but sometimes you're not always right£
&That's true. I mean, no-one is perfect...not even us Bit-Beasts...&
£But what do you mean "watch out for" ?£
&No offence to that boy you call Kai, but sometimes I feel like I can't trust him. With his "not-so-clean" record, I have good reasons why I shouldn't...&
£You're making it sound like he's a criminal of some sort Dranti, you know that ?£
&I'm just trying to make my point but you keep on interrupting me...&
£Then start talking"
(sigh) &...All I'm saying is, keep ya guard up kid. You can never expect any kind of surprises, whenever they're good or bad&
(chuckle) £That it ?£
(sigh) &how the hell am I like you ?&
£DRANTI ! YOU BAD BAD BAD DRAGON !£
&What ?&
£YOU JUST SWORE !£
&What ? Hell ?&
(Shocked expression inside mind)
&And the great thing is, I learnt it off you&
£Oh shut up !£
I looked up at Tyson when I heard his voice; he was smiling all the way as per usual. No wonder he can make friends with anyone. I tried to smile like I usually did but the expressions on the guys faces told me they weren't entirely convinced.
"Ok Ty, I'll take ya word for it" I said, smiling the best I could.
The guys looked at each other as though they were reading each others minds, wondering if they could decipher my smile and calculate if it was a happy or a depressed one. Well I can take 3 wild guesses as to which one it really is.
Let your heart tell you whats best Dranti's voice said, echoing in my mind
"Why does he do that though ?" I asked, looking a bit down, "I mean, keeping to himself a lot ?"
Tyson shrugged.
"We have no idea really, I mean, we know about his earlier periods of life so that might come into the equation I think. But we have made sure that his grandfather and his advisor, Boris, are locked up. But he's still acting as though they control his life. Guess he'll never get over it" said Tyson.
"But when I was talking to him earlier, he seemed as though he was opening up. But he didn't know it was me so I don't know if that counts" I grinned slightly.
"But how did you do that ?" asked Max incredulously.
I shrugged, that was actually a pretty good question.
"I dunno, I just acted myself and he just went along with it," I answered simply.
Tyson seemed to sweatdrop at this.
"I've been acting myself all my life and all Kai has done is throwing me weird looks" he said sweatdropping, rubbing his cheek with his index finger with a cheesy grin on his thin face.
All of us laughed at this...but I still felt miserable deep down inside.
Kai's P.O.V
I swear I'm gonna kill that Tyson ! He's such a pervert ! ARGH ! But I can't help but feel a little guilty, I had been talking to Kin a lot, kinda...opening...up a little. She had been patient, kind and caring and then I just threw it back in her face. I'm just no good that these things.
I walked up the steps toward my shared room with those nutters that humanity call "girls". Unlocking it with my card, I'm still thinking about Kin, I push the door open and walked through. When I was about to enter the living-room, a chocolate brown, sun yellow an snow white fuzzball appeared at my feet, with me receiving a unexpected surprise. Katsu, I think she was called, looked up at me with those golden eyes, looking very innocent. I looked down back at her, and I thought I saw that cat smile...i know that sounds completely insane but I swear to God I though I saw it did. I bent my knees, still locking eye contact with the cat; I reached out my hand to stroke her. She unexpectedly jumped back with her ears back. I didn't understand why, then Ray's voice entered my head, explaining what to do with cats and how to handle them, but he said it months ago...not to mention I wasn't really paying my full attention to that Neko-Jin but I'm remembering it anyway.
FLASHBACK (Kai is speaking in italics an Ray is speaking in bold)
Hey Kai !
Mmmm ?
Remember you got that cut from the cat you were feeding ages ago ? (a/n its in G Revolution sometime, can't remember exactly where but its near the earlier episodes lol. The cat scratched him on his middle finger but it only shows it in the Japanese version)
Why should I ?
Did you give it your hand ?
Give it what ?
Your hand; cats have to check their surrounding and they do that by sniffing. What you should've done is giving it your hand first...just to let it sniff you and check to see if you were safe. They'll smell your whole hand, wrist, knuckles and fingers. If they push their head against your hand after they have checked, you can pet them, if not...well...just get your hand away from it promptly. Ok ?
...And why are you telling me this ?
Just incase you meet another cat in the future, then you know what to do.
...…...….….….….….….….….….….….….….…...
END FLASHBACK
I never knew Ray's "useless" information could actually help me. I cautiously moved my bare right hand toward the cat. She hesitated at first then walked slowly toward my hand and started sniffing it. She sniffed my fingers first then my knuckles then the back of my hand then my wrist. Her little black nose and white whiskers tickled my skin as she checked me. After a minute of taking long lungful whiffs of my scent, she looked back up at me with those cat eyes. Ray's voice instantly rang in my memory :
If they push their head against your hand after they have checked, you can pet them, if not...well...just get your hand away from it promptly.
I started to draw back my hand then, to my surprise, she pushed her furry little cat-head against my fingers and palm, wanting my attention. After putting a mental note to thank Ray sometime, I couldn't help but smile a little and I petted the feline, stroking the fur gently. My reward was a quite loud constant purr. I picked the cat up gently and she put her head and forepaws on my shoulder. Holding my clothing in the other, I walking through. What I saw on the couch nearly made me drop the cat and my clothes; there was Ray and Amaya, sleeping together and they were quite close. I sneaked through to the other bedroom and stuffed my garments haphazardly in the wardrobe and placing Kin's loyal pet on my bed. A little metal-on-metal 'clink' caught my attention and it came from Kin's feline. Looking round in curiosity, I noticed a blue cloth, just visible under the cat's neck fur and a glint of gold shined under it. I reached out, took it and had it lie on my palm. It was a collar, or a bandana acting like a collar, with the cat's name on and a gold little disk and, checking, I realised that Katsu was indeed her name.
"Eh, Katsu ?" I muttered to myself.
The cat meowed in answer.
"Kin shoulda called ya Fuzzy, coz that woulda described you better" I chuckled, stroking Katsu behind her little kitten ears.
She purred in thanks.
I figured; if I could really befriend Kin's pet...then I would get closer to Kin herself. Its so ingenious...Kenny would be proud. Lol. I sat on the bed, fondling Katsu behind her ears and running my hand through her fur on her back. Katsu's purring seemed to go into overdrive...either that or her purring vocal cords broke cause she wouldn't stop.
God this heat...its unbearable ! It's making me so...so…so tired. Maybe I'll just have a little...little...kip right here...yeah, that would be very nice.
Normal P.O.V
Kai stretched out on the bed, not bothering to put on a top, as he would never get any sleep. He yawned, feeling sleeper by the minute. Within a couple of minutes, he was fast asleep, not snoring but calmly and deeply breathing heavily, his chest slowly rising and falling as he breathed. Katsu leaped silently from the bed and onto Kai's abdomen, walked in a little circle just like what cats do, then slumped onto her side and in a foetus position, purring.
Hours passed and Kai still slept, completely missing dinner, not waking up from his dream-less sleep. (a/n I heard from a mate that when you sleep but don't dream...your not living your life to the fullest it could be. I dunno if that's really true but I'm using it here for Kai. I hope you get the little hint here).
At around 8pm, still Kai hadn't woken up and then he twitched in his sleep as a sliding sound came from outside the room and Kin walked in. She had hung around with Tyson, Daichi, Amaya, Ray, Chief and Max for hours and she really enjoyed their company. They all knew how to have fun and she really enjoyed herself. Katsu jerked awake, ears up at her mistress's voice, nose quivering at her mistress's scent and she jumped up and raced toward Kin. (a/n Amaya and Ray got up a few hours before and joined the rest)
"Hey, hey, hey ! Here's my little kitten ! Oh ! I missed you soooo much !" cooed Kin and she spread out her arms as Katsu leapt off the floor and landed in her arms.
"Mew mew, meow" answered Katsu, purring and rubbing her head under Kin's chin.
She carried Katsu through to the living-room area and put her down on her favourite place, she curled into a little fluffy ball and relaxed, purring slightly. Kin patted her on the head a couple of times and walked through to the bedroom.
She entered, turning round and shutting it behind her silently and turned round again. Her mouth dropped open; Kai was sleeping there, silent as a baby. His face was relaxed, the mouth wasn't the usual frown but a slight smile, the eyebrows relaxed as well. His bangs hanging wildly around his face like always, sweeping and touching those pale-skinned thin blue-tattooed cheeks.
Kin walked slowly toward him, sat on the edge beside where he slept. She smiled at his calm face and brushed a couple of untamed bangs out of his face. He seemed to smile slightly more as she did this. Her gaze travelled from his handsome face to his chest. With her being so close to him now, she could see something she couldn't earlier.
Scars. They criss-crossed his chest and as randomly as a spider's web, and some also intersected each other. She gasped. Some of them looked really old and slightly pink because of the years that they had been sliced into his skin. Most of them looked small but others, like the one that started just below his left shoulder, making its scratchy way diagonally to his right side, falling through the middle of his chest and then making a graceful sweeping "u" arc shape and ending near the middle of his left-sided ribs, were large and intimidating to the eye. She looked closer at the scars; they all had been stitched up clumsily and the holes where the thin string was used for the stitches were still visible to the eye, all of them set in rather wobbly lines...as though the hand that stitched them shook a lot as whoever it was tried their best to seal the wounds from the open air.
Kin knew to her knowledge that Kai did have a bad and difficult childhood, but she had no idea that he had been abused and beaten to the extreme where he would close off from everybody else. Her eyes seemed to soften as she gazed at the deep and everlasting scars. She wanted to comfort Kai, to give him a hug but because Kai was...well...Kai, he would probably freak out and think she was a weird and creepy gal.
Sneakily, Kai was wide-awake when he heard Kin's card key slot through the electronic lock. He could sense without opening his eyes that she was very close to him, and the slight slope on the side of the bed confirmed his thoughts.
Kin reached out and, completely forgetting that Kai was Kai, she traced several of the minor scars with her index finger, feeling them under her touch. She saw goosebumps slowly but surely rise from Kai's skin, the fine blond hairs standing on end. (a/n I actually dunno if Kai does have blond hairs on his arms, but in this he has so...bear with me lol). She looked at his face once more and was surprised to see a medium-sized smile, even by Max's standards. She smiled to herself and stood up to leave Kai in peace to sleep. As she closed the door, Kai's eyes snapped open and he bolted up from his sleeping position. He placed a shaky hand over his chest, couldn't believe that Kai just saw those scars, and couldn't believe that Kin just touched him. He fell back onto the bed, feeling the soft cotton against his skin. He also kicked off his shoes, socks and the little red bands encircling his ankles as the drowsiness took over again and within minutes, he was back in dreamland, but not experiencing any dreams at all.
Half an hour later, Kin came back in. She reached for her side of the double bed, reach for under her pillow and withdrew her pyjamas. With them in hand, she walked to the bathroom to get changed. When coming out she was wearing smooth soft long silver trousers, easily fitted on her hips, and an ocean blue spaghetti strapped t-shirt, with silver sparkly diamond-like sequins spelling out the words "Dreamer Gal" on her breast. She yawned, stretched then climbed into the double bed, making herself comfortable as she sunk into the squishy mattress below her tired form. Even Katsu came through; missing being in Kin's arms so she went under the covers on Kin's side, slowly walked up toward Kin and then slunk into her crossed arms, purring in the warmth.
A grey/blue haired blader lay next to them, eyes open and shining a soft light that everyone thought that had been extinguished forever...
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JeLlYbEaN RuLz : FINALLY DONE ! WHEW ! lol. Thanks for waiting, and could you please drop a review or two...that'll be great and much appreciated ! Thanks again !