1Secret Unveiled
Kenny: I have a secret? That's new.
DMQ: No it's not. I'm telling Kai later that you have a huge Kenny glomps author
Kenny: He-he. Onward with the story already!
(Kenny's POV)
Three weeks have passed since the Bladebreakers left Russia and me my Russian Prince. Since then I have found sleeping alone to be quite uncomfortable and I now tend to stay up late reprogramming Dizzy or watching reruns of our childhood bey battles. I wonder if Kai knows or even knew about the little secret I held from him al this time. Oh well, only time will tell for sure if my suspicions are true or not. I let my body relax a little knowing that even if I am what I think I am my friend's will always be there to support me.
Prior to coming home, Kai told us that the team was going to be moving into his vastly large estate in Japan- it was going to be our home now where we could all live under one roof and not fight. It held seventeen large rooms, a fair sized dining hall, ten bathrooms, a Jacuzzi, two common rooms- one upstairs one down-, and a large underground training facility as well as several hidden passageways. Many of which Tyson used to play his childish tricks on Max and drive the already hyperactive teen into frenzy. We each also received 30,000 dollars from Kai to help us survive off until other forms of money could be found. Hilary used most of hers to stock up on the food supply- hey, we do live with a human garbage can- while Max and Rei used ten thousand each to pay off any and all outstanding debts any of us might have owed. We were pretty much settled in when I noticed that I didn't want any of the things that were offered to us; all I wanted was my lover to be by my side when I found out anything. Still don't know what I mean? Don't worry, you will soon.
Rei… I know that I can tell him anything and it won't leave the confidentiality of my bedroom. He's probably already guessed that I slept with Kai on our little visit to Russia so it'll be no surprise to him as to what's going on around here anymore. We've moved past 'expecting the unexpected' and into the 'that's not so strange around here' stage so nothing ever throws us for a loop anymore.
I finished typing on Dizzy and shut her off before I stuff her into my navy blue duffel bag that now carried twenty percent of my things. Things that I'll be needing after I leave them in the dead of the night. To be blunt- I ran away. Suddenly I don't want to talk about the things that are going to happen. Maybe God will answer my prayers and send me a guardian angel to watch over and protect me from all harm. But even that I now seriously doubt will happen.
"Kenny?" Rei's voice sounded muffled from the other side of my closed bedroom door. "Kenny, are you feeling alright?" The door opened slightly and a sliver of light streaked across my floor, but I remained hidden in the shadows. I opened my side table drawer and pulled out a pack of matches and proceeded to light the candle on the top of the table by my bed. "Can I come in?"
"Yeah, just leave the light off- it hurts the eyes after sitting in the dark for so long."
"Why are you sitting in the dark?" Rei asked innocently. Oh, like he doesn't know! I thought crossly.
"Just thinking."
"About Kai?" Funny, I don't remember mentioning anything about Kai to him. I felt the lower bed move under his cat-like weight as he sat down.
"I'm not even going to ask about how you knew." I said and he chuckled. "Rei," it was time to get serious. "Can you keep a secret?"
"Uh, how big of a secret?"
"Pretty big."
"Shoot, I swear on Kalan's life that I won't say a word." Kalan was Mariah's newborn cub that we had just learned of upon our return to Japan.
"I love Kai with all my heart and soul. He's something to me that no one else can ever be. But I have a secret that is threatening my happiness with him in the long run." His smile faded. "Rei, when I was born the doctors said that I was an unusual child. I was a boy externally, but upon further medical analysis they found that I was a girl internally."
"Uh-oh."
"You said it. See, during our trip to Russia I slept with Kai several times and it was in this time frame that I became pregnant with his child. I've taken a test- several, in fact- but they all say the same thing. I'm going to have a baby- Kai's baby."
"What?" He practically yelled.
"Sh-h-h-h!" I hissed harshly causing him to fall onto the floor.
"Sorry. Just three questions."
"Fine, make it quick."
Rei took a deep breath. "Are you sure? When are you due? And can I go godfather?"
"Rei, four tests confirmed my suspicions. I'm not sure. And the answer to your last question is no simply because you're going to be it's uncle along with the rest of the gang." I paused. " OK, you can go godfather and Hilary can go godmother- when I have the baby and not before."
"Yay!" Gr-r-r-eat, just what I need. To be strangled to death by a hyper tiger. "So, what are you going to do?"
"Nothing."
"'Nothing'? There's a surprise. Aren't you going to tell Kai that he's a daddy?"
"Think about that for a minute Rei, this is Kai Hitwari we're talking about not a niko-jin- no offence."
"None taken. You're right, of course, but if you don't tell him, I will spill my guts."
"No you won't because then you risk not knowing your godchild."
"Damn. This is a no-win situation I take it?"
"Yup."
"Fine. I'll see you in the morning then?"
"Yeah, sure, but I might be late for breakfast though." He left me then to fend on my own devices. But I didn't see them the next morning. Shortly after Rei and the others were sound asleep I tip-toed down to the porch with my duffle and left without a sound. Upstairs on my bed was a note explaining everything and telling them not to try to find me but I'll be in touch sooner or later with an update. Soon, I would be boarding a bus to Sunshine Acres; the villa in Lilly River that my parents left to me when I was younger.
(Kai's POV)
No word for the past three weeks from my lover had me worried. Lately I would plunge into dreams of pleasure filled fantasies and forget all the bad things that ever happened. Almost, that is. Then it happened.
At about three thirty in the early morning hours of September ninth, I was faced with a nightmare turned reality. Tala called and I could tell that he was on the verge of tears or something close to it.
"Hello?" I asked as I picked up the phone. "This better be a good excuse for waking me from the most incredible dream, Tala, or I'm going to decapitate that extra large something between your legs."
"Ian's in the hospital."
"What? What happened? How long ago? Is he going to be alright?"
"Whoa! Slow down. Apparently his heart stopped during a bey battle with Spencer and he collapsed. That was roughly about an hour ago. Before that he was fine until he went to pull his ripcord and…he… he just toppled over as Brian put it." Tala said in a rush of words as we spoke. "Kai, the doctors aren't releasing any information on his current condition. Damn it- I'm going to hate myself later for saying this, but I'm scared, Kai."
"I'm on my way."
"We're at the hospital now; I just wanted to let you know about this."
"How are the others?" I asked as I pulled on a pair of loose gray pants and a white T-shirt.
"You know how pale Bry usually is? Well multiply that by ten for all of us." There was a pause. "How are you getting here?"
"I'll take the Jag. Just be waiting for me." Kenny forgotten for the moment, I hauled my leather duster off the chair in the corner and bolted down to the garage to retrieve my favorite vehicle. "Please don't die, Ian, you're too young for that yet." I pleaded out loud as the icy Russian rain pelted down on the city of Moscow. Sometimes I swear that the Gods mock me.
