~Giving Up Meat For Lent~

.Day 15 – An Educational Shopping Trip.

The training days in the summer sun were beginning to feel shorter and shorter as the two newly vegatarians found more energy and strength to burn off. Their boring salads were making them feel lighter in weight, yet their sweet tooth days was beginning a rare treat. The two were really gunning for success this time as they worked together harder than they had ever done before.

But the weight loss situation was a whole different story.

Kai's body was getting heavier in mass from the excess body building training sessions. Meanwhile Tyson was getting lighter and quicker. In fact, he was getting so thin that the team couldn't stop giggling at the champion as he ran his laps around the park field. His trousers were so loose that his bright blue boxers would commence the odd flash to make themselves acknowledged by everyone who was nearby.

"This is starting to really get on my nerves!" Tyson paused whilst panting heavily. He then pulled up his grey jeans again and growled impatiently, "And before anyone tells me to put on a belt, I am already wearing one and I haven't got anymore holes to stick the pin through! It's too big!"

"Alright Tyson. We get the picture." Responded a blond American as he jogged over to his best friend. "I'm glad you stopped anyways, you were seconds away from being pulled aside by Rei. I heard him tell Kai that he was getting annoyed with you flashing your draws."

The Dragoon wielder's brown eyes widened and his growl tone went lower, "Pft, if he's that bothered about my cool boxers. Tell him to buy me some clothes..." He then paused when Max giggled at him.

"Oh Tyson, Rei doesn't have the patience's to take you shopping..."

"More like he doesn't have the money." Tyson shrugged and folded his arms; he'd given up holding up his trousers at this point. The clothing items were winning this never-ending battle. "I'm not a cheap guy to buy for."

A sweat drop then appeared in the corner of Max's forehead. He knew his best friend was a defensive and proud guy, but that comment was a little too harsh. "Oh come on Tyson. You and Rei don't see eye to eye in fashion taste anyways. So Kai is taking you. He says that he needs some new clothes to." He concluded before lifting up his orange t-shirt to dry off his sweaty face.

"Kai is taking me?" The champion repeated whilst tilting his head aside, "Why would Kai go shopping with me?"

Max shrugged and he smiled casually, "Well if you don't want to go with Kai, Hilary offered to take you..."

"Yea that's not happening." Tyson hit the nail on the head straight away with that suggestion, especially when Hilary would end up dragging him into girly shops that he wouldn't dare step near. "When are we going shopping then? Did Kai tell you?"

"Yea, he said move your ass, he's waiting in the car in the car park."

"Typical Kai." Tyson straightened himself up and skimmed his eyes over to his teammates who were still training – for some reason, Rei was shooting the champion such a dirty look and this instantly got Tyson's attention, "WHAT!?"

"Pull up your trousers Tyson!" The Asian male snapped coldly as he jogged past the pair with ease, "It's disrespectful to the kids around here!"

"Oh give it a rest Rei. You act like they haven't a pair of boxers before."

"Tyson! Pull up your trousers!" Called out Hilary from the other side of the park, "The teen single mothers are complimenting how nice your bum looks!"

"UH!" The champion quickly reached down to pull up his trousers with a warm expression overriding his once confident face. "I HATE YOU ALL! That's it! I'm going shopping with Kai! I will see you all later at the dojo. Just don't wait up for us, especially if there is a alcohol store nearby."

"Alcohol store?" Max leaned closer curiously, "You don't drink... Oooh I see haha. Kai loves his Vodka. Good one Tyson."

~The penny had finally dropped~

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As we all could imagine; the shopping trip started off quite well. Kai had dumped a few hundred notes into Tyson's palms before they split in to different directions of the store to pick up their own individual clothing items. Kai knew that Tyson wasn't going to pick up what he would suggest, especially when he always wore a theme of colors. So he left him to it.

But it all went downhill when Tyson dragged Kai into a luxurious clothing store that was hidden away in the busy streets. The champion wasn't interested in purchasing anything - he just wanted to snap-chat some of the items to Max to make the entire team laugh. There were China dolls that costed an arm and a leg, yet there were also some beds that costed more than an individuals home. It was ridiculous!

So ridiculous that Tyson's attention was finally drawn to a posh coat that was glowing in his presence. It wasn't for himself though, the kind-hearted champion was thinking about purchasing the coat for someone else in the team.

"Wow, I bet Hilary would love this for her birthday." Tyson gleamed as he brushed his masculine hand down the shiny fur coat. "She told me that she needs a posh coat to go with her prom dress. This would be perfect and everyone would stop to stare at the woman."

But when the champion spun around to check on Kai's in-put, something smelt really off to him. The captain didn't look the best of pleased, nor did he seem comfortable with the idea of Tyson touching the item.

"What's up with your face now?" The Dragoon wielder asked, really clueless this time. "Kai? Don't you like it? Oh man, come and stroke it. It's stunning."

Kai dropped his bags down onto the marble floor and he dug his hands into his trouser pockets to resist the urge of losing his temper. He then tilted his head towards the price tag and stated, "Read it." He suddenly went so dry and cold.

"The price isn't a problem Kai..."

"Just shut up and read the tag Tyson."

"Huh?" Doing as he was told (for once), Tyson reached out his hand to look at the price tag and he read the text out loud, "Luxurious rabbit skinned coat..."

Kai's body stiffened and his rival's heart sunk into his stomach. Tyson instantly felt guilty and he naturally stepped back away from the evil coat that was calling out his name.

"Rabbit furr? Please tell me I didn't just read that." He thought out loud with tears helplessly filling up his innocent eyes, "There's only one way that skin has got onto that coat..."

Kai interrupted sharply, "Exactly. Now let's go before I lose my shit with this place."

Nodding, Tyson retrieved both of their shopping bags as they rushed out of the expensive store. But once they were walking along the Bey-City shopping strip, Tyson caught onto something that he had never noticed about Kai.

Tyson then pointed out, "I didn't realize that you cared so much for animals Kai. Where does this passion come from?"

Yet when Tyson thought he was going to receive such an open-hearted answer, Kai just quickly shut him down coldly to avoid the topic. He continued to walked on without glancing back at his teammate once.

It was clearly too painful to talk about.
But Tyson just couldn't understand that~

"Right." The rival squinted and Tyson was now irritated by the rude gesture, especially as he was carrying Kai's luggage as well as his own. "I hate it when you're like this. But let's go home before I skin you alive..."

'He has always had a habit of speaking without thinking. But that just crossed a line!' - Kai's limit had been reached.

"That's it." The Dranzer wielder froze on the spot and he twitched uncontrollably. He was royally pissed. "You are dead Granger!"

"Uh shit!" Tyson yelped. He instantly dropped the luggage and turned to make a run for it down the street. "Kai! Wait! That came out wrong! I'm sorry!"

A/N: I have been meat-free for almost a month now and I can honestly say I feel the big changes in my health - my skin has cleared up and I've gone down to a size 14 (I haven't been this small in such a long time). Also, I have changed so much as a person too; I regularly donate to an animal charity and I fundraise for my work place to give disabled people the treatment/equipment they need to make their life really worth living. Seriously, being alone really does change you – I told my mother that I am going to adopt a child of my own so I can give it everything it deserves. She's gobsmacked yet so excited, so a lot of changes are coming my way and I am so fucking excited! - Granger~

Thank you so much for standing there beside me during this transmission period because it really means a lot to me~