"Aw, come on Rei, why'd we have to leave so soon?" Tyson asked pulling his arm out of Rei's hold when they were in the elevator.
"Because I don't think Kai's dad is ready for so many people at once." Rei explained putting his hands on his hips.
"Yeah, especially people who ask a lot of questions." Max continued with a small smile knowing Tyson was about to get defensive.
"Hey! Was that comment pointed at me?" Tyson half yelled.
"Face it Tyson you made Kai's dad uncomfortable." Rei said trying to calm his friend down, "We know you didn't mean to and you were just trying to be nice."
Tyson let his head hang the realization of what he had just done washed over him, "Oops..."
"Don't worry about it!" Max said patting Tyson on the back, "When we get back for lunch I'm sure he'll have forgotten all about it, I mean after all, Kai and him have a lot of catching up to do."
Back in the hotel room
"So, thats how Dizzi wound up in my computer." Kenny finished his explanation (A/N I'm assuming most everyone who is reading this has seen the first couple episodes of Beyblades season 1).
"Okay." Kamali's face didn't give any indication of understanding but he seemed satisfied at the moment, however, he kept staring at Dizzi as if expecting her to do something.
"Stop that, you'll make me blush." Dizzi teased.
"Sorry." Kamali muttered moving away from the computer and back to his spot on the couch.
"Are you going to live with Mr. Dickinson and Kai, Kamali?" Mr. Tate asked.
"Yes, I think we can manage that. You are welcome in my home for as long as you want." Mr. Dickinson answered for Kamali cheerfully, "After all we are family now."
Everyone looked at Kamali waisting to see his reaction, but none came, as he seemed to retreat back into his own little world. His chin resting on his chest and his fingers loosely intertwined.
"Kamali?" Bruce nudged him after a minute, "Hey." he passed his hand in front of his face. Nothing.
Kai gripped on to Kamali's forearm a rare moment of worry passed over his face. "You okay?" he asked just barely keeping his voice from cracking.
"Oh, my!" Mr. Dickinson exclaimed, "Whats wrong?"
Mr. Tate got up from his seat and lifted the other mans head with two finger's under his chin, "Kamali?"
Without warning Kamali's body shook and he let out a horrid scream causing everyone to jump back shocked.
Kamali jumped to his feet and booked it towards the door. Bruce seeing this coming was able to tackle Kamali to the ground, all the while the blue haired man was screaming.
"Get off of me!" Kamali yelled struggling against the much, much larger man, "Don't touch me!"
"Kamali! Look at me!" Bruce yelled after he pinned the smaller man's arms on either side of his head. "Kamali! Its ok! Your not in the abbey anymore, its ok!"
and just as quickly as it came the commotion ended. Kamali's eyes rolled to back of his head and he passed out.
"Hey, hey!" Bruce called to him while lightly tapping his cheek.
"Take him into one of the bedrooms." Mr. Dickinson ordered, "I guess he is still a bit shocked about everything."
"Yeah." Bruce got off of Kamali and picked him up like a bride, while Kenny ran to Kai's bedroom door and opened it.
"Kai." Mr. Tate put a comforting hand on Kai's right shoulder, "He'll be alright."
Kai nodded shrugging off Mr. Tate's hand and left the room.
"I'll go make sure he's ok." the red head said following after Kai.
"Don't let him know your following." Mr. Dickinson advised.
"Right." Mr. Tate replied before exiting the room as well.
In the bedroom
Kenny had ran over to Kai's bed after he opened the door and had pulled back the covers of the neatly made bed. Bruce gently put Kamali down on his back and began to take off his coat and shoes.
"What happened, Mr. Granger?" Kenny asked innocently.
"I don't really know, Kenny." the older man answered, "It could have been a number of things, something could have happened that reminded him of the abbey. I can't imagine anyone could come out of that place without scares. I'm surprised he held out this long with so many people around."
Leaving the room Bruce was the first to notice that Kai and Mr. Tate were gone.
"Kai ran off and Taro followed to make sure he didn't hurt himself." Mr. Dickinson explained.
Bruce sighed and let himself plop down on the sofa. "What a day." Bruce rubbed the bridge of his nose.
Kenny followed his lead and sat back in front of Dizzi.
An hour later
The boys came back in from their practice expecting more or less things to be the way they were when they left.
"Hey, dad!" Tyson greeted passing by his dad and heading straight for the food that was brought in ten minutes ago.
"Where's everybody at?" Rei asked searching the room.
Kenny, Mr. Dickinson and Bruce all went silent and shot questioning looks at each other.
"Did something happen Mr. Dickson?" Max asked, "Is Kai ok?" worry was on the edge of his voice.
"Yes, yes, him and your dad just stepped out for a minute, they should be back soon." Mr. Dickinson lied through his teeth.
"Oh, well where's Kai's dad?" Max asked, sitting down on the couch.
"Right here." a tired voice from behind them startled everyone.
"Your awake!" Bruce and Kenny said in union.
"Yeah, sorry about that." Kamali apologized rubbing the sleep from his eyes with his left hand and leaning against the doorframe.
Bruce got up and went straight to him and reached out to him but stopped short.
"Its ok, I'm not going to freak out again." he said so only Bruce could hear him.
"Don't worry about that. Its not your fault." Bruce replied in a whisper, "So how about you try to eat something, Mr. Dickinson ordered you up some soup as per the doctor's orders." he said the last sentence a bit louder then necessary for everybody to hear.
If any of the boys noticed something off they didn't say and went to eat their lunch, and fight off Tyson who had finished off his share already.
Bruce led Kamali over to the small table and took a seat next to him. Rei and Max kicked Tyson away from the table and Kenny took his spot, Mr. Dickinson didn't and poured himself another cup of tea.
"Here." Bruce said putting a small bowl of tomato soup in front of Kamali, who looked at it that plainly said "What do I do with it?"
"Whats the matter?" Max asked before slapping Tyson's hands away from his burger.
"I don't... they never..." Kamali muttered a pink blush danced across his cheeks.
"Its ok, you can just drink it if thats what your worried about." Bruce said putting a comforting hand on Kamali's knee and received a nod in reply.
"You mean you were never fed!" Tyson exclaimed in shock, funny how his hearing improved when someone said something he shouldn't hear.
"Tyson they had to of fed him." Kenny said, "Otherwise he would be dead."
"No, uh, I was given vitamins and things like that, I really didn't eat, only on rare occasions." Kamali admitted looking down at his cooling food.
Tyson looked like he was about to say something else when the door to the room opened and Kai walked in closely followed by Mr. Tate/Taro.
"Look I'm sorry, I just thought you could use the company is all." Taro said when he got into the room.
"Hn." was Kai's response before stomping off to his bedroom.
"Arn't you going to eat?" Max called after him.
"Not hungry!" the teen snapped and slammed the door.
"Dad what happened?" Max asked completely forgetting about his food.
"He saw me following him and got mad." Taro answered scratching the back of his head.
"I'll go talk to him!" Max said standing up.
"No, no, best to let him alone for a bit and let off some steam." Mr. Dickinson injected.
"Ok..." Max muttered disheartened and sat back down.
They didn't do much for the day after that, after lunch Bruce took all of the boys out for the day to go sight seeing and Mr. Dickinson had a phone call from England which took up most of his time, so I went back to his own room to finish up his business. This left Kamali and Alan alone for the afternoon as Kai still hadn't come out of his room.
Taro didn't know how to address Kamali, since normal conversation wouldn't work, so he turned on the tv to some weird Russian soap opera and left it for a few hours. Kamali sat on the couch with his knees up to his chest and didn't move the entire time.
"Would you like something to drink?" Taro asked not being able to just sit there anymore.
"Hm?" Kamali looked over to Taro and tilted his head to the right.
"I'm going to make Hot Chocolate." Taro stated and got up to go into the small kitchen across the room, glad to be up and doing something. He took his time making the drinks only because he really didn't want to go sit back down. When he was done he took the two mugs to the living room area and noticed that Kamali was gone! He was about to panic when movement caught his eye and a cold breeze greeted him, Kamali had gone outside on to the balcony and left the door open.
Alan peered out to the balcony and smiled. Kamali was staring up at the sky in wonderment. It was late in the year and the sun was already setting and the stares were beginning to come out.
"Here." Taro said in a low voice so not to spook the young man.
"What? oh." Kamali turned to new arrival on the balcony and hesitantly took the steaming mug from his hand.
"Careful, its pretty hot." Taro warned, letting his hand linger on Kamali's a moment. His skin was very soft and smooth, but it was freezing. "Maybe we should go inside." he suggested.
"No, if its ok, I would like to stay out here for a bit longer." Kamali said shyly.
"But your freezing!" Taro protested.
"I know its just that, I haven't been able to look at the sky in along time. And I didn't have much time to this morning when Mr. Dickinson and Bruce brought me here, they were in a bit of hurry." Kamali replied without looking up at Taro.
Guilt ran through Taro, he couldn't believe he kept forgetting that Kamali didn't small comforts like he did. Without saying another word Taro put down his mug on the rail and went inside. Kamali was worried for a minute that he had upset Taro but worry changed to confusion and interest when he brought out two coats.
"Here." he said and put Kamali's brown coat across his shoulders and then put his green coat on.
"Thank you." Kamali said shocked.
"Don't mention it." Taro said smiling and sipped his hot chocolate. "Hot!" he spat what little he had in his mouth out and tried to whip off his tung.
Kamali chucked at the sight.
"Oh, so thats funny huh?" Taro asked pushing back tears. Though it sounded more like "Dats thunny huh?" which caused Kamali to chuckle louder.
"Thank you by the way." the blue haired male said looking back to the sky.
"You already thanked me for the drink and coat." Taro said normally, his tung still burning up.
"No, for going after Kai." Kamali clarified, "I know he left after my... fit and that you went after him, thats why he was mad when you came back right?"
Taro didn't know what to say, he hadn't expected this, "Uh, yeah I did. But you were..." he didn't want to finish that sentence, what if it insulted him?
"Unconscious?" Kamali looked back at Taro with a knowing smile. "I can't believe I did that!"
"Its ok, no one expects you to be completely healthy and normal when you come out of a situation like that." Taro tried to comfort him.
"But I did it in front of Kai, he probably thinks I'm a freak now." Kamali said and looked over the railing; a grim look on his face.
"I bet he doesn't." Taro said putting his still blistering hot mug down, "He has thought he was alone for years and now you're here, he couldn't be more happy."
"But he locked himself in his room." Kamali pointed out his voice small.
"He doesn't know how to deal with normal people, let alone you." Taro said before he could stop himself, "I'm sorry! That came out wrong!"
"Its ok, I know what you meant." Kamali chuckled before shivering violently. He pulled his coat in closer to himself and sipped the hot drink carefully.
"Maybe it would be best if you talked with Kai before the others get back." Taro stated trying to forget about his stupid comment.
"Yeah." Kamali put his drink down and started to walk inside before stopping short, "Oh and Taro, thanks again."
"No problem." Taro muttered before looking down at himself, "I'm in big trouble."
He took another sip of his hot chocolate before spitting it back out again, "How did he drink that? its still freaking hot!"
With Kamali
He knocked on Kai's door before pulling his coat closer to himself once more. How was this cold effecting him so much? he had been colder before.
No one answered the door. He knocked again still no answer.
"Kai, I'm sorry for what happened today." Kamali started, he knew Kai could hear him, "I don't know what happened, one minute I'm with you and your friends and the next I thought I was... back there. I didn't mean to up set you, I just... I'm sorry." still no answer.
Kamali pushed himself away from the door. He felt sick, like he was going to puke. But his legs gave out from under him and the scene around him became fuzzy.
"Kamali!" he heard Taro call to him, but it was a bit late as he was already spilling what little he had to eat and drink on the carpeted floor.
The door to Kai's bedroom opened and an emotionless looking Kai walked out.
"What happened?" he asked kneeling beside his father.
"I don't know!" Taro said over the gagging sounds, "Help me get him to the bathroom!" Kai took Kamali's left arm and Taro had his right but they really didn't need both, Kenny could have even picked up Kamali if he wanted to he was so light.
By the time they made it to the bathroom Kamali had finished puking and was how sweating. Kai damped the hand towel and used that to clean off his father's face.
"He's shivering!" Taro stated, taking off his coat and laid it across Kamali's front.
"Sorry, Kai." Kamali muttered before grabbed weakly onto Kai's wrist, "Sorry." He repeated.
"What are you apologizing for?" Kai asked a bit harshly. "I'm not mad at you for anything, so stop acting like I am." Kai looked away from the adults.
"Help me get him to a bed. I think Mr. Dickinson has him in with me, since I'm the only one without a roommate." Taro said picking up Kamali by himself this time. "I'm just next door on the left."
Kai nodded and took one last mistrusting look at Taro before leading the way to Taro's room.
A/N so what do you guys think? A love triangle between Max's dad, Tyson's dad and Kai's dad sound good?
