Hey kiddos! Sorry for the long update, believe me, it was really painful not being able to update. I was on vacation for a long time, then when i came back i just had stuff to do, then the wordprocessor didnt work at all. Please forgive the spelling errors and if the format is screwed up because i had to use a notepad.... lame... Well anyway, i really appreciate all the reviews a lot, and im really grateful to Porticulis for his long and helpful review, if you havent yet check out his fic. Training.. pretty good stuff.... ok read on kids... rightNOW!
Morning struck and the ground was the only sign that rain had happened. There were puddles all over the street, and the ground Kai sat upon was wet and hard. Kai slowly looked to his left where the street was. He saw a few people in business coats walking by on their way to work. His scarf and his clothes were now, still wet, but not as much as last night. Kai's hair reached to his chin when it was wet, and right now it was still fairly wet. He shook his head letting some of the droplets drop from his hair. His blue triangles were faded and didn't look like the perfect triangles they usually were.
It seems Kai's night in junkie alley left him with an apathetic attitude, though his body had not yet been introduced to the drugs, he continued to let himself think that all he needed to feel better were drugs.For him, they also meant that he had an excuse to as to why hes not perfect, and also a reason to be his over emotional true self.
Kai allowed his garnet colored eyes to look at the blue sky with a pre-mature sun slowly streaking the sky with its golden rays. Then he looked over to the street where cars were driving and people were beginning to walk past the opening to the alley.
Though it was in the bad part of town, many of the people had to walk past this small area of neglected land to get to their jobs, or into the better part of town were most people lived. Very few paid any attention to the alley that usually smelt of pot and was occupied by the un-respected and un-holy junkies. Most of the population knew of this alley, and therefore told their kids NOT to go venturing into it under any circumstance. They told their kids things like, ' dont go in there unless you want to throw your future away.' or things like ' do not give any of the people in there money, or even a simple hello, just walk away....'
Tyson, the Bladebreakers and their personal guests, all spent the night at the pretty big Kinoymia dojo. The Bladebreakers all in their usual room, and all on futons, the adults including Mariah, slept in various rooms, the adults claimed couches and beds, while the kids and owners of the house slept in futons. It was about 9:00 am when the first set of sleepy eyes openend. Surprisingly it was Tyson. Tyson rubbed his eyes, and sat up while stretching his arms and legs.
The dojo was beautiful in the mornings, the sun at the right time, gave the dojo a heavenly look. All the wood was bathed in a warm light that radiated off the walls and all over the house. Tyson loved the sun. For him, it meant that he could go outside and hang out wherever he wanted, and joke around with his friends.
"wow! First one up, except for Kai that is..." Tyson lightly chuckled to himself before noticing that he had not seen Kai all last night at THEIR party.
"he probably wondered off, too much fun for him to take in at once."
None of the Bladebreakers and none of the adults or Mariah, understood that the "party" was more of a reunion then an actual celebration. Sure they all flew in from around the globe, because they had won. However what was meant to be a full out anf fun party, was basically a reunion of friends and family.
Tyson looked over at his friends, who one by one slowly began to wake up. Rei's hair was a mess in the morning, but wasn't everyone's?
"Hey, good morning you guys." Max said yawning one last time, before he began to stretch.
"Morning Max" Rei said also stretching a bit.
"yeah, morning Max," replied Tyson, "hey, did you guys happen to see Kai last night.. Ever?
Both Max, and Rei stopped stretching and took a moment to think about that.
"Come to think of it, no, maybe he left or something?" Rei said hoping that that's not true, but knowing deep down it is.
"Yeah maybe, but you know Kai, he doesn't like stuff like that." Max answered in hopes of cheering up Rei who began to think about this more and more.
Rei slowly let his eyes roam the room,
"Tyson's next to me , and Max was next to Tyson, so that means Kai is next to me."
Rei turned his head to look over at the empty futon next to him. His eyes widened.
The futon was still rolled up and it didn't look like it was touched that night.
"Kai didn't sleep here last night!" Rei said with worry echoing of his voice.
Both Tyson and Max looked over and noticed the same thing. Each one of them felt a new guilt.
"He left.. Because.. He must've felt excluded." Rei said knowing deep down that this is what made Kai leave.
"yeah right!" Tyson said laughing, "Kai excluded?! Don't make me laugh, he just doesn't like fun, and we included him a lot, but he didn't try to include himself."
"I think Rei here, is right Ty, I mean, think about the fine details, we all were with our families or ...girlfriends," Max said eyeing Rei and getting a kick out of the small blush he had..
Rei interrupted him with that shy puppy dog look of his face, "yeah and Kai doesn't have any family and his only friends besides the ones in Russia, are us..." Rei said trailing off as he began to worry where Kai was, and if he did anything stupid last night.
"you guys? Maybe Kai is a lot more sensitive then we all thought he was.. Maybe... maybe he misses his other family," Max said "I don't know what I would do if I didn't have my mum or dad." Max said looking down at his lap.
"Yeah I would... ... ... ... kill myself if I didn't have my dad or my grandpa." Tyson said, thinking his thoughts outloud.
"If I didn't have my grandpa, or the White Tigers, I wouldn't have accomplished everything I have, and I wouldn't have gotten through the losses of Drigger." Rei said.
..... The room was silent for a little bit as each boy in that room took a moment or two, to recoop on what they had, and then to think about Kai and how it must've felt for him.
Rei perked up with anxiousness in his voice.. "You don't think he.."
Tyson interrupted, " No Rei, Kai is stronger then to just kill himself and give up... he would be the last person to give up."
Max perked up and tried to change the subject, "I think that the grown ups and Mariah are up now." Max said a grin growing on his face as he watched Tyson's face as he noticed that their were pancakes being cooked.
Now it was 10:00 am and that girl still hadn't come back with the drugs. Kai still sat in 'junkie alley' waiting. His hair was now dry but the spikes poked up in all different directions as opposed to his regular kempt looking hair. The blue triangles had faded and hardly looked like triangles now. Kai's clothes were still damp. As he sat amongst all the discarded syringes, and used joints he looked to his left where the sun filled street was. As the morning progressed it seemed more and more people were walking, or driving their cars.
"Hey man," said one of the people on the other side of the alley. Kai recognized this guy as the one who spent last night under a trashcan lid. "I saw you there all night, waiting for that chick to come back, it was a pretty dumb thing of you to do." said the guy now getting up and walking over to Kai. He looked to be about 17 or 18. The guy had unnatural looking orange-red hair. The middle of his hair was put into a Mohawk, and the sides of his head were unshaven. He had on a jean jacket with many holes in them , Kai couldn't tell if they were self-created or if they just happened. Underneath the old jacket he wore a bright lime green shirt. The boy had on tight jeans with big holes on the knees, and he wore boots that his old jeans were tucked into to.
He quietly walked up next to Kai and swept the old syringes and old un-useful joints away with his foot before carefully sitting down directly next to Kai.
"Did you do all this?" the guy asked.
"No they were here when I got here." Kai answered not letting his guard down at all.
"Ahhhh, so what are you waiting for kid, there's no trains coming through this part of town, I can tell you that." the guy said now looking at Kai.
"I was waiting for her to come back with the drugs I paid for." Kai said, while looking straight ahead of him at the gang bangers graffiti.
"Well, I don't have any heroin, but you can have a self-wrapped joint if you want." the guy offered, Kai took it put in his mouth while the guy lit it for him with an old lighter he had.
It tasted so good, and it felt like with each puff his problems melted away. Kai had a small history with smoking, he first started when he was about 13 and worked with the BladeSharks, but he had to quit a month later, because apparently word got out, and Voltaire was furious.
'Such a dirty and filthy thing to do, no grandson of mine will ever be so weak as to submit to that!' Yes, Kai remembered that lesson, he remembered each word of it.
'Your a selfish brat with no considerations toward others. To be honest, Kai, the honest truth is that I personally, couldnt care less if you decide to blow out your lungs, but I do care what my compatriots think. So congratulations Kai, honestly.. you really know how to screw things up for yourself. Father like son i suppose, although his mistake wasnt as slow as yours. So i scincerly commend you for this one Kai, once agin you've shown me how immature and stupid you are. It just might be back to Russia for you Kai, and this time I cant guarentee youll come out in one piece. Its going to take a lot of time for me to regain the high standards and i had for you, and now i doubt your worth it" Voltaire said this and more to Kai and each word was stuck in his head forever.
weak, stupid.... selfish, inconsiderate, not worth it, and pointless...
This to Kai was payback.
Kai looked at the kid and said, "thank you."
Just by the tone of his voice it was very sincere and grateful.
"Yeah no problem, so go home, don't get involved with the dirty business that goes on here, just go back to your family.." the guy said looking down to the floor as he mentioned family.
"I don't have a family or place to go back to." Kai said looking back to the graffiti.
"So you were going to just live here then? If you can call this living." the guy asked.
"....I don't..... .... know.." Kai said now looking at his knees.
"Whats your name?" the guy said now returning his gaze to Kai.
"Kai, what about you?" Kai asked now looking back to the graffiti.
"Im Johnny, glad to know you, if you want you can come with me, I found a pretty cool place where I like to go, and we can be room mates." Johnny said offering his hand for a handshake of agreement.
Kai looked at his hand then at his face, where a small smile was, It didn't take long before he agreed and shook his hand willingly.
"Well alright Kai, no use sitting here any longer, why don't we get going then?" Johnny asked. He quickly stood up and reached his hand to help Kai up as well.
Kai looked at the hand with no thought or hesitation he grabbed his hand and the two new found friends walked out of the alley. Kai was surprised that he took trust in Johnny so easily, usually he would have told him to back off, or leave him alone, but this?
Well either way Kai had gotten over the drugs he most likely wouldn't get and he ignored all thoughts of that girl. Kai didn't even think about the blade breakers or his grandfather, so at the moment Kai was utterly happy with his life.
Johnny and Kai proceeded to get out of the alley. Just as they were about to go over the threshold of the dirty, druggie alley and onto the nicely paved sidewalk, when a hand grabbed Johhny. Both boys jumped with alarm, before Johnny whipped around and began to lightly laugh. Kai looked up to his red haired, mohawked friend, and then to the person who prevented their leave.
"Oh sorry mate, I forgot." Johnny said while he picked through his jean pockets for a few minutes. The guy who was in a grey trench coat and wore dark sunglasses looked at Johnny with suspicion and a bit of humor as he searched through all his pockets.
"hold on I know its here somewhere....." Johnny said as he continued to dig through his pockets, now moving to the back pockets. The guy crossed his hands as he watched this punk try to find the money he owed him. Kai continued to look on at this scene. He wasn't sure if the third person was a threat or a friend of Johnny's. All of a sudden Kai felt his arm being pulled in the direction of the street. It took Kai a moment before he realized that now they were running, running really fast. Kai looked up at Johnny as they continued to run.
There was no time to think or even really notice the oncoming traffic. Kai being closest to the oncoming cars noticed a flashing light out of the corner of his eye. The car, which appeared to be a minivan driven by a mother with two kids in the backseat, seemed to just now notice the two boys running across the side street weaving menacingly between the moving vehicles. The woman honked her horn frantically as the distance betweent he boys and herself was nearly broken.
"BEEEEEPPP!" the woman honked her horn and braced herself.
Kai looked to the side and saw the white minivan only feet away and it didnt look like it would stop.
GRR!
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