Welcome to the 6th chapter of Too Tough for Life. I apologize for the long and uncomfortable wait but aren't you just even more excited to read this now! --I thought so. Hahah…anyway I had a lot of difficulty deciding on a song for the intro this time and spent nearly an hour reading through lyrics trying to pick one. This song however, is an awesomely insane song. Thank you for all the reviews I really enjoy reading them. Now you enjoy the chapter.
----Frostt
"I'm a lexicon devil with a
battered brain
And I'm lookin' for a future-
the world's my aim
So gimme gimme your hands-
gimme gimme your minds
Gimme gimme this-gimme
gimme tha-yea-yea-t…" (Lexicon Devil, The Germs, MIA)
Kai saw the police officers advancing on them and he knew that it would only get them arrested so he took one last punch at his current attacker nailing him in the face, nodded toward Johnny gave a small smirk and ran off into the night.
"GOD DAMNIT…" they heard in the background as the voices became distant.
The wind blew through Kai and Johnny's hair. They had a major adrenaline rush. They felt scared, excited, and above all like they were the victims of something big. Johnny and Kai looked at one another and smiled as the wind blew through their hair. Johnny's hair became slightly deshelved but nothing his glue couldn't handle.
At this point its impossible to describe the adrenaline that keeps them going. Their hearts are beating harder and harder as they run faster and faster in hopes of escaping the oncoming cops. Police sirens are one thing when you see them racing past and on to some place miles away but its quite another when these sirens are ringing in all their rage because of you. Blue and red lights trailed about a block behind them and they kept advancing.
Kai and Johnny heard sirens coming off in the distance and the wild red and blue lights bounced down the street. Johnny pulled Kai into an alley and reached up to unlatch a rusty fire escape ladder. The two boys scrambled up the ladder not wanting to waste a second of their freedom. Both boys were panting with the sirens going right past the dark alley. Kai and Johnny feeling less rushed quietly went up the fire escape to the old brick building that was used to store old documents.
"Shit… that guy was bloody insane…. Its not easy being a kid with mOrOnS like him running around… what a waste of tax dollars…" Johnny said spitting a wad of saliva as he walked to the edge of the building.
"It was pretty funny though, he was a fucking redneck.." Kai said as he too spit but there was blood mixed with his saliva. Johnny smirked and looked at the graveled floor where Kai's reddish spit rested next to his yellowish spit.
"Kai, come over here.." Johnny said in a rare serious voice. Kai looked skeptically at Johnny, never the less he slowly advanced toward him.
"Show me yer face man." Johnny said concerned. Kai looked at Johnny looking right into his brown eyes. He saw sincerity and concern in them.
Johnny looked at Kai's pale complexion and saw the blood running down his nose, and a little of the salty red substance dripped from his mouth. "Open yer mouth now, let me see where yer bleedin'."
"Don't worry about me, I'm fine… besides its nothing anyway." Kai said feeling defensive. He knew Johnny was a friend who cared but he wasn't ready to go there yet.
"Hmnmm , I'm pathetic.. I guess the abbey still has its toll on me." Kai thought.
Johnny took the hint and decided to leave it be, "Just make sure it doesn't get infected Kai."
Kai decided it was time for a subject change. "So you think their still looking for us?" Kai asked.
"Hah, I hope so just for the other kids' sakes. At least that way they wont stop and arrest 'em…. Man I cant stand cops.. They think everything they do is right, half of it is bull shit anyway… crooked cops I tell you what."
The city at night was beautiful. The city was lit and with golden lights and a few of these lights traveled up the dark mountains. The dark nights sky had silver stars that glistened. Kai looked up and saw a group of about 4 stars compacted together and then to his right were two stars together. Kai smiled as he reflected on what that meant to him.
Both stars stood bright and strong, and if you looked at the big picture no star was alone. These specific stars were strong and weren't going anywhere.
"Man, Kai its great up here… You can see the whole town…. So, you think their worried about you?" Johnny asked. Kai looked up with a bit of surprise in his features. "They don't care… wait, how did you.…" Kai said his eyes traveling over the city. "I meant yer team man, the Bladebreakers…" Johnny said looking at Kai who acted calm and cold.
"How did you know that…" Kai asked.. "I mean, that I was part of the team?"
"Eh, I know stuff.." Johnny said a smirk on his face. "Come on, I want to show you the apartment after I sell the stuff, and then after we sell it we need to buy something to eat. So after ALL that.. Then I want to show you the apartment." Kai chuckled a bit. Johnny was like his old best friend in so many ways. He cared about him, laughed with him, didn't judge him, and knew when to let things slide.
The two boys took one last look over the ledge and walked back toward the fire escape with the starry scene in their heads.
Now to sell this." Johnny said as they walked back to the main sidewalk. A couple hookers tried to pick them up but they ignored them. After a few minutes of walking and friendly conversation, Johnny led him to a different alley.
"DEAREST...OH MOTHER DEAR!" Johnny yelled with his accent making it sound extra sarcastic.
A shadowy figure appeared from behind a dumpster. Johnny smiled openly as the figure got closer. Once it stood in the light of a street lamp Kai saw that it was a man. This man had an old blue trench coat on and black fingerless gloves. He had a 5 o'clock shadow and a bushy moustache along with a bit of a stomach. The man smelled strongly of pot and alcohol.
"you knows kid… that sense of humor of yers iz gonna get you in some big trouble!" The man said as he gave him a pat on the back. "… but just the same I appreciates a good sense of humor just the sames… I hope you remembered it."
"Sure I did," Johnny said as he handed the man the bag of marijuana. The man took it smiled a bit showing his yellow teeth with a few missing here and there and then set off to leave.
"HEY!" Johnny yelled. The man turned back around and handed him the 20 bucks he owed him.
"good..I was teachin yous a lesson… you know..errr… buzyness…never get ripped off…good fer yous..Johnny.." The man said covering his scam up. The man turned around spat a great wad of brownish spit..mumbled something about youth and left.
Kai and Johnny walked away. "Who was that?" Kai asked. "That was Loui, he apparently is from Paris, but I think we both know he's stoned beyond belief and doesn't know what hes talking about."
"Its like 2 am, and Im just now getting to grocery shopping… hah..how time fuckin flies for those of us contributing" Johnny said as he and Kai walked into a 7-11.
The clerk was a burly man in his late 40's. He had dark brown hair that was shaggy and unkempt. He wore the reguired emplyee shirt of orange and green stripes with a green apron over (whatever..). As the two boys walked in he looked at them with suspicion behind his scratched glasses. He instinctively hovered his foot over the button under the counter that contacted the police. The man snarled as the two walked passed him with his foot ready to stomp on the red button.
"G'mornin'" Johnny said politely, Kai gave the man a small nod but nothing more.. He wasn't that bubbly.
"eh, I don't know, anything you want Kai?" Johnny said running his pale, and bloody hand up his hair.
"No, I don't need anything."
"Eh alright buddy," Johnny said walking toward the refrigerators that lined the back of the store. "What do ya prefer, 'Mickey's, or 'Weiser?" Johnny asked standing in front of the beers. 'hn.. Figures I guess..' Kai thought to himself chuckling mentally.
"Uhh.. Whatever's cheaper I guess," Kai said, "But whatever you want."
"I spose bud is certainly weiser…" Johnny said smiling while he opened the refrigerator and pulled out a case of Bud Weiser, and walked down the cracker and bread aisle. With the case of beer under one arm, Johnny grabbed a quick loaf of Wonder bread with a small jar of peanut butter, and headed toward the cash register. The man's snarl immediately deepened as he looked at Johnny and Kai and then at the beer and bread.
"Letmesee your I.D kid… no beer for minors." The man said in an icy tone that could intimidiate anyone. Johnny looked a bit nerved, but Kai remained strong as ever being used to these kinds of chilling voices. Johnny fumbled around in his jean pocket looking for his I.D, his heart racing. The longer you took to find your I.D was pretty suspicious. He managed to produce the I.D. The man at the counter snatched it out of his hand and looked at it, his eyes averted into a glare.
"What kinda moron do you think I am! This is fake kid!" The man said full of rage and anger.
"No its not! Im eighteen! That's old enough man!" Johnny said gaining a little courage.
"I should call the cops, you cant argue with me, pay for your bread and get out before I have you arrested!"
Kai watched the scenario play out before his dark eyes. He saw how whenever he and Johnny went somewhere regardless of where they were, people assumed the worst. It wasn't fair, and it seemed horrible assumptions like these would follow him everywhere.
Hey, that's Kai, his grandfather is a maniac and I heard that he tried to kill him.."
"well I heard that Kai doesn't talk because he never learned how to"
"yeah, well I happen to know that some expirment was done on him and the side effects of it is why hes so distant and quiet, hes afraid of people, is what it is."
"Your all wrong, Kai was forced into the streets and he got beat up a lot, and someone slit his throat but they rescued him in time, that's why he wears a scarf.. To hide the scar from it."
"That's not true at all! Kai did it to himself to get attention, he also had to steal stuff to make his grandfather leave him alone.."
Those were just some of the rumors that Kai heard from kids and gossiping be blade fanatics, who liked to come up with reasons for Kai's natural, and 'forced' behaviors.
"Look, the I.D is real and if you need another I.D I have one as well." Kai said in a tone colder and harder then steel. Johnny and the man both looked at Kai curiously fore it was his first time speaking since Johnny asked what beer he wanted. The man all of a sudden decided to drop it. He gave Johnny the I.D back, and waited for him to pay up.
Johnny was very dazed by the man's sudden change in reaction and pulled out a crumpled 20 dollar bill with a small rip in the corner. The man looked at it, pursed his lips swallowed hard, looked into Johnny's brown eyes, uncrumpled the bill, and put it in the register.
"Have fun kids.." The man said as he put the beer and bread in a paper bag in a very rude tone. "We always do." Kai said in a sarcastic tone as they walked out of the store.
"Now, to the apaRt-ment." Johnny said distorting his face when he hit the 'r' syllable.
The two boys walked, sleep slowly taking its toll on them. Johnny came to a stop when he came to a wherehouse that was completely south of 'junkie ally' this was closer toward the beach and where Tyson lived, actually it was about 3 or 4 blocks away from the dojo.
Kai cringed as he and Johnny walked past the dojo. Luckily everyone was asleep, but he knew his team wasn't dumb, a little slow sometimes, but definitely not dumb. They would figure out he was gone sooner then later.
The 'apartment' really was the opposite of a clean place to stay. It was an old wherehouse that Kai used to sleep in when he and his grandfather got in a fight. He had a couple old things hidden behind loose bricks, plus the Bladesharks and him used to hang out here and stash their stolen blades. He remembered a lot of fights and mistreatment happened here. The second Kai was led in by his friend the smell of the place let him be reminded of some of what happened.
"Carlos.. Your strength is faltering.. I'm not happy with you about that, your going to have to prove yourself.." Kai said looking down at Carlos from the steel beams that ran up and across the old cement ceiling. "Relax Kai, I'm so strong and at top of my game right now, that I could take anyone on." Carlos said in a presumptuous manner.
Ill take that challenge… name the stakes." Kai said with reason and fact to be so confident.
Carlos thought for a second and then followed Kai with his eyes as he landed with grace from the beam that was up high. Kai landed on one knee with one hand down for support. He regained his balance, stood up and stood arrogantly against Carlos.
"Well, if I win, you have to leave us, and make me leader before you leave, and before you go, but after im leader, I get to do whatever I want to you." Carlos said.
"And if I win, you regain your position and we go along like we always did, you don't challenge me, and you do what I say like always." Kai said with no emotion or hint of nervousness. He knew if Carlos won he would shred Kai up with his blade, but that would never happen.
The two launched their blades. Carlos became nervous though he had nothing to loose at all aside form his dignity and the little respect Kai had for him. The blades hit each other, but Carlos was too predictable for him. Kai decided to let Carlos think hes winning for self-esteem issues before knocking his blade out.
Dranzer returned to his hand and he arrogantly walked away. Carlos fell to his knees before storming out, and returning 4 hours later.
Kai sighed as Johnny led him to a corner of the building where some mattresses and blankets were laying unaware that Kai had spent weeks in here.
And that's all girlie decided to write. Hahaha
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Frostt