Authors Note:
Well, this is a chappie, dedicated to getting Kai into the village, so
there'll be no changing for him.....YET!
"Wow guys! Thanks for staying for my birthday! I had a blast!" Max smiled.
"Forget it Max, we're glad to be here, right Kai" ray asked.
"Hm, sure. Shouldn't we be heading to the airport now?"
"Oh right! I completely forgot! We have an hour to get there, but I guess we should leave now then!" ray grinned out of embarrassment, all night, seeing Mariah was all he could think about, and he forgot.
-On-The-Plane-
"Not nervous, are you Kai?" ray asked.
"Hm? why would I be nervous?" he asked in an unimpressed tone.
"Well I hate to bring up the past, but you DID steal their bits." Ray replied, not thinking.
"Well then don't bring it up!" Kai snapped. He hated it when people would bring up that. Nevertheless, it did make him wonder. He wasn't bothered about what Lee, Gary or Kevin thought, but what about Mariah? Surely she would either yell at him, or even worse, she could pretend he did not exist. Yet again, he noticed how pathetic he must have sounded. Who cares if she ignored him? At least she would not bother him, which was just fine with him! 'Thank god I only have to stay there for a couple of days!' he smiled inwardly.
Ray looked at Kai's angered expression.
'Man, I shouldn't have brought that up; this is gonna be one hell of a long flight! Thank goodness he'll only be there for a couple of days!' he thought.
-After-Plane-Land-
The four White Tigers sat on the highway that was about 10minutes from the village. The road was completely silent, which was nothing new. Nobody really knew about the village so everything was pretty much, empty. The White Tigers were waiting for Ray to arrive, knowing that he would have to get there by coach after he leaves the plane. Little did they know he was arriving with another guest.
"Hey, HEY! Look! I see the coach!" Kevin yelled as he saw a vehicle in the distance surrounded by dust due to the mud road.
Much to everyone's eagerness to see Ray, the coach approached and stopped down the road from them, the White Tigers ran towards it as Ray and Kai got off it. The Tigers then were getting closer to Ray, but not without noticing Kai was with him, all except Mariah that was. The second she saw Ray, that was all her eyes could focus on. Ray saw her approaching him and he dropped his luggage, ready to hug the girl of his dreams. Mariah who had run in front of the others was aiming for Ray and with a...
:::: GLOMP:::
She got Ray in a major hug, which he definitely loved! The others had eventually caught up and smiled at the sight of the young bladders being so close, except Lee of course. He still hated how close they got, but his crush he had on Mariah had decreased slightly, she cared too much about Ray.
Mariah eventually pulled back from him and stepped aside to let the other Tigers greet him. But only when she did, she noticed the cool blue haired blader behind him.
"K, Kai? What?" Mariah stuttered.
Ray turned around and smiled at the face she was making at Kai, and decided to give her an explanation.
"What with everything going on, Kai's going to be living with me for a while....like a holiday." He informed.
Mariah hummed in acknowledgement and walked directly in front of Kai. Kai was shocked at first, but he knew what she was going to do, most likely, she was going to slap him for being there. Instead, she did something he did NOT suspect. She hugged him. Kai was wide eyed by now. 'What was she doing' but without realising it he too put his arms around her and hugged her back, not knowing why. The White Tigers and Ray sent her 'what the hell are you doing?' looks.
Mariah pulled away from Kai.
"It's nice to see you again Kai, it's been a long time. I hope you enjoy staying in our village." She smiled sweetly. Kai felt his complexion turn crimson at her actions. He was all ready with insults and scowling and she had to destroy it all. Lee walked up to Kai and held out his hand.
"Lets leave the past where it belongs, friend." he smiled while holding out his hand for Kai to shake, which he did. So they all walked into the village.
It was in the afternoon when they got to the village. Kai took in his surroundings. The small village, the houses were larger than he expected. (If you've seen Tenchi, then think of his house. Nice, ne?)
At one point Kai thought, he had strolled into a ghost town and he looked about trying to spot someone. Mariah saw him looking around confused; she knew what he was thinking so she decided to answer the question scrolling through his mind.
"You won't spot anybody out here now, Kai. It's 4:00. Most people have there tea at the same time...sort of like tradition I guess."
Kai looked at her as they wandered through the village. 'How did she know what I was thinking?'
"Well, Mariah has a good point, I'd better get home now too, I'm starving!" Lee grinned.
At the mention of food, Gary drooled, and Kevin's stomach made a tiny rumbling noise which made them all, minus Kai, laugh.
"Yeah, my mums making a big tea for Kai, seen as though he's a guest, we'd better get there before it gets cold, right Kai.
"Dido! Well, how about we meet with each other at, say....five?" Mariah asked.
"Right, see later guys!" ray smiled as he walked led Kai to his house; he and Mariah were neighbours so she walked with them. She then flashed them both a smile and a wink and went inside her house. Kai was dumbstruck and Ray was blushing happily, as he went in his house.
"RAY! Sweetie! Give your mommy a BIG hug!" cried his mother as she hugged him tighter while crying.
"I've missed my baby boy!" she wailed. Ray felt extremely embarrassed. How could she embarrass him in front of his cold teammate. Ray's mum let go then she noticed Kai standing in the doorway and, gave him a death hug too.
"OH MY! You must be Kai! Rays told me all about you! You'll be like Ray's brother!!!" she gleamed. Ray's mum was quite peculiar, she was always happy and in all her life, she has only ever cried out of happiness. She let go of Kai. 'Jay!' she called out. 'Who's that?' Kai thought. And in walked a brown haired Ray look-alike. He wore the same sort of outfit as Ray, but instead of ying-yang signs, he had a sun signs on his clothes and on his blue headband.
"Kai, this is my twin bro, Jaime, Jay for short!" he smiled as he gave his brother a manly hug.
"Jay dear, would you take Kai's things to the spare bedroom? And be quick because your tea's ready."
-At the dinner table-
They all sat on a large wooden table. Ray's mother had made all sorts, there was soup, pasta, bread rolls and cherry pie for desert, all of it was homemade. Kai noticed that there was an empty chair. Where was Ray's dad? Then a horrible thought crossed his mind. 'What if Ray's dad was...'
"Hey mom, dad not back from work I see?" ray said while shovelling pasta in his mouth. Kai gave a sigh of relief and then got a bread roll to have with his soup.
After-The-Meal.
"Mom, I'm going to show Kai around with the others now, we'll be back in a few hours, bye!" ray called while slipping his shoes on and walking outside.
Kai looked at the outside of Mariah's house and her garden. At the back, there were swings and a few benches, and one of them was a swing bench instead of a chair. Ray saw Kai looking at the garden surrounded by colourful plants and fruit trees.
"She only has her mum...," he said glumly. Kai looked at Ray suddenly, a little startled by him just bring that up all of a sudden.
"What does that mean?" Kai asked, not sure of what Ray was saying.
"I saw you looking at the garden and stuff, Mariah only lives with her mum, so they could decorate it whatever way they wanted. Kai nodded to show he understood, but there was still a lingering question.
"How? How did he...."
"He had a cancerous lung; he died just a day before Mariah's birthday, which was the saddest day of her life." He said caringly as he walked up to the front door and knocked.
A beautiful woman opened the door, she was like a life sized Barbie, her hair was a whitish-yellow blonde-haired woman. In addition, her eyes were a golden yellow. 'Now I can see where she gets her looks' Kai thought before mentally whacking himself. How could he think such a thing?
"Oh Ray! Mariah told me you were back!" she said while giving him a quick hug. Then she turned to Kai.
"And Mariah said you brought a friend as well, Kai isn't it? Mariah's been telling me about you!" she smiled. Kai felt his cheeks get warmer.
"Mariah's on the phone upstairs talking to an Emily girl. Come inside and sit down!" she smiled sweetly as she stepped aside to let the two boys in. Kai and Ray sat down on the comfortable chairs; they were a soft cream colour.
Kai looked around the room to see photographs on the walls; he looked at one, which was a man with long black hair and red eyes. He soon figured that it was her dad. (A/N: lol! I based him on final fantasy's Vincent.) Mariah then walked in the room.
"My mum told me you guys were here, well come on then! Lee is most likely waiting.
They were walking through the village again, only this time there were people, mainly old people either working or sitting with there grandchildren, and little boys on the grass playing beyblade, and running around playing planes. Where as the little girls were sitting together playing dolls. This made Kai think of Mariah more, she was raised in a place like this, yet she could blade, and she was tough. The one thing about the girls in the village was that their hair all rather looked the same. Mariah's was a unique style though. So did the boys for that matter, haven't they ever heard of haircuts.
"I'm surprised you haven't asked about the hair thing yet." Ray smiled. Kai looked wide-eyed at ray. 'Are they psychic or something?'
"What about it?" he replied casually.
"Girls have long hair as a symbol of marriage. If a girl DOESN'T have long hair, then they cant marry a member of the village, I'm not to clear why, I think its to do with respect to the village and honour, theres a leagend of a woman who started a mutany with a few other woman in the village, and they cut their hair to symbolise freedom. or something like that...."
They walked down the street to see Lee sitting on the hedge of his house.
"Where are Kevin and Gary?" Ray asked.
"Kevin got himself grounded for answering back to his mother, and Gary ate too much and fell asleep. It's just us four."
Lee said while jumping down.
Kai had seen most of the village, but Mariah decided to take Kai to her favourite place. It was on top of a huge hill. It not only looked over the village, but much, much further than that. It even over looked the school that they attended, and the school that Kai would be attending.
They all sat they are and looked down; it was a perfect place to just sit and relax. Kai was overwhelmed at how big the forest was, for a moment, he thought it was just his eyes, but then he realised that there was something in the centre of the forest. Then strangely, it disappeared. Did he imagine it? Once again, Mariah answered his thoughts.
"Kai, if you ever see anything in the forest, or anyone, PLEASE, leave immediately, it's a dangerous place, and you'll regret going in there."
Kai looked into Mariah's eyes to see worry forming in them. She was generally worried for him. This made his heart warm slightly. Mariah could tell that Kai was going to ask why, but she could not tell him her shame. So she smiled at him and decided it was late.
"We should head back now." She said while dusting herself off.
-Kai's-New-Room-
It had to be said, Kai actually liked this bed of his. It was warm and comfortable. However, he could not quite drift to sleep yet. His mind wandered into the concern Mariah had in her eyes, what was so dangerous in the forest that would make her worry so much? Kai could not stop thinking about it, so he decided to check it out himself. He could take care of himself after all; little did he know he had to defend himself against an old woman.
Authors Note:
DON'T DO IT KAI!!! TURN BACK!!!
Lol! I don't think he heard me! :P meh! Cant say I didn't warn him! R&R PPL!
"Wow guys! Thanks for staying for my birthday! I had a blast!" Max smiled.
"Forget it Max, we're glad to be here, right Kai" ray asked.
"Hm, sure. Shouldn't we be heading to the airport now?"
"Oh right! I completely forgot! We have an hour to get there, but I guess we should leave now then!" ray grinned out of embarrassment, all night, seeing Mariah was all he could think about, and he forgot.
-On-The-Plane-
"Not nervous, are you Kai?" ray asked.
"Hm? why would I be nervous?" he asked in an unimpressed tone.
"Well I hate to bring up the past, but you DID steal their bits." Ray replied, not thinking.
"Well then don't bring it up!" Kai snapped. He hated it when people would bring up that. Nevertheless, it did make him wonder. He wasn't bothered about what Lee, Gary or Kevin thought, but what about Mariah? Surely she would either yell at him, or even worse, she could pretend he did not exist. Yet again, he noticed how pathetic he must have sounded. Who cares if she ignored him? At least she would not bother him, which was just fine with him! 'Thank god I only have to stay there for a couple of days!' he smiled inwardly.
Ray looked at Kai's angered expression.
'Man, I shouldn't have brought that up; this is gonna be one hell of a long flight! Thank goodness he'll only be there for a couple of days!' he thought.
-After-Plane-Land-
The four White Tigers sat on the highway that was about 10minutes from the village. The road was completely silent, which was nothing new. Nobody really knew about the village so everything was pretty much, empty. The White Tigers were waiting for Ray to arrive, knowing that he would have to get there by coach after he leaves the plane. Little did they know he was arriving with another guest.
"Hey, HEY! Look! I see the coach!" Kevin yelled as he saw a vehicle in the distance surrounded by dust due to the mud road.
Much to everyone's eagerness to see Ray, the coach approached and stopped down the road from them, the White Tigers ran towards it as Ray and Kai got off it. The Tigers then were getting closer to Ray, but not without noticing Kai was with him, all except Mariah that was. The second she saw Ray, that was all her eyes could focus on. Ray saw her approaching him and he dropped his luggage, ready to hug the girl of his dreams. Mariah who had run in front of the others was aiming for Ray and with a...
:::: GLOMP:::
She got Ray in a major hug, which he definitely loved! The others had eventually caught up and smiled at the sight of the young bladders being so close, except Lee of course. He still hated how close they got, but his crush he had on Mariah had decreased slightly, she cared too much about Ray.
Mariah eventually pulled back from him and stepped aside to let the other Tigers greet him. But only when she did, she noticed the cool blue haired blader behind him.
"K, Kai? What?" Mariah stuttered.
Ray turned around and smiled at the face she was making at Kai, and decided to give her an explanation.
"What with everything going on, Kai's going to be living with me for a while....like a holiday." He informed.
Mariah hummed in acknowledgement and walked directly in front of Kai. Kai was shocked at first, but he knew what she was going to do, most likely, she was going to slap him for being there. Instead, she did something he did NOT suspect. She hugged him. Kai was wide eyed by now. 'What was she doing' but without realising it he too put his arms around her and hugged her back, not knowing why. The White Tigers and Ray sent her 'what the hell are you doing?' looks.
Mariah pulled away from Kai.
"It's nice to see you again Kai, it's been a long time. I hope you enjoy staying in our village." She smiled sweetly. Kai felt his complexion turn crimson at her actions. He was all ready with insults and scowling and she had to destroy it all. Lee walked up to Kai and held out his hand.
"Lets leave the past where it belongs, friend." he smiled while holding out his hand for Kai to shake, which he did. So they all walked into the village.
It was in the afternoon when they got to the village. Kai took in his surroundings. The small village, the houses were larger than he expected. (If you've seen Tenchi, then think of his house. Nice, ne?)
At one point Kai thought, he had strolled into a ghost town and he looked about trying to spot someone. Mariah saw him looking around confused; she knew what he was thinking so she decided to answer the question scrolling through his mind.
"You won't spot anybody out here now, Kai. It's 4:00. Most people have there tea at the same time...sort of like tradition I guess."
Kai looked at her as they wandered through the village. 'How did she know what I was thinking?'
"Well, Mariah has a good point, I'd better get home now too, I'm starving!" Lee grinned.
At the mention of food, Gary drooled, and Kevin's stomach made a tiny rumbling noise which made them all, minus Kai, laugh.
"Yeah, my mums making a big tea for Kai, seen as though he's a guest, we'd better get there before it gets cold, right Kai.
"Dido! Well, how about we meet with each other at, say....five?" Mariah asked.
"Right, see later guys!" ray smiled as he walked led Kai to his house; he and Mariah were neighbours so she walked with them. She then flashed them both a smile and a wink and went inside her house. Kai was dumbstruck and Ray was blushing happily, as he went in his house.
"RAY! Sweetie! Give your mommy a BIG hug!" cried his mother as she hugged him tighter while crying.
"I've missed my baby boy!" she wailed. Ray felt extremely embarrassed. How could she embarrass him in front of his cold teammate. Ray's mum let go then she noticed Kai standing in the doorway and, gave him a death hug too.
"OH MY! You must be Kai! Rays told me all about you! You'll be like Ray's brother!!!" she gleamed. Ray's mum was quite peculiar, she was always happy and in all her life, she has only ever cried out of happiness. She let go of Kai. 'Jay!' she called out. 'Who's that?' Kai thought. And in walked a brown haired Ray look-alike. He wore the same sort of outfit as Ray, but instead of ying-yang signs, he had a sun signs on his clothes and on his blue headband.
"Kai, this is my twin bro, Jaime, Jay for short!" he smiled as he gave his brother a manly hug.
"Jay dear, would you take Kai's things to the spare bedroom? And be quick because your tea's ready."
-At the dinner table-
They all sat on a large wooden table. Ray's mother had made all sorts, there was soup, pasta, bread rolls and cherry pie for desert, all of it was homemade. Kai noticed that there was an empty chair. Where was Ray's dad? Then a horrible thought crossed his mind. 'What if Ray's dad was...'
"Hey mom, dad not back from work I see?" ray said while shovelling pasta in his mouth. Kai gave a sigh of relief and then got a bread roll to have with his soup.
After-The-Meal.
"Mom, I'm going to show Kai around with the others now, we'll be back in a few hours, bye!" ray called while slipping his shoes on and walking outside.
Kai looked at the outside of Mariah's house and her garden. At the back, there were swings and a few benches, and one of them was a swing bench instead of a chair. Ray saw Kai looking at the garden surrounded by colourful plants and fruit trees.
"She only has her mum...," he said glumly. Kai looked at Ray suddenly, a little startled by him just bring that up all of a sudden.
"What does that mean?" Kai asked, not sure of what Ray was saying.
"I saw you looking at the garden and stuff, Mariah only lives with her mum, so they could decorate it whatever way they wanted. Kai nodded to show he understood, but there was still a lingering question.
"How? How did he...."
"He had a cancerous lung; he died just a day before Mariah's birthday, which was the saddest day of her life." He said caringly as he walked up to the front door and knocked.
A beautiful woman opened the door, she was like a life sized Barbie, her hair was a whitish-yellow blonde-haired woman. In addition, her eyes were a golden yellow. 'Now I can see where she gets her looks' Kai thought before mentally whacking himself. How could he think such a thing?
"Oh Ray! Mariah told me you were back!" she said while giving him a quick hug. Then she turned to Kai.
"And Mariah said you brought a friend as well, Kai isn't it? Mariah's been telling me about you!" she smiled. Kai felt his cheeks get warmer.
"Mariah's on the phone upstairs talking to an Emily girl. Come inside and sit down!" she smiled sweetly as she stepped aside to let the two boys in. Kai and Ray sat down on the comfortable chairs; they were a soft cream colour.
Kai looked around the room to see photographs on the walls; he looked at one, which was a man with long black hair and red eyes. He soon figured that it was her dad. (A/N: lol! I based him on final fantasy's Vincent.) Mariah then walked in the room.
"My mum told me you guys were here, well come on then! Lee is most likely waiting.
They were walking through the village again, only this time there were people, mainly old people either working or sitting with there grandchildren, and little boys on the grass playing beyblade, and running around playing planes. Where as the little girls were sitting together playing dolls. This made Kai think of Mariah more, she was raised in a place like this, yet she could blade, and she was tough. The one thing about the girls in the village was that their hair all rather looked the same. Mariah's was a unique style though. So did the boys for that matter, haven't they ever heard of haircuts.
"I'm surprised you haven't asked about the hair thing yet." Ray smiled. Kai looked wide-eyed at ray. 'Are they psychic or something?'
"What about it?" he replied casually.
"Girls have long hair as a symbol of marriage. If a girl DOESN'T have long hair, then they cant marry a member of the village, I'm not to clear why, I think its to do with respect to the village and honour, theres a leagend of a woman who started a mutany with a few other woman in the village, and they cut their hair to symbolise freedom. or something like that...."
They walked down the street to see Lee sitting on the hedge of his house.
"Where are Kevin and Gary?" Ray asked.
"Kevin got himself grounded for answering back to his mother, and Gary ate too much and fell asleep. It's just us four."
Lee said while jumping down.
Kai had seen most of the village, but Mariah decided to take Kai to her favourite place. It was on top of a huge hill. It not only looked over the village, but much, much further than that. It even over looked the school that they attended, and the school that Kai would be attending.
They all sat they are and looked down; it was a perfect place to just sit and relax. Kai was overwhelmed at how big the forest was, for a moment, he thought it was just his eyes, but then he realised that there was something in the centre of the forest. Then strangely, it disappeared. Did he imagine it? Once again, Mariah answered his thoughts.
"Kai, if you ever see anything in the forest, or anyone, PLEASE, leave immediately, it's a dangerous place, and you'll regret going in there."
Kai looked into Mariah's eyes to see worry forming in them. She was generally worried for him. This made his heart warm slightly. Mariah could tell that Kai was going to ask why, but she could not tell him her shame. So she smiled at him and decided it was late.
"We should head back now." She said while dusting herself off.
-Kai's-New-Room-
It had to be said, Kai actually liked this bed of his. It was warm and comfortable. However, he could not quite drift to sleep yet. His mind wandered into the concern Mariah had in her eyes, what was so dangerous in the forest that would make her worry so much? Kai could not stop thinking about it, so he decided to check it out himself. He could take care of himself after all; little did he know he had to defend himself against an old woman.
Authors Note:
DON'T DO IT KAI!!! TURN BACK!!!
Lol! I don't think he heard me! :P meh! Cant say I didn't warn him! R&R PPL!