Hi people! Can't believe I'm back? Yeah I know I took long updating this time. Sorry.
Well.. many things will be discovered in this chapter… like the madness of a man "who used his grandson for his own benefits…" LOL
I hope you like this chap! There is more KaiHilary here, and I promise in next one will be even more!!
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When the love has to end: Chapter 24: The Judgment
"NO! - he suddenly stopped her. - You will explain it… but in front of everyone else." stated the teen.
"I can't do that! I told you because you would have figured it out anyway!"
"Please Krina. You must do it… it'll be something else to help with the trial… for us… at least… for the children."
"O…k… it's ok. Let me finish checking you before…"
"Bah, it doesn't matter!"
"Kai! I'll talk in front of everybody for you, let me do this for the trial!"
"Hn… whatever." In fact he hated being checked up by Boris' sister. But something in Krina was different from him. Maybe the fact that she had set her life in the right road was making the discrepancy.
After what seemed hours, both walked to the common room where everyone was sitting in the floor around the table.
(a/n: the way they are sitting is this: Kai; Hilary; Ray; Kashira; Irena; Tyson's dad; Tyson; Kenny; Max; Grandpa; Dickenson; Tala; Bryan; Natasha and Krina (next to Kai). The children are playing beyblade on Tyson's room)
"Krina has something to tell you" Kai's statement interrupted everyone's conversation. The nurse gasped in return, and looked at all the staring faces.
"Come on, if it has to do with all this surely will help for the trial" encouraged Ray. Krina smiled and stared at the floor.
"I… told Kai… I'm Boris Balkov's sister."
The shock on everyone's face was evident.
Kai stumbled in the dark while walking by the corridors of Tyson's dojo. He couldn't sleep. So many things had being out to light the night before…
…:Flashback:…
"Natasha… may I ask you something?" requested Krina, after telling them what she had previously told Kai.
"Sure…"
"You're Boris Balkov's daughter, right?"
"Yes… I am…"
The nurse looked confused, as if she was thinking something impossible in her mind. "What… about your mother?" she suddenly asked.
"My father told me she had abandoned me right after I was born… I don't know her name, I just know she was Russian."
"When the baby I previously talked to you about was born… her father… was Boris Balkov." If the people there were astonished before, now they were all frozen by the news. "My daughter is also Boris' daughter… she was supposed to be dead but…"
"What about your eyes?" inquired Kai. "They are so similar to hers…"
"Well… that… could be because one way or another I would be her aunt…"
"You're not JUST her aunt" stated Ray, suddenly taking part of the conversation. "What happened to you? Why Boris is your daughter's father?"
"He… raped me. And I got pregnant from that rape."
"When? How old where you?" asked the Chinese boy.
"I was 17… and he was 27. My daughter was born on September 20th."
"I think… Boris… forgot… to change… the birth date."
"This can't be real…" whispered Krina, her glazed eyes fighting back tears.
"It IS real." declared Kai.
"But… just another question Natasha… how old are you?"
"I'm 16." Answered the teen. Krina got up suddenly from where she was sitting, and rounded Natasha's shoulders with her arms, pulling her in the warmest embrace Kai had ever seen.
Shining smiles on most of their faces, some of them were crying still. Kai didn't know if he had to cry or shout.
…:End of flashback:…
It wasn't fair… but anyway he was happy about them. Not having a mother to hug and kiss was something that hurt him more than anything else.
Tyson's dojo was crowded that day. With Tyson, in his room, were sleeping Kai, Max, Ray, Tala, Bryan, and Kenny. In the guests room, Hilary, Kashira, Krina, Natasha and Irena were sleeping with the five kids. Dickenson, Grandpa and Tyson's dad were sleeping in another room.
Kai made his way outside the Dojo. Cold night air surely would make him relax. He sat on the grass and put his sight up to the sky.
'At least I'm back here… god I hate Russia… I want to see her… but that's impossible… I'll never see my mother again… I have to assume she's dead. Voltaire killed them both… I hate him. I hate him more than anything else.'
"…Kai?" the well known voice interrupted his thoughts.
The guy turned round. "Hilary?"
"Hi… it's cold outside…"
"That's why I want to be here…"
"Is there something wrong Kai?"
"… not at all.."
"It's because of Natasha and her mother?" she asked suddenly, sitting beside him.
"… you're able to read my thoughts as if they were written, Hilary"
She smiled and stared at him. "Kai… all of us have different stories and that's why you're so confused… call it destiny, call it lack of luck, but each of you guys have a painful past that won't be solved easily."
"Tomorrow's the trial right?"
"Yeah… we have to be there at 7 am…"
"Dammit… I don't want to be there… Voltaire will be there too…"
"I know. Come on Kai, you'll be strong. We have a good lawyer, and besides, Tala, Bryan, Natasha, Kashira and you have good arguments. Voltaire hasn't them. I'm sure you'll make it out."
"Thanks for the support."
"What else can I do for you, Kai? I want to see you ok, but I know you aren't…"
"Just stay here."
Hilary sighed and rested her head on Kai's shoulder. He let a short breath of air escape from between his lips. "Hil… thanks for everything…"
"You don't have to thank me, Kai…"
"Sure I have to… you are still here after two month I was absent… please forgive me…"
"You know you had to go… that's why the kids are here, right? You saved them…"
"Tala, Bryan, Natasha and I did."
"But I'm sure it would have been different without you."
"Remember the last letter I sent you?"
"I have it… I loved the song Kai…"
"Hn… thanks." He took her hand on his own and pressed it against his chest. "Hilary… I'll always love you… you mean so much to me, you can't imagine…"
She just smiled. With his left hand he took her chin, and before she could say anything, she was feeling Kai's lips just a few millimeters apart from her. "Kai… I love you too…" he pressed his lips against hers.
Kai linked his fingers with Hilary's, and ran his tongue by her lower lip. His urge to kiss her was so much he couldn't stop it. The hand on her chin made it's way towards her back and slid to her waist, pressing her body against Kai's.
She let Kai in and he introduced his tongue, feeling her kiss him as she had never done before. Her right arm rounded Kai's neck, and pulled him even closer.
She moaned at the need of oxygen and he let go, stopping at a centimeter from her lips. "I love you Hilary." He stated in a whisper.
Walking into the courtroom, Kai wanted to forget it all and run away. He could feel his heart pondering hard against his chest, this would be a difficult thing. At his sides were Hilary and Tala, behind them Bryan, Natasha, Ray and Kashira, and after those the rest of the Blade breakers with the adults and children. Irena was no longer with them, she had left due to profession things.
Kai sighed. He was scared. But here, fear was not something he had to think about. It could mean failure and that was not an option.
He stood outside for a minute, with Tala, Natasha and her boyfriend.
"Guys… this will be difficult…" Bryan spoke, looking at each of their worried eyes. "but as long as we keep together we'll finish them for once and for all…"
"We will. Let's go." Stated Natasha.
As they entered the room they could see the wooden doors and benches. The judge was sitting in the front, and on both sides were places for him and his opposite.
Kai felt his heart ponder even harder when noticed who was sitting there. So did the other guys. He shouldn't have been surprised, after all. But it was long since he had seen that man. Voltaire sat impassively, acting as if he didn't care, and maybe he didn't.
He looked at Kai from head to toe, and Kai had a hard time avoiding shiver. The old man looked at his lawyer, just as evil as him.
Kai was seated, and the procedures began. After the proper formalities the judge hit the hammer on his stand. Now it began.
"We shall begin the proceedings by listening to the list of causes for the accused." The judge nodded at a man they hadn't seen before. He took a paper and read out loud.
"Voltaire Hiwatari, you have been accused of drugs traffic, human threatening, weaponry, and murder. You have been involved in an organization aimed to rule the world, threatened infant safety, and did illegal experiments. Court proceedings have already found you guilty of previous crimes, the aim of this judge is to determine of you are guilty or innocent to the crimes relating to the accusations of torture, human degrading, murder, assault, emotional pain, and assisted rape of the minors Kai Hiwatari, Tala Ivannov, Natasha Balkov, Rehki Khan, Mariek Wallshau, Mark Thoms, Ruben Hall, and Jonathan Adams."
Murmurs buzzed in everyone's ears, coming mainly from the public seats. "Now, Irena Repchanski is to provide the evidence against Voltaire Hiwatari." The woman got up from where she was and gave a last look to the children and the teens affected.
"The first evidence I have –she pronounced clear and loudly. – is the medical diagnosis from the injured children, and the absence of their ID. There are photographs of several injures produced on their body by untested chemicals and machines, which are more evident on four of the affected minors."
The woman walked to the judge and put the papers she was handing on the desk. Then she looked at Voltaire. It was their side to go first. She placed a hand on Natasha's shoulder when the man walked to the stair and swore on the offered Bible.
A strange thought went across Kai's mind. "He's never been a religious.." he whispered to the red haired sitting beside him.
"Mr. Hiwatari, you claim innocence to all allegations against the previously mentioned children, is that correct?" Irena started.
"Of course it is correct." Answered the old man. Kai's fists tightened and Tala looked piercingly at the man's eyes.
"Then how do you explain the physical and emotional damage that Kai Hiwatari now bears?"
"My grandson and his friends have always been rebel teens. Anyone who has to take care of children would know at their age that is possible. I never got to know what punishments were held at one of my seats, the one on Moscow. I think I should have been more aware."
"Yes, you should have. But then, how do you explain the scars on your grandson's body? If you weren't aware of the rest of the teens, you should at least know those on your own relative, don't you think?"
"I'm afraid Kai has always had his ways of self-mutilating. He never talked with me about this things, but I've noticed he has done things to his body without my approval. What can I do with a teenager like him?"
"I'm sure the teenagers, other people in this room and I disagree with that point of view. But the evidence we have is against your words, Mr. Hiwatari. The medical studies on the minors bodies show that they have been under those treatments too, and at their age that is not justified."
The judge finally spoke. "Are there any witness that proves what Mr. Hiwatari has said?" he asked to Voltaire's lawyer.
"We don't need any witness-" Voltaire tried to speak, but he was put down by his own lawyer.
"The minors Kai Hiwatari and Tala Ivannov are accused of having killed our only witness, Mr. Boris Balkov." Kai frown angrily and looked at Tala. But Irena's hand on his shoulder prevent him from speaking.
"As there are not witness for the accused, we shall proceed within thirty minutes. You may go." He hit the hammer, and most of the people stood up and left the room. A comforting hand was placed on Kashira's shoulder.
"Come here people, we shall prepare for the next part." She guided them through many passages until they got to a room, where everyone entered.
Bryan looked at all of them. They were many people at their side. Dickenson, grandpa, Tyson, Max, Kenny, Ray, Hilary, Mariek, Mark, Ruben, Jonathan, Rehki, Krina, Kashira, Natasha, Tala, Kai, Irena and finally him. They would make it out, they had to. It was a must.
"I can't believe he accused me for killing Boris…" sighed Tala, looking at Irena.
"Well, he actually did, he accused both Kai and you." Answered the lawyer
"It's a pity that he has nothing to do with the rape itself…" wondered Kashira.
"What? Sure he has! He ordered it! Boris told me! He told me everything once!" complained Kai, suddenly jumping from his seat.
"But the fact that we know it won't convince the judge…" said Irena again.
'There must be a way… there must be a way to defeat him… there must be some question they have nothing against…' –thought Hilary. Maybe she was the most worried about this judgment. She wasn't able to give a testimony, she was feeling helpless. Suddenly she placed a hand on Kai's shoulder, who was sitting next to her.
"Are you ok?"
"Hn… just a little worried." He answered, his voice tone reflecting his feeling.
"If they ask for some of us to go to the stand as Voltaire has just done, who will go?" asked Irena suddenly.
"I think it's better Kai goes. In fact, he's the one who has more charges against his grandfather." Suggested Ray.
"Hn… I'll go… ok."
"It's going to start. We shall go." The lawyer announced, as the people inside the room started to go back to the judgment room.
The judge hit his hammer once everyone was sitting. Voltaire's lawyer spoke for once, asking Kai to go to the stand. Kai walked before slightly palming Tala's back. And Tala understood well.
Tala's POV
I guess he was telling me not to tell. I know he was afraid of everyone knowing what had really happened when Boris suicide. But what if they already knew…
Kai sat on the stand after swearing on the bible that previously his grandfather had touched. He was not a Christian either… or at least for what I knew. But what was then… maybe he didn't want this to be harder.
Then the evil man started to question him. This wasn't going to be easy.
NORMAL POV
"Why don't you start by telling us the truth about your grandfather? Why do you have to accuse him for things that were always out of his control, young man?"
Kai growled. What was he taking him for? "Of course what my lawyer said is the truth. All those who were risen up in the Balkov abbey would know it. Heartless peoples made to be destructions machines, excepts those that weren't brainwashed, or were able to get out of there early enough."
"Do you think you're a hero or something like that by having stopped the children's training? The fact that you weren't satisfied with your training at the Moscow seat is enough to pull away their beliefs of becoming great bladders?"
"They wouldn't have become great bladders anyway. My grandfather's only propose was to become them machines in his plan to conquer the world! And if that isn't enough for you, you should pay a look at the evidence!"
"Your evidence isn't enough to prove Mr. Hiwatari's plan, if there was one anyway."
"The punishments, the bruises and scars, apart from the inhuman training we were committed to, should be enough. As a matter of fact, you can see the medical diagnosis of all of us that show we have been under unstable and untested medical experiments."
Bryan looked at Natasha. "you're his daughter – he whispered. – you should know about the plans."
"Don't you have any papers or something with their signature? They were along with the keys…"
"I remember. I have them, why?"
"Those are the plans. They're written in German, aren't they?"
"I don't know, I don't understand the language…"
"Give it to me." Suddenly said Irena. "we should have noticed about them before!"
"I'm sorry…"
"It's ok. we can still use them. You have them here, right?" Bryan handed her the papers. In fact, those were written in German. She read carefully each of them, with Voltaire's signature at the end of each page. "I think someone forgot to burn some plans…" she whispered.
Hilary wouldn't separate her eyes from her boyfriend. He was having a hard time up there. And she knew it.
"Mr. Hiwatari affirms he has nothing to do against the punishments that were held on the Balkov Abbey." More pressure put on Kai's shoulders, he could feel sweat come to his forehead. If he didn't make it out there, he wouldn't forgive it to himself ever. He could see Voltaire smirking maliciously. If something didn't come up to his mind in that right moment he would be lost.
Kai knew deep down which proves would finish Voltaire's excuses. But was he ready to tell all these people the worse punishments held in the abbey, that were also the cause of most of the scars on his body?
He looked at his friends. Tyson, Max and Kenny were thumbs up giving him strength. Ray and Kashira were, fingers crossed, wishing him luck. Tala, Bryan and Natasha were too concentrated on his words and Voltaire's lawyer dialogue. And Hilary… was crying.
"He has. He has a lot to do with it. All the punishments held in the Balkov Abbey in Moscow, in the hotel in Ottawa, in every seat he owns has to do with him. He's the man behind this. He ordered the drugging, the physical threatens, the emotional pain, and he also ordered the rape." Most of the people gasped at hearing this. Many angry faces turned to look at Voltaire, and others stared at his grandson.
'that's it. I've said it. I said the word that will hit them all.' – thought an smirking Kai.
"How do you explain that?" still the lawyer didn't have enough. Kai gasped in return. Even though everything was turning to his favor, he still didn't have a way to prove the orders. His sight went blank.
Next one is the last chap. I have to admit, i don't want this to end. But i'm really greatfull for all the support i got from you people, i couldn't go on if i didn't have it. Thank you.
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Mika.