A sickly, poisonous, blood-red fog hung in the air between Kai and the woman, thickening and turning to black then disappearing where it touched Kai's skin. Was it just him, or was the woman becoming...transparent?
"K-Kai?" Ray quavered, suddenly unable to stop shivering. "You...you okay?" Kai turned to face him, his eyes dark.
"I'm fine, Ray. Just fine." Ray frowned. Kai's voice was deeper than it should be, hoarse, too.
"Oh, o-okay...who's s-she?"
"She's nothing." Kai said dismissively. At a wave of his hand, the woman turned and walked away, not without an annoyed glance in Kai's direction. Kai followed her with his gaze for a moment, his face twisting in contempt. Once she had disappeared from sight, he strode over to Ray and crouched down next to him. "You shouldn't be out here." he murmured, rubbing Ray's cold arm with one hand. Ray gazed at him, feeling slightly light-headed.
"Kai...that woman..." Kai placed a finger on his lips, then leaned in and kissed him lightly.
"Ssh, Ray. Don't worry about her, all right?"
"All right." Ray replied, unsure. He shivered again, colder than he would ever admit. "But, still, Kai why - "
"Ssh." Kai told him again, pulling him close and kissing him softly. Despite his doubts, despite his absolute certaincy that Kai was keeping something back from him, Ray found himself responding, winding his arms around Kai's neck and tangling his fingers in his thick blue hair, pulling him closer, kissing him harder. Kai invaded his mouth with his tongue, his touch oddly alien, yet incredibly compelling. Ray's mind was clouded by sudden desire, his eyes dazed as he pressed himself as close to Kai as he could get. Kai's hands found their way underneath his top, burning hot against his icy-cold skin. Their lips crashed together again, the kiss fierce and deep with lust. Kai drew away. Ray stared up at him, captivated by those dark, intense eyes that were returning his stare tenfold. "I want you, Ray." Kai whispered, his voice deeper and hoarser than ever. "Come on..." He stood up, practically lifting Ray with him, and guided the shivering, limping boy inside.
Kai pushed Ray onto his bed, crawling on after him and kissing him passionately. Ray moaned in pleasure, finally beginning to warm up again. "This better?" He nodded vehemently. "Good. Take off your top." Kai ordered. Obediently, Ray wriggled away slightly and stripped off his top. He gasped as Kai rested a hand on his bare chest, using his other hand to pull ineffectively at his own top. Ray smiled slightly and reached over to help.
"Here..."
"I can do it myself." Kai muttered, his voice suddenly hard. Ray blinked and nodded.
"Okay..." he said uncertainly. His unease was driven out of his mind mere seconds later as Kai's fever-hot, muscular chest pressed against his. "Kai..." he moaned, before diving back into the kiss, suddenly frantic for more contact between them. His still-numb fingers scrabbled at Kai's trousers, eventually undoing the belt and unzipping the zip. He felt Kai chuckle, the low sound vibrating through his body deliciously. Shuddering with hunger for something other than food, he fumbled with Kai's boxers, feeling Kai easily relieving him of his own lower garments. Kai's warm hands rested gently on his painful legs, rubbing the exact spot where the tendons had torn (the back of his knees). It was oddly soothing...
"Do you want it to stop hurting?" Kai murmured in his ear, his breath brushing against Ray's cheek and making the Chinese boy shiver with pent-up delight. He nodded feverently. "Okay, then..." There was a moment of burning, scalding heat, then nothing, a numbess that Ray barely recognised as the lack of the pain that had tortured him ceaselessly for nearly half a month.
"How...what did you do?" he managed, not noticing the strange, unholy glow in Kai's eyes, crimson darkening to the darkest midnight-ruby.
"Does it matter?" Kai replied huskily. Ray shook his head hurriedly and continued to fiddle with Kai's boxer shorts. With a grunt of impatience, Kai reached down and pulled them down, taking the oppurtunity to yank Ray's down as well. Ray stared stupidly for a minute, his brain refusing to register that he had got what he wanted. "Do I have to do everything?" Kai sighed, nipping Ray's ear to bring him to his senses. Ray jolted back to reality in an instant, looking up at Kai with glazed eyes. "This is going to hurt." the older blader warned. Ray nodded in understanding, then winced in pain as Kai gently inserted a finger inside him, kissing him fiercely in the process. Ray kissed him back, trying to ignore the renewed pain as Kai put in another finger and began to gently scissor them. The friction was unbearable, he was hopelessly aroused, and he could feel Kai's erection straining against his leg. With a grunt of satisfaction, Kai removed his fingers and shifted his position until he was above Ray. "Turn over." he growled, his voice rasping sexily. "Right now." Ray did so, shivering with nervous excitement and more than a little apprehension as he felt something both harad and soft at the same time touch the small of his back and slide down. "I apologise for the pain." Kai said from somewhere above him. Huh? Ray thought, then realised in a red-hot blaze of pain.
"Oh...that..." he panted, grinning cheekily at Kai. "That's nothing!" He bit his lip as Kai began to move in and out. The sheer feeling of completeness overwhelmed the pain.
All his life, he'd been the outcast, the boy on the edge that was looked up to and treated as a friend, but never quite on the same leve as everyone else, always lacking someone who really loved him. The Bladebreakers had accepted him with ease, made him feel happier than ever before in his life. Yet there had still been that little hole deep inside him, the part of him that longed for a tender caress, a fierce kiss, someone that loved him fully and utterly for who he was. Someone who wasn't bound by village superstition to believe that the child of a mother who had died in childbirth was forever tainted. Someone who saw him as more than a friend.
Kai moved relentlessly inside him, gradually thrusting harder and faster, both hands planted around Ray's slender waist to help him balance.
Was this what he wanted? The question came belatedly. The answer came back to him in a flash. Yes. When he was with Kai, he felt whole, he felt loved. Needed. When they kissed, it was as if both their pasts, and God only knew Kai's was worse than his, dropped away from them, and there was only the two of them, alone in a world of bliss and love. Maybe he was stupid to be thinking that. But right now, nothing else seemed to matter. Just him and Kai...
He let out a stifled cry as sheer ecstacy flooded through him in a white-hot wave. Clutching the sheets in clenched fists, he gritted his teeth as he came, feeling Kai come inside him. Kai leaned down and kissed him lightly on the cheek.
"Again?" he murmured, his husky voice grating against Ray's self-control.
"Get on with it, then!" he joked, flashing Kai a tight grin. With a satisfied nod, Kai began moving again, deliberately grinding his hips against Ray on every downward plunge. Ray growled low in his throat, both irritated and excited by Kai's teasing antics.
Suddenly, the door swung open. Max stood in the doorway, his face an almost comical picture of utter shock. Ray winced as Kai sat up abruptly, the friction painful this time. His eyes widened in shock and fear as Kai shouted out something incoherent, his face twisted almst beyond recognition, and raised his hand. Black light - no, not light, if anything, it sucked light into it - shot out from his palm and hit Max square in the chest.
The blond boy was flung backwards into the wall behind the door, where he lay motionless, his face deathly white. Ray gaped in horror and turned to Kai, whose eyes were black with an emotion he couldn't figure out. Deep, hard, unfathomable black.
"What's going on - Max!"
"Kenny!" Ray yelled, grabbing hold of both of Kai's wrists. "Get away!" A bolt of black energy smashed into the doorframe just above Kenny's head. The eleven year-old squeaked in terror and ducked instinctively. "Kenny, move it!" Ray screamed desperately, wrestling with Kai. The older boy suddenly had the strength of ten, and was becoming virtually impossible to restrain. What was going on? He heard Kenny, who had scuttled away frantically, calling an ambulance. What Kenny said next froze the blood in his veins.
"Help! One of my friend's just been really, really hurt by another friend!" A pause. "Dangerous? I damn well think so! He just tried to kill me!" Kenny's voice had gone up at least one octave, if not more.
Kai suddenly went very still in Ray's arms, although the tension was still humming through his body like electricity. Ray looked at Max's motionless form and went icy cold.
Kai had just tried to kill two of them. Kill them. Suddenly horribly, paralyzingly afraid, he stayed where he was, realising, he didn't know how, that he was the only thing keeping Kai from going ballistic again.
What seemed like hours later, the paramedics raced in and loaded Max onto a stretcher, then raced away again with an urgent speed that didn't bode well. Tyson, nearly beside himself with worry and confusion, followed them. Ray watched as if in a dream as Kenny peered round the door. Kai tensed up again. Kenny nearly wet himself, but when Kai made no further threatening movements, he turned and nervously beckoned. Four people walked through the doorway, three men and a woman.
"Which one is it?" one of them asked Kenny in a low voice.
"That one. Kai." came Kenny's tiny voice. The woman nodded.
"Kai, would you like to come with us, please?" she asked politely. Kai snarled wordlessly at her, his still-black eyes wide and watchful. "Is that a no?"
"What'd'y think, bitch?" he hissed viciously. The woman's facial expression didn't so much as twitch at the hostile, stark naked boy sitting there glaring at her through unnaturally black orbs. She must be used to that kind of thing in her job, Ray thought dazedly. Wait, what is her job? They think Kai's mad or something, don't they? He started shivering, unconsciously pulling Kai closer to him. He's not...is he? I don't know what's going on...somebody tell me! he wailed inwardly.
"Now then, that's not very nice, is it? You're upsetting your...friend." Both boys felt irritation swell inside them at the prim hesitation. Kai flipped her off, his strange eyes flicking watchfully round the room.
"You got a problem with us, cunt?" he asked agressively.
"Of course not, Kai! If you would just come with us, we could sort this whole mess out. Don't you want that? To feel normal again?" Kai looked down, apparently disconcerted.
"Normal...what's normal?" He laughed harshly, bitterly. "Fuck you, bitch. There's nothing you could do for me." The woman changed tacks.
"Very well, what about your boyfriend, then? Come on." She held out a hand to Ray, who looked at it in slight confusion. His head was spinning like a roundabout, he couldn't seem to keep track of what was happening... "Just take my hand and I promise you, we'll try and sort this out, okay?" Nodding uncertainly, he swung his weakened legs over the side of the bed.
"I-I need my crutches..." he mumbled faintly.
"All right. Where are they?" Ray shrugged feebly.
"Dunno. My head hurts..." He bit his lip, fighting back tears of weakness. A warm hand pulled him backwards, enfolding him in a soothing embrace.
"Hush, Ray, it's all right." Kai murmured. "You're just in shock still, don't be afraid." He leaned down and touched his lips softly to Ray's. Ray relaxed into the kiss, slowly pulling himself together.
"Okay," he muttered, standing up unsteadily. "I'm gonna go with them, all right, Kai?" Helped by one of the men, he limped out of the room, feeling Kai's gaze burning into the back of his neck.
Right, in summary; Kai's completelyabsorbed Black Dranzer's power and hasused it to seduce Ray (not that Ray didn't want it). He attacked Max because he was angry and surprised and lost control, then Kenny because he was out of control. If any one didn't understand anything else, please ask me in your review. Please do not tell me that this isn't as good as my other chapters,I am fully aware of that fact, and the next one will be back up to normal standards, I promise! I apologise a million times over for the long wait, hopefully I'll have the next one up sooner. Bye for now!