Author's Note: Well thanks to the people that have read and/or reviewed as of yet! So thanks:
DancerInTheDark101 - Yeah, though I have such a good ending I still have to wait until I get through a few days of this and then maybe a time skip 0.o not wanting to write in too much detail of their journey through the Abbey. Thanks for reviewing!
Demon TK - It sucks that no one can hug little Tala... -sighs sadly- Oh well, means I'll just have to write more cute hyper scenes with the boy in it! Thanks for reviewing.
GabZ - Yup, Tala rocks! Not my ultimate fav but he's so near the top... Thanks for reviewing!
The Goddess Azure Thunder - Yeah.. Evil exams, only good thing is STUDY LEAVE! I've two weeks so I'll use one week to update as far as possible on all my fics. Thanks for reviewing & hope you enjoy this chapter!
Saiya - Yeah cute little Tala... -pats mass of red hair- In my mind he just looks so adorable! (In fact they all do!) Thanks for reviewing!
Just something...in this chapter... Is some shouen-ai (That's how you spell it right?) Nothing major though...
Kai tilted his head, he didn't understand what Tala was doing. He frowned trying to figure out the strange event. It wasn't that he was unfamiliar to the game, just - what was he meant to do again? There was no here to go... It was pointless to even try to play here.
Of course Tala had turned around and become confused himself. He thought that, the bluenette would have been chasing him and having fun. It was quite the opposite. Tala blinked, the boy was still sitting on the bed with a blank expression - staring at him with crimson eyes that held no emotion.
"Come on." Tala whined not liking the boy's attitude. "Play," Tala walked closer to Kai's bed, hoping that it was just a way of getting him to play. Tala had plodded slowly up to the bluenette's bed, and started pulling on his arm, letting him know he had to come off the bed in order to play the game.
Kai on the other hand did know what the game was about - he could remember it, his own school had
played it. He had never really been part of the game before. Only once had he ever tried to play along but the other children had been cruel. Making up rules, making it impossible for them to be 'it.' He had hated when they all decided to add his nickname... And taunt him while shouting 'keyzies!' so he couldn't do anything. No, he could never win - he ended up just not trying, and then just decided not to even bother. Eventually he just stopped caring about the games that the other children played.
The changing of rules; that was what had annoyed Kai most. Rules were foundations of things, if they were broken what else could go wrong? Kai frowned causing the blonde child, Spencer to glance at him for more than a brief second.
"No." Came a quiet response of the Hiwatari child he pulled his arm back, into his own lap. He didn't like to be pulled or pushed - or even touched, it was probably why he disliked this Tala boy.
Tala felt suddenly sad when he felt Kai snap his arm back and give him a cold look, he turned turn around, away from him, and lay down on his bed. Tala sighed and turned himself, then got an idea of jumping on Bryan's bed.
Bryan had watched quietly the actions of Tala and Kai - his dislike for the blue-haired, red-eyed boy increased. He didn't understand why anyone wouldn't want to play. Not unless they were some type of ogre. Which he was considering this Kai was.
Bryan glared at the boy before feeling the bed bounce, he turned his attention to the older, redhead that was jumping up and down on his bed. "No fun." Tala huffed before bouncing again and landing in a sitting position. He smiled and chuckled at his own antics.
Kai had turned over - laying curled up on his side looking into space. This action did not go unnoticed by anyone in the room. He didn't understand anything, that was how he felt, why was his grandfather letting them all socialise? There had to be a reason.
Tala had placed a friendly arm around Bryan's neck, he didn't notice the visible pink tinge that happened to graze the boys pale cheeks. Of course, the main reason why the red-head had not noticed was Tala had been pre-occupied, thinking of ways to get Kai to talk, or play or even communicate.
Spencer frowned, this would be a troublesome group, already friendships that were not going to happen were already trying to be formed. The blonde boy sat up and rubbed his temple, he knew that it would only get more complicated.
"Spencer..." The words of the bluenette caused everyone to stop what they had been doing, waiting to hear what was going to be said. Spencer turned and looked at the boy; he was two years older, yet Kai wasn't that immature. Not as much as Tala.
"What?" Spencer was worried, since he had heard hundreds of rumours concerning Kai. Though none were certain since Kai was the type to rarely make an attempt to communicate or alliterate anything.
"Why did you help me? You didn't need to." Kai was frowning yet all of the emotion was void - hollow, from his face and his words. Though on the inside he was confused, thinking of deception and scandal. He didn't trust people well. He would trust Spencer, if he gave a good enough excuse for helping him. Spencer glanced behind the boy to see a not so happy looking Tala.
The redhead was frowning, giving a displeasured look - a disgusted look at Spencer. He had taken his arm off of Bryan. In turn that had caused Bryan to frown. Spencer smirked, a certain redhead was rather... Jealous.
Spencer couldn't help but want to see how jealous talking to Kai would make the little runt become. He wondered what would happen if he did make Tala too jealous... Would he try to hurt him? There was no crime in testing what would happen?
Spencer smirked, seeing Tala's glare intensify as he stood up. Since he was the tallest he wouldn't expect the boy to attack or try to hit him. Spencer yawned and decided to make the talk with Kai go on for as long as possible.
"Help you? When?" Spencer saw at the corner of his eye that Tala had folded his arms in huff; it was noticeable, though Kai just seemed to keep his eyes on Spencer wondering how he could forget something. Or was it a pathetic memory? Something that only he could ever hold on to?
"You stopped me from starving... Don't you remember?" Kai frowned, Spencer wondered why he looked so hurt? Or was it because he had supposedly forgotten something that he held important. Spencer sighed now regretting of trying to make Tala jealous.
"Yeah. I do." Spencer shrugged and cracked a few back bones, meanwhile Kai sat back up on his bed, kneeling while looking forward so he could see, a glimpse of what Bryan was doing. Kai looked back over to Spencer wondering what he was doing, he was still standing.
Kai tilted his head again wanting to know the answer to the question he asked a few minutes ago. Still Spencer wanted to see if it was simply the fact of 'talking' to Kai that made Tala so jealous...
"I helped you simply because I did." Spencer moved closer to Kai - which Spencer noticed Tala glare even harder. Still Spencer ruffled the younger boys hair playfully, and noticed two things.
The first one was that Tala was still glaring daggers at him and that his fists were clenched tightly trying to control himself. Spencer smirked then noticed that Kai had a humble blush on his face. Spencer couldn't help but laugh.
Kai had felt his face heat up so quickly he couldn't stop the blush, he cursed himself and frowned at Spencer when he began to laugh. Had he been made out as an idiot again? "Stop laughing." Kai frowned lightly, Spencer tilted his own head wondering if he should stop his own experiment here or keep going.
Then one last idea popped into his head - and thinking about Tala going completely red with rage would be good entertainment for the blonde. He knew that Kai would only get embarrassed, but that was simply funny to see as well.
"Sorry, but..." Spencer smirked, he wondered mentally if Tala would completely loose it. He wondered how much self-control the boy had. "...You're really cute."
Bryan practically let his mouth drop to the floor, he never really heard boys call other boys 'cute'. Okay, he had thought that Tala was cute... He'd never said it though...There was a large difference.
Kai was completely embarrassed; he didn't like compliments just in case the person was secretly lying. His whole face was almost as red as Tala's hair. Tala on the other hand had never felt so, maddened by someone's acts before. His rage seemed to build up and up, as Spencer made Kai blush again and again. His small hands were almost white as his normal Russian complexion.
Still he didn't want to hurt anyone, physically or mentally...Though he didn't understand why he felt the way he did. At first he wanted to talk with Kai, then play. Now what? Tala hugged his legs, as he tried to calm himself down. He glared at the blonde boy hoping he would move away from his Kai.
Bryan watched as Tala got angry, and continued to get worse as the blonde boy kept speaking and ruffling the bluenette's hair. Bryan was now angry himself, not at Spencer, but at Kai. Since Kai should have known this was wrong and should have stopped Spencer from doing anything. Kai shouldn't have asked! Bryan frowned and looked at Tala who now was looking at the floor as if trying to get everything else out of his head.
Spencer had not expected for Tala to bounce back so quickly; the redhead looked back up, smiling and stood up on the bed and clapped his hands together, "We should all be friends!" Tala looked down at the still sitting Bryan and looked back over at Spencer. Who was confused beyond belief, how could someone hide so much anger so quickly.
Kai meanwhile was looking down at the floor, not daring to look at Bryan or Tala because he could already feel the powerful glare from one of them. He didn't know how he knew, but it was definitely Bryan.
Still Tala remained happy; though the one thing that he did not do was go near Kai again, not even attempting to talk or play. Tala simply played with Bryan and talked with Spencer a few times. Kai wasn't sure what had happened, but both Tala and Bryan avoided him like the plague. He sighed why did something like this have to happen? Why did Spencer have to annoy Tala like that. Though the thing that continued to annoy Kai was why. Why was Tala in a huff with him when he hadn't done anything.
Tala had decided that if he was to go near Kai, he'd end up yelling in frustration - and Spencer was already slowly making his way onto the very rare, ignore list. Tala was bewildered by this whole scenario, in his school everyone talked to everyone. He had friends, so many he some times even forgot some names. Still by having someone annoy him intentionally, and someone completely have no interest in him was simply astounding.
Bryan was fine with the arrangements, so was Spencer. They both managed to get what they wanted as the bed arrangements helped, Kai rolled onto his side and looked at Spencer - ignoring Tala and any attempt he tried to say sorry.
There had been some silence in the room; mainly the whispering of Bryan and Tala but apart from that Kai just glared at Spencer. Wondering why Spencer had planned to annoy Tala so much - what was his intentions?
Spencer had done the experiment and had found a few things about each person, at least now he knew a few more truths. If Tala still hadn't spoken to Kai in the morning he, would make sure they spoke to each other.
The only problem was that the older boys had decided to come back - what looked like a tiring day of training. The older boys had sensed something different about the children, the atmosphere was not the same. It held something... Something that made each and everyone of these children silent as they lay on their beds.
Author's Note: Okay so... Tala's popular and jealous, Bryan's just plain jealous, Kai's oblivious and Spencer is curious. Ahh...The joys of the abbey. I didn't actually think about writing this chapter. It just sort of... Happened. Oh well, it was fun... The relationships between all of them are getting rather complicated...I mean they couldn't all be friends in such a short time - where's the fun in that! Anyway review yeah?