Chapter Summary – Rei tries his best to take Kai's place.

Lead me Onwards

"Oooooh!!! Rei, come one!!!!!????"

"No, Tyson, we have to practice. Just because Kai isn't here doesn't mean that I'll go easy on you," Rei replied with a smirk so Kai-esque that it scared both Tyson and Max. Kenny and Dizzy were the only two who honestly didn't care. They were there for technical support anyway.

On the count of one, Rei and Tyson let both of their blades go. It was a close match. With Tyson trying to take Rei out at every opportunity, but the tiger always got away before Tyson's attack was complete. Rei didn't even try to attack. He had a plan, he wanted to really study Tyson's tactics. He wanted to see what made Tyson do what he did while in a battle.

Tyson, of course, didn't know any of this and so wondered why Rei wasn't attacking. But rather getting closer till the blades touched before having his blade jump back. It was annoying the hell out of him and he seethed about it. Why was Rei doing this?

"Hey, man, what's up with this?" Tyson asked as once again he missed Rei's blade with his attack.

"Nothing," Rei replied with a grin. This just made Tyson even more angrier and so he lost the battle. Rei sighed as he called his blade back to him.

"Tyson, just because someone is egging you on, it doesn't mean that you take it personally," Rei said.

"What? This was a test?" Tyson asked.

"Somewhat, but mainly I wanted to see what you did in a battle, it was my plan to annoy you, and you lost," Rei shrugged.

"I won't next time," Tyson said.

"Good, than maybe you would actually win a battle against Kai," Rei sighed.

"Now can we take a break?" Max asked.

"Sure, take an hour for lunch, I have more training preparations to do," Rei replied. The two boys happily skipped inside the dojo, calling after Kenny to follow.

"Here are the stats Rei, Kai always likes to have them," Kenny said, handing Rei some papers before he also ran inside for food.

The Demolition Boy's and Kai were early at the court house. They needed to visit their attorney. Mikhail was a young man who had won plenty of cases against Biovolt for one reason or another. He had agreed to take on this case free of charge because he was sure that not only would he win it, but, it would further on his career. He was a young man of thirty-one with black hair and a nice suite for the office. He had four folders in front of him, each with the boys name on it.

"Mr. Hiwatari, how good it is to see you again, please sit down," Mikhail said. The fours boys did so as the man went on to debrief them as to his case and how he was going to win it. Most of it depended on the boys testifying against the leaders of Biovolt. Of which, was meet with glares, but Mikhail said that it couldn't be helped.

"You four were the main ones experimented on, just tell us what you remember," Mikhail said.

"And you are sure this will work?" Bryan asked.

"Of course it will," Mikhail said, he was too sure of himself. Kai didn't know what to think.

"Isn't there another way? What about the laboratory logs?" Spencer asked.

"Lost, the officer's couldn't find them, it would help though," Mikhail sighed.

"Hn," Kai muttered.

"Well, if that's it, can we go then?" Ian asked.

"Yes, I'll call you if there is anything else that you need to know," Mikhail said. He grinned at the boys as they left his office. Kai, Tala, Bryan, Ian and Spencer walked down the hallways in silence. It was only in the elevator that they started to discuss the situation.

"I like short meetings," Tala said.

"Why did he tell us all that stuff that we don't understand?" Ian asked.

"Speak for yourself," Kai muttered.

"……" Bryan had nothing to say at all.

"I guess now all we have to do is wait," Tala said.

"Hn," Kai muttered.

"Suppose so," Bryan said.

"This is so boring," Spencer noted. Ian was still confused as to what was going on and said so. Spencer whacked him on the head for it.

"Everything is fine,"

"Is Tyson training, or are you letting him laze around?" Kai asked.

"For your information, I've made him run extra laps today for getting up late, happy?" Rei replied.

"Hn,"

"Well, if there isn't anything else…?"

"No,"

"I got to go then, Tyson is trying to eat all the chocolate…" the line went dead. Kai hung up his end of the phone with a smirk. He wasn't one to be curious about things. However, he was intrigued as to how Rei was taking too the Captaincy of the team.

Rei was not a very happy kitty. In fact, he was about as angry as an adult she-tiger who had found someone taking off with her cubs. Of course, this time it was the fact that Max and Tyson had gotten into a fist fight and now Kenny was trying to stop the bleeding of Max's nose while Tyson and Rei took to a shouting match.

Of course, the shouting match didn't last long and Tyson found himself shinning the tiles of the kitchen floor with his own toothbrush. All the while muttering about how awful Rei was and how Rei was so much like Kai that it was ridiculous. Rei, on the other hand, didn't think he was acting like Kai at all. His own mother had made him do this whenever they had gotten into a yelling match and so he found that sometimes this sort of punishment worked.

Though he wasn't about to tell that to Tyson. Sure, he had been Captain of the White Tigers, however, he didn't punish anyone because the whole team had been just that dedicated to getting out of the village and getting on with a better life. Maybe that was it, Tyson bladed for the fun of it, he didn't have these feelings of proving his skills to others.

However, those feelings were paramount in Rei. He had to show others how good he was at blading, and right now, he had to be a good Captain to the team. Which included checking to see if Max's nose was all right. It wasn't broken.

"I wouldn't want to call your parents about this," Rei sighed.

"Why would you?" Max asked nasally.

"Because they have the right to know because they are your parents," Rei shrugged.

"Oh," but Rei knew that Max didn't get it. He sighed and decided not to explain it right now. He didn't want to know what Judy Tate would have said if he had called to tell her that her son was in the hospital because his nose got broken in a fight with Tyson.

That wouldn't go down well at all. It only took another thirty minutes for the bleeding to stop. Though max was a bit light headed and so Rei let him watch the rest of practice that day. Much to Tyson's chagrin, he had to stop his chore for practice and then go back to it. It was only at bed time that night that Rei told him it was polished enough and to not get into another fight like that with Max.

They could bay battle it out if they had a problem. How hard could it be?

Kai was slightly amused when Mr. Dickinson informed him of the little tryst his team had gone through today. Rei had to report the nose bleed incident, for it was the rules that any and all injury's of the team to be reported to the BBA. Mr. Dickinson had thought it amusing and so had e-mailed Kai about it.

Kai of course, wouldn't tell Rei that he knew. Though, he was amused at the punishment Rei had imposed on Tyson. Kai noted that down, he would add it to his arsenal. That would through his team a loop.

Of course, he was not about to admit that having this little interruption was nice. He didn't want to think any more on Biovolt or his Grandfather and Boris. Right now, he needed to be amused. And this e-mail was just the thing to do it.

A/N – sorry for the short chapter. But I have to go to work in a few moments.