Sorry for the delay, was in the hospital…here's chapter two, enjoy.

"TALA!" Kai yelled for his friend when he entered the sitting room for the Blitzkrieg Boys rooms.

"He and Bryan are in their room…you look like someone just died, what's wrong, Kai?" Ian asked worried. Kai went to their door and knocked twice, paused and knocked twice more, it was their this-is-too-important-to-wait, knock. He heard shuffling and a few select words before the handle turned and the door opened. Tala opened the door, anger written across his face, the anger was replaced by instant worry when he saw the panic and fear in Kai's eyes.

"Kai, baby, what's wrong?" Tala pulled his friend into a hug, Kai hugged him like he hasn't seen him in years and cried. Tala looked to the other Blitzkrieg Boys, the last time Kai did this, he found out his lover had been paid to sleep with him, cheating on him with Boris, and when Kai confronted him about it he killed himself. They piled up on Tala and Bryan's bed, Tala got the alcohol and Bryan took the clear plastic bag that Kai gave Tala earlier and rolled a joint. Kai had twelve shots of Grey Goose, a Four Horsemen, and a beer, after smoking a joint by himself. 'This isn't good.' Tala thought, watching his friend. "Kai, what happened?" he asked, Kai told them what happened.

"And he said 'I'm straight, for you.' Takashi said that to me as well."

"Kai, Rei is not Takashi. He isn't sent by Boris or your grandfather. Rei's not suicidal, so you don't have to worry about that." Bryan told him.

"I know, but when he said that, I saw Takashi with the gun and all the blood." Kai was shaking.

"Okay, okay, Kai go to sleep." Tala said taking his third beer from him, Kai passed out.

"Bryan, can you talk to Rei? He's most likely confused and scared that he did something wrong." Tala asked his boyfriend, Bryan nodded and when to Kai and Rei's room. Rei was curled up in a ball, tears streaming down his face, even in sleep.

"Rei, wake up." Bryan shook Rei's shoulder. "Rei, I need to talk to you." Rei slowly opened his eyes. "You okay?" He didn't answer.

"Kai told us what happened, you did nothing wrong, okay? That's how he responds to that kind of situation, running from it." Rei still had not said anything, so Bryan continued. "When we were at the Abbey, Kai had a lover, his name was Takashi Borikovjic, Kai loved him. After two years of dating we, Kai, Tala and I, were running away from the guard, we escaped our rooms, we hid in a storeroom and the vent carried over to Boris's room. We found out that Takashi was cheating on Kai with Boris and was being paid by Boris to be with him. Kai asked him about that and Takashi shot himself in the head, in front of Kai, not even five feet away. He was the last lover Kai took, this was over twelve years ago. What you said to him, 'I'm straight, for you.' Brought back some bad memories, Takashi said the same thing to him. Can you blame him for running away after that?" Rei sat up and wiped his face."Where is Kai?"

"In Tala's bed. He started drinking when he told us. You don't want to see him right now, he's probable going to hate himself in the morning and be pissed at me for telling you these things. "

"Let me worry about who he's pissed at, okay?" Bryan thought about it and nodded then got up to leave. "I'll see you in the morning Bryan."

"Did he kiss you back, Rei?" The neko-jin nodded, Bryan hid his emotions behind a neutral mask and walked out and into his and his teams room.

"Tala, Rei said Kai kissed him back." Bryan said to his boyfriend. "I don't know what that would mean to you, but I think Kai's serious about Rei, but is confused and scared to do anything about it."

"It means we get to play match maker. I have a plan by morning."

Morning.

"KAI WAKE UP!" a loud red head shouted in his ear, jumping on him.

"What the fuck am I doing in your bed, Tala? Why do I feel like shit."

"Because you made out with Rei, he kissed you, you kissed him back and you ran here." Bryan said walking out the bathroom in just a towel. "As to why you feel like shit, you had three beers, twelve shots of Grey Goose, a Four Horsemen, you smoked a joint by yourself and then shared one with me and Tala."

"Shit, Rei." Kai rolled out of bed, took a step and he fell to the ground.

"Don't worry about Rei, I told him why you ran away from him." Kai opened his mouth but Bryan picked him up off the floor and set him on the bed. "He deserved to know, Kai. He cried himself to sleep last night. He was still crying when I woke him up to tell him. He was better after I told him, he thought he did something wrong. He wanted to come see you last night, I told him it would not be recommended, so he went back to sleep." Kai sighed.

"I was that bad?" Bryan nodded. "Can you get me something for my hangover?" Bryan tossed him a little yellow package with two white pills in it, Kai opened it and swallowed both. He looked at his watch six fifteen it read, his hangover would be gone in thirty minutes. "Where did Tala run off to?"

"Can't tell you. Don't go in your room though, at least until after breakfast." In other words Tala was in his room with Rei.

"What is Tala doing to Rei?" The lavender haired boy shrugged and walked off. Leaving Kai alone.

Bryan walked out on Kai, to the room Tala and Rei were in. "Hey, how's it going--" Bryan's jaw fell to the ground. "I think I just died and went to gay guy heaven." He looked his boyfriend and Rei up and down. Tala wearing a pair of tight fitting white leather pants that hung loosely on his hip bones, they covered the back of white suede shoes, and a white leather jacket, no shirt reveling his pierced nipples. Rei on the other hand, wore all black. Black combat boots that went up to the middle of his thigh, some extremely short shorts, and a tight form-fitting tank top. His hair was done in a high pony tail, showing off his pointed, pierced ears, his golden eyes stood out more so than normal, thanks to Tala's two thousand dollar make up kit. "WOW."

"Bryan, get out!" Tala yelled at his boyfriend, throwing a brush at him, which Bryan caught. "Get Kai down to the dining room for breakfast. Get everyone down there and text me when you have that done." Bryan turned to do what he was told, he stopped at the door.

"Kai's going to drool over you, Rei." Bryan just barley dodged a pair of scissors as he stepped out the door.

"I'm going to be mad if he drools on you, it will ruin your make up. And I worked SO hard on it." Tala whined.

"Lip gloss, eyeliner, mascara. So hard, Tala, so hard." Tala pouted, then got a text message from Bryan. "Time to go?" Rei asked, Tala nodded.

"Bryan, where is Tala and Rei?" Bryan shrugged and sat down at the table. Kai sighed and pushed himself away from the table to go find them. When he was half way down the table the dining room doors opened. An old man came in leaving the doors open.

"Master Kai, Young Miss La Glace is—gaah" a blur of white and grey ran him over, she ran to Kai, who caught her in her jump at him and spun her around. "Oh, Papa." Tala and Rei stood in the doorway and watched, like everyone else, opened mouthed and wide eyed.

"Oooo, Papa is that Rei?" Kai looked to where she looked. "The red head is Tala right?" Kai nodded his head looking Rei up and down, she ran to them taking their hands and dragged them to the table. She sat Tala next to Bryan, Rei in the newly added chair at the head of the table, next to Kai, and she took her seat to the left of Kai, next to Kenny. "He's adorable, papa, can we keep him?" she asked Kai not taking her eyes off Rei, Mariah yowled at her. "Don't make me kill you." The girl said. "And unlike some, I won't get caught, doing it." Her eyes were cold, piercing and murderous.

"Cher, we don't make promise of that kind at the table." Kai said taking her table knife and fork. "Give me your weapons…" He held out his hand. "Cher…"

"Oh, fine!" She took off her white and gray fur coat and cap, long black silk like hair fell down to her waist. All but the Russians gasped at all the weapons she had attached on the inside of her coat. She pulled out six grenades out of her right knee high boot, fifteen throwing daggers and a revolver out of the other boot. She unwrapped a six foot thin leather whip out the belt loops of her pants, then pulled two thirteen inch long blades out of the top of her pants and three hand guns out of the cargo pockets. She pulled out four squared pieces of metal and sixteen different other pieces and built a deadly looking gun.

"I was wondering where that got off too." Kai mumbled. She pulled a short sword from under her shirt and a pocket knife from between her boobs, then she sat down. "The Noose and the mini guns, too, Cher." She grumbled and removed her head band and her earrings.

"Damn." Someone said from the other end of the table. Kai snapped his fingers and one of the servants brought out a cart and hauled her weapons away, then the other servants brought out their breakfast, everyone dug in.

"I decided to travel light. Since you know, Grandfather isn't here anymore." Her eyes got wide and they brightened to a rich sapphire blue.

"No, no and no. Whatever to you are thinking." Kai told her. Her eyes filled with fake tears, she stuck out her bottom lip and brought her hands together against her chest. "NO!"

"What do you want, miss?" Rei asked, she grinned.

"You can call me Cher. I want to sing, with Papa." A low grow rumbled in Kai's chest.

"I can't sing any more, Cher." He told her.

"You afraid to sing in front of your friends." She gasped and covered her mouth. Kai stood up, hands slammed down on the table, fangs bared at her, he let out a low dangerous growl that echoed through the entire room. He leaned closer to her just barely two inches from her face, she was frozen in place. "Yes, father." She said to him, "I understands." She was shaking. Rei called his name, then touched his wrist. Kai was burning up, his skin was like fire, at least that's what it felt like to Rei. Rei found himself being stared down by Kai, his eyes were completely red though, no white or black parts, just red. He couldn't look away though. After a few minutes Kai's eyes turned back to normal, then he walked out of the room.

"You are by far the most STUPID person I have EVER met, Rei!" Cher told him.

"What did I do?" Rei asked confused.

"Listen up all of you. Here's a short bit on Kai 101, when his eyes are completely red like that, don't touch him. The Hiwatari Family are Phoenixes, literally. There are seven types of Phoenixes in the world. Most only know six: earth, wind, water, fire, light, and dark. The one nobody really knows is the Elemental Phoenix. If you can use two, you can use all of them."

"Kai can use Black Dranzer and the Fire Dranzer." Rei said.

"Yes, Kai is the Elemental Phoenix. Most Elemental Phoenixes draw other Phoenixes to them, at one point in time we, well Kai, had all seven of us under his control. He was left alone when wind and earth died, then betrayed by the fire with Boris, dark killed light, fire blew his brains out and then Tala and Bryan killed dark. Which Kai and I are deeply grateful for."

"What about water?" Tyson asked. Cher lifted the water out of his glass, it swirled in her hands, then she sent it back to his glass. "That was awesome!" he shouted.

"So what does the Elemental Phoenix control?" Mrs. Kon asked.

"Everything. Anything the other six can do, he can do it too."

"Earth and Wind, were his parents. Fire was Takashi, Dark…" Rei thought, "Dark was Voltaire, you're water, who was light?"

"His baby sister. She was four when Voltaire killed her." Tala put in. "I remember that. Kai was messed up for a couple of years after that. He went on suicide missions by himself and always came back."

"He came back because he is the leader of our clan. He had to watch out for us, he was with his parents when they died, he was away when his sister died, he was there when Fire died, he was away when dark died." She looked like she was about to cry. "Kai is a good man, a good father, I was born to serve him and the rest of the Hiwatari Family. So serving him as a Clan Member is the best one could wish for. Everyone that serves under the Hiwatari Family was born into serving them."

"Can't you leave? If you wanted to?" Mr. Dickenson asked.

"We could, if we wanted too, but why would we?" She asked. "Look around you, we have enough food to last six years, we have beds that are always comfortable, we get paid to hang out here, if we want to take off and go anywhere in the world, we just ask one of the other workers to take our place, and we just go, no questions asked. Paid vacations." She took a breath. "Why would we want to leave?" Out of nowhere they heard Kai's voice,

Kai: Wandering child . . .
So lost . . .
So helpless . . .
Yearning for my guidance . . .

Cher joined in : Angel . . . or father . . .
Friend . . . or Phantom . . . ?
Who is it there, staring . . . ?

Kai: Have you forgotten your Angel . . .?

Cher: Angel . . . oh, speak . . .
What endless longings
Echo in this whisper . . .!

Kai: Too long you've wandered in winter . . .
Far from my fathering gaze . . .

Cher: Wildly my mind beats against you . . .

Kai: You resist . . .

Both: Yet your/the soul obeys . . .
Angel of Music!
You denied me/I denied you
Turning from true beauty . . .
Angel of Music!
Do not shun me/My protector . . .
Come to me strange Angel . . .

Kai: I am your Angel of Music . . .
Come to me: Angel of Music . . .
I am your Angel of Music . . .
Come to me: Angel of Music . . .

"That last part was kind of creepy." Tyson said, all but Rei and the Russians agreed. The Blitzkrieg boys have heard him sing before and Rei was a little bit more than aroused by Kai's seductive voice.

"Thank you Kai." Cher shouted up to the ceiling, she sat down, piled her plate up and ate like Tyson. "He can't stay mad at me."She said with a mouth full of food.

"Don't talk with your mouth full, young lady." Kai said walking back into the room, not looking up from the folder in front of him, thin framed glasses adorned his nose. Six books floated behind him. "Cell towers are down. The land lines should still work, they run underground." Kai said to no one in particular.

"Kai you have books floating behind you." Kenny stated. Kai gave him a yeah-I-know look then picked up the phone and dialed a number. He talked swiftly in three different languages, Russian, English, and French, every other sentence he would change language. A man in a black suit with a headset on came running in the room, stopped and bowed to Kai. "Master Kai, the hacker has reached level three. What do you wish for us to do?"

"Hold on, Sir." He said to the person on the phone. "The hacker from over two year ago? Their still trying to get in?" The man nodded. "Hm, send the level four welcome package again, give you guys something to do next year." Kai laughed then went back to the guy on the phone. "We have a hacker trying to get into the BBA account, but what they don't know is that one of my personal account is under that as well. The security is six level program, each level has six different software programs that change every day. Each time you get caught you get sent back to level six. Impressed sir? Why thank you, it took me two years to make the entire program." Kai said something in French. "Thank you, sir. I will get in touch with you soon." He hung up the phone. "Rei come to my study when you finish your breakfast." Then he walked out, books following him. Ten minutes later Rei was standing outside Kai's study. Rei was about to knock when the door slowly opened.