Tyson broke the kiss between him and Max. They were both panting slightly. Max had his arms around Tyson's neck and one hand tangled in his hair, while Tyson had one hand beside Max and the other a little ways up his side. They stayed like that, looking at each other for a few seconds before Tyson slid out from Max's arms and stood up. Max gave him a confused look, and pushed himself up to sit cross-legged. He watched as Tyson headed for the door. "Where are you going?" he asked a little disappointedly, like he might have done something wrong, to make Tyson leave.
"I need to talk to Ray," he said, swinging his bedroom door open.
"Ray? Why do you need to talk to Ray?" he asked, completely confused.
"I need to get him to agree to stop something," Tyson told him, as he ran out the door.
"Tyson you can't go talk to him now, wait a few minutes!" Max yelled having a feeling he knew what was going on, Ray and Kai both being gone. Tyson didn't reply. "Tyson, come back!" Max yelled, getting quickly off the bed and sprinting after him.
Ray panted heavily when Kai finally pulled away. Neither of them wanted to break the kiss. Kai, realizing that Ray wasn't going to do it, pulled away knowing that they couldn't carry on with it forever. Ray had one hand in Kai's hair and the other one on his chest. Kai had both his hands on Ray's hips. Ray was now giving Kai a slight frown, and Kai chuckled giving him a kiss on the cheek, moving his hands to Ray's lower back to pull him closer. "I'm sorry," Ray whispered as he put his head on Kai's shoulder and moved the hand in Kai's hair to his chest.
"You already said that," Kai mumbled placing his head on top of Ray's.
"I know, I just don't feel like it was enough," he told him, clenching his fist.
Tyson ran down the halls of the house, Max on his tail. "Ray! Where the hell are you?" Tyson yelled.
"Tyson stop it! Leave them alone!" Max yelled at him as they got closer to the room Ray and Kai were in.
"Them?" Tyson asked looking back at Max for a second, and managing to trip over his own feet only a few steps away from the room with the fireplace. Max took this opportunity to jump him and pin him to the floor.
"Yes them," Max told him in a sharp whisper, sitting on his back and pushing down on his shoulders.
"Who's them?" Tyson asked, not even bothering to try to get away.
"Ray and Kai," Max told him as if it was obvious, because it should have been.
"Well I really need to talk to Ray than," Tyson said, pushing himself up. Max let out a little yelp as he slid off Tyson and hit the floor. He looked up at Tyson with a glare. "I told you, you were weak," Tyson told him teasingly, holding out a hand to help him up. Max grabbed it, but instead of pulling himself up he gave it a hard yank sending Tyson off guard and falling into him.
Kai and Ray both looked towards the entrance of the room when they heard Ray's name. Ray moved to get away from Kai and see what Tyson wanted, but Kai tightened his grip on him so he couldn't leave. "Kai, let me go," Ray said turning in his arms, and grabbing at his hands to try and pry them open.
"I don't want you going out there and starting another fight with Tyson," Kai told him, making his grip tighter. Ray struggled with Kai's hands for a few more seconds before giving up and leaning back against him.
"We won't have another fight," Ray told him just as there was the sound of something hitting the ground hard outside the room. Ray and Kai looked towards it, but couldn't see anything.
"I don't believe you, that's all you've been doing," Kai told him, looking back at him as Ray continued to look out of the room.
"Tyson I won't let you interrupt them!" Ray and Kai could hear Max yell from. Ray looked at Kai for a second, and Kai looked away from him.
"Well it's too late for that! You just did with your yelling!" Tyson yelled back, and a few seconds later he was standing in the entranceway of the room with Max clinging to his leg. "Ray, I need to talk to you right now!" Tyson demanded. Ray looked back at Kai, he let out a sigh and let go of Ray a little hesitantly. Ray slid away from him, and stood up. He gave Kai a small smile and went over to Tyson. Tyson looked down at Max with a slight glare, and Max pouted up at him as he let go of his leg, getting up to go sit with Kai.
The two boys made their way to the back yard of the house, Ray still wrapped in his blanket and Tyson not really caring that he was in only boxers. It was dark out now anyways, and the only thing really lighting the yard up was the stars. Tyson opened the door and let Ray go ahead of him. Then looked back to make sure they weren't fallowed. He closed the door and walked past Ray towards the front of the dojo, just as an extra precaution. He leaned against the wall of the dojo, waiting a few seconds before speaking. "I want to call off the bet," he told Ray, crossing his arms.
"Is that because you know you're going to lose?" Ray asked him, smirking slightly. Tyson shook his head, trying to keep calm. He didn't need another fight.
"No," he told him. "It's because I don't want the start of my new relationship with Max while I'm in a stupid bet with you." Ray's smirk vanished.
"So you and Max got together because of the bet too?" Ray asked him. Tyson raised an eyebrow.
"No, I think it still would have happened without it. Why, is that how you were able to spill the bean to Kai?" he asked. Ray turned a slight pink.
"Yeah," he told him. "But I don't think I'd want to keep going with the bet. I feel kind of bad about it."
"So are we calling it a draw than?" Tyson asked. Ray nodded. "You hear that Kenny, we're done with this bet," Tyson said, reaching up and taking the small microphone off his hat as Ray took off his own.
Tyson and Ray entered the room laughing and looking in completely better moods. Kai raised an eyebrow at them, and Max looked confused. "What did you guys do?" he asked a little suspiciously.
"Nothing," they said at the same time, feeling a little good that they didn't have to tell them the full truth anymore.
"Liars," Kai said, crossing his arms and glaring slightly.
"We're not lying, we didn't do anything," Ray said sitting down beside Kai, leaning on him as Tyson sat down and pulled Max into his lap.
"You guys have been acting strange and fighting a lot lately, and now all of a sudden you're acting like nothing happened?" Max asked. "What gives?"
"We just needed to blow off some steam," Ray lied. Tyson nodded.
"You're not going to start making it a regular thing, are you?" Kai asked them. Ray shook his head, putting his arms around Kai's neck and his head on his shoulder. Kai wrapped his arms around the boy and brought his closer to his chest.
There was a moment of silence before Tyson couldn't take it anymore and broke it. "You know, I never though Mr. Sourpuss would be able to like anyone but himself," he said, putting his chin on Max's shoulder. Kai and Ray both glared at him. He laughed falling backwards and purposely pulling Max with him. Max let out a little yelp and rolled off Tyson.
"What's with you and making me fall backwards?" he asked, sitting up.
"What, you want to fall forwards?" Tyson asked sitting up too, and pushing Max so he landed on his stomach. Then he sat on him with his hands on his shoulders, like Max had done to him.
"Why don't you two go get a room?" Kai asked as Max tried to get Tyson off him with no luck.
"That's not a bad idea," Tyson said getting up, and grabbing Max by the wrist to pull him up. "Come on Maxie," Tyson said jokingly as he pulled him out of the room, turning to address Ray and Kai. "There's a spare room just down this hall if you guys want." He grinned at them, and pulled a protesting Max away with him back to his room. Kai shook his head and looked at Ray.
"So what's the real reason you and Tyson suddenly decided you didn't hate each other anymore?" he asked.
"We were sick of fighting and decided that our friendship was more important than the small little things that annoyed us," Ray told him. "I mean, Tyson wouldn't be Tyson if he wasn't an annoying pig."
"You know, if those words were coming from Tyson I'd think they were a load of bull," Kai told him, Ray laughed nervously. "Why'd your fighting start in the first place?" he asked. Ray shrugged.
"I think it would be better for everyone if you and Max didn't know why," he told him.
Max sat on the bed, arms crossed, glaring at Tyson. "I said I was sorry Maxie!" Tyson yelled, taking a step closer to him, but he pushed himself farther back towards the wall.
"I can't believe you made the same bet with Ray you tried on me!" he told him angrily. "Do you realize how much trouble a bet like that could have caused?"
"Yes, I was in it too!" Tyson reminded him sitting on the bed, in front of Max. "But everything worked out, so why does it matter?" he asked.
"Everything worked out for Ray, but I'm not sure it should work out for you," he told him. Tyson moved closer to Max, and Max moved back making his back hit the wall.
"But it will work out for me Maxie, because I know you don't want to break up with me before anything even starts between us," Tyson told him, putting his hands on Max's sides and moving so close their faces were almost touching.
"You're a jerk Tyson," Max whispered.
"If I'm such a jerk why do you like me?" he asked. Max blushed, and didn't answer. Tyson moved his lips so they brushed Max's, and Max wrapped his arms around Tyson's neck pulling him forward more, into a kiss.
There was a few seconds of silence were Ray thought Kai was just going to accept what he was telling him, but then Kai spoke again. "Tyson sucked you into a bet, didn't he?" he asked. Ray went wide eyed and looked at him. "I'm not stupid Ray," Kai told him. "Tyson tried the same thing on me a week ago and on Max a week before that. We just didn't accept it." Ray laughed nervously.
"Well I was kind of bored too, and didn't want him thinking I was chicken," he told him. "I'm sorry. You're not mad are you?"
"I'm not mad that you accepted, because it did get us together. But I am mad that you had to use it to tell me how you feel about me," Kai told him. Ray's expression turned to a frown and he looked away from Kai. Kai let out a soft sigh. "Did you win at least?" he asked. Ray looked back at him with a weak smile.
"No, we decided it was a tie," he told him. "We didn't want to keep going on with it. I thought it might end up wreaking things."
"Well are you at least going to keep telling me what you're thinking?" he asked.
"Maybe," Ray told him teasingly. Kai gave him a look and he laughed leaning in, pushing him to the ground. "I think I liked that bet," he said, making Kai smile slightly. Then he moved in closer to Kai, allowing their lip to touch and Kai to give him a deep, passionate, kiss.
The End
Well that's the end of this story, I hoped you enjoyed it! Sorry It took me so long to update! I was actually busy with making my Cosplay costume for this summers anime convention, there's still a bit left to do on it but I want to get it done early so I don't have to worry about rushing with it. Also, I was getting ready for a different anime convention that I went to, and I was working on editing videos for my friends and mine YouTube account AssassinNinjaSquad. Check us out, wont you? Anyways, if you liked this story and didn't think you got enough of Kai/Ray yet check out my Here In Your Arms stroy. Or if you really want to swich it up I have a OneShot Tyson/Ray story called "Ends Only Bring New Beginnings". Thank you for reading this, and I hope you'll check out the things I suggested. :)