Okay. It's not very long, but at least it's something :P

The slate haired boy stopped bouncing on the bed and tilted his head slightly in confusion, Rei couldn't help but stare at how cute his team captain looked. The look that had been placed on his face made him look like a little child.

"Kai? What's wrong with you?" Asked the raven haired boy.

Kai still looked a little confused but planted another great smile on his face, "nothing, come on the suns up lets get everyone and go out."

Rei sat twitching a little, "yeah… okay Kai, you wait here and I'll get everyone up."

He pulled the covers off himself and walked towards the door, not taking his eyes of the boy. As soon as he closed the door behind himself he sprinted through to Max and Tyson's room.

"Guys. Guys!" Shouted Rei as he burst open their door.

Tyson and max sat up rubbing their eyes, "this had better be good Rei," said Tyson as he picked up his alarm clock and waved it at Rei showing him how early it was.

"You got to come see this… I think Kai is… sick?"

Max and Tyson jumped out their bed's and followed Rei down the hall, they half expected to see Kai on his death bed.

"Okay," said Rei as he stopped just outside the door, "I have to warn you, he's acting a bit… strange."

Tyson waved it off and opened the door, his mouth almost hit the ground when he walked in the room.

"Kai? What are you doing?" Asked Max as he leant over Tyson's shoulder to see into room.

Kai was sat in the middle of the floor with his legs crossed, he held a mirror with one hand and with the other dipped his fingers in his pot of blue make-up. He looked up and smiled at his team.

"How do I look?" He asked as he put the mirror down for a minute. The group of boys stared at his face, there wasn't the usual shark fins, in their place was a few blue swirls and patterns. The slate haired boy lifted the mirror again to examine his face, "hmm.. To much blue I think… maybe I should get another colour…"

"…" no reply.

"maybe green?"

"…" still silence

"Or pink?"

Everyone fell over.

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"Okay Kai drink this it will make you feel better."

The slate haired boy had been bundled into bed with a hot towel over his head.

"Guy's, I'm fine."

"Open wide, we need to take you temperature," said Tyson as he lifted a thermometer to the boys mouth.

"Ihm shaid, Ih'm fhyne," (I said I'm fine.) Kai mumbled as a thermometer was stuffed into his mouth.

"Should we call a doctor?" Rei said as he placed his hand on the boys cheek to feel if he had a fever.

Kai batted his hand away, spat out the thermometer and threw the hot towel from his forehead. "I don't need a doctor! Just let me get up."

Tyson and Max stared at each other. "What's the matter with you?" Tyson asked, quirking an eyebrow. "Is this some sort of badly put together training test? Because if it is, I don't get it."

"Eww, training. I don't want to train, let's have the day off!" Kai chirped as he jumped from bed.

Max's and Rei's jaws dropped.

"I'm liking him more already!" Tyson beamed, punching the air.

"Let's go out for breakfast," Kai said as he jumped about trying to put his shoes on.

"Yes! Come on buddy, let's go," Tyson shouted.

Kai nodded and ran out of the room.

"Um… Tyson," Rei said, catching Tyson just before he bounded out the door after his captain. Tyson turned around. "Don't encourage this. I think he's seriously ill."

Tyson fanned a hand at him. "He's fine, he said so himself." He put a finger to his lip and looked thoughtful. "Maybe he's had one of those things."

"What things?" Rei asked dully.

"You know, when you change your life… a Hypothesis."

"You mean an epiphany …"

"Yeah, one of those things."

Rei placed a hand to his forehead as Max started laughing at Tyson. "This is going to be a very long day."

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People in the streets stared in amazement as they watched the bladebreaker's team captain bounce down the sidewalk.

"This doesn't make any sense," Rei mumbled to Tyson. "He was fine yesterday. What could have happened to him?"

"Who cares," Tyson said. "He looks happy."

"What are we going to tell Kenny and Hilary?" Max said, walking besides them.

The bright sun beat down on them all. The sound of traffic echoed around the town and birds chirped in the trees.

"I don't know, but maybe Kenny will be able to find out what's wrong with him. There has to be a disease or something that makes people act like this. But at the moment we just have to worry about keeping him out of trouble."

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Tala entered the dark office after being called by the evil, purple-hared man.

"You called for me, Sir?" Tala said as he watched Boris sit in his large, brown, leather arm chair.

Boris nodded and cupped his fingers together as he placed his elbows on his desk. "Yes. How did it go yesterday?"

"Without a hitch." Tala smirked to himself. "Our little Kai has become very off guard since joining those circus performers of a team."

"Hmm," Boris mumbled. "Very good."

Tala bowed slightly. "If you don't mind me asking, Sir. What do you have in mind? Are you expecting him to come back to the demolition boys?"

"Don't be so ridicules, Tala. We both know very well that as soon as those pills wear off he'll be back to his usual self."

"Yes, Sir. But then why-"

"It is no concern of yours, boy. Now get out of my sight."

"Yes," Tala mumbled, before leaving the room.

He shut the door and walked down the dark hallway. "Stupid, old man," he mumbled to himself.

"Oi, Tala."

Tala turned to see a much smaller boy following him. "What do you want, Ian?"

"I heard about what you did to Kai."

"So?" Tala asked bluntly.

Ian smirked. "I just thought maybe you'd want to know what Boris has in mind. But of well, if you're not interested."

"Out with it!" Tala yelled as he grabbed hold of Ian's shirt and pinned him up against the wall.

"Chill, Tala. What's your problem." He looked into Tala's eyes and realized he wasn't messing around. "Boris isn't planning to get him back on the team." He struggled under the grip. "He wants Kai as a guinea pig to use in that new professor's lab. He also has some sick fascination with him. It's more of a fetish if you ask me."

Tala's eyes widened and his grip loosened. "How do you know this?" He gritted his teeth as he strengthened the grip on Ian's shirt again and banged him against the wall again. "I over heard him talking to the professor on the phone earlier."

Tala didn't know how Ian became such a good spy, but for once he was glad about it. He let go of him. "Shit. I just thought… I didn't know." He rolled his eyes. "Great. Now I'm going to have to keep an eye on him to make sure he's okay."

"Uh. Why? It's not your problem what happens to him. He left us remember?"

"Shut it, Ian. I'm the one that slipped him something, and even thought I can't stand him, I'm still not going to let that happen to him."

Ian sighed. "Tala, no offence, but give it up."

"Give what up?"

"We all know you like Kai, and yes, I mean more than I friend. He doesn't want you, he made that clear just before he left."

"Didn't I tell you to shut it?" Tala crossed his arms. "Besides, I'm over him. This was years ago we're talking about now."

"Sure. Well, do what ever you want. I'm out of here."

"Oh-no you don't." Tala grabbed the neck of Ian's shirt as he tried to talk away. "You're coming with me."

"What? Why?" Ian protested as he was dragged down the hall.

"Because, unfortunately, you're the best spy I know. And you owe me big time for what happened last week."

"Huh? Nooo! I don't want to spy on Kai. One, he'll kill me if he finds out, and two, that's boring."

Tala stopped dragging him down the hall and turned him around to face him. "Ian," he said. "Do you know what I slipped Kai?"

"No, and to be honest, I don't really care."

"I slipped him H.F.A.W pills."

"No way!" Ian said, jumping up and down with excitement. "There's two words for a situation like this!" He cried.

Tala nodded and the two boys recited the same words and the same time.

"Blackmail material."

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Okay. I was going to write more, but I really need to start my college coursework. It's due in tomorrow… ops.

R&R