"But Kai! How about that 'I have one word' stuff you told me last week when you defeated me! You said earlier that we have no practice! Please Kai?" Tyson whined and pleaded at the same time to his stoic captain. I had miraculously stopped raining sometime after noon and he wanted to visit his grandpa and his other friends along with Kenny and Max.
Kai only closed his eyes at Tyson and crossed his arms. He does not like this pleading of Tyson. Tyson continued to plead until Max and Kenny joined him. Then, Rei supposed it is the right time to intervene.
"How about the three of you proceed first in the living room?" Rei told his three younger teammates turned away from Kai and mouthed to them, I'll talk it out.
Kai opened his eyes when he realized that it is already silent. Suddenly, he looked down and almost jumped in surprise when his face was barely inches away from Rei's. Am I really this tall? He stepped back and regained his posture while Dranzer started to tease him again.
"Where are those kids? Did you let them go?" Kai asked, half-coldly.
"I didn't. They are in the living room. Why don't you want to let them go? Is there something wrong?" Rei asked Kai softly. He is secretly praying that Kai will forget the stuff he's been asking earlier.
"It's because they have to practice. Do you really have to ask that?" Kai asked, almost forgetting that he is talking to Rei.
"You can just let them off for at least 4 hours and then tomorrow, we can start training again." Rei explained calmly.
"Don't be such a killjoy Kai! Four hours alone with Rei will be awesome!" Dranzer commented in Kai's head with pure birdie joy.
Kai walked out of the dining room and headed to the living room. Rei smiled to himself when he heard Tyson say loud and lively thanks to him before running out to the bus station.
"Since when did you become the spokesman of those kids?" Kai asked Rei, returning into the dining room where Rei is collecting the dishes.
"I don't know but I think it's quite effective, don't you think?" Rei remarked then headed to the sink, leaving a slightly agitated Kai.
"Way to go Rei!" Dranzer cheered in Kai's head.
"Shut up you bird!" Kai said angrily in to Dranzer.
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That afternoon, Kai kept his distance from Rei by training himself outside. He is mentally cussing on Dranzer for being a girl when he could have a male beast. Well, Dranzer paid no heed to her master's complains and agitations but instead she continued her endless hints and tips on how to ask Rei out that in the end, struck Kai's final nerve, making him burst out.
"DAMN IT!" Kai said loudly and angrily, making Dranzer hide in her shell. Luckily, the Bladebreakers' place is far from other houses or it would have cost Kai a little trouble.
Rei rushed to the backyard after hearing Kai's angry tone while sweeping the floors. There, he found Kai glaring at his blade angrily as if he is ready to burn it with his fiery gaze.
"What happened, Kai?" Rei asked nervously. Kai would never ever burst like that except when it is because of Tyson.
A lightning struck even before Kai could answer Rei's question and it also snapped Kai back to the normal scene. Kai's gaze softens a bit as he looked up to the darkening sky and turned to Rei.
"Let's go back inside. Looks like it's going to rain again." Kai commented, walking past Rei who is looking quite puzzled.
Rei sat quietly in the living room as he watched a Chinese movie, feeling uneasy of the return of the stoic expression of his captain. Earlier, Kai is being nice and conversational but now, he looks as if he is a porcupine not to be touched.
"Hey Drigger. Feels really cold in here." Rei told his friend beast.
"Now, Rei. I see that you are now missing your common sense. It obviously is going to rain that's why it's cold." Drigger scolded his master mentally.
"Not that, silly! I mean, look at Kai." Rei explained to his beast with a mental laugh.
"Oh. Dranzer made him angry that's why." Drigger replied nonchalantly.
"How did you know that?" Rei inquired, quite pleased with the movie he is currently watching.
"Dranzer told me herself."
"Oh yeah? Since when did the two of you became close?" Rei asked. Drigger used to tell him that he can't stand Dranzer's attitude and stuff like that and Drigger, being a proud kitty, wouldn't forgive anyone easily.
"Just today. Why do you ask so many irrelevant questions?"
"Oh nothing…" Rei said innocently. Suddenly, his gaze fell on Kai's cold crimson ones. He shivered but gave Kai a nervous smile and forced himself to return his gaze to the television screen.
On the other hand, Kai is still really angry with Dranzer. He can't help but get mad when his companion beast starts to tease him endlessly but when Rei looked at him, he almost feel like melting in his seat.
It's been four months since he realized that he is capable of loving another person but he didn't expect it to be Rei. He didn't know how he fell for his Chinese teammate even though his heart is made up with ice. But all he know is that he can't help but smile every time he sees Rei around, he can't help but feel good when he hears Rei's encouraging tone and most of all, he can't control himself from staring at Rei's sparkling gold eyes. But thanks to Volataire and Bakov, he can hide his feeling well and admire Rei without feeling distracted.
Suddenly, the raindrops started to fall accompanied by a loud crash of thunder that almost made Rei jump off his seat while Kai looked at the big wall clock in the room that reads 5:54 pm.
"In six minutes they should be here." Kai stated, looking out of the wet glass window as cold wind passed by from the cold atmosphere outside.
Regaining his composure, Rei sat back on the beanbag and look at Kai side view. He must admit that despite the emotionless mask upon his captain's being, he can still see that spark of kindness and caring in him. He is just happy that at least, every now and then, Kai is being more sociable after 3 years of his stay as the Blade Breakers' captain. Suddenly, he realized that he is staring at his team captain who is currently looking at him oddly. He mentally slapped himself for staring at his captain senselessly or is it?
"Do I have dirt on my face?" Kai asked, still looking out the window. He can sense it when someone is staring at him. At least it's Rei.
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"I swear Kai will kill us! We shouldn't have waited for the rain!" Kenny exclaimed nervously. They are still in Tyson's house and it's been raining badly that they can't go out of the house due to the foggy atmosphere and heavy rain.
"How about we e-mail Kai? I'm sure he'll understand." Max suggested while eating a strawberry flavored lollipop.
"You can stay here for the night! Kai wouldn't mind it with this kind of weather." Tyson's grandfather said enthusiastically.
"Like you live with Kai Hiwatari in some distant place." Tyson muttered under his breath while drinking a box of milk.
"Okay, let's e-mail Kai. At least, we don't have to deal with his freezing tone." Max said happily.
"What will we tell him? He'd probably kill us even before we send this email." Kenny said nervously as he open his laptop.
"C'mon Kenny! Just do it!" Tyson urged.
"Wait a minute guys. What do you think happened to Rei?" Kenny asked while his laptop boots up.
"Probably being beaten by Kai." Tyson offered jokingly.
"Tyson! Kai wouldn't do such thing!" Max exclaimed at his teammates suggestion.
"Okay! Okay! I give up!" Tyson said, raising both his hands in surrender.
"Can't we just proceed to this email?"
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"Great. Just great." Kai muttered sarcastically as he checks his emails after having an early dinner with Rei as the rain suddenly turned into a storm.
"What's great Kai?" Rei asked as he finished washing the dishes.
"Those kids are not coming back tonight. I shouldn't have let them out." Kai said, deleting the email from Kenny.
"Don't be like that Kai. They have a valid reason not to return here and besides, do you really want them to be out in this weather?" Rei reasoned out.
"Whatever." Was Kai's reply and went back to his laptop's screen. How come he always gets so emotional when Rei is the one reasoning out?
Rei smiled to himself. If Kai doesn't argue with you, it means, he agrees with what you say, a thing that rarely happen.
Then, a thunder crashed and Rei went blank.
Tbc…
Ice Spirit: So, there you go. Sorry if it's a bit short. The next chapter will be longer I promise! I hope you review coz they really, really help a lot! Till next chapter!
-Ice Spirit
