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A/N - I'M FINALLY BACK! And hopefully w/h ideas to finally finish this fic. I apologize for the long delay of this chapter. I finally finished the video games that have kept me busy over the past few months so now I have time to write again & I want really want to finish my stories.

Chapter 24 - Kitten to Cat

Hiro yawned heavily as he sat at the dining room table. He was drowsy, nearly nodded off in his cereal and it was all Brooklyn's fault. He had not slept well since Brooklyn had kept him awake for most of the night. The little chibi had been so worried about Kai that he had forced him to stay up and watch the little dual hair. It had been okay for him to fall asleep in his lap as they sat by the window but Brooklyn had yelled shrilly at him if he woke up and found him asleep. Fortunately, his father had been watching and smacked him lightly on the back of the head to wake him before he could drown in his milk.

"Thanks, dad," he replied, sleepily as Brooklyn giggled from where he was sitting.

Hiro glared evilly at the chibi and added, "this is all your fault, you know."

Tala smirked from where he was sipping his coffee as Kai yawned about as loudly as Hiro. Tala had finally felt sorry for his little boyfriend at dawn and had called Wolborg off. Instead of the bit beast returning to his bit chip, the wolf had decided to get a little exercise and explore the woods behind the house. He had yet to return and Tala reminded Kai of that every other minute to instill even more fear of the white wolf. Kai's kitten, Mai, had yet to come out from under the bed she had taken refuge under when they had been allowed back inside.

"I hate you," Kai muttered as he glared at Tala and looked tempted to throw his oatmeal in the older's face.

"You say that about every other minute at your normal age," Tala replied with a shrug, "and you always come back to me because of my charm. Don't you dare throw that bowl at me. You know you will regret it worse than sitting in a tree all night."

Kai scowled at the threat but started to eat even though he was sleepy. It was only nine in the morning and only a few of them were up. That included only two of the chibis which were Brooklyn and Kai, who had barely slept since he had been stuck in a tree all night. Judy had insisted that Kai eat breakfast before forcing Tala to put him to bed. Bryan appeared at that moment with the morning paper that he threw to Robert that ironically hit him in the face but handed something to Tala. He pointedly ignored the dark glare that came from the German captain.

"Chief told me to give you this," he stated, dropping something into his captain's hand before he took a seat at the table.

"Yes," Tala grinned, "he did it."

Hiro saw Tala's blade and it seemed that Kenny had replaced the damaged attack ring with a new improved one. He didn't understand why Tala or Wolborg would be upset over a few mere scratches since the blades received more damage in a battle than from a little kitten. In many a battle, blades were completely destroyed so why did a few scratches matter so much?

"It was the principle behind the matter," Tala remarked as his icy blue orbs looked into Hiro's and answered the question that he had mentally been asking, "how would you like to be a wolf and have your blade mauled by a cat? It is the typical feline and canine rivalry."

Hiro didn't want to know how Tala knew what he was thinking as Brooklyn jumped from his seat after finishing his breakfast and ran to Tala. Tala didn't even hesitate to pick him up and place him in his lap.

"Kenny fix Wolfie's blade," Brooklyn squealled, "he fix anytwing."

"Wolfie," Tala repeated as his eyes twinkled with amusement, "I just can't believe some of the cute things that come out of his mouth."

He hugged Brooklyn tightly as the chibi giggled and returned the gesture with even more enthusiasm. They were eating quietly for a few minutes until a shriek could be heard from upstairs.

"HEWP!" came the cry as Mystel ran into the dining room, looking panicked, "sometwing wrong with Rei-Rei!"

"What?!" several of the adults and teens roared as they jumped from their seats.

"Mystel, what is wrong with Rei?!" Bryan demanded as he jumped up and confronted the Egyptian first.

This action raised some eyebrows because the other bladers couldn't help but wonder why he of all people was so concerned about Rei. Before he could get an answer out of the small blond, everyone heard a loud yawn as a person entered the room.

"Can anyone tell me why I was wearing pajamas with Sagwa the Siamese Cat on them?" he ask, "and why Mystel was sleeping on top of me?"

"See he big," Mystel cried as he burst into tears, "my Rei-Rei gone. He grew up."

Mystel started to cry very loudly as Rei looked both confused and concerned.

"Mystel, it is okay," he reassured, "I didn't mean to snap at you. I still want to be your friend."

Rei wasn't prepared for his reaction as Mystel jumped into his arms and grabbed him tightly around the neck. He bawled into the crook of his neck as Rei stood there baffled. Hiro watched the interaction with interest since this was the first time he had seen one of the bladers after they had turned back.

"Me wanna be more than fwiends," Mystel sniffled, "see, my kitten change inta cat. He don't want me as his boyfwiend anymore."

"How long was I this size?" Rei ask, ignoring the last bit as Mystel quieted down a little.

"For far too long," Judy stated with a sigh, "how do you feel?"

"I have a bit of a headache," he replied as he winced, "and my mind is a bit jumbled and foggy."

"Mystel, shut up!" Kai snapped as he rubbed his temples like he had a headache, "not in the mood ta listen ta your crying. I didn't act wike that when Tala grew."

Rei turned quickly and couldn't help but frown at Kai. He was going to say something in Mystel's defense but didn't have the opportunity since Brooklyn defended his teammate.

"Kai that not nice," Brooklyn scolded as he pointed a finger in his face, "Mystie upset and ya not hewping. Say sorwy now."

Brooklyn's arms crossed over his chest as he glared at the dual-hair, who was refusing to say those two simple words. Kai was forced to change his mind since Tala was mimicking Brooklyn and neither was going to relent until he did so.

"I sorwy, Mystel," Kai apologized, "didn't mean it."

"It oway," Mystel sniffed, "me sorwy me freak out."

"Is everyone all right now?" Judy ask as the chibis and teens nodded, "would you like some breakfast, Rei?"

"Some of that coffee would be nice," Rei yawned, "along with some toast."

Rei tried to sit down next to Bryan but to Hiro's utter amusement, Mystel would not let go of his neck. He refused to let Rei put him in his own chair and the Neko-jin was blushing like mad from the affection.

"No," Mystel whined as Hiro nearly choked on his coffee since the scene was all too familiar, "me wanna sit with ya."

Bruce pounded him on the back as he finally swallowed the mouthful of coffee that he had been trying to drink.

"Thanks again, dad," he replied as he took a deep breath, "I needed that."

"Yes, I know," Bruce remarked with a smile and then added quietly, "does that scene remind you of someone in particular?"

Hiro nodded as Bruce laughed softly since they both thought of Brooklyn from Mystel's behavior. It appeared that Rei was going to have a little blond hanging on him for the entire day. He was going to know exactly what he had went through the past few weeks with Brooklyn. Tala didn't have that problem since Kai was not clingy like Brooklyn or Mystel.

"Mystel," Rei groaned as Hiro snorted into his coffee mug.

He had to excuse himself from the table since he couldn't contain his laughter any longer.

"Hero," Brooklyn whined as he left Tala and returned to him, "me gots ta go potty. Take me pwease."

Hiro sighed as he looked at his small boyfriend and heard a snort to see that Rei was now smirking at him.

"I've had to deal with this a lot longer than you," he remarked, lifting Brooklyn in his arms, "you are only going to get a small taste of what I have suffered through the past few weeks."

He left the room as several of the others laughed. After taking care of their necessary hygenic needs, Hiro dressed both he and Brooklyn. They returned to the dining room but walked right back out since the others had abandoned it and for good reason. Tyson had finally woke up and he was having a cereal eating contest with Max and the sight was not at all pretty. Bits of cereal were flying out of their mouths and they sprayed everything around them in milk as they gulped down their sugary treats.

"Yuckie," Brooklyn remarked, saying exactly what Hiro thought, "Ty-Ty and Maxie don't have manners."

"That is very true," Hiro added, taking his hand and leading him to the lounge.

Tala was sitting on the loveseat with Kai curled up in his lap and fast asleep. It was quite an unusual sight that Hiro blinked to make certain that his eyes were not deceiving him.

"He refuses to sleep in his bed," Tala informed as he changed the channel on the television, "this is his way of punishing me for making him stay in the tree all night."

Hiro sat down next to him with Brooklyn snug in the middle. Tala sighed as he flipped through the channels with the remote.

"I can't believe it," he muttered, darkly, "over two hundred freaking channels and there is still nothing to watch."

"Me wanna pway," Brooklyn pouted, cutely, "there no one to pway with, Hero."

"Go find Mystel," Hiro suggested as Brooklyn fidgeted in his seat, "and see if you can pry him off of Rei."

Kai was too tired to play and seemed satisfied with Tala so Brooklyn was left to find amusement on his own.

"Bowring," Brooklyn muttered as he rolled his eyes after listening to Tala and Hiro talk about training techniques for a few minutes while Kai continued to sleep soundly, "hate twaining. Don't need it."

He slowly slid off the sofa with neither Hiro or Tala noticing and made his way to the hall. The hallway was quiet and empty as Brooklyn cheered up slightly and started to skip. He started to hum a tune from a video game that he had watched the teens play the evening before. He had wanted to play it as well but Hiro had took the controller away before he had the chance. He has said something about the game being too hard for him to play at his age but that only made Brooklyn want to play it even more.

The green-clad hero of the game interested him and he wanted to be the hero and save the kingdom. But the game system and the game were in the lounge where Tala and Hiro were at the moment. He would never be able to sneak a chance to play it while they were in there or at least Hiro. He would have to find something else to occupy his time for the moment.

He was going to go upstairs to find attention when he heard a scream. At that moment, a certain blond Egyptian came scampering down the hall and staircase as fast as his little legs could carry him. Since he was too busy looking behind him, he didn't see Brooklyn as they collided and fell down the last few steps. Both of them landed on their bottoms as Brooklyn grimaced and looked about to burst into tears. He didn't have the chance too however.

"MYSTEL!" was the shout they heard as the blond jumped to his feet and forgot about the fall.

He looked around franticly as he spotted Brooklyn. He grabbed the younger by the arm and pulled him to his feet.

"We gotta run," he squealled as he pulled the smaller boy behind him. Brooklyn didn't protest his action as he heard the sound of footsteps from the upstairs hallway and another shout from what sounded like Rei.

"Why we wun?" he ask as Mystel shoved him into a closet and closed the door behind them. They got behind the clothes trying to conceal themselves as much as possible from the rampaging Neko-jin.

"Ssshhh," Mystel whispered, clamping a hand over Brooklyn's mouth, "he hear us if we not quiet."

Brooklyn's brow furrowed as he tried to figure out why Mystel was running from Rei. They had been bestest friends before and now he was running from him. What had happened to cause such a drastic change in their feelings toward each other?

"MYSTEL!" was the scream as Brooklyn gulped and started to shake.

Rei sounded really mad as his eyes turned to Mystel, who was trembling more than he was. He let out a whimper as his teeth bit his lower lip, bringing a drop of blood as he shut his eyes tightly.

"MYSTEL, Where are you?!" was the shout or rather demand as Brooklyn swallowed nervously.

Mystel had pissed Rei off as the two chibis stayed quiet and they heard angry footsteps stomp past their hiding place. Finally, the hall was quiet and they could not hear a sound. Mystel sighed with relief as his legs collapsed beneath him as he slid along the wall to the floor. Brooklyn followed his lead and sat down next to him.

"What did ya do ta Rei-Rei?" he inquired, "how you make him so mad?"

Mystel bit his lip nervously again before he smiled slightly.

"Well," he began as he laughed nervously, "Ya know how Rei-Rei wook like a kitty?"

"Yeah," Brooklyn agreed as he tilted his head cutely, "Rei-Rei do wook wike a kitty."

"Ya swee," Mystel continued as he pulled at his clothes nervously, "Rei-Rei look so much wike a kitty that me thought he needed to look more wike a kitty. Me gave him some whiskers and ears when he lay down ta ease his hurtin' head. He not too happy with my additions."

"That not too bad," Brooklyn remarked as an afterthought, "me done worse ta Hero."

"Well, that not problem," Mystel continued with a nervous laugh, "me didn't know the marker would not come off and smear. Then the kitty ears got all tangled in his pwetty hair so he have reason ta be mad."

"Oh," Brooklyn said, simply and nodded, "that not good."

"No, it not," Mystel replied with a sigh, "me in big twouble."

The two chibis sat in silence for a while as they stared at the door, fearing that Rei would find their hiding place and burst through the doors to punish Mystel. It did not happen as they waited and Brooklyn got bored with this one-sided game of Hide N' Seek. Brooklyn sighed with frustration as he stood up and untangled himself from the clothes.

"No," Mystel squeaked, "Rei-Rei find us. Stay quiet."

"Me tired of waiting," Brooklyn fumed as his hands went to his hips in an adorable fashion, "me think ya need ta apologize ta Rei-Rei. It bettah than this and me do nothing wrong."

"Say sorwy," Mystel repeated as Brookyn nodded but the Egyptian gulped, "Rei-Rei kill me."

"Rei-Rei not kill anyone," Brooklyn replied with a smile, "He too nice and he understand. Bettah than hiding all day."

Brooklyn rolled his eyes to prove his point about the stuffy closet as Mystel looked uncertain.

"Easy for ya ta say," Mystel whined, "ya don't have ta face Rei-Rei."

"Me had ta face Hero," Brooklyn added, "and he scary. Just get it ovah with. It bettah than waiting."

"Okay," Mystel replied in defeat, "but if me get hurt, me blame ya."

He frowned at Brooklyn before opening the closet door and running out. Brooklyn soon followed as he sighed. He was bored again and hoped that Rei didn't kill Mystel. He needed someone to play with but when the blond did not return, he was forced to go back to Hiro. Hiro, Tala and Kai were not in the lounge when he returned to the room.

He looked around excitedly to see that no adults were present as he dove toward the video game systems on the shelves. He giggled with glee as his fingers ghosted over the systems, hoping that he remembered how to turn them on especially the small white one.

"What'cha doing?" Tyson ask from the doorway, startling Brooklyn so badly that he dropped one of the controllers, "we not allowed to pway those. They for grown-ups."

"Me don't care," Brooklyn said, hotly, "me wanna pway and they not around. Me need ta Wii."

"If ya need ta potty, then go," Tyson suggested, "daddy get mad if ya don't."

"Not wee," Brooklyn repeated with a frown as he spelled out the three letters, "W-i-i. This its name. Me want ta pway the Wii."

"What stwange name for game system," Tyson pondered, looking thoughtful for about a second and then started to giggle, "but who care? Let's pway!"

Tyson took a moment to look in the hall and since there were no teens or adults around, he smiled widely and plopped down besides of Brooklyn. They looked at the console for a few moments and pressed the buttons as a disc was ejected after the power was turned on. Brooklyn grabbed the game disc, looked at the label and then tossed it aside; not caring where it landed. It was not the game that he wanted to play as he looked at the covers of the cases, throwing the ones aside that he did not want as he found the right case and smiled widely.

"Here it is," he squealled with glee as he jumped up, "this the one me want ta pway. It called Legend of Zelda."

"Who Zelda?" Tyson ask as Brooklyn popped out the game disc and put it into the console after figuring out the television had to be on as well, "and why does an icky girl gots a game named after her?"

"Don't know, don't care," Brooklyn chirped as the disc booted up and after pressing several buttons on the strange remote, the title screen appeared on the television.

He giggled loudly as he pressed more buttons and pretty soon had managed to get a game to start by using another person's save file.

"See that Link," Brooklyn squealled as he pointed to the green-clad figure on the screen, "he the hero."

Brooklyn mashed buttons on the controller and moved the control stick making Link walk. He did another combination of buttons, making something unexpected happened. The green-clad hero transformed into a wolf with a small imp sitting on his back. This change made both of the boys shriek and fall backwards with surprise as Brooklyn dropped the controller that fell to the floor with a thud since he did not have the band tightened around his wrist to prevent it. The owner of the Nintendo would probably have to buy a new controller for the system after these two got through with it.

"What happen?" Tyson ask, sitting up and pointing at the figure on the screen, "he human but now he doggie."

"Don't know," Brooklyn shrugged, picking up the controller after getting over his bout of surprise, "he almost wook wike Tala's wolfie now. That cool."

"Go there!" Tyson ordered, pointing to a bridge in the distance, "that wook important."

Brooklyn had the cutest expression on his face with his tongue sticking out of his mouth and being held by his lips in concentration. He managed to get Wolf Link to the structure that turned out to be Hyrule Castle Town and it was the middle of the afternoon. The citizens screamed and fled in terror as Brooklyn ran Link down the streets. Both of the boys were giggling hysterically from the citizens actions.

"That funny," Tyson squealled as his fell backwards from his giggles, "me love this game."

Together the pair managed to navigate the streets and get to the castle. A small cutscene followed as the little imp grew and broke the crystal that had encased the castle.

"Ugly," Tyson remarked when they had control of Link again, "that the weirdest thing me ever sawed."

"Have ta agree," Brooklyn remarked with a nod of the head but his attention turned back to the screen.

Pretty soon the pair was stuck since they could not find a key and Brooklyn got bored. It was odd that none of the adults had come to find them and the pair really didn't care. They were having too much fun.

"Me wanna pway now," Tyson demanded, jerking the controller from Brooklyn as they exchanged the discs.

They put in the sports games that they had seen the teens play and seemed to like the best. The difference being that Tyson and Brooklyn were younger and easily more excitable than their older counterparts. It didn't take very long for one of the two controllers to go flying through the air like a projectile weapon and break a rather expensive vase sitting on a table.

"Oops," Tyson remarked as he went to retrieve the controller as Brooklyn stopped playing to wait for him, "that mine fault."

"Whatever," Brooklyn replied with a roll of the eyes.

He didn't care that the vase had been broken. It wasn't his and besides they would be blamed for it anyway. The truth to be told, he particularly didn't like that piece of pottery. It was in bad taste to him and clashed horribly with the paint on the walls. The vase was not the first or last victim.

Brooklyn's controller soon went sailing across the room and hit a laptop sitting at a table, cracking the screen like an egg shell. When they knocked the coffee table over with their wild movements, Judy finally came into the room to see what was causing all of the noise. Her hands went to her hips as she saw the mess and the pair playing video games that were forbidden without supervision.

"What do you think you are doing?" she ask as Tyson and Brooklyn paused in the middle of their tennis game. Her voice low and deadly as the two chibis shivered in fright.

"My laptop," Kenny cried as he entered the lounge and saw that the screen was cracked, "my precious. What did they do to you?"

Judy, Tyson and Brooklyn all sweatdropped from Kenny's odd proclamation. Hiro returned at that moment to find Judy glowering at him.

"What did I do?" he ask as his eyes turned to Brooklyn, who was standing in front of the TV with a familiar controller in hand, "what have you done?"

"It slip," Brooklyn tried to smile as he held up the controller, "me sorwy but me want ta pway and you not let me."

"All you had to do was ask me," Hiro reminded, "I would have let you play a game if you had ask."

"What did you do to my controllers?" Bryan shouted as he entered the room with Rei and Mystel in tow, "and my games?"

He yanked the controllers from both Tyson and Brooklyn's hands. It seemed that the Wii belonged to him while the PS3 sitting only inches away undisturbed was Spencer's. Who knew that the two stolid and cold Russians loved video games.

"They erased my save files!" Bryan yelled even more as he was checking out his system for damage, "It took me forever to get to Ganondorf in Twilight Princess!"

"Better an erased memory card than marker on your face or cat ears tangled in your hair," Rei mumbled as Mystel giggled, "I know that you can get that far again."

"It wasn't difficult," Bryan cried, "it was just frustrating and time consuming. Those temples took forever to get through and I don't look forward to having to go through some of them again."

"Well at least they didn't touch my PS3," Spencer remarked with a smile.

"Sony okay," Brooklyn remarked with a crinkle of his nose, "but me prefer Nintendo. They bettah. They gots Link and he the coolest!"

Both Brooklyn and Tyson laughed as they grabbed their toy lightsabers that had been stuffed under the couch where they had been left sometime before. It seemed that Brooklyn had proclaimed himself to be Link while Tyson had to be Ganondorf.

"Me wants ta pway," Mystel cried, joining the mock fight as he grabbed the poker from the fireplace, "who can me be?"

Brooklyn looked thoughtful for a moment as they paused their fight but then smiled.

"Ya can be Pwincess Zelda," Brooklyn laughed, "since ya gots long hair like her. That way, me gots someone ta rescue from the evil meanie."

"Me not a girl," Mystel shrieked, indignantly with his hands on his hips, "I not play the girlie. She always gets kidnapped and have ta be rescued. Me wanna hewp."

The three chibis continued to argue for a few minutes as Bryan rubbed his temples in annoyance. He simply got another game case, popped in a smaller disc and plugged in a different controller before turning the Wii back on.

"Come here, small fry," he called to Brooklyn, who quickly left Tyson and Mystel, "if you want to play Zelda, I will let you but only with the GameCube version and one of its controllers."

"Ya the gweatest, Bryan," Brooklyn shrieked, settling into his lap as he started a new game.

"That not fair," both Tyson and Mystel protested, running to Bryan and forgetting about the previous argument.

Spencer merely chuckled before he joined them on the floor to watch. Judy left after seeing the chibis were in good hands while Hiro just watched them play for a few more minutes before deciding to go back to his nap that had been interrupted before. He was about to leave but had a question for Rei that would not let him sleep until he knew the answer.

"Rei," he stated as the Neko-jin turned to him, "I have a question that requires an answer. Is there something going on between you and Bryan?"

Rei spit out the mouthful of coffee he had been drinking as he pulled Hiro out into the hall and was grateful that neither Bryan or Mystel had overheard the question.

"There was," he admitted, looking back into the room to find Bryan laughing with Brooklyn, who was having trouble figuring out how to control Link, "he wrote me after our first tournament and apologized for hurting me. We kept in contact and became pen pals. When we met during the tag team tournament, we had mutual feelings for the other and saw one another in secret. We tried to keep it going afterwards but then Mr. Dickenson put together this tournament and Mystel became a bit of a problem. I've known for sometime that he had feelings for me but I still harbor feelings for Bryan."

"You know this is only going to get more complicated as time passes," Hiro sighed, dreading the day when Mystel turned back to normal, "I think you need to make a decision as to who you want to be with. You will have to chose between Bryan and Mystel eventually and I do not envy your choice."

Hiro patted him on the shoulder before he went back upstairs to go back to sleep since Brooklyn was in good hands at the moment. Rei stood in the hallway and looked into the room where both of his love interests were sitting. He sighed sadly as he looked between the two and thought over Hiro's words.

"I don't know who I will chose," Rei whispered, "and that is what scares me."

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