Chapter 11
"Kai…" Tala started quietly, sliding his eyes slightly to glance to his right to look at his friend, "Where you serious when you said that I have to train your team a couple of times a week when they're back from their vacation?" he asked, looking back up at the ceiling once he'd asked the question, waiting patiently for an answer.
The older Russian nodded, glancing back at his younger friend, "I think it would do you some good, I know they were a great help for me and just knowing them will do you some good too." He replied in a stern voice, the kindness still in there though.
Tala shivered slightly back against the covers, hesitating slightly before speaking again, "They're…they're not going to like me, Kai. I can tell you from now that things between me and them won't go well."
Kai sat up, pulling his arms around his drawn legs, looking over at Tala with a monotonous look on his face as always, "Do you plan on starting an argument with them?" he asked him plainly.
The red-head shrugged, giving Kai a rather annoyed look, "Of course not, I wouldn't even try." He answered honestly.
"Then there won't be any problems." Kai informed him suddenly.
Tala felt something else burning inside him, some anger maybe, that Kai could be so quick to say something like that when he couldn't be sure, "How can you be sure that they won't start something? I don't exactly have a clean slate with them, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd rather I were dead rather than be living with you."
Kai sighed, giving his friend a look of disbelief, "I know because they should know better than to go against one of my orders of being respectful towards you. Besides, I'll explain everything, I'll explain that you're not the same person they saw you as and they'll understand, believe it or not they're very understanding people when they want to be." He wasn't sure anymore if his words where making any sense to his friend and at the time he didn't care at all whether or not his words came out harshly.
"I'm saying I don't want you to go through trouble with your friends just for me."
"Hey you're my friend too, remember that." Kai reminded him calmly, staring at the ground in front of him as he spoke, obviously avoiding eye contact during a conversation like this.
Tala sat up, leaning back just slightly, putting his weight on his arms where his hands gripped the sheets behind him to support himself, "I know but they're a greater part of your life, I don't want you to lose them over me."
Kai calmed down completely, turning to stare at the ceiling for only a second before looking over at Tala, his short pause gaining his attention, "I very highly doubt I'll lose anyone, just leave it all up to me, be yourself and it'll be fine."
Tala turned over onto his stomach, resting his head on his arms while exhaling, "I hope you're right." He mumbled.
---Later---
Kai looked up from the newspaper when he heard a light knock on the bedroom door, "Yeah?" he called.
Upon opening the door Kyoshi and Sakura stood there, "Hey." Tala greeted them, sitting up and smiling at the two.
Sakura, always one to get straight to the point, continued to look on at them seriously, "I'm making breakfast, you two want some?" she asked them, a very small degree of kindness in her tone.
Kai put down the newspaper and slid off the bed, "I'll help." He offered, leaving the room with her to go to the kitchen.
Kyoshi smirked suddenly, jerking a thumb over his shoulder in the direction the other two went, "Should I be worried?" he asked.
Tala shook his head, standing up and walking to the foot of the bed, "I don't think so." He answered, giving him a sincere smile before staring down at the ground.
The old vampire nodded and twiddling his thumbs at first he gestured to Tala's shoulder, "How's your shoulder now?" he asked suddenly, sounding like his usual concerned-self.
"Much better, thank goodness." Tala replied, rubbing the back of his shoulder lightly, feeling the stitches through the thin fabric of his t-shirt.
"Keep it dry, and it'll be fine, it shouldn't take long to heal." Kyoshi informed him, leaned back against the wall by the door.
The youngest nodded, smiling back with a thanks shining in his eyes before standing up, "Let's go see what the other two are making." He told him, smiling as he walked past him and out the door.
The two walked into the kitchen, joining the other two as Saku placed another plate of a well-made English breakfast down onto the table. "Bon appetite." Sakura told them, turning and leaving the room.
All three males sat down at table and began eating the home-made meal without hesitation before Tala looked up and glanced over at Kyo, thinking for a second before speaking, "Isn't she going to eat anything?" he asked him, a tint of concern and wonder in his voice.
Kyoshi shook his head, not looking up from his food, and answered him casually, "She doesn't eat much, she's more…mind over matter, she'd be starving, then she pictures a large burger in her head and suddenly she's too bloated to eat any food that's set in front of her."
The older Russian grunted, gaining the other two men's attention, "If she keeps doing that she's going to end up a corpse." He commented once he got both their attentions.
"It would explain why she's so skinny though." Tala mumbled.
Kyo smiled, "It's not anorexia or anything, and it's under complete control, I make sure she eats enough and that she eats healthily. There's nothing to worry about." He assured them, a smile on his lips.
"Who's worrying?" Kai asked, raising his eyes and looking at Kyoshi from across the table.
Tala turned to Kai and looked a tad…upset again, "I was, up until a minute ago." He answered Kai's rather rhetorical question.
Kyoshi laughed at the two and their quiet bickering, standing up as he lifted his plate and walked to the sink and put it there, "Believe me when I say that there's nothing wrong with her, aside from her occasional drinking problems."
"Drinking problems?"
Kyo turned back around, leaning his back against the counter as he crossed his arms, "Her worst habit is drinking a little too much, she used to have a hangover every morning for about two years but since we've been having more live shows she's cut down on it."
Tala sighed and turned round so that he could look up at Kyo, "Why do I get this sinking feeling that she really doesn't care about what happens to her?" he asked him, some of his old cold and serious character from the past kicking in again.
Kyo's eyelids closed over his dark blue eyes, smirking as he lowered his head slightly and answered him, "That's probably because your sinking feeling is right. She's reckless for her own safety when she fights, she talks her opponents down while risking her own safety but she doesn't care because 90 of the time she's got a back up plan, she drinks like crazy, her stage presence is amazingly drastic down to her head-banging and she'll risk her own safety for a show and let's not forget the fact that, she's engaged to and sleeping with, a vampire." He rounded off casually.
That last fact caught Kai's attention quickly and looked up at Kyoshi a little wide-eyed, "Engaged too?" he asked.
"As of a couple of months ago, yeah, we're engaged." Kyoshi laughed quietly once he'd opened his eyes and took in their facial expressions, "It's not as strange as it sounds." He told them.
Slightly shocked looks took over both the two mortals faces, "So do all vampires you know marry mortal teenagers?" Kai asked, a decent amount of humour in his voice.
Kyoshi smiled and rolled his eyes at the question, "Fine so it's not so normal but at the moment neither of us seem to care about what's normal or not." He defended themselves, pushing himself away from the counter.
The Russian captain shrugged, Kai's usual coldness being hard to shake off, "You two can do what you like, your lifestyles don't really affect mine so what you do is none of my business."
Kyo smirked and rested against the exit of the kitchen for a second, "That's the smartest thing you've said this whole time I've known you." He informed him, glaring at Kai for a second before leaving the room.
"Wow you were nice to him." Tala mumbled sarcastically, turning back around to finish off the last bit of his breakfast.
Kai went back to his own food, not making eye contact with his friend as he shrugged, "I was supportive."
Tala smirked, "Thank goodness you don't have the ability to change." He commented, getting up.
Usually Kai would have taken a comment like that as a compliment, but 'not having the ability'? That just didn't sit right with him, "What's that supposed to mean?" he asked, looking up hurriedly from his food.
"You don't want to change, so you won't, which is a good thing on the most part." Tala told him, following Kyoshi's exit.
---Later---
The two Russian bladers sat in the living room, both of them watching their beyblades that spun gracefully on the coffee table, the bit-beasts needing the bit of exercise while their owners communed with them on recent happenings, voicing their own opinions and everything they'd neglected to say sooner. Luckily, all of their opinions where in favour of getting to know their current care givers, which meant that the two teenagers didn't need to ponder on their trust for much longer. So occasionally Tala and Kai would look over at each other and comment about how the other two wouldn't be so bad to allow help from. That was, until Sakura walked through the living room in a rushed pace cursing heavily while running.
Both bladers had lost their concentration at the sight of that and their blades stopped spinning as they rushed up and followed her into the kitchen. They watched as she clapped a cloth over her mouth that suddenly absorbed visible blood. Tala looked on shockingly, "What happened?" he asked blankly.
Saku prepared a glass of water and moved the cloth away from her mouth, sipping the water slowly before spitting out the red liquid on the side of the sink. At that moment Kyoshi entered the room, well more like just stood in the doorway but enough for Kai and Tala to notice him and a bitter comment setting itself in Kai's mouth, "When I found out you were a vampire and you two made out all the time, it made me wonder if he ever sliced off your tongue with those fangs of his." He said to Sakura, monotonously, naturally.
The girl raised her eyes from her drink and glared at the Russian angrily, "He didn't bite my tongue, the screw cut my tongue when I was putting my piercing back in."
"Who knew there was so much blood in a human tongue?" Tala winced.
"Not Sakura, apparently." Kai mumbled to himself.
"How about I pierce your tongue and you see how it feels?" Sakura shot at him bitterly, flames blazing in her eyes, stepping forward threateningly.
Kyoshi pushed himself off the wooden doorframe of the kitchen and walked over to her, "No sense getting worked up." He told her, resting both hands gently on her cheeks. "So where's the stud?" he asked her.
Sakura slipped her hand across the counter and handed him the small silver stud, "Good luck." She muttered, slipping her tongue out of her mouth.
Kyo smirked at her words while he put the piercing back in, "You'd have a lot less trouble putting this in if you stopped taking it out so much." He informed her humorously, giving her a hard hit on the cheek once she was done.
"Shut up." Saku told him, almost playfully, before walking out of the room, sticking her tongue out at Kai as she passed by him.
The older Russian smirked at that act and leaned back against the wall, "Her childishness amazes me sometimes." He told Kyo informatively.
The kind-hearted vampire couldn't help but chuckle quietly, "Think about this for a second Kai, maybe it's good to be childish once in a while." He watched as Kai didn't answer and the vampire shook his head, contentment on his features as he tried to hold it back, then walked out of the kitchen to join his fiancé.
Tala took the opportunity to comment wildly, turning to Kai with a smirk, "Now that's one reason why I get on well with him, he's just really really good at putting you in your place." He just enjoyed rubbing these kinds of things in Kai's face, purposely to watch him get a little frustrated, or just take some shots to his pride for his own entertainment, only joking around naturally.
As expected, Kai just grunted, crossed his arms and turned and went back into the living room. He picked up his beyblade from the coffee table and placed it back into his trousers pocket for safekeeping. A moment later Tala joined him, follow his friend's example and keeping close contact with his blade, his other close friend. "Don't take anything to heart, Kai, you know I'm only joking a little." He told him after a moment of silence, his tone of voice held with a hint of apology in it.
"I know." Kai returned, his own voice just releasing a small amount of…frustration? Or maybe just a little bit of anxiety?
The sound of it dawned something new upon Tala's thoughts, ignoring his bit-beasts words of reassurance just before he decided to speak in a quiet questioning tone, "Is something bothering you?"
Kai had his pride to maintain but his reply didn't depend on that this time, it depended more on himself as he'd tried hard to convince himself nothing was on his mind within the past few days, "No, nothing at all."
"You know…" Tala started silently, "The more you say that nothing's wrong, the more likely something is in fact bothering you." He pointed out smartly. Despite his ingenious assumption, he said everything with caution, up until now he had his friend close to him and he didn't wish the lose the friendship they had. At the same time, he couldn't stop the sudden bit of worry about his friend that flustered in him lately. The more Kai worried about Tala, the more Tala worried about him, it was a vicious and painful cycle.
"I'm your friend Tala. I'm not one of your team mates."
"Well…if you ask me…"
Kai interrupted before he could continued, "Which I didn't."
The ex-Blitzkrieg boy's captain closed his eyes, tolerating Kai's interruption, "If you ask me you're both a friend and a team mate, in which both cases I have the right to worry."
Kai's eyes opened and shifted slightly to the side to glance at his friend with a glare, "What gives you a reason to worry?" he asked, cold as always, clearly not caring that his friend was only being his kind-hearted self.
Tala got up and walked over to the window, opening it very lightly, not wanting any sunlight to come inside the room in case Kyoshi walked back down the hall, "You're quiet…" he began, letting the outside heat from the sun grace over his pale arm, "And not that kind of quiet that I'm used to getting from you…it's a worrying kind of quiet." He rested his forehead against the warm glass, suddenly he didn't mind the heat so much, "You see me worrying about the future and you worry about me, you worry about ways to protect me."
His friend smirked, "You got all that from silence?" he asked him, getting off the sofa and approaching him.
The red-head pulled back together the fabric of the curtains and stepped back, turning to Kai, "Apart from some rude orders and lectures, I lived in silence." He sounded so emotionless suddenly, sounding so persistent despite the younger being less in control. After a while he'd seemed to have forgotten his capabilities and surpassed them to go back to his old demanding self.
"All I am is worried about you getting hurt when we don't know what we're up against." Kai placed a hand on Tala's fragile shoulder, shaking gently while staring him in the eye, "I'm fine though." He assured him.
The youngest shrugged his friend's hand off of him and walked past him back to the sofa, sitting down he tilted to the side slightly so he could rest against the pillows propped up against the armrest. Luckily for him Sakura and Kyoshi entered the room a second later which didn't give him enough chance to acknowledge Kai's last words. The two looked into the direction of the older vampire and singer, Kyo stopping in the doorway to watch as his fiancé rushed to the desk and pulled out her gun and fit it in the back of her trousers in a hurry. "Where are you rushing off to?" Kai asked her, blinking in surprise at her quick pace as he watched her pick up a backpack from by the sofa and onto her shoulder.
Sakura looked into the mirror, brushing aside a strand of hair, "Band practice." She replied in the meantime.
Kai raised an eyebrow at her even though she couldn't see him at the time, jerking his thumb in Kyo's direction, "Without your guitarist?" he asked her.
"Yeah." Kyoshi agreed, glaring at her confusedly and crossly, Saku clearly seeing his reflection in the mirror.
The girl in question turned back around, gripping her backpack strap tightly in her hand, "We're just going over some things, we can handle one practice without you." She started another quick pace forward, gave Kyoshi a kiss on the corner of his mouth before he could protest and rushed out the door in too little time for anyone else to say anything.
Tala smiled, burying his face into the pillow for a second to wipe sleep out of his eyes, "You need to come to some sort of agreement between the two of you if you intend of not making fools of yourselves while we're here." He joked quietly to the vampire.
Kyo resisted laughing, it being evident on his features, "Sorry, we're not used to having people in here. Whenever people are over here they don't stay for very long." He gave them a small sincere smile, shrugging sadly, "Having you two here is one of the best things that has happened in a while."
"Yeah, being engaged to a girl like Sakura could kill anyone."
Kyoshi finally allowed himself a quiet laugh and walked down the hall, "I'll be in the basement if you need anything." He called back to them.
Kai smirked and turned back to the sofa and his smirk suddenly dropped, watching as Tala nuzzled his face deeper into the pillow, "Kai…" he called quietly, "I'm tired." He complained with a sigh.
Kai walked closer to his friend, sitting in the armchair not far from the sofa, "Get some sleep then." He told him, matter-of-factly. Watching intently, it seemed as though his friend had taken in his words instantly, slowly but steadily falling asleep on the sofa, slowly curling up for some body heat. The sinking feeling of something being wrong with the boy persisted upsettingly in the older Russian's heart, a frustrating feeling for him to deal with. Footsteps were heard coming down the hall again; strange considering Kyoshi said he'd be downstairs and Sakura had left the house earlier. On the other hand, Kyoshi was still the one that walked quietly back down the hall, "I thought you were going to be downstairs."
Kyoshi huffed, frustration more than evident on his features and in his voice, "I think Sakura took my cigarettes from my pocket." He grumbled, feeling Kai's eyes on him when he stormed into the living room, walked to the desk and rummaged at the back of it to look for a box from his newly-moved stash. He exhaled a breath of relief when he found one, then walked back into the direction of the teens as he slipped a cigarette out, "What's with him?" he asked, gesturing to Tala.
The only conscious Russian avoided eye contact with the vampire currently, just staring at his friend with his arms still crossed while answering in that usual monotonous and uncaring tone, "He was feeling tired so I told him to get some more sleep."
By now the twenty-one or so, year old vampire had lit the cigarette and bathed in the calm feeling he got from it, "Is he ill?" he asked him.
"No…he's fine." Kai really wished that his words were the right ones and that Tala really was just fine, but at the time he really wasn't sure of anything; either way though, it would have probably led him to the same answer anyway.
Kyoshi, being the smart vampire with acute hearing that he was, heard a slight hitch in the boy's voice and walked in front of him, still half turned to look at Tala, "Kai, I was the one that stitched up that cut on the back of his shoulder last night, if there's something that you're not telling me…" His voice died down at the end of that in an almost worried tone, one that Kai was quick to interrupt to.
"Last night he complained about feeling light-headed with an upset-stomach but he slept through the night just fine, this morning nothing was wrong but now he just felt tired."
'So much for my time to relax.' Kyo taught to himself. Tossing the box onto the coffee table and the cigarette perched on the side of an ashtray as he walked to the sofa and knelt down beside it. It took him a minute to take in the closer sight of the youngest boy of the house and bit down on his own lip a second before brushing away a strand of red-hair, "Anaemia maybe?" he asked, looking back at him.
A tad of confusion hit Kai suddenly, "You think so?" he got off the armchair and walked to were the other two were and knelt down not far from Kyoshi, asking surprisingly.
Kyo shrugged and stood up, picking up the cigarette and standing by one of the windows, "It's normal from some blood loss and unconsciousness; we don't know how long he was out cold yesterday, the cut didn't help obviously and if I recall correctly he's had some operations recently, right?"
It seemed nothing the boy said could not surprise him at the moment, "Yeah, how'd you know?" he asked.
Really, anything Kyoshi said, Kai would be surprised at, "Tala told me…believe it or not he's open about it and it's a very good thing."
Kai wanted a desperate sudden change of subject but still voicing at least some of his on-going concerns and asked his casually as though their subject had never changed at all, "You think I should drag him to a doctor?"
The night-creature shook his head, "Give him some time, maybe his body is just trying to adjust to some changes."
"You seem to be very knowledgeable on the subject." Kai commented towards him, "Sucking the blood out of mortals makes you an expert on the human body?" he asked, obviously some of his distrust still there but relaxed slightly when he sat back in the armchair again.
Kyoshi chuckled quietly, putting out his cigarette, "Hardly." He replied, sitting cross-legged on the ground, "But if you must know, I was studying medicine just before I…died, if that's what you want to call it."
"From a Japanese rocker at night to a med student during the day, why do I see something strange about that?"
"Possibly, you watch too many movies?"
Kai smirked, "I wouldn't call the news a movie." He spoke softly, expecting the vampire to hear him.
"You only watch the news? That's sad."
"For the love of all things good, stop having petty arguments." Tala growled quietly and sleepily from his place on the sofa, turning over slightly with some discomfort.
Kyoshi got off the ground again, picking up his box from the coffee table and jerked his head slightly for Kai to follow him so they wouldn't disturb their friend's sleep. A little hesitantly Kai took a last glance at his friend before following the vampire into the next room. He sat down at the foot of the bed, turning and crossing his legs to be able to look at the other male, who was smoking yet again and polluting the bedroom air.
"You really should stop taking so many of those." Kai told him suddenly, taking the vampire by about as much surprise as he'd got him.
The blonde looked up at him, raising his eyebrows at him, "I don't see you as someone to be concerned about these things."
"You can't die so you're the least of anyone's concerns, but your…fiancé can and I highly doubt that you want to send her to an earlier grave than she's already headed for."
"Since when are you concerned about her?"
Kai shrugged, sighing with annoyance, "Tala just told me I should be nice."
The only reply Kyoshi could give him for the first minute but then added, "I'll bet it's killing you." He put out the cigarette in the ashtray on his nightstand, then sitting back comfortably against some pillows.
"Believe me when I say it's nothing personal."
Kyoshi nodded in understanding, smiling softly, "I see you as an untrusting character, I'm not surprised that you're like this and you're just trying to protect yourself and your friend, in a world like this that's the way things should be."
Kai found himself nodding at the blonde's words without he himself knowing he was doing, he smirked suddenly and locked eyes with the male in front of him, "You're certainly more understanding than Sakura was, she seemed like she was in a real rush to get us to trust her." He caught himself saying the truth to him, and he didn't mind saying it out aloud.
"She lives in a rush, she's always running from one place to another, from one task to another, from one victim to another but most of all, from one gunfight to another. She really doesn't want her lifestyle, a lifestyle she actually enjoys, to hurt some innocent people. Time is of the essence in general; to her it's ten times that." Steadily memories of when Sakura and Kyoshi had first started out filled the male's minds and the explanation made more sense to him now than it did before. "She's really not that bad of a person." He added finally, nodding his head to back up his words.
Kai shrugged, placing his hands by his sides to support himself, "Well she has both you and Tala convinced so she really can't be all that bad."
It was funny, even when the Russian was even trying to be slightly kind, he could still hold his cold and monotonous tone of voice. Was he that incapable of showing some kindness to someone he wasn't directly close to?
"You and her seem to be in similar situations…" Kyoshi began slowly.
The sound of that, even just the tone suddenly made him a little wary, 'That's the kind of tone I use with the team…' he commented to himself in his mind, "Where are you going with this?" he asked.
Kyoshi pushed himself off the comfortable pillows, crossing his legs and resting his arms on his knees, "You and her both deal with the same things in a way. I'm a lot like Tala at times, that's why we probably get along so well, and you and Sakura have the same positions and roles and clearly, she's dealt with me for so long that maybe she can help you."
"Help me with what? Things with Tala and me are fine."
Kyoshi glared at him, opposing to raise his eyebrow at that very untrue comment, "If things between you keep going like this then you're going to drive the both of you off cliffs to your deaths."
Kai returned that death glare, his deeper and sharper than the others from the years of practice he'd had in comparison to the more gentler boy, "I'd rather pretend as though this has nothing to do with the two of you and Tala and I can sort everything out by ourselves."
Now little hints of frustration were really starting to grow on Kyo, and very rarely did he let someone else's action bring up anger or frustration but this time he felt it enough and couldn't hold it back, "You're thinking about yourself, and not about him." He retorted rudely.
"Hey, I don't tell you how to do your job." Kai spat rudely at him, clearly not being phased by the fact that Kyoshi could kill him within a second.
"Not yet at least, and I'm only saying this to help the both of you." Needless to say that Kyoshi had a very gentle and caring character, but with gentle and caring characters there always comes a lot of hate, strange but true. When someone is as caring as this vampire was, naturally there are people that anger him, the kind of people that weren't as sensitive as he was to others. Two things he hated the most were, family members who saw it as alright to rape their own children and family members, and people who chose to listen and make decisions based on only their own feelings, rather than thinking about what was right for their loved ones.
"Then don't help us, get rid of Hana to protect Tala and then we can act as though we've never met." Kai got off the bed, turning and heading back for the door to join his friend in the living room again, refusing to argue pointlessly any longer.
"Kai don't be like that." Kyoshi called after him in an upset and complaining tone. He fell backwards abruptly into the cushions, exhaling exhaustedly, "Do I have a death wish or something?" he asked himself silently.
---Three Hours Later---
Tala walked pacefully down the stairs into the basement, looking around from one side of the room to the other for the friendly vampire. He stood on the stone floor at the bottom of the staircase, looking around from there as he couldn't see his friend anywhere in the room. 'Where could he be? He couldn't have left.' He thought to himself. He was right though, the sun outside was still far too bright for him to have left the house, and he was no where to be seen upstairs. "Kyoshi." He called out quietly.
"Yeah?" Kyoshi answered him, standing behind him.
Tala spun round, looking up at the slightly taller boy, "Where did you come from?" he asked hurriedly.
"There's a sofa underneath the staircase, I was lying down." Kyoshi replied normally, pointing over his shoulder, "Sorry, I startled you." He apologized sincerely, walking past him and to the desk at the end of the room.
"You didn't really startle me with sneaking up like that, you startled me because I thought you'd gone outside." Tala walked up to him, standing by his side over his shoulder as he stared down at him.
"I've been inside long enough to learn not to make that mistake, I assure you." Kyoshi picked up the pen that had been left on the desk and let it entwine through each of his fingers as he leaned back in his chair and turned to look at Tala, "So what brings you to my hell-hole?" he asked, smirking.
Tala chuckled quietly at the question but answered anyway, "Kai's in a bad mood so I thought I'd come find you and see if you wanted to talk for a while."
"You're asking me if I want a decent conversation with someone who isn't afraid of me?" Kyoshi asked him sceptically.
"So it was a stupid question?"
The smiling vampire nodded in reply, adding, "Very." He took in the soft smile that suddenly graced over Tala's lips, he liked it, getting to watch someone that was okay around him created a great feeling, some hope that he wasn't entirely a monster to all. He turned away, smiling privately as he pulled a chair closer to the desk and brushed some books off it, "Take a seat."
Obligingly, Tala did as he was requested of and in the meantime took a short glance at everything on the desk, "So what are you doing down here?" he asked, making eye contact again.
Kyo looked at the pages that were scattered across his desk, placing his hands on one of the sheets at first before scratching the back of his head, a little ashamed, "Originally…I was doing some lyric writing."
Tala smirked at the sudden shame on the boy's features and asked curiously, "Originally?"
"I got bored and tired, so sue me."
"Well I won't but if the lyric writing is your job then they others might."
Kyoshi shook his head, turning entirely to his work and picking up the pages, tapping the bottom against the table to make them all in line with each other, "Half the stuff I write I never put forward to them."
Now wasn't that something confusing for Tala? "Why not?" he asked, a slightly puzzled look on his face.
"Some things I'd prefer if I kept to myself."
"You sing too don't you?"
Kyoshi looked over at him, suspicions on his mind, "Yeah, I do. Why do you ask?"
"There was this one song I heard…it was on your player last time and the singer sounded a lot like you."
Kyo's eyes turned to look at the ground, turning his head away so much so that his blonde hair shadowed his eyes, he spoke softly a second later, more in a requesting tone than otherwise, "I'd prefer it if we discussed that another time."
Now wasn't the day full of surprises, Kyoshi who was usually so open with Tala just shut him out and kept something of his personal life to himself. Of course Tala didn't think that that was wrong, there was a lot that he kept from Kai but having Kyo do that to him was different to say the least. Nevertheless, Tala didn't mind and past it off easily, "Sure." He shrugged.
A/N: Well that's another chapter for…well whoever is actually reading. This chapter was a little more boring than all the others but I tried my best on it. Also, forgive me if there are words that should be in bold or in italic and isn't for today, my reason being that every time I write a chapter on my aunts computer, when I hit save the whole chapter deletes itself and when I tried to recover it the chapter was in a mess and sadly, I was lazy and didn't have the energy to go through everything again and fix them. Forgive my laziness, I have now learnt not to ever write chapters on my aunt's computer again. Please leave a review and tell me what you think. Take care everyone!