Chapter 2: You're What!?

"Blehhh!!! Blehhh!!! Blehhh!!!" I looked up. Alarm clock, ok, got to get up. I rose slowly and fell back down on the bed. First Attempt. I pulled myself up and fell down on the floor. Ok I'm up. I sat up and rubbed my eyes with a yawn before smacking the crap out of my alarm clock. I slowly walked into the bathroom to do the morning things boys always do. DO NOT USE YOUR IMAGINATION! Pervs. Ok anyways after I finished brushing my teeth and taking a shower I quickly put on my normal attire of my blue starred shirt and green shorts. I ruffled out my blonde hair before grabbing Draciel and walking out into the cold morning sun. If you haven't figured it out by now my name is Max Mizuhura or Max Tate. I really don't care which one people use, I consider both to be my name actually. But back to the current situation, I have to go wake up my knucklehead friend Tyson and it's really cold outside. I reluctantly began the short jog to the navy haired boy's house noting that I should really start wearing a jacket. Maybe a green and orange color, or orange and green, or even better orange and black. That would make me look like a certain someone. Then I could get a headband and start shouting BELIEVE IT whenever some says a yes or no question. Yeahhhh they'd call me Maruto or Nax. Heh heh, yeahhh. Sorry I'm a little crazy in the mornings. It comes with the hyper activeness that I get from sugar. I take in a deep breath of air as I see the sun going behind a cloud. And not any cloud, a large gray cloud that stretched across the whole sky. I hurried my pace and ran the rest of the way to Tyson's house. When I finally got there I rang the brand new doorbell they had installed. Ding dong, ding dong, ding donggggggg. When I didn't hear anything I sighed and felt for the key at the bottom of one of the nearby bushes. After I found it I yawned and unlocked the door to the dojo. I walked to Tyson's room and peeked my head through the door. He was peacefully asleep snoring lightly with one hand up his shirt and the covers of his bed covering his legs. I remembered how Tyson used to snore when we were on the move as Bladebreakers. He's changed so much since then. He's gotten way more mature but at the same time is still the same Tyson minus the annoyance. Once he matured his body also must have as well as he has more muscle and less fat. I could even see some light abs on his tan stomach. Wait a minute, why am I examining my best friend while he's asleep? That would be a quite a predicament if he woke up and saw me staring. I walked from the door to his bed and lightly shook him.

"Tyson. Hey Tyson wake up. Come on we got to go to practice today." I said softly. I didn't want to force him awake. I felt like I couldn't. He had confessed a lot to me yesterday. I wanted things to be the way they were before. But I can't help but wonder why just doesn't get to know Alan like I do. Oh well.

He slowly opened his eyes and yawned. He rubbed his eyes like a child would and looked at me. "Good morning Maxie." He said softly.

"Morning Tyson. You ready for practice?" I said standing.

"Yeah. I guess, doesn't sound to nice outside though." He said noting the rain falling on his window.

"Well you know Kai, this wont stop him." I said smiling.

He sat up on his bed. He had on a red shirt and yellow boxers. Classic Tyson sleeping wear. "Ok well I gotta get in the shower. Did you eat yet?"

"No, now that I think about it I didn't. What do you have to eat?"

"French toast, Pancakes, oatmeal, all frozen and awaiting your mouth." He said grinning.

"You freeze your oatmeal?" I asked giving him a confused look.

"Yeah don't you?" he stated like everybody does it.

"Um no."

"Well you shouldn't knock it before you try it." He said grabbing a towel.

"I wasn't knocking it."

"Knocking what?"

"Um your oatmeal?"

"I don't have any oatmeal."

I sweat dropped; the mornings weren't to kind to Tyson either. "Never mind." He shrugged and entered the bathroom closing the door behind him. I walked into the kitchen and opened the freezer. Sure enough French toast, pancakes, and a bowl of premade oatmeal. Wow. I took out a bowl and heated it up. Once done I noticed it tasted surprisingly better as I waited for Tyson to get out of the shower.

At Practice (Normal POV)

"Ok team that's enough for today, it's about to start pouring harder than it already is." Kai said after he noticed his whole team was soaked.

"Finally!" Tyson said falling in the grass exhausted.

"Tyson you might want to get out of the grass, you're already wet as it is. You're going to catch a cold." Ray said packing up his gear.

"Yeah yeah I know." Tyson answered standing back up to stretch. "I'm going back to sleep. Later." He said before walking away with a yawn.

"Hey Tyson don't forget, my house, 8 o clock ok?" Max said waving him off. The boy raised his hand up acknowledging that he heard him. Max sighed and turned around. "You guys will be their right?" Max said looking up at Kai and Ray.

"Of course."

"Meh."

"Awesome. See you guys later!" Max said running off after Tyson.

"I have a feeling today is going to be more interesting than planned." Kai said walking away.

"Why's that?" Ray asked walking behind him.

"That Alan kid is probably going to show up. I'm sure Tyson talked to Max finally about him but I don't think he told him how he treats us." Kai said eyes closed.

"Yeah your right. I'm surprised you actually didn't snap on him yet Kai. What's up with that?"

"I've had years of training myself to ignore idiots like him, partly from the way Tyson used to act. I have to admit though this kid is on an entirely different level."

Ray smirked at this. "Oh yeah Kai? I have another question."

"Hn."

"How is it that you can walk with your eyes closed?" Ray said looking at him.

"Training."

"You have to train yourself to do that?"

"Yes."

"What's the point of it though?"

"It helps me think clearly."

"But you can't see where you're going."

"Ray."

"Plus if someone was making fun of you, you wouldn't see them."

"Ray."

"Also have you ever thought about walking into a street like that? What would happen if a car was coming at full speed?"

"Ray." Kai said a little more forcefully.

"The car would bang its horn and you'd be like 'Hn' and they'd be all 'move!' and you'd be 'Meh' and then-"

"Ray!!!" Kai suddenly yelled.

"Oh sorry. Guess I've been hangin around Tyson for to long."

"Yeah you have." Kai answered before walking with his eyes closed across the street.

Much more later. 8:52 to be exact. (Tyson's POV)

"Crack!" A loud bolt of thunder suddenly rocked my house and I fell off my bed in the panic. "What the he- oh." I yawned and layed back down in my bed, my eyes glued to my ceiling. I stretched and continued looking at my interesting ceiling sleepily. What time is it? I wondered aloud. I looked next to my bed and saw the bright red numbers lighting up on my clock. 8:52. I yawned and closed my eyes. "Shit!" I screamed loudly as I scrambled out of my bed and out of the house. I noticed it was still raining cats and dogs and ran as fast as I could to Max's house. I made it their in 5 minutes flat. I looked through the window and saw the gang all around the TV. screen. Ray laughing, Kai smirking and Max looking down. I rang the doorbell three times trying to escape the rain. A minute passed. I checked my watch. 8:58. Aw man we played games at nine. That was my favorite part! I looked through the window again and saw they hadn't noticed. The TV must've been too loud. I suddenly noticed Max's bedroom window. I hurried over still being attacked by the rain and opened it up diving inside just as thunder struck. I hit the floor with a loud thud. I closed the window and was about to exit the room when said blonde walked in.

"Tyson." He said quietly.

I gasped and quickly got on my knees, bent over hands in a praying motion. It was the traditional way to say sorry. "Max I'm so sorry! I woke up late, I'm really really sorry!" I said quickly.

Max suddenly got on his knees and wrapped his arms around my neck locking me in a hug. "I thought you weren't going to come." He said into my shoulder.

I returned the hug quickly. "Of course I would Maxie, you're my best friend." I then let go of him so that we were eye level. "I'm really sorry Max."

He suddenly perked up and smiled. "You owe me one then." He said hugging me again. "Come on, let's join the others."

"Oh wait. Can I bother some clothes?" I asked remembering I was still wet.

"Oh sure. You're spending the night right?" he asked looking in his closet.

"Yeah."

"Ok, these should do then." He said throwing me some all green pajama pants and a white t shirt.

"Thanks. I'll be down in a minute kay?" I said taking off my shirt. I looked at him when he didn't respond. Was he staring!? OMG Max is staring at my chest! Ok wait Tyson calm down. Why the hell is this exciting me anyway? Plus he probably just lost his train of thought; it's happened before, to me, a lot. Anyways Max snapped out of it and nodded before closing the door to his room and heading downstairs. His room was identical to mine except for the color scheme. He had a bed in the top right corner of his room on the wall (queen size) and right across at the top right was a desk with a computer. The window was in the middle of these two. He had a rug on the floor (green and black) and a fan was circling over head. The walls were a bare white and the wooden floor, well, wooden. I changed quickly put my soaked hat on Max's desk to dry. I carried my clothes to the door where I examined myself in the mirror. I made a muscle and smirked. Well I'm not so scrawny anymore. I grinned again before leaving the room and heading down the stairs into the living room where everyone was gathered around the couch. I put my wet clothes in the newly made laundry room and sat in the middle of couch next to Max.

"Glad you decided to join us Tyson." Kai said smirking.

"Yeah, sorry about that. I slept late." I said blushing and looking at my feet. Gosh my socks were especially white today.

"Well at least you're here right?" Ray said coming back from the kitchen with two giant bowls of popcorn. "We were just about to watch a movie."

"Which one?" I asked throwing some popcorn in the air and catching it in his mouth.

"Some action/comedy that came out a year ago. I have no idea what it's about though." Ray answered showing me the case.

"Well pop it in already!" Daichi said from his place on the floor.

Ray sighed and sat on the couch in between me and Kai. The couches were theater made so they had the armrests and everything. It was sort of like we were there. Well "we" were, Daichi was on the floor, and Kenny typing away on Dizzy in the armchair. He closed his laptop when the movie began. The movie started in a blaze of fire and we watched as a girl's father was killed by some master Japanese martial artist with weird hair. She then started kicking the asses of so many ninja's at once that the screen couldn't even keep up. Max and I were on the edges of our seats. The weird hair man suddenly took out a sword and was about to stab her when the TV. suddenly cut off. I popped back into reality and fell face first to the floor, my but still on the couch. "What happened?" I asked trying to stand. The lights suddenly flicked off as well and we all heard a loud thunder crack outside.

"The electricity went out." Kai stated blankly. I hopped back on the couch just as lightning flashed in the window showing Max's frightened expression.

"You ok Max?" I said putting a hand on his shoulder.

"Yeah, just scared me a little he said looking at me when the lightning struck again. Kenny opened up Dizzy and she turned on her built in flashlight shining in all of our faces.

"Max do you have any candles?" Ray asked standing.

"In the kitchen. Come on I'll show you." He said standing up.

Thunder struck loudly, sounding like it was tearing apart the sky. The house shook lightly. Now I'm not scared of thunder and lightning or anything but the one thing I hate is when the lights go off. I remember when the lights went off when I was younger at the dojo. I couldn't find gramps and kept hearing so many noises. Sure I'm older now but I still can't quite shake the feeling I felt there. Like I was totally helpless. Max and Ray returned quickly with two lighted candles. They put them on the table and everyone became a little calmer. Suddenly the doorbell rang startling everyone. I'm actually surprised it was still working. Max got up and opened the door. Guess who.

"Alan!? What're you doing here?" Max said letting the boy in. He closed his umbrella and gave me a smug look. ME! He looked me right and the eye and smiled! Smugly! How dare he!

"I didn't want you to get scared Maxie Pie" he said kissing Max on the lips.

Everyone in the room stared at the two wide-eyed. Except for me, I could have sworn my eyes were taking up the entire room. Max turned around and saw us all staring, "Oh yeah." He said blushing. "Um, Alan and I are kinda going out." He said quietly.

No one said a word. I wanted to though, more than you know. I wanted to scream at him, yell talk some sense into his head. But I couldn't. I had so many emotions flowing through me at the time. Hatred at Alan, my heart broken, and I was still disgusted at the nick name "Maxie Pie." I almost threw up when I heard that. I don't even know why I'm mad, why he going with Alan is tearing me apart. I couldn't speak, but I felt like my heart was speaking for me. It thudded in my chest at a very fast rate. It kinda scared me. But once again I couldn't think of anything to say, I just stared at him, wishing this was some kind of nightmare, wishing his pink lips would break out into a grin and say just kidding. But he didn't. The image of Alan kissing him replayed in my head thousands of times until I couldn't take it anymore. I shouted what everyone else was thinking. "No." I said quietly. "No! What the hell do you mean you're going out!!!" I shouted at the top of my lungs. The thunder flashed behind me showing the anger mixed with fresh tears on my face. It's a good thing it was dark, I didn't want Max to see me like this. He looked at me wide eyed. "Max what the he-" I stopped when I felt Kai's hand on my shoulder. I turned and looked up at him. He shook his head no silently. He was right. "I'm sorry I need to be alone for a little bit." I said to Max trying to hide my condition. I walked out into the backyard to see it was still thundering but the rain fell to a light drizzle.

"What's his problem?" Alan said smugly. Kai glared at him before walking outside to comfort the younger boy.

Sorry I took so long! My computer was broken for who knows how long and I couldn't do anything. I hope this makes up for it. I'm definitely going to keep my updates going so that they won't get past a week tops.

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