The Forgotten Son

It was Christmas Eve and everyone staying in the Granger dojo were 'extremely' busy. Mr. G was watching a old Christmas movie, Daichi was trying to sneak a peak at his presents while Max was keeping an eye on him to make sure he didn't. Tyson, Rei and Kai were all in the kitchen; Tyson was standing next to the wall watching as Kai and Rei baked Christmas cookies.

Tyson's POV:

I stand here boredly as I watch Rei and Kai are cutting shapes out of the cookie dough; I cant believe Kai can bake or he is wearing a frilly apron! I wish I had a camera! Him standing there in a frilly white apron, his long hair tied up in a loose ponytail, cooking with a small smile on his face! He looked like a cute little housewife!

I smile at the thought and best of all he's making cookies!

Too bad they wont let me help.

Rei's POV:

I cant stop the large grin on my face and its all because I'm baking; I love cooking! And even better, I'm baking with Kai! And he's so good at it!

I think that he like's baking too; he has a calm smile on his face and it's so adorable! I also love his hair pulled up like that! I just want to hug him!

Bad Rei! Bad thoughts!

He must of noticed me looking because he turns to me and smiles wider "I'm done" he said cutely; I cant stop as a big goofy grin pulls at my face! I know that look stupid …and I that I'm acting like Tyson, ewwww!

"Okay, lets get them into the oven!" I tell him and the goofy grin's still there!

We put the cookie dough onto the baking-trays and place them into the oven.

"Is the other batch done?" he asks, leaning down to look in the oven as I open it again and look at the other tray.

"Yeah, I think so" I smile, seeing that the cookies were a light gold-colour before putting on an oven-glove and taking the finished batch out.

Kai smiled slightly, looking at the batch of cookies "They look good, after they cool-down we'll decorate them" he said, washing his hands in the sink and grabbing a sponge to wipe down the side which was covered in flower.

I've never seen him like this; he looks so happy. He's most likely never celebrated Christmas before; living in the abbey until he was 13, he probably didn't know how to celebrate Christmas.

Kai's POV:

This was fun; I don't get to do much baking, luckily I didn't do anything wrong and make a fool of myself in front of Rei and Tyson, not that Tyson would know the difference. He'd been waiting for the cookies to be ready since Rei suggested we bake them earlier.

Once we'd finished cleaning the kitchen and decorated the cookies, we put them neatly on a plate and walked out of the kitchen, standing in-between Rei and Tyson, we stopped at the living room door when Max stood in front of us with his arms out and a grin on his face "Look up!" he stated in a sing-song voice.

We all looked up and gasped simultaneously, Mistletoe! oh Kami, I'm turning red… wait, there's three of us and I'm in the middle! shit!

Rei & Tyson's POV

YES! THANK YOU KAMI!

Normal POV:

Rei smiled softly, turned Kai head and kissed him sweetly. Pulling away, Rei and Kai faces turned red and Tyson's eyes narrowed at the sight, he griped Kai's chin and turned his head to him and placed his lips on Kai's firmly. After he pulled away he saw Kai turn darker red just like his eyes, the blush went from his head to his toes.

"I-I'll p-put these o-on t-the table" Kai stuttered walking to the table with his head down still red, trying to regain his composure.

Rei and Tyson sent a hard glare at each other; Rei then rolled his eyes and headed over to sit on the couch with Tyson's Grandpa while Tyson, Daichi and Max went straight for the cookies.

Shacking his head at his childish team-mates, Kai went and sat next to Rei and Mr. G. Finding the movie un-interesting, he turned to look at Rei "Did you put the turkey out to defrost, Rei?" he asked, his cheeks still a little pink from the kiss.

Rei turned to him with a soft smile "Yeah, don't worry" he said before he went back to watching the movie.

About 10:00pm Kai stood up, stretched tiredly and turned to the other Bladers "Okay you lot, lets get to bed" he sighed and walked out the living room and to bed, the others nodded, hurrying after him, leaving Mr. G to do his own thing in the living room.

Kai quickly got changed into his night clothes (same as first chapter)and laid down on his futon, pulling the covers over his thin body while the others followed his example and climbed into there futons.

Kai's dream:

A three year old Kai played in his big back garden when his mother (Kikyou) walked out the backdoor in a light blue dress ,holding two small baskets, she laughed when she saw her son jumping up and down trying to catch butterflies. Once he court it his mother walked over to him and un-cups his hands letting it go, smiling at him "You shouldn't do that to something so free" she said and held his hand. Kai just nodded silently.

"Come on then" she said pulling him along by his hand through the back gate.

Kikyou sighed "I love the countryside, don't you?" she asked Kai, making him look up at her in confusion. "Oh! Sorry little bird I forgot you've always lived here" she laughed quietly at her mistake. Once they got to the strawberry bushes she handed Kai one of the baskets "Lets collect some strawberries"

"YAY! Strawberries!" little Kai cheered with a goofy grin, running towards the Bushes. Kikyou laughed at his behaviour and walked after him calmly.

Later, after filling there baskets, they started walking back home hand in hand. Kai looked up at his mother "Mama what's daddy like?" he asked, his father was always one of his favourite subjects to talk about with his mother; because it always made her happy. Kikyou looked down at him and saw him giving her puppy-eyes, she couldn't help giving in to his plea.

"He's a very powerful and proud man. He always was incredibly smart and cunning, he's a very hansom man" she said with a dreamy smile on her face and spacey look in her eyes.

Kai blinked innocently up at her "Mama, where is daddy?" he asked snapping her out of her thought.

Looking down at her baby, she flashed him a sad smile "He's in a place called England" she told him simply.

Kai frowned at the short answer "But why are we not with him?" he asked her, hoping for more information.

Kikyou sighed tiredly, keeping her gaze ahead of them "He sent us away to keep us safe and will come for us eventually" she told him.

Kai grinned up at her "Sometime day?" he asked excited.

Kikyou smiled sadly down at him and ruffled his hair blue and salt hair "I hope so, then he can see how big and strong you've gotten!" she told him as they entered there back garden.

End Kai's dream.