Disclaimer: Bakuten Shoot Beyburaedo...nope not my creation...I'd call it something gay like REI AND KAI'S LOVEFEST

Warning: swearage to add here because they are angry teen aged (mutant ninja turtles) males...though not much this time...mild bullying

Clearing Confusion in advance: This story is more based on the manga than the other one, so if you are confused at times, please just tell me and I'll help you.

So name wise:

(BEY SHARKS:

Suzuka- Stewart

Tokubo- Casey

Hiruta- Carlos

Fuji- Trevor)

Author's Note: OMG I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry, it's a very, very, very late update..Forgive me? Please? I told myself I wouldn't draw a thing until I finished this chapter. NO MORE DRAWINGS OF SEXYRAEPREIKAI...I promise
I bet no one really reads the Author's Note anyways, I mean I could say something like "REI'S NOT HOT FOR KAI" and no one would notice.
But for those who do, thank you. I just wanted to say that I really like making Kai a bully, maybe because I've been a bully before but I enjoy bullying scenes. I tried to create one myself based on something I saw happen in real life, I hope it's believable.

Credit to RAYYU for editing, he did it quickly so if there are errors forgive us.

this chapter goes to OLLY for all the love she gave me.

ENJOY!

I stared at the frame picture until my eyes started to water. So I shook my head and stared at it again. No way, no way, no way. This couldn't be it. It just couldn't be right! How could a picture of me be in Kai's room?

I came across it as I was looking around. The room itself looked so unlived. Everything was done neatly and there were only fancy paintings on the wall. Everything looked so orderly. Well it all was until I came to his desk in the far side of his room. It was a large table with many drawers and two shelves attached. And it was the only place that looked used. Here and there, papers were scattered and he had gum wrappers, pocky boxes, and dry crackers strewn across the table. I took a pocky stick as I looked on.

Across the top of his table there were five framed pictures. The first had a picture of his mom, dad and him at a young age. They looked so rich and poised I found it scary. The second was Kai's weird Russian friends. The red-head had his tongue out and middle finger pointing at the camera. The lilac-haired one and the others had no facial expression as they stared at the camera. Interesting friends there. The other one was just a picture of the Champs d'Elysee in Paris. And the fourth one was Kai with a man in a black suit in the background.

The picture came as a surprise since it was Kai with an honest smile, and a peace sign. The man in the back had a slight smile but the sunglasses he wore didn't say much. I guessed the man was Kai's bodyguard. It may be weird to say but Kai honestly did look nice in that picture. Like a normal guy. But I decided not to think on it too much as I turned to the last picture. And that's when I saw it. It was a small child with black hair. His bangs were pushed away from his face with a head band and he was smiling brightly at the camera, his right hand was raised and disappeared off the side and I realized he was holding the camera. On the left side of the picture there was a bit of someone else's shoulder.

I couldn't stop staring at it. And so, to confirm my suspicion I carefully took it out of the frame and placed it on a clean spot on Kai's table. I then reached into my personal bag and took out my pencil case that I used to store important slips of paper or photos. I looked through it till I got the picture and put the picture down. It aligned with the bit of the shoulder in the picture Kai had. I couldn't believe it. I was staring down at a picture of me and Kai from at least nine to ten years ago. When I stared hard at my part of the picture, the picture of Kai, I saw the similarities. There were the same crimson eyes and dual-toned hair. And the same pale skin.

"HEY WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING AT MY TABLE?" I heard someone yell and I turned to see Kai storm towards me quite rapidly. He stopped right in front of me and realized a frame was missing from the top of his table. "You fucking thief! How do you fucking dare steal my stuff?" I blinked at Kai. How could the kid in the past be the same as this walking dickhead? How was it possible? I turned to the picture again, feeling so shocked. Kai followed my gaze to the picture.

"That's a kid I met a long time ag—wait…hey I don't remember taking his part too. I thought he had my picture," he said as he picked up the part I've kept. I snatched it away from him before he could dirty it.

"That's not yours it's mine," I snapped. Kai looked at me in confusion as he gently lifted up the picture of me. He studied it for a long time and then looked at me.

"Same eyes," he said after a while. "But this guy can't be you, because he had another name."

"What?"

"Jinna. This guy's name was Jinna," Kai said quietly. I bit my lower lip as I came to accept that the kid in the picture had to be Kai.

"Jin Li is what the elders call me; it's my Chinese name. My uncle called me Jinna for fun sometimes," I said softly.

"I can't accept it. You can't be the same as Jinna. Jinna was fun and kind and just so cool."

"And the kid I remember was so innocent and funny and awesome," I replied. "I remember walking him to the Russian Embassy but I never knew why. I always wanted to know."

"Jinna saved my life," Kai said after a long pause.

"I am Jinna," I replied as I put my picture on the table. Kai silently placed his beside it and matched them up again. There was no lie, even if we didn't want to believe it the evidence was there. Our eight year old versions in front of the Eiffel Tower. That face definitely was Kai's even though it was much sharper now. And I knew that kid beside him couldn't be anyone else but me.

I don't know how long we stood there, just staring at the picture. I remember taking the disposable camera and taking a picture and then I carefully split it in half. Kai had taken the half with me and I had taken the half with him on it and then I walked him to the Russian Embassy. After that I never saw the kid again. Until ten years later…until now.

"You saved my life," Kai finally said, though he didn't turn to look at me.

"I did?" I asked.

"Yeah you did," he muttered. "I was so confused and unsure and then the one who was called Jinna came and saved me. Now you're telling me it's you. And I have to believe it since the proof is right there. I have to accept the fact that such a pain in the ass happens to be my first friend. Do you know how big of a blow it is to my pride?"

"First friend?" I asked.

"First friend. You don't know the pains of being a rich kid."

He saved my life, though indirectly. My mother looked for him for days. She wanted to thank the boy who returned her son back to her but no one found them again. Was it a mother's instinct? Did she somehow subconsciously know that Rei was the same person as Jinna?

Personally I didn't understand how it was that one guy could make me feel so many things. I felt sick, angry, happy and confused. All at once. I wanted to beat him up for ruining my image of Jinna, I was happy that Jinna was still alive but I was confused about the sickness and nausea I felt. Rei had bitten his lip for a long time and then he turned to me and apologized for being an ass to me. Somehow I found myself apologizing back to him and we both stared at each other until Rei took his left arm out and went 'Let's start over okay? I'm Rei.'

I felt kind of relieved then as I shook his hand and went 'I'm Kai.' It was childish but I couldn't help it. There he stood. This was the guy who happened to be my first friend. I took him to the recreation room where we did most of our homework and we played video games until our eyes got tired of staring at the screen.

So there we were, two teenaged boys who three hours ago had hated each other to the guts but now acted like friends. I've never really had a friend who I could do these things with often so I felt kind of happy.

"Rei if you're from a rural part of China then how come you know all these things?" I asked as we both rested on the large cushions on the floor.

"The Kon family is known for having itchy feet. All of us always move around. That's how my parents died. After that I wasn't given the freedom to move around. But my uncle who is my father's brother didn't think it was right. So he fought against the elders and managed to convince them to let me explore the world outside the village. As soon as I was old enough I traveled with my uncle to different places and learnt different things. But obviously my home is still back there." I processed this for a bit before turning back to him.

"Are you kind of mad that I'm the kid in your picture?" I asked.

"I was surprised Kai, not mad. The you back then and the you now are so different. I just don't know how."

"Maybe I should tell you."

"Maybe you should," Rei replied.

"Hmm…well my parents and I went to France although it wasn't for a vacation. There was some business my parents had to attend to. I was given a nanny who didn't know how to speak anything but French and I wasn't allowed to go anywhere without her. Then one day we were headed somewhere when the driver stopped the car and he opened the door and killed the nanny. Some other men came and grabbed me. After that I don't remember much."

"H…how…how did you come to Paris then?" Rei asked. I couldn't see his face and I was happy that he couldn't see mine. Recalling the past memories was horrible.

"I escaped. I don't know how I did it but I just did. I ran for a long time and it was then when I saw the top of the Eiffel tower so I made my way there and hid there. I didn't know French or anything and I was too scared at that time to go ask anyone but then you came and you showed me the embassy. How did you know where it was?'

"Um…my uncle was a trainee chef and he had recently catered in the Russian Embassy the day before."

'Oh. Well I went there and told them what happened and they immediately contacted the Japanese Embassy and they found my parents. Ever since then my mom always kept me near her but she was crazy about looking for you. But when we went back to Japan and back to routine I was thrown back to the normal life. All the kids there only wanted to hang out with me cause of my status. I hated them, I still hate them. Everyone's just so fucking annoying in my life so I use them for whatever they're worth and then I throw them away. It's just how I am."

"That's an awesome story, I should publish it," Rei said. I felt my body get hotter as I turned to glare at Rei but when I saw his face I could see he was just joking around.

"I'm serious Rei, you asked and I answered. It may be mushy and overly clichéd but it's my life." His eyes glittered in the dim light of the rec room. For some reason I didn't find them as creepy anymore but that could be because he didn't smile in that rude, creepy way.

"I'm serious too, not about publishing it but that it was an awesome story. Your bad past has made you a stronger person, although a bit mean and asshole-like."

"Why are you such an asshole?" I asked.

"Because you're one. I'm not going to act all nice to someone that isn't nice to me," Rei said shrugging. But yet again that smile stayed on his face. "But there's a good part to you too so I'll stick around no matter how bad of a person you are."

"Fine, not like I'm asking for pity anyways," I said scowling as I turned to face the ceiling again. We fell into a comfortable silence again for a while until Rei broke it.

"Hey Kai, do you think it was written somewhere in some script? That we would meet again? Or maybe it was my will that let me meet you? I used to go around the world a lot kind of hoping I'd see you again. I even went to Russia but I didn't know a thing about who you were. I just feel like there was someone out there that made meeting you so much easier for me."

"Maybe, I didn't believe in supernatural things until one day when I was really sick. The doctor thought I would die. But then I felt that same feeling like I was going to melt and that's when Dranzer first entered my body. Heh." I looked at Rei who was frowning instead at my cell phone. He had somehow gone through it and was looking at a video. And he kept on playing it over and over again. "Rei? What is it?"

"It's a video of you doing stupid things as a drunken person."

"I found it funny," I said.

"No it's funny alright. I'm surprised you're conscious after downing so many shots. At least that's what Yuriy's saying in this video. But that's not what's concerning me. You also drank a lot that day before you were dumped at my house. But you were so sick. And you told me you felt like you were melting when Dranzer first saved you. And you were burning like mad that day when I had to help you."

"What are you trying to say Rei?" I asked, sitting up.

"Call me paranoid Kai but I think someone tried to kill you that day," he said, still staring at the video, replaying it over and over.

"Yuriy would never do that!" I replied angrily.

"I didn't say Yuriy did I? I don't know who it is Kai but someone is out to get you." I suddenly remembered what my mom said about all of our lives being in danger and I bit my lip worriedly as I looked at Rei. Would they attempt to hurt Rei too? Maybe they already started their plans…whoever they were. Suddenly something dawned on me as I stared at Rei. The shirt he was wearing was one that he brought from his home but it wasn't checked at all.

"Rei…take your shirt off." I said, reaching over to yank it myself. He immediately held his shirt down and looked at me angrily.

"Kai…what the hell?"

"Call me paranoid but I just need to check something," I said as I tried pulling it off and I realized that Rei understood as he helped me.

"Well, well, well…I hate to interrupt two teenaged boys who are about to indulge themselves into the throes of passion and all...but I guess I just have to," a voice drawled. I froze midway as I registered whose voice that belonged to.

"Y…Yuriy?" I asked as I still held onto the shirt. I stared at him for a while and realized that Boris was there too.

"Yes Kai?"

"Fuck you and your warped ideas," Rei mumbled as he yanked his shirt down and glared at Yuriy.

"What Rei said."

I don't know how we ended up falling asleep in the recreation room. We pretty much holed ourselves up here and only left for dinner which was uncomfortable since Kai's mom forced that gay red-headed guy and his friend to stay for dinner. It seemed the guys were here for some important meeting or something because they never came back to bother us. Later on, we got specialists to go over all my clothing and items for bugs or anything else that would be considered suspicious, but luckily we didn't find anything.

"Mmnnf," Kai mumbled as he turned to the other side. The guy burrowed himself under a large blanket that the maids probably placed after they saw us sleeping here. The blanket covered most of his face and his bangs covered his eyes so I turned back to the ceiling. It was only five a.m. but I couldn't sleep anymore. It took me a while to get used to sleeping in new places and to think that out of all the places I had to sleep it would be at Kai's own house. But unfortunately his mom and Hitoshi were serious about making me stay here until this impending feeling of deep trouble passed by. It seemed that they were already investigating the situation with Kai's drink since Yuriy had told the others what I had said that day.

"Is the ceiling really that attractive?" A deep voice asked and I turned to see Kai staring at me. He yawned and stretched as he moved his bangs away from his eyes. As a kid I thought they looked unique, endearing and warm but now they gave of a much more vicious gleam. The eyes of a predator.

"Very attractive. You've got the constellation on the wall. I'm going back to sleep," I said as I quickly turned around. The magic of finding out Kai was my long lost friend settled down to reality. And the reality was that an asshole like Kai was the first guy I ever found true friendship in. How sad. I suddenly felt a hard kick at my back and turned around to see that Kai had stood up and was looming over me.

"Hey, shouldn't you pay attention to your host?" he asked.

"Shouldn't you respect your guest?" I replied. "I overheard your mom telling those two weird friends of yours that you promised to change and not cause trouble." Kai smiled as he squatted down to pat my head.

"Naïve, innocent and gullible Kon. Everyone says that to their parents. Doesn't mean we have to follow it. What do I care about what a bunch of old rich hags think of me?"

"Did you just call your mom an o—?"

"No you deadbrain, I mean the ladies in her charity shit thing. Get up anyways since I doubt you can sleep," he said as he yanked away the blanket I covered myself in quickly. I could hear him stop moving and immediately I knew that he was about to kick me again. I turned around and grabbed his ankle which was inches away from me and yanked him down. The 'thud' from the impact and the silence that followed was truly best part of that morning.

"Fuck you," Kai muttered as he got up again and walked towards the large double doors. He pressed the intercom button and I was surprised that someone actually replied. "Ey…I'm going to shower. Get someone to show Rei to his guest room."

"Alright young master," a voice replied and Kai turned to give me a look that told me to stay and then he walked off. I sat there for a bit, replaying the events that occurred last night and my thoughts were interrupted by Yuriy who peered into the room.

"Kai left?" he asked as he looked around. I was surprised to see he was already dressed.

"Um yeah went to take a shower," I said. In response, he sighed in relief.

"Well then Rei, Liliya would like to see you," he said as he motioned me to come.

"But I haven't even gotten cleaned up or anything yet!" I replied as I stood up. Since Yuriy didn't say anything in response, I just followed him. "Kai sent someone to-"

"No worries, I'll show you later after you're done talking." Yuriy said as he led me to a hallway. There were many paintings here but I noticed that there were also photos. Most of them had a woman and a man and when I looked closer I saw that the woman was Liliya.

"Um does everyone wake up so early here?" I asked. I was used to waking up because I liked the early morning a lot but to think that so many people woke up to work this early at home.

"No, Kai doesn't wake up till the last second. He sends the maids to tears because he is just someone that likes getting up himself. Hm, I was actually surprised he woke up so early. Anyways, we're here." He said as we both stopped in front of two large doors. He knocked twice.

"Oh come in please." A voice called from inside and Yuriy opened the door. Liliya sat in an armchair that faced a very large window. It seemed that the sun was about to rise from the look of the lighting outside. Kai's mom turned around and smiled at me warmly but I could tell she was dead tired. "Yuriy you may go. Thank you."

"Yes ma'am, I will come back to retrieve him," Yuriy said as he smiled. Actually his behaviour was totally different from the way he really acted.

"Alright. Rei please sit here," she said as she pointed to the arm chair in front of her. I bowed quickly as I sat there and watched Yuriy as he walked out and closed the door lightly, behind him. "Thank you for coming here."

I turned to look at her and saw that she was looking outside. "Um, I…"

"My son…my son is a difficult person. I know this. I put all the blame on me here because it was due to my stupidity that Kai is who he is now. But Rei something happened last night, right? I know…I mean as a mother I can kind of figure out that yesterday you really weren't Kai's friend. Kai isn't that kind of a person to easily become close friends with someone so quickly."

"Ah Liliya-san, I'm sorry that I had to lie to you about that," I said gravely. Talk about a mother's intuition.

"No it's okay. It really is alright. Kai must at least something of you to be able to talk so freely with you."

"Uh really…" I said as I gulped. Kai was serious about coming off as a good guy this time.

"Yes and I just…well I have a selfish request. A request a mother is selfish enough to ask."

"Um sure Liliya-san," I said shrugging; I mean how could I deny such a kind looking lady?

"No please listen before you agree. My son is brutish, short-tempered, irrational, and a tad bit egoistical." Um tad bit, tad bit? "But I am begging you to please stick with him. For your safety and his I would be happy to have the two of you stick together. I don't wait either of you alone at anytime."

I sat there quietly. Kai promised me he wouldn't bug me anymore. In fact yesterday he said that he had more reason to never antagonize me again but now his mom was asking me to stick with him. For my safety. How the hell would sticking with Kai be safe for me?

"Liliya-san, I'm still unclear about the situation but I'm willing to cooperate if it helps getting over it soon." And here's to hoping that it would end really soon so I could continue living my life peacefully like I had planned to.

So I conveniently heard everything and my mom had just made it more easier for me to try nd get Rei to become my beta. Mothers are useful after all. I had originally intended to go and shower but I saw Yuriy headed in the direction of the rec room, so I had to follow. And then he left with Rei, and went to my mom's room. So after Yuriy walked off I had to figure out what the hell was going on. And it was nothing more than a cheese-fest that concerned me.

I was dressed by six and I was on my way to the dining room when I saw Rei coming from the guest room. We both stopped and stared at each other and then Rei broke into an easygoing smile that made me feel slightly ill. "Hi," he said as he walked towards me.

"Hey," I replied as we walked to the dining room. Luckily breakfast went by quickly since neither Yuriy nor Boris was around. We killed more time playing games and soon Endou knocked on the door and asked us if we wanted to leave yet. Luckily, the ride to school was peaceful too and Rei spent most of his time just simply staring outside. Gone was his snappish attitude and I didn't feel like snapping at him either.

Unfortunately when we neared the school, there seemed to be more cars than usual. We drove closer and it seemed that there were a lot of cars crowded at the main entrance.

"What's going on?" Rei asked, waking out of his reverie.

"Seems to be quite a mad rush at the entrance," Endou said as he frowned at the driver who merely shook his head. "Ah I think this will take a while." It was then when I saw that ugly spike of red hair leave the car right in front of the entrance and soon enough a blond followed and two more other unwanted people.

"Driver please stop here. We'll use the side entrance. Is that okay with you Endou?"

"Yes Hiwatari-sama it is alright. Hira-san please stop the car for a bit to let these boys off." The driver nodded and unlocked the doors as he stopped. Both of us opened the door and left the car but I immediately ran around to Rei's side.

"Follow me and don't say a word," I said under my breath. Rei merely shrugged and I was surprised by this. I led him to the side entrance and we both managed to slip in quite unnoticed. We walked quietly down the hallways when all my efforts went to waste.

"Oh, what is this? Kai Hiwatari? The Kai Hiwatari?" I froze up immediately, unwilling to turn around, but Rei did. "What Hiwatari, can't say hi to a good friend?"

"Since when were you ever a friend, McGregor?" I hissed.

"That's really heartless of you. Hey…you're the new kid aren't you? The one with Drigger? Interesting, I didn't expect you to be this tall at all."

"Well thanks I guess," Rei said shrugging.

"Come on Rei…let's go." I muttered as I began to walk but Rei stared at the very short one.

"Hey…hey…aren't you the son of the man who owns Larosedevoir?" He asked. Well that's what it sounded like.

"Yeah I am!" The weird guy replied. I really hated them all and Oliver, the French kid was the only one I didn't mind. As long as he didn't talk to me. "How do you know?"

"Well it's because my uncle works as a head chef for one of the restaurants in Paris. It's near Port des Champs Elysees, ha-" I cut Rei off and yanked him towards class. "Eh…hey that was rude as hell!"

"Look, I know these people. You're better off not talking to them, trust me," I said.

"Hey I need to go give something to Takao that I accidentally took. I'll see you in class okay?" Rei said as he eased away from me and walked off. It was then when I noticed two guys from the corner of my sight as they watched Rei walk past them. The looks one of them gave him could compare very easily to the looks I gave him before. Hatred. I silently walked behind them and they were loud enough to let me listen comfortably.

"…think he is?"

"Don't say that Nobuki-kun, he's much stronger than any of us for sure."

"But just because he has one of the holy beasts…he, he I mean did you see that? He was with Hiwatari-sama! Hiwatari-sama! He never lets anyone hang out with him ever. But this Rei just waltzed in. I bet he's selling himself to Hiwatari-sama. I bet he's really nothing but a Chinese whore."

"Nobuki-kun what the hell are you saying? Man I don't want to talk to you; you're going to get into trouble with that mouth." The other guy said, sounding shocked. Well no duh, how dare people say I have some whore? I don't need to buy someone to get laid.

"Whatever, I don't care. I just don't see how someone can get that popular so quickly and for that reason I hate Rei." This Nobuki replied.

"You can't hate on someone just because the girl you like happens to like him…" I slipped to the side and took out my cell. First, no one talks about me like I'm some old sleaze and second…well what he said about Rei was pretty low. No one says something that shitty about my future beta and lives happily ever after. Stupid dick. I found the number for one of the Shell Sharks and pressed call immediately. After a couple rings he picked up.

"Oi Suzuka, how many Nobuki's do we have in this school?"

"Only one boss and he's in our year," Suzuka replied quickly.

"Does he have a beast?" I asked.

"No boss!"

"Fine, bring him over to the shed today during lunch; we're going to have a special party with him. I'm feeling festive."

"Roger!" He replied quickly.

"Get Tokubo and Hiruta in this too and make Fuji the guard this time. No slipups at all are permitted."

"Okay boss. I'm hanging up now."

"Whatever," I said as I hung up. I walked to class to find only a few people there that straightened up as soon as they saw me. Classes went by so slowly for me as I couldn't wait to go to the shed. I knew Rei could sense my excitement as once in a while he'd frown at me but like a good boy he didn't say a word. Near lunch time I saw Tokubo, the big guy and Hiruta, a little rebellious subordinate leading this Nobuki to the shed. As soon as the bell rang I shot up and packed up immediately.

"Busy today?" Rei asked as he packed up.

"Yep, quite busy. See you after class, we have to go to the gym right?" I replied distractedly.

"Yeah, anyways bye," Rei said as he lightly tapped on my shoulder before walking off. I found the move surprising seeing as no one ever did that to me before but he already disappeared before I could say anything else. I rushed outside and made sure no teacher spotted me as I quickly made my way to the shed. I saw Fuji and two others standing at the door. They all bowed and opened the door for me. I briefly looked around till my eyes landed on Nobuki. The boy looked absolutely pitiful as he was held by two of the bigger guys. I made my way towards him and one of the others placed a chair nearby Nobuki.

"Funny seeing you here. Who are you?" I asked as I sat on the chair.

"Hi-hiwatari-sama! I'm…I'm Nobuki, Kaoru Nobuki from 3-C!" He stammered. Oh shit, this was going to be fun.

"Nobuki huh, say Nobuki…we're going to have a little party today. Do you want to join us?" I asked.

"Hiwatari-sama?" He replied in a pitiful voice, too bad I wasn't feeling pity though. I turned to Tokubo who nodded briefly. He then turned to his subordinate who bowed before leaving the shed, only to come back with two others who carried huge buckets.

"There are two buckets. One has pretty hot water and the other has pretty cold water." The others around me sniggered because we all knew the truth. One bucket had steaming hot water and the other one was ice cold. "See at first I felt really uncharitable, I wanted to party it up so that people all over could see, but then I realized that I might get in trouble if you ever ratted me out. So I decided on this new type of game. Now I'm feeling so charitable that instead of the hot water which might burn your face, I'll let you use the cold one." The others laughed again as the brought the now-shivering Nobuki to the center of the shed.

"Hiwatari-sama, what did I do wrong?" He cried.

"I cannot stand for people talking about something against me or my people. You want to hate on us then leave this school. Hiruta, I feel like doing the honours today," I said as I looked at the strongest Shell Shark, after me of course. I walked over to the bucket and knelt down, grabbing the back of Nobuki's head in the process. "Have fun, the party's on me," I said and immediately after, I dunked his head into the bucket. His screams were drowned out by the bubbles he produced.

Ah, I just don't get what's wrong with Kai today. At first he was so mad to see those guys we met in the morning but when I saw him in class he was smiling and he looked pretty restless. In the beginning I didn't think much of the fact that he rushed to leave as soon as lunch started, but then when I was walking to Takao's classroom I saw him heading towards the direction of the shed. That definitely couldn't have been for anything good.

"…Rei-kun? Rei-kun?" I snapped out of my thoughts as I saw Max waving his chopsticks at me.

"Uh…eh I'm sorry Max…err kun," I said hastily.

"Ah Rei-kun, I guess you could drop the kun. I'll drop it too okay? Takao and Kyoujo will drop it too right guys?" I turned to Takao who wolfed away his lunch but still managed to nod.

"Of course, as long as Rei-kun doesn't mind!" Kyoujo said.

"Really it would be easier for me if you didn't say it," I replied smiling a little. Takao swallowed a huge bite but still sprayed the table with food when he turned to me.

"Hey, hey Rei how was it? Were you able to survive in Hiwatari's house?"

"Yeah, I'm too tough to be taken advantage of by Kai," I said.

"You're lucky, Kai-san used to bully me so much last year when I was in his class." Kyoujo sighed. "But there's nothing you can do since he's the only one out of all of us to have the beast for so long."

"Really? How long?"

"I think he was ten when he got the Suzaku. Rumour has it that he was dying of something. Or that he was really sick and then suddenly he got better. When the doctors checked him they found him fully healed. Later on Dr. B came and stated that Kai-san had a holy beast and ran tests to prove it," Kyoujo said.

"So why'd he have to do them again?" Max asked as he leaned in, letting his lunch go cold.

"Oh that was to show the school and to pinpoint exactly which holy beast Kai had." I sat back, digesting all this once again but I couldn't do much when Hitoshi came in to the room.

"Ah you four, just the boys I was looking for. Head on over to the gym please. Rei, do you have any idea where Kai could be?" Hitoshi asked. Any idea? Yes, only one.

"Yeah, need me to go fetch him?" I asked, wanting to walk anyways.

"That'd be really generous of you. Meet us in the gym alright?" He said as we all stood up and packed up our bento boxes. I sighed as I stretched a little before heading out to the shed. It didn't take long since I knew where it was now but I still walked a little slower as I neared the shed. And it wasn't because I heard the cries of someone coming from the shed. I stood in front of the door, surprised that the guards let me get this far. When I motioned to open the door the guard closest to it merely shrugged, looking away as if I was entering some war zone. I took a deep breath as I slid the door open.

A cry filled the air again as I looked to see Kai in the middle of the room, kneeling beside a red-faced boy whose face was dripping wet. "You shouldn't complain so much Nobucchi, a guest shouldn't be this ungrateful!" He then pulled the poor guy's head back and that was when his eyes met mine and his tears stopped as he stared at me in shock.

"R-Rei-san?" he stuttered. At that second Kai's head turned immediately towards the entrance where I stood but his hand instinctively dunked the guy's head into the bucket.

"Rei? Rei what the hell are you doing here?" Kai asked as he let go of the boy's head which shot up, gasping for air.

"Ah, Hitoshi-san was looking for you. He said we have to go to the gym so um, that was it," I said quickly before I turned around and walked out. What surprised me next was hearing my name being called out and when I turned around I saw Kai running towards me. When he came closer, he stopped running.

"Hey, nice of you to wait," he said scowling.

"You were busy," I said and we walked in silence until Kai broke it.

"What, you're not going to give me hell?"

"Why would I ever give you hell?" I replied, surprised.

"You know, because I was bullying the guy," he said.

"Kai, I'm not your mom. I'm sure you had your reasons and truthfully I wouldn't mind if you didn't tell me what they were. But if you want me to nag you, then I have only one question. Who the hell is Nobucchi? Isn't his name Nobuki?" Kai blinked in surprise but suddenly he burst out laughing as he loped one arm around my shoulders.

"Ah Rei, you…you stupid kid. You stupid boy from China. You're just too funny," he said as he shook his head. I brushed his arm away as I walked ahead quickly but he caught up. "It's a nickname; here I'll give you one too okay? So don't feel jealous."

"Who's feeling jealous? Why would I feel jealous when you just called me stupid?" I replied bitterly as I evaded his arm again.

"I'll call you Reicchi no that sounds like ecchi," Kai muttered.

"Call me Rei and nothing but Rei, now hurry we're already so late," I said quickly as we ran to the building. I think I could seriously get used to this guy. It would take more effort on my part but it really wasn't all too bad.

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