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Kai stood, keeping his back to the man. "Kai," The man said coolie. As I saw Kai turn I focused back in on the man and Kai. They looked so similar, it couldn't be. "Dad," I heard Kai say with hate.

No way, this had to be a really, really bad dream. There was no way Kai could be related to this man much less be his son!

Then I began to think about it, maybe it was possible. It actually all fit, Kai and his brother where the right age, but still I would have recognized Kai or he would have recognized me, right? After all it's not like we just meet once, but after all it had been so long, it was possible.

All this was too much, my head was already spinning and this was just making it worse. I couldn't keep all the facts strait, there was just too much to consider. If Kai was this man's son that would mean we had meet before. The more I thought about it the more I believed it. Kai looked just like the boy, he and his brother were the perfect age. How had we never realized it before?

Just as I began to believe what I at first had found impossible I once again slipped away into my own world.

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I stare out the window blankly as the plane lands in the small airport right outside Moscow. I twirl around the straw in my drink before turning to my dad who was sitting next to me. "I don't see why we are doing this." I know I sound bitter but I can't help it. We were flying all the way to Russia to try and make peace with the people who were attacking us.

"Because my friend is busy and can't make it to China like he normally can. Besides it will be good for you to get out." I sigh, I know he's right but still it bites. We grab our luggage from the luggage place and head out to the main area. "How are we supposed to get there?"

I hadn't got the words out of my mouth when a stiff looking man walked over to us. "Master Kon I presume." The man says bowing to my father. "Master Hiwatari sent me to see you to the house." I see my father nod. "Thank you very much."

As the stiff man disappears I look over at my dad. "Who was that?" My dad laughs at me and lifts me onto his shoulders. "That was someone who works for my friend and that is how we are going to get there." I look down at my dad confused. "He's going to carry us?"

My dad laughs at me again, but before he could answer me a long black car that went on as far as I could see drove up. The stiff man from earlier steps out and opens the backdoor. "Your car sir."

As we got into the car, I couldn't help my eyes from doubling in size. The inside of the "car" was as big as our house. We drove for a while; the country was really pretty in the fall, the trees turning pretty colors as we drove through the country side. When the car finally came to a stop we were in the middle of nowhere. "Dad," I say pulling on his arm. "Are you sure we are at the right place."

Before he can answer though, I see it. A large white house up the hill a ways, its large columns casting shadows down the hill. "Whoa." Was all I could say as we walked up the hill. When we reached the top we were greeted by a man about the same height as my dad, with crimson eyes and dark blue almost black hair. "Shun! My friend it has been far too long since we have seen one another."

My father nods his gold eyes searching the hall beyond the door his friend had just come through. "I agree Alexei, but you know I have to ask, especially now. Your father is he. . ." Alexei shakes his head. "I took care of my father when I heard you were bringing your son. Now come on lets go inside."

As we enter I realize the house was even bigger then I had originally thought. "I am going to get lost in here." I whisper under my breath, my father having hearing like mine laughs. Alexei not having heard the joke turns to my father. "Sorry," My dad said. "Small joke, nothing to worry about." Alexei nods and leads us out through the backdoor into a large backyard. A playground that looked like it belonged at a park filled half the yard while a Beydish sat in the other half

Two kids were running around the playground, when they caught sight of Alexei they ran over, the younger one throwing his arms around Alexei. "Dad your back!" Alexei returns the embrace. "I wasn't gone that long." He looks up at the older boy who stood, with a slight smile on his face. "We know," The older boy notices me and I couldn't help but grab onto my dad a little tighter. Alexei seeing his son had spotted me stands up. "Kai, Kagen this is my friend Shun and his son Ray. Shun and I have a lot of work to do so why don't you boys go play."

The youngest nods and runs off without a second thought. The older boy looks at me for a second. "Are you coming?" I look back at my father who nods at me urging me to go. I run off with the older boy. "So which one are you?"I ask as we climb up the rope latter. "I'm Kai and that one is Kagen." He says motioning at the boy who was standing on top of a slide like he was the king. I climb up the latter quickly and couldn't help showing off a little. Something told me these two had never seen a niko-jin in action before. As I jump onto the top of one of the metal supports I hear two gasp. Yep I am that cool.

We played for a long time and it was so much fun, more fun than I had had in forever. I jump down from the slide as Kagen lunges forward to try and tag me. Laughing as I spun away, Kagen turns to chase Kai. I froze for a second as I hear my father's voice. "Izabella it's nice to see you again." I turn, my eyes catching a glimpse of long brown hair. "Mom," I hear Kagen say with delight. He rushes forward to hug his mother, Kai following him.

They reach her and she smiles. Her smile was soft and kind, her blue eyes sparkling as she looks at her two boys. I feel my hands clinch into fist. Her eyes flicker gold as memories flow into my mind. "Ray!" Someone calls, I wasn't paying attain to them though as memories of my lost mother flooded my mind. "RAY!" Someone yells again finally bringing me back to this world. I see my father's worried eyes looking into mine.

He looks down at my hands and I follow his gaze. Blood glistening on my hands from where I had dug my claws into my palms. "Ray," My dad whispers, Izabella comes and stands beside my father. "Is he alright?" She asks bending down. I see my dad shake his head but I refused to look him in the eyes. "He will be eventually, Izabella would you mind helping to clean off these cuts." Izabella smiles placing a hand on my father's shoulder. "Shun don't worry about him alright. I'll take care of him; I am use to taking care of little boys after all." My dad smiles at her. "Thank you Izabella."

Izabella leads me inside taking me down a long hallway. I couldn't bring myself to look up at her.

As we round the corner, she stops. Bending down she forces me to look her in the eyes. "Ray, are you alright?" I shake my head instantly, not wanting to look at her any longer then I had to. She pulls me into the bathroom sitting me down on the sink.

She pours peroxide over my hands and grabs some band-aids from the counter. She places one over a cut and I wince a little. "I'm sorry," She binds down and kisses the spot, looking up at me with a smile. "Is that better?" Tears swell up behind my eyes as I throw my arms around her and sob into her neck. She smelled like summer, just like my mother always had.

"There, there sweet thing." She said smoothing my hair, she didn't know me and I didn't know her but at that moment I was so glad that she was there. "I know how bad everything must seem right now." I pull back looking her in the eyes for the first time, light blue, kind, loving they where the kind of eyes that you had to trust. "But you have to believe things can get better. " She picks me up off the counter. "Now, now you know that Mei wouldn't want to see you like this. She would want you to be having fun and enjoying life like a kid is supposed to."

I was about to ask how she knew this when, I hear her suck in a sharp breath. "Voltaire." Turning to see what she was looking at, I see a man with cruel red eyes, not like Kai or his father but just pure evil.

"Izabella what are you doing with that thing."

Kai's POV
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Okay so recap. I was stuck in hell on earth, my demon of a father suddenly wants to reconnect, my friend was bleeding out and the only chance I had to save him was to make a deal with the devil and accept my father's help. Well isn't life just great.

"Alright," I said blankly. "You have had enough time, what's the plan?" My father was still working on Ray; did I mention he was a doctor? Oh well I'm mentioning it now. I knew he had to get him stable so we could run, but if we stayed in one place much longer it wouldn't matter. "This is just so . . . strange."

Kagen was sitting on the sink swinging his legs; he was trying to be patient me on the other hand not so much. "I don't really care if it's weird. We have to go NOW." My dad sighed clearly trying his best not to lose his patients with me, like I really cared. "Kai you don't understand. Your friend's body isn't responding normally, something is off about it." I rolled my eyes.

"Look we are in a cell in the middle of a fortress. You will have better luck helping Ray out when we are topside, don't you think?" Kagen hopped down from his place on the sink. "Kai is right it could be this place. The air is really thin here so it could be affecting his body's reaction." Our father stood and picked Ray up. When he picked Ray up I remembered how big our dad really was. Ray was taller than me by a little bit and our dad made him look like a little kid.

"I thought that to, but if it was the air affecting him it would be slowing down the process. Your friend's body is healing far too fast." Kagen caught my glance and understood my question. "Do you think they altered him? Like cybernetic enhancements?" Our father walked over to the door being careful to avoid answering the question. He knew something that he wasn't telling us. "Kagen grab your brother, twist his arm behind his back and act as cold as you can." Kagen looked over at me and I held out my arms.

"Sorry Kai." He said as his twisted my arms back so that they were almost touching my head. "Kagen, if they get suspicious, your programmed with an override, I'll be walking behind you and activate it." I glared at our father. "You'll do what?"Kagen asked fear lining his voice, our father sighed heavily. "Kagen you know you can't lie. Your eyes give you away every time. You are programmed to take orders from me, so if I tell you we are taking the prisoners topside under Voltaire's orders, you'll believe that is really what we are doing and if you believe it so will everyone else."

Kagen bit his bottom lip trying hard not to show how afraid he was. "But I almost couldn't regain control last time what if," Our dad cut him off. "I'll deactivate it as soon as we are out. Kagen I need you to trust me."Yeah like that would ever happen, I could see the doubt in my brother's eyes.

"Kagen," I said slowly. "Don't do this if you don't want to." My brother chewed his bottom lip, debating what to do. "Kai I got you and your friend into this mess I need to do what I can to get you out of this." I knew he didn't want to as he let me go. "Dad," I began putting as cold an edge in my voice as I possibly could. He turned to face me.

"Yes Kai?" I narrowed my eyes into the famous Hiwatari death glare. "If you betray him, I swear you are going to live to regret it." Kagen smiled sadly at me. "Alright dad, do what you have to." Our dad laid Ray back down onto the bad, reaching into his back pocket he pulled out a small black box. "Is that it?" Kagen asked and I couldn't tell if he was disappointed or impressed. Our dad nodded. "This is it, Kagen come here." Kagen slowly stepped over to our dad. When Kagen was a few steps away our dad flipped open the box. It looked almost like a cell phone with small wires sticking out the sides. Kagen froze not wanting to go any farther.

"I, I think I changed my mind." He said backing up and like that our dad was behind him. My dad wrapped his hand around Kagen's mouth and twisted the wires around his other hand. As soon as I realized what was happening I ran forward. Dad shoved the wires in the ear piece that Kagen had on and I realized it was part of him. As our father let Kagen go, my brother fell to the ground screaming in pain, as whatever that thing was infected his brain.

"What the Hell did you do?!" I yelled bending down beside my brother. "Don't touch him Kai. If you do it will only make things worse on him." I stood up my hands balling into fist. "He trusted you and this is how you repay him. Of course that was always like you." "Kai it was the only way to get you out of here."

I couldn't hold back any longer I slugged that bastard and I have to say it felt good. "I don't care what you reason is. Kagen trusted you and you have done I don't know what to him." I looked back at my brother who although he had stopped screaming was still on the floor, grabbing at his head as if trying to stop some head-ach. "Kai, you can't stay here. Your brother will live; I put in an override program directly into his brain. It will take away Voltaire's control over him at least temporarily. The truth is it's not safe to take your brother with us until I can destroy the program controlling him."

I wanted to slug him all over again. "Are you suggesting we leave him?!" When my dad nodded I felt sick. He was being serious he wanted to leave Kagen here in this hell hole. He was willing to leave his son to some psychos that had experimented on him and tortured him and he was really okay with this idea. As Kagen stopped moving I looked over at our father. "I will not leave him here to whatever they have planned for him, besides they will know he helped us. Do you have any idea what they will do to him? Or do you just not care?"

"Of course I care I heard him snap back." Emotion finally showing on his normally cold face. Our father bent down by Kagen, anger flooded through me as he looked down at my little brother as if he really cared. Brushing some hair away from Kagen's face, our dad shook his head. "Please Kagen forgive me for this, Program 881." I heard our father whisper in Kagen's ear. Kagen's eyes flew open, dead-blue eyes stared up at our father as my brother once again disappeared. Kagen stood and looked around. "Yes sir what is it you require?"

Our father looked at me. "We are taking these two topside for Voltaire. He wants it done quickly so grab Kai and let's go." Kagen grabbed me once again twisting my arms back, hard. My father picked Ray up again and then we were gone. Marching down the hall way in plain sight, only stopping when Kagen or my dad had to use a security card to get us through otherwise locked doors.

As the final door between us and the outside slid open, I couldn't help feeling a little sick. We walked out to the cliff side a helicopter waiting for us, man dad had thought of everything. My dad stopped about a foot from the copter. "That's far enough you are dismissed." Dad said to Kagen.

"No." I said coldly. Kagen looked at me confused. "Do you really think you can handle me alone?" My dad glared at me. "Yes I do. GO now." Kagen didn't wait for anything else. As he closed the door to hell behind him, I felt my gut twist. I was leaving him again, after swearing I wouldn't ever leave him I had done it twice.

Ray's POV
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Izabella puts me down quickly, pushing me behind her slightly. "Voltaire I thought you were out today." He glares at her and raises his voice. "Don't change the subject. I asked what you were doing with that thing." He said pointing at me.

"He is not a thing Voltaire, this is Mei's son. I would like it if you could keep your voice to a dull roar in the presence of company." Voltaire raises his hand and I cringe behind Izabella. "Don't you even think about it Voltaire." The voice was strong and one I recognized. I saw my dad had come in his golden eyes slitted as he glared at the man before me, Alexei and his two boys following my father.

"Shun I should have know you had something to do with this. You and that bitch you had as a wife always were causing trouble." I step out from behind Kai and Kagen's mom, my eyes slitting as my fathers had, anger flooding up my body. No one insulted my parents and no one especially insulted my mother. "Shut up about my mother you Érzi de biǎo zi!" Okay so true only my dad knew what I had just called him but when I got mad I spoke Chinese.

Voltaire takes a step towards me but I don't back down, in fact I sneer at him. Bearing my fangs to make sure he gets the point, I feel a strange surge of energy flow up my body and then the man was on his knees. I didn't know what had just happened but it didn't matter. My father grabs me, pulling me behind him. "Alexei I am sorry but we are leaving."

"No," Voltaire says surprising everyone. "Father?" Alexei says confused. "I haven't seen such a strong will in a very long time. I am impressed with the boy not angry at him." I know this confused everyone including me. What was he talking about? "He is the chosen one, isn't he?" Voltaire ask turning to my father.

"Chosen what?" I say looking back at my father, who was gritting his teeth in anger. "Damn you Voltaire."

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A/N

No my poor Kagen! *sniff* I *Sniff* didn't *sniff* want to *sniff* do it.

Well I got through a chapter without a real pain scene.

Finally a chapter that wasn't painful to write, although I hate hurting the sweetheart AKA Kagen

Chaseha-Wing: Haha I love your review and your right no one will care if they go missing. Go right ahead and kill whoever you want especially after this chapter. You know Karma is a funny thing. hehe Anyways I hope you still like it.

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