Last time in THE MANSION….

"We had entered an older part of the mansion. I knew that Kai enjoyed old things but this part of the mansion was covered in dust. All we saw was one set of footsteps leading through the hallway. It looked rather dark and menacing.

I gripped Emily's hand in mine. "Well then Emily", I turned to face her, "let's explore."

-Kenny Point Of View-

After that statement left my mouth, Emily just nodded her head. Her tear streaked face was facing the ground and she mumbled something. "Emily, what did you just say?"

She cleared her throat and said again. "I said, well at least we can learn more about Kai."

I just chuckled at what Emily said and squeezed her hand in mine. "Only you would think logically when we are running for our lives."

Emily scoffed. "Someone has to; else we would be long dead by now."

"I love that about you." The words left my mouth faster than I thought. Luckily though, Emily didn't notice.

"We might as well start looking for information while we can, and possibly a place to hide."

"Right."

'Thank God she didn't hear me. I'll tell my feelings later, if we make it out of this hell-hole.'

We started walking hand-in-hand in the hallway. It was a long corridor that was filled with paintings, cupboards, and even a few items. The first painting we saw was one of Voltaire and his wife, Nadia. There was an inscription under the painting and Voltaire was smiling.

We continued walking until we saw a painting of Kai. He was really happy and two other people were also in the picture. Kai was holding hands with a man and woman. The man looked like he was laughing and so did the woman. Kai was the only one smiling in the moment. The inscription underneath the painting said, "Susumu, Natalia and Kai Hiwatari. 1980; Kai Hiwatari- 2 years old."

-Tyson Point Of View-

After breakfast, we walked in a large group towards the staircase. Max was a little curious and so was I, so we started opening anything we could. Doors, cupboards, closets, and windows. If something was in them, it was neatly put away. Like it was never touched. Like whoever put them there was perfect.

"Ummmm, Spencer, was Kai always a perfectionist?"

"Yeah. When he was little he really wanted to be perfect, and that has never changed. There are some habits that die hard, and this was one of them for him. He really wanted to make the Hiwatari name the best."

"But it is now, isn't it?" Hilary butted in. "So why is he still so intent on making it that way?"

"You don't get it do you?" Ian spoke up, "Kai has craved perfection since the day he was born, it is in his blood and with our luck, he will probably die trying to be perfect."

After Ian spoke, everyone fell silent. 'Oh Kai,' I thought, 'you don't have to be perfect. We accept you for making faults, it is only human.'

-Kai Point Of View-

Tala stitched up my shoulder pretty well. It had stopped bleeding a while ago, and I silently thanked myself that we were all abbey boys. That he is my best friend. That he would always stay by my side, no matter how tough life gets.

Tala and I made it too my study and I walked in first. I had Tala grip my hand so that I knew he would not get kidnapped. When we entered my study I looked around. Nothing had seemed out of place, and I turned to Tala.

"Tala, look around the bookshelf and see if anything different is there. That way we can deduce if someone left anything in here."

Tala just nodded his head in agreement. He walked over to the books and I walked towards my desk. All of my papers were stacked and everything was in order. The only odd thing on my desk was a note.

"Damn it, is everyone leaving me noted today?"

Tala just walked over to me and opened the note. "Hey Kai, it says the only way for three people to keep a secret is if two of them are dead. "

"I have heard that before, it sounds extremely familiar. "

There was a general silence in the study and Tala just sat down on the floor. I walked slowly towards him and tripped. Tala scrambled to my side to see what I had tripped over and I reached out my hand. I touched something soft and squeezed. Tala brought the flashlight over to us and I looked at the object that caused me to trip. It was the body of my butler, Sanford. I was holding his arm.

Tala and I just got up off the ground. I hadn't even bothered to check his pulse, I knew he was dead. I saw the blood that stained the wood floor, and the blood that surrounded him. His eyes were wide open in shock. I just gripped Tala's hand even tighter and we walked out of the room.

The hallway was dark and Kai tried turning on the lights. Nothing worked, so he and Tala foraged closer to another cupboard and Kai reached inside. He pulled out another flashlight and spare batteries and he shoved them in his pocket. Kai squeezed Tala's hand and Tala just followed after Kai.

"Shit, Kai look out for the….." Tala didn't have time to finish his sentence. He felt something clamp over his mouth and he bit down, hard. Kai just walked, oblivious to the gun poised in front of him. The person holding Tala's mouth shut let go.

"Чертов ребенок", the person let their hand fall away from Tala's mouth.

"Hmmm, damn you too then."

There was a loud BANG resounding through the hallway and a scream. Kai and Tala just ran towards the sound of the scream. They met face to face with the neko-jins. Their eyes were glowing in the dark, much like Kai's do. The only difference was that their eyes glowing, a faint amber colour.

-Mariah Point Of View-

There was a loud BANG and Mariah jumped. She screamed and looked at what happened. Tyson had fallen on Max, who caused Lee, Kevin and Gary to fall. They lay on the floor for a minute and then they all stood. Mariah looked up for a moment after helping everyone off of the ground. She met glowing crimson eyes and jumped.

"Is everyone alright?" Mariah recognized the voice, it was Tala's.

"Tyson made us fall is all." Rei spoke up.

"Where did you guys go?" Mariah almost didn't recognize the voice. The usually hyper Max was quiet and dull.

This time Kai responded, "Searching…" He then took something off his back and threw it towards them. It was a drawstring backpack. Max caught the bag and opened it. In the bag lay chocolates and candies. There were also drinks inside the bag. Max's face lit up like a Christmas tree when he saw the goodies inside the bag.

"Thanks Kai! These are awesome."

"Hnn."

-Kai Point Of View-

The bey-blade teams just stood in the hallway and Kai started to walk again.

"Kai where are you going?" Rei spoke up again.

"Exploring…"

"Kai isn't this mansion yours though; you should know where everything is."

Tala spoke up for Kai. "He hardly lives here in Japan, and when he is here, Kai is on business. That or he is bey-blading."

One by one they all stood and followed Kai. The women were behind Kai, and then there was Max, Kevin and Ian, and everyone else. Lee was last; he wanted to protect everyone from harm. Something swung towards them and Kai did a butterfly kick. Whatever swung towards them hit the wall with a resounding THUD. Kai took the flashlight and shone the light on the flying item.

Kai just stared at the body that lay in front of him. This one was that of his chauffer. There was blood all over his face and his face was stark white. Everyone gasped and Kai continued walking. Hilary nudged Mariah to keep walking. She almost tripped over her feet and Kai just walked forward.

There was a general silence while everyone followed after Kai. They continued to walk and there was a creak in the floor boards. There was another and another but Kai just continued forward. Hilary looked down and the wood floor beneath her let out. Someone grabbed her wrist and pushed her towards Mariah. She saw the person that had her wrist was Kai.

"Can you guys jump?" Kai just asked everyone else. The neko-jin nodded their heads except for Gary, he looked nervous. Everyone else nodded their heads as well. "Send me the lightest people first."

There was a chorused group of Okays, and Kevin jumped the gaping chasm in the middle of the floor. Once over the hole, he ran into Mariah's warm embrace. They then started to debate about what to do with Max. Kai's voice was the only one that Max heard. "Jump."

Max did as Kai said and jumped, he had almost made it towards the edge of the hole, but he was a foot off. Kai stuck out an arm and pulled Max towards Hilary. One by one everyone else got over the hole and there was only Gary left at the edge on the other side.

"G-Gary big… Gary no jump far…" Kai just untied one of his curtains and grabbed the rope from it. He took Tyson's shoe and threw it towards Gary, rope attached.

"Tie the rope to your waist and I'll pull you up if you don't make it."

Gary just nodded and tied the rope to his waist, Tyson's shoe still attached. Gary jumped and made it about half-way. Kai just gripped the rope in his hands and started to pull. His feet were sliding and Rei, Tala, Bryan, Spencer, Lee, Tyson, Max, and Rick all helped to pull Gary over the edge.

Hilary and Tala grabbed Kai's shoulders and tried to pull him away from the hole. Hilary felt a warm, sticky fluid cover her hand and Kai's shoulder. She quickly pulled her hand back and looked at it in the faint light of the flashlight. It was a crimson liquid and it covered Kai's shoulder. Hilary gasped and turned to look at Kai.

"Kai, your shoulder's bleeding."

Kai just walked forward to another cupboard and reached inside. This one had ace bandages and hooks. He walked towards the group and just held the bandages out. Rei took the bandage from Kai's hand and started to wrap them around Kai's shoulder. He bound them tightly so that they would not come loose in all of the action.

The bandages were quickly stained crimson and Tyson pulled them all on the ground.

"Kai, I don't want to die in here." The navy blue haired blader started crying.

"I won't go down without a fight." Kai snarled.

"It's so scary…." Hilary felt selfish for asking this, but she asked anyways, "Kai, will you protect us?"

"Hn." Kai just stood up and walked ahead, leading them. He would protect them at all costs, even at the sake of his life. He got them into this situation anyways.

-Boris Point Of View-

Boris just walked in the shadows, looking at the empty hallways he passed. He reached a dusty one and looked at the number of footprints on the floor. There were three sets, two of which looked fresh. 'It looks as though I shall kill the two that entered here first then. Only afterwards would Kai feel guilty. Damn boy has loyalty, but only towards the wrong people.'

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