Trouble Ahead- Kai
Kai opened his eyes to the same ceiling he had woken to before.
'Here again.' He murmured quietly. He was back in the Dojo, back where he had started.
'Oh, you're awake. Welcome back Kai.' Kai turned his head weakly to the side. Sitting calmly beside the bed was max.
'Where are the others?' asked Kai, dejectedly. He thought back to all the trouble he had gone through, trying to find
Dranzer, and they had to bring him back here.
'They went to the hospital to see Rei. The doctors told Kenny, this morning, that if he agreed to follow certain
conditions, they would let him come home and get better here. They wanted to tell him.' Kai nodded slightly and
turned his head back to the ceiling. With Max sitting beside him, there was no point trying to escape again, he would
have to wait, maybe it would be good to regain some of his strength. Max interrupted his thoughts.
'I hope you're not thinking of running off again, Kai.' Kai rolled his eyes, my god; he must be a mind reader! He
thought sarcastically.
'Because there are better ways to find Dranzer. We have a clue… well, a suspicious clue.' Kai turned his head back to
stare at Max, suddenly curious.
'Well? What is it?' he asked after a lengthy silence.
Max looked down at his hands and for the first time Kai noticed that he was holding a piece of crumpled paper in his
hands.
'Uh…Rei got…a letter.' Kai waited expectantly.
'And?'
'Uh, maybe I should wait till the other's get here.' Kai closed his eyes in frustration.
'I promise I won't run off in search of Dranzer as soon as I hear what you have to say.' He promised in an aggravated
tone of voice. Max's face lit up.
'Really? You promise?'
'Hn.' Max seemed slightly suspicious at that but he continued anyway.
'The letter Rei got, it was from…Voltaire Hiwatari. Y…you're gr…grandfather Kai.' Kai's body went completely still
with shock but nothing showed on the surface.
'Kai? Uh, are you…are you okay?' Finally Kai managed a small non-committal,
'Hn.' And then, after some due consideration,
'Show me.'
'What?' asked Max, confused.
'Show me the letter.' Max looked down at the letter in his hand and back at Kai's expectant glare. His thoughts were
interrupted by a sudden loud knocking on the front door,
'Uh, I…' Knock, Knock, Knock, it came again, and this time it was accompanied by Tyson's shout,
'OY MAX, LET US IN, QUICK!' Standing up quickly, Max gave Kai and the letter an indecisive look before throwing the
letter at the bed and hurrying out to answer the door for Tyson.
With a small smirk on his face (for once, Tyson had actually helped!), Kai opened the letter. Its contents banished the
mirth from his face. As Max walked in the door, followed by Tyson and Kenny, Kai asked the all important question.
'What day is it?' Max answered him as the other two fidgeted with un-surppressed impatience.
'It's Thursday afternoon, it was Wednesday evening when we found you. You slept for quite a while.'
Kai closed his eyes and forced himself to relax, they still had time to come up with a plan. They should probably
bring Rei back here too, it would be safer. Tyson's voice interrupted his thoughts.
'Guys, there's a problem.' Kai opened his eyes again in time to see Kenny nod fearfully.
'Uh…Rei's gone.'
'WHAT?' exclaimed Kai sitting up in shock, he wished he hadn't afterwards as he remembered how injured he really
was and sank back down with a barely concealed groan. Max just stared at Tyson and Kenny in shock.
'We went to the hospital to see him but they said he'd been checked out and gone home, we think he's been
kidnapped.' Kai looked over at the two boys. Tyson had something in his hand.
'What's that?' Asked Kai, indicating what he meant with a nod. Tyson looked down before remembering with a sigh.
'It's a 'get well soon' card. For Rei from the White Tigers in China, he never got to see it. They…they were gonna come
and see him but they're on tour so they're gonna come in a few weeks. But he's not here anymore.'
Kai looked away at the ceiling. They had to get Rei back. Who knows what would happen to him with those villains?
'Don't worry, Tyson. We'll get him back, you'll see.'
