Super Heroes- Kai
Kai listened half-heartedly to the ongoing argument as he wondered whether Max and Tyson actually cared who was
the greatest superhero or if they just needed to argue about something and that happened to be it. In the
background was the irritating buzz of a mosquito. He wondered if Rei had heard it. If he had, then it would soon be
dead. Rei hated mosquitoes intensely for some reason.
He glanced over at the neko-gin. Rei's ears were twitching amusingly, and he looked at Kai questioningly, most
likely wondering whether Kai had heard the insect as well. Kai nodded. Tyson, who had been deeply buried in the
argument, looked up when Rei stood up.
'Where are you going Rei?'
Kai tried not to let the smirk show when he saw Tyson's face after Rei had answered with the cryptic 'Mosquito'.
'Idiot!' he thought. He had trouble not grinning when max said in his sugar-high voice,
'Rei's off on another killing spree!' Max had some weird thoughts when he was hyper, scarily true, but weird.
Rei left the room and the argument continued.
'Oh come on, Batman is crap, he has no superpowers. All he does is beat up strange looking bad guys and climb up
buildings with Robin.'
'Yeah but look at Spiderman, his secret identity is as a geek, and his best friend stole the girl he likes. What an idiot!'
There was a small muffled yelp from the kitchen. The mosquito seems to have attacked Rei before Rei could get the
mosquito, thought Kai to himself. He'll be moaning about how it itches for about a week now. I don't know why he
does it when he knows he's gonna get bitten before the bug is dead.
Kai listened casually to the sound of Rei coming back down the hall. For some reason the footsteps were a bit
irregular. Rei had probably tripped or something although that wasn't really like him. Rei had reached the door now
and Kai waited expecting him to come straight in. Instead, the door remained closed and there was the sound of
someone fumbling with the door handle.
It couldn't be Rei, even in the dark he could see better than any of them. Kai got to his feet and was about to move
towards the door, preparing for an intruder, when it swung open. Rei stumbled into the light and stood swaying
slightly from side to side. His skin was pale and there was something clutched tightly in his fist. His gaze was
unfocused.
'Rei? What's wrong?' asked Kai. The other's looked up to see Rei and they all gasped simultaneously. Kai was
surprised to see deep red blood dripping from Rei's nose. Rei didn't seem to have noticed so Kai pointed it out for
him. 'Rei, your nose is bleeding.' Rei stared at him in confusion for a moment before raising a shaking hand to the
scarlet drops that made such a shocking contrast to his white face. Just as Rei saw his bloodstained fingers, his eyes
rolled up and his body collapsed towards the ground.
Before he could hit anything Kai lunged forward and stopped the downward rush. Max, Kenny and Tyson quickly
stood up and gathered around Kai who was kneeling on the ground with Rei's prone form in his arms. They were all
surprised by Rei's sudden illness and no one spoke as Kai gently lifted Rei in his arms and placed him on the sofa. To
Kai it seemed as if Rei weighed nothing at all. Max moved to the top of the sofa looking down at Rei's face. He was
the first to speak.
'What's wrong with him?' Kai frowned before answering.
'I don't know.' Kenny spoke up.
'It could be serious. We should get him to a hospital…'
'NO'
Everyone looked at Kai in surprise. 'No… we should at least try to wake him up first…if it's really serious we'll know
by then…but it's probably nothing.' Kenny stared at Kai in disbelief.
'Nothing? Kai, our friend collapses to the floor and you call it nothing? I can't…' Tyson interrupted. 'Eh guys? Is there
such a thing as a white mosquito?'
'Don't be stupid Tyson. Why would you even think about such a thing right now?' snapped Kenny.
'Well maybe because I just found one in Rei's hand!'
There was complete silence as everyone stared incredulously at Tyson. Kenny broke the silence. 'You must be
colour-blind or something Tyson, let me see it. I'm sure it's just an ordinary…' he stopped, dumbfounded. 'I stand
corrected' he gulped.
Kai interrupted their thoughts, 'You can think about this later, right now we have to help Rei.'
The others looked at Rei guiltily. In the appearance of the strange mosquito they had almost forgotten their friend.
Kai took charge of the situation.
'Kenny put that mosquito somewhere safe. You can study it later. Tyson, go get a cloth and a basin of water. Max,
get a glass of water and we'll see about getting Rei awake.'
The other three nodded and ran off to complete their charges. Once they had all gone Kai grabbed a tissue from a
box nearby and tried to get rid of some of the blood on Rei's face. He wondered about the white mosquito and what
it had to do with Rei falling so suddenly sick.
Max was the first to return. With him he had a full glass of water. He handed it carefully to Kai, who indicated that
Max should lift Rei's head up. Max did so, gently moving some stray strands of hair from Rei's face. Kai brought the
glass to Rei's lips and slowly tipped some water into his mouth. To their relief Rei's mouth moved and he swallowed.
Just then Kenny walked back in and he hurried to the foot of the sofa and watched. Rei's head shifted in Max's hands.
His eyes started to flicker open as Tyson ran in with the cloth and basin of water. They each watched tensely as the
young Neko-gin awoke.
