Phantoms

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"..." basic speech

'...' Inner thoughts

... Bit Beast

-Phantoms-

Chapter One: Resurrection of a Phoenix

Kai sat quietly on a bridge over a stream in the park. He heaved a sigh of relief and stared up into the cold night sky at the moon breathing in the clean crisp air.

'Did I really manage it this time?Am I really home?

Back where I belong?'

He was'nt really sure and was reluctant to go find out just yet. He sat deep in thought and wondering just how long it had been since it had happened and he'd been gone. He absent mindly rolled a round glowing pendant that was hanging around his neck on a black metal chain between his long and graceful fingers. His pale skin reflected in the moonlight while his breath was wispy puffs of mist. He heaved a sad sigh and looked down at the water flowing under where he sat. The moon turned his reflection into a illusion that bothered him.

'I wonder if that reflection was how everyone saw me? Cold and fake, calm and raging, broken and serene.'

The biggest lie he could imagine was staring back up at him in mockery with his face. He shivered at the thought of what was really behind the red eyes looking back up at him so hollowly from the distorted water. It was kind of cold but the pale duel haired russian was used to it. He knew it was late but he did'nt really have anywhere to go that he was sure of. And the one place he thought of right off, well he was'nt even sure it was even there anymore if he really was home.

'How long have I been gone anyway? Ten years? Would anyone believe me if I tried to explain where I've been all this time? What I am? Even if I do manage to track down my old team mates, will any of them even believe my story? How old are they all now anyhow? Twenty something? I wonder what they are all like now?'

He looked back down at the water and his reflection.

'I don't really look that much older then I did when I was drawn into the other side.'

He prayed he would never have to call out what was sealed and sleeping within him here. A sudden wind gusted around him sending the first few flakes of snow dancing down around his bare shoulders. It caught the edges of the silver scarf that was wrapped around his neck and billowed the ends behind him with his hair. A random thought made him chuckle to himself when he thought about his hair and how it would look to his team if they seen it now.

'Rei would so give me shit about my hair. It's almost as long as his is or was when I got pulled through.'

He smiled at the memorys of his snide remarksto the neko boy over his hair and the amount of time he spent on it. And then started to openly laughed aloud thinking about how he had loved to hide the other boys hair dryer. Or his hair wraps and gel when the oppertunities had presented themself. Then just as suddenly as those memorys had surfaced they fell away and others replaced them at a light speed it seemed. Kenny with Dizzy typing away. Max with his innocent wide blue eyes reflecting the joy of living life back at him. And Tyson. Even after all this time Kai could'nt help but to worry about his midnight haired friend. Friend. That thought made Kai laugh to himself.

'I'm so stupid I was always so cruel to him, trying to push him away. I'm such a hyprocrite. All I wanted to do was pull him closer and never let go.'

Another thought jarred Kai's thoughts away from the memory of navy eyes that had haunted him for years.

'Are they still alive even? Will any of them even be here? Would they reckonise me if they seen me?'

The thoughts ghosted his mind haunting and hurting him both at once. And Kai felt a fear that made his heart ache with a pain that he'd never felt before at the thought of them being gone. Or worse what if they did not remember him at all.

'Please let them be okay and remember me. Tell me it was'nt all in vain and I made it home and back to them..'

Kai: "I've never wanted anything from anyone.. Never needed anyone before.. But please guys remember me and be there.. Tyson.. I'm finally coming home."

His voice sounded gruff to his own ears but it was deeper then it used to be and silky. With a determined glint in his eyes he swung his long legs back over the bridge railing and began to walk towards the only place he could think to go now. The place that had been calling to him in flashes of dreams and memories over the years. What to him was the only place that had ever really felt like home on this side of what he considered hell. The Granger Dojo. He just hoped it was still there. And even though he'd never treated Tyson like he should've.. He hoped that the midnight haired, navy eyed boy would be there for him. Just like he always had in the past.. Kai hoped that if he was there, that Tyson would at least know who he was and take him in again. And maybe, just maybe Tyson would give him another chance. It was that very thought Kai had dreamed about and that kept him going all these years.. Kai knew he needed Tyson now more then ever. He set off at a steady pace with hope burning in his ruby eyes..