CH.3 I hope you like 2 and 1 but just so you know I worked ch.1 and ch.2 when I was 11 I just found this fic in my data base and I'm going to pick up where I left off just so you know I'm 14 now.
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Ch.3

Sage looked up from eating his eggs and toast when Ryo came down the steps. Ryo was dressed in the same clothes as the day before and the bags under his eyes said he hadn't slept. Rowen and Sage both exchanged glances. They were both worried about their friend however neither wanted to bring it up. Considering Ryo's temperament the past few days. Cye laid Ryo's plate on the table. He could tell his friend was in pain, but the pain was physical more mental and emotional pain. Cye could tell by the pale face and red eyes their leader had been crying..

"Um.. Hey Ryo, hungry?" Rowen asked in the politest tone he could manage. Rowen didn't want to set Ryo off again.

Ryo mutters something in an angry tone and sits down at the table. The letter had him so off kilter. And he couldn't tell his friends because he knew, or thought he knew they would make fun of him laugh at him being so gullible to fall for a prank as dumb as the letter.

Rowen looks down at the plate of untouched food in front of him, again taking Ryo's tone and anger, guessing it was directed at him. Rowen couldn't figure out what he'd done to make their leader so angry. Rowen had spent the night crying into his pillow ignore Sage's worried 'are you alright' questions. For some reason he believed he was the problem.

Sage glanced at Rowen hurt expression and his anger rose. Ryo leader or not should be able to tell them if something was wrong instead of letting the great team they had become crumble to bits because he was too angry to talk.

"Hey Ryo" Sage called catching him before he could leave and slam the door behind him.

"What!" Ryo snapped back. By this point Rowen was looking up, ignoring the blue bang that fell in front of his eyes, Cye had turned and was watching the on goings and Kento had just awoke and was watching Sage and Ryo from the steps.

"You’re acting like a jerk and I want to know why, "Sage hadn't meant to be so harsh but Ryo was being rude and forceful to him he reacted like he would normally.

"None of your damn business, Sage so butt out," Ryo retorted. He was nose to nose with Sage at this point.

Sage anger hit the roof and kept on going.

"NO, Oh no Ryo don't challenge me, Ryo, YOU ARE THE LEADER OF US in case you've forgotten and I am pissed off because your piss ass attitude is making this team crumble! "Sage shouted back at him. The 2 were about to clash and the others realized that because they stood and began to make their way to the fighting teenagers.

"WHY THE HELL DO YOU CARE, DATE?!?! IT'S NOT LIKE YOU GOT A LETTER FROM A MAN WHO SAID HE'S YOUR FATHER, WHEN YOUR DAD’S BEEN DEAD SINCE YOU’VE BEEN BORN SO JUST PISS OFF AND LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE!" Ryo shouted and hit Sage with a fist on the jaw bone.

Before Sage hit the ground Ryo was out the door and out of site.

Rowen looked alarmed. "Cye, Kento, go get Ryo bring him back here in this mood I don't know what he'll do to himself or anyone else," Rowen ordered and went to Sage's side.

Cye and Kento did as they were told. Neither questioned the order given by Rowen who had claimed the role of leader for the time being.

Sage was holding his jaw tenderly, and fighting off tears of pain.

"Are you alright?" Rowen asked worry and fear both evident in his voice.

Sage couldn't answer his jaw was broken, so he shook his head slowly, sooo slowly.

Rowen asked him if he needed to all 911

Sage again shook his head and motioned for a pen and paper.

Rowen hopped up and dug through the draws in the desk near by. He returned quickly and
handed them to Sage.

Sage's hands were shaking as he wrote the pain made it hard for him to focus:

Rowen, don't be stupid, just calm down, I'll be fine I can heal myself once I get my wits about me again I'm just a little dazed, ok?

Sage wrote on the paper Rowen had given him, and then handed it back to his best friend.
Rowen's blue eyes scanned the paper quickly and then he nodded "Ok Sage you want me to help ya go lay down?" Rowen asked.

Sage nodded again very very slowly.

Rowen helped him to his feet carefully and helped him to their bedroom .Sage winced when his jaw rattled as he laid down. Rowen knew that when Sage got to the point where he could talk he would go on and on about his he didn't like to be babied when he was hurt. But as for now Rowen would take advantage of Sage's 'mute'ness. Rowen even tucked Sage in bed, Sage's response was to roll his eyes. Rowen laughed and went down stairs to see if Kento and Cye had found Ryo yet.

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Ryo had heard the others chasing after him but chose to keep running, he was the fastest and he knew it. The only one who might could catch him was Sage and well no chance of him recovering so quickly. Ryo glanced back Cye and Kento about 30 yards behind him. His mind was racing thoughts dancing though his head. Thoughts and worries of the
letter. Thoughts of what he had done to Sage. Had he really just hit
Sage? Well he deserved it. He should have let sleeping dogs lie...Ryo wasn't in the wrong was he?

"Hey! Ryo wait up"! Cye shouted.

Ryo sped up and darted down a alley and out of sight. He could hear the others coming up behind him. He could only pray they hadn't seen his take off down the alley way. He saw a fence and climbed it and jumped down . Taking off, doubling back like a fox avoiding the hounds.

Cye and Kento raced past the alley way. Ryo sighed in relief. He was
no longer in danger of being caught... why was he running in the
first place? He dug in his pocket and again to out the letter reading
over it. As tears began to well in his eyes, he slumped down leaning
on a wall crying.

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Well thats CH.3

I'll write CH .4 IF PEOPLE REVIEW IF THEY DON'T I WONT FINISH IT
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