Title: Eternally, you and I

Author: Sadron Faelandaerl

Summary: Kai is a cold-hearted, often aloof and an unti-sociable person. Due to frequent coincidences and unexpected string of events, he meets Rei Kon, a lovely raven-haired guy who's the exact opposite of him and who's time was almost up. When two opposite sides meet, is it possible for love to bloom? It was supposed to be a beautiful love story with them having a happily ever after ending but what will happen when he finds out that Rei is actually dying?

Pairing: Rei Kon/Kai Hiwatari

Genre: Romance/Humor

Warnings: This is a yaoi story, meaning it revolves around boy's kissing and all that other stuff. If you aren't aware of that or in any way against the issue, then please stop reading now. But of course, if you love it just as much as I do, then do please continue.

Disclaimer: I DO NOT AND WILL NEVER OWN BEYBLADE BECAUSE WELL, AOKI TAKAO OWNS IT ALREADY. SO DON'T SUE ME!

Enjoy.

Chapter 1: Chanced Meeting

Rei Kon was just an ordinary teenage boy, your typical boy-next-door and at often times called the "town's peacemaker". He has long raven hair that he wears either in a neat braid or in a low ponytail wrapped in a white cloth that goes down to his ankles. He has beautiful flawless sun-kissed skin that people are often jealous about because he has it naturally. He has the most amazing golden eyes with a bit shade of amber and black pupils that tends to slit whenever he becomes angry. He's good at cooking despite being a guy, which girls are also dead jealous of. He's also a black belter in karate and is a very dependable and responsible person. You could say that he's the ideal guy of every girl and the perfect boyfriend material.

They say unluckiness comes to those who don't know how to take care of themselves. But since Rei is a very careful person, he can't exactly understand why he's just so unlucky today. For one, he left his car keys inside his car and that he had to break the car's windows to get it back which meant the addition to his daily expense since of course, he'd have to get it fixed and thus also the reason he's walking three blocks of distance to get to the café he got from his Uncle. Then the old business man who insists on buying his café kept calling his phone that he dropped it in a puddle of water. And as if that wasn't enough, a bucket of red paint fell over his head as he was passing by the small merchandise building being renovated just beside his café.

"Wow, what happened to you?" Hilary asked as he entered.

"Stuff" Rei frowned and went towards the changing rooms to get into a clean set of new clothes. Thank god he decided to leave some spare clothes in his locker.

"Well, for what it's worth I think red suits you" Hilary teased and tried hard not to laugh but to a complete failure.

"Ha-ha very funny." Rei then came out with a towel wrapped around his hair. He took a quick shower to remove the paint from his hair. And fortunately, the paint was water-based and it was easily removed.

After quickly drying hair with a blow dryer, Rei and Hilary started opening the shop. While Hilary wiped the tables clean, Rei put their cakes and other available pastries for the day on display. He opened the window blinds and placed the "OPEN" sign on the glass door.

"Oh hey Rei, Tyson called earlier. He's asking what time we'll arrive at the party" Hilary asked putting magazines on the small coffee table.

"Oh right, there's that engagement thing tonight, I almost forgot about that. What time does it begin again?"

"It's at eight. Why don't we close up at five? With that, we could have more time to prepare. I mean, two hours isn't enough for you to fix your hair" Hilary chuckled.

"Would you quit the teasing? And leave my hair alone." Rei stuck out his tongue at her which made the brunette just laugh even more.

Rei and Hilary live together in one condo unit. Now don't get them wrong, they're not in a relationship or anything, they just like keeping each other company. And they're just that close of friends. But if it's still confusing, this is what happened. When Hilary was a "newcomer" in Tokyo, Rei was the one who helped her out. It was about two years back in a train station where the two met. Hilary apparently had just run away from home because of her parents and had absolutely no plan on how she'll survive in the new town. And since she was a newcomer, she was bound to get bullied by the common street ruffians. Just as they were harassing her, Rei saw this by accident as he was passing by and came to Hilary's rescue. Hilary thanked him but her problem was still yet to be solved. She had nowhere to stay and knew no one in the town.

"Would you like to go to my place then? You can stay there until you find your own place to live in. Don't worry, I don't bite" Rei offered her with the friendliest smile he could show. Hilary, though still a bit hesitant, agreed and followed the raven-haired home. A normal girl wouldn't exactly accept this but Hilary's not (that) normal. She thought she can easily defend herself if the guy ever jumped on her since he looked a bit more feminine than her and looked weak (Despite seeing him in action a little while ago).

Then she stayed with him far longer than expected after they realized they had so much in common including cooking and cleaning. Then Hilary found out Rei's gender preference and took it quite well saying she preferred gays than women and made the living, well, less awkward.

"Hey Rei, will you zip my dress?" Hilary asked turning her back on Rei who was half naked and slightly dripping wet. He just came out of the shower after all. And this is what "awkward" meant. Rei did what she asked as if zipping up a lady's dress was the most normal thing a guy his age would do.

"And this is why I love gays" Hilary chuckled returning to the mirror to fix her hair.

"What?" Rei asked as he tried tying his necktie.

"Nah, it's nothing, just talking to myself. You need help with that?"

"Yep" Rei replied letting Hilary fix up his tie.

And so when they were both ready, they headed out to where the party will be held.

"Kai, will you hurry up?"

The usually peaceful and quiet Hiwatari mansion is then disturbed by this loud voice calling the mansion owner's name.

"Shut up Tala" said the stoic and frowning dual-haired Russian. He is Kai Hiwatari, twenty-two years old and the current president of the large Hiwatari Enterprises. After his Grandfather's untimely (but desperately wished) death, he inherited his fortune thus making him one of the youngest billionaires in the world. He has brilliant crimson eyes and pale white skin.

"Why do we need to hurry up anyway?" asked the lavender-haired Russian coming out right after Kai. This person is Bryan Kuznetsov, twenty-three and Tala's current lover. Despite his freaky and a bit creepy aura, shot-temperedness and bad habit of making fun of people (giving them idiotic and stupid nicknames) he's a nice and caring person. Mostly towards Tala. Only Tala.

"Well because if we don't hurry, we'll be terribly late for our meeting with Ian and Spencer" Tala pouted crossing his arms. Everyone, meet Tala Ivanov, a flirtatious, handsome and egoistic twenty-three-year-old Russian who's also the current vice president of Hiwatari Enterprises. Though Kai sees him terribly annoying to the point that sometimes he wants to drop the guy in a tank of boiling acid hoping that he'd mutate in some way and turn to a more loyal puppy or whatever kind of monster as long as it follows his orders, he can't deny the fact that the redhead is actually really good in business and is regrettably smart.

"I don't even remember ever agreeing to this stupid reunion" Kai muttered entering his black limousine. Although he was really against it, his private limousine has been forced by Tala to be his own shuttle service.

"Hey! This is not a stupid reunion. Jeez, you're so rude" Tala scolded puffing his cheeks even more. Bryan sighed and shook his head as he took the driver's seat since Tala just refused to drive and Kai is an awesomely terrible driver.

"Whatever" Kai snorted and closed his eyes.

The whole ball room was decorated with beautiful shining and glittering ornaments. There were crystal chandeliers hanging on the ceiling, the walls and floor were marble and a red carpet was laid along the pathway. Hilary had her mouth hanging open as she and Rei entered the hotel where the party was.

"Wow, I wonder who paid for all these" Hilary wondered,

"The two of us of course" replied the cheerful blonde American, Max Tate. He's been a close friend of Rei since middle school and has become quite in good terms with Hilary as well.

"Thank you for coming you guys" he said and hugged Rei.

"We already told you we'd come" Rei chuckled.

"Well then, come on in. Everyone's here already. You can sit with Oliver and the others." Max invited and led the two to where their other friends were. Hilary sat in a separate table where Ming-Ming and the other girls were while Rei sat with the guys.

"Where's Tyson?" Rei asked taking the seat beside Enrique, Oliver's lover.

"I think he's still in his room having a talk with his Grandpa and Hiro" Enrique replied.

"Wow, you still look amazing Rei. How've you been?" Oliver said with gleaming eyes.

"Thanks and I've been great. Why don't you come by the café some time, we have really delicious pastries you know" Rei smiled.

"You bet we will!" replied Oliver.

A black limousine finally arrived in front of Oasis Hotel.

"Is this the place?" Bryan asked pulling into the vacant parking lot.

"Yep" Tala replied fixing his hair before he got off the car.

"Hm, I didn't know Ian's got some taste."

"Shut up and let's go" Tala cheered and pulled his lover towards the hotel. Kai sighed and followed suit.

"Welcome and thank you all for coming tonight to our Engagement party" Tyson announced. Everyone all had their attention towards the couple standing in front of them. Rei could see the blush slowly appearing on Max's face.

"Congratulations you two!" Ming-Ming cheered clapping her hands. The others were also cheering for the two commenting on how good they looked together. Even before, everyone knew that they'd end up with each other.

Back in middle school, Max, Rei and Tyson together with Oliver and Enrique were all in the same class. Tyson wasn't too bright and was always the flunk in their class and so Rei offered to tutor him. Everyone said he didn't have to because Tyson would only just fail again and there was no more hope for a stupid chubby pig like him. Rei, Enrique and Oliver were really annoyed by this insult. Max heard this as he was entering the classroom after buying food from the canteen and the usually calm and cheerful guy dashed towards their classmate who said all those and punched him hard on the face. Rei and everyone else were all shocked by this. Tyson, who was late and had just arrived at school, was just as shocked and quickly pulled Max away from their classmate.

After being called to the guidance room and having a long lecture of not fighting at school, Tyson cured Max's injuries up in the rooftop.

"Don't ever do that again" Tyson said.

"But they were… saying really mean things about you" Max sniffed holding his tears back.

"Just ignore them. Just don't get hurt like this again because of me. I feel guilty you know?" Tyson then placed a band aid on the corner of Max's lip.

"I'm sorry" Max said hugging Tyson.

At first, Rei thought it was only a brotherly kind of love but then there came the kissing, and I mean lots of kissing, and other stuff that shouldn't be mentioned anymore.

Then suddenly, Rei was snapped out of his thought when Oliver tripped from the carpet and threw his glass of red wine at him. And Rei just so happens to be wearing a white suit.

"Oh my god Rei I'm sorry!" Oliver exclaimed panicking on how the stain would get off.

"It's okay, don't worry" Rei said, "I'll go try wash it off. I'll be right back.

"Ian! Spencer!" Tala's loud voice echoed throughout the hall and made everyone else in that dining area looked their way. Kai cursed under his breath thinking why Tala couldn't speak or greet in a much more sophisticated and moderate voice.

"Tala! Bryan! Kai!" yelled Ian.

I knew it I'm surrounded with a bunch of idiots. Kai thought frowning and mentally slapped his forehead.

"Yo" Spencer greeted.

"It's been a while, Spence" Bryan said and the five of them took their seats.

"So how've you guys been?" Tala asked excitedly.

"Great. Our business has become really successful thanks to Spencer. He's really good with these kinds of stuff!" replied Ian.

As the four Russians were busy chatting about their lives, Kai took this chance to escape and try to get some fresh air outside.

"Of all times to wear white, it had to be tonight. Ugh, why is this happening to me?" Rei muttered frantically trying to wipe off the red stain on his suit as he walked fast towards the men's room. Kai was coming from the other direction and like in television dramas with the fateful-first-encounter scenes; the two bumped to each other rather hard with Rei almost falling on his butt had Kai not grabbed his wrist and pulled him in time.

"S-Sorry" Rei said a bit dumbfounded when his eyes met Kai's luminous crimson ones. He felt a mixed feeling of alarm and astonishment. Alarmed because well, the person standing right in front of him holding his wrist have eyes in the color of blood when he doesn't even look like he's wearing contact lenses and astonishment because if he really has them naturally, it'll be the most stunning and beautiful thing he's ever seen.

Kai didn't reply and instead just stood there staring at the raven-haired and into his beautiful golden orbs.

So here's my new story! :D I don't really know what got into me to write this kind of story cos' as i could remember, I hate sad and tragic stories. Maybe it's because I've been listening to these sad songs this past few days? Well, whatever. I may be updating only on weekends since I'm preparing for my final exams.

Now then, give me a comment if you want to ^^ They're much appreciated.