Hey hey! It's my first fanfic for Beyblade! What happens when Kai finds out that Rei has a secret not that different to his own? Will their secret infatuation with each other be revealed?

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Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade. (Do we even have to put this in here? It seems pretty obvious that I'm not Takao Aoki. So I'll only say it once.)

It was early springtime in the village where Rei was born. The young beyblader lounged on the banks of a river that ran near his house, savouring the peace and quiet. The Bladebreakers had recently celebrated their victory at the world tournament then said goodbye to each other to return home for a well-earned break. Max had gone with his dad to America to see his mum, Tyson's grandfather was taking him to visit his archaeologist father in Egypt and Kenny had secured a student fellowship at a prestigious beyblade research lab in Tokyo. They had all sounded very happy to be splitting up for a while. Beyblading was fun but it was also hard work, they all knew they needed some time away.

Rei hadn't asked where Kai was going for the holidays. None of them knew much about where Kai went all the time when he disappeared on his own, much less where he would go to spend a couple of months. His other teammates always taunted him about his closed-off personality, everyone except for Rei. He and Kai had an unspoken understanding, a mutual respect, that Rei knew meant he would never try and delve into Kai's secrets. However curious he was, he had to respect Kai's privacy.

Besides, Rei had secrets of his own.

Rei understood Kai's cold, mysterious nature much better than anyone realised. When the Bladebreakers were on tour together Rei was always so happy. He was confident and kind, always ready to face a new challenge and learn from his mistakes. The world was so large but somehow he had found the best group of friends in the whole world, and his passion for blading had given him the opportunity to travel. It was good to be far away from his small village in China. It was the only time he felt safe or happy, the only time he was able to forget the things that haunted him and just focus on being himself.

Now the holidays had arrived and Rei had no choice but to return to China and the house where he grew up. His stomach rumbled. There was food in the house, but Rei didn't want to go inside just yet. He had only just got off the plane and knew that these were the last moments of peace he would get before he would have to leave behind the Rei that his friends knew and return to the person he was when he was at home.

With a sigh, he stood up and threw his mostly-empty bag over his shoulder. There was no delaying it anymore. He walked quietly up to the house and tapped on the door.

"Hello?" he said in Chinese. "Mei? Jin? I'm back."

There was no reply and the front door was always unlocked so he went inside. The house was just as he thought it would be: dirty and dusty from the months that Rei had been absent, dirty dishes piled in the sink and cat hair and mud all over the floor. It was Rei's job to clean the house since his foster mother Mei got sick, and in his absence it looked like his foster father Jin had failed to take on his chores. How unsurprising.

Rei moved through to his old room and dumped his bag on the floor. There was no furniture in his room, just an old sleeping mat rolled up in the corner. From the lack of sound in the house it was clear that his foster father was not home. Rei went into the next bedroom and found his foster mother asleep in bed, her gentle wheezing soft but laboured. He sat down on the bed and gently shook her awake.

"Mei? Mei, it's me Rei." The woman opened her eyes and looked up at him, her expression turning from surprise to concern.

"Rei. You're here." She said.

"You sound terrible, old woman." He teased her. A small smile crept at the corner of her lips. "Has he been treating you ok?" he asked seriously.

His foster mother didn't respond, but Rei saw the answer in her face and it made him mad.

"That bastard!" Ray spat. "I told him to give you your medicine and leave you alone while I was gone. Who the fuck does he think he is?"

Rei's fist was clenching the sheets tightly, more than a hint of rage in his eyes. His foster mother reached up and stroked his face and immediately Rei calmed down.

"I wished you didn't have to come back here, young tiger." She whispered. "He's been drinking more since you left. I don't want him to hurt you."

Rei took the hand that was stroking his face and held it in his. "I will always come back for you, Mei. I promise I won't let him hurt you." He leaned in and kissed her cheek. "I'll bring you your medicine after dinner, ok?"

"Thank you Rei." She breathed, and promptly fell back asleep. Rei sat by her side for a moment, then he left to start on his chores. There was much to be done. First he went to the kitchen and washed and put away the dishes, then he swept and mopped the floors, dusted the rooms and the ceiling. He found their tiger tabby cat, Lin, and gave her a bath. She hissed at first, but with some gentle coaxing Rei was able to get her clean. His strange affinity with cats was very useful sometimes.

When he was finished with his chores it was almost time for the evening meal. Rei scoured the kitchen for some food, but could only come up with some rice, a few vegetables and some sauce. Fried rice it is, Rei thought, and made a mental note to go grocery shopping tomorrow.

Despite the lack of ingredients Rei was able to cook up a storm. He had learnt a lot about the culinary art form from his uncle before he had left the village to run his own restaurant in Paris. The inviting smell was wafting through the air and Rei was almost finished cooking when the door banged open.

His foster father was home.

There was a gasp of surprise followed by a moan of hunger as the man took in the clean house and smelled the fried rice. "Rei?" he shouted. "Rei, are you home?" The man rounded the corner and saw the young blader standing by the kitchen sink. He was dressed in traditional Chinese clothes, all dirty and slightly tattered. Like most people in the village his feet were bare and he wore a beard and a long, Chinese-style ponytail just like Rei's, as was traditional.

"Hello Jin," said Rei.

A dangerous smile lit up Jin's face. "Rei!" He rushed forward and pulled his young charge into a crushing embrace. "It's been too long!"

"Only six months." Rei's voice was muffled by the bigger man's shirt.

"I've really missed you, tiger," his hands slid down to grope Rei's butt, squeezing, "and your tight ass."

"Get off me." Rei pushed at him, but the man wouldn't let him go. He ground his pelvis into Rei's and grabbed his chin to force eye contact between them.

"Come now, Rei," he purred at him, his voice dripping with hidden malice. "You remember our arrangement, don't you? You want to see your foster mother get better, yes?"

There was a hint of hatred in Rei's eyes as he jerked his chin away from his hand. He had been the plaything of his foster father's for ten years now, ever since Jin had threatened to stop paying for his wife's medication. Mei was very sick and would most likely die without the proper treatment, and whenever Rei wasn't around it was she who copped most of Jin's abuse. Rei being there to willingly take the rough treatment in her place was the only thing that was keeping her alive. Rei nodded to show his foster father that he understood.

"Good," said the man. "Then play along, my pet. Make some noise."

Jin's hand slid down Rei's abdomen and under the waistline of his pants. Rei shivered at the touch, then his breathing changed as the hand started stroking him, gently and slowly at first, then getting faster and rougher. Rei's hands went to grip Jin's shoulders and he leaned into him, burying his face in his chest. Jin's hand pumped him so hard now that the whole kitchen sink was shaking behind them and Rei couldn't control himself anymore. He found himself making noises he hadn't made in months, noises he hated to hear coming from his own mouth. Long moans caused by the pleasure of the friction of Jin's calloused hand, interwoven with yelps of pain as his sensitive length was jerked and twisted harshly in sudden movements. The heat was too much; it was building to a point where he couldn't stand it. Just when he was approaching his climax, his foster father stopped.

Rei was panting and leaning on him for support, so when he quickly stepped away Rei almost fell. Quickly, he recovered his balance and glared at Jin, who wore a mischievous grin from ear to ear.

"You are a sick man, Jin." Rei panted.

"I know, my pet," Jin stroked Rei's ebony hair. "And you are beautiful when you're in heat. Irresistible."

Rei was filled with shame at the hormones he had allowed this man to release inside of him. He could feel his face was flushed, his arousal still evident. Outside of this house Rei was a strong and confident warrior, but inside he was weak and helpless to stop this man from doing these things to him.

The sun had set outside and Rei served dinner for the two of them to eat at the rickety old dining table. Rei wolfed down his food. He was starving from the long plane ride over to China, where the aeroplane food had been so terribly bland it had almost made him sick. Jin also ate like a beast. He probably hadn't had a decent cooked meal in six months, another reason why he enjoyed having Rei around. Both the food and the sex were paramount.

Speaking of which…

They had both just cleared their plates and Rei was about to start on the dishes when Jin made him stop and come over to where he was sitting. The look in his eyes was like that of a predator, and sadly Rei knew exactly what it meant he had to do. Hesitantly, but not too slowly in case he angered Jin, he got down on all fours and crawled under the table. He crawled up to Jin's chair and undid Jin's pants, opening them just enough to pull his penis out of its hiding place. He started to pleasure him using practised moves that Jin himself had taught him, licking the tip, massaging his balls with one hand and pumping up and down the shaft with the other.

Soon Jin was fully erect and Rei took this opportunity to place him fully inside his mouth, wrapping his arms around his waist. He heard Jin moan his name loudly. Hoping that it would be over soon Rei decided to go quickly and so he started humming and pumping his mouth up and down as fast as he could go. Inarticulate swearing could be heard above him and Jin's hand found its way to his hair, forcing him to slow down.

"I want to enjoy this, Tiger. Let's take our time, now."

The kitchen light flickered and buzzed, and Jin's moans became consistently louder. Finally he'd had enough and he pulled Rei off him and dragged him to his feet. Violent with lust, he ripped Rei's clothes off while the young blader just stood there trying not to shrink from his touch. Jin turned him around and pushed his chest down on the table using one hand to pin Rei's arms above his head, spreading his legs with his knees.

He took a moment to run a hand over Rei's well sculpted derrière, before a solitary finger thrust inside of him. Rei could barely mask a scream. The finger went in and out like a piston. Rei could see Jin smiling in the reflection of the window above the kitchen sink. Two fingers went in, then three. Finally Jin could take it no more and sheathed his entire length inside him in one go.

The thrusting began immediately. It was fast and rough and Rei cried out with every movement. Not just with pain, but with pleasure. He hated to admit it, but it had been six months since he'd last had sex and he really needed some. Jerking himself off in the shower while he was on tour just wasn't the same as being penetrated. He was almost past the point of caring who gave it to him. Almost. There was only one face that ever came to mind in moments like these, and when he thought of that person his body was overcome with such pleasure that he whined out loud.

"That's it." Jin grunted. "Say, 'fuck me hard'."

"Fuck…" Rei said in rhythm to his thrusts, "Me…Hard…Fuck…Me…Hard…" Kai…

The smell of sex and sweat was strong and Jin's animalistic grunts filled the kitchen. He was so big inside of him. He was hitting Rei's pleasurable spot now, the one so deep inside of him that he had never been able to find on his own. Rei was thinking of Kai's face, his well-muscled body, the smouldering stare of his red eyes. He found himself wondering what it would feel like to have Kai inside him instead of Jin, to have Kai's eyes reflected to him in the window, to have Kai's hands on his ass. Rei allowed himself to imagine because it was what would get him through the next few moments, and sure enough, with a loud groan Jin thrust hard inside of him and Rei felt himself being pushed over the brink. He came in uncontrollable waves of pleasure just as Jin erupted and collapsed panting across his back.

Rei wasn't repulsed at all by the act that had just come to an end, since it was someone much more pleasant that he was imagining above him. But as his foster father slid out of him and left the room to go have a shower, leaving Rei with a quick "Clean up the mess, ok Tiger?" the reality of the situation came flooding back to him. He hadn't just made glorious love with the secret object of his fantasies – his team captain Kai – he had been raped by his sick-minded foster father. Again. Everything that used to happen here in this house was happening again. Everything he'd run away from was still as real and painful as they were the day he left them.

Completely naked, Rei sunk to his knees on the kitchen floor and put his face in his hands. He cried like he hadn't done since he was a small boy and the doctors said his foster mother was sick. He felt so humiliated. He had let his foster father do this to him, and he had enjoyed it. He had let himself think of Kai, let himself be comforted by the thought of someone who would never return his feelings. Someone who was so cold.

Eventually he had to get up, clean himself up and wash the dishes. He fixed Mei her dinner and her medicine and carried them into her room where she was still asleep. He woke her up and sat on the side of her bed while she ate, staring vacantly out the window at the moonlit sky.

"Are you ok, my love?" Mei asked, recognising his silence.

"I'm fine, old woman." He teased in return. "Don't forget to take your medicine."

Mei's concerned gaze followed him as he left the room.

I can be strong for you, Mei. Rei thought. I have to be.

The night was protected by the starry sky, the light of the moon streaming down onto Kai's pale skin. He floated on his back in the indoor pool, looking up at the stars through the high glass ceiling. Springtime in Russia was very cold compared to most places, but to Kai it was warm and comfortable. He swam in the nude since he was the only one home. This was his mansion after all, deep in the Russian countryside where no one could easily find him.

When the Bladebreakers had split up for a holiday he had left his teammates at the airport and boarded a plane to Moscow. He didn't tell anyone where he was going, of course, since the whole point of this was to get away from them. Or, if he was really honest, it was to get away from one of them in particular.

Rei.

Of course it was Rei – it had always been Rei. Kai had not been able to stop thinking about him for the longest time. He was like a song that he couldn't get out of his head, a very sexy Chinese song.

His infatuation with the amber-eyed boy was a big problem for Kai as it was slowly becoming harder and harder to hide. While they were practising their beyblading skills together he often caught himself staring at Rei's body: the long, rippling muscles in his arms, the elegant fall of his hair wrap, the angle of his jawline, and ever so occasionally, the part of him between his upper thigh and his lower back.

There was a fire in Rei's eyes when he was training that Kai could not look away from. There was something so beautiful in his fighting spirit which was made all the more remarkable by his kind and caring nature. When Rei laughed he could make the whole room laugh with him. All except Kai, who could only stare at his beauty.

It was infuriating. Not to mention it was distracting him from his training. Kai never let anything distract him from his training, not hunger, thirst, sickness or terrible weather. But somehow, Rei had slipped into his thoughts and stayed there, unmovable, until Kai had thought his secret would make him explode.

Thank God it's the holidays, Kai thought, though in reality he was aching to get back to Rei's side. Though he knew it would never happen, he wished that he could be the one to make Rei laugh for once. He would like to be the one to make Rei's eyes light up and cause that musical sound pass his lips, to make his body shudder and convulse in pleasure and hear his own name being moaned in ecstasy…

"Rei…" Kai moaned out loud. His thoughts were getting away from him, and so were his urges, but this time he didn't care. He was alone. He let his hand drift down to his naked manhood and start to stroke away some of the tension that had been building up for so long. The cool of the water enveloped him. He wished he could feel Rei's body heat against him, taste his lips on his own. His stroking became more energised and his heart rate increased until a huge pressure built up in his lower area and, with a few ragged cries, was released.

Kai sighed contentedly and just lay back with his eyes closed and his mouth open in satisfaction. It had been so long since he'd allowed himself such simple sinful pleasures. As he floated there calmly he started to become aware of how empty the room was. His pool was massive, but he was the only on there. It was so weird being alone now, especially when he so often craves time like this when he is with the others. What's more, Kai started to realise, is that getting away from the team has not caused him to stop thinking about Rei. In fact it's made it worse.

What in hell's name was he supposed to do?

Suddenly frowning, he came to a decision. There was only one way to resolve this, and that was to face Rei in person. Kai swam to the edge and pulled himself out of the pool. He wrapped an expensive, soft white robe around him and went to book himself a ticket on the next flight China. What he would say to Rei he had no clue as of yet, but he could figure that out later. All he knew is that he needed to see him, as soon as possible. He couldn't bear to be here alone thinking about him a moment longer.

"One first-class ticket to China," he ordered over the phone. Lucky that his country and Rei's were neighbours, the flight wouldn't take very long. He would be there by morning. For a moment he considered how crazy it might be to be taking a plane in the middle of the night to see someone who he was secretly infatuated with, to arrive early in the morning not having slept and not knowing what he came to say. Then he shrugged and let the thought pass.

It's not like he would've been getting any sleep tonight anyway.

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