Chapter 1: What happened to us?

Ok, introduction time. My name is Takao Kinomiya or Tyson Granger, whichever you feel more comfortable with. You probably know me; I'm a member of the G Revolutions, and a World Champion Beyblader. But I'm not here to gloat trust me. After the tournament was over and our defeat of Brooklyn, everything returned to normal. We all came home and we are currently planning on a vacation pretty soon. I'm still 15 years old going on 16 pretty soon but I'm the same Tyson you all saw on TV. Well, that's not entirely true. Ray goes back to his village from time to time but we always see each other at practice. Kai is the same thing, excluding the village thing, but I feel like were closer than ever since the tournament was over. He even said that I was like a brother to him. Boy did that feel good. Kenny is the same is as always, on the computer or with me. Daichi kind of floats from time to time, I usually see him at practice the most. But then there's Max, the blonde that became my best friend the moment we met those many years ago. He's still the same Max yes, but somehow he's different. You see there's this kid from America Max used to be best friends with before he moved here. His name is Alan. He has blonde hair to his back (straight down), a red leather jacket, and blue jeans. Now normally I'd welcome any friend of my friends but this kid hit it off with me on the first day. Max came to practice one day with him before and the first thing he said to us was. "Who are you weirdo's?" in the most annoying voice I'd ever heard. Now Max would never be friends with someone like this right? Wrong. Max doesn't have a mean bone in his body plus the kid only talk's crap when Max isn't around. The only thing that hasn't stopped me from putting this kid in a coma is Max and Kai. I don't want to hurt Max's feelings or make him think I'm some bully by beating up his friend. Kai simply holds me back when he says something that makes me want to rearrange his face. But that's not the worst part. I really think that this Alan kid is trying to steal Max from me. Max and I used to have a game night on Fridays where we would spend the night over one another's house. We haven't done this in weeks thanks to a certain Alan. We also used to have a hangout night with the whole gang. This night became hangout night with the whole gang and an annoying kid named Alan night. Everybody became so annoyed by him that we just stopped having our hangout night at all. But poor Max was oblivious to whatever the kid said to us. Like I said we didn't want to hurt his feelings. He could be really sensitive when it came to his friends and ever since I'd seen a tear drop from his eye I've never wanted the kid to be sad again. I'm pretty sure the gang feels the same way as no one has spoken to him about it yet. Speaking of the gang, I wonder what they're doing right now. Kai was probably training, Ray was in his village since I hadn't seen him at practice the day before today, Kenny probably experimenting with our blades, Daichi asleep, but then there was Max. He was probably off with Alan since it was only 4 in the afternoon. I sighed loudly and looked up at the clouds above my head. I was outside in the back of the dojo lying down in the grass just thinking. It was sort of my "personal space" after all. Suddenly a shadow stood over me. I looked up and saw a blonde looking down at me with a confused expression. Great, just who I wanted to see.

"Hey Max." I said putting my hat over my eyes.

"Hey Tyson. Is something wrong?" the blonde asked sitting down next to me and holding his knees.

"I'm bored, is all." I said closing my eyes. "There's nothing to do nowadays. No one to hang with."

"Well I'm here. What do you want to do?" he said cheerily.

"Why do you care, and more importantly why are you here!?" I said sounding like Kai.

Max was shocked by the sharpness in my voice and didn't say anything. "I-I" he stumbled looking down.

"What's wrong? Alan not here so you come running to second base? Well it aint happening Max." I said standing up to leave.

"Tyson I-" he started. I looked at him. He had tears forming in his eyes. I suddenly felt sorry for my outburst and sat back down. What am I doing? I can't take out all my anger on Maxie, even if I haven't seen him at all since he's blown me off for Alan on many occasions. Ok, that didn't sound any better but still, Max is still my friend.

"Max I'm sorry, it's just that I haven't seen you. You're always off with Alan. You're my best friend to you know." I said in a low voice.

"…" he was silent and was looking at the grass and still holding his knees.

I continued. "Remember when we used to have game night on Friday, movie night on Saturday, and training the rest of the week? I missed that. I missed you."

"Tyson, I never knew you cared." He said still looking down.

"Of course I did. I had the time of my life when I was with you. But forget it, what did you need?" I said looking at him.

"Well today was supposed to be game night. My dad got me a new system and told me to see if you would come over. I wanted to see if you would play it with me." He said so quietly I could barely hear him.

"No thanks." I said standing up again.

Max felt his heart drop. "Takao, please I didn't-"

"I was just kidding Max. I would love to come." I said smiling and offering a hand to help him up.

He looked at me for awhile and grabbed my hand. I hoisted him up and smiled. "Thanks." He said smiling.

"Anytime. Sorry about the outburst but I had to get it off my chest." I said looking him in the eye.

"I understand." I turned to walk away when he grabbed my arm. "Tyson, can we please go back to being best friends? Please?" he said looking at me with a pleading face, his blue eyes shining.

"Sure." I answered with a smile.

"Thank you so much! Come on let's get to my house!" he said getting excited.

"Alright quit pulling." I said laughing. We ran the whole way there laughing for no apparent reason. It was really early in the afternoon so the world was abuzz with action around us. As we ran, we waved to different neighbors, shop keepers, and other random people we came across. I felt like we were the same friends we were just months ago. It felt good.

Normal POV

Mr. Tate walked outside and sighed looking at the morning sun. He had sent his son to Tyson's house to invite him over. He really felt like they were getting more and more distanced from each other. He almost thought of Tyson as his second son in a way. He smiled and waved as he saw said boys running toward him. It looked like they were racing and Max was winning. It also looked like they were best friends again. Tyson suddenly pulled ahead and slammed right into Max's dad sending them both to the ground. Tyson rolled over and held his head. "Owww. That hurt." He said sitting back up.

"Well I told you to slow down!" max said laughing. Mr. Tate passed Tyson a blueberry muffin with a smile. Max suddenly stopped laughing as he felt the muffin hit him square in the forehead. He and Tyson burst out laughing at each other. "Ok were even." Max said smiling.

"How are you doing Tyson?" Mr. Tate said helping the boys up.

"Great! Thanks for inviting me over." He replied putting his hat back on his head.

"No problem." Max's dad replied leading them inside. "I'll start on dinner!" he said walking into the kitchen.

"Come on Tyson! I wanna show you my new games for it!" Max said running into his room. They finally got there and Tyson stared at the new system, awestruck.

"This is so cool! I can't believe your dad got you this!" Tyson said mouth wide open. "Turn it on Maxie, I want to see this baby work!" They played the new game system for about two hours until their attention spans officially timed out and they turned it off.

"That was fun. So now what?" Max said leaning back on his bed.

"I don't know, what time is it?" Tyson asked yawning.

"About 6, dinner should be ready pretty soon." Max said smiling.

"Let's go outside then."

Max hesitated for a moment before breaking out into a wide grin. He got up took Tyson's hat and ran as fast as he could before darting out of the house, Tyson close behind.

Tyson's POV

Now there are three things that I hate. One is when people say tuna but they put an accent on it. That way it sounds like TUnA instead of tuna. It really just bugs me for some reason. The second thing is when people touch my nose, especially when I'm asleep. I don't want people touching the thing that helps me breathe, plus it feels weird. The third and most important thing is for people to take my hat. Everyone who has ever met me knows that this hat means the world to me. Well not the world, but I care about it a lot. I plan on keeping it for awhile. But anyways Max know that I hate it and he does it as often as possible. Of course it's ok for Maxie to do it since he's close along with Ray, Kenny and the others. (Excluding Daichi, I would pound him if he ever took my hat.) But back to the current issue, my hat is in Max's hand and not on my head. I got up and followed the blonde outside, enjoying the thrill of the hunt. We ran around under the bridge and by the river before Max finally stopped for a breather. Now's my chance. I tackled the boy to the ground unexpectedly. I then proceeded to tickle the living crap out of him until he squirmed around screaming "I give I give!" at the top of his lungs while laughing his head off. I stopped and laughed at the face he was making which was mixed with laughter and tears. He sat up, wiped a tear from his eye and looked at me before laughing again. We were laughing for 5 minutes straight for no reason when the devil reared its ugly head. Max and I stood up as Alan came running down the hill. He ran right past me and up to Max. "Hey Maxie I got a new game! Let's go play it!" he said pretending like I wasn't there.

I cringed so hard that I almost fell over. Maxie? Maxie was my word and only I could use it. That bastard was lucky I didn't hit him right there. Especially since he blew me off like he and Max were the only people on the Earth. "Sure." Max said smiling at the boy.

"Hey cool hat Maxie." He said taking off MY hat and putting it on his head. I cringed again before realizing what had happened.

"That's my hat." I said snatching it off the boys head with a little to much force.

"Oh hey Timmy I didn't even see you there." He said turning around to face me.

"It's Tyson. Get it straight." I said glaring at him after putting my hat back on.

"Whatever. So Max lets go play the game!" Once again I was blown off.

"Figures." I said turning around and walking back to my house.

"Tyson wait!" Max said running after me. He caught up to me and stood right in front of me. "I didn't know he was coming Tyson I'm sorry."

"Its ok I know. We'll meet again later ok?" Tyson said smiling.

"Right. Um, what about tomorrow? Movie night, my place? I'll invite Ray, Kai, Kenny, and Daichi. The whole gang, just like old times." Max said looking at me hopefully.

"Sounds good. See you at practice ok?"

"Yeah, I'll come get you in the morning ok?" max said smiling.

"Alright." I said walking away.

"Bye Takao!" he yelled after me. I waved my hand not bothering to turn around. I really didn't want to see Alan anymore than I had to. Max walked back to the other blonde and smiled. "So what game did you get?"

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