This is first story of my Beyblade R series. Beucause I'm lazy I'm not gonna explain everything for third time so see the explanations in my profile, thank you! :3

Oh yes! Since the characters are japanese, please try to imagine that the conversations are made in japanese. Everyone should have enough imagination for that I suppose. Thanks! :)

"I'm going now!" Boy with dark blue hair called to his house and opened the door.

"Have fun!" His grandfather replied and came to the front door.

"Sure. What could be more fun than school", the boy mumbled.

"Oh come on, Tyson", said older boy. "You're now in high school. They say it's the best time in the life. You meet new friends and have new teachers to tease."

"Gee thanks, Hiro, that sure is only thing I'm good at", Tyson said. His brother laughed.

"Tyson!" Called voice. Tyson turned and saw his three friends, Kenny, Max and Hilary.

"Hey, guys."

"Hey! Morning, Hiro, Grandpa!" Max called. "Come on; don't wanna be late on first day."

Max had decided to stay in Japan to go to high school with them. He told his American friends were bit indignant about it, but Max is easy to forgive.

"Sure, sure." Tyson said goodbyes to his family rushed to his friends.

Their school uniforms were pretty simple. Boys had white short-sleeved shirt and black pants. Girls uniform was sailor-type, skirt, scarf and cuffs was black with white stripe. Shirt had black ribbon on chest. Girls' winter uniform was same but with long sleeves, boys had black jacket.

They arrived to their new school. It was pretty old-fashioned, mansion building. It had four floors. Behind was another, newer buildings as gym and dorms for those who came to school from further.

In front of the gates were lists in which classed everyone was this year. Around them were lots of students.

"Cool, so we should try to get through all those?" Hilary wondered.

"Leave it to me!" Max said happily. He dove into the crowd. Others waited little bit further. Soon the blond boy made his way back. He smiled brightly. "We're all in same class!"

"Yay!" Hilary cheered. They joined to the flow that started to enter the school. Most of them were first year students like themselves. Some were in small groups, some alone. Atmosphere was tense.

They found right classroom quickly. It was on second floor and their class sing was 1-3. There were three desk rows. One in the middle had three seats each desk, and side rows had two seats. Since both sides of back row were taken, Tyson and Max conquered the middle seats. Kenny and Hilary sat in front of them. They turned their chairs around. They talked and same time observed other students coming and those already in.

"Is this seat free?" Asked someone. They saw a boy with bit tanned skin and brown hair standing behind them pointing the last seat on the back row.

"Yeah", Tyson and Max replied. The boy sat down.

More and more people came in. Many started to talk with their new classmates right away, but some were shyly looking around and wondering where to sit. Soon in came very small girl. She looked at the front of the class and looked pretty annoyed there weren't seats left. So she walked past Tyson and others and sat next to them on the window side. The girl who already sat there took quick look at her, pretty much saying that she wouldn't want her there. Even if another girl noticed this unsaid message, she put her bag on the table and sat down.

"Look, Chief. Someone else too has forgotten to grow", Tyson joked with quiet voice. Kenny threw death glare at him while other two laughed.

The teacher came in.

"Okay everyone, silence please!" He was a tall man, probably around 40s. He has brown, short hair and eyeglasses. He put some papers on the table. He quickly introduced himself. "I'm your new homeroom teacher. I'm taking the roll now, and then let's say some main points about the rules and procedures." He started to call names.

After the roll their teacher told them about the school. They were offered a meal at school, but they could also bring their own lunches. For those who stayed in dorms he told that they weren't allowed to leave outside after 9 p.m, and that the silence started at 10 p.m.

At the same evening of the same day Tyson, Max, Kenny and Hilary made their way to the park. They went to their usual beyblade dish. Kenny and Hilary sat on the bench and Kenny put his laptop on his lap. Tyson and Max took a beyblade match.

"It's hard to believe it's already been already half of a year since the problem with BEGA", Hilary said after a while.

"Yeah. We haven't seen any others from back them for a long time either", Tyson said. "I got to admit, it's quite boring and quiet without Daichi."

"Yeah", Kenny said. "Oh hey, speaking of that! I got letter from Ray yesterday!"

"And now you tell it!" Max scolded.

"I didn't have time before." Kenny dug a paper from his pocket.

"What does it say?" Tyson asked as he and Max came to them.

"The usual, he's telling that everything's fine and so on. But this one is new! He says he and Mariah have started dating!"

"For real?"

"That's so cool!"

"Took them long enough." Everyone seemed happy. Of course, it had been obvious since the first time they saw those two together that Ray and Mariah liked each others.

"I wonder how Kai's doing", Max said when they had finished with the letter.

"Mmh. We haven't heard a thing from him", Tyson said. "But I guess he's fine."

"Yeah", Max laughed. "So Kai-like. Well, Tyson, how about another round?"

"Why sure!" The boy got up and they went to the dish.

"One!"

"Two!"

"Three!"
"Let it rip!" Both yelled and launched their spinning tops.

"Go for it, boys!" Hilary cheered.

The blades clashed together once again, and both flew out of the arena.

"Aw, man", Max complained and ran after his Draziel which fell into bush. Tyson rushed after Dragoon. It fell on the ground and rolled bit further and hit someone's foot. This someone picked it up.

Tyson ran to the boy. "Thanks for catching it."

Just then Tyson recognized him as same guy who had sat next to himself and Max at school. He didn't remember his name though.

"No problem", the boy said and handed the beyblade back. "That's a really cool blade. Hard metal system, am I right?"

"Yup!" Tyson took Dragoon. "Hey, aren't we in same class?"

The boy smiled and nodded. He offered his hand. "I'm Ryou. Ryou Akiyama."

Tyson took his hand and shook it. "I'm Tyson."

"I know who you are", Ryou laughed. "Who doesn't?"

Tyson laughed too. "Yeah. So you're beyblader too?"

"Yeah."

"So would you like to join us?"

"Really? Why not!"

Tyson leaded him to the others. Max had just found Draziel and plucked few leaves from his hair and clothes.

"Hey, guys!" Tyson said. They raised their heads. Tyson came to them. "This is Ryou. You mind if he joins us?"

Other three watched the new guy, taking them a second to recognize him. Then they smiled.

"Nice to meet you! I'm Max!"

"Hello! I'm Hilary!"

"And I'm Kenny, but people call me Chief. Pleased to meet you!"

"Pleasure is mine", Ryou said.

Kenny's POV

That's how we met Ryou Akiyama. School would probably feel nicer with someone new to talk to. Ryou seemed to be very nice and interesting person.

All of us already wondered what kind of person we would meet next.

...

It happened few weeks after the semester had started. In the school there was a gang that tried to be so "cool" and wanted to show that no one should stand in their way. They called themselves The Royals. There were not many of them though. Also some first year students got in pretty soon. Mira was one of them.

Normal POV

"When's the next vacation?"

"Tyson, we've been in school for under a month."

"Which is already too much if you ask me."

The blue haired boy yawned as they walked to the school yard.

Hilary sighed. "You're unbelievable…"

Max and Ryou laughed. During this short time, Ryou had already been accepted as fully member of their group.

Kenny was about to say something, but was cut off because someone bumped into him.

"Woah."

A small girl walked quickly forward.

"What a manners, not even saying sorry", Tyson said.

"Your manners aren't much better, Tyson", Max noted. Tyson glared at him. He grinned.

"That's Setsuna Kiyoura. I've not heard her saying a word during these weeks. And she's always alone", Ryou told. "Kind a pity."

"You know much", Tyson said. Others looked at him. "What?"

"She sits next to us", they all explained.

"Oh…"

"Out of the way, brats!" Yelled a voice from behind. They turned around, just to be bumped away by a group of five older students. Behind them also came two who they knew to be in their year. Another they also recognized to be in their own class. She was that black haired, annoyed looking girl who sat next to Setsuna. Mira was her name. They knew her a bit since the boys had to do a group project with her just the other day. She threw a look at them. Tyson thought saw apologetic look in her eyes, but that was gone in nanosecond.

The group walked away.

"Gee, what's with the people today?" Hilary commented.

"I don't think it's just today for them", Ryou asked.

"Yeah. Someone should teach them a lesson", Max said.

Next morning was pouring with rain. Hilary separated from the others to dry herself a bit. She entered the bathroom and surprised that there was only one person. She had thought it would have been full because of the rain.

Hilary heard a small sniff. She noticed that another girl was Setsuna.

"Hi", Hilary greeted. The girl turned her head a bit, but didn't say anything. Hilary noticed her clothes were dirty and more wet than this rain could do.

"Did you fall over?"

Setsuna nodded quickly. She turned around and rushed out of the bathroom.

Just then the bell rang. Hilary quickly tired to get most of the water away and then ran to the class.

"There you are. Was there that much crowd that it took this long?" Kenny asked.

"No."

"Why then?"

Hilary sat to her seat. "Just took."

Kenny blinked. "Okay."

At the lunch break they sat to their usual places at the end of one of the long tables. There sat also few others they had got to know during few weeks.

"Aw great, look. It's them again", said someone after a while. They raised their heads and saw The Royals stepping into the cafeteria.

"It looks like they've spotted a new victim", Ryou commented as the gang walking towards someone with evil looks. "O-ou… Look."

Setsuna sat alone in a round table little further… and the gang was heading towards her. They said something and signed her to leave. Setsuna didn't reply and picked her glass of milk. One of the gang members looked annoyed and slammed the glass out of her hand, spilling the milk on Setsuna. Others laughed and they walked away. Some students seemed to notice this, but no one did anything. Some even laughed a bit. Setsuna sat still for a while. Then she got up and left.

"Why doesn't anyone do anything?" Hilary wondered.

"Because no one's so stupid to go against them", said one third year boy who sat nearby.

"What about the teachers?" Kenny asked.

The boy and his friends gave a laugh. One of them said: "The Royals aren't stupid either. They've never been caught. And if one member is, he never talks. And we know, the gang was formed when we came here and was kind of 'popular' then. See now too, the teachers didn't notice a thing." He pointed at the other side of the cafeteria where few teachers sat. "Since most of them spend breaks at teachers' room, how could they?"

"If they choose someone as their target, it's so long then."

"Yeah. Better just stay out of their way and they'll ignore you."

They returned to their own conversations. Hilary looked at them. She got up.

"I'm going to the toilet." She walked away.

Others looked after her and changed looks.

Hilary opened the girls' bathroom's door and went in. Setsuna stood there, scouring the white stain in her skirt with paper. She raised her head when she heard someone coming.

"Hey again", Hilary smiled. Setsuna nodded and returned her attention to her skirt.

"That was really nasty thing they did back there", Hilary said. "Um… do you want help?"

Small girl shook her head.

"Shouldn't you tell to teachers?"

Setsuna quit cleaning. She looked at Hilary. "Why are you so interested?"

"Eh? Well…" Hilary was bit surprised that Setsuna had talked.

"I don't need your pity." The dark haired girl threw the papers to the trashcan and walked past Hilary. Hilary stared after her and sighed.

When she got back to class, others were already there. She also noticed Setsuna wasn't there and her bag was gone.

"Hey, Hilary", Tyson said as she walked past him. "Can Max and I copy your math homework? Pretty please~ Kenny and Ryou don't lend theirs."

Hilary sat down. "No."

"I told you she would say that", Max muttered.

"Well, it was a good try."

Kenny looked at the girl next to him. "Is everything okay?"

Hilary smiled. "Yeah."

Kenny and Ryou changed looks. Tyson and Max didn't notice anything odd since they were trying to figure out the math exercises before the lesson started.

After the school they went to park again since the rain had stopped and since it was weekend. Ryou apologized for not coming since he had to go to work. Kenny also had to go to home to help.

When they arrived, they saw there was someone sitting at their usual place. They though they'd go to other dish, but then they saw it was Mira. Tyson and Max were still about to go elsewhere, after all, she was part of The Royals, but Hilary was faster.

"Hey! Is it okay if we come here?" She pointed the beyblade dish. Mira startled and looked up.

"Yeah."

"Thanks." Hilary smiled. She sat down. Others put their bags on the ground and Tyson and Max took their blades.

"Ready?"
"You bet!"

"Let it rip!" They both shouted.

"This time you're going down, Tyson!" Max blustered.

"We'll see!"

Hilary looked at Mira. She was watching the match.

"Mira, right? Do you beyblade?"

"Eh? Uh… no. And I'm not really that much interested either."

"I see", Hilary replied. "Can I ask you one thing?"

"What?"

"Why are you with The Royals?"

Mira seemed to be bit surprised by the question. "Uh… well... I… I don't know. My friend is part of them and somehow I just got in too."

"And you can call them your friends?"
"That's more than one question."

Hilary laughed. "Sorry."

Mira looked at her. Then she turned back to the boys' match. "Mostly the gang is in good terms with each others. With me too. But I'm not so sure if I like them or what they do."

"Why don't you leave them?" Max asked.

"It's not that simple", Mira said.

"Well, if they are your real friends, they should let you go", Tyson said. Mira was about to say something when her phone rang. She answered to it.

"Yeah? Mmh. Yeah. Sure. Okay. See ya." She got up. "I have to go. See you at school."

"Bye."

Mira walked away. They looked after her.

"You think she'll quit?" Hilary asked.

"I don't know", Max replied. "But I do know…" he blocked Tyson's Dragoon out of the dish, "…that I just won!"

"Hey no fair!"

Max and Hilary laughed at Tyson's pout.

Next Monday they were talking at the school yard before the bell rang.

"Umm…" said a voice behind them. They turned and saw Mira. She came bit closer. Tyson, Max and Hilary looked at her with interest. Kenny and Ryou had heard what had happened but they still looked bit confused.

"I thought about what you said at Friday and… " Mira started. "I quit the gang."

Hilary smiled. "And it was that simple?"

The black haired girl nodded. "Some of them weren't really happy about it, but that friend of mine spoke for me and they said it was okay."

"That's good", Max said.

The bell rang.

"And so the agony starts again", Tyson sighed as they started to walk towards the school building.

"Come on, Mira", Hilary said and took the girl's hand. She smiled and followed.

Kenny's POV

And after that Mira Hale was permanent member of our group. And she said her high school life turned much funnier after that. She really became almost different person. A very cheerful person. Guess that's her true self.

If you still didn't figure it out, Kenny's here as like some kind or narrator, like he's in the real anime too. He'll do the longer explanations in the future too.

Next chapter coming soon, but I think it'll go to after the Christmas.