Desperation gripped at a small little boy as he ran through the halls of a dark hallway. He had tears streaming down his smudged face, dirt across his face as well as the salty tears. He cried when he tripped over his feet, getting up quickly after casting a glance over his shoulder, running again down the dark steel hallway. He kept running until he got to a door, the door was locked and he tried to push it open, also pulling, but it wouldn't budge. Sadly he gasped when a shadow was engulfed in the darkness, rounded upon him and smirked. The boy cried out again, shaking his head and falling down on the ground.

A hand struck out, but the boy held up his arm to protect his face, instead, the hand grabbed his arm and pulled him up. The boy winced as pain jerked throughout his arm, the pain like a dagger stabbing his heart. The man who pulled him up had purple hair that was messy, green goggles over his eyes made it difficult for the boy to see if he was angry, but anger was clear in the way his mouth was set. He was a tall man, around 5'11ft, his figure not bulky, but not slim either. He glared at the boy whom was crying as the pain continued to go through his twisted arm.

"Kai, you ran away again, I told you not to do that. Voltaire will be angry boy, now off back to the lab," he said harshly. He dropped Kai whom started to cower in a corner, as the man turned away.

Kai had two toned blue hair, his mahogany eyes tearing up again as he cradled his pale arm. He looked to be around six or seven, his pale body a little toned, but not by much. He was small in height, as was everyone at his age, around three or four feet. He wore black clothes, most of it torn or dirtied, but he didn't even seem to care. His mahogany eyes searched around before turning back to the door, trying once more to open the steel door, but to no avail would it open. Not noticing another figure behind him, he was jerked away roughly by a man much bigger and had the little boy's looks in an uglier form.

"Kai, get away from the damn door!" Voltaire raged at the boy.

Kai shrank back as he heard the loud words in his ear. Kai felt a blow on his cheek, then one on his stomach. He groaned in pain as he felt the whip next, his body being marred again for his mistakes. Pain was the only thing that seemed to go through his grandfather's mind, even with each crack of the whip Voltaire laughed. By the end of the beating, Kai was groaning in pain, blood dripping down his face from a whipped cheek, his arm almost torn to shreds and his black shirt ripped open while blood streamed down his chest onto his stomach. Kai whimpered, his mind screaming for him to run, but that would only bring more pain, and he couldn't stand anymore, not given by this man.

"I don't ever want to see you try to escape again, if you do, I'll kill you boy," Voltaire threatened. Kai screamed out as he was dragged down the hall by his hair, his body being dragged against the steel floor.

Kai Hiwatari woke with a start, his body throbbing from the pain being emitted into his joints, his heart stopping briefly as he remembered the day so long ago. He touched his cheek where the whip first cut, it had healed since that day, no reminder of pain was on his body anymore, but it still felt like it. He looked around the room and saw all the Blade Breakers sleeping peacefully, if only he could be like them, sleeping peacefully.

He realized that he wouldn't be able to go back to sleep, so he got up from his pallet. He went to the bathroom, starting the shower and letting the hot water run in the tub. He stripped down his clothes and stepped into the hot stream of water. He sighed and started to bathe, not lingering to long in the shower, just enough to get clean. When he got out he changed into his clothes. He put on a black shirt with a white over shirt, his muscled arms going through the holes. He put on some blue jeans with a phoenix belt to match.

He passed by a mirror and saw he had changed so much from his dream when he was a kid. His hair grew a little bit more and hung into his dark mahogany eyes. His mahogany eyes turned crimson when he was angered in blading, but that was rare, and he only figured that out when he was about ten years old. To his much noticeable surprise, he had seemed to have a handsome face, his muscles more defined. He was taller, around 6'ft, his tall body helped his looks around his face. He touched his face to see that this wasn't a dream, it wasn't, and he actually looked good. This was the first time he ever looked in a mirror, and boy, was he surprised. Sure he looked in rivers and ponds, but most of the time it distorted his face and body.

After walking out of the bathroom, he looked at the table clock and saw that it was a little past 4 o'clock in the morning. He sighed inwardly and went to his pallet, starting to roll it up and put the pillow on top. It wasn't unusual for him, to be up at this hour that is. He cast a look at Rei Kon, his friend a sleep on the clouds of the dream land Kai wished he only knew. Stepping out of the dojo, he moved to the serene pond and gazed down in at the little koi swimming around. He snorted as he saw their playfulness, why would someone, or even a thing, want to be so playful at this time of day?

Turning away in digust, he walked to a nearby wall, leaning against it as he immersed his thoughts, his mind turning at the thought of what his dream was. Did he really experience all that? Or was it just a figment of imagination? He growled in frustration and shook his head, he knew this was just another way to get him angry, maybe Voltaire was doing this purposefully because of this. One way or another he would figure this damn thing out, even if it took half his life-time.

Wait, he screamed in his mind, why am I dwelling on this? Why am I so concerned? He growled once more, he shouldn't be worried, so why was he? He had to maintain his tough and cool exterior, but did that mean he couldn't be different on the inside as well? He gritted his teeth, telling himself no, that he can't be two different things at the same time. He knew all this stuff, so why was it bothering him so? Why did it matter? No, he thought, I can't let any of this bother me, that is what they want and I'm succumbing to it.

"Kai?" a low male voice asked. Kai looked up from the ground and saw Rei looking at him worriedly, his eyes full of concern.

"Yes?" he asked gruffly.

"What are you doing up at four in the morning? You should be sleeping," Rei said. Kai looked at his neko-jin friend whom smiled reassuringly at him.

"Then why are you up too?" he replied.

Rei was a god among females, it's not a wonder why either. He had golden honey wheat eyes that gleamed like sugar, black hair that was pulled back by a band and fell down to his ankles. He wore a red ying-yang head band to where his black bangs fell over it and into those golden eyes that so many females fawned. He was taller than most neko-jins, about 5'11ft, his figure muscled but lithe all the same. He wore white silk bottoms, going topless, showing off his muscled chest. Kai winced; he hated guys whom showed off their chest, he wasn't gay so I guess that could be part of it also.

"Well, I mean… I awoke when I felt someone staring at me… I don't know why but it just felt like it. Bad dream?" Rei asked. Kai smirked; he went off on so many subjects at once it was hard to keep up sometimes.

"Not really, Kon. It's none of your damn business," he hissed. Rei glared at his long time friend. Being sixteen, Rei now knew why Kai was always so emotional, hormones. Yep, that's right, hormones. At least, that's what he thought it was.

"I was just asking, Hiwatari," he retorted in the same icy tone. He saw Kai blink, knowing that he never used that tone of voice with his friend, it wasn't Rei, at all, not even when he was angry with his other neko-jin friends was he that mean.

"Don't get an attitude with me Rei, I'm your captain," Kai said with a glare also. Rei walked up to Kai, his eyes holding amusement, telling his leader that he was only playing around. To his great amazement, Rei turned around and walked back in the dojo. Kai wondered what all that was about, Rei being mean then come to find out only joking? Well, what was with all that anyways? Rei never teased about things like that, not even Tyson did with Kai, which was how it is, always is. Except for today that is. Turning around he walked back into the dojo, all of his anger settling slowly.

When Kai walked back in the dojo a few hours later there was a ton of commotion. Hilary was over and was yelling at Tyson to get up, Max was laughing as Tyson was getting hit across his head with his own pillow by Hilary. Not to everyone's surprise, Kai walked across the room and grabbed the pillow from Hilary. Hilary looked up in surprise at Kai.

Hilary had brown hair that was slightly messy and hung in front of dark chocolate brown eyes. Her figure was slim, almost gawky if not for her medium sized chest and her colossus feet. She was medium height, 5'5ft, her height helped with her non-feminine figure. She wore lavender top that had a small little pink flower on it with sparkles around the flower; she wore shorts along with tennis shoes, her outfit looking fine, but not on her. Tyson had dark brown hair that fell down his back to the middle of his back, his red cap normally held back his unruly hair, but since he was waking up from his nice dreamless sleep, it was missing. Normally he stood at 5'7ft, but since he was covering his head and curled up in a ball under his covers, it wasn't possible.

Max had short spiky blond hair that fell in front bouncy blue eyes. He was lithe, though not as lithe as Rei was; he was normal height also around 5'7ft, and seemed to be in shape. He had a grin slapped on his face, his face seeming like a baby's face in some sort of stance. He wore a green shirt with normal blue jeans, his hair matching his outfit. The last person in the room was Kenny, the computer whiz. Kenny was normally called by chief, giving him a higher calling than just Kenny. Kenny had brown hair that was behind his big round glasses, not even showing his eyes, which was an amazement that he could even see at all. He had a laptop in one hand while his other held a briefcase, probably full of data for the blades. He wore an orange vest over a white shirt, his brown khaki shorts showing off his normal brown loafers. He was shorter than the normal human, standing at 5'ft, his short height not adding to his geeky exterior and interior.

"Never, ever, hit my teammate again, you got that Hilary? If so, then you will not be allowed within five miles of him, meaning you'll have to move, so, you got it?" Kai barked harshly. Hilary glared at Kai whom glared back.

"Are you threatening me?"

"I don't know, if you can't decide that on your own, I don't think even my opinion will help at all," he replied in a growl.

Hilary glared, turning with a huff and walking out of the room so that Tyson could lift his head, reading the clock and groaning. It was only seven o'clock. At that moment, Rei walks out of the bathroom, his hair still wet but in the white band anyways. He had on a blue tight shirt with a sleeveless black jacket over it; loose black jeans adorned his legs along with some new black trainers. Rei blinked in surprise when he saw Tyson up at this early hour in the morning, his eyes straining to see who and why they woke him up.

"Okay… Can I ask what's going on?" Rei asked to the closest person, Kenny. While Kenny explained, Kai walked back outside, going to his favorite wall and leaning upon it.

Kai heard the silent little fish coming up to snatch small water bugs as the surfaced the clear cool blue water. He sighed, looking up at the sky to see birds flying and the clouds rolling through the sky. He shook his head and looked down at the grass, what was with him today? He knew he wasn't like this, at least that's what he thought he was.

"Mr. Hiwatari?" a hesitant female voice asked, making Kai look up. Kai saw a female there, her blue eyes probing his as she had her head tilted.

"Speaking," he said calmly.

"Mr. Hiwatari, my name's Ilyana Durben and I'm here to give you your team's registration forms for the up coming tournament," she said slowly. Kai looked her up and down, searching her for some kind of fraud.

What he did find was her hair was a dark brown, falling neatly and straight down her back with golden highlights of which he assumed were natural. Her eyes were icy blue, their gold ring around them showed interest of the slightest thing, not a registrar person. She was short, about 5'2ft, her body petite in certain areas and voluptuous chest area of which didn't go unnoticed. She wore a white tank-top with black tight jeans and white high heels. Her tan skin contrasted well with the tone of her white shirt and even better with the black. Her nose had a small angle to it and her lips were the right size for-

Kai cut of his thoughts any further, his brain running in over drive for any other things about her body that he liked. Soon he was massaging his temples while Ilyana looked at him curiously. She walked up to him to hand him papers and looked closer to him. He looked at her directly and her face blushed. He thought it looked cute. She looked to be around sixteen, maybe fifteen, so she definitely couldn't be with the BBA.

"You're not with the BBA Miss Durben. It's obvious that Mr. Dickenson wouldn't hire a sixteen year old for a job at the BBA, not to mention he wouldn't dare let you go into contact with a customer the way you dressed. Besides, the pin clip in your hair tells me that you are from a team; the angel pin does not go unnoticed. Not to mention that you have a beyblade case on your hip, yes Miss Durben, a black beyblade case with a launcher case also on the other side. If you are trying to scope out my team you've come at the wrong time and the wrong place, so I will ask this once and only once. Go away and don't come back unless you're planning to blade right now," he said coldly. Her blue eyes went icy, her stare hardening and her lips pulling into a tight line across her lips. She raised her perfectly trimmed brown eyebrows and smiled.

"You perceived me Kai, I'm not really surprised. True, I am under disguise and I know you're thinking I'm only here for a scoping thing, but that's not it at all. I'm here to stop your team from entering the match on Saturday and I'm going to do it by destroying your new Dranzer," She said lethally, her hands going to her right pouch that held her launcher, revealing a white complicated launcher that had an angel formation on it. She pulled out her black blade next, her blade showing a dark angel bit beast, putting Kai on an edge. So she did know how to blade then, this was going to be interesting.

He smirked as he pulled out Dranzer, her eyes lightening up slightly as she also saw him take out a blue launcher, her hands going to put her blade on her launcher like he already did. She took her stance like he did, except she stood up in a normal stance, her body straight and perfect.

"I wonder what's with Kai this morning-"Tyson's voice said coming from the dojo. All the bladers were walking out of the dojo, Tyson in the lead, but everyone stopped when they saw the match about to begin.

"You ready Kai?" she asked sweetly. Kai glared, what was her intention? What was her problem that she had to blade him?

"Hn," he replied. She smirked and pulled back the launcher's string, just at the same time he did. Tyson actually shut up for a little bit so that they could blade.

His blue blade shot at her black one, both colliding and sparks flying off the two blades. It was obvious hers had a G-core and had the same magnetic pull to his as his had to hers. She smirked as her blade pulled away just at the same time his did, then stopping for a minute before ramming into his again, her blade bashing into his harshly. Kai winced as he felt his blade hit hard, his blade pushing hers back, but it seemed that they were evenly matched. She smirked, both blades still ramming each other harshly. This went on for hours, everyone's eyes glued to their fighting blades; Tyson even sat down on the wooden surface of the dojo. Finally both blades pulled back to spin for a moment while Ilyana raised her hand and smirked at him.

"Gabrielle, I call to you, come out and show your dark angel's wrath. Show him your Dark Despair!" Ilyana called out. Her blade whirred faster and began to glow, her smirk becoming more pronounced. Kai glared and called out Dranzer, his blade doing the same as Ilyana's.

"Stop the fight now," a voice commanded from the other side of the courtyard, everyone turned to look to see who it was.