Zomgggg. New Story! Hooorayy!

I'm so excited about this story, I really like it. It's sorta different to what I wrote before, but in a good way.

- Basically this story line is a suprise :P, Just to annoy you all. But here's a bit of the storyline: Kai meets up with an old friend from the past and he asks her to join the team, but at first she refuses.. etc. Though there is going to be a twist in this story. WOO!

This chapter's like 11 pages long or something, I didn't expect it to be so long. It's like one of those starting episodes to a new series, how their first episode goes for like.. 2 hours just to give you the basic details. That's what this first chapter is like, so the next few might not be so long in the future.

Disclaimer: I Don't owwwnn beyybladdeee.

P.S: I Did go through the first half of the story like seven times, so there shouldn't be too many mistakes in the first bit, but I couldn't be stuffed going over the rest, so mistakes in that half.

Oh, The page line thing isn't working for some unknown reason, So I've just done the title instead. I've also used a lyric from the song 'Cruel to be Kind' JUST for the TITLE of the first chapter, So I don't okay that song okay.

Enjoy! And I dedicate this chapter to Angel Neko-Jin, just because she's so cool. :P.

'Cruel To Be Kind'

Chapter 1: But You Still Mystify.

She sat still and silent in her cell waiting for this day to end and for another to begin. Why was she here? She didn't do anything. She was only a mere innocent witness to her best friend's murder. Her BEST FRIEND. No one believed her, except him. He was always on her side; he knew she would never do anything to hurt a fellow friend. But she was still put away; they thought it was an open and shut case. A female found standing by the victim, covered in blood, the weapon a few metres from her. Guilty. Did it ever occur to them that she was hugging him, mourning over him, trying to get him to stay alive? Obviously not. But he believed her, he believed every word she said, and she hardly knew who he was. All she knew was that.. she could trust him.

She shook her head, the tears welling up in her eyes, she hated this place. How could she be punished for something she didn't do? Punished for trying to keep a fellow human being alive? Punished for looking out for her best friend. Theo.

"Lunch" the guard's low voice called out. He grunted as he stood up from the chair, looking at his watch he pulled out a monitor and pressed the button that was on the back of it.

Other guards pilled into the cement hallway releasing a few prisoners at a time. Finally she was pulled out of her cell and out into the plain cement hall. The guard shoved her into a slow walking pace, guiding her to the lunch room.

Once she was in the room the guard stopped and stood outside the two double doors. Door duty. She quietly walked through the doors and down the main aisle to the line, receiving many stares as she did so.

She dragged her feet as she came to the end of the food line. She picked up a tray and sloshed her usual amount of lunch slop in to her bowl. She picked up a carton of milk and headed for a table, away from everyone else.

She stuck her fork into the slush that sat before her; she grimaced and turned her head away in disgust. She mixed it up with her fork, hoping to find the appetite she lost only moments ago.

She leant her elbows up on the table and closed her eyes. The memories all came back to her. She couldn't get rid of them, she was sent to prison for it, how could she forget?

-Flashback-

"C'mon, stay with me. Theo, please" she begged, the tears streaming down her cheeks.

"Nina" he smiled, his voice faint and raspy. "I have something for you."

His blood soaked hand pulled out a plastic bag from his front pocket and dropped it into Nina's hands.

Nina frowned as she opened the bag, but then smiled. "Theo" she sobbed, "It's beautiful."

"I.. knew you'd love it" he smiled once again.

What sat in her hand was a small red blade with bits of purple and blue mixing in with the red. "Ares."

"You're.. gonna.. be the best" he smiled weakly, coughing up blood.

"Theo you can make it, I know you can!" she yelled at him.

"Not today, Nina.. Not.. today" he raised his hand and stroked her cheek a few times. "I love y-" his hand fell limp.

-End flashback-

"Where's the money Johnson?" a voice snapped her from her thoughts.

Nina looked up and saw Rachel. Rachel, the one who apparently "ruled" the C section of the prison. It was so cruel what she made people do. She made people clean toilets with their own tooth brushes, which she had made Nina do numerous times.

She had medium length black hair and dark green eyes, there were a few freckles that covered her face and she had teeth that looked liked she hadn't washed them in weeks.She wasn't all that ugly, but she wasn't all that pretty either.

Nina kept staring at her slush that was supposed to be her lunch. "I said, Where's the money Johnson?" Rachel's voice raised slightly as she put her hand forward, waiting for the money to be placed in her hand.

Nina still didn't say anything or do anything. She wasn't giving Rachel her money, not today. So Rachel opened up Nina's carton of milk and spilt it all down her uniform. "Whoops" she smiled innocently with laugh.

Nina wasn't in the mood today; she already had enough on her plate to worry about, let alone Rachel. She suddenly lashed out, leaping over the table and landing on top Rachel.

Rachel took that as a sign. She swung a punch at Nina and she dodged it. They rolled over a few times before Nina socked a punch square in to Rachel's face, Rachel gasped and punched Nina in the nose, causing her nose to bleed.

Nina stood up and wiped the blood away from her nose; Rachel stood up and leaped forward toward Nina.

They fell to the ground, Rachel on top. This wasn't good.

Rachel smirked as she drew her hand back and punched Nina in the eye. Nina winced as Rachel got off of her. Rachel smiled with delight at her effort, that is, until she was kicked in the stomach.

She stumbled back against brick wall, Nina stood up and lunged forward at Rachel, but Rachel got out the way, in time to grab Nina's left hand and twist it behind her back.

Rachel grinned manically as she heard Nina moan under the pain. "Now, listen up" Rachel wiped the blood away from her mouth. "I want that-" Rachel pulled Nina's arm upward and they both heard a faint crack.

Nina screamed out. "Whoops. Must have slipped" she giggled.

Nina had had enough, she didn't want to have to resort to it, but, she had just broken Nina's arm!

Nina's right arm grabbed onto Rachel's and she swung her over her head and slammed Rachel into the cold hard cement. It was just like one of those moves in a random action filled Chinese movie.

Nina jiggled her shoulder for a moment; she hadn't done that in a long time. Nina cradled her arm against her body as she fell to her knees, the pain was bearable, but it still hurt like hell. "And they say you're a wimp" that voice..

She looked up and tried to smile under the pain, but failed. "The legendary Kai Hiwatari" she sniffed as she staggered to her feet.

"Nina."

-A few minutes later...

Kai passed her a tissue and she took it from his hand. "What brings you to see me?" she dabbed the tissue under her nose, wiping the dripping blood away.

"I've been working on your case.. and we've found some new evidence" he leaned back on his chair, closing his eyes as he let his thoughts wonder.

She smiled at his strange attitude, he had always been like this, since the day she had met him. He was strangely calm about everything; he had a high tolerance level. He had been a friend of Theo's. Theo and Kai had a strange friendship; they hardly talked at all, but knew everything about each other. They both could sit in silence for hours together, like she had seen many times, though sometimes Kai would just get up and leave, leaving a smirk playing on Theo's lips. It was some sort of joke they had.

She personally really never knew Kai all that well, Theo told her he was a person to lean against, a person she could trust.

She gazed at his face for a few moments as his feet made their way up onto the table, crossed over. In his mouth was a very long blade of grass, no wait, sour grass.

"New evidence that clears your name" he added, his eyes only opening to small slits, waiting for her reaction.

She stared at him in shock. "What?"

"You're being released" he stated, leaning forward and crossing his arms over his chest while a satisfied smile creped up onto his lips.

Her face light up. She had never felt so happy, a feeling that no one could take away from her. A huge grin found its way on to her face. "Today?"

"Today" Kai stood up, pushing the chair back in he tossed his piece of sour grass in the bin before grabbing the door handle and twisting it to the left.

-Later...

She sniffed the air and closed her eyes. "Freedom never smelt so sweet."

She hadn't changed; she was still the same old Nina. She wore tight white jean like ¾'s, royal Blue high heels, a white shirt and a blue and white stripped jacket over the top. Her brown hair came to her shoulders in a side part and it flicked out at the ends, her eyes were a dark brown and she had fair skin.

Kai rolled his eyes and she suddenly stopped, pondering on a thought that had just entered into her mind. "There's more than one reason to why you're picking up, isn't there?" she question, frowning in confusion.

He sighed, shaking his head. "You're just like Theo" he said. That hit her right in the heart, her eyes looking down to the gravel below in sadness. Kai had a habit of doing that, bringing up the old painful memories, right at the wrong time.

"I've got a proposition for you" he stated, realising the saddened look on her face. He definitely had said the wrong thing.

Nina watched him walk toward a dark blue van, he opened one of the back doors and slid in; she walked around the other side, opening up the door and slowly sliding in and onto the comfortable leather seats.

She closed the door and looked at Kai. "Really?" she asked, trying to shrug off the thoughts of Theo. The engine roared as it came to life, as the car reversed she looked over at Kai, his face serious as if her were in deep thought

"I want you to join our team" Kai said all of a sudden, breaking the silence. He moved his eyes from the window to fall upon Nina

"WHAT? Join your team full of hyperactive little kids?" her eyes widened in shock, "No way!" she added, shaking her head in disgust.

Why would she join their team? She hardly even knew any of them and he was asking her to join his team. She would never join his team, they maybe good bladers, but the last time she met them Tyson acted like a pig and Hilary was hitting him over the head. Never. Ever.

"Thanks for working on my case, but I'm not joining your team" she looked down at her hands. "I don't beyblade anymore" she added, her sadness dampening the mood. Kai nodded, he knew to drop and leave it alone, but he would take up the issue again later.

- At the Apartment..

Nina looked out the window, watching as people ran past trying to get out of the rain while the odd one or two just walked calmly, either wearing a rain jacket or could deal with being soaked.

"The doctor will be here in a few minutes" Kai said monotonously, taking a seat next to her and brushing some of the hair out of his face.

She looked at him, a frown appearing on her face. "I'm fine" she replied, her voice low and stern. She turned to look out the window once again, her eyes gazing at something suggesting she was deep in thought.

There was a soft knock at the door and Nina turned to look. A boy of about 15 with Raven hair dressed in some sort of Japanese piece of clothing appeared at the door. Rei. He opened the door and an elder man stepped in through the door.

His fingers pushed the frame of his glasses up on to the bridge of his nose. "Dr. Carter. I'm here for the young girl" he stated his eyes darting around the room. His eyes finally fell on Nina and he smiled.

Rei closed the door behind the man and followed the doctor toward Nina. Kai stood up from where he was sitting and gave a small nod at the doctor. Dr. Carter took a seat beside Nina and smiled at her.

"What happened?"

-Later that night..

"I've changed the sheets for you. And the pillow cases" Kai said stretching out his arms in feet in a tiredly manor.

"What? What for?" Nina raised an eyebrow, turning to face him, she saw him stand up and wonder over to the other side of the room reaching for a pillow.

Kai rolled his eyes. "Because you're sleeping in it. I'll sleep on the couch. Now get to your room, I need some well deserved rest" he threw a pillow onto the couch and sat back down.

Nina stood up and smiled as he swung his feet up on to the couch and put his hands behind his head, and closed his eyes.

He opened one eye slightly. "I know you haven't seen me in a while, but I really haven't changed that much for you to stare at me" he said plainly, a small smirk loosely playing on his lips.

Nina rolled her eyes and sighed. "Goodnight Kai" she said, drawing her eyes away from him and attempting to walk down the hall without looking back.

"Night" she heard a faint reply before opening the fourth door along and closing it behind her.

She sighed, slowly walking across the soft carpet to the window. It was to way early to be sleeping. It was only 9pm. Her first night free and she was stuck in a room, expected to stay there and doing something? Not tonight.

She walked to the corner closest to the door and picked up her back pack. She pulled out a striped Blue and White jacket, she took off the sling holding her right arm against her body and instead put the jacket on.

There was a soft knock at the door and Nina looked up at it. "Who is it?" she asked in a harsh whisper.

"Rei" a whisper replied.

She smiled. "Come in."

The door slowly opened to reveal a smiley Neko-jin. "Nice to see you again" he greeted, flashing a genuine grin her way.

"You too" she replied, returning the grin.

"Did you want to come out and grab something to eat? Tyson's hungry again and I can't cook, well, I could if I wanted to, but I'd disturb Kai" he scratched the back of his neck with smile.

"And we all know how Kai gets when he's 'Disturbed'" she smiled as she did the air quotes.

Rei laughed. "Exactly. I'm guessing that's a yes?" he asked raising both his eyebrows.

She nodded. "Just don't sit me next to – or near, Tyson, I don't want a repeat of last time" she shivered at the memories. Not a memory to repeat.

Rei laughed once again. "Deal."

- A few minutes later, with everyone in the hall way...

"I bet we can sneak past Kai!" Tyson grinned evilly. "Without waking him" he added with a wink. Nina smiled and shook her head, Tyson wasn't all that bad, he was just a little, what can you say? Obsessed with food? Yes.

"If we be really quiet.. maybe.." Rei stated, putting a finger to his lips in a 'shh' motion. And no, they weren't stupid enough to sneak past Kai, it was their only exit without falling two stories to the cold, hard cement below.

Kenny packed away his laptop and swung it's back over his shoulder. Max grinned nervously at us as he began to take the first few steps. Tyson then went second, grabbing his stomach as he moved toward the door, after him was Kenny, biting his lip hard as he followed Tyson. Finally Rei and Nina began to follow them, slowly and steadily they made it to the door. Max turned to face the others, a smile plastered on his face. After everyone reached the door Rei slowly reached out and was about to turn the handle when Tyson's stomach growled loudly.

Everyone glared at Tyson as he gave a nervous smile. "Be back by 9.45, we've got an early training session tomorrow. Late" he paused, his voice becoming low. "And there will be consequences. Key's under the matt" Kai said keeping his eyes shut.

Everyone looked at each other in disbelief. After a few moments everyone smiled. "Thanks Kai!" Max waved as he walked through the door.

Everyone followed max out the door in disbelief. "Cya Kai" She waved, but he didn't move, his eyes stayed closed and he took a long deep breath. She sighed and closed the door behind her.

-Later, after dinner..

"I'm full" Nina smiled in satisfaction as she touched her stomach.

Rei nodded in agreement. "Me too" he leaned back against the seat and closed his eyes for a moment.

"I'll have the rest!" Tyson reached for both of their plates and pulled them over toward him before he began scoffing the left overs down.

Nina raised both eyebrows. "I really don't know how you can eat so much" she commented looking at him in disbelief.

"Neither do I" he smiled goofily at Nina and Max laughed. Nina soon joined in as did the rest of the team.

A few minutes later they all settled down and Nina leant forward on the table, resting her head in between her crossed arms. "How did you and Kai meet?" a question that silenced the whole table, except Tyson, he was still eating.

Nina turned her head sideways to look at Rei, her face faded into a more serious look. For a moment Rei noticed her eyes become gazing and unfocused. "Nina?" Rei asked, confused, had he touched an old sore spot?

The team stopped and looked at Nina in complete silence, even Tyson had stopped eating. Unusual. They watched Nina slowly sit up and lean back against the seat, and tilt her head against the cold glass.

Her lips parted for a second. "About 6 or 5 months ago" she gulped, "I was best friends with this guy called Theo. We were on a Beyblading team together. We were going to be big, but I needed some training. I was no way near as half as good as Theo was, so he took me to the Bey Stadium. We practice some moves and –

-Flash back-

Theo looked at his watch and tapped his foot impatiently. "Where is he?" he mumbled under his breath, looking around the Bey stadium.

"Where is who?" Nina asked looking up at Theo, confused.

Theo smiled warmly at her. "Just a friend" he answered, brushing a few strands of his dark red hair out of his eyes.

Theo looked different today, he had his hair tied back into a very small pony tail, leaving a few spiky bits out hanging over his eyes. He wore his dark red Doc. Martins, Black baggy pants tied up with a bright blue belt just below his belly button, his favourite black and white Pinstripe jacket and blue and white stripped shirt underneath. He was strange like that, he didn't care what he wore, even if it didn't match at all, but always seemed to look fantastic on him anyway. Though she still couldn't pick what was different about him.

She suddenly looked up at Theo and he was smiling. "Kai" he said and bowed his head.

Nina looked at where he was looking and there stood a boy about the same age as Theo. He wore dark blue baggy pants like Theo's, a dark blue shirt with a shirt/ vest thing over the top and finally he wore a long white scarf that sat on his shoulders, went around his neck and two long bits flowed out behind him. He had strange coloured hair; it was a navy blue at the back while certain bits that stuck up at the front were a greyish-slate colour. He had dark reddish eyes, actually, more of a mahogany colour and they glared at Nina viciously.

"Theo" 'Kai' said, he looked over at Theo and bowed his head in return. He then turned back to Nina. "So this is her?" he asked raising his eyebrow. She wasn't 'a her', she had a name!

Theo smiled. "Yeah, this is Nina Rodgers. Nina this is Kai Hiwatari" Theo tilted his head and raised his eyebrows a few times at Nina, suggesting she step forward and say Hi.

"Nice to meet you" she looked into his eyes and they stared back at her.

"Hn" was all he said, he tilted his head sideways and began walking toward the exit with Theo following. She ran after them.

Kai led them outside, right at the entry of the bey stadium, he stood frozen for a while just casually looking at the sun about rise.

Theo stood beside Nina and smiled. "He's just gonna' see what you can do, Alright?" he raised both eyebrows and she nodded. "It's going to be a long day, Kai's not the one to give others light work. Good luck" he smiled giving her a quick hug.

"Thanks Theo" she returned the smile and looked up at Kai.

"Alright. 20 laps, then another 20 with your blade out, if it stops spinning start the 20 laps again" his eyes hadn't left the sky; suddenly he looked down toward her. "Okay?" he asked.

She nodded. "Yeah" she replied and broke into slow jog.

-End Flashback-

"That was the hardest day of my life" she said looking at the window, watching the rain patter lightly on the window

"That's what he makes us do, almost EVERY morning!" Tyson moaned rolling his eyes.

"That was only the morning session" She slumped in her chair and let her head fall back against the seat. She looked at Rei and Max, they seemed so interested in it, god knows why?

"After the first 20 laps-"

-Flash back-

"Alright, good job. Not bad for a girl. Now pull out your blade and you've got another 20 laps to do" he hadn't moved from her first lap, neither had Theo.

She looked at Theo with pleading eyes, she was aching badly already. Kai and Theo could see it too. Theo looked at Kai and bit his lip.

"I'll run with you" Theo gave Kai a confused look. He had never done this before.

Kai pulled out his blade. "Dranzer!" he yelled as he launched his blade onto the grass, it span circles around Kai before it came to rest at his feet.

Nina pulled out hers too. "Go Ares!" she yelled as she launched her blade onto the grass.

Kai smirked for a moment, almost impressed, almost. "Not bad, not bad" he said breaking into a fast jog.

-End Flashback-

"By the end of that day I couldn't even walk. I underestimated him so bad." She sighed, "They had to carry me home" a light shade of pink creped up on to her cheeks.

"Kai ended up looking after me that night-"

-Flash back-

"Nina! Nina!" Theo shook her lightly. "Are you okay?" he asked in concern.

"Y-y.. yeah" she managed to say as Theo pulled her into his lap. "How.. was I?" she asked as Theo wiped the cold sweat off her forehead.

"You were great" he smiled; he lifted her up into a standing position. "Are you okay to walk?" he asked frowning at her condition.

"I'm.. F-fine.. I swear" she reassured him and put her hand to her forehead. She could feel a headache coming on. She took a few steps and suddenly began to feel dizzy and nauseous; she swayed for a moment and fell backwards.

"NINA!"

She felt soft arms catch her, just in time too. "I've got her" she heard a voice vaguely, but she couldn't tell who it was. She opened her eyes, but her vision was hazy, all she could see was a blur.

She coughed slightly, but stopped. Her stomach hurt so badly, Hell, everything was hurting. "Settle Nina, Kai's got you. Just relax and we'll get you home."

"K-kai?" She asked hesitantly.

"I'm right here" his hand grabbed onto hers, "Just relax. Everything's going to be okay" he reassured her, well, his voice reassured her more than his words did. His voice was so soft.. Gentle.. Calm even, it was so different, so caring. This was a whole different side to him, or was it the real Kai?

-End Flash back-

"Damn, that must have been embarrassing!" Tyson stuffed piece of chicken into his mouth.

Nina shook her head. "Beyond embarrassment" she put her hand to her forehead and sighed. She looked at her watch and gasped. "Guys it's ten to ten!" She stood up and grabbed her jacket.

"Kai's going to kill us!" Kenny winced and ran his hand through his hair.

"No" Tyson added, raising a finger. "He'll strangle us, skin us and sell us our intestines, kidneys-" Nina put her hand over Tyson's mouth.

"That's enough Tyson!" she said closing her eyes with a wince and taking her hand off Tyson's mouth.

"What are we going to do?" Max asked "He'll give us extra laps tomorrow morning" Max let his head fall back and his shoulders slump forward.

"I'll take the blame. I can squeeze out of it" Nina smiled shaking her hips in a seductive manor. "Nothing a little girl power can't do."

"Girl power work on Kai?" Tyson eyes widened. "I doubt it. He's like.. Resistant to everything!" Tyson threw his hands into the air. "Even girls!"

Nina smiled. "Don't be too sure."

- 15 minutes later at the apartment..

They all slowly creped into the apartment, it was dark and silent. Slowly and silently they tip-toed across the floor boards, heading for what they thought was the hallway.

Suddenly Tyson suddenly stopped and everyone bumped into him, he let out a scream and so did Nina, accidentally. A bright light filled the room and everyone squinted from the sudden light.

"Heya Kai" Maxed gave a little wave and smiled nervously.

Kai glared at them all, the anger was boiling up inside of him. "BED! NOW!" He shouted pointing down the hall. Everyone bowed their heads and power walked down the hall and into their bedrooms.

"Kai" Nina looked into his glaring eyes. "I can explain."

End.

Woo! Finished! What did you you think, aye?

Reviews would be much appreciate. The next Chapter might be a little late, my apologies.

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