Disclaimer: I do not in any way own the anime series Beyblade, nor to I claim to. This is you basic non-profitable fanfiction to show my love for it's characters. Namely Kai and Rei.
Here I am with yet another Beyblade fic and my first not even finished yet. However, I needed a bit of romance to break up the dramatic fics I'm writing so here it is: a nice Rei/Kai romance with only a very basic plot — actually, I haven't quite come up with a plot yet. I just hope my imagination doesn't run away with me too much with this. If you have any requests for this, i.e. fluff scenes, citrusy stuff, feel free to ask and I'll write as my mood takes me.
Anyways, here it is, my new Beyblade fic.
The Way Things Happen
Prologue
Silver streams of moonlight shone down through the light cloud layer to the solitary figure standing on a balcony overlooking the large urban landscape below.
The raven-haired beauty sighed as he watched the ebb and flow of humanity that continued perpetually, even at this late hour. Golden eyes sadly surveyed the huge high-rise buildings and the many indications of human habitation and destruction before him. Slightly pointed ears picked up the faint sounds of traffic on nearby main roads and a small trace of dance music from a popular club drifting upon the gentle night breeze.
He also heard the soft click of the hotel door opening and closing, as well as the louder sound of the lock. Then there was a sliding sound of wood against wood as the balcony door was also opened and closed behind a tall imposing figure.
"You'll catch cold out here."
Rei smiled over at the owner of the stern cold voice. "I don't catch cold easily in the summer."
"Jeopardise your health in your own time. We need you for tomorrow's match. So get out of the cold and get in bed so you can sleep."
"Shouldn't you be doing the same? You are human aren't you? You need sleep too, yet you don't seem to follow the same rules that you set out for us. I'm not the only one who shouldn't be staying out so early in the morning Kai."
"I have other responsibilities to take care of besides this team. I can't rest until I've taken care of everything."
"How much more do you have to do."
"I've only got one priority right now: You."
Rei smiled at the way Kai said that so protectively. He really did care, he just showed it in abnormal ways. "I would assume then that you'll be joining me in bed then?" Rei smiled again as a slight flush came to Kai's cheeks with his words. "You did say you had finished with everything else didn't you? That leaves you with plenty of time to deal with me."
Kai cleared his throat. "I did say I had finished with everything else."
"Then get your ass inside, Kai." Rei opened the door to the room and let Kai go in first. The blue-haired blader shot his teammate a quick glare before entering the dark room. Rei closed and locked the door after entering the room himself.
He moved over to the bed and stripped off hi outer shirt, took off his arm bands and shoes and slipped quickly underneath the thick covers Kai had already removed his scarf and armbands and now sat on the edge of the bed unlacing his shoes.
"Kai?"
"Hmm?"
"What do you think of tomorrow's match?'
"We can win." He took off one shoe then started unlacing the other. "I assume that's why you were too worried to sleep?"
"Yeah." Rei stared nervously up at the ceiling. "Do you think they've improved?"
"Undoubtedly. They're a good team. You don't make it as far as they have without some talent." Kai removed his other shoe then his belt and slipped into bed beside Rei. "Don't worry about tomorrow. We've trained as hard as we could, we can't do any more than what we already have."
Rei looked ver at Kai and smiled. "Coming from you that's saying a lot."
Kai shrugged and put his hands under his head. "We've trained and brushed up on our skills, not to mention worked on some new skills and tricks. We've worked on our weaknesses and have tried to turn them in our favour. Kenny's been working his ass off trying upgrade our blades and launcher so that we have the best advantage. All in all, I'd say we're fairly well prepared. There's not much else we can actually do. We just have to have faith in our own abilities."
"You're right." After that encouraging speech, Rei was silent for a long time, but he wasn't sleeping, he was thinking. And soon the oppressive silence managed to bug the other, usually unruffled, occupant of the bed.
"There's more to it than just nerves concerning the next battle isn't there?" It wasn't really a question, but Kai posed it as one to make Rei ease up a bit.
Kai was as perceptive in his assumption as ever. Rei debated lying to his captain, but decided against it, it would be pointless. "Yeah," he sighed.
"Do you want to talk about it?"
Silence.
"Rei, look, if there's a problem that could affect the team, I, not to mention the others, would need to know about it."
"This has nothing to do with the team." Rei sat up angrily and glared down at Kai.
"Wrong!" Kai sat up and faced Rei with an icy glare of his own. "Personal problems affect the whole team. If one member isn't on their game, then we lose, so if you have a problem, it's our problem unless you manage to fix it first." Kai let this sink in before continuing. "As your captain you should at least have the courtesy of informing me in general terms what is wrong, so I can help if you need me to." Kai's glare softened. "I am trying to help Rei."
"I know, I just don't know if I can talk about it yet."
"Do you want to blade tomorrow?"
"Of course!"
"If you don't manage to keep your mind on the match, then I will pull you out of there with no hesitation, got it?"
"I've got it."
"Good. Now go to sleep." Kai lay back down and turned his back towards Rei.
"Yes captain, my captain." Rei saluted to Kai's turned back and lay down himself.
"Don't be a smart-ass Kon."
Rei laughed. "Wouldn't dream of it."
"Good."
There was a suitable pause of sleepy silence before the slowly drifting captain of the Bladebreakers felt something, or should we say someone, snuggling up against his back.
Kai sighed and rolled over then enveloped the half-asleep and shivering Rei in a warm tight embrace.
"Told you you'd catch cold," he muttered fondly before allowing himself to drift off to sleep.
