A/N: Hello again! I'm back! With my seventh fic. Rated T for the mild mature implications, though nothing specified. Post G-revolution. In this fic, let's say Daichi doesn't exist. Kenny won't make an appearance until the next chapter and Tyson and Max are only mentioned in this chapter. Revolves around KaiRay friendship and KaiHil love. Blitzkrieg Boys mentioned. They're only in the flashback though.
Summary: Kai loves Hilary. Ray knows it. After a bit of interrogations Ray comes to know why Kai doesn't take a step forward. But boy was that lucky for Kai? See how Kai and Hilary end up together.
Situation: Kenny and Hilary live at their own houses. Hilary's mom is out for a business trip. So she's alone at home. She visits the Bladebreakers at the day time and goes back home in the evening. Tyson, Max, Ray and Kai live at Tyson's dojo.
Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade. The series and all of its characters belong to Takao Aoki. I only own the plot.
Enjoy!
Kai awoke from his slumber to find the sunrays hitting him on his face, though softly. From the sunbeams he easily calculated that it was about 6:30 in the morning. He had slept in half an hour. He looked around the dojo room. Tyson and Max seemed to be still asleep. But Ray was nowhere in sight.
Kai got out of his futon and headed to the kitchen to make himself a cup of coffee. Entering the kitchen he spotted Ray sitting at the kitchen table, sipping on some Japanese tea. Hearing the door opening, Ray looked up from his cup of tea and mouthed a bright 'Good morning Kai' to his captain, only to recieve a simple nod from the said captain of his team. Kai headed to the coffee machine, unbeknownst to the cattish amber eyes on him, or rather... a part of him. Ray eyed the large bulge in Kai's pants and smirked.
"Had a wet dream about her eh?"
"Huh?" Kai asked wisely, utterly confused.
"You had a wet dream. About her. Admit it." Ray said surely.
"I-I... How did you know?" Kai was surprised, and a bit embarrassed.
"Well your body sure reacts to your emotions."
Hearing the reply he got, Kai looked down at himself and immediately cursed his body. No, not his whole body, just a specific part of it. If you all have guessed he had a boner... well, you're right. He did have a boner. And it was pretty prominent. That's why he had needed coffee in the first place. He needed to get rid of his hard on.
"Why don't you just tell her?" Ray's voice cut into his thoughts.
"Tell her what?" Kai asked rather grumpily.
"Tell her that you love her. She has the right to know." was the calm reply from Ray, who by now had a neutral face. The smirk wiped off of his lips long ago.
"... I can't." came a vey late response form Kai. Boy, did he sound sad?
"Give me one valid reason why you can't."
"Because I'm dangerous. If I get in a relationship with her, I'll make it risky for her to survive."
"How about you tell me how she'll be endangered and how you're dangerous?"
Kai gave in. Ray was not going to give up this time.
"I'm dangerous, because I'm a murderer." Ray's eyes widened at the confession. For once the boys were glad Max and Ty weren't awake and Hils and Ken were out of the place. It would have been a lot worse situation with any one of them present. Ray didn't utter a sound of disapproval. He waited patiently for Kai to continue.
"It happened after BEGA's downfall. We chased after Boris and eventually caught up with him...
Flashback:-
Four teenage boys ran through the dense woods, chasing a purple haired middle-aged man in a dirty green coat. The readheaded wolf and the dual blunette phoenix were in the front while the burly blond whale and the gray haired falcon brought up the rear. They kept running until the purple haired freak fell down stumbling on a tree's root. The boys stopped running and slowed down to a walk. They knew they had the upper hand now. The purplette, who goes by the name Boris Balkov, won't make it out alive. No, not this time. They closed in on him, smirking down at his current predicament. The readhead, known to the world as Tala Valkov, came forward and bent down in front of Boris.
"You see Boris, you're struck now. Either willingly surrender to the police or come with us."
"And believe me when I say, if you go with the police you're a lot safer than with us. Cause we might accidentally put your body through a sawmill and then feed it to a warewolf." came the voice of the falcon, Bryan Kuznetsov, followed by a maniacal chuckle.
Boris knew he was struck. But he wasn't going to give in just yet.
"How about none?" saying this he swiftly took out a knife he was hiding under his coat and stabbed Tala in the stomach.
Writhing in pain, Tala fell to the ground. Seeing their captain down Bryan and Spencer immediately moved into action and caught Boris and with much difficulty pinned him to the ground. In the mean while Kai moved to Tala's side and tried to keep him awake throughout all this. They needed to get Tala into a hospital and fast. But they couldn't just leave Boris? Not after all they had been through. Kai looked at the struggling form of Boris, who was trying desperately to get out of Spencer and Bryan's clutches. And then he looked at Tala's gasping form in his arms, who had visibly paled by the time. Then he looked at his pocket and what was in it. It didn't take him long to make his decision.
He took out his gun from his pocket and shot Boris. One, two, three and then all six bullets had dig holes in the body of the man of their misery. Bryan and Spencer left him. Spencer checked his pulse and made sure to everyone that he was dead. Spencer took Tala to the hospital with Kai at his side while Bryan took care of the dead body.
Tala recovered faster than anyone had thought and by the time they reached home, Bryan had gutted Boris's body and half of it was eaten by wild animals.
The giblets, still present in the house, weren't much a deal to Tala or Spencer. But Kai literally threw up his three days food at their sight. And it took him a week to get his appetite back. Though physically he recovered, his mental state was a mess. The authorities never knew of this. For them, Boris just dropped from the face of earth. The Blitzkriegs tried every possible to make Kai forget it but Kai never forgave himself for this.
-:End Flashback
Ray was stunned. But then he recovered.
"Kai, what you did is not to be counted as a crime. No. You did what needed to be done. After all Boris put you guys through, he deserved a death worse than that."
"But I'm still dangerous. I killed a person. What guarantees can you give that I won't kill her?"
"You won't. You killed Boris because you hated him and wanted him dead. But you love Hilary. And you'd never harm her. In any way. I just know it."
"... Guess you're right."
"I am right Kai. Go tell her your feelings. Tell her that you love her."
"Okay. I will. Thanks Ray. For hearing me out. Promise you won't tell Max and Tyson, or anyone else for that matter."
"You're welcome. And I promise I won't tell a soul."
"Thanks pal."
"You're welcome."
With that the conversation was over and they both got back to their tea and coffee. Eventually Tyson and Max got up and the day went on as usual. Kenny didn't come up that day which Tyson explained that he was researching on something new on their blades.
Soon the night came, but Hilary didn't come. She came everyday but that day she hadn't come over to that dojo. Tyson was pleased. No one to annoy him. Max was worried but pushed it to the back of his mind. She will come if she wanted to. But Ray was worried about the girl he saw as a little sister. And he knew so was Kai. He got up and persuaded Kai to go see what was wrong. That was all it took Kai to take off to Hilary's place. Knowing that Kai will find Hilary, put Ray's mind ar rest.
Kai went over to Hilary's house first only find the door locked. He was about to turn away but he heard some muffled sound coming from the house. Moving around the house he found he window of Hilary's bedroom. He sneaked in and what he saw shocked him.
There on her own bed sat Hilary, crying her heart out. Sobs racked her whole form. Kai was surprised. Hilary Tachibana was not one to cry. She never cried. Not in the 2 years they had known her. Then why was she now.
Kai sneaked in and reaching out softly stroked her back with a low and soft
"Hilary?"
Hilary looked up to find their team captain standing in front of her. The guy she had grown to love and respect. And she wasn't able to contain herself. She threw herself on him and cried on his shoulders. He was shocked. Well and truely. Hook line and sinker.
"Hilary?" he tried again. "What's wrong?"
"... m-my mom..." she was not able to get anything out of her mouth. It was like her tongue was tied and a lump in her throat was making it harder for her to swallow.
Kai was totally clueless as to what had happened. Then his gaze fell to the still on phone and the text message in it.
"I'm really sorry Hilary but I have to give you the news. Your mom Helena passed away in a car accident. We were just heading back when it happened. I'm sorry I couldn't save her."
It was from some guy called Phil. Kai understood now why Hilary had been crying. He knew how it felt to be an orphan at a young age.
He wrapped his arms around her sobbing form gingerly. She needed to cry and get it out of her system. She won't be able to move on until she was over the depression.
"I'm sorry for your loss Hilary. But you have to be strong to move on in life. Shhhh... calm down." He handed her a glass of water.
It took a good half an hour for Hilary to gather herself together enough to talk properly.
"She was heading back in the office car with Phil, her colleague, when a car hit them hard on the side mom was sitting. Both my mom and Phil were injured but by the time they got to hospital, mom had passed away. They couldn't save her." She managed between sniffles and sobs and at the last sentence she broke into tears yet again.
"Shh... I know how it feels. I've been through this. And trust me you'll get through this fine. We are here with you. You're not alone." Moving to the window with Hilary still in his arms Kai continued. "And your mom will always be watching you from there." He said looking up at the starry night.
Hilary sobered up a tad. She looked up at the sky and then looking at Kai, hugged him tight, almost suffocating him. He chuckled. She was a lot better now, seeing as she had a smile plastered on her face.
"But Kai there's still a lot of problems. I'm still underage."
"You think I'm not? Mr. Dickenson is the legal guardian of me and Ray. Sure he'd take your guardianship too."
"Where do I live?"
"Here."
"No. This house will always remind me of mom. I can't stay here. I'll miss her so bad I-" She broke off.
"Tyson's place?"
"I'll go crazy with him. Sure you all will be there but Tyson and his grandpa aren't tolerable 24x7. I can't survive there."
"Alright then. How about my place?"
"Don't you live at Tyson's?" She asked skeptically.
"Only because... I'm afraid of living alone to be honest. Though there are servants, there's no family. If you move in we can live together."
"... That sounds fine. Okay I'll live with you. So... how do we... tell all this to others?"
"I'll tell them. Tomorrow at training. Pack your bag. We're moving out right now. I'll call up Ray to fill him in on everything so there will be one less person to be shocked."
"Okay."
Hilary packed her things, all the while thinking if her mom. She'd go to see her body tomorrow. Kai called up Ray and told him all and also instructed him not to relay the message. They couldn't risk everyone knowing until they were sure.
Hilary and Kai moved to Kai's manor. The size of the manor shocked Hilary. She never knew their captain was that rich!
"Kai this place is huge!"
"Hn. I know. Choose any room you want."
"... Can I live in your room? With you?"
"... Why?"
"I'm not really comfortable with sleeping alone."
"... ... Okay..."
Hilary and Kai settled in Kai's room. The room was huge, painted crimson. They settled in the King size bed in their night clothes. Hilary was better sleeping with someone she knew rather than on her own. In her deep slumber she managed to entangle herself with Kai, all the time shedding tears in her sleep. Kai didn't mind at first. But in the middle of the night she awoke to a nightmare that had turned into reality. She clung to Kai, scared as hell, sobbing wistfully. Kai managed to sush her somehow. But after that something unexpected happened.
... They kissed.
While looking at each other's face they didn't know how the gap enclosed. How thier lips met at a tender kiss they didn't know. Neither did they know how the thing happened what happened after the kiss. How they woke up in the morning stark naked, limbs entangled, bodies sqashed agaist each other and Kai inside Hilary, they had no clue.
That night, Kai's dream finally came true...