Hey people! Another story! I really should finish my other stories first, but I just HAD to put this up! So, a Bryan and Brooklyn fic. There's not a lot on the site, but I kinda like the pairing so I'll have a bash at it!
Category: Beyblade.
Rating: T.
Pairings: Bryan x Brooklyn. Tala x Ray.
Genre: Angst/Romance
Summary: After tearing Tala and Ray apart Bryan is sent to a retreat for his own safety. His enthusiasm for this escapade is less than positive, however there are more than a few surprises to keep him occupied. Bryan x Brooklyn, Tala x Ray.
Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade.
WARNINGS: Bad language. Violence. Yaoi.
So I don't think there's much more to say, I'll see how this one goes down I guess.
Enjoy!
Human
Chapter One: Death And Destruction
Black.
"Hey! Did you hear about that guy who was found beaten up in the back alleys?"
Dark.
"Tyson! Don't talk about such things while we're eating!"
Empty.
"But, Hilary, it happened only a few streets from my home! What if it happens to me?"
"It might knock some sense in to you"
Numb.
"Kai! How could you be so cruel to me?"
"Quite easily"
Black.
"You're just mean!"
"Only to you"
Dark.
"Hey, anyone know where Ray is?"
Empty.
"I'm here, I just went to the bathroom"
"Daichi, don't start a food fight!"
"He started it, Hilary!"
Mad.
"Well I'll finish it!"
Crazy.
"Stop it, both of you"
Insane.
"Aw, Ray, you take all the fun out!"
"He's trying to stop you looking like fools in front of everyone else"
"Kai! Don't speak to Tyson in that tone!"
Stupid.
"I'll talk to him like I want, Hilary"
"Guys, relax. People are watching!"
"Then, Kenny, all they see is a usual day for the Bladebreakers"
"You have a good point, Max"
Dumb.
"Hey! Tala's here!"
Dense.
"He's been here the whole time, idiot! All the Blitzkrieg Boys are here in case you hadn't noticed!"
"Kai, there's no need to be so snappy. What is wrong with you?"
"You're what's wrong with me, Tyson"
"Hey! I take offence!"
Dim.
"Hey, Bryan, you ain't eating much. You ok?"
Brainless- Bryan looked at the small scrawny ugly red head that now gazed up at him; he glared and shoved Daichi away from him in disgust.
"Hey!" Tyson glared at him "take it easy, Bryan! Daichi was only asking!"
Bryan glared back "and what you going to do about it?" he challenged.
Tyson's glare increased, but he said nothing.
"Just what I thought," sneered Bryan "you going do to nothing! Because you're stupid!"
"Bryan" Kai warned his red eyes flicking to the Russian "don't"
"Why shouldn't I?" growled Bryan "he is stupid. This whole fucking thing is stupid! You're all stupid"
"Shut up, Kuznetsov!" snapped Tala.
Bryan glared at him; he would have thought of all people Tala would be on his side. Abruptly Bryan stood knocking his chair crashing to the floor, the whole table stopped chatting and looked round at the angry Russian "fine" said Bryan "have your stupid party. Eat your stupid food. It's crap. You're all crap. And this is full of shit" he turned and walked out of the room, slamming the door so hard that the pictures on the walls shook and Mr Dickinson winced.
Tala and Kai glanced at each other "it's your turn to talk to him" said Kai grumpily leaning his head on one hand.
Tala sighed but stood and left the room amidst mutterings and whispers which filled his ears until he too shut the door firmly behind him. Dragging a hand through his hair he wandered up the corridor wondering where Bryan had stormed off to this time. He growled in frustration at the falcon; there was something wrong with Bryan and for the first time in his life Tala didn't know what it was. He'd once called them close, brother in arms but now that seemed to have gone. As soon as the fight with Boris had finished, as soon as they'd stopped fighting and begun to lead ordinary lives Bryan had become resentful, angry and frustrated and Tala didn't know what to do anymore…the worst part was, he was starting not to care. Bryan wasn't doing anything to help himself and it was starting to piss Tala off.
He located Bryan outside lighting a cigarette and muttering angrily to himself "what's your fucking problem this time?" he snapped at the falcon.
Bryan glanced at him but said nothing as he lent against the wall and took a drag before blowing out and looking up at the sky.
Tala wasn't that easily deterred "if you're not going to tell me then fine, but I swear Bryan if you do anything I'll fucking kick you off the team!" his icy glare however seemed to bounce off the falcon who merely took another drag and exhaled with a sigh.
"And what are you expecting me to do?" he asked as he turned his gaze from the sky to his captain "break something? Beat someone up?"
"One never knows with you!" snapped Tala, he wasn't in the mood for Bryan's seeming emotionless retorts and comebacks "I don't know you anymore! I used to think I could read what was going on in your dead brain but either you've stopped thinking anything or you're keeping it from me!"
Again Bryan took a drag as he looked steadily at his captain "I thought I was the one supposed to be pissed off" he said expressionlessly and he gave an impassive smirk at Tala's cold look "shit Tal, didn't think you cared about me so much"
"I don't!" snarled Tala "I'm here to make sure you don't get arrested again!"
"So it's your image you're worried about, ah" Bryan nodded in realisation "I hadn't noticed you'd started worrying over being embarrassed by me. Do forgive me, next time I'll make sure I won't knock the chair over"
Tala's eyes flashed and his hand struck Bryan across the face leaving three white stinging scores on the right side of Bryan's face; Bryan only let out a harsh laugh, he didn't feel the pain, he hadn't felt pain in years but lately he hadn't been feeling anything except a dark empty feeling in his head. He didn't know what it was but to see Tala's eyes narrow in anger gave Bryan a sense of superiority; he knew how to control his temper now, he knew how to keep it in and it gave him a glow to think that Tala couldn't. The wolf was all about control and he couldn't even keep a hold on his temper.
Tala seemed to see he wasn't going to get a sensible out of Bryan, like he ever got anything sensible out of Bryan anyway, so he simmered somewhat "be like that. I'm going out"
The wolf turned to go but curiosity and suspicion blazed up inside Bryan who asked, "where do you go?"
Tala turned back his face impassive "what?"
"You're always going 'out', and always at night. Where do you go?" Bryan watched Tala carefully but Tala seemed to have become of a block of ice.
"It's none of your business," replied the wolf "what's it to you if I go out at night?"
Because he wanted to know what his captain found so interesting, Bryan shrugged and inhaled more smoke "nothing I guess, I suppose it's something boring like staring at the moon like you're some kind of pathetic dog"
Tala glared again and his blue eyes became very cold "watch your mouth!" he growled "don't you dare talk to your captain like that!"
"I'll talk to you how I want," said Bryan coolly "but you do see my point, it's always at night you go out and you never say where you're going"
"You never say where you go when you go out!" replied Tala, Bryan was getting on his nerves and he knew it; he had to stop letting the falcon get under his skin before he said something he regretted.
"True, but I don't go out every night" Bryan threw the scrag end of his fag on the floor and stamped on it, flattening it with his boot with a grunt "even Kai's noticed you go out a lot. What's the matter? Kai's mansion not big enough?"
"It has nothing to do with you or Kai" Tala's voice was cold and he turned round again to go back inside "I would have thought that privacy was every man's right"
"There's a difference between privacy and obsessive time alone, I'm beginning to think you don't want to be round us anymore"
Tala whirled round "well you may just be right about that!" his voice had silenced to a hiss which cut through the still night air like a whip of ice "I don't know what's fucking up your mind but if you don't want to tell me then that's fine! Just don't expect me to tell you all my secrets!" he glared at Bryan "of course you could just cut me some slack, you've been acting like a pig for weeks and it's really starting to fuck me off Kuznetsov!"
Bryan took a step back from the fury of his captain and gave a small frown; he hadn't seen Tala this angry in a long time, was this really all about him, or was it something else praying Tala's mind? "Tala, I-"
"Save your shit!" Tala span back round to the door for the last time "I don't want to hear it!" he re-entered Mr Dickinson's manor and walked away leaving Bryan cursing himself.
Tala opened the door to the dinning room with a slam and once again had everyone's attention, except this time he didn't care who was watching him "Mr Dickinson, I suppose I should thank you for inviting me" his voice was sharp and curt so no one had the stupid notion to interrupt him, Tala glanced at Kai "I'll see you later" having said that he slammed out the room once again.
Kai inwardly sighed and massaged the side of his head with an aggravated air; for weeks the rift between Tala and Bryan had been growing and it was beginning to show, the bruise on the side of his face hidden only by a wisp of hair and the Bladebreakers' lack of observational skills had saved him from suspicion but if the fights between Tala and Bryan became any more violent Kai would find himself in hospital once again. He tugged restlessly at the bandages covering his face, trapping in half his sight, he felt bitter and resentful towards Brooklyn for this and when he found that good for nothing-
"Hey"
Ray's soft voice cut through Kai's inner turmoil "don't tug at it" he reprimanded quietly "you'll only injure yourself more"
Kai's lips pursed angrily and he said between gritted teeth "if I go blind because of-"
"You don't know that yet" Ray cut him off "don't go blaming Brooklyn for something that hasn't happened yet. I know you're angry but your sight might still come back"
"The doctors said there was a 60% chance I'd be blind in one eye for the rest of my life" Kai replied, "I think I have the right to be angry"
Around them the other teams were present, the All Starz; the only team were all the members were present. BEGA, Brooklyn was noticed by his absense, and finally Spencer who was sitting looking rather alone at the end of the table. Throughout the table mutterings of conversations drifted back and forth softly as they got over the disturbance from Tala and Bryan and relaxed once again.
"Maybe" Ray admitted "but that doesn't mean you have to let it eat up inside"
"Shut up, Ray" Kai snapped as his temper flew out of control "I don't need any of your righteous crap"
Ray sighed and went back to his food knowing not to press Kai when the phoenix was brooding; he wished Kai would let it go, he knew it was churning Kai up inside and it worried him. He wanted to help Kai but he was being pushed away and Ray was starting to feel he was losing a friend; he'd noticed the bruise on the side of Kai's face but hadn't been stupid enough to mention it, he could figure out that Kai had obtained it breaking up a fight between Tala and Bryan and he knew it probably wasn't the first Kai had suffered. None of the others had mentioned the bruise either though Ray knew they had noticed it; they all knew that whatever was happening between the Blitzkrieg Boys it was going to stay between the Russians, they wanted their secrets so the Bladebreakers didn't mention the bruise and let Kai think they hadn't noticed.
"I'm sorry" Kai muttered, "I didn't meant to sound so harsh"
"It's fine" replied Ray "I'm getting kinda used to it"
Kai threw him a glare "what's that supposed to mean?"
"Nothing" Ray sighed and pushed the food around with his fork; he wasn't hungry, leaning his head in his hand he watched Tyson and Daichi fight over the salt and Max try to flirt with Hilary. It was funny to watch, Max got so nervous he would get a negative response he stammered and got his negative response because Hilary snapped at him to speak properly, except Ray didn't feel very much like laughing. He wanted to leave, he wanted to walk out in to the night, he wanted to escape but now wasn't the agreed time and he had to wait.
"Tala!" Bryan walked swiftly after the wolf as the redhead was quickly disappearing round the corner of the street; growling Bryan sped up to a run and in a few moments had caught the wolf up. Tala however ignored him with a growl and continued on with long strides but Bryan wasn't giving up that easily. He grabbed the redhead by the shoulders and pulled him round forcing Tala to look at him; he looked in to the ice blue eyes fiercely but Tala pulled away from his friend and brother and turned his back on him again, he didn't however walk away.
"Whatever you're hiding you don't have to tell me" Bryan muttered, forcing out every word; this was his way of apologising and he still found it difficult even if he meant it, he wanted Tala to know he regretted his words but it was hard, it was so hard to make the words say what he wanted them to say.
Tala said nothing; he knew Bryan was trying to apologise but he didn't want to hear it, he just wanted Bryan to leave. He had somewhere to go but he couldn't until Bryan left.
Now he'd said those words Bryan didn't know what else to say; what else could he say? Some part of him wanted to tell Tala of the emptiness inside his head but the other part of him knew the wolf wouldn't understand, Tala had leadership and keeping Kai in line to fill his mind whereas all Bryan ever did was follow Tala's instructions. He was a shell and he didn't know what to do about it.
"Forget it" Tala said in a blank voice; he felt drained, he was sick of fighting with Bryan and he needed to escape…just for a little while. He began to walk on slowly, waiting to see if Bryan was following but when the falcon stayed silent behind him Tala walked away without looking back.
So tell me what you think. It'll be interesting how easy this story is to write, whether I'm as inspired to write this as I am with my Kai x Ray fics.
Anyway, please review.
Thanks for reading!
Kiki