Blades Will Be Drawn

Chapter1

Kai and Tala walked down the partly empty streets, the red-head constantly looking up at the sky with a blank and very vague trace of frustration on his face. "This is boring." He whispered furiously through gritted teeth.

Kai sighed and looked at Tala's expression, "Well I'm sorry that I can't be any more interesting or sociable." He said coldly.

"Isn't there anything we can do?" Tala asked, clearly bored as he crossed his arms and kept walking aimlessly.

Kai rolled his eyes, sighing with a lot of frustration, "Tala you lived inside a dingy old abbey for most of your life, doing nothing but training for most of the hours of the day, eating one meal and sleeping about six hours, this can't be as boring or as dull as that." He commented, a small smirk on his face.

"You're right I can't but we need to get up and do something. I've been living here for a week and I still can't find anything good to do with my time."

Kai smirked at the younger boy's comment, placing a hand on the other boy's shoulder, "If that's what you're so worried about then go back to spending your day's training and working out." He whispered, although the eldest knew full well that the younger red-head wouldn't dare return to that kind of lifestyle.

"No way." Tala muttered, shrugging the other boy's hand off of him before he increased his pace and kept on walking.

Kai laughed as he was expecting that kind of reaction from an ex-team mate. He ran up behind Tala to join his old friend, walking on just behind him as he followed his team mate to wherever it was that he wanted to go at the time, seeing it as best that he were left alone to decide.

---In The Same City---

Somewhere on the outskirts of the city, among all the houses and all the people that walked along the old streets of Japan one house stood out most of all. A house that on the outside looked like it wasn't being looked after much aside from the few fresh flowers on the window sill outside. A short-haired sandy blonde late teenager's eyes shot open in complete shock, staring at the ceiling, his mouth gaping open in a silent cry over the instinct of taking a deep breath of clear air.

Closing his eyes again he took a few quick breaths before pulling his hands to his shoulders and squeezing them tightly. He opened his eyes and stared on blankly at the ceiling again as a few more flashes of light passed through his head and in front of his eyes. He visibly relaxed once he felt things return to what he considered to be a normal and just pace. He'd been sleeping on a long black leather bed, no covers of any kind covering him at all as his black t-shirt clung to him tightly. He sat up slowly as his head pounded, both hands behind his back as he used them to support himself. He didn't cease staring at the ceiling but at the same time he found himself drawing one knee a little closer to his chest, most likely on instinct trying to steady himself properly.

Through a thin white, almost see through curtain that divided his bedroom from the living room, you could plainly see an even skinnier figure get off a chair. The figure walked past the curtain and to the entrance that was just opposite to the bed. The shadowed figure seemed to have belonged to a teenage girl, about seventeen with shoulder length black hair. She placed a hand on the wall and looked inside the room as she leaned against the wall slightly, "What's up?" she asked quietly. The boy let out a low groan that sounded more like a whispered release of air. "Are you okay?" she persisted in asking. The scene girl was denied an answer and an emotionless look took over her extremely pale features took over. She let out a short sigh of annoyance and walked into the bedroom, sitting down in the armchair that was beside the bed. "The usual?" she asked softly.

The older boy had had his elbow resting on his drawn knee while he used his hand to support his throbbing skull and he now pulled it away. They boy looked over at the colder girl and as he looked on he had a certain softness in his gentle dark blue eyes. "I'm fine." He replied, speaking for the first time than he actually had in a few days, his tone of voice quiet and hoarse from lack of use.

The girl smirked, pulling a box of cigarettes out of her back pocket and pulling one out of the box. She tapped her cigarette against the top of the box before she spoke again, "You had better be, Kyo." She added coldly.

The one the girl had just called, 'Kyo' lay back down on the black bed and kept his hands on his slender stomach. He turned his head to look at his silent smoking companion, contemplating for only a moment before speaking, "You should get out more." He told her.

"I don't have a problem with this." The girl shrugged, the long fringe of black hair shadowing over one grey eye.

"You shouldn't adjust your lifestyle to mine." Kyoshi reminded.

Again the girl shrugged, standing up and moving the cigarette from her lips as she gave a uncaring and indifference look, "Like I've said already, I don't have a problem with this." She walked back to where she had entered from, placing her hand back onto the wall, "Get some more rest, we're meeting the others later tonight for a gig." She reminded, leaving the room before the other had any more time to protest.

---Back With Tala and Kai- Later That Night---

Tala lay curled up under the covers of his bed, groaning as he buried his face into the pillow. It was only nine thirty but he was already in bed and he actually couldn't help it this time as he had run out of things to do for the day and didn't intend on bothering Kai further to go out and do something.

Although, he wasn't quite complaining that he was in bed already either. He couldn't remember the last time he'd had an early night to get a few good hours of sleep. Abbey life hadn't exactly been the happiest of lives, especially when Boris was the one in charge and Voltaire Hiwatari called all the shots that went on and actually funded the whole thing. So right now he just didn't mind getting some rest, lying in a soft and actually comfortable bed in silence without having to force sleep upon himself because of training in the morning.

Most likely he spoke to soon as Kai walked into his bedroom a minute later, staring down a little angrily at the younger beyblader, "Come on, get up, we're going out." He ordered, flicking on the light switch by the door.

Tala sat up quickly once the lights shone through the sensitive layer of his eyes, "What? Where?" he asked confusedly, covering the top of his eyes with his hand to keep the light out till he adjusted to it well enough.

"Out for a drink, there's some band playing at a club and when I see you like this, it's not healthy for the both of us so we're going out."

Tala shook his head slowly and lay back down, yawning tiredly, "There's no need, I'm tired so I'm just going to bed." He protested, turning over onto his side and closing his eyes in an attempt to sleep.

Kai rolled his eyes, looking on and considering the sight of the teenage boy in bed already as a 'pitiful sight' so he walked over to Tala's side of the bed and pulled at the red-head's arm strongly. "Get up, we're going whether you like it or not." By the force Kai exerted on Tala's arm went to show how serious he was as to getting the other teenager out of bed.

"Alright, alright, I'll get up." Tala pulled his bruising arm out of Kai's extremely strong grip and pushed himself to get out of bed. "Just give me fifteen minutes." He walked out of his room and into the bathroom to get dressed again. The boy switched on the cold water tap of the sink, rubbing at his face to keep his eyes from drooping shut. He looked down at the water, jolting back on seeing a dark reflection in the water before it completely disappeared.

Tala figured it was a shadow or something of the sort and merely shrugged it off after only a moment. He ran his hands under the freezing cold water and wiped at his face which cooled him off in relevance to the heat his body was constantly emitting.

A/N: Alright this fic is most definitely different to the things I've written in the past but I thought I'd write out the first chapter and post it to see what feedback I get from people. If this is liked then I should have the next chapter up soon. Take care everyone and please review!