Sequel to Destiny Revealed. If you haven't read the first, then go back to my bio page and read it. Otherwise, you won't understand what's going on.
Summary – It's been almost a month since Kai and Joey were rescued, but now someone wants to tear the Hiwatari family apart again. Will they be able to, or will some friends and new-found family members be able to save the day again?
Rating – M for language, violence, some relevance to rape, and other things that may come up
Pairings – None so far, but I may put some up if people are wanting it…
I can't believe I'm saying this but….I'M BACK!
And with a sequel, no doubt.
Kai – (blinks) I never thought that you would actually write a sequel to one of your stories.
Me neither. This is kinda weird for me.
Kai – (rolls eyes) So, this is your sequel to…?
DESTINY REVEALED!
Kai – (sighs) Right…Why did you make one?
(blinks) I had an idea.
Kai – (sighs again and shakes head) You got in trouble with that last time, remember?
Yeah, but this one's gonna be different! You'll see!
Kai – How's this one gonna be different?
I don't know yet. You'll have to wait and see!
Kai – (sighs) So, let me get this straight. You had an idea the other day for a new Destiny Revealed sequel, and decided to write it while you're in your dorm room in college during your free time, and you want me to wait and see that this fic will end up being different than the others that you had trouble writing? Did I get it?
Yep!
Tala – Wow. That's the most he's said this past month!
Kai – Whatever. (stands against wall with arms crossed)
Tala – (sighs) Well, it was good while it lasted.
Yeah, it was…So, do you two wanna help me start this thing off?
Tala – Sure. I don't know about Mr. Grumpy over there, though.
Kai – Hmph.
Oh, Kai!
Kai – What?
I'll play you that song I've been listening to for the past few days for you!
Kai – You were gonna play it anyway.
(blinks) Damn….Well, it'll be specially dedicated to you!
Kai – (sighs) I'll do it if you just shut up and stop trying so hard already.
TM and Tala – YAY!
Kai – (sweatdrops)
(starts playing HIM and The Rasmus – Bittersweet)
Kai – Disclaimer – She doesn't own Beyblade.
Tala – Nope. If she did, she wouldn't be stuck in a crappy-looking dorm room.
Yep! HEY! MY ROOM'S NOT CRAPPY-LOOKING!
Kai – Just start the damn fic.
(pouts) Fine.
Tala – This is the key –
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/blah/ talking between bitbeasts/humans
/blah/ author's notes at end of fic -blah- flashback/POV
blah Russian dialogue
Also, I forgot to mention a few things! In Destiny Revealed, I had Joey's eye color like three different colors….Oops….So, his new color is crimson to match Kai's. He's four still, too.
And here's the fic! Enjoy!
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Will There Ever Be Peace?
Chapter One – I Can't Tell You
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Kai sighed as he stared out at the vast mountainous area that occupied his back yard. The wind was blowing, the cold breeze signaling the oncoming of winter, yet the phoenix never noticed. His mind was elsewhere. It had only been less than a month since he moved in with his thought to be dead parents. Turns out that they had been living in a secure area that only locals knew about. The place wasn't even on a map.
"Your arm's not going to get any better if you keep coming out here and exposing it to the cold," a deep voice commented behind him.
Kai didn't even need to turn around. He knew that voice. It was the vocals of his father coming out to check on him for the fifth time that week.
"I'm fine," the phoenix replied, faintly noticing the small puff of white that came from his lips.
Kai's father strode up to him but never touched the teen, just merely stood beside him. Kai didn't make any move towards the taller man nor did he say anything.
"Kai," his father started after a while. "Is there something that's been on your mind the past few days?" His gaze never left the mountains.
Kai shrugged as well as he could with his left arm in a sling. "What makes you say that?"
"Oh, I don't know. Maybe because you've been acting cold towards your family and coming out here in the dead of night, trying to catch a cold."
The phoenix snorted at his father's words. They rivaled his own if the roles were reversed. He continued to gaze at the dark mountains. After a while, he answered, much to his father's gratefulness. "It's nothing."
A typical answer.
Kyle Hiwatari shifted his feet. 'Calm down. He has every right to be this way,' he told himself. 'After all that he's been through, you should know what to expect.' He cleared his throat. "Kai, I know that something's wrong. Maybe you'll tell me sometime, maybe not, but I do have one thing to say." He looked at his son. "You can be this way towards me all you want. I know the reasons why you are the way you are, but your mother doesn't fully understand. She didn't witness the hands-on way that you and I did. She deserves to be treated better than what you've been doing. I suggest that you get your act together around her."
Kai glared at the mountains as if they were the source of his pain, his anger, but unfortunately, they weren't. "Listen, until you tell me what I've been wanting to know-"
"I told you that's it's too complicated."
"-I won't be changing anything."
Kyle sighed. He couldn't explain to his son the answers to his questions. Not until his own father was dead, for as long as he was alive, they all were still in danger. "Kai, we've been over this. We can't say anything until that man is dead. You know how resourceful he is."
Kai's glare at the mountains continued. "You can't expect me to have lived my life thinking that my parents were dead, my grandfather hated me enough to let men rape, torture, and experiment on me, and not me not caring about anyone, not even myself, for fear of getting hurt again, and as soon as you all come up, I'm supposed to be the same little boy that you lost. Well, I hate to burst your bubble, Dad, but I'm no longer that kid, and if you still want him, see if you can mold Joey into him. That little boy that you knew died a long time ago, and he's not coming back any time soon." With that, he left, limping slightly down the pathway that led to the woods. It was a nice trail that his father had made for his mother while they enjoyed the relaxed environment.
Kyle sighed, eyes soft as his son's words echoed through his head. He didn't want that little boy that he lost. He just wanted his son, but that was being proven difficult to obtain as well. 'Voltair, what have you done?' he thought, looking up at the full moon. 'Are you satisfied that you've molded a sweet, innocent child of five into a bitter, scared, and cold child of seventeen? You took both of my sons' innocence from them with your horrible methods, and one may be too far gone to help. Are you happy? Is this the desolate life that you had planned out for me when I left your ruling side so long ago? Sometimes, I wish I had pulled that trigger.'
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Katherine Hiwatari sighed as she watched her son leave down the beaten trail in the moonlight. If only they could tell him what he wanted to know, but with that damned man still alive, that was not an option. Her violet eyes noticed her husband gaze at the full moon for a while before heading back inside. His crimson eyes had sadness written all over them.
She finished braiding her hair for the night. It reached to just below her shoulder blades, the slate blue shining like silver in the bedroom lamplight. Her black nightgown reached just to her knees, the lace only showing on the hem and sleeves of it. She tied off her long hair just as her husband's footsteps reached to just outside the door.
He sighed himself as he opened the oak frame.
"Any luck?" she asked, standing and wrapping her arms around the man's chest, burying her face in his shoulder.
"No," he replied quietly. "He's upset that we can't tell him the answers, but he also understands why. He also has that gene that Voltair implanted in all of his 'soldiers.' He won't open up until he knows that he's safe and can trust those around him."
Katherine sighed into her husband's shoulder again. "Will he ever trust us?"
"Not until he feels safe, and that won't happen until he has answers and that bastard is put away in his grave."
She nodded, pulling away and seating herself down at the window again. She could just barely make out the light colored outfit that her son was wearing through the breaks in the trees. "I guess that we'll just have to start showing him reasons to start trusting us."
Kyle nodded, sitting down on the bed, not even bothering to take his shoes off yet, in case something should happen. It was a habit he developed after Kai had been taken all those years ago, and the night that Joey was taken was one of those few nights that he had taken his shoes off before going to bed. He would never do it again.
"Kyle," something in her voice made him look up.
"What is it?"
"There's someone out there other than Kai."
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Yep, that's chapter one! I know that it's a tad short, but I didn't want things to happen till chapter two! Hoped you liked it, now on to chapter two!
Kai – I thought that you were gonna stop writing cliffhangers?
Yeah, but it's so hard to not do it!
Kai – You're just lazy.
Tala – Did someone mention Tyson?
Tyson – What? Someone say my name?
(sighs) Just R&R Viewers….Please for my sanity……
Tyson and Tala – (raises champagne glasses) FOR HER SANITY!
TM and Kai – (sighs)