Hi everybody I`m back with a new fic. This fic is for my friend shewolf2118 and the competition she is holding. If any of you want to join in too or want details this is where you can find them .com/journal/25721882/#comments
Disclaimers: I do not own beyblade, I only my insanity of the plot and a couple of OCs I have thrown into this. The OC Sally and her bitbeast Akane belong to shewolf2118 and I don`t own them either but due to the contest I had permission to use them.
Anyway I hope that you enjoy this fic and wish me luck on the competition.
Chapter 1: Tough Guy
In an old three story mansion that was located within Japan a young boy of sixteen sat brooding in the darkness of his room. His hair went up in a spiky pattern that was coloured in two different shades of blue. The clothes the boy wore were all black except for his trademark white scarf and he perched himself on a comfortable, fluffy bed in his usual uncaring pose of crossed arms and eyes closed shut. The blackness within the large expanse of space that was the boy's bedroom, reflected the extremely foul mood he was in perfectly as the boy with the two toned blue hair thought bitterly to himself.
'Why the hell does it have to be damn Christmas Eve already? I wish this stupid holiday would just leave me alone but the stupid thing has to keep coming around every year. I hate the holidays so much, ever since that Christmas Day all those years ago when my parents were murdered. But Voltaire is finally in prison now for trying to take over the world in Russia so I guess that's all in the past.
'Though I almost wish I had Tyson around so I could knock the hell out of him and take out all my rage and hatred for this damn time of year. Almost, as in it would be nice to kill him but having him and my other teammates here would just make me feel worse as they would only annoy me and I don't need that right now. Thankfully the rest of the team is back at the Granger's Dojo while I'm here at my family's mansion away from them. Thanks to my Uncle finding me after the whole BEGA upset happened earlier in the year. So I haven't had to worry about the G Revolutions since he decided to move back to the old mansion after fixing the place up.'
The blue haired boy's thoughts were broken as he heard the creak of a door. The boy didn't care who was at the door and planned on ignoring the person as he wallowed in his internal misery. Unfortunately for him, his visitor had other ideas and didn't oblige to leaving him alone.
Instead a female voice spoke out to him, "Hey Kai, you going to stop sulking and come downstairs to join us anytime soon?"
Upon hearing the voice Kai's eyes cracked open and crimson pools stared through the darkness to the bright light that eminated from the doorway. The girl was standing there, she was dressed in a black t-shirt, blue jeans, and a red jacket over the shirt. Her hair was long and light blue in colour and she possessed bright blue eyes. This girl was Kai's younger sister and her lips were turned up in a traditional Hiwatari smirk.
Eyeing her smirk, Kai raised an eyebrow in question, "Kayla, what is it that you're scheming this time?"
"Nothing, dear brother. Me, scheming? Never... Why would I do something like that?" Kayla wondered in an innocent tone of voice.
"Sure sis, you've got that sneaky, I'm up to something look," Kai retorted suspiciously.
"Yeah well, think what you want. Would you just come downstairs already?"
"What do you think? You know I hate this damn holiday."
"Oh come on bro, you need to stop being such a Scrooge and come join the family," Kayla persisted.
"No! I'm staying here in my room where I can have my solitude and there's nothing neither you nor our Uncle can do to stop me," Kai declared stubbornly in his brooding mood.
"Oh really?" Kayla inquired as her smirk widened into a huge grin, "Uncle Tom got us pizza for dinner. It's waiting for you downstairs but seeing as how you're so grumpy... I guess we'll just have to make sure it doesn't go to waste."
Despite his mood, Kai had perked up at the mention of his favourite food and with a sigh he rose from his bed to follow his annoying little sister. When Kai arrived in the living room and saw the sight that awaited him there he was most displeased. Sprawled out on the couch in front of the Hiwataris TV was Kai's old team the G Revolutions. And in the centre was Tyson Granger, stuffing his big fat face with the pizza that should have been Kai's.
Kai couldn't help but allow an evil grin to cross his features as he approached the navy haired beyblader and did exactly what he had been so longing to do. The crimson eyed boy punched his old teammate hard, square in the face. This caused Tyson to fall over into the couch and while he lay there dazed, Kai stole the plate of pizza from right under the gluttonous pig's nose. Triumphantly tearing into the pizza, to add insult to injury he went to relax in a recliner far away from the annoying team.
Once settled Kai turned his wrath upon his little sister, "I knew you were up to something! Why the hell did you have to invite them all over here?"
From her new position in the lap of Kai's raven haired friend, Ray, Kayla replied, "Inviting them here was Tom's idea, not mine. Just because I set it all up doesn't mean that you have to blame me for everything."
"Oh so this is all your fault then, Uncle?" Kai accused as he turned his menacing crimson gaze on a man who had just entered the living room from the direction of the kitchen.
Kai's Uncle Tom was only a few inches taller than Kai was himself and he looked rather young for his age. His hair was pitch black, the colour of obsidian and he possessed the crimson eyes that was the lineage of the Hiwatari family. Tom was wearing a red and green outfit in a festive fashion and on his head sat a festive Christmas hat.
In response to his nephew, the man smiled, "Yes Kai, I admit that I was the one responsible for this. I thought having your friends around for the Holidays would cheer you up so I had your sister arrange it."
"Friends? They're not my friends!"
"That hurts, you know? Hearing you say something like that about your best friend and here I thought you would have missed me," a new voice sulked in a hurt sounding tone.
Kai shifted around in his chair to meet the icy blue gaze of a redheaded Russian. The Russian was two years older than Kai and there was a wide grin on his face, as the boy loomed over the back of Kai's chair.
Kai knew the redhead very well and he grinned back up at him as he greeted, "Well, well, if isn't Tala. How'd you get yourself dragged into this mess?"
"Your friend Ray called me up at my place in Russia wondering if I wanted to spend the holidays with you guys. Though if you really don't consider me a friend anymore, then maybe I should just go back home," Tala faked a sniffle in an attempt to make Kai feel guilty.
"Oh, don't start that up already. You know I'm not in the best of moods this time of year, Nanny," Kai retorted as he was beginning to become annoyed again.
The occupants of the couch, besides Kayla wondered, "Nanny?"
"It's nothing so nevermind," Tala growled as he sent an icy blue glare towards Kai before he went on to change the subject, "Anyway when I accepted the invitation to come over here I decided to bring this shy, little thing along with me. I would like you all to meet my younger sister, Sally, if you haven't met her already."
As Tala introduced his sister he stepped away from a small girl who had been clinging to his arm as she hid behind the older boy. Now that the girl was visible in his line of sight, Kai was able to get a real look at her. The girl appeared to be about his own age and seemed pretty small, probably only around five feet tall. Her hair was a dark shade of red like her brother's but there were black highlights here and there as its length fell down to the small of her back. Tala's sister was wearing a casual outfit of black jeans and a purple t-shirt. She also had on a pair of biker gloves and worn sneakers on her feet that were both purple as well.
'Well I guess she doesn't look too bad, looks like she has a decent figure so she could be pretty enough... Wait... What am I thinking? She's not pretty... just another stupid girl! But if she's supposed to be Tala's sister I wonder why I've never met her before? In all the years that I've known Tala, he never mentioned he had a sister,' Kai thought to himself as he went over the small girl in his inspection.
As Kai looked up and down her body he gazed into a dazzling pair of bright blue eyes. For a split second their eyes locked, deep crimson meeting with blue but then the crimson eyed boy turned and glanced away from her to glare over at his old friend. Though before Kai could begin his interrogation of the Russian, Tom entered into the conversation.
"Well it's nice to meet the two of you and now that everyone is here we can begin a family tradition that we hold in the Hiwatari household," Kai's Uncle beamed as he strode over towards the TV.
"You're not?" Kai growled at the man.
Tom only grinned in response as he popped an old video tape into the VCR. As his Uncle set the tape so it was ready to play Kai was dragged over to another one of the couches by Tala. It was a smaller one, really only meant for just two people and Kai was pushed down into it by the redhead. Tala grinned at his friend and walked over to claim the recliner as the blue haired boy realized that Sally was next to him. Kai figured that Tala had probably sat the girl there also as he stole another glance at the good looking girl.
Forcing his crimson eyes away from her Kai's gaze turned to the television screen that had lit up with images. The tape was playing a sweet scene of a three year old Kai and two year Kayla as they pranked a man who looked identical to Tom.
"Man, they got you good Tom," Tala laughed at the scene of the video.
"They didn't prank me, that's Kai's Father. Alex was my twin brother," the man replied as the images on the tv screen continued to play.
The video went on through scenes of other happy memories lost long ago to the blue haired boy and as Kai had no choice but to watch, his rage boiled up inside of him. Everyone else gathered there seemed to be enjoying Kai's childhood stupidity, the G Revolutions were bursting with laughter and even Tala and his sister were snickering as they tried to hold back their giggles.
It was all too much for Kai, the reminder of what his life should have been like on the eve of the day it was taken all away, the time of year he hated the most. The crimson eyed boy just couldn't handle his emotions anymore as he lost control of his seething rage. In one quick movement Kai's dark blue beyblade was sent flying out, launched straight at Tyson's big fat head.
The beyblade struck its target as the annoying navy haired boy yelped, "Hey Kai, watch where you're aiming that thing!"
"I was! You're all pissing me off and if you don't want to die you better turn that stupid video tape off!"
"It's alright Kai, now just calm down," Tom said as he attempted to ease the boy's flaring temper.
"No! I hate christmas and I've had enough of this! Ba humbug to this whole damn holiday," Kai roared in his anger as he stormed off to return to the solitary darkness of his room.
Sally's blue eyes blinked after the retreating boy as she wondered to herself, 'He seems like he could be an okay guy if he wasn't so moody. I wonder what's eating him?'
As Sally wondered about the strange blue haired boy, the catlike boy who must be one of Kai's teammates questioned, "Is he going to be alright?"
"He should be Kai can just get very... touchie this time of year. I think it's best if you boys left for now, my nephew can be impossible to reason with when he gets like this," the man who was Kai's Uncle suggested as he went to take away the dishes the group had used for their dinner.
As the group of boys on the couch left the blue haired girl who sat with them inquired, "Hey Ray, you'll stay the night won't you?"
"Yeah, of course I will Kayla," the catlike boy replied as the rest of the team exited the mansion.
Eventually everyone else had slowly trickled upstairs to turn in for the night. Leaving Sally and her brother alone as the Russian siblings were the only ones remaining in the living room.
The redheaded boy looked over at his sister as he wondered, "Sally, you going to be coming up to bed soon?"
"No, you go on ahead Tala. I think I'm going to go out for a bit of fresh air. I'm still getting used to this new, strange place."
"Suit yourself, sis," Tala shrugged as the girl's brother left for bed as well.
Once Tala had left Sally just sat there by herself for a while. After some time had passed the girl rose from the couch and wandered outside to be alone with her thoughts. Sally liked being outdoors as it could usually calm her nerves and though it was a brisk night the Russian girl didn't really seem to mind. She welcomed the cool air around her, breathing it in and as she let out a sigh, Sally allowed her mind to wander.
'I don't know why my brother brought me here? This place is so big and strange and besides Tala I don't know anybody. At least that one guy with the blue hair and red eyes seemed to be alright... well he could be if he wasn't acting so moody... I hope that he's doing okay. If I weren't such a shy, little wimp I'd try talking to him but he probably wouldn't want to be bothered by someone like me anyway. All I've ever been to anyone, besides my brother, is an experiment... he wouldn't want me around and I shouldn't be welcome here... in such a happy place with these good people.'
Sally stood there lost in her thoughts as she fingered a small black object that she had drawn out from her pocket. It was her Beyblade and as the girl turned it over in her hands her silence was disturbed by the slamming of a door. The sound of footsteps reached the girl's ears as it seemed someone had joined her outside. And as the person came nearer to her Sally could just barely make out the mumbling of a male voice.
"Stupid christmas, it just had to make me have that damn dream again. If only it would leave me alone so I could actually sleep for once in my life..." The voice trailed off, grumbling to himself.
Sally glanced over in the guy's direction to realize that it was the strange boy with the two toned blue hair who had joined her. Though he hadn't noticed her as he kept to himself, walking absentmindedly with his white scarf trailing after him.
'Man he looks so sad... like he could use a friend,' Sally thought to herself and without thinking things through she called out, "Hey, it's Kai right? Are you okay?"
The crimson eyed boy's forlorn look was replaced by a hard gaze, Kai seeming to notice the girl for the first time as he glared, "Yeah and I'm fine, it's nothing for you to worry about!"
"I don't know... you looked pretty upset. You sure you don't want to talk about it?" Sally wondered in an attempt to help him.
"Yes, I just had a bad dream and it's none of your business so leave me alone!" The blue haired boy snapped defensively.
"Okay, fine then, tough guy! I was just trying to help, you know?" Sally snapped back as she was starting to become annoyed by Kai's attitude.
"Well I don't need your help! And don't call me that!" Kai growled but then his tone turned softer as he curiously wondered, "So you Beyblade, huh?"
Sally figured he must have noticed the black Beyblade that was still in her hand as she responded curtly, "Of course I do, what of it? You looking for a battle? Because if you are I could show you a thing or two and teach you a lesson, you jerk!"
"It's not like you'd really actually be able to teach me a lesson... but alright, I guess I could give you a battle. Putting you in your place might just help to calm me down," Kai replied as he revealed a dark blue Beyblade and fitted it to his launcher.
"Put me in my place? I'll show you, you arrogant jerk," Sally growled as she placed her blade upon her own launcher.
The two counted down and simultaneously pulled the ripcord, their Beyblade's flying to meet each other in the open space that lay between them. The two Beyblades spun around on the cold ground as they slammed together, crashing into one another with powerful force. Sally was riled up and putting up against a good fight against Kai. But he proved to be a tough opponent and his blue beyblade stood against her attacks quite well. The two Beybladers' strength seemed to match perfectly and the battle dragged on as neither girl nor boy could seize the upper hand.
The length of the beybattle annoyed Sally. This boy had insulted her and she had wanted to finish him off in a swift victory. Having enough of playing around, the redheaded girl called up her energy as she prepared to make her move.
"Go Akane! Finish him off!" Sally called out as a great black and red wolf leapt up into life.
Akane was a mighty beast with fur that resembled the dual colours of Sally's hair perfectly. The great wolf's cold blue eyes shimmered with a lust for the hunt as it snarled menacingly at Kai. At the girl's command the wolf sprung into action, pouncing towards the dark blue Beyblade.
But Kai was quick and an intense fire burned around his own beyblade to counter Sally's attack as the boy shouted in response, "I don't think so! Dranzer, let's end this!"
The fire of Kai's Beyblade flared up and a magneficant bird soared forth from the flames. The brilliant fire phoenix flew forth to challenge Akane and the two beasts collided in a massive burst of power and energy. As the light that had been created by the bitbeasts died down, so did the tension between the two beybladers as the outcome of their match was revealed to them.
Sally realized that her beyblade had stopped spinning as she went to retrieve it. The girl went to pick up her motionless black beyblade from the ground and noticed that Kai stooped down as well to retrieve his own beyblade. The match had ended in a draw and as Sally returned Akane to her pocket she glanced over at the boy who had been her opponent.
'I can't believe he actually managed to tie against Akane. The only one who's ever been able to do that before is Tala.. so this guy must be a powerful beyblader. At any rate he seems far more at ease and relaxed while he's blading. Maybe he'll actually talk to me, now that we've both had a chance to let off some steam,' Sally wondered to herself as she smiled up at Kai, "That was fun and such a close match, we'll have to do that again sometime. You're pretty good, you know?"
The crimson eyed boy smirked in response, "Yeah, well next time it won't end in a draw but I guess you weren't too bad yourself... not many people can manage to tie against Dranzer and me. How is it that you became so good at blading?"
"Tala taught me, before we... before we were... seperated..." the redheaded girl sniffed as her bright blue eyes were filled with sadness and turned down toward the ground.
"Seperated? You mean by when he was sent to the abbey... you weren't thrown in there too, were you?"
Sally's red and black head shot up at the mention of the abbey and she wondered, "The abbey... how would you know about that place?"
"Because it was where I grew up. Tala and I met there and we became good friends while we were stuck in that awful place."
"But why would you have been sent there? You have such a good life here, don't you?"
"Yeah my Uncle's a good guy and my life may be alright now but it wasn't always like this..." Kai trailed off as it was his turn to glance down.
His blue bangs fell down, shadowing his face so Sally was unable to read his expression but for some reason he seemed to be upset again. Closing the gap between them, Sally placed a hand on the blue haired boy's shoulder.
At her touch his forlorn crimson gaze met with Sally's soft blue depths as the girl comforted in a sympathetic tone, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to pry... please try to cheer up. You're not the only one who's had it rough. So you don't have to be such a tough guy around me, okay?"
"I'm not a tough guy! I just prefer keeping things to myself, you learn to, having to deal with a place like Balkov Abbey. And you never answered my question," Kai stated, remaining next to Sally despite their close distance.
The girl was surprised that he didn't want to push her away as she stuttered, "Well I... um... may have been... but I don't want to talk about it... I'm sorry... I keep pestering you yet I won't tell you anything about myself either... you're probably so mad at me..."
Sally rambled on as her mood changed to a depressed one. The girl felt guilty and burried her head in her hands as tears welled up in her crystal like eyes. The next thing Sally knew she was wrapped in strong arms as she was pulled close against the boy's warm body. Consumed by the bad feeling, Sally just plunged her head into Kai's broad chest and Kai ran his fingers through her strands of red and black hair as she wept.
Kai appeared to be unsure of what to do with the tearful girl as he tried to reassure her, "No, it's alright... I get it, your past was bad and you don't want to talk about it... There's no need to cry... I don't care if you keep it to yourself, okay?"
'It's good he doesn't care... he doesn't need to know about my life as an experiment in the labs of the abbey's basement,' Sally thought in relief as she calmed herself down.
A few minutes later the girl had finally stopped crying and she dried her eyes with the sleeve of her shirt. Even though she felt better now Sally didn't budge from her position in Kai's arms. The blue eyed girl was happy right where she was and instead of pulling away from Kai's embrace she nestled closer into the folds of his short sleeved black shirt.
"Are you okay now?" Kai wanted to know and as Sally looked back up at him she noticed a slight red tint across the older boy's cheeks.
Feeling embarrased by her emotional breakdown Sally sheepishly replied, "Yeah but you must think I'm so stupid now or something... after I got so emotional like that... Are you sure that I really didn't offend you?"
"It's fine, really. I don't like talking about my past so why would I want to push you into telling me yours? Though I bet your past doesn't keep you from sleeping at night."
"Maybe it does and you don't know about it," Sally mumbled sleepily as she began to drift off, feeling safe there in the boy's arms.
"Sally?" Kai voiced in a soft tone as he nudged the dozing girl.
Startled awake by him, Sally yawned, "Huh... what is it?"
"You fell asleep on me and this really isn't the best place to be sleeping... if you do you'll get my Uncle to start fretting, not to mention it upsetting your brother."
"Oh sorry... I guess that I'm just tired..." the girl apologized with a blush as she mentally decided, 'It's not like I'm really going to tell him I fell asleep because of how comfy he is and that he makes me feel safe... It would probably scare him off and it's not like he'd believe me anyway.'
"Well if you're that tired why don't I take you up to my room? I think my Uncle's neglected to set up one of the spare ones for you and it's not like my bed really gets used anyway."
The girl would have protested but she was too tired by that point. Sally allowed Kai to lead her off as the two of them crept back into the mansion. She followed Kai up to his room and was surprised to see the sheer size of it once he had opened the door. The boy allowed Sally to sprawl her tiny form onto his large bed as the tired girl collapsed into its soft pillows.
Sighing in contempt Sally asked, "Are you sure that I can sleep here?"
"Yeah, it's not like I'm going to be able to sleep so you might as well get some use out of my bed. Have a good night."
As the crimson eyed boy turned to go Sally reached out and grabbing his arm she pleaded, "Kai... please don't leave me.."
"But I can't sleep... not tonight when my nightmares are far too real..."
"Please stay with me, I don't want you to go. You can sleep if you try, i know it... and I'll be right here to chase all the bad dreams away."
The boy was confused as he wondered, "You will? But why would you want to do that for me?"
"Because you look like you need someone to help you and I want to be your friend. Now get over here and no being the tough guy, trying to tell me that it's nothing and you'll be fine alright?" Sally smiled playfully as she pulled Kai down onto his large bed to lie next to her.
"Seeing how you're not giving me much of a choice, I guess I could try if you really think that you can help me," the boy replied as he made himself comfortable in the fluffy blankets.
"Good... nighty night, tough guy," Sally drowsily teased.
The girl felt as if no harm would come to her while she remained there in the boy's pressence. Snuggling up close next to Kai, Sally was instantly out cold in the warmth of the boy's arms and the fluffy blankets. The two teens lying together in peace and contentment as they fell into a deep sleep.
Well that`s all for now. Yes I know it`s out of season for Christmas but I had fun with this and I hope that you like this funny little thing so far anyway. I will have the rest of this posted soon in the meantime leave me a review to let me know what you think of it.