Hello, this little story came to me while listening to 'I'm Still Here" from the movie Treasure Planet. I started thinking about the fact his fathers left and than about unconditional love and somehow I ended up with promises and all of that endless and pointless thinking led to this two/thee-shot. Please enjoy and R&R!!!

Disclaimer: No, I don't own. If I would.....now than Beyblade would be a very interesting show!!!!

Ray's POV

Kai always puzzled me, even after all this time we've been friends with him, I still don't understand him fully. None of us do. That's why it's so rare to figure out one of the many secrets that surround him. And that is exactly what happened that one fateful night.

"Ray! Over here!!!"

I looked to my left to see Tyson, Max and Kenny waving at me. The park we were in was buzzing with activity, mothers playing with their children and the fathers watching over them from the side. It was a sunny day and the sky was a sea blue.

I felt a sense of peace wash over me and I jogged over to the guys. They were grinning like crazy, even Kenny. They were sitting on the grass in the shadow of a huge oak tree. I looked at the three smiling faces and suddenly noticed something………….someone wasn't here.

"Hey guys, where's Kai?"

The effect this simple question had was astonishing. The smiles dropped from their faces and were exchanged by looks of shock and…fear?
I than noticed the air suddenly went cold and the scenery changed. The happy families vanished and were replaced by a total emptiness all around us. The tree went from a happy green to a dead grey and the grass disappeared to make place for a never ending sheet of snow. Thick white snowflakes fell from the sky which was no longer blue and peaceful but grey and depressing. The light feeling I felt was consumed by a feeling of dread, and this only strengthened as I looked at the faces in front of me. They were staring at something behind me with their mouths wide-open as if they wanted to scream but couldn't find their voices.

I felt a shiver run down my spine and had the unnerving urge to run and leave this place.
This urge, however, was repressed by a voice that came from behind me, a voice very familiar.

"You p-promised."

It sounded broken and hurt. For a second I couldn't believe that that voice could sound so small. I couldn't believe that the person to who that voice belonged to could express so much emotion just by saying two words. But most of all, I couldn't believe that those two little words could make me want to cry.

Needing proof before I jumped to any rash decisions I quickly turned around…..and stopped breathing.

There, right behind me, and now, right in front of me, was Kai. But something was totally wrong. His usual pose of power and strength was gone. Instead, he looked like a gust of wind could break him to pieces. And for the first time in my life I realized that Kai was just a kid. He was just like the rest of us. Just because he always acted mature and grown-up didn't mean that was all there was to him. He was just a kid, and right now, he looked like a very hurt and very lost boy.

His eyes, always so full of fire and determination, were now filled with pain, confusion and…hope? But as I looked at him, it slowly vanished. As I stood there, watching him, the hope in his eyes disappeared, being replaced by betrayal.

I now understood why I felt like crying. Because seeing Kai or any of my friends that hurt and breakable was something I never wanted to see again. Not wanting this to go on I slowly took a step forward but stopped when Kai's eyes widened in fear and he started shaking all over. I wanted to say something to make him understand I didn't mean any harm but was cut of by a scream…his scream.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"

"Kai!!"

Sitting up straight in my bed I stared at the wall on the other side of the room while waiting for my breaths to slow.
That had been one weird dream, or nightmare?

"No……..no……..I………you promised……NO!"

With wide eyes I listened to that same voice whisper words that would be incomprehensible to any other person but were caught by my sensitive hearing.

Not understanding how I could still be dreaming I searched for the source of those pained whispers and quickly found it.

Kai was clutching his blankets in a death grip and was tossing his head around every few seconds as if trying to escape something. In the dim light of the moon filtering through a crack in the curtains I could see the sweat drops that had gathered on his brow. His expression was one of fear and confusion, nearly the same one as in my dream.

Not thinking about, well anything, I jumped out of my bed on quickly got to his. Taking hold of his shoulders I tried to shake him out of his nightmare.

" Kai! Wake up, it's just a dream…wake up Kai!!"

Unfortunately this didn't have the desired effect and his pleads and shouts only became louder, making me wonder how the rest of the hotel hadn't woken up yet.

This thought however was quickly pushed aside as Kai was now using some sort of sentences to throw at whatever was tormenting him this much.

"NO!!! Don't, you promised..I didn't do anything……….Please don't!!!!!!!"

I wanted to try to wake him up again but suddenly he went quiet. His shouting turned into soft mumbling and he stopped tossing, he had even released the blankets. This, however, didn't shock me as much as it would with any other person. What I noticed next did. His eyes were still tightly closed but that didn't prevent the tears from slipping out of the corners. The sight had me completely stunned. Kai Hiwatari….The Kai Hiwatari, was crying. Sure, he was sleeping, but still seeing him express any emotion is a wonder in itself. The fact that that emotion was sadness was, well…surprising? I had no idea how to describe it, especially since I couldn't really connect it to what he was muttering.

"Always….always break it…always hurts……..always break their promises….always…."

I stayed their, sitting on my knees next to my captain's bed for I don't know how long. But by the time I went back to my bed He had stopped crying and mumbling and looked peaceful.

The next morning nothing changed and Kai didn't act any different. I was starting to think he didn't remember his nightmare, and who knows, maybe he didn't. But I sure did. I would always remember it. I would always ponder over who he had been talking to, and why he had said they 'always break their promises'.

Little did I know, I was going to need the information, to save Kai's life.

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-xxx- empie