A/N: I do not own beyblade, and bla bla, fill in the usual disclaimer stuff here. Here, I'm assuming that Dranzer never came back after that last match in G Revolutions.

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CHAPTER 1

A Hater Of Introductions

His rival's face stood out clearly in his mind. Those lips, he thought dreamily. I could kiss them, kiss them and keep on kissing them –

Suddenly, Kai felt something he thought he'd never sense again.

But no, wait, it couldn't be, she's gone, I set her free at the beybattle! he thought groggily, his mind still half on his long-time crush. Did I imagine it?

As if to prove him wrong, the sensation came again.

"Dranzer?!" he gasped. "Dranzer, where are you?!" he exclaimed, half expecting an answer, but his words were met with nothing but a blank silence. Not letting that dissuade him, he focused, concentrated...

...And understood what he sensed. His bitbeast's soul, the spirit, was concentrating on a body.

Dranzer was finally able to inhabit a body, after such a long time! But how could she? She had been unable to do it at first!

In answer, he heard that majestic voice which he thought he'd never hear again, albeit faintly. "Master," her voice said, "Come seek me at Earth."

He called out to her again, but she did not answer.

Violet was fed up beyond measure. She gazed blearily at her physics textbook; how much more of "The human Eye and the colourful world" could she bear? The chapter was actually simple, but it involved too less problems and took much memorizing. She took a lot of time to memorize..

Sadly, her 10th grade annual board examinations were coming up, and she had a reputation to maintain. Straight 'A's in everything was a minimum requirement she'd set for herself. This was the hardest exam she was going to write, but she was determined to get the best marks possible.

Inside, she knew that she wasn't doing it for her reputation. Or parents. Or the teachers.

She was mainly doing it to beat that arrogant bastard, who went by the name of Nuran Alath.

Violet hated him, oh how she hated him. That arrogant bitch, with his stupid trademark spiked-up hair at the front and his stupid, deep-yet-high voice and his shy smile...just thinking about him made her insides boil with rage.

First her parents disallowing her to go to the latest movie, then that chapter, and then her thinking about this guy. Great. This day was getting better and better.

And the funny thing? Nuran had done her no wrong. He was just the unfortunate cause of a promise broken...

...The promise that she'd taken in the starting of the seventh grade. Violet should never fall in love. She had understood that it brought nothing but trouble. Broken hearts. Mental pain. AND distraction from studies. She made an exception to fictional characters, though; it was impossible not to have a crush on Loki and Wolverine. She should've known that love was inevitable.

But her heart wasn't one to let her off THAT easy.

Till then, she had known Nuran as her best friend in the third grade– and rival since then, when their divisions were reshuffled. She knew him as a confident, humorous(specializing in lame humour) boy; an excellent rival. She competed with him in EVERY Damn exam.

And Violet had fallen in love with Nuran near the starting of the eighth grade. Dag nab her hormones. She'd tried to deny it to herself. She couldn't.

Then she took another oath, one which she was determined to keep. Nobody could know, least of all him. Not telling it to her friends was easy, as she didn't have much friends. Wow, perks of being forever alone material. But the pain of unrequited love was hard to deal with. Many times, she'd just wanted to tell the guy. But she couldn't break her promise.

The mental pain and everything coupled together had made her start to hate him.

Violet's thoughts were interrupted by a figure clambering onto her hand.

"Dranzer," she said softly, as the dull Brown house lizard looked at her with black, beady eyes.

The clock struck 1 P.M.

Shit. "I should get back to studying, right?" she said guiltily.

Dranzer, almost as if understanding her, nodded her head. Violet was so thankful she had Dranzer, even though she'd just met her the past week or so.

Violet sighed, "I guess I'll do some questions, then." She was on her way to the book-shelf when –

"Aah!" she screamed, and backed into a corner.

A figure was materializing in front of her! Deep Brown eyes appeared at first, gazing into her own black ones. A shock of blue-grey hair, and two navy blue triangular strips on the sides, and a white scarf –

"What's wrong?" her mom called from downstairs, no doubt hearing her scream.

"N- nothing," Violet managed to shout back. "Just a –" Dragon? Gryphon? Or the real thing? "Cockroach!"

That didn't change the fact that ghostly Kai Hiwatari was not a cockroach.

Before she could get another ridiculous reaction like fainting, Kai spoke. "So you're the one who managed to bring Dranzer back," Kai said in his deep, rich voice. "I'm Kai Hiwatari."

Just that remark made her speak. "I know your name is Kai," she said tersely. How could she not? He was her all-time favourite character, albeit beating V from V for Vendetta by a very small margin. "I'm Violet. Now what the heck is – " she gestured hopelessly.

"Sit down," he said, shooting a look at the lizard. "I'll explain."

Oh, how Kai hated introductions.