DHMCUAM: O.K, my first yaoi- Ray/Tala, cause there needs to be more luv 4 this pairing.

"Kai please!!!"

"No."

"Pwease?!"
"I said no Ray."

"KAI HE'S GONNA KILL ME!"

"Your problem, your mess, you deal with it."

"I'm only asking if I can hide in your wardrobe!"

"And crease my shirts? No. Way."

"I'm about to be murdered by a demonic redhead and your worried about creased shirts?!"

"No I just don't feel inclined to be helpful."

"Screw you!" Ray yelled, sprinting along the hallway of the dojo and pulling open every cupboard he could find

"Too big, too small, too dusty, full of crap… Perfect!" Tyson, Max, Kenny and Kai stared at Ray who was somehow managing to fold himself into the tiny space that was the airing cupboard. He craned his neck upwards

"If Tala asks- I'm on a one way trip to Australia, I am not here!" Tyson tried to suppress a laugh that quickly turned to a squeak noticing the shadowy figure in the doorway holding a key. Tala's aqua eyes narrowed scanning the hallway, gripping the letter from the BBA.

"Where's Ray?" he asked tightly, his knuckles turning white on the piece of paper.

"On a one way trip to Australia and he's NOT HERE!!!" Max recited, a little too quickly to be believable. Tala smirked and closed his eyes.

"You're lying. He's here alright." he replied monotonously

"and how do you know that?" Tyson challenged raising an eyebrow. Tala rolled his eyes holding up the keys

"Even the most stupid of people would miss these after a while." Ray cursed, and held in a gasp of pain as his head hit a sharp object. Tala's eyes fixed on the cupboard and in the suffocating darkness Ray stiffened. Call it cat senses, call it psychic powers- it didn't matter, Ray knew when he was being watched, and he also knew that Tala's hearing was just as acute as his own. Tala yawned and leaned against the banister, determined to wind Ray up a little bit, he started tapping a distracting rhythm on the door. Ray grimaced but was unable to do anything to block the sound, trying to concentrate instead on the conversations outside of his hellhole.

"Tala mind telling us why you're here?"

"Yes."

"Why do you want Ray?"

"As I just said Tyson- none of your business." the wolf replied coldly, the tapping becoming more insistent

"Now I wonder where Ray could be?" Tala asked airily, directing his voice at the door of the cupboard, "I wonder how he feels about spiders?" he continued reaching into his pocket and drawing out a huge tarantula. Max and Tyson recoiled as one, and even Kai looked slightly uncomfortable. Ray froze, spiders were his worst ever fear in the history of the world. If one so much as set one hairy legged foot in his kitchen, it was out with the bug spray and a massacre with ray's slipper. Seriously the kitchen was turned upside down, he started shaking, though Tala continued his mockery.

"I wonder how he would feel if I were to let one loose in the house? Say… In this cupboard maybe?" his voice turned low and menacing towards the end, and his hand stretched out further to the cupboard, opening it up and tossing the tarantula in as quickly as possible. There was total silence for a whole 3 seconds.

"AHHH!!! GET IT OFF ME!!!!" came the girly screech as Ray burst out of the airing cupboard screaming his head off, arms flailing at the hairy spider attached to his pony tail. Tala just stood there smirking, watching as Tyson and Max tried unsuccessfully to whack the spider off Ray.

"Aw, did Spindleshanks scare you?" Tala mocked. "Hold still." he commanded. Ray froze, refusing to cry though he was very much aware (scared witless) of the THING on his hair. HIS HAIR! Ray was gonna have 3 consecutive showers with 5 lots of shampoo as soon as this nightmare was over. Tala scooped "Spindleshanks" off Ray and holding him out, an evil gleam in his eyes.

"He's harmless. Stroke him." Ray shook his head wordlessly stepping backwards, utterly terrified, golden orbs in slits. Kai frowned at Tala

"Enough Ivanov. Put that… Creature back in your pocket." Tala gave Kai a glare for interrupting his "fun" but obeyed. He yawned

"So Ray, now you've finally decided to quit playing 1 man, -oh sorry- 1 cat hide and seek you can explain this." Tala held up the crumpled BBA letter that Ray had already received. The necko jin swallowed nervously, ready to run if Tala showed any signs of violence, (which was unfortunately pretty likely). Ray bit his lip

"Erm well…"

"Can someone pleae explain WTF's going on?!" Tyson exploded staring from Ray to Tala and back again. Ray sighed and held up the letter to Tyson

"Read." was all he said. Tyson frowned and began to read the letter aloud

"To Ray Kon.

We received your wishes to participate in the upcoming tournament. For this tournament you will be randomly selected with one other player with whom you've never fought with before. There will be a number of large changes to the schedule this year. You will be competing in a tag team tournament with a crucial difference. You will be Beyblading to music. This will be a new fresh challenge for you, and is designed to test your concentration and as you've probably guessed- you will be required to dance.

Look forward to seeing you in the tournament

Mr .S. Dickenson

Tournament Date: 14th April 2008

Team Tag Partner- Tala Ivanov.

Tyson finished reading and looked up, only to find the room deserted. From outside he heard a fading scream

"IT WASN'T MY FAULT TALA!!!"

A/N: I'm trying a slightly different style of writing at the moment- dialogue scripts with a little bit of humour. Hope you enjoyed :)