this is my first atempt at a Rick/Kai story so please forgive the crapyness
Disclamer:Not mine wish it was though I mean Beyblade the plot is mine.
It was a cold and lonely January morning and people were headed to work, so busy that they didn't notice a thing the only thing on their mind was to get to work on time and out of the cold. No one noticed the cold and hungry, just the time that they did not have. A chill ran down my spine as I watched them from my usual spot in the third allyway from the left of the Hobby shop. It was weird usually there were others but I seem to be the only one left in this area. For the past month or so all the other people like me have vanished like they never exsited the only ones left are the children and the girl with the new born baby but all the other teenagers and adults have dissapeared and I think I know why, people got tired of seeing the people that have no home for one reason or another. They think we're all the same, dead beats with no money but that's not true there are some that are just dead beats but most of us are people who were injured and couldn't work but didn't get disabilaty and lost their home. And than there are children who have no parents or their parents left them to die because of money problems and others who had to run away because they were abused, raped, unjustly punished, used, and unfortulantly there are thoughs who ran away because they were justly punished and got mad and ran away, they're the ones who tend to be ignored by everyone. Finaly there are teenage girls who were kicked out or had to run away because they got pregnet, teenage boys who were kicked out or ran away because they got a girl pregnet and then there are teens who were kicked out because they're a family discrase. Now days that is much less likly but it still happens and I am the best example of a family discrase. I use to be famous but I was only a world class Blader and there is no money in that sport unless you become the world champion then you get some money but not enough to live off of. It has been 6 months since I dropped off the face of the earth and although I sat here every day and watched as my former friends looked for me slowly I began to realize that if they truely wished to find me they would have and yet they have not infact they stoped their search for me 4 months ago well most of them did Max, Rei, and suprisenly Rick did not stop untill last month. Still I wish they had found me but they never even looked my way just like all the others who refuse to acknowledge the homeless.
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"Max, what are you doing I thought we gave up searching a month ago!?" Rick yelled as he tryed to stop Max. "No we were just taking a break to see if he would show up on his own." The blond shouted back as he raced past the few people on the sidewalk. "Oh, man. Max It's clear He doesn't want to be found so why do you keep searching for him!" Rick yelled as he again tryed to stop his teammate. "You mean why do we keep searching, you don't really want to stop looking either, do you Rick?" The blonde blader yelled back to his buff teammate. "uhhh, well, I, ummmm, you, see, I um." Rick sttutered as he caught up with his stubborn blond teammate. "Hahaha, Rick you're unbelevable." Max laughed/said as they continued their search. "What!? what do you mean I'm unblevable" Rick asked as he stoped near an allyway causeing Max to stop and turn around. "I mean it's unblevable that you of all people have fallen in love with Kai." Max said in a matter-of-fact tone.
"Say what?! what, I don't, what makes you think I'm in love with Kai?" Rick asked as a slight blush appered on his face.
"Well for one you're blushing, two you didn't deny it, three you didn't want to take a break from searching for him and four it's as obvious as the sun is hot." Max said once again in a matter-of-fact tone. "So how long have you known?" Rick asked as recovered from the shock that his well kept secret was not all that well kept. "Hmmm since you lost to him in Madrid." Max said as he thought back to that day. "Wha.." was all Rick said as he realized that his well kept secret was never a secret. after several minutes of silence a figure shifted in the shadows. "Hey, Max." Rick said as he got over his second shock in the last 10 minutes "Yes, Rick." Max asked as he came back from day-dreamland. "Do you think Kai knows?" Rick asked as he started to walk again. "Know, what? about you being in love with him?" Max said as he began walking with Rick. "Yeah." was the only thing Rick said as he became quite again waiting for Max's answer. "No." Max's answer caused Rick to stop in his tracks, "No?" but he quickly recovered and caught back up with Max.
"What do you mean 'no' I thought you said it was as obvious as the sun is hot?" Rick asked as his temper started to flare. "I did and it is, but Kai is extremly oblivous to matters of love." Max answered in his starting-to-sound-like-Kenny-matter-of-fact tone. "Say, what?" Rick asked to no one as he yet again stoped in his tracks. Max only shook his head at his tanned teammate. "Rick you need to stop doing that or we'll never find Kai." said as he walked over to his still shocked teammate. "Max, I feel like all this searching is a wild goose chase." Rick said as he was still in shock from all the imformation he had recived within the last 12 minutes. "Rick, what do you mean, are you giving up?"Max asked in an unbeliving tone.
"No it's just it feels like he's been right under our noses this whole time." Rick said as he looked around for any sign of the stotic teen. "Weird I've been getting the same feeling since we started searching for him." Max said as he began to look around as well. "Where do you think he is then?" Max asked as he had know idea where to search that they had not all ready tried. "I don't know, but I've also noticed that a lot of the homeless have dissappered recently." Rick said as he stared at the allyway they had passed. "Rick what does that have to do with anything?" Max asked as he tried to look his teammate in the eye. "I don't kno...Max no one ever checked any of the homeless shelters for Kai did they?" Rick suddenly asked startling his younger teammate. "No but I don't think Kai would be in a homeless shelter or even homeless for that matter." Max stated as he wandered about Rick's snaity. "Max that's why we haven't found him yet, we've been to narrow minded about it, we haven't even considered all the possibilities, we have wasted so much time mindlessly searching for him that by now the chances of him being alive is only 6." Rick said as he kinda became a different person all togather leaving a very stunned Max. "Rick you sounded like a detective." Max said as he recovered slightly. "Yeah, well, my dad was a detective." Rick said as he became himself sorta. "Oh." was all Max said as the shock returned.
"Rick? is in love with me? They do care about me? Why didn't they come to that conclusion sooner. Why am I asking myself all these questions? Have I lost my mind?" Kai asked himself as he tried to get over the shock of what he had heard.
Ok well there is chapter one it was going to be a one-shot but that didn't go as planed and just so you know Max and Rick were coming from tyson's dojo and are now standing infront of the second allyway to the left of the Hobby Shop just a few feet from where Kai is I think I made Rick a little OOC I'm not sure so please tell me and I am very sorry about the spelling errors