OH, it's a new story! I wasn't going to upload this as I thought I already had enough stories to be getting on with...oh well, that idea just didn't work out I guess.

So, this is my first M rated story, should be exciting. It'll be fun to take things up a notch. But I warn you now, there are plenty of warped ideas in here.

Category: Beyblade.

Rating: M

Parings: Tala x Kai. Hiro x Ray. Bryan x Ray.

Genre: Angst/Drama

Summary: Tala's in danger, but in order to help him Kai must obey his grandfather's wishes. However something is amiss and, in this game, it is better to keep one's enemies closer... Tala x Kai. ? x Ray.

WARNINGS: Foul language. Violence. Attempted suicide. Rape. Yaoi. Character death. Murder. Warped ideas.

Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade, nor any of its characters.

There will be some OCs but they are not main characters and I couldn't think of any other way to set this story out without using OCs, I will try and keep to the Beyblade characters as I can. The only OC that you really need to know about is a man called Zechariah Isaac Peter (Zip) AKA Renshu. The reason for his exsistance will become obvious as the story progresses.

I don't think I have any more to say except...

Enjoy!

Hateful Pleasures

Chapter One: Deep Within The Shadows

Kai's eyes flew open and he sat up sharply; something was wrong, but he didn't know what. Climbing out of bed he went quickly over to his large window and looked out at the windswept gardens as the clouds above rolled in with the promise of more rain. But that wasn't the problem; quickly Kai left the bedroom and strode through the vast corridor and down the stairs to the ground floor.

Something was wrong; he could feel it, like a pressure against his body, as if something was clutching his chest with claws that sank under his skin to grasp hold of his pulsing heart. His clothes were thin, slack trousers with a sleeveless top; the cold air pricked his skin but Kai was unaffected, instead he was using his senses to pick up any unknown atmosphere. The old crumbling mansion in which he strode was dark and empty; it was like any typical horror movie setting, the corridors were long and shadowed. He was walking blind, unable to see the objects he passed; he had no need to see, however, nothing had changed and the old building was silent.

Entering the kitchens Kai paused and looked around; the cupboards lined the darkened wall in the mid of night, nothing looked strange but Kai's eyes overlooked nothing as he checked the tap to see the water gush in to the sink and down the drain. He checked the fridge and found nothing of consequence; he checked cupboards searching for something moved, but the meagre supply of food was not changed.

Silently Kai stood in the kitchen doorway and closed his eyes using his other senses to tell him what was wrong; listening hard he heard the rattling of the old windows as the wind battered the glass in the rickety frames. He heard the gnawing of wood from somewhere under the floorboards by a mouse or some other creature. He heard his breathing slow and methodical; he heard his own heart beating strong in his chest. He heard the rustle of the leaves against the window outside and thwack of the branches as they hit the window.

He opened his eyes.

Noiselessly he stepped from the kitchen and walked through the chilly hallway back to the entrance hall; the stone flooring and decaying carpet were ice under his bare feet and the wind forced its way through the old gaps of the foundations. Kai reached the entrance hall once more and walked to the large imposing front doors; he paused, but only for a second, before he turned the dulled brass handle and pulled open the door.

The wind hit him face on and his hair blew hard in to his eyes; he pushed this aside and for a moment looked down the long driveway to the grand gates of the Hiwatari mansion. His senses tingled and rain spattered down on him as it blew in along with the wind; his brow furrowed, he tried to listen for any noise, but sound was swept away by the oncoming storm. He looked for any movement; the gnarled trees that lined the road were bent almost double under the strength of the air, the rotting grass was soggy and swampy puddles were dancing as the rain hardened.

He stepped out; the wind hit him like a huge hand smacking him to the ground, his body tensed to brace against the force as he walked lightly down the steps to the gritty road. Within seconds his clothes were soaked and heavy on his body; above him thunder rolled, but he missed the lighting. For the time of year it was unusual for Tokyo to suffer such weather; but this had been brewing for days and now the heavens opened their mouths to scream. The wind howled and raged along that barren road and behind him the windows rattled violently; despite the angry storm, Kai walked down to the main gates.

The snow that covered the ground in Moscow was thin and icy; the wind blew viciously sending flames of fire up Tala's back as his cry tore from his bloody lips and echoed round the empty abandoned Abbey. He was outside, naked, stripped of his clothes and tied to the railings framing the cursed building as his back bulged with blood that dribbled down from the lashes that formed a cruel pattern. His chest was heaving, his heart pounding and, as the pain dulled yet again in to a continuous throb, he managed a breathless laugh which revealed his crimson stained teeth.

He'd bitten his tongue and spat the blood from his mouth, his spit smacked on the railing he was tied to and it congealed there making him retch again "that all you got!" he rasped to the gasping man behind him "I thought better of you, Zip"

Zip. Short for Zechariah Isaac Peter. Tala remembered him from the Abbey days: the man who had beaten the children of the Abbey as if they were nothing more than objects. He had been under Boris's command, obeying anything Boris ordered, like a dog performing tricks for a small treat. His scruffy black hair and wild eyes reminded Tala of someone but the wolf was in no state to recall any hazy memories, now he only flickered his tired eyes to the second man standing in the vicinity "this is a sad situation, Boris"

Boris nodded to Zip who raised his darkened whip once more.

Tala gritted his teeth, willing himself not to make a sound, he knew the pain coming, knew it made him weak to release the howls of agony, knew he was being path- "AGHH!"

The whip struck his bare back; lashing against his legs, bottom, and thighs. His sweaty blooded body sagged but, with the aid of the robes tying his wrists to the railings, he succeeded in standing. His breath came in loud gasps of pain and his head hung exhaustedly, he could barely stay still for the heavy weight his body had become. He heard Boris take a step forward to see if he'd lost consciousness and anger fuelled Tala's weary deadened limbs once more.

"Back working for…Voltaire, are we?" he panted achieving the hint of a sneer in his failing voice "BEGA didn't work out…so you have to go crawling back to your old boss"

"Again"

Boris's voice was barely audible over Tala's wheezes, but seconds later the whip crashed down on Tala again and the wolf had no doubt the man had spoken, that attack had been in anger. Tala had touched a nerve and Boris was making him pay, all because not ten feet away Voltaire Hiwatari stood leaning on his walking stick with the same sour calloused expression Tala had always known him for. Despite the fact he could not see Voltaire the wolf knew the old man was bored: Voltaire was an impatient man and Tala was holding out longer than Boris had expected.

As if to prove Tala right Boris took a step forward; he grabbed a handful of matted red hair and dragged the wolf's head back "talk, Tala, you do not need to suffer. All I need is you to talk and the pain will stop"

Tala's eyes were half-closed and his vision was blurred; he couldn't breathe properly with Boris pulling his head back, the action closed his throat and the redhead choked. His body shook with the cold wind that dried the blood and sweat; his knees were buckling, his lungs were begging for air and his entire being felt heavy.

But still, he managed an answer.

"Ha. What pain?"

Furiously Boris threw Tala's neck, a bone in the redhead's neck cracked but Tala failed to notice as his eyes closed and he was welcomed in to the safety behind. He knew what was coming.

"Again"

"ARGH!"

Kai paused once again, this time just short of his gates; though the structure was grand, when up close the rust and decay became obvious showing the age and crumbling of the once fine but now unwanted Hiwatari mansion. A movement caught his eye and finally Kai found something that shouldn't be. Slowly he walked towards the gates; he pulled a key from around his neck and unlocked the chain which slid and clanked its way to the ground. Kai pushed opened the right hand gate and slipped out; he stopped by the dark thick shadows under the tall brick boundary walls and stared in to the black.

"Who are you?" he asked "what do you want?"

As his eyes grew accustomed to the dark he could see the blurred outline of a human, crouched low and slumped against the wall; his hearing told the phoenix that this person was in pain. There were low gassy whimpers and the occasional gasp, a small choke indicated the stranger tried to speak.

A hand reached out from the darkness, it reached for Kai shaking and desperate; the phoenix frowned as recognition rustled in the back of his mind. He took a step forward, a step closer; but the hand ran out of energy and fell back in to the shadow. It was followed by a whimper of pain.

"Why are you here?" Kai asked "I won't help you until you give me an indication of who you are"

There was a gasp; the slumped figure tried to move, tried to push themselves up with the help of the wall. But there was a choke, a gasp and the figure slid back down limply and weakly.

Broken words reached Kai, a breathless voice that barely found the energy to speak; it hurt to talk, it hurt to speak, it hurt to move, it hurt stay alive. But the stranger needed to reach Kai, needed to make Kai understand. The hand slowly appeared from out the darkness and from the liquid shadows there was one broken, stilted and choked out word.

"…Please!"

"Tell me, Valkov" Boris whispered, "tell me, and the pain will stop"

Blood dribbled down Tala's face from where Boris had struck him with the whip in anger; he'd been punched in the mouth too, it wouldn't surprise him if he lost a couple of teeth. The world around him was cold, but Tala had lost the sense of feeling a long time ago. Except for the pain. The pain just wouldn't stop.

"Never!" wheezed the redhead "you'll…have to kill me…" a deranged smile touched the redhead's lips, he grinned a bloody leer "won't you enjoy doing that"

"Again" commanded Boris to the man behind and Tala screamed hard as the chain like rope struck his back again, cut his skin again, scarred him again, wrenched pain and terror through his body again.

He coughed and blood spattered the railings, his throat was burnt and hoarse from pain; but still, some part of him hung on, some part of clung to sanity even as the whip ricocheted from the small of his back, his ass, the back of his legs.

"A little pain…never made me talk, Boris!" Tala growled fiercely but his body was dying, his legs were giving way and the only thing keeping him upright were the binds that tied him to the rail "you should…know…that…by now!"

"Again"

The rope smacked against him again; but Tala had no energy to cry, his throat was sore, it stung and only a rasp managed to escape. He was on his knees now; on his knees, his arms stretched above him as the Russian night finally released the gentle snow it had been clasping within its clouds.

"Now speak, Tala!"

Tala had nothing left to remember, his mind was falling and his vision blurring, but, despite the effort and pain it cost him, he still managed to answer back with defiance "…No…"

"Again!"

The whip struck Tala.

But he would never tell Boris.

Pain ripped across Tala's back again.

He gave a growl and spat the blood flooding his mouth; he was so tired his body had travelled in to that state that kept going. Adrenaline had kicked in and now there was nothing Boris could do. The only problem was if Tala broke now, he wouldn't be able to return to his resistant state. This had to stop. Now.

"You're…wasting…your time…Boris"

"Tell me, Tala!" Boris rose his voice above the crack of the whip "tell me!"

"Go…go…fuck yourself"

Boris held out a hand and the beating stopped for a moment, Zip gasping with the exertion of raising the heavy whip again and again. Tala released a groan and hung his head against the rail; through the drifting snow Boris stalked over to the naked boy and leant down, his clammy breath warmed Tala's face and neck. With his hand Boris took Tala's face and forced the wolf's head to him; he gently trailed fingers down Tala's bloody face and caressed the taunt neck of the young man, his fingertips drawing half shapes with the blood.

"I will make you talk, Tala" Boris whispered.

His hand slip down Tala's body, careful to avoid the lacerations of the whip. His palm ghosted over Tala's nipples, down the heaving chest and further south down the stomach and to the navel. He pressed his lips to Tala's skin and licked away the blood, Zip turned his head in disgust; Boris's hand drifted further down and between Tala's legs. He stayed there for a moment, his hand massaging; but the wolf was unresponsive.

"You will talk, Tala, if it's now or later. I don't mind, I can wait but eventually you will tell me" now Boris traced the shell of Tala's ear with his tongue and he bit it gently "just tell me, make all this stop. All you have to do is tell me where Kai is, and then we can stop this madness" Boris kissed Tala's shoulder "and I go back to being nice to you"

Tala turned bloodshot eyes on the man leaning over his shoulder; he repressed the shudder that ran down his spine when Boris's hands slowly fondled his body. Instead he coughed, hunched his shoulders and gasped, "keep…dreaming…"

Boris looked deep in to Tala's eyes, searching for the small boy that had once obeyed his every command. But in Tala's eyes, there was nothing. Boris nodded slowly, he drew away from Tala and pulled himself up again; and then he grabbed the wolf's shoulders and dragged the wilted body upward, regardless of the shriek of pain this inflicted.

"Then suffer" Boris turned, and nodded to Zip "hang there until you die"

And Tala howled with pain.

His body was shaking now, uncontrollably; his vision was hazy, his head was light and spinning. He was losing awareness he realised; soon all his senses would fail him, and the pain would stop. A smile, a crazy insane smile, spread across Tala's face as he saw that he had won. Whether he died or merely lost consciousness he had still won: Boris would still not know where Kai was.

Kai's crimson eyes were frosty as he gazed upon the person he'd just dragged all the way up the drive, in to the abandoned Manor and dropped on to the first bed he'd reached. Ray had been beaten, to within an inch of his life so it seemed; and now he lay collapsed on the bed, barely aware of the world around him.

The neko-jin knew one thing though. He knew Kai had helped him. Despite what he had inflicted upon Kai, he knew the phoenix had helped him. He'd tried to thank Kai, to tell him how much that meant…but his body had given up on him and he'd drifted away in to a sleepless slumber.

Kai drew breath as he watched Ray; after what Ray had done to him he hadn't known why he'd expended so much effort and energy bringing the neko-jin here. He should have left him in the gutter to die. Part of him still wanted to that. But…

But Ray was a teammate. Someone Kai had known. Someone Kai had trusted…though that trust had wilted somewhat now. The phoenix knew, however much he wanted to, he wouldn't have been able to just leave Ray there in pain and suffering.

The door opened behind Kai and his reflexes moved in to action before he caught himself and his body remembered that he was no longer alone in this crumbling building.

"I've got some water"

Hiro Granger.

The last thing Kai had wanted was to bring Hiro in to this mess; but he'd had no choice, it was not an option to take Ray to the hospital and Hiro was a Doctor with medical skills better than Kai.

The phoenix watched as Hiro now placed a bowl of warm water and a cloth; Hiro sat on the bed next to the silent tiger and gently dipped the cloth in the water before pressing the dampened cloth against Ray's forehead.

"Will he be alright?" Kai asked in a chilly voice.

"Yes" Hiro nodded "he's strong, he should survive this easily" he looked down at Ray for a long time, taking in Ray's features and the bruises that marked his face.

Then he looked at Kai.

"What's going on, Kai?"

"That is none of your business"

"You call me up in the middle of the night to tell me that you're living in an abandoned Manor and you found Ray beaten in the gutter" Hiro reproached, "I think I retain the right to know what's going on"

"You have no such right" the phoenix disagreed.

"What's going on, Kai?" Hiro was not dissuaded "where have you been? The whole world doesn't know where you are, the Bladebreakers have been frantic about you"

"I have an issue to deal with, I do not need the Bladebreakers butting in" Kai said emotionlessly.

"Then how did Ray know where to find you?"

"I do not know" those red eyes looked back at Ray again "but he's smart, and he knew about this mansion from when I mentioned it to him a couple of years ago. I imagine he merely put two and two together"

"But why was he beaten?"

"What makes you think there's a specific reason?" asked Kai "why was this not a random mugging?"

Hiro gave a soft laugh "because you're involved, Kai, and you know some dangerous people" he looked over his shoulder at the phoenix "tell me, what's going on?" he asked for a third time.

Kai's jaw tightened "I'm telling you nothing" he replied coolly "tend to Ray, and then return to your life"

So, what is happening to Kai? Why is he hiding? What has Ray done to him? All shall be answered in upcoming chapters!

Ok, what do you think? -Bites her nails- Is it good? Are they out of character? PLEASE-PLEASE-PLEASE tell me if they are OOC, it helps me when I write.

Thank you for reading!

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Kiki