AHH!!! MY BRAIN!!! IT IS EVIL!!! Yes, another story from moi! Well now I have another story to keep in the back of my mind... Please read and review... let me know what you think and if I should continue it...

Disclaimer:Let me just say it now and FOREVER... I don't own Beyblade... and I don't own Kai!!!

Pairing: Um... not sure right now... might be a TyKai fic later on

Kai continued to sit in the waiting room of the local hospital tapping his finger on the armrest of his chair impatiently. Every so often the crimson eyes would glance up and just watch the hands of the clock tick away extremely slowly. A growing sigh worked its way out of his throat, as Kai felt himself caught in yet another coughing fit.

He had been experiencing such sudden bursts of the need to cough something out of his lungs. They had been reoccurring at different times over the past few years, but have grown more in their frequency in the last six months. That was the reason that the twenty-one year old phoenix was even at the hospital, after being sent there from his doctor's office.

Kai went to Tokyo University and had managed to bunk with Tala Ivanov over all his years at the school. Tyson Kinomiya also joined them at the school, Kai unsure why the dragon even bothered to attend college, seeing he wasn't the best student back in the lower leveled schools. Rei left once again to join his old village and remained there ever since the battle with Team Bega. Max went back to America with his mother to help her in her research. Last they heard from him, Max was attending some prestigious college in America and was 24/7 in the books.

But since he first attended Tokyo University, Kai had been experiencing his coughing fits, along with a case of pneumonia, and a few cases of bronchitis. Kai wasn't one to want to rush over to the doctors and want this check up; it had been Tala who insisted that he go over to the doctor's office in the first place. But no matter what medications he had gotten, Kai found himself with another case six months later. Then his doctor sent him over to the hospital doctors to do a more extensive research on Kai with the files and programs that the hospital had its disposal.

Kai looked back at the clock. It had been two minutes since last time he looked. It was his second visit in two days, yesterday being the day they examined him for his blood work. He groaned, leaning his back against the chair and pressing his head back onto the wall. Gazing up to the ceiling he remembered the events today had already brought him.

Tyson had insisted on Kai spending the day training after Kai was done studying. The dragon continued to complain how he was going to lose his edge if he didn't practice, and he insisted that Kai be his trainer. Tyson's excuse was that Kai was the best trainer, because he was so strict and didn't continue to chant how good he was.

Smirking, that wasn't Kai at all. He never would tell Tyson any compliments because he knew it would go to the bluenette's headway to fast and he would never hear the end of Tyson's voice. Fixing his eyes on his Dranzer Gigas blade in his hand, he remembered he hadn't battled since he broke his blade battling Brooklyn. Dranzer had disappeared after that for years, until recently when he continued to have a calling in his dream.

Every night he would hear the voice of a bird echoing in the darkness and see a shining bright red light coming towards him, but each and every time Kai would reach out towards it, the light would recede back. Kai never could understand that dream, and it haunted him every night, until he finally did not reach for that light and woke up to find the warmth of his blade.

Sighing once more, Kai watched as people came and left from the different corridors, all indulged in themselves, having no time for what each and everyone else had to say or do. Kai watched everyone, noticing how self-absorbed they all were. Maybe he was too. Of course he was. He was only human, it was human to be self-absorbed. Everyone he knew, cared to or not, was self-absorbed in one way or another.

"Kai Hiwatari?" Glancing up, Kai was relieved to his name finally from the nurse looking around the waiting area for him. "Follow me." Kai did as he was told, and the woman led him off down and ushered him into one of the doctor's offices. There already was a man dressed in a white work coat sitting at the desk and flipping through some files.

"Take a seat, Mr. Hiwatari," said the doctor, pointing to the chair across from him on the other side of the desk. Pulling the chair out, Kai sat quietly in his seat, waiting to hear what the results were. The doctor was silent for another minutes, and Kai's patients were growing extremely thin. He had a final paper due in two weeks, and needed all the time he could get on it to finish.

"All right, Kai. I got the lab results back on your blood work, and I must say...things aren't looking good," said the doctor placing the file back down flat on his desk.

"I could have told you that. I have some fucking bug," thought Kai, declaring it best he kept it to himself.

"You see, your red blood cell count is rather low, as is your platelet and WBC as well. With these finding I have a few theories I wish to examine. First of all, I am going to need to take a CAT-scan of your entire body. There might be something inside of you that we can't detect in the blood work to be positive..." said the doctor. Kai kept his constant frown and nodded. "The nurse will show you to where you'll scan will take place. It should not take long to get those results back..."

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Kai reentered the same office once again after his CAT-scan. He felt tired and annoyed at spending so much time at the hospital for a stupid bug that would just need some medicine to kick in the butt. The doctor's face was pinched and frowning, his brows knitted together in concentration and worry. Kai could feel his heart beat slightly faster, but would not allow such things to be visible to the doctor.

"You say you don't smoke correct? And you're only 21?" asked the doctor.

"That's correct," replied Kai, a little irate about how long this all was taking. The doctor nodded, and looked Kai in the eyes, his own being soft and compassionate, like he knew something that was going to hurt Kai. Bracing himself for what ever was to come, Kai nodded his head slightly, wanting the information right then and there.

"Well you see Kai. With the help of the CAT-scan, we were able to detect a problem growing inside your lungs..." Kai wished that he would just stop being around the bush. Of course there was something with his lungs. He couldn't stop coughing for years already. He wanted to hear something new, something that wouldn't be redundant. "And what we did notice is going to change your lifestyle forever Kai..." Kai innerly growled, wanting him to get on with it. "Kai... we have come to he conclusion you have lung cancer..."

That hit Kai like a freight train. His eyes widened, pupils shriveled up inside of him, mouth hung open... A virus, a bug, those he was ready for...but this... no... it was impossible... there was no way Kai could have cancer...

Short, I know, but I promise much longer chapters... OK, OK, kill me now... after you go and visit that little purplie button righ under here...and right me a nice little note!!! so until next time...

lil phoenix