Disclaimers: I don't own Beyblade; I'm simply using the characters for my and my muse's entertainment.
Falling by Yaoi Girl
It had been there, hanging over their heads, threatening to spill any second, but the storm clouds had simply hovered there, hording its precious liquid. And Rei had never liked storms to begin with.
Takao and Kyouju had returned to Japan two days ago to stay for a month in order to spend time with their families before the team reunited for their next tournament, whereas Max had stayed in America to spend some time with his mother after being picked up by a BBA bus earlier that afternoon, since Judy was only a couple hours drive away with her team in a new training area.
As for Rei and Kai…well, with the storm looming outside, not to mention the almost unbearable humidity, all flights from Florida to anywhere were cancelled. The storm was said to be turning into a tropical storm and preparing to unleash it torrential downpour any second.
So with their flights cancelled, the airport set them up in a hotel for the night.
It wasn't the fanciest of rooms, but Rei wouldn't complain. Anything to keep his feet dry was fine with him. Kai, on the other hand, wasn't too thrilled with it, seeing as it housed only one bed and very little pacing room.
But the hotel was packed with other people that couldn't fly out, so nothing could really be done unless he paid for the pair's transportation to another hotel and then a room, not to mention transportation back to the airport the next afternoon, and that was if they were lucky and the storm only lasted overnight. But if the storm started and continued on, then Kai would have to pay for more days until the planes could lift off…Besides, it wasn't like he'd never shared a bed with any of the guys before; he just didn't like being so close to other people.
"I'm gonna take a sho…" the raven-haired teen started to say as he rummaged around in his duffel bag, stopping as he noticed the wall in which Kai was standing against straight across from him light up unnaturally. "On second thought, I think I'll wait."
"You're just a scared little kitten," Kai smirked as he stripped off his shirt and set it next to his own bag a few moments later, figuring that now definitely wasn't a good time to take a shower with the storm beginning.
"Better safe than sorry. I'm not getting my ass fried while I'm in there!" he protested as he too began to change into his night clothes, which consisted of nothing more or less than a pair of boxers and a skin tight tank top, which was slightly more than Kai usually slept in when he was alone, not that Rei knew this. But even tonight the bluenette chose to sleep without a shirt; just his boxers.
"Ne, Kai?"
"Hm?" he intoned as he folded his clothes up and placed them on the designated 'dirty clothes' side of his bag after finishing with his changing.
"Why are you going back to Russia? I thought that you hated it there."
Kai's usual frown deepened somewhat at the mention of his homeland. "I have some things I need to take care of. It's not like I'm staying there the entire time, just long enough to take care of what I need to."
"Where are you going after that?" Rei then inquired, freeing his raven locks from their prison, beginning to brush it as he sat in the middle of the bed with his legs crossed, facing the crimson-eyed teen.
Kai shrugged as he zipped up and tossed his bag to the floor before managing to take the brush away from Rei. He still hadn't figured out why yet, but he had a thing for Rei's long, silky hair and brushed it as often as he could, and Rei had yet to refuse him this 'honor'.
"Wherever I feel like going, I suppose," he finally replied as he gently ran the brush through Rei's hair, his free hand trailing down slowly behind the brush.
"You should come visit me and see what my home's really like," the amber-eyed teen suggested with a vague shrug, wincing slightly as the wall once again lit up from the streaks of lightning outside.
"Oh, yeah. I'm sure Lee and Mao would just love that. Ponytail or braid?"
Rei smiled. It still surprised him that Kai actually knew how to braid, let alone be gentle with his hair. "Ponytail. I could always lock you up in my room and they'd never know you were there."
"Are you gonna shackle me to your bedposts or something so I don't escape and go start a fight?" Kai teased, Rei's blush going unseen to him as he gently fought with the raven locks to get it into a ponytail.
"Yeah; that is if my mom hasn't found my fur-laced handcuffs," Rei then laughed, turning to face Kai while tucking his legs under himself once he felt the familiar weight of his hair settled down his back.
"You would be the only one to come up with something like that," the bluenette smirked as he brushed some of Rei's bangs behind his ear. Any other time, if they were in view of 'the public', being the boys or anyone else, Rei would blush with Kai touching his hair like that, but he was used to it when they were alone. He was glad that his team captain sometimes partially dropped his mask for him, revealing the true teen within.
"But seriously, you should come to China. I'm sure you'd enjoy it."
"And you're promising me a place to stay and food while I'm there, right?"
Rei nodded, his smile and eyes brightening. Kai's mask really was starting to slip.
After that, there really wasn't anything more to talk about, and so they ended up with a content silence surrounding them while they simply gazed into each other's eyes, almost as if for the first time.
But that time was short-lived, as their gazes then quickly focused to the window at the sound of heavy rain beating against the glass.
"We should get going to bed," Kai yawned as he glanced at the clock with its overly bright red numbers a few moments later.
Rei nodded then shivered as a chill ran down his spine, the air conditioning having just turned on and the vent was aimed towards his back. And in response to this, he was quickly beneath the warm haven of his covers, curling up against Kai's side as soon as the other teen was also beneath the blanket; just as Rei was accustomed to Kai playing with his hair, Kai was so to Rei's stealing his body heat when they were more or less forced to share a bed together.
It wasn't easy to come by a suite during major tournaments, and rooms were sparse as well during those times, so whether he liked it or not, Kai was sometimes forced to room with his teammates. And nine times out of ten, he made Max, Takao, and Kyouju share as bed, seeing as they were 'not so grown up' or 'small and childish' in Kai's eyes and said that because he and Rei were older than them that it was only right that they share a bed and that they needed more room. But that wasn't very true considering the fact that during those nine times out of ten, Kyouju was found sleeping on the floor the next morning because of Takao unintentionally kicking him off and Max was usually found sleeping on what little space was left from the energetic bluenette's sprawled out limbs, whereas Rei was usually curled up against or partially sleeping on Kai in the center of the bed.
Once comfortable, Kai drifted off to sleep, but Rei was eluded of his dreamtime. But he stayed there like usual, curled up against Kai's side, almost as if he really were a kitten. And in almost being like a cat, he hated water, at least of the pouring rain variety, and storms had always given him the chills, thus his sleep elusion.
With sleep-deprived eyes, though his body was drained, he stared outside, wincing every time a lighting bolt tore through the sky and shivered in fear as the thunder erupted shortly after them. And, thankfully, Kai was used to this so he wouldn't be easily woken, though he was never easily woken to begin with, and so it remained a mystery as to how Kai was up before everyone else without the aid of loud, annoying alarms clocks.
For hours the neko-jin remained awake, the air conditioning having kicked off for a short break, the room heating slightly, though not enough to bother the pair on the bed, but with Kai's added body heat, Rei couldn't stand it any longer. So with an irritated sigh, not really wanting to move at all, the raven-haired teen slid out from beneath the covers and walked over to the window, deciding that he was going to at least attempt to calm his fear of storms, if not conquer it altogether.
'It's so beautiful, yet frightening at the same time,' Rei mused as he perched himself on the windowsill. And there he sat for who knows how long, simply staring and thinking.
When he thought his fears had subsided enough to go to sleep, he turned to slide off the sill, freezing when he came face to face with Kai.
"How…how long have you been there?!" he managed around his shock.
Kai smirked as Rei continued to slide down off the sill. "Just a few minutes; the bed was cold."
"Oh, well, I'm headed back there now," he grinned, truly tired now, tipping a little before catching himself, forcing his eyes to stay open.
Without warning, Rei was lifted off the floor, the sudden and unexpected movement temporarily waking him until he was nestled comfortably in Kai's embrace.
"Do you think you're dreaming of a girl or something?" the amber-eyed teen murmured against Kai's neck as he carried Rei across the small distance to the bed before laying him down.
"Why do you say that?" he asked as he sat down on the edge of the bed, turning his body slightly while also spilling partially over Rei.
"You wouldn't carry me, let alone anyone else, like that unless you were dreaming, right?"
"I just did, didn't I?"
"But why?" he asked, his voice barely audible as he drifted closer and closer to sleep with each breath.
"Just sleep," Kai replied softly, kissing the boy on the forehead, his mask totally removed for the time being, but Rei didn't get to see it for he was sound asleep.
Truth was, Kai didn't have an answer to Rei's question, other than he simply felt the urge to carry him. But that would cause a mess of questions if he told the sleeping boy that. And he himself didn't have enough answers to any of his own questions about Kon Rei. But he did have one.
"I think I'm falling for you," he whispered, after he too crawled back under the covers, while wrapping his arms around Rei's slender body before joining him in a realm of peaceful slumber.
Owari?
I thought about maybe writing another chapter or two to this, but I kinda like how it came out. What do you think?