Title: Risky Business

Summary: Mini-series. Tyson has too much time on his hands and decides, yet again, to play an elaborate prank on Kai. When he discovers the mastermind behind all the 'cat fact' texts he's been receiving, will Kai return fire with a prank of his own? Minimal swearing, rated K+

A/N: So, in case anyone's unfamiliar with this mobile prank that's become a bit of a phenomenon, go onto google and type in 'cat facts prank' and click on the first link that takes you to the buzzfeed page – you will be treated to a wonderful set of screen caps showing you, quite possibly, the pranking master at work. 8D
Then I came up with this, because Tyson's the kind of guy to jump on the bandwagon, particularly since he knows one particular cat-lover who's just so amusing to annoy. :'D
Kinda takes place within the context of my other series, the Spaces in Between. You don't need to have read it to understand what's going on, but when I make references to Mr D's tournament, then, yeah, that's the one I'm on about. Enjoy! :3

– The Hell? I Didn't Sign Up For This.

"Hey, Max."

Kai watched as Max tore his baby blue eyes away from his match with Rei and turned his attention to him. "Yeah, Kai?"

"What's Tyson think he's playing at."

"Uhh...I dunno?" Max said a little warily, "I haven't seen him."

"Hn."

Kai folded his arms and turned his back on the match, walking a few paces away to glare at the ocean. They were at the beach, and he'd taken the time to bring around a portable bey-dish and set up an obstacle course (of empty soda cans, very elaborately displayed) for his team to practice on. They all flew out for Mr D's mysterious charity tournament in a month's time, so training was beginning to get serious. Not that he didn't always take training serious, of course. But this was seriously serious.

He and Hilary had scheduled this training session yesterday, which was more than enough time for everyone to make preparations and he expected nothing less than for everyone to show up. However, they'd been here for an hour already and that lazy ass Tyson hadn't even made an appearance. Worse yet, he hadn't even tried to call in with some lame excuse – at least that involved a little effort on the lazy-teen's part, however minimal.

"Hilary," he called over his shoulder, "have you seen him?"

"Uhh, well..."

"Have you?" he snapped. He didn't have the patience to deal with her covering for him today. Half the time she actually enjoyed ratting him out to Kai.

"Hey! Don't you snap at me like that, Kai," she said, indignantly, trying to intimidate him with her coach voice. It wasn't working. When Kai turned around, she was glaring at him with her hands resting on her tiny little hips. He just raised an eyebrow expectantly at which she rolled here eyes, but answered his question anyway. "He was at school today, if you must know."

Yes, actually, he must know. "Fine. So he's just playing truant, then."

"I dunno, Kai, maybe he's got homework," Rei volunteered, trying to present something in the navy-haired teen's defense.

Hilary visibly face-palmed while Kai just shot him a distinctly unimpressed look. Tyson always had homework, but the notion of him actually doing it was just about as ridiculous as the notion of him thinking he could skip out on practice and get away with it lightly. "Right," Kai snarked, "or maybe he's pacing around his bedroom, mustering up the courage to just ask Hilary out already."

"Huh, what?" Hilary screeched, blushing crimson with indignation and embarrassment.

Kai tutted. He wasn't dense, and even though he'd only been around the pair for a month, their raging arguments interspaced between secretive glances, ruthless teasing and inside jokes weren't hard to interpret. He didn't particularly care what was going on, so long as it didn't affect the team and his blading.

Rei just rolled his eyes over the sound of Hilary's complaints and muttered something about 'just trying to be helpful.'

Then, the sound of a text alert echoed around the group and Kai pulled his phone out of his pocket, muttering. "Took him this long to think of an excuse? It better be good." Opening up the message menu he saw that it was not from Tyson at all, but an unknown number. He stared down at it utterly perplexed as he read. "What the…"

– Thank you for signing up to Cat Facts! You will now receive fun daily facts about CATS! –

"So, what's his excuse?" Max asked. He and Rei had called an end to the match already, clearly not getting much done with the mysterious case of the missing Tyson looming over their heads. The blonde was walking over towards him, while Rei had a hand on Hilary's shoulder and was trying to calm her down. She was off on a rant again, clearly unimpressed with his earlier remark.

"It isn't him," he said shortly, typing in the words 'what is this?' and hitting the send button. Cat Facts Daily, what the hell? He didn't sign up for anything. A few seconds later, he received a reply.

– In Ancient Egypt, family members shaved their eyebrows in mourning when the family cat died. [To cancel you subscription to Cat Facts Daily, reply 'cancel'] –

Utterly confused, Kai was in the process of typing in the word 'cancel' when his phone chimed again with another message.

– Would you like to upgrade your subscription and receive a fun Cat Fact every hour? [To cancel, reply 'Tsxf192649126eehtb'] –

– Tsxf192649126eehtb –

– Cancel –

"Haha, whoa Kai, you actually sign up for those things?"

Kai spared a moment to glare at the blonde who was currently peering over his arm to peek at his phone, and sniggering. Then he looked up at Kai a little meekly when he saw the intensity of the glare he was receiving. "Hehehe...right. Minding my own business now," he said as turned around to join Rei and Hilary. His attention was drawn back to his phone within seconds as he received another message.

– Command not recognized. You have a [year] subscription to Cat Facts and will now receive fun [hourly] updates! Enjoy! –

And then another:

– Recent studies have shown that cats can see blue and green. There is some disagreement about whether they can see red. Thanks for choosing Cat Facts Daily! –

– Cancel. –

– Shut the fuck up –

– Command not recognized. Please let us know that you are human by completing the following sentence: Your favourite animal is the [blank]. –

What the hell was this? How can they not recognize 'cancel' when they told him to say it just two texts before? Idiots. Kai was losing what little patience he had. Smirking cruelly, he replied:

– Dog. –

Then, seconds later:

–INCORRECT. Your favourite animal is the cat. You will continue to receive fun Cat Facts every [hour]. Mee-ow! –

Visibly fuming Kai shoved his phone into his pocket and ignored it. He'd deal with it later. He needed an outlet for his current frustration, so he decided it was about time he went and found Tyson. "Rei," he called, turning over to the group, "get over here and help me with this bey-dish. Hilary, you can help Max with the cans," he ordered.

Rolling their eyes at his impoliteness they went about doing what he'd asked without complaint, not wanting risk their luck (and an early end to practice) by spoiling his mood any more with their grumbling. Kai tried to ignore the humour in Max's eyes when he caught his eye and the the way he broke off awkwardly as he stooped to pick up the cans, apparently unable to take him seriously after seeing the Cat Fact texts.

Kai scowled. He did not sign up for this.

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"Hey, Tyson, there you are!" The navy haired teen got up off the floor and turned around as he heard the sound of his best friend's voice. "Why weren't you at practice?"

"Practice? Oh my god, yeah, I totally forgot!" He raised his hand up to readjust his cap – an unconscious nervous habit he did whenever he was embarrassed, taken by surprise, lying, or just trying to get out of trouble.

"Right," Max drawled, clearly not believing him. "So, what've you been doing then?"

"Oh, yeah, Gramps lost his cell," Tyson said briefly, gesturing to the couch he'd just been searching under, "and I'm helping him look for it. It's not in his room, or the car, or the fridge," he listed dramatically. "Hey," he said, in reaction to Max's expression when he mentioned the fridge, "some things just end up in places you'd never expect them to be. You gotta keep an open mind when hunting for elusive objects, Maxi, and cell phones definitely fall under that category. House keys, too. And homework," he added as an afterthought, "definitely homework."

"Hahaha...okay, sure." Max didn't know that Grandpa even had a cell phone. "Umm, anyway. I was gonna say, just watch out for Kai – he's got it in for you, bro."

"T'chh, why, just for missing practice?" Tyson said nonchalantly, throwing his arms behind his head. "Don't worry Maxi, nothin' I can't handle."

"Yeah, well, don't say I didn't warn you. He's really grouchy today."

"Yeah, yeah," Tyson said, lazily, pulling out a cell phone, checking the time, and beginning to text someone.

"Uhh, did you get a new phone?" Max asked, noticing that the phone Tyson pulled out was not the one he had before.

"This old brick?" He said, waving the old Nokia 3110 around, "Pfft, nahh, this is gramps' cell."

Max blinked. "But I thought you said he lost it!"

Tyson grinned. "He has lost it! He left it on the kitchen counter and doesn't have a clue where it is. Just keep your voice down, Maxi!"

"Tyson, that's stealing!"

"No it isn't. I'm just borrowing it!" he said, waving it around in the air just as he finished typing out the text. He was about to hit send when Kai stalked into the room. He quickly shoved the phone into his pocket and tried his best to look innocent. He didn't want Kai to think he was just goofing off instead of going to practice.

"What are you two clowns doing?" He said, walking up to them. Tyson noticed that he was stood up at full height, holding his shoulders wide, trying to throw his weight around as captain. Tyson internally rolled his eyes, while Max shifted his weight awkwardly from foot to foot after being caught trying to warn Tyson. Kai was grouchy today.

"Nothin'," Tyson said, as innocently as possible. "What are you doing?"

"Don't play games with me, Tyson. Why weren't you at practice?"

"Practice? Oh, that practice! Dude, I err, I totally forgot. Sorry, man." Inside his pocket, Tyson sneakily hit the send button, and then watched with veiled amusement as Kai's face contorted when his iPhone chimed cheerfully.

Reluctantly, Kai pulled out his phone and read the text, glaring at it darkly. Tyson was suprised it didn't melt in his hand from the heat of Kai's gaze.

"Wow, now that's a death stare if ever I saw one," Tyson said cheekily. "Who is it?"

He made a show of trying to stand up on his tip toes and peering at the screen, while Kai just snatched the phone away and glared at Tyson. "No one," he spat. Then he shot a pointed look at Max before turning on his heel and stalking out of the room, his scarf trailing dramatically behind him.

As soon as Kai was around the corner, Tyson let his poker face slip and felt a wide, smug grin creep over his face. Kai didn't suspect a thing.

"Dude…" he head Max say to him. Turning to face him, Tyson saw that Max was trying to restrain a grin himself. "Please don't tell me that you're doing what I think you're doing."

"Why, Maxi? What is it that you think I'm doing?" Tyson grinned slyly.

"...Cat Facts Daily?" Max hedged.

"Shhh! Keep it down!" Tyson hissed. He grabbed the blonde by the elbow and dragged him down the hall and into the kitchen, the opposite direction of where Kai had gone. After shutting the door, he spun around to face Max with a mischievous light in his eyes. "So you saw? It's brilliant, isn't it?"

"No!" Max said, even though he was laughing. "Tyson, it's a death wish!"

"Pah, don't be silly, Maxi, it's not that bad!"

Max struggled to keep a straight face. "But Tyson, you know he loves cats."

At this, the navy headed blader cracked up. "I know," he said between sniggers, "that's what makes it so funny!"

"But he's sensitive about it, he doesn't think anyone knows! When he finds out, he'll probably kill you for making a joke over it."

"T'chh, he'll have to catch me first," Tyson said, lazily.

Just then, Rei came out of the pantry with a packet of ramen in his hands, and looked at the pair with an expression that was both unamused, and yet quite amused, at the same time. Like a father who's been called into the principal's office because their child's been playing tricks on the teacher. A teacher who the father dislikes anyway. But he has to pretend to be unimpressed, even though, really, he just feels like giving the kid a high five.

"What are you doing, now?" He knew they were pranking and that it involved Kai, and cats (risky business), but he didn't know anything else.

"We're not doing anything!" Tyson said innocently, just as Max said, "It's not me, it's Tyson!"

Rei rolled his eyes as Tyson sent Max a glare for ratting him out. "Alright, whatever. I don't even want to know. Just don't try and get me involved."

"Dude, you don't have to do anything. Just, don't tell Kai," Tyson pleaded.

"Okay, whatever. It's not like I want to make his mood any worse, anyway. He was really grouchy and glaring at everything on the way back here, you know?" Rei said, as he pulled out a small pan and began to make himself the ramen. "His phone kept making noises too. It was really annoying, actually."

At this comment, Tyson couldn't help but let out a snigger as he caught Max's eye. "Tell me about it. These subscription companies – so persistent."

Rei turned around and looked Tyson in the eye. Then, seeming to put two and two together, he said, "Oh no...you're not, are you?"

"He is," Max chirped, sitting at the table and snickering.

"So...what is it this time?" Rei asked, curiosity getting the better of him.

"Oh, nothing. Just a year-long subscription to Cat Facts Daily," Tyson said slyly. "For absolutely no cost at all, Kai is treated to a fun fact about his all time favourite animal, every hour, or every time he texts back, courtesy of my good self." He waved the Gramps' Nokia around as it chimed with another angry message from Kai, to illustrate the point. Then he sat down on the table next to Max and began to text back.

Rei laughed despite himself. It was always risky business messing with Kai, but he had to admit, there was a strike of genius behind Tyson's prank this time that even he could appreciate.

A/N: It has begun! 8D LOL, Tyson's suck a trickster. :3 I have absolutely no idea how long I intend this to be, but so long as you guys enjoy it and I keep thinking of ways for the boys to counter prank, then the show will go on. LOL, see you on saturday with a LONG update for Spaces! :)

Next chapter: Kenny is, quite obviously, a genius with all things technical. Utterly perplexed by the texts he did not subscribe to, but keeps on getting, Kai goes to him for help.