I've had this idea stuck in my head for soooo long now, I finally decided to give it a shot!

All Around the World

Chapter 1: Forming the Team

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN BEYBLADE.

Kira

I lay in my bed in my room, counting the dots on my ceiling.

"Kira, come downstairs, I want to talk to you." I heard my grandfather, Albert Dickenson call for me. I sighed and sat up.

"Coming." I replied hopping up off the bed. My grandfather is, as you may know, the chairman for the BBA, so I figured it would be something to do with the upcoming tournament.

"Ah, there you are my dear." He was in his office, sitting in his chair smiling up at me. I crossed my arms and looked at him, questioningly. "I assume you've heard about the upcoming tournament." I nod, so he continues. "I want you to participate in the team I'm creating. They will be called the BladeBreakers."

"Don't they usually have try outs for things like that?"

"Oh there will be tryouts, my dear." My grandfather had that playful glint in his eye. "But I have full confidence in your abilities as a blader so you won't be needing to try out to be able to blow your future teammates away."

"Won't it seem odd that I'm your granddaughter and I'm just getting on to this team with no need to try out?" I narrowed my blue eyes looking at him. He laughed to himself and stood up, and made his way over to me, patting me on the shoulder.

"Kira my dear, you're missing the point. I don't want anyone to see how good you are so you can be sort of like...a secret weapon."

"Ooooh so you're using me, is that it?" I put my hand on my hip and raised my eyebrow and my grandfather laughed once more.

"I just want you to get out of the house a little more... Ever since..."

"I know, I know. You don't have to say it." I sigh and turn back toward the door. "Just give me a few minutes to get ready." I run back up to my room and put my black & blonde hair up in a high ponytail. (It's blonde underneath the black) I decided to go without make up, because it's not really needed at a beyblade team tryout. I put on a black tanktop and some high waisted jean shorts with some pink and black Nike free runners. I guess I should probably explain who I am, huh? My name is Kira Dickenson, granddaughter to the famous chairman of the BBA, as many people call him, Mr. Dickenson. I'm half japanese and half French. Weird combo, I know, but if you met my parents, well they were the complete essence of weird.

"Hurry up Kira, the limo won't wait forever!" I hear my grandfather call and I grab my purse and run downstairs to meet him.

"Okay okay I'm ready, and I'm sure the limo WOULD wait as long as we needed it to." I grin sliding on my aviators as we walk out the door and climb into the limo and it takes us to our destination.

"Welcome back everyone to the tryouts for our new star break out team, we have Mr. Dickenson here." The reporter walked over to my grandfather who had a smile on his face as usual.

"I'd like to thank you all for tuning in to the Japanese Regional Qualifying tournament to see who will be participating in this team to beyblade world wide!" The crowd behind him cheered loudly, and I couldn't help but smile. I loved this sport and everything about it. It's always so refreshing to see such a huge following and all the fans who adore my grandfather. I walked over to the window and saw many aspiring beybladers standing around, waiting for their turn to battle. The first battle was between two guys named Max Tate and Kai Hiwatari. I don't know why...but Kai sounded so familiar to me... Anyways, they battled hard and Kai came out on top which by his stats was to be expected. He definitely had some real talent. Next up was this spunky kid named Tyson Granger and this mysterious undefeated blader named Ray Kon. Let me just tell you, Ray is one of the most handsome men I've ever seen. They both caught my eye in the crowd and I was definitely interested in catching this battle. Ray clearly had an advantage over the blue haired boy, beating him easily with his bit beast Driger and he smashed Tyson's blade into oblivion, which would usually mean a forfeit, but then Tyson's friend- Kenny, I believe his name is- came out and fixed his blade within minutes. I was actually quite impressed. So then, the second battle ensued. This time, Tyson had the upper hand, and Ray's quick movements didn't faze him as much. Tyson is a quick thinker and catches onto things I think a lot faster than most people would realize. As you can probably tell, I'm pretty good at analyzing people. I tend to use that to my advantage during blading. And that's it, Ray's blade was out for the count. But he didn't look surprised at all. He actually looked...happy?

"Alright bladers, set up for round three!" I heard DJ Jazz yell in the background, Tyson complied, but Ray didn't move.

What is he thinking? I asked myself.

"I have nothing to prove." The tiniest smirk crossed Ray's face. "I forfeit." I think everyone's jaws dropped at that moment. Ray turned around and walked away but not before saying something that I couldn't catch. Darn, maybe I won't have a cute teammate.. I sighed as my grandfather walked into the room and I heard the automatic door close turned to see him with a pleased smile on his face.

"Is this years tournament entertaining you just as much as it is me?" He chuckled, clearly seeing the bewildered look on my face. "Don't worry Kira, Ray's already agreed to be on the team." I could feel my face heating up and I turned back to the window to look down below. Was I that easy to read? I saw Ray standing and watching the next battle about to ensue. It was Kai versus Tyson. What I didn't know was that this battle would create the biggest rivalry to come to the beyblading world since it first came into existence. Kai and Tyson were obviously well matched in strength and defense. They both put up a strong fight, but Tyson took the first win. Tyson must have gotten cocky because he 'had beaten the unbeatable Kai' (which I learned he had a problem with) because Kai easily beat him the second time around. 'These guys really need to learn to control their tempers and emotions...' I thought to myself smiling.

And the end result was Kai, the champion. Big surprise there. He was ferocious in his beyblading with skill I hadn't seen in all my 17 years of life. My grandfather smiled walking onto the stage with a very upset Tyson yelling at the victorious Kai, words I couldn't make out because they had muted the two boys.

"If I can ask for Max and Ray to come back on stage." My grandfather's voice boomed over the stage. The two boys made their way back onto stage and my grandfather smiled. "I am proud to announce the newest team of the BBA, The BladeBreakers!" The crowd went wild with cheers and I couldn't help but feel a smile break across my face. I had nothing but good feelings about this team, we were bound for nothing but success. "I actually have a little surprise of my own." I guess that's my cue. I walked to the automatic doors which opened when I stood in front of them and walked down the hall, down the stairs and turned the corner. I smiled to the guards standing in front of the entryway to the stage and they nodded at me, smiling. I could still hear my grandfathers voice booming over the stage. I know he saw me from the corner of his eye, as a smile graced his face. "I'd like to introduce the last member of the BladeBreakers, Kira Dickenson." He held his arm out in my direction. I felt the tension growing across the room as everyone stared at me. I knew that their reaction would be unexpected as I hadn't earned my spot on the team in any way, but I was determined to prove it to them that I deserved to be here. I walked over to the boys who all gawked at me, and I smiled, sticking my hand out to them.

"Hi, I'm Kira Dickenson. It's really nice to meet you all." I started to feel really awkward because they were all just staring at me, but Max was the first one to break, and he smiled.

"Hi, I'm Max!" I could sense that he was a really fun, loving person.

"Waaaait a minute, Dickenson?" Tyson yelled out turning to my grandfather pointing at me. "So she just gets this spot handed to her because she's related to you? That's not fair!" He turned to look at me and glared.

"I can assure you Tyson, you wouldn't want her on any opposing team." My grandfather replied to him smiling, and he gave me a small wink. "Think of her as a special weapon you all can use. No one knows about her beyblading skills."

"I promise, I will prove to you that I am worthy of being on this team." I smiled.

"C'mon Tyson, if Mr. Dickenson thinks she has the talent, we should trust him." Ray smiled at me and winked, and I felt my heart leap in my chest. Oh dear lord, please help me from falling for my teammate.

Ray

We were all at Tyson's house, his grandfather had kindly insisted that we all stay there. Not that I really minded. We would all be staying together the whole trip, and the guys seemed to be okay to be around. Even Kira was here at Tyson's house, since Mr. Dickenson had to fly to China early for some preparations for the next leg of the tournament. He didn't want her to be alone at the house, though neither of them would tell us why, we didn't push the subject when it seemed to make Kira a little uncomfortable. Tyson had stopped snubbing Kira and got over the fact that she was Mr. Dickenson's granddaughter. He, her, and Max had all started playing a karaoke game and Kira absolutely fried them in that game. It was pretty funny though, I had to admit, seeing the boys dancing around singing old 90's songs. But now everyone in the house is asleep from what I can tell, it's about 3 in the morning, and it's softly raining outside. Of course, I can't sleep though. I sit up in my bed and stretch my back, my legs sliding over the side and I stand up. I walk out to the hall and hear the rain coming down outside which means that one of the doors is open and I'm not the only one awake. I walk towards the backyard because it sounds like that's where the sound is coming from, and I see Kira sitting on the back porch, leaning back on her hands staring up at the rain falling from the sky. She has her long hair down and wavy, which with her head leaned back it reaches the floor, but just barely. Even though my foot steps aren't making much sound she turns her head to look at me and her beautiful icy blue eyes meet mine.

"You couldn't sleep either?" I asked her, and she smiles shaking her head, sitting up.

"Sadly no, I've had insomnia for a while now." I walk over and sit next to her, feeling the mist of the warm rain hit my skin. I look over at her as she stares back out at the Grangers' backyard. I would never admit this out loud, but she has got to be one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. Mainly because of Mariah back home...we were never really together, well official anyways... But I went on this journey for beyblading not to find another girl. "So, why are you up so late, Ray?" I hear her ask me.

"Nerves, mainly. We go to China in a couple of days."

"Well, you seem to be able to hold your own while blading." I see a small smirk grace her lips as she turns her head back to look at me. "Why are you so nervous? Is it the fear of seeing old friends? You are from China, if I'm not mistaken." I smiled at her question.

"Yeah, I am...and yeah I guess I'm a little nervous to see them." She places her hand on my shoulder, something I wasn't expecting.

"We're all here for you Ray. We're a team now, we've gotta have each others backs. It might be difficult to trust us at first, but you can at least have faith that I'll be here for you." I looked into her eyes and nodded, truly believing her.

"So...why can't you sleep?" I asked her, truly curious. The look on her face took a complete 180, and it became strained. Her eyes grew weary and she looked down at the porch, a sad look on her face. "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to." She shook her head and took a deep breath.

"No...I feel that one of you should know...and you seem the easiest to talk to." I saw her hands starting to shake and tears started to form in her eyes. I moved the lantern behind us and grabbed her in a soft hug. "My parents died in a car accident a few months back... I was in the car with them, and somehow I walked away barely with any bumps or bruises. Just a broken arm and a concussion." She whispered and my eyes widened. It made sense why she didn't want to talk about it with anyone, and I honestly felt honored that she would even share this with me, regardless that I was a stranger. I already felt a strong bond forming with her and hugged her tighter. I placed my chin on top of her head.

"I could never imagine what that feels like...but if you ever need to talk, I'm here for you Kira."

"Thank you, Ray." We stayed quiet for quite some time until we figured it was best to at least try and get some sleep.

Kira

"Kira! Get up! We don't have any time to waste!" I opened my eyes and the sun was shining brightly which made me squint and I groaned rolling over onto my stomach stuffing my face in my pillow. Getting out of bed was the last thing on my mind. It was so warm and comfy, almost what I imagine Heaven to be like.

"That's okay, I think I'll just stay here." I yawned closing my eyes again, feeling sleep threatening to overtake me once again.

"If you don't get up, I'm gonna come in there and throw this freezing cold water all over you." This time, I recognized the voice to be Ray's. It had been three days since I joined the BladeBreakers, and I spent almost every waking moment with Ray. He had become what you could call my best friend. Telling him about my parents wasn't easy, but I honestly felt like I could trust the guy.

"You wouldn't dare…" I replied, narrowing my eyes looking at the door, and I saw the handle start to turn, so I jumped out of bed and barricaded the door with my body. "Alright alright I'm up." I heard him laughing on the other side.

"Come out, Kai wants to start training early today." His voice was fading and I assumed he was walking away, so I peeked outside of my room and there seemed to be no one out there waiting to attack me. I sigh with relief and turn back around and close my door. Tying my hair up into a high pony tail, I pull on some black Nike Legend Tight Fit's and a matching crop top which stopped short of my belly button with some black Nike running shoes. Now, I have never lived with a bunch of guys before, so I don't know if this is a normal occurrence, but it has almost been a nonstop warfare of pranks in Tyson's house, and I almost feel sorry for Gramps, because he usually gets caught in the middle of them.

I met the guys out in Tyson's backyard and they were all stretching getting ready for today's practice. It was even earlier than usual, because there was still dew all over the grass.

"So today we're going to run six miles, after that fifty pushups, one hundred and fifty crunches, then we'll go into the dojo and continue." Tyson groaned, and I had to stifle a giggle because of the look on Kai's face that he threw in Tyson's direction and I followed suit with the boys in stretching. "Ready and go." So we all took off, by now used to the route that Kai liked to take so I just jogged at my average pace, which at around five miles I was ahead of almost everyone else (minus Kai and I had almost caught up to Ray) because they had burnt out most of their stamina already. It had been about an hour later when we reached Tyson's house again, and then we started on the rest of the workout. My muscles feeling sore, I felt I should treat myself with a hot bath so I ran back in the house afterwards and locked myself in the bathroom before the guys could claim it for themselves.

Ray

I can't really explain to you what it felt like to be back in China. I was excited, but apprehension also set in after I stepped off the plane. I took a deep breath in and looked around, smiling when seeing familiar things all over. I really couldn't wait to show my new friends around my home, even though Beijing wasn't technically my home but it was close enough. The rest of the team seemed mesmerized by the bustling city and I decided to show them to one of my favorite restaurants. Kira was wearing a white v-neck t-shirt with two golden leopard faces facing each other, some low-rise light colored destroyed skinny jeans that were rolled up at the bottom of the pant leg. She was wearing her hair down, and straight for the first time I had seen and she was also wearing make-up for once which was rare for her. She has some serious natural beauty so she doesn't really need it, but you know women. We got to my favorite restaurant after dropping off our luggage at our hotel and sat down at a table. We all ordered our food and of course, Tyson gobbled down all the appetizer before any of us even got to it. After getting our food, we all dug in. It wasn't a long flight, but we all woke up late, apparently no one remembered to set their alarms the night before and we almost missed our flight, meaning we didn't get any breakfast.

"Wow Kira, I haven't seen you eat like that since camp almost ten years ago." We all looked at Kira who had a stunned look on her face, as her eyes slowly widened and she looked at Kai.

"AHA! That's it! We were at camp together! I can't believe you remembered and didn't tell me you asshole! I've been trying to figure it out for the past week!" She punched him in the arm and a smirk slid across his face.

"I was going to let you figure it out for yourself, but I figured it was a little pathetic that it took you this long." Kira opened her mouth about to say something, but then she shut it and crossed her arms with a pouty look on her face. The rest of us kind of just stared at the two, then Tyson started laughing and it kind of spread around like a contagious bug because before long we were all laughing. Even Kai. It felt good to be able to share this experience with people I got along with so well, but we all know that life doesn't stay drama free forever.

Kira

After we grabbed some lunch at a restaurant that Ray had suggested, which was superb by the way, we were walking around downtown Beijing. Ray had seemed distracted and kept looking behind us. I know he has this ability to sense things, so it just made me all the more curious about what was bothering him.

"Ray are you-"

"There's a beyblade spinning over there." He whispered and ran off down towards an alley, and we all looked at each other, none of us being able to hear it and of course we reached a dead end.

"Ugh, dude all that's over here is rotten fish." Tyson pinched his nose and made a face.

"Yeah, are you sure you're not just exhausted?" Kenny asked him.

"Well well well..." A childish voice echoed over the walls behind us and we turned to see a short kid with green hair standing up on the wall of a building with his arms crossed staring Ray down with a smirk on his face. "If it isn't the traitor himself.

"Traitor...?" I whispered looking over to Ray, who had an angry look on his face. 'What is he talking about?' I asked myself.

Okaaay, there's chapter 1! I hope you all enjoyed it! Please drop me a review if you did! Question, should I have Kira battle Mariah or Lee? I can't decide! Thanks for reading!