This fic is dedicated to my friend, Phillis, who's a Ray… Rei fan-girl, hates Mariah and is a strong believer in the KxR relationship… or RxK as she likes it… She was disappointed at the lack of Ray appearances in Hot Soup and so, this is for her.

Thanks for reviewing and telling me to put this up. Hope you all like it… it's really awkward and weird at some places…

Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Beyblade.

Shower Curtains

Chapter 1

Ray was singing in the shower again.

~~~*Tune of "The Itsy-Bitsy Spider"*

~~~"The pow-er-ful ti-ger went climbing up a tree.

~~~He made a face and scared a birdie!

~~~Out flew the bird and left its eggs alone,

~~~Then the tiger brought the eggs to me… so they'd become my own!"

Being too occupied with his singing, he didn't notice the bathroom door slowly creak open and close.

"Out flew the bird and left—" Ray stopped abruptly. He noticed a shadow, move quickly from one side of the room to the other. Pausing for a while, and not seeing any other movement, Ray decides it was just a trick of his mind, and starts singing again.

"And left its eggs alone, and the tiger brought the eggs to me… so they'd become my own! OHHHHHHHHHHHH, the pow-er-ful ti-ger went climbing up a— *CRASH*" Ray dropped the soap, surprised, and stopped singing again knowing something was in the room with him.

"A burglar's breaking into the bathroom!!!! …a bathroom?? What the??" thought Ray.

"What if… it's a stalker! A stalker stalking me!??!?!?! All those crazy fan-girls! Oh, I should've known that some day, one of 'em would come after me! Oh… I'm naked and everything! It has to be a stalker! Oh no! I've got no protection! Um…" Ray looks around.

"uh… I can use the… the… BACKSCRUB!" thought Ray as he grabbed the back scrub. Noticing that the shadow seemed to have moved right by the shower, Ray lashed out with the back scrub.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" yelled Ray, hitting the head of the pink shadow with a big thud, cracking the back scrub.

"Pink?"

Looking down at his victim, he saw that is was Mariah.

"OWWWW!!!! What'd you do that for?!?! That REALLY hurt!" cried Mariah.

"Eh… heh heh heh… sorry bout that…" apologized Ray as he sweat dropped.

"Whoa… you must have one HARD head to still be awake after that hit."

"Excuse me?"

"Uh… it's good to see you still alive?"

"What did you say???" said Mariah slowly but harshly.

"Uh… uh…" Ray was getting anxious, knowing Mariah's wrath always resulted in some sort of destructive force, whether it was a hole through a wall or the breaking of someone's bone, "it's SO good to see you here in the bathroom while I'm… taking… a… shower…???"

"That's better."

Sighing in relief, Ray steps back only to slip on the bar of soap he dropped.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" screamed Ray as he fell with a *SMACK!*

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Tyson, Max and Kenny were all watching "Mr. Dressup" on TV. (A/N: Mr. Dressup is a little kid show in Canada. It's like Mr. Rogers in the US. If you don't know either one of them, just think of a little kiddy show that makes crafts, cooks, tells stories and all the other kinds of stuff to entertain little kids) Kai was leaning against the far wall, monitoring them, as the liked to sing and dance along with Mr. Dressup, and act out the skits along with him. He needed a good laugh sometime.

As Tyson had a blanket over him pretending to be a dragon, and Kenny and Max were the little people that were scared of the dragon, all the boys heard a high-pitched scream, causing Tyson, Max and Kenny to jump out of their skins, and Kai to look up.

"What was that?" asked Max.

"It sounded like a girl!" said Kenny.

"What would a girl be doing here?" Tyson wondered.

As the boys were talking about the scream, muffled yelling could be heard from above and Kai leaves silently to check it out.

"Should we check it out?" questioned Max.

"It could be a ghost!"

"Augh! I hate ghosts! Remember that episode with Mr. Dressup was a ghost! He looked SO scary! I could barely recognize him!"

"I KNOW! He scared me half to death!"

"What if the ghost comes after us?!"

"I dunno… but I don't wanna find out. We have to stick together!"

"You mean, we have to stick with Kai."

"Of course, that's what I meant."

The boys looked over at the blank wall where Kai once stood.

"KAI'S GONE!"

"What if the ghost got him?!"

"If the ghost gets him, what are the chances we'll get caught?"

At this, Kenny opens up his laptop.

"Care to give us the statistics, Dizzi?"

"What do you think?" asked Dizzi.

"100%!!!"

"Well then, that's what it is… I mean, you ARE the chief and everything," replied Dizzi calmly and sarcastically.

"Oh no!" cried the boys not finding the hidden sarcasm, "we'll have to save Kai then to raise our chances of being safe!"

"That's not what I meant," said Dizzi quietly.

The boys, too caught up with the situation didn't hear her.

"Operation Save Kai will start in 3…" started Max.

"How'd you get Operation Save Kai?" asked Tyson.

Max shrugged and continued, "2… 1… START!"

The boys stood there dumbly.

"Uh… what are we suppose to do?" asked Kenny.

"I dunno," said Max.

"You came up with the idea!"

"How about… AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" screamed Max suddenly as he raised his arms above his head and started running around the room in circles.

The two other boys shrugged and did the same.

"KENNY!!!! PUT ME DOWN! YOU'RE GONNA SCRATCH ME!! I'M VERY DELICATE YOU KNOW!!"

"Whoops, sorry Dizzi, I was caught up in the moment," apologized Kenny as he put his beloved laptop on the coffee table before resuming his panicking.

Finding they were getting nowhere after a few minutes, they decide they should go find Kai before it's too late.

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