Hey everyone! I'm Chun (or Ar-chan). This is officially my first Beyblade fanfic and also my first fanfic ever so I might mess up…a lot! I uploaded this chapter a long time ago but now it seems like a load of nonsense to me so I decided to edit it. I haven't made all that many changes but I think it's much better than before…so here it is.

Disclaimer: I'll only do this once. I don't own Beyblade. It's older than me!

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The morning wind felt cold against his pale skin as he walked through the gates of Tackachino Junior High School. He dragged his feet dejectedly along the concrete path and stared at his wrist watch. Gou Hiwatari had arrived 45 minutes early. A smirk appeared on his normally stoic face as he thought of the events that had occurred just as he was about to leave his house.

FLASHBACK

"Kai, I'm leaving!" Gou yelled at the door and stopped when he heard his father remark, "Nerd!"

"New place, new school, new appearance." Gou replied with a roll of the eyes, knowing that his father was referring to his not very delinquent-like appearance..

"No son of mine is going anywhere looking like a 'goodie goodie'." Kai retorted as he bent down with a sigh. He took his son's sleeves, unbuttoned his cuffs and rolled the sleeves up to his elbows. Next he pulled out his neatly tucked in shirt.

"What are you doing?" Gou asked, his surprise evident in his voice.

"If Kenji finds you like this..."Kai began with a smirk, completely ignoring the boy's question.

"I'll never live it down" Gou admitted, as he let his father mess up his carefully styled light blue bangs and deep purple hair so they looked exactly like Kai's when he was fifteen. Only, Kai had dark blue hair.

The now grey and black haired businessman smirked at his accomplishment. "Now you look a lot more like the troublesome idiot you are."

END OF FLASHBACK

Gou was pulled out of his thoughts when he heard a sound that was music to his ears. The familiar sound of beyblading.

He followed the sound and found himself at the back of the building, staring at a beyblade dish and two beyblades revolving in it. A boy was standing on either side of the dish. The boy on the left was an entire head bigger than Gou and, no doubt, a bully. The boy he was battling was much younger, or at least shorter. He was an inch shorter than Gou, with dark blue hair tied down and a red baseball cap on his head. He was wearing the school uniform. Gou silently cursed. The first person he met on his first day of Japanese school just had to be Makoto Ganger. Perfect. Just perfect.

"Go, Dragoon," Makoto yelled. Nothing happened. The older boy seized this opportunity and attacked.

A clatter was heard as Makoto's blade fell at the feet of the bigger one who cheered in triumph.

"An impressive prize for an impressive win," the older boy said to himself as he looked down at the younger boy who was on his knees and looked as if he had lost something important.

"I'll be taking this, as per our deal" he said. Gou's eyes widened and before he knew it….

"I'll fight you!" he suddenly declared, feeling uncharacteristically heroic.

"Another overconfident kid, huh?" He asked before continuing. "Fine, I'll make you a deal. If I win, I get your blade."

"And if I win?"

"The kid gets his blade back."

"Deal!"

"Gou?" Makoto asked. "What are you doing here? I mean, don't you live in Russia?"

"Where I live is none of your business, Granger." Gou said, glaring at the younger boy.

Gou had already began to take out his blade when the bigger boy threw him a blade and said "You'll be playing with this."

Gou stared at the piece of metal in his hand. On the bit chip was a picture of a dragon...

"Dragoon" Gou said automatically.

Immediately, Makoto was at his side.

"Hey! That's mine." He exclaimed.

Gou ignored him and set the blade on his launcher. His opponent did the same.

"Three, two, one…"

"Let it Rip!"

The battle begun. Gou's temporarily borrowed Dragoon against his...um...blade. He didn't even have a bit beast and yet he was overflowing with self-confidence.

"Attack!" The boy ordered his blade.

Gou took the attack and a devilish smirk appeared on his face as he found the perfect opportunity for his attack.

"Rise, DRAGOON! he yelled.

"It's not gonna work" Makoto warned but Gou was as confident as a professional. Why? Because he was a professional.

The mighty dragon rose and at Gou's command, threw the other boy's blade out of the dish. Both boys stared at Gou with wide eyes. The defending Tackachino Junior High champion had lost to a...a newbie.

"Y...you just got lucky, kid." the boy said. "I'll win next time!"

"Good luck with that," Gou muttered sarcastically as the boy ran off.

Gou threw Dragoon at the boy, who was also staring at him, but managed to catch it. He bowed.

"Thanks so much."

Gou stared at him as though he'd gone mad.

Makoto ignored him.

"So…Gou, I'm guessing you're fourteen, right?"

"I am. Why?"

"Great. I'll show you the..." Makoto's sentence was cut short by a shout..

"MAKOTO!"

A girl, about twelve years of age, was running towards them. She had fair skin and light blue hair styled like Madoka Amano.

"Makoto, do you realize the damage Dragoon would have taken if..." her voice trailed off when she noticed Gou. She inhaled sharply.

"Makoto, who is this guy?"

"This is Gou. He's new but he's a year older and he's a really strong beyblader. He beat Augustus."

"Gou as in Gou Hiwatari?"

"Yeah," Makoto began but Kouren was already squealing.

"Oh…wow! I'm Kouren. It is an absolute pleasure to meet you. You're a member of the Russian Team, aren't you?"

"Former member " Gou corrected. "And do me a favour and leave me alone. All of you. I have no interest in wasting my time with..."

Once again they were interrupted by a loud...

"MAKOTO! KOUREN! OHAYO!"

"Markie!" Makoto exclaimed.

"Markus Tate, keep your voice down." A teacher, who happened to be passing by, scolded.

The boy had spiky orange-blonde hair and blue eyes. He was the same height as Makoto.

"Gou," he said in confusion. "What are you doing in Japan?"

"Miserably failing to find some peace and quiet," Gou answered with a pointed look.

"Hold on." Kouren said. "How do you two know Gou?"

"Gou, Kenji and Uncle Kai came to visit last year." Makoto answered, making Gou wonder what Kai's reaction would be when he heard Makoto calling him 'Uncle'.

"I'm pretty sure I can find my own way," Gou said, making a beeline for the gates.

He walked into the school building. It wasn't very complicated or maze-like like his old school. There were two over-sized entrance doors and a huge empty space with various doors to his left and right. There were two staircases, one on each side, directly in front of him. He looked up and found that the school had three floors. The classes were built directly above the rooms on his sides. The corridors were fairly wide and had brown wooden railings. If you leaned on them you could see the ground floor.

Gou took the staircase on the right and went to the first floor. He realized that the first floor was full of numerous sections of grade seven. The first floor was grade seven, the second was grade eight and the third was grade nine. Made sense.

He climbed up another flight of stairs. The classrooms were labeled so it was easy to find them. He walked along the corridor till he found his class. It was the last one. He was a student of class 8-D. He saw that on the opposite side were more sections of grade eight. 8-E, 8-F, 8-G and 8-H. Eight sections for each class. Gou decided not to comment.

He had almost entered the class when he heard an unfamiliar female voice call out, "Are you Gou Hiwatari?"

Gou turned to see a young brunette standing behind him. He nodded slowly.

The woman smiled. "I'm Kasumi Nishimura, your homeroom teacher and you need to come with me."

Gou followed silently.

She took him with him when she entered the class and announced, "Everyone, this is Gou Hiwatari. He's new here so I want you to treat him nicely."

With that, she assigned him a seat at the front of the class. Gou absolutely hated it.

At the end of the day, just as the bell rang, the door burst open and in stumbled three kids.

Ms Nishimura regarded them sternly. "Children, don't you think you ought to control your excitement a little?"

Kouren and Markus blushed and apologized while Makoto mumbled under his breath, "We waited for the bell."

Gou walked straight pass them.

"Gou, wait." Makoto said. "Markie and I are headed over to Kouren's place to beyblade. Wanna come?"

Gou took a deep breath. "Look, just because I've met you once before it doesn't mean we can be the best of chums now so quit pestering me."

For a second, Makoto's face showed no reaction and Gou felt a surge of satisfaction….until it broke into a wide grin.

"Is that a yes?"

"It's a no, you dummy!"

'Exactly how dense is this guy?' Gou thought.

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Gou walked home. The day had been boring. He needed some excitement. In other words, he needed beyblading.

The moment he thought that an arrow flew towards him, missing him by a centimeter. It had a letter attached to it. Here's what it said:

Gou Hiwatari,
Walk exactly fifty steps straight ahead. Turn left. Walk twenty three steps. You will arrive at an abandoned building. I will be waiting for you there.
Your worst nightmare.

Gou knew exactly who this 'worst nightmare' was. His best friend and greatest rival. The only person who understood Gou even better than Kai.

Gou followed the instructions on the letter and arrived at the abandoned building. He went to the roof knowing that was the place where his 'Nightmare ' was expecting him.

The 'Nightmare ' did not fail him. On the rooftop it was extremely windy. A fourteen year old boy was standing there. He had two toned hair like Gou but the colour was different. He had white bangs and back hair which was styled exactly like Gou's. His eyes were icy blue. He was wearing a black trench coat over an indigo coloured T-shirt. He had two red triangles on his face. One on each cheek.

"So the nerd starts attending school once again." he said.

"That's rich coming from a straight As student!" Gou shot back, rolling his eyes. "Though I'm pretty sure you didn't just try to kill me because you wanted to chit chat.

"I called you here so I could settle the score with you once and for all, unless…" his voice trailed off and his determined expression was replaced with a mischievous smirk.

"Unless what?" Gou demanded.

"Unless you're too chicken to accept." Kenji teased.

"In your sorry dreams, Seaweed Butt."

He took out his blue blade and Gou followed his example, taking out his crimson one.

"Three"

"Two"

"One"

"Let it Rip!"

And they launched their blades into the dish.

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And done! That's chapter one. Hope you liked it.

Some important information about our characters:

Gou Hiwatari:

Age: 14

Lives with: Kai Hiwatari (father)

Appearance: light blue bangs, deep purple (almost black) hair styled exactly like Kai's hair in season 2. His outfit is similar to Kai's V-force outfit. He has a blue triangle on each cheek.

Makoto Granger:

Age: 13

Lives with: Tyson Granger (father), Hilary Tachibana (mother).

Appearance: a smaller version of the 15-year-old Tyson (G-rev). He has Hilary's eyes.

Markus Tate:

Age: 13

Lives with: Max Tate (father). His mother, Emily is normally away for work (you'll find out more about this later).

Appearance: orange-blond hair, blue eyes. Wears regular clothes.

Kouren:

Age: 12 (she's a year ahead of her class)

Lives with: Kenny (father). Her mother, Ming-Ming is away, travelling.

Appearance: blue hair, chin-length from the front, shoulder lenth from the back.

And...that's it. Thanks for reading. Please review.