Chapter 1

Searching for Love

notes- koi=koibito (not a fish)=lover

Ray is 22 Kai is 23 the world championships as referred to in the story is one for adult beybladers. It consists of the best Beybladers from their younger years, well the ones that still blade of course. It's pretty much like the World Championships of Beyblade but with hotter guys and girls and they're a lot older than they were at the World Championships when they were 13-16. It happened almost exactly like the original BB-world championships and it ended the same way. With Drigger protecting Rei and all.... If you've seen the last few episodes of Beyblade, not V-Force, but the original one, I've only seen the English ones, so if something is wrong then blame the English dubs.

Note Mee-Lei- is the baby's name. for future reference

Mariah calls her Mee, Rei call her Méle (like Péle- the soccer player) and, Kai calls her May. I think that's all you need to know.

"Kai please? You know you want to! Holding a baby won't hurt you... Much. Or are you just scared?" The raven haired one teased his crimson eyed partner.

"No, Rei, I'm not afraid. And no I don't want to." Kai replied to his koibito.

Rei just looked at him with his sad, huge, kitten eyes and Kai broke down and agreed. "Fine Rei, I'll hold it. But only for you, my kitten.{A/N:I know so cliché... but what can ya do?}"

"Yeah. Come on Kai, let's go see Mariah and Lee

"Fine." Kai replied, as they went to see Rei's old friends.

"Why hello Rei, Kai! Come on in. I'll tell Mariah you're here. Riah! Rei's here." Lee yelled for his wife.

"Hi Rei and Kai! How are you guys?"

"We're fine." They said somewhat cheerfully.

"Wanna see Mee-Lei? She really missed her godparents... Well Rei at least." The pink-haired woman said as she led her guests up the stairs to the baby's room. "She did the cutest thing the other day. Mee, can you show Uncle Rei what you did yesterday?" They reached the room and went into the cat-filled room. There were cats of all shapes in sizes; stuffed and painted on the wall.

"You're really sure she likes cats?" Kai asked, eying the room.

"Yep. She really loves Galux and Galleon. She'd probably like Drigger too... But Dranzer I don't know about. Should we try it?," Rei nodded. "Well not in here then, but in the backyard. Let's go." told the group. She headed to pick up her child, but Rei stopped her.

"Riah, let Kai hold her. He told me he wanted to. Kai, come on now."

"Fine." Mariah smiled, "Here you go Kai. No, not that way, this way. Yes, now you've got it. Oh she really likes you. She's never taken to anyone else this fast, even Lee."

"You're right Mariah. She really likes him. He seems pretty good with kids though," Lee added.

"Kai can we get a baby now? Possibly in the next year? Please?" Rei blurted out as he looked at Mee-Lei.

"Rei, it's a huge responsibility that I don't think we're ready for right now. Even though..." Kai stopped mid-thought.

"Even though what Kai? Please? I want a child of our own." Rei pleaded with his koi.

"Rei, we'll talk about this when we get home." Mee-Lei started to fuss. "You're upsetting May. Please Rei. Just ask those two about how much work it is," he said indicating Mariah and Lee. "It's a huge responsibility." He was trying to be unfeeling and calm, but everyone could see that it wasn't working very well.

After an uncomfortable, slightly awkward silence Rei seemed to wake up.

"Whoa. Look at the time. Tyson's gonna kill us if we're late to practice, again. Bye Riah, Lee. Kai, give Mee-Lei to Lee." Rei said quickly, glancing at his watch, and before grabbing Kai's hand. They then went out of the house and off to practice. This left Mariah

and Lee staring after the two, with not enough time to say goodbye to the two. 

"Hey Kai, Rei. So you've finally decided to show up..." Tyson yelled at the two as soon as he saw the two running towards the rest of the team.

"Sorry Tyson. We just visited Mariah, Lee and their new baby. We kinda' lost track of time. Sorry guys." Rei said apologetically to the rest of the team.

"It's all good. Let's just start. Okay Max, you go against Rei. Kai, you're up against me, after the first guys go." Tyson said, as he was the un-official captain since the World Championships were over. "3...2...1... Let it rip!"

"Go Drigger"

"Draciel!"

"No! No bitbeasts!" Said Tyson, before the bitbeasts emerged from the blades.

"What? Tyson are you sure?" Rei questioned the leader.

"Yes. If I wasn't then I wouldn't say it." Tyson replied.

"Fine. Drigger stay back."

"Draciel, you too."

With that both of the emerging bitbeasts returned to their bits.

AN:I'm not very good at battle scenes so I'm not gonna write it out. Maybe later

With a final burst of energy both blades flew out of the dish and into their owner's chests. Rei wasn't that heavy since he was just recovering from a bout of flu. He had has after the world championships that which put him in the hospital for the second time; so the force of the incoming blade pushed his body into that of his boyfriend. When Kai looked down at Rei he could see blood coming out of the place where the blade had hit him. The attack ring, very sharp, had made a long, deep, gash in his chest.

"Rei!" Kai shouted as he kneeled down with his precious cargo.

Rei painfully lifted his head. "I'm fine. It's just a little cut. It wasn't Max's fault. My reflexes…" Rei coughed a little before continuing, "weren't work..." He never finished his sentence for he had passed out. Kai looked at himself and saw that he was covered in Rei's blood.

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End of Chapter 1 In case you can't read I don't own beyblade. I only partially own the part of my name 'tako' just so you know, it's short for Takoyaki… ask Dark Silicon if you want to know what it means or why she choose it….

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