A/N: I have gone back and changed a few things. Hope you enjoy it

Warnings: THROUGH OUT THIS WHOLE STORY THERE WILL BE BOTH YAOI AND HETEROSEXUAL COUPLES. Don't Like? Then go find another story to read then. And there will be cussing too.

Pairings: Most are unknown right now but there will be eventually Bryan/Matilda, Kai/Rei more to come

"Talking"

"Talking in Russian"

Disclaimers: Do not own

Prologue - Refusal

Bryan Kuznetsov sat down, emerald green eyes searching the crowded conference room. His dark blue jean jacket, darkish pale yellow shirt and burgundy pants stood out against his ivory skin and lavender hair.

He watched as the raven haired teen who had beaten him a few years ago sent a pleading look to his ex-captain, as the said raven haired teen's crazy, pink haired, wanna-be-his-girlfriend friend kept a good hold of his arm.

Maybe to the raven hair teen's friends who all think that he really likes the 'Pinky' as Ian had always called her (and it stuck to Bryan and his others friends though Kai, the ex-captain mention before, made is a habit to call her worse) but Bryan knew the truth.

Maybe it was because he had been taught to read people or maybe it could be because of the letters, emails, etc. etc, but whatever the reason, Bryan knew he was dating Kai secretly.

And no Bryan didn't mind and if it wasn't for the fact the Kai was like a brother (yes, they had the love-hate relationship like real siblings) and that his other friend/brother/captain Tala didn't have the tendencies to bring home people including men, Bryan would have called him a queer.

Well, Bryan did call Kai a queer but that was only when they were arguing though.

"Why don't you just mind your own business, Hiwatari?" the pink fiend snapped dragging the raven hair teen with her so that they were sitting on the other side of the table a few chairs down from sitting straight in front on Bryan. The whole room had quieted.

"Pinky," Tala drawled from his spot on Bryan's left. Mariah scowled while the other boy, Ian, on Bryan's right snorted with laughter, "I think it's the Kitten's choice as to where he wants to sit."

"I'm not a kitten," Rei hissed causing Tala to grin.

"Then you must be a tiger in bed then," Tala said loudly, grinning madly as Rei blushed and Mariah choked on her own saliva. Ian busted out laughing while Bryan and Spencer snickered.

"Ivanov!" Kai snarled, whacking the redhead over the head, "Stop, you fucking pervert!"

Tala pouted slightly but sat back in the seat, an a smug smirk snaking its way on the pale face. Bryan watched Rei say something in Chinese to Mariah who frowned. She went to object to whatever he was saying but he gave a stern look before moving to sit next to an amused blond called Max which sat the raven-hair teen across from Bryan.

Kai moved around the table sitting next to the neko-jin who was already deep in conversation with Max and the indigo hair teen next to the blond, Tyson. Mariah huffed and glared at Tala who still had that smug smirk flashing her way.

Bryan looked around as the last team of Beybladers filed into the room. Bryan eyes watched the last person, the only girl of the team smiling saying hi to some of the others in the room as she passed them.

He felt a nudge in his side and clenched his teeth, not bothering to look. The nudge came again. He turned to glare at the redhead sitting next to him, already knowing what to expect. Tala made a kissing face then pointed to Matilda. Bryan didn't even have to turn and look to know that.

The bad thing about being friends with others who had also been taught to read others was that that meant they knew had to read you as well. Which meant that not only did Tala know about his 'crush' --as his friends called it- on Matilda but so did Kai, Ian and Spencer. And they never missed a chance to tease him. Weirdly enough, Kai's mother even knew.

"Hey guys," Matilda said shyly as she sat next to the bulky form of Spencer. Claude sat next to her saying his own greetings.

"Hey," Tala replied, elbowing Bryan in the ribs hard, nodding his head at the girl. Bryan scowled slightly, muttering his own hello. Matilda gave a bemused smile before turning back to her team.

"You idiot! Why is that you can talk any girl into your bed just for the hell of it and yet you can't even say hi to Matilda? Do you need to be drunk to do everything?" Ian scolded in a hushed tone.

"Hey, Ian," Bryan whispered, smiling slightly. Ian eyed him suspiciously, "Tell me how the fall was."

With that, Bryan twisted around in his chair and pushed hard at the back of Ian's chair, officially knocking the chair over. Ian yelped, his hands flying outwards to try and grab the table but missed. Everyone turned their attention to Ian who just laid there blinking, groaning.

Bryan snickered turning forward again, crossing his arms. Tala sighed and stood up as did Spencer, both bending over Ian. Spencer forced him to stand up while Tala sat the chair right side up.

Ian shook his head roughly before glaring at Bryan who by now had his eyes closed. Tala sat down leaving Spencer to deal with Ian. Suddenly Ian grinned and yanked Bryan's chair backward before Spencer could stop him and Bryan chair toppled over as Ian's had done.

Bryan's eyes flew open and like Ian, he tried to grab the table only to miss, grunting as the back of the chair hit the ground and his head hit the back of the chair. Ian doubled over laughing while Tala slammed his head on the table and Kai and Spencer rolled their eyes.

"Ian," Bryan growled menacingly. Ian stopped laughing suddenly and started running. At the first sign of Ian moving, Bryan jumped up and took off after Ian. Ian threw the door open, then was gone before their eyes, Bryan soon disappearing out of the room too, leaving his teammates to sigh.

"Aren't you guys going to stop them?" Oliver asked.

"Nope. It'll be best for them to fight it out," Tala replied leaning his head against his balled fist, stifling a yawn.

Bryan tackled Ian, knocking over a lady in the process. Ian elbowed Bryan in the ribs but Bryan kept his hold of the slightly younger boy. Before Bryan could do anything else, someone cleared their throat, making both look up gulping slightly.

They knew that sound like the back of their hands. After all, they heard it every time they fought.

A woman stood with her hands on her hip, frowning. Two long dark blue bangs framed her face while the rest of her hair was tied into a high ponytail, stopping a little below her butt.

She had on a black skirt that ended just a couple of inches below her knees. White stockings hid the beautifully tanned legs and she had on a pair of black heels. Her black dress jacket covered the silky white button up dress shirt and a pearl necklace lay against the tanned skin of her neck. She looked no older the nineteen but in reality was 34.

"What may I ask, are you two doing now?" She asked as the man standing behind her helped the lady that they had knocked over pick up her files and stuff. He had dark brown hair and was slightly tanned.

He wore a brown dress suit and black dress shoes. And beside the dark haired woman was the old man who had called all the teams for a meeting or something like that. Bryan really hadn't paid attention when Tala had told him.

"Hey, mom," Ian chirped happily, happy that she had shown up in the nick of time. Bryan stood up scowling, glaring at Ian who stood up also, silently telling the smaller teen to watch his back. "Bryan was trying to kill me again."

"Apparently I didn't try hard enough," Bryan grumbled straightening his clothes. The lady sighed and set to work trying to straighten Ian's hair and goggles. Ian swatted her hand away with one hand while pulling the goggles down with his other.

"So what happened this time?" the man asked as he joined them.

"He tipped my chair backwards while I was sitting in it, so I did the same to him," Ian said retying his hair into a low ponytail then fixed his goggles back into place.

"Bryan,"

"He should have kept that motor mouth of his shut in the first place," Bryan cut in, glaring at the other boy out of the corner of his eye.

"Hey, I was only saying what I thought," Ian defended himself, "It's not my fault you get shy around Matilda."

"I'm not shy."

"Sure, then why can't you say anything to her?"

"Why can't you shut that damn trap of yours, big mouth?"

"Why are you such an asshole?"

"I rather be an asshole then a shrimp!"

"At least I can actually hold a conversation with my crush!"

"At least I can reach the cereal!"

"At least I don't get hit in the head by…."

"GUYS!" the woman shouted. Bryan and Ian snapped their jaws shut and stood glaring at each, arms crossed. "We'll talk about this later. Right now, let's go back to the conference room. Mr. Dickinson has things he has to do."

"Whatever," Bryan muttered walking away.

Bryan stalked into the room with the others following him. Spencer pointed to the seat between him and Matilda meaning for him to sit.

Ian sat in Tala's old seat while the old man sat at the end of the table where Ian and Kenny sat. Kenny and Hilary stood up offering their seats to the man and woman who greatly accepted.

"Mom? Dad? What are you guys doing here?" Tala asked looking at Kai who just raised an eyebrow in the adults direction, shrugging to answer Tala's question. How was he supposed to know why they were here?

"Mom and dad?" Tyson repeated dumbly. Mr. Dickinson stood up, clearing his throat.

"Ladies and Gents, may I introduce to you, Mr. Susumu Hiwatari and his wife, Mrs. Aneko Hiwatari. To clear up some questions, yes, they are Kai's parents and they have adopted the Blitzkrieg Boys for many reasons, one being that they needed a someone to take custody of them.

"Now, to move on to why I asked you all here. In a few weeks, it'll be Thanksgiving and then afterwards Christmas. I came up with a project to spread Christmas to others who don't have that joy or at least not much of it.

"This project is to give a child the opportunity to experience what it would be like to have someone there, maybe a brother, sister, or whatever the child would consider you as," Mr. Dickinson took a deep breath before going on, "To put it simply, I would like to send you all to an orphanage in America for thanksgivings and Christmas."

The room was silent for a few. Then Matilda asked, "An orphanage? What would we have to do?"

"Well, each person will be assigned a child of whom they would take care of. The main reason for it to be like this is so that you can make a child smile, or at least show them a happy time and to also help you lot to learn responsibility."

"Sir, when you say 'take care of', what exactly do you mean?" Emily asked fixing her glasses.

"You would help them, be their friend, if they are having problems then help them. If someone is picking on them, it will be up to you on what to do. Let it continue or stop it. For the first couple of weeks, you will not have full responsibility incase we need to switch you to another kid or something but after two weeks, whatever happens to the child will be in your hands."

"You're kidding right?" Tala asked with a snort. "I decline, thank you."

"Actually Tala," Aneko said smiling sweetly, "You, Bryan, Kai, Ian and Spencer will all be going as will I, Susumu, Hiro, and Mike so that we can help."

"But…" Ian sputtered looking horrified, "You can't! You didn't even consult us about it first!"

"Well, since you boys likes to do what we adults do like drinking and partying and so on, we thought that maybe it's time for you to learn how to take care of a child since the way you four are going, you might end up with a one," Susumu said then muttered, "Thanks to whatever deity there is that Kai doesn't do stuff like that."

"I have the folders for each person here already, so if you want to take a look at the file of the child you will be taking care of before you make your decision, then I will be glad to hand them out. So boys, since you five are already going, here."

With that, folders were passed about. Bryan glared at the folder in front of him, hoping it would burn itself. He glanced at Matilda out of the corner of his eyes, watching her lip read whatever she was looking at.

Looking at the page, he saw a small dark skinned girl with brown sad eyes. About five maybe even six, he guessed. In the picture, she wasn't smiling and it looked like someone either tired to burn her from her left cheek down to her small little chin or it was a birthmark.

Bryan guessed from the picture that maybe it was a burnt mark. From the sad eyes he could tell she was lonely, perhaps she was a loner and that other kids picked on her. From the way she frowned, he could tell that she wasn't the type to trust easily. Either that or she didn't like smiling for the camera.

Bryan sighed looking back at his own folder which he had yet to open. On the tab part, it read Ted Blake. Meaning a boy. Oh the joy. Bryan glared at it on more time and when it didn't burn like he had hoped, he finally opened it.

The small picture caught his attention quickly. It was a young boy, five years old, he read. He had black hair and pale skin. Bright blue eyes stared at the camera, his smiling mouth open, showing that he was missing a bottom front tooth.

Quickly he skimmed over the paper. Ted Anthony Blake, born July 5, 2001, age 5, has a learning disability, father unknown, mother in rehab… Bryan stared in disbelief. They wanted him to take care of a retarded brat?

"Oh, how sad," He turned to find Matilda looking at the profile of Ted. Bryan bit his lip harshly to keep from saying what he wanted to. "I used to have a brother that had something called Down Syndrome. He was way older then me. He died a couple of years ago cause of bad heart. I miss him really."

Bryan didn't say anything. What was he supposed to say? 'Oh, I'm sorry, Matilda. Here I'll cheer you up.' Touching, mushy, so not like him. Although he wouldn't have minded making her feel better. So instead of saying anything like that he asked,

"So, you going?"

"Yeah, I would really like to. I'm sure I'll be able to go," She said smiling at him. For some reason his heart started beating faster and he quickly looked back at the file.

"I'll give you all some papers to have your parent or guardian sign and I need them back by November 15. You may go, but please, do not lose those folders," Mr. Dickinson called packing up his stuff while Susumu and Aneko handed out the papers.

"I'm stuck with a quiet six year old cancer survivor," Tala grumbled.

"Mine has ADHD," Spencer muttered.

"Mine's apparently somewhat shy," Ian said. When Bryan didn't answer, the other three turned to find him glaring at whatever was in the folder.

"Bryan? What did you get?" Tala asked leaning over Spencer trying to get a glance at Bryan's folder.

"A retard brat," Bryan answered darkly. "It's bad enough that I hate kids, but now I'm stuck with a even more stupid-then-normal-brat."

A/N: I went back and changed Ted from having Down syndrome to just having a learning disability.

R&R. Criticisms and flames are welcomed.