Mistress: Welcome to my amazing weird and wacky world! I am the one and onlyWolve-Mistress and I will be your guide through this adventure. I am glad you are reading this…I do really truly hope that you like it :D Let me just quickly say that I do not own any of the characters in this story. They all belong to the creators of Beyblades.
Pairings…well they have not been completely decided on. My reviewers will have some opinion in that. I am heading towards a TalaxKai, ReixBryan, EnriquexJohnny and than what ever else comes up. But there is a slight hint of KaixRei. So I will let you voice your opinion and help decide. Now please continue on and enjoy. :D :D :D
Russian ->>> I am ridicuosly insane!"
English ->>> "I am very much normal."
I don't think i have included any thought...but if i ever do thought will be like this ->> 'these are my thoughts', whilst speech will always be ->>> "now i am talking to you.". Nice and simple. :D
Cross Trained
Chapter One: Default
Kai sat locked in his room brooding over the lecture Judy had given him on the behaviour of his team. It was hardly his fault that they insisted upon reeking havoc wherever they went; Tyson could eat an Army out of house and home, Max would bounce around like a rubber ball regardless of whatever lay around him. Daichi…well he was a perfect example of what would happen if Max and Tyson could ever have a child. Ray was the only seemingly sane member of the team, at least when he wasn't behaving like a moody cat stuck up a tree. Kai glared at the wall…it was one of those perfect examples of "if looks could kill", well that wall would be rubble. Oh how he despised his team at this moment.
He sighed angrily, got up and stormed over to the door, unlocking it and striding out of the room into the shared lounge room. This was "training camp" as Mr Dickonson called it, time in between the last tournament and the next. Usually it was during this time that the teams would go home and spend some time with their families. But this time Mr Dickonson had put in a special request to have the Teams stay over this period. He wanted more time for the teams to bond, not just within their team members, but also with the other teams of the game. Although the plan wasn't going exactly to plan. The Demolition Boys rarely ever talked to anyone bar each other, and even when they were talking to each other in was in Russian. Personally Kai didn't have a problem with this, as he was usually included in the conversations being an ex-demo boy. But for the other members of the BBA circuit it became very annoying. Certain other teams also didn't like having very much to do with each other. The White Tigers for example were for some reason, having problems with the All Starz. But Mr Dickonson was positive that with time things would look up, well…with time and a little trickery on his own behalf. Well at least that's what Kai figured.
Kai dragged himself out of his thoughts when he heard yelling, as he focused on the room before him he saw Daichi jump over the back of the couch a large chocolate chip cookie clutched protectively in his hand. Close behind him ran Tyson, although Tyson didn't quite think through jumping the couch as he miscalculated the height. His foot caught the back of the couch and Tyson went flying, straight into the wall. Kai glanced down at the boy, whose head had hit the wall first, before walking further into the room and taking a seat at the bar that separated the kitchen and the lounge room.
"Daichi!" Tyson yelled, as Daichi hoovered just behind the bar in the kitchen. "You little brat! Just you wait til I get my hands on you!" Tyson began swearing as him rubbed the top of his head, his hat fallen forgotten to the side. Kai turned on the chair to look into the kitchen; Daichi sat on the bench, the cookie half-sticking out of his mouth as he tried to force it in whole. Kai grunted at that before getting up and heading for the door. "Where the hell are you going!" Tyson yelled from his seat on the floor, where he was still rubbing his head.
"None of your fucking business." Kai growled before walking out slamming the door shut behind him. He ran a hand through his double toned hair, he had to get out of that place before he went insane. There was only so much more he could take before he ended up hurting Tyson. He closed his eyes not really caring where he went, he knew that the corridor was straight all the way to the elevator, and when he got there he would just press a random button. Suddenly he hit something solid and took a sharp step back preventing himself from falling. The other person unfortunately wasn't so lucky, Kai heard them land loudly on the ground. He opened his eyes and looked down to see Tala sitting awkwardly in the middle of a potted plant. Kai began laughing, watching the expression on Tala's face change from one of confusion, to embarrassment to rage in less than two minutes. Kai continued laughing ignoring Tala's curses, mainly directed at him and his heritage. Finally Kai got control of himself, only to loss it again when Tala began to struggle the right himself from the plant. Tala continued cursing, this time also swearing at the plants heritage. Eventually he managed to claw himself from the grasp of the plant and stood sending death glares at Kai, who was still in hysterics.
"Thanks a fucking lot Hiwatari!" Tala yelled at Kai in fluent Russian. Kai continued laughing, although he was slowly managing to calm down just a little bit. After about two more minutes he looked back up at Tala, all that was left of his previous uncontrolled emotions a slight smirk.
"That's a good look Ivanov." Kai smirked, pointing at the leaf sticking out of Tala's vibrant red hair. Tala cursed Kai again before pulling the leaf out violently.
"Just you fucking wait Kai! I'm going to get you back for this!" Tala glared at the two toned haired guy standing smugly in front of him.
"Chill the fuck out Ivanov. It was a accident. Man…anyone would have thought I had done it on purpose. Christ. What's wrong with you…menstruating much?" Kai frowned at Tala, watching the teen glare death at the floor. "What the hell are you doing here anyway? This is the Bladebreakers floor. Your two levels up…or has Bryan and Ian finally killed all your brain cells." Tala just looked at Kai like he was insane.
"I take it you weren't told about tonight than?" Tala paused, still looking at Kai like there was something wrong with him. "I gave the note to Tyson, didn't you get it!"
"Obviously not!" Kai yelled, glaring at Tala who still had that look on his face. "What note are you bloody talking about?"
"Um…the one that said that all bladers accommodation has changed and that we are all moving to our now "home" at six PM. And if you didn't know, six PM was about fifteen minutes ago. Mr Dickonson and all the other bladers are downstairs waiting for you and your team." Tala kept giving Kai that same look.
"Fucking hell!" Kai cursed loudly. "I'm going to kill Tyson! And I'll kill you to if you don't stop looking at me like that!" He glared at Tala, than quickly spun on his hell and started back towards his room.
"Like what?" Switching to English as he began to follow Kai down the hall.
"Like I'm insane or losing my memory!" Kai yelled, not bothering to look back at the red head.
"Well…everyone else knew we where leaving, I don't get how you didn't." Tala caught up with the angry teen as he reached the door to his teams shared apartment.
"Tyson!" Kai yelled as he stormed into the lounge room. Daichi and Max looked over at Kai from their seats on the couch. "Get up! Go pack all your things, we're leaving…now!" Kai watched as they jumped from their seats and sprinted to their rooms. Kai began to head for Tysons' room, when Rei walked calmly out of the kitchen.
"What's going on Kai?" He asked sedately as Kai through open Tysons' door.
"Tyson! Get up! We leave in ten minutes whether you are ready or not!" Kai spun around and came face to face with Rei. "Tyson decided that it wasn't necessary to tell us that Mr Dickonson has changed our accommodation. We were meant to leave twenty minutes ago." Kai pushed past Rei and stormed into his own room.
Ten minutes later the Bladebreakers sat on the BBA bus with all the other teams, Kai and Rei sat together towards the back of the bus with the Demo Boyz. Rei was engrossed in a book of some form whilst Kai was deep in conversation with Tala.
"You're insane Ivanov. I think falling in that pot-plant really did knock some brain cells out of you." Kai looked at Tala, shaking his head at what the Russian redhead had just told him.
"I am not going insane! They're up to something! I know they are."
"Yeah…sorry to tell you Tala, but that's called being paranoid. They are not plotting against you. Unlike what you seem to think, You are not the centre of everyone's world." Kai rolled his eyes as Tala feigned extreme shock.
"Kai! How can you say such a thing! You can't deny I'm all you think of! So anyway…what's the deal with the kitty-cat?" Tala changed to topic, eyeing Rei.
"Nothings the deal. He's just the only one that doesn't drive me completely insane." Kai sat with his back against the window looking across the bus. Tala laughed and rolled his eyes before turning to smile almost seductively at the Neko-jin.
"So Rei…" He smiled as the cat blader slowly looked away from his book. "What are you reading?" His face was the picture of innocence.
"The Sight." Rei answered a puzzled look across his face. Why was Tala talking to him? And about a book? Strange,
"It sounds fascinating…" Tala mocked, the Demo boyz laughed in the background. Rei rolled his eyes as it dawned on him just why Tala was talking to him.
"Actually Tala, I'm almost positive you would like it. It's all about the life of a pack of wolves after all." Rei smirked lightly over his win when he caught a glimpse of the flash of interest in Tala's azure eyes.
"Heh…" Tala rolled his eyes, a habit he was quite set in. "Very unlikely." He turned back to the snickering Russians surrounding him. Rei just ignored the Russians and went straight back to reading his book, not noticing Kai watching him.
"Why do you even bother?" Kai asked with a scathing tone in his voice. Rei lifted his eyes from the page he was on and looked towards Kai.
"Bother? With what?" He asked a slight frown marring his face.
"Bother reading that book. You know that Tyson is just going to steal it from you when you get three pages from the end, and you won't be able to find it. So you'll get moody for a few days, rant and rave at everyone. Than the next day you'll wake up get a new book and start all over again." Kai watched as Rei's golden eyes gazed at him. Rei chuckled a little before turning back to his book.
"It's the challenge of trying to finish the book before he notices I have." Rei laughed, as he went back to his silent reading. Kai just frowned puzzled over why that amused Rei so, than closed his eyes and let himself relax.
Tala was the first to walk into the foyer of the Bladers new accommodation, Mr Dickonson was standing there waiting for them having asked them to wait on the bus until he sent for them to come in. The rest of the BBA members trailed in after him, clustering around in their teams.
"Welcome to the Crimson Oak Hotel," Mr Dickonson announced smiling at all the bladers standing before him. "Due to complications that have arisen in the foundations of the new 'training camp' we have decided to try something else. We will no longer assign you to rooms for your teams. Instead you will all be sharing a large joint room, that the Crimson Oak has been kind enough to create for us. And so that the complication of just team bonding doesn't arise again you will be placed in rooms with members who might not necessarily be from your team. Rooms will be allocated by a random name generator, that way it can not be rigged. So if you would all follow me into the hall, we shall find out your room mates and than proceed upstairs and show you your quarters." With that he turned on his heel and exited the foyer and walked into a large entertainment hall. Sitting on the stage was Julie with a laptop sitting on the table in front of her, attached to it was a projector that was displaying her screen on the wall behind and to the side of her.
"Hello everyone, it's lovely to see you again." The group all murmured a hello back, and took random seats around the room. "Seeing as Mr Dickonson has already explained to you what is happening, we'll just get straight into the groupings." She began to type quickly on the laptop and a program was displayed on the screen. "All of your names have been entered into the database, the computer will draw them out randomly, there will be six groups, the first group will comprise of five members, whilst the final five teams will have six members. Group number one. Michael, Gary, Kevin, Crusher and Robert. Group two. Mathilda, Raul, Oliver, Aaron, Hilary and Lee. Group three. Rei, Tala, Enrique, Kai, Bryan and Johnny. Group four. Daichi, Miguel, Julia, Emily, Max and Steven. Group five. Spencer, Ian, Tyson, Rick, Eddy and Kenny. And Group six. Brooklyn, Claude, Garland, Mariah, Ming Ming and Mystel. So there we are, these are the people you will be sharing your bedrooms and bathrooms with. There is one kitchen and lounge room, and one dining room. Now I believe if you follow Mr Dickonson again he will take you to your rooms. Goodbye."
Mr Dickonson lead the way out of the hall and towards the elevator where he asked the teens to get together in their groups and go up two groups at a time. He would be going up with the first group. They arrived at the top level of the hotel, which the BBA had had transformed into basically a house. Once all the groups had arrived Mr Dickonson gave them all a quick tour of the building before showing them to their rooms.
Kai walked into his room first and looked around, three double beds. Great, just great! Why did that always happen? He growled and than threw his bag on the middle bed so that he wouldn't end up against one of the walls, something he hated. Tala walked in behind him and put his bag down on the bed as well, Kai glared over at him, but Tala ignored him. Bryan stalked in next and threw his things at the wall of the left side of the room. He was followed by Enrique and Johnny who took one look at him and both out their things on the right side of the room. Rei walked in a couple of minutes after everyone else, his eyes scanned the room and he saw that he would be sharing a bed with Bryan. He shrugged his shoulders and walked over placing his things on the bed. Bryan scowled up at Rei from his seat on the bed; Rei slimed lightly but choose to basically ignore Bryans hostility. The group each began to do their own thing, Bryan and Tala talked to each in Russian whilst Kai pulled out his Ipod and 'zoned out'. Rei began to unpack and put away his things. Johnny and Enrique sat on opposite ends of their bed, Johnny was rummaging through his bag, whilst Enrique was lying on his back his feet propped up against the wall. Kai sighed watching the group and how separate they all were, but that couldn't go on. That much was obvious, they were all sleeping in this room together. He choose to stop thinking about it, closed his eyes and let the music take over him.
Kai awoke to someone shaking him, he opened his eyes slowly and looked up into bright golden yellow eyes.
"Rei…" He muttered groggily.
"Yeah…just wanted to tell you dinners ready and about to be served," The Neko-jin smiled down at Kai as he rubbed the sleep from his eyes, than turned and left the room. Kai sighed again and rubbed his eyes some more before slowly getting up. He trudged into the bathroom and washed his face, watching the paint run down his cheeks. He ran his hands through the warm water and rubbed the rest of the paint off. He looked at his blank face in the mirror, no way was he going out there without his paint on. Not unless his life depended on it. He walked back into the bedroom and pulled his bag out from under the bed. He took a few minutes to find the navy blue paint, he didn't even bother going back to the bathroom, he pulled out a small mirror out of the bag and held it up until it reflected his cheek. He began to slowly and meticulously apply the paint. Just as he was finishing the third fin Tala stormed in. He didn't even look over at Kai as he marched through the room and into the bathroom, slamming the door behind him. Kai frowned, than heard vicious yelling and from the sounds of it Bryan and Rei yelling at someone. He stood up and walked to the door, sticking his head out.
"What the hell is going on!" He screamed, taking the scene in. Rei and Bryan were both standing at the dinner table, their chair lay forgotten behind them. Opposite them stood Tyson, who was sending death glares their way.
"Tyson just decided it would be fun to bring up certain things about Biovolt." Bryan seethed through clenched teeth. Kai's eyes opened wide and for the first time he saw Ian. His head was in his hands and he was shaking violently, Spencer knelt beside him one arm gently wrapped around the small boys shoulders, trying to calm him.
"You did what!" Kai bellowed glaring at the immobile Tyson. He sent one last set of daggers at Tyson before turning sharply and striding angrily into the bedroom and over to the bathroom. He went to open the door, but un-surprisingly found it locked. "Tala. Open the door. Now." He stated firmly. He heard Tala mumble something, but couldn't make out the words. "Tala. Please open the door." Again Tala replied inaudibly. Kai growled and slowly slid down the wall and leant against the door. "Tala…" He sighed deciding to change to Russian. "I don't know what he said, and I don't really care. I just want you to unlock the door and come out and talk to me." Kai didn't notice Rei and Bryan wealk into the room, or Johnny and Enrique follow them.
"I can't. I won't." Tala replied, this time speaking clearly.
"Why can't you Wolf?" Bryan asked standing beside Kai at the door, Kai started and looked around the room noticing the others.
"I don't want to go back there." The redhead sighed. "I don't want to go back to those memories, to the person he tried to force me into. And if I unlock this door…I'll…" He trailed off into silence.
"You'll what?" Kai asked frowning at the silence. "Tala…You'll what?"
"I'll react." He whispered quietly from the other side of the door. "I don't want to react. That's not who I am." Kai heard him sob, he was obviously trying to muffle the sound. Kai turned his head and looked at the other people in the room.
"Guys, can you just leave for awhile?" He asked, his eyes pleaded with them to obey. Rei nodded his head and stood, the others following after him. Bryan closed the door behind them, after taking one last glance back at Kai, his eyes filled with pain. Kai lent his head against the door and closed his eyes. "Tala…you are not that person. You never have been. If you unlock the door I swear I will not let you harm Tyson." He sighed when he got no reply. "Tala…please. It's just me out here. No-ones here to judge you – and no one here to hurt, except me. And I know won't do that." Kai waited, barely breathing to see what Tala would do. He heard the faint rasp as the lock was undone and he scrambled to his feet. The door was pushed open and there stood Tala, his face tear striken and his crimson hair a riot. Kai gasped and took a step towards the teen. "Tala…" The redhead crumbled and fell into Kai's arms sobbing. Kai held him up and guided him towards their bed. He managed to get the crying teen to sit down and let go of Kai. Kai knelt in front of him holding his hands.
"Tala…you shouldn't let someone as low and pathetic as Tyson get to you. Whatever he said it means nothing…and anyone with more than two brain cells understands that." Tala shook his head tears still rolling down his cheeks.
"But…"
"No buts Ivanov." Kai stood and sat next to the boy wrapping an arm around his lithe shoulders, pulling him closer. "Nothing. Absolutly nothing Tyson says has anything to do with you. You are so much better than him." Tala slowly began to nod his head. Kai smiled and stood up. "Now, I think you need to get some sleep." Kai lent forward and pushed Tala down until he was lying, Tala's eyes opened wide. Kai hid his slight shock at this reaction, smirked and left the room.
Mistress: Back again! And so…what is really going on between Kai and Tala? Or does Kai like Rei? Or maybe Tala likes Rei…who knows! Please review! It would be much much much appreciated. I will reward you in some way if you do. :P Thankies! Until next time…this isWolve-Mistress Signing off.