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Chapter 2

Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade or any of the characters, just the events in this story.

====================== No Yoai, No Rape, No Sexual abuse. =============

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Just before death (Re-write)

by zzdoricorezz


Kai wakes up feeling warm and comfortable, he doesn't move or open his eyes trying to go back to sleep while he's still feeling peaceful. He never wakes up feeling like this, so he will make the most of it.

In fact, Kai really can't think of the last time he felt this comfortable, not since he's been on the streets. Kai's mind immediately starts waking up and working on trying to think where he is and if should get up or if he can stay for a while longer.

A few moments later Kai can't recall where he was before he fell asleep.

Kai lazily opens his eyes to slits just to take a quick look around where he is to jog his memory. Opening his eyes, it takes a moment before he starts to focus and can see he's in a medium sized room with furniture and curtains, nothing unusual or anything that indicates that he is in any kind of danger. Kai closes his eyes as he seems to be in a safe place.

Feeling exhausted Kai tries to go back to sleep but his subconscious nags him about the fact that he doesn't know where he is. Blaming it on his sleepiness Kai still can't help but figure out where he could be. Taking in his surroundings, it's warm, he's covered under a blanket... his head hurts, he's hungry and he generally feels like crap. A familiar feeling.

Then it all starts coming back.

Walking the streets in the freezing wind, sitting in the snow, dark nights, no food.

Kai opens his eyes to slits again just to make sure he's not still somewhere out on the streets and he's not just deluding himself thinking he's feeling warm. Fleetingly the phrase 'denial rhymes with smile' jumps to mind.

Closing his eyes again after taking a quick glance, Kai has established that he's definitely not outside. Then was it a dream, a dream that felt like months? If is was, he's never had such a vivid dream. It even made him feel like he lived it after he has woken up. Kai eventually decides that his mind is just running off with him and with no other concerns Kai falls back asleep.


Boris is standing at the window looking out at the snow falling timelessly outside. A stir in the bed behind him draws his attention only to find that Kai has yet to wake up. Kai is looking a lot better than the day before, some colour has started to return to his face other than his blue markings.

Boris is wondering how Kai even got to Russia and what he could be doing here. There are no beyblading tours during this time of the year and Boris can think of no other reason for Kai to come to Russia. This frozen country is where most of Kai's bad childhood memories run rampant. Even Voltaire is in a maximum security prison that's just outside of Moscow, even more reason for Kai to never visit this side of the planet.

If Kai was here for something specific it clearly turned out bad and something tells Boris that it has something to do with those bladebreakers and Mr. Dickenson. What has stopped Kai from calling Mr. Dickenson, if he's in such a situation of life and death? Unless the problem has to do with Mr. Dickenson.

Kai may not like the bladebreakers very much but Kai wouldn't let himself be claimed by the cold just because he doesn't want to deal with them. That only leaves Mr. Dickenson in the red. But what could that jolly old fool of a man of done to make Kai want to freeze to death? Mr. Dickenson doesn't have the capacity to inflict such kind of pain. So it must be a number of factors contributing to Kai's current state.

What happened to Kai that made him want to give up and sit in the cold freezing to death? Kai's a fighter, a rebel, if a door shuts in Kai's face he'll move on to the next or break one down, but giving up is not in him, he doesn't know the meaning of the word.

Turning back to the window watching the snow outside, Boris is willing to wait a little longer for Kai to wake up.


A few more hours pass before Boris returns to the room where Kai is sleeping peacefully. Kai may be sleeping but he's probably hasn't eaten in days, Kai could be peacefully dying in his sleep. No, Boris can't allow that before he gets his chance to harass him.

Taking a seat on the bed next to Kai, Boris places hand on Kai's shoulder and shakes him. Not violently but not gentle either.

"Kai." Boris speaks just above a whisper in a sing-sing taunting tone. Dead sure that's the last thing Kai wants to hear waking up.

Kai pulls a slight frown as he wakes up and then he opens his eyes a crack. When his eyes finds focus he's greeted with a grinning Boris looking down at him. Kai closes his eyes again squeezing them shut like he's trying to figure out if who he just saw was real or a figment of his exhausted imagination.

He opens his eyes again looking at Boris and an even bigger frown of confusion appears on his face. For a moment Kai feels like he's ten years old and in the abbey. Kai's eyes narrow with suspicion, he can clearly remember age 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and he definitely remembers leaving the abbey.

Now that Kai has established that he's not in the abbey he unfreezes and moves his hand to wipe the sleep from his eyes. What the heck is going on here? First Kai dreams of spending months on the streets, has a hard time recalling where he is, feeling like a train had hit him and now he wakes up to Boris looking down at him.

"It's not a dream and I am real, if that is what you were thinking." Boris' blatant corrective words drowns out all of Kai's reasoning to believe Boris isn't really there.

Kai removes his hand from his sight and then pins Boris with a glare. Not a usual death glare but another glare, one Boris can't recall ever seeing. A moment of silence falls over the room as both Boris and Kai glare at each other. Boris waiting for Kai to make the first move and Kai staying motionless not sure what to do, then his brain suddenly connects.

"What are you doing here?" Kai asks in as much of an accusing tone as he can with the scratch in his throat. As soon as Kai's lips move the dry cracks on his lips starts to pull and sting but Kai plainly ignores it.

"You're In my house." Boris plainly states, he couldn't wait to tell Kai that, knowing that would make Kai's panic hike up.

Sitting up as fast as he can "What the hell am I doing here!?" Kai shouts the best he can avoiding to cough and trying to avoid stretching his lips. If not for this situation Kai's sarcastic response would've been something like 'you mean you actually live somewhere?'.

Boris notes that Kai's emotionless mask he's hid behind ever since before he was born seems 'broken'. Kai seems to be trying to keep his face from showing what he feels inside but the panic and confusion is seeping through the cracks.

Boris chuckles at Kai's expression, is an expression between being thrown of a bridge or maybe a vampire closing in on it's next drink. A no-no expression for Kai.

"What are you laughing at?" Kai tones down as shouting isn't doing him any good. Kai is starting to wonder if he's gone insane or if Boris is really right in front of him, laughing at him.

"The look on your face is priceless, young Kai." Boris taunts knowing that if there is something to savour, taunting him will do him some good. Kai brings his hands to his face and covers it as he whispers incomprehensible things to himself.

Boris reaches out and takes Kai by his wrists and pulls his hands away from his face. Kai immediately starts pulling back with all the force he can which honestly isn't much.

"Don't touch me!" Kai's back to trying to yell. Kai's commanding tone of voice always got people to back off but Boris' grip remains on Kai's wrists.

"Calm down, before you hurt yourself." Boris taunts with a voice one would use to talk to a child. He knows Kai can't stand it.

Kai starts jerking his hands back trying to get out of Boris' grip but fails miserably. Boris tightens his grip and slowly starts bending Kai's hands backwards causing a restraining action. Kai jerks back with less force and then he eventually stops when he can't move his arms.

"Have you calmed down?" Boris asks in a complete calm tone noting that Kai had a lot more strength when he was ten.

"Let. go. of. me." Kai commands in a cold threatening tone while trying to muster up a death glare.

"Do you promise to behave yourself?" Boris knows that Kai would strongly disagree with that but in this position Kai hasn't got much of a choice.

Kai watches Boris for a moment, making a deal with Boris is never a good idea but he doesn't care anymore. He's just so damn tired of it all. "Yes." Kai grits his teeth while suppressing the urge to scream.

As soon as Boris loosens his grip, Kai roughly jerks his hands free. "Now that's really behaving yourself." Boris taunts Kai.

The moment Kai's released he moves quickly up onto his knees moves back as far as he can to make enough space between him and Boris. Feeling the cold wall pressing against his back.

"Where am I?" Kai's tone suddenly changes to non-aggressive with the pure intent only to know where he is.

"If I didn't know you better Kai, I would say you're a bad listener." Boris already did tell Kai where he is but he doesn't blame Kai if he thinks it's a lie.

Kai takes a look around the room and finds his jacket hung over a nearby chair. Something is definitely wrong here, the room looks normal with carpet, curtains, furniture, it actually does look like a house.

"What happened?" Kai asks as he's fighting the urge to lick his lips, make them moisten, anything to take the stinging away.

"You don't remember?" Boris would like to know what happened and a Kai with amnesia isn't going to give him any answers but the tone he uses poses a suspicious question to see what Kai's reaction will be.

"What happened?" Kai starts to raise his voice. Boris makes a sound like something bad happened to him and no doubt Boris was behind it.

"I don't know, you tell me." Boris changes his tone to a honest one, he really doesn't know how Kai ended up on the bench in the park.

Kai closes his eyes although he knows he better keep an eye on Boris. His head hurt and he feels dizzy. Boris remains silent waiting for Kai to make him disappear with the alien powers Kai wishes he possessed. A few moments later Kai opens his eyes and looks at Boris looking back at him.

"Did you expect me to go somewhere?" Boris knows Kai so badly wanted him to be gone when he reopened his eyes.

Boris and Kai both watch each other in silence. Boris waiting for the next move of rebellion and Kai waiting to see what Boris does next. That's very much unlike Kai, he'd rather make the first move before his opponent can think or glare daggers at him, but Boris isn't even getting one dagger. Boris isn't even getting a glare. Something is very wrong with Kai, it's like he's backing down. A non-responsive Kai isn't any fun.

"I found you on a park bench, freezing to death." Seeing that he cannot make Kai lash out anymore, Boris tells him the truth. The cold hard truth.

Telling by the look Boris gets, that was the confirmation to what Kai tried to deny to himself. After another moment of silence, Boris stands up. Something about Kai's behaviour isn't right and Boris decides that's enough for a day. Kai suspiciously watches Boris as he takes out something from his pocket and throws it into Kai's lap. Without saying another word, Boris leaves the room leaving the door wide open.

Kai keeps his eyes on Boris till he's out of sight. After staring at the open door for an uncertain amount of time, Kai slowly brings his hand up and feels his lips sting as he strokes a finger over the cracks. It's all coming back to him now, this insane distraction with Boris made him forget all about streets.

Kai isn't sure when it was but he can remember battling to stay on his feet while walking through the park. He was freezing, hungry and tired, so he sat down on the bench, brought his knees up to hug them to try and get warm. At that point he didn't care who saw him. And that's the last thing he remembers. The next thing he remembered after that was this comfort.

Kai looks down at the bed he's sitting on. Soft bed, warm blankets a pillow. Kai's face turns disappointed, he has to leave, leave this warm place and go back out to the freezing streets.

He wants to stay here, where it's warm and soft. He hasn't felt anything so soft for months, since he's been living on the streets.

Looking up, Kai examines the room. It may look like a normal room but there is no way it can be normal with Boris around. There's no way he is staying in a place where Boris is. Boris is associated with pain, hurt and fear, not comfort or warmth.

Kai fixes his attention on the window, it's the best option to get out of here but unfortunately for him the spaces between the bars are too narrow for him to fit through. That only leaves the open door and then he'd probably have to get past Boris. Why would Boris bring him here and just let him leave?

Kai's gaze falls down to his lap where an unopened packet of lip balm Boris threw at him. Kai stares at it for a while as he thinks about the relief it will bring his lips. Boris put it there wanting him to take it. If Boris wanted to do anything to him, he would've done it by now and most certainly not with lip balm, maybe Boris is just trying to help.

That's even worse. Kai doesn't except help from anyone, especially not Boris.

Crawling over to the edge of the bed, Kai places his feet on the ground and finds his shoes neatly placed next to each other. Kai quickly slips them on and then takes his jacket off the nearby chair that was hung there to dry. Just putting on the same jacket he wore on the streets makes him feet cold and uncomfortable.

Just before Kai heads for the door he stops and turns back looking at the lip balm. After a moment's hesitation he reaches out grabs it and shoves it into his pocket and then continues to the door.

Stopping in the open doorway, Kai looks both ways in the hallway. The one side is a dead end with a window with some more bars and to the other side two other rooms and a living room with the front door on the other side. Not seeing Boris, Kai steps out into the hallway and heads towards the front door. Instead of running like any sane person would've done knowing that you and Boris was in the same building, Kai slowly walks towards the door where beyond his impending doom lies.

As Kai steps into the living room he stops at seeing Boris busy in a metal filling cabinet drawer. The entire living room is filled with filling cabinets, now the house doesn't look normal. It looks like all the filling cabinets from BEGA. Boris probably didn't have anywhere else to put them, so now his entire living room is standing full of filling cabinets.

Boris doesn't seem to know Kai is there as he continues with whatever it is he's doing. But even though Boris doesn't look up, he knows Kai is there. He was actually starting to wonder what was taking Kai so long. Why is Kai dragging his escape out? Maybe he wants to stay.

Kai looks back to the door that's only a few feet away, it's probably locked.

"You are free to leave, or stay." Boris tells Kai without looking up, he wasn't planning on inviting him to stay but at Kai's delay to leave it seemed like the right thing to say.

He doesn't expect Kai to stay but he doesn't seem to want to leave either.

Kai stares at the door, he will not believe it's that easy. Maybe turning down the offer to stay is that hard.

"So you're staying?" Boris is surprised he didn't think Kai would stay, he expected Kai to run.

"No." Kai responds in an uncertain tone.

"Then what's the problem?" Boris closes the cabinet drawer as he looks up at Kai.

The moment Boris looks in his direction, Kai jumps into action, walks over to the door, places his hand on the door handle and is genuinely surprised to find it's not locked.

There's a second's hesitation before Kai pulls the door open and the first thing that welcomes him back to the streets is the freezing wind biting through his clothes. As the door shuts behind him, Kai instantly feels regret. It was so nice and warm inside, he completely forgot how cold it is on the outside. Turning right Kai heads down the street with no where in particular to go but just to walk and look like he knows what he's doing.

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End of chapter 2

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