CHAPTER TWO IS HERE!!
Kai – (sighs) Just get started.
Oh, why, I love torturing you!
Kai – Don't I get enough of that in your fics?
Nope.
Kai – (sighs) Disclaimer – She doesn't own Beyblade.
Thank you so much!
Kai – Will you start the damn fic?
Okay, okay. Don't get your panties in a wad…Jeeze!
Kai – (growls)
Here's the fic!
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Will There Ever Be Peace?
Chapter Two – An Old Face
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Kai sighed, his right hand in his pocket as he felt the metal attack ring of his beyblade. He ran his thumb over the warm bit chip in the center of the blade. Dranzer seemed to be giving off calming gestures. Kai's mind kept going back to when Kenney woke him up in the hospital room with a startled cry as he finally finished Dranzer's new beyblade. The phoenix had practically flown in through the window and into the new bit chip. Everyone laughed at the Chief's surprised expression; even Dizzy had to make a few wise-cracks at him.
That day seemed so long ago, but it had not even been a month since then.
His body was almost fully recovered. His arm was still broken, but mending really well for an arm that was broken in three places. His ribs were almost healed as well, just a dull ache if he ran or moved to quickly. The internal bleeding that had reached from below his ribs to his thigh had diminished to almost nothing, but the tightness in the muscle was still relevant as he walked. It would take another few weeks for the limp to completely leave. Other than those few things, everything else was almost back to normal, except his dreams. Now, instead of days spent at the abbey, it was the time where he was stuck in that damned cell with Joey.
It didn't seem that his nightmares were going to leave anytime soon, either.
The phoenix stopped, hearing footsteps, but just as they had come, they stopped. Frowning, he took another step forward, and heard the footsteps take as many steps as he did. He turned around, glaring in the direction of the noise.
"Show yourself!" he called.
All he got was a faint chuckling.
"Come out!"
"Kai!" he vaguely heard his father's voice come nearer, but the phoenix never faltered, even as his father stopped beside him. "Kai, are you alright?"
The teen glared, a growl low in his throat as he continued to stare at the place where the noises had come from. His father got the hint and glared his own ice-filled glare at the source of his son's distress.
"Come out. I know that you are here. I saw you through the window. Now come out!" he called, his deep voice ringing through the forest.
The chuckling commenced. "Well, it seems as though the rumors are true about Voltair Hiwatari's son, Kyle Hiwatari, still being alive." Both crimson eyed males stiffened at the information.
"Show yourself, you coward," Kai growled.
The bushes shuffled as the figure emerged.
The phoenix's eyes widened, his body trembling. "No. No, it can't be," he whispered. "You-You're dead! I saw you die!"
The figure chuckled again, his beady eyes shining like coal in the moonlight. "Yes, you saw my death, but then again, that wasn't me, now was it?" The figure smirked. "After all, do you honestly believe that I would stoop so low as to give others the pleasure of breaking you? If you believe that, young Kai, then you have a lot to learn."
Kyle stiffened at his son's side as the face registered with his memory. "Boris?" he asked, completely baffled. His son had told him that the man had died, shot himself in front of the teen's eyes. How was he still alive?
Was it even possible, and what was going on?
Boris's smirk just widened. "Baffling, isn't it?" He stepped closer to father and son. "Now, Kai, I have specific orders to take you and deal with your betrayal, considering you were supposed to die that day that your friends started meddling in our business." He growled at the thought. Those brats were always ruining his plans.
Kai shook his head, glare back on his face. "If you think that I'll just come quietly with you, you've got another thing coming," he stated.
Kyle's own look matched his son's perfectly. "And if you think that I'm going to sit by and let you take my son again, you also have another thing coming, Boris Balcov." He said the name with such bitterness that a lemon's rind would seem like sugar.
Boris smirked again. "Oh, Kyle, just like last time, you don't have much of a choice." With that said, he snapped his fingers, twelve, or so, men dressed in black jumped from the trees to form a circle around the two crimson eyed figures.
"Kai, stay close to me," Kyle stated low enough for his son to hear. Kai looked as if he were going to object, but the next sentence his father uttered stopped him. "With that arm of yours, you won't be able to hold off a lot of them. Let me handle the majority. You concentrate more on getting away, and don't worry about me." He turned back to Boris and his men. "I've had worse."
Kai gazed at his father with an unknown emotion before the cold mask came back, getting himself ready for what was to happen. This was going to be difficult, even if his arm wasn't in a sling.
The men made a move, catching the Hiwatari's off guard. Kyle was the first to react, roundhouse kicking one of the men that made a dive for his son. He vaguely noticed Kai kneeing another in the gut before he turned his attention to the rest of the men. He didn't have as much problem as he should have had, considering that he hadn't actually been in a fight this big since his eldest son had been taken.
Kai, on the other hand, wasn't as lucky.
Kai grunted as he landed wrong on his hurt leg but didn't let that stop him from punching the next guy that came up to him. Unfortunately, it wasn't long before two of the men that were attacking them had his arms pulled behind him, the sling ripped to shreds as it was ripped from his shoulder. The phoenix cried out in pain as one of the men pulled too sharply on his broken limb.
The next thing that he knew, he was kneeling on the ground, clutching his arm in pain as Kyle stood over him, keeping the attacking men at bay.
"Kai, get out of here, now!" his father called over his shoulder.
The slate haired teen tried to do as his father stated, but in a flash, Boris was standing in front of him as he made a dash for the woods.
Kai skidded to a halt, barely avoiding hitting the older man.
"Now, Kai, where on earth would you be going to in such a hurry?" the man sneered, glaring down at the boy.
Kai met the glare head on. "Nowhere near you," he commented, backing up slowly.
Boris acted so quickly that the teen didn't even have time to rely on reflexes to move. The older man's burly hand wrapped itself around his broken forearm, squeezing the life out of it before he hurled the boy into a nearby tree.
Kai didn't even have time to cry out as the tree bark made impressions on his back. He curled up in a tight ball, clutching his arm to his chest, breathing ragged. The pain was so much. He just knew that it was broken again.
"Kai!" he heard his father's voice close by, but for the life of him, he couldn't answer. His voice seemed caught in his throat.
Black boots invaded his vision, and he looked up, gazing into Boris's beady eyes. The older man smirked. "Oh, Kai, if only you could see how pathetic you've become," he said, kicking the phoenix in the face, part of which had hit his throat.
Kai gasped and gagged, trying to get air into lungs, blood running out of the corner of his mouth. Boris's kick had sent him a little further from the man, but the teen didn't mind that one bit. He tried desperately to get air, but none was wanting to go through his airway.
"Awe, poor little phoenix. Did I damage something?" the man smiled, knowing that the teen was in great pain now.
Kai coughed and gasped, still trying to get air into his lungs as Boris came over and once again stood before him.
"Pathetic," the man commented, bringing his foot once again to Kai's eye level.
"The only thing pathetic is the fact that you get off on hurting others."
Once again, someone was standing in front of the gasping phoenix, but it was no longer Boris but his father. Kyle growled as he sent the sick bastard that he had once called "Mentor" through the air to knock over a few trees. Boris grunted, wiping blood from his chin as he gazed at the father-son duo.
"You'll pay for that, Kyle," he said but noticed that most of his men were either unconscious or vaguely aware of their surroundings. He glared at the two. "You may have gotten off for this round, but don't think that we won't have him, Kyle. We took him before, and we can do it again."
With that, he left, the others somehow leaving with him.
Kyle panted as he let his anger simmer down before he bent down to look at his son.
"Kai, are you okay?" he asked, worry embedded in his crimson eyes as he watched his son finally gain that breath he'd been wanting.
Kai still couldn't talk, so he nodded.
Kyle nodded himself before helping his son stand, careful of his arm. "Come on. Let's get your mother and brother and get out of here."
It took them around ten minutes before they hit the porch steps. By then, Katherine and Joey were waiting on them, dressed, bags packed for all four of them, and car keys ready. Katherine winced as she saw her husband's tired form helping her son's limping one walk up to them.
Kyle looked up at the two on the porch, glad that his wife had listened to him and had even gotten Joey in on it. "We'll make a stop at the hospital for them to bandage Kai's arm and then, we'll be going."
"Where are we gonna go, Daddy?" Joey asked, rubbing tired eyes with a yawn.
"We're going to Grandma's and Grandpa's, Joey," Katherine answered for her husband as he set Kai in the back seat.
"Think you can make it till we get to the hospital?" Kyle asked his son.
The phoenix nodded, still unable to speak yet. It would definitely be a while before that happened.
The elder Hiwatari seemed to like that answer as he shut the door, turning to help his wife with the bags.
"How is he?" she asked, watching Joey climb in the back seat with Kai.
"I think his arm's broken again, and he was hit in the throat. No damage, but he won't be able to talk until he's had some rest."
She nodded. "Who was it?"
"Boris."
"But-But how?" Her violet eyes widened at the name.
"I don't know. He states that it wasn't him whom Kai saw die, but that doesn't matter. All that I know is that we've got to be alert and keep those two safe until he's caught."
Katherine nodded. This was going to be a long night.
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That's it for chapter two! Whew!
Kai – I'm surprised that you moved through this one as quickly as you did.
You know what? Me too. Ironic, ne?
Kai – Don't do that.
What?
Kai – (sighs) Nothing.
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