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The Funnest Place on Earth

-A Little Down Time-

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Birds sang. The sun beamed behind the thin layer of clouds that promised rain within the next few days. Screaming children could be hear from the outside of a small, two story home who's glass windows shone brightly, happily. All were signs of summer, and it was there. Deep green grass covered the lawn, playing with the various bushes and flowers in the garden, teasing the koi in the deep pond out back of the house. The dark brown fence even seemed to be smiling in the warm sun and cool breeze. All was well in the outside world. As for the occupants of the lovely home, things were an almost different matter.

The official beginning of summer had arrived two months before hand on a cool, rainy day. Little did people realize that it would not signify happiness and anticipation, but rather depression, fear, anger, sadness. Two months before, eight teenagers lost their lives to ways that even the smartest detective could not figure out.

The former Bladebreakers, G-Revolution, had been aboard a small bus along with White Tiger-X's captain, Lee Yin, Blitzkrieg Boys's captain and 2nd in command, Tala and Bryan, and the Battalion's leader, Miguel Lavalier, heading towards a new town, a new tournament for qualifying into the World Championships later on in the beyblading season. G-Revolution was the team to beat with the former three-time champion, Tyson Granger, the All Stars's valuable defense, Max Tate, White Tiger-X's agility master, Ray Kon, and team captain, the bad boy of blading, Kai Hiwatari. They, along with strategist Kenney, A.K.A. Chief, supporter Hillary Tachibana, Lee, Tala, Bryan, and Miguel, stopped at an inn for the night to ride out a heavy storm. Paying no heed to Hiwatari's warning, Mr. Stanley A. Dickenson, the head chairman of the Beyblade Battle Association (BBA), checked them in and left. All Hell broke loose after that.

It started out with Lee and Ray's deaths, by an axe. After that, it wasn't even 24 hours before eight of the ten were killed. Miguel had been taken down into the inn's old wine cellar, left for the rats after being shot and had glass dropped on top of him. Kai, though, was brought to the killer's room, strapped to an electroshock table to wait for his time to "play". The Russian teen suffered two bouts of electrocution, the second leaving him for death. If Miguel hadn't escaped and found him, the phoenix would have died. The couple left after knocking the burning killer unconscious and ran from the flames that engulfed the entire place in a matter of moments. Lo and behold, the two were saved not even an hour after their escape by the same man who left them there.

Miguel got away with having to use crutches for the next three weeks due to the large gash in his right calf muscle and the tremendous amount of blood loss. Kai, on the other hand, had suffered from cardiac arrest on the way to the hospital. He was put in ICU under almost-constant supervision due to it. The arrest was due to the amount of electricity his body sustained and the blood loss from the gunshot wound in his right thigh as well as a head wound. After the week the two had, all they had wanted was to go home, but that seemed impossible due to another incident at the hospital.

While they were in Kai's room, spending time with each other, a woman came out of the adjoining bathroom, knife in hand. She had tried to kill the two, but with their speed, and Kai's gun, it seemed an easy task. It happened to turn out that she had been admitted to ICU after sustaining wounds in the leg, chest, and abdominal area. She had been high on various drugs and had attempted to kill her boyfriend and his family when arrested. The drugs had taken her mind over the edge with hallucinogens, and with her brain unable to recognize pain, she kept moving. So, when the sedatives wore off, she escaped for more blood.

No one had to worry about her any longer.

Both Kai and Miguel had been forced to stay in the hospital for another week before discharged. Afterwards, it was Hell in a handbasket trying to get them out of the house. After the funeral for their eight friends, the two teens barricaded themselves in their home, cut their phone lines, and just stayed away from society for a little over a month. Kai called it a reprieve from the outside world. Miguel called it bliss. Psychologists stated it was a way of licking their wounds. In a way, each one was right. After all the two had gone through, the pain, the sadness, the fear, they needed time to set themselves straight, recover both mentally and physically. No one save Miguel and Kai knew what happened in that month's time. Groceries were delivered by a local market, with a little extra in tips.

It was nice.

Then again, after actually recovering physically, Kai and I needed to help each other mentally. So, one of the best things for it was sex, and boy was there a lot of it. Not that I'm gloating. Ah, who am I kidding? I made love to the feisty, sex on legs, exotic, beautiful yet ruggedly handsome, addicting phoenix, Kai Hiwatari, and you didn't! Ha!

Okay, I'm done.

It did take us a while, and I'd hate to say it, but we weren't fully recovered. Kai still jumped and tensed at the slightest noise. We both double checked the entire house for secret layouts every day, even though we knew there were none. I still wouldn't let my Russian out of my sight. Claude, my teammate and best friend, said that it would eventually fade, and we would get back to normal. I didn't believe him.

Every day I wonder if all of it was a dream, if I would wake up and Kai and I would still be with the others on that damned short bus. I hoped and prayed for that to happen, but in my heart, I knew it wouldn't. I missed the others, Tala's calls, Bryan's obscenities, Tyson's boasting and joking, Max's hyperness, Kenney's intellect, Hillary's firm hand, Ray's coolness, and Lee's pride. I missed them, and I knew Kai did as well, if not more so. He took a drastic turn since we got home. For the first few days, he wouldn't speak to anyone, not even me. I worried about him endlessly. He spoke soon, though, which was good, I thought. It took him almost the entire month, but he came out of it, almost back to normal.

We would never be completely back to normal.

Mariah from the White Tiger-X team came and visited often after that month. She and Claude had been seeing each other for some time. I thought it was kind of cute. Her bright, beaming, bubbly-but-down-to-Earth attitude combined with his calm, cool, laid-back-almost-shy attitude. They said opposites attract. The pink haired cat, though, made it a point to visit at least once a week, if not two weeks, depending. Kai had become a close adversary to her team when Lee and Ray were alive. She felt like he was family with as much time as he had spent with their team.

Which reminded me, her and Claude were going to show up that afternoon.

I moaned at the thought and rolled over in the bed, away from Kai. It was already past ten in the morning. They liked to arrive at sometime between two and three. Great.

"Miguel?" Kai mumbled, rubbing his eyes.

Inwardly cooing at how cute my phoenix was, I outwardly sighed and sat up a bit. "I forgot that Claude and Mariah were coming over this afternoon," I mourned.

He sighed as well, shifting so that his head was in my lap, obviously still tired. "Mr. Dickenson was going to come with them, too," he muttered. "They give a time?"

"No, but it's probably the same as always." My hands moved on their own to play with his exotic hair, mixing in the slate blues with the darker blues. His hair reminded me of the ocean. Then again, "kai" does mean fish in Japanese. Weird, since he was a phoenix, not a fish, but the hair fit.

I watched him, not really seeing due to the wandering of my unfaithful mind, until I felt his moist lips leaving small kisses along my thighs. He had slipped the blanket off the top of my legs to past my knees, one hand splayed widely on my left thigh while his lips devoured the other, moving ever so dangerously close to my groin. I moaned and scooted down a bit to where he was laying on top of me, my head on the pillow. Lifting his head, he smiled a little before I brought his head down, crushing his lips on mine. I flipped us to where he now lay on the bed and I straddled his hips. Mmn, enticing.

"Miguel," he whispered, his breath tickling my ear as I nipped at his neck, hands roaming downwards. My fingers played with his shaft and upper back portion of his thigh, where the skin was most sensitive. He gasped, tremors flooding his frame as he became a pool of jelly in my hands. I kissed him again, my tongue making quick works of the barriers of lips into the cavern of his hot mouth. Gods, he was addicting! The spices, the fire running through my veins just from one kiss. It was like nothing I had ever dreamed of. He gasped below me, body arching upward as I slipped in a finger. His channel was still well-oiled from our fun only a few hours before. So, no lube would be required that time. I continued to rape his mouth with my tongue as I slipped in, feeling the tunnel clamp around me, welcoming me in an almost painful embrace. I groaned against his bruised, pouting lips and pulled out just slightly before thrusting back in.

"Harder," he whimpered around my kisses, arms and still slightly burned hands clinging to me, pulling my body closer to his.

I complied, pounding into his tight heat. Gods above, strike me down if he wasn't the tightest being on Earth. I panted hard, each moan and scream erupting from his beautiful throat giving me reason to move faster, harder. Our bed squeaked on the hinges, mattress groaning against the springs under the pressure. The smack of skin against skin was the only other thing that accompanied our own delightful sounds of making love.

The only downside would be when we both came, and came hard.

Kai screamed my name, his body arching desperately against me as his seed sprayed against my stomach. I gasped out his own name, marking him as mine, deep within the phoenix's chambers. Panting, I tried to get my breathing under control as I slid out of my lover and practically collapsed down on the bed next to him. Kai smiled a little and kiss my lips briefly before snuggling close.

"What about the others?" I chuckled, wrapping my arms around his lithe form.

He snorted. Very Kai-like, I mused. "They can wait on us. Besides," he looked up, "they won't be here for a few more hours, anyway."

Nuzzling my nose in his soft locks, I agreed, and we settled back down for a short nap.

I couldn't help but wonder what our three visitors were hoping to discuss with us.

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Short, yes, but I'll get to the main events in the next chapter. ^^ No worries. It should be up next week! ^^

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Have a nice day, but remember that sometimes where you go, no matter how highly advertised, it might not be the funnest place on Earth.