Hi! I didn't want to keep you guys waiting so much, so I decided to update the second part sooner as a forth-gift for Christmas :)

Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade, neither the bookcover, just the story plot

Warnings: mild angst and yaoi

Enjoy it!

* Part 2 *

After an hour Kai had managed to reach back to his apartment with difficulty. It was blind dark now outside and the snow-storm had caught up wild. Leaning against the door, he quickly locked out the blowing snow. Man, he didn't remember ever having so big snow in Japan – okay, he had got used to frosty cold when he was training in the tundra, but this was crazy.

He let out a sigh as he pulled back his hood to brush off a handful amount of snow from his lock of hair that stuck in beneath. But it was worth it; he achieved his aim. He looked down at the box of present he'd bought for Takao and a soft smile grazed his dry lips. Warmth filled his heart as he imagined his blue haired angel as he handed him the gift. He was sure that Takao's face gonna lit up with joy. He just didn't know how he was going to swallow down his thick pride to say he was sorry. But he decided he would worry about that later when he got up to him.

Strange emotions rushed Kai when he looked around in his living room. The fire was still crackling brightly in the fireplace, beside in the corner stood the Christmas tree that was still waiting for to be decorated, and on the coffee table there was the plate of gingerbreads. The whole atmosphere felt so cosy and homelike like on the pictures on Christmas cards.

Kai went to place the box under the tree before grabbed a gingerbread from the plate. He took a bite from it and had to admit that is tasted delicious. Good thing that Takao possessed the skills to bake as big appetite he had, unless Kai had to worry that they would die of hunger in the future. He turned on the radio while he took another bite and listened as they declared that big snow-storm had engulfed Bay City and other neighbour cities, and they ask everyone to not leave their home in any circumstances.

Hm, how gruesome. Kai thought.

At that moment his phone rang. He assumed it was Takao since no one else would dare to call him at Christmas Eve.

"Takao?" Kai rasped with hope rising in his chest.

'Kai, it's me, Rei.'

The dual haired furrowed his eyebrows slightly. "Rei? What is it?"

'Is Takao there with you?' came an unsure voice from the other end.

"No. I thought he went home. Is he not there?" Kai's frown deepened as an ominous feeling dwelled up his chest. Something wasn't right.

'He was, but then…' suddenly Rei trailed off and long silence dropped on the line.

Kai's heart clenched with fearful anticipation now.

"Rei, where is he?" he asked demandingly as he tried to keep cool.

'He went to you Kai…' in the phone Rei's voice choked and Kai's eyes went wide. No. He snapped his gaze to the snow-covered window and paled.

"When was that?" his chest tightened painfully.

'He… he left an hour ago… but he should have reached there, unless he…'

Kai lowered his phone from his ear as he stared out the window with building panic. 'No… he couldn't…'

He barely registered when Rei shout in the phone.

'Kai?... Kai!'

Kai raised back the phone and said. "I'll call you back later. Don't leave the dojo, neither of you." he hung up and hurried to the hallway to grab his jacket. He threw open the door and pulled his scarf over his mouth when the icy cold whizzed onto his cheeks, then threw himself into the frosty claws of wind and snow.

The chill instantly stung on his eyes but he did not care. All he wanted was to find Takao. Protecting his face with a hand from the wild blows he tried to keep open his eyes as much he could to scan through the streets. It was like he'd landed in a different world. Bay City barely could be registered; the houses looked like big Eskimo huts, the streetlamps twinkled miserably, their light giving meagre help in this chaos.

Kai saw one option. He launched out his blue beyblade that immediately emitted fiery glow around itself. "Search him Dranzer!" he shouted in the bellowing storm. The phoenix blade drew a circle in the snow before darted off in a purposeful direction. Kai quickly followed it.

It was very hard to run while random blows tried to push him off of his balance, but he kept up, fixing his gaze hard at his only ray of hope. After two street corners length the blade stopped and was circling constantly at one point. Kai didn't understand first what happened, why did Dranzer stop, but when he reached closer he espied a dark bundle at the stem of a streetlamp and his heart speed up. "Takao!" he shouted.

The blue haired teen was huddled up shivering as his head rested against the lamppost. The little fool tried to walk all the way to Kai's place but obviously didn't manage it. When Kai reached to him he saw that the boy was still half conscious. Dropped down to his knees, he framed the boy's face in his hands. "Takao!... You hear me?" he shook him a bit. Half lidded, dull mahogany eyes looked up at him before they rolled back in his head and he fell into Kai's arms in a slumber.

"Gods. Takao." fear wrenched Kai's heart. He quickly hauled the teen and raised him bride style in his arms. "Dranzer, lead us home!" he looked pleadingly at his dear phoenix.

The blade swayed as a sign of nod before spun off to the right direction with Kai following close behind. Once they reached home Kai gently laid his boyfriend on the couch beside the fireplace.

He started examining him. "Takao." he called softly but no answer came. Takao's usual orbed, tanned cheeks were so pale and cold, just like other parts of his body. However, his breathing was even so there was a high chance that the bluenette didn't get ill. It seemed that Kai had found him just in time.

But when the teen started wriggling restlessly and shivered with discomfort in his wet clothes Kai disappeared to fetch some warm clothes. He freed the boy from his frozen garments and carefully dressed him into a pair of warm training trousers and pullover that Kai also liked wearing in frosty weathers. Then he pulled over him a blanket and for a while he watched as Takao instinctively snuggled deep under the cosy warm, relaxing. Kai gave a loving stroke on his face before stood up and went into the kitchen.

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After a good hour of sleeping, Takao's eyes started fluttering. He was feeling very warm and something soft was covering his body. His eyes opened slowly and he blinked a few times with discomfort because of the sudden bright light that came from the fireplace. Beside the fireplace in a corner he spotted a neatly decorated Christmas tree that looked somehow familiar to him. 'Where am I?' he thought with haze and his gaze began wandering around the room.

The place looked more and more family to him as he put together pieces in his puzzled mind, but it was still weird. This room seemed much cosy and homelike than as he'd last time seen it. Christmas spirit filled the whole atmosphere. 'Was this a dream?' Takao slowly pushed himself up in a sitting pose and right at the moment he spotted his hero as he walked in the room with a bowl of steaming soup in his hand.

Kai stopped in his tracks when he saw his beloved was awake and a sigh of relief blew out from his chest. "You finally awoke. If I didn't know you better that you used to sleep like a dead I would worry." said Kai smoothly as he kept in careful control his emotions. Not that Takao couldn't look through that after such long time.

Takao blinked confused at him, like he didn't believe his eyes. "Kai?"

"I'm glad you still remember of my name. It seems your poor brain didn't suffer significant damage." Kai said in his usual sardonic tone but his gaze was soft. He sat down beside the teen. He placed a hand on Takao's face to investigate his health. "Hm, not even a cold did you catch. Luck seems to have favoured you again. Most people would have caught a pneumonia in this weather, if not worse."

Takao stared baffled. Was he dreaming? Here he was back in Kai's apartment, which was wonderfully dressed up for Christmas, and his stoic lover – who he had been fighting with a few hours ago – was now practically taking care of him. He didn't understand what had happened. "Kai, I… I don't get it… how did you know…"

"Rei called me. He wanted to know if you'd arrived in safe, but since you not, I immediately knew that something had happened to you." Kai took a deep breath and he scowled dangerously as he hissed. "Just what have you been thinking you idiot to go outside in this weather?"

Oi-oi, there it was again, that sharp tone. Takao lowered his head sheepishly. "I didn't want you to be alone at Christmas. So I decided to come here to bring you to the dojo and give you my present… Oh my god! The present! I must have lost it in the snow, I gotta go back to find it…" he was about to jump out of the warm blanket when Kai pushed him back forcefully.

"You stay put." came the stone order which was dead serious. Kai took on his most fearful glare to make Takao clear his point. "If you leave this sofa, Kinomiya Takao, I swear I'm gonna wrap you up in a box myself and send you up to Santa Claus… now eat." with that he placed the bowl gently in his hands.

Takao had realised that it was really no point to argue with Kai this time, mostly as he was peering at him like an overprotective mother-hawk. He took the spoon without a word and started eating silently. The soup tasted surprisingly delicious and as the warm liquid glided down his throat his whole body felt instantly much better. "Thanks Kai." he marked nicely.

"Whatever." the Russian gave a half shrug and Takao could spot a faint pink shade on his cheeks.

The Ice Prince looked so cute at this sight.

"I didn't know you can cook." he went on with a mild teasing voice.

"What do you think I've been living on, steroids?" Kai growled.

Takao chuckled. "You just seem like those millionaires who used to go into fancy restaurants, and eat caviar and those exotic meals."

"I hate caviar." Kai rolled his eyes. "Besides, I doubt you have ever seen me eating those meals while we were travelling around on the tournament."

"True. Rei is the one who has the chef skills… but I like this soup of yours, too."

"Hn."

Takao's eyes wandered to the Christmas tree. "Pretty tree." he said approvingly.

Kai scratched the back of his neck. "Well, yeah… it goes."

"No kidding! This is the most beautiful Christmas tree I've ever seen."

"Kinomiya, are you flattering for me or are you literally trying to embarrass me?" Kai eyed him suspiciously.

"Both." the teen grinned goofily at him.

Kai snatched the empty bowl from his hands and fled back to the kitchen to regain full control over his flushed emotions.

Later, Takao was allowed to leave the sofa as long as he moved around the flat and didn't go near to the door. The bluenette was happy that he could finally stretch out the kinks from his limbs. He really didn't feel ill, maybe a bit tired and wobble, but fine. Meanwhile Kai called the dojo and appeased everyone about Takao's safety and health, and he promised to bring him home next day after the storm had moved away.

Time tick-tacked on the clock and soon Christmas Eve was approaching.

Since the boys were stuck in the flat and didn't have anything better to do, Kai searched a few old board games and they settled down in front of the fireplace to play away time. Takao turned on the radio and meanwhile they were listening to the soft Christmas Carols that were being played. Soon, they drove so deep with excitement in each game the played that it made them realise there were more ways of exploding that extra energy and passion from their system than beybattles.

However, Kai couldn't stop casting looks at Takao from the corner of his eyes for any sign of weariness about his health, but luckily Takao acted just as cheerful as always, which dropped off a big weight from Kai's heart. Then again, it was unusual for Takao that he was being spoiled by Kai's attention; he received hot chocolate while they chewed gingerbreads, they played through lot of games several times, which he was sure Kai wouldn't do at other occasion. Kai was flooding him with warm blankets every ten minutes, worried that Takao might catch a cold ~ that was literally getting on the bluenette's nerves. And when Kai offered him that he would read up from Charles Dickenson's book (which didn't sound as pleased as he meant to) Takao couldn't help but sweatdrop.

It was too much, even for him.

Though, he clearly knew why was Kai doing all this; he was trying to make it up for him, in his own way, to give a joyful Christmas for Takao since he couldn't celebrate with his family. Of course the dual haired would deny it for pieces but he felt guilty about their earlier argument, which was the cause Takao was stuck here with him.

Takao knew, and understood it, yet just like in the past he did not expect any apologise from Kai. That's how their relationship was: forgive and forget. There was no need for unnecessary words.

Right now they were laying before the fireplace on a spread out blanket, and Takao was snuggling comfortably up against Kai's warm body while his heart rested on his chest.

"Are you tired?" Kai asked quietly as he stroked the boy's long, dark blue locks of hair.

"Hmm, no. I'm just dozing off how warm and comfy you are." he said and wriggled a bit.

Kai smirked. "Hn. Just don't start snoring."

"I won't."

After some time of silence, which was rather surprising for Kai when it came about the young teen, Takao's eyes wandered over the Christmas tree. His gaze lingered on it for a while before it travelled below where the present box was placed for him by Kai.

"It's sad I couldn't bring for you my present."

"I don't need it." Kai droned half sleepily.

"But I wanted to give you something." Takao pouted.

Crimson eyes opened and Kai turned his beloved dragon's head at him by placing a finger under his chin. "You did. You gifted me with the most precious thing I failed to believe and I'm utterly glad you for it, Takao."

A fond smile grazed Takao's tanned cheeks. His heart beat with excitement whenever Kai called him by his name. He leant up and planted a soft kiss on his lips. When he pulled back a bit they smiled at each other, and he noticed a playful gleam dancing in Kai's crimson eyes.

"Do you know what would I like for Christmas?"

"What?" Takao tilted his head at him curiously.

Kai leant closer and whispered something in his ear. First Takao blushed deep then chuckled softly.

"Oh yeah... I should have figured out myself... sorry for leaving you like that. Max can be a tease if I don't get to him on time."

"I'm gonna drop all his candies into the toilet." Kai groused threateningly.

"Hey, don't be like that!" Takao gave a slap on his shoulder. "It was not his fault! How could he know that?"

Kai simply shrugged, signalling that he didn't care one bit. Takao shook his head with a grimace before leant back to kiss him chastely, even so. Kai's arms circled around his back protectively and for a long while they were simply enjoying this sweet moment where they kissed, hugged, caressed and shared all those treasurable emotions they felt for each other. When Takao's lips disconnected from Kai's, his ruby eyes opened to look up at the only person who could ever mean everything for him. His heart gave a thrilled throb in his broad chest as mahogany eyes stared intoxicatingly at him. Kai swallowed hard.

"You can make it up for me… if you want, that is." he said huskily.

"That's what I'm intending to." Takao whispered with passion filled voice.

Pale, calloused fingers dove into midnight blue hair and Takao purred at the soft petting, nuzzling his head into Kai's touch. Fire burnt into Kai's eyes and he yanked down the bluenette for another kiss that was deeper and hotter, and soon it drove them into something more awe-inspiring than what they had ever experienced.

However, Kai was still alerted about his emotions; a part of him still kept telling him he didn't deserve any of this and he shouldn't let go of his barriers. And there was his worry, too, that he might broke Takao if he lost control.

But just like a real soulmate, Takao sensed Kai's fighting hesitancy and therefore he took purposeful attacks on the Phoenix Master. He kept assaulting the older male with rough, hungry kisses while he writhed his slender body against Kai's sensually. He didn't let his lover come up for air until he pushed through his message hard and clear; that he loved, trust and was completely willing to give everything of himself for Kai.

It was similar like in their beybattle where they put everything into the strongest point, working each other always higher and higher to the apex with pure trust. And just as realization hit Kai, an awakening spirit of fire rose up in his chest. He started kissing back with equal passion and Takao's heart thrilled with happiness when he felt his persistence had finally paid off.

After some time Kai rolled them over and a breathless laugh left both of them as they began peeling off unnecessary garments from each other, carefully, still stroking and kissing each other lovingly. Kai couldn't help but stare and admire every inch of Takao's exposed body. His tanned skin was more sensitive and softer than Kai's, which matched oddly to Takao's wild and cheerful character. The last cloth disappeared too and Kai's breath hitched at the attractive sight of his full naked lover. He couldn't peel his eyes off of him. He was mesmerizingly beautiful.

Takao, however, took the opportunity of Kai's distraction and knelt before his half naked, gods-created-white-creamy-skinned lover to start working on to undo the belt on his jeans lustfully. Heart quickening rapidly, Kai broke from his haze when Takao's hot fingers touched his belly and a ragged moan left his lips unwittingly. He tried to assist Takao but his fingers trembled uncontrollably by his fazed nerves and the adrenaline that rushed his whole being. He felt nervous, too, which Takao took notice on him. He gently pushed away Kai's hands, silently asking him with his eyes to trust him and leave it to him.

And just like other times, Kai let himself go in Takao's hands, allowing him to unclothe him with the most sensual, erratic, yet prudish care he'd ever experienced. Panting softly, Kai closed his lust fogged eyes to enjoy each blissful touch and kisses that Takao gifted him with.

Random, harsh panting and clenches of muscles jolted his sweltering body when Takao's hand suddenly stroked the most sensitive area of him. And when his lips devoured Kai's chest with hungry kisses he gave a startled groan. It was too good and too much for Kai to handle. To receive so much emotion all at once after such long time off reserved life – the pleasure was almost painful for him. No one had ever loved and touched him so deep before.

A fistful clench on Takao's thick blue hair urged him to look up at Kai's keen face. When he espied the small beads of tears on the corner of Kai's closed eyelids his own gaze softened.

Crimson eyes snapped open suddenly when he felt Takao's fingers on his cheeks and for a while they stared hard at each other, basking in the other's look. They panted soft and ragged and their bodies burnt by longing. A fond smile curved on Takao's lips as he leant over to Kai's ear and whispered something before he pulled him into another deep kiss…

After some time, at the fireplace two glorious bodies were moving together towards their own blissful light. Kai's panting was harsh and suffocating as he watched with beyond enchantment as Takao's sweat licked, lean body rode on his in a perfect sync.

His beautiful long hair hung freely over his back and shoulders, his hot mahogany eyes locked into his, while the most stirring volumes of moan erupted from his swollen rosy lips. Their hands wandered frantically over each other's chest to increase the pleasure.

The light from the fireplace danced over Takao's tanned skin and suddenly Kai felt like he was moving into a phoenix… Gods, Takao's body even gleamed like gold! And when their love-making reached the peak of pure bliss a choking cry of Kai's name left Takao's mouth and the dual haired yanked him down roughly to swallow down those beautiful voices while he succumbed to his own realise…

The woods in the fireplace had burnt down half by now, yet the lazy warmth in the room still lingered in the air. The two lovers were lying beside each other on their sides as they were looking at each other with a complete satiated silence in their afterglow. Their hands wandered now idly over the other one's damp, tired body, as they soothed and eased the soreness on randomly marked places.

"What are you peering at?" Takao spoke with a giddy smile. He watched abstractedly as Kai's gaze followed musingly the trail of his fingers.

"You." Kai droned quietly.

A small blush came across Takao's face, almost going shy.

"And you like what you see?"

Kai's gaze turned on him and something sultry reflected back from them. "Pretty much, yeah… though, I can't get over that image how sexy you looked back then, standing only in that towel."

Takao chuckled. "You're such a weirdo." he said and leant on to kiss Kai lovingly.

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By next day the storm had cast away and in the whole city never-seen-waist-long snow had settled over the streets, houses, roofs and windows. The children couldn't dress up fast enough to run out to build snowmen, playing snowball-fight, and sleighing down the hills. The first song of Christmas Carols rang up on the streets from the chorus and the first day of Christmas brought joy and harmony in every family.

Kai and Takao were walking back to the dojo while on the way even they fell into victim of a few missed-flying snowballs. Once they reached their destination Kai stopped on the narrow pathway of the garden and took his time to observe the snow-covered ancient house which had given him always a safe place to go. From inside, he could hear the muffled chatter and music filtering out. Around the window frames various colours of Christmas lights twinkled. The whole atmosphere radiated from the inner warmth, peace and joy, and slowly it filled into his heart, too.

Finally, he felt home.

"Kai?" Takao turned back to him and gave a small squeeze for his hand that broke Kai from his musing.

He looked down at the bluenette with a fond look and Takao asked smiling. "Are we going in?"

Kai gave only a nod and together, hand in hand, they entered the house.

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Aw, I loved the ending of it. It was sweet. I hoped you had fun, too, and prepare for another Christmas story in a few days which I'm gonna start. It's gonna be a TyKa family fic with Kai, Takao and their children, a lovely one.

Thank you that you were here and read my story. I look forward to your opinion in a review. Special thanks to: solitaireseraphim. silvertaciturn, Rapid Puzzleshipper Saiko, and Little A Granger who supported me to write this Christmas fic. Thanks you! :)