I walked into the office with the girls, a glare set on my face. I was not too pleased with Kai bossing me around, and now it seems we had trouble. Kai turned, and the stress on his face visibly disappeared before he hid the relief.

"We have school, Hiwatari. Why did you call us here?" I said.

Tala turned. "Ask him," he said, angrily, pointing at Dickenson.

Tyson had a depressed look on his face and only Rei and Max seemed pleased. I turned to our principal and the head of the BBA, my glare softening to a scowl. "Sir, what is it? Mr. Fukuoka already hates me, and I have homeroom with him," I said.

Aya rolled her eyes. "Hates you my foot," she muttered. Kai glanced at her, almost like he was telling her to let me talk.

"If there's anyone who can talk our way out of this, it's the Brat," he said.

I looked at him surprised. He met my gaze evenly. "You talk so much that people tend to just give you what you want, hoping that you'll shut up," he said, a small smirk forming.

I glared angrily. To think I thought he was actually being nice! Dickenson cleared his throat, and I looked at him again.

"As you probably already know, the BBA tournament is coming up. It has been a tradition in our school to send both the teams to compete. However, this year, the BBA has requested that we send only one team. The minimum number for a team this year is ten, and so I have taken the liberty of sending you all as ONE team, rather than two."

This declaration was greeted with utter silence. Then Mariah and Mariah squealed in delight. I turned at them, and they immediately shut up. I turned to Kai. "Tell me that I heard him wrong!" I said, literally begging him.

He looked at me, anger and discontent in his eyes, mirroring my own emotions. "Sorry, Brat. But that's exactly what he said. That's why I called you."

I turned back. "How? How can you possibly even THINK that our groups can get along? Have you not seen us during exams? The council elections? The classes? Why, Hiwatari and I find ourselves in detention almost EVERY DAY! Aya and Valkov are at each others necks every second of every day! Tyson and Hilary are always yelling at each other like banshees!"

The group nodded. "And on top of that, when we're in that state, how can you even expect us to train and battle right!"

Dickenson listened to my rambled out speech and then said, "But you guys are the best. Don't tell me you haven't noticed. Hilary's style is the opposite of Tyson's, Max and Mariam have opposite styles as well. As a team, you guys are perfectly balanced out when you guys combine." We merely stared at him.

He sighed. "Lets take Kai and Raina as an example. Kai tends to have a very well-thought out offence, while Raina tends to be a more cautious offence. Kai is weak on defence, Raina's extremely good at it. If you put the two of them together, you get an assured victory," said Dickenson. Hiwatari looked at me, like he was actually giving it a thought. I looked at him, begging him to side with me on this.

He looked up at me and said, "you know what, brat, I think he actually has a point."

"HIWATARI! ARE YOU SAYING YOU WANT TO BE ON THE SAME TEAM AS ME?" I bellowed.

The entire group winced. Hiwatari just looked at me unblinkingly. "How far would you go to win… isn't that what you asked me three years ago, Raina?" He said.

I stared at him.

I glared at Hiwatari. He was still using his Abbey-influenced Technique. He had gone through the regionals easily and now, we were both in the semi-finals. However, I was not happy at his way of getting there. He had used every single way possible to defeat his opponent, even destroyed their blade.

I had cornered him after his training, ready to give him a piece of my mind. "What do you want Brat?" he growled.

I stepped forward, and said, "I just wanted to know what beyblading actually means to you. Is it an easy way to fame? Because you do not seem to even love the game. Let me tell you something, those people you just trampled, your own teammates as well as my team, we all love the game. So if you can't respect it, stay out of it."

"You done?" he said, looking bored.

I rolled my eyes. "Do whatever you want Hiwatari. Just think about this, How far would you go to win?" I said, and walked away.

I was suddenly aware of the confusion in the room. Obviously, both of us had conveniently forgotten to tell the rest of our teams. "Well, I have the answer now, Brat. I'd go this far to win the finals, and get us all the world cup. I think that, for that, even spending every day of the next few months with you is worth it."

I sighed. "firstly, that wasn't even the context the question was asked. But unfortunately, I feel the same way," I said, realizing that both of us were ready to do this.

He nodded, and then we turned to the the others in our teams. They merely stared at us. "Wha-what was that about?" said Tala.

"Did-did you two just agree on something?" said Aya.

We both looked at each other, and then back at them and shrugged. "We need to agree on something if we want to be co-captains."

Dickenson smiled. "See? Its not that hard!"

I looked at him. "Oh, wait till tomorrow, when the realization dawns upon both of us that we've agreed. Then you'll see how easy it is."

Kai then grabbed my jacket covered arm and dragged me out so we could all head to school.

"Hiwatari?" I said.

He merely grunted. "I think we've signed up for more than we know."

He looked at me, with a half-scowl. "I realized that the moment I met you brat. I knew I'd never have a normal day again."

I glared at him. "Yeah, like the days before that were normal."

He smirked at my pout and tugged at my arm harder.

"Come on Brat. We have school to go to."

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AN- A cute ending right?

Raina- you think EVRYTHING is cute, psycho.

Kai- Listen, Mega-brat, you better make it up to me. I mean, you've got me stuck with this…THING for a long time.

Raina- firstly I'm not a THING…

AN- I'm guessing you want some action right?

Kai- wouldn't mind.

Raina- bloody Prick.

Kai- you're just jealous.

Raina- pfft. Of what?

Kai- of my hotness, my popularity, my wealth, my huge amount of fans…

Raina- he is SO full of it, its pathetic.

AN- sigh…tune in next time for more drama, some 'action' for Kai, and a very feisty and a very cold entry to our story.