Disclaimers: I don't own Beyblade; I'm simply using the characters for my and my muse's entertainment.
Falling by Yaoi Girl
It was great to be home, at least this is the case for Rei, and he worried about how his friend would fair back at his home in Russia. He knew that Kai and his grandfather weren't on good terms and feared that he would be harmed while in the powerful man's presence. So being home wasn't all that great…
Once he had hauled his clothes bag in and let it sit with his shoes near the front door, soaked in water, Rei lazily climbed the stairs to his room with his journal under his arm, grumbling about the rain while brushing his dripping raven bangs from his eyes. After seeing that his room was still intact, as his sister had a habit of rearranging his room when she was insanely bored, he changed into dry clothes and fell into his black beanbag chair which was located beneath the window, where he had kicked it to avoid seeing the rain pouring down, totally relaxed on the outside while his mind was screaming at him, still worried about Kai who was still on the plane.
'Kai can take care of himself,' the amber-eyed teen sighed as he thought while he relaxed his body even further into his beanbag, musing aloud then, "Besides, he's supposed to call me to let me know he's alright. If something were wrong, he'd tell me or ask for help, right?"
"You talkin' 'bout your boyfriend?" came a singsong voice from his doorframe.
"Shut up, Kalli!" he hissed. "Why are you in my room?"
She shrugged, smiling. "Just wanted to make sure that you were settled in."
He gave her one of those 'tell the truth' looks as he lazily crossed his arms over his chest.
"What? Can't I spend a little time with my big brother?"
"Fine," he sighed in defeat. Sure, Kalli was annoying at times, especially when he wanted to be alone and relax, but little sisters are supposed to annoy you whenever possible. Besides, he hadn't seen her in almost a year.
"So, if you two aren't goin…"
"Kalli," he hissed low in warning, glowering at her while his irises turned to slits. "If all you're going to talk about is Kai, you can just leave now."
"It's not like I was gonna ask you if I could have him," he smiled innocently as she flopped herself stomach down onto her brother's bed while propping her chin in her palms, her feet swinging back and forth in the air above her back. "I just wanted to know what was going on between you two."
"We're just friends, okay?" he huffed, sighing irritably right afterward while he grabbed for his TV remote.
"But you want to be more?"
At this, Rei rolled his eyes. "Yeah, right. And I'm sure that he'd just open his arms for me."
"How do you know if you don't try?"
"I was being sarcastic," he replied monotonously as he flipped through the channels.
Kalli then rolled over onto her back and scooted herself down slightly so that she was hanging halfway off the bed, upside down.
"So you're not interested in him a tiny little bit?"
Oh, how he wanted to grab her hair and just slam her head into his floor, or rather her own so that way he had the joy of dragging a screaming girl down the hallway and then bloodying her carpet. Then he would most certainly have to face his mother…
"I told you, if all you're going to talk about…"
"…is Kai, then leave," she mocked before pulling herself back onto the bed, now laying to face the TV with a sigh. "This is so boring. I thought older brothers were supposed to be fun!"
"If you don't like it, then get out," he shrugged, setting the remote on his stomach once he had found something worth watching.
The girl sighed, her eyes lazily drifting over the room that had practically been sealed off from humanity since her brother left. Until…
Glancing to her brother, she reached her hand out slowly, grabbing something from his pillow before bringing it to lay in front on her, opening it and flipping through the pages quietly until she seen the name Kai appear.
'Nothing of interest here,' she mentally sighed, as it was the entry in his journal from when he had first met the BladeBreakers team captain. Surely her brother had more entertaining things to read…For at least fifteen minutes she skimmed through the thin book before something rather interesting caught her eye.
"Who is this?"
"Who are you ta..? KALLI?! What are you doing reading that?!" he growled as he shot up out of his beanbag, snatching the earlier carelessly thrown journal away from his sister.
She shrugged carelessly. "I wasn't really reading it. I was looking at the pictures."
"I don't care! I don't go around reading your things," he growled as he carelessly dropped back into his comfortable haven, opening his journal to the picture that she was talking about just out of curiosity. "It's me and Kai."
"How was I supposed to know what you look like with your hair down? I thought you were jealous of Kai's girlfriend or something and you chased after them, taking a picture so you knew what she looks like so you could stalk her," she again shrugged as she sat up and stretched.
"He's never had a girlfriend, or if he has, he's never mentioned her to anyone. And you let your imagination play too much."
"I'm young and supposed to have an active imagination!" the eleven-year-old girl grinned triumphantly as she stood up on the mattress, her hands on her hips as if saying 'I'm the almighty powerful one!'
Rei couldn't help but grin at her.
"So, are you?"
"Am I what?"
"Interested in him at all?"
He frowned and rolled his eyes, but decided to answer in order to get her out of his room, which might not happen anyway.
"A little, and I mean very little."
It was her turn to give one of the 'tell the truth' looks from her standing position atop Rei's mattress, the newly lain bedclothes now rumpled slightly beneath her.
"It's true! It may seem like I like him quite a bit, but he's…just not my type, I guess," he sighed, not fully understanding the situation himself. "I'm just closer to him than I am the other guys, so a lot of people make that assumption about Kai and me."
"And just who is this 'lot of people'?"
The male neko-jin blushed slightly as he again focused on the TV. "Like people at the airport and even Max is convinced that Kai and I have something going on. But all we do is share a bed when we can because neither one of us likes to sleep with Kyouju because he tends to snore, Max because he's a cover hog, and Takao doesn't leave anything for you to sleep on most of the time. And it's not like I'm going to tell the guys what I just said about them because they might be offended."
"Do you cuddle up to him?" she grinned evilly as she jumped up and put her legs out in front of her before her bottom came in contact with the navy blue sheets; Rei was surprised that his bed frame hadn't come flying apart from her landing impact.
"Do you have to know everything?! I told you, there's nothing between us other than friendship!" he growled in irritation.
"I knew it!" she crowed excitedly. "You do!"
"So what if I do? I get cold at night and he shares his body heat," he shrugged, trying to sound uninterested so his sister would drop the conversation.
After he admitted it, he could see his sisters amber eyes light up with images in her mind of the pair in bed together.
"You are so…" he started, turning his head to the doorway as his mother appeared, holding the phone out to him.
"I believe this is the call you've been waiting for?" she smiled as she walked across the room, handing him the phone before retreating, beckoning for her daughter to follow, who reluctantly did so.
"Hello?" he asked, unsure if it was whom he was expecting to call, since his mother didn't seem entirely to sure either. For all he knew, it could be Mao or Lee, or even one of his other teammates.
"You miss me yet?" came the rather uncharacteristic response, to which Rei smiled as he turned his TV off.
"Maybe a little. Do you miss me?" he played along, though it did seem a little awkward since it was Kai he was talking to.
'You have no idea how much,' he thought with a small smile. "Not really."
"Jerk," the raven-haired teen laughed. "Did you just arrive?"
"Yeah; I'm still at the airport. My ride is on the way."
"Are you worried?"
"Not really. I just hope I can make it to you in once piece though; I heard he's not too thrilled with my coming home unannounced."
"If you don't make it back in one piece, I'm sure I can find some duct-tape lying around here somewhere," Rei teased, receiving a 'hn' for a response from Kai. "I know, I shouldn't say something like that, seeing as it is your grandfather…"
"Don't worry about it."
Both sighed; Rei knew that Kai was currently safe but had nothing else really to ask or say to him, and Kai had kept his end of the deal so far about calling daily and announcing that he was still alive. But neither wanted the conversation to end, though there currently wasn't one.
"So…I guess you need to watch for your ride?" the neko-jin asked, wincing slightly in distaste of his own words and uncertain voice.
"Yeah, I probably better go. I'll talk to you maybe later tonight, but tomorrow for sure."
"I'll be waiting."
TBC
I couldn't really think of anything else to add in this chapter without making it incredibly long, since it's focusing on Kai the next round, so I'll leave this chapter as is.
Could I trouble you for a review? grins manically
