Hey, back with the rest of the story! This and chapter four! ^^

Kai – Disclaimer: She does not own Beyblade.

Enjoy!

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Chapter Four – Talks and Compromises

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He moaned, wishing his head would stop throbbing as the last traces of unconsciousness faded. Darkness surrounded him just as pain engulfed his entire body. His eye and chest were in complete synchronization with his head, and all he wanted to do was succumb to blissful ignorance again.

"Now, now, Kai," a voice mocked, "it's not nice to keep people waiting when a conversation is about to start."

Biting against the cloth gag, he raised his eye enough to gaze hatefully upon the teen that had caused him so much grief. It took a little longer to realize that he was not only gagged but completely bound and lying on a cold floor. 'Man, he must have hit me harder than I thought,' Kai muttered to himself, shifting a little as the green eyed teen paced back and forth like a caged tiger.

He swallowed, his throat and mouth dry. Kai didn't know what time it was or how long he'd been out. All he knew was that he was thirsty.

And hungry.

Kellen strode over to him, bending down so that he was kneeling right in front of the teen. His face was contorted in anger and betrayal. His frown deepened as Kai glared up at him. "Now, Kai, what are you so angry for? You have no right to be after all." He snarled. "[Uwakimono]."

The phoenix furrowed his brow in confusion. What did he mean? He didn't do anything to be called a cheater.

The green eyes that once had held anger now dulled to a cold look. "Don't look so confused, [yariman]. You know what you did." He bent down further and grasped the teen's chin with two fingers in a bruising grip. "I told you that you were mine, and what did you do? You went and let that little prick of a blonde fuck you! [Saseko]!" He slapped the covered, tattooed cheek ruthlessly, gaining a muffled yelp in response.

Kai growled behind the gag. 'He was the one who broke into Miguel's apartment!' Then he blushed, still scowling. 'He watched us?! How sick can you get?'

The phoenix started struggling against the binds, trying to loosen the ropes around his wrists enough to slip his hands through.

Kellen tut-tutted and shoved the slim shoulder to where Kai was now laying on his back, looking up at green eyes and black hair. "Now, now, my little phoenix, if you wanted to talk, you should have just told me." He undid the gag, making sure to get his hands out of biting range just seconds after.

"You bastard!" Kai yelled, attempting to attack the teen somehow, but Kellen just held him down. "Get it through your fucking head! I'm not yours! You broke my trust when you raped me! I don't like you anymore! I'm with Miguel now. Get it through that thick skull!"

Kellen just sat there, watching the teen banter, breathing heavily, before he slapped the tattooed cheek again. "It's not nice to yell in someone's face, Kai," he spoke monotonously.

Kai growled again, ignoring the stinging sensation in his cheek and eye as they throbbed as one. "Then, if you won't listen to me, I have a proposition for you."

A dark eyebrow rose. "And that would be?"

"I challenge you to a beyblade match. If I win, you let me go and never come after me or my friends ever again."

The green eyed boy smirked. "Alright, but if I win, we not only have our little talk, but whatever I want."

The phoenix gulped, already regretting opening his mouth. He took in a deep breath before steeling himself, his crimson-violet orbs hardening and glaring at his captor with the same fiery determination that he always had.

"Deal."

'Dranzer, please lend me your strength one last time.'

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Miguel growled, throwing the map of Beycity to the side in anger. That stupid piece of paper wasn't going to help him find Kai or Kellen.

He sighed, leaning against a random building he had come across. Looking up at the sky, his mind did flips, trying to think of any way possible that would help him get just a little closer to Kai.

'Kai,' his mind mumbled, recalling his feisty phoenix. He knew the teen could take care of himself; he'd proven that ten times over, but the thought that his captor had already hurt him once made that spark of protectiveness that Miguel felt go haywire.

"Miguel?" a voice asked, bringing him out of his reverie.

The Spaniard lifted hi head, spotting three figures standing before him. He recognized two, the third a mystery.

"Tala? Bryan?" he blinked. "What are you doing here?"

The red head smirked, throwing an arm around the shorter, lilac haired teen. "We're just here to see an old friend."

A blonde eyebrow raised in question.

Bryan blinked. "Oh, that's right. You two haven't met, have you?"

"Miguel," Tala started, "I'd like you to meet Stewart. He used to be one of Kai's little Blade Shark buddies."

Miguel blinked as the name registered.

"It's nice to meet you," Stewart said. "I've heard a lot about you in the letters Kai sends, as well as from Tala and Bryan."

"Wait," the blonde murmured.

Bryan strode up to the shocked teen. "Yo, Miguel, you okay?" he asked, waving a hand in front of the blonde.

The Spaniard flinched. "Then you know where Kai is!"

Stewart took a step back at the exclamation. "What are you talking about?"

Miguel took a deep breath before telling the three what had happened.

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Kai walked stiffly up to the beydish in the center of the room, beyblade in hand. The bitchip was empty, just like it had been after his battle with Brooklyn. He had let Dranzer go then, the phoenix only returning just long enough to help Dragoon defeat Zeus. He still hadn't told the others that his bitbeast was gone. Miguel knew, that was certain. Kai could never keep anything from his lover, but the others were a different matter.

Kellen took his stance on the other side of the dish, waiting for Kai to get ready.

The phoenix took in a deep breath and placed his blade in his launcher, widening his stance and raising his arms. 'Please, Dranzer, I need your strength.'

"Three," Kellen count-downed.

Kai gulped, wondering if he could make it to the door in time before the black haired teen finished, but decided against it. He took in another deep breath and calmed down.

"Two."

Kai's violet-crimson orbs flashed icily at his opponent, resorting back to his older personality.

"One."

"Let it rip!" the phoenix cried, pulling as hard and fast as he could. He felt the stitches in his chest pull at the sensitive skin, but he ignored it, watching with his still good eye. His beyblade spun with a power Kai hadn't felt in so long, circling his opponent like a pack of wolves waiting to attack.

"Let's go!" Kellen cried, urging his blade on the attack.

The silver and black beyblade followed Kai's blue around then entire dish before finally grazing the attack ring. Kai smirked, remembering the tactic. Kellen had used the same move five years ago at that semi-tournament for Blade Shark position.

The phoenix called out his faithful bitbeast's name, already feeling the heat from the familiar flames. Dranzer was there.

Kellen grunted as the younger teen's beyblade rammed his. '[Kuso],' He scowled. He couldn't lose his little phoenix again. He just couldn't, not to that damned blonde. Calling out again, he changed tactic. He needed to pull every underhanded trick he knew to win this. Kai was a world champion after all.

Kai growled as Kellen moved his beyblade to his right side. Unable to see from that angle, he moved a little, wanting to see the whole dish but unable to do so. It was just too big.

"Stop cheating, Kellen!" he called, angry.

"I'm not cheating, Kai," the other scoffed. "Not my fault you can't see the right side of the dish. Now, attack!" His blade rushed forward with amazing speed, ramming into Dranzer's attack ring, chipping the side to where it now wobbled from being unbalanced.

"Dranzer!" Kai cried out in alarm. His pride as a beyblader was keeping him from using Dranzer's strength against a beyblade with no bitbeast. 'Dammit,' he cursed in his mind as Kellen's sharp blade pierced Dranzer's side again. He groaned a little in pain, the sharp pinprick of a blade seeming like it was touching his skin.

He was already panting heavily. The stitches in his chest, although mostly healed, were pulling dangerously against the still healing skin. If they tugged any more, they'd open again, and he'd be back to square one. His right eye was throbbing in pain as each time Kellen's blade moved to the right side, he tried to follow it; even though he couldn't see it for the bandage.

He tried attacking Kellen's blade, but the damn silver thing evaded to the right side. Kai was too late in trying to follow it as it came back and pushed Dranzer back.

"This is over," the older teen said, urging his beyblade on once again with more power and strength than Kai felt. He was swaying. His body wasn't used to beyblading again, and he felt weak, dizzy.

Dranzer was knocked out of the dish, landing at Kai's feet. The teen dropped to his knees, head fuzzy and swimming. His vision wouldn't stay straight either.

Kellen called back his beyblade and strode over to the kneeling teen, bending down to where they were eye to eye once again. "Looks like I win."

Kai closed his eyes. 'Miguel,' he pleaded in his mind, 'please forgive me.'

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The blonde shivered as he finished his story. He had a bad feeling, his gut weighing heavily and chills creeping up his spine.

Of course, the chills could be because of the murderous looks on all three of the teen's faces that stood in front of him.

"I'll kill him," Tala threatened, growling, eyes slitting and eclipsing like an angered wolf's.

"Not before I do," Bryan stated, grinding his fist into his other hand, wishing that it was that Kellen guy's face.

Miguel turned to the silent Stewart. "Please, remember. Where would Kellen take Kai?" he asked – no, pleaded.

Stewart thought about that. Where would Kellen take Kai? "The only place I can think of," his deep, nasally voice sounded, "would be our old hideout."

"Then, let's check it out," Tala said.

Miguel nodded and they followed the lilac haired teen down the street at a full-blown sprint.

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uwakimono – (Japanese) cheater

yariman – (Japanese) slut

saseko – (Japanese) whore

kuso – (Japanese) shit

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I'm giving you guys the rest of the fic, which is only one more chapter. Sorry it's so short, but I'll be heading home in a few hours for the summer and won't have that much time to update as I'd like to since I have no internet at home. (sigh)

Anyway, on to the last chapter which is long!

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