Sorry for the rewrite. The last was crap. lol I reread it and picked out the good parts, and wrote in some of the original. Again, sorry for the trouble. Wanna know what's in the next chapter? BWAHAHA read it and see!

Well it wasn't really him. It was an angel with pale skin and dark flowing hair. Caught in the act of floating down from the clouds, the angel seemed to descend off the grimy wall. The yellow eyes were soft, almost glowing and the angel's full mouth was curved in a careful smile. Extending his arms toward something only the artist could see, the ethereal being was painted in such detail, it was almost life like.

He also apparently lacked a clothing store in his world.

"Thank heavens for a few strategically placed clouds" thought Rei, thankful for the artist's discretion.

Rei knew he had been staring rather dumbfounded but he couldn't help it. He had never seen art that was remotely close to this. Sure there was the usual graffiti down by the docks but it paled in comparison. It was almost as of the artist had pictured the scene and painstakingly recreated it on the wall. He didn't even know such a thing was possible.

'Kai said he had come this way frequently'. Rei thought, still in shock. 'Maybe he knew who had painted it, since the artist hadn't even signed a penname.'

"Kai? Do you know who painted this? It's amazing." Rei asked, still not removing his eyes from the mural.

Kai scoffed. "I didn't come to look at the walls."

Rei gave a quick laugh. "Not the walls, the mural. You know? The giant mural that looks exactly like me? How could you miss it?" Rei said, pointing at the wall.

The blue haired boy ignored the question. "Who cares? Some idiot decided to paint his, obviously, disturbing thoughts on the wall. It not like it's a masterpiece." He said in a somewhat disgruntled tone.

Rei shook his head. "That's not the point, Kai. The point is, someone took the time and care to make an amazing picture using cans of spray-paint and a dirty wall. That makes it a masterpiece. Besides, I wonder how they found the time without the police picking them up."

Kai almost choked as Rei said that last part. 'They didn't, you idiot. You picked the artist up from jail.' he thought silently.

Rei turned to further interrogate Kai, when he noticed what the teen was doing. Giving a questioning glace, he only stared at him. Kai, however, was looking everywhere but at him. Actually Kai seemed to be fascinated with a drunk who was passed out in the alleyway. The older boy looked so tense that Rei was afraid he would break.

Rei wasn't exactly stupid. He was actually rather smart. One of the smartest on the team aside from Kenny and Kai. He knew exactly what Kai's earlier outburst had cost him. What he couldn't figure out was why he was so tense about the work of someone else. Stepping closer to Kai, he placed a hand on his arm, not realizing that this affection would probably be unwanted by the skittish Russian teen.

The feel of Rei's warm hand on his arm made Kai visibly flinch. He cursed himself as he watched the Rei's expression turn from compassionate into a form of hurt. A look he had learned to hide over the years. Forcing himself to walk away from the deep yellow eyes that were staring into his, he covered the guilt up with a more familiar smirk.

Wrinkling his nose at the smell coming from the man using a trash can lid as a pillow, he quickened his pace until he had cleared the alleyway. Resting against a lamp post in front of the dojo, he folded his arms and waited for Rei to catch up.

Counting all the times had screwed up in the past few days, he turned his gaze towards the small house where his teammates were sleeping. Giving a sharp push off the lamp post he continued his journey toward the house, changing his mind about the waiting for the neko-jin to reach him. He had had enough encounters with the small Chinese boy. He would be better off in bed, where he couldn't create another mess.

Rei had almost reached the end of the alley when he realized that his cellphone had fallen out of his pocket. Racing back to the alley, Rei looked around, scrambling in the dark.

"Ugh, Why did I have to drop my keys? Expecially in an alleyway... This is all Kai's fault. Dragging me out of bed in the middle of night. Letting me walk past the dojo, then throwing a fit over some graffiti when he chose the alley we tramped through. Well, if he thinks I'm getting up for practice tomorrow, he is sadly mistaken!" Continuing his rant, Rei wandered back to the painting, standing where he had stopped earlier. Taking time to really look at it, he noticed that he had been right. The artist hadn't signed a name, pen name, or any name for that matter. Rei couldn't help but feel overwhelmed a bit. Someone had obviously taken the time to do this. That meant that it was obviously someone who saw him a lot.

'But that could be anybody who watches our beyblade battles on TV. Then again, only someone close could've drawn this much detail from memory.' Rei shook his head.

"That every thought in my head is of you? You think I like myself for being so fucking weak that all I care about is watching for a smile? A word?"

'Why can't I get his words out of my head?' Rei leaned, one hand against a wall as he continued to look for his keys, bending low to peek behind a trash can.

'Surely it wasn't him. Kai doesn't have an artistic bone in his body. Then again, he is kind of moody. Maybe he is an artist.' Rei laughed out loud at the last thought, before moving another trashcan to search behind it. Jumping a bit, he had forgotten the man that lay behind the trach can. Although he was starting to wonder if the man had died.

It wasn't such a big deal. Rei had seen many elders in the village simply die where they were. One elder had died feeding the animals. By the time they had found him, the horses and other animals had ripped his clothes off to play with them.

'Better safe than sorry, I guess.' Rei thought.

Moving slowly, Rei bent down to check the man's pulse when the old man gave a start and sat up. Rei stumbled, falling on his back. The man leaned forward, reaching a hand out towards Rei. Rei couldn't help himself. He let out a loud scream that echoed through the alleyway, scrambling until his back hit the opposite wall..