Chapter 4: in your arms

Kai sighed and walked away from the window, why am I the topic of discussion? And why the hell do they think I'm in love? He thought angrily. It hadn't been a day and they were thinking weird stuff about him. He walked up top a tree and sat down in its shade, his one leg stretched while the other bend over which his arm was resting. He had his back leaned over the tree trunk. He took a deep breath to calm his fired up nerves. He heard the main door open; he looked up and saw Tyson come out. He didn't spot him.

"Stupid Max and stupid Ray… it's all Kai's fault acting so cool and now they…" Tyson was mumbling as he made his way towards the tree, looking at the ground.

Kai cleared his throat and Tyson looked up surprised, "Now that you are finally up, let's start the practice."

Tyson looked nervously at his hands, "Well hey Kai… uh… that's a good…"

"Tyson!" he was cut off by Max's voice, he walked outside shouting his friend's name.

Tyson turned around angrily, "what?"

Max gave Kai and Tyson a look and smile appeared on his lips, "Never mind." he turned around and started walking inside when Kai's voice held him back.

"Go bring Ray, we are going to practice."

Tyson also started making his way towards the door, "You stay here, with me." Kai said. A smirk emerged on his lips, he liked playing around.

"What?? Why?" Tyson looked at Kai then at Max, he gave Tyson a wink.

"I won't take too long." Max said and ran inside,

"Don't you want to sit?" Kai asked patting the ground beside him, "You'll get tired and would not be able to practice." Although Kai's voice was in its usual cold tone but it was also marked with fake softness, a little. Kai almost started laughing when Tyson's jaw literally dropped on the ground, he was buying it all. (A/N: I know that it's sooo not like Kai but… uh… um… lets not waste your time anymore so… read on please! ;P)

"No I'm perfectly fine." Tyson answered and crossed his arms over his chest.

"Suite yourself."

After a minute or so Ray, Max and Hillary walked out and made their way towards the two. Kai stood up, "Let's not waste anymore time."

Kai led the way towards the road which led to the gym.

"Why are we going there?" Hillary asked.

"Physical practice." Kai answered.

"But why?" she asked again, this time garbing the back of his shirt and tugging it. Kai gave her a glare and she let go of his shirt immediately, why aren't you paying attention to me?

"I don't want to explain it to someone who doesn't know anything about beyblade." Kai said and turned around to resume walking.

"Hey watch it." she shot back. Kai didn't reply.

After walking for a few moments they reached the door of the gym. Kai held it open for the others to pass. Tyson, Max and Hillary passed but Ray just stood there. He eyed Kai suspiciously, he was acting strange. At first Ray didn't wanted to think that Kai had changed but then why was he being so courteous? Maybe Kai was in love… not with Tyson of course but with Hillary maybe. Ray couldn't put his finger on it but something sure felt different about him.

"Uh-hem." Kai cleared his throat to let Ray know that he was still holding the door. The neko-jin looked at his captain once more before walking inside.

The neko-jin took off his shirt like the other males in the room had done. Hillary was just sitting in the corner looking here and there trying to find something motivating to do because sitting was just not her thing; Ray smiled at the only girl in the room when she looked at him. Ray looked around to see which exercise would be best for him to do first. He spotted an empty perfunctory cycle and thought that maybe he should go there first until his eyes fell upon a mat which had many weights at its corners, thinking that he wanted to be strong, Ray walked up to the mat and took the metals of 50kg in each of his hands. For a few minutes Ray just stood there with his arms hanging along with the weights, and then when he sensed Max's eyes upon him he tried to lift them. They are too heavy! Ray thought, it felt like his arms were tied to the floor, not moving. He tried again but no avail. Using his whole strength, Ray tried to lift his left arm. It moved up a little but the weight on the second, which was still hanging due to the weight, increased and Ray lost balance and started falling. The weight in his hand was just about to touch the mat when a hand grabbed his shoulder to steady him while another hand grabbed a weight in his left hand and dropped it on the floor. Still holding Ray's shoulder with his one hand, Kai took the weight in his right hand from him. Ray was still was little shaky but he managed to look up in Kai's red eyes, where did he came from?

"Are you alright?" he asked, Ray just nodded, "Go sit with Hillary." Kai commanded.

"But I'm o-k." Ray argued, trying to shrug Kai's hand off his shoulder but the hold was too tight.

"You are still a little unsteady, so go grab a drink and rest for a few minutes."

"I don't need rest." Ray insisted and crossed his arms over his chest, still sitting.

Kai shook his head lightly, "You asked for it." and before Ray knew what was happening, Kai was holding him in the air like a little child, in his strong arms.

"I demand that you put me right back!" Ray's voice was a little shaky due to the sudden skip of a heart beat, a light shade of pink appeared on his cheeks when he looked around and saw that almost everyone was staring at them. Tyson, however, had slightly disturbed expressions on his face and he was looking into space, his arms crossed over his chest and back resting on the wall.

Kai ignored him and started walking in Hillary's direction, "Let me go Kai!"

"I'll literally drop you on the ground if don't shut up." that was enough to make Ray stop protesting. Kai walked up to where Hillary was sitting and carefully rested Ray on the space next to her. Ray had his eyes closed, he opened them slightly when Kai removed his hands from beneath him, not wanting Kai to let go he looked up at his face with narrowed eyes.

Kai ran a hand through his blue hair, "What?"

Realizing that his eyebrows were furrowed, he adjusted his expressions struggling to find an explanation, "Well… uh…" he scratched his forehead nervously; thinking for a defense, "Never do it again without my permission, yes never ever do it!" He tried to sound angrily.

Kai exhaled angrily, "And here I was thinking you enjoyed the ride."

"I never…" Ray started but Kai cut him off by waving his hand.

Hillary looked at the two before saying to Kai, "I have a pain in my ankle too you know."

"What ever." He said and started walking in the opposite direction.

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A/N: well as I've said earlier in this chapter that Kai isn't the same… I'm really sorry about that, but he is just the same around everyone else (except Tyson), isn't he??! It's just that he wants to ensure that Tyson is not in love with him (Which is so not true) and so he plays around with him a little and Tyson starts to like him even more while he starts liking Ray… and so the story continues… STAY TILL THE END!!! *evil laughs*