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All Around the World

Chapter 4: Trouble in Paradise

Disclaimer: I do not own BeyBlade, yada yada!

Kira

"And the winners of the Asian tournament are the BladeBreakers!" I swear, I've heard that sentence, not including when it actually happened, at least thirty times now. We were flying back to Tokyo from Beijing on a midnight red eye and Ray, Max and Kenny were all passed out asleep. I'm sure they've gotten used to Tyson's boisterous personality in the time that they've roomed together, but me, not so much. He's been obsessively watching the battle over and over on the BBN's website basically ever since we got on this plane. I slammed my book down on the table in front of me and glared over at Tyson.

"Could you please at least plug in some damn headphones?" Tyson turned to look at me and stuck out his tongue.

"Why don't YOU put in some headphones?" He turned the sound on his TV up, and started the battle all over again. I felt my eye start to twitch, and just as I was about to stand and punch Tyson in the face, Kai stood and ripped the cord out of Tyson's TV, gave him a glare, and pulled his eye mask back down as he sat again. I stifled a giggle and gave Tyson a smug grin to which he grumbled angrily, I smiled and looked over at Max and Ray who were both sleeping across from Tyson and Kenny and the opened my book back up to its previous page. Oh, how I love my teammates.

Ray

After landing back in Tokyo bright and early at six in the morning, Kira went back to her and Mr. Dickenson's house to sleep. Tyson was pissed off at her and Kai for "double teaming" him as he called it, which I didn't really understand, but I didn't care to press for information either. Max went back to his fathers' house and Kenny went back to his own house, Tyson was out visiting with old friends, and Kai went to go out and train some more. I was chilling in Tyson's house when I got bored and decided to explore Tokyo a little more before Kai made us go have a formal practice later on that day. I didn't really expect to be stopped in the streets for autographs and pictures, but I did, a lot. There were even some girls who followed me around giggling, it was kind of creepy. Eventually later when I got back to Tyson's house everyone was there, minus Kira. I figured she was still at her house sleeping since apparently she can't sleep on planes.

"So what's up, are we getting this practice started or what?" Kai looked over at me and shook his head.

"Kira needs us at her house, she wouldn't tell me what, but she needs all of us." She still refused to talk to me, I understand she was upset that I just left the BladeBreakers, and almost rejoined the White Tigers, but I came right back. Maybe she was upset about the whole Mariah thing, but that wouldn't make any sense. It's not like she likes me or anything.

"Well let's get going then." I smiled and we all made our way to Kira's house. Mr. Granger let us use his car since Kira basically lives on the other side of town. Mr. Dickenson's house was ginormous to say the least. It was bigger than any house I'd ever been in before, but that's not really saying much since I come from a very small village. The house was very traditional, yet had some extremely modern qualities to it.

"Oh hello boys! I was wondering when you all would be here." We heard Mr. Dickenson's voice from down the hall when we walked inside. His smiling face appeared and we all greeted him in unison. "Kira and Luna and her friends are in the studio, just go up the stairs and turn the corner, you'll probably hear the music from down the hall." He chuckled looking through some pages in his folder and walked into a room I can only assume was his office.

'Who's Luna?' I questioned to myself, and I'm sure the others were asking themselves the same question.

Kira

"And five, six, seven, eight!" I called out as Luna, my cousin, and I started the dance. Reiyu, Luna's male best friend started the music (Crazy 4 U, Koda Kumi) and started dancing beside her.

"Du du du, du du du, du du du, la da da da.

Du du du, du du du, du du du, la da da da." I heard the door behind us creak open and saw my teammates timidly looking inside and I squealed with happiness.

"Finally you guys are here!" Tyson was peeking inside and threw me a glare and I rolled my eyes. "Come in, I want you to meet my cousin!" I ran over to the door and pulled it open as they all came tumbling down, and I shook my head.

"You know, for a bunch if champions, you all aren't very sturdy." Luna frowned as she bent down and kneeled next to the group of guys.

"Please, Luna, do not boast their egos any more than they already are." I huffed and shook my head in annoyance. She looked over at me and smiled, her lavender eyes shining. Luna is half-Russian and half-Japanese with back length blonde hair that ombres out to a lavender color at the ends that matches her eyes. She has porcelain pale skin that would make a baby jealous and is about two inches shorter than me, practically making her a midget, but not really.

"So you're the mysterious Luna!" Max called out with his jaw dropped and I giggled.

"Yeah, I must have forgotten to mention her earlier, my bad." The boys stood up and I decided this would probably be the best time to introduce them. "Luna, this is Tyson Granger, Max Tate, Ray Kon, Kenny, or Chief as we like to call him, and our evil, cold hearted leader, Kai Hiwatari." I saw Kai give me a glare as I said his name but I just smiled. I saw Luna and Kai give each other a long glance and my right eyebrow raised. Hmmm...

"It's...nice to meet you all." Luna bowed. "Although I feel like I know you all personally after watching you all blade at the tournament. Congratulations." Tyson's jaw dropped.

"You're a beyblade fan too?!" Luna shook her head, and a smile remained on her face.

"I just watch to support my cousin. I'd be crazy not to."

"So why did you call us here?" Kai asked me, and I blushed.

"Uhhh well..before you say no...this for a project for Luna for school." I saw that look in his eyes and gulped.

"Kira..."

"I need you all to help us shoot a music video!" I blurted out, and a look of shock covered their faces.

"Uhhh what?" Ray asked me, but I ignored his question. Did I ever mention that I have a problem with holding grudges? I guess I didn't technically ignore it since I answered the questioning looks of my teammates.

"Luna has a final school project and needs to shoot a video, and we thought we could shoot a music video and that it'd be really cool for the biggest up and coming beyblade stars to be in it. Please please pretty please?" I tried to make my eyes twinkle to the best of my ability, but got dead stares in response.

"You called us over here to cancel practice for this?" Kai asked me, I could tell that he was annoyed and I held my pleading face.

"It's really important!"

"Winning the tournament is more important."

"Yeah, well then why haven't you bladed for the team yet, Mr. Bigshot?" I crossed my arms and huffed and everyone was dead silent. I could see the anger in Kai's face and immediately regretted what I said. I, for one, know how strong Kai is. He could possibly be the best blader in the world, and I completely just insulted him.

"If you think you're so great, Kira," he said my name with such venom in his voice it gave me shivers," then why don't we go have a battle right now? However, if you lose, you're off the team." My eyes darted up to his face, and I felt my heart tighten in my chest. I heard a few gasps from around us, and nodded.

"Okay, and if you lose, you all do the music video." I couldn't help myself but grin, and he nodded in reply. I looked over to Luna whose eyes were wide and I motioned her to follow me as we went out to the backyard where we had a basic beybowl. I tightened my ponytail and cracked my fingers as I twisted my blade into its launcher.

"You sure you wanna do this, Kira?" Ray stood by me and whispered as I was preparing myself. I looked up to him and back over at Kai who was also getting his beyblade ready. I nodded.

"I'll be fine. Maybe a little battling will do him some good, he hasn't bladed in a while." I took my stance as did Kai and Max and Tyson began the countdown. I took a deep breath in and closed my eyes.

"3, 2, 1, LET IT RIP." My eyes shot open and my blade flew out into the arena and went straight for Kai's blade. The two made contact instantly and sparks flew from them. They bounced off of each other, and Draiga took several hits from Kai's Dranzer. I had almost forgotten how much strength he had. An amateur thing to do, really.

"Dranzer, attack." Flames were coming off of Kai's blade and I knew he meant business. Beyblading was never a game to Kai, he was always serious about it, which is why he's so damn good. Dranzer was close to hitting my blade, but didn't quite make it. Draiga was just too fast for him.

"Draiga, Heavenly Force!" My blade shone a white light emitting off of it, and went after Kai's.

"Dranzer Spin Fire!" My eyes widened, Kai was counter attacking me?

"No Kai don't!" I called out covering my face, but it was too late. Our two blades collided and there was a huge force that sent me flying and I landed straight into Ray. The rest of the team and Luna also flew back, but not as dramatically as I had since I was so close. I held my head as I stood up and saw that both of the blades had stopped spinning and the whole team gaped at us.

"Holy crap! What was that?" Tyson asked gawking.

'This is why Kai and I were on a team together at camp...we're not allowed to go against each other..' I stared Kai in the face as he did to me, and I stood to go grab my blade. As I held Draiga in my hand, I stared down at it, taking a deep breath. Why? Why am I the one to receive such power? I saw Kai saunter off into the house after retrieving his blade, he was probably going to go mope around town since he didn't beat me. I looked back and saw Luna running after him, which sort of took me by surprise.

General POV

"Hey, wait up!" Luna ran after Kai, she caught up to him just as he was about to exit the gates in front of the Dickenson's house, and he turned to look at her.

"What?" He asked her simply, and her face reddened with a blush.

"Uhhh, I uh... That was really impressive back there." Was all she could manage to muster out under Kai's glare.

"Impressive? We tied." A smile came across Luna's face and she held her hands behind her back.

"Yes, but you should know how strong Kira is, and how hard it is to beat her in beyblading. Didn't you two go to camp together?" Kai stared her down without blinking and Luna sighed. "Look, will you please just be in the music video? I'm not one to usually beg, but I will if it'll get you in the video." She blinked her eyes, hit Kai's face didn't budge. She sighed once again and proceeded to get down on her knees and clasped her hands together. "Oh PLEEEEASE great Mister Hiwatari! It would do me the great honor if you would just pleeeease be in my music video!" Luna exclaimed with her eyes clenched shut, waving her arms around ecstatically. She peeked one eye open and saw a small smile on Kai's face emerging and stood back up. "I promise I won't make you dance or anything, we'll force the other weirdo's to do that. Besides, the video could use a bit of tall dark and handsome." Kai stared her down a few seconds more, and sighed, nodding.

"Fine." Luna cheered and jumped up in excitement.

"Hooray!" She grabbed his arm and pulled him back inside the Dickenson Manor.

Kira

"Down up, one two." Two days had passed, and I was hard at work in my dance studio, practicing since I still had school to attend to. I go to a prestigious arts school here in Japan. Sure, it has all the regular courses that a normal school has, but this one focuses mainly on artsy things. Kind of like a magnet school, I've heard it referred to. As you may know, Luna has that video camera practically taped to her hand as long as she can have it...she goes there as well for videography. She has talents in dancing too, but her passion is in the film, and her subject of choice, is of course me.

"Kira, can you come to my office please?" I hear grandfather's voice call over the intercom system which breaks me out of my focus, and I wipe my brow. I look at my phone, and check the time. Four pm already? I've been at this for three hours by now... I pull my hair down from its bun and shut off the music and turn the lights off and walk down the hall to my grandfather's office. I'm really glad we get small breaks in between the tournaments, even though it doesn't really feel like it with Kai's psychotically strict training regimen. I swear, since joining the BladeBreakers we haven't gotten one day of break. I guess that's why we're the best of the best though.

"What is it grandfather?" I ask as I close the door to his office and he smiles up at me.

"I just want you to know how proud I am of you, Kira." I let myself smile a small smile and bow, thanking him silently. "You and the BladeBreakers have done marvelously thus far, and I couldn't have asked for a better group of individuals. You all are so unique in your own way... So I have decided to give you all a gift." My grandfather leaned back in his chair, still staring up at me.

"And what is that?" I ask myself, my mind fleeting to the possibilities.

"I assume you know where the next portion of the tournament is going to be held?" He asks me, and I nod.

"Las Vegas." My grandfather smiles and shakes his head.

"Not anymore, the American Tournament is being moved to Maui." My eyes widened in shock and I practically jump up from excitement and joy.

"You mean Maui...like Hawaii, Maui?!" He grins, nodding.

"And I've decided that you all will go a week early to enjoy yourselves a little before you have to get down to business. Your plane leaves tomorrow night. I know how you all are horrible at catching morning flights so..." I run over to him grabbing him in a huge hug, and he laughs.

"Oh thank you so much grandfather, this is amazing!" I run out of his office and decide it's probably best to go tell the boys the amazing news. Though, I'm sure Kai and Luna will be less than pleased about it since they've been spending about as much time as possible together. I never pictured Kai to be this open with someone, especially someone he just met, but if he's happy I'm happy. And I'm also happy that I'm partially the one to make that happen! Hehe, I guess he owes me.

I run down the stairs, not caring to change out of my dance gear and hop on my bike to ride over to Tyson's house, which isn't too far away.

"GUUUUUYS!" I ran inside his house, and was beaming. I didn't get an answer, so I walked to the living room, and of course they were all surrounding the TV playing Call of Duty. "Heeeeelllooo!" I walked over to the TV and turned it off, crossing my arms. Instantly, there were groans.

"HEEEEY. Oh Kira, when did you get here?" Tyson looked up at me; he was lying on his stomach and sat up. I sighed.

"Just now. Guys I have awesome news!" I beamed, and clasped my hands together.

"What's so important you had to ruin our game?" Ray asked and I glared at him then looked away. Since when was I talking to HIM?

"My grandfather just told meeee..." I lingered on my words bouncing up and down on my heels, hardly able to contain my excitement.

"Told you what?! Kira spit it out!" Max jumped up and was practically shaking me by my shoulders.

"We're going to Hawaii tomorrow!" I yelled out in joy and the boys' jaws dropped.

"What?! Why?"

"Well they changed the location of the tournament! And grandfather wants to treat us a week early since he's so proud of us for the battles in China." I beamed and Max and Tyson cheered dancing around happily. "Oh, where's Kai and Luna?"

"They left to go get something to eat about an hour ago." Kenny spoke up. "Do you mind if I look at your blade? I wanted to do some configurations to it." He looked up at me through his glasses.

"Oh, I left it at home, sorry. How about tomorrow?" I smiled, and he nodded, looking back down at his laptop. "Well I'm going back home to pack! I'll see you guys later!" I waved and started to slide my helmet back on. I heard footsteps coming from behind me and turned to see Ray following after me. "What's up?"

"Hey Kira, can we talk..?" He whispered, a mysterious look that I couldn't recognize in his eye. I gave him a smile. It was probably about everything in China, and I shook my head. I'm just not ready yet...

"Grandfather actually interrupted my practice, so I have to get back home and finish. I'll see you tomorrow though." I pulled the helmet over my head and ran out to my bike. He stared after me and walked back inside with the boys.

It's not like I've never been to Hawaii before, but this time I was going with some of my best friends, I was beyond excited! I was wearing a black bandeau bikini top with golden tiger stripes, and a black and white striped open front shawl that draped down past my butt, and some dark destroyed short, and some black flip-flops. I left my hair down and flowing, and wore a black fedora hat with a white lacing around the rim. After stepping off the plane into the warm Hawaiian air, we took a golf cart over to the car rental spot and rented two cars. I got a black Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, which Tyson and Max decided to drive with me, and Kai, Kenny and Ray got a red Audi Speedster. We threw our luggage into the cars and decided to drive off onto the main island since the airport wasn't near where we would be staying.

Ray

Kai, Kenny, and I left the airport and car rental place a little while before Kira, Tyson, and Max left. Mr. Dickenson had warned us not to let Kira drive whatever we rented. Apparently she's only really good at driving motorcycles, not so much four wheel vehicles. I didn't really realize what he meant, because she seemed like she'd be a good driver. But… there's the fact that she has a severe speeding problem. I'm pretty sure we left a good twenty minutes before they did and I look up to the side view mirrors, and all I can see is dirt blaring behind us and a black dot that kept growing bigger and bigger. I turned around in my seat to see no one other than Kira, Tyson in the seat next to her and Max all dancing to some song, which I later realized was Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke.

"That's not.." Kenny was also turned around in his seat, staring at the approaching vehicle with saucer eyes until Kira pulled up next to us. They had all the windows and sunroom down, and Kira blew a kiss in our direction and took off speeding in front of us. I could hear Tyson cheering, probably from the adrenaline of how fast she was going, (I don't even wanna know how fast that was), but I couldn't help but laugh.

The first day in Hawaii was a blast. We all decided to head to the beach and get some sun in, after of course we practiced and trained. Kira rented a couple of surf boards for us, which her Kai and Tyson were the only ones who knew how so Kenny, and Max, and I went boogie boarding while they surfed. We built some sandcastles on the beach and Kira got thrown into the ocean a couple of times by Max and I which made her mad and she tackled us into the water a few times. I finally saw the tattoo that she had on her hips, which were the two halves of the yin-yang sign with tiger stripes searing through them. That couldn't just be a coincidence.

Finally we headed back to the hotel and got ready to go out for the night, Kira wanted to show us this night club she had always wanted to go to, and we were all really excited. She was, of course, in a different room than us once again. We were in a hotel that was different than last time. All the rooms were connected on a single level building that you entered from the outside. Finally after what seemed like forever, she stepped out of her room, and my jaw dropped. Her hair was braided to the side with her bangs swept to the side of her face. She had on black eyeliner and red lipstick which looked amazing on her. Her dress made her eyes pop, it was teal with a one-shoulder flutter sleeve dress (which is just basically a dress with fabric overlaying one sleeve) and at the belt it was changed to a solid white and skin tight and went down to her mid -thigh. She was wearing some white sandal wedges, but she was still a little shorter than me.

"Wow..." I whispered. I shook my head and looked away as we all climbed into the Jeep Wrangler since it had the most seats, Kira wanted to drive, but Kai took the keys from her commenting on her earlier driving and she grumbled, annoyed climbing into the back seat.

When we got to the club, we almost instantly got inside. Somehow the bouncer knew Kira and was a big fan of hers, for what reason none of us knew.

We sat down at a table near the bar, and the waitress was a big fan of the BladeBreakers and obviously had a crush on one of us, but we couldn't figure out which one of us that was.

Normal POV

The waitress dropped off some complimentary drinks at the table and each of them grabbed one. Kira was staring longingly at the dance floor as the boys conversed, checking out the women on the dance floor. Max looked over to his friend and smiled, elbowing her in the side. Kira turned to look at him and shrugged, confused.

"You wanna go dance?" Max asked her, and as the song "The Other Side" by Jason DeRulo came on, she nodded vigorously, and Max took her to the dance floor.

'Man, I should've asked her to dance.' Ray glared, watching them walk away. 'But my ankle...'

'I needa figure out a way to get Ray and Kira together. I'm sure he's jealous since I took her to go dance, but neither of them will make the first move, and it's so blatantly obvious they want each other.' Max thought to himself as he and Kira danced together, and she laughed as he stumbled over himself.

"Aaaalright everyone, only two more players are needed for the karaoke competition. Winner gets a $250 gift card and free drinks on the house tonight!" The DJ called out over the intercom, and Max wiggled his eyebrows at Kira who rolled her eyes.

"I am not joining a karaoke competition!" She shook her head, grinning at her friend.

"Oh come on! You can totally beat anyone easily." He elbowed her in the side again, and she sighed, nodding.

"FINE. But you owe me big time! Let's go sign up!" Kira pulled Max by the hand up to the DJ booth and he resisted.

"Woah, I never said anything about ME joining the competition." He waved his hands in front of his face and Kira crossed her arms, smiling.

"If I have to do this, so do you!" Max sighed, hanging his head, but then after a few thoughts, it perked up and he grinned.

"Fine, but I get to pick your song." Kira stared at him for a few seconds and turned to look at the DJ table writing down their names.

'Why do I have a feeling this is going to end badly...'

General POV

"Man, did they go run off back to the hotel or what? They've been gone for like an hour now! It's not fair they don't have to suffer through these horrible karaoke acts with us." Tyson groaned leaning his chin down on his hand that was resting on the table.

"I'm sure they're just having fun Tyson." Kenny tried to reason with him, and Ray was leaning back in his chair, feeling extremely annoyed.

'What? Did they go back to the hotel together or something?'

"Alright, the last act is going to be a combined act, and it's a pretty special one. I'm sure most of you will recognize this little girl, here we have Kira Dickenson and Max Tate from the BladeBreakers!" The DJ announced happily, as the rest of the teammates practically choked on their food/drinks. On stage, there was mist dispersed throughout the atmosphere and the light was focused on center stage. The curtains drew back ,and there was Kira, dressed up in a grass skirt with a coconut bra, her hair undone from it's braid, now flowing down her hair in waves. Max was standing next to her, also in a grass skirt, and a grass band around his arm. They were both whispering to each other and laughing, but their faces straightened up after they realized that the curtain had drawn back. The music started playing, and the back up dancers started dancing with them.

She sang Come and Get It by Selena Gomez, and by the end of the song, she was breathing hard and the crowd was cheering. She bowed, laughing with Max beside her, and she skipped over to the table to sit next to her teammates who just stared at them.

"WHAT was that?" Tyson asked her and Max, and they both looked at each other and laughed.

"Max made me do the karaoke competition!" Kira pointed at Max, who mocked an innocent face. Everyone in the crowd had gone back to their business, when Kira heard clapping coming from behind her, and she turned around, squinted her eyes and gasped. "Oh my God, no way!" She jumped out of her chair and ran, then jumped on a tall, tan guy who was laughing and hugging her back.

"I thought I recognized that voice of yours." He had a semi-deep voice, close to Kai's in tone.

"Kahoru, I forgot you moved here to Hawaii! I'm so happy to see you1" Kira smiled, and then snapped her fingers. "Oh yes, let me introduce you to my friends and teammates." Kira grabbed Kahoru's hand and dragged him over to the table of her teammates who were watching her intently. "Guys, this is Kahoru, my ex boyfriend. Kahoru, this is Tyson, Max, Chief, Kai, and Ray."

'...Ex...boyfriend?' Ray thought to himself as he looked Koharu up and down. He looked like a mixture between Hawaiian and Japanese, with a short low dark brown ponytail and a tribal tattoo around his left arm.

"Nice ta meet you all." He had a Hawaiian accent and Ray didn't like the looks or sound of him. Nope, not one bit.

Ray

I was laying on my bed, tossing my blade up in the air and catching it. Tyson and Max were both watching some American cartoon called Family Guy, which I admit is pretty funny, but my mind was elsewhere. Kira had left the club with her old boyfriend Kahoru, to go to a party and visit with some of their old friends. Kai bursted into our room from the deck outside with a worried look on his face, which was rare for him.

"Kira still isn't back, her phone is off and it's almost three AM."

"How do you know she's not just at the party still?" Max sat up on his bed and blinked the sleepiness away from his eyes.

"Because you know as well as I do she wouldn't stay out so late when we have practice in two hours." Kai answered. I mentally shrugged; he had a point.

"Well maybe she's just having fun with her ex boyfriend. She seemed to have a lot of...catching up to do." Tyson wiggled his eyebrows and I glared in his direction.

"Shut up, Tyson."

"What, don't tell me you're jealous Ray!" Tyson laughed and I threw my pillow at him hard which knocked him off his bed. "Raaaay's in love with Kiiiiiiraaaa!"

"I don't have a good feeling about this, Ray." Kai ignored Tyson, and looked in my direction and I turned my head to look at him, nodding. I got up and slipped my shoes and shirt on.

"Let's go get her then. I think she said something about them being at the Konoai Apartments." We climbed into our Audi Speedster and after looking up directions, sped from the hotel to the apartments. I could tell where the party was because of all the drunk people standing around outside. The music was so loud that I could feel the base bumping on my chest, and the air smelled like marijuana, alcohol and other things I didn't want to think about at the moment. "Let's just find her and get out of here." Kai nodded in response, and we pushed ourselves through the crowd of people inside the apartment. It was hot and I could feel the others' sweat running off my body, it honestly felt disgusting and I couldn't believe that Kira was in a place like this. There were women literally trying to throw themselves on Kai and myself, being the drunken state they were in, but we kindly just tossed them off to the side. There were some seemingly sober men playing cards in the back side of the room, I pointed Kai in their direction and he nodded and we walked over to them. Kai pulled up a picture of Kira on his phone and showed it to them.

"Have you seen this girl?" He asked them, and they smirked to themselves.

"Yeah, that slut. She's in the back room with Kaho. They're uh...a little busy though so I wouldn't bother them." That struck a nerve with both me and Kai. Kai punched the guy square in the face, making his nose bleed. I slipped away and took it upon myself to go find Kira so we could get the hell out of this shit infested hole. He said she was in the back room, so that was where I would go to find her. I felt disgusted at the sight that I saw when I opened the door. The room was musky, and Kahoru was standing up next to a bed, bare chested, and pulling back on his board shorts. Kira was laying on the bed beneath him, in only her bra and underwear completely passed out. Her makeup was covering her face, her hair was a wreck, and I'm pretty sure I saw traces of bruises starting to form on her body.

"What the fuck did you do to her Kahoru?" I growled shutting the door behind me. The asshole smirked in reply and crossed his arms, looking satisfied.

"Exactly what you just said. I fucked her senseless until she lost her voice from screaming my name. As you can see she's worn out, the poor girl. Although, I'm done with that bitch. I got what I wanted from her, you can have her." He waved his hand in my direction and before I knew it, I had punched him in the jaw which sent him flying across the room. I know that if Kira had actually been just sleeping she would have woken up by now with all the noise we were making, which meant he did something else to her and that fueled my rage even more.

"I'll give you one more chance to tell me what you did, or your ass is mine." I growled feeling my blood boil.

"Heh, as if it's any of your damn business, anyways." Kahoru clicked his jaw into place and stood up, a dark look in his eye. He attempted to charge at me, but thanks to my many years in martial arts I roundhouse kicked him into the wall which lodged a big crack in it.

"If you even think about coming near her again, I'll do more than break that jaw of yours." Sneering, I walked over and picked up Kira, grabbing her purse and hurried out of the room. I just wanted to get her out of there and back into the safety of our hotel before anything else could happen to her. I saw the group of guys on the ground with a satisfied looking Kai wiping his hands off. "Let's go." I called to him over the music and we both left the apartment. Luckily everyone was so intoxicated they didn't even bother to notice us running out with a half naked Kira.

Once we were about halfway back to the hotel, Kai's phone started ringing and he answered.

"Hey Luna... Yeah we got her, she was with Koharu..." There was a long pause, I could hear Luna's frantic voice on the other side. "Yeah, she's asleep right now. We think that Koharu may have put something in a drink of hers... I know, I'm glad you told me about your intuition too... Okay I'll call you in the morning when she wakes up. Uh huh...bye." So it was Luna who made Kai wonder about her cousins' safety. It made sense since there was no way Kai would worry about something like that on his own.

I looked down at the sleeping girl in my lap. I was sitting in the backseat with her, not wanting to let her go after the earlier events. There were definitely some more bruises setting into her porcelain skin which made me sigh. What would the press think when they saw those? Surely she would be able to hide them with make-up or something, but Kira didn't deserve to suffer in the first place. I felt her stir as my thumb grazed her cheek and her blue eyes blinked open to look at me, her eyes widened and she jumped up in a panicked state, looking around nervously.

"W-wh-where am I?!" I saw her start to grow woozy again, so I held her in my arms again tightly. I felt her tense fade away slowly. "Wh-who are you? What's going on?"

"It's okay Kira, I've got you. Nothing's going to happen to you while I'm here." After a few minutes, I felt her grow limp again, and I sighed. I looked up and saw Kai's red eyes staring hard at us in the rear-view mirror and then his eyes darted back to the road in front of us. There was no way he could know... Could he?

Kira

When I opened my eyes it was bright and sunny out. The dark curtains in my room made it less painful to open my eyes though. I felt an arm around my waist, holding me protectively if anything. I slowly turned over so not to disturb the person and had to stifle a giggle when I saw Ray sleeping with his hair all messed up. He looked adorable! I was smiling, staring at him when I started to wonder...why I was in bed with him in the first place. What had happened last night? I could barely remember...everything was so fuzzy and my head started to hurt from thinking about it. I began to rub my temples as I felt Ray shift beside me. My sudden movements must have woken him up. Good, because I want answers! I sat up on the bed on my knees next to him, and crossed my arms waiting for him to come to. I was relieved to see that I had some sleeping shorts and a tshirt on... Although it is rare that I sleep in a bra... He slowly opened an eye and blinked a few times before looking around and he gave me a sleepy smile when he saw me sitting up, giving him a questioning look. God, he's so cute.

"Well good morning." He greeted me with an adorable sleepy voice, turning onto his back, stretching. Did I mention he's shirtless? He better not have seduced me last night... Though, I won't complain if he did.

"Yeah yeah yeah, good morning." I roll my eyes, which makes him laugh and I look back down at him. "Care to explain to me why you're in MY room, in MY bed, with your arms wrapped around me?!" Ray stretched again, grinning.

"As far as I can see, my arms are not wrapped around you." I huffed.

"And you wonder why I've been ignoring you for the past week..." He laughed again and pulled me againgst his stomach, which made me catch my breath. Where was all this coming from?

"I'm sure you want to know what happened last night...unless you can remember?" I felt his gaze burning in the back of my head, and I shook it, so he continued and told me everything that happened the night before. "You...don't seem surprised..." He whispered and I turned to look at him.

"Kahoru's always been into drugs... So I'm not surprised he would do something like that. He always tried to get me to have sex with him... Yeah I loved him and everything but I never felt comfortable doing that with him. He always had girls on the side to have sex with, but I guess what Kaho wants, Kaho gets. And he'll go to any measure to make sure of it."

"I just can't imagine you with someone so.. disgusting." Ray looked up at me in the eyes, and I shrugged.

"That's why it's all in the past." I saw my phone blinking on the night stand next to me, and reached over. "It's TWO PM!? Why are we still sleeping!? Kai is going to be pissed!" I jumped out of the bed and ran to the bathroom and saw Ray sitting up on the bed.

"You know, he cancelled practice for today. He wanted you to get rest." I stopped in my tracks, almost slamming into the doorframe as I turned to look at Ray, dumbfounded.

"You can't be serious..."

"I know, I could hardly believe it myself, but it seems like he's actually starting to grow a heart in that stone cold chest of his." Ray laughed and I grinned thoughtfully.

"Or maybe a certain purple haired girl is warming up the one he already has." I winked and walked into the bathroom, as I shrieked seeing my face. All my make-up was still smeared all over it. Saying that I look like a hot mess would be an understatement. I reached in my make-up bag and grabbed out a make-up remover wipe, and started wiping at my face. Ray walked into the bathroom and leaned against the doorframe, watching me. "You know, you could have at least told me I look like a fool." I sighed.

"I thought it'd be funnier if you found out this way." He laughed again and I glared at him through the mirror. "You know," He took a deep breath and walked over to me, grabbing my hand. "I told Mariah I just wanted to be friends with her." I caught my breath and slowly looked up at him.

"W-what...? Why would you do that?" My eyes were wide and he smiled, tracing the side of my face with his finger, which gave me the shivers.

"You've had a long day and night, I'm gonna let you go take a shower. I'll see you a little later, Kira." Ray started to head towards the door to outside and I watched him walk away.

"Wait! Answer my question!" I called out to him, and he just laughed again.

"I'll let you figure that out for yourself." I furred my eyebrows in frustration, and sighed. What on Earth am I going to do with him?

I felt like going on a run to clear my head. Everything that had happened with Kaho just sent my head into a spiral whirlwind of emotions. When Kaho and I broke up, it had been because he was moving to Hawaii. His family had always been close friends with mine. He had introduced me to beyblading, and was partially the reason I'm so good at it. I had heard of him date raping girls before, but I never thought that he would actually do it to me... Since when was he so desperate? I had been running for about thirty minutes when I made it deep into the forest behind our hotel/resort, and to a clearing with a crystal clear lake, a rope swing, and no one else around. An idea popped into my head and I smiled, turned on my heel and ran back to the hotel.

"Raaaaay!" I burst into the boys' room, and looked around. Only Max and Tyson were in there and they were jumping on the beds together, and I shook my head at them, sighing. They have way too much energy to be human. I closed the door behind me and pursed my lips in thought. Maybe he's at the beach? So I ran down towards the beach and saw him standing on a surfboard, trying to master it. Ray's the type of guy where he has to do something until he's perfect at it, or it'll drive him nuts. Kind of like a perfectionist. Yeah! That's what he is, a perfectionist. "Heey Ray!" I took off my shoes and ran down into the water, and waved my arms around to get his attention. I caught his attention just at the wrong moment and just as the wave was about to set, he lost his balance and fell into the ocean. "Oh jeez..." I sighed and swam out to him.

"Gee, thanks for making me lose my concentration." He laughed as we finally met and splashed me with water.

"Hey, come out to shore with me, there's something I wanna show you!" I started to swim back to shore, and he silently followed after me. I'm sure he was curious as to what it could be. I led him out to the place that I'm now dubbing as my secret place, and his eyes widened.

"Woah Kira, how'd you find this?" He asked me amazed, looking around. I smiled walking over to the lake and stood next to it, admiring the beauty.

"I went on a run and kind of just found it by accident." I shrugged, and he walked over next to me.

"So why'd you wanna show me this?" He asked me, and I got a mischievous look on my face as I pushed him into the lake laughing.

"That's why!" But he grabbed my hand and pulled me in with him, which I definitely was not expecting. The temperature of the water hit me hard and I lost my breath as he pulled me in. I swam to the top, taking a deep breath and growled. "Dangit, you totally messed up my plan of revenge!" I huffed, spinning around looking for him but I couldn't spot him. Suddenly, I felt him grab me from behind, and he spun me around in the water and pulled me against his bare naked chest. I recognized that look in his eyes.

"Then let me make it up to you..." He whispered huskily, and as I was about to reply, he enveloped his lips in my own and I felt that shock of electricity run through me once again. I heard myself let out a soft moan, and my right hand reached up into Ray's hair, and my left arm went around his neck. He pulled away too quickly for my liking and traced my lips with his finger, looking into my eyes. "Does this make up for everything that's happened?" He asked, and I knew he was talking about China. I smiled and kissed him once more.

"Only if you shut up and keep kissing me." I felt him smirk into my lips, and much to my pleasure, he didn't stop.

There's chapter 4! I hope you all enjoyed it! How did you guys like Kahoru? And Luna? I wanted to make this beyblade more of a filler chapter with some Ray/Kira action! Thanks for reading and please review. Have a great weekend everyone!