Lirin: Back again with the next chapter. Sorry for a small wait.

Tala: Personal thanks to GabZ for reviewing 6.

Bryan: Lirin still does NOT own Beyblade or profit from the writings she's done.

Chapter 7: Argument

Kai woke up feeling very confused. The usual stank that surrounded him was gone. The hard floor he'd been sleeping on was replaced by a soft mattress. And the most confusing thing of all was that his headache was not as horrible as it should have been with all the drinking he'd done since arriving at the Dojo.

Slowly he sat up in the bed and rubbed his forehead. The movement did cause a small wave of dizziness, but again he'd had much worse hangovers to deal with.

In the corner pages ruffled as a book was closed and placed on a desk.

"Kai are you awake?" Tala called from by the opened sliding door. His blue eyes reflecting pure worry.

"What do you think?" Kai softly snapped back raising his head to look at his Russian friend. "Why are you even here?"

The red head pouted as he went to sit on the bed next to Mr. Sourpuss. "Don't you remember Kai, we talked about this before when I gave you the pain pills. You nodded off after that again."

Kai was quiet for a moment as he tried to recall the memory. He could vaguely recall what Tala told him. "I kind of remember seeing you, but not really talking."

"Well you were really out of it then," Tala admitted with a wide grin.

"Tal, not in the mood for cheeriness. Tell my why you're here or get out after getting me more liquor."

"You've had more then enough of that lately, Kai. It's time for you to sober up and confront what caused you to start this binge drinking."

"I think I'll stick to the drinking."

Tala's anger was raising quickly. Normally he has much more patients dealing with his friend yet today it seemed to be very lacking.

"That's really not an option anymore Kai. I wont let you to continue to hurt yourself like that no matter what the reason is. I'm here because we're friends and I'm worried about you. The others are too. Yeah everyone is in the living room with Max and Tyson waiting to see how you're doing."

"It was a waste of time coming here. I'm fine." Kai got off the bed hoping that his body didn't reveal that his world was currently spinning. "See you around."

Not bothering with shoes Kai was going towards the open door of the room with all intent to leave. Tala realized if he got away now he'd disappear and drink until his condition got worse.

"I can go around," Tala muttered as he caught up with Kai grabbing his wrist and spun him around before pinning him down on the bed. "See we went around."

Kai now felt dizzy and sick from the spinning. Plus more then a little embarrassed to have Tala on top of him pinning him down.

"Let me go," he whispered turning his head so he wasn't looking into angry worried blue eyes.

"No, you need someone to stand up to you so I'm more then willing to do that. Kai I want you to talk to me about what's going on. Why were you trying to kill yourself by drinking so much."

Kai's eyes moved to the side to further avoid Tala's gaze. "I wasn't trying to kill myself. I just want to forget."

"Forget what?" Tala's voice was calm with concern and his grip loosened a tiny bit.

"Just forget," Kai whispered. He was now trying to hold back tears as memories of Rei flowed through his mind.

"Kai, talk to me about this. Is it to do with Rei and why you didn't want us finding him."

Slowly Kai nodded feeling the tears spill over his eyes. Tala released him with one hand and brushed the water drops away.

"What happened? Did you two fight?"

Kai was touched by the amount of concern his friend was giving him. But at the same time it was enraging him. Tala was trying to pry into his personal business where no one had a right to be in. He wanted out of this spot and now.

"Not really your business Tal," Kai grunted as he rounded the strength to roll Tala off him and to the floor where he landed with a loud thump. Kai then took the time to jump off the bed and run out the door.

"Fucking hell Kai," Tala groaned as he got up. "Oi stop Kai, he's trying to run," he yelled for the others to hear him. Tala didn't stick around for replies as he himself ran from the door following Kai.

As he rounded the corner towards the front he saw the others right on Kai's heels. It was Bryan that leap from the pack to tackle the escapee to the ground.

Kai gasped in surprise and his world spun again before going black.

"Thanks Bry," Tal sighed as he caught up with them. "Help me bring him back inside again?"

The Falcon said nothing as he picked up the unconscious Kai and carried him back to Tyson bed. Tala meet them there not long after with something twirling around his finger.

Bryan looked at the Wolf a little surprised. "He's going to hate you."

"He hates me now. This wont make a lick of difference. They're just for security and his safety."

Bryan nodded not saying anything else and watched as Tala secured Kai to the bed with fuzzy cuffs.

Lirin: And so ends another chapter. Hope you all enjoyed and will please drop a review.

Tyson: More reviews means I get my bed back quicker. So please leave loads...Oh and why does Tala have fuzzy cuffs?

Lirin: Tee Hee... that's a secret Ty.