Chapter nine! Yay!

Bryan – Let's just delete this chapter already.

Oh, why?

Bryan – Because I don't want to be fucking humiliated, that's why!

Kai – (smirks) Oh, but it is so cute.

Bryan – Shut up. Don't encourage them.

Kai – She's gonna start it anyway, so there's really no encouragement needed.

Bryan – (growls)

Kai – (smirks) Disclaimer: She doesn't own Beyblade.

Now, on to the chappie!

Bryan – NOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Will There Ever Be Peace?

Chapter Nine – A Little Comedy, A Little Understanding

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Bryan huffed as he sat down heavily on Kai's bed. Joey had been following him all afternoon, asking questions and talking to him about different things that the falcon never dreamed could be interesting. The kid just wouldn't leave him alone!

He growled to himself as the smaller version of Kai entered the room, arms full of paper and crayons. The boy had a wide smile on his lips, his crimson eyes bright and innocent in happiness.

'Great,' Bryan groaned in his head, 'what else could he possibly want to do?'

/Just be glad he likes you,/ Falborg commented in his mind.

Bryan snorted as the kid climbed on the bed with a little difficulty. /I don't know whether that's a good thing or not./

Joey, after settling down on the bed looked up at him and smiled again. "Do you wanna make paper lanterns with me?"

Bryan snorted again. "What for? They're not good for anything."

Joey tilted his head to the side. "Mommy and Big Brother like them. Plus, Grandma said that we could hang them in the living room!"

The falcon sighed. He gazed at the toddler. "Why do you keep wanting to do stuff with me?" he asked. "Why do you keep following me?"

If at all possible, Joey's eyes got bigger, shimmering with sadness. "Do you not like me?" he asked.

The teen rolled his eyes. Typical kids. They wanted to be liked by everyone. "It's not that, kid-"

"Then you don't like me following you," Joey muttered, looking down. He sniffed. "I'm sorry, Silverman-"

"That's another thing!" Bryan interrupted. "My name is Bryan, not Silverman! B. R. Y. A. N. Bryan. Why do you keep calling me that ridiculous name?"

Joey sniffed again. "B-Big brother always talked about his friends…He told me they were like superheroes….They always protected him. They always were there for him, like a superhero. I-I just thought that you were one of them – that you were one of his friends that would take care of him and keep him s-safe. I-I love-love my big brother, and he's h-hurt. He can't pr-protect himself. I just thought that you came to take care of him."

At this point, the small boy was trying as hard as he could not to cry.

Bryan looked at the boy in fear. He hated it when kids cried. He never knew what to do.

"H-Hey, kid, look, it's not what you think. I'm not mad at you. So-So, stop crying, okay? You can call me anything you want. I don't care, just stop crying." Bryan tried to stop the boy's tears. He really did.

Joey looked at the fair haired blader, his eyes full of unshed tears. "Y-You're no-not mad?"

Bryan sighed. "No, kid. I'm not. You still want to make those paper lanterns?" he asked hopeful.

Joey sniffed. "You wanna make them?"

The falcon nodded with a small smile on his face. "Sure. You said that you wanted to hang them in the living room later, right?"

The small boy smiled widely and jumped into Bryan's lap, wrapping his tiny arms around the teen's waist the best he could. He hugged the falcon hard and laughed. "Thank you, silver man!"

Bryan smirked at the boy and wrapped his own arms around him. "Hey, let's get started before we get the papers all wrinkled." They pulled away and started coloring on the stack of papers. Bryan noted that the small boy was drawing a good picture of a phoenix. He smiled. "That for Kai?" he asked.

Joey looked up and beamed while nodding his small head furiously. "Yep! It's Dranzer!" He stopped as he looked at the older teen. "What's your bitbeast? And Sencer's?"

The falcon chuckled at Spencer's new nickname. The boy was only four and was still having some problems saying a few words. Spencer's name was an example.

"Mine is a falcon, and Spencer's is a whale," he replied to the small boy.

Joey smiled and nodded. "Thank you!" Then, he went back to his picture of Dranzer.

They spent close to two hours coloring lantern after lantern, making them as they went. By the time they finished with the stack of papers, they had paper lanterns piled from one end of the bed to the other.

Joey kept his arms behind him as Bryan counted the lanterns to see how many they had. He looked at the teen nervously. He was hoping against all hope that the blader before him liked his present he had for him. He also hoped that Kai and Spencer liked theirs as well.

Bryan frowned as he finished counting. "Joey, we're missing one. Do you know what happened to it?" He looked at the small boy, finally noticing that he was holding something behind his back. "Is that another lantern that you have behind you?" he asked, raising an eyebrow and smirking at the boy's failed attempt to stay inconspicuous.

Joey bit his lip and shuffled his weight as he sat on his knees.

"Let me see it," Bryan said, holding out a hand.

The small boy finally presented the paper present and gave it to the teen. "I hope you like it," he muttered.

Bryan quirked an eyebrow. "This is for me?" he asked, gazing at the boy. No one had given him a homemade present since Kai made Christmas cards for them one year at the Abbey out of his old T-shirt and a marker stolen from Boris's office.

Joey nodded, answering his question.

Bryan took a minute before looking at the "present." He gasped. On the small, paper lantern was a neatly drawn picture of what looked like the falcon teen himself and beside him was an actual falcon in flight. As he turned the lantern around to gaze at all sides of it, he noticed that Joey had written a few words to him.

To: Silverman

Please take care of my big brother.

From: Joey

Bryan had to swallow a lump in his throat as he finished looking at his present. He felt a strange sensations of prickling in the back of his eyes as his vision started getting watery. Then, he felt the even stranger sensation of trickling water down the side of his face. He sniffed.

Moving his gaze from his present, he saw Joey looking at him with a mix of fear and concern in his big crimson eyes. Bryan smiled and moved closer to the boy and pulled him into a gentle hug.

"Thank you, Joey. I promise that I'll take care of your big brother. I promise," he whispered.

He felt Joey wrap his arms around him again. "Thank you, Silverman."

Bryan didn't know how all of this was going to go down. He didn't know if they'd all get out of it alive, but he did know one thing: He always kept his promises.

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Okay, just a little fluff between Bryan and Joey. I had to get the fluffy-ness in there somewhere. It was getting a little too intense and had to slow down for a minute! ^^ Sorry it was so short, though. That sucked, but there will be some more later!

Hope you liked it!

Highlights

Kai, Bryan, Spencer, and Kyle all plan to try and get into the building where the others are being held hostage. Then, we find out what is happening now with Tala, Ray, Max, and Chris. Find out what they are planning and how the others will help with this plan! Lots going on, and possibly some more bitbeasts revealed! And yes, Chris's bitbeast will actually be revealed in this fic! ^^Either in this next chapter or the one after!

Stay tuned and as always, thank you for the reviews! I love them!

Till next time, and don't forget to review!

Ja Ne