Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade

Warnings: Character Death...Suicide and Murder

Chapter 14: My Hated Love

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Rei and his children Gou and Ling had been stuck in the room for weeks now. Kai, Tala, and a few others were still trying to break into the room, but all their attempts failed.

"Rei! Just open up!" Kai had said that multiple times, but Rei still wasn't moving.

"Mommy?" Gou asked, peaking up at Rei from under the bed. "Daddy bad?"

Rei couldn't bring himself to answer. He was bad. He had killed his three previous children. But that was his job and Kai didn't know him back then. But then again, Kai wasn't bad. He took good care of Rei and Gou and Ling. He never tried to hurt them in anyway. Rei closed his eyes and buried his face in the pillow. He was so confused.

Rei jumped up when he heard Ling scream. She was pointing towards the window, which Rei noted, was opening. Ling stopped screaming when she noticed who it was. Her terrified face was replaced with a smile.

"Daddy!" she cried, running towards Kai.

Kai looked down at her. He bent down to pat her head, but frowned as she was jerked away from him.

"Don't you touch my children." Rei growled, glaring at Kai as he backed away from the hunter, Gou and Ling in his arms.

"Rei, please stop. Let me explain. Give me a chance." Kai pleaded with the Neko-Jin, taking a small step forward.

"Like you gave Mariah a chance? And what about Max? Huh? Where was his chance? And Tyson? Did he get a chance?" Rei bit back, anger and hate in his voice. "Just go away and leave us alone!"

"Rei, I had to. It was what I was ordered to do."

"You had to?! You had to kill my family?! You had to murder my kids?! My tiger?!" Rei screamed. "Why didn't you kill me?! Weren't you ordered to do that? Huh?!"

"Rei." Kai tried again, taking another stop towards the Neko-Jin.

"One more step Kai." Rei threatened, shifting Gou to his other arm which held Ling. "One more step and I'll kill the three of us." He picked up a dagger that had been near the door in case he had needed it, in case someone got in.

"Rei, put the knife down." Kai ordered. "You don't know what you're doing."

"I don't?" Rei laughed, a broken smile appearing on his face. "I'll take your kids away just like you took mine if you come any closer!"

"Rei, they're your children too! Think about it!" Kai said, trying to soothe the hysterical Neko-Jin.

"That's why I'll be going with them! I'll be with Gou and Ling and even Mariah, Max, and Tyson! I'll have all of my kids with me and you'll have no one!" Rei shouted, tears springing to his eyes. "How about you see how it feels to be alone! To be scared and lost and so afraid!"

"Kitten." Kai tried, desperate for anything to work.

"Don't call me that you son of a bitch!" Rei screamed, backing up against the wall.

Gou and Ling started crying. They were getting scared and they could feel the tension in the room. They knew something was going to happen. They knew their mother would break before their father could help. They just didn't like how this was turning out, what was going on.

Kai bit his lip and took a chance. He leaped at Rei, grabbing his arm with the knife, but it didn't help. Rei screamed and maneuvered the blade, stabbing Kai's hand. Kai jerked his arm away from the sudden burst of pain. He held his bleeding arm and looked towards Rei, ready to try again, but it was to late. Rei slit Ling's throat, then stabbed Gou's heart. The children died instantly, painlessly. Rei fell to his knees, the tears streaming down his cheeks.

"Rei don't!" Kai cried, but it was all in vain.

Rei stabbed his chest, purposely missing his heart. He wanted to die slowly. After all, he killed his children. What better punishment could there be than dying a slow, painful death. He slit his wrists, trying to cause as many wounds as he could. He had to lose enough blood so he couldn't be saved, but not to much that he died swiftly.

"Rei!" Kai called, falling to his knees beside the Neko-Jin. "No! Come on Rei!" Kai took the dagger from Rei's hands. He threw it to the side, not caring where it landed, and tried to stop the blood flow.

"D-don't t-touch me." Rei forced himself to say. "I h-hate you...s-so much...b-but I s-st-still l-love you."

"No Rei, come on. You're going to be ok. I love you too. I love you so much." Kai could feel the tears behind his eyes, but forced them back. He couldn't cry right now. He had to help Rei.

Rei could feel his life leaving him, just like his blood. He was losing the precious liquid and fast. He knew he wasn't going to live and he was glad. He could be with his family, his children. He reached up and stroked Kai's cheek softly, leaving streaks of blood on his face.

"I h-hate you...m-my love." Rei choked out before his eyes dulled and his chest stopped moving.

"Rei?" Kai asked, disbelief on his face. "No, stop playing around!"

Kai felt for a pulse, but found none. He pressed his ear to his heart, hopping to hear a heart beat, but heard none. He put his hands over the Neko-Jin's chest, but felt no breathing. The Neko-Jin was dead. Kai had killed him, even though he wasn't the one holding the blade. He didn't commit the murder physically, but the blood was on his hands mentally. He drove Rei to this. If he hadn't fallen in love, the Neko-Jin would be dead. He wouldn't have had to suffer. It was all his fault. And he knew it.

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Tala stared at the hunter and innocent on the floor. He knew it would come to this. He just didn't want to believe it. Rei was dead. He ended his own life along with the children's. Kai was dead. Killed by his own hand. A suicide and a murder. The weapon? A blood soaked dagger, the same blade was used to kill all of them. Tala looked around him.

"Guards!" he called. "There's been several deaths!"

The prince turned back to his dead friends, laying in a puddle of their own crimson blood, Kai's hand clutching the Neko-Jin's. It was obvious the hunter was dead. He had no life. He had been dead for a while now. Ever since that Neko-Jin locked up himself and the children. The Neko-Jin had always been dead, he just forgot all about it. Until he regained his memory of Kai's horrible sin.

Tala sighed and closed everyone's eyes. He couldn't stand to see the dull, lifeless orbs anymore. He looked up as guards came running towards him, doctors with them. What was the point? They were all dead. What could the doctor do?

"We need to find a place to bury them. How about the field by the forest?" Tala more stated than asked. "Hm. Yes. That'll be perfect. That's where Rei's other children are to be buried." Tala agreed with himself, walking away so he wouldn't be in their way.

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