Sorry this chapter is later then I planned but this was a particularly difficult chapter to work with.

A lot of it just didn't want to fit together but I got there in the end... I hope.

Let me know what you guys/lady's think.

TishaLiz

Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade or any of the characters, just the events in this story.

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Just before death (Re-write)

by zzdoricorezz

Chapter 3

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Leaning against a wall in a side alley Kai takes deep sharp breathes as the freezing winds hit him with onslaughts in straight into his face. Tightening his crossed arms around his ribcage to try to keep a shred of warmth Kai feels something in his pocket. Reaching into his right pocket, Kai retrieves the packet of lip balm he got from Boris. He'd completely forgot about it.

Without any debates about where he got it from, Kai tears the back cardboard off. As the cardboard is ripped from the plastic and starts to open it reveals something that looks like a little paper, like a user's manual. As Kai is thinking to himself how stupid that is, he realises it's not a manual but that it's money. A money note neatly folded and slipped in at the back of the lip balm.

Kai swallows a few times trying to make the dryness in his throat smooth out as he stares at the money in his hand. If there is anything on this planet he needed to buy it will be food. An expression of sadness overcomes him as he recalls many of the other times he was hungry, starving even and money didn't just fall out of nowhere.

He was rude and aggressive and Boris still gave him the money. Boris knew he needed food but he didn't or couldn't offer him any because he knew Kai would never have accepted it. This was on Boris' part a clever scheme to make Kai take the money without giving him a choice.

Kai grabs and folds the money neatly then places it into his pocket. Opening the lip balm he feels immediate relief as he applies it to his dry and cracked lips. He then quickly placed the balm into his pocket to hang onto it for dear life, the next one may not come to easily.

Pushing away from the wall he has been leaning against, he walks further down into the back alley staying close to the walls where the snow doesn't fall as much. This is what he has been reduced to, Boris giving him charity money. The thought makes Kai want to cry but there is no more tears left.

A few hours later the sun is starting to set and Kai is wandering around the streets aimlessly. Passing people with thick coats, full stomachs and a home to go to. It makes Kai wonder how he even ended up like this. He may never have had a place he called home but he always had somewhere warm to sleep and eat. If it was the mansion with his grandfather or the warehouses with the Blade Sharks or even the hotels with the Bladebreakers. Yet, here he is wandering through the snowy streets of Moscow with no place to go.

There are no empty warehouses in Moscow. The first few attempts to find an empty one nearly got Kai killed, people don't take lightly to trespassers in Russia. In Japan it was easy, no one was watching the warehouses but here in Russia there are 24/7 on duty guards with guns and hungry dogs.

Kai keeps thinking back to when he woke up in the nice warm soft bed a day before. He didn't sleep at all last night as the cold wouldn't let him and he's not looking forward to trying to sleep tonight on the streets either.

But this is how he's been living for months, although he never got use to sleeping in the cold, why is it such a problem now? Maybe because he's slept in a warm bed that it's reminded him what he's missing?

Wandering around after night fall lost in thought, Kai comes to a stop and looks up past the tree he's standing behind and sees the house he'd left yesterday.

Boris' house.

Or at least that is what he said it was, he probably killed the original people that lived there and buried them in the back yard.

Kai moves up to the tree to then lean against it as he keeps his eyes fixed on the house. The tree above Kai is acting like an umbrella shielding off the falling snow.

Just about all the nights he slept, huddled next to dumpsters, under stairs, parking lots and numerous other places, Kai realises that asking Boris for help can't possibly be any worse than that. Living on the streets doesn't just consist of finding a place to sleep and food to eat, the other homeless people aren't as united as everyone may think.

Living on the streets you learn the real meaning of 'everyone's out for themselves'.

But Kai has never asked anything from anyone, Kai doesn't know how to. If it wasn't for Boris then Kai would be dead right now, maybe off better too. His frozen body would've been found and discarded being of no importance to anyone.

Boris who is busy with a file of papers nearby a window, spots Kai standing in the distance leaning against a tree. It's dark out but a street light nearby provides some light and although Boris can't see Kai clearly through the falling snow, he just knows it him. He doesn't have stalkers. Boris doesn't even need to see Kai up close to know he's having a major discussion with himself.

After staring at the house for a few minutes, Kai has started to feel warm despite the cold. Pushing himself away from the tree Kai can feel his joints ache with every step in the direction of Boris' house. Walking up to the front door, he finds his heart has started to pick up pace, not sure if it's because of knowing Boris is getting closer or if it's because he's going to try and ask him for help.

Stopping in front of the door Kai is unable to knock, all he can do is stare in front of himself and try to come to terms that he's standing in front of Boris' door.

What if Boris tells him to get lost?

What if Boris doesn't allow him to leave again?

What if everything is not as it seems?

After the fall of BovVolt Boris came back with BEGA and now that's gone isn't Boris still the same?

"It's open."

Boris' voice comes from inside breaking up Kai's discussion with himself. Somehow Kai isn't surprised that Boris knows he's there but now that Boris has let him know that he knows he's there, he now can't walk away. It's would look like he's backing off, or running away.

Kai opens the door, slowly pushing it open just wide enough for him to slip in and closes it behind him. Leaning against the door he takes in the warmth from inside the house, Kai starts to feel his muscles relax from shivering. Looking around all the lights are on but he doesn't see Boris anywhere. A cabinet drawer slamming shut with unnecessary force makes Kai jump. Boris did that on purpose.

Following the noise, Kai steps around the dividing wall that separates the front door entrance from the living room and finds Boris busy going through some folders in a drawer.

Boris continues his work without acknowledging Kai's presence or saying anything.

Kai decides to steps closer, he puts his hand in his pocket and takes out the neatly folded money.

"I came to give you back your money." Kai grips the money note between two fingers holding it out towards Boris.

"I don't remember investing it." Boris simply answers without taking his eyes off the papers in front of him, having no intension of taking back the money. A ghost of a smile passes over Boris' face, Kai isn't as broken as he seemed the other day.

A long silence passes with Kai still standing with his hand raised holding out the money to Boris who has his back turned to him. Kai isn't sure where to go from here. He's not spelling it out in so many words that he's asking for help and he has no intension of leaving either.

"Make yourself at home, just stay out of my closets and drawers." Boris turns and walks past Kai to place a folder into another open drawer, leaving Kai standing with his hand raised in the air.

A moment passes as Kai's eyes drop to the floor and then he slowly lowers his hand as a strange feeling of relief washes over him. As Boris is going about his business, Kai turns and then leaves the living room slowly walking back to the bedroom he woke up in a day ago. Stepping into the room it almost feels like he's going home.

Standing next to the bed, Kai looks around the room. The closet drawing Kai's attention specifically just because Boris told him to stay out of it. Visualising himself stepping over to the closer and opening and then getting caught by Boris... a familiar feeling fills Kai that's associated with when he got caught in the abbey making mischief. Right now he doesn't feel like dealing with that so the closet is out of bounds, for now.

After a long time studying the room, Kai carefully sits down on the bed. Somehow it feels like this was way too easy. He expected Boris to interrogate him and harass him and make him beg. Just thinking about it, Boris is acting very strange, maybe something is wrong with him. Boris is far to quiet for Boris.

Like really, Boris helping someone on the street? Somehow Kai feels Boris got involved only because it's him.

Hours go by without Kai even noticing it, the clock turning to the early hours of the next morning. Kai would've taken his shoes and jacket off and would've loved to pull the blanket over him and go to sleep but he seemed to of frozen in place where he's been sitting. He can't possibly relax knowing Boris is in the house.

Every time he hears Boris close a drawer or papers ruffling, he tenses up. Kai was waiting for the lights to be turned off and Boris maybe going to bed but it would seem that Boris doesn't sleep. For a moment Kai wonders what he got himself into and if he'd made a mistake by coming here. Kai knows what kind of man Boris is, ever since Kai was three years old he knew Boris was trouble. Everyone in the abbey would've given a finger to leave the abbey to get away from Boris and yet here he is coming to Boris for help.

"Just incase you were wondering, I'm going to murder you in your sleep."

Boris' cold words breaking the silence pulls Kai out of his musings.

Boris didn't use a sarcastic tone but a dead serious one but Kai knows Boris' way too well to fall for that one. If Boris was going to kill him, he would've done it already without a struggle, as Kai wouldn't have been able to put up any kind of a fight in the state he's in.

Kai was listening so intently to Boris' movements but he failed to hear him coming up to the open door. That only makes Kai even more uneasy. Kai only slightly turns his head so that he can see Boris standing in the doorway but he can't look up to make eye contact. He now feels like he's under Boris' authority, it's Boris' house and he's here willingly.

"Get some sleep." After standing in the doorway and getting only silence from Kai, Boris switches off the light leaving him in the dark with only the light from the hallway giving some perspective of were everything is.

A few minutes later the rest of the lights in the house are switched off and then Kai can hear Boris walking down the hallway. The light in the hall is the last light to be turned off and leaves everything pitch dark. Still listening to Boris' movements, Kai can make out the sound of Boris walking up stairs. Kai didn't even see any stairs in the house but then again it's not like he seen everything.

Some more time passes as Kai stays sitting on the bed like he's been doing for hours. Everything seems to be as quiet as the grave and Kai takes it that Boris has finally gone to bed. Kai turns his head to where the pillow is although the only thing he sees is pitch darkness.

Kai lies down on top of the blanket, his head finding the pillow and then lifts his feet onto the bed without bothering to take his shoes off. Curling into a ball, Kai let sleep carry him away.

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End of chapter 3

To be continued...

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