Notes: ^^ ARIGATOU! For all your nice reviews! I know you wanted me to save Sarah so you got your wish.  I actually planned to have her killed off… but it seems you like her… so she stays… for now. *Scary music plays* MWHAHA!

Chapter Ten – Meant To Be

Kai turned upon the person who had spoken.  It was not who he had thought it would have been.  He approached the person slowly, then threw his arms around the smaller person with relief and cried out, "TYSON!"

Tyson blinked and returned Kai's embrace, looking over his shoulder at Sarah who was watching them curiously.

"What did you mean we're not going anywhere?" Sarah asked.

"Well not yet… anyway," Tyson replied, Kai gave him a confused look, "Max and Ray have to meet up with us first.  I hope they can find out where I went… I left them behind in the passage.  I don't think they noticed I ran ahead."

Sarah nodded thoughtfully and wheeled herself over to the two boys.  She tugged on Kai's pants and he looked down at her.

"Kai? Is this the Tyson that you love?" she inquired, "Cause my Kai feelings are making me want to grab him."

Kai's jaw dropped open and Tyson started laughing.  Sarah shrugged innocently at them and wheeled herself towards the door.

"I'll look out for Max and Ray… I do know what they look like," she informed them.

Tyson looked at Kai and blushed, his laughter slowing to a halt.  Kai looked at him with a flustered looked.

"Is it true?" Tyson asked.

"Uh… what's true?" Kai pretended to not understand.

Tyson slapped Kai gently on the arm, "You know what Sarah said.  Don't lie to me."

All of Kai's blood rushed to his face and he looked at Sarah somewhat annoyed.  He inwardly cursed her for picking up on his feelings for Tyson… but then it wasn't really her fault that she got used as a lab rat.

"I guess so…" Kai admitted.

Tyson's face lit up with so much happiness it almost caused Kai to cover his eyes.  He didn't get the chance to do anything as Tyson grabbed him and kissed him deeply on the lips.  Kai was too stunned to do anything but kiss him in return.

"Uh… guys? We've got company, and its not Max and Ray," Sarah spoke up suddenly, ruining the tenderness of the moment.

Kai pulled Tyson over to the door and the three of them glanced down the hallway.  Coming down the hall was Voltaire and Boris.  And they did not look happy.

Pushing Tyson behind Sarah's wheelchair Kai murmured, "Tyson… get Sarah out safely okay? I don't want anything to happen to her… or you."

Tyson smiled warmly at Kai and kissed him quickly before wheeling Sarah backwards to allow Kai to pass before them.  Kai ran out into the hall and Voltaire and Boris looked up at him when he yelled.

Voltaire's eyes focused on what Kai had done and before he could shout the order, Tyson came barrelling out of the room with Sarah at the front, gripping onto her chair for dear life.

Kai then realised he had no means of fighting them and Tyson paused for a second, and reached into his pocket and pulled out Kai's Beyblade.

"Here!" he shouted and threw the blade down the hallway.

Kai leapt up and caught the Beyblade easily.  Kai delved into the depths of his pockets and found his launcher.  He released the blade at Voltaire and Boris.  They were unarmed and Voltaire yelled out for help when Dranzer emerged from the blade.

"Dranzer! Fire Arrows!" Kai commanded and the beast swooped down at the old man, attacking him with so much more forced than either Kai or Voltaire realised it had.

Boris had called for backup then and a group of the trainee Beybladers came to aide the man and his leader.  The first Beyblader, a boy with long black hair tied up in a ponytail at the nape of his neck, freed his blade from its launcher at Kai and Dranzer.  He knocked Dranzer away from Voltaire, but the blade kept spinning.

"Kai!" a voice yelled and Kai looked behind him to find Tyson and Ray running towards him.  Max stood at the far end of the hall with Sarah and looked like he wished to join them, but Tyson had obviously advised him to do otherwise.

As much as he was glad to see Tyson come back Kai yelled at the navy-haired boy, "What do you think you're doing?"

Tyson smirked, coming to stand beside Kai and launched Dragoon into the mess of Beyblades and Bitbeasts in front of them, "I'm helping you, what does it look like?"

Kai glared, "Don't answer a question with a question.  It annoys me."

Ray grabbed Tyson and pulled him over, "There's no time for you two to be arguing! We're seriously outnumbered here… we've gotta think of a new tactic.  Where's Kenny when you need him?"

Tyson looked over and saw Dragoon battling against a large dark green Bitbeast the shape of a deer.  The beast was graceful yet deadly and the dragon beast was struggling to keep it from attacking the humans.

"Alright, here's what we do," Tyson said firmly.

A few moments later the other two boys nodded and straightened up from leaning down to hear the smaller boy.

"Dragoon! Get up a defensive wind shield!" Tyson instructed his Bitbeast.

The blue dragon glimpsed backwards at its master and obeyed, forming a large whirlwind, which stretched across the width of the hallway.

"Driger, pull back." Ray told his own beast and the tiger Bitbeast withdrew from the battle, back into Ray's Beyblade.

"Dranzer! For a fire shield around us!" Kai said determinedly and the large fire phoenix swooped down around them and shaped a wall of fire around the three boys.

At Kai's nod, the three of them started to work their way backwards to the end of the hall.  Max wheeled Sarah into the ring of fire and they appeared before the three boys, untouched.

"Where's this passageway you spoke of before Ty-koi?" Kai asked, ignoring the looks of surprise pointed at him from Ray and Max.

Tyson nodded to the left, where a fair way down there was a black hole in the wall that appeared to have been made by the shifting of the entire wall.

The group hurried down to the hole and to Kai's astonishment, it was much larger than he had previously thought.  They all rushed into it, Sarah and Max first, followed by Ray and finally only Kai and Tyson remained.

"You go now Tyson and I'll bring up the rear," Kai said, trying to make the smaller boy follow their friends inside the dark passage.

"No."

"Excuse me?" Kai blinked at Tyson.

"I said no.  You and I will go together," Tyson stressed the last word as it held a great importance to him.

Kai glared at Tyson for a moment, but then embraced the boy, kissing him gently.

"Okay… we will go together," Kai replied softly.

They checked to make sure Voltaire and his minions were still far behind and they recalled their beasts and quickly went inside.  Tyson reached up and pressed something that Kai couldn't see and the wall slid shut leaving them in darkness.

"You know… this had possibilities," Kai said in a low throaty voice that made Tyson shiver unexpectedly.

"Gee Kai, not now!" Tyson chuckled and dragged the tall blue-haired boy down the passage to catch up with their friends.