Disclaimers : I don't own Beyblade………..Someone want to give it to me ?
Author's Note : Hiya! Here I come again to give you chapter 2 ^-^! Thanks very much to the reviewers ^-^! I really hoped that you enjoyed this chapter! Really thanks!!!!!!!!! Thank you! Thank you ^___^ !!!! And I really enjoyed writing this ^__^! Yes, this is an AU Fic ^-^! You maybe think I'm strange, but I love writing AU's ! I am really sorry if this is boring .! This chapter is dedicated to Zui-chan, Rae, reaper, aishiteru, Nyako, Android71 and Issini-san ^-^! Oh, I forget…..the word "Meep" belongs to Zui-chan more than anybody, so all credits go to her ^-^!
Pairings : Kai+Rei, Tala+Boris, Tyson+Max, and maybe some later……
Ages : Tala ( 17 ) Rei ( 16 ) Max ( 16 ) Tyson ( 16 ) Emily ( 17 ) Mariah ( 16 ) Lee ( 17 ) Kenny ( 16 ) Kai ( 16 ) Boris ( around 22-24 )
Author = Lady Zephyros
Beta = Killua kiken na
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Chapter 2 ~ The Waltz Begins
"Very well. Why are you late again?" asked Mrs. Lily. She tapped her fingers impatiently on her desk, waiting for the boy's reply. The certain blunette looked away, "Hn. I had some problems."
"Some problems? Did you get into a fight again?"
Kai paused. Damn it. This teacher always guessed it right. He smirked. Of course, it was clearly obvious…. "So? What's the problem anyway if I get into a fight? It's not like you should care….." Rei could hear some surprised whistles from the other students. Tyson groaned, "Oww man, Kai challenges Mrs.Lily again….."
Rei blinked, "Challenged?"
Max turned to him, "Haven't we told you? Oh, well….we'll talk later after break, ok?. This will be interesting.." He turned back and watched Mrs.Lily with a somewhat sad sigh. She didn't look very happy. She frowned, "Kai, I am your teacher. I need to care about you or else you wont have a future out there."
Kai turned his face in disgust. "Hmph. Then who says I WANT you to care, huh?"
Mrs.Lily took a deep breath, trying to remain calm. "I already had enough of this, Kai. Did you get into another fight?" Kai nodded. Still with his smirk. "With whom?" Kai paused for a while and then answered with a shrug, "With some stupid asshole from another school." A few students laughed as he cursed in front of the teacher so easily. Kai shot them a glance and they are gulped, unable to open their mouths.
Mrs. Lily let out a cough, "Kai, we'll settle this later….IN the principle's office. I really need to give you some advice…."
Kai didn't nod, only walked to his seat in silence. All the student were glancing over at him as he went and a few girls even drooled as they caught his bored eye. Rei heard one of the male students whisper to another, "Do you hear that? He wins again… " The other student nodded, "What a tough guy….. it's impossible to beat him. He's SO cool!"
Rei gulped nervously. He just remembered Kai's seat was behind him! Max had whispered something about that before, as Kai made his rememorable entrance. And like it wasn't bad enough, Kai stopped in front of him, looking slightly bewildered. Rei blinked. Kai's gaze didn't leave him.
Who is he? ……A new student? Interesting……but where have I seen him? He seems so familiar…
Long silk black hair.
Those bright golden eyes.
"Yeah….ah…Kai?", Max nervously looked up at the boy towering over them. "This is the new student. His name's Rei."Kai raised his eyebrow. "New?" Rei nodded. Inwardly, Rei sighed in relief as Max broke the tension. Thank you forever, Max….Kai turned away finally and took his seat. Mrs.Lily huffed quietly and started her lectures again.
Rei felt uncomfortable. It seemed like Kai was studying him the whole time. And with a cold glare, too! Rei fidgeted nervously as the hairs on the back of his neck continued to stand up. He noticed a lot of others start to stare, too.Rei had just begun to realize why no one dared to sit in front of Kai….How could anybody sit STILL with this kind of pressure?!!
And after it seemed like centuries that way, they bell finally rang and the class dismissed.
Tyson whooped for joy, jumping up. "Yeah! Lunch time!" Mrs. Lily coughed and said, "Okay students. Break time. We will continue this later." The class was already in a buzz while Mrs. Lily left, dragging all her stuff behind her. Rei spied Max with Tyson coming towards him.
"Hey, nice first class, eh?" Tyson grinned away cheerfully. Rei shook his head. Max raised a questioning eyebrow. "Why not?" "I felt like that guy behind me was giving me the death glare the whole time! You know…THE death glare!!" Rei answered with a whisper.Tyson and Max stared at each other a second before bursting into laughter."Now you know why no one wants to take the seat in front of Kai" Tyson guffawed loudly.
"Oh, here they come. Guys!" Max shouted to the four other people coming towards them. Two girls and two boys. The pink haired girl greeted them all. "Hi, everyone! Oh, you must be Rei, right?" Rei nodded. The girl pushed Max aside and took his seat as both he and Tyson glared furiously. The girl glanced at Rei, but then looked like she was studying him closely. Rei felt creeped out!
"Hey, you ARE cute!" She giggled madly. The other girl with brown hair slapped the back of the pink-haired girl's head instantly.
"Mariah! You always stay stupid stuff like that! Don't say it to a newbie!" Mariah rubbed her head and shot a hurt look to the brown-haired girl. "But its only true, Rin! He IS cute! C'mon, LOOK!! He's absolutely gorgeous!!" Rin only sighed and shrugged helplessly, shooting an apologetic look at Rei.
"These are our friends. Rei, the pink haired hyper-active girl is Mariah.", giggled Tyson. Mariah pouted, "Hey!" And the brown-haired girl over there is Rin." Rin smiled, "Nice to see you, Rei." Rei smiled, 'Nice to meet you too." He looked at the drooling Mariah, "Umm……I think.."
The boy with glasses laughed, "Don't mind Mariah. She's always acting like that. Oh, by the way, my name's Kenny. I's nice to have you around." The green-haired boy who was standing beside Kenny smirked. "And I'm Kevin." Rei nodded, "Nice to meet you, Kenny, Kevin."
Tyson suddenly glanced at his watch and screamed, surprising everybody and nearly giving Rei a heartattack. He quickly didn't show it though as Tyson babbled away anxiously."What? That's the time?? It's time already? I forget to buy lunch!" He acted as if the world was coming to an end. His face showed the same.
Max shot a hopeless look to Rei. "The only thing running around in Tyson's head is food. But I think he's right this time. We gotta get something to eat. The next class will start soon." Tyson nodded in agreement, waaaay too eagerly. "Yeah, yeah! C'mon! What did you guys want to buy? It's all on me if you guys just HURRY! I'm BEGGING you!!"
Mariah turned to Tyson, "Are you sure you won't eat everything?"
Tyson pouted. "You think so low of me! I'm not gonna be that greedy as to steal your lunch! I'm only offering my gracious help just in case you run into some trouble finishing off everything of yours!" He wiggled his eyebrows for effect.Max only laughed and patted Tyson's shoulder. "Don't worry, buddy. She's only kidding. But….since your offering, ….can you buy me a sandwich??"
Everybody grinned.
Tyson brightened up again. "Okay! Just wait here! By the way, Rei, do you want anything?" Rei shook his head. "No, I'm not hungry."
"You are not hungry? WOW! How's that possible?? Everybody needs food!"
Kevin laughed, pointing to the bewildered Tyson. "He's not like you, Tyson!" Rei chuckled, feeling almost comfortable with them all. "It's ok. Thanks for worrying, though! I really don't need anything…" Rin slapped her forehead suddenly. "Oh my god, Mariah! I forget to clean up the teacher's office! Now Mrs. Lily is gonna kill us!"
Mariah blinked then sweatdropped at the 'US' part. "But Rin! I still want to stay here!" Rin sighed, but smirked knowingly. "And face Mrs. Lily's ugly wrath?" Mariah gulped, "O-okay, I'll go with you. See you later, Rei!". She winked, following Rin. Tyson shook his head. "Don't worry, Rei. Mariah is always like that. She gets all girly near the newbies...." He giggled as he saw Rei's confused _expression. "Okay Maxie! I off to buy lunch now!"
Max waved cheerfully. "Be back soon, ne?" He then turned to Kenny and Kevin. "Did you guys want to go to the library? I heard something about research.."
Kenny nodded. "I was about to go after I met Rei. Kevin, you can't escape! You're coming with me!!" The insane laughter following made Kevin whine. "Eh? I don't want to go to the library! It's boring!"Kenny shook his head. "Too bad, Kevin. Your mother said that I gotta watch out for you in school. And we all know how lazy you are with work, ya know….." They all watched as Kenny grabbed the stuttering Kevin and dragged the poor boy away.
Rei blinked. "Errr is Kevin afraid of his mother or something?"
Max only grinned. "Sometimes. But I agree with Kenny. Kevin is a bit lazy. He was scolded by Mrs. Lily yesterday for not doing his homework…" Rei nodded and looked around. The classroom was almost empty now. The only people left were just him, Max, and that…Kai….?
Kai leaned against the wall, his eyes shut and face expressionless. He almost looked like he was meditating standing up. His uniform was not in a mess anymore like before. Max somehow understood what Rei was wondering and called out to the blue-haired boy. "Oi, Kai! Why don't you come here and talk with us?" Rei almost jumped in shock.
Kai growled. "What do you want?" He opened his red crimson eyes, giving Max a cold glare. Max only smiled back at him. "If you haven't guessed yet by Mr. Personality here, Rei, Kai's grandfather is the leader of the Yakuza! We got ourselves a celebrity, ne?"
"Yakuza? Gangster?" Rei's eyes widened in surprise. 'D-do you mean that mafia group?"
Max nodded, "Yup. Something like that."
Kai lifted his face to meet Rei's golden eyes. "So what? What's it to you? What's your problem anyway?"Max sighed. "Typical, huh…." He turned to Rei, "Don't worry, Rei. Kai is one of us. We entered this school together and got sorta close."
" 'Got sorta close' ?" hissed Kai suddenly, startling Rei again. "I am not one of you and your stupid 'group'."
Rei raised his eyebrow, finally deciding….Kai was NOT a friendly guy… It reminded him a little of….something.
Tala.
Rei nodded to himself. Kai was very much like his brother. Unsociable. Unfriendly. Cold. Emotionless. He sighed. Then he heard Tyson's loud voice from behind. "Here, I brought your stuff, MAXIE!" He grinned cheerfully. Max answered him with a hug, which made Tyson almost gasp and drop his food. "Thanks Tyson!"
Tyson grinned, feeling a little odd. "No problem!!"
Rei smiled at his newly found friends, but he lifted his gaze to Tyson's food and almost choked. "Tyson, how can you EAT that much???" He pointed at Tyson's lunch. Three sandwiches, three big cheese burgers, two milkshake, and one bento on the side. It looked as if Tyson had practically dragged half the whole cafeteria with him, he had so much food. Was Tyson REALLY gonna eat all that HIMSELF??!
Kai snorted, turning away. "No change, Tyson. Always the pig…."
"Pig? Me?" Tyson groused, patting his belly. "At least I can control my weight! I have no problem as long as I don't LOOK fat…."
Max only laughed and poked Tyson's head. "It's alright…They're only joking, Tyson! Now let's get a place to eat! Bye Rei, bye Kai!" Max grinned some more before dragging Tyson away. Rei blinked. Why had they left him alone….with him….Now they were the only ones in the classroom…. He glanced at Kai hesitantly. "Umm….."
"Yes?"
Rei gulped at the icy tone. "I just wanted to ask…..why did you stare at me when you were walking towards your seat?"
Kai paused, but then answered, "You wanted to really know? It's so stupid…" He seemed to be berating himself, not looking directly at the other boy.
Rei nodded with a small smile. "It's okay…. I want to know."
Damn. Now I gotta answer this, Kai thought almost angrily. But….Why did I want to answer anyway? I can just ignore him. But……he looked too familiar to me……where did I see him from before? He kept his eyes tightly shut and arms crossed. Rei held his breath, waiting.
Finally he answered, "I felt you the same as me….." He finally turned to the other boy. " Did we ever meet before?"
Rei shook his head, "No. I've never seen you before in my life. Believe me, I would have known…." A slight flush crossed his pale features. Kai cocked his head to the side, still listening. "I come from Tokyo…"
Someone suddenly entered the classroom, interrupting them.
"Rei."
Rei turned around and saw Tala. He smiled widely. "Tala! You're here! How was your class?"
Tala snorted. "Humph. Do you really want to know?"
Rei nodded, but he somehow felt disappointed. He also noticed Tala seemed upset,….in his own I-hate-everyone-and-that-lady-took-my-lollipop way. "Alright. First, when I got to the room, every girl in there giggled like they were PAID for doing it. Second, one minute after the bell rang, about fifty girls, no lie, rushed at me and practically BEGGED me to allow them to SHARE me!"
Rei flashed a smile at his brother. "Well….that's good. You're popular here too, I guess then."
Tala rolled his eyes. "I am not finished yet. After that, a guy named Lee came up to me and practically yelled that he was KING!"Rei frowned, "Oh……that's not so nice." Tala snorted, "I really want to kill Aunt Fuu for this…" Then Tala turned his face to Kai, "I see you've made friends here, Rei.."
Kai give a cold glare to Tala. "I am not his friend-I don't HAVE friends, kisama-"
"Oh, great…. Some fool bastard….. This adds to my great-ass day…."
Kai's eyes glowing dangerously. "Watch your words…." He warned.
Rei began to panic. Damnit! This isn't good. "Umm…brother? I think we should go.."
"Shut up.", growled Tala, "This idiot has now just pissed me off." Hearing that, Kai's anger increased. "Like I give a damn on WHAT you are…."
"What the HELL does that mean??!!" Tala face flushed an angry hue of red as he started to tremble with anger.
"STOP IT!" a voice from behind screamed just as Kai pushed off from the wall and started to step forward.. Tyson and Max were running towards them. Max shot a glare at Kai, "Kai! Please don't pick a fight in class!"
Kai snorted, his mask back in place. He sent a cool glare to Rei's brother.
Tala caught it.
"He started it first."
Tala smirked, letting out a whoosh of a sigh. "What a moron….. "
Rei sighed and tried to comfort Tala. "Tala, that's enough. It's not fair to fight on the first day. There's gotta be some kind of RULE against that, you know…." Tala turned away, "Hn. Fine. Only for you, Rei. Im going….. Rei blinked. "Where? To class?" Tala didn't even turn around as he answered casually, " No, just someplace….ALONE."
Kai smirked. "Ch." Max blinked. "He's just like you, Kai!!" Kai growled. "Nani?!" Max gulped, "Errr, nevermind!""Is that your brother, Rei?" Tyson grinned over at him. Rei nodded. Tyson smiled. "You know, he and Kai prolly DO have similar points of view."
"I heard that!"
Tyson gulped "Alright, sorry!"
Rei sighed wistfully. "I hope Tala's alright…"
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Meanwhile, outside, Tala sat down on a bennch, alone, too preoccupied with his thoughts. Thinking….about the the strange boy with markings on his face.
Well, he DID start it. And what were those two talking about….Him and Rei…. I don't like the looks of that….KAI. Tala dug into and found a crumpled piece of something.
A family photograph.
Of four people.
Four happy people.
His mother, father, Rei, and himself.
Everything was fine before. Like how it should be, things were great when they were all together. They all had everything they ever wanted. A Family. Everything was perfect. A lovely mother, strong father, and a sweet little brother. That's all Tala ever DREAMED of having. And he had gotten it. A long time ago, though. Many other children had envied him in the past. Everything he ever wanted, he GOT.
Happiness and Love.
A Family.
Tala was always cheerful and outgoing before. Everybody just wanted to be around him, he was full of so much life and energy….
Until that day.
The day that ruined everything….The act that destroyed them all…..
But what was even worse, and Tala even admitted it to himself, he lost his smile. He couldn't even imagine what "happy" was anymore….
At some point he had even wondered why God had taken them so cruelly! Why was he alive when his parents did everything that he didn't?! He didn't contribute to anything; why was he alive and not them??!!
He blamed God….And the people responsible for the murders.
He blamed himself…..for not being there when it mattered.
He could blame everything and anything. He wanted to, something to get his mind off their faces….His parents' faces as they stared dully into his eyes when he had entered that room, the stench of death and blood wafting in the air.
Happiness, love, even hope……Everything was gone….when they had been taken.……
Maybe HE was next! Somehow he hoped, but yet….
Rei
Rei was thee only thing close to happiness he had LEFT. He had vowed, for his brother's sake, to watch over him and protect him like he couldn't for his parents.
Rei was too small when it happened. He had been shocked, sure, but….he hadnt seen what his older brother had witnessed. As Rei was subdued into silence, Tala was drowning.
DROWNING.
He was drowning. To his own hell and back.
Back to his own darkness that waited for him in the night when his hope was sleeping. His light tarnished.
Blood haunted his waking moments, the stench of their blood was all that he could smell sometimes.
The hauntings were unberable.
I had lost everything, Tala whispered in his mind. I lost things I didn't even realize I HAD.
"Damn it…" Tala murmured to himself, bowing his head., "Give me back my happiness………"
He hadnt even noticed the lone tear that dripped down onto the photo.
Did people go all out to make wishes true? Who actually heard the silent pleas as millions of tortured souls cried out into the depths of darkness? Did anybody even care?
Where was the "magic" in the world?
Did everybody else give up too? Police, neighbors, teachers, priests, family…….
He dwelled some more on his dark thoughts.
The school bell rang. Time for class…….
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Tala solemnly trudged back inside the building and made his way to class, his head bent low again. He almost violently bumped into somebody.
"Teme… Watch where youre going!" Tala almost laughed as he knew it was HIS fault. He needed to act strong though. In his own mind, the tears were still flowing.
The person he bumped into only bent down and picked up his scattered books. "You don't seem too friendly….."
Tala lifted his face and smirked angrily. "And why SHOULD I be?"
The boy ignored that and smiled. "Oh! You must be new!" Tala raised his eyebrow then sighed in defeat. Shoving his hands in his pockets, he looked to the clock in the hallway. He was gonna be late…. Oh well….
"How do you know I'M new? There are millions of kids here…."
"Oh, that's easy. I'm a teacher! I know almost everybody here! PLUS, I THINK youre in my class after this period!"
Tala's jaw dropped.The other man smiled almost apologetically. "Oh! Im sorry, let me introduce myself! I am a math teacher here! My name's Boris. You don't have to call me anything else. No "Mr." Or whatever. Just "Boris"."
"Umm…..I'm Tala," the boy replied awkwardly.
Boris smiled again. "I will teach your class after Mrs. Eleanore. Mrs.Eleanore teaches literature."Tala nodded. "Well, you better hurry. The principal will ring the second bell in about three minutes. I know that Mrs. Eleanore won't appreciate you late….."
"Errr ….thanks…….Mr.-"
"Hey! I said to call me Boris!" The man smiled widely. "Don't make me feel OLD now, ok? I'm the youngest teacher here. Everybody just calls me Boris. I like it better that way."
"Ok….Boris." As Boris turned away, Tala ran. Ran to class, ran to his seat, and never once looked up from his desk. Boris….Boris….He seems….different. Not like a teacher at ALL!
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As the next class's bell rang, Rei turned to Max. "What subject now, Max? I still don't have the school schedule…can I borrow yours later?" Max nodded, "Of course. By the way, the next class is …..Ballroom Dancing." Rei's eyes widened, as he "eeped". "Ballroom dancing?!"
Tyson grinned over at him., "Pretty weird, huh? Your other school didn't have that?" Rei shook his head. "No. I….never realized that was a class…." He sweatdropped. "It seems sort of…." He wanted to say "degrading" but didn't want to offend anybody, either. He let the sentence hang.
"Well, it's quite easy. The teacher is Mrs. Judy. That's my mother. It's my favourite subject cause it's kinda fun. But sometimes if you're not lucky, you get paired up with another guy, or in a girl's case, anotherr GIRL. There's more male students here then there are female…. " Max smiled a little after that. "I even got paired with Tyson once….very ….weird…."
"What do you mean by that? You're just angry you had the woman part! HA!" Tyson held his head high for effect.
"It was still weird…."
Rei smiled. "Yeah, it sounds…. interesting……"
Max and Tyson nodded in agreement. They all stopped in front of a big entranceway to a large room. Many students from their class have gathered inside. After all the students had a seat, Mrs. Judy, a rather tall, extremely blonde (BETA: as in brightness of hair color, not ….attitude) woman, began to speak..
"Okay class, ready for another year?"
Some whistles and groans throughout the room.
"I'll pretend I didn't hear a lot of that…." She smiled cheerfully. Rei now saw where Max got his smile from.
"This time I will give each of you a piece of paper. The paper will have numbers on it. For example, if you got a paper which has a number 1 on it, you have to be with the other number 1. Just remember, in this class, there are more boys, so don't blame me if some of you males have your own gender to be paired up with. Sorry, but there is no other way…."
All the students nodded and began to take their own paper. Rei was handed his. He unfolded his and looked at his number written in blue ink. "16… I wonder who's got the other one…."
"Okay, you all got your numbers?"
The students nodded again. Mrs. Judy let out a cough. "Alright. The ones with number 1 please step forward." A second later, a boy with bright red hair and a girl with blue locks stepped forward shyly. Mrs. Judy called the numbers one-by-one. Tyson got paired up with a girl that looked slightly gothic; Max got paired with Rin, Mariah's friend.
Rei frowned. It seems that both Tyson and Max didn't felt very comfortable with their partners, but they smiled friendly to the girls in any case. They let fly a grin to each other, though.
Finally Mrs. Judy called, "Number 16?"
Rei got up and looked around for anybody else stepping forward.
His eyes widened.
So did Tyson's, Max's, Mariah's, Kenny's, Kevin's, Rin's, the teacher's….ok, just about EVERYBODY was shocked about the outcome. It was pretty obvious the pairing was….weird.
The one who stepped forward was……. Kai?
To Be Continued. (BETA: Waaaaaaaiiiiiii yokatta! Ureshiiiii da na! ^____^ Kore ga owatta!!!! YAYAYAYAYYAY!!!!)
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Auhor's Note : Yup. I'll end chapter two here ^-^ Evil ain't I ? *cackles like a badger….errr cackling* Oh, and do you know who my OC, Rin is? *glomps Rae* Hee hee ^-^ And don't worry, this is going to be Kai+Rei, Boris+Tala, and Tyson+Max! By the way, I need a song for the ballroom dancing. Can you tell me what song is suitable for the dance? Oh, and please e-mail me to send the song ^-^ Please! I really need it, sorry. ^-^ Want the next chapter? *evil grin* REVIEW! ( Yeah, yeah, Im evil….gotcha)
Next Chapter :
Chapter Three ~ The Ballroom Dance