AUTHOR'S NOTES: Due to insistent public demands, I decided to resume this supposedly one-shot fic only. Anyway, this chapter will be long, since this contains thoughts from our two main characters. Anyway, just set back and read, for the sake of fandom!

NOTES FOR READING:

Normal text – Kai's POV

Italic text – Tala's POV

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Beyblade, but I OWN THE TOY! (Talk about clichés!)

JUST LIKE ME

PART TWO: RUNNING THOUGHTS

I opened my eyes. It's all blurry and white. I wondered where I am. Am I in heaven? No, of course not. I am bad so why will I go there? Sunlight streamed through the glass windows of the room I am thriving into. It blinded me, so I turned away. A few minutes later, I already grew accustomed to waking up. I soon found myself in a private room… a hospital room, possibly.

Why am I here? I asked myself. As far as my memory is concerned, I was being showered by endless rain, and I felt piercing and slashing pain on my wrist. But what happened?  That I don't know. Everything seemed to have blurred into dimness and oblivion.

But wait, I heard a voice telling me to stand up and to end my insanity and foolishness.

"IDIOT"

It's a voice, commanding and cold-hearted. I wanted to see and search for him, but then peace encompassed me.

And the next moment I knew is that I am already in here, in this silent and seemingly dull room. I looked at my wrist, which is now perfectly treated and bandaged. The tubes penetrated my body just like my veins… I trained my eyes around; no one's there.

I WILL ESCAPE

I removed my head bandage and my hospital gown and then put on my outfit. I forcefully pulled the tubules away from my body, which caused my wrists to bleed profusely. I don't mind it all, because all I want to be is to be free, to be free from everything.

Out of the "cage"… out of that abbey.

But as I looked back to the chest of drawers standing tall beside my bed, I saw something.

Maybe it's his…

-O-O-O-O-O-

I don't want to eat anything. I am being bothered yet again by that horrible scene.

All the blood and all the tears spilled by that guy. I can't believe that he can be that violent despite that peaceful and serene aura.

His choked sobs were still ringing in my ears. It's haunting, as if I've been hearing those things before…

It's that certain voice, as if I've heard that voice before… but with a different scenario and situation.

"HEY KAI!" Max cheered up beside me but I just shun him away. Tch, these idiots. I hate them. Why can't they just leave me alone?

I have to get out of this inferno, with all these INSANE DEVILS and stuff. Maybe I should visit him right now.  I have been wondering how is he after I left him there.

Well, it's getting dark. I have to go out, and fast.

"Kai, where are you going?" Max interrogated but I ignored… all of them as I shut the door of our hotel room.

"Hey, you noticed something different about Kai?" I heard Ray ask the others. I decided to listen for a while.

"Uhm… n-no?" That silly Tyson replied with a choking mouth.

"There's something creepy about him." I heard Ray end it all so I just walked away.

-O-O-O-O-O-

I didn't resume my plan of escaping for the reason that someone rushed in into my room. Heck, it's an old nurse, and she noticed my tendency to escape. So she just rearranged everything and warned me not to do so. Of course I had no choice but to comply. Heck, I hate being treated like a child; I am old enough… But now, I am left alone and I am here again. I gathered my strength to pull myself together to resume my getaway. I am already at the front of the wooden door and was about to twist the knob when it opened all by itself.

And there I was surprised over the one who visited.

That guy with the bluish hair and the attitude.

-O-O-O-O-O-

Well, what do you know? He's standing by the door, as if planning to escape. I knew he would do that in the first place. He just stood there, wide-eyed and surprised, probably over my visit. He voiced out,

"Who are you?"

Bah, he doesn't remember me?

"Someone whom you shouldn't mess around with…" I stated in my usual aloof air and made my way to the inside.

"Hey! I didn't allow you to enter here! I don't even know you!"

"Tch." I just shun him away and settled down on the chair at the far side of the room.

-O-O-O-O-O-

Damn this guy. He doesn't even listen to me. I hate him for being too aloof and self-centered.

But no matter what about that, he still had the heart to help me out.

"What do you want?" I shouted with all my might in an attempt to shun him away.

"Nothing much," I heard him reply in his usual cold tone.

"But, you remember me, don't you?" He asked me, and I am surprised that he became that inquisitive. Well, if I'll ask myself, I knew him… but not well. I should say, he's a freaking bastard, a lousy, power-thirsty bastard of the Bladebreakers. He's also the most serious guy among that pack of clowns and jesters.

"Yeah, I know you… but I really don't give a damn about you, so don't give a damn about me!"  I just replied in a rather irritated way. I know, I had been rude, but what else can I do about that? I don't want him to be barging in my personal life. I got my own, so he should get his.

He just shook his head from side to side in that dark corner.

-O-O-O-O-O-

He didn't remember me? WHAT A JERK HE IS! After all that I had done GOOD to him he'll insist that he doesn't remember me. Anyway I looked back at him, and he's still staring back, dumbfounded.

Well, as I should say, he just looked like the way I saw him first, about seven years ago if my memory serves me right.

"You haven't changed a bit." I shook my head upon remembering as I tried to give a hint about me, and about the past...

"What?" he squinted and tried to be calm, yet I can see in his face that he was shocked.

"W-what do you mean?"

"You don't know something? Don't you remember?" I asked him back in an annoyed tone. He just stood still.

Hah, he's a TOTAL jerk, that's what I can say.

-O-O-O-O-O-

My heart pounded over my chest. I felt something upon him saying that. I tried to be calm and contained but I can't deny that somehow he made me feel uneasy.

There's just something that's hurrying up in my mind.

I saw him nod. "Tch, you don't know any better," I heard him mutter. My blood started to boil in my veins. I hate it when someone tells me that I am inferior. I'll show that bastard.

He just turned away. I didn't know what force is acting on me but I felt like I am being pulled to his direction and some hand was guiding my hand to his wrist that was about to reach out to the door.

I stopped as he looked at my direction, looking rather aggravated.

But… I am desperate to know something

About my past

About the boy that I have been… way before I became the Tala you all see and know right here, right now.

We spent few moments of still air and uninterrupted silence. I can hear the leaves flutter and the birds chirp merrily outside. (I hate merriment. It gives me the creeps) the breeze passed us by, blowing the purely white curtains of my room just like a feather.

The surroundings grew dimmer as the sun was being covered by the skies. And then, I looked at him, in a mixture of pleading and conviction, for the truth that he knows my past better than I do myself.

-O-O-O-O-O-

I simply closed my eyes, hiding it away from those convicting eyes of his. This is not the way things used to be. I remember his eyes imploring, asking for help and guidance. It's so lost and so hurt... No, this isn't the way things should be. I am hiding from the eyes of someone whom I have helped out not only now but way back before… before he became this powerful, much powerful than I do now.

But then his eyes changed. It sent me a message of help, this time, of greater urgency.

"Please…" He whimpered. I heard it once again. Now I can say that he's the way he used to before. I should say, I have no more choice but to help him out and tell him the whole truth, from the start to the end. I pity him now even more. I have to tell him, the whole past and even my own, just to uncover his.

I shook my head and muttered three words…

"You're damn hopeless…"

FOOTNOTE: *sigh* Part two done. Sorry if nothing happened in this part, since it only contained "thoughts", as the title implies. Reviews, please! Don't worry, part three up next!!!