This fic might come along a bit slower than intended . . . due to the fact
that I want to work on my Harry Potter fic a bit more now. Of course, if I
get some reviews for this, I'll write faster =p
"It's DINNER time!" announced Tyson, "Come on Chief, you've been working on our beyblades all afternoon, and it's time for a rest!"
Kenny had been working nonstop on their blades; they were now able to enter the tournament, which was to be held in Japan; the Volcano Championship. It was part of a new series of tournaments that were to be held all over the world.
The tournament, however, was in three days, so Kenny had been working nonstop to get ready by then.
In fact, no sooner had they made sure Kai was no longer possessed by Martha had he started working.
"Kenny, hello? You there?" Tyson asked, pretending to knock on Kenny's head.
"Yes! I'm here," Kenny said a bit angrily, "But right now I'm really busy. I don't have time to rest!"
"You have to rest SOME," Tyson said. "At least have dinner. C'mon, Chief, a ten minute break won't kill you!"
Kenny finally got up and walked over to the table where Max, Rei and even Kai were already sitting. "Fine, Tyson, but if we lose, you can blame yourself."
"Don't worry!" Max said, "We'll do fine! We're going to do our best!"
"Yeah!" agreed Rei, "And we can give it our all since we know that whole Martha episode is behind us."
"Amen," said Kai quietly. Rei heard however, and grinned at him. Kai flashed him a very small smile in return.
"Now, who wants PIZZA!" called out Tyson, and everyone (cept for Kai, of course) said, "ME!"
And so they ate their pizza.
~~~
Martha, on the other hand, was enjoying the fact she was back in her own body. Best of all, she realized, she could still leave her body and possess others, but now she could go back to her body too, so she wasn't stuck with just one person anymore.
"I can't wait to see the look on that brats face . . . " she said to herself, and then she passed by a small clothing shop. "Oh no! I sense a dilemma!"
She went into the store and there was a lady tying on dresses. "Darn it," The lady grumped to herself, "None of this looks good on me."
"If I could give a suggestion?" Martha called out to the lady, thinking, 'It's great to be me again.'
~~~
The next day, the BladeBreakers boarded the plane, and took off for Japan.
The plane was relativity less crowded than usual. There were two seats on either side of the aisle; Rei and Kai sat on one side, Tyson and Max sat on the other, and Kenny sat behind them, typing furiously on his laptop.
"So how does this whole new tournament work out anyway?" Max asked as the plane took off, "I don't get it."
"It's really simple," Tyson said, "First you go to the tournaments, and then you win, and then you're happy."
"I guess, yeah!" agreed Max, looking happy.
"Really, though," Tyson added, "I'd have Kenny explain it to us, but he's busy. Rei?"
"Oh, it is quite simple. See, there's five tournaments set up. One in Japan, one in America, one in Egypt, one in Britain, and one in Brazil. The tournaments are held every five months, and rotate, so that that there is always a tournament to participate in."
"That makes sense," Tyson said.
"Oh, and I almost forgot!" added Rei, "Every time you win on of the tournaments, you get a medal. If you get all five medals, you can go to the biggest tournament, which . . . . well, I know nothing about it. No one's gotten there yet, but a few teams I heard are close to getting there. When they have seven teams, they'll start it."
"Alright!" Tyson said happily, "That's our goal then!"
"Yeah!" Max agreed.
Tyson dug around in his pocket, and pulled out a small package. "To celebrate, let's have some peanuts. Now, how do these things work?? Oh, just kidding!" He said, and grinned.
Max and Rei couldn't help but to laugh, but Kai just 'hmphed.'
"Oh, come on," Rei said to Kai, "Can't you laugh just a bit?"
Tyson grinned, "Don't worry; one of these days Kai will start acting human. Personally, I prefer him to act like this than when he was running around in a dress. You know what I mean?"
"Yeah, I guess," Rei said.
About then, the in flight movie came on, and everyone quieted down to watch a horribly pathetic rendition of some horribly pathetic movie. The only good thing about it was that it gave Rei an excuse to lean over towards Kai (under the pretense of being able to see the screen better. Of course, leaning over towards Kai caused him to barely be able to see the screen, but hey).
Of course, next thing the bladebreakers knew, the lights all went out. Trying to sit up right, Rei ended up falling over into Kai's lap. "eh heh, gomen," he muttered in Japanese, his embarrassment causing him to use the second language. "Sorry."
Kai's reply was extremely quiet, but Rei could just make out a, "don't worry about it."
However, he could have just been imagining things . . .
"What's going on?" Kenny said, looking around, "What's happening?"
A voice called out through the PA, "Sorry for the power out. The plane is still fine, but a circuit has been blown. Electricity is expected to return within the next fi-" The voice cut off suddenly, and there was an obvious struggle between two people to talk into it.
Everyone looked around worriedly. Rei finally decided to sit up straight, and stood up, blushing in the dark.
"What's wrong?" Tyson asked, looking around. In the darkness, he bumped into Max. "Oops, sorry, didn't see you . . . do you know what's up?"
Max was about to reply, but then a voice came over the PA. And suddenly, what little color Rei and Kai had on their faces drained out, leaving them both VERY pale.
"Well, well, my friends."
It was dead silent.
Martha Stewart was talking to them.
"Oh, I know you all are probably horrified by the state of this plane - yes, blue and green can go together, but not like this. Do not worry; I'll straighten this plane out later. But first, down to business." Martha's voice came over the PA and everyone's eyes got wide. Tyson started whimpering a little.
"I thought we were rid of her," Rei said, "Damnit, my exorcism must not have worked."
"No kidding," replied Kai.
"You know who you are. I have business to settle with you. Watch out at the tournament, not that it'll help you much." Martha laughed, and then added, "And, by the way, yellow, white and blue together is SO passé. Try red. Have a nice flight, and fasten your seatbelts; we will be landing in five minutes.
Rei's eyes were wide open as he sat down and buckled up. The lights flickered back on, and there was a massive outbreak of talking, "Did you hear that?" "Poor guy, whoever it is." "I though Martha was dead. . ."
Rei and Kai said nothing at all, but when the plane landed and they got up to get off, Kai said, "Watch out, ok Rei? She's determined to get you, but you're better than her. I'm sure you'll be fine."
Rei blinked, and then nodded. "C'mon, let's go get signed in."
They walked out of the airplane terminal and hailed a taxi to bring them to their hotel room.
Once at the hotel, Kenny said, "The rooms here are small, so Mr. Dickinson booked us each our own room. All five of them will be right next to each other," Kenny added.
So they went up to the front desk, and asked for keys to rooms 234, 235, 236, 237, and 238. The front desk clerk turned around and grabbed some keys.
"Alright," he said in a bored voice. Room 234?"
Max grabbed a key.
"Room 235?"
Tyson grabbed the key.
"Room 236?"
Kenny took his key.
"Room 237?"
Rei took the key.
"Room 238?"
Kai blinked at the man. "May I have my key, please?"
"Oh, terribly sorry," replied the man, clearly not sorry at all, "There's been a flood in that room. I'm afraid we don't have any open rooms for you."
Kai blinked again.
Rei piped up, "Hey Kai, you can stay in my room." He paused, "Well, that is, if you don't mind."
Kai glared at the man, and then at Rei, so Rei added, "Besides, wouldn't it be better if there is someone in the room with me in case Martha tries to attack?"
Not able to argue with logic like that, Kai nodded. "Ok." To himself, he added, 'I just want to protect him, that's all. It's not like I'm going to stare at him constantly or anything, I just want to protect him.'
He refused to listen to the little part of him that said he wanted to do both.
~~~
The rooms were indeed TINY. A small bed and toy-sized dresser were in each room, and the bathroom had a toilet, sink and shower shoved into a space no bigger than a small closet.
"Are you sure you'll be ok sharing a room with Kai, Rei?" Tyson asked Rei, "In a small space like that, you won't be able to get away from him if he's scary!"
"Don't worry Tyson, I'm sure I'll be fine." Rei said. After making sure that Max, Tyson and Kenny were able to get into their rooms, he and Kai went into their room. Between the two of them, they each had about a square foot of space to stand in.
"It's a bit small, I'll admit that," joked Rei. "But at least it's well lit."
Indeed, a small window took up a full wall of the room, lighting up the room nicely. Rei had to appreciate that; a small, dark room would have sucked.
"I hardly doubt there is enough room for our clothes in that dresser," Kai said, ignoring Rei's comment, "So you go ahead and use it. It's your room, after all."
Rei blinked. In a way that only Kai could, Kai had shown respect for him without being nice. "Thanks Kai," he said.
Kai nodded, and as Rei turned around to get his bag, he could tell Kai was smiling a little.
~~~
It was only thirty minutes later when they were all unpacked and ready. Kai rounded everyone up, so to speak; they were all there anyway, he just had to make sure that they were all there or risk feeling les important.
Then they made their way to the sign up desk at the tournament. Kai went up to the desk and the others went to wait by an ice cream stand. A blonde lady was sitting there, smiling happily.
"Hello, I take it you'd like to sign up for the tournament?" she asked. Kai nodded. "Ok, team name?"
"Bladebreakers," Kai said.
The lady nodded and wrote that down, and then got their individual names as well. After making sure that all the papers were in order, Kai turned and left, to find the rest of his team.
They were now all sitting on a nearby bench licking ice cream cones. Tyson and Max both had chocolate cones, and chocolate ice cream was all over Tyson's face. Kenny had just plain vanilla and Rei had mint chocolate chip.
"Hey Kai, we got you some ice cream too. Here." Rei handed Kai the other mint chocolate chip cone he was holding.
"Thanks," muttered Kai, taking the cone, and taking a lick of it. "How'd you know I liked mint chocolate chip?"
"Lucky guess," Tyson supplied the answer, "Rei's favorite is mint chocolate chip so we figured what the heck and got two! I'm glad it worked out."
Resisting the urge to say, 'yeah, sure, whatever,' Kai forced a tiny smile and licked the ice cream treat again.
"So what time does the tournament start tomorrow?" Tyson asked, getting even more chocolate on his face.
"Ten am, so you'd better wake up in time," Kai said, "And get a napkin; your face is full of chocolate." He went and sat on the bench next to them, but facing away from them, and Tyson glared.
"I don't have that much chocolate on my face, do I guys?" Tyson asked. Max, Kenny and Rei all looked away, not wanting to saw anything.
Tyson scowled and began licking the ice cream off his face.
Rei decided to go talk to Kai, and as he was walking over he could hear Max saying, "Here, you missed a spot . . . I'll get it!" He smiled, and then walked up to Kai.
"Why are you so uptight, Kai? Tyson was only tying to be helpful."
Kai didn't say anything, so Rei sat down next to him and said nothing. There was silence for a long minute, neither of them saying anything. However, Rei noted, the silence wasn't an uncomfortable silence; it was just a phase of quietness.
Amazingly, Kai broke the silence, saying in his normal no-nonsense voice, "This is going to be just as hard as all of our other tournaments and I don't think Tyson realizes it. He has to get focused or we'll lose before we even begin."
"Don't worry about him, Kai," Rei said, pausing to lick a bit of his ice cream that was running down the cone. "He'll get it together; he always does. I think you're worrying too much! Come on, just have fun and eat ice cream for once!"
Kai said nothing, but grudgingly licked his ice cream cone, very slowly. Rei couldn't help but notice how cute he looked doing that, but he said nothing.
And so they ate their ice cream in silence.
That is, until the shouting started.
"Max! What are you doing?"
"You had ice cream on the bottom of your lip Tyson, so I was gonna lick it off for you and you moved your mouth down and I ended up licking inside your mouth! I didn't mean to!"
"Guys, people are starting to stare!" said Kenny.
Kai and Rei exchanged glanced before walking over, slowly.
"So typical," sighed Kai.
~~~
The rest of the afternoon was relatively quiet and peaceful as they spent the afternoon practicing (Kai's suggestion, of course, and Rei helped convince Max and Tyson) and tuning up their blades for tomorrow.
Now it was dinner time and the five of them were crowded into the back of a super-packed hotel dinning room.
"Well, they weren't kidding when they said they couldn't give you a room, Kai," Max said, "It's a good thing that Rei offered to share, isn't it?"
"Yes, now shut up and eat," Kai grumbled. He was pissed, because just the way Max said that made him want to blush like a freaking school girl with a crush.
Not that he ha- 'Argh,' he thought to himself, 'Denial isn't WORKING anymore!!!!'
And he proceeded to have a very heated argument. With himself. Of course, the scary part was that, even though he was yelling at himself, to the casual observant, he looked like he was bored.
'You like him so much it isn't FUNNY!'
/But if I like him why do I deny it?/
'Love is like that!'
/Whoa, wait, love? Just a minute ago, you were saying I like him/
'Listen, I'm you. I know best. Deal.'
/I hate me./
'That's the spirit.'
"Kai? Kai?" Rei's voice knocked him out of his argument with himself, and Kai turned to glance at Rei.
"Yeah?"
"Who's going to be in the starting line up tomorrow?"
"You, Max, Tyson," Kai said immediately.
"Are you going to blade at all?" Rei asked. Kai shrugged, and went back to his mind conversation.
~~~
That night, Kai walked up the stairs slowly to the room he and Rei shared. Rei had gone up faster, so Kai hoped that he would be done changing into his night clothes, not that it really mattered. Of course.
He walked into the room just as Rei finished putting on his t-shirt. Rei didn't even bother turning around as he acknowledged, "Kai."
"Yeah, I'm going to get changed into the bathroom." He grabbed a t-shirt and a pair of boxers out of his suitcase and walked into the bathroom. A little voice in his head was saying, 'One minute earlier and just think of what you would have gotten to see!'
Kai squashed the voice in his head; it was more annoying than Martha's voice, but he had a feeling it had been born in her wake; he'd never noticed it before.
"Why am I even changing into a t-shirt?" Kai grumbled to himself, "I don't ever bother with that."
'Ahh, but tonight you want to have Rei think you're normal when you two share that incredibly . . . small . . . bed tonight,' said that small voice in his head, and Kai grumbled all the more.
"Gonna be done anytime soon?" Rei called from the other room, "I need to brush my teeth."
Kai opened the door and let Rei come in. They stood side by side, brushing their teeth. Kai stole a glance of Rei in the mirror, and realized the two of them weren't that different in height from each other. When Rei glanced at him he instantly bent over and got a drink of water.
"We'd better get a good rest; we have to wake up early tomorrow and we have to wake up Tyson, which will be a job beyond all others," Kai said, smirking.
Rei grinned a little, appreciating the fact that Kai was using his sense of humor (although to some, there didn't seem to be a difference. But there was.)
Finally, they both climbed into the small bed (Kai WOULD have slept on the floor, but with only about two feet of room, and Kai being over two feet tall, he would have been so uncomfortable it wasn't even worth trying to pretend he could sleep down there).
"Sorry I can't give you much space Kai," Rei said, trying to take up as little room as possible.
"No, I'm sorry I have to share this small bed with you," Kai sighed, meaning it differently than it came out. "I mean, I'm sorry that since I'm here you're forced to share this bed with me. I can always sleep on the floor," he added (pride be damned).
"Nah, I couldn't let even my worst enemy sleep on that floor," Rei muttered.
"Ok," Kai said, trying to take up as little room as possible. He could tell Rei was doing the same from the constant shifting noises on the bed. "Hey Rei?" Kai finally said.
"Yeah?" Rei asked, obviously not very close to getting to sleep either.
"You can take as much room as you want, I don't care," Kai said, rather quickly, but still composed enough that Rei wouldn't hear the slight catch to his voice.
Rei relaxed a little, "Thanks, Kai. You can too. As long as we get sleep, I'm happy."
So they both gingerly moved around so that their backs were touching, but then they got enough leg and arm space to themselves that it all worked out.
"Good night, Rei."
"Good night Kai."
They both closed their eyes and within a few minutes, Kai was asleep. Rei opened his eyes again and then muttered quietly, "I know you'll protect me from Martha, Kai," he smiled, "And I'm glade, because there's no way I could handle that psycho woman by myself."
He then realized it was getting really really warm (And it wasn't just his imagination; it was just a warm night and the fact that he was sleeping next to such a hot guy (both figuratively, and literally) made him really warm) and so he absent tugged his shirt off before going back to sleep.
Only this time, his arms were curled around Kai's waist.
~~~
The next morning, the bright sun, and not the loud alarm clock, was what woke Kai. He blinked a few times to reorient himself, and only then did he notice that he was holding onto Rei almost like one would hold onto a teddy bear, hugging him to his chest. Rei was wrapped around him as well.
He had to smile happily as he realized how cute they must look to everyone else. Not that anyone else would be looking, he thought, smirking. He sighed after a moment, knowing that it would be best if he untangled himself from the black haired boy before he woke up.
So he did that, carefully, and went into the bathroom to change.
Rei waited until he was sure Kai was in the bathroom before opening his eyes, and smiling.
~~~
Okies, so that was just a tad shorter than my other chapters. No matter, more to come. Hey, if any of you have a beyblade team (whether real or OC's) that you'd like to be in the competition, go ahead and email them to me, or put them in a review. Just put names, bit beasts, stats, descriptions . . . whatever you feel is needed.
Ja ne!
"It's DINNER time!" announced Tyson, "Come on Chief, you've been working on our beyblades all afternoon, and it's time for a rest!"
Kenny had been working nonstop on their blades; they were now able to enter the tournament, which was to be held in Japan; the Volcano Championship. It was part of a new series of tournaments that were to be held all over the world.
The tournament, however, was in three days, so Kenny had been working nonstop to get ready by then.
In fact, no sooner had they made sure Kai was no longer possessed by Martha had he started working.
"Kenny, hello? You there?" Tyson asked, pretending to knock on Kenny's head.
"Yes! I'm here," Kenny said a bit angrily, "But right now I'm really busy. I don't have time to rest!"
"You have to rest SOME," Tyson said. "At least have dinner. C'mon, Chief, a ten minute break won't kill you!"
Kenny finally got up and walked over to the table where Max, Rei and even Kai were already sitting. "Fine, Tyson, but if we lose, you can blame yourself."
"Don't worry!" Max said, "We'll do fine! We're going to do our best!"
"Yeah!" agreed Rei, "And we can give it our all since we know that whole Martha episode is behind us."
"Amen," said Kai quietly. Rei heard however, and grinned at him. Kai flashed him a very small smile in return.
"Now, who wants PIZZA!" called out Tyson, and everyone (cept for Kai, of course) said, "ME!"
And so they ate their pizza.
~~~
Martha, on the other hand, was enjoying the fact she was back in her own body. Best of all, she realized, she could still leave her body and possess others, but now she could go back to her body too, so she wasn't stuck with just one person anymore.
"I can't wait to see the look on that brats face . . . " she said to herself, and then she passed by a small clothing shop. "Oh no! I sense a dilemma!"
She went into the store and there was a lady tying on dresses. "Darn it," The lady grumped to herself, "None of this looks good on me."
"If I could give a suggestion?" Martha called out to the lady, thinking, 'It's great to be me again.'
~~~
The next day, the BladeBreakers boarded the plane, and took off for Japan.
The plane was relativity less crowded than usual. There were two seats on either side of the aisle; Rei and Kai sat on one side, Tyson and Max sat on the other, and Kenny sat behind them, typing furiously on his laptop.
"So how does this whole new tournament work out anyway?" Max asked as the plane took off, "I don't get it."
"It's really simple," Tyson said, "First you go to the tournaments, and then you win, and then you're happy."
"I guess, yeah!" agreed Max, looking happy.
"Really, though," Tyson added, "I'd have Kenny explain it to us, but he's busy. Rei?"
"Oh, it is quite simple. See, there's five tournaments set up. One in Japan, one in America, one in Egypt, one in Britain, and one in Brazil. The tournaments are held every five months, and rotate, so that that there is always a tournament to participate in."
"That makes sense," Tyson said.
"Oh, and I almost forgot!" added Rei, "Every time you win on of the tournaments, you get a medal. If you get all five medals, you can go to the biggest tournament, which . . . . well, I know nothing about it. No one's gotten there yet, but a few teams I heard are close to getting there. When they have seven teams, they'll start it."
"Alright!" Tyson said happily, "That's our goal then!"
"Yeah!" Max agreed.
Tyson dug around in his pocket, and pulled out a small package. "To celebrate, let's have some peanuts. Now, how do these things work?? Oh, just kidding!" He said, and grinned.
Max and Rei couldn't help but to laugh, but Kai just 'hmphed.'
"Oh, come on," Rei said to Kai, "Can't you laugh just a bit?"
Tyson grinned, "Don't worry; one of these days Kai will start acting human. Personally, I prefer him to act like this than when he was running around in a dress. You know what I mean?"
"Yeah, I guess," Rei said.
About then, the in flight movie came on, and everyone quieted down to watch a horribly pathetic rendition of some horribly pathetic movie. The only good thing about it was that it gave Rei an excuse to lean over towards Kai (under the pretense of being able to see the screen better. Of course, leaning over towards Kai caused him to barely be able to see the screen, but hey).
Of course, next thing the bladebreakers knew, the lights all went out. Trying to sit up right, Rei ended up falling over into Kai's lap. "eh heh, gomen," he muttered in Japanese, his embarrassment causing him to use the second language. "Sorry."
Kai's reply was extremely quiet, but Rei could just make out a, "don't worry about it."
However, he could have just been imagining things . . .
"What's going on?" Kenny said, looking around, "What's happening?"
A voice called out through the PA, "Sorry for the power out. The plane is still fine, but a circuit has been blown. Electricity is expected to return within the next fi-" The voice cut off suddenly, and there was an obvious struggle between two people to talk into it.
Everyone looked around worriedly. Rei finally decided to sit up straight, and stood up, blushing in the dark.
"What's wrong?" Tyson asked, looking around. In the darkness, he bumped into Max. "Oops, sorry, didn't see you . . . do you know what's up?"
Max was about to reply, but then a voice came over the PA. And suddenly, what little color Rei and Kai had on their faces drained out, leaving them both VERY pale.
"Well, well, my friends."
It was dead silent.
Martha Stewart was talking to them.
"Oh, I know you all are probably horrified by the state of this plane - yes, blue and green can go together, but not like this. Do not worry; I'll straighten this plane out later. But first, down to business." Martha's voice came over the PA and everyone's eyes got wide. Tyson started whimpering a little.
"I thought we were rid of her," Rei said, "Damnit, my exorcism must not have worked."
"No kidding," replied Kai.
"You know who you are. I have business to settle with you. Watch out at the tournament, not that it'll help you much." Martha laughed, and then added, "And, by the way, yellow, white and blue together is SO passé. Try red. Have a nice flight, and fasten your seatbelts; we will be landing in five minutes.
Rei's eyes were wide open as he sat down and buckled up. The lights flickered back on, and there was a massive outbreak of talking, "Did you hear that?" "Poor guy, whoever it is." "I though Martha was dead. . ."
Rei and Kai said nothing at all, but when the plane landed and they got up to get off, Kai said, "Watch out, ok Rei? She's determined to get you, but you're better than her. I'm sure you'll be fine."
Rei blinked, and then nodded. "C'mon, let's go get signed in."
They walked out of the airplane terminal and hailed a taxi to bring them to their hotel room.
Once at the hotel, Kenny said, "The rooms here are small, so Mr. Dickinson booked us each our own room. All five of them will be right next to each other," Kenny added.
So they went up to the front desk, and asked for keys to rooms 234, 235, 236, 237, and 238. The front desk clerk turned around and grabbed some keys.
"Alright," he said in a bored voice. Room 234?"
Max grabbed a key.
"Room 235?"
Tyson grabbed the key.
"Room 236?"
Kenny took his key.
"Room 237?"
Rei took the key.
"Room 238?"
Kai blinked at the man. "May I have my key, please?"
"Oh, terribly sorry," replied the man, clearly not sorry at all, "There's been a flood in that room. I'm afraid we don't have any open rooms for you."
Kai blinked again.
Rei piped up, "Hey Kai, you can stay in my room." He paused, "Well, that is, if you don't mind."
Kai glared at the man, and then at Rei, so Rei added, "Besides, wouldn't it be better if there is someone in the room with me in case Martha tries to attack?"
Not able to argue with logic like that, Kai nodded. "Ok." To himself, he added, 'I just want to protect him, that's all. It's not like I'm going to stare at him constantly or anything, I just want to protect him.'
He refused to listen to the little part of him that said he wanted to do both.
~~~
The rooms were indeed TINY. A small bed and toy-sized dresser were in each room, and the bathroom had a toilet, sink and shower shoved into a space no bigger than a small closet.
"Are you sure you'll be ok sharing a room with Kai, Rei?" Tyson asked Rei, "In a small space like that, you won't be able to get away from him if he's scary!"
"Don't worry Tyson, I'm sure I'll be fine." Rei said. After making sure that Max, Tyson and Kenny were able to get into their rooms, he and Kai went into their room. Between the two of them, they each had about a square foot of space to stand in.
"It's a bit small, I'll admit that," joked Rei. "But at least it's well lit."
Indeed, a small window took up a full wall of the room, lighting up the room nicely. Rei had to appreciate that; a small, dark room would have sucked.
"I hardly doubt there is enough room for our clothes in that dresser," Kai said, ignoring Rei's comment, "So you go ahead and use it. It's your room, after all."
Rei blinked. In a way that only Kai could, Kai had shown respect for him without being nice. "Thanks Kai," he said.
Kai nodded, and as Rei turned around to get his bag, he could tell Kai was smiling a little.
~~~
It was only thirty minutes later when they were all unpacked and ready. Kai rounded everyone up, so to speak; they were all there anyway, he just had to make sure that they were all there or risk feeling les important.
Then they made their way to the sign up desk at the tournament. Kai went up to the desk and the others went to wait by an ice cream stand. A blonde lady was sitting there, smiling happily.
"Hello, I take it you'd like to sign up for the tournament?" she asked. Kai nodded. "Ok, team name?"
"Bladebreakers," Kai said.
The lady nodded and wrote that down, and then got their individual names as well. After making sure that all the papers were in order, Kai turned and left, to find the rest of his team.
They were now all sitting on a nearby bench licking ice cream cones. Tyson and Max both had chocolate cones, and chocolate ice cream was all over Tyson's face. Kenny had just plain vanilla and Rei had mint chocolate chip.
"Hey Kai, we got you some ice cream too. Here." Rei handed Kai the other mint chocolate chip cone he was holding.
"Thanks," muttered Kai, taking the cone, and taking a lick of it. "How'd you know I liked mint chocolate chip?"
"Lucky guess," Tyson supplied the answer, "Rei's favorite is mint chocolate chip so we figured what the heck and got two! I'm glad it worked out."
Resisting the urge to say, 'yeah, sure, whatever,' Kai forced a tiny smile and licked the ice cream treat again.
"So what time does the tournament start tomorrow?" Tyson asked, getting even more chocolate on his face.
"Ten am, so you'd better wake up in time," Kai said, "And get a napkin; your face is full of chocolate." He went and sat on the bench next to them, but facing away from them, and Tyson glared.
"I don't have that much chocolate on my face, do I guys?" Tyson asked. Max, Kenny and Rei all looked away, not wanting to saw anything.
Tyson scowled and began licking the ice cream off his face.
Rei decided to go talk to Kai, and as he was walking over he could hear Max saying, "Here, you missed a spot . . . I'll get it!" He smiled, and then walked up to Kai.
"Why are you so uptight, Kai? Tyson was only tying to be helpful."
Kai didn't say anything, so Rei sat down next to him and said nothing. There was silence for a long minute, neither of them saying anything. However, Rei noted, the silence wasn't an uncomfortable silence; it was just a phase of quietness.
Amazingly, Kai broke the silence, saying in his normal no-nonsense voice, "This is going to be just as hard as all of our other tournaments and I don't think Tyson realizes it. He has to get focused or we'll lose before we even begin."
"Don't worry about him, Kai," Rei said, pausing to lick a bit of his ice cream that was running down the cone. "He'll get it together; he always does. I think you're worrying too much! Come on, just have fun and eat ice cream for once!"
Kai said nothing, but grudgingly licked his ice cream cone, very slowly. Rei couldn't help but notice how cute he looked doing that, but he said nothing.
And so they ate their ice cream in silence.
That is, until the shouting started.
"Max! What are you doing?"
"You had ice cream on the bottom of your lip Tyson, so I was gonna lick it off for you and you moved your mouth down and I ended up licking inside your mouth! I didn't mean to!"
"Guys, people are starting to stare!" said Kenny.
Kai and Rei exchanged glanced before walking over, slowly.
"So typical," sighed Kai.
~~~
The rest of the afternoon was relatively quiet and peaceful as they spent the afternoon practicing (Kai's suggestion, of course, and Rei helped convince Max and Tyson) and tuning up their blades for tomorrow.
Now it was dinner time and the five of them were crowded into the back of a super-packed hotel dinning room.
"Well, they weren't kidding when they said they couldn't give you a room, Kai," Max said, "It's a good thing that Rei offered to share, isn't it?"
"Yes, now shut up and eat," Kai grumbled. He was pissed, because just the way Max said that made him want to blush like a freaking school girl with a crush.
Not that he ha- 'Argh,' he thought to himself, 'Denial isn't WORKING anymore!!!!'
And he proceeded to have a very heated argument. With himself. Of course, the scary part was that, even though he was yelling at himself, to the casual observant, he looked like he was bored.
'You like him so much it isn't FUNNY!'
/But if I like him why do I deny it?/
'Love is like that!'
/Whoa, wait, love? Just a minute ago, you were saying I like him/
'Listen, I'm you. I know best. Deal.'
/I hate me./
'That's the spirit.'
"Kai? Kai?" Rei's voice knocked him out of his argument with himself, and Kai turned to glance at Rei.
"Yeah?"
"Who's going to be in the starting line up tomorrow?"
"You, Max, Tyson," Kai said immediately.
"Are you going to blade at all?" Rei asked. Kai shrugged, and went back to his mind conversation.
~~~
That night, Kai walked up the stairs slowly to the room he and Rei shared. Rei had gone up faster, so Kai hoped that he would be done changing into his night clothes, not that it really mattered. Of course.
He walked into the room just as Rei finished putting on his t-shirt. Rei didn't even bother turning around as he acknowledged, "Kai."
"Yeah, I'm going to get changed into the bathroom." He grabbed a t-shirt and a pair of boxers out of his suitcase and walked into the bathroom. A little voice in his head was saying, 'One minute earlier and just think of what you would have gotten to see!'
Kai squashed the voice in his head; it was more annoying than Martha's voice, but he had a feeling it had been born in her wake; he'd never noticed it before.
"Why am I even changing into a t-shirt?" Kai grumbled to himself, "I don't ever bother with that."
'Ahh, but tonight you want to have Rei think you're normal when you two share that incredibly . . . small . . . bed tonight,' said that small voice in his head, and Kai grumbled all the more.
"Gonna be done anytime soon?" Rei called from the other room, "I need to brush my teeth."
Kai opened the door and let Rei come in. They stood side by side, brushing their teeth. Kai stole a glance of Rei in the mirror, and realized the two of them weren't that different in height from each other. When Rei glanced at him he instantly bent over and got a drink of water.
"We'd better get a good rest; we have to wake up early tomorrow and we have to wake up Tyson, which will be a job beyond all others," Kai said, smirking.
Rei grinned a little, appreciating the fact that Kai was using his sense of humor (although to some, there didn't seem to be a difference. But there was.)
Finally, they both climbed into the small bed (Kai WOULD have slept on the floor, but with only about two feet of room, and Kai being over two feet tall, he would have been so uncomfortable it wasn't even worth trying to pretend he could sleep down there).
"Sorry I can't give you much space Kai," Rei said, trying to take up as little room as possible.
"No, I'm sorry I have to share this small bed with you," Kai sighed, meaning it differently than it came out. "I mean, I'm sorry that since I'm here you're forced to share this bed with me. I can always sleep on the floor," he added (pride be damned).
"Nah, I couldn't let even my worst enemy sleep on that floor," Rei muttered.
"Ok," Kai said, trying to take up as little room as possible. He could tell Rei was doing the same from the constant shifting noises on the bed. "Hey Rei?" Kai finally said.
"Yeah?" Rei asked, obviously not very close to getting to sleep either.
"You can take as much room as you want, I don't care," Kai said, rather quickly, but still composed enough that Rei wouldn't hear the slight catch to his voice.
Rei relaxed a little, "Thanks, Kai. You can too. As long as we get sleep, I'm happy."
So they both gingerly moved around so that their backs were touching, but then they got enough leg and arm space to themselves that it all worked out.
"Good night, Rei."
"Good night Kai."
They both closed their eyes and within a few minutes, Kai was asleep. Rei opened his eyes again and then muttered quietly, "I know you'll protect me from Martha, Kai," he smiled, "And I'm glade, because there's no way I could handle that psycho woman by myself."
He then realized it was getting really really warm (And it wasn't just his imagination; it was just a warm night and the fact that he was sleeping next to such a hot guy (both figuratively, and literally) made him really warm) and so he absent tugged his shirt off before going back to sleep.
Only this time, his arms were curled around Kai's waist.
~~~
The next morning, the bright sun, and not the loud alarm clock, was what woke Kai. He blinked a few times to reorient himself, and only then did he notice that he was holding onto Rei almost like one would hold onto a teddy bear, hugging him to his chest. Rei was wrapped around him as well.
He had to smile happily as he realized how cute they must look to everyone else. Not that anyone else would be looking, he thought, smirking. He sighed after a moment, knowing that it would be best if he untangled himself from the black haired boy before he woke up.
So he did that, carefully, and went into the bathroom to change.
Rei waited until he was sure Kai was in the bathroom before opening his eyes, and smiling.
~~~
Okies, so that was just a tad shorter than my other chapters. No matter, more to come. Hey, if any of you have a beyblade team (whether real or OC's) that you'd like to be in the competition, go ahead and email them to me, or put them in a review. Just put names, bit beasts, stats, descriptions . . . whatever you feel is needed.
Ja ne!