Disclaimer: (see last chappie) Hiya everybody! I don't have much to say
except that Princess Meru should shut up! Just kidding, Melissa. You see,
when I went to Cape Cod for two weeks, my dad taped Cyborg 009 (even though
I've already seen all of them) and YuYu Hakusho (thinking that they were
going to continue it but I was sadly mistaken) so now I have nine hours of
anime on tape! YAY! You can bet I've watched it already. Hehehe. But it's
really quite amazing how too much Anime can really rot your brain!
*twitches* Not that it effected me or anything!
Oh yeah. Sorry if I go ooc. This is my first time so just bare with me.
Ok. Sorry to freak you out.
Again.
Here! ^-^
~*~
It was the middle of the night and everyone had gone to sleep. Kai shared a room with Rei while Max and Kenny shared Tyson's room. They were all out like a light. Or so it seemed.
Kai had been up all night trying to figure out why he was so mean to Key. He knew it had something to do with the glares at him from Max, Rei and Kenny and it had something to do with Tyson teasing him earlier. 'Why,' Kai thought. 'Why did I do that?' He remembered the words that she said. 'I don't need to waste my time with someone who won't even listen to me.' He winced. He did want to listen to her. He did want to get to know her. He did want her sympathy. But why did he pull away? 'Why! I'm such an idiot!' Kai thought to himself as he rose from his bed and sat upright. 'She was just trying to be nice and I shoved it back in her face.'
Kai got up and went to the bathroom to rinse his face with cold water. He turned the faucet off and looked into the mirror, his face still dripping wet. He looked out the window on his left only to see the snow that was blowing around everywhere like a dance. 'Snow?' he thought to himself. 'Why would it snow?' With the constant asking of the word 'why' in his head, Kai fell to his knees. 'I need to do something. If I don't, I'll never get over what I did.'
Kai gradually got himself up and ran to his and Rei's room. He grabbed his jacket off the wall and threw his sneakers on his feet without putting his socks on. He glanced over at the clock. It was 3:27 am. Before he knew it, he was out the door into the raging blizzard of white powder.
* * *
"What a storm," Key whispered to herself inside her small cabin home. It was made entirely of wood from the trees. All she had was her cot, a rocking chair, a pile of blankets and clothes folded neatly inside her dresser, and a fire place. It wasn't much at all, but it was home.
Key had wrapped herself in a blanket and was sitting on the wooden floor in front of the fire place with every bit of warm clothing she owned. "I hope the restaurant's ok."
Almost a second after she spoke, she heard a body collapse outside of her cabin. She immediately got herself up leaving the blanket on the floor and putting her socks and moccasins onto her feet to keep warm. She ran up and struggled to open the door because of the raging wind pulling against her. As soon as the heavy wooden door was opened she put her arm up to her face anime style to try and stop the snow from damaging her sight and becoming snow blind. Key managed to look out into the distance before her fingers caught frost bite.
She saw a lump of something in the snow about ten feet away from her porch but it was almost impossible to tell what it was with the fierce white powder surrounding it. She couldn't tell if it was an animal or just a boulder. She slowly moved toward the heap in the snow with all the strength she had inside of her. The wind was blowing madly against her. She finally got to the heap and knelt down to find it was a human body.
'Oh my god!' Key thought to herself. 'Wait a minute, I know him.' Key pulled back and gasped as she began to recognize who the body was.
It was Kai.
* * *
As his eyes fluttered open, Kai felt an enormous pain coming from his head and eyes. Kind of like a huge migraine. He wanted to throw up. He looked around only to wonder where he was. He was in a cottage or a cabin of some sort. He was covered in blankets and sheets to keep warm and he realized his jacket and T-shirt had been taken off and hung on a clothes line directly in front of him. This just made it all the more confusing as to where he was. He tried to get up but winced in pain as he looked as his stomach. It was covered in a large bandage wrapped around tightly. "Dammit!" he whispered. Suddenly, a voice spoke up on his right that made is eyes widen and his heart quicken as he heard it speak softly.
"You don't want to be getting up any time soon," Key said sitting in the rocking chair which marked the half way point between her cot and the fire place. "You took a nasty fall outside of my cabin. You collapsed of exhaustion and then landed your stomach on a large rock. You should be lucky I found you lying in the snow." Key got up out of her chair and walked over next to Kai to put more fire wood into the cackling flame of the fire place. She then sat herself down about two feet from where Kai was sitting.
Kai began to speak again. "Did you bandage my stomach?"
"Yup!" Key replied. Kai began to blush like he never knew he could.
"You know," she began again as she looked into Kai's crimson eyes. "You could have killed yourself out there. What were you doing?"
Kai began to remember why he came. He wanted to apologize to her for being such a jerk. "I, um," he started to mutter as he stared back into Key's smooth lavender eyes. "I didn't mean to worry you. I just, wanted, to, um." 'Damn! This is harder than I thought! How am I supposed to say sorry? I can't just say, *I'm sorry*. Wait. Yes I can! But why won't it come out?' "I um, just wanted to say, I'm sorry for yelling at you earlier." Kai took a deep breath and felt like he was about to have a heart attack.
"Well," she began. "You're forgiven but why would you want to say sorry now? I'm mean, its ten degrees outside! Are you insane? It's nice of you to say sorry but that's not worth you getting killed over. Tyson speaks very highly of you and well, frankly, I think you are a very nice person deep down."
Kai felt like he was going to melt right then and there. The last thing he wanted to do was to cause her any pain or worries. "I'm sorry. I'd better go and not cause you any more trouble."
"Oh no you don't! You're not going out there! You'll kill yourself again! I won't let you. You're going to stay here and wait the storm out."
"But-"
"No buts! You're staying and that's final."
Kai really couldn't argue with this girl and he wasn't planning on doing so any time soon. Within minutes, both teenagers had fallen asleep.
* * *
Kai woke up the next morning feeling refreshed. His stomach still hurt but defenatly not as much as the night before. He looked up and saw that his clothes had dried during the night. He slowly arose out of the blankets and reached out to unhook his shirt.
After he had put his shirt and jacket on, he looked around and saw no sign of Key. It was almost like she was never there. He walked outside into the bright and sunny day. He looked down at the ground but quickly had to shield his eyes because of the white blinding light from the snow. As his eyes adjusted to the brightness, he breathed deep and enjoyed the peace and quiet that surrounded him. 'Wow,' He thought. 'It's so quiet. Key sure did pick a nice spot to build a cabin.'
Suddenly, an arrow came directly toward his head and was about an inch a way from stabbing him in the eye if he hadn't ducked to the left at the last second hitting his head hard on the long wooden porch. 'Great,' he thought. 'More injuries. Just what I need.' He began to shake as he tried to get up. He looked over his shoulder and saw a long wooden arrow lodged in the door. It was shaking slightly with the impact. It was about three feet in length and had a blue feather at one end. At the other end, which was half way in the door at this point, was a rock; chiseled down to look like an arrow head but much smoother and sharper at the tip. Then, out of the blue, Key's voice spoke up.
"You alright?" she said panting as she ran over to where Kai was. She was dressed in an ancient Japanese archer's uniform. She had her bow in one hand and her arrows inside her pouch on her back. Her hair was up in a high and tight bun. "I missed the target."
"Yeah," Kai began while tons of questions filled his head. "This is your arrow?"
"Yup. Made it myself. You like?" she replied as her breathing started to become normal again.
"You're an archer?"
"Yeah! I love archery! But the last thing I want to do is kill somebody like I almost did!"
"No, it's my fault. I should have looked," Kai said. It made him wonder. If Tyson or someone else almost killed him with an arrow he'd have to kill them with all the rage he had. But for some reason, when Key did it, he felt the need to blame himself. 'Damn emotions,' he thought.
"I got caught off guard," Key said as she pulled the arrow out with all her might until it finally came out with a large pop sound. "I saw you there and thought I was aiming for the target but I think I accidentally shifted weight at the last second causing it to almost kill you."
"What was your target?"
Key held up her index finger and pointed to an extremely small rock no bigger than a child's fist. "There."
Kai was stunned. "How far away were you?"
"Not that far actually, about forty-five meters."
Kai's eyes widened to the point that they couldn't get any larger. He was amazed at how well this girl could arch and see from such a far away target especially in the snow. 'Wow,' he thought.
"You know," she began as she picked up the rock in the snow. "I think that's twice you've almost died in the past twenty-four hours." She began to chuckle as Kai tried to form a smile. "Once for being stupid, and once because I couldn't take my eyes off you."
They both stood there stunned at what Key said. Her face became bright red as he also began to blush. "Um," Key began again trying to break the awkward silence. "I, um, you'd better go. I'm sure Tyson's worried about you."
"Truth is, I wander around a lot," Kai confessed. "I never really see Tyson unless it's for training."
"Or food," Key said rolling her eyes. They both began to laugh. Kai never thought he could feel this way with a girl. They just connected in a way that neither Kai nor Key had ever felt before. They both paused for a moment as they stared into each others eyes. They were about six feet away from each other but that didn't matter. Key began to form the same warm smile he had seen before. Kai melted right then and there. 'I can't feel this way! I want too, but I can't! For my reputation's sake!' He quickly turned away from Key and stopped looking at her smile.
He noticed the hole in which Key's arrow had punctured in the wooden door. He raised his arm and ran his hand over it. Suddenly, an idea struck in Kai's head. He didn't want to do this, but for his team's sake, he had too. He turned around and faced Key again. "Key?"
"Yeah?"
"Um, well, you see, my team hasn't been doing all that well lately."
"You mean your beyblading team?" she asked a little puzzled.
"Yeah. Well, anyway, your thrust on your bow and arrow must be phenomenal in order for it to get this far and still puncture a reasonable size hole."
"I'm flattered but what's your point?"
"My point is you could train me."
They both paused for a second while Key tried to understand. "I don't understand. I don't beyblade."
"I know, but your strength and agility in your archery skills are pretty similar to launching and training a beyblade. So, I figured if you teach me how to arch, I'll be better than ever in beyblading."
"Well," she began looking down at her feet. "I don't know. What would I get out of this?"
Kai paused for a moment. "I could teach you the basics of beyblading. With your skills, you should pick up in no time."
"Well, it's worth a shot. What the hell! Alright, I'll do it."
"Great!" Kai replied. 'This is great! I'll be better than anyone on the team!'
"Fine then. Meet here tomorrow at four o'clock and we can get started."
"Great. See you then," Kai shouted as he ran to Tyson's house. His feet and hands were freezing cold in the snow, his stomach hurt when he breathed in and his head was pounding. But he was feeling better than he had ever felt in his life.
~*~
HA HA! Fluffy stuff coming up in the next couple of chapters so keep your eyes open!
Hope you liked. R+R!
o(^-^)o
Thanx a many!
Kitsune Ria
Oh yeah. Sorry if I go ooc. This is my first time so just bare with me.
Ok. Sorry to freak you out.
Again.
Here! ^-^
~*~
It was the middle of the night and everyone had gone to sleep. Kai shared a room with Rei while Max and Kenny shared Tyson's room. They were all out like a light. Or so it seemed.
Kai had been up all night trying to figure out why he was so mean to Key. He knew it had something to do with the glares at him from Max, Rei and Kenny and it had something to do with Tyson teasing him earlier. 'Why,' Kai thought. 'Why did I do that?' He remembered the words that she said. 'I don't need to waste my time with someone who won't even listen to me.' He winced. He did want to listen to her. He did want to get to know her. He did want her sympathy. But why did he pull away? 'Why! I'm such an idiot!' Kai thought to himself as he rose from his bed and sat upright. 'She was just trying to be nice and I shoved it back in her face.'
Kai got up and went to the bathroom to rinse his face with cold water. He turned the faucet off and looked into the mirror, his face still dripping wet. He looked out the window on his left only to see the snow that was blowing around everywhere like a dance. 'Snow?' he thought to himself. 'Why would it snow?' With the constant asking of the word 'why' in his head, Kai fell to his knees. 'I need to do something. If I don't, I'll never get over what I did.'
Kai gradually got himself up and ran to his and Rei's room. He grabbed his jacket off the wall and threw his sneakers on his feet without putting his socks on. He glanced over at the clock. It was 3:27 am. Before he knew it, he was out the door into the raging blizzard of white powder.
* * *
"What a storm," Key whispered to herself inside her small cabin home. It was made entirely of wood from the trees. All she had was her cot, a rocking chair, a pile of blankets and clothes folded neatly inside her dresser, and a fire place. It wasn't much at all, but it was home.
Key had wrapped herself in a blanket and was sitting on the wooden floor in front of the fire place with every bit of warm clothing she owned. "I hope the restaurant's ok."
Almost a second after she spoke, she heard a body collapse outside of her cabin. She immediately got herself up leaving the blanket on the floor and putting her socks and moccasins onto her feet to keep warm. She ran up and struggled to open the door because of the raging wind pulling against her. As soon as the heavy wooden door was opened she put her arm up to her face anime style to try and stop the snow from damaging her sight and becoming snow blind. Key managed to look out into the distance before her fingers caught frost bite.
She saw a lump of something in the snow about ten feet away from her porch but it was almost impossible to tell what it was with the fierce white powder surrounding it. She couldn't tell if it was an animal or just a boulder. She slowly moved toward the heap in the snow with all the strength she had inside of her. The wind was blowing madly against her. She finally got to the heap and knelt down to find it was a human body.
'Oh my god!' Key thought to herself. 'Wait a minute, I know him.' Key pulled back and gasped as she began to recognize who the body was.
It was Kai.
* * *
As his eyes fluttered open, Kai felt an enormous pain coming from his head and eyes. Kind of like a huge migraine. He wanted to throw up. He looked around only to wonder where he was. He was in a cottage or a cabin of some sort. He was covered in blankets and sheets to keep warm and he realized his jacket and T-shirt had been taken off and hung on a clothes line directly in front of him. This just made it all the more confusing as to where he was. He tried to get up but winced in pain as he looked as his stomach. It was covered in a large bandage wrapped around tightly. "Dammit!" he whispered. Suddenly, a voice spoke up on his right that made is eyes widen and his heart quicken as he heard it speak softly.
"You don't want to be getting up any time soon," Key said sitting in the rocking chair which marked the half way point between her cot and the fire place. "You took a nasty fall outside of my cabin. You collapsed of exhaustion and then landed your stomach on a large rock. You should be lucky I found you lying in the snow." Key got up out of her chair and walked over next to Kai to put more fire wood into the cackling flame of the fire place. She then sat herself down about two feet from where Kai was sitting.
Kai began to speak again. "Did you bandage my stomach?"
"Yup!" Key replied. Kai began to blush like he never knew he could.
"You know," she began again as she looked into Kai's crimson eyes. "You could have killed yourself out there. What were you doing?"
Kai began to remember why he came. He wanted to apologize to her for being such a jerk. "I, um," he started to mutter as he stared back into Key's smooth lavender eyes. "I didn't mean to worry you. I just, wanted, to, um." 'Damn! This is harder than I thought! How am I supposed to say sorry? I can't just say, *I'm sorry*. Wait. Yes I can! But why won't it come out?' "I um, just wanted to say, I'm sorry for yelling at you earlier." Kai took a deep breath and felt like he was about to have a heart attack.
"Well," she began. "You're forgiven but why would you want to say sorry now? I'm mean, its ten degrees outside! Are you insane? It's nice of you to say sorry but that's not worth you getting killed over. Tyson speaks very highly of you and well, frankly, I think you are a very nice person deep down."
Kai felt like he was going to melt right then and there. The last thing he wanted to do was to cause her any pain or worries. "I'm sorry. I'd better go and not cause you any more trouble."
"Oh no you don't! You're not going out there! You'll kill yourself again! I won't let you. You're going to stay here and wait the storm out."
"But-"
"No buts! You're staying and that's final."
Kai really couldn't argue with this girl and he wasn't planning on doing so any time soon. Within minutes, both teenagers had fallen asleep.
* * *
Kai woke up the next morning feeling refreshed. His stomach still hurt but defenatly not as much as the night before. He looked up and saw that his clothes had dried during the night. He slowly arose out of the blankets and reached out to unhook his shirt.
After he had put his shirt and jacket on, he looked around and saw no sign of Key. It was almost like she was never there. He walked outside into the bright and sunny day. He looked down at the ground but quickly had to shield his eyes because of the white blinding light from the snow. As his eyes adjusted to the brightness, he breathed deep and enjoyed the peace and quiet that surrounded him. 'Wow,' He thought. 'It's so quiet. Key sure did pick a nice spot to build a cabin.'
Suddenly, an arrow came directly toward his head and was about an inch a way from stabbing him in the eye if he hadn't ducked to the left at the last second hitting his head hard on the long wooden porch. 'Great,' he thought. 'More injuries. Just what I need.' He began to shake as he tried to get up. He looked over his shoulder and saw a long wooden arrow lodged in the door. It was shaking slightly with the impact. It was about three feet in length and had a blue feather at one end. At the other end, which was half way in the door at this point, was a rock; chiseled down to look like an arrow head but much smoother and sharper at the tip. Then, out of the blue, Key's voice spoke up.
"You alright?" she said panting as she ran over to where Kai was. She was dressed in an ancient Japanese archer's uniform. She had her bow in one hand and her arrows inside her pouch on her back. Her hair was up in a high and tight bun. "I missed the target."
"Yeah," Kai began while tons of questions filled his head. "This is your arrow?"
"Yup. Made it myself. You like?" she replied as her breathing started to become normal again.
"You're an archer?"
"Yeah! I love archery! But the last thing I want to do is kill somebody like I almost did!"
"No, it's my fault. I should have looked," Kai said. It made him wonder. If Tyson or someone else almost killed him with an arrow he'd have to kill them with all the rage he had. But for some reason, when Key did it, he felt the need to blame himself. 'Damn emotions,' he thought.
"I got caught off guard," Key said as she pulled the arrow out with all her might until it finally came out with a large pop sound. "I saw you there and thought I was aiming for the target but I think I accidentally shifted weight at the last second causing it to almost kill you."
"What was your target?"
Key held up her index finger and pointed to an extremely small rock no bigger than a child's fist. "There."
Kai was stunned. "How far away were you?"
"Not that far actually, about forty-five meters."
Kai's eyes widened to the point that they couldn't get any larger. He was amazed at how well this girl could arch and see from such a far away target especially in the snow. 'Wow,' he thought.
"You know," she began as she picked up the rock in the snow. "I think that's twice you've almost died in the past twenty-four hours." She began to chuckle as Kai tried to form a smile. "Once for being stupid, and once because I couldn't take my eyes off you."
They both stood there stunned at what Key said. Her face became bright red as he also began to blush. "Um," Key began again trying to break the awkward silence. "I, um, you'd better go. I'm sure Tyson's worried about you."
"Truth is, I wander around a lot," Kai confessed. "I never really see Tyson unless it's for training."
"Or food," Key said rolling her eyes. They both began to laugh. Kai never thought he could feel this way with a girl. They just connected in a way that neither Kai nor Key had ever felt before. They both paused for a moment as they stared into each others eyes. They were about six feet away from each other but that didn't matter. Key began to form the same warm smile he had seen before. Kai melted right then and there. 'I can't feel this way! I want too, but I can't! For my reputation's sake!' He quickly turned away from Key and stopped looking at her smile.
He noticed the hole in which Key's arrow had punctured in the wooden door. He raised his arm and ran his hand over it. Suddenly, an idea struck in Kai's head. He didn't want to do this, but for his team's sake, he had too. He turned around and faced Key again. "Key?"
"Yeah?"
"Um, well, you see, my team hasn't been doing all that well lately."
"You mean your beyblading team?" she asked a little puzzled.
"Yeah. Well, anyway, your thrust on your bow and arrow must be phenomenal in order for it to get this far and still puncture a reasonable size hole."
"I'm flattered but what's your point?"
"My point is you could train me."
They both paused for a second while Key tried to understand. "I don't understand. I don't beyblade."
"I know, but your strength and agility in your archery skills are pretty similar to launching and training a beyblade. So, I figured if you teach me how to arch, I'll be better than ever in beyblading."
"Well," she began looking down at her feet. "I don't know. What would I get out of this?"
Kai paused for a moment. "I could teach you the basics of beyblading. With your skills, you should pick up in no time."
"Well, it's worth a shot. What the hell! Alright, I'll do it."
"Great!" Kai replied. 'This is great! I'll be better than anyone on the team!'
"Fine then. Meet here tomorrow at four o'clock and we can get started."
"Great. See you then," Kai shouted as he ran to Tyson's house. His feet and hands were freezing cold in the snow, his stomach hurt when he breathed in and his head was pounding. But he was feeling better than he had ever felt in his life.
~*~
HA HA! Fluffy stuff coming up in the next couple of chapters so keep your eyes open!
Hope you liked. R+R!
o(^-^)o
Thanx a many!
Kitsune Ria