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Chapter 5

Kai stared wide-eyed in horror. Rei, the person he cared for the most, the person he had just discovered he had feelings for was being tossed over the mountain and there was nothing he could do. He fell to his knees. "No this can't be happening… Rei you couldn't of…"

"Well Rei, I guess we know who's the strongest of us now. You didn't even stand a chance without your bit beast!" laughed Lee manically.

Kai looked up. His face changed from sorrow to utter and complete enragement. "You bastard! I'll fucking killing you!" He charged towards the boy pining him down on to the ground. "How could you do that?! You used to be best friends for fucks sake!"

"He betrayed me and my team! He deserved to be punished!" Kai punched him furiously. He couldn't take anymore of this guy's crap.

"Believe me I did you and your team a favour." cried Lee's who nose had just exploded with blood. "He would have betrayed and left your team too!"

"Rei would never to that to us!"

"He did it once before, what's to say he wouldn't do it again?"

"He's changed. And from the shocked look on his face when you called your bit beast I assume he knows that you've changed as well. You'll fuckin pay for what you did too him!" screamed Kai punching him in the face again.

"Well if you miss him so much then in that case you can join him! Galeon!" His blade started to glow.

Kai quickly turned around only to be kicked violently in the stomach by Lee. Kai threw up blood and fell to the ground. Small tears began to fill his eyes. Rei all I wanted was to help you get Drigger back. But then this had to happen. You're dead and I could do a single thing to save you. He choked back a sob. I'm so sorry…

"Go Galeon, show him your power! Rip him a part! Show the Whiter tiger how powerful we are!" Kai closed his eyes waiting for death to consume him. There was no way he would be able to get to Dranser in time. I guess this is it…

"Stop!" Kai eyes shot wide open. That voice sounded so familiar.

"Rei!?" A glowing white light launched at Galeon throwing him away from his victim.

"Drigger get him!" Kai couldn't believe his eyes. Rei, he-he was alive!

Lee looked just as shocked as Kai if not more. "How-how are… You're supposed to be fucking dead!"

"Sorry to disappoint you Lee but I just have too many things to do before I actually die. Besides there's no way I'd let you hurt one of my team mates!"

"Dri-Driger?"

"That's right, Lee." His attention turned back to Galeon who was now charging towards him. "Driger, tiger claw attack!" Roaring furiously, the tiger emitted a bright white glow, and with the added power sliced through the black lion with one mighty strike of its claw. The creature howled in pain and reverting into a light flew away. 

Lee stood horrified. "Ga-Galeon? I-I don't believe this."

"Ordering your bit beast to go around killing people, if that's the case then you really don't deserve to have one!"

"Shut up! I'm twice the beyblader you are!"

"If that's the case then why did Driger return to me?"

"You bastard!" Instantly he spun around to Driger. "Mighty white tiger please give me the honour of being your new partner. I'm ten times stronger than that looser your with now. Come with me and we'll surely be unstoppable!"

"Driger would never partner up with you! Not someone who goes about hurting others to get what they want. Not only have disgraced your team, our village and Galeon, you've disgraced yourself! Selfish people like you don't deserve to be beybladers!" shouted Rei angrily. "You all ready had your own bit beast. Why go through so much trouble to get another?"

"Because I didn't want that lowly excuse for a bit beast Galeon! The White tiger by right was supposed to be mines! But no, my fuckin idiot of a Grandfather passed it down to you instead! Do you know how long I dreamt of receiving Driger, being the honourable partner of the White tiger who would lead his team through the path to victory?! I lived slept and breathed that dream and you knew that more than anybody! But no, you stabbed me in the back and took away my chance. You destroyed my dream! What's more is you were even too scared to use the fuckin thing!"

"Lee, believe me when I say that I didn't mean for things to turn out this. Honestly if I'd had known things would have turned out like this I would have said something before I left the village." replied Rei in a sympathetic voice.

"Don't throw that bullshit at me! I'll get the White tiger if it's the last fucking thing I do!" Suddenly he started running toward Rei ready to push him off the cliff once again. But just as he reached him he felt large thump on his head and suddenly fell down unconscious.

Kai left out a sigh and threw the thick branch away.

Rei stared apprehensively. "Ka-Kai."

The blue haired boy ran to Rei and threw his arm around him. "Thank God you're all right. I-I thought that he had really killed you!" he cried happily.

It took the Chinese boy a few moments to regain his senses and reply. Kai, he-he was hugging him. He was glad he was safe. Rei felt himself blush.

"I thought I was going to die too, but out of nowhere Driger appeared and saved me."

"I'm glad you got Driger back." But more so that you're still alive.

"Kai you were right. All I had to do was believe and have confidence in myself. If it wasn't for you I probably would have died."

"Let's not think of that anymore and just be thankful that you're still alive." Kai replied softly.

Driger walked towards its master. "Thank you Driger. I'm grateful to you for saving my life. I hope we can be partners again." The large creature roared to show his consent then return to its beyblade.

Rei suddenly felt a swirl of dizziness come over him. "Kai... I-I feel tired."

"Rei!"  His body landed on Kai as he fell unconscious. "No wonder you just passed out, you must be exhausted." With no one looking Kai released the tears that he had been holding in. "You don't know how happy I am that you're alive. I never thought I'd feel like this about anyone. When you fell off that cliff I felt myself ripping apart. I couldn't take the thought of you dying. It hurt too much. Then when you came back to life… well I can't even begin to explain how I felt. But there's one thing I do know, that's for sure."

He brushed away the hair off the neko-jin's face and gently placed a soft kiss on his forehead.

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Slowly he opened his eyes only to quickly shut them again because of the bright light shining into them. He had a thumping head ache and no idea where he was. Mentally he cursed in Chinese. The only way he would find out was if he opened his eyes which didn't sound too appealing. But then he heard a familiar voice making him instantly change his mind.

"How is he?"

"He used up a lot of energy but he is recovering quite nicely. However we may have to bandage up his foot which means he won't be able to walk on it for a couple of days." replied the doctor.

Kai let out a sigh of relief. "I'm just glad that it isn't anything serious."

"Yes well you can go in and see him if you like. He may not be awaken yet though,"

Kai nodded. "Thanks." He opened the door and went into the small room.

"Kai, is that you?" Rei called out quietly despite knowing exactly who it was.

"Rei you're awake!" cried Kai quickly rushing over to his bed side. Knowing that Kai was there gave him the sudden strength to open his eyes. "How are you feeling?"

"Like someone just whacked my head about twenty times of a brick wall." sighed Rei.

Kai gave a small smile. "Well the doctor says you're going to be okay. You won't be able to walk for a few days though."

Rei nodded. "That's good to hear."

"Yeah."

"Um Kai, my memory is kind of fuzzy at the moment, could you explain to me what happened at the mountain? All I can remember is a black bit beast coming towards me and the next minute I was thrown off the cliff."

Kai's smile faded as he thought back to that horrible incident, Rei's fragile body being tossed away, Lee's psychotic laughter… All this happened so quickly and he couldn't do a single thing to prevent it.

"Kai? Kai what's wrong?" Rei asked worriedly.

"I-I thought you had died when you were thrown off the cliff… It was Lee's bit beast…"

"Ga-Galeon? Wait a minute I think I'm beginning to remember. I-I was battling him and he wanted Driger. Then he sent his bit beast on me. But Driger he came back to me… he saved me…"

Kai nodded. "Yes then Driger defeated Galeon and Lee was going to attack you himself-"

"And you punched him to stop him from hurting me." said Rei finishing off his team mates sentence.

Kai nodded slightly embarrassed.

Rei smiled. "Arigatou."

"You're my team mate I'm not just let some psycho hurt you."

Rei's smile grew. "I really am seeing another side of you Kai."

Kai blushed but before he could reply three other people came running into the room.

"Rei, you're awake!!!"

Rei stared in alarm as they all came rushing towards him. "Great to see your awake! How are ya buddy?!" cried Tyson.

"Yeah we were really worried about you!" said Max happily.

"I hope you're feeling all right." added Kenny just as glad as the others to see that Rei was awake.

"Thanks you guys. It's good to see you."

Tyson grabbed him in a hug. "Yeah!!! All right!!!"

"Tyson Rei's head is as sore as it is, if you keep yelling like that then its only going to get worst!" said Kai irritability.

"Aw lighten up Kai. I'm just happy that he's all right."

The blue haired boy sighed. "Baka…"

Rei sweatdropped. "Uh, hey don't worry its fine."

"See!" cried Tyson sticking his tongue out.

One of these days I swear I'm going to kill him.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door and three familiar figures walked in.

"Rei are you all right?!" cried a pink haired girl.

Kai growled as he saw them. "What do you think you're doing here?"

"We-we came to see how Rei was." replied Mariah nervously.

"Aren't you forgetting that it was your leader that did this to him?!" spat Tyson spitefully.

The three remaining members of the White tiger team winced.

"We-we do realise this, that's more of a reason for us to come. We came here to apologize. You're right in saying the Lee was our leader and you have the right to suspect us but in all honesty we had nothing to do with what happened. We were just as shocked as all of you were. I-I never knew that Lee was capable of such a horrible thing. We all came here to say that we're so sorry that it happened."

 "Hey wait a minute! I thought you guys hated Rei! I mean what about all that stuff you guys said about Rei abandoning you?"

Mariah stared at the ground. "Well that stuff about hating Rei was really true, we just-"

"Then why the hell did you say?! You shouldn't say things you don't mean!"

"Tyson stop!" shouted Rei, Everyone looked at the boy lying in the bed.

"Rei…"

"I don't blame any of you for what happened. I knew if you guys had of been there you would have tried to stop him so I don't want you guys to feel guilty about it."

"But we do feel guilty about it!" cried the little green haired boy. "If I hadn't of tricked you like that then none of this would have happened!"

"Maybe, but still Lee might have tried to take Driger in the future, maybe during the beyblading tournament."

"I-I'm glad you got Driger back." said Mariah kindly.

Rei gave a small smile. "Me too."

"Hey uh what happened to Lee anyway?" asked Tyson curiously.

"Yeah if he's still out there he might be a danger to other people." added Max.

"You don't need to worry about that. The police have him." said Kai firmly.

"So he got arrested then?"

Yes. Even if it was a bit beast he used to attack Rei it's still considered attempted murder. Therefore I doubt we'll be seeing Lee for a pretty long time."

"Hopefully never." sighed Kenny in relief.

Rei could see the regret on his ex-team mates' faces. They had both respected and cared about Lee. Rei had too. They had all once been best friends. They had done everything together (mostly beyblading), and now Rei felt as if everything had been destroyed.

"Hey um are you guys still competing in the tournament?" Max asked curiously.

All of them shook their head. "After all that's happened I don't think it would be appropriate to." said Mariah.

"Sorry about that." replied Rei sympathetically.

"Don't worry about it there's always next tournament." came Gary's deep voice.

"Yeah and then we'll have a real battle!" cried Kevin. "And I promise I won't cheat!"

 "I'll be looking forward to it."

"Well we better go now." announced Mariah. "And Rei I hope we meet again soon."

Rei nodded. "I'm sure we will. I'll return to the village for a visit sometime and hopefully I'll see you guys there."

"Yes, I'll greatly look forward to that day." With that Mariah, Kevin and Gary turned and left.

A large blush came upon the pink haired girls cheeks. I'll be waiting for you to return, even if you don't feel the same way about me…

Tyson gave a loud groan when they left. "Aw man, and I was all stoaped up to battle the White tigers."

"Don't think like that." contradicted Kenny.

"Huh?"

"Those guys were really tough. This way we'll have an easier time at the finals."

Rei's eyes widened. "The finals! But what about the match before that?!"

"We all ready had that match and we kicked butt!" cried Max happily.

"But then who-"

"Don't worry. Kai took your place in the final round."

"Really?"

"Yeah will it was that or risk being disqualified." added Kenny.

"Glad you were there to cover for me."

Kai gave him a small smile. "No problem."

Tyson gazed at the blue haired boy in shock. "Wha?! Ka-Kai di-did you actually just smile?!"

He turned away and snorted. "Come on, Rei needs his rest."

 "So you aren't angry all the time?!"

"I'm never been angry all the time."

"Then why are you always frowning?"

"Just because I keep a straight face doesn't mean I'm frowning."

"Yeah it does!"

"No it doesn't."

"It does! It does! It does!"

"Baka…"

Rei chuckled as he listened to the pair argue as they left.

Authors Notes: I hope this chapter was all right and not too corny or anything. Nonetheless Rei is alive and Kai got to hit Lee with a big stick! It's always fun to hit people on the head with things…. Anyway epilogue next. Thank you very much to devilburns, Android 71, Angel of pure darkness, Pandaboe, YaJiRuShi, Chibi Kitty, Platinum Rei, Sleepy Sheep Guardian, Thorn, iceyflames, midnightblossom, Tidah and I luv Kai for reviewing! *huggles* ^_^

Any feedback or advice on how I could improve would be greatly appreciated. Thank you lots for reading!