AN: Weeeee.. nice long chapter here for you… This fic will be long… sorry about the delay, I started yet another AU beyblade fic.. wahaha that's set in sorta a different world, medieval times.. its awesome. Anyway this chapter goes out to TFRiD Queen! Who has reviewed steadily =) remember to R + R, this chappy isn't as funny as the last but its not too bad..
After the last period of that day –PE, which she was most chagrinned to notice that he was in the boy's class of that block and that meant their classes would join on many occasions damn. Growling in frustration, Liika stomped down the crowded hallway, shoving random people out of the way, toward her locker.
Damn bastard. She thought angrily, narrowing her eyes and zeroing in on her locker about six steps away. Why'd he have to come to this school?! She was seriously bitter about the whole situation, but, she thought an evil smirk coming to her lips, I got him pretty good. That black eye was worth a month of detention. She finally reached her locked and proceeded to fight the lock, not really paying attention, still caught up in her satisfaction of giving the pompous prick a black eye.
"Oi! That smile scares me." A male voice cut in on her reveling.
Blinking, Liika stopped fighting with the lock and turned her head. Enrique stood there, leaning on his skateboard, his backpack slung over his shoulder looking suspiciously empty for a Friday afternoon. Fluttering her eyelashes and smiling innocently she replied, her tone sugary sweet, "What ever do you mean Eny?"
Now Enrique looked positively petrified. "Ok, I thought the evil plotting smile you just had on was scary, but this one is a million times more frightening!" He exclaimed dramatically, backing up a step with one hand up in a stop motion and the other clutching the top of the skateboard.
Cracking a real smile she started to giggle. Whatever mood she was in Enrique was always able to make her smile or laugh, it had been that way since they were children. Her best friend was always there to cheer her up.
Seeing her real smile Enrique relaxed a bit, it always unnerved him to see his Iki upset, it just wasn't her. She was normally upbeat and cheerful, always the one to bring up the team spirits. That's why she was such a good captain. Grinning at her he leaned up against the locker next to hers and twirled his skateboard idly. "Soo… how long ya in for?"
She once again started fighting with her lock. "What do you mean? Oooh, you mean how long will I be joining you in detention?" She winked at him cheekily.
He stuck his tongue out at her. "Just for that comment I'm not going to help you with you lock." He chuckled evilly.
"Well I don't need your help!" She stuck her tongue out back at him then growled at her lock. "Damn thing! Why do I get the cheap locker every year?!" She yelled in frustration.
"Haha! Cause you deserve it of course!" Enrique taunted, cackling a bit.
"Stupid Enrique." She muttered. Twirling the lock again she attempted to open it once more. "AHHHH STUPID PIECE OF CRAP!" She exclaimed loudly when it failed to open again.
Completely ignoring the now howling Enrique, Liika brought back her hand to give the locker a nice whack. However, before her hand even passed her ear it was caught by a larger, rougher one and a person sighed in frustration. "Violence is not always the answer." Then letting go of her hand the other hand reached over her shoulder and twirled the lock, it opened with a sound *clink*.
With a groan that sounded like she was starting to cry she slammed her head against the still closed door. "And why does everyone know my combination?!" She cried in between slams.
The person standing behind her, the one who opened her locker, stepped in between her and Enrique and gently placed his hand on her forehead effectively stopping her from hitting her head on her locker door. "We know it because every year it's the same. Now stop that, you're hurting yourself."
Liika blushed. "Thanks Robert." She murmured, opening her locker door and ducking inside to hide her blush.
Enrique studied his best friend with a smirk as the tall purple haired boy stepped back and around to the other side. He knew she had the biggest crush on the ex-vice captain, and she had had for quite awhile. He was soo going to harass her about it later on that night. Catching her eye as she brought her head out of the locker a bit her winked and grinned wickedly. "What's the matter Iki? You're face is a bit red." He taunted, teeth flashing.
She sent him a withering glare and stuck her head back in the locker to hide the further blush, damn him! And he called himself her best friend; he knew she liked Robert! "It is not…! Shut up!" She snapped quickly, she could feel her face burning by this point.
Enrique once again howled in laughter, damn he loved tormenting Iki! It was so much fun!
Robert eyed the scruffy blond skater across Liika's back speculatively. "I don't know what you're going on about Sattiay, but do cease immediately." He said calmly, bring his gaze back to the girl who's head was shoved in her locker; she wasn't really doing anything, just moving stuff around. Raising an eyebrow he asked simply, "Are you finished Liika?"
Liika froze and cursed to herself, her face igniting once more. She was mortified, she couldn't believe he noticed she wasn't really doing anything! "Ahh…yeah…" She mumbled pulling her sweatshirt from her locker and pulling it over her head, leaving the hood up to hide her tomato-like face.
Enrique chuckled, he was sorely tempted to pull down her hood and expose her bright red face, but he let the temptation go, after all she did have a rather hard day. Shaking his head he stood up straight and lay his skateboard on the ground. The halls were cleared out by then and he fully intended to skate his way out of the hellhole known as school. He placed one foot on the board and poked Liika in the shoulder. "If you're done, lets scram already."
The hood bobbed up and down in agreement and she slung her purple and black backpack over her shoulder, starting to walk down the hall, Enrique rolling along behind her. She then stopped, remembering Robert was standing there and turned to find him walking along just behind her. Her blush brightened –again- and she stammered, "Ah.. thanks Robert… you know for the locker…"
He smiled at her –which made her knees a bit weak-, catching sight of her blush as she lifted her face a bit he raised a elegant purple eyebrow a bit, but didn't comment. "I'll give you a ride home if you like." He said pulling his keys out of his pocket as they started to walk again.
Liika's eyes widened, and she lowered her head. "Tha-thank you!" Then catching herself she coughed nervously and added, "That would be cool."
Robert frowned. What was wrong with her all of a sudden? She wasn't normally this jumpy, well not when they were in a group anyway, they were very rarely alone or almost alone. He threw a look to Enrique who looked smug, smirking as if he knew what was going on. Robert narrowed his eyes at the blond, he probably did. He then looked back at Liika, who had pulled off her hood to reveal her face that was only tinged with red now, she was pretty when she blushed; it took the edge of the tomboyness that drifted off her in waves.
When they reached the front doors Robert opened the door for Liika, who slipped past him silently. He then looked at Enrique, who was picking up his skateboard, "You know riding that thing in the hallways is against the rules." He stated blankly as the blond passed him grinning cheekily.
"Yeah so? I already have detention for life, what's one more day?" Enrique replied with a shrug of his shoulder.
Robert rolled his eyes and followed the two down the steps and path into the parking lot. Liika laughed along the way pushing Enrique off his skateboard that he had begun to ride again. "Eny here aims high! His goal is detention every day consecutively all year!" She laughed, skipping ahead of them, seemingly back to her old self. The stuttering blushing girl completely gone.
"Hey!" Enrique exclaimed indignantly, eying the blue haired girl. Oh he could get her back… she just got over her embarrassment… he could embarrass her good again in font of her precious Robert. Ehehe… He laughed in his head then decided not to. Nah, he'd save this for another day, instead he pushed her back.
Robert snorted and smiled, watching the two best friends rough house a bit with each other. Sometimes he envied what the two shared, he didn't have that close of a friendship with anyone, even though he had grown up with the same people almost all his life. They were a close group, but not that close. His closest friend was probably Lee, who was very much like himself, they never really talked about their feelings or whatever… it just wasn't the way they did things. But Enrique and Liika, he could tell by just watching them –that and he had known them since grade 5 when he had moved their from England- that they were inseparable and probably told each other everything. He sighed, oh well no sense worrying about it. He smiled as he watched Liika pull the toque Enrique had put on down over his eyes then dance away giggling.
They reached his car –a '96 grand am, Robert stepped over to the passenger side door, unlocked it and opened the door. Liika blushed a little again, this brought an inquisitive look to Roberts face, he took her bag from her and shut the door. Then turning he eyed Enrique who was standing their grinning, scratching the back of his head. Snorting he asked, "And I suppose you would like a ride as well?"
Enrique merely grinned back at him. Robert rolled his eyes and nodded toward the back seat. "Skateboard in the trunk. I will not have you dirtying my interior with your toy." He said, raising his chin haughtily.
The blond waved him off. "I wouldn't dream of messing up your perfect leather interior." He replied sarcastically, waiting for Robert to open the trunk.
When the trunk was open, Enrique lay his board down gently and put his backpack on top. Robert placed Liika's bag and his own in beside Enrique's and shut the door. Once Enrique was in the car, Robert got in as well, started it and drove away.
Kai slammed the front door to the extremely large house his mother, his father, his grandfather and himself lived in. He was mad… no check that he was pissed. His first day of school had been a disaster. Sure he had become beyblade captain with out even lifting a finger, and the team he captained were pretty damn good. He was actually glad they had the problems with the captains last year, or else Abbey wouldn't have gone as far as they did, of that he was sure.
He was truly amazed that the little town he had lived in most his life –he never socialized with anyone in it and always went to boarding schools far away, had such a large base of blading talent. He only watched two matches, but he was stunned. He really never thought that Mr. Dickenson was telling the truth when he said they had quite the Beyblade team at Bakuten District Highschool. The four bladers he watched –Jagen, Valkov, Laan and even that Sattiay who didn't look like much, were really skilled. They each had their own style, and more amazingly they all had bitbeasts! Which was something his old team didn't have –the reason they lost in the first round at the Nationals.
The Nationals, he narrowed his eyes as he stomped up the steps to his room, the nationals made him think of the reason he was so pissed off in the first place.
That stupid girl.
His eye still throbbed painfully –who knew a girl could hit that hard? When he left the school the bruise had already started to form, he growled, great he was going to have a black eye… given to him by a girl!
She was so annoying, and loud and talk about bitchy! She didn't even know him and she was bad mouthing him seemingly behind his back. He snorted, slamming the door to his room. How she was ever the captain of anything was beyond him. She was clearly incapable of keeping her emotions in check –a skill required for beyblading. Throwing his bag across the large room beside his desk and flopped down on his bed to brood.
He'd get her back, he promised himself. Yes, she would pay for punching him in the face. Stupid emotional wench. He snickered then, thinking of his upcoming plans for his new beyblade team. There was clearly too many bladers, the team needed to be downsized. He had already though of one way to decide the eight regulars 'fairly'. Since he had just arrived at the school and he did not know who was strongest and who was weakest he would hold a ranking tournament. Excluding the girls there were twelve bladers including himself. If he made two blocks of six he could take the top four from each block. Yes a ranking tournament would solve that issue, of course dealing with the irate girls when they discovered they were not to be included, therefore could not be regulars was something he wasn't really looking forward to. He then chuckled as he thought of the little blue spit fire's reaction. Oh she would love him for life.
Score one for him.
He had no doubt she would fight it tooth and nail, but he would win, he knew he would. And that was just a start. Ridding the regulars of girls –most of all of her was just the first step. He pay her back double for his eye. And he knew she'd fight that too. He didn't' really expect her to roll over and just take his punishment. But somehow that made it that much better. Finally someone who would fight back, and not just cower because he was the richest, most powerful kid in school. He smirked, yes fighting with her would be great fun indeed.
His door opened, breaking his plot filled brooding. Looking over he saw his mother had poked her head in his room. She gasped as soon as she saw him turn his head and rushed inside his room to his bedside. "Kai! What happened to your eye!" she exclaimed with worry as she started to fuss over him.
Kai tried to push away her hands but eventually gave up trying. "I got into a fight." He muttered under his breath hoping his mother would just leave him alone.
No such luck as she took a step back and leveled him with a disproving glare. "Already? It was your first day! Who did you fight with?" She demanded, her hands already on her hips.
Kai sighed and scowled. "This girl."
Her eyes widened and her expression became even more furious. "Kai Daemon Hiwatari you did not hit a girl did you?!"
His teeth clenched. Not only did she get him in trouble at school now she was getting him in trouble at home too! "No, she hit me." He growled.
This seemed to satisfy her anger. "Well that's good. I'm glad I raised my son to know enough not to hit girls. I'm not going to bother asking what the fight was about because I doubt it would make any difference. Other than that nice black eye your going to have, how did your first day go? Did you meet some new friends?" She sat down on the edge of his bed and smiled motherly.
He continued to scowl, but resisted the urge to turn and face the other direction –that would only make it worse. "Not really." Well he did meet a few. Valkov and Parker weren't too bad and they were in his PE class as well as his study, he wasn't sure about his other two classes. He really didn't get a chance to hang around with any of the sophomores.
His mother frowned a bit in disappointment, she wanted her son to make new friends. Friends other than the stuck up ones at that private school his father and grandfather had sent him too. They weren't real friends and that's what she wanted her little Kai to find. Reaching out to stroke a few of his light blue bangs out his eyes she smiled again. "Well it was only your first day –a half day at that, I'm sure you'll meet some people soon enough." With that she stood up and walked to the door. "Oh and dinner is at six. You're father and grandfather will be home so be on time." She blew a kiss and disappeared out the door, shutting it gently behind her.
Kai glared at the ceiling after his mother left. Che, meet new people. Why bother? If he had his way, he would stay at this school just long enough to make it to the nationals then he would go back to private school. There was no point in becoming all friendly with people we was just going to ditch after the year was done.
Feeling his stomach grumble he glanced at his clock and decided to go down and get a snack before dinner. After all one couldn't brood and plot on an empty stomach.
Liika flopped into her computer desk chair almost as soon as she walked in the door of her room. Pushing the button that booted up her computer she sighed and sat back to wait for the machine to start up.
The ride home had been too short for her liking. They're weren't many times she got to be around Robert when they weren't in a big group. She blushed as she remembered how foolish she had acted at her locker. He probably thought she was really immature, he was the one that pulled her off of that ass in study. She sighed dejectedly, he would never like her.
She had had a crush on the tall boy ever since their freshman year when he had rescued her at the dance by cutting in just before the biggest jerk in school could ask her to dance. That jerk had long since moved, but still it was the thought, he knew she despised him but didn't know how to say no. And so from that night on she harbored a secret crush on him. Only Enrique knew… scratch that Mariah knew too and both taunted her mercilessly about it. Enrique just laughed at her while Mariah urged her to do something about it, like ask him out.
Ha. Ask him out indeed. She didn't need that rejection thank you. She snorted and looked to her screen when she heard the familiar thunder crashes of her windows loading. As soon as her MSN loaded and she signed on she was messaged –which was no big surprise.
~* I am his possession *~ says:
Where were you after school??? You disappeared from the locker room before I could find you =|
Liika smiled and quickly replied after changing her name, she knew if she didn't reply right away Mariah would continue to message her until she got sick of the flashing and answered.
!Death to all those named Hiwatari! Says:
Er… hello to you too! I had to go to my locker quickly… sorry about ditching you like that…
Getting up out of her chair to get something on the other side of her room she came back to about four flashing messages. Face flattening, Liika rolled her eyes. That girl could type.
~* I am his possession *~ says:
Well… your forgiven I guess… where were you after then? I looked for you at your locker but couldn't find you
~* I am his possession *~ says:
Hello??
~* I am his possession *~ says:
LIIKA!
~* I am his possession *~ says:
ANWER ME!
!Death to all those named Hiwatari! says:
Geez I'm here I'm here.. I had to grab something. Anyways, how long were you in the locker room??? I was at my locker for a good ten minutes after I left the locker room!t the hall ways here clear when I left! But Robert gave me a ride home.
~* I am his possession *~ says:
Robert eh? *winks* Did you two have fun?
! Death to all those named Hiwatari! says:
Gah! Shut up! Eny was there too!
She was blushing again, as she scowled at the screen willing Mariah to see.
~* I am his possession *~ says:
LOL Aww… too bad… I guess he didn't kiss you then?
! Death to all those named Hiwatari! says:
MARIAH! You are so dead.
~* I am his possession *~ says:
LOL calm yourself. I was just kidding, anyway Rei told me about what happened in study. Sorry that jerk got to you, he wasn't very nice at practice either but I heard you clocked him good! You go girl XD
! Death to all those named Hiwatari! says:
Yeah… I really didn't think any of my punches would actually get through… but one did. I suspect he'll have a black eye… I feel kinda bad. I never really meant to hurt him you know.
~* I am his possession *~ says:
Well, I'd say he deserves it after those things he said….either way we can talk about it later, I have to go do some chores. We were talking about going out later… Lee and Rei said something about bowling or something wanna go?
! Death to all those named Hiwatari! says:
ehn… I have a lot of homework… my morning class is evil X_x
~* I am his possession *~ says:
It's Friday night Liika! Homework can wait, come on… I think Lee said Robert was coming ;)
! Death to all those named Hiwatari! says:
*glare* blah fine! Who else is going?
~* I am his possession *~ says:
I dunno… Oliver? If you see Enrique tell him too… tho I think Oliver will. I gtg… I'll have Robert pick you up at eight ;)
! Death to all those named Hiwatari! says:
Ahhhh! I'll kill you!
Error the following message could not be sent:
! Death to all those named Hiwatari! says:
Ahhhh! I'll kill you!
Liika growled, curse Mariah and her meddling! Now she would have to pick out something extra cool to wear…damn! Mutter she was just about to log off and go and get something to eat when another message popped up. She raised an eyebrow when she saw who it was, and what their nick was.
I am not gay! says:
Hello!
! Death to all those named Hiwatari! says:
Erm hello… um..Oliver what's with your name?
I am not gay! says:
Oh… lol just something someone said to me earlier…
! Death to all those named Hiwatari! says:
Tala, Michael or Johnny?
I am not gay! says:Johnny. Good guesses. ^-^
! Death to all those named Hiwatari! says:
It's not really that hard .;; Only one of three people would say something like that.
I am not gay! says:
Yeah… ^^;; Anyway the real reason I messaged you is, is Enrique there? He's not at home, I just called…
! Death to all those named Hiwatari! says:
No… Robert drove him home…
The sound of her window opening behind her made her roll her eyes.
! Death to all those named Hiwatari! says:
check that, he just crawled in my window.
I am not gay! says:
Hehe… well you're going bowling right? Tell Enrique that we'll pick him up at eight please?
! Death to all those named Hiwatari! says:
ok.. but why doesn't he just get a ride with Robert when he picks me up?
I am not gay! says:
Um… well Mariah set up all the rides, and she just said that Robert was picking just you up. I must be off, see you later!
"Che." She snorted. This whole night was obviously a set up attempt by Mariah. She meddled to much! However, a part of Liika was warmed that her friend cared enough to try to make Liika happy.
Twirling her chair around she grinned at the blond that was lounging on her futon couch like he owned the place. Nudging his head with her foot she exclaimed, "Guess what Eny! We're going bowling!"