A Whole New Battle All Over Again
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Alex sighed as she looked up at the clear, blue sky. She was taking a break from everything – and lying on the grass and sleeping someplace was one of her favorite things to do when she wanted a break.
As Alex watched the clouds move sleepily, she saw a brown thing… What was it…? The thing was blurry to her since she was so sleepy, and she didn't realize what it was until it was too late.
A football! Headed straight for her!
Then everything went black.
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"Aw man! I think we knocked someone out with that one!" A certain white – haired boy yelled as he ran over to the unconscious Alex, "And it's the captain of the Phoenix Fyre's too…" he groaned.
"Ooohhh you've done it this time, Ryo! Knocking out the other team's captain…" Zeke teased. "Oh shut up. Let's see if we can wake her up…" Ryo mumbled as Chris came over. "Ohhh… The little hot head from the Japan teams, eh?" Chris mumbled as he saw the situation.
"What are we going to do?" Ryo asked. He had knocked out a captain, dammit! His ears were so going to get a beating when she woke up.
"Hm… maybe we can dump her with cold water," Zeke suggested, "Are you insane? That'd kill both of our ears! We should just let Ryo take his own downfall," Chris said, earning a glare from Ryo.
"Hey hey. You were the one who knocked her out… you take care of her…" Chris mumbled, "… And we'll go back to playing football." Zeke finished as the two dashed off madly.
Ryo groaned. Just what he needed. /She lives with Hiwatari, right?/ Ryo asked Karai as he tried to figure out how to deal with this, /Her last name is Hiwatari, but ya, she lives with the dude. Remember when we saw her at the mansion?/ Karai replied, and Ryo nodded.
/Ya.. yelling at Tala like crazy. My ears will never forget that one./ Ryo replied as he grabbed both of Alex's arms gently, swing them over his shoulders, "Well, the Hiwatari mansion isn't that far away…. And I guess I need some exercise like Lillia said," Ryo mumbled as he started jogging towards the direction of the mansion.
Zeke and Chris's heads appeared a moment later out of a bush nearby, "Did you get that?" Zeke asked Chris, who nodded happily, "Good. Now let's follow him!"
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"I hope this is the Hiwatari mansion…. And they had better send a car too. I'm dead tired…" Ryo mumbled as he rang the intercom at the gates, "Who is it?" Lucy's staticy voice came from the intercom, "Uh… I sorta knocked out Alex with my football… would you mind if you sent a car out so I could escort her back?" Ryo said carefully.
Only god knew how evil people like Lucy could do if he didn't say it politely.
"It'll be there in less then 5 minutes," And with a click! The intercom went silent. Alex sighed and mumbled something in her sleep – although Ryo couldn't quite make it out. He wondered what would happen if the others were home… but most chances were they wouldn't be, since it was a Sunday.
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Alex stirred lightly as she smelled something sweet. /It smells so nice… and it's so warm…/ Alex lazily thought to Bluefyre, who laughed, knowing the situation, /I bet it does…/ Bluefyre replied. No point in ruining her fun telling her mistress it was one of her arch-enemies.
Alex turned her head to her other side, moving around a bit before settling down and falling asleep again.
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Ryo waited silently as the gates opened – Alex was moving, but it had stopped as soon as the car stopped. Ryo gently put Alex in the car, and went in, closing the door. He was a good kid; he would explain what was happening.
As soon as the car had stopped, Lucy had come rushing down the marble stair case down to greet them both. By that time, Alex was on Ryo's back again. "Uh… hi…" Ryo mumbled as Lucy did a 'check' to see if Alex was injured anywhere.
"Thank goodness she's alright. How did you knock her out?" Lucy said a moment later, and Ryo sweat dropped, "Well… me and the guys were sorta playing football… and I threw the ball a little too hard… and it hit her…" Ryo explained.
"Good good. How's your health, dear?" Lucy asked as she made a gesture for him to follow her. "Um, fine thanks." Ryo answered as he made his way up the stairs. Lucy lead him to the nearest living room, "You can just drop her onto the couch, Yuki," Lucy said as she walked over.
Ryo was wondering how she knew his real name – she didn't even tell him this one! Lucy smacked Alex on the cheeks lightly, but Alex didn't move. Instead, she curled up into a tight ball from getting hit again. She had a pillow with her, and was grabbing it tightly.
Lucy sighed. "I guess she woke up some time you were carrying her and fell asleep instead." Lucy said, and Ryo sweat dropped. "Inuyasha?" Lucy whispered into Alex's ear, which twitched and Alex stirred a bit, "Sesshoumaru!"
"HHHHAAAIIIII!!!!" Alex shouted, bolting up. After looking around for two seconds, Alex glared at Lucy, "You lied!"
"You woke up!"
"I didn't want to!"
"You got knocked out!"
"I did not!"
"Fine then. Keep on thinking that. And Yuki's here," Lucy said, pointing to Ryo. /Eh…? She's going kill me!/ Ryo thought quickly as Alex looked over to him, "Yuki? I don't know any Yuki's," Alex said a moment later, a blank look on her face.
"You don't?" both Lucy and Ryo said at the same time, "My goodness! And I thought you two knew already!" Lucy said excitedly, "Sit down, sit down. Now I can explain. ^_^" Lucy commanded happily.
Ryo sat down across from Alex, who was already starting on her first question, "Explain what?? I don't even know this guy," Alex mumbled, plopping her head onto the pillow.
"So you really don't know! I'm so glad I get to explain!" Lucy said, and both kids just stared at her like she was insane, "Where are the others, anyways? Shouldn't Kai be here?" Alex asked before Lucy could start, "Kai got dragged off into driving the girls to the mall. Said something about 'in case of abduction…' or something like that."
"But anyways! Let's get back to the main point! ^_^ I'm surprised that you don't even know, Yuki!" Lucy said happily. /Holy shit… She's getting… hyper…/ Alex thought.
"Know what?" /What does anything that has to do with me, have to do with her?/ Ryo thought confusedly as he waited for Lucy to continue.
"You two are engaged to each other, what else?!" Lucy said loudly, and immediately a whole crowd and both Alex and Ryo shouted, "What?!?"
"And what the hell are you guys doing here?!?! You're supposed to be shopping!" Alex shouted when she turned around. Nearly everyone was there, on the floor, except for Ryu and Kai, although there was no doubt they had heard.
"^_^;;;; Uh… just dropping by…" Tyson mumbled, "On the floor and eavesdropping!?" Alex shouted back. /She's my future wife? Oh crap… Now I really am in for it when she remembers who I am…/ Ryo thought sadly.
The girls squealed. "I'm so happy you're engaged!"
"Now you know who you're marrying!"
"You're so lucky! He's so adorable too!"
"…And he's on the Russian team!" Tone said a moment later when she took a closer look at Ryo, "Eh?!?!?"
Everyone looked towards Ryo, "What…?" he mumbled. "You're on one of the Russian teams?" Max asked, "I don't remember a Yuki on the Russian teams…" Ray mumbled, thinking back, "Ya… I don't remember one either…" Tyson agreed.
"But you do look like one of them…" Ray commented, "What was his name…?"
"Ray? No… that can't be it… that's your name…" Tyson mumbled. "It starts with a R! I know that!" Tyson said when he got bonked lightly on the head by Ray. "It's Ryo."
"You guys need to remember stuff more often," Ryu commented after the "Ooohhh.." 's Kai got when Kai stated his name.
Alex's mouth formed a small 'o' when Kai said this. "So he," A pause, "Is the captain of one of my enemies, and my fiancé? What the hell?" Alex mumbled. This is just so confusing, finding your future husband was your worst enemy. Typical, eh?
"Worst enemy, fiancé. Worst enemy, fiancé…. That just so doesn't make sense…" Alex mumbled next, and the next person that spoke made Kai and Alex stand straight, along with Lucy, "He won't be your enemy for much longer," the voice spoke.
(Hm… I need a name for Kai's dad. Something… cool, but not too cool it'd be too old for a grown up. Any suggestions? I'll just use 'Dad' for now… @_@)
Kai's father came into the room, looking as smug as ever, "Lillias wouldn't have wanted her daughter to be enemies, so you are now officially out of the tournament," he said, putting his hand on Ryo's shoulder, while Alex looked like she was going to faint.
/He's using mom against me!!/ Alex thought desperately. How could she fight back?
"How do you know that? Maybe Alex's mom wouldn't have wanted it that way!" Katrina said angrily. He was taking their captain away, just before the finals!! AND, he was using Alex's deceased mom against her! Despicable!
"Do not talk to me in such a manner! Do you know who you're talking to?!" He yelled, and in an instant, a loud smack! was heard Katrina was thrown back. Kai was immediately by her side, checking if she were ok.
Alex's bangs covered her eyes, preventing her friends from seeing what she was feeling, and possibly thinking. Her hands were balled up into tight fists, and she was shaking, a little.
Kai's dad smirked. "Have a good time. Lucy, prepare my room. I'll be coming back for tonight," he said as he walked out. Alex growled. That bastard!
Forgetting her current rage, she went over to Katrina, who was now sitting up, Kai's arm on her shoulders, "Are you ok, Katrina? Did that bastard hurt you?" she asked, and Katrina shook her head no. "I'm alright,"
"Alright my ass! If that bastard comes near you again -"
"We'll kick his ass further then the ionosphere," Kai finished. Katrina smiled a bit. Now Alex could deal with the rest of her problems.
Turning around and standing up to look at Ryo, who had not moved, she looked at him coldly, "I guess our battle's off then…" She mumbled. "We don't have enough players to battle in the tournament," Lya said sadly.
"Don't… Don't listen to him!" He said. Alex just stared at him. "And why shouldn't I? He's my legal guardian. He's my mother's brother. He knows her better then I do," Alex mumbled. "I can never really know for sure… if my mom would've wanted me to do this or that more then him… never."
"But that's the point. You never would really know." Ryo persisted. Alex sighed, looking at Katrina and Lya, "You guys should get someone else to blade with you. Just because I'm out, doesn't mean you two should be."
The two shook their heads, "Nah. We can't do that… It just wouldn't be fair…" Lya started, "…And it just wouldn't be fun without you! You're out captain, for goodness sake's!" Katrina finished.
Alex smiled. "Thank you…"
"Now we have to get into more serious business," Kai said coldly. He stood up, and Katrina stayed sitting on the steps, "Pack your things. You're leaving," Kai said coldly to everyone, "Oh ya… I had forgotten about that…" Alex mumbled.
"You guys…" Alex started, and Kai finished up, just as Alex suspected, "Need to pack out and leave."
"WHY?!" Everyone exclaimed. They were damn well happy with everything here, and now, after only a few days of staying in the Hiwatari Mansion, Kai and Alex were kicking them out?!
(Lucy already left…)
"Because Kai's dad is coming back to stay. You guys can't stay here. If you guys did, he'd kill us. He just probably thought you were guests just then… and besides, you wouldn't like it here if he were here. And you wouldn't like what you see. It's not the best movie of the century," Alex explained, emphasizing the word, 'kill'.
"Well then what're we going to do? Where are we going to stay?" Tyson said. And this is when Ryo spoke again: "You guys can stay at my place," he offered. "Your place?" Tone said. Their enemy was letting them stay at their place?!
"^-^;;; I'm sure you're very nice offering your place to us, but I don't think you could deal with us… I mean, we eat…. A lot." Tyson said, "You mean you eat a lot!" Max corrected.
"Oh, don't worry. My place is big enough to keep you guys there. And you guys will be fed. Full." Ryo said, "Really? Where do you live? Not that I want to know or anything…" Alex asked, mumbling the last part.
Ryo shrugged. "No problems – you're going to be living there later on anyways. I live pretty far from here, but it's not that far from the beystadium…" Ryo mumbled, looking down. "I'm a little uh…. Psyched about telling you guys, so don't scream or anything, ok?" Ryo asked, and the others nodded.
"Well, first I guess I should tell you my full, real name first. It's Yuki Sansai Yoarashi." Ryo said, and a gasp were heard from Lya as Alex smacked her forehead, "…So….?" Max asked, not sure what was going on.
"…I'm the heir to the throne of Russia," Ryo finished. "O.o;;;;"
"Man, I'm going to have to live in a palace after this? How the hell did Mom arrange this?" Alex said annoyingly. "What? You don't like the palace?" Ryo asked, as if offended, "Well, I've been there once… It was nice and all, loved the gardens, but I never expected to live there… I mean, I can't even handle my room, and you're saying that after I marry you I'll be a queen? I can't handle that!"
"Oh… Alex's right on that point. She tried taking care of a puppy once – poor thing ran away somewhere after the first few days she got it – we still haven't found it…." Lya mumbled, "And the poor goldfish too! Alex was so wrapped up in blading once, she forgot to feed her goldfish! Poor fella died from starvation!" Katrina agreed.
" You didn't have to point out all of those points!!!" Alex defended. Sure, not all her pets stayed alive, but she did manage some pets!
"Why are you letting us stay at your place, anyways? You're the enemy," Tone asked, still not fully trusting Ryo. I mean, he was on the opposite team… "That's only when we're in the beystadium. Here, I have nothing to hold against you… and besides… you're Alex's friends. And I mean, she will be my wife someday." Ryo explained.
Alex narrowed her eyes at this, "I don't want to rule over a country," she stated, loud and clear, "I don't want to wear dresses. And I am not going to follow rules that make me not allowed to do anything!!"
"Well, you don't necessarily need to follow the rules. I mean, look at me. I'm still joining the tournament and I still have duties to handle." Ryo said, and immediately he was surrounded by all sides… by luggage.
"LET'S GO!" Tyson and Max both cheered together, and Alex just sweat dropped as she was dragged along by Lya and Tone, Kai keeping a close eye on Katrina.
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Well, um… not too shabby? I just needed to get this through and over with so I could continue with the plot – more will happen later. Let's get to the review stuff now ^-^ :
Pyroyoko: You had trouble too? I thought I was the only one, and I was starting to get annoyed with my computer… I'm halfway happy that it's not my computer, and halfway sad that I couldn't read the fics I wanted to read….
And Aurora is going to be in this fic, but she'll come in a little later on, don't worry. ^-^
Bread 'N' B Butter: Wow. Thankies tons to you for the bit beast thing – I couldn't remember all of it. Did you watch the V-Force season too? It was really good. I'm hoping they get G Revolution done real soon… XD
Golden-Feline: Lol. ^-^;;;; my Bad on the Dember thing. I mustv'e typed "Tiger of the Heavens" by accident.. my bad my bad…
The other teams are going to come in sometime in this tournament, not much, but they'll come after the Russian tournament. I actually THOUGHT of something!! Lol.
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