TKC: Hiiiiiiiiiiiii there... this is my first fic so.. don't expect much outta me

Disclaimor: I don't own the characters or any stuff related to Beyblade.

Chapter 1: Too Much

The sun rose slowly over the many hills and mounds of snow, its rays just barely visible through the thick, mossy forest of trees that surrounded the area. Sunlit snow glistened in the dim light coolly, while a long haired lone figure trained. The raven-haired boy shivered slightly, but regained focus quickly as his blade neared another pine tree.

"Drigger! Tiger Claw attack!" Rei yelled, flinching as one of the bruises from an earlier battle began to throb painfully.

Drigger rose out of his beyblade fiercely, roaring into the peacefulness of the morning as he charged to obey his master's command. The beyblade sped up in an effort to slice through the tree, but only managed to get embedded into the trunk.

"Oh Drigger..." Rei said quietly as he stumbled forward to retrieve the beyblade,"Ever since that battle with Brian, neither of us has been at the top of our game. We both got hurt, but we've got to get through this." Rei fingered the beyblade that had fresh scratches in the attack ring.

"You can get through this when you're both completely healed." a deep voice said from behind a tree. Leaning on the tree with his arms crossed, eyes closed, and two-toned hair slightly swaying in the cold breeze was none other than Kai Hiwatari.

"K-Kai!" Rei stuttered as he jumped back in surprise,"What're you doing here so early?"

"I could ask you the same question." Kai replied, turning to the Drigger master and throwing him an icy glare, "You know that the doctor's orders were for you to stay at the hotel and to rest."

"But Kai! I need to start training again!" Rei retaliated, taking a step forward to his captain and clutching the beyblade, "You and I both know that lying around in bed isn't helping my beyblading skills!"

Kai's expression softened, and he turned away from Rei,"I didn't say you couldn't train, there's a perfectly good dish in the hotel. You didn't have to come all the way out here you know." Kai left it at that and began walking in the direction back to the hotel they were staying at from during the World Championship.

Rei stared as Kai began walking away, but snapped out of it as a shooting pain ran through his arm.



"What the-" Rei stopped mid-sentence as he examined his arm. He cursed at his bad luck as his re-opened wound was bleeding heavily. The neko-jin began to pant as the pangs of pain grew stronger and more frequent.

"Rei?" Kai's voice questioned as he heard Rei's uneven panting. Kai looked back just in time to hear Rei's agonizing cry as he collapsed onto the snow, staining it a deep red.

~*~

"Do you think---------------------soon?"

"I ----------. We should --------------."

"I'll lo-------" A door opened and someone left the room.

"Ugh..." Rei groaned as he heard bits and pieces of people talking. His golden eyes fluttered open, taking in the blurred images of 2 figures.

"Rei! You're awake!" Max said, rushing over to Rei's hospital bed, "How're ya feelin'?"

"I'm okay I guess..." Rei said, bringing his freshly bandaged hand to his forehead, "What happened?"

"You were training or something and collapsed!" Tyson said, appearing at Max's side, "Good thing Mr. Sourpuss was there." Rei sat up at this.

"Kai? Where is-" Rei started, but was cut off.

Just then, the hospital room door opened. Mr. Dickinson, with a relieved look on his face when he saw Rei up, walked in followed by Kenny and a doctor.

"Good to see you up, Rei." Mr. Dickinson said with a cheery tone.

"Though it seems you over did it, Mr. Kon." the doctor said, flipping through the papers on his clipboard, "Mr. Dickinson has informed me that you all will be travelling home soon, after a charity Beyblade match, am I correct?"

Everyone in the room, excluding Rei, nodded to the doctor.

"I'm afraid to say that you won't be participating in any matches soon," the doctor continued, "and you will have to find someone to accompany you home."

"What about his injuries?" Max spoke up.

"Well, they've re-opened quite badly so we'll give you some pain killers to help treat it." the doctor replied, stopping at one of the papers on the clipboard, 'It says here you were up in the woods when this incident happened, we'll have to run some tests to make sure you haven't caught something."

TBC....

TKC: .... I'm probably supposed to say something here... but whatever. (Doesn't "TKC" remind u of "KFC" or look like the "TBC" thing?) I'll try to update as soon as I can!

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