NB: Finally figured out how to write this chapter.

Kirara: Where is everyone?

NB: Kaira is busy. Bladebreakers had training to do. Yusuke, Hiei, and Kurama had an assignment. Yugi is trying to get his yami and Seto Kaiba up if you remember that from the last chapter of High School Days. Neka's napping. So it's just us this time. Oh Joy's at marching band. Hidemi is probably doing homework and heaven knows where else everyone is.

Kirara: Ah. Wait a minute aren't you supposed to be studying?

NB: I am. Hydrogen symbol is H. Its atomic number is 1 and its atomic mass (rounded up or down) is 1. Lithium is Li, 3 and 7. Beryllium is Be, 4 and 9.

Kirara: Alright I get the picture. You're studying. Just get on with the chapter.

NB: Okay. But you need to do the disclaimers.

Kirara: You what people just go back the last couple of chapters for the disclaimer. I'm on vacation.

NB: That my yami. **sigh** Well then let's get on with the story.

~*~Last Time~*~

"Can we talk?"

~*~Ray's POV~*~

{Out here in the quiet of the night, Beneath the stars and moon We both know we've got somethin' on our minds We won't admit, but it's true}

Please don't push me away. Don't push me away. Not this time. Kai just sat there. I knew he was a bit shocked. He stills tries to push everyone away. Hoshi is the only I saw who manages to get Kai to open up to her. Then she went and pointed something out to me in one of our latest talks.

{You look at me, I look away.}

~*~Flashback~*~

"Ray what's up," asked Hoshi.

"Huh," said Ray as he looked up. He was just kinda just staring at the ground.

"You look like something on your mind. Want to talk," she asked.

"Ah just thinking how on earth you can get Kai to agree with you and to open up to you," said Ray.

Hoshi took a seat next to him. "If I recall right," she said, "You are the one he opens up to."

"Wha?!"

Hoshi gave him a smile. "If you look closely, you are the one who he looks at, you are the one who he watches, you are the one who he focus on when you Beyblade battle, you are the one he opens up to, you are the one who he listens to, you are the one who capture his heart." She had whispered that last part to herself. Ray never heard it. If he did well life probably would have been easier for him.

{I wanna tell you what I'm feeling, but I don't know how to start I wanna tell you, but now I'm afraid that you might break my heart Oh, why should anything so easy, ever be so hard to do? I wanna tell you what I'm feeling, and to say that, I love you.}

~*~End of Flashback~*~

I still don't believe her but maybe after this moment I'll start to believe her.

"What do you want to talk about," said Kai.

Okay maybe she was right.

"Do you know why Voltaire wants to take over the world?" Lame question. I could have come up with a better question.

"Who knows? Just something I can't figure out about my grandfather's twisted mind."

"Why did you leave us the first time Kai," I asked. The day that Kai told us he was leaving the Bladebreakers broke my heart and spirit in two, then mended when he came to me, to the team. But I never got to ask why he left in the first place.

Kai smirked at me. "I thought you figure that out already Ray. I left first because at that time all I thought about was power. I was becoming like my grandfather which was what he wanted me to become."

"Scary isn't it," I said. I couldn't help but shudder at the thought of Kai becoming like his grandfather.

"Hn. You'll have to thank Hoshi though. She's the one who opened my eyes. Tyson actually went and further help them to open when he saved me back on that lake."

That kinda shocked me. "Okay I know Tyson helped you there. I didn't know that Hoshi also help."

"She did. She's an old friend from long ago who I ran into. She has some helpful advice when you think about it."

I nodded. If Hoshi hadn't driven some of the advice in my head I probably would have killed myself because I missed Kai too much. Hey if nothing else works then maybe I can learn some more about Hoshi. She's still a completely mystery to me at times. "Is that why you suggest for her to join the team?"

"I asked her to join because of her skills as a blader. I'll admit that she's the only one who I lost to beside Tyson. But to us it's more like a game. She wins, I win the next one, and then she goes and wins the next one after that. Right now I claimed the last battle for myself."

Wow. Hoshi must have been real close to Kai for him to admit he lost to her. A pang of jealously hit me. I wish I was that close to Kai. But I wasn't, which was hard to say how I feel about him.

{I practice all the thing that I could say, Line by line, every word I tell myself today could be the day, But every time, I lose my nerve}

~*~Kai's POV~*~

Why did I agree to talk to Ray? This is not like me. Then again.. wait a second. Since when did I actually agree with Hoshi on this matter. I don't like Ray, I don't like Ray I don't like Ray, I do like Ray, I do like Ray. Wait that's not right! Alright I'll admit I love him. Yes I love him. God if Hoshi heard me say that I could never live it down.

Ray's next question did catch me off guard. I didn't expect that.

"Why do you push people away?"

Where did that question come from? I didn't answer right away.

"That's okay you don't have to answer," said Ray.

I guess he must have sensed my uneasiness. People always seem to sense that one emotion that I encounter every so often. But hey of all the people to find out about my past it should be Ray. If I ever want to tell him how I feel about him. I took a glance at my tiger, my kitten.

He looked beautiful in the moonlight. The light gave his raven black hair a glow. The wind blew his hair lightly. I could see his golden-amber eyes gleam with emotions. Those very same eyes staring at me. He truly did look like a cat when you really gave thought to it. Ah but that is one reason why he holds the Driger Bit Beast.

"Hn. I push people cause I don't want anyone to get close," I finally said.

"Why?"

You know I've been asked that question to many times by now. Mariah asked me why my grandfather kidnapped her, Hoshi asked why haven't I told Ray how I feel about, grandfather asked why I wouldn't just go along with his plans, Tyson asked why I was grouchy, and I can go on and on. And to think this happened within the last couple of days. I'm getting soft.

{I look at you, you look away}

~*Third Person POV~*~

A very lovely evening if you know what I mean. Two boys, and hopefully soon to be lovers, sat outside, enjoying each other's company under the moonlight. To any bystander you could just see the young love between them, despite all their attempts to hide it.

Now two girls would be jumping for joy if they saw this right now. Incase you were wondering one girl was trying to get Kai to hook up with Ray and the other girl could careless who Ray hooked up with as long as he/she was a nice person that treated her best friend with care. If you still don't know who these two girl are the first one was Hoshi and second was Mariah.

Now if a certain hungry powered grandfather found out about this well that wouldn't be too good now would it?

I'm boring you aren't I? Well let's get back to red phoenix and white tiger.

{I wanna tell you what I'm feeling, but I don't know how to start I wanna tell you, but now I'm afraid that you might break my heart Oh, why should anything so easy, ever be so hard to do?}

~*~

Kai took a glance at Ray. *Still as beautiful,* he thought. Kai mentally sigh. By the time he could get Ray, Mariah and himself out of this mess and away from his grandfather, he'll never find the time or the courage to tell Ray how he feels. The world was really against him.

All the same time Ray was pretty much thinking along the same lines about never finding the time or courage to tell Kai how he truly felt.

Now anyone who could see what was going on right now well two things could have happened. If it was a girl, they would probably pull out something hard like a mallet and hit Kai and Ray on the head and then yell at them like no tomorrow about just telling each other and other things. Something that. If it were a boy, well then I am thinking along the lines of they would punch one of them out and yell at them to just tell the other. Sorry but I'm a girl and the world of boys makes little sense to me. My brother and one of his friends brought this answer to you. I'm not joking. I really did ask my brother and one of his friends.

"So where are you from Ray," said Kai. He wanted to know more about his secret lover.

"Don't you know already? I'm from China, the White Tiger's Village," said Ray.

"No I meant like who are your parents and other things," said Kai. He mentally smacked himself from not being clearer.

"Ah I'm orphan to say for short," said Ray slowly. He was still a little jumpy about talking about his parents.

Kai turned and looked at Ray. He never knew that Ray was an orphan. It must have been hard for him. "My parents died of a rock slide," he said. "The hard part was I right there so I remember them being crushed to dead and I couldn't do anything about it. My mom's second cousin, Lee's mother, took me in. So that kind makes Lee my third cousin or something like that. It took me a while to get over my parents dead though."

"Sorry I didn't mean to bring back bad memories," said Kai.

"Ah don't worry about it," said Ray, "I'm kinda over it."

"That's still doesn't give me a right to bring back those memories," Kai shot back.

{I wanna tell you what I'm feeling, and to say that, I love you.}

"So Kai why don't you tell me what your past was like. I know that you trained at the abbey but is there anything else," asked Ray. Kai knew his past and Ray was a bit curious about Kai's. He knew that Kai grew up in the abbey to become a prefect blader and that Voltaire would do anything to rule the world, even at the cost of the life of his grandson. But nothing else after that.

"Not really," Kai said softly. "Just I never knew my parents and few other things to name. For as long as I could remember I was at the abbey."

"Was it hard for you there?"

"Hn at first it was. After awhile I got use to the beatings and endless training. It just became a routine to me. Eventually I didn't even feel pain or true happiness for that matter," said Kai as he reflected on his past.

"Oh. Did you have any friends?"

"No Boris didn't like the idea of having friends, though I did have one, but she escape from the abbey. I gave her a little help. She's been hiding even since."

"Really," said Ray. From what he saw at the abbey, the kids either didn't want to leave, too scared to leave, or it was impossible to escape.

"In fact you know her quite well, Ray or at least well enough," said Kai with a smirk on his face.

"I do," said a very confused white tiger. He didn't know anyone that was grew up in the abbey aside from Kai. Aside from the Bladebreakers, All Stars, Majestics, and White Tigers, everyone else he knew was from the White Tiger's Village. The Demolition Boys were the only ones he knew beside from Kai that grew up in the abbey, unless someone was hiding a secret.

"Yes," said Kai, "Hoshi also grew up in the abbey. But like I said she escaped and with most of her emotion still intact."

"Hoshi," said Ray. He never expected that. That did explained a few things about Hoshi. Why she seemed some much like Kai now made sense. *So that's why she seemed so cold and lost in thought lately,* Ray thought. *She must be worried sick over me and Kai.*

"Hn she faked her death and has been hiding ever since. I didn't even recognized her when I met her again," said Kai.

"That explains to why Boris and your grandfather weren't looking for her right? It also explains to why Hoshi reminds me of you in plenty ways," commented Ray. "She could probably pass as your sister or something," Ray joked, "and to think I thought I had her figured out."

Kai gave a small smile and had to agree with Ray on that one. But with a different reason though. "Well Hoshi is like. You'll never know what she'll do next. Where some people would go right or left, Hoshi would go up and come down in an angle. That what makes her so dangerous in a Beybattle. There is no way you can predict her move unless you've seen battle over a million times. But even then she manages to surprise me in every battle we have."

"Huh?"

"Hoshi is one to do things a different way. Kinda like looking at an art piece. Everyone else many just see a piece of fruit. Hoshi will look at the bigger picture. She may see why the artist decided to draw that particular fruit. That's just the way she is. By now she probably figured that Mariah is here that she and Kenny are probably the next people that grandfather is trying to capture. She's probably a mess right now."

"Why do you say that," Ray asked.

"Well she knows that Voltaire is back but he doesn't know that she's still alive. She knows that you've been captured already and she's caught between staying here or making a run for it," Kai said.

"Why make a run for it?"

"Let's just say if grandfather had his way he would have conquered the world already if Hoshi didn't disappear like that."

"Huh?"

"Let's just say Hoshi was a vital key in my grandfather's plans just like I am. Without her and me not cooperating, he resulted to do exactly what he did last year. Attempt to steal the bit beast and use them to take over the world. Had we both cooperated well I would have never met you guys. Though I think not meeting Tyson would be a blessing."

"What do you have against Tyson anyway?"

"Nothing really. He's just the first person I lost to beside Hoshi. I wasn't too happy. He's an okay guy given that he stops slacking and actually trains once in awhile. Oh he learns table manners." Kai when on pointing out what Tyson could improve on. Ray smiled to himself. It was nice to hear Kai all opened like this. He wished silently to himself that if he and Kai (of course Mariah too) even get out of this mess that not only would he tell Kai how he felt, he wished that Kai would be opened to others. Hoshi however seems to already know this side of Kai but the others, oh boy. Tyson, Max, and Kenny would all flip out seeing Kai act like this.

{Why, do you turn away? It must be, you're afraid like me I try, but I can't pretend that I Don't feel for you the way I do Can't you see?}

~*~An hour later~*~

They had spend a lot time in silence just enjoying each other company. Ray saw a side of Kai he never seen before not to mention knew a more things about his captain and co-captain. Kai surprised himself with the fact that he opened to Ray. Very different from his regular self, but hey a little change is always good as long as the change itself was good.

Kai looked at the stars shining in the stars above him before he felt something fall onto his shoulder. Ray had fallen asleep. His head was resting on Kai's shoulder as his bangs fell neatly around his face. Kai stroke the purple tinted black bangs, before letting out a sigh. *You win Hoshi. I admit it. I'm in love with Ray,* he thought. Kai lead his head onto Ray's, blue mixing with black and purple. *I think I'll just stay like this for a while,* he thought. Yes he would just enjoy the small moment with Ray for now. In his mind, Kai didn't have a single care or worry in the world. Everything was perfect for now.

{I wanna tell you what I'm feeling, but I don't know how to start I wanna tell you, but now I'm afraid that you might break my heart Oh, why should anything so easy, ever be so hard to do? I wanna tell you what I'm feeling, and to say that, I love you.

I wanna tell you what I'm feeling, but I don't know how to start I wanna tell you, but now I'm afraid that you might break my heart Oh, why should anything so easy, ever be so hard to do? I wanna tell you what I'm feeling, and to say that, I love you.}

~*~

NB: Okay that's it.

Kirara: Nice.

NB: Ah and don't expect the next chapter any time soon. I hit a writer's block. Sorry. .

Kirara: Well don't forget to review.

NB: Bye!