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Today be a sad day in the world. This is the last chapter! If there are any of you left after all that soppiness, thanks for enjoying my stories, and if any of you enjoyed this a lot, I have other stories about other things that you might like to hear about, just drop me an email and I'll send you excerpts.*SOB* BYE BYE!!!
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Chapter 26
Nanasi's memory.
Kai eventually returned when everyone had gone inside. He didn't notice Nanasi sitting on the edge of the pool, her face covered by her hair.
"What are you doing out here Kai?" she asked startling him. For a moment he thought it was Nina, he whirled around. When he saw Nanasi he smirked.
"I could ask you the same thing Awara," he replied snidely.
"I thought I'd come out and enjoy myself for once," she replied, her face still covered by her hair.
"What, you saying you actually wish to have fun?" he asked in mock surprise, walking to Nanasi's side of the pool. She stood up and dove in, leaving Kai to sit on the edge of the pool alone. She re-emerged a little way in.
"I guess so, more fun than you could ever have anyway, you're so dull," she said smiling smugly, her face now visible as the water had pushed all her hair back.
"I see," he replied and lay back on the concrete as Nanasi began to swim laps. He didn't notice her submerge and swim silently over to him, not leaving a ripple to give away her position in the water.
"Dunk time!" she shouted emerging and grabbing his legs. He sat up and had barely a moment to catch his breath as Nanasi pulled him in. He emerged spluttering, his shirt clinging to him.
"I'll get you Nanasi!" he shouted and took off his shirt.
"Ooh, Mr Hiwitari is getting serious," she said with a laugh and then submerged again, swimming away fast. Kai dove under in pursuit, following the bubble trail left by her rapid kicking. She re-emerged in the darker half of the pool, making it difficult to see his movement or his pale skin.
"Oh dear," he said appearing behind her. She screamed before he tackled her under, her legs kicking wildly. They wrestled under the water until Nanasi managed to get away, swimming rapidly to the lighter part of the pool. Kai caught up to her quickly and grabbed her around the middle, reefing her out of the water; laughing and spluttering obscenities.
"I'll get you Hiwitari!" she shouted twisting herself in his grip so she faced him, her hands resting on his shoulders as they laughed it up. She smacked him good naturedly as he put her down.
"Nanasi." Kai began but didn't know what to say. His hand was still holding her waist loosely, but she didn't pull away. Instead she wiped away a trickle of blue paint that washed off his tattoos and then ran her finger along his face.
"I didn't want to leave, I really missed you," she said quietly, water dripped from her hair down her curved body.
"Then why did you?" he asked just as quietly.
"I had too, what good is it learning something if you only ever got to fight the same people except at one time of the year?" she replied looking down. Kai sighed, she was right, she always was. At the time, whenever she used to argue her point at being right at the abbey, he figured it was because she was a girl and she demanded being right as a woman thing.
"You're right, but you could have told me," he replied softly, his heart thumping in his chest. He was surprised she couldn't hear it.
"I couldn't, I knew you'd either stop me or follow me and I didn't want you to get hurt in case I got caught," she said, a tear running down her face and mingling with the pool water that dripped from her hair. Again she was right; he probably would have gone after her if he'd known sooner.
"I suppose you're right, but I left not too soon after anyway," he said softly, pulling her closer. She shuddered slightly and then relaxed into his arms. He lifted her head so she was looking at him. "But still, I missed you but knew that you'd be found if you wanted to be so I didn't bother looking."
She laughed at this, small crystal like tears forming in her eyes. "You always did think things logically before acting," she said with a small laugh. Kai wiped away her tears, looking into her deep brown eyes that captured the little light that was around them.
"Nanasi.I-" Kai began but Nanasi stopped him by holding a finger to his lips. She leaned in closer to him, her body touching his and Kai knew that everything would be right. He leant down and their lips touched, smoothly moving against each other; the friction sending chills down their spines.
They moved away and looked back at each other, both set of icy eyes softened and content. Nanasi leant her head against Kai's chest and they stood there for a moment; before a loud cheer was heard from the hotel's upper windows.
"Yeah!"
"It's about time! You two were killing me with suspense!"
"Go Kai!"
"Woo hoo Nanasi!"
The pair looked up to see practically the whole hotel looking down on them, big grins on their faces.
"What the-?" Nanasi stammered before laughing. Tyson, Ray and Max hung out their windows, big grins on their faces. Alice, Uriko and Hilary were also hanging from another window, clapping loudly.
Kai laughed, still holding Nanasi who was hanging onto Kai for support because she was laughing so hard. Kai bent down and kissed her on the cheek once more before pulling her to the side and lifting her out.
In the hotel Hilary, Uriko, Alice, Ray, Tyson, Max, Kenny and Yugo were peeking out the windows, watching the pair as they wrestled. They watched the whole event until the pair kissed when none could hold their excitement and cried out, cheering at the pair. Soon everyone was looking out the windows of their rooms, cheering for the couple.
"Ah, a nice day's work I think," Hilary said sitting on her bed. Tyson sat next to her.
"What are you talking about?" Tyson asked looking at her strangely. "You didn't do what I think you did?"
"I went and had a go a Kai that's all," Hilary replied shrugging.
"Well I went and spoke to Nanasi," Yugo said with a laugh.
"Yeah, we voted and agreed he should, his bigger than us and wouldn't be killed so easily," Ray replied before being tackled by Uriko.
"Not nice," Uriko said with a wink, sitting on his stomach. Ray grinned menacingly.
"Well I think it worked out great in the end," Alice said from beside Yugo. "It finally got those two realise what they had been missing for so many years apart."
"I'd like to know what happened between those two though, why do you think they were so much alike?" Max asked in interest as Shina sat down beside him with a pack of cards.
"Hang on, didn't you guys say something about Kai becoming the way he is because of his Grandfather and because of the Abbey he sent him to school at?" Shina asked looking around at the Bladebreakers.
"Yeah, so what?" Tyson asked shrugging. Hilary hit him.
"You idiot, don't you see?" she said sharply. He grimaced at her.
"What she means Tyson is that maybe Nanasi went to the same Abbey when she was younger," Kenny explained typing into Dizzi. "Do you think you can check it out for us Dizzi?"
"I'm on it Chief," she replied. Ray turned to Uriko.
"Let's start with how you guys came to meet her," Ray said tapping her shoulder. Uriko looked over at Alice who shrugged.
"Well, I met Nanasi at school and liked her straight away," Uriko replied turning back to look at Ray with a grin. "She was in the grade below me, and she was also taking my limelight as the best competitor in the school."
"I met her in the same way too, except she turned up at one of the martial arts tournaments that I was champion in and beat me," Alice said frowning slightly.
"Is that why she asked you what you wanted on the first day of the tournament?" Max asked Alice nodded.
"I was forever trying to rip her up, but there was something about her that always stopped me, at the time she didn't even realise she was a Zoanthrope," Alice replied. "And this was about four years ago."
"I was the one that helped her realise she was a Zoanthrope," Yugo admitted from next to Alice. "I found her at one of Tylon's labs and threatened I'd kill her if she didn't tell me what was going on. She was a lot younger than me but I didn't care. I was more concerned for my own agenda, I attacked her causing her to re-awaken the beast oxides."
"Gee, you are so nice," Long said testily. "She came to me next, she was scared and in need of protection. She stumbled across my cave in the Chinese mountains and was scared out of her wits, she wouldn't speak though."
"So how did you find out about her?" Tyson asked.
"She slowly began to talk to me after several months of me helping her with her fighting, she had to speak to me after that," he replied.
"I met Nanasi when dad and I were working as mercenaries for Tylon, she proved to us just how bad Tylon was," Shina said quietly.
"Alright then, we know about her Zoanthrope history, but what about her Mishima history?" Kenny said turning to Henna.
"Well, I wasn't here at the time but I heard things about her," Henna replied. "She was the best person at everything except the things that Jin could beat her in which was usually only fighting. Mishima didn't like the influence Nanasi had over Jin and wanted to get rid of her."
"Really? Is that what she was talking about when she said that she ahd thrown his assassin into the sea?" Hilary asked. Henna nodded.
"Yeah, Mishima knew Jin wouldn't stand for it and he had to do it secretly so he lured her to the cliff and tried to kill her, they all thought she died, but I met her in Emerald City, she saved me from Fox."
"Cool, she's so nice and yet you can't get a decent conversation out of her before," Alice said nodding. "But hang on, why would Fox have been chasing you?" she asked eyeing Henna critically. Henna blushed a little. Then she flashed slightly, growing a tail and ears.
"I'm a Zoanthrope too," she replied in her coyote form. She quickly changed back.
"I'm into the Abbey's past records," Dizzi announced. They all crowded around and had a look. "They're pretty old, here's Kai's old records and some photos." She brought the records and photos onto the screen.
"Aww, isn't he cute?" Hilary said to Uriko giggling. Shina looked at them strangely and shook her head in disgust. It was a picture of Kai when he was younger blading. He wouldn't have been more than five.
"Now that looks like the Kai we know now," Ray said pointing to another picture coming onto the screen. It was when he was ten, he was battling at a Beydish and there was someone standing across from him. They were staring coldly at each other, not paying any attention to their Beyblades that were battling.
"Hang on, give us a close up of that person," Yugo said pointing to Kai's opposition. Dizzi closed in on the other figure.
"Hey, it's wearing red combat pants," Max said looking at it closely. "I can't see the face though."
"I'll try putting Nanasi's name into the search log," Kenny replied and typed it up. It searched for a while and then beeped.
"Hey, it found something," Shina said looking over his shoulder. Kenny clicked the link and it opened to a picture of a ragged looking five year old that looked nearly nothing like Nanasi.
"That can't be Nanasi could it?" Alice asked in surprise.
"It could be, if she entered the establishment at a young age," Long replied nodding. "But still, this girl is far to tiny to be Nanasi, look at how small her arms and legs are, and have any of you ever seen Nanasi wearing a dress let alone one like that?" They shook their heads.
"Just goes to show how well you know me then doesn't it?" a voice asked from the door.
Nanasi stood there, Kai's arm wrapped around her waist.
"Oh, Nanasi, we didn't." Hilary stammered.
"Cut your blabbering, I don't care if you tried looking me up," she said wearily. "But don't you think it would have been easier to ask me?"
"Well, we thought you wouldn't want to tell us," Uriko replied sheepishly. Nanasi shrugged.
"If you'd asked me when we'd first met, I probably couldn't have told you," she replied walking in and sitting down on a chair. "I didn't know until yesterday."
"How come?" Kenny asked.
"She suppressed the memory like I did," Kai replied for her. "It caused her to forget about everything before Mishima Financial Group."
"Which is why I had no memory of Kai, Voltaire or Boris," she said the last words with distaste. "But now I do remember, and I'm glad I do. I can get on with my life without any suppressed thoughts niggling at me to remember."
You know, any second I'm going to crack.but at least it's over. I can happily say that I got no flames for this story. Thanks. I would have hated you if anyone did send me flames(Grr) but they didn't. Don't forget to let me know what you thought of my story overall!
Luv (for the last time) Krayon
Today be a sad day in the world. This is the last chapter! If there are any of you left after all that soppiness, thanks for enjoying my stories, and if any of you enjoyed this a lot, I have other stories about other things that you might like to hear about, just drop me an email and I'll send you excerpts.*SOB* BYE BYE!!!
And onto the story.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Chapter 26
Nanasi's memory.
Kai eventually returned when everyone had gone inside. He didn't notice Nanasi sitting on the edge of the pool, her face covered by her hair.
"What are you doing out here Kai?" she asked startling him. For a moment he thought it was Nina, he whirled around. When he saw Nanasi he smirked.
"I could ask you the same thing Awara," he replied snidely.
"I thought I'd come out and enjoy myself for once," she replied, her face still covered by her hair.
"What, you saying you actually wish to have fun?" he asked in mock surprise, walking to Nanasi's side of the pool. She stood up and dove in, leaving Kai to sit on the edge of the pool alone. She re-emerged a little way in.
"I guess so, more fun than you could ever have anyway, you're so dull," she said smiling smugly, her face now visible as the water had pushed all her hair back.
"I see," he replied and lay back on the concrete as Nanasi began to swim laps. He didn't notice her submerge and swim silently over to him, not leaving a ripple to give away her position in the water.
"Dunk time!" she shouted emerging and grabbing his legs. He sat up and had barely a moment to catch his breath as Nanasi pulled him in. He emerged spluttering, his shirt clinging to him.
"I'll get you Nanasi!" he shouted and took off his shirt.
"Ooh, Mr Hiwitari is getting serious," she said with a laugh and then submerged again, swimming away fast. Kai dove under in pursuit, following the bubble trail left by her rapid kicking. She re-emerged in the darker half of the pool, making it difficult to see his movement or his pale skin.
"Oh dear," he said appearing behind her. She screamed before he tackled her under, her legs kicking wildly. They wrestled under the water until Nanasi managed to get away, swimming rapidly to the lighter part of the pool. Kai caught up to her quickly and grabbed her around the middle, reefing her out of the water; laughing and spluttering obscenities.
"I'll get you Hiwitari!" she shouted twisting herself in his grip so she faced him, her hands resting on his shoulders as they laughed it up. She smacked him good naturedly as he put her down.
"Nanasi." Kai began but didn't know what to say. His hand was still holding her waist loosely, but she didn't pull away. Instead she wiped away a trickle of blue paint that washed off his tattoos and then ran her finger along his face.
"I didn't want to leave, I really missed you," she said quietly, water dripped from her hair down her curved body.
"Then why did you?" he asked just as quietly.
"I had too, what good is it learning something if you only ever got to fight the same people except at one time of the year?" she replied looking down. Kai sighed, she was right, she always was. At the time, whenever she used to argue her point at being right at the abbey, he figured it was because she was a girl and she demanded being right as a woman thing.
"You're right, but you could have told me," he replied softly, his heart thumping in his chest. He was surprised she couldn't hear it.
"I couldn't, I knew you'd either stop me or follow me and I didn't want you to get hurt in case I got caught," she said, a tear running down her face and mingling with the pool water that dripped from her hair. Again she was right; he probably would have gone after her if he'd known sooner.
"I suppose you're right, but I left not too soon after anyway," he said softly, pulling her closer. She shuddered slightly and then relaxed into his arms. He lifted her head so she was looking at him. "But still, I missed you but knew that you'd be found if you wanted to be so I didn't bother looking."
She laughed at this, small crystal like tears forming in her eyes. "You always did think things logically before acting," she said with a small laugh. Kai wiped away her tears, looking into her deep brown eyes that captured the little light that was around them.
"Nanasi.I-" Kai began but Nanasi stopped him by holding a finger to his lips. She leaned in closer to him, her body touching his and Kai knew that everything would be right. He leant down and their lips touched, smoothly moving against each other; the friction sending chills down their spines.
They moved away and looked back at each other, both set of icy eyes softened and content. Nanasi leant her head against Kai's chest and they stood there for a moment; before a loud cheer was heard from the hotel's upper windows.
"Yeah!"
"It's about time! You two were killing me with suspense!"
"Go Kai!"
"Woo hoo Nanasi!"
The pair looked up to see practically the whole hotel looking down on them, big grins on their faces.
"What the-?" Nanasi stammered before laughing. Tyson, Ray and Max hung out their windows, big grins on their faces. Alice, Uriko and Hilary were also hanging from another window, clapping loudly.
Kai laughed, still holding Nanasi who was hanging onto Kai for support because she was laughing so hard. Kai bent down and kissed her on the cheek once more before pulling her to the side and lifting her out.
In the hotel Hilary, Uriko, Alice, Ray, Tyson, Max, Kenny and Yugo were peeking out the windows, watching the pair as they wrestled. They watched the whole event until the pair kissed when none could hold their excitement and cried out, cheering at the pair. Soon everyone was looking out the windows of their rooms, cheering for the couple.
"Ah, a nice day's work I think," Hilary said sitting on her bed. Tyson sat next to her.
"What are you talking about?" Tyson asked looking at her strangely. "You didn't do what I think you did?"
"I went and had a go a Kai that's all," Hilary replied shrugging.
"Well I went and spoke to Nanasi," Yugo said with a laugh.
"Yeah, we voted and agreed he should, his bigger than us and wouldn't be killed so easily," Ray replied before being tackled by Uriko.
"Not nice," Uriko said with a wink, sitting on his stomach. Ray grinned menacingly.
"Well I think it worked out great in the end," Alice said from beside Yugo. "It finally got those two realise what they had been missing for so many years apart."
"I'd like to know what happened between those two though, why do you think they were so much alike?" Max asked in interest as Shina sat down beside him with a pack of cards.
"Hang on, didn't you guys say something about Kai becoming the way he is because of his Grandfather and because of the Abbey he sent him to school at?" Shina asked looking around at the Bladebreakers.
"Yeah, so what?" Tyson asked shrugging. Hilary hit him.
"You idiot, don't you see?" she said sharply. He grimaced at her.
"What she means Tyson is that maybe Nanasi went to the same Abbey when she was younger," Kenny explained typing into Dizzi. "Do you think you can check it out for us Dizzi?"
"I'm on it Chief," she replied. Ray turned to Uriko.
"Let's start with how you guys came to meet her," Ray said tapping her shoulder. Uriko looked over at Alice who shrugged.
"Well, I met Nanasi at school and liked her straight away," Uriko replied turning back to look at Ray with a grin. "She was in the grade below me, and she was also taking my limelight as the best competitor in the school."
"I met her in the same way too, except she turned up at one of the martial arts tournaments that I was champion in and beat me," Alice said frowning slightly.
"Is that why she asked you what you wanted on the first day of the tournament?" Max asked Alice nodded.
"I was forever trying to rip her up, but there was something about her that always stopped me, at the time she didn't even realise she was a Zoanthrope," Alice replied. "And this was about four years ago."
"I was the one that helped her realise she was a Zoanthrope," Yugo admitted from next to Alice. "I found her at one of Tylon's labs and threatened I'd kill her if she didn't tell me what was going on. She was a lot younger than me but I didn't care. I was more concerned for my own agenda, I attacked her causing her to re-awaken the beast oxides."
"Gee, you are so nice," Long said testily. "She came to me next, she was scared and in need of protection. She stumbled across my cave in the Chinese mountains and was scared out of her wits, she wouldn't speak though."
"So how did you find out about her?" Tyson asked.
"She slowly began to talk to me after several months of me helping her with her fighting, she had to speak to me after that," he replied.
"I met Nanasi when dad and I were working as mercenaries for Tylon, she proved to us just how bad Tylon was," Shina said quietly.
"Alright then, we know about her Zoanthrope history, but what about her Mishima history?" Kenny said turning to Henna.
"Well, I wasn't here at the time but I heard things about her," Henna replied. "She was the best person at everything except the things that Jin could beat her in which was usually only fighting. Mishima didn't like the influence Nanasi had over Jin and wanted to get rid of her."
"Really? Is that what she was talking about when she said that she ahd thrown his assassin into the sea?" Hilary asked. Henna nodded.
"Yeah, Mishima knew Jin wouldn't stand for it and he had to do it secretly so he lured her to the cliff and tried to kill her, they all thought she died, but I met her in Emerald City, she saved me from Fox."
"Cool, she's so nice and yet you can't get a decent conversation out of her before," Alice said nodding. "But hang on, why would Fox have been chasing you?" she asked eyeing Henna critically. Henna blushed a little. Then she flashed slightly, growing a tail and ears.
"I'm a Zoanthrope too," she replied in her coyote form. She quickly changed back.
"I'm into the Abbey's past records," Dizzi announced. They all crowded around and had a look. "They're pretty old, here's Kai's old records and some photos." She brought the records and photos onto the screen.
"Aww, isn't he cute?" Hilary said to Uriko giggling. Shina looked at them strangely and shook her head in disgust. It was a picture of Kai when he was younger blading. He wouldn't have been more than five.
"Now that looks like the Kai we know now," Ray said pointing to another picture coming onto the screen. It was when he was ten, he was battling at a Beydish and there was someone standing across from him. They were staring coldly at each other, not paying any attention to their Beyblades that were battling.
"Hang on, give us a close up of that person," Yugo said pointing to Kai's opposition. Dizzi closed in on the other figure.
"Hey, it's wearing red combat pants," Max said looking at it closely. "I can't see the face though."
"I'll try putting Nanasi's name into the search log," Kenny replied and typed it up. It searched for a while and then beeped.
"Hey, it found something," Shina said looking over his shoulder. Kenny clicked the link and it opened to a picture of a ragged looking five year old that looked nearly nothing like Nanasi.
"That can't be Nanasi could it?" Alice asked in surprise.
"It could be, if she entered the establishment at a young age," Long replied nodding. "But still, this girl is far to tiny to be Nanasi, look at how small her arms and legs are, and have any of you ever seen Nanasi wearing a dress let alone one like that?" They shook their heads.
"Just goes to show how well you know me then doesn't it?" a voice asked from the door.
Nanasi stood there, Kai's arm wrapped around her waist.
"Oh, Nanasi, we didn't." Hilary stammered.
"Cut your blabbering, I don't care if you tried looking me up," she said wearily. "But don't you think it would have been easier to ask me?"
"Well, we thought you wouldn't want to tell us," Uriko replied sheepishly. Nanasi shrugged.
"If you'd asked me when we'd first met, I probably couldn't have told you," she replied walking in and sitting down on a chair. "I didn't know until yesterday."
"How come?" Kenny asked.
"She suppressed the memory like I did," Kai replied for her. "It caused her to forget about everything before Mishima Financial Group."
"Which is why I had no memory of Kai, Voltaire or Boris," she said the last words with distaste. "But now I do remember, and I'm glad I do. I can get on with my life without any suppressed thoughts niggling at me to remember."
You know, any second I'm going to crack.but at least it's over. I can happily say that I got no flames for this story. Thanks. I would have hated you if anyone did send me flames(Grr) but they didn't. Don't forget to let me know what you thought of my story overall!
Luv (for the last time) Krayon