Disclaimer: I don't own any of the beyblade characters, just merely borrowing them ^_~

A/N: I'm so glad everyone enjoyed my last story: "Blood Lust Or Love" so as promised here is the beginning of the sequel, which hopefully will be longer than the last one. But thanks to all my reviewers!!! You all rock!!!! ^_^

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Love Is Thicker Than Blood

Chapter 6: Another Close Call

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(Tyson's POV)

"HA! I beat you -again-" I shouted happily as Johnny grumbled.

"Gee Johnny what's that the millionth time he's beat you?" Max asked teasingly.

In response Johnny merely tossed a pillow at Max's head. Johnny was such a sore loser. It's not my fault I have such amazing skills and he doesn't. It would be so much easier on him if he just admitted that I was the 'Master'. No, no wait. the 'King'. Yeah royalty's better.

"King Tyson. yeah I like the sound of that."

"What are you blabbering about?" Kai asked coming in with Rei.

"Huh?"

"Baka! I think those games have fried your brain," Kai sneered.

"Fried? More like scrambled," Johnny said.

"Hey Guys. that's not very nice." I pouted sitting back onto the couch.

Boy, Kai and Johnny can be really mean. Who would have thought my amazing skills could produce such jealousy. Maybe I'll have to tune them down. Yeah, that's what I'll do. I'll act like I don't know about my amazing skills. Yeah, that'll work. Man. I'm hungry. I haven't eaten all day. I'm going to get something to eat.

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(Johnny's POV)

"Hey Tyson, where're you going?" I shouted as he got up to leave the room.

"Just going to go grab something to eat," he said as he left the room.

A few seconds later I could hear the front door closing. Now where would he be going to get something to eat when it's almost midnight? No place I know is open this late. Why would he even need to leave the house to get something to eat anyway? There's plenty of food in the kitchen. Gee, Robert's suspicions seem to keep on adding up.

"Maybe he is right."

"Who's right? About what?" Max asked as he bounced on the couch next to me.

"Err. Tyson's right, about me not being able to beat him," I said covering up for what I really meant.

"Well of course he is. You're just no good at the game," Max replied.

"Uh, yeah I guess not," I said glancing around.

Everyone seemed to have bought my excuse. Well. everyone except Kai. He was glaring at me with a real sinister look in his eye. He even held Rei closer to him, as if to protect him. There's definitely something going on.

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(Kai's POV)

"Gee why all the silence guys? Did you miss me that much? I was only gone for like ten minutes," Tyson said as he came back in.

"Dream on Tyson," Johnny said before ordering a rematch.

Robert and Johnny seem to be getting very suspicious lately. They've been snooping around a lot too. They don't think we've noticed but I have. Everywhere they've went I know. Things slightly out of place, doors open when they should be closed. They've been searching. Trying to find out our secret. If we're not careful they'll find out, and we'll all be in trouble. Baka's! They couldn't just live in their ignorance, no. They just -had- to act on their suspicions.

If either of them lay even a finger on Rei all hell will break lose. They'll have to answer to me, and there's no way I would let them get away. I'm going to have to keep an extra eye on those two. Those meddlesome idiots won't get away with this.

"Hey Tyson..." Oliver's voice sounded, breaking me out of my thoughts.

"Yeah?" Tyson asked turning to face Oliver.

"You've got something on your shirt," he said pointing it out.

Tyson looked down at his shirt, and there in plain view was a spot of blood. My eyes narrowed and I glared at him. How could he be so clumsy? How could he be so stupid? How could he be so careless as to not check himself for blood before he came back? Baka!

"Gee Tyson that looks an awful lot like blood," Robert said trying to get a closer look.

"What? Ne," Tyson denied before lifting his shirt and licked the spot. "It's just juice."

"Juice?" Robert asked skeptically, arching an eyebrow.

"Yeah it's really good. Wanna try some?" he asked holding his shirt out to Robert.

Seeing the look on Robert's face was priceless, but Tyson was taking a big risk in doing that. Lucky for him it worked, and Oliver dragged Robert into the kitchen to get some juice. I have to hand it to Tyson though. He's a quick thinker sometimes. He definitely saved our asses.

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TBC.