Last Ditch Attempt
By: cHiBi MiDnIgHt AsSaSsIn
Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade or it's respective characters. *breaks down crying and after a while, composes herself* Yeah, life's tough, deal with it.
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Chapter 4:
It was the next day and Alida woke up early to make breakfast. One by one, the BladeBreakers woke up and joined her in the kitchen, except Tyson.
"Good morning!" Alida greeted them happily.
Everyone but Max groaned groggily, still half asleep. "Good morning Alida!" he said, beaming at her.
Then Tyson came into the room.
The others blinked at him, and some of them gasped. "Tyson, why are you up so early?" asked Rei.
"I smelled food," Tyson said simply.
"Oh my god! We have a way of waking up Tyson!" yelled Kenny.
"Done!" announced Alida, stopping any further arguments, and everyone followed her to the dining room.
"Finally," said Tyson.
"Tyson!" yelled Rei.
"What?" asked Tyson cluelessly.
"It's alright," said Alida, trying to stop the oncoming fight.
They had a hearty but silent meal of breakfast.
"Alright, today is a day off, but tomorrow, we'll resume training. Is that clear?" asked Kai in a loud voice after everyone was finished eating.
Alida cleared the table and washed the dishes just like last night, while the BladeBreakers were off to do whatever they felt like.
After that Alida took their laundry and washed them in the basement. In about two hours, the clothes were finished washing and drying, and Alida was sitting in the living room, folding their clothes.
"Alida, what are you doing?" asked Rei, entering the room.
"Er…folding your guys' clothes?" she replied, giving him a weird look.
"But…but…" Rei faltered.
"You don't need to," Kai finished for him, coming into the room.
"But, that's what Voltaire sent me here for," she answered simply, going back to folding clothes.
Both boys looked at her dumbfounded.
"Besides, I'm happy to do it. Otherwise, I'll feel worthless," she continued giving them a smile. Alida finished folding the clothes, and they were separated into six piles: Kai's clothes, Rei's, Kenny's, Tyson's, Max's, and her own. She got up and started heading for their bedrooms, with the various piles.
"We'll take our own clothes to our rooms," Rei offered quickly, taking his and Kai's pile of clothes.
"Oh, um, alright then," said Alida, then she delivered her clothes to her room. Upon reaching Max's closed door, she knocked, and when she didn't receive an answer she assumed he was elsewhere, and put his clothes onto his bed.
Next was Tyson's room, she knocked on the door and did not receive an answer then either, so she opened the door and screamed loudly. She dropped Tyson's clothes on the floor, and sank to a sitting position, with her knees and thighs together, and the lower parts of her legs on either side of her. She fell to muttering apologies over and over again, and covered her eyes with her hands, Tyson's clothes scattered all around her.
Everyone rushed into the room and found Alida and Tyson's clothes on the floor. They raised their eyes at the thing that made her scream.
"Good god Tyson!" yelled Max. "Put on some clothes!"
Tyson was standing there, dripping wet from a recent shower, standing only in a white towel wrapped around his waist. He finally seemed to understand everything, and hurriedly rushed to another room to dress.
Meanwhile, Rei threaded his way through Tyson's clean clothes to the Alida, who was blushing extremely hard. "Are you okay?" he asked.
She nodded and mumbled something unintelligible, and still had her hands over her eyes.
"Shh…it's okay," assured Rei. He picked her up, and she took her hands away from her eyes and wrapped them around Rei's neck, afraid of falling, and buried her head into Rei's chest. Rei carried her out of the room, and to Alida's bed.
The others stared at each other for a while, until Tyson came bursting into the room, and Kenny and Max immediately set on him, scolding on him and such.
Kai simply left the room, and went outside for fresh air. Black Dranzer was getting harder and harder for him to ignore, and the nightmares weren't helping.
Rei sat down on Alida's bed, simply holding her for a while. Finally, Alida managed to stop blushing and looked up at Rei.
"Better?" he asked. Alida nodded. "Man, you must have been blinded when you walked in on Tyson. I mean, I don't think I could have taken it either. If I were you, I'd have probably needed to be sent to a hospital after that." Rei chuckled.
Alida laughed at this. "Thanks for helping me, Rei."
"No problem," he replied.
For the rest of the day, Alida tried to avoid Tyson, except at meal times, where it was unavoidable. During lunch, she met his eyes once and couldn't stop blushing for the rest of the meal.
During dinner, Tyson finally spoke up. "Alida, it's okay, stop acting weird alright? I mean, you didn't really see anything anyway."
Alida, shocked by his tactlessness, couldn't think of anything to say for a while. Finally, she muttered, "Sorry," again before pretending the whole thing never happened.
Again Alida stayed up late finishing the housework. After everyone had gone to sleep, she realized that Kai had not returned from his walk since the incident with Tyson.
She opened the door anxiously, and peered out into the darkness. Just then, Kai stumbled into the house, almost on top of Alida.
"Kai! Are you alright?" she shouted, for Kai was paler than usual and panting slightly.
When Kai almost collapsed, she gasped. Alida put his right arm over her shoulder and supported as much of his weight as possible and helped him to a sofa in the living room.
She took a seat next to him and was still supporting him. Kai was half leaning on Alida and it amazed both of them that none of the others had woken up to the noise they were making.
Kai, realizing his situation, quickly took his arm off of her shoulder and scooted away from her, leaving a consider gap between them on the sofa.
Alida just stared at him concernedly, she understood his need to seem tough at all times. "Kai? What happened?"
He didn't answer, he didn't even look at her. Tired of waiting for an answer, she yawned and got up.
"Well, if you're going to tell me, I might as well go to sleep. Do you need help getting to bed?" she asked in a quiet voice.
"No, but…" he trailed off. "Thanks."
She nodded and said, "It was because of Black Dranzer wasn't it?"
Kai looked up in surprise at what she said to see Alida crying.
"I'm really sorry Kai. If only I could go back, then you wouldn't have to suffer like this," she said softly, tears pouring down her cheeks.
Kai didn't know what to do. He got up and seized her wrists, making sure she was looking at him. "No," he replied quietly. "Alida, none of this is your fault. It's my grandfather's fault and you didn't cause any of this. Do you understand?"
"But…" she trailed off as Kai shook his head firmly.
"No buts, you are not to blame. We…" this was where Kai was having difficulty.
Oh why couldn't Rei or one of the others be doing this? They're bound to be better at it than me, Kai thought.
"We're glad that you're here with us. You've been a big help and you shouldn't even be here. You've been brave, leaving your family, enduring Tala and my grandfather—" Kai stopped abruptly as Alida stepped closer to him and buried her head in his chest, starting a new flood of tears.
What am I supposed to do?! he thought frantically. Kai released his grip on her wrists.
"Er…it's okay," he said in what he hoped was a reassuring voice. He needed to be strong right now, because Alida needed him. Kai awkwardly patted her on the back.
Meanwhile, Rei was spying from behind a crack in his bedroom doorway, where he'd left the door open an inch or so. He almost laughed out loud to see Kai in a situation where he didn't know a thing. He had to grab the pillow off his bed and stuff it in his mouth.
Poor Kai, lamented Rei, while calming down. Rei saw potential for those two, and even though he liked Alida, he knew that Kai needed her more, and began plotting something.
After a while, Kai and Alida went to bed, and Rei fell asleep. Once again, in the middle of the night, Alida checked up on the entire BladeBreakers team, before falling asleep until next morning.
To be continued…
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~cHiBi MidNiGhT aSsAsSiN
