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 6:
Kai woke up to find that Alida was sitting on a chair next to his bed, arranging flowers on his bedside table.
"How are you feeling?" she asked Kai.
"What are you doing?" he asked in return.
"Arranging flowers that I picked from the forest behind the house, see? The blue flowers represent you, the red flowers represent Dranzer, and the white ones represent your partnership and unity," she finished with a smile.
"I've never seen flowers that were arranged to represent things," said Kai.
"Yeah, it's something my sister and I came up with," she said wistfully, staring at the flowers.
"What time is it?" asked Kai tactfully, not wanting Alida to cry all over him again.
"It's just past noon. Are you hungry?" she asked, finishing with the flowers and looking over at him.
"No, I'm bored," he replied. "I need to do something."
"Well…can you get up and walk around by yourself?" Alida inquired.
Kai proceeded to get up from his bed and went to go retrieve Dranzer from the desk at the other side of the room.
"Okay," said Alida, surveying him. Then she walked over to him and put her hand to his head again. "Your temperature has dropped. You can go around the house, but you can't go outside yet, alright?"
"What makes you think I'm going to listen to you?" he asked coldly.
"The fact that you want to get better so you won't have to depend on others anymore," she replied with an air of indifference.
"Hn," grunted Kai, leaving as Alida turned to follow, closing the door behind her.
Alida went outside to tend to the gardens as Kai took a seat in the dining room. Tyson, Kenny, and Max were watching TV in the living room, and Kai needed some time alone. Rei, was no where to be seen.
Soon, there were shouts in the living room and Kai determined that Tyson, Max, and Kenny had decided to act out one of the shows. How pathetic can they get? he thought.
Kai decided to start preparing dinner, so he got up and went to the kitchen. He stared at all the utensils and appliances. "Oh great," he muttered. "How does she do it?"
In the next hour or so, Kai managed to scrape up a decent meal, granted that it was not gourmet food. He tasted some and murmured, "Not bad…"
Kai went to place the food on the table when the door opened and closed softly. "Finished?" he asked Alida.
Alida walked in, with Rei behind her. "Yes," she said turning to look at him and stopped dead in her tracks. "Wow Kai. I didn't know you could cook."
Everyone else ran over and Tyson started teasing Kai.
"Okay that's enough, Tyson," said Kenny, helping Kai with the food.
Tyson pouts. "Fine, fine Chief."
Everyone sits down and Kai almost looked nervous, watching everyone eat.
All of a sudden Tyson made some gagging noises and clutched his throat. "Help! Food poisoning!"
Kai growls and says, "Well I hope you die then."
"Stop it Tyson! Or you can just starve how about that?" asked Alida with an evil grin. "This is really good Kai, where did you learn how to cook?"
Kai blushed faintly and mumbled, "I just taught myself, right now. This is my first time."
Luckily, no one noticed the color in Kai's cheeks. "Wow Kai! Your first time? I think you're lying," laughed Max, eating some of the food.
The meal was eaten quickly, the tension between Kai and Tyson, building. Right after the meal Alida made Kai go sleep, while she cleaned up. Tyson and Max were playing video games, Kenny was having a debate with Dizzi, and Rei disappeared again.
By the time Alida finished everyone was in their room. Alida went into Kai's room to check on him. He appeared to be asleep and Rei's jacket was draped over a chair.
She felt his forehead and took the jacket from the chair to give to Rei when she was done making sure that Kai had recovered from that morning.
Unknown to Alida, Kai was still awake and when she turned to leave, he cracked open an eye to watch her. I wonder… he thought.
Alida closed Kai's door behind her and walked up to Rei's room, his light was still on so she knocked on the door.
There was a rustling and then a muffled, "Come in."
Alida opened the door and peeked in. "Kai's better so I'm just returning your jacket."
Rei was in his pajamas, sitting on his bed, and looked like he was conversing with Drigger. "Thanks for bringing it back, but you didn't have to," he smiled at her.
"It wasn't any trouble. Sorry if I bothered you…" she trailed off looking at his bitbeast curiously.
"Oh no! I was just talking to Drigger," he quickly reassured her. "What are you looking at?"
Alida blushed, "Oh, nothing." She quickly looked away.
"Well, thanks for bringing my jacket back," said Rei, getting up and taking his jacket from her. "Goodnight."
Alida turned to leave and went to sleep in her own bed.
To be continued…
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~cHiBi MidNiGhT aSsAsSiN
