I don't own beyblade and never will. This is the sequel to my other fic,

"Through Pain and Loss". It tells how the Shadow Blades were created and some other secrets along with it. Anyway, if you like "The Street Blader", then I hope you enjoy this fic about two of the characters. Especially you Lunar Heart!! *************************************************************

A lone shadow figured walked around, it seemed to be looking for something as it trudged through the rain. It suddenly came upon a certain two-story house. It studied it a bit and quickly noted something down and left as soon as it had come.

The reason for its quick retreat was that someone in the window had come and looked out the window and lucky for it, it wasn't found.

"Big brother, when is Squall-tousan coming home?" asked the 13-year-old Nanashi cutely, looking at Vincent as he was staring at the television screen, and he was sitting next to him.

"Shh!! I dunno Nanashi, but I'm watching a match right now!!" replied Vincent. It was a beyblade battle again.

"Why are you watching that battle? It's just a replay from yesterday big brother." sighed Nanashi watching him.

"I know, but this time, I can actually study this guy's moves." grinned Vincent.

"You and wanting to battle people. You never seem to cease to amaze me yet big brother." sighed Nanashi as he got up from the couch and was going to his room, when his adopted mother called out,

"Hikari-chan!! Wanna help me cook dinner?" Kari shouted from the kitchen. Nanashi perked at that.

"Hai!!" smiled Nanashi as he bounded off towards the kitchen. Vincent shook his head at his little brother, and then watched the battle.

//Go and get him now!!//

Two blades in the middle of a regular dish were going all out against each other, but it seemed no matter what the other did, the blue and red blade just seemed to toy with him.

//Heh, this ends now. Go Dranzer!! Fire arrows!!//

And with that the opponent's blade was completely destroyed, the opponent fell to his knees and stared at his broken blade as the winner walked away.

//And the winner and still champion of the splash bowl is Kai!!//

But Vincent was watching the kid named Kai as he watched him mutter something,

//Too weak. That victory was completely pointless. I need stronger opponents.//

'Hmmm, he seems arrogant, doesn't he?' thought Vincent as he raised his eyebrow at the kid walking off.

He shrugged to himself and picked up the remote and started channel surfing.

'Boring...'

'Rerun'

'Gag me!! Romance movie!!'

'Oh geez...a corny drama show'

'Jeopardy...stupid'

'Erk!! ARRGGHH!! NOT THIS STUPID SHOW!!'

'Hmm...What's this Slayers? Usually Nanashi watches this show, he says it's a little violent, but overall he said it was funny.'

So Vincent sat there watching the TV, while Nanashi and Kari were working in the kitchen. He didn't hear the door open Squall walked in tired and a bit wet, as he took off his raincoat and umbrella down. He looked around and saw that Vincent was stuck on the T.V again and quietly walked up to him and snatched the remote off his hands and turned the T.V off.

"Oi!! pops!! What the heck!! I was watching that and it was getting interesting." shouted Vincent turning his head so he was watching Squall grin at him as he tossed the remote up and down in his hand.

"Sure, sure. But I think you can wait until after dinner and my little announcement then you can get back to your precious shows." replied Squall, tossing the remote down and walking towards his office.

"Oi pops!! Waddaya mean precious!? I was BORED!!!" shouted Vincent.

"Then read a book you blockhead!!" shouted Squall, smacking Vincent in the head in a friendly manner.

"THAT HURTS!!"

"Then don't call me pops!! I'm only 23!!" replied Squall glaring at Vincent. Vincent glared back.

"POPS!! POPS!! POPS!!! POPS!!" shouted Vincent sticking his tongue out and running away from the fuming Squall.

"GET BACK HERE YA GAKI!!" shouted Squall.

"NYAAA!!! COME AND GET ME POPS!!" laughed Vincent dodging Squall's attempt so apprehend him.

As they were running around the living room, jumping over the couch and various of other objects, Nanashi had come out of the kitchen and his eyes widened at the sight.

"Kari-kaasan!! Their at it again!!" moaned Nanashi shaking his head and disappearing into the kitchen. When the door opened, there was Kari holding her frying pan in her right hand and growled at the sight.

[BANG!! BANG!! CLONG!!]

"ITAI!! MOTHER!! THAT HURT!!"

"OUCH!! GEEZ WOMAN, WATCH IT WITH THAT DAMN FRYING PAN!!"

"WILL YOU TWO BAKAS CALM DOWN BEFORE YOU BREAK SOMETHING AGAIN!?"

"Yes ma'am."

"Good. Dinner's ready now hurry up. NOW!!" shouted Kari.

"HAI!!"

And the two of them split to the kitchen, before they got knocked in the heads again with the frying pan.

When they got in and sat down. Vincent saw Nanashi trying not to laugh and Vincent glowered at him.

"Be quiet Nanashi." sighed Vincent, rubbing his sore head.

"*snort* Sorry big brother. Here." Nanashi said handing him an ice pack.

Vincent smiled gently and applied it to his head.

"I'm lucky I'm hard headed." grinned Vincent.

"Why?" asked Nanashi putting some salad and chicken onto his plate and passed it to Vincent who put down the ice pack and grinned.

"Because then I'd be as smart as pops here and that wouldn't be very good now would it!!" laughed Vincent and Nanashi joined in.

Squall merely shook his head and filled his plate up.

Once they finished their dinner and Kari was passing out the desserts, Squall decided to make his announcement.

"Okay, you guys remember how my job allows me to bring people to the BBA training center here right?" asked Squall.

"Yea? So what does that have to do with your announcement pops?" asked Vincent grinning and was about to eat his moochi cake, when it was snatched out of his hand and he bit into thin air.

"WHAT THE!?" shouted Vincent frantically looking around for his precious moochi cake when he spotted Squall eating some.

"YO POPS!! WHAT THE HECK DID YA STEAL MY MOOCHI CAKES!?" shouted Vincent swiping the last one on Squall's plate.

"I DID NO SUCH THINK VINCENT!! AND GIMME BACK MY MOOCHI CAKE!!" replied Squall leaning over the table trying to get back his last cake.

"HA HA!! CAN'T GET ME POPS!!" yelled Vincent.

"YA GAKI!! GET BACK HERE WITH MY DESSERT!!"

And as usual, Vincent was being chased by his adopted father Squall all around the kitchen, while Kari and Nanashi sat at the table eating their desserts.

"You know Nanashi, I could've just made some more moochi." stated Kari looking at Nanashi eating two moochis at once happily.

"Nuh uh!! Its funny seeing nii-chan and tou-san chase each other kaa- san!!" laughed Nanashi holding the moochi.

"You guys can stop now, you two can have my last two." sighed Kari as she shoved her plate towards the two fighting.

"IT'S MINE!!" they shouted in unison as they dove for the plate, but Nanashi saw that and quickly grabbed it as they hit their head on the table and fell to the floor, groaning.

"Nanashi!! Gimme a moochi please!!" moaned Vincent sitting down again.

"C'mon Hikari." begged Squall.

Nanashi smiled cutely and gently pushed the plate towards them and they each QUIETLY took a moochi and ate it.

"Thank you. Now, about the training center. It seems that we can allow a couple more participants to train and they're finally letting me bring you two." grinned Squall.

"Really!?" shouted Nanashi hopefully.

"You're not pulling our legs pops are ya?" asked Vincent. Squall shook his head.

"It's for real. You start tomorrow. Now you two cleaned up and to bed and Vincent?" stated Squall.

"Ya?"

"No more T.V late at night for watching bey-battles alright?"

"*laughs*, fine pops. G'night." replied Vincent. Nanashi quickly gave Squall and Kari a hug goodnight then ran and caught up to his brother and started talking about tomorrow.

"This is gonna be great huh, big brother!!"

"Yeah. You just better be care alright?"

"Don't worry!! I have Azul, you, Arashi, kaasan and tou-san!! How can I not be careful?" laughed Nanashi. Vincent gave him a small grin and messed up Nanashi's hair a bit and ran to their room.

Squall and Kari smiled gently at each other as they cleaned the kitchen up and then left for their own beds.

Later that night...................................................

A figure quietly sneaked down the stairs as it made its way to the kitchen. It looked around first and then when it saw that no one was down, it grinned and then made its way to the refrigerator. It opened it and looked around in it, until it spotted what it was after. It gleefully took a couple of the leftover moochi and started eating them. It didn't notice another figure creeping towards it, with a weapon in its hand. It was raised above its head and then suddenly...

[SMACK]

"ITAI!!! FOR THE LOVE OF THE ELDERS WHO IN THE FEAKIN' WORLD HIT ME!?"

"WHOEVER YOU ARE, YOU BETTER GET OUT OF MY HOUSE RIGHT NOW BEFORE I SCREAM!!"

"The hell!? Koji-san!?" shouted the victim as the lights were turned on and Squall, along with Vincent came running through.

"KARI!? What the hell happ...OMIGOD!! BACK AWAY ITS A...A...DEVIL!?" shouted Squall.

It was true; for Arashi had somehow come out of his blade, seemingly hungry and had come down to eat some of those moochis that the family had eaten earlier. Arashi was rubbing his sore head as he stared at Squall and Kari, while Vincent shook his head. Arashi's black hair was a bit messed up from the attack, while his crimson eyes scanned the room, and still wearing his sleeveless leather shirt with black pants and boots and his black leather wings were retracted so he wouldn't be squished if he expanded his wings.

"Arashi, I thought I told you not to get any snacks. You could've just ask me." said Vincent. Arashi snorted.

"I highly doubt it master Vincent. By the way you and Squall-san were fighting, there wouldn't be any left for me." replied Arashi raising an eyebrow at his embarrassed master.

"Well...that was...er...that is to that that I...umm...he..." stuttered Vincent. Arashi now stood up and facing his embarrassed Master.

"Maybe you should explain the situation to your parents first master." stated Arashi folding his arms.

Vincent sweat-dropped and looked at his parents, who was still staring at the black-haired crimson eyed devil now pointing a clawed finger in their direction. Kari was hold her frying pan while Squall held a poker stick in his hands.

"Umm...right." he added with another thought. Then the kitchen door opened and walked in Azul looking tired. His dark blue hair was a bit messed up, his tired blue eyes were half shut and then he found himself staring into the interesting look of Arashi.

"Wha?" wondered Azul out loud as he stared at the eyes of Arashi that said sorry-but-I-just-blew-our-cover look and Arashi grinned sheepishly, while Azul finally woke and glared at him.

His blue hair covered his face for a while, and his white silk shirt and pants underneath the silver and green armor that he wore he was shaking and suddenly Azul growled and looked at Arashi glaring,

"YOU STUPID BAKA!! HOW MANY TIME HAVE I WARNED YOU ABOUT COMING OUT OF YOUR BLADE FOR A MID-NIGHT SNACK!?"

"Ahh, I think I lost count after the what...fiftieth time?" Arashi replied grinning very very nervously as Azul's glaring face seem make him more and more afraid of his lighter half.

'Oh boy. And to think I'M suppose to be the cruel one. Must remind myself NEVER get on Azul's bad side, or hell would just freeze over.' thought Arashi as he tried to calm Azul down.

"Umm...I can explain everything pops." Vincent said smiling sheepishly.

"Please do Vincent." replied Squall staring nervously at Azul scolding Arashi for his stupid mistakes, as Arashi was cringing and grinning nervously at his lighter half.

"Now just calm down Azul, we can sort this thing out right?" Arashi asked nervous.

"Grrrr, we better or you are so gonna get it Arashi." Azul replied glaring, and itching to get his sword out.

"Ri...right." Arashi stated sweat-dropping and raising his hands in front of him in defense and protection, as Azul's eyes narrowed and glared at Arashi.

Once everything was calmed down and Azul was no longer mad at Arashi but was still pretty pissed about it, Vincent told Squall and Kari the entire story of what had happened with their old family and how Azul and Arashi had come to them.

"I see. Now I know why we suddenly found you at out door." stated Squall quietly.

"Vincent, what ever happened to your father?" asked Kari seriously.

Vincent was taken back as he suddenly remembers his old 'father'.

"I...I don't know, now that you mentioned it mother. I can recall Arashi and Azul scaring him off, but I haven't seen him since." replied Vincent, thinking for a moment.

"This is delicious Kari-san!!" grinned Arashi as he bit into another moochi cake. Kari surprised but smiled.

"I'm glad you like them Arashi-san, but why are you down here Azul?" asked Kari.

"ARGH!! I just remembered!!" cried Azul and he frantically got up and started running around the kitchen looking for something.

"I promised hikari-chan that I'd bring him some water and it's already been over thirty-minutes!!" Azul frantically shouted as he got the glass of water and left the kitchen.

"We see." stated Kari, Squall and Vincent. Arashi was too busy eating the moochi cakes to notice.

The next morning.................................

Kari walked into the boy's bedroom where Nanashi and Vincent shared it. She walked over to Nanashi and shook him gently and woke him up.

"Hikari, time for you to go to the center remember?" smiled Kari.

"Hai!! I'm gonna get dressed, wake nii-chan for me please!!" replied Nanashi as he ran into the bathroom with some clothes he grabbed.

Vincent wasn't a morning person and he wasn't gonna start now.

"Arashi, if you would please?" sighed Kari.

"Goody. My please Kari-sama." smirked Arashi as he grabbed something near by and Kari made her way out of the room before...

"AAAAIIIEEEEEE!!! THAT'S FREEZING!!! ARASHI YOU BETTER GET BACK IN YOUR BLADE BEFORE I GET TO YOU!!" shouted Vincent.

After all the chaos was done with, the entire family left for the training center at last, while a figure still watched them, scheming its plans.

Once they got to the center, Vincent and Nanashi were amazed at everything that was displayed here.

"Okay, now you get to choose up to two options." stated Squall.

"I think I'll just stick with kendo and martial arts." Vincent said looking through the windows at the other kids.

"I wanna do soccer and martial arts with big brother!!" grinned Nanashi.

"Alright, now let's get you in your choices alright?"grinned Squall.

Soon once they begun the training, Nanashi and Vincent were proving to be experts. Nanashi got a daily workout with his soccer and martial arts and Vincent became the top student in both the kendo and martial arts. Soon they didn't know that disaster was going to happen, one day when all four of them were mysteriously called to the BBA center one faithful evening.

"Why did we get called here, when they only wanted to talk to tou-san?" asked Nanashi swinging his feet back and forth on the chair he sat on between Vincent and Kari.

"I dunno but I think it has to do with something important." shrugged Vincent.

Then Squall came back out looking grim.

"We have to get home fast, Kari, Nanashi, Vincent we're going to move." stated Squall.

"But why?" asked Vincent worried and holding Nanashi's hand.

"Remember how you said your father disappeared once Azul and Arashi appeared? It seems he's found you and is out for murder." replied Squall.

"Big brother!!" wailed Nanashi scared as he buried himself in Vincent's shirt frightened.

"O...okay tou-san, we better get moving." said Vincent as he ran to the car followed by Nanashi, Squall and Kari. They drove home as fast as they could and once they reached it they are ran but stopped suddenly, as they noticed someone was waiting for them.

"Who are you." growled Squall.

"Why hello, Vincent and Nanashi TRET." growled the voice. Vincent's eyes went wide as he held onto Nanashi tighter as he hugged Vincent.

"You...how could...DARE you show up here!!" shouted Kari.

"Ahhh...it's been awhile...my dear sister-in-law." grinned the guy. (Let's just call him Aaron).

"WHAT!? YOU MEAN YOUR OUR MOM'S SISTER!?" shouted Vincent and Nanashi.

"Yes, but its not like I had a choice!! I warned your mother about him but...you know what happened." stated Kari sadly.

"Yes, now if you would please move away so that I may get rid of the pests." stated Aaron.

"Not in your life, get past me first you sick twisted bastard." growled Squall.

"Hmm. It's your life." shrugged Aaron and fired to rounds hitting both Kari and Squall.

As the two of them fell to the ground, Squall and Kari weakly got up and Squall smirked and Aaron raised an eyebrow at the two.

"We're not gonna let you get to our sons!!" shouted Squall getting into a fighting position.

"That's right!! We love them like they were...no...ARE our own sons you monster!!" screamed Kari as she gathered Vincent and Nanashi in her arms as she was kneeling down.

"Why...they're just children, heh, the only thing I saw from them was getting those bit-whatever from them and controlling them." replied Aaron smugly.

"HA!! AZUL WOULD NEVER LISTEN TO YOU CREEP!!" shouted Nanashi.

"DITTO FOR ARASHI YOU PIECE OF TRASH!!" added Vincent.

"Shut your mouths you brats." sneered Aaron and was going to try and shoot at the two boys, but Squall beat him to it by giving Aaron an uppercut to the chin and punches to the chest.

"DON'T YOU EVER THREATEN MY BOYS!!" shouted Squall.

Aaron got back up and started fighting back, as did Squall. As Aaron tried to throw a punch, but Squall dodged and twisted his arm and managed to kick Aaron's back making him crash against the living room wall.

"YEA!! GO TOU-SAN!!" grinned Nanashi, but ducked as a shot rang right above his head. "YIPES!!"

"Don't you aim for my hikari-chan!!" shouted Kari as she grabbed the nearest object, which happened to be one of Vincent's kendo swords and grabbed it tightly and started hitting Aaron over the head, as if she's done kendo before.

Her light brow hair with tints of red in them was moving across her face as she attacked Aaron, her yellow long sleeved shirt covered with a green vest and lavender skirt waved around side-to-side as she swung. Her teal eyes glared at the man in front of her, who was just grinned smugly.

There was only one thing that they had forgotten.

They had left Nanashi and Vincent was unprotected.

"FOOLS!! Now I'll be able to claim the beasts they posses!!" grinned Aaron as he aimed his gun towards the two unprotected boys and was about to pull the trigger when Kari raised her kendo sword and hit Aaron's hand hard, making him drop the gun, but pulling the trigger in the process.

"NO!! VINCENT!! NANASHI!!" cried Kari as her face paled as the bullet was heading towards the kids. Then as the bullet hit its mark, three pairs of wide, shocked and frightened eyes stared.

"TOU-SAN NNNOOOO!!!"

"POPS!!"

"SQUALL!!"

Squall had seen what had happened and had managed to use his body as a shield as the bullet pierced through his chest and he fell back barely breathing.

"Heh heh, I'm not about to let you down kids." grinned Squall weakly as he tried to sit up. His dark brown hair was covering his dark green eyes and now his blue shirt had a small hole in the upper right and blood was coming out. His jeans looked a bit messed up and by this time, Nanashi was at Squall's side and trying to talk him into staying down.

[SLAP]

Nanashi and Vincent whipped their heads towards the noise and stared in horror as their mother was getting slapped around by Aaron. The kendo stick that Kari had earlier was tossed aside and now Aaron had the advantage and was now choking Kari.

"MOTHER!!!"

"KAA-SAN!!"

Squall acted quickly in his injured state, which amazed Vincent to no end and he grabbed the kendo stick and threw it like a javelin towards Aaron, knock Kari out of his grip and dropping her.

"Don't TOUCH my wife." growled Squall shakily getting up, as he saw Kari was coughing and trying to get the air back flowing into her lungs.

Aaron had just enough of all this foolish behaivor and quickly took out his gun and aimed it at the 'happy family'. He fired several rounds towards the family and Vincent with Nanashi didn't see them, as they were tending to Kari and Squall, but the parents did and again, was a human shield for the boys.

"MOMMY!! DADDY!!" cried Nanashi trying to wake up fallen couple.

"POPS!! MOTHER!!" added Vincent.

As they tried to take care of their parents that had taken care of them for the past three years, they didn't notice Aaron looming over them, until Nanashi screamed and Vincent whipped his head up and saw that Aaron was going to shoot Nanashi. He thought fast and managed to get to Aaron thanks to his training and uppercut him, knocking him unconscious and the shot missed, but had hit the gas tank in the over and now the kitchen was on fire and spreading fast.

"You...go. got...to...get...ou...out now." Kari said weakly, handing Vincent a set of keys and a piece of paper.

"Mother, what's this?" asked Vincent trying not to cry.

"That's the apartment we were going to live in. We already moved most of our precious stuff in there and your clothes.

"Here...I man. aged to up...date...your...bey...blade." grimaced Squall handing Vincent a purple blade with red and Nanashi a pure white blade and blue. Each had either Arashi or Azul in them.

"Now go." said Squall. Nanashi shook his head wildly.

"Not without you!!" he cried.

"Don't worry, w e'll live." said Kari getting tired.

"But..." weeped Nanashi but was pulled away by Azul as was Vincent and they were gone to some place safe and as the house grew in flames, Nanashi and Vincent could only watch in horror as it did. People suddenly started arriving with the help of the fire fighters.

But without a second thought Nanashi and Vincent were suddenly in the presence of their bit-beast who had some business to take care of and came back for them.

"Are...are they really still alive Azul? TELL ME THE TRUTH PLEASE!!" cried Nanashi grabbing the robes of the angel bit-beast.

"....I do not know. only time will tell." replied Azul sadly.

Soon they were in the area where the apartment was suppose to meet and Nanashi and Vincent ended up running through various of allies as it had started to rain. Azul and Arashi had gone back to their blades. But trouble just seemed to love coming to the brothers and it did.

"NII-CHAN HELP ME!!" cried Nanashi, as he was being pulled back by someone.

"NANASHI!!" shouted Vincent as his dark blond hair stuck to his face and his dark green eyes were painted with worry.

The people, who had Nanashi, looked no older than himself or Nanashi.

"Don't you know that's there're rules against city punks coming into these allies?" smirked one.

"Who the Fucking hell are you." growled Vincent.

"We are one of alley gangs that's here, now, if you don't want your precious brother hurt you have to give us what you have." grinned what looked like to be the leader.

"I don't have anything. Now let him go." Vincent said glaring.

"I don't think so. BOYS!! SHOW HIM!!" smirked the leader snapping his fingers and Vincent was surrounded.

They all started to attack him at once.

One guy tried punching him in the stomach, but Vincent grabbed the guy's arm and flipped him over and twisted his arm, and kicking him in the stomach letting him go and tossing him into a nearby trash pile.

The other two were shocked but that didn't stop them and they attack together, making it harder for Vincent to hit either of them and they managed to get Vincent down, but not for long as he seeped his feet, knocking both of the guys down and giving one a round-house kick to the head and a knife-hand chop to the neck, knocking them both out. Vincent was now panting, but kept his head high and saw something that made him loose his breath.

While he was fighting the guy's three cronies, Nanashi was left helpless with the leader and now Nanashi was breath heavily and had some bruises and his clothes were slightly torn. It seemed the guy had a small knife and was staring at the blood.

"Now how shall I finish ya off you brat?" smirked the guy. He was holding Nanashi up by his shirt and he was barely conscious.

"I'll make it quick and easy." said the guy as he slid the knife across Nanashi's throat, drawing a whimper from Nanashi and small blood.

Suddenly something inside Vincent snapped. Memories occurred. Times when his father was beating them up, mother dying, Squall and Koji nearly dying thanks to their deranged father and finally his little brother, the one he was suppose to PROTECT.

//Vincent please don't do this again!! I don't want you to get hurt again!!//

//Big-brother...//

//Now it's time for the little brat to get HIS share of the pain.//

//We'll always be loyal to you young masters//

//Nanashi-chan!! Vincent-kun!! dinner//

//OI!! GAKI GET BACK HERE NOW!!//

//NYA!! CAN'T GET ME NOW POPS!!//

//Really pops!! Ya ain't pulling our legs!?//

//DON'T TOUCH OUR CHILDREN!!//

//POPS!! MOTHER!!!//

//TOU-SAN!!! KAA-SAN!!//

//NII-CHAN HELP ME!!!//

Vincent suddenly was full of rage, sorrow and despair as he screamed, catching the attention of three people.

One was the guy who was surprised and now backing away from Vincent, looking frightened, Nanashi managing to get a glimpse of his brother.

"Bi...g...bro...ther..." moaned Nanashi.

Finally Arashi was woken up with the sudden power surge from his master, drawing him towards it.

'Vincent, what happened? Why's your heart filled with these terrible emotions?' thought Arashi but he was pulled towards the energy source and Vincent stopped screaming. He stood up straight and his hair covering his eyes.

Once the bully took a step towards Vincent, he suddenly fell to his bottom when something had tried to attack him, and as he looked at Vincent again, he nearly screamed. Part of Vincent's hair that was still dark blond, but now had hints of black in them was covering his left eye, but his right one was no longer green, for it was crimson. Crimson red just like Arashi's eyes. A dark lavender/black aura surrounded Vincent and he raised a hand that had silver claws on it. Suddenly it dawned to Nanashi on what had happened.

Somehow...Arashi was being pulled to the energy that Vincent was emitting and that led Vincent to his current look because...

Vincent and Arashi had become one person for a moment.

"How dare you...how dare you threaten MY brother!!" shouted Vincent, but his voice seemed different and his red eyes were glowing.

"I've already seen hell, with my first real family killed in front of me and nearly getting killed myself, and the same thing for my first family. Nothing. I couldn't do a damn thing and now, you just come waltzing in making my life more of a living hell you monster." growled Vincent, and his anger rising, the leather wings that belonged to Arashi suddenly appeared on Vincent's back, open full to its full black glory.

"You're gonna pay dearly for what you have done."

"Who...who are you!?" cried the guy scared out of his wits now.

"I don't need to tell you my name to the likes of you, but call me...the Shadow Blader." growled Vincent the guy suddenly leaped up and ran away.

He tried to anyway, but Vincent with his new found abilities had quickly jolted over and was now choking the guy with one hand, and staring at him with his cold crimson eyes.

"Don't you EVER mess with me again. EVER!!" shouted Vincent, slamming the guy's back against the wall. He was nearly out of breath, as Vincent stared at the kid with cold, emotionless eyes, his claws nearly digging into the throat, when two small arms wrapped themselves around Vincent's waist.

"Please Vincent. Wake up. wake up please. Just let him go? I've seen enough terror nii-chan." wept Nanashi crying into Vincent's red shirt.

Then as soon as the power had came, it suddenly diminished and Vincent lost the demonic look and had dropped the kid, who was trying to get his breath back while he sat on the floor. As soon as he did, he leapt up and ran away.

"Nanashi? What happened?" asked Vincent.

It was quiet except for Nanashi's crying, so Vincent decided to leave the answer to another time and just held Nanashi tightly there in the rain.

'What DID happen to me? All I can recall is the guy coming too close for comfort to killing Nanashi and then all went blank?' thought Vincent as they made their way to the apartment.

But still, even when they were inside the warm apartment, and Nanashi was tucked into the bed in one room and Vincent took another room, Vincent made a promise.

'I promise I will protect my brother and if possible my team from what I have just witnessed this past day. I'm going to be strong and powerful, so that I can fulfill my promise and not just use it to force others. No one needs to go through what I or my brother did.' thought Vincent as he turned over and fell asleep.

Meanwhile............................

Arashi and Azul were talking to each other once their masters went to sleep.

"Azul, do you know what happened to Vincent? I suddenly had this huge amount of energy and I was just drawn to it." asked Arashi.

"It seems Vincent can if he has enough raging emotions, like he displayed today, or can do it anytime, he is able to perform a technique of a perfect bond with a bit-beast." stated Azul thinking.

"What do you mean?" asked Arashi confused.

"Well, you know how you and I are...different than most bit-beasts right?" stated Azul.

"As in we have human appearances, while most bit-beasts range to a variety of animals?" replied Arashi raising an eyebrow. Azul nodded.

"I think we have an easier chance of performing the bond technique than most because of that." finished Azul. But Arashi was staring at Azul.

"What?"

"I just want to know what EXACTLY the technique is!!" replied Arashi, with a throbbing vein.

"Okay, okay, hold your horses for a moment would you please? I was just getting to that part." Azul said.

"The technique that we're talking about is called 'Omni fusion'." Azul added.

"Omni Fusion?" wondered Arashi.

"Yes, it was said that Omni fusion is a rare and sacred technique to those who truly understand their bit-beasts and are able to perform this. The only problem is, that Omni Fusion is rare and sacred because it can go horribly wrong and can change the bit-beast and the user forever or it could permanently damage them both. The fusion allows the beast and the blader to share power or energy flows to increase their chances of a successful battle." stated Azul.

"But what about..."

"I'm getting there Arashi, remember, patience is a virtue."

"You and your damn literature sayings, Azul."

"Hush, now as I was saying, what had happened was some how without knowing it, you and Vincent's emotions were one of the same, as was the energy coming out of him. That is the reason you were drawn to him was because since you are his bit-beast, you have-somewhat the same energy. But what I find most strange is that Vincent didn't have any problems or illness once the fusion left." stated Azul.

"What do ya mean?" asked Arashi.

"Remember, YOU'RE a DARK element bit-beast. One of THE most hardest bit- beasts to control, even if you do choose a master. When one possess one of a dark element, the beast may have an upper hand on the blader, thereby taking control of the user and making him do whatever the beast pleases. Vincent was perfectly in tact when the fusion occurred and when it ended. He seemed totally in control, but since his emotions were raging like that, he lost a bit of it and almost killed that boy." replied Azul.

"I think its because we both have something to care about. Most dark elements have nothing to care and want to protect, because most of them think its for the weak, not knowing that caring for something can actually make you stronger." added Arashi, getting it, and Azul clued in to what Arashi was saying.

"So if I think what're you're saying is, that since Vincent has Nanashi to care for, he didn't loose his mind!!" stated Azul, " but what made you stay in control?"

"For a so-called wise angel, you sure are dense." grinned Arashi and Azul pouted.

"Hey!! That's not very funny." Azul said frowning. Arashi laughed his crimson eyes dancing.

"I mean that I care for YOU because you're my lighter half. Remember?" he added.

"*laughs*, yeah you're right. G'night Arashi-kun." smiled Azul disappearing into Nanashi's room.

Arashi shook his head.

"Good night Azul-kun."

It has been several months, since the incident with Nanashi and Vincent's encounter with Aaron and the Omni fusion between Arashi and Vincent. Since that time, both of them had been training a lot since then and both of them were nearly equal, except that Vincent had turned stone-cold and emotionless since then, while Nanashi seemed to remain naïve as ever along with innocent. Until or ever if they get team members, Nanashi wasn't allowed outside the apartment for various of reasons. He didn't complain and just grinned and saw Vincent off. Vincent always roamed the allies for bladers that he would consider asking to join him. He found one today, while walking around an alley late one evening, as the evening sky

"Same ol', same ol'. *sigh*, isn't there ANYTHING new?" sighed Vincent with his hands in his pockets as he walked around the allies.

"You stupid city punk!! How dare you!!"

"Hn.If you had not been following me, I would not have attacked, besides, HE started it." Replied a calm voice.

'Heh, I guess I ain't the only ones who can get on those Black Thunders nerves.' Thought Vincent smirking, and running to where he heard all the shouting.

He ran until he found a corner and when he turned he smirked.

There were three of the Black Thunders, only these looked to be mildly the ones that had been here a long time. They were glaring at a cool, collected boy about Vincent's age with copper hair that drew to the back of his head and bangs to almost cover his golden copper eyes. He had a white shirt with blue jeans and a gray jacket. Vincent decided to watch and see what was happening.

As the copper headed kid just stood there it looked like he was intimidating, one of them had enough and dashed forward with his arm raised.

"JENSEN YOU IDIOT!! GET BACK HERE!!"

As he was near the copper head's the guy ducked and punched Jensen in the stomach three times and punched him in the face, throwing him back and crashing into another one.

"JENSEN!! ANDRE!!"

"Okay city-boy, now you're gonna get it." Growled one of them and they all started to attack at once. The guy didn't even flinched, which amazed Vincent, and the only other person who managed to do that, was.Squall.

The guy just narrowed his eyes and then ran forward getting up close to two of the guys, surprising them and kicking them each into a wall on opposite sides. He turned around quickly used the back of his elbow to knock the guy to the ground and then kicking him in the sides and into some trashcans.

The guy didn't see another one of the boys behind a trash bin and setting up his blade and was about to launch it, when a purple and blood red blade impacted on his and scarring his hands and dropping the launcher. He looked up and his eyes widened in fear.

"Sha..Shadow Blader!!?" shouted the boy scrambling up and backing away from Vincent, who just smirked and narrowed his eyes.

"Now I don't think that's very fair now."

"Wha." but the guy was too speechless, as he stared into Vincent's cold, hard eyes and promptly fainted. Vincent shook his head in disgust and kicked the boy over.

"I hate cowards who hide." Growled Vincent glaring at the kid's body.

He suddenly heard footsteps coming his way and was about to turn and leave when a voice broke his train of thoughts.

"I don't know who you are, but thanks."

It was the copper-haired kid from the fight. Vincent blinked and shook his head and turning away.

"I heard some racket and came to see what was up and you happened to be there." Stated Vincent, who opened an eye and looked at the kid who spoke to him.

"So, what're you doing in these alleys? Most people try to avoid these alleys especially." Vincent added without a second thought.

"At first I was just practicing my skills at beyblading, but apparently I was being followed and you know the rest." Replied the guy shrugging nonchalantly.

They just stared at each other a bit, until Vincent sighed.

"Hey, are you on any of the alley team? Eternals? Night storms? Red Raiders?" asked Vincent. The kid shook his head.

"I've only heard rumors about them and rumors about the Shadow blader. They say they he actually almost turned into a devil and can out maneuver and attack mercilessly on his opponents." He replied staring at Vincent who just shook his head.

"I really don't understand how that turning into a devil got out, 'cause I don't remember and the rest is almost true." Replied Vincent.

"So you're the Shadow blader I've been hearing so much about. The only thing is, the rumors say that you wander alleys. What for?" he asked.

"I'm looking for some people to join my team." Vincent replied flatly.

"I thought you already did?"

Vincent shook his head.

"Its only me and my younger brother, and I don't want him running around here." Vincent replied coldly.

"How caring of you." The guy stated mildly surprise.

"Yeah, well. What's say you wanna join my team. You remind me of someone I admired, back a couple months ago." Vincent said softy.

"Who was it?"

"It was my adopted father Squall. But I don't really wanna talk about the past, so how about it?" Vincent replied holding out his hand.

The boy seemed to consider it and then grabbed the Shadow Blader's hand and shook it.

"Names Averus Silentstorm and I'm 15." Grinned Averus.

"You already know me as the shadow blader, but my real name's Vincent Koji, 15 also. Glad to have you on my team." Replied Vincent shaking Averus's hand. They let go and Vincent noticed that it was almost past maybe nine at night and told Averus to follow him to his new home.

They past through many allies, trying to avoid any night gangs, they made it to a small two story apartment, with one light on.

As Vincent unlocked the door and opened it, he saw the scene in front of him, he smiled gently. Averus confused, because the rumors were that the shadow blade didn't show ANY emotions looked at what Vincent was staring at.

Nanashi had tried his hardest in waiting for Vincent to come home, but had fallen asleep on the couch, laying on his side and covered by a blanket that Azul must've put there to keep him warm. Vincent closed the door behind him and walked quiet up to Nanashi. Averus just stood there watching the scene unfold in front of him.

"Nanashi, hikari-chan, you must wake up now." Vincent said shaking Nanashi gently.

Nanashi didn't wake up but rolled towards the voice and Vincent caught him as he was about to fall off the couch.

"Hmmm? Nii-chan?" wondered Nanashi opening his eyes slowly.

"Oh good you're back." Grinned Nanashi. "did you find a team member today?"

"Yes. His name's Averus Silentstorm." Replied Vincent still on the floor and holding Nanashi. Averus took this as he was allowed to come forward now. He saw Nanashi and just couldn't help but smile at the cute kid.

"Hey there. Nice to meet you Nanashi." Smiled Averus. Nanashi nodded tiredly.

"You too, Silentstorm-kun." Replied Nanashi smiling.

"Just call me Averus. The last name thing makes me sound old." Averus replied Sheepishly.

"Hai. G'night." Yawned Nanashi, and then snuggled up in Vincent's arms.

"I made some curry for you, there should be enough for Averus and I almost beat your score on the video game big brother." Nanashi added then finally falling asleep.

Vincent laughed quietly.

"Only in your dreams hikari-chan."

He then lifted Nanashi up and started walking off towards the halls.

"Well, you better follow me Averus if you want to see where your room is." Stated Vincent. Averus nodded and silently followed him to the hallway and up the stairs. There, they were in a small hallway with three rooms on either sides and one room had a balcony on it.

He put Nanashi in the room second from the stairs on the left side. Vincent got a glance of what the room looked like. It was light blue and white carpeting. It had a bunch of photos on the desk with a lamp light and a framed picture on the dresser. There were also pictures that looked like Nanashi drew and a bunch of books in shelves. As Vincent tucked Nanashi in he turned off the lights and made his way quietly out of the room. Then he turned and faced Averus.

"The one that's the farthest and to the right is mine. Pick any one. They already have the necessary stuff, and you can decorate anyway ya like." Vincent stated. Averus nodded and chose the room that was in the middle of the right side.

The next morning Averus woke up early. He looked at the near-by clock and it read about 8:30 in the morning. He yawned and got up and got dressed in his usual attire. He walked down the stairs still yawning a bit, and trying to get the hair out of his eyes, and when he walked into the kitchen he saw Nanashi already up flipping pancakes.

"Oh? Good morning Averus!! Like pancakes?" asked Nanashi grinning.

"Sure Nanashi. How about I make some blueberry pancakes." Grinned Averus getting out a package of blueberries and adding it to the left over batter.

"Really!! You can cook too!!" Nanashi asked his teal eyes shinning.

Averus couldn't help and laugh at the look that Nanashi was making.

"Yeah. I'm sort of a cook. C'mon I'll show you how you make them extra tasty. By the way, shouldn't you wake up Vincent?" asked Averus as he started making pancakes too.

"Uhhh.technically he has his own wake up call, here put these on." Said Nanashi sweat-dropping and turning off the stove and handing Averus a couple of ear-plugs. Averus gave Nanashi a confused look, but took it and put them in.

"3.2.1." he saw Nanashi mouth and Averus looked behind him and didn't see anything, until Vincent stormed into the kitchen with his hair wet, but he guessed that he must've dried off and changed his clothes, but his hair was still wet.

Both Nanashi and Averus took out the ear plugs, washed them and put them in the kitchen drawer.

"Morning big brother!!" smiled Nanashi as he set the pancakes in front of him.

"Morning Nanashi." Sighed Vincent as he dug into the pancakes.

"These are good blueberry pancakes!! Did you make them Averus?" asked Vincent.

"Yeah. I'm a bit of a chef, so to say." Replied Averus sitting down and eating his own pancakes. They ate in silence until it was broken by Nanashi as they finished off the food and finishing cleaning off the dishes.

"Big brother. I was wondering, could.could I go to city? I need some supplies." Nanashi asked.

Vincent raised an eyebrow and looked at him.

"Fine, but take Averus with you just in case. Is that alright with you?" he replied.

Averus shrugged.

"No other plans. Might be interesting and we may even find a new member for this team." Replied Averus.

"Fine, but try and be careful. Alright hikari-chan?" stated Vincent seriously.

"Hai!!" Nanashi replied smiling widely. Vincent grinned and messed up his hair and out the door.

"I should be back by the evening." He said and then left.

"Okay Nanashi. You ready?" asked Averus.

"Uh huh!!" replied Nanashi.

It was really just suppose to be a quick trip. In and out and gone. They walked through several allies, with different alley gangs talking and beyblading against each other, amazing Nanashi, since he was usually kept inside the house for unknown reasons to Averus. Once they had made it out of the alley, they turned a corner and Nanashi found the store he wanted. He went in and bought the food and then they walked around a bit. Nanashi also bought a couple of purple bands and leaving Averus wondering what they were used for. He noticed that every time they passed like a family or a bunch of friends playing Nanashi always seemed to be saddened.

They soon passed an ice cream store and Averus had Nanashi stop and he pulled him in surprising him.

"Av..Averus what're we doing?" asked Nanashi tilting his head one side.

"Every time I saw you see a family or some other kids playing together, you always seem to get depressed." Stated Averus turning to him.

"It's just that a lot of things had happened to me and my brother. We never really had time to make real friends and our family is a different story." Nanashi said quietly.

"Don't you worry. Once we have a real team, we'll be you friends." Grinned Averus. Nanashi perked at that.

"Really!?" Nanashi asked.

"Really. Now what kind of ice cream you want? My treat." Smiled Averus.

"Ummm.chocolate chip!!" chirped Nanashi.

"Excuse me? I'd like two cones please. One chocolate chip and the other strawberry swirl please." Averus said. Once they had their order and Averus paid, they left the store eating their ice cream.

"Thanks a lot Averus." Smiled Nanashi happily eating his cone.

"No problem. But I have a question, you don't have to answer if you don't want to. Is that rumor about Vincent turning into a devil true?" asked Averus.

As Nanashi finished off his ice cream he suddenly turned quiet.

"Like I said.you don't have to answer if you don."

"It's true. Vincent almost did turn into a devil." Nanashi interrupted quietly.

"What?"

"Don't tell my big brother this.but."

"But what Nanashi? How do you know?"

"I was barely conscious when this happened, and managed to stop Vincent, before he killed a kid."

"Him? Kill? I never would've thought."

"He was fine once it was over, but I think he had a hard time controlling the emotions and resisting killing the kid, and not just beating him up.

"But how did it happen?"

"It.it has something to do with emotions of a bit-beast and the master are aligned or are the same, I think, and that somehow allows the bit-beast to combine with the master giving the master its looks and powers for a while, at least, I THINK it is."

"I never would've.tho.oufff!!"

As they had continued and had turned a corner and entered the alley, they didn't see a girl with long brown hair crash into them.

"Watch where you're going!!" she shouted, glaring at them.

"Sorry. But you were the one running." Replied Averus.

"Just be quiet!!" shouted the girl.

Nanashi just stood there glancing from Averus to the girl. They saw as she hid from something then came out and stood right in front of them.

"So.who're you?" asked Averus.

"You first." She stated.

"Nanashi Koji."

"Averus Silentstorm."

"My names Trista Kansaki thirteen years old."

"What're you doing in these parts?" asked Nanashi.

"Nothing of your concern." Growled Trista.

"You don't need to be so rude to him. He was just asking." Stated Averus walking in front of Nanashi and Nanashi poked his head from behind Averus looking confused.

"Sorry, sorry. Look I'm just lookin' for a battle. I've been bored and so has my bit-beast and maybe a team to join but that's about it." Replied Trista shrugging.

Averus had a sudden idea.

"I have a proposition for you Trista." Said Averus grinning. Trista looked at him, and couldn't help but blush at the sight of Averus grinning at her.

"If you beat me then.I'll let you decide and if I win, you'll follow us and become a member of our team." Finished Averus.

"Okay fine. Let's get ready!!" stated Trista as she readied her blade. Averus had to admit. Trista was pretty cute when she was so determined.

He shook his head and motioned for Nanashi to stay where he was.

"3.2.1.let it rip!!" Shouted Nanashi. Both blades went flying at each other immediately and crashing against each other as sparks flew from the each.

Both blades started rounding against each other and each dodging each other and trying to counter. Neither had the upper hand, both seemed to be equal and neither giving up.

As Trista tried attacking Averus's blade, he dodged and countered, nearly throwing Trista's blade off balance.

"GO Dominion!! ATTACK NOW!!" shouted Trista and her blade was glowing a blue and still ramming Averus's blade pushing it back.

"Wait for it.NOW!!" shouted Averus. Then suddenly Averus's blade disappeared and Trista was looking frantically for it. Then suddenly she felt something fly by her face and her eyes widened in shock and surprise that it was her blade.

"I.guess you won Averus. Good match." Grinned Trista.

"Not bad yourself Trista. Now remember our deal, you now join our team." Grinned Averus. Trista nodded.

"So who's that captain? You?" Trista asked as they walked to the apartment.

"Actually, its Nanashi's older brother. But he tends to be a bit emotionless and easily gets angry sometimes." Averus replied.

"But he's pretty nice to other people though." Added Nanashi, grasping the bag so it wouldn't fall out of his hands.

"I hope he'll allow me to join." Trista wondered out-loud.

"I think he will. Or we can just have Nanashi sweet-talk him." Laughed Averus. Nanashi look insulted.

"Hey!! Thanks a lot Averus!!" cried Nanashi.

"I'm just kidding, but your brother does care for you very much." Replied Averus seriously. Nanashi smiled at that.

"Yeah. He's the greatest big brother and a wonderful leader. Even though he may seem cold, he's still the same person to me." Added Nanashi, softly and a small tear escaping his right eye. Trista saw it and took a handkerchief and wiped it off.

"Thanks Trista."

"No problem Nanashi."

Back at the apartment..............

"ACHHOOO!!" sneezed Vincent and wiping his nose with a napkin as he was eating a moochi cake.

"Either it's dust or someone's talking about me." Stated Vincent rubbing his nose. "Though, I wonder if Averus and Nanashi found another member yet. Oh well."

When Nanashi and Averus got back, let's just say Vincent was surprised that they had found a blader and a girl at that. Not that he had anything against them, but he was just surprised to see that one actually joined. Since then everything has been a bit quiet and Nanashi was allowed to finally go outside the apartment since they had at least two other members with them. Now they still walk around the alleys but either in groups or sometimes by themselves.

"VINCENT!!!" shouted Nanashi.

"What is it hikari?" asked Vincent coming from his room.

"I wanna go to the art store!! I'm all out of paint." Replied Nanashi. Vincent stared at Nanashi strangely.

"Okay fine. YO!! Trista!! Averus!! We're going to be out for a while!! Watch the place would ya?" shouted Vincent.

"Sure Vincent." Replied Averus from the kitchen.

"Gotcha." Added Trista from the couch watching the television.

"Okay let's go." Nanashi said grabbing Vincent's hand and pulling him along. Vincent was surprised, but smiled at his brother's innocent nature.

As they were walking, and made it to the store, with no encounters from other ally kids, thankfully. Nanashi ran in and grabbed what he needed and then with some money that he had and they left the store. As they were talking and Vincent was actually laughing once they got back into the alleys.

"Are you sure you can pull this off, without anyone seeing it hikari?" asked Vincent.

"Sure!! I got it from you. If I can paint this picture without the others noticing then I'll be as good as you moving through the shadows." Grinned Nanashi.

Suddenly Nanashi noticed a figure coming right at them and looked at Vincent desperately and tried to warn him but it was too late and the person collided with Vincent and the person fell to the ground. Now Nanashi knew he should be worried about the person and was, but couldn't help but stare. It was a girl, who looked to be about a year younger than him self, with red hair darker than his that was short with a blue headband with a white star on top and hazel eyes that looked scared. She had a white top and a blue tube top and ripped up jeans with black and blue sneakers.

As Nanashi got a closer look to her, she looked frightened as someone was chasing after her and she had a deep cut on her shoulder and was frantically looking around.

'Her face looks the same as when Vincent is scared that something is going to happen to me.' Nanashi thought.

Then the girl suddenly noticed the people she had crashed into as she looked at Nanashi her face turned a little red and then Vincent had gotten up and was walking over to her. She looked scared and confused when Vincent approached her.

"Hey kid, what're you doing here?" he asked as he grabbed her arm. The girl gave a small shriek and uppercut Vincent in the chin and then ran off. As Vincent fell back Nanashi noticed the small blood drops on the ground where the girl had fallen down. Nanashi quickly dropped the bag and ran after the girl, hoping to get to her, before any of the other gangs did.

"Nanashi!! Wait up!!" shouted Vincent as he picked up the discarded bag that Nanashi had dropped and ran after him.

The girl was running with amazing agility through the alleys like she knew them.

'She's fast; uh oh she's heading into the Eastside!! Rayden's alley!! Gotta hurry!!' thought Nanashi as he started catching up, soon she turned a sharp corner and met with a dead end. She looked behind her and saw that Nanashi had made it and was breathing heavily.

"You sure run fast dontcha." Panted Nanashi trying to get his breath back.

"I.err.why." stuttered the girl scared as she clutched her shoulder

"Hmm? Because you're injured and looked like you needed help." Replied Nanashi.

"Why are you here Nanashi? An outsider?" growled a voice in front of them and both of them turned forward and the girl gulped and took a step back from the tall boy who stood in front of her. His black hair with red tipped and glared at the two.

"Nanashi!! Where the heck are you!!" shouted Vincent running up behind Nanashi and the girl.

When Vincent appeared, Rayden seemed to glare harder and Vincent glared back once he saw who was in front of them. Nanashi sweat dropped, you could practically see the tension between the two. Then Rayden noticed the bag that Vincent had.

"Gee Koji, never knew you had a thing for art." Smirked Rayden. Vincent turned a bit red and glowered at him.

"These are my brother's stuff. NOT MINE!!" shouted Vincent.

"Still, what're you doing in my eastside Kojii?" questioned Rayden, getting back to the subject.

"We were just walking home when the outsider crashed into us." Spat Vincent.

"Then why are you here?" he asked again.

"Ummm.Rayden I chased after her and my brother just came after me, after I ran after her." Nanashi replied softly.

"I see." Rayden said flatly and jumped down from the crates and went to examine her, while Vincent was behind Nanashi and talking quietly to him.

"Please big brother!! She's injured!!" Nanashi asked softly.

"She's weak!! And she's a little too stubborn." Muttered Vincent glaring the other way.

"Just like you? And how she got you with that surprise uppercut." Smirked Nanashi at Vincent who glowered at him.

"Hikari-chan.Fine. We'll take her back." Growled Vincent.

"Yippee!!" grinned Nanashi.

"BUT, she's battling you." Smirked Vincent as he walked over to the girl as he left his brother ranting off about the battle.

"WHAT!? But nii-chan." moaned Nanashi as he dejectedly followed Vincent as he and Rayden had another spat and Vincent carried the girl on his shoulder and leaving Rayden.

"Gawd. My brother is too stubborn for his own good." Sighed Nanashi as he followed.

Back at the apartment............

"NANI!! BUT SHE LOOKS WEAK AND LOOKS LIKE SHE CAN'T DO ANYTHING!!" shouted Trista.

"But we have to at least give her a chance." Stated Averus.

"Are you sure about this Vincent." Asked Trista glowering.

"She's just as stubborn as any of us are, so we have see how she fairs against a battle against Nanashi." Smirked Vincent.

Trista and Averus went bug-eyed.

"NANI!!? NANASHI'S BLADING AGAINST THE NEW KID!?"

Nanashi sweat-dropped at the commotion and when he turned he saw the girl with her arm bandaged walking down the stairs.

"Nii-chan, she's up." Grinned Nanashi.

The girl was walking towards to where everyone was. The only face she recognized was the other red-head, since the blond had shouted his name when she was being chased by him. But before she could get a word out, she was rounded into Trista and she started asking things about her.

"Can you?" asked Trista, staring at the girl. She looked confused.

"What? Street fight? Beyblade?" she replied.

"BOTH!!" shouted Trista.

"Yeah I can. Why do you wanna know so badly?" asked the girl glaring back.

"So are you an alley kid?"

"Maybe.kinda." She replied staring challenging at Trista.

"Then you're a city punk!!" Trista shouted.

"Hell no!!" the girl screamed back.

Then Vincent stepped up.

"Let's see how you fare against my little brother. C'mon Nanashi!!" shouted Vincent walking away with Trista and Averus following him. Nanashi stayed back and smiled apologizing to the girl.

"I'm sorry. My brother's been kind of tense, looking for a last member and with that little encounter with Rayden didn't help much. Nanashi Koji, by the way. 13." Smiled Nanashi.

"Kristy Maxell. 12." Replied Kristy quietly, blushing for some unknown reason.

"I'm sorry to battle you in this condition, but try your best." Said Nanashi bowing and then running to where the others were waiting.

Kristy just stood there for a moment then ran after Nanashi.

"Okay you two, ready?" stated Averus. Kristy and Nanashi nodded.

"3.2.1.LET IT RIP!!"

Both launched their blades at the same time, but with Kristy's injury she was a bit shaky and she cursed.

Nanashi looked hesitant to attack but had to.

"Azul!! Attack now!!" shouted Nanashi, and his white and blue blade headed towards the aqua and blue blade.

"Get together and balance out now!! Then attack back!!" shouted Kristy at her blade severely.

Her blade did as she commanded and surprising everyone around her.

Both of the blades collided with each other, somehow when they rammed into each other and pushed each other back, both were shaking slightly, which had raised eyebrows all around them.

"ATTACK NOW KITTIEFAE!!" shouted Kristy, "GLITTER SNOW!!"

A cat with ice blue wings appeared and stared spreading snow at Azul's direction.

"What!? She has a bit-beast!?" shouted Trista.

"It would seem so." Averus added amused.

Vincent just remained quiet. He knew his brother was trying hard not to injury the blade too much. Heh, that's just like him.

"AZUL!! DEFEND WITH SHIRO WALL NOW!!" cried Nanashi determinedly.

Just as the attack from KitteFae was about to hit Azul, a white wall surrounded Azul and the attack hit it and repelled back to KitteFae with double the force and hit dead on.

"KitteFae!! Go!!" shouted Kristy.

"Azul come out!!" added Nanashi.

"ATTACK NOW!!" they both shouted in unison and the blades collided with sparks flying everywhere and one out of the dish.

Kristy cursed at failing and picked up her blade as Nanashi's returned to his hand.

"Nice job shadow blade." Grinned Vincent walking up to her.

"Eh? Sha.Shadow Blade? Me?" Kristy said confused. Vincent nodded.

"Have you heard of us?" added Vincent.

"Yeah!! How could I not. The Shadow Blades are suppose to be the Keepers of the Northside Alleys.but an alley gang actually wanting me." Kristy replied, saying the last part quietly.

"We need someone like you. All the other northside bladers can't even come close to you and you're about as stubborn as any of here," stated Vincent.

"Especially my brother." Grinned Nanashi. Vincent stared at Nanashi.

"AND even though you're kind of are the weakest here, you make it up with your attitude." Finished Vincent. Kristy didn't know if she should be happy with the comment of insulted.

"Thank you very much shadow blader for having me on your team. I'll try and live up to your reputation." Replied Kristy bowing.

"I hope so. Alright, you know me as the "Shadow Blader", but my real name's Vincent Koji."

"Nice to have you here. Name's Averus SilentStorm."

"Trista Kansaki."

"You already know me!!" grinned Nanashi.

"My name's Kristy Maxell.

Then Trista and Averus left the roof of the apartment and went into it and Vincent followed them. That left Nanashi and Kristy on the roof alone.

"Ano.Kristy how's your arm?" asked Nanashi after a couple of minutes of silence.

"It's.alright." Replied Kristy rubbing her arm and looking at the floor.

"If I may ask, how did you end up with it in that condition?" added Nanashi. He saw Kristy tense and her eyes clouded up slightly.

"Not now Nanashi. I'll tell you some other time. Alright?" replied Kristy pleadingly.

Nanashi understood.

"Sure!! C'mon you any good at video games?" he asked grinning and pulling Kristy back into the apartment.

"Video games? Why?" she asked.

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"AH!! No fair Nanashi!! You beat me again!!" wailed Kristy as she stared at the screen as it said "YOU LOSE PLAYER 2!!"

Apparently they were playing some sort of fighting game, and every time she chooses a different character, she still got beaten by Nanashi. For the fifth time!!

"Heheheh, wanna go another round?" grinned Nanashi.

"Of course!! You're going down Kojii!!" shouted Kristy as they began again.

"Aren't those two going to give it up?" Trista asked Averus in the kitchen who was making dinner.

"I don't think so." Replied Averus, "or at least until Kristy beats Nanashi at that game."

Vincent watched them from a chair near by looking through some pictures, and had to grin that Nanashi had a friend he always play around with, since he wasn't around as much as he wished he could be.

"C'mon I almost gotcha!! Do it now!!" shouted Kristy.

"Not so fast Kristy!! Take this!!" shouted Nanashi pushing a couple of buttons and Kristy's character was destroyed.

"Awww man!!

"YO GUYS!! DINNER'S READY!!" shouted Averus.

Kristy and Nanashi perked up and shut off the game and cleaned up.

"Hey Nanashi." Kristy asked grinning.

"What is it?" he replied.

"RACE YOU TO THE KITCHEN!!" laughed Kristy getting a head start.

"WHAT!? OI KRISTY THAT'S NOT FAIR YOU GOT A HEAD START!!" shouted Nanashi running after her laughing.

Vincent got up and laughed quietly and followed the laughing kids into the kitchen.

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It had been a while since the Shadow Blades have come together and now it was a nice white winter in the apartment. Apparently something has been bothering Vincent since winter got started, so he called the Shadow Blades together, except for Nanashi who was still asleep, to meet him in the kitchen one Tuesday morning.

"So why'd you call us here Vincent?" asked Averus yawning and getting breakfast started.

"Look, you guys have been wondering why I've been so.different since winter started right?" Vincent replied. There was a shake of heads in agreement.

"Well, this Saturday is Nanashi's 14th birthday." Replied Vincent.

"REALLY!?" the other three replied.

"SHHHHH!!" Vincent said quickly.

"So what did you want to do?" asked Trista.

"The thing is, I'm going to be gone getting Nanashi something so I'll be gone for maybe three days the most. I'm leaving today and I want you guys to see if you can prepare the decorations and food. Is that alright?" asked Vincent.

"Sure. Nanashi's a sweet kid. He deserves one." Grinned Averus.

"Ditto to that." Smiled Trista.

"We'll do it for sweet Nanashi-chan!!" giggled Kristy.

"Alright, but one of you needs to keep Nanashi occupied so he doesn't get suspicious. Kristy you want the job?" asked Vincent.

"Me? Sure!!" grinned Kristy happily.

"Alright, I'll see you guys later. I should be back by Friday." Stated Vincent as he finished off his breakfast and got up and left.

"Okay. Averus and I will get the supplies and Kristy will distract Nanashi. Not that it shouldn't be hard for her to do that." Smirked Trista glancing at Kristy who had just turned crimson.

"Hey Trista!! What do you mean by that comment!?" Kristy replied hotly.

"I think she means that you might have a CRUSH on little Nanashi Kojii." Grinned Averus.

"Hey not you too Averus!?" Kristy said, "Why are you picking on me?"

Averus and Trista laughed as Kristy pouted. Soon the kitchen door opened and Nanashi came yawning in.

"Morning guys? Hey where's my brother?" wondered Nanashi as he looked around.

"Sorry kid, but your brother had to leave for a couple of days to get something." Replied Averus setting some food in front of Nanashi.

"Oh. He didn't even say good-bye to me?" Nanashi said softly slowly eating his pancakes.

"Hey Nanashi, the whole city is filled with snow. You wanna go out?" asked Kristy grinning.

Nanashi seemed to turned brighter, at the mention of getting out of the apartment.

"Okay!! Lemme just finish this off then we can go to the park near-by!!" grinned Nanashi now finishing off his pancakes, with Kristy following him.

Once they were finished they put on their jackets, scarves, and gloves then ran out of the apartment laughing.

"Okay Averus you ready to go shopping for those decorations?" Trista said cleaning up the table. Averus nodded and soon they too left.

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"GET BACK HERE YOU BAKA!!" shouted Kristy chasing after a laughing Nanashi.

Kristy and Nanashi had made it to the park fine and were in a secluded area just playing around. At first they made some snowmen with some sticks they found for arms and rocks for eyes and mouth. But soon Nanashi grew tired of this and quietly made a snowball and threw it a Kristy who shrieked and chased after the laughing red-headed boy.

"NANASHI JUST WAIT UNTIL I GET YOU!!" shouted Kristy throwing snowballs at Nanashi's back and missing every short.

"Nyaaa!! You're going to have to aim better Kristy if you ever wanna get ME with a snowball!!" laughed Nanashi.

As Kristy tried to catch up with Nanashi, she suddenly tripped and fell into the snow.

"WHOA!!" she shouted as she landed. Nanashi heard the yell and turned around and saw Kristy down and ran back to her.

"Kristy!! You alright?" Nanashi asked worried. As he was right by her side he turned her over and she opened her hazel eyes and saw that she was staring into worried teal eyes. She turned red embarrassed at how close their faces were and then once they did notice, they jumped apart.

"Ah.you.alright?" Nanashi asked again.

Kristy just nodded and Nanashi helped her up and once she was she, grinned and grabbed the back of Nanashi's shirt and threw some snow in there and Nanashi danced around trying to get the snow out.

"YEOW!! COLD!! COLDCOLDCOLDCOLDCOLD!! KRISTY-CHAN!!" shouted Nanashi, as he danced around. Kristy fell to the ground laughing as she watched him.

'Although, he really is adorable when he cares like that.' Thought Kristy as Azul had come out and was helping calming Nanashi down and getting the snow out.

'And he's really sweet in addition.' She added giggling at the thought.

//So you DO like him//

Kristy blushed.

//KittyFae!! How long have you been there!?// thought Kristy wildly.

// *giggles*, not long mistress, just long enough to see if you have a crush on the little Kojii boy//

//Why does everyone think I like Nanashi!?//

//You always hang around him, you both goof around each other, he seems to take a special liking to you, he acts differently when you're around, you always seem to blush when he comes and helps you, same with him.//

"Mou Geez!! Alright!! Alright!! I admit it!! I have a crush on him!!" cried Kristy not noticing that she shouted out the last part.

//Uh Mistress, you just shouted out that last part, kind of loudly if I may add.// said KittyFae sweat-dropping.

'Awww kuso!!' thought Kristy as she looked over to where Nanashi was, she squeaked when she saw that Nanashi was only a foot away from her now with Azul behind him.

"Hey Kristy, what did you just shout out a couple seconds ago?" asked Nanashi innocently. She saw Azul grinning at her oddly and she gulped.

"I'll tell you some other time." Replied Kristy sweat-dropping.

'Crap!! Now Azul knows I like his master!!' Kristy thought wildly.

"Hey I have an idea. Why don't you bring KittyFae out and we can have a war!! You and me against our bit-beasts!!" grinned Nanashi. Kristy laughed.

"Alright fine." She laughed as KittyFae manifested itself in front of Kristy.

"You know we're going to have the advantage." Smirked KitteFae as she said to Azul as Nanashi and Kristy went and built their fort.

"Why?" asked Azul making snowballs.

"Remember I'm an ice elemental bit-beast."

Azul laughed.

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So far the plan to keep Nanashi's birthday a secret was working. While Kristy kept Nanashi busy, Averus and Trista got the decorations and each got Nanashi a gift.

"Ouch!!" muttered Kristy as she was trying to sew something together. "Damn, that's the third time already. I hope this comes out right."

It was a Friday afternoon and Kristy was trying to put the finishing touches on the present she was giving Nanashi.

There was a knock on her door as she had just finally finished wrapping the present and hid it under her bed.

"Hey Kristy Averus and Trista are out again. Wanna go ice skating in the park? They say that its frozen enough to ice skate on." Grinned Nanashi.

"Ice skating? I don't know?" Kristy said.

"Don't worry!! I'm pretty good at ice skating so I can teach ya." Smiled Nanashi as he walked over and grabbed Kristy's hand and pulled her out of the room and out the door. As they ran through the alleys and out to the park again, Azul and KitteFae had their own conversation.

{Hey Azul, is it just me or does you master seem to like my mistress?} KitteFae asked.

[It would seem so.] Grinned Azul as the two kids made it to the park.

Kristy and Nanashi rented out their skates and they put their skates on and went on to the pond.

"Whoa!!" shouted Kristy." Nanashi help please!!"

"Okay there!! I gotcha." Smiled Nanashi as he caught her from falling back wards and onto the ice.

As Kristy turned around she found herself leaning against Nanashi's surprising strong body.

"Ah.thanks." Said Kristy as she tried to get her bearings on the ice.

"Okay, now take my hand and just follow what I do okay?" Nanashi said and he slowly skated as Kristy grasped at Nanashi's hand tightly.

"C'mon, just move your legs and don't be afraid to fall alright?" stated Nanashi.

"Al.alright." Kristy replied unsure and slowly let go of Nanashi's hand and managed to skate a couple of feet away from him without falling.

"Great job Kristy!! Vincent hated ice skating because he kept falling on his behind and started cursing this activity." Laughed Nanashi and Kristy joined in.

It has been a couple of hours and Kristy was finally getting the hang of this when she skated a little too far off, where the ice was still a bit dangerous.

"Wee!! Look at me Nanashi!! I'm getting better at this!!" grinned Kristy as she skated backwards.

"That's wonderful Kristy!!" Nanashi complimented as he skated a couple of feet behind him. As Kristy turned and skated further away from Nanashi and skated to where people have been avoiding in which she didn't know why. But as she landed on it, she suddenly heard something crack underneath her.

"Huh?" wondered Kristy as she looked under her. She paled. She had skated on thin ice and it was breaking underneath her. Fast.

"NANASHI!!" shouted Kristy as the ice broke underneath her and she started falling under.

"KRISTY!!" screamed Nanashi as he skated as fast as he could and Kristy was already sinking thanks that her skates were heavy.

"PLEASE HELP NANASHI!!" cried Kristy as she plunged underneath the freezing water. She felt tired as she tried to swim back up but the skates added weight to her and she was blacking out as she fell deeper and she was almost out of breath, but she managed to look at the surface.

'I'm sorry KitteFae.Averus.Trista.Vincent.especially you Nanashi. I never got to tell you.' Kristy thought as her thought trailed off. She looked up again and saw someone coming towards her. Their hair waved around as the person swam towards her desperately and its worried and terrified teal eyes stared back into her sleepy hazel eyes.

'Huh.Nanashi?'

Her hand was grabbed and she suddenly felt herself being pulled up towards the top again. They broke through the hole that she had originally fallen into and Azul with KitteFae helped pull them back up. They were lucky they were the only left in the ice rink.

Nanashi breathed in the cold evening air as he pulled Kristy out of the water and with Azul's helped back onto the park ground on a bench. Azul took their skates to the deposit and KittyFae just sat there worried about her mistress.

'Please Kristy, wake up please!! I don't want to loose another person I care so much about.' Nanashi thought as he held Kristy's shivering body closer to his trying to warm her up.

'Ugh.so cold. Something's warm.' Thought Kristy as she moved closer to the heat source which happened to be Nanashi, as she did she tiredly opened her eyes and saw tearful teal eyes.

"Wha.Nanashi?"

"KRISTY!! OMIGOD YOU'RE ALRIGHT!!" cried Nanashi as his tears spilled down his cheeks and gave Kristy a tight hug and Kristy a bit dazed reached her arms around Nanashi's neck and hugged Nanashi back tightly.

"I'm glad.that I.am.too," Replied Kristy tired. "Nanashi I.want to tell.you.that.I.like.you."

She was too tired and the last part Nanashi couldn't hear very well, and Kristy and Nanashi fell asleep like that together while Azul smiled and carried them both back to the apartment with KitteFae in her blade.

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It was about late in the evening on Saturday, when Kristy woke up. She noticed that she was lying on the couch and she looked to her left and she saw Nanashi sleeping right next to her and blushed a heavy red.

"When you two were carried back by Azul, we couldn't separate you two at all, every time we tried, either of you just held onto each other tighter." Grinned Trista.

"What!?" Kristy said as she got off the couch.

She noticed that the living room was already decorated with streamers and already ready for Nanashi's 14th birthday.

"It's true, even I couldn't get him awake. What happened Maxwell. Both of you had a slight fever." Asked Vincent. Kristy was surprised. Vincent sounded worried for BOTH of them and not just Nanashi.

"Nanashi took me ice skating yesterday and I went farther away than I was suppose to, but I didn't see any harm in it, and then when the ice was cracking underneath me I fell and Nanashi saved me. Then when I woke up he was holding me tightly and crying. He was happy that I woke up and hugged me tightly and then I remember that I hugged him back and said.OMIGOD!!" Kristy said shrieking.

"What is it?" asked Averus coming in.

"It's nothing!! Don't worry about it. I just remembered something I have to get from my room." Replied Kristy running up the stairs.

"Wonder what's up with her?" questioned Trista as she stared at the retreating figure.

"Dunno, maybe she remembered something she did while she was dazed." Shrugged Vincent, then getting back to the decorating.

Kristy slammed the door to her room and then slid down.

"Oh no!! I can't believe I did that!! I can't believe I confessed my feelings for Nanashi!!" cried Kristy.

//Don't worry mistress. Nanashi didn't hear that last part. You spoke too quietly.// KittyFae said reassuring her mistress.

"You sure KittyFae?" Kristy asked.

//I'm sure. Now you might want to join the party.// grinned KittyFae. Kristy then heard shouts of,

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY NANASHI!!"

"Yeah." Replied Kristy as she grabbed her gift and ran to join the party.

Back in the living room..........

"Wow!! You guys did this for me!?" cried Nanashi happily as they passed out the cake. Averus, Trista and even Vincent smiled at the happy kid.

"ALRIGHT!! THIS IS GREAT!!" shouted Nanashi.

Kristy then joined them and got a piece of cake. Once they were done, they went into the living room to see Nanashi open the gifts that they had gotten for him.

"Thanks Averus for the cookbook." Said Nanashi leafing through it.

"I thought you might like it." Grinned Averus.

"Sugoi!! This is great!! Thanks for the beyblade cleaners kit and sketchbook." Smiled Nanashi.

"You're very welcome Nanashi." Trista replied biting into her cake.

"Here little brother.this is why I disappeared for three days." Said Vincent handing Nanashi his gift.

"Hmmm.?" wondered Nanashi as he opened the box and Nanashi just stared.

"Nii-chan.arigato." Said Nanashi as he pulled out his old stuffed angel that his real mother had made for him when he was only still a child. He hugged it tightly.

"Okaa-san's angel plushie. I've missed this so much." Cried Nanashi.

Kristy was nervous about giving Nanashi her gift. But once she was about to give it to him, there was someone knocking on their door.

"Huh? Who would know where this place was?" wondered Trista out-loud as she went and opened the door. They all waited and Trista called out,

"Umm, Nanashi!! Vincent!! It's for you!!' she shouted and when she came back, everyone stared at who had followed them. Familiar eyes met and started to water.

A strong looking light brown haired woman with red tints in her hair and her light teal eyes watered as she stared at the kids occupying the living room, littered with the gifts Nanashi had received and the decorations. She had on a red long sleeved top with a lavender skirt as she grasped her hands together and was trying not to cry out loud.

The man next to him smiled proudly as his green eyes sparkled at the sight. His dark brown hair almost covered his eyes. He wore a dark blue long sleeved shirt with blue pants and a white shot sleeved jacket.

"Hikari-chan." smiled the woman.

"Ya gaki." Smirked the man.

Suddenly Nanashi ran up to them and hugged the woman tightly while crying out,

"KARI-KAASAN!!"

Kari hugged the little red-head tightly as he cried into her shirt.

"Nanashi-chan. I'm so sorry we couldn't be with you for a while, but our injuries prevented that. It's thanks to your friends Azul and Arashi." Smiled Kari as she cried.

Vincent's dark blond hair covered his eyes as he walked over towards the man. Once he was right in front of him he leaned forward and his head was leaning against his chest.

"Pops, you're alive." Cried Vincent, as a couple of tears escaped his face.

"You bet, Vincent." Smiled Squall.

Trista, Averus and Kristy were left dumbfounded. THESE were Nanashi and Vincent's adopted parents!? They hardly looked anything LIKE them, expect for the eyes, at least.

"That's so sweet." Said Trista smiling.

"Yeah. Those two are very lucky." Added Averus.

"Very lucky. I wished my adopted parents did that for me." Kristy muttered, but smiled at the scene nonetheless.

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Once the tearful reunion was done with, Kari went into the kitchen to cook everyone something while Squall explained some things he had just found out.

"You mean you can't stay?" asked Nanashi.

" 'Fraid not Hikari-chan. We have only a little time before we have to leave, but don't worry!! We'll visit again." Smiled Squall. Nanashi was happy.

"So this is your adopted father. He's pretty cool Nanashi." Grinned Kristy.

"Yeah he is!! Although he does tend to act like a kid sometimes." Laughed Nanashi.

"Hey? Since when did you get a girlfriend?" asked Squall smirking. That got Nanashi and Kristy bright red in the face.

"WHAT!? I'M NOT HIS/HER GIRLFRIEND/BOYFRIEND!!! WE'RE JUST FRIENDS!!" shouted Kristy and Nanashi at the same time, leaving the entire table to laugh.

"I was just kidding. Anyway." started Squall, as he got up and headed towards the kitchen, leaving four kids confused. Soon they heard screaming from Kari.

"VINCENT JOSHUA TRET KOJII!! YOU GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN RIGHT NOW OR I'M GOING TO GET YOU WITH MY FRYING PAN AGAIN!! AIIIEEEE!! SQUALL ADRIAN KOJII GET OUT OF HERE NOW TOO!!"

"Uh oh, here it comes." Grimaced Nanashi.

"Huh?" replied the other three kids.

[BANG]

[CLONG]

[BASH]

[SMACK]

"DAMN WOMAN!! SORRY GEEZ!!"

"MOTHER! THAT REALLY HURTS!! OKAY, OKAY!! I'M SORRY!!"

As the sound effects faded they saw Vincent come out with Squall nursing their heads.

"Heheheh, even after months without kaa-san, you still can't steal a piece of her meal without getting hit you two." Laughed Nanashi.

Vincent and Squall just grumbled.

Now Kari brought out a feast and they ate up. They enjoyed every single bit of the meal and thanked Kari again for making it. Before they left though, once everything was cleaned up, Kari and Squall explained how Azul and Arashi were elite bit-beasts, meaning they're not really normal and are a lot stronger than most normal. They were going to some research on it and left their number with Nanashi and Vincent.

Nanashi got an old silver chain from Kari. She said that it originally belonged to his mother and Squall gave Nanashi some spare beyblade parts to update his blade if he wanted to. Nanashi said good-bye and they left.

It was late at night and everyone but Nanashi was asleep as he kept stared at the fire and fingering the silver chain that hung around his neck, while sitting on the couch with a blanket around him.

"Nanashi?"

"Huh? Oh hi Kristy. What're you doing up so late?" asked Nanashi.

"I.wanted to give you your gift." Replied Kristy handing it to him as she sat down next to him fiddling with her fingers nervously.

Nanashi quietly opened the gift and gasped at it. It was an angel plushie, but not just any angel, it was Azul. It even held a little plastic sword.

"Kristy.did you make this?" asked Nanashi breathlessly.

"Uh huh. I thought you might like it." Grinned Kristy.

"I love it. It's one of the greatest things I could've gotten. Thanks Kristy." Said Nanashi as he turned towards Kristy and Kristy was going to say something but was silenced when Nanashi kissed her briefly on the lips. Her eyes widened but she kind of enjoyed it. He blushed.

"Um.sorry about that Kristy," said Nanashi, "I kind of meant to get your cheek, but you turned and.well.huh?"

Now Nanashi was silenced by Kristy kissing Nanashi shortly on the lips, and once they were apart they were both blushing heavily.

"Like the old saying," giggled Kristy as she leaned on Nanashi's shoulder falling asleep as he put the blanket around her. "An eye for an eye."

"And a tooth for a tooth. G'night Kristy." Smiled Nanashi and they both fell asleep in each other's arms in front of the fire.

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*Falls off of desk chair*

OMIGOD THAT WAS SOOOOO LONG!? This is the longest story I wrote without chapters!! Hey Mystic-water? Sorry!! I kind of took some scenes from you fic and altered them a bit in here, I'm really sorry!! But I hope all of you who enjoy "The Street Blader" like this fic.

*Gasps*

This thing nearly took me a week and a half to write!! I hate it when I get distracted!! Anyway, hope you read and review!! And "The Street Blader" rules!!

See ya!!