Authors Note:
"TAYLOR! WHY THE HECK ARE YOU.kissing Tala?" Mariah asked breathing heavily, due to all the running.
Taylor immediately pulled back from the now gasping Tala.
"M, Mariah..ur, hi?"
"Hi? HI? IVE BEEN WORRIED SICK ABOUT YOU! Just when I thought something awful has happened to you, I catch you, doing this?"
"Hey! It's not like that at all!"
Mariah and Taylor continued to argue like this. Whereas Tala was still in the statue state. Kai was about to give him the third degree, no doubt he knew Tala was a part of Voltaire being back. However, for some reason, the stoned look on Tala's face seemed familiar. The same way Kai was left when Mariah had kissed him and she just left.
"Tala! What do you think you're doing!?" hissed Ray. (Tala: x_x) "I, I think Taylor, gave him the kiss of death!" ray validated while waving a hand in front of Tala's face.
"Well Taylor? What was it? Were you mad at me or something? What did I do to make you want to punish me like this?" Mariah asked.
"No! I was taken, I was in this weird place, and there was this guy, he thought I was someone else and got angry, so Tala pretended that he was going to release me, but actually he was supposed to kill me but he couldn't *takes breath* got that?" Taylor said while taking a deep breath.
"Are you nuts? You expect me to believe that. How do I know you weren't planning on eloping with him or something?"
"Because why would elope with Tala? He's hot in all, but we sorta just met in a way, we'd have to date first!"
Little did Taylor know that although Tala could not move, he could hear. And right now, he liked what he was hearing, although it was hard to tell cause on the outside there was nothing but a stream of blood coming down from Tala's nose. Taylor and Mariah both turned to him when they heard a dripping noise.
Kai and Ray looked disgusted at this horrible sight of blood. Without thinking, Taylor reached for Mariah's ribbon and pulled it out of her hair. And immediately shoved it up Tala's nostrils to plug up the blood.
Mariah had gone scarlet at Taylor's actions. Usually since Mariah had came to Japan, she'd only gone red when Kai made her feel embarrassed, but this time she was red from anger. Ray knew this was familiar. Therefore, he stepped back from her. The one thing he knew was that when Mariah was like this its best to stay out of her way. However, Kai did not know this, but he knew it was not good news for Tala and Taylor.
Mariah gritted her teeth and had her fists clenched she was about to throw a punch at Tala's direction when something caught her fist in mid air. Mariah turned to see Kai. He had stopped her before she made contact with Tala's face.
'Kai's in trouble now! He should have stayed out her way! Once she's started nobody can stop her without getting burned!' Ray contemplated.
"Kai? What the hell do you think you're doing!? Stay out of this, you hear me?" Mariah shrieked.
"No Mariah, enough." Kai said firmly, causing everyone including Mariah to look wide eyed at him.
"No? Who gave you permission to but in? what are you going to do if I don't stop, take Galux?" she questioned harshly, causing Kai to make a hurt expression, but he soon shrugged of what she said, because he knew her temper, and knew she most likely had no idea what she was saying.
'Is that what she really thinks of me?' he questioned in his mind. However, he continued to remain his tough exterior.
"Mariah now is not the time! Your cousin was kidnapped by bio-volt. You can kill Tala later, but right now there are more important things to do!" he said sternly.
Mariah questioned him in her head for a moment, and then decided he was right, so she let her hand fall down and put her head down in defeat. Ray looked totally gob smacked. When Mariah was on breaking point, nothing/no one could stop her but Kai had calmed her.
"Well, the sun will rise in a bit; we should find somewhere to discuss this, right Mariah? Perhaps Tala could be of some use to us." He stated while making direct contact with her.
"Yeah, right..we can go to my place.." She said in an almost whisper as she walked ahead of the others. Most likely, she was ashamed at herself and felt she could not face Kai. Of course, he noticed this, he was about to catch up with her to talk, but as usual, Ray caught up with her instead. Kai sighed, when Mariah was hurt, Ray always found a way of comforting her, but Kai had never had to chance to try to comfort her, so how did he know he was capable of it? Taylor put a hand on Kai's shoulder, which caused him to jerk slightly.
"You coming, Kai?" she asked. Kai nodded and followed the direction Mariah and Ray had gone in.
"Come on Tala, you're coming aren't you?" Taylor asked while fluttering her eyelids. Tala blushed. Thanks to Taylor, he appeared quite the idiot! He had a ribbon sticking out of his nose with blood seeping out, not to mention he looked a fool in front of his former leader Kai. Nevertheless, he could not say no to her, so he followed her out of the woods.
-Out-The-Forest-
They were 20minutes away from Taylor and Mariah's place, Mariah and Ray were in front, Kai was on his own in the middle, and Taylor was inspecting Tala's nose at the back. They stopped at a road to make sure no cars was driving past while they crossed it, but the roads were empty, due to it being so empty.
However, there was one car moving extremely fast in the distance, with closer inspection; it appeared to be a limo. Therefore, they stood aside to let it past first, but as soon as it past them, it stopped, skidded then reversed back and stopped in front of them. Kai winced; this limo was particularly familiar to him. The driver stepped out of the limo and went to the passenger seat to let out, Kai's Aunt.
"Kai, sweet heart! I bin lookin' for ya for sum tame now baby!" she said in her country accent.
"Kai!" squealed a Childs voice as Kailena had also ran out the car and glomped her big brother. Kai blushed a slight ruby colour. His aunt Louise looked at Mariah, she looked familiar to her, but from where? Then in realisation she pulled a photograph out of her purse and lined in up with Mariah.
"I, its you! ya'll the gal who won my darlin, Kai's hart!" she said wispily. Ray looked at the photo of Kai and Mariah kissing, his jaw dropped down, he knew something had happened with them, but he didn't know they'd kissed so soon! (Ray: X _ X)
"MARIAH!" Kailena smiled as she ran to hug Mariah as well. Mariah looked down on the little girl and smiled at her show of affection. Its true Mariah actually liked the little spore.
"Hey, who's the miniature, female Kai?" Taylor asked looking quite confused. Kai's aunt turned to Taylor, then her attention was drawn to Tala and his plugged up nose.
"Oh dear me! Ya'll been getting in fights? Ya'll come with Kailena and me to the mansion, ya'll can sort you out from there!" she smiled. But before anyone could protest she took Mariah's hand and let her in the limo while telling her,
"On the way, ya con tell me about ya self!" Taylor shrugged and grabbed Tala's hand while leading him in the limo, Kai groaned he was about to get in when he heard his aunt say,
"No, no Kai, ya can go over the otha side, and sit by ya'll girlfriend!"
Kai sighed but went over the other side anyway; for once, his aunt had said something helpful by letting him sit beside Mariah. Ray growled, he did not know what was going on, but he hated ever minute of it, but he too sat in the limo. The driver then closed the door and began driving to the 'Hiwatari mansion'.
They soon made it to the gates of the mansion, Taylor and Ray starred at the mansion in awe, Kai did not of course, and Tala and Mariah did not look impressed at all. The driver parked the limo in between the others. The driver approached the doors and let everybody of the now cramped limo.
"I wasn't expectin, ya to bring friends, Kai, next time I'll get a bigger limo." She stated.
Kai was not listening to her, he just looked at Mariah, and he could tell that by the look on her face, she did not like the mansion that was for certain.
"You know, Taylor's fine, everything's okay now, why don't we call it a day and head home now. Ray can even stay with us!" Mariah stammered.
"Call it a day? But it the sun only rose five minutes ago! Aw! Please stay a little longer Mariah, pretty please!!!!" Kailena begged. Mariah could not turn down a little girl, so she slowly nodded and smiled.
Everyone was tired, but they had to know what was going on with bio-volt, so they all sat in Kai's huge estate living room, ready to give Tala the third degree. However, they were not going to be hard too hard on him. He had come willingly, he could have killed Taylor if he wanted to, but he did not, and when Mariah and the boys found them, he could have fought or escaped, but he didn't. Nobody really knew what to say so they left everything to Kai, and decided just to listen in. Kai didn't care, he just remained cool, and to the point.
"What's going on Tala? You're Boris's main guy, why would you turn on him like this? What is he planning?"
"So many questions, Kai. And it all leads to you. You're the one they want, you have black Dranzer."
"So what? They want it back they can have it!" Kai said while pulling out the black bird and holding it out in his hand for Tala to take, but Tala didn't even move to it.
"What use is a beyblade that only you can control? They want you Kai. You can control him, you are Voltaire's grandson, successor, and the strongest soldier of bio-volt, if you would just go back with him, and it'll all be over with." He clued-up.
Kai gritted his teeth in anger, the thought of seeing Boris and Voltaire again made his blood boil.
"I would NEVER go back to him!" he declared.
"Even if it meant losing the one you love?" he retaliated. The second these words left Tala's tongue, Kai immediately looked at Mariah in horror, and then back at Tala in anger as he continued.
"You see Kai, Voltaire never wanted Taylor, it was Mariah he was after, a ploy to make you join bio-volt."
"Me? He wants me?" Mariah muttered, but loud enough for Kai to hear.
"No Mariah! I will not let Voltaire, Boris or anybody harm you! You and Taylor will stay here! He said sternly.
"But Kai, we can't.." Mariah began, but was stopped by Taylor nudging at Mariah's elbow.
"What do you mean we can't? We are talking living it up in a mansion for goodness sake! And I really don't feel like being captured by bio-volt again! That was not fun!" Mariah softened a little after those words. She nearly lost Taylor; maybe it would be safer with Kai.
*Mariah stared at Kai, Kai starred at Mariah. Mariah and Kai were starring at each other..* (AN: lol! Only kidding!)
Mariah looked at Kai in his deep, warm, brown eyes, she knew she trusted him. Nevertheless, could she really live with him?
"Yay! Mariah's going to stay here! How exciting!" Kailena buzzed in the doorway. Then she noticed everyone turn and look at her. Realising she wasn't supposed to be there, she smiled and skipped of.
"Well what about Tala? He saved me, the least you could do is let him stay as well!" Taylor supported. Kai looked at her blankly, but from the expression on his face, it was obvious he hadn't even thought about what she said.
"..no."
Taylor pouted then whispered something in her ear:
'Mariah, please convince Kai! I really like Tala, and if he goes back to bio-volt, he might be in trouble! Besides, anyone else in bio-volt would have shot me, but he didn't. Please convince him! I'm begging you!" she pleaded.
Mariah nodded and turned to Kai.
"Well Kai, I guess I won't be staying!" she said while approaching the door out of the lounge. Kai quickly ran in front of her looking quite confused.
"Mariah, they're going after you! Please understand..you're not getting past me." He said coldly.
"Sorry Kai, but Taylor's not staying because Tala isn't, and I already lost her once."
Kai looked at her for a moment, and then sighed in defeat. He had to be close enough to protect her, but they lived an hour away. Therefore, he growled he then muttered a barely allegeable 'fine.'. Taylor cheered happily and smiled at Tala. Tala then reached for Mariah's ribbon that he put his pocket back up his nose to soak up the fresh blood, which had yet again started dripping from his nose.
Ray then got out of his comfortable seat and walked straight in front of Kai. Did you really think I'd let you just get her to move in with you like this, Kai?"
"Great! Do you want to move in as well?" he said sarcastically.
"don't worry, I'll only be in your hair for a day or two, you see I promised I'd go home and tell the others how Mariah is doing, but I don't think I'll mention this."
Mariah yawned. Just then, a butler walked in.
"Miss, Mariah and Miss Taylor, young Kailena has informed me you're staying here, allow me to show you your rooms, you must be in need of a rest."
"Albert, Tala and Ray are staying as well. Find them a room as well." He ordered.
"Yes master Kai, follow me please." He said while leading them out, minus Mariah. Kai looked worried; thankfully, Ray was tired so he had gone to find his room also. This meant no annoying interruptions. He approached her as she sat on the coach with her face in her hands sighing heavily.
"What's the matter Mariah? You should get some rest." He said in a concerned voice. Mariah jumped a little; she had assumed he had walked off with the rest.
"What about you Kai? You have been awake longer than I have. You deserve as much sleep as anyone." Kai gave her a quick small smile. She really did care about him. He was going to ask her again, what it was between them, but it had been a hectic day. And by tomorrow, Ray would be gone. However, Kai had to ask her a question that was lingering at the back of his mind for some while now.
"You don't like it here, and I remember the look you gave me when Tyson let slip I inherited my grandfathers wealth. Any other person would.."
"Act a little more excited? When it comes to expense, I've, been there, done that." She exclaimed.
"Your families rich? But I thought you lived in a small village."
"I do, you know the saying, 'the past always comes back to haunt you.'"
"And what is you're past?" Mariah looked him in the eyes. Could she trust him with this? Not even Ray or the white tigers knew about her past. The only one who knew was Taylor. However, Kai's gentle words gave her to confidence to tell him.
"It's alright, Mariah, if you don't want to.."
"my father, researched bit-beasts, kind of like Tyson's, only my dad made many big discoveries with them and it made him extremely rich. He even was the one who dug up Darticuno. Guess he just loved his work..maybe a little too much, because he liked doing his work more than he liked spending his time with me and my mum, not that she cared..she..she was."
"She was what? You can tell me, I'm not going to broad cast it or anything."
"She was famous; you name it she's done it, acting, modelling, and singing. She just loved the attention, all those people admiring her, loving her, praising her. I was only four or five and I still remember it all, feeling alone, feeling ignored. So I decided to run away, I ran maybe five or six miles until I reached the village. Met the white tigers, met Ray. It was the first time I ever met people my own age. They introduced me to one of the elders, he was kind. He convinced me to go back home. He said it wasn't worth leaving. So I did, by the time I got back it was dark, and I could remember seeing smoke from over the trees.." Mariah stopped to sniff a little; this memory was truly horrid to remember. Kai put his arm around her and held her close.
"It's alright; if you can't go on..."
"I came back to see fire engines and ambulances, all surrounding the mansion, it was completely covered in flames. There were only a few survivors, and they were just servants. I don't remember a lot after that, because afterwards I had gone in shock and was taken to a psychiatric ward. I think, I remember hearing the fire fighters saying that it wasn't regular, and that the fire was on purpose. My aunt, Taylor's mother was going to adopt me, but I was visited by the elder from the village, he offered to adopt me under a different name, so I could start again. So after that my last name as well as my first name was changed, so nobody would know."
"Your first name? What was it before?" he questioned. Mariah sniggered slightly before answering.
"Maria. Not a big change really, just an h." Kai smiled and kissed her head without realising. Mariah smiled back WITHOUT blushing. Kai had grown on her.
"So 'Master Hiwatari' are you going to tell me your past?
"A long story short, mum died, father left so grandfather adopted me and little sister, and she was only a baby at the time. And I was brought up in bio-volt, and afterwards I joined the Bladebreakers and you know the rest."
"Okay..so what do you mean your father left?"
"My grandfather was obsessed with the power of beyblades; my father just wanted kids to have fun when they played with them. Therefore, my grandfather disowned him, and in court my grandfather was considered more suitable to look after us, so he won custody. All I know after that is that he started his own toy store or something.."
"You don't know? Didn't you ever try to contact him?"
"My grandfather wouldn't let me, and any letters or birthday cards that he sent were taken back to him unopened."
"But what about now? You could still contact him if you wanted, Kai!"
"I know, but it's too late. Please don't keep pressing on the matter Mariah." Mariah looked down at the ground and muttered 'alright, I'm sorry..' Kai immediately felt guilty now so he wrapped his arms around Mariah and breathed her in. Mariah lightened up and relaxed in his arms. Then something crossed her mind.
"Oh, Urm, Kai? You know you and I were being honest?"
"Yeah?"
"Well, on the plane, on the way to Japan..."
"Yeah?"
"It was me who gave you the love bite!"
Kai: O_O
Authors Note:
Gah! Extra long chappy!
Well I guess this is it! *sniff* well not really!
I promise you all, nothing has changed! I'll be posting the next chapter next week, only it'll be classed as a different story, but I'll post on this story the link to it, so keep a look out on my story, k?
However, if you all enjoy Kai+Mariah then check out my other stories too!
I am starting to feel inspired; it must be because of lil bre and digital girl's kai and Mariah site! You should all check it out!
Shout outs: Nina Thanks! And yes, I will continue. Thanks 4 reviewing!
Wo-ai-ni-kai-hiwatari *blushes* aw thankies! Digitalgrls a much better writer though. Lol! Wonder no more! For I have updated, I am glad I have a fan! I feel so..*sniff* I think there's something in my eye.. Thanks 4 reviewing!
SailorofTears Poor Mariah? I would luv to be stuck between k+r, wouldn't you? And I don't think I'll give away who she chooses, *cough*Kai*cough* I checked out your k+m fics, unlucky for you! Cause now im gonna nag you to continue! :p Thanks 4 reviewing!
DranzerDemonBikrGal HOORAY! GO ME! :P Lol! When I said spa, I didn't mean like a sauna or bath or something, its like fighting each other, or training with another person. XD!!! Are you trying to kill me with that bird thing? Well I saw that I was eating skittles and I choked on one! Poor bird. Okay let me try: look theres a cat, trying to get a fish in a pond..oops, it fell in! Thanks 4 reviewing!
Galux Cat It was a Kenny/oc fic, he gets dumped officially soon, then he meets a new girl and gets over it! Gah! Busta an undercover bio-volt dude? You stole my idea, lol! I was going to have busta, p diddy and 50cent ect. Called the pimp bladders! (spoiler alert) And yeah, I do wuv busta, which is why it pained me to do this to him! Thanks 4 reviewing!
demon's-gurl lol it is k/m so dun worry! Read the next chaptor if you want to know what happens next!
artemis347 glad you like k/m fics! Look at some of my reviewers, some do k/m fics aswell! But in mariahs defence, taylor and others did interrupt her kiss, its only fair to repay the favour! Gah! I thought I was the only one who still remember and..*cough*likes*cough* meh, im shallow, I just liked the blokes! Thanks 4 reviewing!
Lil Bre *throws zoo at lil bre* meh, need more animals... gah? The epilogue is up? I thought you were going to email me when you did this!!! Kenny gets a new girl soon, VERY different comparired to him, but all along I planned to pair her with Tala so I could break kennys heart! Get it TAyLor+TALa? See the pattern? Ive been ill as well, which is why I havnt checked my fave stories for updates! Thanks 4 reviewing!
Key Hmm, not make ray alone? I'll try but..he's a traitor, in my opion he sortof diserves it, but he wont be sad! He'll miss her, but he moves on...just not with any other girls, or guys for that matter! I don't hate him, I just want him to either be with Mariah, or be alone! Thanks 4 reviewing!
Digitalgirl3 I know! Poor busta! I made him a perv! BAD ME! If my chappies great...yourS IS BETTER! :p As usual, ray will still be around to..BUT IN! But im getting rid of him for a while so Mariah can like Kai more! Thanks 4 reviewing!
Thedigimonbabe Ya! But I wrote this before I heard 50cent, plus busta ish cuter! But that's my opion, if you like 50 better, that's okay..i forgive you! :P Thanks 4 reviewing!
kai and mariah gurlie fan thanks! Honestly, this fic is starting to feel like homework, the only diff is..i actually do it! SORRY! My MSN is down (piece of crap!) But you can mail me at my school address, tahaameera@eggbuckland.plym.sch.uk I miss you too! *cough*update ur fic!* K+M4 ever! Thanks 4 reviewing!
"TAYLOR! WHY THE HECK ARE YOU.kissing Tala?" Mariah asked breathing heavily, due to all the running.
Taylor immediately pulled back from the now gasping Tala.
"M, Mariah..ur, hi?"
"Hi? HI? IVE BEEN WORRIED SICK ABOUT YOU! Just when I thought something awful has happened to you, I catch you, doing this?"
"Hey! It's not like that at all!"
Mariah and Taylor continued to argue like this. Whereas Tala was still in the statue state. Kai was about to give him the third degree, no doubt he knew Tala was a part of Voltaire being back. However, for some reason, the stoned look on Tala's face seemed familiar. The same way Kai was left when Mariah had kissed him and she just left.
"Tala! What do you think you're doing!?" hissed Ray. (Tala: x_x) "I, I think Taylor, gave him the kiss of death!" ray validated while waving a hand in front of Tala's face.
"Well Taylor? What was it? Were you mad at me or something? What did I do to make you want to punish me like this?" Mariah asked.
"No! I was taken, I was in this weird place, and there was this guy, he thought I was someone else and got angry, so Tala pretended that he was going to release me, but actually he was supposed to kill me but he couldn't *takes breath* got that?" Taylor said while taking a deep breath.
"Are you nuts? You expect me to believe that. How do I know you weren't planning on eloping with him or something?"
"Because why would elope with Tala? He's hot in all, but we sorta just met in a way, we'd have to date first!"
Little did Taylor know that although Tala could not move, he could hear. And right now, he liked what he was hearing, although it was hard to tell cause on the outside there was nothing but a stream of blood coming down from Tala's nose. Taylor and Mariah both turned to him when they heard a dripping noise.
Kai and Ray looked disgusted at this horrible sight of blood. Without thinking, Taylor reached for Mariah's ribbon and pulled it out of her hair. And immediately shoved it up Tala's nostrils to plug up the blood.
Mariah had gone scarlet at Taylor's actions. Usually since Mariah had came to Japan, she'd only gone red when Kai made her feel embarrassed, but this time she was red from anger. Ray knew this was familiar. Therefore, he stepped back from her. The one thing he knew was that when Mariah was like this its best to stay out of her way. However, Kai did not know this, but he knew it was not good news for Tala and Taylor.
Mariah gritted her teeth and had her fists clenched she was about to throw a punch at Tala's direction when something caught her fist in mid air. Mariah turned to see Kai. He had stopped her before she made contact with Tala's face.
'Kai's in trouble now! He should have stayed out her way! Once she's started nobody can stop her without getting burned!' Ray contemplated.
"Kai? What the hell do you think you're doing!? Stay out of this, you hear me?" Mariah shrieked.
"No Mariah, enough." Kai said firmly, causing everyone including Mariah to look wide eyed at him.
"No? Who gave you permission to but in? what are you going to do if I don't stop, take Galux?" she questioned harshly, causing Kai to make a hurt expression, but he soon shrugged of what she said, because he knew her temper, and knew she most likely had no idea what she was saying.
'Is that what she really thinks of me?' he questioned in his mind. However, he continued to remain his tough exterior.
"Mariah now is not the time! Your cousin was kidnapped by bio-volt. You can kill Tala later, but right now there are more important things to do!" he said sternly.
Mariah questioned him in her head for a moment, and then decided he was right, so she let her hand fall down and put her head down in defeat. Ray looked totally gob smacked. When Mariah was on breaking point, nothing/no one could stop her but Kai had calmed her.
"Well, the sun will rise in a bit; we should find somewhere to discuss this, right Mariah? Perhaps Tala could be of some use to us." He stated while making direct contact with her.
"Yeah, right..we can go to my place.." She said in an almost whisper as she walked ahead of the others. Most likely, she was ashamed at herself and felt she could not face Kai. Of course, he noticed this, he was about to catch up with her to talk, but as usual, Ray caught up with her instead. Kai sighed, when Mariah was hurt, Ray always found a way of comforting her, but Kai had never had to chance to try to comfort her, so how did he know he was capable of it? Taylor put a hand on Kai's shoulder, which caused him to jerk slightly.
"You coming, Kai?" she asked. Kai nodded and followed the direction Mariah and Ray had gone in.
"Come on Tala, you're coming aren't you?" Taylor asked while fluttering her eyelids. Tala blushed. Thanks to Taylor, he appeared quite the idiot! He had a ribbon sticking out of his nose with blood seeping out, not to mention he looked a fool in front of his former leader Kai. Nevertheless, he could not say no to her, so he followed her out of the woods.
-Out-The-Forest-
They were 20minutes away from Taylor and Mariah's place, Mariah and Ray were in front, Kai was on his own in the middle, and Taylor was inspecting Tala's nose at the back. They stopped at a road to make sure no cars was driving past while they crossed it, but the roads were empty, due to it being so empty.
However, there was one car moving extremely fast in the distance, with closer inspection; it appeared to be a limo. Therefore, they stood aside to let it past first, but as soon as it past them, it stopped, skidded then reversed back and stopped in front of them. Kai winced; this limo was particularly familiar to him. The driver stepped out of the limo and went to the passenger seat to let out, Kai's Aunt.
"Kai, sweet heart! I bin lookin' for ya for sum tame now baby!" she said in her country accent.
"Kai!" squealed a Childs voice as Kailena had also ran out the car and glomped her big brother. Kai blushed a slight ruby colour. His aunt Louise looked at Mariah, she looked familiar to her, but from where? Then in realisation she pulled a photograph out of her purse and lined in up with Mariah.
"I, its you! ya'll the gal who won my darlin, Kai's hart!" she said wispily. Ray looked at the photo of Kai and Mariah kissing, his jaw dropped down, he knew something had happened with them, but he didn't know they'd kissed so soon! (Ray: X _ X)
"MARIAH!" Kailena smiled as she ran to hug Mariah as well. Mariah looked down on the little girl and smiled at her show of affection. Its true Mariah actually liked the little spore.
"Hey, who's the miniature, female Kai?" Taylor asked looking quite confused. Kai's aunt turned to Taylor, then her attention was drawn to Tala and his plugged up nose.
"Oh dear me! Ya'll been getting in fights? Ya'll come with Kailena and me to the mansion, ya'll can sort you out from there!" she smiled. But before anyone could protest she took Mariah's hand and let her in the limo while telling her,
"On the way, ya con tell me about ya self!" Taylor shrugged and grabbed Tala's hand while leading him in the limo, Kai groaned he was about to get in when he heard his aunt say,
"No, no Kai, ya can go over the otha side, and sit by ya'll girlfriend!"
Kai sighed but went over the other side anyway; for once, his aunt had said something helpful by letting him sit beside Mariah. Ray growled, he did not know what was going on, but he hated ever minute of it, but he too sat in the limo. The driver then closed the door and began driving to the 'Hiwatari mansion'.
They soon made it to the gates of the mansion, Taylor and Ray starred at the mansion in awe, Kai did not of course, and Tala and Mariah did not look impressed at all. The driver parked the limo in between the others. The driver approached the doors and let everybody of the now cramped limo.
"I wasn't expectin, ya to bring friends, Kai, next time I'll get a bigger limo." She stated.
Kai was not listening to her, he just looked at Mariah, and he could tell that by the look on her face, she did not like the mansion that was for certain.
"You know, Taylor's fine, everything's okay now, why don't we call it a day and head home now. Ray can even stay with us!" Mariah stammered.
"Call it a day? But it the sun only rose five minutes ago! Aw! Please stay a little longer Mariah, pretty please!!!!" Kailena begged. Mariah could not turn down a little girl, so she slowly nodded and smiled.
Everyone was tired, but they had to know what was going on with bio-volt, so they all sat in Kai's huge estate living room, ready to give Tala the third degree. However, they were not going to be hard too hard on him. He had come willingly, he could have killed Taylor if he wanted to, but he did not, and when Mariah and the boys found them, he could have fought or escaped, but he didn't. Nobody really knew what to say so they left everything to Kai, and decided just to listen in. Kai didn't care, he just remained cool, and to the point.
"What's going on Tala? You're Boris's main guy, why would you turn on him like this? What is he planning?"
"So many questions, Kai. And it all leads to you. You're the one they want, you have black Dranzer."
"So what? They want it back they can have it!" Kai said while pulling out the black bird and holding it out in his hand for Tala to take, but Tala didn't even move to it.
"What use is a beyblade that only you can control? They want you Kai. You can control him, you are Voltaire's grandson, successor, and the strongest soldier of bio-volt, if you would just go back with him, and it'll all be over with." He clued-up.
Kai gritted his teeth in anger, the thought of seeing Boris and Voltaire again made his blood boil.
"I would NEVER go back to him!" he declared.
"Even if it meant losing the one you love?" he retaliated. The second these words left Tala's tongue, Kai immediately looked at Mariah in horror, and then back at Tala in anger as he continued.
"You see Kai, Voltaire never wanted Taylor, it was Mariah he was after, a ploy to make you join bio-volt."
"Me? He wants me?" Mariah muttered, but loud enough for Kai to hear.
"No Mariah! I will not let Voltaire, Boris or anybody harm you! You and Taylor will stay here! He said sternly.
"But Kai, we can't.." Mariah began, but was stopped by Taylor nudging at Mariah's elbow.
"What do you mean we can't? We are talking living it up in a mansion for goodness sake! And I really don't feel like being captured by bio-volt again! That was not fun!" Mariah softened a little after those words. She nearly lost Taylor; maybe it would be safer with Kai.
*Mariah stared at Kai, Kai starred at Mariah. Mariah and Kai were starring at each other..* (AN: lol! Only kidding!)
Mariah looked at Kai in his deep, warm, brown eyes, she knew she trusted him. Nevertheless, could she really live with him?
"Yay! Mariah's going to stay here! How exciting!" Kailena buzzed in the doorway. Then she noticed everyone turn and look at her. Realising she wasn't supposed to be there, she smiled and skipped of.
"Well what about Tala? He saved me, the least you could do is let him stay as well!" Taylor supported. Kai looked at her blankly, but from the expression on his face, it was obvious he hadn't even thought about what she said.
"..no."
Taylor pouted then whispered something in her ear:
'Mariah, please convince Kai! I really like Tala, and if he goes back to bio-volt, he might be in trouble! Besides, anyone else in bio-volt would have shot me, but he didn't. Please convince him! I'm begging you!" she pleaded.
Mariah nodded and turned to Kai.
"Well Kai, I guess I won't be staying!" she said while approaching the door out of the lounge. Kai quickly ran in front of her looking quite confused.
"Mariah, they're going after you! Please understand..you're not getting past me." He said coldly.
"Sorry Kai, but Taylor's not staying because Tala isn't, and I already lost her once."
Kai looked at her for a moment, and then sighed in defeat. He had to be close enough to protect her, but they lived an hour away. Therefore, he growled he then muttered a barely allegeable 'fine.'. Taylor cheered happily and smiled at Tala. Tala then reached for Mariah's ribbon that he put his pocket back up his nose to soak up the fresh blood, which had yet again started dripping from his nose.
Ray then got out of his comfortable seat and walked straight in front of Kai. Did you really think I'd let you just get her to move in with you like this, Kai?"
"Great! Do you want to move in as well?" he said sarcastically.
"don't worry, I'll only be in your hair for a day or two, you see I promised I'd go home and tell the others how Mariah is doing, but I don't think I'll mention this."
Mariah yawned. Just then, a butler walked in.
"Miss, Mariah and Miss Taylor, young Kailena has informed me you're staying here, allow me to show you your rooms, you must be in need of a rest."
"Albert, Tala and Ray are staying as well. Find them a room as well." He ordered.
"Yes master Kai, follow me please." He said while leading them out, minus Mariah. Kai looked worried; thankfully, Ray was tired so he had gone to find his room also. This meant no annoying interruptions. He approached her as she sat on the coach with her face in her hands sighing heavily.
"What's the matter Mariah? You should get some rest." He said in a concerned voice. Mariah jumped a little; she had assumed he had walked off with the rest.
"What about you Kai? You have been awake longer than I have. You deserve as much sleep as anyone." Kai gave her a quick small smile. She really did care about him. He was going to ask her again, what it was between them, but it had been a hectic day. And by tomorrow, Ray would be gone. However, Kai had to ask her a question that was lingering at the back of his mind for some while now.
"You don't like it here, and I remember the look you gave me when Tyson let slip I inherited my grandfathers wealth. Any other person would.."
"Act a little more excited? When it comes to expense, I've, been there, done that." She exclaimed.
"Your families rich? But I thought you lived in a small village."
"I do, you know the saying, 'the past always comes back to haunt you.'"
"And what is you're past?" Mariah looked him in the eyes. Could she trust him with this? Not even Ray or the white tigers knew about her past. The only one who knew was Taylor. However, Kai's gentle words gave her to confidence to tell him.
"It's alright, Mariah, if you don't want to.."
"my father, researched bit-beasts, kind of like Tyson's, only my dad made many big discoveries with them and it made him extremely rich. He even was the one who dug up Darticuno. Guess he just loved his work..maybe a little too much, because he liked doing his work more than he liked spending his time with me and my mum, not that she cared..she..she was."
"She was what? You can tell me, I'm not going to broad cast it or anything."
"She was famous; you name it she's done it, acting, modelling, and singing. She just loved the attention, all those people admiring her, loving her, praising her. I was only four or five and I still remember it all, feeling alone, feeling ignored. So I decided to run away, I ran maybe five or six miles until I reached the village. Met the white tigers, met Ray. It was the first time I ever met people my own age. They introduced me to one of the elders, he was kind. He convinced me to go back home. He said it wasn't worth leaving. So I did, by the time I got back it was dark, and I could remember seeing smoke from over the trees.." Mariah stopped to sniff a little; this memory was truly horrid to remember. Kai put his arm around her and held her close.
"It's alright; if you can't go on..."
"I came back to see fire engines and ambulances, all surrounding the mansion, it was completely covered in flames. There were only a few survivors, and they were just servants. I don't remember a lot after that, because afterwards I had gone in shock and was taken to a psychiatric ward. I think, I remember hearing the fire fighters saying that it wasn't regular, and that the fire was on purpose. My aunt, Taylor's mother was going to adopt me, but I was visited by the elder from the village, he offered to adopt me under a different name, so I could start again. So after that my last name as well as my first name was changed, so nobody would know."
"Your first name? What was it before?" he questioned. Mariah sniggered slightly before answering.
"Maria. Not a big change really, just an h." Kai smiled and kissed her head without realising. Mariah smiled back WITHOUT blushing. Kai had grown on her.
"So 'Master Hiwatari' are you going to tell me your past?
"A long story short, mum died, father left so grandfather adopted me and little sister, and she was only a baby at the time. And I was brought up in bio-volt, and afterwards I joined the Bladebreakers and you know the rest."
"Okay..so what do you mean your father left?"
"My grandfather was obsessed with the power of beyblades; my father just wanted kids to have fun when they played with them. Therefore, my grandfather disowned him, and in court my grandfather was considered more suitable to look after us, so he won custody. All I know after that is that he started his own toy store or something.."
"You don't know? Didn't you ever try to contact him?"
"My grandfather wouldn't let me, and any letters or birthday cards that he sent were taken back to him unopened."
"But what about now? You could still contact him if you wanted, Kai!"
"I know, but it's too late. Please don't keep pressing on the matter Mariah." Mariah looked down at the ground and muttered 'alright, I'm sorry..' Kai immediately felt guilty now so he wrapped his arms around Mariah and breathed her in. Mariah lightened up and relaxed in his arms. Then something crossed her mind.
"Oh, Urm, Kai? You know you and I were being honest?"
"Yeah?"
"Well, on the plane, on the way to Japan..."
"Yeah?"
"It was me who gave you the love bite!"
Kai: O_O
Authors Note:
Gah! Extra long chappy!
Well I guess this is it! *sniff* well not really!
I promise you all, nothing has changed! I'll be posting the next chapter next week, only it'll be classed as a different story, but I'll post on this story the link to it, so keep a look out on my story, k?
However, if you all enjoy Kai+Mariah then check out my other stories too!
I am starting to feel inspired; it must be because of lil bre and digital girl's kai and Mariah site! You should all check it out!
Shout outs: Nina Thanks! And yes, I will continue. Thanks 4 reviewing!
Wo-ai-ni-kai-hiwatari *blushes* aw thankies! Digitalgrls a much better writer though. Lol! Wonder no more! For I have updated, I am glad I have a fan! I feel so..*sniff* I think there's something in my eye.. Thanks 4 reviewing!
SailorofTears Poor Mariah? I would luv to be stuck between k+r, wouldn't you? And I don't think I'll give away who she chooses, *cough*Kai*cough* I checked out your k+m fics, unlucky for you! Cause now im gonna nag you to continue! :p Thanks 4 reviewing!
DranzerDemonBikrGal HOORAY! GO ME! :P Lol! When I said spa, I didn't mean like a sauna or bath or something, its like fighting each other, or training with another person. XD!!! Are you trying to kill me with that bird thing? Well I saw that I was eating skittles and I choked on one! Poor bird. Okay let me try: look theres a cat, trying to get a fish in a pond..oops, it fell in! Thanks 4 reviewing!
Galux Cat It was a Kenny/oc fic, he gets dumped officially soon, then he meets a new girl and gets over it! Gah! Busta an undercover bio-volt dude? You stole my idea, lol! I was going to have busta, p diddy and 50cent ect. Called the pimp bladders! (spoiler alert) And yeah, I do wuv busta, which is why it pained me to do this to him! Thanks 4 reviewing!
demon's-gurl lol it is k/m so dun worry! Read the next chaptor if you want to know what happens next!
artemis347 glad you like k/m fics! Look at some of my reviewers, some do k/m fics aswell! But in mariahs defence, taylor and others did interrupt her kiss, its only fair to repay the favour! Gah! I thought I was the only one who still remember and..*cough*likes*cough* meh, im shallow, I just liked the blokes! Thanks 4 reviewing!
Lil Bre *throws zoo at lil bre* meh, need more animals... gah? The epilogue is up? I thought you were going to email me when you did this!!! Kenny gets a new girl soon, VERY different comparired to him, but all along I planned to pair her with Tala so I could break kennys heart! Get it TAyLor+TALa? See the pattern? Ive been ill as well, which is why I havnt checked my fave stories for updates! Thanks 4 reviewing!
Key Hmm, not make ray alone? I'll try but..he's a traitor, in my opion he sortof diserves it, but he wont be sad! He'll miss her, but he moves on...just not with any other girls, or guys for that matter! I don't hate him, I just want him to either be with Mariah, or be alone! Thanks 4 reviewing!
Digitalgirl3 I know! Poor busta! I made him a perv! BAD ME! If my chappies great...yourS IS BETTER! :p As usual, ray will still be around to..BUT IN! But im getting rid of him for a while so Mariah can like Kai more! Thanks 4 reviewing!
Thedigimonbabe Ya! But I wrote this before I heard 50cent, plus busta ish cuter! But that's my opion, if you like 50 better, that's okay..i forgive you! :P Thanks 4 reviewing!
kai and mariah gurlie fan thanks! Honestly, this fic is starting to feel like homework, the only diff is..i actually do it! SORRY! My MSN is down (piece of crap!) But you can mail me at my school address, tahaameera@eggbuckland.plym.sch.uk I miss you too! *cough*update ur fic!* K+M4 ever! Thanks 4 reviewing!