Mizu_Tenshi: Wow, another TyKa from me. Oh, and I've decided to keep everyone's eyes the colour they were in season one. OOC-ness. I'm not sure if it counts as OOC-ness but just in case I'm putting up this warning.

"..." Speech '...' Thought *...* Implied words

Disclaimer: I do not own this anime

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Chapter One - Snow

(Kai's POV)

Dawn rose silently in the east, bleeding colours of red, pink and gold into the sky.

While the gloom had not yet disappeared under the bleak sunlight cold white stars fell from the sky over the town and over Tyson's dojo.

I stretched out a gloved hand to catch them and watched them melt in the palm of my hand. I've always had a strange affiliation with snow.

Turning my back on the falling tears of ice for a moment I surveyed the rest of my team still sleeping soundly.

"Lazy, idiots," I muttered but I was still quite happy to watch them sleep.

Watch *him* sleep, I should say. The blue-eyed boy in the very far corner, just watching him caused a smile to play across my lips.

I mentally slapped myself.

'No, it's not right, it's not proper,' I told myself harshly. 'Forget the idiot; he's confusing you. Why are you so obsessed with him anyway?' I asked myself.

Tyson confused the hell out of me.

Japan, China, France, America, Russia... I've travelled all over the world with him and yet I knew so little about him.

And it was driving me crazy that I didn't even know why I could not stop thinking about him.

Tyson is such an idiot and he gets under my skin all the time but I don't hate it for some reason.

I don't know why I feel all these things and it really pisses me off not knowing anything.

"Stupid Tyson," I muttered.

It all started during Russia. The snow was bringing back memories of when I betrayed my team and with that memories of when Tyson...yeah...when Tyson save me.

There! Back to the idiot Tyson and his idiocy.

Everything led back to him, it makes me feel like I'm was just another part in a story all about Tyson but, somehow, I don't mind just as long as I'm there...by Tyson.

Ugh! How annoying! Maybe I should stop thinking.

Maybe that's what makes Tyson so cheerful; he doesn't think.

Back to Tyson again!

(Normal POV)

Rising with a grunt of frustration, the two-toned, blue haired boy stood amongst the snow. He cast one last glance behind him and then walked out of the dojo and down the icy streets.

He wandered about, going nowhere in particular, just wanting to clear his head before the rest awoke and training would start.

That's when he heard it, footsteps following him.

He turned but there was no one there.

Kai shrugged it off and resumed his course to the shop when he heard it again, that sound of footsteps in the snow.

He turned around again; this time figures seemed to be materialising out of the alley walls.

There were men, lots of men all in black lead by a man in grey uniform.

He was surrounded.

"What is it?" He growled fiercely but received no reply; the leader made an arm gesture and the circle tightened around him.

Kai growled again but he was surrounded, one of the men broke the circle and lunged for him only missing Kai's arm by an inch.

The circle tightened again. There was no place for him to move.

Pairs of arms shot out at him. Some he evaded while others caught him in their vice-like grip all the while their leader just watched impassively.

"Let go!" He struggled but they held on to him.

The leader took out a needle, much to Kai's horror; he hated needles, and approached slowly.

Kai's struggles became wilder, he writhed like a fish but the needle pierced his skin and he slowly felt the world melting away in front of his eyes.

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The world was spinning as one bleary crimson eye opened.

Slowly the other opened and everything came into focus.

Kai was lying on an operating table with a bright light glaring down at him.

Out of the corner of his eye he spotted various electrical equipment and test tubes.

He examined his arms and legs; they were restrained so that he could not move and wires were attached all over his body until it felt as if he was being drowned in a sea of wires.

"Is he strapped up?" Someone said in the shadows behind him.

"Yes sir, we're ready to begin the experiment," someone else replied.

Kai struggled, twisted and turned but he was unable to catch a glimpse of his captors.

"Then start it!"

A scientist in a white lab coat came into view. He approached the machines and began starting them.

Kai took a wild guess. "Boris?"

There was a slow sarcastic clap from behind him and then the harsh bark of "Start the machine!"

At first nothing happened, it was only a good two minutes into the start up that Kai felt it, a tingling sensation running through his body and then images began flashing past him.

Images of people he his team and past team mates, of tutors and bladers, people he knew and people he didn't want to know all flew past.

They were speaking but no sound came out, some were shouting, crying, begging, and screaming.

It was all too much for Kai but even if he closed his eyes the images were still there.

"Don't fight it, Kai, it'll only make it worse," Boris advised.

However, Kai was paying no attention to Boris's advice.

He struggled and twisted as the bonds cut into his flesh. The images kept going faster and faster until Kai felt sick of dizzy.

'You're not good enough, you're not strong enough, you never were.'

People, places punishments all flew around his head.

'No one cares, no one can hear you, no one's there.'

And then...a light? A candle burning? No, he could see the flame but it was black, giving out darkness.

He knew this.

He wanted to scream but the words had escaped him.

"Sir, I think maybe we should - "

"Don't stop until I give the signal, do you understand?" Boris ordered.

"Yes, sir," The scientist nodded and returned to the equipment.

"Now, Kai, you're going to prove all my theories correct; humans can be infused with bit beast power!"

The words fell upon deaf ears as the images continued whirling Kai felt a pain growing in his head.

"Sir!" The scientist yelled. "He can't take much more of this."

"Keep going!"

"Sir, if you don't stop the experiment now there's good chance he'll die!"

However, Boris gave no indication of letting up, not now, when he was so close to his goal.

The equipment began to overheat, smoke rose from the machines but the experiment continued.

"Sir!" The scientist cried again. "Sir! Sir, we must - "

There was a loud bang, bringing Boris out of his trance.

The equipment began to explode, fire grew almost surrounding Kai with its red-hot tongues.

"Let's go!" Boris yelled, his teeth gritted in frustration; he was so close!

Kai watched them escape the collapsing building still struggling vainly to free himself.

He still felt the tingling sensation burning through his body and the images still flashed like a flickering cinema screen across his eyes.

Another blast went off near him.

Down the streets people turned round in shock as they heard a loud bang in the distance.

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Mizu_Tenshi: It took me a while before I finally decided to put this up. I'm not sure about TyKa's you see. I'm terrible at romance but I've decided to give it one last shot and if this fails.well then I'll accept that I was not made for writing romance.