Okay, so we're at the final chapter of the story! What's gonna happen on this fateful day?
Warnings: violence, language, fluff, cheese. This is quite a mild little ficlet, so I shouldn't hope anyone gets offended!
Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade or its characters.
CHAPTER FOUR
Kai's POV
I could hear water splashing lightly, above and around me. It was sort of a distant sound and it somehow held a certain sense of tranquillity... I opened my eyes and they focused almost instantly; though there wasn't really much to look at but a blank grey wall.
'Still raining...' I thought.
I couldn't tell what time it was exactly, but I guessed it was pretty much the early hours of morning... Not that it mattered here. Through a small gap above me I could see the sky and the bright sun trying to burst through a sheet of thick grey clouds. I sighed as I came to notice Hilary was laid with her head on my chest, sleeping peacefully. She looked so innocent; like an angel.
'Yeah,' I thought... 'An angel trapped in hell, here with me... And I'm only making it worse for her here... I guess I was being a bit of a bastard before. It wasn't really her fault so much as mine...'
I couldn't see her face; her hair was covering it. But she looked so perfect like that, I thought it would be like a sin to move her at all. Ugh! What was I thinking? Hilary, an angel? Yeah right! My stomach growled and I realised I hadn't eaten in two days. I was so hungry, Hilary probably was too. Well it was her fault we wasted all that time yesterday anyway! Why couldn't I stop thinking about Hilary? Why? I couldn't be falling for her! My whole life I'd been taught against love. Surely someone as... naive as her couldn't come along and break through all those years or training? No way!
"Stupid stomach..." I mumbled.
Hilary jolted upright and looked down at me.
"Did I wake you?" I asked her half-heartedly, acting amused.
"No, I was awake before you--"
She stopped abruptly in her sentence and blushed a bright shade of pink. Stupid typical girl... I bet they get that from gossiping too much. You know, blurting things out unintentionally. Still, this was pretty amusing.
"Well, I mean..." She trailed off.
I sighed. She didn't deserve the humiliation; she'd had enough of that lately.
"Did the rain wake you up?" I asked, knowing I needed to change the conversation. Besides, in the circumstances, even I felt a little embarrassed...
"Yeah, umm, I couldn't sleep. What about you?" She asked with false enthusiasm, obviously grateful for the topic change.
I nodded and hugged my knees to my chest, closing my eyes.
Hilary's POV
I gazed out of a small opening at the rain falling down. It was gentle now, and I could see the glistening beads of water running down into a corner of the cave, forming a small puddle where it landed.
I thought it very strange, how I used to despise Kai, and the very thought of his existence. Every word he said to me was out of spite, or simply just to annoy me. I pretended not to care that he'd hurt my feelings, which he very often did. I'd never let him know that; he'd have a field day if he knew how much it really affected me! Now though, he was different. Our time here, even though only a few days had passed, had seemed to bring us closer together. He didn't act as cold towards me anymore, or as distant. Somehow that annoying, spiteful individual had grown on me considerably. And maybe the reason was because I'd started to see him differently; as more than a friend perhaps. But that's not a thought I'd like to share.
I needed to think of a way off the island and back to civilisation, but for some reason I was happy to spend the time alone with Kai. I'd seen him with fans before, and to be truthful, they made me jealous. Of course, he never talked to them. He didn't sign stuff when they asked him to, he just ignored them. Even so, the little green-eyed monsters continued to dance on my shoulders whenever I saw that they were confident enough to tell him how good he really looks, or ask him out on a date knowing they faced ultimate rejection and humiliation. They weren't like me. I found it hard even to talk to him, never mind asking him out! But I'd never admit any of that to him either. Or to anyone else for that matter.
Why was I lying on him? It was a bad move, and nothing short of telling him my feeling for him voluntarily! But lying on top of him felt so nice; so comfortable, listening to his heart beating with my hand on his chest. Would he run away if I did it again? I wondered what he was thinking. He'd swapped positions and once again, he was just lying there, his eyes looking out of the cave with his hands rested behind his head. I bit my lip a little as I lowered my head and rested it on his chest again. I could hear his heartbeat and the warmth radiating from him. I reached my hand up and rested it beside my head.
'Ayuh! Wha..?'
Was this...Kai's hand on my back? I could feel it slowly brushing up my back and over my shoulder... my neck... the back of my head. He ruffled his fingers through my dirty brown hair and left his hand to rest on my back.
"..."
He mumbled something, I didn't hear him too well, but I didn't ask what he said. It felt too good here with him and I didn't want to ruin the moment. I wanted it to last forever. But I knew it couldn't. That wasn't possible. We couldn't stay there forever... Could we?
Kai's POV
Hours after I last woke up and I'd arose again. Hilary was still lying on top of me but I didn't want to move her. The rain had stopped and the shimmering sun had started to dry everything out. It was beginning to get really stuffy inside the cave. Hilary shuffled. Whether or not she was awake I didn't know but my cheeks were burning up, I could feel it. And it sure wasn't the sun's fault. I scowled and tried to shift her off me as gently as possible so I could sit up. Well, I didn't want her thinking she could just use me as a pillow! Not that I really minded much... But anyway!
She sat up, rubbed her eyes and yawned, before turning to look at me.
"What time is it?" She asked through a half-yawn.
"I don't know, maybe around noon or something." I replied, not really having any idea if that was true or not.
"Oh..." She didn't seem too concerned about my answer. "Well, I think we should go find some food, I haven't eaten in days y'know! I'm starving!" She glowered.
Oh great, back to the old bossy Hilary... Well I guess that could be a good thing, right? Maybe the lack of food just got to her earlier, and she was finally coming back to her senses... Or something.
"Yeah, I guess..."
She smiled sweetly and kissed me on the cheek, then turned and crawled out of the cave. My cheeks were crimson by now! I blinked, dumbfounded by her actions and it took me several instants to recover before I climbed out after her.
"Right, so, which way?" She asked chirpily.
I squinted and put my hand up to shield my eyes from the sun as I looked around, scanning the place. I didn't reply, but walked in the direction I thought looked most like it would bear food.
"O...kay." She walked briskly to catch up with me.
Nothing had changed, huh?
Hilary's POV
We got where I figured was about the middle of the island, and I caught sight of smoke above the trees! Civilisation? I really hoped there was somebody there, they could have helped us get away from the island! I got so caught up in my thoughts of leaving this death-trap that my pace had substantially quickened without me realising and I was now in front of Kai, with him trying to catch up to me. I shoved the branches out of my way, not caring that Kai was right behind me and they were hitting him in the face. We were right near the fire now, I could see it, and people dancing around it. We were finally getting off the island!
Kai's POV
'Yeah, this is all we need... Some voodoo weirdos who haven't yet discovered the dangers of fire.' I thought to myself sarcastically, rolling my eyes.
"Now what?" Hilary whispered with a puzzled look upon her face.
What? Like I was supposed to know? She was the one so keen to get here! I shrugged my shoulders and stared blankly at them.
"Fine..!" She marched off over to one of them.
"Hilary, wait!" I ran out after her. 'Does she ever think before she acts?'
Hilary's POV
"Hey there!" I waved at the man, as he stared at me with a look of contempt. "Hi... Uh... We got stuck on this island of yours and uh... we're kinda lost and we don't exactly know... how to... get off the island..." I trailed off, guessing he probably didn't understand me.
He shouted some unknown words in a hoarse voice and all of the other thoroughly tanned men and women ran towards us with wielding sticks with sharp stone attached at either end.
They surrounded us at every angle. They outnumbered us easily, by at least a dozen-to-one! I knew it wasn't a good idea in the first place! Oh, what am I talking about? No I didn't. I didn't think at all, I just wanted to get off the island so bad that I didn't think about the consequences at all! And Kai was right, I AM the one who got us here. And I put him at risk because I was being so selfish!
My thoughts were interrupted as a chilling cackle reverberated in my ears and a man stepped out from among the trees.
"I see you finally found us. Of course, I never doubted you Kai, but you did take your time getting here, hmm?"
'Who's he?' He was obviously some friend of Kai's... As I glanced behind me at Kai, searching for some answers, I saw him glaring at the man with a look of pure hatred. He evidently wasn't an acquaintance Kai was glad to know.
"Kai..?" I bit my lip "What's going on?"
He stopped glaring at Boris and looked at me, and I thought I saw a glint of sadness in his eyes, but it soon passed. I'd never seen that look before. Not from Kai. Since we got here I'd seen him completely different to how he usually was though, and right now it was scaring me. I'd never seen Kai look so disheartened before.
"I'm sorry I blamed it on you. It's... not your fault we're here. Seems that this was all planned."
"What? But...what do you mean? Planned by who?" I realised immediately what a stupid question that was. I narrowed my eyes at the stranger. "Why..? What do you want?"
His smirk didn't falter. Instead he laughed at me, the same cold laugh I'd heard from Kai so many times before. But this time deeper, throatier, and about one-hundred times as scary.
"I suppose you want an introduction? I'm surprised Kai hasn't mentioned me. My name is Boris, and I know who you are, you little wretch." His tone was now angry and I stepped back in fear. "I would have got Kai here much faster if it wasn't for you!"
I looked at Kai, confused once more.
"But...what do you want with Kai?"
Kai's POV
'Thanks a lot, Hilary.'
Okay, so I had some pretty rough ideas, but I didn't know either. Just the way she said it made me sound useless or something.
"That's for me to know, and you not to find out." His lips curled into a twisted smirk once more. "Because in a few minutes, you wont be here. Or anywhere else above ground. That is, unless you prove to be of use to me." He eyed her up and down as he advanced towards her.
"Wha..!?" She turned and tried to run but came face-to-stone with a dozen or so of their perforated daggers. "Agh!"
Boris ambled over to me and grabbed Hilary's wrist forcibly, yanking it upwards so she was on her tip-toes.
"Come on then, we haven't got all day!"
"No!" She snatched her wrist away from him "You've gotta be kidding if you think I'm going anywhere with you!"
He gave Hilary less gratitude than she deserved. Boris may have his little mob but he himself wasn't excellent when it came to brute strength.
Did he think it would be any different? Did he think I'd just follow him and let him conduct his warped experiments on me? No way, no how. Not this time. He's messed me up too much and I'm not going to give him that chance again! I took a swift step towards him and punched him hard in the face before kicking him in the stomach and grabbed Hilary's hand, running from them as fast as my legs would take me! I tries to block out Boris' muffled shouts with no success.
"Get back here, boy! You can't run from me, you know that! I'll find you again, Kai!"
I ignored his voice and kept on running. I didn't care that Hilary couldn't keep up with me, I just dragged her along behind me and she was crying out for me to slow down but I wouldn't listen. There was no way I'd give him the chance to catch up with us! And I knew he'd try.
"Kai! Slow down... Please! Kai, you're hurting me!"
"If you wanna get...caught that's fine by...me, but I'm not stopping!" I shouted back between breaths.
"What does he want?!"
"Less talking, more running!" I knew what she was doing; she was trying to slow me down by making me talk so much I'd get out of breath completely. Well it wasn't going to work. If she carried on at me I'd just have to ignore her.
Hilary's POV
My chest was hurting really bad and I was struggling to breathe! I wanted him to let go of me, but then he'd leave me behind. I knew he wouldn't stop. What was he so scared of? How did he know that man, Boris? I decided I'd ask him later, but right now I'd have to concentrate on running. So I stopped asking questions and let him drag me along.
We'd reached the end of the island; we the edge of the sea, and Kai let go of me, making a last desperate attempt to carry on running.
"Kai... We can't run any more, this is the end of the line, we have nowhere else to go. Please, stop running!" I said, breathing hard.
"What's that?" He pointed out to sea somewhere...
I looked to where he was pointing, and saw something glinting in the far distance.
"I don't know... It looks like...a helicopter? Wha..?"
"Yeah, exactly! And they're coming this way. This island is the only place for them to land!"
"You mean...we're like, saved?"
"I don't know. Could be...backup?"
I frowned and shook my head. He had enough people there with him, didn't he? He nodded and smiled. I hadn't seen him smile before. It was scary, but only because the sight was new to me. But he looked really cute. Almost idealistic, you could say. Like the perfect guy. The perfect boyfriend. Woah, wait a second..! The whole rush of the thought of being saved was making my head go funny!
"Hilary, before...they get here, there's something I wanna say to you."
"Huh?" I cocked my head to one side and raised an eyebrow in question.
"I'm glad you were here with me, I wouldn't have made it if it wasn't for you. You do know that, right? And I sorry I wasn't exactly...nice to you." His cheeks were tinted in a bright pink.
'Yeah, understatement.' I thought, but didn't say out loud. Inside I was grinning like the Cheshire Cat, 'Does this mean he likes me? He wont be mean to me any more?'
"Wow. Well, thanks I guess. I...didn't know that." I gave him a smile.
He reached out his hand and took hold of mine. My turn to blush. He stepped closer to me and brushed my lips with his own and put his arm around my waist as he embraced me in a long, blazing kiss. I reciprocated whole-heartedly as my thoughts all became jumbled into one. That moment was pure bliss...
Aah, I'm sorry I always take so long in my updates! T.T Well, I'm sorry to say that it's come to its end. If everyone reviews and likes this enough, I'm thinking of writing a sequel. Let me know your thoughts!
