A/N: okay... I think I've lost my readers, but that's okay. Maybe I'll find them again, or get new ones, once the story picks up!

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The day before the American Tournament (Rockie's first tourney, too...), Hilary and Rockie went to the mall for no reason other than that they were both way overdue for a shopping trip.

All of the boys were sleeping the day away, "to avoid jet lag," as Kenny explained.

"Hilary, how well do you know the boys?" Rockie asked as they entered Hot Topic.

"Pretty well... I suppose it depends on WHICH boy though," Hilary answered.

"Well, I know Max really well, and Kenny... Rei's a little mysterious, but I could get anything out of him if I asked. I know Tyson pretty well. But Kai..."

"You picked the wrong one, Rock. I don't really know anything about Kai."

They were silent through the rest of the store, checkout, and they were fully into the next store before Hilary spoke up.

"What do you want to know?"

[Ok, here's where Hilary tells all about the Abbey and Voltaire and Biovault and all that crapamoli, but if you're REALLY a Beyblade fan you'll know. and if you don't know, you can go look it up in just about any Kai fic or Kai fansite. I really don't feel like typing it out. Sorry, I sound rude, don't I? Woopsie...]

By the time Hilary was done, the girls were done shopping. They stopped a taxi, and then they went to the dojo.

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Rockie woke up the floor, leaning up against the couch in front of the TV. It took her a second to remember that she'd been watching a movie with the others, and that Max had fallen asleep using her lap as a pillow, and he had looked so sweet that she couldn't bring herself to wake him up, so she'd stayed where she was.

Hilary and Kenny and Rei were awake. Kai was asleep in an armchair, and Tyson was slouched over a bowl of WAY melted ice cream, snoring. Max was sleeping too; snuggled up close to Rockie, who still hadn't moved to avoid waking him up.

Instead, she looked at the others. They obviously thought she was still asleep.

She watched Kenny while he alternated between typing and taking bites of a doughnut. Nothing interesting there.

Next she watched Hilary. Apparently, Hilary was the official packer of the Blade Breakers. She had Kenny's bag packed, as well as Tyson's and Kai's. She was working on Rei's, but he was polite enough to help her. Rockie noticed a few spices and cooking utensils going into Rei's bag as well as clothes and the normal things. That was boring after a minute, too.

She watched Tyson next. His head bobbed up and down as he snored, and his hands twitched a little. His facial expression kept changing. Eventually, Rockie noticed a pattern. It seemed as if Tyson's dream were a broken record. Boring again.

Max was next. She looked at his face, not far from her own. "Aw, he's even cuter when he's sleeping!" she thought, playing with his hair a bit. He still had a little grin, even in his sleep. She began to count his freckles for lack of anything better to do, when his expression suddenly changed. He looked... mad? "Dreaming of a beybattle," she decided. It only lasted a second, and then he opened his eyes and blinked.

"G'morning, Rockie," he said sleepily, blinking a few times before sitting up and rubbing his eyes.

"Morning Max!" she said quietly. Max gave her a smile, then got up and went to eat breakfast before Tyson woke up and ate everything.

Rockie sighed, pulled her legs up and wrapped her arms around them, and went back to her people watching. Kai was next in logical order, so she watched him for a while. He didn't move in his sleep at all. This fascinated her. She knew for a fact that the human body naturally moved almost constantly, but Kai was stone still. "Wonder how long it took him to learn THAT," she thought.

She watched him for a full ten minutes. The only change in his entire body was that his scowl got... scowlier. She would have watched him longer, probably until he woke up, if Grandpa hadn't come into the room banging a gong, making her jump to her feet and into a defensive fighting position before she thought about what was happening. Everyone else either woke up or ran into the room.

"Whoa, cool it, Rock-star! I'm just here to help the homies rise and shine."

"Oh, sorry, Grandpa. Eh... reflexes."

"Those were some coolio moves there, sister! If you're up to it, I wanna see how well you can handle the champ when you get back from Calamazoo!" he flexed his muscles ((lol what muscles?)).

"We're going to America, Grandpa!" Tyson objected.

Grandpa ignored Tyson and put an arm around Rockie's shoulders, his other arm around Max's. "Blondie, you've got yourself one cute little chick here, ya know?"

Both twins blushed. "She's my SISTER, Grandpa!"

"Yeah, all the more reason for you to watch out for each other in Calamazoo. See ya on the flip-side, homies." And with those words of twisted wisdom, Grandpa left the Blade Breakers alone.

"Sorry 'bout him," Tyson said as he started raiding the fridge.

"No biggie, I like your grandpa," Max and Rockie chorused. Then they started cracking up as they loaded luggage into the BBA van they were issued.

The van had two front seats, a bench seat, and lots of spaces to load up their stuff in the back.

It didn't take long before they were packed up and ready to roll.

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Okay, that's a really bad ending, but oh well. I couldn't go into the next part, because it's rather long. Like I said, oh well. Also, I'm sorry about the pointlessness again. I didn't mean to, but there are filler chapters, and there just happens to be nothing majorly important happening for a while. Not next chapter... but the one after that should start the actual, like, plot. Okay? Bye!