Title: How It All Begins

Author: NT aka Aku-chan

Pairing(s): KaiMax

Disclaimer: If you think I own anything Beyblade related, I shall stick you in mud and have an elephant sit on you. So don't think I own anything!!

Warning(s): Shonen ai/Yaoi, utter cuteness

Aku: I made this chapter humorous and kawaii!! ^-^

Kai: That's possible?

Aku: Yes -.-

Max: YAY!!! ^-^ Aku thanks for the reviews!!

Aku: I got reviews o.o

Max: I think so.

Kai: *points to Aku* Like a goldfish, short term memory and short attention span.

Aku: Hey!

Kai: Yes?

Aku: My friends say that too! ^-^ I think...

Kai: I rest my case.

Aku: What case? o.o

Kai: Nevermind...

Aku: THANKS FOR THE REVIEWS!!! ^________^ *gives everyone a box of pocky*

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Chapter Two: Forgotten

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Crimson eyes scanned the grounds behind him, then a shrug as he continued onward. His heart pounded, as he looked out from behind the wall where he barely managed to hide behind. He always knew Kai was cautious and paranoid. Yup, Max found out that Mr. I-Don't-Need-Anyone was paranoid. Extremely so.

A light giggle escaped his pink lips, as he tried to hold it in, so the other wouldn't hear and find him, telling – rather commanding (But being uke to Kai isn't such a bad idea) – him to go home. He needed to know where Kai always seemed to disappear off to.

Walking for another good ten minutes, as he continued to stalk- err, I mean follow Kai, Max finally saw the phoenix stop, take another look around (as the blondie hid behind a random tree that was in the middle of the sidewalk all alone with no other trees around *sweatdrops*). He slowly walked up the steps, and opened the door gently into a rather mundane looking building.

'Huh? Wonder why Kai's here? Is he some part of gang and this is their hide- out?! Maybe Kai's a killer!!! That would be hot. Then he would end up having to kill me, but we fall madly in love, and he can't kill me. So we run away and have wild sex!!!' The blonde smiled brightly, his eyes replaced with little funny stars, as he was going more in depth with the sex part.

'What the hell am I thinking?' Max returned back to a somewhat sane line of thought. 'Kai would probably kill me.' (Aku: *falls over* Kai's still a killer in Max's mind apparently)

Then he smiled again, his blue eyes glazing, which signaled for more mental images. 'He's still be hot. Tight leather pants, long black leather jacket, and a gun. Of course, I rather have something else that is long and hard.' *Insert hentai grin on Max*

"Max, what the hell are you doing here?" Instantly, the blonde recognized the voice as the leader who occupied his... distracting thoughts.

"Don't shoot me! At least let me see you in those leather pants THEN shoot me!" Max yelled out, leaning against another random tree that popped out of nowhere.

"What are you talking about?" Kai looked down at his genki teammate, who was currently hiding behind his hands and requesting to see him in leather pants?!?! (Aku: Who doesn't?) 'I don't get my teammates.' Kai said to himself, feeling very sane at the moment.

"Oh, hehe, guess you aren't some kill- errr, anyways! How are you?" Max smiled nervously, trying to cover up his ridiculous, yet hot thoughts about Kai (i.e. Kai licking blood).

The phoenix sighed, trying to stop the headache that was slowly making itself present. "Max..."

"Yes?"

"What..."

"Uh huh."

"Are..."

"Yeah."

"You..."

"Mmhmm."

"Doing..."

"Gotcha."

"Here...?"

"..."

"Well?"

"What? Oh sorry, I was zoning out." The blonde scratched the back of his neck, smiling sheepishly while sweatdropping. And who says he's not multitalented.

Kai fell over, feeling depressed over this, as the cute boy in front of him was his teammate. And then he has to wonder how that cute little blonde could become so serious when blading. Then he had another thing to ponder. Since when did he think Max was cute?!?!

"Kai, why are you blushing?" The blonde poked the red cheek innocently, as he blinked his baby blue eyes curiously. 'How kawaiiii!!!' Max went into hyper mode in his mind, as a certain author couldn't help, but picture a chibi Max glomping a blushing chibi Kai. Moving on...

"I'm not blushing." Kai quickly turned away, facing the building before him, as Max could only imagine a pout on the phoenix's red face. Once he calmed down and his cheeks returned to their normal color with the blue marks, Kai turned back around and questioned Max once again.

"What. Are. You. Doing. Here?" He asked slow enough for Max to understand, but not enough for the blonde to zone out.

"Uhhh... not sure." And then you see Kai fall over yet again. "Oh yeah, I wanted to see where you disappeared to." Max smiled, and then saw the words that were slowly coming out of Kai's mouth.

"Want to make love?" Whoops, wrong words. Max sweatdropped and then put on his best puppy eyes and pout.

"Kai, don't tell me to go home like I knew you would! I want to see! Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Why?" Kai demanded.

"Because... I'M CURIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kai fell over again, this time by the sheer volume of Max's voice.

"Fine, fine. Just don't be so loud." That one line triggered a whole bunch of mental images.

'Bad Max, stop thinking of that.'

Kai turned back to the door, opening it, as the two Bladebreakers stepped in, baby blue eyes scanning over everything. It looked ordinary enough, but that could be a cover-up for Kai's gang of murderers.

A small bop sound echoed in the hall as a high-pitched voice followed.

"KAI!!!!!!!" A little blonde boy ran over and tackled the phoenix, taking them both down. And then the most surprising thing happened. Pudding suddenly rained from the sky and Max licked it all off every part of Kai's body! (Aku: *whacks Max* No lemon yet! Max: Awwww...)

Okay, what really happened was Kai's lovely rosy pink lips twitched upward forming a smile. And even a laugh escaped his lips, a soft delicate sakura- petals-in-the-breeze melting-ice-cream-on-a-sunny-day laugh.

"Hey Mikey." Kai ruffled the boy's hair, smiling gently down at the child with a smile that never once had they seen on the stoic leader.

Max looked over at the pair, his eyes softening at the cute sight.

*Flashback*

"Maxie, time to go."

"Okay, Mommy!" The small child zipped up his coat as the autumn breeze was going to be cold today. His mother placed a small blue hat on top of his head, trying to keep the wild blonde locks down.

The two blonds, one mother and one child, stepped out of the shop, a small kiss shared between his parents, as they set off to the park. Once there, the boy smiled at all the colorful leaves varying from oranges to yellows to golden browns and some that was able to remain green.

A cold wind swept by him violently, as he stopped to look at the ground that three years ago was the spot he lost Kai, his first crush. At the tender age he was, his mind processed the feeling love and he put them in two piles. The love he has for his mommy and daddy and his friends is one... and then there was the other one. The one he had for Kai, still had.

He wanted to find his friend again, to make him smile and blush and make him feel special, just like he felt around the people who loved him. Kai's mother had died three years ago. The same day Kai himself was kidnapped.

He felt the wind pick up speed, as he tightened his grip on his jacket. But he forgot about his hat, as it flew off his blonde head, flying in the wind, drifting further and further away. Max decided to chase it, not because he liked the hat (he hated it really, hats made his hair all messy), but he really had nothing else to do. Takao had the chicken pox and Kenny was keeping him company seeing as how the brunette already had it, and Rei went back to China.

He stopped as he felt his breath completely drain from his system, a silly smile playing over, as he wanted to just fall into the leaves. His blue eyes opened, taking in the beautiful scene of a lake with leaves of autumn colors falling every now and then. He loved this lake. This was the first place he met Kai, after all.

Smiling sadly at the memories, Max sighed and went to search for his hat. He finally found it, but froze several feet away from it. A boy stepped out from the shadow of the trees, reaching his pale hand down, lifting the hat. His unusual eyes met with Max's baby blue ones, and the two stayed still and silent.

A few moments later, the beautiful flowing voice Max always remembered spoke. "Is this your hat?"

Feeling his voice lost, the blonde nodded slightly, as the other boy stepped closer, hand outstretched with the hat in his pale hand coming from a slender, muscular arm.

"A-Arigato." Max smiled nervously, taking the hat in his own hands, as the silky two-toned colored hair waved gently, as if commanding the wind to move as they say, instead of the wind moving them.

But the eyes, those mesmerizing scarlet eyes didn't seem the same. In fact, those eyes seemed colder, a fire burning only to do just that. Burn others.

"Hn."

This was Kai right? It had to be. The same hair, silver-blue in front and purple-navy in back, the same scarlet eyes, the same blue triangles, the same unusual outfit. Everything that fit Kai and only Kai.

"K-Kai?"

"How do you know my name?" The once kind voice demanded harshly iced with a fire to show he was superior.

"I-It's me... Max? Don't you remember? We met. Three years ago, right here." Baby blue eyes glazed over with pain, as he saw the confusion in the crimson eyes that reflected only for a few seconds. Kai didn't remember him?

"I've never met you."

"..." What was he supposed to do? Try to convince the other that they had truly met? Kai seemed stubborn and seemed to truly not remember him. What happened those three years?

And then Max came to a resolution. The only way to help him. With that, the blonde did that last thing Kai expected. He gently touched his lips against his own, meeting in an innocent kiss. Pulling back quickly, Max and Kai could only stare at one another, blue eyes glossed over with hope and fear while crimson ones glazed over in utter confusion.

"W-Why... did you just... do that?" Kai asked, still incredulous to what just occurred.

"I... kissed you."

"But... why? We don't even know each other!" Kai yelled, finding anger was easier to cope with things.

"Yes we do! I remember you at least!!" Max yelled back, catching onto the insecure feeling Kai was experiencing.

"N-No. We never met before." Kai stated firmly, his eyes trying to scare the other away, but failing.

"We have met. Three years ago. The day your mother died."

"My mother didn't die. She abandoned me!" His fists clenched at this sides, his hands paling at the decrease in blood flow.

'What? Is that what Kai thinks happened?' Max asked himself, unsure of what to do.

"Kai, your mother didn't abandon you." He paused, finding himself questioning his words. 'When I first met Kai, he was crying because he couldn't find his mother... maybe... but then why would they kill-'

Before he could think further, a voice rang out, almost in panic. "Kai!!! Kai where are you?!?!?!"

Baby blue eyes and scarlet ones focused on the new presence, as a boy taller then them stepped out, his unusual hair the same color as Kai's eyes, as his own eyes were the color of Kai's hair. Weird coincidence.

"Kai, there you are!!" The boy ran over, wrapping his arms around Kai in a loving gesture. "Don't scare me like that, damn."

"Sorry, Tally."

"It's alright. And stop calling me that." The redhead looked over at who Kai was looking at, as a blond boy stood opposite of Kai. "Who are you?"

"Max."

"He says we met." Kai's eyes seemed to focus and unfocused, as if trying to find his way in the dark.

Suspicion grew in Tala's stomach. "Really? When? And Where?"

"He says three years ago and here. He also said that my mom was killed..." Dulled crimson looked up to the calm ice blue ones, asking a silent question.

Tala looked away, his eyes narrowing on the blonde. "Kai, why don't you head back?"

"Huh? Why?"

"Just do it." He regretted it, as he saw the shorter one wince at his harsh tone. "Please."

Kai nodded, glanced back at the blonde, and took off, leaving Tala and Max alone. Once the blue-haired boy was out of sight, Tala took the opportunity and grabbed the blonde by the collar, speaking before he could protest.

"Stay away from Kai."

"You can't tell me what to do!"

"I can, and I will." The wolf's lips whispered dangerously in the blonde's ear, revealing small navy pocketknife.

With that, the redhead left, his eyes marking a scar in the blonde's mind, as Max could only wonder about what happened to Kai in the last three years.

*Flashback End*

"Your friend is weird."

"Tell me about it. I gotta deal with three more like him."

"How do you survive?"

"Lots of aspirin."

Baby blue eyes blinked back to reality, taking in his surroundings as he looked over by the table as Kai and the small blonde boy before were looking at him oddly.

"Well, he's awake."

"Hn." Kai stood from his chair and walked towards the blonde, who somehow ended up on the floor.

"How did I get here?" Max asked.

"Well, you stalked me and then zoned out a few times." Kai smirked, as he reached his hand out to the other up.

"And where are we again?"

"At the Crane Orphanage." And Max blinked, looking around the room and landed on the boy Kai called Mikey.

"Hi weirdo." Mikey said with a smirk on his face, the same type of smirk Kai had.

'Oi...' Max thought, thinking of Kai and a chibi blonde Kai... freaky...

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To Be Continued...

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Aku: Hehe, I wanted to make this... uhhh...

Takao: Boring?

Aku: No.

Max: Mundane?

Aku: No.

Rei: Uninteresting?

Aku: No.

Kai: Dull?

Aku: No.

Kenny: Mind-numbing?

Aku: WAHH! Stop being so mean!!!!!!! *runs away*

Kai: Cry baby.

Rei: You had one twisted childhood, didn't you?

Kenny: Aku apologizes for any mistakes. She didn't feel like revising. Not that it would have helped much.

Max: Please review!!! *puppy eyes*