Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade. I don't own the characters in it. I DO own Laynie and her bitbeast. I hope so at least.
Chapter Four: What Can Happen In An Elevator?- "I'm so bored..." Laynie let her head drop onto her knees with a depressed sigh. She could feel Kai's gaze.
They had been in the elevator for like half an hour…
She raised her head again. "What? Don't come and say that you aren't bored. Not even you can find something fun being stuck in an elevator."
- "Hm." Kai sank down onto the floor at the other side of the elevator.
[Great. It's bad enough being stuck in an elevator without Mr. Not-A-Word…]
- "What about playing a little game?" asked Laynie and watched Kai raised his eyebrow.
- "A game? Do I look like someone who's into games?" He said.
Laynie shrugged. "I thought that you might like this one. You will get the opportunity to hurt me…?" she said teasingly.
- "You say that I can hurt you? That takes the question to a new level." Replied Kai, pretending to sound thoughtful. "Would be fun if you was a guy. I don't beat girls."
Laynie frowned. She hated when guys thought of girls as weaker.
- "What? Do you mean that I'm weaker than you, just because I'm a girl?" Laynie's voice was controlled but Kai could hear the anger behind.
Kai smirked. It was more fun to piss Laynie off, cause she could at least return smart replies. Tyson's replies were almost something like "come-over-here-so-I-can-try-to-beat-you-down".
- "Yeah." Informed Kai and now Laynie was seriously pissed off.
She rose from her position on the floor. "Kai! Up from the floor, NOW!"
[This is gonna be fun] Kai thought as he rose from the floor, now standing in front of Laynie.
- "It's called 'Bloody Knuckles' and you'll try to hit my knuckles with yours and if you miss, it's my turn." Explained Laynie.
- "Don't cry okay?" Was Kai's reply and Laynie rolled her eyes.
- "I NEVER cry." She answered and held her hands ready.
Kai shook his head and took aim at Laynie's hands. He didn't take her serious and only aimed half hearted. So, it was a clear miss.
- "You're not focusing, Kai." Said Laynie and held her hands above Kai's.
A hit.
- "You're NOT FOCUSING." Laynie gave Kai a glance.
[Well, she can actually hit me. And she hit hard.] Thought Kai and withdrew his hand when Laynie's came down.
- "That's a miss, so it would probably be my turn." Kai's hand hit Laynie's and he searched Laynie's face for some emotions. But she didn't even winch.
[Ouch! Control the pain, Laynie. Don't let him see it!] Laynie struggled with the pain and held her hands under Kai's again. Hit.
~*~ A quarter later… ~*~
- "Do you wanna stop?" offered Kai after his probably 50th hit.
Laynie rubbed her knuckles. "Yeah, sure if you want to."
Kai was laughing inside. Laynie hadn't showed any signs of pain and some of the hits had been pretty hard. [Maybe I should try this at Tyson… THAT would be fun! With his lazy reflexes and focus.]
[I hit him five times. FIVE times. And I thought I was good at this…] Laynie sank down to the floor again.
- "Are you sure that your self phone is in the room?" Laynie examined her knuckles a last time and gazed at Kai.
- "For the third time, yes." Kai sank down on the floor.
They were silent during the next ten minutes til Laynie spoke.
- "So, where do you come from?" Laynie cursed herself from her lame question.
- "Russia." Muttered Kai.
- "You know that it's legal to use than one word at the same time?" shot Laynie back at Kai.
Kai raised an eyebrow and looked at Laynie. [Why can't I just ignore her like everybody else? Why do I feel bad being rude to her?] Kai thought and a little voice inside his head answered:
- "Because you care for her."
Kai pushed away the annoying thought. [I don't care about her. Caring is just a waste of time!]
- "Why don't you just ignore her then?"
[Cause I CAN'T!] Kai was getting more and more frustrated and closed his eyes, afraid of that any emotions could be showed.
- "You okay, Kai?" Laynie frowned and watched Kai.
Kai shrugged. "Why shouldn't I be?" He asked.
- "I don't know. You seemed worried, that's all." Laynie yawned and stretched her arms in the air.
Kai just remembered something. Last night, when she had read the paper about the teams in the tournament she had said something about the Black Cats. [Maybe this is the time to ask…]
- "Who are the Black Cats?" Kai gazed at Laynie who jerked her head up.
- "Why do you ask?" Laynie's voice was low and full of suspicious.
- "You said the name yesterday, remember?"
Laynie sighed. Should she tell him? [Well, I'm in a team now and I don't wanna get kicked out just because I don't tell them everything.]
- "The Black Cats…" Laynie closed her eyes. The memory was still painful and everyday; she tried to block it away.
*Five years ago…*
- "What do you mean with not going with Nicholas!?" A tall man shouted at Laynie who stood very still.
- "I didn't wanna go with him." Snapped a ten years old Laynie.
- "It doesn't matters! The Black Cats has been our families team a long time ago and if you don't wanna join the team, Laynie, I don't see any other solution than to kick you out of the family." The man, Laynie's father, pointed at the door.
Laynie gasped and her eyes widened. "You can't be serious." She mumbled and shook her head while backing to the door. "You can't be serious."
- "I'm afraid I am, Laynie. And by the way, you were never half that strong as Nicholas. You had probably just been a burden anyway." Laynie's father smirked and turned around.
And Laynie left. Left the house, her family and her life. She took off to her grandmother, who had told the Kim's that she didn't wanted them in her life anymore. She claimed that they forced the children into too hard training and always said that 'Beyblading shall come from your heart'.
*Present day*
- "So Nicholas is your brother?" Kai frowned when Laynie had finished her story.
[I didn't expect her to come from such a sad background…] He thought and watched the black haired girl leaning her chin in her left hand. [Hang on second! I don't feel sorry for other peoples? What's wrong with me today?]
Laynie nodded. "So that's why I live with my grandmother."
- "Is your bitbeast something that have belonged to your family?" asked Kai and remembered the tiger from their battle earlier this day.
Suddenly, Laynie smiled and picked out her blade from her pocket.
- "Yeah, Drizzler has been in our family since my greatgreatgreatgrandfather or something. And when I left, Drizzler should've stayed in the family but he chose to come with me instead." Laynie caressed her blade with her thumb.
[I wonder if Dranzer would come with me if I took distance to Voltaire?] Kai couldn't resist the thought. [My life would be so much easier without him…]
- "But shouldn't the bitbeast belong to the oldest heir? And I guess that your brother is older than you?"
- "Yeah, I know it's weird. They tried to force Drizzler to stay with Nicholas but he kinda disappeared out of the blade every time…" Laynie shook her head to show that she didn't cared so much. "But the important is that Drizzler is faithful to me and that we can trust each other. I don't have anyone else except grandma…"
Kai was just about to say something when the elevator started to move again.
- "I guess that we're saved then." Laynie rose from the ground and brushed off her trousers.
Kai shrugged and got up from the floor he too.
The elevators doors opened and there stood Max, Tyson, Kenny and Ray with a chocked expression on their faces.
Tyson opened his mouth to say something, but Laynie and Kai interrupted him at the same time.
- "DON'T say anything!"
~*~ Next morning… ~*~
Laynie sat in the French window with her sketchbook in the knee. She frowned in concentration when she out then pen to the paper.
Suddenly a voice said: "What are you drawing?"
Laynie jerked her head up and turned it where the voice had come from. It was Ray.
- "Nothing." She answered and closed the book.
- "Come on, Laynie. You don't have to hide something from us. You're a Bladebreaker now, you know?" replied Ray and smiled.
Laynie smirked and pulled out a loose paper from the book. She knew that it was a picture of Tyson's bitbeast Dragoon. She gave it to Ray.
He looked down and could immediately see that it was Dragoon.
- "Wow. You're pretty talented!" Ray gave the picture back to Laynie who shrugged.
- "It's not that good." She said and jumped down.
Ray laughed. "Talented and unpretentious."
Laynie blushed and hurried to the kitchen. Oh, how she hated to get complements. It made her feel so uncomfortable and she never knew how to deal with them.
She met Tyson and Max in the kitchen, eating breakfast.
[Kai must've done it… If it's not Ray of course…] Laynie sat down next to Max and avoided to look at Tyson.
Ray and Kai entered the room and Ray sat down at the table. Kai lent on the door post, watching his team.
- "You know that our first battle is today…" started Kai and frowned in annoyance when Tyson interrupted him.
- "Gee, I had NO IDEA." He said with sarcasm.
Kai glared at Tyson. "Shut up, Tyson. As I said, the first battle is today and Ray will begin, followed by Max and Laynie will be the last. Okay?"
- "Hey, why am I not gonna play today?" shouted Tyson.
Kai simply glared at him again and Tyson gulped.
[Better stay quite…] He thought and returned to his pancakes, but still growling.
[My first battle's today then…] thought Laynie and felt a bit of excitement. [Have I waited for this or what?]
- "When will the mini-bus pick us up?" asked Kenny who came out from his room carrying Dizzi. (A/N: Dunno what that bus is called so tell me if ya know…)
- "Around eleven." Answered Kai left the kitchen.
Laynie watched him go to the bathroom with his white scarf swaying gently behind his back.
- "Why doesn't he battle?" She asked, unconscious about that she still was looking at the door where Kai had left.
Max shrugged. "He only battles if it's necessary."
- "I bet that he thinks that he's too good for battling with us." Snorted Tyson and a loud discussion about Kai and the reason to why he didn't battle broke out. Kenny joined and soon it was only Laynie and Ray who was silent.
Ray watched Laynie as she stared at the doorpost where Kai had been leaning before he left. Was it something going on between them or was he just imaginary?
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Yay! Fourth chappie done! It turned out to be pretty long didn't it? I tried to keep it down but I couldn't find a good place to end the chapter…
Anyway, please review and I'll get the next chappie up soon!