FASH: Sorry I didn't update as soon as I should of, on Saturday I spent the whole day at my cousin's wedding.

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Tyson was sleeping restlessly in bed, his dreams filled with nightmares he only wished he could wake up from, and looking through his bedroom window was a woman shrouded in darkness, you could see the woman smirk and the light from the moon caught and lit up her sunglasses, which were still covering her eyes, in an eerie way.

"Perfect." She whispered to herself as she silently opened the window. In her hand he held a note, and a blood red rose. 'Sleep Tyson, you're in for a surprise in the morning.' She thought and evilly cackled in her head, she was about to lay the rose and letter on the table, but heard footsteps outside the door, she quickly dropped the two items and scurried out the window, forgetting to close it.

'Consider yourself lucky Tyson. Next time. Well, let's just say next time I'll come closer, or even finish my task.' She walked away from the grounds and disappeared into the dark of the night.

Tyson awoke feeling cold. 'What?' He looked over toward the window whose drapes were billowing in the small breeze. 'But I always leave that window closed.' He started to get out of bed when. "OW!" He quickly lifted his foot up, hey was a small cut in his foot now, it wasn't bleeding badly, but it still hurt, now what could he of stepped on to get such a cut?

Tyson looked down and saw a blood red rose, complete with thorns, and a note lying on his floor. 'What's this?' He asked silently as he opened the note, he grew pale.

-Tyson, my dear boy, as you can see, I'm closer than you want, but you can't stop me, I'll follow you to the ends of the earth and back again. I'm here Tyson, and no one can protect you...-

Tyson hen picked up the red rose. 'Red for my blood that she wishes to spill.' His eyes filled with tears. ''Why couldn't I have had a normal childhood? One complete with a caring mother, father, and maybe even an older brother, why during my childhood was I refused to feel loved?' Tyson cheeks were soon covered by silvery tears that he wiped away, no good would come if someone walked in and saw the world champ crying.

Tyson had just finished changing when a knock sounded from outside the door, and not even waiting for a response it flew open to show a very irritated Amethyst.

"I swear! That Daichi kid is going down! Once I get my hands on him I'll! Oh!" Amethyst started doing chocking motions in front of her, as if she was strangling the annoying kid known as Daichi.

"What did he do this time?" Tyson asked, trying to forget his own problems.

"He woke me up by saying there was a fire. Then after that, he threw my dragon necklace in a tree!" Amethyst said in anger.

"Well, sometimes you're harder than me to wake up. I know by experience." Tyson commented slyly, grinning when Amethyst directed her glare at him. "Come on Amethyst, you're about as threatening as goldfish."

"I am not! Anyways, I just came here to tell you that Kai's outside and wants to talk to you." Amethyst said, Tyson stared at her before snapping back to reality.

"Why didn't you tell me that before?!" He demanded.

"You asked me a question, I answered it, and we got a little off track." Amethyst shrugged her shoulder as Tyson raced out of the room.

"Man, has no one else caught on that Tyson has a crush on Kai yet? Gee, and people say I'm dense." She muttered to herself before catching sight of a piece of paper. "What's that?" She wondered aloud as she picked it up and examined it.

Amethyst's hands were forming fists and her eyes were burning in rage. 'I'll get you! You lay one finger on Tyson, and you'll not only have to deal with me! But everyone of his friends!' She thought, fuming mad.

Meanwhile outside Tyson had literally run Kai over. Kai had tried to keep them steady, but they ended up doing a very ungraceful fall to the ground, Kai on top. (Cliché is it not?)

'Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!' Was basically the only thing running through Tyson's head. Hey, what would you do if your current crush was lying on top of you?

Kai was looking into Tyson's wide, innocent, mesmerizing, compelling, he really could go on for days, eyes. 'This is the perfect chance to tell, or should I say, show, Tyson my feelings.' Kai thought as he prepared to lean down for a kiss when.

"Kai? I.... Can't.... Breath." Tyson struggled to get it out, Kai was at least a full head taller than him, and Tyson wasn't sure he could last to much longer with Kai on him, no that he didn't like the situation, it would have been better under different circumstances though. 'Bad Tyson! Bad, bad Tyson!' Tyson berated himself when he thought of some particularly interesting mental images of him and Kai.

Kai, reluctantly, got off Tyson, and offered Tyson his hand to help him up. (Aww!)

"You ready for the battles today?" Kai asked as coldly as he could, which was quite an accomplishment, seeing as he just wanted to hug Tyson for all he was worth.

"And don't you forget it!" Tyson said as he flashed Kai a 100 watt smile.

"TYSON!" Amethyst ran out of the house. "Oh. Hi Kai. Tyson come over here." Amethyst grabbed Tyson's hand and dragged him over to the Koi pond.

"Were you just going to keep that letter from me?" Amethyst asked.

"I don't want you to worry about me." Tyson said and he looked down at his feet.

Amethyst smiled and hugged Tyson. "Friends were made to worry. Now let's go of to your little match, Daichi screamed and ran to it after I started threatening him." Amethyst smiled even more. "It is so easy to intimidate that kid. But he deserved it."

"I'm sure he did now let's go!" Tyson said as they trio (they were with Kai) walked to the stadium. Amethyst the only one noticing the glances the two boys were throwing at one another.

As was expected, all the rookies were eliminated in the next rounds, Tyson was keeping an eye out for ~Jin of the gale,~ there was something familiar about that guy, he didn't know what exactly, but he was going to find out.

Amethyst noticed his watchful state. "What's up with you?"

"That Jin guy, there's something about him, like I've met him before, but the memory is lurking at the very corners of my brain, hiding in the shadows." Tyson replied, a thoughtful look on his face.

Amethyst stared at him for a moment, before silently applauding. "Bravo, encore." Noticing his odd look directed at her. "You sounded so smart. Very nerd like."

Tyson glared at her and Amethyst held up her hands in a peace keeping gesture.

"Next up we have Jin against Leonardo!" Jazzman shouted, Tyson attention was suddenly riveted on Jin's figure.

"3.2.1. LET IT RIP!" Both blades landed in the ring, but Jin's quickly, very quickly, took care of Leonard's."

"And now Vicky vs Tempest!" The two girls stood up.

Vicky stood and glared at Tempest. (Both OCs) "You're going to pay for your little boyfriends actions against my man."

"Don't blame him for having skill." Tempest replied.

"3.2.1. LET IT RIP!" The two girl's blades fought valiantly against one another, but in the end, Tempest's won.

"And that's the end of today, only two days left of the world tournament!" Jazzman yelled into his microphone.

"Goody." Amethyst said. Until she heard a familiar voice.

"Amethyst, you are so dead once we get over there." Said the amused voice of.

"JESS!" Amethyst turned and saw her other five best friends.

Jessica or ~Jess~ with her dark brown eyes and blond hair, she was the mother hen of their little group. Julia ~Jewl~, her lime green hair and green eyes standing out like a sore thumb. She was the competitive one of their little group. Then there was Melanie or ~Mel~ as she preferred to be called. Her dark grey eyes and sky blue hair could mesmerize any guy. She was the muscle of the group, what with all her kick boxing lessons. Stacy, and ~Stace~ had navy blue eyes and yellow/green hair. The sporty one of the group. Then, there was Mary Sue (Anyone get the pun?) she didn't want a little nickname. The completely perfect girl who was a romance addict. Her baby blue eye and bubble gum pink hair made you think she would cry if she lower than an A on anything, which she probably would. She was the brains of the group.

"If it isn't the self acclaimed ~fun one~ of the group." Mel walked up and immediately gave Amethyst a noogie. "AH! Let go!" Amethyst tore away and rubbed her aching skull.

"Why didn't you tell us you were going to Japan? Even your parents were going totally fanatic and crazy on us until I saw you when we were watching the worlds yesterday." Mary Sue asked concerned.

"Uhhhhhhh." Amethyst faced her three friends, they didn't look to happy, probably because they would have worried to the point of a break down because of her little disappearance from home.

"And these are?" Tyson asked as he looked over the newcomers in interest, they seemed about as concerned for Amethyst as Amethyst was concerned for him.

"These are my friends." Amethyst began to introduce. "Mary Sue, Julia, Jessica, Melanie, and Stacy. Guys, this is my old friend Tyson."

FASH: So Tyson's new friends are here, and seeing as I have no clue, tell me who to pair each of them up with. Because if you don't, I just know I'll end up putting Oliver and Mary Sue together. Did anyone get that pun by the way? Mary Sue, perfect, romance addict. This was a pretty good chapter, longer than normal, almost four pages! REVIEW!