I'm back! A day after I recently updated. And the story is starting to meet its end. Ah! About last chapter, I'm sorry for putting just Hilary and Tyson in the scene. It was just something to tell you guys that another day had arrived! (Insert evil laughter) And now you know whom Hilary is afraid of.

Sorry guys... This fic has no pairing.

Disclaimer! No. I don't own the anime. If it were, I would've been rich by now.

"I'm done!" Tyson shouted, dropping the mop on the room's floor, grabbed his bag and ran for the door. He had wasted 20-25 minutes on cleaning and he still had practice to do.

"Hey! Wait up!" Hilary shouted but she still had to place the things back to the cabinets before leaving. She took Tyson's mop and then hers and placed it inside those cabinets, which she is not supposed to since they are still wet. She took the bucket and placed it outside the room and left with her bag. But when she reached the ground floor, Tyson was out of sight.

"Darn Tyson! Always leaving me behind." She mumbled as her feet walked across the school's grounds. "He said they haven't opened the mag yet. And Max usually comes in late." She thought as she walked pass out the gates. "Maybe I can convince him not to open that thing again." Her thoughts have made her busy and kept her from looking where she was going. But somehow, she had reached Tyson's place without the use of her eyes. She blinked when she saw she was already outside the gates. "Will I go…? Or not…?" A sweat crawled down on her cheeks before deciding what to do until Ray had seen her from the other side of the street, walking up to her.

"Hey Hilary!" he greeted.

"Ray…"

"Isn't Tyson with you?" He asked, pausing in front of her.

"He left earlier." She answered simply. Ray was waiting for her to continue but there was nothing that came out from her mouth anymore.

"I see…" And there was a long pause between them. After a while, Ray had stepped one more pace to the door and invited her to come with him but she refused right away.

"I… I'll wait for the others!" She reasoned sheepishly.

"Isn't Max here yet…?"

"Uhm… ahehehe… actually… I don't know… I haven't gone in just… yet."

"Oh… I'll just call you when I get there and if Max and the others have already arrived."

"Sure! Thanks." She waved nervously at him and smilingly like she was hiding something. Ray turned, looking at her, worried then continued on with his way, finding Tyson and Kenny talk about Dragoons' systems.

"Ray." Kenny said, as if it was a greeting. "Good thing you're here. I'm going to tell you something. Just before Hilary comes here and so does everyone else."

"About what?" Ray blinked.

"Drigger!"

Outside, Hilary stood, looking from one side to another, unsure of which side of the street would Max use. Moments after, a black car came passing by the street and stopped about 5 meters to her left. She knew exactly who would come out from the car… Kai.

" 'Afternoon Kai!" She greeted at him, still nervous and trying to hide she knew the he didn't. Kai looked at with his 'emotionless' look and slipped his hands into his uniform's side pockets.

"Yeah…" Kai responded and went inside the gateway with nothing more said. Hilary watched him walk inside but then; he paused, spun around and asked, "What're you doing outside? Tyson's not the guy who would wait for someone just to practice."

"Uh…" She started laughing sheepishly again and brushing the back of her head once more. "I'm waiting for Max to… arrive."

The boy looked at her suspiciously and went back to his business. Hilary sighed in relief. But had thought that it was very 'nice' of Kai to talk to her using more than… 10 words. Normally, he just reply with a 'Yeah," a silent nod or if she had said something wrong, he'll glare at her. But that didn't matter much. Where's Maxy when you need him at this time?! She once again took another glance to both of her sides as she waited for the blonde; blue eyed young man to arrive.

"Ah…" a familiar voice came from behind when Hilary was busy searching for Max on the right side of the gate. "My lady awaits me arrival."

She swung around finding what she was waiting for. "Max!" She hurriedly looked at his hands, wondering if he still had that magazine he had brought yesterday. She searched him, going from the back and going back in front of him in a questioning look.

"What's wrong Hilary?"

"Where's that magazine!?"

"Ah! You mean that Candy Magazine." She nodded. "I left it with Tyson. And I made sure he wouldn't peek a page in it. Ain't I great?" He boasted.

"HUWAT!?"

"We're going to look at it together later after practice."

"Uh… yeah." She agreed, still nervous and edgy about things and just hoped that somehow, it won't show up and she'll be saved. Her hands clasped together and her eyes closed, praying that a miracle would come and tears were coming out from her eyes.

"Hey Hilary, come on." Max called her, grabbed her hand and started dragging her inside.

"Y-yeah."

"Finally." Tyson breathed as both appeared in the backyard. "I'm bored with Kenny here, talking about this and that."

"It's just because you weren't even listening to a word I'm saying!" Kenny scolded him.

Tyson looked away and pretended to ignore him although he heard him right and he had seen right through him. "So, our dear leader, what's for practice?"

Hilary knew he was talking about her but she had not thought about anything for them to do because of a certain something had kept her bothered since last night.

"Uhm… uh…" She thought hard but nothing dawned her mind. "I'll let Kai do the training for you."

At the sound of that, she knew Tyson would blow up and start giving out curses at her and asking, probably yelling at the same time, why she had picked him to train them for the day.

Kai was surprised too, but took that chance to get his revenge on Tyson for last, last year's event when lady luck had sided Tyson on their match. This time, he had to win. And this time… he had to torture him just like the time when they first met.

But before Tyson could even mutter a word, Kai had stood up from the platform he was sitting on and smiled evilly at him.

Hilary and Max had sat down beside Kenny and Ray while Tyson was confronting Kai and waited for instructions.

"First off. I don't like noise." Kai said.

"What's that…? A rule? You really think I would obey you?" Tyson said, as stubborn as ever. He turned to Hilary and gave her a piece of him, "Why do I have to listen to this… this…" pointing to Kai, he said but did not continue when he felt Kai's dark aura nearing him. Tyson shivered. He had never felt this kind of feeling from him before. His eyes settled Kai's gleaming dark eyes. And his grin was just plain… scary.

An hour had passed and Kai's ruling was about to end. Practice time was ending and Tyson hand been pulling the trigger for about the hundredth time already. Kai wanted him to experience the pain he had when he was still in Russia. Tyson should really thank him for that but he just cannot see why he should be thanking him for making his had ache in REAL pain.

"Okay… Training's over." Kai informed making Tyson sigh in relief.

"Finally." He heaved as he hanged his aching arms and walked up to the house and sat beside Kenny who had been busy typing on his laptop. He saw Ray and Max watching him from their seats. "I just remembered. Why didn't you do all that pulling…?" He pointed out Max and Ray.

"I don't know."

"Kai must really like you, Tyson." Ray added.

"Yeah right." He fainted on the wooden floor and was about to doze off when he remembered something Hilary had not wanted anyone to be reminded of. "The magazine!"

"Oh yeah."

Kai sat back on the platform and sighed once more when he had heard him. "What's so interesting about that anyway…?" he mumbled under his breath as he heard Tyson's footsteps fading away to his room to get it.

"I hope Tyson's not cheating on us." Ray said as he disappeared from their sights

"We'll find out." Max replied reassuringly. "If he did, he'll probably spill out things he had seen."

Hilary was in one corner listening to them and sweating so… hyper!

"This is it, Hilary. There are just some things that cannot be hidden forever. If only you hadn't wrote anything to… to… that mag. Oh man!" She moaned.

"Here it is guys!" Tyson said, waving the glossy magazine in the air.

"Hey! Careful with that thing! That's my money you know!" Max warned him.

"Uh yeah…" He handed it to him and they started to gather up around Max; Ray on his left, Kenny on his right and Tyson on his back, peeking. Kai was still away from them, not interested with the sleek magazine and Hilary… Hilary? She is covering her face with her hands and buried them on her bent knees, waiting for the moment. She just listened.

"Open that thing!" Tyson demanded, can't wait to see his charming face on it.

"I'm opening."

"Chill Tyson. You can wait, can you…?" Ray asked, doubting.

"I CAN"T!" Tyson began choking Max on his neck and actually shouting at his ears to open it already and completely forgetting about Hilary's presence.

"Calm down Tyson." Kenny advised and holding him up to stop him from murdering Max. Fortunately, Tyson had took the advise and cooled off.

"Here it is!" Max said, resolving his eyes on the page. Three other pairs peeked at it and were surprisingly amazed.

Hilary knew they had opened it and she was not ready for anything physically… brutal. She covered her ears, not wanting to hear them say…

"HEY! IT'S US!"

End of Chapter.

Longer and… emptier in humor… . I can't believe myself rating this thing as humor when it's actually… not. Ah… yes. You've guessed it right. Next chappie would be the end of this story! Finally, something I have finished! (Insert evil laugh) But I might take long in putting it up since I have to think of what I'll write for the ending… probably, your reviews could suggest.

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