Disclaimer: Ok, I do not own Beyblade. Christina Oasana belongs to Beyblader-grl. Oh and Alice belongs to Bloody Mary. And Korigan belongs to The-Black-Tiger.

Town Gangs And High School Jerks

Chapter Seven

"What do you want Blood Boy?" she asked Tala angrily.

"Now that's not very nice. You have a name for me and I don't have one for you. How about Air Head?" he asked smirking.

"Sure. Will you leave now?" she asked completely ignoring the name.

"Actually, I think I'll stay." He said sitting under the tree. "After all, Rei's my friends too."

Eri looked at Rei and he shrugged. "So where's your sex toy at?" she asked casually starting a conversation as she watched Kai and Alice from a distance.

"Oh, you mean Alice?" he asked completely forgetting who she was.

"Yah, the squeaky American that's trying to be Japanese." She said smiling.

"She's off flirting with Kai." He said shrugging and leaning back against the tree with his hands behind his head.

This was a good time to get info. She gave Kei the look that said 'don't interfere' and he nodded. She jumped down and sat in front of Tala. The guys that had come had run off when she jumped down.

"So you don't mind that she's flirting with him?" she asked curiously.

"Nah, after all, she was his first. He gave her to me." He said smiling at Eri; his bright blue eyes sparkled against the sun's rays.

"Hm. You talk about her as if she's a thing." She said thoughtfully.

"So do you." He said accusingly.

"Yes I suppose so." She looked upward, past Kei, Rei and Chi. Her mother was a toy to her father. That was how men like Tala treated them. She sighed contentedly.

"So how are you? I mean, after all the stuff with your father and whatnot." Tala asked seeming somewhat concerned.

"Why do you care?" she snarled quietly. Baring a sharp looking set of teeth.

"Chill! I was just asking." He said waving his hands in front of his face.

"Hn. Well don't." she said looking ahead of herself.

"Ok, ok I'm sorry I mentioned it. So why are you so against Kai?" he asked. He seemed to be the one getting information now.

"Because he's a prick, like you." She said smirking. "I find that its often my job to bring down a guys ego, Kai just happened to cross my path first. Feel lucky for now, Tala Valkov, because you're next." And with that she jumped back into her tree, grabbed her lunch, landed again and walked back towards the building.

"Guess that's my cue." Kei said winking at Chi and following his sister.

Chi and Rei watched them go then climbed down the tree.

"So how've ya been Rei? Haven't seen you around lately." Chi said looking back at Tala who was watching Eri with some sort of odd glint in his eyes.

"Hm. . .That could be because you've been hanging out with Kai too much or that I've been hanging out with Mariah too much." He said going into a thoughtful pose while looking up at the sky.

"Then I guess we just haven't had time for each other ne?" she asked looking up at him slightly.

"Ya I guess. So what do you think of Eri? I don't know her very well but you two seemed to be getting along well." He said looking ahead.

"She's nice, when she wants to be. But she has a deadly edge to her that you'd never want to underestimate, especially if you were on the receiving end of her deadly venom. She's like a snake you know? Calm and ready to strike at any moment." Chi said thoughtfully.

"You definitely have a way with words there Chi. Amazing how you're getting a C- in English." Rei said teasingly.

"How'd you know?" she asked as the colour drained from her face.

"I have my ways." Rei said smirking.

"I hate you." Chi said playfully punching him.

"You two love birds forgetting about me?" asked a deep voice behind them.

"Piss off Valkov." Chi said glaring openly at the red haired boy.

"What was up with you back there? Why were you hanging out with us? After all, we're just not as cool as you." Rei said sarcasm clinging evidently to each of his words.

"Hey, hey now Rei. That's not very nice at all." Tala said in mock hurt. "I just wanted to get to know the new kids without Kai. He always seems to screw things up after all." He said chuckling.

"Not as bad as you screwed up with Miaka." Chi grumbled angrily.

"What was that Oasana?" Growled Tala while grabbing Chi's wrists powerfully.

"Nothing that would hurt you obviously." She said wrenching her wrists out of his grasp.

"Tell me Oasana!" Tala shouted at her.

"Piss off Tala." Rei said savagely.

Tala growled softly then turned and stalked away.

"That was not smart at all Chi, we promised not to mention her. And he doesn't even know about that. He doesn't know why she left. . ." Rei trailed off as he stared ahead.

"Sorry." Chi mumbled slightly. "Couldn't help it. You know whatever comes out just comes out. He probably doesn't even remember her. He treated her like shit after all." Chi said clenching her fists.

"Let's just drop it, ok Chi?" Rei asked softly.

"Good plan Kon. We'll drop it. But, god, do I miss her." She said quietly while absently leaning into Rei for some kind of reassurance.

Rei put an arm around her shoulders and whispered softly. "So do I, Chi. So do I."

1

It was suddenly Friday and people had gotten used to the Zelian siblings. Eri healed within the week and was now back in uniform. She walked down the hall, without Kei. He had found his way around and was hitting on some girl somewhere in the parking lot. Eri sighed and looked ahead. She didn't need him to be here anymore anyway.

"Yo Eri!" It was a girl. Eri wasn't sure she knew who...yet.

"Eri!" oh, it was Chi.

"Hmm...?" was Eri's answer.

"Ok. This is my friend. Korigan Sinayaki. He's a good friend of Rei and myself." She said smiling.

Eri looked the boy over. "Charmed." She said nodding. His hair was long bluish black that came into a braid down his back and stopped below his butt. He had small braids hanging from behind each ear with bangs that fell to the sides of his face stopping two inches from his chin and getting shorter as they went up and streaked white as well as frosted. His eyes were the same kind of amber as Rei's. This boy, looked like he had snow in his hair or something, it looked like that to Eri anyway. He wore the uniform with his shirt unbuttoned a bit and the jacket not buttoned at all. It looked funny on him. Real funny.

"The pleasure's all mine." He said politely.

"I'm sure it is pretty boy! Now let's go do something!" Chi said loudly.

"I'm going home. After I get Kei off the blonde he was on a while ago." She said in a un-humoristic tone. Chi chuckled anyway.

"Ok. You wanna meet up somewhere? Later with the guys or something?" Chi asked hopefully.

"No. I'm going to train in the park. I have to work on my launch." She stated flatly.

"Last I heard, your launch knocked Tyson's blade out of the dish." Chi stated eyeing her slyly.

"His launch was weak as was his blade." Eri said watching Chi.

Chi sighed. "Oh whatever. Maybe we'll meet you in the park or something. Ok?" she asked hopeful once again.

"Whatever." Eri said turning away.

"Great! We'll be there around 6:00 to pick you up and drag you somewhere. If that's humanly possible with your over-protective brother always around. No offence to Kei or anything, you know?" Eri nodded "Great! We'll see you later then." Chi said waving and running off dragging Korigan with her.

2

Eri sat in the park exhausted. She had been training for the past 3 hours. She got up again and pulled on the ripcord with a shout and watched as the blade spun faster than it had during her match with Tyson.

'Good, good, now to train with the gun blade.' She thought pulling out the handle from her backpack on the ground.

As the handle lay by her side she pulled the trigger and the blade shot out. She loaded her blade in and gripped the gun blades' large handle with both her hands. She pulled back then pulled it up in front of her while letting the blade scrape against the ground. Continuing her swift movement, she blasted the blade into the dish by pulled the trigger again. As it landed, it made a small hole in the middle of the dish and as it spun the wind around it was brought up and pieces of the dish began to fly everywhere. One piece scraped across her cheek but she didn't move. She continued watching the blade until the entire dish was demolished and there was only a hole of dirt. She held out her hand and caught her blade in her outstretched hand.

"Whoa." Came a voice from behind the bushes.

In a fast sweep, she loaded the gun blade again. She launched it with a stone like look on her face. This time when she launched, she spun around once and then pulled the trigger after a 360 spin. She watched as her blade cut through 3 trees before returning to her. In the meantime, 6 people had jumped out of the way of her blades destruction path. It was Chi, Korigan, Johnny, Rei, Tala and Kai.

Eri sighed. "Sorry." She said with no emotion what so ever. "But don't ever do that again, or next time, I won't miss."

"You probably won't." Chi agreed nodding her head. "So you wanna come or are you gonna stay?" Chi asked looking at her with a sort of pleading.

Eri shook her head. "Sorry Chi. I need to train. If I don't, I'll get my ass kicked next week." She said looking slightly apologetic.

"What? Why? Is there a tournament or something?" asked Johnny butting in.

"Ya. Street tournament in FeToren. But don't bother coming. You'll get your Asses kicked from what I've already seen. Actually, you'll get your Asses worse than kicked. You'll get them demolished." She smirked at Kai who growled in return. "Anyways, I'll see ya later, unless you're sticking around..." Eri said looking at Chi with an invitation.

"I wanna battle you!" Shouted Kai angrily. "Without the gun blade." He added as an after thought.

"No way. Part of the battle is how strong your launcher is, along with your launch. If you can beat the gun blade launcher, then maybe you'll have a chance. But you and your high-classed cronies wouldn't want to get into a fight between us lower class mud sliders." She said shrugging.

"We'll see about that. LET IT RIP!" He shouted hoping to launch before she did.

But Eri was fast with her gun blade and launched while Kai's blade was still in the air. She launched her blade as Kai's was coming down he thought that she was going to shoot over it. As her blade collided with his, she trashed half his attack ring. And his blade stopped spinning.

"Good luck with that there Kai. Oh and good thinking trying to launch before me. That's how street tournaments are. Anything goes a lot of people get killed in these battles. But it's worth it to win. I've won 3 years in a row. But the people entering keep getting more dangerous and more powerful. That's why you keep your guard up, where ever you walk. Plenty of people want me dead after all." She said looking back at her demolished dish. "Hmm...I'll have to go home and train now. Want to come?" she asked

"Uh...will your dad be home?" asked Johnny quietly.

"No. He's on a business trip. You'll be fine. I wouldn't be asking if he was home, and I wouldn't be going home if he was there." She said softly, darkly.

"What? Did something happen and I don't know about it?!" Chi asked loudly.

"It's nothing." Eri said looking doubtful.

"Like hell it's nothing!" said Korigan agreeing with Chi.

"How would you know? You don't even know me!" she said in her quiet deadly voice and stormed off while grabbing her stuff in the process.

"Good job Gan." Tala said smirking.

"Lay off." Rei said growling.

"Hmph. Look at 'im Johnny." Tala said laughing. "Johnny?" Tala asked looking around.

"He went after Eri." Kai said monotone.

"Isn't that cute!" Chi said loudly. "Johnny likes Eri!"

"Better not tell him that he'll tear your head off." Korigan said smirking.

"Well, I'm going after him. You don't have to come, I don't even know why you're here in the first place." She said glaring at Kai and Tala.

"Whatever." They said at the same time and followed.

3

"Eri?" Johnny asked as he caught up to her.

"What?" she hissed.

"You know Korigan didn't really mean to upset you right?" he asked cautiously staring at her back.

"Ya I know, but I'm a bit sensitive right now. Just worked up about the tournament. Last year I almost got killed." She whispered remembering the event. She had thought she was in love and instead, got raped and almost killed. But she killed the guy before he could stab her.

"Oh, well, maybe I should just leave." He said looking slightly disappointed.

"No, I don't really care. You can come if you want but your friends will be looking for you." She said not looking at him. Her gaze was set straight ahead and her right shoulder lightly grazed the brick wall as she walked unwavering towards her house.

"Um...ya, you're probably right." He said turning to look behind them.

"Well, I'm going to go and train some more. See ya later flame brain." She said waving and walking through the large gates. Johnny watched her retreating back before turning and walking towards the park once again.

Why did he always seem so kind around Eri? Was he suddenly feeling for the girl he'd known for less than two weeks? Johnny never thought he'd feel this way. He felt that love was a silly emotion that only distracted people from their official goals. Or, that's what he'd learnt from Kai, Bryan and Tala. Johnny kicked up a stone as he walked down the street with his hands shoved into his pocket. He began fingering his blade and felt it warm up to his touch.

'What ails thee master?' asked a majestic yet slippery voice.

'None of your business Salamulyon. And cut the crap English.' Johnny thought angrily.

'I'm sorry master, but I feel all your feelings. And I haven't talked with you for several months. I was beginning to think you'd given up on beybading.' Salamulyon replied wistfully.

'Oh, sorry Salamulyon. Guess I've been a bit distracted lately. Things have been going on if you know what I mean.' Johnny sighed and looked up to see his friends in the distance. 'Listen, I promise I'll talk to you tonight, ok?' he asked sadly.

'As you wish, master.' Salamulyon's fading voice saddened Johnny. He did indeed miss talking to his bitbeast. As much as he hated to admit it, after his battle with Kai, Salamulyon and himself had become considerably close.

"Hey Johnny! Where's Eri?" Chi called out as she spotted the red head.

"She went home, she's training." He said flatly and then walked past them. Maybe, today, he'd do some training as well. He needed to re-bond with Salamulyon anyway. "I'll see you later, I'm going home to train as well. Salamulyon is restless for some reason." He said grinning and waving at them before heading home.

"Everyone's acting so weird today!" Chi shouted angrily. "Am I missing something?!" she asked loudly.

"You are, as always Christina Oasana." A giggly voice said from on top of the large brick wall.

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YAY! I left you at another cliffie!!! I think.

REVIEWS!!!!:

Marochre Iatrone: Ya, Kai's an ass. But, hey, in most of the best fics, he is. And you have to admit, he is a bit of an ass in the series too. now, I can't remember if you've put in an OC either. I think you have. Don't worry, I'll find it.

Mirrored Soul: So, yeah. I updated. Yeah, Eri and her smartass comments, funny. Yay! Cliffies!!! And yes, your character will be in here. Later, though, much later. She's in Eri's gang in Fe.

Yin: Yeah, Kai's a butt. That part with Johnny apologizing was hard. I couldn't find the right words, So I just switched to Jap. And yeah, Chi is cool.

Phoenix-Star-08: Hey thanks, Have I e-mailed you those OC's yet?

The-Red-Phoenix: Bah! Writing is hard, man! Cut me some slack here!

Bloody Mary: Ah yes, Alice the Brainless, is it not?

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