Chapter VIII
Disclaimer #1: twitch, twitch if I owned Beyblade…in G-revolution, the Neo Borg is the ones who win…and Beyblade tournaments would be worldwide in the real world! And all prizes would be Beyblades, and Dark Dranzer would be made, and Kai would be with Mariam, and-
Disclaimer #2: Ah shut up. Ryuki does not own Beyblade. You are so slow, number 1…
Disclaimer #1: At least I am number 1…now where was I? Yes…Beyblade battle song would be 'In the End' by Linkin Park…
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"Kai, are you sure you know where we are going?"
The dark-haired girl frowned and looked at Kai, who walked slightly ahead of her. Mariam eyed their surrounding, there was a lake not far from where they were and they were currently walking on grass that was up to their ankles.
"Did I say I did, Mariam?" He replied coldly and kept walking; he didn't even slow down his pace. Mariam groaned at his rudeness. Kai ignored her and acted like they haven't said anything at all just 5 seconds ago.
"So you don't know either?" Mariah's voice rang our from behind Kai, nervousness was building in the pink-haired girl's voice.
"Did I say that instead?" Kai said dully.
"Well, then, where are we going?" Ray asked.
"I haven't a clue."
Everyone fell, anime style.
"Kai, you are supposed to know, you've been here before…" Mariah whined, Kai turned around and glared at the annoying pink-haired girl, who pouted like a little girl.
"Ray, how do you put up with this brat?" Kai growled. "I thought you all got it already, Voltaire can change where we go at his will. So even if we go the other direction, Voltaire has us in the palm of his hands. So I don't see the point of knowing where to go or remembering what road we took. It's his world, so we have no choice of where to go. Now, have I made myself clear? Or do I have to spell all that out for you?"
"Kai, you know you don't have to jump down our throats for what we say, we are new at this, so we don't know as much as you do. Does it hurt to explain a bit?" Mariam said quietly to Kai, but it was audible to all 4. Kai didn't reply, all he did was look down and close his eyes. He stopped all of a sudden.
"We should take a rest…" Kai said, surprising all 4 of them, including himself, slightly.
"Take a rest?" Mariam repeated. "Number one, have you heard a word I just said? Number two, since when did you care if we were tired?"
"I don't." Kai replied and his eyes flicked towards the dark-haired girl. "It's just that even if we keep walking, we'll end up in the same place." He sighed and turned to walk towards the lake not far away. "If you guys heard me earlier and had some brain cells, you would understand all this."
"Well I guess we could take a break…" Ray tried to smooth things out, and walked over to Mariah, who thought a rest was a pretty good idea. Mariam sighed, and walked over to Kai, who was sitting by the lake already and was staring at space. She sat down beside him and studied his face. His features didn't betray any of his feelings.
"Kai…" Mariam began, but was interrupted.
"Forget it, Mariam, don't even try to tell me how rude I am." He looked at Mariam, and turned back to look at the surface of the lake. Mariam opened her mouth, as if to object, but closed it again, as if saying never mind. She turned to look at the lake as well.
They sat like that for quite a while, the silence was not uncomfortable for once, and it was actually peaceful.
"You know, I wasn't about to say how rude you were…" Mariam said softly, Kai turned to look at her, and her him. Mariam's eyes were sincere, Kai's eyes softened; he looked down at the grass.
"Then what?"
"This might be a bit personal…" Mariam hesitated. "What happened to you?" Kai was surprised at the directness of the question, he sighed. His eyes wore a look of pure hatred as he heard the name Voltaire.
"I was trained to be perfect. He expected nothing but pure perfection, and emotions only got in the way of it all…" Kai started. "Him and Boris, they think one with no emotion does not have as much obstacles, therefore, they are better in survival and life. But I wasn't the perfect student, I still felt pain whenever they tested me. I was trained along the lines of 'survival of the fittest; you can kill, or be killed.' I had to kill all my emotions in order to pass…I did, at last, but they were still dissatisfied. They wanted to torture me, so they sent me here afterwards. Alone." Kai remembered the feeling of being soaked in his own blood. He remembered the pain that Boris and Voltaire gave him at the abbey. He remembered the dizziness of blood loss, and everything was so clear, as if it happened yesterday. He winced at the memory of it…
Mariam looked at Kai, re-living his past from his memory. She saw the pain flash across his face for a small moment, before it was pushed down. She reached out and touched his arm, as if to comfort him slightly. He winced once again at her touch. It must have been painful…Voltaire; he is Kai's grandfather, was he not? Why did he…?
Kai closed his eyes and stood up. He walked away from Mariam; she must think he is pathetic. He was pathetic. What was he thinking, spilling all of that to a girl? What would they understand? Kai touched his blue tattoos on his face. It was a sign, a sign telling that he was emotionless. It was true; he had destroyed all of his emotions a long time ago…
Then, what was this new feeling that he was getting?
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Voltaire looked at the screen with pure disgust; Kai told that girl all of that, without any hesitation once he started. He and Boris had trained Kai personally not to have any emotions; he could not afford to have any. Once he inherits the Hiwatari family's properties, he would need to rule it as Voltaire did. If Kai were as much of a failure as Kai's father, then the Hiwatari family would become hopelessly poor in knowledge and ability to survive in the real world…
That would be taken care of later. For now, I need to experiment on those small brats. What were their names? Ozuma, Joseph and Dunga? Yes. That is it. Voltaire smirked. This is going to be quite interesting…
"BORIS! Get ready to launch the beast…I have to personally talk to Kai…"
"Yes Voltaire…"
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"Kai…"
Kai's eyes opened immediately. "Grandfather…"
"Ah, I see you still remember me, Kai…"
"How could I forget…?" Kai said with poison in his voice.
The voice chuckled. "Well, Kai, it happens so that you forgot how to control what you say. I am disappointed that you said all that to that girl…Mariam…Do you want to explain yourself?"
"No…" Kai knew what Voltaire was going to send him…his punishment…
"No? Very well…your punishment will be here soon…but for now, I must take care of some things…Its been nice talking to you, Grandson, I hope you wont be as much of a failure as your father…"
"My father?"
"Yes, Kai, he was not capable of taking care of the Hiwatari family possessions. That is why I trained you so hard."
Kai's eyes narrowed: as if those training were lessons to survive in the real world. Voltaire is probably making this up to trick me, nice try grandfather. Kai smirked. "Right, grandfather, I understand."
"I am sure you do, Kai."
Kai walked away from where he was talking to his grandfather. He returned to find Ray, Mariah and Mariam cooking fish over fire by the lake. Rei smiled at his friend. "Care to join us? I hope you like sea food…"
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"So, boys, ready for your experiment?" a new voice, different from last time, said. This one sounded younger and more dangerous, if possible.
Dunga, Ozuma and Joseph looked up and found…nothing, again. The voice was coming from nowhere, yet it was there.
"I am Boris, and I will be in charge of you destruction…"
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Ryuki: Well, there it is…I missed Beyblade for this, so it better be worth it!!!!! Oh yeah, please if you want, you can send in descriptions of bit-beasts to my review or by email. I am NOT good at making up these things…but if you don't, I suppose I'd have to anyways…sigh Sorry if Voltaire and Boris are OOC, coz I've never watched the whole season one…;
There are the bits and scraps of fluff in this fic…well, not fluff, more like…friendship that will TURN into fluff. Just to tell you, I SUCK at writing action with fluff. So either action, or fluff, and I'm sticking with action, coz its supposed to be about action, this fic. I'm babbling again…well, Review!