Emptiness

By: Black Dranzer

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--flashback sequences--

Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade. I only own any of the characters that you haven't seen in the original Beyblade series.

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In the last chapter of Emptiness:

(("Well, I do now!" she growled.

The boys stared at her with raised eyebrows.

"What?" Kazuki said. She had always had on an appearance of composedness no matter what situation she was in ever since her mother had died.

"Let's just go now, we've wasted enough time," Tala said trying to save Kazuki from further embarrassment.

The other boys followed silently and Kazuki followed behind them after closing the door to her room, hiding a knife tinted in the blood puddle on the center of the floor.))

(("Anna," he whispered, "I never meant it,"

Now that he had remembered the woman, Kai was sure that someone related to the woman had sent him the e-mail.

"So she remembered," Kai said to himself, "I know it would happen eventually. But I thought Boris would've told her sooner,"))

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Chapter Twelve: Confirm

Kazuki walked behind the other boys.

She didn't pay attention to her surroundings. Her mind was on what had happened after she had taken the knife out of her closet.

"What were you doing?"

"Nothing," Kazuki thought back to Tala.

"Sure," he replied with a non-convinced voice.

"You wouldn't want to know," Kazuki thought back quietly.

--Flashback--

Kazuki put down the knife she was holding on the table and withdrew another item from her closet.

It was a black laptop. On top was the symbol of BIOVOLT.

Kazuki opened the laptop and started to type a letter.

"I will avenge my family Kai Hiwatari."

Her fingers raced across the keyboard as she typed in the recieving e-mail address.

She selected 'Unsigned' and sent the e-mail to the laptop of the Bladebreakers' manager.

The blue-haired beyblader needs a remainder.

--End Flashback--

Kazuki looked down at her roughly put on clothes.

--Flashback--

The shiny object reflected sunlight into Kazuki's eyes. She stared at the knife for a few seconds.

"You will pay," she whispered as she thought of her nemesis, Kai.

Her eyes reflected the color of the dagger.

She rolled up the sleeves of her shirt and, holding the knife firmly, carved some inscriptions on her bare left arm.

Blood dripped from her arm as the sharp tool pierced her skin. But she didn't wince once, as there was no pain.

When she had finally finished, Russian and Japanese words were outlined with blood on her upper left arm.

y6NBATb Muhon-nin

"I will avenge your kami, mother," she thought as her silver eyes glanced over the bloody words.

--End Flashback--

"Kai, anata wa muhon-nin desu," she thought.

"What?" Tala's unvoiced question rushed into her mind.

"Nothing," Kazuki thought back and turned off her transmitter, cursing herself that she hadn't sooner.

Before Tala had a chance to inquire again, the boys had already arrived at the lake with Kazuki following behind.

Tala had been at the front of the procession and he turned around to look at the girl.

Kazuki was glaring at something far off and wasn't paying attention.

He spoke up to the rest of the team, "We've arrived,"

The frozen surface of the lake shone as the sun slowly rose into the sky.

"Kazuki," Tala referred to the girl, whom continued to glare at a faraway source.

Finally, after a moment of silence when the girl didn't reply, Ian stepped up to Kazuki and nudged her left arm with his rifle launcher, "Hello, earth to you?"

Kazuki looked at the boy with a growl and got out her Beyblade.

The other boys did the same.

Before they launched their Beyblades though, something on Kazuki's arm caught their attention.

A thick, red liquid was pouring down from her roughly put on clothes

Kazuki followed their silent glance and saw her own blood pour down. She hadn't noticed the cuts of the engraving were still open when she left her room.

Without another thought, Kazuki took out a white handkerchief and wiped the blood off of her arms.

Bryan, Tala, Spencer and Ian just stared. Kazuki didn't even seem to notice the bleeding until they had pointed it out, however silently.

They were even more interested in what was causing the bleeding though.

Kazuki continued to clean off of the blood; she didn't want the other boys to see the engraving hidden under her sleeve, so she walked away from them and leaned behind a large rock.

Curious looks were exchanged between the boys, but they stayed put on their spot.

Behind the rock, Kazuki rolled up her left shirtsleeve and looked at the words she had carved.

They shone red in the sunlight as more blood came out of the engraved lines, reflecting in her silver-toned eyes.

"My mission," she declared as she wrapped the handkerchief around her arm and covered it again with her sleeves, "Mother, I will make the muhon-nin pay."

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"Hello Kai," the man said.

"Mr. Dickenson," Kai acknowledged and straightened up to face the old gentleman.

"What are you doing out here by yourself?" Mr. Dickenson inquired.

"Walking," That was the half-truth.

The white-haired BBA head raised his eyebrow but didn't ask further.

"Let's go back to the mansion," he finally suggested and walked back the way Kai had come from.

Kai sighed inwardly and followed.

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Four Beyblades hit the solid surface of the frozen river.

Kazuki had just emerged from behind the rock and resumed their morning training.

The other boys didn't ask her what happened.

Kazuki shot her own black, white and silver Beyblade onto the lake.

For a few minutes, the other beyblades just circled Kazuki's.

"Attack Zenborg!" Kazuki commanded as she began the fight.

"Battle form. Choose strategy," the voice came once again.

"I hate this stupid voice," Kazuki thought.

"Choose strategy,"

Why not give it a shot?

"List strategies," she thought back, knowing that this conversation was taking less than a millisecond in real time.

"Strategy One: Light Defense, Moderate Attack, Strategy Two: Moderate Defense, Light Attack, Strategy Three: Heavy Defense, Strategy Four: Heavy Attack, Strategy Five: Balanced Defense and Attack. End of Strategies,"

"Confirm Strategy Five," she thought back and opened her eyes.

She noticed that statistics showed for each of the bit beasts, listing their defensive and offensive power.

Outside, one can see her glittering gray pupils, like iced metal.

"Seaborg! Arise!" Spencer shouted.

"Fly Falborg!" Bryan commanded.

"Wyborg!" Ian called.

"Emerge Wolborg!" Tala called upon his bit beast.

The four bit beasts all rose out of their bits and faced Zenborg's hikari.

This time, the stats of the beyblades increased dramatically on Kazuki's statistic displayer.

"Attack!" all four of the boys shouted at the same time as each of their bit beasts obeyed and, in a synchronized manner, attacked Zenborg with their attacks combined.

"Mirror Wall!" Kazuki commanded automatically, as the battle form took effect and chose the best way to counter.

The force of the combined attacks hitting the powerful barrier caused a large explosion.

The four boys backed off to avoid being hit with the sparks that were emitting from the Beyblades but Kazuki just stood in place staring intently at the battle and its results.

Zenborg could be seen hovering above all the other bit beasts forcing the attacks to reflect.

After several seconds of attempting, Zenborg managed to neutralize the attacks and waited for Kazuki to next instructions.

"This is working quite well," Kazuki thought before the next part of her battle form took place, "Nightmare Shadow!"

The swan emerged as its yami and charged towards the other bit beasts with its sharp wing blades.

"Get out of the way!" Tala commanded Wolborg and was relieved to see that Wolborg had jumped out of reach of the black swan.

The other bit beasts followed Wolborg's example and avoided Zenborg's onslaught.

"Go for the falcon!" Kazuki's computerized stats showed that it had the second weakest defense.

Inside, her command rang in her mind, "Target Falborg,"

"Styrobultz Falborg!" Bryan called, as his face showed a frown.

Falborg used its wings to create a large tornado-like ball, which it shot at Zenborg.

Kazuki smirked, "Zenborg, dodge it!" She knew that the ball of wind was too slow to stop her bit beast from the speed meter on her data screen.

Bryan held back and growled as Zenborg's wings sliced at Falborg's side, neutralizing its energy.

Bryan light purple Beyblade came to a stop at his feet.

"Who should I take down next?" Kazuki asked the remaining three boys, glaring at them each in turn.

Kazuki had grown to love being ruthless in battle.

As she stopped her gaze at Tala, she looked away quickly and made sure that her transmitter and reciever were off. She didn't want him to barge in on her thoughts. She couldn't let him get close.

"Engage Strategy Four," she thought to the digital voice, "Target, Wolborg,"

--To be continued

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From now on, Japanese words (or Russian as I will use those too) used in my story will be below the story with their definitions. Except for the ones that are supposed to be unrevealed. Ok so on with the definitions:

kanji : the written Japanese language

kami : the spirit of an ancestor or elder

haha : (NOT LAUGHING) mother in an informal or loving way

y6NBATb : (Russian) yea..that's the closest I could get to the original Russian writing because does not allow symbols --U I'm not going to tell you guys what this means either, but most of you can already guess XD

muhon-nin : Sorrie, but I'm not telling you what this means! You'll just have to find out in the next chapters! :P

anata wa muhon-nin desu : okay, anata wa basically means "you" and desu means "is/are" and of course, I'm not going to tell you what muhon-nin means, though you guys may as well know what it is already XD

hikari : the light side of a living being (the angelic side of someone)

yami : the dark side of a living being (the demonic side of someone)

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A/N: Here's chapter 12 for you! Hope you've enjoyed it! The things she wrote on her arm will be translated later, the first word is in Russian and the second is supposed to be in kanji. Try to figure out what it says. XD Ja ne!