Do you love me?

Chapter Six: Stranded!

The bright sunlight poured on to the two sleeping figured on the lifeboat, which was stranded in the middle of the ocean. The deep waters surrounded thecouple'sboat as they slept in deep slumber. Suddenly Mariah's bright yellow cat-like eyes flashed open. She smelled the fresh air all around her as she took in the place that surrounded her. Three thing… air… sky… water… oh no…Memories of the previous night flashbacked into her memory as she remembered Ray and her break-up, her and Riley's truce, Kai comforting her, Enrique telling her that she had fallen for none other than Kai Hiwatri, her getting jealous of all the girls around Kai, her getting drunk, him coming after her, him getting drunk, and the rope ripping apart form the ship and floating away just as her and Kai fell asleep.Oh no…

Usually among her family and friends she was known as the sensible one. Always thinking things through before making a rough decision. But not this time, she blurted out the first thing that came onto her mind, which was a horrifying scream. "AHHHH!!!!" Her scream echoed all around them, the peaceful quite bliss of the peace water and light breeze was awakening by her horrifying scream. Kai woke up in a bolt and started at her for a moment and suddenly as if he had finally noticed that they weren't in a bedroom like normal people, he took in the sight.

"AHHHHH!!!!!" Boy, Mariah Savela age 18, (soon to be 19) of all her six years of knowing Kai Hiwatri she had never ever seen him panic let alone scream. To him screaming and showing emotions were for pathetic weaklings.And here he was now, right in front of her, screaming as if it was the end of the world. Mariah being the quick thinker she was took this as an advantage. This was the perfect way to get back at him for what he had done to her last night, with all those stupid girls... uhgs!! She would act all clueless, dumb and innocent, if there is one thing she knew for sure about Kai Hiwatri was that he hated girls like that and couldn't control his anger in front of them. Yes, it was the perfect revenge plan, him breaking down into his emotions in front of her. Yep, this was a war all right and there was no way she'll let Kai Hiwatri win the last round.

Mariah blinked innocently at Kai as her innocent look soon turned into a knowingly smirk as she informed him, "You screamed!!" Her eyes her filled with amusement as Kai grumbled and shot back, "Did not." Once again that smirk formed onto Mariah's face, "Yes you did!!" Kai's once mahogany eyes shot into a different color, bright blood red as if he was tempted to kill the person right in front of him… in other words...Mariah.

"SO!?!" He barked as Mariah jumped in surprise at the rise of his voice, knowing when to shut up when she should she quickly shut her mouth and stayed quiet and took in the blissful scenario in front of her. They both still on the lifeboat that they both had stumbled onto last night drunk and now deep clear ocean blue water surrounded them. There was neither land nor shore in sight, just them, the boat, the light wind breeze, and the cloudless sky upon them. Clearly they had drifter way form the ship, and probably miles and miles away by now since they had been floating all night! "Wow… it's beautiful…" Mariah whispered in awe of the beautiful piece of nature around them.

Kai glared at her once more, "God… the ship...shit...where's the god danm ship!!" Mariah rolled her eyes towards the arrogant blue-haired blader in front of her. "Do you have day blindness too?" She snapped as if he was disturbing an important session of nature watching. "It's gone…" She finished off dreamily as the beauty of the nature piece that was set before her eyes once again took her away. "What... gone… it left without us…" Kai stammered speechlessly. "Yes…" Mariah answered dreamily as she looked around, not that there was much to look at. She had read stuff like this on those cheesy romance novels Lee always caught her sneaking in during practice, but never had it occurred to her that this might happen to her and Kai…

Kai faced her and practically barked again, "This is all YOUR fault, if you hadn't gotten drunk you wouldn't have lost whatever was left of you're brain, then you wouldn't have found this stupid boat and we wouldn't be in this mess!" He roared still glaring at her. Any other girl might have let this pass but not Mariah, oh no, she always fought and argued until the end for what ever she had to say, and Kai was no different. "HEY! Hold your horses!! Flashback darling! If you hadn't flirted with those stupid girls, then I wouldn't have gotten drunk and lost my mind, and then we wouldn't be in this mess!!" She snapped at Kai as he continued to glare at her.

"Looks like you're still drunk form last night you're still babbling nonsense! I mean are in total deep shit over here!!" He started out all angry and calmed down half way. Mariah took this opportunity once again to play it dumb, another chance to get back to Kai for what he did. God...when did she become so evil? She looked at Kai innocently and answered in the dreamiest voice she could muster up at that moment, "Shit? Where? The blue sky above us, the fresh air around us, and the deep ocean blue water beneath us... it's so romantic." She said in a teasing voice, is if it were a clue he was supposed to pick up and notice that she was only trying to get on his nerves. Kai unfortunately totally missed the point and once again took her seriously. "Romantic!? WHAT? Right… when you get thirsty then drink you're salty deep ocean blue water, and when you get hungry then eat you're fresh breeze air, and when you get cold at night you can ask you're friend theskyto bring the sun out early." He shouted as Mariah winced at the volume of his voice, but decided to take his anger as an advantage to get on his nerves once again and answered once again in that ever so dreamy voice that Kai hated so much.

"Why are you screaming? What'll people say?" She asked dreamily, looking at him innocently. "They'll say that you've gone insane, anyways who'll hear us no one is here, we're stranded remember!?" He roared still frustration and anger. Mariah secretly smiled at his frustration and teased back, "I'll listen, you can talk all you want, and I'll listen." Kai looked at her in disbelieve and horror mixed. 'Oh god... how could I ever have thought that I could actually like this girl? She's horrible!' He thought in his mind. "Just shut up and let me think of a way out of this mess." He finally replied calmly, he had been in roar all day, it wasn't as if he was worried about them being lost, it's just that what will happen to his reputation when people find out that he was lost in the ocean with a pink-haired weirdo along with him, just because they got drunk! God… he hated her!

Mariah looking at Kai's calmness all of sudden decided that she wasn't going to let him off this easy so she decided to make his life a living hell... for now at least. "Can I make a suggestion?" She asked once again innocently as if this whole mess was actually an educational field trip. Kai not wanting t make another scene nodded unwillingly. "Let's play hide and go seek?" She suggested as if they where two five-year olds in the sand box. Kai looked at her in disbelieve as if this time for real she had lost her mind. "SHUT UP!!" That was all that roared throughout the calm sea oceans, disturbing the quite peace of the seagulls around them.

Meanwhile…

"We've looked everywhere but there is no sign of Kai or Mariah and where is a life boat missing!" Tyson informed Lee as he had just rushed form the other side of the ship with his part of the search team after him. They had all divided into two search teams and decided to look for Kai and Mariah while Lee had stood in the middle of the dock and waited for both teams to come back with results, hoping to find out where Mariah and Kai were. "Ty, Lee!! Look at this!" Max answered as him and his search party came right behind him. He was holding what looked like a piece of glass coming from a bottle. "Chief found this near the life boats and it looks like as if it came form a beer bottle, we couldn't find the rest of the bottle, probably in the ocean or something, but Chief analyzed it and Dizzy checked for handprints and it has Mariah and Kai's handprints on it!" Max said all in one breath and waited for the others reaction.

But it was Emily, who stood behind Tyson being in his search-party team and all, who answered first. "Oh no…" She whimpered as her eyes got wide and in pure shock. "You don't think they are… oh no… they are aren't they? They're stranded in the ocean…" Lee nodded sadly at the broken down girl now in front of him. "Are we ever going to find them?" Emily asked between sobs as Max took her towards her room so she'd calm down. "I hope so Emily, I hope so…" Lee whispered with a sign but then remembered his responsibility and got into the mode.

"Well since I am Mariah's only guardian we don't need to wry about informing someone else about her missing, how ever we have to inform Kai's grandfather." Lee reported to the group of people in front of him, which contained, The Blade Breakers, The Majestics, The Al-Starz and the Demolition-Boys. True that after their first year of The World Beyblade Tournament, the police arrested Boris and most of the members of Biovolt, but Kai' grandfather was forgiven. And he turned to the good side, forgetting all about conquering the world, and now instead he was running the most successful Beyblade Company in the world. He was the 5th richest person in the world, which is a lot compared that his empire was in billions. Of course after him Kai would take over the empire. But along with the rest of the world, it seemed that Kai never did forgive his grandfather. The only man that ever raised him and taught him and the only man that he ever respected and loved, was the man that he now despised the most.

"But Lee, you know how Kai is about informing his grandfather anything about him, he'd---" Chief started but was cut off by Lee, "I don't care what Kai thinks, this is freaking' serious. I want you to inform his grandfather, that Kai Hiwatri is indeed missing, and I know that he might even scream at you but he needs to be known that his only family member alive, and the heir to his empire is missing…"

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"Wow… its SOO pretty… this is soo beautiful!!" Mariah gasped as she saw the small rocky hill on the water. Occasionally there would be small rocky mountains floating on the water that had come form the underwater volcano eruptions and would soon turn into island in a couple of hundreds of years. And she couldn't help but gasp at the beautiful nature pieces in front of here. Even though it was December it was pretty clear that the time that they were sailing apart form the ship was when the ship was traveling past a warm country, because the air wasn't freezing, it was a light breeze and the water wasn't frozen, it was warm, not too cold and nor too hot.

Kai ignored Mariah for what seemed as if the 50th time. 'God... I've been paddling this stupid boat for hours probably by now and still no island! God…' Kai thought, but he suddenly heard Mariah gasp. (Once again) "Oh... look!! An island!!" Mariah once again gasped and her face took over that dreamy expression she always had, which Kai hated with ever so much passion. Kai looked ahead to where Mariah was pointing, and right there ahead of him was what definitely looked like a stranded island. He rowed the oars silently ignoring Mariah's chants of "Row, row, row you're boat gently down the ocean. Merrily, merrily, merrily…." God... she never shuts up! She's like a parrot for god's sake!' He thought bitterly as he got off the boat and so did Mariah and stated to push the boat towards the shore. "If you don't shut up I'll knock the wind out of you." Kai threatened hoping that this would shut her up, not that he would ever even touch a girl let alone hit her. Mariah smiled knowing that all those hours of non-stop talking got to him and decided to continue her little game. "Knock the wind? Wow… how romantic… of course depends on how you knock the wind out of me… I mean I'd be more than happy if it includes a certain pair of lips on top of mine…" She said smiling mischievously at Kai as he turned around and glared at her and whispered, "Just shut up and leave me alone!" Mariah sensing danger left him alone and wandered off.

He looked over his shoulder to make sure that Mariah was there but she wasn't. He looked around. And there she was already on the shore of the island skipping her way on it as if it were all just a picnic. She was skipping around happily and humming. Kai looked at the pink-haired girl ahead of him, and was unaware that he had let go of the boat. "God… she's lost it." He whispered to himself and returned back to pushing the boat to shore when he realized that there was no boat!! He looked behind him to find the boat floating away but it was a good distance away from him and already into the deep part of the ocean. 'Shit…' He cursed silently as he grumpily waked towards the shore where Mariah was waiting for him with her hands on her hips. She still had her simple pink skirt on and white tank top with the fish-netted over coat on top with the end of it tied together on.

"Wow… perfect… this is SOO perfect!!" Mariah gasped just as Kai came from behind her. She pointed to the small island around them. It basically had the ocean on the front and the shore covered with the regular sand and behind them was a small mountain like overlooking the ocean and behind the mountain was a huge forest. Mariah once again continued with her dreamy mood and said, "Isn't it like a fairytale? Me and you… you and me… lost and stranded in an deserted island with nothing but a forest full of disgusting tree-picking fruits and no one for company but each other… wow how romantic! And then we'll fall in love and live happily ever after!!" She said in her dreamy voice and looked over at Kai, but some how Kai looked ever uneasy, fiddling with his feet and looking at the ground.

"Um... take you're skirt off!" He said suddenly looking at her. "WHAT!?!" Mariah barked suddenly her old self coming back and the dreamy act that she made up to annoy Kai fading away. Kai gulped as Mariah continued to shout, "You moron you took that seriously too!!! I was just kidding!!! Why on earth would I be interested in you! I was just getting revenge on you!" She continued shouting throwing insults at him every now and then. Kai's eyes narrowed as he realized that all this time Ms. Big Mouth was playing with, well he'll get her. There was no way, he'll let her win the last battle, but for now down to business.

"Would you shut up for a moment so I can explain?" He snapped. "And as for why would you be interested in me, well you're not that pretty either, so don't think too much of you're self by thinking that I'd be interested in you!" He continued glaring at her and smirking silently by seeing Mariah's shocked face as he dissed her. "I need that god danm shitty pink skirt, so we can make a flag, and seeing the foggy weather starting to form on this island it clearly means we can't use my shirt 'cuz it's white and I'd camouflage and we can't use you're over coat because it's white too and the only thing that we're wearing that is not white is you're stupid skirt. And if you make a flag then maybe if they send a search party they'll see it and maybe they can come and I wouldn't have to live in this stupid island with you cuz I think I'm going insane along with you too!!" He snapped as he saw that annoying girl smile.

Mariah smiled to herself, she knew that Kai wouldn't try anything but she couldn't help herself from screaming. "Fine I guess you can have it, since I am wearing shorts underneath." She found herself saying, "But you have to catch me first…" She started a smile forming onto her lips as she started to run and saw Kai shake his head in frustration and give a sigh and start running after her.

Mariah was pretty fast, but Kai was even faster and almost in no time he caught up with her, but Mariah accidentally tripped on one of the rocks on the sand on her way and lay flat on her back just as Kai tripped over her and landed almost op top of her. If it weren't for his fast reflexes he's land flat on top of her, but he was indeed on top of her but space was between them because Kai's hands were stretched on the ground beside Mariah, holding him up, so he wouldn't crush down on her. For a minute their eyes locker together, mahogany crushed with cat-like yellow.

Suddenly Kai bolted up just as Mariah shot up after him, a small blush running on her cheeks. Mariah slowly cleared out her skirt pockets and took out the contents that were in it… a strawberry flavor lip-gloss and a nail file. She held the two items and took off her skirt. Kai cleared his throat just as Mariah handed him her pink knee length skirt. Kai looked at Mariah and noticed that now she was wearing short white shorts, right underneath her skirt. Kai turned away and picked up the long tree branch, which was lying on the ground and put the pink skirt on top of the branch tying it on the branch. Then he went up and stabbed the branch onto the ground holding it steady. He looked behind and saw Mariah coming towards him just he headed towards the forest. "Where are you going?" She called out as he ran towards the forest. He came to a halt as he heard her voice. He rolled his eyes, "To McDonalds to order a hamburger. Would like something?" He answered her sarcastically, so it was obvious to Mariah that he was going into the forest to try to go and collect some fruits or anything eatable so they can survive.

Mariah smiled at his sarcasm and joked right back, "Yes a cheeseburger please." And after stating her order she huffed off in the other direction. Kai rolled his eyes once again as he headed towards the forest.

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Kai jumped off another branch as he gathered all the fruits he collected in one hand. It looked right about enough to last them a day or two. He carried the fruit back to the place where he had left Mariah hoping that her being the morn she was hadn't done something insane by now. He started walking towards the shore when he heard a ruffling noise form above. He looked above and saw a helicopter. It clearly seemed that the others had discovered that they were missing. He tried to call out but realized that the helicopter was flying way too high to be able to hear him and there was no way he was willing to take a chance and make fool of himself.

Suddenly the helicopter flew away past the forest as if it wasn't able to fins anything or anyone for that matter. But suddenly an idea came upon Kai's mind. 'The flag he thought…' He thought and ran out of the forest and into the shore where he left the flag, but there was none!! God... he knew it! It was too good to be true... he'd have to be stuck in this stupid island longer than he thought and it was that annoying pink-haired girls' fault!! Mariah! God!! Did he ever hate her!

"KAI!! Over here!!" A voice called and Kai looked into the direction of the voice. Kai looked over at Mariah who was sitting on the small mountain-like hill and she had the flag with her!! The nerve of that woman! Mariah held the flag right above the water; it looked as if she were trying to fish with the flag! 'Women…' Kai thought bitterly as he made his way up the hill and right beside Mariah.

Kai reached where Mariah was perched up on a rock on the hill with the flag towards the ocean. "What the hell are you doing?" Mariah smiled warmly, she knew it was mean to frustrate him but she couldn't help it she liked annoying him. He was cute when he was angry. "Catching us dinner." She said to Kai pointing at the flag and the water. Kai nodded his head in disbelief. "You moron!! God... this is the ocean!! There is NO fish!! And I can't believe you!! There was a friggin' helicopter here, and he'd probably have seen the flag and we'd we saved!! But no!! Ms. Big Mouth and even more Bigger Actions just had to ruin it by catching us dinner, where no fish exists!! Are you by any chance related to Tyson!?!" He barked all the anger coming out of him, his usual colorless and emotionless face now covered with hatred, frustration and anger.

Mariah narrowed her eyes at Kai's sudden burst out. She hated being yelled at! God… Tyson was right; Mr. Sour-Pants couldn't take a joke! Her being the back talker and not being silent letting the other win; spoke up faster than him as she snapped back, "Well, Mr. I'm-so-great-I-can-do-anything-possible why don'tyouget us something to eat?" Kai's eyes once again grew red in the anger, the usual mahogany washed out by bright boiling red. "You idiot! I told you I'm going to go to the forest to get us food!! What did you think I went in there for?" He roared pointing to the pile of fruits and berries that he had laid lying on the land sand shore. Mariah glared back evenly, sure she had known that we went to gather food and the only reason she did this was to annoy him but she couldn't let him know that, plus how dare he scream at her! Boy, he asked for it! "How was I supposed to know you went to get food? You said you went to McDonalds, so obviously you were joking, not that it is possible." She added and smiled secretly seeing his angry face. "So I thought you went to do "private" business." She finished off lamely; she new it was lame but she couldn't think fast, going to the 'washroom' was the only excuse she could come up with at that moment.

Kai glared at her as if he knew that she was lying. He grabbed the flag back form her just as she tried to grab it back but unfortunately her foot missed and slipped onto the rock she was sitting on. Kai tried to grab her but she slipped away into the ocean. She fell into the ocean and for one-second Kai's heart stopped to beat… 'Oh no… please be alive…' He found himself thinking as he looked out into the ocean. He saw a glimpse of pink hair and heard Mariah yelling, "Help!! I'm drowning!! I can't swim!!" She yelled out for help. Kai's eyes got wide… Oh shit what was he going to do? The water looked pretty deep but it was a tough choice... a part of his brain said to leave the annoying prat alone while the other said to go after her. But he couldn't... he didn't know how to swim. Yes, him Kai Hiwatri... Captain of the blade breakers didn't know how to swim. That's why his bit-beast's element was fire, that's why on the first World Beyblade Tournament, when he had Battled Spencer from the Demolition Boys against his whale bit beast Seaborg, he had lost. Because a bit beast could read it's master's mind and Dranzer had seen Kai's fear of the water and they had lost. It was a whole different long story on why he was afraid of the water, but every one had fears, deep dark fears, and his was… water.

Then without thinking Kai jumped into the ocean and tried to swim towards her… only he couldn't. Mariah's eyes got wide as she made out the figure in front of her… Kai. 'Oh no....' She thought. 'He can't swim…' She never knew that he couldn't, she always thought that the unstoppable Kai did everything, he pretty much did everything perfect, so why not the water? Then as if a sharp pain hit her on the head she remembered… Kai losing against Spencer and Seaborg in the first Beyblade Tournament. No wonder Kai never won, his bit beast probably read the fear in his mind and that's why they lost. She couldn't help but feel really awful, since she did know how to swim but she was just playing around to see if Kai really did care for her, how was she supposed to know that he didn't know how to swim! She headed towards Kai and swam towards the shore with him. With all the strength that she could muster up, she dragged him on to the shore and laid him on the sand.

She opened his mouth and the water came shot out his mouth barely missing her, she took his hand and felt his pulse. Oh no… it was very low… chances of him… dying…

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To be continued…

Author's BIG fat note:

Hey!! You guys!! I'm SOOO sorry I didn't continue this for like a year, but now that my interest is back I promise to continue it fully!! I am SOOO sorry you guys... lolz... I know a cliffe. But if I get a lotta reviews I'll let you guys know what happens next… grins that was freaking 7 pages long!! I demand reviews people!!! Lolz... anyways... thanks SOOO much for bearing with me all this long time… and I promise to continue with this… now that I gotts a good plot-line. And in the story if you guys are imagining what they look like then the Blade Breakers, White Tigers and all the other 1st season characters look what they looked like in the first season except a bit older (obviously) cuz I liked the way they looked in the first season better and all the characters in the second season like thePsykicks and The Saint Shields and so on they look how they look in the second season cuz they weren't in the first season.And one more thing…

POLL:

The Saint Shields and thePsykicks and all the other Second Season characters are coming soon, cuz since I wrote this story before the second season aired, so yea anyways, I was wondering that I'm gonna bring in Salima and Mariam in soon so…

1)Who should I pair with Mariam?

2) Who should I hair with Salima?

3) Should Emily and Max still be together?

4) Should I break Riley and Ray up, and if so then who is going to end up with Ray?

5) Hillary is soon going to be coming in this story as well, should I put it TysonHillay? Cuz that's what I was thinking.

Review and tell me!!!