Beyblade- Truth and Lies

Author- Luna P aka Nikki

Editor- QX aka Steph

Rating- PG13 as with all of my stories may go up in later chapters

Warning- contains Yaoi fluff

Summary- takes place the first night after the episode First strike. Kai is back with the bladebreakers and everyone seems happy to have him back but Rei's confused and when everyone leaves leaving just him and Kai alone his true feelings start to show. KaixRei obviously do I write anything else?

A/N thank you for all your reviews!!! I cant believe people actually reviewed to my fic!!! I didn't think it was that good.

Nikki: ok here's the next chapter, I'd just like to point out that this chapter goes back to the beginning but it's written in Kai's POV instead of Rei's (sorry if it seems like Kai's a little ooc, but since we never really know what he's thinking anyway maybe he's not ooc, who knows). I thought I'd give Kai a chance to get his feelings across. However, I'm not gonna leave you on that cliffhanger from the first chapter, so in this chapter the winner of the roof bey battle will be announced.

Rei: finally

Nikki: patience young neko-jin, patience

Mariah: I wanna be in you're fic

Steph: No you don't

Mariah: Yeah I do

Nikki: fine then later on I'll put you in, you can see Rei and Kai together decide that you can't take life anymore and dive off a cliff

Mariah: I've changed my mind

Nikki: thought you would, oh god looks like time got away from me hmm lets see, Mariah do the disclaimer

Mariah: Nikki does not own Beyblade if she did I would have died mysteriously in my sleep many years ago

Kai: for once I actually wish Nikki did own Beyblade

Btw, the parts in italics are flashbacks.

Kai's POV

I lay back on the bed and closed my eyes, I immediately regretted doing so as memories of how I had betrayed my team flooded into my mind. I hated myself for what I had done, sure black Dranzer was powerful but I should have fought harder to break away from it. Why had I taken it in the first place? Oh yeah the power, it was my one weakness I craved power. I couldn't believe how the bladebreakers had just forgiven me after everything I had done, I'd abandoned them, taunted them. I was even willing to steal their bit beasts from them and all for this power, but they forgave me and refused to let me die out on the ice. I wonder if any of them hated me for what I had done. I sighed and rolled over onto my side I opened my eyes and that's when I saw him. Rei was sat on the window ledge staring out into the dark night, as I stared at him I noticed that he was as deep in thought as I was. What are you thinking about Rei? I noticed that he was clenching Drigger tightly in his hands. So that's what you're thinking about, me and how I'd betrayed you, I wondered if he was still afraid that I would attempt to take Drigger from him. I knew how important his bit beast was to him. I saw how it had effected him when he had first lost Drigger and I never wanted to see him go through that kind of pain again. I wished that I could go back and relive these past few days, you know change what had happened. The first thing that I would change would be going into the abbey, taking black Dranzer, joining the Demolition boys, stealing the all stars and the white tigers bit beasts, betraying the bladebreakers, betraying Rei. I stared over at him and saw pain and sadness reflected in his otherwise perfect golden orbs.

"You ok Rei?" I asked from where I was sat on the bed, I wanted him to look at me so that I could find the answer buried within his eyes but he just continued to stare out of the window.

"No" was all he said as he sat on the window ledge shaking his head from side to side. I sighed and lay back onto the soft pillow, what did he mean by 'No'? Did he hate me? I wouldn't blame him if he did but I don't think I'd be able to hang around with the team anymore if he did. I thought about how things had been between us before this whole situation had started, truth was he was the only member of the team that I had even tried to get on with, I just found it so easy to talk with him. But the time that I needed to talk to him the most he had started ignoring me, all I could think about was him and the possibility that I had chased him away before things had even had a chance to start. Wait before what had a chance to start? What was going on in my head? What were all these feelings and why were they surfacing now? I wanted to go and talk with Rei, to apologise for everything that I had done, but I had a feeling that he wasn't ready to listen to me, even if it was to apologise. I needed to give him time, but I was afraid that if I gave him time we would grow further and further apart from one another. I didn't want that to happen, I jumped back to reality when I heard the loud rumble of thunder. God if that had made me jump what would it have done to Rei, after sharing a room with him for so long I knew that he hated loud noises. Should I ask him if he's ok? No all that got me last time was a heartless 'no' and why should I even care, I never show any concern for anyone, so why did I feel like I needed to make sure he was ok.

'I'm not gonna let Kai make a mockery of everything you guys mean to me'

Had I at one point meant something to him? Could he ever feel that way about me again? I growled to myself, when had he become so important to me? My head was pounding and I felt that if I didn't take some painkillers now I would explode. I remembered the night before I had snuck into the abbey, the night before I knew about black Dranzer, I had woken from my nightmare to see Rei staring at me,

'You ok Kai?'

I smiled at the memory it had been right here in this hotel room that he had spoken to me with such care and concern. I would cherish that memory forever I placed my hands behind my head and let out a long sigh. I wondered if things would ever be the same between us again, I knew just by looking at him that I had hurt him and if I had a chance to take it all back I would I just wish that he could understand that. Maybe in time he would, maybe we wouldn't grow apart from each other, maybe our relationship would become stronger because of this. Oh who was I fooling, we didn't have a relationship no matter how much I wished we did. I opened my eyes and stared up at the ceiling but that didn't appeal to me in the slightest. Before I knew it I had rolled onto my side and was staring at Rei, everything about him was so perfect. His tanned complexion, his knee length raven hair and those shimmering golden orbs that were more beautiful than the most expensive diamond. He truly was amazing, perfect in every way. I remembered when we were on the ice and Tyson held out his hand to me. I hadn't wanted for it to be him I wanted Rei to reach out to me and when he grabbed hold of my arm to pull me back the others just seemed to fade away and it felt like it was just me and him. I continued to stare at him when I saw him turn back to look at me, I could tell that there were a million thoughts rushing around his head, but I couldn't tell what they were about, I didn't really want to.

'How could you use other people's bit beasts as if they were your own?'

'Like this, Tryhorn!'

'NO DRIGGER!'

I could still see his face in my mind when I had used Galux and Tryhorn against him he was disgusted and I couldn't blame him, I hated myself for having hurt him so much and I probably always would. For a few brief moments my eyes locked with his and for the first time in three days I felt whole, that's when he tore away and it felt like he was ripping part of my heart out as he did so. I saw him close his eyes and lean against the windowpane, I couldn't take being so close and yet being so far away. I pushed myself up off of the bed and walked over to the windowsill my gaze was firmly fixed onto his small frame as I sat next to him. I eventually managed to look away from him, I didn't want to but I had to concentrate on something else before I broke down right then and there. I found the rain most interesting as it hit the window with all the force that the wind was giving it. I watched as one drop linked to the next to make small patterns on the freezing cold glass. For some reason I had always felt calm and at peace when it rained I wasn't sure why and I probably never would. I looked out into the dark night wondering if maybe I asked all of my questions to the sky I would get some answers from some sort of all seeing all-powerful force.

"Why did you do it?" I heard Rei ask from where he was sat on the windowsill I had no idea what he was talking about but he sounded so confused and upset that I couldn't bring myself to snap 'WHAT?' at him after everything that he had been through over the past few days.

"Hn?" I was already staring at him when he looked up at me, believe it or not I could see tears that were yet to be shed in his eyes before I had even looked at him.

"Nothing" my crimson eyes followed his every move as he walked from the windowsill and over to the bed, I smiled slightly when he lay his head onto the pillow. He looked so comfortable as he curled himself into a little ball and snuggled into the bed covers. Even though he hadn't said anything I could tell that something was disturbing him, at this point in time I wasn't quite sure what I was doing but I stood up from the window ledge and slowly walked over to my bed. I quietly and carefully sat on the edge before lying down and shifting closer to Rei, I was so close that I could smell his shampoo and felt compelled to wrap my arms around his small waist and pull him to me. He slowly rolled onto his side bringing us face to face with each other, I had no idea why the beds were so close together but I was happy that they were. I watched him as he stared at me.

'REACH OUT KAI!'

I remembered him shouting at me to take Tyson's hand when I was sinking on the ice, he hadn't wanted for me to drown, after everything I had done to his friends and to him he was willing to put it all behind him to save me.

'No Kai don't'

'He's really doing it'

'Kai! Leave them alone, you've already won, isn't that enough?'

I stared into his eyes wondering if he had betrayed me like I had betrayed him if I would be able to forgive him and accept what he had done. I saw tears welling in his perfect golden orbs and almost burst into tears myself when he turned away from me. 'He need's time' I told myself but didn't believe it for a second I sat up on the bed and turned to face the window as a lone tear rolled down my face. I knew that I had to talk to him but I didn't know what to say.

"Rei" I cringed at the way that had come out, it sounded halfway between a sob and a squeak but I didn't care I had to explain to him about everything before he grew to hate me.

"A no talent is that all I am to you?" I turned to face him shocked at what he had just said I didn't know what to do I needed to explain to him that I didn't think he was a no talent, that I loved him. I what? Yeah I did I loved him with all of my heart "don't look at me like you have no idea what I'm talking about!" I was so confused and just wanted to scream that I didn't know what he was talking about.

'Ever since that day I became a...a bladebreaker I resented being thrown in with a bunch of no talents'

My own words cut through me like a knife I didn't think he was a no talent and I hated the fact that that's what he thought that I thought about him. Truth was I considered him to be just as good a blader as me, I wished I had admitted that earlier.

"I can't believe you Kai! You come back and expect everyone to just accept it! Well I can't! Do you know what you put me through, I thought that I'd never see you again, well the good part of you anyway!"

"Rei, what are you...?" I choked on my words as they slipped out of my throat I was just about to apologise for everything that I had done, but it was to late he already hated me. Now I could never expect for him to love me but I had to try and salvage our friendship. I pushed myself up off the bed and walked over to him I had to stifle my sobs when I saw him back away from me with every step that I took.

"No Kai! The truth is, I've been thinking about what happened for hours now! I've been reminiscing over what you said to us when we were battling on the ice. You don't have any idea how much you hurt me and even if you did I don't think you'd care in the slightest!" My heart skipped a beat when he spoke those words, I did know how much I had hurt him and I cared so much that it was killing me.

"Rei that is not true, I do care that I hurt you and I'm so sorry for it but I can't take it back no matter how much I want to what's done is done and I can't change it." I walked closer to him again, trying to close the gap that had grown between us but he backed away so far that he was now backed up against the wall.

"You want a battle now Kai? To become the best one must defeat the best right? But then again I'm not the best am I? Tyson is, I'm just another no talent!" I couldn't take that, in my heart he was the best, always had been and always would be.

"No you're not your one of the best bladers I've ever met"

"No I'm not, I'm good, I can stand my ground in a battle but I'm not like Tala or the demolition boys I'm not like you"

"Rei why are you saying this?"

"You don't understand Kai! I wanna hate you for what you've done! I wanna hate you soo much but I can't! I can't" I watched him as he slipped down against the wall and buried his head in his knees. I felt another tear slid down my cheek, I sighed and crouched down infront of him placing my hands onto his shoulders in an attempt to comfort him. He looked up at me allowing me to see all the pain that he had tried to keep hidden building up in his eyes. He reached up and placed his hand on my face, lightly tracing the blue triangles painted on my pale cheeks. "NO! Kai get out of my head!" He pushed past me and ran over to the door grasping the golden door handle and turning it until it clicked.

"Rei, where are you going Rei?"

"I don't know maybe if I went back to the white tigers you'd know how I felt when you left us for the demolition boys!" I shook my head at what he had said, I couldn't take him leaving me not now, not when I had just figured out my true feelings for him.

"Rei don't even joke about that"

"Who said I was joking?" He pushed the door open and ran out of the room, I fell against the bed and let the tears that I had been holding back for so long flow freely down my cheeks. Had he ment everything that he had said or was he just angry, it didn't matter I had always been told that people spoke the truth when they were angry.

"Uh Kai do you know what's wrong with Rei?" I looked up at the door to see Tyson and his dad stood infront of me with the same confused look displayed on both of their faces. "Second thought, what's wrong with you?" I shot him a death glare and brushed away my tears.

"It's none of your business!" I growled coldly as I walked over to the window.

"Listen Kai, if you don't want to tell us what's wrong that's fine, but whatever's going on between you and Rei you have to sort it out" I turned sharply to see Tyson's father stood next to me at the window.

"There's nothing going on between me and Rei!" I told him and watched as a smile appeared on his face. I looked away from him and glanced at Tyson who looked more confused than ever as the conversation progressed.

"Yeah well he's running on pure fury and when that runs out he's gonna crash and burn and depending on where he is he could be in real danger" the last word hit me hard, Rei in danger. I pushed past Tyson's father and ran out of the room I wouldn't let him get hurt again. I ran aimlessly around the hotel I was glad that it was late cause it ment that everyone was in there rooms and out of the corridors which made it easier for me to run to wherever it was that I was going. I growled angrily as I ran down a corridor that I swear I had run down only a few minutes before. Great, was I just running round in circles? I stopped for a minute and thought about all of the places in the hotel that he could be. I knew that he'd want to be on his own and at night that ment that he could be just about anywhere. I sighed frustrated, thinking wasn't helping me, but maybe it was helping him or maybe he was trying to clear his mind. Either way there's only one thing that he would be doing at the moment, beyblading, well now I knew what he was doing all I needed to know was where he was doing it. Wait, where would I go to blade? Now it all made sense I started running again, this time however I knew where I was going, the roof.

I stood infront of the door that led to the roof I wasn't sure whether to go out or not, I mean he'd probably come here to be alone I didn't want to disturb him.

'Yeah well he's running on pure fury and when that runs out he's gonna crash and burn and depending on where he is he could be in real danger'

No I had to go out Tyson's father was right he could be in danger and if I walked away and tomorrow he showed up hurt, I would blame myself forever, even more so than I did now. I sighed and quietly opened the door I smiled at what I saw.

"GO DRIGGER!" I watched as the blade flew up at the wall and knocked off a small chunk of the plaster.

"If you're not careful you're going to tare the hotel apart" I finally spoke up and allowed my presence to be known his gaze darted towards me. Anger was burning in his eyes and he was baring his fangs at me I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't scared, the thing was I was but I wasn't going to run away without doing what I had come here to do.

"Come to steal my bit beast or just gloat at how unworthy I am to have one?" I stared at him upset as the neko-jin growled at me, he didn't trust me anymore and that hurt more than anything else ever could. I shook my head and stepped out into the rain after two minutes of standing in the rain I was soaked through and freezing cold but I wasn't going to leave.

"You're not unworthy Rei" I walked over to him and he backed away as he had done in the hotel room. A few tears escaped my eyes but because of the rain that was continuously hitting my face no one would be able to tell. "And you know it, you're just so confused right now"

"Can you blame me? After all that I've been through!" I started to walk over to him again but he refused to let me get close to him and backed away until the wall stopped him.

"No Rei I can't, what I did to you and the team was unacceptable, I have no excuse. I'm sorry" I was trying my hardest to make things right between us but I didn't think that anything I did would. I looked down at him as he bent down and swept Drigger up into his hands. "How about we have a battle" he stood up and stared at me with a look of shock and confusion combined into one.

"Why?" he asked as he clutched his blade tighter to his chest

"To prove that you're not unworthy, to prove that you're a good blader, no, to prove that you're a great blader that can do more than just stand your own. I'm not asking you to be like the demolition boys or me, I'm asking you to be you"

"NO! Why should I?" He pushed past me and ran over to the other side of the roof, now I was getting angry I had tried to be calm and talk some sense into him but he was to angry to listen. I had to get him to lose some of that anger, then he would be able to listen to me, that's what I needed.

"You're pathetic" I hated having to say that to him, but I had no choice. He shot me one of my death glares and I smirked 'he's been hanging around me for way too long' I thought as I placed Dranzer in the launcher and held out my hand

"Why are you doing this?"

"I've already answered that, now are you going to battle or not?" I watched him as he fell into some sort of trance "Hn, maybe you're right Rei maybe you are a no talent" it killed me to say that but I had to bring his attention back to the here and now.

"What?"

"Prove me wrong Rei, battle me with all you've got, battle me with all you're mind and all you're heart, prove me wrong"

"Fine, you want a battle you'll get one" he placed Drigger back in the launcher and held him out at arms length "3...2...1...Let it riiippp!" he pulled the ripcord and sent the blade flying into the icy cold air. "GO DRIGGER!"

"DRANZER" the two blades smashed into each other with full force causing them both to wobble but they regained balance and went for another attack. I saw Rei jump away as a lightening bolt struck the lightening rod that stood just behind me. I laughed and ordered Dranzer to attack. Dranzer hit Drigger and sent him flying into the wall, the wall chipped and Drigger crashed to the floor he swayed slightly and I saw Rei drop to the floor in defeat. "Rei, you're not going to beat me using the same old techniques" I wanted him to win, I wanted to show him that he was just as good if not better than me.

"DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! DRIGGER, TIGER CLAW ATTACK!" Drigger picked up speed and charged at my blade knocking it out of balance.

"DRANZER" the phoenix pulled itself back together and flew up into the air it dropped back to the ground and ran at the white tiger for one final assault.

"DRIGGER" I watched as he fell back to the floor, Tyson's dad was right he had been running on pure fury for what seemed like ages and had used up almost all of his energy. I wanted to run over to him and help him up but that wasn't what he needed right now. The blades charged at each other, I watched as the bits on our blades shone with a bright light as our bit beasts appeared above them, the two bit beasts charged at each other. We both watched intently as the blades hit into each other, there was a huge cloud of smoke and we couldn't see our blades. We waited for what seemed like hours until the smoke finally began to clear, I smiled when I saw the silver blade spinning in the middle of the roof. I walked over and picked up my blue blade from where it lay, defeated on the floor.

"I told you Rei, you're a great blader" he walked over to where Drigger was still spinning and picked him up before looking over at me.

"You lost on purpose, you threw the match!" I growled angrily at him, he was really pushing my patience now.

"What would be the point in that?" I asked as I placed Dranzer back in my pocket. He didn't answer me just looked at me with a confused look on his beautiful face.

"I don't know" he sighed and put Drigger back in his pocket.

"Rei, are you ok?" I watched as he ever so slightly rocked backwards and forwards where he stood, he looked up at me his eyes heavy and tired, it was as if he hadn't slept in days.

"I don't know" I watched as a bright clash if lightening danced across the sky only redirecting my gaze when I saw Rei fall to the floor. He fell to his knees and tried to push himself up off of the flooded roof "Kai" he mumbled as his arms gave up and he fell onto the floor with a small thud.

Rei: great I'm dead

Nikki: you are not

Kai: You killed my koi! Die evil authoress

Nikki: I did not kill him!

Rei: so I'm ok?

Nikki: well you'll live :D, ok this chapter dragged on for a while and I'm sorry for that but I wanted for you all to understand how Kai was feeling so that he didn't seem like the heartless bstard that he portrays himself as

Kai: uh thanks

Nikki: no prob, well review and tell me what you thought, I will use flames to light my neighbours houses on fire and then laugh at there expense

Mariah: that's not nice

Nikki: that gives me an idea, hey Kai you wanna help me lock Mariah in a closet in my neighbours house, so that when we set it on fire she goes down in flames with it?

Kai: sure

Mariah: Rei do something

Rei: fine, I'll get the rope

Mariah: Kai help me

Kai: I'll get the gasoline

Mariah: (runs away)

Nikki, Kai and Rei: (chase after her)

Steph: Uh review :)