"Please escort Natasha Krylova into the room."

Boris made a sign with his hand, and the guard standing behind him exited the room. Yuri, Kai and Bryan looked at the cloaked man with pure disbelief. He must be kidding, they thought.

But the huge, heavy-muscled guard entered the room the next second, followed by a relatively small figure .....a girl. Not just a girl. This was the beautiful stranger from the street last morning. Same skinny figure, same white hair, same huge brown eyes. Only she was wearing navy blue tank top and blue jeans, not black dress. Her eyes were red, as if had been crying all night before. And the girl's skin seemed to be as pale as her long hair.

She stared blankly at the guys through her hair as they stared back.

"Malchiki, vstrechaite Natashu. (Boys, meet Natasha)"

This wasn't a joke then. This was real. They really had a girl on their team.

Boris saw the astonishment, but he expected it. They will get over it, he knew. He'll make them.

"Now, as I said, Natasha will be on our team from now. Let me introduce my boys to you, young lady."

He pointed at each one, as he said their names.

"Yuri. He is our team captain. Kai. And Bryan."

Each boy looked at her in turn, and she looked back. However, Natasha's mind seemed to be faraway now, and it didn't look like she was paying attention to Boris's fake kindness.

"Let me tell you boys, that Natasha's family died in a shooting on the street two days ago. I'm assuming you have heard about it on your visit into the city yesterday."

Then, looking at the silent girl, "Natasha- get your breakfast and sit down with the boys."

Natasha, moving like a sleepwalker, sat down at Kai's side. She didn't take her porridge, but Boris didn't care- his students could eat or not eat, it was their problem. But they had to be ready for training all the time.

As Natasha sat down, Kai felt again that he'd seen her somewhere.

/I probably seen her or someone like her somewhere during my time with BladeBreakers. I've been all around the world then./

"Now, I want you to finish your food and go training. I want Bryan to train with Natasha, but other can supervise. However, ALL of you have to be doing something. Natasha' here's your blade." Boris put a beyblade on the table.

"Any questions?" he asked, in a tone that told the boys, there better not be any questions. However, Yuri ignored it. They couldn't have a GIRL one the team!

"Sir, we can't have her...Even the team is called the Demolition Boys."

Kai and Bryan expected Boris to hit Yuri for those words, but the man just smiled coolly.

"Team names can be subject to change, Yuri" Then he left without a farewell.

Master doesn't need to make any farewells to those, lower then him.

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They sat in silence for a while. Finally Bryan stood up.

"Follow me" he said.

/Hmm, does that remind me of something?/

It took a second for Bryan's words to get into Natasha's little world, and another second for her to realize what they mean. She slowly stood up and picked up the blade from the table. The girl studied it, admiring it's beauty, the clean and newly polished surface. The blade had two colors- silvery gray and a mix between purple and plum. Despite the spotless look of the beyblade, Kai's expert eyes could tell that this blade had been used once before, four or five years ago. Whoever used it, trained a lot, because Kai could see scratches, covered carefully with paint.

Natasha turned the blade around to look at the back. Then she half-said, half-whispered, her voice small and weak.

"So that's a beyblade?"

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