GOB: Well, guess what? I HAVE 95 REVIEWS!!!!!!! YAY ME!!!!!!!!

Rory: Yeah, only 5 more till a hundred. Not bad for your first fic. Speaking of fics, ever gonna update your humor fic? Or your new Kai angst? (Hint, hint, review please!)

GOB: Not until I can have another weird and wacky msn conversation with Jade, I'm out of ideas.

Kai: *mutters something*

GOB, Rory: What?

Kai: Was I talking to you?

Rory: I thought you were...

GOB: O.o

Kai: That was a rhetorical question... Moron.

GOB: Umm, disclaimer?

George: Umm.... How did I get here, and who am I? I'm not even in any of GOB's fics, hell she doesn't even know anybody named George...

Kai, Rory: Authoress powers, why do you think we're here?

GOB: CAUSE YOU LOOOOOOOOOVE ME?

Kai, Rory:................

George: Yeah, umm, GOB doesn't own anything that belongs to someone else.

GOB: Good, here's the next chapter. Sorry about late update, I had major writers block and my muses didn't help. Dumb muses -_- Well, actually, lazy muses! LAZY LITTLE BUGGERS!!!!!

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Akira glanced at the rug seeming to find the pattern absolutely fascinating. "Oh shit," she thought, "Where the hell do I start? Maybe I should just tell Kai he can go fir-"

"Well?" Kai's voice sliced through her thoughts like finely tempered steel, edged with the thinnest, hardest, sharpest, emeralds (GOB: So sue me, I like emeralds, mostly because they're so pretty and because it's my birthstone, I was born May 12, 1989).

"Ok, I'm ready to go." Akira said softly. She felt someone's hand on her shoulder and glanced up. Bren was looking at her, concern taking over what previous emotions were spread around his face, twisting it into a sorrowful state. He knew that she not only would tell of how she received her bitbeast, but also about how she was, is, and will be. She'd tell her story, from the young innocent child, to the hurt, scarred adopted pre- teen, to the dark, suicidal teen, to whatever she was now.

Akira glanced at her 'brother', and her eyes flickered with sadness. She knew he was worried, and she didn't blame him. She had heard all of it...

~*~ F l a s h - B a c k~*~

Bren sighed and looked down, he was lost. Everything seemed to be changing.

"Bren, what's going on? You asked to talk to me, so start talking." Kai stated, glancing at his friend. He knew something was wrong.

"I don't know Kai, I just don't know anymore." Bren murmured, "It's like, ever since Akira found out, she's changed. We never really talk anymore, we're no where near as close as we used to be. Every second of every minute of every hour of every day, it seems like were moving farther and farther apart. We hardly ever talk or even fight. I don't care what they all say, she's my little sister, she has been, is, and will always be. Why can't she see that? Or is it she can, and just doesn't want to?"

~*~ EnD FLaSHbACk ~*~

Akira hated how she made him feel. She gave him a soft smile, then turned to the others, all of whom had been waiting patiently (Tyson was gagged and tied up so he wouldn't interrupt anymore).

"Ok," She stated briskly, "I guess I'll start!"

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GOB: Ok, Akira's part is just going to be flashbacks, because it's easier to write that way. Each set of flashbacks will be separated by a row of
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Ok? ON with the story! Oh, and this is in no particular order, so keep track of the ages!

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A six year old girl slept soundly in her bed, unaware of her 'parents' arguments. In the room next to her, an eight year old boy sat, tears streaming down his face. He couldn't completely hear what his parents were saying, but he understood the gist of it. And it ravaged his heart with pain as he sat surrounded by darkness, with only a few stars for light.

"We ---- to tell -- she was adopted!"

"She is --- to young!"

"Well --- do you propose --- tell her?"

"What are we suppo--- to say? Hey Akir---, we're not your real pare---. Your real parents left --- for dead in an abandon--- cottage which --- just happened to come acr--- and find yo---?"

"Of cour- not!"

Bren sat there huddled in his blanket.

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A thirteen year old girl stared out the window. It was almost her fourteenth birthday, and she couldn't wait. Her parents had told her they had something very important to discuss with her. She couldn't wait. The only thing that was bothering her was the fact that whenever she spoke of their parents secret to her brother, he would immediately frown and make up some excuse to leave. It really irked her.

She just blew it off. All her friends were going over to her house after school. Well, everyone but Kai. He had disappeared a year ago, just after his fourteenth birthday. He hardly ever called his sisters or brother. She was a little upset about that, but every time she thought of him, she lost her temper and pretended she hated him.

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Akira sat in the cave, on a smooth stone that jutted out over the underground lake. She came here every time she wanted to be alone, after finding it by mistake, while running from her brother. She had 'accidentally' slipped green hair dye into his shampoo bottle and he had threatened to kill her when he found out, chasing her all the way here.

She looked into the water, and saw her own grief-stricken, tear-covered face looking miserably back. She couldn't believe it, just couldn't believe it.

Adopted...

ADOPTED!!! Why the hell hadn't she seen it before? She didn't really look like either of her parents or her brother.. no, Bren. He wasn't her brother. She wasn't her mother, and he wasn't her father.

She sat staring at the mini waterfall that fed the lake. She couldn't help bursting into tears once more. Here she was, on her fourteenth birthday, and she was miserable. Her so called 'parents' had lied to her for years. She was hurt. But also angry.

She hated the fact that they had kept this from her for so long. She stared at the water, before, fully exhausted, falling into a sad, miserable sleep.

She awoke with a start, someone had just shaken her roughly in an obvious attempt to wake her. She gazed up, ready to attack whomever it was, only to look into orbs of deep crimson, the color of fresh blood.

(GOB: You'll have to wait until later to find out what was said between the two. Remember, Akira is only telling the others the gist of this. Most parts with Kai she left out. I'm just telling you this to make it a tad clearer.)

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Akira sat staring at the dull blade. She never imagined that, at the age of fifteen, she would commit suicide. She just couldn't take it any more. She felt numb all over.

Everyone was worried about her. She no longer did any of the things she used to love. She stopped hanging out with her friends, all she did was lock herself in her room. When she did leave the safety of her room, she hardly uttered a word, and if she did, it was dark, harsh, but with a soft tint of sadness. Only her eyes, that bleary violet, gave way to show the hurt that consumed her mind, heart and soul.

As she made the first slit across her wrist, she was shocked by how vivid the color of her blood was. She watched as it slowly oozed out of her skin, and elegantly dripped to the floor, as if it hadn't a care in the world. She watched the blood, completely unconscious of the other three slits she made, one of the same wrist, two on the other.

She felt her soul lighten. She thought that it was because she was setting herself free, but it was because she was fading fast.

She glanced at the paper in front of her, she had written out how she felt, just to show everyone how much she hurt. She didn't realize that they already knew...

'I'm crawling in my skin

My wounds will never heal

Fear is all I feel

Confusing me mercilessly.

There's something inside me that pulls me beneath the surface

Consuming my thoughts

My lack of self-control is never ending

I'm completely lost.

I need to find myself again

The walls are closing in on me

I've felt this way before

So insecure being who I am.

Discomfort, endlessly has been my train of thought

Distracting me from all that is "good"

against my will I stand beside my own reflection

It's haunting me now.'

She let a few tears fall, she never thought it would come to this, never wanted it to.

She suddenly felt faint. She collapsed in a pool of her own blood. On her face was a small, sadistic, smile.

Beneath the smile, was a voice trying to call out for help.

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Akira woke up the next day, in a hospital, hooked up to an IV. She was really angry. She was ready to kill the bastard who brought her there, but glancing around the room, widened her eyes in surprise.

Her parents, her brother, and all her friends were strewn across the hospital room.

"AKIRA!!!" Tea's voice suddenly gasped, "OH MY GOD YOU'RE AWAKE!!!! THANK GOD!!!!! WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING YOU BAKA KUSO!!!"

The others woke up due to Tea's outburst. Akira, was trying to do her best to forget what had happened and move on with her life. But sometimes it got hard.

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Akira, a very energetic six year old, ran wildly through the forest. She could here her older brother threatening her, and she didn't really want to find out what any of those threats meant.

All she had done was trick him into dyeing his hair. If he had just done it himself, she wouldn't have had to. That was the logic she had tried to use against him.

It was also why he was now hunting her through the forest. She ran as fast as her little legs could, aware of Bren's threats, and Tea trying to calm him down, and Kai just insulting Bren for his stupidity, though all in good nature.

She ran into a cave thinking she could hide in there. She saw a crack in the rock, big enough for even an adult to fit through, just hard to see. She quickly slipped between the rock.

She stayed there until she heard the voices pass. It was then she heard a familiar sound. The rushing of water. She followed the little pathway to an inner cave. Akira gasped, there was a clear as crystal lake, right in the cave! She ran to the water and happily gazed down.

She saw something at the center of the bottom of the lake. It seemed to be a statue. She decided to investigate. She dove into the water, not caring she was still wearing her clothes.

She was so intent on reaching the statue of... whatever is was. She swam as far as she could, as hard as she could. She was completely focused on reaching the statue that she didn't realize that she was running out of air, with no time to get to the surface. So she passed out.

Violet eyes opened slightly, the closed, then opened fully. Akira shot up shocked, the last thing she knew was that she was underwater, running out of breath, and the -

THE STATUE!!! Akira spun around, and let out a strangled cry.

There in front of her, was the statue. It was a large, sapphire blue sea serpent. But it was, it seemed to be, it looked like... it was bleeding... blue blood...

Akira shook her head, "Get a grip, this is probably just a dream, just a dream... Oh, who am I kidding? This is not a dream! This is real fucking life! Should I check that statue thing out? Screw it, I have no idea where I am, I might as well check out the statue, maybe it'll help me get out of here, though I highly doubt it."

Akira slowly made her way to the statue. She carefully watched her step, as the floor was incredibly slippery, and the floor was very uneven, and rocks were strewn everywhere.

As she reached the statue, she realized what she had thought of as blue blood, was in reality, some sort of liquid substance that continually flowed around and down the statue, though Akira could not see the source of which.

As she stepped closer, she thought she saw the statue move, but brushed the thought away as something her imagination had created. She bent down to read the inscription on the statue, only to find that it had been worn away. She stood up disappointed. She had expected so much more. She sighed and plopped down on the floor, not caring about getting wet.

"Wait a minute," Akira suddenly thought, "I'M DRY???" She sighed, and decided to find a way out. She searched every crevice of the cave, only to find out that there was NO exit. She screamed as loud as she could for someone to help her, but only got an echo of her voice as an answer.

As she slid to the floor, crying, she heard for the first time (in that cave) the slow, steady, drips of water. She concentrated on the drips, and came to realize that the source of the drips was the statue.

She walked over to it confused. Subconsciously, she reached into her pocket and pulled out her beyblade, twirling it in her fingers. She searched the statue once more, but came up with nothing. She sighed and placed her beyblade on the statue, or to be more precise, in the statue's claw, which strangely seemed to have opened just for the purpose.

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Akira screamed. She had no idea what was going on. One minute, she was leaning against the statue, her blade in it's claw, and the next, the statue disappeared, and the room was being flooded with water! She tried to fight her way to the surface, but the water kept pulling her down, drawing her underneath it's mysterious waves.

Akira woke suddenly. She was about to open her mouth, when she realized she was under water. She fought with all her energy to swim to the top. When she made it to the surface, she dragged her body to the hard, stone, floor and gasped for breath, she was back where she started.

"Had it all been a dream?" Akira thought, shaking from both shock, and cold. She reached into her pocket and pulled out her beyblade. When she saw it, the sharp intake of her breath echoed softly.

Her blade had changed. No longer was it light purple, but the darkest blues of the ocean. And that was not the most surprising. In the center of her blade, was an exact replica oh the statue. She now knew where the statue had gone when she 'lost' it, it had gone...

Inside of her blade...

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The others sat in stunned silence. They didn't know what they had been expecting, but that certainly wasn't it.

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GOB: WOW! That was hard and took a long time! I'm sooooo sorry about the late update!!! Forgive me??? I'll give you cookies???

Kai: Always with the bribing... *shakes head*

GOB: Oh shut up.

Kai: Whatever. *Leans against a wall that magically appeared*

GOB: Please review! And tell me what you thought! Thanks!