Saving Face
Author: lakura
Chapter; Fire Uncontrolled
POV: Kai
Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade V-Force, or any of its characters.
She stepped, or rather stumbled up to the dish. I took a few steps up. She readied her launcher as did I. "One-Tw--Ozuma, What Are you doing here?"I let out a breath I hadn't known I had been holding. She dropped her launcher. Not to the ground, just put it low. She looked at Ozuma as though she had seen him before. "Hi Ozuma" He looked at her. "Lie?" She nodded. "Long time no see. It looks like you have seen better days!" She nodded again. ;So how'd you end up here?" Sh sighed. "Got beat up by some thugs I won against, there was too many of em you see, they raped me, and I was saved by one of these guys." He looked questioningly at her if to get an answer, but she obviously wasn't telling, or she wasn't saying it aloud. Lip synching maybe. I could feel a blush forming on my cheeks. Ozuma looked over the team, and when he saw my face burning, he grinned.
"Kai??" He raised an eyebrow. "Wow, The cold does really have a heart."He grinned, and I scowled. He knew it was my nature, and he laughed. "So Ozuma, what did you come over for??" asked Tyson. "I came to tell you that there is a tournament on Thursday at the stadium at the edge of town. I also came here to check how your blade were doing. " Rei smirked. "What do you think that we have been doing?? Sitting around? Icy over there,"he said pointing at me, "doesn't allow that for very long." Ozuma laughed. I was mad now. What was it with making fun of me?? I mean I'm not a robot, I have feelings to. Not that they cared.
Lie walked over to me, and put her arm through mine. "Hey I don't know what you guys have against him, but he saved me, and that's all I'm ever going to care about. Sure, he isn't the most loving guy around, but at least he shows if he doesn't care. Unlike so many of bladers these days!" I smirked, but blushed all at the same time. She had a point. I gripped her arm. She looked up at me, and smirked. Then she let go, and hobbled over to Ozuma, and put her arms on his shoulders. They talked quite a short time, and then they went inside, and the rest of the team followed. They sat in a chair, briefing each other on time spent. I walked into the kitchen to get a glass of water. When I walked into the room however, What I saw shocked me. Ozuma was kissing her. She was pulling back, but he wouldn't let go, and she pushed him away completely. He tried to kiss her again, but when she tried to move, he trapped her there. I went, and stood behind him, and he noticed the shadow looming over him. "Do you mind? I'm kind of busy!" I took him by the scruff of the neck, and pushed him off her, and she went and got up, then she went over, motioned for me to put him down, and as soon as he was, she punched him square in the jaw. It started bleeding.
"That's for all the pain you have caused me," she said, punching him again,"That's for trying to make me weak again,"and with a final punch,"And that my friend, is for trying to take advantage of me. Bastard, get out of here." I was somewhat shocked in what she had done, but when she saw him go out of the door, she dropped to the floor, panting. She still needed to build up her energy. I sat down behind her, then moved to her side. She smiled at me, as droplets of sweat poured her forehead. I slowly stood up, wondering why I had sat down, then put out my hand, as to help her up. She took it. She looked up into my eyes, and then she walked away, but the effect was ruined by her bad limp, and all of her hobbling.
What was up with her? She seemed to like me, but sometimes it seemed that she liked me more. Than just friends. I didn't bother her about it though. However, when it was supper, I took hers back to her. Unfortunately for her, it was my turn to cook supper. Rei cooked mostly, but sometimes, he wanted us to cook, when he got tired of it. Today it was my turn. I tried to make some good food, and I didn't stand around to see if it was good or not. I made General Tao's Chicken, A recipe from China I picked up while training there. And the plain white rice. I brought back her plate, and knocked on the door. A muffled" come in" sounded, so I opened the door. She opened her eyes wide when she saw food. "Food...." She must've been hungry. I left the plate, then went to get mine, and went back to her room. She was eating happily. I stared at her. She looked up, rice falling from her fork, her mouth open. "Yeah? If you are coming in, go ahead." I blinked, and moved in and sat on a chair, not minding the scolding hot food on my lap. " SO you mean it is actually good?" She nodded her head vigorously. "Why? Did you cook? Giving Rei the night off, eh?" I nodded this time. "I see." She quickly finished her plate, and wiped her face off.
I took slow, small bites. She made me feel ...slow for once. I liked to play with my food inside my mouth, feel all the texture. I had to admit, it wasn't half bad. She put up her hand, and reached over onto the shelf Rei must've put above her bed. She pulled down 2 beyblades. One was a unique shade of silver, the one I recognized as Ciriel, and the other was a shade of light purple. It could probably be lilac, or purple mountain majesty, or something like that, but I wasn't in tune with my color shades. I wasn't feminine, after all. She held up one, and fingered it, the silver one. She reached up, and grabbed a small bag with some tools inside it.I cocked my head. "What are those?"
She put her head up, and looked around, as though she was in deep concentration. She focused on me, " I am sorry, what did you say?" I took a breath. " I asked what was in that bag." Her mouth formed an o shape, then she un-zippered the bag, and showed them to me. 'They are pieces to fix my blade. I don't have a team, a chief, or anything like that, so I have to fix everything on my own. And I have to win my money to buy new parts, so I guess you could say that I am not the richest champion in the world. I don't have money barely to even buy food, I win it rather than buy it, or else I would be broke."
I was shocked. In a way. She certainly didn't seem rich that was for sure, but the way she beat....O well, she didn't have to be rich to be good."But I get along well, don't worry. SO how is your team, money wise?" I blushed. "We have a ton of money from the world competition. Max's mom works in a high job in the BBA, and I have a wealthy back-round, if I ever needed it, but I choose to stay far away form it. We are sponsered by Mr. Dickinson, perhaps you know him?" She had a sad look in her eyes. She nodded. "Yeah, I know him. He wouldn't find me a team, and the BBA wouldn't sponsor me. Probably because I am female, And because there was no male there to back me up. I was also, a loner, and had no team. He wouldn't find me one."I scrunched up my eyebrows. " I don't want to join a team. Many have asked me, and I never accept, just so you know."
How was I ever going to make this work?? She was a good blader, she should be on our team. Or at least A team. And I wanted to help her out. But she wasn't very revealing, past wise. She wasn't going to tell anyone her past without good reason. Suddenly Max burst into the room. "Kai, there is a message out there for you in the mail. You might wanna read it." I looked up at him. "Who sent it?" He flinched. "Do you really wanna know?" "WHO sent IT MAX." He flinched even more. "Your grandfather."
Authors Notes: Hey! I know it took me a long time to post this, but I was on vacay for a while, but it was hard to think of something to write, and if I was supposed to put an author tribute her I am sorry, but you can look for your names, just look in my user info!! Ill have the next chappie up sooner!! PLEASE R/R!!!!Thanx, bye!
