Title: Tears I Cried
Author: eternal radiance
Email: zeni24@hotmail.com
Rating: pg13 for language and mention of character death
Pairings: K/Ty, R/Ma, Ta/Ty friendship
Summary: something in Tyson changes, but not for the better and when Kai's training techniques go too far, has he really lost Tyson forever? He'll have to get through the overprotective brother first.
Author's Notes: So… some people gave me answers to Takao's brother's name, and well, I guess I'll just leave it Ren. It just makes me laugh every time I type it, cuz it's my friend's name, yeah he is Japanese. But yeah, just had my Japanese exam a few days ago, and I just finished my chem. The exam was… so easy! I was so happy, but then again, it was kinda a waste of studying time... I could have been studying for math instead… which I know I'd need….but… anyways… thank you to all the people who reviewed and the people who didn't!
Nanashi2: LOL! You were right! It is Tala! YAY! Sometimes, I have the urge to write a Tala/Takao… but then… Kai would be left alone! Thank you for all the comment! I'm really glad that you like it! Hope you like this chapter too!!!
L33T M3: Yay! Thank you so much! Hm… so it would be okay if I just write Ren right? It's just that a lot of people, write different names, so… I know Takao has a brother in the series, but just gets all confused over it. Thank you for making it clearer!
Ms Hobgoblin: Well, be glad that… you'll have to wait even longer!! Mwhahaha…ha? Ehh…. hehe… yes….I just had sugar… I'm sorry for getting all the chapters out so late… I have one more exam and then I'm off to another semester, so.. will be interesting… I hope I get more time to write.
ice suzaku: You have beyblade mangas! Mou! I want some too!! Lol, I don't have any mangas… I usually get them from my friends… who lend them to me, so…for reviewing!
V.D.: Lol, I didn't know Takao had a brother until a bit ago when I read it somewhere… I don't even know where I read it… but his brother doesn't come out until G Rev apparently.
Darkspider: lol! Which reminds me… about uploading… where did all your fics go? Were they deleted? Or did you just pull them off fanfiction? I miss reading your fics! Anyways, wonder no longer la!
Blacktiger: lol, I'm sooo happy you like it! Lol, saa, don't beat Kai up too badly ne? I still need him for my fic!
Nancys-little-Obsession: lol, wonder no longer about Tala. His role is explained in this chapter. And for what Kai will do…. I'm not really sure…O.o''''''
Joce: lol, it's called a cliff-hanger! I just love leaving you guys sitting on the edge of your chairs! Prolly why I have people threatening to kill me as well…O.o
Lid: You have ideas??? Share! I need ideas! How to seduce someone…O.o I have no clue…
D. G.: Updating now! Yay! I hope you enjoy reading this chapter as well!
Unclear-Destiny: O.o I've never gotten so many threats before… ehh… or any… O.o Mou! Don't kill me! I'm updating!
Disclaimer: Only the storyline of this story belongs to me.
~ change of POV or time gap
"speaking"
'thinking'
(author's note)
flashback
Tears I Cried
By: eternal radiance
Previous chapter:
Max put down the menu, in favour of staring around him. It seemed like most of the kids there recognized them as the Bladebreakers as they stared right back at him and at their table. Max gave a grin. "Looks like people recognize us!"
Kenny looked around as well. Then he chuckled. "Who wouldn't? You are one of the most popular team around."
"WE are, Kenny. You're a part of this team too!" Ray said.
"Well of course, how could I forget myself? Without me, you'd all be lost!" Kenny laughed.
They all laughed as well – and Kai even let out a smile – and went back to their choosing of dinner.
Just when they had decided, a voice spoke from beside the table. A voice they all knew very well.
Tears I Cried - Chapter 4
"Hello, my name is – "
"TALA!"
Their waiter quickly looked up shocked, proving indeed that it was Tala. His red hair was slicked back with two bangs hanging down the sides of his face. He was – like all the other waiters and waitresses – dressed in a crisp white suit shirt and black slacks. He also had a small black apron around his waist and a black tie around his next. His ice blue eyes widened when they saw the Bladebreakers.
"What the hell are you doing here?!" He hissed to them, weary of the customers who had turned their heads to look at their table. "Don't tell me you're back to harass Takao again?"
"We're eating here!" Max hissed back.
"What are you doing here?" Kai asked calmly, but inside his emotions were a whirl of chaos. If Tala was here, then Takao must be here as well.
"I work here, idiot. And yes Takao works here as well, but don't even think about bothering him!" Tala had seen the look on Kai's face, which prompted him to spit out the warning.
"You owe us an explanation, Tala." Ray shot at him, changing the topic.
"I don't owe you anything." Tala said, then he looked around. "But for Takao's sake, I'll tell you." He took a glance at his watch. "In 15 minutes, when I get my break." Then he took out a notepad and pen from his apron, "now are you going to order or what?"
The Bladebreakers – minus Takao of course - ordered what they wanted and watched as Tala walked off with their orders.
They quietly sat there and talked. Meanwhile, Kai wasn't paying much attention to the others, as he was on alert, his eyes looking for Takao. He thought he saw him once, no one could mistaken the long blue hair and that lithe body, but Takao had turned his back to his gaze. Kai never saw him again.
True to his word, Taka came back 15 minutes later and brought their food with him. He pulled up a chair and sat after placing the orders on the table. Everyone but Kai dug into the their food white Tala began to talk. "This doesn't go out to anyone, understand? It's bad enough that I'm telling you."
Everyone nodded and Tala started explaining. Once in a while they would ask questions and the ex-Demolition Boy would answer to the best of his capabilities. Finally they had covered everything about Takao and Tala sat back in his chair, exhausted. The others were too, as there was so much about Takao that the others hadn't known about; so much that the blue-haired boy had hid from them.
"One last thing…" Max leaned in. "How did you and Takao become friends? He didn't us anything about that before."
Tala sighed, running a hand through his red locks. "He wouldn't have. I escaped from Biovolt a while ago. Voltaire may be on the run, but he had someone else lead in his absence. I was lucky. Ian and the others weren't so lucky. I'm not sure if they're dead or not, and there's no way of finding out."
"Why not?" Kenny asked when he paused in his story.
"Because Biovolt used to beat us to make us tough." Kai avoided his eyes. He was the luckiest of them all, because he had escaped at a younger age.
"We planned to escape together, but they found out and so my team stayed to fight o that I may escape. Takao and I tried going back one night, but they had already left. There was nothing there."
At their confused gazes, the ex-Demolition Boy sighed again. "You are really clueless about this… Hasn't Mr Dickenson told you yet?"
"Told us what?" Ray asked.
"…Me and Takao have three jobs. One at the supermarket, one here and then a night job." A secret agents." Tala said quietly, making sure that no one outside their table heard anything. "The BBA isn't only a Beyblading team organization. They train people to deal with people like Voltaire. Kind of like vigilantes."
Tala took a deep breath before continuing. "After I had escaped, I wandered around Tokyo and finally one day Ren found me. He and Takao nursed e back to health, and gave me a place to stay and a family, I owe them my life. One of the things the Kinomiyas don't have is enough money. I have some in my back account, but only enough for a while. The dojo itself is expensive."
"Doesn't Ren work?" Max asked. Before they were kicked out, the older Kinomiya had looked like he was going out for a business meeting or something.
"Ren has his own business to take care of and sometimes he works with us in our night time job. But me and Takao still need to pull our own load and that I why we have 3 jobs."
"Hm… I wonder why Mr. Dickenson never told us about the BBA?" Ray wondered out loud.
"Because I needed to see how you people would work together." Came a voice from behind Tala and everyone looked up to see Mr. Dickenson.
"Ah shit!" Tala swore. One of the first things he had to promise before becoming an agent was that he could never talk about this to anyone other then the other agents. And even then, he had to be careful about telling too much to the agents he didn't know.
The old man placed one hand on Tala's shoulder. "It's aright. I would've told them eventually." Then he grinned. "You just made it easier for me."
Before anyone could say anything else, a girl wearing a white apron ran up to Tala. "Hey, Tala. Where's Takao? His order has been sitting in the kitchen for at least 20 minutes. He's never that late." She said, worried.
Tala looked concerned when he found out. "Not again…" He whispered. Then his eyes grew dark. "If you'll excuse me, I'll go find them now." When Mr. Dickenson nodded, Tala ran off and was out of their sight.
Kai decided to follow him, and to see what this was all about.
"Stay outside." Tala warned and stopped at a door before knocking and entering.
Takao was a standing there, his hands held over his head as an older man suck on his face. Through the window, Kai could see that Takao wasn't even struggling. At first he thought that the by enjoyed it, but when he looked closer, he noticed that his blue-haired angel's eyes were bleak with no emotion.
Kai's crimson eyes narrowed in anger. That man was touching HIS Takao! He was going to rush in, but stopped to listen to the conversation.
"Sir, a man is asking for Takao." Tala said, his face void of emotion, but Kai could tell from his own experience that the red-haired boy was full of anger. When the man looked to object, he added. "By name."
The man nodded and released his hold on Takao who brushed his clothes then walked out the door. Tala followed and Kai followed discretely, because Takao hadn't seen him yet.
They walked into the bathroom where Takao turned the tap and splashed water on his face. Kai quickly ran into an empty stall when Takao's eyes were closed, just to listen in.
As soon as Takao wiped the water off his face, Tala cornered him. "Why did you do that? You could have avoided him just like the other times! You know he'll hurt you!"
Takao looked up into his best friend's eyes. "He offered me $500 for a kiss." He finally let out.
"And you let him?!" Tala yelled.
Kai didn't get it. Who was this guy? How come he would pay so much for a kiss?
"We need the money! We don't have enough, not for the year." Takao yelled back, tears escaping his sapphire eyes. As much as he didn't want to do it, it was money and they needed the money to pay the rent and to eat. And the man – his boss – had made it hurt so much. It was nothing like he imagined his first kiss would be like.
Tala looked at Takao, who had bowed his head down in sham. "Oh Takao…" He pulled the unresisting boy into his arms, stroking the soft blue locks gently. "We'll have enough... You don't have to sell yourself for it. They'll be enough to pay for the dojo."
Takao let himself be pulled into the embrace. In fact, he welcomed the warmth of Tala's body close to his, but it just wasn't the same. Not when he had already experienced Kai's arms around him. No one would ever replace Kai. But Tala sure came close in second. He pulled away when the tears subsided then gave his best friend a weak grin. "You sure sound optimistic."
""It's not optimism, Takao. It's the truth." Tala smiled, wiping the remaining tears from Takao's pale face. "Now go and serve your customers. We'll be outta here in an hour."
Takao gave one last hug and a smile before bouncing out. Tala looked in the mirror to his own reflection and sighed. The he turned to the door of the stall where Kai was coming out. "You heard it all, right?"
Kai nodded grimly. "Who was the man?"
Taka growled. "Our boss. He is the manager of this restaurant. He didn't need more people to be working in his restaurant, but he took us in because of Takao.
Kai nodded again then made his way to leave, only to stop when Tala placed a hand on his arm. He turned his crimson eyes to look into Tala's. "I know you like Takao. Maybe even love him. But it'll take more then just a few 'sorries'. As much as he doesn't show it, you really hurt him. It won't be easy to get him back, you know."
"You're telling me this why?" Kai asked, annoyed that he couldn't leave and continue watching his Takao.
"I'm telling you this because Takao's like the little brother I never had. I'll do anything to keep him safe. But I also know he loves you like crazy. So… if you hurt him again, I'll hunt you down and kill you." Tala warned, before letting go.
Kai stared into those ice blue eyes and he could see that what Tala was saying was true. He wasn't any competition for his heart. "I'll do whatever it takes to make him happy."
Tala smiled and for once, Kai got to see the happy part of the crimson-haired boy: the part of which they were taught to hide the Abbey. "That's all I need then."
So together the boys walked out and back into the chaos of the restaurant.
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"Ow, ow… ow…" Kai winced as the thorns cut into his fingers. "That baka better appreciate this…" He muttered to himself as he took the next branch of roses and started peeling the thorns off.
Finally when he finished, he took a bright blue ribbon to tie the flowers together. Next he attached the small cord onto the bouquet with a signature saying 'from someone who loves you'.
This idea had taken Kai ages to think of, at first and then even longer to do. He'd gotten the idea from a walk in the park, where a guy was giving roses to a girl. He had left just before the girl had complained of poking her finger on a thorn.
Girls were too picky, he decided to himself. They should be glad they were getting flowers at all. But just incase, he decided to pick the thorns out anyways. He had no doubt that his little angel would be flattered by it, as much as he might not be the kind of person to seem so. Kai saw the longing glances that the blue-haired boy always gave Max and Ray. He wanted something like this. He'd be happy.
With that thought in mind, he stepped back to stare at the roses. They were dyed a blue colour; red being too common, pick too girly, yellow for friendship and white for death.
Now that all was done, Kai needed some way of getting the to Takao's room. Which was not a problem at all. As a peace offering and a physical signing of the agreement for Takao's happiness, Tala had given Kai one of the spare keys of the Kinomiya dojo. And had also told him with a wink, that Ren was out for an important business trip that would last a few days and that he and Takao had work the entire day.
Silently, Kai thanked Tala as he walked to the car. Of course, he wasn't going to say it to his face.
TBC…
Eternal: Gah… I should've been studying… Ack.. procrastination.. is not a good thing. Well then.. I need some ideas for seduction… I can't think of anything!!! Gah! Help please??? And I think I need a beta as well…. Seeing as I hardly get much time to write now, everything's going hectic and I noticed my grammar is becoming a little off… O.o
If you have the time to beta, please let me know ok?! I'd rather that you email me, but saying so in a review will be fine as well! Thanks! (And review!!!)
