Sorry about the last chapter guys, I had a little thing called writers block. But don't worry! Well in this chapter, I plan on some things that you should enjoy, lets just say, they're between Naomi and Kai. No more hints for you! On with the story!

Disclaimer: I don't own beyblade. only my OC's

~^ Chapter 10 - Protecting you ^~

Kai was sneaking through the dark hallways of the unknown building Kenny had led them to; he was alone at the time, since they all agreed to split up.

'I can sense Tatsuta.they should be around the next corner.' Dranzer explained. Kai stopped running, and pressed himself against the cold metal wall, slowly moving along toward the corner. He peered around the side, and saw a dim light escaping from an open door.

'That must be where Naomi is.' He thought before slowly walking over to the door. When he looked inside, he saw Naomi doing all she could to run away from another one of those huge men. Kai quickly noticed that she was clutching her upper right arm, and that dark red blood was seeping through her fingers. The large man threw Naomi against the wall, and was about to hit her again, but Kai ran up and kicked him in the side of the head, knocking him out for the moment.

"Kai." Naomi muttered, she was trying to get up, but when she did a searing pain burst from her ankle, she thought she was going to fall back to the ground, but something stopped her. Naomi looked up and saw Kai.

"We have to do something about that cut." Kai began searching the large room; he saw that the man on the floor had a long piece of black cloth wrapped around his waist. Kai took it walked back over to Naomi.

"You didn't have to come after me you know." Naomi weakly looked up at Kai.

"It's called doing something nice for others." Kai snickered; his comment caused Naomi to smile slightly. "Move your hand so I can put this on your arm." Kai gently moved Naomi's hand and began wrapping the black cloth around her arm. After he finished, he noticed that Naomi was staring at him.

"What?" Kai questioned her.

"It's just that.you don't seem like the kind of person that would be so.nice." She smiled.

"Well.Dranzer said I should watch out for you.and that what I'm doing." Kai helped Naomi to her feet. "Can you walk?" He got his answer when Naomi winced after she made an attempt to walk. Kai sighed and bent down to his knees with his back facing her.

"Get on my back." Naomi hesitantly did what Kai said. When she got on Kai's back, he lifted her off the ground, ran out of the room, and toward the exit. While Kai was running, Naomi heard a large sound off in the distance, and then everything began to shake.

"Kai, that was an explosion." She said, her voice trembling with fear.

"Don't worry.I won't let anything happen to you." Kai mumbled, he didn't mean to say that last part, it just, slipped out.

"What do you me- aah!" The walls of the building were falling apart, tumbling onto the floor; one of the tiles had caused Kai and Naomi to fly to the wall. Naomi's head had hit the hard metal, and she was out cold, once again. Kai looked up and saw a piece of ceiling directly about Naomi begin to give way. Before it fell and crushed her, Kai ran over and scooped her up in his arms, running as fast as he could out of the collapsing building. At the end of the hallway, Kai saw the dim light of the moon.

'The exit!' He thought. Kai then ran even faster, and ran straight into the cold night air of outside. He laid Naomi onto the ground after they were a good distance away from the building.

"That was close." He panted before sitting down next to her.

'Why did I say that to her.' Kai thought as he stared down at Naomi. ' Maybe I care for her more than I thought.NO! No I can't care for a girl! They make people weak! But.' He snapped out of his thoughts when he heard footsteps coming his way, he quickly looked up and saw Tyson, Max, Rei, and Kenny running over to him.

"I told you he found her!" Tyson grinned proudly.

"Ya I did, but someone got to her first." Kai gestured toward the cloth wrapped around Naomi's bleeding arm. "And I think she sprained her ankle too." He added.

"Well that's a pooper." Naomi slowly got up into a sitting position. She then began poking at her throbbing ankle.

"You do know that you shouldn't do that." Kenny advised, all he got from Naomi in return was a shrug.

"It's fine, I've had way worse than this before." She smiled. Just then a large black SUV pulled up beside them, the door flew open and Mr. Dickinson came running out.

"Naomi! Are you alright?" He asked when he reached Naomi.

"She has a sprained ankle and a cut on her arm, but she says she's fine." Dizzi answered. Naomi didn't know about Dizzi yet, and was extremely confused.

"Did your computer just talk?" She asked.

"Yes.see Naomi, Dizzi is my bit-beast, and she got trapped in my laptop, long story, don't ask." Kenny sighed.

"Ok.I won't." Naomi raised her eyebrows.

"Well, we better get you fixed up Naomi. Oh and Max, your mother said she wants you and the rest of the team to go down to New York to visit her, she said she's going to give you all upgrades." Mr. Dickinson smiled.

"Sweet!" Max and Tyson yelled in unison,