Ok, Smoochy here...Well no duh it's Smoochy! I'm a little slow today. Anyway, uuh, just to answer a certain reviewers question...yes there is going to be some Kai/Naomi romance, just to tell ya. That's all I can think of saying right now...and on with the story! (By the way, Hilary isn't with them, also the seating arrangements on the plane, are the same with the hotel rooms,)

Disclaimer:...I'm not going to even bother, since it's obvious I don't own beyblade!

~^ Chapter 12 - New York! New York! ^~

After The Bladebreakers had been brought to their hotel, and dropped of their stuff, they decided to have some fun at a local park. Tyson was being a nuisance, and was skateboarding in random places, Max was hanging out with some of his old friends, Rei and Naomi were playing basketball with some of the local kids, while Kai was sitting on a bench watching them.

"Oh, come on Rei. You aren't going to let a girl beat you. Are you?" Naomi teased; she was dribbling the basketball just in front of Rei, taunting him. And when Rei went for the ball, she bounced it under his legs, and dunked it into the net.

"Who's the champion?" She giggled. "Don't worry Rei, I don't have a huge ego like Tyson."

"That's a good thing too, hey look." Rei pointed behind Naomi, where he could see Max waving to them with his friends close behind. "I think Max wants to introduce you to some of his friends. Naomi nodded and ran over to Max and the two kids behind him, Rei was close behind.

"Hey Maxy, what's up?" She smiled.

"Nothing really, these two just wanted to meet you.that's about it." Max gestured to the two boys behind him. "This is, Tyler and Alex." Naomi quickly glanced over the two boys, Tyler had light brown hair that was sort of curly, he was wearing a dark green t-shirt, with kaki shorts, and light blue skateboard shoes. Naomi then looked over to Alex, who had short black hair that was slightly flicked in the front; he was wearing a midnight blue zip-up sweater, over a white t-shirt, he also had baggy faded jeans, and was wearing black skateboard shoes.

"Nice to meet you two, I'm Naomi." Naomi cheerfully shook each of the boys' hands and then turned to Rei. "So Rei, you up for another basketball match?"

"Of course I am, want to join us Max?" Rei smiled. Max grinned; Alex and Tyler joined the game also.

They spent the entire day at the park, Tyson had to stop skateboarding because he got in trouble countless times, and once again Naomi had won in basketball. Now, the Bladebreakers were back at their hotel, all in Tyson and Max's room.

"What do ya wanna do?" Tyson asked Max for the hundredth time.

"I dunno, what do you wanna do?" Max answered, him and Tyson had been doing that ever since they had come back from the park, Naomi was sitting on the couch beside them, her arms were crossed, and her eye was twitching slightly.

"That's it!" She couldn't handle it anymore. "I'm going to the pool." She then walked out of Tyson and Max's hotel room, and across the hall to her own.

"That's a great idea!" Max grinned after Naomi had left.

"Why didn't we think of that?!" Tyson began hitting his head with his hand. Max then got up and walked into his room, where he got changed; after Max was done Tyson did the same. Soon after, Naomi opened the door, and leant on its frame, glaring at the two boys, who just gaped at her. She was wearing a navy blue halter top, that had light blue trim, which showed off every curve of her body, with knee length board shorts, that had red tropical flowers on them, and the same shade of blue as her top, hanging off of her shoulder, was a light green, towel, with bubbles scattered all over it.

"I'm guessing you guys are going to join me then." Naomi raised an eyebrow at the two. "What about you Rei?" Rei shrugged and then left to go to his own room. "Kenny why don't you come, you need a break from that computer anyway."

"Ok, it sounds like fun." Kenny smiled and walked off in the direction Rei had.

"Don't even bother asking Kai. He won't go." Tyson grumbled.

"That's a pooper. Meh, wutcha gonna do!?" Naomi replied a little too cheerfully.

About 5 minutes later, Rei, and Kenny were all set, and all of them, excluding Kai, were down at the pool, and lucky for them, hardly anyone was there.

"Wow, this is awesome!" Naomi grinned as she threw her towel onto a lounge chair, and ran over to the side of the crystal clear pool. Tyson came running next to her, also looking into the water, and then Naomi got an idea.

"Hey, Tyson. Tell me how the water is why don't ya." She giggled before pushing Tyson into the pool, after Tyson had resurfaced, he grabbed Naomi's arm and pulled her into the water herself.

"Oh that's it! You just declared war!" Naomi and Tyson began chasing each other around the pool, occasionally dunking one another, until Naomi had gotten Tyson stuck in an inflatable tube.

"What did you learn?" She snickered to the struggling Tyson.

"Not to pull you into a pool, or declare war." Tyson whined, Naomi grinned and yanked the tube off of him, at the side of the pool, Max, Rei and Kenny, were laughing at the scene that had just taken place. Naomi sighed and dove under the water, she sat on the bottom, with her eyes open, just staring at nothing.

'This is so weird.' She thought. 'One minute, I'm a normal teenager, the next, I'm in Japan, and then, the Bladebreakers ask me to be on their team.' Naomi let out a sigh, causing crystal clear bubbles to rise to the surface of the pool. She kicked off of the ground, and took in a deep breath when she reached the surface. Tyson and the others were arguing over who would be it for marco polo.

"Crazy." Naomi muttered before lifting herself out of the water, and grabbing her towel.

"Where ya going?" Max asked after hearing Naomi get out of the pool.

"To explore." She simply answered while walking out of the pool area.

Naomi walked through the silent hallways of the hotel, her bare feet moving along the soft carpet, once in awhile a few people would go walking past her, but that was about it. She took out her card key, and slid it into the slot on her door, when the green light flashed she slowly opened the wooden door and quietly walked inside.

'I wonder where Kai is?' She thought, but quickly shrugged it off and got changed. Naomi then went back into the hallway, and over to one of the elevators. When she got inside, she pressed the button for the roof.

Naomi opened the roof doors, only to be greeted by a gentle breeze, which pushed her slightly wet hair out of her face. She reached inside her pocket, and pulled out Tatsuta.

"Time for some training." She mumbled before launching Tatsuta onto the ground. Naomi leant against the small wall that surround the door she had come through, once again taking out her small notepad and silver pen.

"Hey Tatsuta, why don't you come out and say hello?" Naomi grinned down at her blade, which began to glow silver, then a bright light flashed, and Tatsuta emerged, landing beside her mistress.

'Dranzer did you see that?' Kai, who was at the other end of the hotel roof, asked.

'Yes I did, and I believe that it was Tatsuta.' Dranzer explained. Kai nodded and called his blade back into his hand; he then walked over to where he saw the silver light. When he had arrived at the source of the light, he found Naomi, sitting on the ground, her chin resting in one of her hands, and she was staring at her blade, which was spinning on the spot. Resting in her other hand, was a silver pen, and in her lap, was her small notepad, with a small sketch on it, but Kai couldn't quite make out what it was.

"Hey Kai," Naomi mumbled, never taking her gave off of the blade spinning in front of her. "What're you doing up here?"

"I just felt like coming up here, and what about yourself?" Kai asked as he walked over beside Naomi and leant against the wall she was sitting in front of.

"I don't know. I guess I just wanted to explore. And this place is much calmer than with Tyson and the others." Naomi looked up and smiled at Kai.

"How long has Tatsuta been spinning like that." Kai asked, turning his gaze over to the blur of blue and silver.

"I dunno, I think about ten or fifteen minutes, around there." Naomi answered, also looking over to her blade. "I wasn't really paying attention."

"I see." Kai mumbled. Naomi sighed and stood up, holding out her hand, allowing Tatsuta to jump into it.

"Sorry Kai, but I have some 'business' that I have to attend to, see ya later." She snickered before opening the door behind her, and disappearing down the small staircase.