Wild-Roze: ooookay, im glad u reviewed, well, lyke I sed, the subritz aint done yet, so here we gooooooo !!!! And yah, I cant remember who asked but I did get the ideas for the zones from metropolis, but also from futurama.....im strange...lol. By the by, soz the last cappie was so sort, and if ur confuzled by it, then this 1 is prob gonna confuzle u more! Bai

Oh yah, and does anyone know Tyson's Dad's actual name? cos I'm gonna need it

Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade, only my OC's and this plot, bai bai !!

Its All In The Past

He was a tall man, a wide, hard chest and broad shoulders. His black hair was short and spiky, and his dark, reddish brown eyes stared passively out from under his fringe which occasionally fell in front of them.

Sorota Hiwitari, a widowed man, only with his small three year old son for family. He looked out of the darkened car window at the midnight sky of Zone 1, he had not seen the stars for years, far more years than he could remember. They were beautiful....

If only there were things as stunning and inspiring as them down on Zone 2, perhaps life wouldn't be so hard down there..... Thinking of Zone 2, instantly made him think of the SubRitz, and that brought him to think of the reason he was up here. His step father, Boris, was very well off, he owned the Biovault corporation, one of the worlds leading industries, and so, was very wealthy, he had inherited it after Sorota's true father Voltaire had died of a terminal illness a few years back, his mother, had re-married to Boris, Sorota had never known what she saw in him. However a few months after, she vanished completely, assumed dead. He sighed, he wished he knew what had happened to her. He cast a sad glance to his son, he was asleep, on the leather seats across from him.

Little Kai....he was only seven months old when Sorota's wife had passed away, which in some ways was a mercy, seeing as he would be too young to remember. He had her two toned hair, but his fathers dark, emotionless eyes.

"And I need you now, tonight,

And I need you more than ever !"

Kai watched, it wasn't often that he was able to persuade Aruna to sing at the club, she was so beautiful, her hair had grown a little, instead of falling to her shoulders, it now descended to the bottom of her shoulder blades, the silky tresses were slightly wavy. She was wearing a corset costume, it was black, her slender legs were encased within satin tights, and around her left leg was a holster holding a gun, held up by suspenders. She looked phenomenal, enticing and deadly.

"And if you'll only hold me tight,

We'll be holding on forever!

And We'll only be makin' it right, cos' We'll never be wrong,"

Beside Kai, sat a young boy, only five years old, but an exact replica of Kai, down to the matching tux, he sat, staring around with the same bored emotionless expression as his father. Sorota's twin sister, Arashi, sat beneath the table, trying, in vain, to tie Kai's shoe laces, unsuccessfully.

"Together we can make it to the end of the line,

Your love is like a Shadow on me all of the time,

I dunno what to do,

I'm always in the dark,"

To the untrained eye it would appear that Kai couldn't care less about his two young offspring, for he ignored their presence completely, but to a pair of deep navy eyes, it was clear that Kai was alert, for any sign of danger against his children.

"I'm living in a power keg and givin' of sparks,

I really need you tonight,

Forever's gonna start tonight,

Forever's gonna start...Once upon a time I was fallin' in love,

Now I'm only fallin' apart,

There's nothing I can do

A Total Eclipse of the Heart."

Holding the last note till the end, Aruna bowed, then leapt down off the stage and made her way through the crowd, and over to her husband.

Sorota sighed again, he was doing this for Kai. He needed money. Ever since his wife's death, he had become a broken man, receding inside a solid wall of cold emotion, not able to be in the company of anyone other than his son. Because of this, the SubRitz fell into disrepair, uncared for by it's master, it lost funds, and made less and less profit every night, now, barely anyone came to the club, it had lost its reputation, as Sorota had lost his pride. He only prayed Kai never had to suffer that kind of emotional break down.

Though he had lost so much, he was still a major target for Idealists and other mobs, the Hardies, now that he was not so well known anymore, would soon be able to afford arresting him. They could hire other gangsters to do the jobs they could not, the SubRitz was falling. But because of the amount of people who wanted him out of the way, Sorota finally came to is senses, he had to rebuild is empire, for his son. Kai needed protection, he needed good security, and a father who was not so lost in his own world of pain that he could not see how badly his reality was crumbling.

Kai would inherit all that Sorota owned, he would uphold the legacy of the SubRitz, taking up the reins after his father passed away. He was too young to understand at the moment, that was why he needed to grow up, seeing how it was done, so he would be ready when the day came. He could not learn from a man who didn't teach.

There was a loaded gun on the table, ready for use, and all around the perimeter of the room, body guards stood, watching for the slightest sign of a threat against the Hiwitari family. Kai's personal guards; Tyson, Max, Ray and Ian, stood closer to the table keeping an eye on the children, if anyone came to close Ian would punch them unmercifully, Rhydan was behind the bar, is spiky auburn air falling in front of his golden eyes, which were alternating between a pretty girl he was talking to and the family.

As Aruna approached, people moved out of her way, she was held with the same kind of respect as Kai himself, it had been made clear on many occasions that neither husband or wife wanted her to be touched by another man, her short temper had just as short a fuse as Kai's and she was a perfect shot.

It was said that on the most difficult of jobs, husband and wife would go alone, and complete it together, they never failed.

She smirked, ever since Chase's death, Kai had gone to any and all lengths to ensure his family's protection. He loved his two children, far more than he would ever admit, he generally just called them 'Kid' or 'Brat', but many was the time that Aruna had seen him casting fond glances at them.

Sorota cast his dark eyes out of the window, and felt ice settle in the pit of his stomach, as he saw his former home, where he had lived until he moved down to Zone 2 and set up the SubRitz. The Biovault headquarters had been moved from Russia to New York, where it would make far more profit. Gently he eased his dozing son off the seat and stepped out of the car which had halted before the gates of the titanic abbey.

"I'll just be a while." He said absently to is driver, a good friend of his, who also had a son, roughly a year younger than Kai, called Tyson. He nodded, and switched off the engine.

Sorota would have left Kai at the SubRitz, but since the security had fallen apart, he didn't think it was safe, and he trusted no other with the responsibility for taking care of him, so he carried his son, who was just rousing, into the abbey with him.

Aruna slid onto Kai's lap, kissing him deeply. Then nodded in the direction of the twins.

"Kai, why are those two still up? Its almost eleven!" She said with a frown of mock anger.

He smirked and shrugged.

"I don't care when the little cretins go to bed, they don't appear to be too tired." He said, knowing that she disapproved of him insulting them. She decided to rise above is immaturity, and not take the bait.

"Kai, put tem to bed, or your sleeping on the couch." She said in a final tone, folding her arms. She smirked as she saw is face fall, he sighed, and after Aruna moved off is lap he stood up. All he had to do was tell Sorota to follow him and he would, he was a very obedient boy, which was just fine with Kai, but Arashi was another story.

After refusing to go to bed with the stubbornness she had inherited from Aruna, Kai merely bend down, and picked her up. So, holding is thrashing daughter under one arm, and being followed silently by his son, he made his way to their private quarters. He started planning what he was going to do to Aruna, no one threatened him and got away with it, he smirked in anticipation.

Sorota was not a man easily scared, but standing before Boris, he felt very small.

"Sorota, how good to see you again, son." The man said in a sickeningly sweet voice.

Sorota growled, he hated it when Boris called him son, he was not his father! He bit is tongue to stop himself from saying something stupid, if he insulted the man, he would never get what he came for, he would just have to bear it.

"Boris." He said curtly. He was making sure to keep Kai mainly out of sight behind is legs, wising he had left him in the car.

The man smirked.

"Tell me what I can do for my favourite step-son." He said.

Sorota decided it was best not to delay, getting straight to the point would get him out of there far faster.

"I...I need some funds, I'll be able to pay you back very soon, including interest, I wouldn't have come here unless I was truly desperate." He said, looking at te floor, almost as if he was ashamed.

Boris chuckled.

"Of course, son. I'll give you the money, but you don't need to worry about paying me back, I want something different." He said, Sorota looked up, he should have sensed he was walking into a trap.

"Really? I'll give you anything." He replied eagerly.

"I was hoping you'd say that." Boris said smugly, leaning back in the chair he was occupying.

"What is it that you want?"

Boris closed his eyes, taking is sweet time to reply.

"I want you to take the money, then go, but, I want you to leave your son here."

Wild-Roze: Dun dun dun!!!

Ok, strange? Yes. R&R !!!!