Title: Long Time No See

By: Moonlit Sea

Disclaimer: Do not own Beyblade or any of its characters (except for Sam, Kate & Ben).

A/N: I know I said that there was going to be no more updates but after looking through all the stories I've done I realised that I only have one really completed (chaptered) story. So I intend to break the habit of starting them and not finishing them. (Wish me luck, please). Oh I know Kai's personality is a complete flip but that's what happens when you become a parent (or so I believe) also I'm not very good at writing poems.

*-Thoughts-*

//Conversation being remembered//

Chapter 7 - Time To Talk.

"I…guess I better get going then." Sam said.

"Yea." Ray replied.

They looked at each other for a few more minutes before Sam headed off.
Ray sighed as he watched her walk away. It shouldn't have to be like this, they should be able to see other whenever they pleased. It was a reunion after all. When Sam was no longer in sight he started back towards Tyson's.

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At Tyson's house -

"Do you think Ray and Sam are okay?" Max asks looking out the window as a flash of lighting lit up the sky.

"There probably back at our place doing who knows what." Ben says moodily.

"Where's Kai anyway? I haven't seen him since Sam dropped the kids off." Tyson said.

"Hey." Ben and Kate say in unison slightly offended.

"We have names you know Tyson." Kate answers back.

"Yea I know." Tyson says with a slight smile.

At that moment Ray walks in dripping wet. Everyone looks at him and begin to wonder where Sam is as he closes the door behind him.

"Uh Ray… where's Sam?" Max asks.

Ray doesn't answer but goes to dry himself off.

"What's up with him?" Tyson asks.

Max shrugs while Kate and Ben smile at each other.

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At Sam's house -

Sam was happy when she finally reached her front door; it felt like someone was following her but every time she turned round there was no one there. She sighs as she closes the door and leans up against it closing her eyes. A second later she walks up the stairs, into the bathroom and starts to ring all the water from her hair out into the bath; she then removes her wet clothing and puts on her bathrobe placing all the wet items on the side of the bath. As Sam crosses the hall she again feels like she is being watched, she looks around and again sees no one. *-I must be getting paranoid. I'm the only one in the house. At least I hope I am.-* Sam thought and continued towards her room. As she walks in she is surprised to see that there is a bunch of yellow roses tied together neatly with a yellow ribbon on her bed.

"What the…" she looks round wondering where they could've come from then turns back to the roses laying on her pillow. "How did these get here?" She wonders aloud.

As she approaches them she notices a note partly covered by the roses. She picks it up and reads it:

'Yellow Roses Remind Me Of You
You Know Me But Can You Guess Who?
I've Been Watching You My Pet
And You Look Cute All Sopping Wet.'

Sam smiles then picks up the roses smelling them. *-I wonder who it could be?-* but before she could think any further the doorbell rang. She sighs before carefully placing the roses and note back on the bed and went to answer the door.

"Tyson!" surprised to see him standing outside her front door.

"Hey Sam."

"What are you doing here? How did you even know where I lived?"

"Max told me." Tyson answered "So you gonna let me in or not?"

"Huh? Oh yea." Moving aside to let him in. Then realising that she was still in her bathrobe says "The living room is just through there I'll be through in a minute." Going back up to get changed.

Tyson walked through to the living room taking a look around while waiting for Sam to return. *-Nice place.-* he thought *-Max was right…-* his thoughts were interrupted when Sam walked back in now properly clothed.

"I wanna thank you for taking care of Kate and Ben while I was…out."

"Hey no problem." Tyson says.

"So uh how are they? I hope they're behaving themselves." Sam asks wondering what to say. She couldn't get what the note said out of her mind.
'You know me but can you guess who?'
*-Could it possibly be Tyson?-* she thought.

"They're fine. Max is watching them at the moment."

Sam is surprised by what Tyson had just said.
"Where's Kai?" she managed to stop herself from adding 'and Ray'.

"I dunno we haven't seen him since you dropped the kids off. And Ray's been acting weird ever since he got back." Tyson answered sensing that she wanted to know about Ray also.

Sam's cheery disposition disappears and she heads towards the window looking out at the rain soaked street.
"I see." She says solemnly.

"Sam… why didn't you tell anyone you were…pregnant?" Tyson asks curious.

"I guess I was afraid that no one would want me especially Kai." A single tear fell down her cheek.

"Why on earth would you think that?" he asks looking at her in amazement.

"Oh I don't know perhaps the fact that we were fourteen/fifteen at the time might have something to do with it." a tad of sarcasm in her voice "That and the fact that when my parents found out they disowned me." Trying hard not to cry.

"Oh Sam I'm sorry, but you know we would never of done that. We're your friends and we wouldn't abandon you when you needed us the most."

"Does that include everyone." It wasn't really a question, as she knew he was right but could he account for Kai as well?

"You're talking about Kai aren't you." Tyson says.

"No, I'm talking about the man in the moon of course I'm talking about Kai." Sam replies sarcastically.

Tyson sighs.
"I can't say for sure how Kai would of reacted but I'm sure that if you could've just seen the way it upset him when you left. The way…"

"What's done is done Tyson. The past can't be changed no matter how hard you try to convince me." Sam says interrupting him.

After a few minutes silence Tyson asks
"What's going on between you and Ray anyway?"

Sam turns round surprised at the sudden change of subject.
"There's nothing going on between Ray and I. Why, has someone told you something different?"

"No, but it doesn't take a genius to see that there's something going on between you two." Tyson states.

"Are you sure you're Tyson?" Sam asks jokingly.

"Huh?"

"Because you sure don't sound like the Tyson I know."

"Ha ha very funny Sam."

She smiled.
"Honestly Tyson. There's nothing going on between us, we're just really close friends that's all. Besides I could never feel that way about Ray, he's more like a brother than anything else. It would feel too weird."

"Tell that to your children."

"Keep going on about it do they." She says with a little laugh "I guess they were too young to remember." Sighing.

Tyson takes a quick look at his watch before saying
"I better get back now with Ray acting the way he is who knows how long Maxie will last." He jokes.

Sam laughed.
"Hey my children aren't that bad." Hiding the guilt and worry she was feeling.

"With K…" Tyson stopped realising what he was about to say. "Sorry Sam I didn't mean to…"

Sam smiled.
"Don't worry about it Tyson, but you're right with Kai for a father who knows what their capable of." Her voice betraying how she was feeling.

"You okay?"

"I'm fine." She pauses for a moment, "Tyson… you don't mind if they stay over the night do you? I… just need some time."

"Sure."

They both head toward the door; before she opens it Sam turns back to Tyson.
"You won't tell anyone about this… will you Tyson?"

"Not even Ray…" he asks part sarcastic part curious.

"Well I suppose Ray's okay but no one else."

"I guess… but they all have to know sooner or later."

"Don't worry when the time is right everyone will know." She smiles and with that opens the door.

"See you tomorrow Sam."

"Bye Tyson and thanks again." She waves then closes the door.

Sam returns to her room, looks at the roses still lying on her bed. *-I wonder who my secret admirer is.-* and gets ready for bed.

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Later that night Kai went to find Sam he had been told by Kate that she had been thinking about him. He wanted to know what she was playing at, first she had told Ray that she no longer loved him then Kate tells him that she heard her speak his name when she thought she was alone.
He remembered the conversation he had with Ray before he left.
// "Ray where's Sam?"

Ray shrugged.
"How should I know where she is I'm not her boyfriend you know." a little annoyed.

"You two are like Tyson and Max… inseparable." Kai replied wondering what went on between them before Ray returned.

"I don't know where she is Kai. Maybe she's looking out at the ocean again or maybe she jumped off a cliff. You wanna know where she is then go find her yourself." Ray says before walking off.//

He sighed if only he knew where she lived he would go there but he didn't want to get Ben and Kate's hopes by asking them.
He decided to go back to where he saw Sam and Ray last night. Only to find Sam was there in the exact same spot as last night but there was something different about her, he just couldn't think what.
He walked over to her placing a shaky hand on her shoulder to which she jumped and instantly turned round.

"Kai! W-what are you doing here?"

He wanted to say 'looking for you.' But found that he couldn't speak. He stood there just looking at her and without realising it stroked her cheek. Sam smiled and placed a hand upon his. Slowly Kai lent in and kissed her to which she responded after a second or two. After the kiss Sam placed her head upon Kai's chest and sighed happily.

"I've missed you Kai." She says softly.

Kai smiles and puts his arms around her.
"I've missed you too."

Kai then awakes finding himself at Tyson's place, realising it was just a dream he sighed. No matter what Sam did he just couldn't stay mad at her. He loved her and had done ever since they were little; it just took him a little longer to figure it out than she had. He sat up and looked at his children, things had to be sorted out no matter how painful the outcome would be. He needed some air and went into the garden to clear his head.
He looked into the starry moonlit sky and was reminded of something Sam said to him ten years earlier.

=FLASHBACK=
"You know it happened just on a night like this. The moon shinning brightly, no one round…"

"What are you talking about?" Kai asked getting a little annoyed.

Sam then looked at Kai.

"Oh I'm sorry you weren't there were you. You'd already destroyed my hopes, dreams… and my blade."

It was then Kai knew exactly what Sam was talking about, she was telling him what happened after the nightmare he had.

"But… that's… impossible." He stammered.

"No Kai. It's not. 'Coz you see it wasn't just a nightmare it was reality." Sam said calmly.

"Okay I just had about enough! Tell me what you know!" Kai said angrily.

"You don't remember? Awwww and here I was hoping you would. Ahhh well."

She turned to go but Kai grab her wrist and turned her back round.

"Tell me!"

"Why? There's no point if you don't remember. Oh and by the way I want to thank you… if it weren't for you I wouldn't have destroyed another girls hopes, dreams and blade too." She said a little annoyed as she thought of what she did to Jeri.

"I'm not letting go until you tell me."

"Fine then! I'll tell you but you'll have to let go of me first."

"Do I look stupid to you." Kai asked rhetorically.

"Yes."

Kai squeezed Sam's wrist even tighter.

"If you're trying to hurt me Kai it won't work. I gave up my feelings long ago."
=END FLASHBACK=

"Kai?" a voice said making him jump at the sound of it.

He turned round and saw Max looking at him a confused look upon his face.

"What are you doing out here?" he asks.

"I…I was just thinking."

"What about?"

Kai looks back up at the sky.
"Sam." He answers.

"Oh."

Kai sighs not believing what he was about to admit to Max. *-It could be worst. It could be Tyson standing here instead of Max.-*
"I still love her you know."

"I know Kai, but does she?" Max says.

Kai now looks back at Max this time it was his turn to be confused.
"What do you mean Max?"

"It's been ten years since you've seen each other. Maybe she's scared that you no longer love her and so told no one about her pregnancy or didn't get in touch with anyone in case it ever got back to you." Max explained.

Kai now looks at Max a little amazed.
"Since when did you get so smart Max?" he asked a little jokingly.

"Let's just say I kinda went through the same thing." Hoping Kai wouldn't question him any further. "You've both got to talk things through, tell each other how you feel. I'm sure you'll both feel better once you have." Max smiles then walks back in.

Kai stands there for a few minutes thinking about what Max said before heading in himself.

The next morning Kai was awoken by the sound of someone shouting "Yay!" and heard Max say, "I think you just woke up the whole neighbourhood Kate."
Kate came running in a couple of minutes later shouting "Dad…dad…look…look."

Kai sat up and looked at his daughter she was smiling brightly and holding something within her hand.

"What is it?" he asked kindly as he patted the spot next to him gesturing for her to sit there.

She did snuggling up next to him, as he put is arm around her.
"They finally finished it." She answers showing him what she held in her hand.

Kai looked and saw a Beyblade; it was black with tiny yellow stars. He smiled.
"I hoped you remember to thank them."

Just then Ben walked in.
"Hey Kate, Max says he'd battle me I was wondering if you'd like to see me beat him?"

Kai had to suppress a laugh at Ben's eagerness to battle Max.

"You beat Max? Now this I gotta see." Kate replied before looking up at her father who gave a little nod and she followed her brother back out in the garden.

Kai got up a few seconds later he wanted to talk to Ray about Sam. As he walked out he saw no sign of him.
"Where's Ray?" he asked Kenny. He also wondered where Tyson was; normally wherever you find Max you'd also find Tyson.

"He's in the kitchen. Tyson wanted to talk to him about something." Kenny answers.

Kai went in the direction of the kitchen after seeing how Ben was doing against Max. He smiled as he saw how Kate supported her brother. As he neared the kitchen Kai could hear Tyson talking he stopped outside the door and listened to the conversation that went on.

(In the kitchen - )
"She said that when her parents found out they disowned her. Is that true?"

"Yeah." Ray says sadly "She was afraid that if that was parents reaction then it would also be everyone else's."

"But that's silly. We would never have done that. I can't speak for Kai but I know I wouldn't of never turned her away." Tyson said.

"Actually it was because of Kai that she didn't want you guys to know."

"Huh? How do you mean Ray?"

"Look at it this way Tyson. Her parents the people she loved more than anything no longer wanted anything to do with her." Ray explained solemnly "She was afraid the only other person she really loved would do the same and she couldn't bear that."

"So she kept quiet." Tyson says understanding.

"Right. She thought that if no one knew then she'd never get hurt."

"There's still one thing I don't get." Tyson adds.

"What's that?"

"Why'd she go to you?" he asked.
He hadn't meant it to sound as insulting as it did but luckily Ray knew what he meant and smiled.

"Ever since Sam and I met there's been this…connection between us, kinda like you and Max. I guess she felt she could trust me more than you. No offence."

"None taken. So that's what she meant when she said you were more like a brother to her."

(Outside the kitchen - )
Kai walked away not wanting to hear the rest of the conversation. Her parents disowned her? No wonder she didn't want him to know. Max was right they had to talk.

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Later that afternoon Sam walked into Tyson's and looked around. She saw Kate practicing with a blade she'd never seen before it wasn't Ben's she knew that. So who's was it? Could it possibly be hers? But the Chief was still working on it wasn't he? She was about to go over to her when she heard "Sam." She turned in the direction of the voice and saw Max and Kenny. She went over to them.

"Hey guys." She greeted cheerily.

"Hey Sam." Kenny greeted back.

"Chief did you finish Kate's blade?"

"Yeah I gave it to her this morning." Kenny answered.

"She was so happy she nearly woke up the whole neighbourhood." Max commented.

Sam smiled at how excited her daughter got at receiving her new blade.
"Thanks Chief."

"Hey what am I invisible?" Dizzi says.

Sam chuckles.
"You too Dizzi."

"That's better."

"You're very cheery today Sam." Max says.

"Yeah, what ya do take some of Max's happy pills or something?" Dizzi jokes.

Sam laughs.
"No."

"So what's made you so happy?" Kenny asks.

"What? Aren't I allowed to be this happy?" she asks sarcastically.

"Of course you are." Dizzi said.

"It's just we haven't seen you this happy since you first got together with Kai that's all." Max explains.

"Speaking of Kai where is he anyway? And where's Ray and Tyson?"

"Kai went to find Ray." Kenny answers.

"So did Tyson." Max adds.

"Seems like Ray's popular today." She jokes.

Sam's cheeriness was starting to creep everyone out even Max.

"So how have they been getting on?" Sam asks referring to her children as she turns to look at them.

"Ben's a good blader, he nearly beat me earlier."

Sam smiles.
"Hey Kai's his father remember, so of course he'd be a good blader."

At that moment Kai walks out into the garden. Sam spots him before anyone else and does something no one was expecting.

"Hey Kai." She says to him, still very cheery. "So what about Kate?" returning to the conversation as if nothing happened.

Everyone was amazed even Ben and Kate had stopped what they doing and looked at her. They all stare at her as if she'd grown a second head.

After getting no reply and seeing how everyone was staring at her.
"What? What's wrong? Why are you all staring at me like that?"

"Mum are you feeling okay?" Kate asks.

"Yeah, why… shouldn't I be?" she asks with confusement.

"It's just that you've never said 'hi' to dad before." Ben explains.

Sam laughs.
"Is that why you're all staring at me."

As Kai looks at Sam he notices something different about her, instead of letting her hair flow free like she normally did. Today it was tied back with a yellow ribbon and there was something familiar about it.