Kai stood somewhere beside Tala on the terribly loud bey-stadium, ignoring absolutely everything around him, except Arwen and Bladebreakers not far away from Neo-Borgs, unable not to sense Tyson's and Ray's glares on him. He kept his eyes closed as usual, it was some kind of habit now, it was just making everything so quiet and calm...a lot of time to think about everything everywhere.

Tyson gazed at Kai angrily and when he realized what he was doing, he quickly looked away, looking in the laptop Kenny was holding, pretending to be really interested in something he did not have a slightest idea about. No matter what, my best battles were only with you, Kai, and I still see you as my friend, not my enemy...we're here once again, to face each other in yet another tournament and see who will take the champion title this time...And it will be me.

-"Um...guys?" inquired Max, looking right at Neo-Borgs, standing a couple of meters away from them, and half closed his eyes. "Is it me, or do Neo-Borgs have another player, who suspiciously looks like...Arwen?"

-"What?" re-asked shocked Hilary, jumped up from the bench and out of Tyson's arms so suddenly, that he almost fell over the edge with a gasp. "Arwen in Neo-Borgs?" she asked again, and quickly looked around, finally spotting them, and really did see...her friend. But she had changed so much from the last time they parted. "What is she doing there?"

-"Beats me," answered earnestly on her question Ray, a tall humanoid cat, looking straight at Arwen and Kai, with a frown, not knowing Arwen for too long of time, but still wondering.

But Bladebreakers were not the only ones to notice and not like the idea of that another player in Neo-Borgs.

XLords.

Their team, with Mike in the lead walked into the stadium, and the first thing they did was to look around at each and everyone's team. Team captain's eyes stopped its gaze on Neo-Borgs and a deep angry frown appeared on his face.

-"Hey, boss, isn't it Arwen over there?" asked Jackson, and literally pointed his finger to Neo-Borgs direction, showing at Arwen. "So she ran away to join them?" he asked another question and looked up at Mike, finally seeing that he did already notice his little sister, and was immensely angry.

-"Yes, it is Arwen as a matter of fact..." let out in an angry breath Boss and clenching his teeth rushed towards her.

Arwen sighed and looked down, feeling much better and much less tired than she did at night. She wondered how everyone decided that she was not just skipping practice and did not come to her room to kill her. Also, why wasn't everybody asking her about it? That was confusing, so confusing that she didn't hear the heavy footsteps coming right towards her, and only looked up quickly when she heard an angry and clear "Stupid Bitch!" sent to her.

-"Huh?" she winced, and stared at the closuring angry man, with long dark green hair, shading half of his face, not understanding what was happening, until he grabbed her violently.

-"I'll kill you! I swear, I'll kill you!" Mike's hands wrapped around her neck, squeezing it like a vice, absolutely not caring that everyone in the stadium stared at him.

Kai first gaped at Mike in most shock seen in his eyes, and than rushed off from the place he was standing at with Tala, to Mike, literally slamming his strong fist up of his jaw, which startled The Killer so much that he let go of Arwen right away, grabbing his chin. It hurt like hell.

-"Yo'! Why'd yo' do that? It's non of yo' business, dammit!" mumbled an angry shout with maybe a broken jaw Mike, glaring at Kai with surprise and hatred, ignoring the angry shouts of Tala, Jackson and all of the Bladebreakers who were running over to them.

Arwen grasped at her chest, coughing as she searched desperately for air, her hands holding her throat covered in red finger prints. Hilary ran to her, and grabbed her hand, looking at her with worry, asking if she was alright, but Arwen couldn't reply, she just couldn't stop coughing. Kai didn't answer to Mike, just looked to Arwen, really wanting to comfort her, but of course not doing it...everyone was watching.

The commentators AJ and Brad were shouting something about the situation that had just occurred, but nobody was really listening to that.

Jackson grabbed his team's captain's elbow and pulled him out of there, which was kind of impossible: Mike was most heavy. But Mike really did want to get out of there, realizing that he screwed up the situation to much already, though he really wanted to hit Kai back as much as to strangle his younger sister for betraying him.

-"Let's go," pleaded Jackson, and walked away afraid to look around him, Mike following him, rubbing his chin, which soon after the hit started to turn to the color of blue.

-"Who was it? What did you do?" asked Tala curiously but dryly, wanting to see and know more about Arwen getting in trouble.

-"Why did he do that? Are you alright?" interrupted him Hilary, still holding Arwen's hand, and wanting to know the answer as well as a lot of people did.

-"Yea, why'd he do that? And what are you doing with Neo-Borgs?" Tyson asked Arwen as well, and than thousands of questions followed from different people, none of which Arwen seemed to know.

Who are these people? asked herself poor lost Arwen, and looked at Hilary who was holding her hand tightly as if she knew her. Why isn't she letting go of me? Her face saddened in despair, she looked around, seeing everyone's faces, everyone glaring at her, asking thousands and thousands of questions she didn't know the answers to. I don't know, I don't know, can't everyone just be quiet? she was begging, looked away from the Hilary, her throat hurt from coughing for so long, and broke her hand loose from Hilary's grasp.

-"I don't know! Just leave me alone!" she pleaded quietly, let her left hand of her throat finally, turned around and hurried up to the empty hallway, really wishing for no one to follow her.

Hilary winced as Arwen broke out of her hand, took a step back, and started following her. "Arwen wait!" she said, Tyson bared his teeth a bit and watched his girlfriend going after her.

Kai, glad that he wasn't getting much attention for hitting Mike with much of his strength, was watching Arwen very carefully, understanding and knowing the feeling of wanting to be left alone. Damn, why can't anyone ever get it? he thought, unfolded his arms, and walked in the direction of the hall, where Arwen went. "Hilary, wait," he said, as he caught up with her, and waited for her to stop.

-"What?" asked Hilary, looking straight in the direction of Arwen, and watching her figure turning over to the corner and disappearing from her eye sight.

-"Go back to Tyson. He needs you," said coldly Kai, not looking at Hilary.

-"But-"

-"Just go."

Hilary sighed, thought that she will talk to Arwen later, turned around and went back to the beystadium, wondering what Tyson needed her for so much. She really trusted Kai, whatever happened between him and others, she just did. He did save her life years ago...

Kai stood there, listening to Hilary's footsteps fading away, until he made sure that she wasn't around anymore, and continued to make his way to Arwen, stopping at the corner and turning his head to look at her, who was standing leaned against the wall.

Arwen was crying.

Or maybe not crying but sobbing slightly, wiping away her tears with her sleeve everytime another row of tears was rolling down her cheeks.

Arwen was broken. Hurt. Lonely. Sad.

No one to cheer her on.

Looking at her like that, made Kai's heart yank in his chest, just the way it did a year ago, but this time it was partly different...this time he wanted to...touch her immensely. And not only that this time.

Another set of tears started to roll down, and Arwen quickly wiped it away. "I'm so weak," she whispered to herself, feeling the big depression, which was somehow familiar as if she had experienced it before already. "I'm not supposed to be crying...why I am crying?" she continued whispering, sniffed, and sighed, looking down. She didn't know that she was being watched.

Kai, without taking his eyes off her, he slowly walked out of the corner, leaning against the wall somewhere beside her. "A...friend...once told me that tears are no signs of weakness," he said quietly, and Arwen, stopped sobbing, stared at him in surprise. Where did he come from?

"They just happen in times of great pain," he finished, looked away from her, looking slightly down.

Arwen looked down as well. Great, he actually heard me..."Why are you here?" she asked almost mutely, wanting to hear the answer a lot. Really, why was he here? They barely knew each other.

Kai didn't want to reply to that question, so he decided not to, though she did seem quite persistent to know the answer. "Why are you here?" he changed the subject quickly, turning his head to the right to see her in his peripheral vision.

She sighed, and her face expression saddened even more. "Crying after I was almost murdered by someone, I don't even know," she answered, feeling the tears filling in her big dark green eyes again.

Kai tensed. "You don't know who that was?" he asked, feeling startled, though even he knew perfectly that this was her older brother. His purple eyes pierced on her.

Arwen slowly shook her head from side to side. She really didn't know who that was or why he was so angry at her... But she than looked up at him, her eyes meeting with his for a moment. "I need to thank you...for...saving me, I guess," she whispered, her voice fading away, looking at him was making her want to kiss him so much. "I don't know why you did that, Kai...but I thank you," she finished, and finally looked away from him, looking in his eyes was something really hard. But than looked at him again in her peripheral vision.

She doesn't remember her own brother...no wonder she doesn't remember me. What happened? was asking himself Kai, not finding a reason or anything else that could make her forget about everything she knew. But nevertheless it didn't change the way he still felt about her. The way, he couldn't understand and was denying it so many times. Still was. His heart yanked yet once again, and his hand unnoticibly, even for him, started to slip by the wall to her hand, but he stopped once he realized what he was doing. She thanks me? Hmm he thought, and than he did something that took her completely off guard.

Kai smiled.

Oh, thought Arwen as the blood rushed to her face. Do that again...

It elicited so much response in her, that even after he turned away to look at the floor again, she still stared at his profile in wide-eyed stupefied longing. It was the first time she'd experienced such wave of spontaneous sensuality since...she didn't know. It just she had a feeling like all of this had happened before somehow, like she'd already stood with him somewhere...flushing. But this time it was stronger.

Much stronger.

Kai, while looking at the floor, could still see in his side vision her weird type of staring at him, and turned his head to look at her fully now, smile disappearing. "Arwen..."

She gasped and blinked quickly to see him staring at her, with a slightest crease in his brow.

-"What is it?" he asked.

Arwen didn't know the answer to that. She just seemed to be attracted to him and that feeling now grew stronger and stronger with each passing moment. She now couldn't not want to have his feel and touch. She didn't deny it to herself anymore.

-"Nothing," she blurted out, trying to smile.

He frowned, and his eyes trickled from top of her crown to the tips of her toes. She could almost see him going down and through the mental checklist of her usual ailments, which he had so perfectly set up for some reason. Short rapid breathing, flushed cheeks, trembling fingers...and a heartbeat so loud that one can't hear her own thoughts...After a moment his lips pursed in a set line, and he searched her face. "You're lying."

Arwen coughed and than covered it up with a nervous laughing. The tears she had before had disappeared and she forgot about everything that happened to her, in a moment. What do I do?! I can't just tell him! "Uh...we should go back to the stadium," she quickly changed the subject, gulped, and leaned off the wall, hurrying up to leave before he will ask anything else again. But Kai wasn't going to let her off the hook that easily.

In a moment, his hand grabbed her hand once again, this time he wasn't wearing a usual glove on it, and tugged her, pulling her back to him. Arwen felt her cheeks flushing brightly red once again, and the strong feel of his fingertips around her wrist was most enjoyable, she didn't want him to let go of her. And that was something he was not planning to do either. Kai pulled her close to him, almost pressing her up against himself but not really doing so.

-"It can...wait," he whispered right above her ear, his fingers first playing on her wrist and than going up to her shoulder by her arm, tracing her skin. Being unable to stop touching her. She was so soft...His passion, such feeling that he'd never known before, started to take over.

Arwen felt herself shiver under his gentle touch at first, and was so tense that she was just locked in the position by standing there, right in front of him. Her heart was beating so fast, that she thought that she was going to get a heart attack in a moment, but nevertheless she stayed there, feeling his fingertips running up and down by her arm...she closed her eyes, enjoying it.

Kai was done touching only her arm. He slowly let down his a bit trembling hand, and walked over in front of her, looking down at her with most...desire. He had no idea what to say, and didn't really wish to. Arwen didn't either.

I...want you. I've wanted you for so long...he thought, as he bent down a bit and their lips locked in a slight brush which than turned into a passionate kiss, Arwen replying with the same passion, the frenzied kiss following into more of a wild, desperate, all-consuming one...his arms starting to wrap all around her, and her feeling herself disappearing in his world...nothing else mattered anymore.

Without breaking the fiery kiss, he lead her to the wall, pressing her up against it and urged himself against her, his hands starting to travel around her slim body, going down to her skirt.

Oh. Arwen felt him pressing and slightly rubbing against her and it felt so...enviable. Her heart made a leap in her chest, but the passion took her absolutely over. She didn't care about anything anymore, she just wanted him, just like he did her, right there right now. She slowly wrapped her legs somewhere around his waist, hearing the belt on his pants cracking down slightly.

Kai kept the kiss alive for a long time, but broke it after some time, gasping for air for a moment, but than shutting her mute with the kiss again, his hands traveling around her thin creamy legs, sliding underneath her skirt, and at the time, holding her legs around his waist strongly, not letting her to glide off him. You're so sweet...I can't stop feeling you...

Arwen was so much assaulted by his nearness. His breath. His feel. His taste. His strength holding her. She couldn't stop herself from wanting him tasting her. Her heartbeat thumped wildly in her ears, her face was blushing, and being pressed to him so strongly she felt him going rigid.

A second after that she felt a strong sharp pain of the hard unexpected thrust, and gasped, breaking the long-lasting kiss, letting out a muffled cry on his shoulder. She expected it, she should have expected it, but...she just didn't seem to be ready for that yet. But than moments after, as she felt him slipping in and out of her slowly and than faster, she felt a pleasure flowing into her rapidly.

Ah. She squeezed her eyes shot from the still bits of sharp pain in her, and sudden waves of pleasure coming into her, his thrusts increasing. That's so...good...don't stop...She wrapped her arms around his shoulders, holding onto him strongly, her eyes rolling into the back of her head from that something that was happening inside of her. Something she's never experienced before.

And suddenly, in the midst of pain, pleasure, confusion and passion...she remembered.

The memory of that year, when I met you was the saddest one in my life. I've...fallen for you, no wonder everyone adores you so much, Kai. You didn't feel the same, I would never believe that you did and the memory of all of that saddened me so much...that I suppressed it, forgetting everything...absolutely everything that had happened...Boris saw me in action with my beyblade and I soon got an invitation...to join the Neo-Borgs. I couldn't resist...and now, I remember:

I did betray my brother; I left him, all alone...

Why hadn't you stopped me from leaving, Kai?

By Arwen Mazaki