Hey there beyblade readers! I'm well over the 300 mark now, and its all thanks to you! I'm really sorry about not updating as often as I have, I've got a lot of assignments and exams to get through for a while, so I won't be updating as often. You'll just have to keep an eye on the story to see when I have! I've had a lot of requests regarding Kai's love life, and while I'm not thinking of doing much on the just yet (Kai's still gotta get over this rape thing before he thinks about closeness between him and others!), I would still like the feedback, so far I've had Kai/Hil and no Kai/Hil, as well as Kai/Tad. Please tell me your thoughts! As for ending this story soon, I don't think that's going to happen!

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Ray led Kai and Tadashi to the kitchen where everyone else seemed to have congregated. They all looked on with expectant faces as Ray sat himself on the counter. Every pair of eyes and ears was waiting for someone to say something. Kai looked around him and found the door behind him had been closed. That meant one thing, no escape. His heart fluttered in his chest, why did everyone have to close of any route of escape, he wasn't at the abbey now, but being trapped somewhere still made him panic. He forced himself to breathe deeply and calm down.

Finally Samantha broke the ice, "Kai, are you going to explain what happened in there? And who is this young lady?"

Before Kai could answer, Tadashi laid a willowy hand on his arm. She walked forward slightly ahead of him and spoke to them.

"I am Tadashi, I have no last name. I was barn and raised at the abbey and took training there. I will readily answer any questions you have, but I beg that you do not decide on what you think of me till I have explained myself." Her silence that followed was a point for them to ask.

Tyson couldn't hold in his questions any longer, he had waited since the bus! "You're the girl that whipped Kai! We saw you on the screen, you hurt him. Why? And why are you here now?"

"Yes, I am that girl, and yes I hurt him. The reason? I was ordered too, and I did. Don't look at me like that, I asked you not to judge me!" her tone was sharp, this was Tadashi, thought Kai, when she was angry this is how she was.

"I know that you are friends with Kai, even after everything he has done, so don't decide you hate me for my actions!" she calmed down as the others looked on, a little stunned, "I was trained at the abbey with my brother, Leon. We were to be used as weapons, as Kai was. Our training was different though, while we did learn the skills of beyblading, our main objective was to torture and punish others. Leon was trained with blade work, as I was trained with whips. They were our tools, and the only thing we owned."

She looked around at the patient faces watching her, listening to all she said.

She continued, "When Kai was brought to the abbey at five years old to begin his training, we were already well versed in our arts. I am older then Kai, by two years. He received many punishments from us, he was so rebellious." She paused to give a ghost of a smile, remembering times gone.

"me and my brother where hated by most at the abbey, and it didn't matter to us, so long as we obeyed then our lives were relatively pain free. Only a few people didn't hate us, Boris and Voltaire didn't, and Kai and Tori didn't. I never thought I would want someone to like me, if they hated me then it made my job easier. Boris and Voltaire is the closest thing I've had for parents, and they are the only thing I can think of that are further away from being human then anything else. Tori never hated anyone, she couldn't, it wasn't who she was. I resented her for that and made her suffer in a very effective way. I tortured Kai."

The shocked look on every ones faces made her pause. But as no one said anything, she carried on.

"Kai never hated me either, after all the pain I put him through. Many of the scars he bears are from me and Leon. Even when I tried to take Tori's love from him, Kai still smiled. Nothing I did worked, it only infuriated my brother. It wasn't till recently I discovered that Leon also had affection for Tori, she was everything he was not. To him, Kai too her from him. From then on his hate only deepened."

She took a deep breath, her posture straight and sure, "Kai escaped when the abbey was partially destroyed, even if it was only because he no longer remembered any of it. I and Leon waited for his return, Leon because of revenge, me for my own reasons. When Kai was kidnapped, we tortured him, you saw. But again he escaped, and this time I and my brother were punished. It made me realise a few things, but only made Leon more hurtful then what he was. When we next saw Kai, he made me see what I was, and I ran. I needed to find out a few things. I heard about Boris and Voltaire, and I went to see. I met Kai there and now I stand before you."

"I guess that explains some things" said Ray from his perch on the kitchen side.

"But it also opens up many more questions" added Samantha.

This time Kai strode forward, "leave her alone now, if there are other questions, then you'll ask me. I may not answer them, but you can ask."

Tadashi reached out to stop him, "Kai, it's ok, really".

"No its not, you don't need to explain anything to them, I do."

He stared at them all, daring them to ask him anything. Samantha asked him what he had done in the hospital again.

"I spoke to Voltaire and saw Boris" was all he would reply.

"What did Voltaire say to you Kai, why were you so angry at him!"

Kai remained silent; he wasn't ready to say about his parents just yet, he needed to think about that first.

"What happened with Boris?"

"He was mentally living the pain he had given out."

"What?"

"I made him see and feel all the pain he had given to others."

"How?" and again Kai remained silent.

Sweat started to bead Kai's forehead, it was taking everything he had not to yell at them, not to scream, not to run.

"Why don't you hate Tadashi?" this question came from Max, who was still looking at Tadashi suspiciously.

Kai frowned at him, "why should i? She was in the same boat as me. I don't hate anyone that was trained at the abbey, if I did, then I would have to hate myself as well. She did things that have hurt others, but whatever she did, I did worse things. If you can't do anything then hate her, then you hate me."

"But we know you Kai, we don't her."

"I know her, and I trust her. If it wasn't for Tad then id be dead, think about that, she was always the big sister to me."

Ray changed the throw of the conversation completely, "Kai, what's wrong, you don't look good."

Ray was right, Kai was sweating, and looked paler then usual.

"Nothings wrong" he snapped back. He shrugged off a hand that Tadashi had laid on his shoulder with concern, opened the door, and stalked out of the room.

He shook his head, why couldn't he think straight, what was wrong with him? Maybe it was just too much at once, an emotional break down. Maybe having his memories back was too much. Just as he passed the phone in the hall, it rang. Kai picked it up.

"Hello?" it was Mr. Dickinson.

"What is it?"

"Oh Kai its you! I have some news for you, but I'm afraid it's not good."

"So tell me."

"Kai, Boris and Voltaire are no longer at the secure hospital, they have escaped with outside help.............."

Kai didn't listen to the rest, he had dropped the phone from his hand.

"Leon....." was all he said before running back to the kitchen. Tadashi was walking out of the doorway just as he went through, they collided and fell backwards into the kitchen.

"Kai, what is it!?"

Kai picked himself off Tadashi and helped her up.

"Mr. Dickinson just phoned, Boris and Voltaire escaped."

"Leon" said Tadashi.

Kai nodded, "we have to stop him! I have to, I need to!"

He rushed back out of the room and ran into the garden, he could hear his name being called, but the knot of dread in his stomach was stopping him thinking, he didn't know where he was supposed to go to stop the three of them. A sharp pain in his neck made him stop dead in his tracks. He whirled round to see Leon standing on the wall.

"You!" he breathed before running towards him. The others made it outside to see Kai leap over the wall.

Kai ran after Leon, but he knew it was a trap, Leon had always been better then Kai, had always pushed himself to prove he was. Leon was playing with him, and Kai knew it. The pain had spread from Kai's neck to his chest, it was making his lungs burn, every beat of his heart was like a hammer in his ribs. His head swam and he felt himself fall into the dirt as his legs gave way. He reached up to his neck and pulled at the dart he found there. He looked at it and saw the size of the hole that had pierced his skin. What had Leon put in him?

He rolled over and held himself on his knees and hands. He heaved and emptied his stomach as it rolled and clenched painfully. He could hear Leon laughing as it faded away. Leon had gotten away. He groaned and fell back onto his side. His vision darkened and he blacked out.

The others found him lying on the ground, unconscious and sweating. They looked at Tadashi.

"We need to get him inside, now!" she ordered. They picked up Kai and moved him to the house. Tadashi picked up the shiny object that had fallen out of Kai's hand. It was a dart, with the Biovolt insignia on it. She didn't have time to think on it though, as her own world flushed with pain and went dark.

Ray had returned to the area where they had found Kai. He had returned to find Tadashi, but she was no where to be seen. His amber eyes narrowed as he searched for her. He was about to return when he noticed something in the scuffed up dirt. He picked it up and his pupils narrowed to slits. It had begun again.