S-E: Well, well, well, hello again my little penguins, did ya like the last chap? God I didn't half take a while, I had to rewrite the whole dam thing! Guess what, I shorted all the lights out and am surrounded by candles, lol, I hope I don't burn anything, grins evilly
Kai: You're a frigging pyromaniac!
S-E: Too true...
Rei: Save us all! runs around in circles
Riah: Why not? Fire is fun!
Rei: faints
Riah: Oh well drags Rei's unconscious body away
S-E: Anyway...Kai you wanna do the disclaimer?
Kai: Do I get a choice?
S-E: Nope, now do it! lights match
Kai: gulps S-E doesn't own Beyblade or the songs in this fic, unless stated otherwise, but she does own Hannah, Raven and Yushi. On with the fic!
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The week began to slowly roll by and Friday loomed ever closer, our favourite ice blue eyed teen was lounging on the grass in the sun with a certain emerald eyed boy.
"Raven?"
"Hn" she murmured, too comfortable for anything else.
"Will you go to the dance with me?" she turned her head up to see him smiling gorgeously down at her.
"Sure" she grinned, he tilted her chin up with his finger and slowly kissed her lips. "but I'm playing so we'll miss a bit of it"
"Don't worry, it's the same with me" he kissed the tip of her nose
"You're playing too?" she thought out loud, he gave a low chuckle.
"Don't worry your pretty little head, we won't interfere with you" his body shuddered and laughter ran through him.
"Are you mocking the great Raven?" she asked in a mock snobbish voice.
"And what if I am?" he smirked and arched one eyebrow.
"Then you shall pay for your insolence" she grinned and rolled away from him, she rolled into a low crouch and spread her arms out in front of her balance. She gave a low growl and pounced on the laughing teen.
He gasped and rolled backwards, she pinned him down by resting her knees on his thighs and her hands on his shoulders.
"I apologise oh great Raven" he said humbly
"And so you should!" she said firmly, smiling down at her boyfriend.
"Oh not for that, for this" as he spoke her gripped her shoulders and in one swift movement, rolled them over.
"Hey!" she blushed furiously when she noticed what position they were in, "dam" she muttered to herself, and glared up at the smirking boy. "Spoil my fun why don't you" she said darkly.
"Aw, did you want to be on top that badly, baby?" he smiled wolfishly down at her.
Her eyes widened when she realised what he had said, "Hentai!" she gasped in a shocked voice. He laughed and swooped down to kiss her.
And we leave one couple to go and see what another is up to
"What are you an idiot?!" Hannah snapped at a scared looking Tala.
"What the hell have I done now?" he asked, "It seems I can't get anything right with you today"
"It's hard enough to hide this as it is without you trying to give me a frigging love bite!" she said loudly, slumping backwards against the tree.
"Ah, I see your point there, but you don't have to yell at me!"
"Well it's the only way to get it through your thick skull" she muttered darkly.
"Hey, you could have hurt my feelings with that one" he pouted at her.
"Good job you don't have any feelings then isn't it?" she smirked at him.
"There goes your last chance to say you were sorry, now you're gonna get it!" he grinned and jumped on her, tickling her mercilessly while laughing evilly.
Even the cold and distant girl could not grit her teeth through getting tickled. She bit her tongue and her body shook with suppressed laughter, suddenly she could hold it in no longer and the giggles burst past her lips and she squirmed and tried to get away from him but failed miserably.
"Ok, ok I give in!!!" she gasped and curled up in an attempt to protect herself from him.
"That's better" he smirked and leaned towards her, resting his forehead against hers. "Ok, new rule, no marking"
"Mmm hmm" she nodded, "I like that rule" she murmured agaist his lips. "Besides," she said, "I think you ought to know that if you bite me, I'll bite you back twice as hard"
"Dam, why didn't you tell me that before we made that rule" he moaned against her mouth.
"Because I knew you'd say that"
"No, you just like teasing me" he smiled.
"That too" she said, she slid out from under his grasp and sank to the floor, drawing her knees up to her chest.
Tala sat down beside her and she leant back into him, resting against his chest, he placed one leg on either side of her and pulled her to lean right back against him. She sighed and gazed up at the sky, watching the bats flit in and out of the shadowy trees.
"Han?"
"Hn" she mumbled, her eyelids drooping.
"How long do you think we can hide this?"
"Hide what?" her eyelids were fully closed.
"This, us" he sighed.
"Well I think we've been doing pretty well so far, what's to say we can't keep it like this for a long time yet, I mean it's not as though someone's going to find out right now is it?"
"I guess you're right" he pushed her forwards and crossed his legs, then pulling her into his lap. She rested her head on his shoulder and he smiled at her.
"Come on Han, you can't sleep here, I think people would suspect if I had to carry you back" he stood up, pulling the dark haired teen up with him.
"Mmm...just let me sleep" she mumbled.
"Nope, you can sleep when you get back, now wake up" he gave her a gentle shake, and she opened her eyes to stare into his turquoise ones. She stood on her tiptoes to place a soft kiss on his lips.
"Night Ivanov" she grinned and patted his cheek before turning on her heel and walking away from him. He grinned after her, unbeknownst to both of them that a pair of pale lavender eyes were watching them from the shadows, watching the couple part with cold eyes.
The hidden person stalked silently away from the edge of the clearing. "Oh Tala, when will you learn not to take what's mine" the stranger mused, before stalking up the stone steps and along the corridors to the boy's dorms.
Raven wandered through the school grounds, bored out of her mind. Ozuma had gone off to practice with the rest of the demolition boys for tomorrow. She turned towards a small group of trees by the blading courts. There she saw her newest form of amusement, for there, sat cross-legged on the ground, leaning backwards against the tree looking asleep, was a certain slate haired blader. She gave a sly grin and moved silently towards her conquest. She launched herself at him, throwing herself in his lap.
"Boo!" she yelled as she landed on him.
"Gah!" he yelled, awaking with a start, he glared angrily down at the girl in his lap, who was having a giggle fit.
"You-gasp-Shoulda-gasp-Seen your-gasp-FACE!" she spluttered, pausing to draw breath between each word.
He sent her an I-don't-see-anything-funny-about-this glare and shoved her off his lap. "And the point in that was?"
Her laughter subsided and she lay on the grass taking in huge gulps of air, when she had calmed herself down enough to talk she stood up and brushed herself off.
"Nothing really, I was bored, anyway now that you're awake, amuse me" she grinned down at him.
"You're kidding?!" he spluttered.
She shook her head, "I kid you not, Blue Boy"
"You expect me to amuse you?" he stated
"Yup!" she chirped.
"Are you totally incapable of amusing yourself?" he sent her a pointed look.
"Well, no but I need somebody else to do this with me. Blue Boy, I challenge you to a beybattle!" she said firmly, holding out a hand to pull him up.
"Challenge accepted" he ignored her outstretched hand and stood up, striding past her to the beyblade courts. She scowled after him, before running to catch up with him.
"So you were bored too huh?" she asked.
"No, I just never back down from a battle and besides, me and you have a score to settle" he said, pulling open the gate to the courts and stepping inside, walking swiftly over to the crimson dish in the far corner.
"Then consider it settled" she grinned as she snapped her icy blue blade onto her launcher, she held it out in front of her and waited for Kai to do the same.
"3...2...1...Let it rip!" they shouted as they sent their blades screaming into the dish. Raven's, being the smaller blade, streaked past Dranzer and quickly claimed the centre position. She watched the darker blade circle her own with eyes like a hawk.
Kai wasted no time in attacking and called forth his bit beast. The red and gold phoenix rose resplendently out of the blade in a spiralling tower of flames.
A huge white wolf exploded out of the bit in the smaller blade. The thick white fur on her shoulder blades twisted and merged into the long black feathers that spread into long tapering wings which coiled around the beast.
"Dranzer! Fire Arrows!" Kai yelled, watching the flames rain down on the wolf.
"No! Icefire, Cover!" she yelled as a sheet of ice formed around Icefire and the flames dissolved into pitiful smoke as they touched it.
"Nice move Wings, but you won't escape this time" Kai called over the battle, "Dranzer! Slash that ice cube!"
The phoenix's talons sliced through the frozen shield like a hot knife through butter, the broken ice fell to the ground and smashed over the dish, the two blades streaking to the edges to avoid getting flattened.
"Come on Icefire, let's show our favourite pyromaniac what we're made of! Raging Blizzard!" she called out to the wolf. The wolf threw her head back and let out a loud piercing howl. The shattered ice rose out of the dish and broke into a million tiny shards, they swirled around Icefire like a swarm of angry bees. Kai peered through the snow storm and saw Raven stood with her feet apart, and her fists clenched at her sides. Her head was thrown back as she screamed with her bit beast.
"Dranzer defend!" Kai screamed and watched as his Dranzer disappeared behind a wall of fire. "Don't you know that fire melts ice, little snow bunny?"
Raven growled at the latest pet name and urged her blade forwards. She knew he was right but then again ice could do as much damage to fire. Both blades screamed towards the centre and met in another blinding flash. Raven threw her arms up to shield herself, she crossed them in front of her as the force from the impact pushed her backwards.
Kai turned his back on the light and dug his heels into the ground as the force tried to push him away. He sank to his knees and clutched his head as a high pitched whistling filled the air.
Raven was curled into a small ball with her head grasped between her hands, attempting to block off the deafening sound. The light and sound died away to reveal the two teens lying on the ground. Kai pushed himself up and staggered over to the edge of the dish. He scanned the dish for the blades and saw them both slowing down and wobbling pitifully. They both stopped at the exact same moment.
"Aw man not again" he heard a voice from beside him. He swung his crimson eyes around to see the black haired teen lying on the ground, her head resting on the edge of the dish. "Why can't I beat you?!" she asked angrily.
"Maybe because I'm a better blader than you" he said thoughtfully.
She scowled at him, "Oh really Mr-you-didn't-win-either"
He glowered at her, knowing that she was right.
"Anyway, I thought this was just a friendly battle, what did you think you were doing by almost destroying my blade. You have some serious anger issues Kai" she said angrily.
"What do you mean I almost-" he was cut short as she thrust her blade in front of his face, sure enough there were gouges and scrapes out of the attack ring, and the defence ring was almost sliced in half.
"Oh"
"Oh? Oh?! Is that all you can say after you nearly chopped my beyblade in half?!" she stormed, advancing on the taller boy.
"I'm sorry" he said, wait had he just said he was sorry, that was it, he was going soft. He never apologised to anyone, even when he knew that they were right. What was wrong with him?!
"You owe me new parts Hiwatari!" she said firmly, poking him sharply in the chest.
"I know"
Before she could shout at him any further, a new voice broke into the conversation.
"Oh Kai!" a sickly sweet female voice broke in, Raven turned to glare at the owner of the voice and came face to face with a tall slender girl, with bleach blonde shoulder length hair and sparkling green eyes. Raven had to crane her neck to look up at this girl, Christ she was almost as tall as Kai!
"What do you want, Mimi?" he sighed.
"What sort of a greeting is that for your favourite girl?" Mimi flashed him a super wide smile and wrapped her arms around his neck. Raven noticed that Kai didn't shrug out of her grasp.
She turned and looked Raven up and down as though she was an insect. "Who's the shrimp?" she said airily.
Raven gave a low growl and sent the new girl a super death glare. "The name's Raven" she gritted out.
"What sort of a name is that?" the blond girl scoffed.
"My name, what sort of a name is 'Mimi'" The smaller teen ground out, sarcasm dripping from her words.
Mimi just looked at her with disgust and returned to flirting shamelessly with Kai.
Raven decided she'd had enough of watching the girl drape herself over the boy she'd been shouting at just a few moments ago. She turned on her heel and stormed back towards the school, man even homework was better than watching that little scene.
She reached her dorm and threw the door open, she was glad that no one else was in as the door bounced forcefully off its hinges. She dropped down onto her bed and tried to calm herself down, she took deep breathes but nothing she tried would calm the storm that was raging through her. She couldn't understand why she was so mad. She put it down to the way that smarmy bitch had spoken to her. 'What was her name? Oh yeah 'Mimi', what the hell sort of a name is that?! Sounds like something you'd name a Barbie doll, come to think of it, she did remind me of Barbie, damn plastic bitch!' Raven growled audibly. She crawled across her bed and plugged her headphones into the CD player that she, or rather Kai, had bought when they were in town. She nicked one of the CD's from Yushi's stack, and set the volume to full.
She jammed her headphones over her head and leaned back against the cool wall, letting the music flow through her.
iDeep inside your soul
There's a hole
You don't want to see
Every single day, what you say
Makes no sense to me
Even though I try
I can't get my head around you
Somewhere in the night
There's a light
In front of me
Heaven up above
With a shove
Abandons me
And even though I try
I fall in the river of you
You manage to bring me down too
All your faking
Shows you're aching
Every single day
What you say
Makes no sense to me
Letting you inside isn't right
Cause you'll mess with me
I never really know
What's really going inside you
I can't get my head around you
All your feeding
Shows you're bleeding
Deep inside your soul
There's a hole
You don't want to see
You're covering it up
Like a cut
With the likes of me
You know I've really tried
I can't do anymore about you
The cut's getting deeper
The hill's getting steeper
I guess I'll never know
What's really going on inside you
I can't get my head around you
/iShe sang the words out loud. She managed to work her way through the entire Splinter album, just to calm herself down. She thought about the next day, kind of looking forward to the dance and yet dreading it at the same time. She looked at her dress, which she had bought yesterday, hanging on the outside of her wardrobe. She was kinda looking forward to seeing what Hannah would turn up in, looking at what she wore normally, what would she do for a dance? She was excited, she wondered what everyone's reactions would be when the Shattered Souls turned up again with a new member. "I wonder what Ozuma will look like in a suit" she giggled at the thought and lay down on her bed, closing her eyes and just listening to the music. She would just have to wait until tomorrow. -- S-E: Lame ending I know but hey, if you don't like it then shoot me! dodges bullets hehe ; I also own Mimi, if anyone cares. I don't own any of the songs in this fic, so if you want to know who they are by then feel free to ask me. Kai: I hate to admit it, but you do have good taste in music S-E: Thanks Kai! attempts to hug Kai Kai: Do NOT try that again! S-E: Mmmmkay! Reviews please...I need reviews, I didn't even wait for 35 reveiws this time cuz I'm bored 'n' all.