Disclaimer: I do not own and never will own the bayblade characters. I'm sorry if I upset anyone by the death of an important character (And I mean like a major character). Pairings: KaixRay and TysonXMax

Chapter One.

With death comes pain.

Flash back

'Everybody down!' A shot was fired and I hear screams coming from all around me.

I turn around to see where the shoot was fired. Tala one of the nerdy guys from my PE class was holding a gun and standing in the doorway of my biology class.

I get pushed to the ground as everyone drops down, doing what he says hoping that they wouldn't get hurt, that they would be spared by the crazed teen.

'Don't anyone move or I'll blow your fucking head off!' he shouts again. His hand shaking as he lowers the gun and wipes the sweat from his forehead with his other hand.

'Tala what are you doing?' I hear someone say. I look over to see one of my best friend Max slowly standing up with his hands up showing that he wasn't going to harm him. Max was always like that she always wanted to help people no matter what it cost him, even thought that this very minute his life was in danger, he didn't care he just wanted to help him.

'Max get down he'll shoot you,' I whisper as he looks down at me and waves his hand at me so I would keep quiet. I look at him with pleading eyes willing him to sit down next to me so that he was out of harms way.

'Shut up!' he yells as Max slowly moves forward, step-by-step getting closer to him, closer to the danger.

'Come on Tala tell me, why you want to hurt us?'

I watch, silently as he moves closer to him. I want to get up all I want I to get up and grab him so that he wouldn't go any closer, I want and stop him but a hand on my back is telling me to keep down. I look beside me to see that, that hand belongs to my boyfriend, Kai. Who is keeping a watchful eye on our gunman, just in case he tries to do anything stupid.

'Do you want to know?' Tala asks as Max nods. 'Ok I'll tell you why. It's because you think you're all so special.' He starts waving the gun around carelessly as he moves his hand. 'You all think you're so...so superior. That's right, Most of all, all you people in the trendy group,' he points the gun over to where my friends and I are laying. I start to hear some of them begin to whisper as I look over to them. They are hoping that he wouldn't hurt them; they start to say that they are too pretty to die.

I look back to Max, he has stopped walking and now he is standing in the middle of the classroom, between my group and Tala.

'And none of you people care about anybody else apart from yourselves. Least of all, all us smart people or geeks as some of you call us.'

'Tala that's not true,' Max shot back; as he sounded very sorry for him and the way that he thought we treated him. Max would never think of anyone like that, I know we have all thought that way before and it would be a lie if I didn't say that I am happy that I am popular.

'Don't say that,' Tala began to wave the gun franticly at Max. 'Don't stand there like you know me and under...' BANG! A shot is fired

'Max!'

End of Flash Back

Ray snapped out of his daydream to see that he was still standing in the bathroom, starring in the mirror with a bottle of sleeping pills in his hand. He could hear banging and shouting coming from behind the bathroom door behind him.

He tried to ignore it but it becomes very irritating.

"Ray open the door!" Kai shouted.

Ray tried to resist from opening the door, as he could hear the heartache in Kai's voice. The sadness. I don't want him or me to go through this any longer, I want to end this pain for him and me, Ray thought as he tried to block out the calls from Kai.

Ray kept starring at himself in the mirror, thinking how brave but stupid Max was. And how foolish he was for not trying to stop Max from going.

I had many chances to get up and stop him from walking over to Tala. But I knew that I wasn't as clam as Max and I wasn't as brave as him.

Ray look away from the mirror. I'm so ashamed to look at myself. I'm a failure. A failure as a best friend, failure as a boyfriend and a son.

Ray's friends and family had told him that it wasn't his fault, and that he didn't pull the trigger. But he couldn't believe it, he told them that it might as well have pulled it.

I stood by and watched him get shot.

Flash Back

'Don't say that,' Tala began to wave the gun franticly at Max. 'Don't stand there like you know me and under...' BANG! A shot is fired

'Max!'

End of Flash Back

I was the one who held him in my arms and watched her die.

Flash Back

'Max your going to be ok,' I said with a slight smile as I felt the tears run down my face. 'Kai has gone and got help.'

'Ray you were always the one that stayed calm,' Max said as he ran his hand down my face.

Max Gasped for air.

'Max?'

'Ray, please tell Tyson...'

'I know Max, I know. Just...just rest,' I said looking down at the bullet wound. I can't believe that this is happing. I looked back up and saw that Max's eyes were closed. 'Max?'

No answer.

'Max?!'

End of Flash Back

I remember that there was so much blood. All I could think was why? Why him? I could remember crying.

Flash Back

'Ray!'

I heard someone call my name, but I couldn't concentrate on who it was, all I could see was the blood on my hands. Max's blood.

'Ray I have been looking everywhere for you," a voice said.

I looked up from my hands and saw that the voice belonged to Kai.

'Kai there's so much of it.'

'So much of what Ray?' Kai asked not sure what I was talking about.

I held my hands up for him to see. So he could see the blood that now had stained my hands.

'Oh, Ray,' Kai pulled me into a hug.

'Why did it have to be him? Why did it have to be Max?' I asked Kai through my whimpers.

End of Flash Back

After it had happened, after the police had come and taken Tala away, everyone who knew him or knew of him couldn't believe what had happened, that someone as perfect as him would die so young.

Ray repeated these words over in his head. 'It was I. I did pull the trigger. I was the one that did nothing to help him.'

Ray looked down to the sleeping pills. Now I'm not even strong enough to live without him.

Ray pull off the lid and put half-a-dozen pills in his hand.

The banging on the door increases as Kai tried to break down the door.

Ray looked at the six yellow pills in my hand thinking how long it would take him to die. How long would it take for the pills to take action.

Ray got startled as the door behind him flies open with the force of Kai banging against it trying to get through so that he could stop Ray from harming himself.

Ray held the pills tightly in his hand as he slowly turn to see Kai puffing, from putting in so much effort to get in where his love was.

"Ray don't do this. Don't leave me, not this way."

Ray looked at him with sad eyes, as he just wanted to run over to Kai and hold him and tell him that he wasn't going to leave him and that everything will be ok.

"I can't this is the only way that I can make the pain go away, the only way I can make everything ok again. Max died and now he was expecting me to live my life without him after we have been through some much together, as friends. As a team!" Ray turned his head slightly to look away from Kai, trying not to start crying again. "This is the way it has to be Kai. This is the only way I can make the pain go away for me and everyone else."

"Ray, I can help you, I can help you take this pain away, "Kai told me as he came to my side. "What do you expect me to do without you? You know that I can't live without you."

Kai reached over to Ray's hand that was holding the sleeping pills.

"No!" Ray shouted as he pulled his hand and himself away from Kai. "You are not going to try and stop me Kai." He looked at Kai and could see the hurt. "Don't make this harder for me then it all ready is."

"Harder for you!" he exclaimed. "Ray can you see what this is doing to the people around you, your family, your friends, me?"

Ray thought about the question, but his head hurt too much to care, all he wanted now was to be alone so he could do what he needed to do, and leave this place for good.

"I...I can't do this right now Kai,' Ray pushed passed him but Kai grabbed his hand that was holding the pills, but Kai was holding his arm so tightly that Ray dropped the pills on the floor, and Kai kicked them away so that Ray wouldn't be able to find them in a hurry. "Argh!"

"You are not going to walk away from me so that you can go and find another hiding spot so you can kill yourself. I am not going to let that happen Ray I love you to much to lose you."

Still holding Ray's wrist, Kai loosened the grip, and held onto my hand.

Ray watched how he held his hand then looked up at him. "Then you must know what I am feeling then," Ray told him as he pried his hand away from Kai.

"Yes I do."

"So you must also know what I have to do to get rid of it," He started to back away but Kai followed.

"No you are not going to try it again Ray, I know what we can try and we can see if that works, but are not going to try and kill yourself again, I am not going to let that happen again."