Beyblade- Fallen
Author- Luna P aka Nikki
Editor- QX aka Steph
Rating: PG 13 as always may go up
Warning: Yaoi fluff if that sort of stuff upsets you of makes you sick leave now cause once your in you can't turn back
Summary: Rei is being abused by his father, rather than confiding in his friends and asking them for help, he hides it from the ones closet to him but there is one person that he cannot fool. But what will this person do to help his friend when Rei refuses to accept his help. ReixKai, what can I say I'm obsessed
Nikki: Has someone leaked the next few chapters? A lot of people are guessing what is going to happen...am I really that predictable?
Bryan: Yep,
Nikki: Hey...TNT, that line at the end of the last chappie came from the anime series Duel Masters, Knight is in his car driving along and for some reason, I can't remember why. He's saying about what he's going to do and when he decides on it he states 'cause I'm good enough, smart enough and god darn it people like me'
Tala: Nikki, get on with it!
Nikki: Reis1gurl I really did like your idea, I meant to say about it in the last chapter but just as I put chapter 15 up I realised that I forgot to say about it. The main reason I like your idea is because I had it myself, you're one of those people that have guessed almost dead on, which led me to believe that I accidentally sent you all the chappie in an E-mail or something. So yeah, thanks for the idea, even though this chappie has nothing to do with it, it's dedicated to you.
Kai: and all reviewers cause Nikki loves you all very much
Nikki: it's true, I do, thank you all for the reviews I can't believe I have 324. There was something I was going to mention.
Tala: what was it about?
Nikki: beyblade
Kai: think about it for a while
Nikki: KAI! That was it!
Rei: what was it?
Nikki: In G-rev, the episode 'we were once bladebreakers' Yeah I know I cried when I saw the title. Well anyway at the beginning of the episode Kai's stood on this roof somewhere staring at this cat as it drank from a saucer of milk. He seemed pretty taken with this cat which is strange cause, even though I wrote that Kai had a cat I never really figured him as a pet person. I guess the cat reminded him of a certain someone.
Kai: she knows me so well, it's as if we're related, are we related?
Nikki: no, just good friends. Anyway, it's actually really cute and symbolic cause he's smiling down at the cat and saying how lucky the and I quote 'fuzzball' was because he had never met Tyson, which proves my point that Kai feels absolutely nothing for Tyson. Well Kai walks over to this cat and goes to stroke it when the cat lashed out and scratched his hand. He makes some random comment about the cat being a grouch. Now if I remember correctly in the first series the episode 'darkness at the end of the tunnel'
Rei: where we first met the dark bladers
Nikki: Yes, Rei and Kai both went to walk into the train when they bump into each other. They both look pretty startled and worried about bumping into each other but that's a point for another skit this is when Rei says something about Kai being a grouch, it's a sign. Anyway Kai's staring down at this scratch as the blood slips down his finger and he says something about everyone being against him. He is obviously referring to Rei here because Rei had just left the bladebreakers and now that means that they will be pitted against each other in a match at some point. Oh I saw that ep, once again I cried but it was the most amazing and most beautiful battle I had ever seen.
Kai: I cut the wrap out of Rei's hair, I also wanted to kill Lee because I wanted to catch you instead of him but I was too weak and couldn't get there in time
Rei: Kai...
Nikki: Ok everyone ssh, I'm going to capture those feelings and use them in my next fic.
All: Ooookkayy!
Nikki: Oh God look at the time, (grabs Yami from Yu-Gi-Oh) could you be so kind as to do my disclaimer
Yami: of course Nikki, Nikki doesn't own Beyblade. She wants to but I she knows it will never happen.
Nikki: Thank you Yami but I will own beyblade, you just wait and see, on with the fanfic...
Kai's POV
My heart was pounding as I sat down on the edge of my bed, the very bed that I had seen Rei sleep in for the past few days. I could still picture him lying in the black silk sheets with his raven hair spread out around him as he laughed at me. I could hear him laughing, but it was a hollow sound with nothing to support it as it filled my head.
"Rei..." I whispered as I fell down into the silk pillows, muffling my sobs with the black cushions. I could smell him on the sheets, that wonderfully sweet smell that belonged to Rei and Rei alone. I broke down again, tears soaking the sheets I wanted my kitten back, to be able to hold him in my arms and tell him how much I loved him. I had just found him and I wasn't about to let him go. I don't understand how you can go from being so happy to so sad so quickly, it all happened in the blink of an eye. I gasped; I didn't even get a chance to give Rei his present. He would get it; I would bring him back to me. I would fight for him because he was worth it and I loved him.
"Meow" a quite meow came from the cat sat on the pillow next to me as it placed a paw on my hand as if to comfort me and tell me everything would be ok. I stared into the cats crimson eyes; Kyan really was like a cat version of me. Did that mean he loved Rei too? Of course, he had taken a shine to Rei since they'd first met, but I don't think it was possible for anyone or anything to miss Rei more than I did. Everything felt so empty without him, the house, my room, my bed, my heart.
"Do you understand what happened?" I asked the cat as I stroked his head, he mewed slightly and I decided that translated that would be a yes. I choked on silent sobs; I had never been so upset in my life.
'What are you doing?'
'Preserving this image'
'Something's telling me it's not the last time you'll see it'I hoped that was true, I wanted to stare at Rei as he lay in my...no our bed I was still asking myself how this had happened. I looked up to see Dranzer sat on my nightstand, I lifted my old friend away from the wooden surface and stared down at the blue blade as it lay in my hand. Flashbacks of the world championships flooded my mind as I remembered past hotel and sleeping arrangements. Past hints and touches, past battles. The battle in the basement was playing in my mind mainly. Before we had gotten together when I was holding him in my arms. Everything was perfect. I remembered dancing with him, wrapping his bandages, taking him to the library. Giving him the book.
I wept silently again, these flashback were too much for me...Our first kiss...
"Meow" Kyan lightly hit my hand, I felt tears sliding down my cheeks. I didn't want to be in my thoughts anymore I wanted to be brought back to the real world. But then I remembered what had happened and didn't want to go there either. Where else was there to go. Should I escape into a land of fantasy where everything is perfect and nothing bad ever happens? No, Rei needed me, he needed my help and most of all he needed me to be strong. I refused to let him down. But I needed a little time to adjust, no not adjust to think.
I rubbed my forehead. I was so confused. Why had Rei's father said that I had been abusing him? I closed my eyes and lay back down on the bed. I felt like turning to Rei and asking him what to do? Where to go? But he wasn't there. He wasn't there to tell me that everything would be ok. I growled and grabbed hold of Dranzer's launcher. I jumped up from the bed, fitting the launcher in mid air and pulling the ripcord before I landed sending the blade into the middle of the floor.
"DRANZER!" I called out to the blade, needing closure from the phoenix. The blade spun in the other direction and I watched as the bit chip shone red. The phoenix squealed as she erupted from the blade in an explosion of red light and flame feathers. "Help me" I dropped to my knees, usually when I was blading I felt so strong but not today. That's when I realised that my strength came from Rei, everything I had achieved in my life was because of him.
The phoenix squawked as she stared down at me, could she feel my pain? With our bond it would be difficult not to. What had I been hoping to accomplish by launching my blade? 'Love will make you weak' my grandfather's voice echoed through me. Was he right? I was weak now, all because of my love for Rei. Dranzer squawked angrily, she must have noticed me doubting myself and my love for Rei.
/You are not weak Kai/ I stared up at Dranzer, she hadn't spoken to me in such a long time. Then again we didn't need words, it was just like my relationship with Rei we just had to look at each other to know what one another was thinking. /You may feel as though you are weak but in reality your feelings for Rei are making you stronger than you have ever been/ I stared up at the phoenix questioningly.
what does that mean?the phoenix didn't reply just squawked again before disappearing back into the blue spinning top. The blade stopped spinning and hit against the floor. I stared over at the blade as it lay on the floor, what had Dranzer meant by that? I brushed the remaining tears away from my eyes and stood up walking over to the fallen phoenix. Then again I didn't think Dranzer was the fallen phoenix, oh no, the fallen phoenix was I. I had fallen because I had lost my kitten.
I suddenly realised what Dranzer had meant. I wasn't weak. I was incredibly strong or at least I would be. Grieving for someone was natural and it had to be done, but Rei wasn't dead. I could still help him, I could fight for him and I would get him back. I made a promise to myself, to Dranzer, Tala, Bryan, Kyan, Drigger I made a promise to get him back. For all of us. I sat back down on the edge of the bed and thought about how I would do that. It wasn't going to be easy. I noticed that the red clip was still in my pocket from when I had let his hair down in the lounge.
"I'll get you back Rei" I whispered as I hugged the clip to my chest "trust me" I lightly kissed the clip, it wasn't the same as kissing Rei but for the moment it was all I had.
"Kai?" I looked up to see Kenny stood in the doorway to my room, I gave him a weak smile, unable to manage anything more. He smiled back and walked over to my bed, sitting next to me and placing his hands in his lap. I could tell that he wanted to say something to boost the mood, to make me happy but short of getting Rei back he knew nothing he said or did would work.
"I thought you'd gone home with Tyson and Max" it was the truth, Norman had told me earlier today...or was it yesterday...? The day before? I'd lost track of time completely, wasn't sure of what had happened or when.
"I did, I got a call from Bryan a while ago. I've been downstairs for about half an hour, we decided to leave you alone for a while"
"Thank you" Kenny seemed incredibly nervous about talking to me. But I had always portrayed myself as cold and unemotional. So when these feelings finally arose I didn't know what to do with them and that made me unstable and at times frightening to be around.
"I'm here to help...being a computer geek and everything means that I know a lot about...well...a lot. Law happens to be a subject I'm quite fond of, I was even considering becoming a lawyer." Kenny rubbed his face with his hands and lifted his glasses from his head, he wiped them off with the bottom of his shirt and placed them back before continuing. "What I'm trying to say is that I can help you, I want to help you but Bryan didn't really give me a lot of information. I think he wanted to make sure you were ok with me knowing first...if you want my help, you'll have to tell me what happened. From the very beginning to the end"
"It all happened so fast..." I thought about everything for a while and shifted on the bed to face Kenny, I was going to tell him everything. He was prepared to help me and I wasn't going to turn down his offer, I needed all the help. All the support I could get, my friends were right by my side. As they had always been and always would be. My koi would always be there to, I just had to wait for a while a few days. But a few days without Rei would end up feeling like an eternity. Would I be able to survive without him? Relying on the strength from my friends and my friends alone?
Rei's stepfather's POV
I watched the door in amusement, they would be back soon. Rei would be back soon, I would teach him to defy me. I had to feel bad for the young boy, maybe he deserved better than this. Maybe. I yawned and leaned back in the chair, I could only imagine what Kai and Rei were going through at the moment. I would have paid cold hard cash to have been there when Rini explained everything to them.
"Hahahahahahahaha!" I laughed maniacally, this was all too much for me. It was perfect and it had all been so easy. Just thinking about how Rei had been taken away from the only person that had ever loved him cracked me up. But what to do when they were home?
My eyes darted to the door when there was the sound of a key turning in the lock. I smiled, I hadn't had time to work on a plan but so what, I would think on my feet. God I was pumped, for the first time in my life I was actually hyper.
"Get off me!" Rei snapped as he pulled out of Rini's grasp and ran for the stairs. I stepped inbetween him and the stairs and saw him back away slightly. Kai wasn't here to protect him now and he knew it.
"Oh thank God you're ok" I exclaimed as I pulled him into a tight hug, he growled in my arms and fought against me. I lowered my head to his ear, all the while making sure that Rini couldn't hear what I was about to say. "I'm gonna make you pay for making a mockery of my family and a mockery out of me. When I'm done you'll wish you'd never been born. Your boyfriend isn't here to bail you out this time, I made sure of that." He growled again and pushed me away with an incredible force, one that I had never noticed in him before, I would have to keep an eye on that.
"GET AWAY FROM ME! ALL OF YOU!" He screamed as he ran up the stairs, I smiled at him and laughed inwardly before turning back to face Rini with tears staining my face.
"Oh sweetie, it'll be ok, he's just confused. He doesn't mean anything by all of this" I nodded, the thing she didn't know was that I was actually crying tears of joy. I was gonna kill Rei and although she loved the boy, she was as much a part of this as I was. She had taken him away from the only person that could have protected him. Stupid women, her son would now pay the ultimate price for her stupidity.
"Did he come willingly?" I asked as we walked to the kitchen, she shook her head and sat down at the table next to me.
"No, Alan had to physically remove him from Kai's arms. This Kai has really screwed him up. But that's not all, there are these two other boys there, I'm worried about them aswell." I sighed, she was such a sap. Who really cared about junk like that? She smiled and placed her hand on top of mine.
"I'm just glad that Rei's back with us and that he's ok, that's all that matters to me" she smiled again and hugged me tightly. I smiled into her shoulder, what a fool. I felt like laughing at her and telling her to go and buy a grave now. I wondered if I could blame Rei's murder on Kai as well. Wouldn't that be a perfect ending to this story? Rei dead and Kai in jail. Yeah I liked the sound of that; I would kill two birds with one stone or rather two lives with one murder.
Rei's POV
I ran into my room and slammed the door behind me, I was sure that I would never have to come back here again but here I was. I hugged the book closer to my chest. Kai would help me. Right? Tears slipped down my cheeks and I held back loud sobs. I couldn't believe that my mom had done that to me? She had forced me to leave Kai, the person I loved more than anyone else in the world and had brought me back here. Back to my father, back to where I had suffered so greatly. I could still picture Kai lying on my bed as I walked over to the piece of furniture.
"Kai..." I whispered as I hugged the book tightly before curling up into a ball in the middle of my bed, tears fell onto the bed sheet and stained it with a clear substance that was only visible for a few seconds before it dried. I stroked the cover of the book and thought about everything that had happened whilst I was at Kai's. These memories caused me to break down into a fit of sobs. I wanted to stop crying, I really did but I couldn't. I could still see Kai as my mom and taken me away from him. He was frozen, unsure of what to do. That had been the first time in my life that I had seen Kai Hiwatari unsure of something and I didn't want to see it again.
'I'm gonna make you pay for making a mockery of my family and a mockery out of me. When I'm done you'll wish you'd never been born. Your boyfriend isn't here to bail you out this time, I made sure of that.' My stepfather's voice ran through my head, what was he going to do to me? Would he go after Kai? That thought scared me the most; I didn't want Kai to get hurt. I loved him too much.
I opened the book and began to flip through it, the words meant nothing to me and I wished that I had gotten Kai to read it to me earlier. No I didn't wish that, Kai would read it to me. As soon as I went home, I got to the back of the book and gasped. Fresh tears welled in my eyes as I ran my hand over the back page. Tucked away in the back of the book were pages and pages of pieces of folded paper. Upon unfolding them I realised that they were songs. Written by Kai about me, I choked on my sobs. I had never known that Kai wrote songs let alone songs about me.
"Rei? What's wrong?" I ignored my mother and quickly folded the papers and placed them back in the book where I had found them. I wasn't sure when Kai had put the papers into the book but I was glad that he had. I shivered as a cold wind hit into me and remembered Kai wrapping me in the black silk sheets from his bed. Tears fell from my eyes again. All these memories, these painful memories were too upsetting for me to think about right now but I couldn't help it. I liked to think about Kai, so what if it upset me. It reminded me of good times, happy times.
"Sweetie, it'll be ok, come here" my mom sat down on my bed next to me and pulled me into a tight hug, I knew that she was trying to make me feel better but she was making it worse. Everytime I saw her I saw Kai's face when he had been stood in the lounge, frozen, untouchable. Drowning in his emotions only letting one tear escape. One tear that showed how hurt he was, one tear that swept away the blue triangles. One tear that proved his grandfather right. He had been weak because of his love for me, because I had knocked down the wall that had been built around his heart and left the strong muscle vulnerable to pain and attack.
I had hurt Kai, not intentionally but never the less I had caused the phoenix a great deal of pain and I would never forgive myself for that. I wept into my mom's shirt as she stroked through my hair. She wasn't as comforting as Kai, I know that sounded weird but she wasn't, Kai knew instinctively when something was wrong with me and instinctively what had caused it and how to fix it. My mom had no idea, she had been away so long that she had forgotten who I was, what I was like as a person.
"Rei, tell me what Kai did to you, I know it's hard for yo..."
"No! You don't know, you don't know anything, about me, about Kai so stop pretending that you do. Stop pretending that you know what I'm going through. Unless your mom took you away from the person you had only just discovered was your soulmate. The person you were destined to spend the rest of your life with then you don't know a thing about what I'm going through!" She stared at me for a while shocked at what I had said. I growled and reached for the book that lay on my pillow but she got to it first and knocked the papers onto the floor. I snatched the book away from her and crouched down next to the papers.
"Where'd you get the book Rei?" She asked quietly, timidly. What was she up to? She was being so nice now, she was willing to hear me out but back at Kai's she had refused to listen to anything I had to say.
"From Kai" I explained, deadpanned, as I swept the papers back into the book.
"What are the papers?"
"There're songs, songs that Kai wrote for me and they're really good. I wish I could've heard him sing them," she sighed and crouched next to me on the floor, I growled when she snatched one of the papers away from me and studied her with slit eyes as she read it.
"How could he write something like this, it's so emotional. So sweet" (A/N: I'm not really that good at writing songs so just pick a few songs you like and picture them) I hated the way she had said 'he' she spoke about Kai with such hatred and disrespect but she didn't even know him. She'd never properly met him her opinion of him had been provided to her by someone else. She had always told me to make my own decisions of people and not to go with what someone else had said but that's what she was doing.
"His name's Kai and he could write this very easily, he's emotional and he's sweet. If you would have been paying attention you would have seen that today but you didn't even give him a chance. I used to love you. Now I don't know what I feel for you. You listened to dad, you took his feelings into account listened to his side of the story but when it came to me and Kai. The people it actually mattered to, you didn't care and now you want me to talk. I don't feel like talking. I don't feel like doing anything except for going back to Kai but you won't let me do that"
"Rei, you're confused..."
"I'M NOT FUCKING CONFUSED!" I screamed, I had to get rid of the anger that was building up inside of me. I was in so much pain and my emotions were completely out of whack that I didn't know what to do. I didn't know whether I should break down and cry, scream at the top of lungs or just sit quietly and let everything wash over me. I flinched when she slapped me and placed my hand over where she had hit me.
"Oh God Rei I'm so sorry, I...I didn't mean to hurt you" she moved closer to me and I backed away she lifted her hand to her mouth and whimpered quietly. "Rei...I just don't like you talking to me like that"
"Kai, never laid a finger on me" I explained as I blinked back tears, I could still feel Kai's lips on mine. Always would.
"Rei this is stupid, why won't you open up to me and tell me what he did? Why are you protecting him?" I stared at her in disbelief and sat down on my bed all the time clutching the leather book to my chest. Holding it next to my heart.
"He never did anything"
"Your father told me about what he saw in here. Rei...I need to ask...did he rape you?" I shook my head from side to side. This was ridiculous, completely ridiculous. How could she think that Kai had raped me? I growled angrily and slammed the book down onto the nightstand. I'd had enough of people disrespecting my relationship with Kai. They knew nothing about it and yet they were jumping at random conclusions to everything.
"Get out" I said quietly as I stared down at the floor
"Rei...I really need to know for my case..."
"Get out!" I made it louder this time. She didn't get it, there wasn't going to be a case, I wasn't going to court unless it was to see my father sentenced to life in jail.
"Rei, don't do this, don't push me away from you" she walked over to me and cupped my face causing me to stare into her eyes. I made sure to give her one of the blankest most unemotional looks ever. One that would make Kai, my koi, proud.
"I don't need to push you away, you seem to be doing ok all by yourself" I didn't want to be so mean to her. She was my mother and I loved her but the things she was saying about Kai, the things she thought that he would do were so stupid that I couldn't even laugh at them. I removed her hands from my face and walked over to the door, opening it for her and motioning for her to leave.
"Rei..."
"Get out" she dropped her head and walked over to where I was stood, she tried to find my gaze as she left the room but I couldn't look at her at the moment. Instead I chose to stare at the book on my nightstand.
"Rei, no matter what I will always love you" she whispered as she walked out of the door.
"If you really loved me, you'd trust me enough to know that I really do love Kai and he would never hurt me. You'd let me go back to him" I told her as I shut the door, I didn't have a lock on my door so I used the chair next to my desk to keep it closed. I hoped that she would understand that I needed to be alone now and hoped that she would just walk away. She did. I sniffed and wiped away the new tears. I would go back to Kai, it would just take some time.
Nikki: kill me and I die
Bryan: No duh
Nikki: no...I meant don't kill me! If you do I'll never be able to get Kai and Rei back together now will I? Think about it...
Kai: we did we still wanna kill you
Nikki: um...can we wait until I finish the fic
Kai: Uh...yeah ok, we'll wait
Rei: whilst they're waiting you can give them another plushie set
Nikki: what an amazing idea Rei
Rei: thank you
Nikki: (looks through cupboard) Well, since Christmas is coming up I'm giving away the KaixRei BryanxTala as little mini angels plushie set, the wings are extraordinary,
Kai, Rei, Tala, Bryan: we want one
Nikki: ok, one for you two, one for you two and one for me, the rest are all yours so review and I will send one to you. Go on, you know you want it...