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
A/N: Sorry this took me so long to update but for some strange reason I couldn't log in...well so sorry for making you wait, here it is…
Nikki: UlTiMaTe KaI LuVa, I don't think there is a difference between Boris and Bryan, Boris is Bryan's original name but I can't bring myself to call him by it because it reminds me too much of Boris Balcov. Reis1gurl uh…wouldn't you like to know. Well I am sorta gonna use that idea but I've modified it to fit better. Uh…you'll see soon. I'm so tired and I've had a really bad time at school today so I'm ready to lash out at the next person that bugs me.
Kai: what happened?
Nikki: oh just the teachers loading on the homework God don't they think we do enough in school?
Bryan: I bet the abbeys looking pretty good to you now
Nikki: Damn straight, all we had to do there was hang over snake pits for hours on end. I'd rather do that any day (they cut this scene in the dub, but it was in the original)
Rei: Really?
Nikki: Yeah actually I would
Tala: Yeah, the abbey wasn't all bad
Kai: just ninety-nine pint nine percent bad
Nikki: that still means point one percent was good
Kai: I didn't say that
Bryan: so what was the other point one percent?
Kai: painful
Nikki: but a hell of a lot less painful than being sat in a classroom listening to some teacher babbling on about something they barely passed themselves
Rei: she's right
Nikki: duh
Bryan: Nikki, maybe you should stop complaining and get on with the fic
Nikki: ok…disclaimer? There's go to be someone out there that can do my disclaimer for me
Voltaire: I'll do it…
Nikki: Don't make me do it again!
Boris: I said that I'd do it…you never choose me
Mokuba: look big brother, it's Nikki, Bryan, Tala, Kai, Rei and two old guys I've never seen before
Nikki: Yay! Mokie, Kaiba could you two please do my disclaimer for me?
Mokuba: for you Nikki anything
Kaiba: Nope
Mokuba: Seto! Be nice
Kaiba: fine, I just can't say no to you. Nikki does not own beyblade never has never will…
Mokuba: but she does own Kyan, Norman, Steve and Rini so please do not steel them from her.
Nikki: thank you both on with the fanfic… Once again thank you to all the reviewers for all the wonderful reviews that you have given me. Thank you soo much for everything.
Rei's POV
I opened my eyes and immediately panicked, I couldn't find the book that Kai had given to me. I felt like screaming, if I'd lost that I didn't know what I'd do. I know that it was stupid but it was all that I had left. I sat bolt upright and padded around the bed, found nothing. I threw back the covers, still nothing. I checked on the pillows and under the pillows, my bedside table but to no avail. Tears were stinging my eyes as I leapt out of my bed and began to search the floor. I sighed in relief when I saw it lying on the wooden floor underneath my bed. I grabbed for it and pulled it tightly into my chest holding onto it as if my life depended on it.
"Thank God" I whispered and leant back against the bed. Ok I was acting pathetic but I really loved Kai and until I was back with him this was all I had to remind me of the good times. I remembered every single minute that I had spent with him. Every passing second and I never wanted to forget. I moved my hand to the base of my neck and gently stroked the scar. I closed my eyes and swear that I could feel Kai's lips against my skin. I wondered if I would always be able to feel that, I opened the book and unfolded the songs, skimming through them again.
I really missed being with Kai, everything had been so perfect. Now it was so bad, I hated this house. Needed desperately to get away from here, I needed to talk with my mom. Sort things out, explain the truth to her but she wouldn't listen. My father had poisoned her against me. I sighed and ran a hand through my long raven hair. How had everything gotten so fucked up? Why could things never go smoothly for me? What had I done that was soo awful that I didn't deserve to be happy?
"Stop moping, you stupid runt!" My head turned in the direction of the voice and I saw my stepfather in the doorway leaning against the frame. His eyes were red and bloodshot and I could tell that he had been drinking from the smell alone.
"Where's mom?" I asked as I stood up and backed against the wall. I knew that she wasn't here, if she was he wouldn't have been drinking and he certainly wouldn't be acting like this.
"Uh…something to do with seeing Kai" my face paled at the mention of Kai's name, why had she gone to see him? Why hadn't she told me? "Yeah she went to get proof that your little boyfriend had been abusing you. Thing about it is there's no proof because he never even tried to hurt you. Was always worried about you, cared for you, loved you" I studied every move, maybe I was searching for a weakness, something I could use against him if things got out of control. Considering how drunk he was you'd have thought that there'd be loads but there wasn't, not one.
"What do you want from me?" I asked as I tightened my grip on the book in my arms. "Why did you bring me back here? If you don't like me why didn't you leave me at Kai's? That way you never would have had to see me again" he didn't move from the spot in the doorway, didn't seem to have any weapons save for his fists yet I was still on edge. Still frightened and in my mind I was still screaming out for Kai to help me. To save me as he had done before.
"You insulted me, your boyfriend made me feel pathetic and weak. He made me feel like you, both you and he will pay for that"
"Leave Kai out of this" I pleaded. The worry I had felt for myself had disappeared and was now replaced with worry for Kai. If he got hurt because of me I would never forgive myself.
"Oh don't worry kitten…that is what he calls you isn't it? Kitten? When you're lying next to him in bed he'll roll over and call you kitten?" He took a few steps into the room and I backed away. It was almost like a dance, he started I started he stopped I stopped. I growled, I wasn't sure how he knew that Kai called me kitten but that was definitely none of his business. "And what is it that you call him? Phoenix?" I gasped silently and choked on the small noise.
"Why is it important to you?"
"Ha, I just wanted to know what to write on the wall when I've finished draining every last litre of blood from your worthless body" my breathing became heavy and laboured when he slid a double sided knife out of his pocket and began to twirl it in his hand. "I was thinking something along the lines of Kai killed Rei but now maybe I should change it to phoenix killed kitten. Go ahead Rei…choose" he moved closer to me and I backed away. So that was his plan, he was going to kill me and then frame Kai.
"Why are you doing this to me? What did I ever do to you?" I asked as tears stung my eyes. This was a question I had longed to ask for years, if I was going to die I at least dissevered to know why.
"I just dislike you that's all"
"That's it? You're going to murder me and incriminate my partner because you don't like me? I don't buy that! What's the real reason?" I growled angrily, I know that it was a dumb move to aggravate him but if I was going down I wasn't going without a fight and I think he knew that.
"Ok, before you came along it was just me and Rini. She was always around, we were happy we were in love much like you and that Kai you're so fond of. Then she found out she couldn't have kids. I didn't care, never liked em anyway but she wanted a baby and it was tearing her apart so I suggested adoption. She agreed, we filled out the form a week later we met you. She loved you at first sight, I despised you but hid it as well as I possibly could, having a degree in acting was helpful. We brought you home and then she decided to fulfil her life long dream of being a lawyer. I hit the drink then I hit you. I'm not ashamed of it never have been never will be. In my eyes you deserve everything you get"
"It's not my fault she left" I explained as a few tears escaped my eyes and slid down my cheeks to where they fell on the cover of the book.
"Yeah it is Rei…everything in my life was perfect until you came into it. You ruined my life and I aimed to ruin yours, I was successful with that, I'd beaten it into you. Then Kai arrived, he made you believe that you were worth something…you believed him. Maybe that's the saddest thing of all if anything in this story is even remotely upsetting it's this…if it wouldn't have been for Kai I would have never been forced to do anything. If you would have just continued to believe how worthless and pathetic you were I wouldn't have been forced to take such drastic measures"
I gulped and watched him as he walked further into the room, rocking the knife in between his forefinger and thumb. He looked truly insane, and he no longer appeared to be drunk. In actual fact he looked more sober than I had ever seen him which added to my panic. I wanted to close my eyes and tell myself that this was all a horrible dream and that in reality I was still at Kai's house, in Kai's bed with his arms fastened securely around me in a loving yet slightly protective hug.
"I hope you're scared Rei, this is going to be a very long couple of hours. And by the time I'm done you will remember how pathetic and worthless you truly are" he grabbed hold of my wrist and squeezed it tightly. I cringed and dropped the book onto the floor, I growled when he kicked it away from me and began to fight against the hold that he had on my wrist. He laughed maniacally and crushed my wrist with his hand. I screamed out in pain but never let my eyes wander from the knife that was clearly visible in his other hand. I felt sick as I saw it glistening in the dim lighting that managed to filter in from the drawn curtains.
Kai's POV
I spun round when I heard the loud bang as the door to the workout room was thrown open with such a force that it bounced off of the wall.
"What is it?" I asked when I saw Bryan stood in the doorway, he looked, upset, scared and distant all mixed up together. "Bryan?" he stared up into my eyes, I studied him, he seemed too shaken up to talk to me. For something to have such a serious effect on Bryan Kuznetsov meant that it would have to be of great importance.
"Kai…" tears were welling in his eyes as he tried to get the words out of his mouth, never in my entire life had I heard Bryan stutter or hesitate in such the manner he was doing now. He blinked back the tears and lifted his eyes back to where they rested on mine. "It's Rei…" I took several steps backwards at the mention of Rei. Three million thoughts were swirling round my head, yet I couldn't understand a single one of them. I choked on sobs as I thought about everything that, that bastard might have done to my kitten and it tore me apart just thinking about it.
I quickly grabbed my shirt and threw it over my shoulders before pushing past Bryan and taking off down the stairs.
"Tala, Bryan, your with me, Kenny stay here. We won't be…" I stopped when I saw the woman sat in my lounge, I knew immediately who she was and as much as I would have liked to sit here and throw insults at her there was something of much greater importance that I had to do.
Tala jumped up and immediately ran to where Bryan and I were stood at the base of the stairs, he grabbed a set of car keys from the side table. I recognised them as those belonging to the metallic blue Porsche I had brought three months ago.
"Where are you going?" Rei's mother demanded as she walked over to the door and blocked it with her arms. I wasn't in the mood for this and had to resist the urge to hit her right then and there. "I'm not moving until you tell me what you're doing"
"You don't deserve to have Rei as a son" I told her as I stared into her eyes, she shot me a questioning look and I brushed it off. "Now get out of my way!"
"NO! You will tell me where you are going or I'm not going to let you past" I clenched my hands into tight fists turning my knuckles the brightest white that I had ever seen. I felt my nails digging into my palms and wondered how long it would be before they drew blood. There was a dull throbbing in my heart, each beat seemed to be more painful than the last. I felt like I was dying, like I'd been poisoned and that said poison was slowly but surely taking it's deadly effect.
"I'm going to your house…I know you don't like me, I know you don't trust me. But Rei is in trouble. At this moment in time I don't care what your opinions of me are but if anything happens to Rei I will never forgive myself and I will never forgive you. You might not be able to see it…you might see it but not care but I love Rei with every ounce of my being and I am certainly not going to stand back and watch as that madman hurts the most important thing in my life!" Her eyes seemed to glaze over at what I had said
"…Is…is…is that true? Is Steve the one who's been doing all those horrible things to Rei?"
"I tried to explain everything to you before but you refused to listen" I glared at her but my gaze softened when I realised how distraught she looked. Her once sparkling eyes were glazed with a misty haze and she looked a lot paler than she had a few second ago. "The longer we stand here doing nothing the more trouble Rei is in" I reminded her in a harsh but sympathising tone. She stared up at me and searched my eyes, for what I didn't know, all I knew was that I needed to get to Rei. "If you stay here with Kenny he'll fill you in on the details, meanwhile Tala, Bryan and I…"
"I'm coming with you"
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Five minutes later everyone minus Kenny was sat in the Porsche, I was driving and going way beyond the speed limit. I didn't care, my heart was caught in my throat and it's pounding had become like the ticking of a clock and I felt as if I had swallowed a bomb that could go off at any given moment. I tightened my grip on the steering wheel, pressing down on the accelerator and forcing the car to go even faster. I couldn't help but notice that no one had uttered one word throughout the entire car ride.
"When did you leave the house?" I finally broke the silence, I didn't want to know the answer but the longer she had been away the more chance there was of Rei being in serious danger. I shook my head and forced the thoughts away, I didn't want to think about that. I had to think positive, Rei would be ok, even if I had to give my life in order for that to happen.
"I…I…I can't remember" I could hear a low growl come from where Bryan was sat, and shot him a look that said 'calm down.' The thing was Bryan didn't have many people left in his life, there was Ian, Spencer, Tala and I of course but Rei had become a friend to Bryan. When someone got close to the falcon, he treated them like family, his own flesh and blood. He, much like I, would die to see them safe.
A lone tear slid out of my eye and trickled down my face to where it splashed on the leather gloves that I was wearing. I always wore gloves when I drove and I always wore gloves for blading, it was more out of habit than anything else. All other thoughts went out of the tinted windows when I pulled up on the street outside of Rei's house. My heart had started skipping beats, my chest had tightened and I could barely breathe. Everything hurt.
Rei's POV
"Come on Rei…why don't you believe me, it's true, you used to believe it." He grabbed hold of my hair and tugged sharply dragging me a few centimetres across the floor before dropping me onto the hard wooden surface with a loud thud. I yelped quietly, weakly as the blade of the knife pressed against my throat. "SAY IT!"
"NO!" I screamed, tears sliding down my face. My whole life was flashing before my eyes, didn't that mean that this was it? Was this how I would die? Would I be murdered at the hands of my supposed father? So many questions, so little time in which for them to be answered.
"SAY IT!"
"NO!" His hand forced the blade into my throat, not enough to kill me but more than enough to make me cry out in pain. He lifted the shimmering blade away and stared at it as the blood trailed along the metal object, snaking it's way over the cold surface to where it slid away and fell to the floor in droplets no bigger than that of the rain.
"I know for a fact that you believe it Rei. Just say it and I will leave you be" tears fell from my eyes to where they joined the blood droplets on the floor. My left hand was on my throat and my right raised above my head waiting for a slash or stab that would no doubt come. I closed my eyes and tried to escape, at that point, maybe I wanted to die. I wanted to be free…
/Rei/ I opened my eyes and let them bounce around the room, searching for the origin of the mysterious voice that was once so familiar but now distant, unknown as it flew through my head like a bird would fly through air. Hm, bird, Phoenix, Kai. Was that who this was? Had Kai come to save me, had he found a way to help me? /Rei/ the voice repeated. I glanced up at my stepfather as he twirled the knife in his hands, staring at the blood with sadistic amusement. It wasn't him calling my name and there was no one else in the room. My heart sank at that realisation, Kai wasn't here, and he hadn't come to save me.
/Who is it?/ I called out in my mind I felt like I was going mad. Hearing voices in my head, maybe my stepfather had finally broken me. Shattered whatever frail grip I had, had on sanity. Destroyed me, taken everything from me, he had taken me away from Kai, my one true love. Now he intended to take my life. The sooner the better.
/Don't think that Rei, I understand that things are bad at the moment but if you just surrender, if you give in to what he wants. What happens to Kai? He'll be left on his own, slowly being ripped apart from the inside. You think that you have nothing left to live for, live for him, for Tala, for Bryan, Dranzer and me./
/Drigger?/ I questioned the voice, no wonder it had sounded so familiar to me.
/Yeah, Rei. I'm your bitbeast, your sacred spirit. I'm supposed to protect you, keep you from harm but I have failed in that task. I have firm belief that Kai will succeed where I have failed, just give him time./ My eyes stung as the white tiger explained his beliefs that he had failed me. That wasn't true, Drigger had always been there for me. In my darkest hour he had stood by my side, proud and tall. And I had a firm belief that he always would.
"Snap out of it!" I cringed as the back of my fathers hand made contact with my face. I hit against the floor and flinched as a sharp unmistakable pain shot through my left side.
/I'm so sorry Rei/
"GET UP!"
/I was supposed to protect you, I failed you/
"GET UP!"
/No Drigger, I failed myself, I could have put a stop to all of this years ago. All I had to do was speak out. Tell my mom, but I was too afraid, I thought it would stop that somewhere deep down he really did love me, how foolish. He can't feel love/ I gripped my side and pushed myself up from the floor, my hands clenched into fists and I struck out, punching him square in the jaw.
He recoiled at the action, his eyes glittered with shock and confusion. I was hoping that that would have been enough to make him drop the knife but it hadn't. He'd managed to keep his grip on the deadly weapon and I suddenly realised how stupid I had been. I'd punched him, made him even angrier than he had been to begin with. Such a stupid mistake, one that might very well cost me my life.
"Huh, so you do have a spine, shame, I'll just have to rip it out" I backed away as his maniacal laugh started up again. He lifted the knife to his lips and ran his tongue across the blade. (1). I shuddered at what I saw, he was insane, how had my mom managed to love him? I couldn't believe that someone could be that great at acting. Force people to believe that they were loving and caring when all they were was a homicidal maniac who deserved nothing more than to be shot like a rabid dog.
"You sicken me" I told him as walked closer to me, he grabbed hold of my hair and pulled my head sharply so that he could stare into my eyes. I gagged when he licked the side of my face.
"Oh by the way, I lied when I said I didn't like you. Truth is Rei, I'm obsessed with you" I cringed and closed my eyes forcing the tears out and down my face. "Come on, what does Kai have that I don't?" I listed about a million things but one stuck out.
"A heart" (2) I whispered as he traced the knife across my bare chest, with one sharp almost unnoticeable move he had cut down my chest and a thin line of blood had collected around the wound. I smiled and licked my lips, I could remember how Kai's blood had tasted. Sweet, pure, like love would taste, if we could taste it that was. (3)
"I have a heart that's what the problem is, I love you too much to let you be with anyone other than me" I shook my head and refused to believe what he was saying, I wished that he would go back to hating me. To despising me with his entire being, anything but this supposed 'love.'
"That…That's why you took me away from Kai? Because you wanted me?"
"Exactly" he whispered and kissed my ear before bursting out into another fit of laughter. I closed my eyes as tightly as I could, tried to force myself to believe that I wasn't really here that it was all some sort of horrible nightmare but I had tried that before. It hadn't worked.
"You're despicable" I pushed him away from me and walked to the other side of the room as far away from him as possible.
"Why thank you, such a compliment, Kitten" I hated the way he had said that, it sounded so forced like a desperate attempt to prove to me that he could be Kai. A desperate attempt to get me to feel something other than hatred and contempt for him. "Ah, it feel's good to get all these feelings out in the open, I tried to deny them for so long. That's why I beat you, truly sorry for that but I was trying to get myself to believe that I hated you."
I shuddered in fear as he sauntered across the room to where I was stood, I backed up as far as I could. Found myself pressed up against the cupboard, that wasn't helpful.
"Now say it Rei, be a good boy and tell me how worthless you are" he grabbed hold of my face and tilted it back so that he could stare into my eyes. I tried to break away from his grip but all he did was tighten it, he smiled wickedly and pushed into me forcing his lips onto mine. I kept my mouth closed as tightly as I could, did the same with my eyes, tried to block everything out. Thinking that if I couldn't see it, it didn't exist, it wasn't happening.
I yelped when his hand made contact with my face for the second time that day. I hit the floor, hard, didn't dare get back up just wept into the floor. This was all so horrible some sort of nightmare but worst, cause this was actually happening.
"Hm, I like it when you're helpless" I ignored the haunting voice and continued to weep into the floor. Maybe now that he loved me, no matter how wrong that was, he wouldn't be able to bring himself to kill me. "You're going to be such a beautiful corpse, I may actually cry real tears" apparently love meant nothing to him. He was still willing to kill me. Willing to take my life, with nothing more than a slip of the knife.
I couldn't help but wonder how he would do it, would he stab me with as much force as he could muster. Gently slit my throat, what he considered to be a pleasant way to die. Dying was never pleasant. Or would he make it as slow and painful as possible, tears slid down my face again but I held the sobs back with everything I had. I cried for Kai and Kai alone, he was my partner my love the other half of my soul, he was everything and always would be. I would never be forced to leave him, even if I was killed. Not even death is strong enough to separate us.
Yeah to all the Yu-Gi-Oh fans out there, don't think of Steve as Yami Bakura, they are completely different I just thought that considering how insane Steve was. Doing that kinda fit in. Uh sorry.
Yes, I am a romantic, my boyfriend hates me for it but I think deep down he likes being all romantic just as much as I do. So I made this chappie of the fic a little romantic too. (Yes, I'm a very sad girl.)
I'm very sadistic, me love blood… yeah, blood and gore interests me. People even nickname me bloody girl but I made them stop calling me that when I noticed that it was just as much an insult as a funny nickname.
Kai: NIKKI! What was that?
Nikki: I'm sorry, I know this chappie was crappy and seriously weird, I just decided to go in this direction
Bryan: Why?
Nikki: Um, I'm not sure I just decided to go with it,
Tala: Why?
Nikki: it was late and this is where my mind was taking me, my mind is a very strange place indeed
Rei: You're evil
Nikki: oh why thank you,
Kai: IT'S NOT A COMPLIMENT!
Nikki: I'm sorry, maybe if you stop yelling I can fix it!
Kai: I'M NOT YELLING!
Nikki: Yes you are!
Bryan: guys, fighting isn't gonna solve anything
Nikki: ok well, please don't flame me, everything will be as it should be soon, just wait a while, there are only two more chapters and then it's over which really upsets me cause I've had so much fun with writing this fic. (Breaks down)
Tala: There, There
Bryan: parting is such sweet sorrow,
Kai: only two more chapters only two more chapters…
Rei: Kai, be nice!
Nikki: well, I guess you all deserve a plushie set, one mo (searches through cupboard). Ah, I really like this one and I think it fits in with what's happening in the fic so, if you review I will gladly send you the KaixRei TalaxBryan dressed as little chibi lawyers plushie sets.
Kai: Ok, that makes up for what you did in this chapter
Rei: yeah they're gorgeous
Bryan: I want one
Tala: So do I
Nikki: One for Bryan, one for Tala, one for Kai, one for Rei. And of course one for me, the rest of them are all looking for a nice home, if you think you can offer a home to one of these fab plushie sets then click on the little purple button at the bottom of this page and tell me what you thought of the chapter.
Tala: they really are cute, huggles Bryan plushie
Bryan: ah, he's paying more attention to that plushie than me. Wait that's not cute, it's annoying, uh…what I meant to say was REVIEW!
Kai: Yeah, and be nice or Kami-sama knows what she'll have that madman do to my wonderfully beautiful koi
Rei: You're so sweet Kai, please review, it really makes Nikki's day which if a weekday seriously sucks