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: Ok, UlTiMaTe KaI LuVa Boris Balcov was the evil guy in the first series with the purple hair. He worked with Voltaire Hiwatari and controlled the abbey, hence Balcov abbey, and the demolition boys. Wow 440 reviews thanks guys I love you all. Plushies for everyone. DAMN IT! Toonami started G rev again, I get the first part, Kami-sama knows I've seen it enough times. (Weeps) I wanna see how Tala ends up in a coma
Tala: I WHAT?!
Bryan: Who's responsible?!
Nikki: I don't know, I haven't seen it yet you baka's
Kai: takes one to know one,
Nikki: oh, don't you talk to me Mr I'll-go-back-and-work-with-Boris
All: WHAT?!
Nikki: I know it's a shocking series that I wish to see all the way through (glares at Toonami, and cartoon network executives)
Rei: why does Kai go and work with Boris?
Nikki: what part of 'I DON'T KNOW!' Are you having trouble with?
Rei: sheesh, calm down
Nikki: sorry Rei, I don't mean to snap but it's bloody annoying, all I know is that Kai goes back to work with Boris, Tala ends up in a coma or something, there's this new guy named Brooklyn who really hurts Kai and that's it.
Kai: Am I ok?
Tala: screw you, what about me?
Nikki: don't ask me, ask the reviewers and maybe they'll be kind enough to explain it for us.
Kai: (cutest look ever) please
Tala: (ditto) pretty please
Bryan and Rei: My poor koi
Nikki: crap they're depressed, DISCLAIMER!
Kurama: (dragging Hiei in from the set of Yu Yu Hakusho) hey Nikki, it's been a while
Nikki: too long my old friend
Hiei: NOOOOO! Kurama, you know how much I detest all human kind
Kurama: then what's your problem, Nikki's not human,
Nikki: I'm an overly obsessive Yaoi fangirl, there are so many that we are now considered a completely different race.
Kurama: yeah, they live in space with the Yaoi fanboys
Hiei: makes sense
Kai: not really
Nikki: Well now that that's sorted, will you two lovebirds do my disclaimer?
Kurama: sure anything for my friend, Nikki does not own beyblade nor does she receive any money from the writing of this fanfic, it's just for fun…
Hiei: however, Steve, Rini, Norman and Kyan are the soul property of Kurama's dear friend so steal them and I will kill you
Nikki: that's…beautiful…(weeps) Thank you Kurama (hugs Kurama)
Kurama: It was nothing (hugs back)
Nikki: and thank you Hiei
Hiei: Hn
Kai: Hey! That's my thing!
Rei's POV
I leant back against the bed, over half of my scars had now been reopened and were drawing blood. My arms stung from where I had been using them to defend myself and my head was pounding with unanswered questions and confusing riddles that refused to stop. My father was crouched infront of me, the knife rocking back and forth in his hands, he had done that so many times but I couldn't figure out why. Was it nerves? He didn't appear to be nervous.
"Kai…" I whispered hoarsely, my voice was tired and sore from all the shouting that I had done. It didn't help that the word had come out on a sob either, I brushed the tears away with the back of my hand and stared up at my father. He growled when he caught the word and slashed the side of my face with the knife.
"Hm, if Kai really did 'love' you, don't you think he would have come for you by now, he's probably relieved to be rid of you. He doesn't want you Rei, never did, just used you for a casual fuck, nothing more"
"You're lying"
"Am I?" I nodded. He was lying, Kai loved me. I gently placed my trembling hand against the scar at the base of my neck. I broke down again, my hair falling infront of my eyes and blocking my father out of my vision. It seemed like so long ago that I had been wrapped in Kai's arms as we slept in his bed. Together, I thought that it would be that way forever. Where are you Kai?
"Kai…please…" I pulled my legs to my chest and burying my head into my knees. I needed him here, I needed to be with him. Needed for him to wrap his arms around me in one of those overly protective hugs that I loved so much. "Help me…"
"Rei, Rei, Rei" he muttered and ran his hand along my arm sweeping away all of the blood as he did so. "When will you learn? The more you mention Kai the more I'm forced to hurt you. The less you mention Kai the quicker and less painful your death will be."
"I don't wanna die" I wept, just the thought of never seeing Kai again made me feel physically ill. My hand twitched nervously, no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get myself to stop shaking. I used to think that death was something I would never fear, rather welcome with open arms but now that I had Kai. I didn't want to leave him. I wanted to stay with him until the end of time, lye in his arms for hours on end. "But I'm not going to forget Kai, no matter what you do to me, kill me if you wish but I will die with the knowledge that I love Kai more than anything else on this planet."
"That's all well and good, but you don't know how Kai really feels about you, think about it. If I fooled your mom into thinking that I was a decent guy, Kai could have fooled you into believing that he loved you." I wanted to prove him wrong but he was right, no one could ever know what somebody else truly felt, what they were truly like. We're strangers to each other. Never knowing the truth until we die.
"Poor Rei. Have we finally realised that you mean nothing to the one you love so dearly?" He ran his hand through my hair and I squirmed away from his touch.
"I still love him" he growled and lifted the knife cutting my arm for the millionth time, I grabbed hold of the wound and pulled my arm to my chest. Protecting it from anymore damage. "Tala…Bryan…please…help me" my head hurt more than anything else, I couldn't tell black from white. I didn't know who to turn to. All I knew was that I was alive.
"No one's coming Rei, besides by the time they got here, it would be too late. Much too late"
"What about mom?" I asked, there had to be someone. Someone that would save me.
"Oh, she's too busy at Kai's to think about you, I have you all to myself"
"Why…why couldn't you have left me alone? Why do you keep doing this to me?"
"It's love Rei, the real stuff, it makes people do crazy things" he ran the knife along my side and pushed down sending the blade through my flesh and into my body. I could feel the cold metal and tried to scream out as he withdrew the dagger but all that escaped was a horse whisper.
Kai's POV
I jumped out of the car and started towards the house. All I could think about was Rei, was he ok? Was he hurt? If so how badly? Would he be ok? Could I have stopped all of this? Was it all my fault? I felt like breaking down, I needed to cry but I couldn't, I couldn't stop running, couldn't stop to think or plan what I was going to do.
"Kai!" I slowed down but refused to stop completely, Bryan ran up behind me and grabbed hold of my shoulders stopping me in my tracks. I spun round to face him tears stinging my eyes and sharp needle like pricks hitting my heart every few seconds. "What are we going to do?"
"I don't know" a few tears fell from my eyes and landed on the arm of Bryan's jacket, "Is this what it was like for you…in the abbey? Was this what you went through every day? The pain, the confusion?" A small nod symbolised yes and I collapsed in his arms. "How did you do it? I can't even get through three minutes"
"You don't…" I glanced up at Tala when his voice broke the silence. He had his hand on my shoulder and a wall of tears had built up around his eyes "you suffer." I stared at them for a while before nodding and pulling away from the gestures of comfort and security. "He'll be ok" Tala reassured me, I didn't know who he was trying to convince. Himself or me. We both knew it wasn't working but the hollow hope was all we had.
"Rei's safety comes first" I told them and they nodded in agreement, I glanced over at Rei's mom as she watched the conversation with a look of shock and horror. "You stay here, we were trained for this" it was true, we were trained to be strong and ruthless. Taught to be emotionless and brutal. I just hoped we remembered how.
"I'm so sorry, it's all my fault"
"Yes, it is…" I stared at Bryan in shock. I mean it was true but to actually tell her that was kinda harsh. "You should have listened to us earlier then this whole thing could have been avoided but your husband had you wrapped around his little finger. You should have brought Rei with you to the house today, but it's a little late for should have's now"
"Lets go" Tala said as he took off in the direction of the house. Bryan and I followed, this was it. I just hoped we were ready for whatever was waiting for us.
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I rattled the door handle but the door refused to open. I growled and clenched my fists, I should have guessed that he would lock the doors. He was crazy but he wasn't stupid.
"You'll need the keys" Rini pushed past me and slid the key into the lock, I noticed that he hand was trembling as she turned the golden object. Maybe she didn't want to see that her husband had done such horrible things to their son, maybe she wanted to live in denial. Hell for all I knew she had figured all of this out years ago but had refused to believe it.
"Thank you" I made sure it was as deadpanned as possible, she nodded and backed away letting the three of us into the house. I glanced around the bottom level of the house, beer cans and wine bottles were scattered everywhere but there was no sign of Rei or his father anywhere. "Crap!"
"What?" Tala and Bryan chorused as they followed me through the house.
"Look at this place, it looks like a pub. He's been drinking"
"Does that mean…?" Tala asked in a whispered voice
"Yeah" I answered choking on my tears and fears that wouldn't stop attacking me and telling me that things weren't going to be ok.
I heard the faintest noise from upstairs and got a flash of Rei's bedroom, of course. Why hadn't I thought of that to begin with? I scolded myself as I pushed past Bryan and Tala and ran up the stairs. Long black trenchcoat billowing as I ran the twenty odd steps to Rei's room. I threw the door open and gasped…
Bryan's POV (1)
I grabbed Tala's hand and followed Kai up the stairs, my heart was pounding and I felt as if everyone could hear it. I was worried about Rei but Kai as well, I had never seen him so upset. Never wanted to see him this upset again, Tala's sobs had subsided and he was running closely at my side squeezing my hand as tightly as he could for support. I squeezed back.
When we reached the landing the door to Rei's room was shut and we shared the same look of confusion and panic. There was no doubt about it that Kai had gone into this room, I had seen his trenchcoat from the bottom of the stairs. (2)
"What's going on?" Rini asked as she joined us on the landing, I took a deep breath and walked over to the door. I wrapped my hand around the golden handle and turned it gently. My heart was skipping beats and there was no rhythm to it whatsoever, I pushed myself up against the door when I noticed that it was stuck and used my shoulder to push the entrance open.
I stumbled into the room and clenched my hands into fists, Steve was stood over Kai who was slumped over Rei in a protective gesture. Rei had his arms wrapped around Kai and was sobbing into his shoulder. I wasn't sure what was going on but when I caught sight of the knife in Steve's hand it didn't matter. I charged forwards, knocking Steve into the wall. He groaned in pain and I caught sight of the knife as he tightened his grip on the deadly weapon. I dodged as he lashed out, and swung forward hitting him in the stomach.
Before he even had a chance to react to the pain I slammed the arm that held the knife into the wall and pushed against it with as much force as I had. There was a loud crunch and a howl of pain as the bastards' wrist broke underneath my hold. His hand relinquished the grip on the blood-drenched object as the bones in his wrist shattered. I smiled and kneed him in the crotch. He fell to the ground, on the way down receiving a sharp uppercut to the jaw. (3)
"Bry…" Tala's voice quivered as he spoke my name. I grabbed hold of Steve's neck and slammed his head against the floor.
"Hm, I'm gonna make what you did to Rei seem like a blissful dream" I growled and hit him again, on the tip of the nose. Blood began to coat his face and I smiled at my handiwork.
"See Rini, I told you they weren't worth it!" He muttered and laughed, I couldn't believe how stupid he was. I was right there punching him, his wife knew why and yet he was still living the lie. I crunched another shot to the bastards' stomach and giggled as he groaned in pain. Before slamming my fist into his temple.
"Bryan…" Tala spoke up again, voice still quivering and becoming more distant by the second. (4)
"If you'll excuse me, my koi wishes to speak with me" I whispered into his ear and chuckled. I didn't understand why Kai hadn't joined me by now, he wanted this chance to beat Steve senseless as much as I did so why wasn't he by my side. "No" I whispered, Steve burst out laughing and glanced at the knife.
"Like butter" he mumbled innocently, like a child who was playing some sort of cruel and demented game.
"GO TO HELL!" I growled and punched him as hard as I could, another crunch reverberated through the room and he screamed in agony before passing out on the floor. I wanted to stand there and beat him for a while longer but something was seriously wrong with one of my friends and I had to know what. I turned and shuddered at what I saw.
Tala was sat on the floor next to Kai and Rei, blood coated his clothes and hands as he sat there. Motionless as if frozen in time, I took a few steps forward to where the three of them were and fell to my knees. Tears trickled down Tala's face and he brushed them away with his hand spreading dark crimson blood across his pale face.
"There's so much blood, I…I…I can't tell who it belongs to" he explained but didn't look at me, his eyes never moved from the phoenix and the Neko-jin. I shuddered in fear and slid closer to where Kai and Rei were. I lifted my hand and placed it on Kai's back. Tears forced there way out of my eyes as I lifted my hand from his back, finally seeing the deep stab wound from where he had thrown himself infront of Rei.
'Rei's safety comes first'Kai's voice echoed through my head. I never would have thought that, that meant that he…
"What's going on? Are they ok?" Rini asked as she stepped forward from where she had been stood in the doorway. I gently took hold of Kai, placing him on the bloodied floor. Rei's arms never left the phoenix as he wept over the fallen angel. Tala choked with sobs as he ran his hand over Kai's face. Never had the phoenix looked so pale, slate hair was dyed a red colour as it splayed out over the scarlet floor, his crimson eyes were closed and his clothes soaked with blood. Whether it was his blood or Rei's blood I didn't know, it was possible that it was a mixture of both. I took a deep breath and slid closer to him, I lifted his arm from the floor and gently placed my fingers on his wrist.
"Bry?" Tala asked, tears slid from my eyes and trailed down my face to where they splashed on the leather coat that Kai was wearing.
"He hasn't got a pulse" I explained choking on the words as they came out, Rei stared at me, his eyes wide with shock and horror. His hands clasped one of Kai's and he brought it to his lips where he placed a gentle kiss.
"No…Bryan…We can't loose him" Tala told me, I nodded but didn't say anything, I couldn't. Rei grabbed hold of one of my hands and squeezed it tightly. I stared up into his eyes, noting that his other hand was still holding onto Kai's, unwilling to let go of the slate haired Russian that meant so much to him.
"Please…help him" Rei whispered, I sighed and ran my free hand through my hair, I didn't know what they wanted me to do, I wasn't a miracle worker.
"Call an ambulance" I whispered to anyone and positioned myself at Kai's side. I Stared down at my friend whom had become like a brother to me and gently tilted his head back. I parted his lips and took a deep breath, I stayed there for a while. Frozen at his side my heart pumping my head throbbing. I had kissed Kai before, Tala had kissed Kai before. We all experimented with each other but this was different. There was a thin line between the kiss of life and the kiss of death. (5)
That was why I hadn't asked Tala or Rei to do this, I didn't want them to feel the burden if…if…the unthinkable should happen. I leant forward placing my lips over his, a hollow gesture that would have meant nothing if he would have been…alive. I shuddered at the thought of Kai being dead but…he was, there was no pulse he wasn't breathing and now it had all come down to me to bring him back. How am I supposed to bare that kind of responsibility? I let the breath of air that I had collected transfer to Kai and saw his chest rise as his lungs filled with oxygen. (6)
"Crap" I muttered when I saw that my attempt to get him breathing hadn't worked.
"What now?" Rei asked timidly, afraid that he may have lost his one true love. My eyes lifted from Kai to Tala and our eyes locked. Neither of us could bear to loose the other and we could only imagine the pain and turmoil that Rei was going through. How he was surviving and staying sane I didn't know but it must have taken amazing courage for him to have stayed strong and not given up, as many others would have.
"We keep trying" I explained and started working on the compressions.
"The ambulance are on there way…is he gonna be ok?"
"How the fuck are we supposed to know?" Tala shot bitterly
"I…I…I'm sorry, I know how hard this must be for all of you…Rei…are you ok?"
"What do you think? I've been thorough an awful lot in the course of my life but nothing has caused me more pain than this" pain dripped from Rei's words and he had trouble getting them all out without bursting into tears. I admired him for his strength, I would have to tell him that later. When Kai woke up…he would wake up.
"Uh…Bryan…what about you?" I moved back to compressions and turned to stare at her. Was that some kind of joke? Did she find this situation amusing?
"I'm attempting to revive my friend by breathing for him and kick starting his heart, he's lost a lot of blood. How much I don't know, I'm trying to, yet again, face the harsh realities of life that Kai may very well leave us…" at that Rei broke down, for the first time he began to weep for his phoenix. I expected nothing less. Tala took the smaller boy in his arms and let a few of his own crystallised tears fall onto the dark raven locks before shooting me a loving look that said 'carry-on.' I nodded I guess I never intended to stop, I had to get this out before it destroyed me.
I stopped the compressions and moved my lips back to Kai's, his lungs inflated again but he refused to breathe for himself. I smiled, that was just like Kai, stubborn. I quickly and with expert flare moved back to the compressions. There was a small cough from Rini and I understood that she was trying to get me to finish what I had been saying.
"Hn, I think the real question is, how do you feel? Your husbands lying over there, battered and bruised possibly with a concussion and even though I'm sat here struggling to keep my friend alive I can't help but notice that you haven't gone over to help him. Yet you haven't tried to assist me or comfort my friends, sure you've called an ambulance but I had to explain to you that one was needed and save for that you've stood there pretending to care"
"…I do care…"
"Do you realise that this is all your fault, if you would have just listened to us in the first place none of this would have happened. Rei would have been safe and Kai wouldn't have had to run over here and sacrifice himself to keep the most important thing in his life alive." Her eyes drifted to the floor at what had been said and I could tell that she knew I was right.
"I'm so sorry, it is all my fault…I knew…he told me…but I thought…he was drunk"
"What are you talking about?!" Rei asked as his eyes lifted and rested on his mothers trembling figure. Her eyes shimmered with unshed tears as her eyes locked with those of her sons.
"He told me that he'd killed people, I refused to believe him. All that has happened is my fault" (7)
"You stupid bitch" were the only words to escape Rei's lips as he leant over his phoenix and lightly kissed his lips before running his hand over Kai's unnaturally pale face. I glared at Rini and shook my head in disgust. How many other people had died because she had refused to believe the truth? "Please Kai, wake up…you can't leave me…I need you…what will I do without you?" Rei whispered to the angel, he ran his hand through his hair and placed a chaste kiss on his forehead before looking up at me. Begging for me to do everything in my power to bring him back.
I went to deliver mouth to mouth again but stopped a mere millimetre away from Kai's lips and whispered into his ear so that only he could hear me.
"Come back to him Kai, what was the point in saving him if you're going to give up and leave him to suffer?" Then without uttering another word I moved to his lips forcing another bout of oxygen into his lungs. I knew that if I stopped it was likely that he would suffer from brain damage or something so I didn't stop. I wondered what was taking the paramedics so long, every moment that passed felt like an eternity.
Rei kept pleading for Kai to come back to him and Tala kept telling him to hold on. I just continued with CPR, my head forever throbbing with the fact that there was little difference between the kiss of live and the kiss of death, who knew what I was delivering. I after all wasn't the most loving or kind of people, would that reflect on the outcome of life or death?
"I didn't mean for any of this to happen…"
"Well it did" Tala gently stroked Rei's back, comforting the younger as he wept into his shoulder. I think everything was finally catching up with the tiger. The reality was dawning on him and it was all becoming too much.
"Paramedics, what's happening?!" Teams of paramedics rushed up the stairs, each carrying their own box of first aid supplies. "Jesus, ok out of the way kid, we've got it from here" I backed away from the still body, tears still slipping down my face. Tala threw himself against me and I held him tightly against my chest, comforting him as well as I could. (8)
Rei had latched onto Kai's hand and was holding it next to his lips as he slowly rocked back as forth, no doubt to the rhythm of his heartbeat. Paramedics were busy scuttling around, two were working on Kai while one was checking on Steve. The other was frantically trying to clean and dress Rei's wounds. Everything appeared to be moving too fast as the paramedics worked with expert speed to try and get Kai's heart beating again. Then again maybe I was moving too slow as I held the wolf in my arms. Afraid to let him get too far away from me as if in the belief that he might get hurt in the same way.
"Are you two ok?" A young blond male asked, I recognised him as the paramedic whom had been checking on Steve. "Well…physically" I nodded and ran my hand through Tala's hair. Rei whimpered quietly as the portable difribulator (?) was brought out. I reached out for his hand and brought him closer to me, he broke down into silent sobs and I felt like I was holding two small children in my arms. Trying to comfort them but failing miserably.
"3…2…1…CLEAR!" I snapped my head away and choose to stare out of the window as sparkling tears slipped down onto Tala's head. This was all too much for me, no matter how fast the paramedics were working everything still seemed to be so slow.
"Nothing"
"Try again!" Rei growled and broke down again, I rubbed his back and ran my other hand through Tala's hair, Why was I always forced to be the strong one? At the moment I couldn't take the pressure, the thought that everything was resting on my shoulders. It was all becoming too much for all of us. We needed Kai.
"3…2…1…CLEAR!"
-To be continued-
Bryan had such a long POV because I didn't really want to make Rei be the one that had to do everything. If this situation ever happened I think he would have been too distraught to try and do anything so I decided to take it from Bryan's POV and have Bryan do everything because I figured that Bryan is kinda like a second in command and Kai is like the captain.
Yeah, the trenchcoat that Kai wears, for all those Yu-Gi-Oh fans out there, is the same trenchcoat that Yami Bakura wears in the new series. You know the long black one. It's very sexy.
Because of the way the plot was going, Kai was unable to get his revenge. I know it's a bummer but Kai did save Rei and so I figured that Bryan would just have to do it.
Tala was very much a stand back character in this chapter, I decided that much like with Rei he would be too distraught to do anything. This meant that Bryan would have had to take control of the situation no matter how sad he was because he knew that it was what Kai would want him to do.
Yeah, Kai Tala and Bryan 'experimenting' with each other is something that is very common and I suppose cliché but I just decided to throw it in. The pairings for this fic remain unchanged. They stay as they stand.
My CPR knowledge is very limited, I did take a course in first aid but I failed miserably. I remember the woman telling me that she hoped no one ever collapsed in my presence cause they would die for sure. Tight, ne?
This would have been a slip up made when he was drunk. The truth had come out but she just brushed it off as drunken stupidity.
I've never had an encounter with paramedics so the way they rush in is just a shot in the dark.
Nikki: eep, I'm evil! I'm soo sorry, maybe I should just point out that I like happy endings.
Bryan: OMFG what the hell are you doing?
Nikki: Oh…I don't know
Tala: what?…you…WHAT?!
Rei: you are pure evil
Rini: I'm soo very thick
Steve: Mwahahaha my fans adore me
Nikki: (wacks Steve over head with Millennium rod) thank you Malik
Malik: I don't know what he means by his fans adore him, A he had no fans and B everyone wants him dead
Nikki: oh speaking of death, please don't kill me (cute puppy dog eyes) I won't be able to fix it if I'm dead
Tala: (through clenched teeth) give the nice people a plushie set
Nikki: I have one all ready, this time I'm giving away the KaixRei TalaxBryan street racer plushie set, lots of tight fitting leather clothes and wicked cool cars.
All: Give us one.
Rei: it's the least you can do after that (points at chapter)
Nikki: here you go, the rest are for whatever reviewers I have left. Please review, I'm sorry but I LIKE HAPPY ENDINGS! Just keep that in mind (smiles and winks)
Bryan: And you wonder why you're so predictable
Nikki: Shut up baka… please review. (Gets down on knees and begs)