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Leave Or Stay

By Dark's Light

…Kai's POV…

I lie spread out across the lounge in my small apartment, watching the rain through the open lounge room window as it falls in heavy waves from the dark sky. I sigh as the wind blows the rain inside and over the floor and I, though I don't really mind; it's not like I'm going to be staying here much longer. I try to brush a strand of slate blue hair out of my face but it just falls back obscuring my vision of the outside world. Iwill be leaving tomorrow, going back to Japan, though I don't fully understand why; I don't live there but I don't live here either. I don't really live anywhere, I have no family besides my grandfather but I want nothing to do with him.

I sigh and sit up on the lounge before walking over to the window, the feel of the rain is calming on my skin. I look out over the lights of the city, wondering where I'll end up in Japan. Tyson had offered for me to stay at the dojo with his grandfather and Rei wanted me to come visit him in China, however I doubt I'd be welcomed by Lee. I look around the dimly lit apartment my gaze falling on the clock hanging on the far wall, its 9:30, a bus would be coming to take us to the airport around 4:30 in the morning and my stuff is still packed.

Unlike my team mates I'm not as eager to leave Russia, why would be the main question coming from my team if they ever guessed, they're probably thinking I want to get as far away from my past as I can and why not? I have done everything I still bladed to achieve; I've freed Tala and the others. I guess that's one of the reasons why I want to stay, to see what's become of him; what's become of Tala with this newfound freedom. The other reason, you can't escape your past, I know because I've tried and failed and repeated the same process a dozen or so times; it doesn't work my past travels with me wherever I go.

I walk away from the window, still leaving it open, the rain blowing in and falling in patches on the floor before lying once more across the lounge, however there's a nock at the door.
"Great…" I mumble, if it's Tyson asking if I want to play another game of card I'll kill him. I get up and walk towards the front door before pulling it open.
"Tala…" I say slightly surprised as my eyes roam over the drenched beyblader in front of me.

"What happened to you?" I ask stepping aside as he walks in.
"You left me, I lost the World Championships, got abandoned by those who had given me a purpose, and I have been standing in the rain before I decided I wanted to see you," Tala tells me but before I can say something he starts talking again.
"So, I hear you're leaving tomorrow… where are you going?" he asks, I don't answer straight away trying to think of how he knew I was leaving, I guess it was the apartment manager.
"Japan," I tell him though there's no certainty in my voice.
"Oh…" is his reply as he sits on the floor.
"What do you want Tala?" I ask, sitting on the lounge my arms folded across my chest out of habit.
"I want you to stay… stay with me here in Russia," he tells me his ice blue eyes suddenly staring deeply into my own crimson ones.