A/N: The beginning of the chapter backtracks to after dinner when Jun had just left and Rai is by himself.

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Last time on TSFTK.........

Jun walked away from the four fallen members of the Black Ninjas and made her way, sore and pain filled body included, towards the door.

"I hope you understand now, that nobody messes with or goes after the people I love," Jun retorted out as she walked out the door. She slowly made her way back out of the business district. Her body ached all over and she knew she wouldn't be able to manage to carry a bag of groceries home tonight, so she though she would get it early in the morning the next day. As she walked the deserted streets of downtown Kyoto, she walked passed the grocery store when she heard a gasp in front of her. She looked up to see who it was and she felt as if her heart had stopped. She face grew pale as she saw who was in front of her.

"Rai..........?"

Chapter 13: Truth's Out – Part I

Rai sat down on the breakfast table in the same chair that Jun had occupied that very same morning.

He didn't understand what had happened that very afternoon. The past couple of days flew through Rai's mind as it filled with his interaction with Jun. He had thought that she liked him like how he liked her.

Just that morning things had been going great. He had felt a connection with Jun and he had hoped that she had felt it too.

But he was being delusional.

All she felt was friendship because.........because she was in love with someone else. He didn't know with whom, but he didn't want too. It already hurt too much for him to find out who had Jun's heart.

But why did it hurt so much? Shouldn't he be happy for her that she had found someone?

It wasn't like he was.........in love with her, was it?

NO!

He cared for her deeply, but he didn't love her. They only had known each other for a little over a week. People can't fall for someone that fast, can they?

Sure Jun was funny, intelligent, beautiful and mysterious, especially when it came to her bit beast. Not only that, but she understood what he had went through when he had left his old village and the White Tigers to broaden his horizon for learning new blading skills.

She understood him when no one else did because she went through the same thing. She had left her friends and family to find new ways to blade.

She was the only one who understood and didn't pass judgment. But that didn't mean that he was in love with her right?

Sure he found her quite attractive and wanted to go out with her.

Sure, maybe he did dream about what it would be like to kiss her.

But that could be crossed off with being a typical male with high levels of hormones.

Rai rubbed his temples and let out a groan. All this thinking was giving him a headache. But before his mind went into overdrive thinking about Jun again, Rai was saved by a very welcomed distraction, Kai.

Since Kai and Haoma had left for the backyard after dinner to train, Rai hadn't seen either for at least an hour. So it was surprising to see him.

Kai walked in from the backyard patio into the kitchen and went to the fridge to retrieve a couple of water bottles.

Rai looked at Kai in amusement. He was sweaty and a little out of breath.

"Training and blading is not what it use to be?" He asked his captain. Kai looked over at him and scowled before closing the fridge door.

"Girl doesn't know when to give up." Kai commented. Rai let out a chuckle before giving him a response.

"Just like someone else I know." Rai mused. Kai gave a levelled glare to him before settling himself in a chair opposite of Rai.

"Have you and Jun formed a pack to get us together? Cause if you have, it isn't going to work." Kai commented, not letting Rai on how he felt for Haoma.

Rai felt a tug on his heart when Kai said her name. He willed himself not to flinch and focused on Kai.

"Everyone can see that you two care for each other," Rai responded, avoiding Kai's question.

Kai, in return, chose to ignore Rai's comment and opened up his water bottle and took a big gulp. He casually settled the bottle down and looked back at Rai, scrutinizing him making Rai very nervous.

"Did you and Jun have a fight today? You guys weren't your usual selves." Kai said with an edge in his voice. A streak of over protectiveness settled over Kai for his sister.

"How so." Rai said coolly, refusing to panic.

"Well, you weren't talking and you two weren't teasing anybody about their, let's say, love life," he explained.

"No, we didn't have a fight." Rai told Kai, which was the truth.

"Well then, from what I hear, you and my sister have been getting pretty close." Kai accused Rai, emphasising on the word 'sister'. Now Rai did flinch outwardly making Kai very curious in what had happened between them.

"You don't have to worry about anything. It's not like anything going to happen to us." Rai mumbled, his composure finally breaking and in front of Kai nonetheless.

'Shoulder slumped, eyes downcast, and frustrated. It's like the same look I get when I think that I'll never be able to get with Haoma.' Kai thought. 'He must really like Jun, but why wouldn't anything happen between them. Jun's the one to give it a try at least.' He mused.

"Why would nothing happen between you two?" Kai asked the question out loud. That comment had bugged him. Jun wasn't dating anyone, Haoma would have told him or Jun would have told him.

"It's because she's in love with someone else." Rai mumbled, swallowing the lump in his throat when he had to say 'love'.

Kai's eyes widened slightly at the statement. Emotions flickered across his face openly before settling on disbelief as he looked upon the defeated look on Rai.

"No she's not!" Kai all but shouted. Rai's eyes flew to Kai's with a surprised look.

"How do you know?"

"She would of told me. Just last night, I had asked her if she was seeing anyone and she had said no." Kai responded. Rai shut his eyes tight before slowly opening them. His gaze wasn't on Kai but on the table.

"Well, she doesn't have to be seeing him. She could still love him," Rai said, refusing to allow himself to hope that whatever Kai was saying was true.

"I asked her if she had a love life and she said no, which basically means she doesn't care for anyone either. She's not in love with anyone." Kai replied.

"Who's not in love with anyone?" A voice said behind Kai. He turned to see Haoma walking in from the patio doors and casually settled herself down beside him before talking the extra water bottle on the table and drinking from it.

"Jun," Kai responded to her question.

"Well, of course she's not in love with anyone. Where did you two get the idea that she was?"

"Jun told me she was," Rai muttered. Haoma gave a perturbed look before locking her eyes with Rai.

"Well then she's lying........." she whispered out to him. Rai looked at her shocked.

'Why? Why would she lie to me then? I don't get it? If she didn't want to go out with me, she should have said so!' Rai thought as his mind whirled with all possible answers to those all unexplained questions.

"Why would she lie?" He asked the others, after not coming up with a suitable answer. Kai had a confused look on his face while Haoma sported a thoughtful look.

"I really don't know. I mean I know she would have at least agreed to a date, but maybe it's either that's she hiding something or it's because you're Kai's friend. I mean, she wouldn't want to cause a problem to rise if she did start to date you." Haoma explained to both of them. Rai and Haoma both turned to Kai who ignored them and sat in silence. Haoma gave a frustrated growl before sighing. "Just wait until she gets back and then talk to her about this," Haoma said while getting up and making her way outside to the backyard to train again. Kai got up to follow her, but stopped just before he passed through the door the led to the outside patio.

"Rai?"

"Ya."

"You really like my sister?" He asked. Rai took a big breath calming himself down.

"Very much." He answered back. Kai gave a wary glare before nodding.

"If you hurt her, I'll kill you," he suggested before leaving. But not before giving Rai a small smile to tell him that he approved of the match.

Rai gave a sigh of relief. At least he had Kai's approval, so it wasn't like he was going to be skinned alive by him if Rai went out with Jun. Now all he had to worry about was Jun. He had to find out why she lied to him. Was it that she was afraid of problems that would arise if they dated with him and Kai or was she hiding something. He gave a frustrated growl throughout the empty kitchen. He got out of his chair and made his way out of the kitchen and to the hallway making his way to the foyer. He passed the foyer and was making his way for the stairs to get to his bedroom, before something caught his topaz eyes.

Settled on the foyer table amongst a plant and a vase with flowers was a couple of bill of money. This was the same wad of money that Haoma had placed for Jun to use at the grocery store in which she had left to go an hour before.

Rai made his way over to the money and picked it up.

"Why would she leave without the money?" He asked himself. He turned towards the closed front door and drew his brows together and a frown appeared on his lips. He made his decision then and went to the door and opened it, before disappearing through it. His intent?.........To find Jun.

"Yes, I win again!" Lily shouted as she beat Max at yet another arcade game. She laughed and did a little victory dance around Max, which soon had him laughing.

"Okay, okay! You may have won the battle but not the war!" Max yelled out through his laughter. Lily nodded before they both turned and made their way to another suitable game for them to face off with each other.

They had been at the arcade for over an hour and had played various video games. It wasn't until now that they both had the same thought that maybe their friends had been right and this was a date.

"No! How? How could you win?" Lily said dramatically. Max puffed up his chest and pointed at the game that they had just played.

"Well, naturally the answer is easy. I rule at gun games," he said half-heartedly with a big grin full of mischief.

"Well, sorry your highness, but it's not my fault if I'm not violent," Lily retorted with her own grin.

"And that's just the way I like you." The words flew out of Max's mouth before he had time to think about them. He saw Lily's eyes widened at his comment and he berated himself for speaking his mind so freely. Suddenly he noticed the light tint to Lily's cheeks and realized that she was blushing! It wasn't soon after when he started blushing as well and Lily had picked up on this causing her blush to intensify.

"Um, loser was suppose to buy drinks," Lily said softly. This broke the tension in the air that had formed around them as well as broke the trance that they both were in.

"Um, ya, so you buy," Max nervously told her. Lily's brows scrunched together as she frowned.

"What do you mean I buy? You lost more time than me." Lily responded.

"No way, you lost more times." Max replied confidently. Lily crossed her arms in front of her as she gazed at Max.

"All right then. Let's start a clean slate. I don't care how long we are, but I'm going to see you buy me a drink!" Lily challenged in which Max agreed. They both went back to facing each other in various arcade games while others around them commented on how cute a couple they were.

In the dark movie theatres, Liz and Kenny sat in the middle of the theatre munching on their own popcorn and drinks as they watched the movie being played. It starred Jet Li and was called HERO.

In front of them, actually a few rows in front of them, sat Zeo and Shina comfortably, sharing a big bag of popcorn with their own drinks.

From the corner of his eyes, Kenny saw Zeo move his arm around Shina and then pulled her to him.

As Kenny watched this, he got an idea. He turned his head slightly to his side and watched at Liz watched the movie. He discreetly moved his arm around Liz and slowly pulled her to him. She turned to him and he held his breath thinking she would pull away from him. However, she just smiled and snuggled up to him and continued watching the movie.

Kenny let out the breath he was holding and held onto her tighter before returning as well to watching the movie.

"Dranzer attack!"

"Go Nuri!"

The clash of beyblades echoed the open surrounding as Kai and Haoma fought with everything that they had left. As they concentrated the last of their energy to their bit beast, battling overhead of them, they fell onto their knees panting.

Metal against metal was heard and a roar overhead before a flash of light lit up the area. As the light dimmed, Kai and Haoma crawled to see into the dish and saw both of their beyblades on their sides, out for the count.

"Well, it's a tie,"

"Again," Kai muttered as he lay down beside the dish. He propped his head on his arms, which were behind his head and looked up at the stars.

Haoma sighed and crawled over to Kai before settling beside Kai, using his chest for a pillow. She felt him tense for a moment before relaxing.

Kai looked down at Haoma and couldn't help but let out a small smile. He unconsciously had taken one of his hands and it hovered over her head, waiting to get tangled in her hair. However, Kai's mind caught on and the hand retreated to its original space behind his head. He sighed silently and looked at Haoma's peaceful face as she looked up into the sky at the twinkling stars.

"So what are you going to do about Rai and Jun?" Haoma's voice filtered into Kai's head. He noticed that she had turned her gaze from the stars to him. He looked at her for a second before turning his gaze at the night sky.

"What is there for me to do? Wasn't it you who told me that Jun wasn't a child anymore and she could handle and take care of herself?" He told her. He heard Haoma gave a surprised gasp.

"You mean, you actually were listening to me?" She said humourlessly to him. Kai could feel the smirk that she was sporting even though his blue-grey eyes were on the moon.

"Well, your annoying voice is very hard to ignore," he retorted back as he grinned up at the moon. Laughter filled the air and he turned his stare to Haoma who was laughing.

"So my voice is annoying then? Well, then I guess from now on I won't stop talking, just so I can keep annoying you!" Haoma shot back. Kai dramatically made a horror face as the comment and successfully made Haoma fall back into her fit of laughter.

"I would much rather hear your laughter," he whispered once Haoma's laughter had subsided. For her part, Haoma gave off a small blush before settling herself back with her head on Kai's chest and her eyes onto the twilight sky.

"Sounds like a plan to me," she whispered back as they both fell into a comfortable silence.

Rai stumbled down the streets of downtown Kyoto, making his was to the supermarket that Jun would be in. As he was walking, he felt the light drops of rain falling before huge amounts came pouring down.

Rai cursed as he began to walk faster. He could see the supermarket that was just across from him, but another sight made him stop and gasp out loud.

There making her way, with her head down to him, was Jun. Her clothes were ripped in places, her hair was dishevelled and he was guessing, she had some bruises. As he gasped, he saw her head pulling up and her eyes widening in horror at the sight of him as well as paling.

Rai could clearly see the bruises on her face as well as her arms, and he could just guess what else was wrong with her.

'What happened to her?' Rai thought as he looked over her. Only one word escaped Jun's mouth and it made his heart stop at the intensity and pain she said it.

"Rai........?"

A/N: O.o WOW! Well, I know I left you at the same cliffie as before, but I love suspense. Plus I wanted to get out at least part of the chapter before I leave to go to university. That's why I put up Part I.

Well, you did get some fluff and more info on other characters, which I have been neglecting, so it's all good.

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