DISCLAIMER: Don't own, wish I did, but don't own.
WARNING: (see previous chapters) yaoi, bad language, etc.
Dizzy: You don't have to put those in every chapter you know.
Aouni: Who cares? Anywho – I know I've taken a long time to update this fic, but this chapter has been evil -.-U I kept having to rewrite it because it just wouldn't turn out the way I wanted it to … And it still hasn't -.-;;
..::Chapter Four::..
Kai looked at the large cardboard box with contempt. He would have loved to set it on fire and watch it – or more specifically, it's contents – burn.
At first, he had been rather puzzled to receive a package in a hotel in Spain. After all, their tournament started in three days – who would send him mail? Then he had seen the letter attached neatly to the top of the box in a formal envelope.
Opening it curiously, he had read it:
Dear Beyblader
Enclosed is a set of uniforms. They are to be distributed to the team by your captain (this should be you) and worn for the tournament next week. If there are any errors regarding uniform size or gender, please mail back with an order form filled out with the correct information.
Sincerely
Abigail Dochstader – BBA chairwoman
Somehow, Kai managed to reason with himself that setting the box on fire would not be a good idea. Presently, he shoved the box under the bed – he would think of a way to get rid of it later.
Deciding that beyblading would be a good way to take his mind of things, he proceded to leave the room and round the rest of the team up for some training – but he never made it out the door.
He was about to reach out and open it, when it flew open on it's own, sending a streak of red and yellow flying at him. The two boys landed in a heap in the floor and Kai glared up at the offending teen – who turned out to be none other than Tyson.
"Hey Kai!" the younger boy smiled nervously under his lover's glare, "Uh… would you like me to get off of you?"
Kai narrowed his eyes and Tyson hopped off, running over to the other side of the room and shutting the door. He turned around, stormy eyes bright with excitement.
"I've got the perfect plan! Ray thinks he and Max can't be together because they're gay, right?"
Kai sighed, he was still slightly disoriented from being thrown so suddenly onto the floor, and Tyson was speaking too fast.
"Right?" Tyson prodded, slightly impatient in his excitement.
"Uh… right," said Kai.
"So we have to show them that there's nothing wrong with it – I mean, lots of other people are… um… like that," he blushed slightly, but continued, "So, I mean, if they realize that, then maybe they'll get back together, right?"
The words flew by so quickly and Kai hadn't even blinked. He blinked now, out of pure confusion, but Tyson didn't seem to notice, and continued babbling.
"Well, I got the perfect idea – Hilary doesn't like it, that's proof that it's perfect!"
Things were beginning to make more sense in Kai's puzzled mind. Tyson had an idea on how to get Ray and Max back together. That was what the dragon was saying… wasn't it?
Then Tyson leaned over and whispered his idea to Kai. Everything snapped back into focus real quick for the older teenager.
"Nani?!"
"It's brilliant!" said Tyson proudly.
"Kinomiya, have you lost it?" growled Kai.
Tyson looked puzzled, "Lost what?"
"Wait, you never had it, did you?" there was simply no way Tyson's little scheme was going to work.
"No," said Tyson wistfully, "I've never had it."
Now it was once again Kai's turn to be confused, "What are you talking about?"
"We've never had it," said Tyson, as if this was the most obvious thing in the world, "because you aren't ready to go that far."
It suddenly clicked.
"I wasn't talking about that!" snapped Kai, blushing furiously despite himself.
Tyson grinned smugly, "See what I mean? You aren't ready."
Kai glared at him, "I am so!"
"No you're not," said Tyson, shaking his head as if explaining something to a small child, "If you were, then you would be able to admit that you are going to be uke. But you can't do that yet."
Kai fumed, "I'm not being uke!"
"See?" said Tyson, smiling mischievously.
Kai glared, I'll show him. Before the younger boy knew what was happening, he was lying flat on the bed, straddled by Kai's long legs.
"If we ever get around to doing it – as you put it – then you will be the uke," said Kai, "Understand?"
Tyson struggled, "Baka! Not fair! I wasn't expecting that!"
Kai smirked, but it didn't last long, because he suddenly found himself on the floor, with Tyson on top of him. The younger boy never got the chance to make any smug remarks however, because the phoenix flipped the two of them over again.
This battle for dominance went on for quite sometime, neither boy getting the upper hand for very long, until they eventually bumped into the clock beside the bed.
2;35 pm
The two boys stared at the clock in shock. Neither of them had suspected that they had been going at it for so long.
"We missed lunch!" Tyson shrieked, pulling himself up in panic, "How could we miss lunch?!"
Kai sighed exasperatedly – that was Tyson for you, always thinking about food.
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Hilary ended up shouting at Tyson for nearly half an hour for missing lunch and the first training session. She didn't quite have the nerve to yell at Kai, but nagged him endlessly about missing training.
"What happened? You never miss training."
In the end, Kai had shrugged it off, saying – rather bluntly – that he had to answer a letter from the BBA (which was partly true).
After training, Tyson set about to put his plan into action – despite Hilary's protests. He sent her off to get the others, and the proceded to plead with his boyfriend.
"Come on Kai, you have to come with us!"
"No."
"I can't do this without your help!" whined Tyson, putting on his cutest puppy look.
Kai didn't look at him, "No."
Then Tyson got an evil idea, "Oh Kai…" he said sweetly. His Phoenix ignored him, but he continued, "If you don't come with me, then I'll have to go all alone."
Kai said nothing.
Tyson continued, knowing his plan was working, "And there'll be no one to protect me..." he let the sentence hang.
He grinned, noticing Kai's muscles tense slightly, "So, Kai," he asked innocently, "Are you coming?"
He found himself faced with a pair of scowling crimson eyes, "Fine," said Kai, his voice dangerously low, "but you owe me."
Tyson grinned, he had won! Score for him. Then it sank in – he owed Kai…
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Max looked up as the bus screeched to a halt. Tyson had dragged them all to some place he'd looked up in the phone book. Max was a little suspicious, especially when Tyson refused to mention what kind of place it was.
Max peered out the window at the small building. It looked like some kind of night club… but why would Tyson take them to a place like that? He shook the idea of, it was silly. (AN: I don't know if there's an age limit to go into those places, but for the purpose of this ficcy I'm going to pretend there isn't.)
"Is this the place?" asked Ray, frowning.
Tyson nodded confidently, "At least, I think so…" he added glancing around.
Hilary nudged him, "This had better work, or you're in big trouble!" she hissed.
The blue-eyed blader made a face, "Yeah, yeah I know."
"Regardless of whether it works or not," said Kai softly, "You still owe me."
"You're not going to let me forget that, are you?" sighed Tyson, he really wasn't looking forward to what Kai had in store for him.
"No," he smiled slyly, "In fact – I've already thought up your punishment…"
Tyson's eyes widened and Hilary laughed, assuming this 'punishment' had something to do with training. (AN: No, it's not that kind of punishment -.-U)
"Hey guys," called Ray, he was standing at the door, as Max and Kenny had already gone inside, "Are you coming?"
"Yeah," called Tyson. He and Hilary ran ahead, with Kai trailing behind.
As they walked in the building a tall burly man stopped Hilary, "Are you sure you're the right place, girly?"
Hilary froze.
"Of course she is!" laughed Tyson, pulling her away from man.
The brunette glared at him, "You know what Tyson? I think you are going to owe me too!"
"Aw c'mon…" Tyson whined, looking to Kai for support, but his boyfriend ignored him.
The three of them sat down at the counter, Max, Ray and Kenny had disappeared in the throng of dancing people. This was good, or so Tyson thought.
"Hey beautiful, what can I get you to drink?"
The midnight-haired teenager turned around, but the pick-up line hadn't been addressed to him.
"Nothing, thank you," replied Kai coldly.
Hilary was obviously trying hard to surpress a fit of giggles as the bartender made yet another move on the Bladebreakers' stoic captain.
"C'mon baby, have a drink, on the house," he winked, leaning over the counter so he was only inches away from the dual-haired teenager.
"No."
Tyson was seriously beginning to regret making Kai come to this place, but Hilary seemed to find the whole situation hilarious. She burst out into a fit of giggles when the bartender leaned in even closer.
"Aw, don't play hard to get, sweet stuff," he reached out to touch Kai's hand but was smacked away – not by Kai, but by Tyson.
The smaller boy growled at the bartender as he pointed at his lover, "Mine."
"Ah," said the bartender retreating back behind the counter, "I didn't realize he was taken," he winked and went on, "You should be more careful, such a pretty thing attracts attention."
Kai rolled his eyes as the bartender went off to serve someone else.
Hilary didn't notice the exchange, she was too busy having hysterical fits of laughter.
Tyson snorted contemtously at the bartender, but was taken by surprise when he found his Phoenix glaring at him, "What?"
"I didn't need your help," he muttered.
"What? You think I was just going sit back and watch that guy-"
"I can take care of myself!" Kai snapped.
Tyson was angry now, "Well, you didn't seem to be doing a very good job of it!"
Before Kai could reply, the Chief came running up to them, clutching his laptop fearfully to his chest.
"Tyson!" he squeaked, looking around in paranoia.
The said boy raised an eyebrow, "Yeah? What is it, Chief?"
"Tyson, this is a gay bar."
"I know!" gasped Hilary, still giggling, "Did you see that bartender? Hitting on Kai?" she burst out laughing again, "That was hilarious!"
Tyson frowned, "I didn't think it was very funny," he muttered.
Kenny paled, "It's not! Tyson! We have to get out of here!"
Kai shushed them and gestured anxiously to the other side of the room, where one of the bouncers was dragging a figure, who looked suspiciously like a neko-jin they knew, out the door.
Hilary stopped laughing, and shot Tyson a worried look.
The dragon blader's eyes widened, "Maybe we should leave… Where's Max?"
Kai pointed at the back door, "He just left."
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Ray growled as he pulled himself up. He didn't know why he had gotten involved, he should have just left Max alone. But the happy-go-lucky blonde was drunk, he didn't know what he was doing.
Ray just couldn't stand the sight of his Maxy dancing with a complete and total stranger. Oh, hissed a voive in his head, but he's not your Maxy anymore. It was true, and Ray hated himself for it. He tried to tell himself that he was only doing this because Max was still his friend – because he didn't want to see the younger boy do something stupid while he was intoxicated, but that same voice continued to taunt him.
He still loved Max, and seeing him with someone else had made him jealous. That was the only reason he had intervened, the voice said. Then it continued to mock him. Ray tried his best to ignore it.
The Chinese boy walked over to the empty parking lot, still a little sore from being tossed out by the bouncer. He saw the door open and he saw a blur of yellow, orange and green run out of it.
"Max…"
The younger boy looked up, obviously still drunk, "Leave me alone!"
Ray couldn't stand it, he hated having people mad with him. No one ever seemed to understand his decisions… Sometimes he didn't even understand them himself.
"Maxy, please…"
"No! Why'd you make a scene? It's not like you want me! You said so yourself!"
"I never said that…"
"SHUT UP!" Max screamed. Out of the corner of his eye, Ray could see the others freeze just outside the doorway at this outburst.
"What's wrong with me having a little fun? Am I not supposed to move on with my life? Well you should have thought of that before you dumped me!"
"Max, you're drunk, you're not thinking clearly," Ray tried to reason, fully aware that the others were now staring at them and feeling a little self-concious because of it.
Max laughed, hiccupping slightly, "I wasn't thinking clearly when I fell in love with you, Ray. Now," his voice began to slur, "Now, I am thinking clearly, yesh, I am!"
Kenny made a terrified noise, sounding a cross between a squeak and a gasp, and then he fainted. Hilary caught the small boy, looking alarmed.
"No, you're not."
"Why ish that? Am I supposed to be pining over you for the rest of my life? Well, I has news for you Ray!" he grinned proudly, "I hate you!" he began to giggle hysterically, startling them all.
"I hate you!" he said again, as if this was the funniest thing in the world, "I. Hate. You!"
"Max?" said Tyson tentatively, taking a step forward, "Maybe we should go back to the hotel now."
"I," he hiccupped again, "Hate Ray!" he suddenly stopped giggling, and his face contorted into a look of rage, "I HATE HIM!"
Ray was taken aback, he'd never seen Max like this. Draciel's blader had always been cheerful, optimistic and happy-go-lucky. He was the kind of kid who was always happy, and worked hard to make other people happy. Seeing Max like this hurt – and it was all his fault.
Max went into a small fit of sobs, continuously whimpering "I hate him" until he finally collapsed into Tyson's arms.
Ray couldn't watch, he turned away ashamed, expecting the others to shoot him accusing looks, or demand an explanation, but nothing happened.
"The bus is here," said Kai softly. Ray assumed the others had called it when they were leaving the bar.
Hilary managed to wake Kenny up by pinching him, and he stumbled groggily onto the bus. They had no such luck with Max, and Kai and Tyson ended up carrying the unconscious blader.
When they got back to the hotel, Ray offered to take Max up to his room, feeling guilty since the younger boy was still out cold. This was all his fault… He should never have broken up with Max… but their relationship went against everything he had been taught, and for the longest time it had bugged him.
They would be meeting the White Tigers in the tournament. What would his old friends have said? He had worried about how they would shun him again – they would shun Max.
He had told himself that it was for the good of both of them that they end it, but it was really just for his own selfish reasons. He lay Max on the bed and watched him for a minute.
What good had it done Max?
Aouni: I'm so evil to Max, aren't I? ::sighs:: This chapter was longer originally, but I had to cut the last part off because it was getting too long. -.-U Don't worry, I didn't get rid of it – it's in the next chappie.
Tyson: ::smiles sweetly while holding Aouni's cat hostage:: Are you going to answer you're reviews?
Aouni: My kitty! I am going to answer them! I am! Put her down!! .
Reviews:
Thanks to: Silvery Kitsune, Angel V, Kiina, Enchanted Crimson Rose, Fireie Gurl and Feelin Glayish for reviewing!!
Silvery Kitsune: We do need more yaoi – silly Ray. -.-U;; Good luck with you're ficcys too! Me has read some of them, they is good! :) Lots of fluffy yaoi-ness!
Angel V: Me is a huge tyka fan too! They is the only pairing me writes about, usually. (Don't ask what happened to my grammar… school's out and it ran away…)
Crimson: Don't get me started on a "who is better" argument ;) Trust me, I can be annoying. :) Maybe Tyson and Kai will do that… but I don't think they'll want to interfere anymore after the incident in this chappie… -- I've never come across this flamer guy yet, but thanks for the warning. He sounds like a real loser -.-;;
Glay: :) How Ty and Kai got together comes up a little next chappie, hopefully me can put in the whole little side story by the time this fic is finished :)
Aouni: Tyson!! Put my kitty down!
Tyson: You didn't say thank you yet!
Aouni: I did so!
Tyson: I didn't hear you -.-;;
Aouni: Thanks again for reviewing everybody! :) Please reviews again! Reviews make me happy! Uh, now, if you excuse me, I have a muse to kill. TYSON!!
Tyson: EEP! Reviewers get candy from Max's sugar stash! AAAAAAAHHHHH!! ::runs away from angry authoress::