A/N: So heres chapter 11!!! It starts off as a nightmare… hense the title 'nightmare' and everything being in italics lol. R&R PLEASE!!!

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Never-Ending Sadness

Chapter 11

Nightmare

It was stormy, the cold rain felt refreshing after the run through the woods, as I got to the top of the hill I could see my house, my mum and dad were sitting on the lawn, I called out as I ran up to them.

"Mummy! Daddy!"

"Hi Son," said dad, he looked a little troubled, mum was a bit pale.

"What's wrong? Did I do something I shouldn't have?" I asked.

"No Shinzo, it's not you, it's us, w-we have something to tell you." Mum stuttered.

"Oh..?" I sat down next to them, my mind now full of concern.

"Shinzo, you know that we're different, you to us, I mean, you're into fighting and that little sport you do-"

Dad couldn't finish without me correcting him.

"Beyblading,"

"Yes, well," he went on, me and your mother are into art and other things, did you ever wonder why were so different?"

"…Because you guys are aliens?" I joked.

None of them laughed.

"No, it's because… well… you were adopted." Mum looked away.

"Adopted?" I asked, a hint of fear in my voice.

"Yes," dad looked down at his shoes.

I felt betrayed, these people I had lived with all my life were now telling me they weren't who I thought they were, that they had lied to me for five whole years. I stood up and started to back away.

"Shinzo," called the woman sitting on the porch,

"Shinzo!"

I didn't want to hear anymore, I ran, I ran as fast as I could back up the hill, through the woods from which I came until I came to a stream.

Back at the house mum and dad were still talking.

"We expected this kind of behaviour from him,"

"Yes, he's only five but he can be very emotional at times."

At the stream I cried at the waters edge, I'd never actually cried before, not for as long as I could remember anyway.

Why did they lie to me? I thought. I hate them! I hate them all! I told myself bitterly.

It was nightfall before I finally had the courage to go back home, I stared at the dark blue sky, stars dotted it like that of a speckled birds egg, I closed my eyes as I bought my head down.

I noticed something peculiar, there was a strange smell in the air, I opened one eye to see a greyish substance coming from my house.

Smoke!

I ran towards the place I once called home and as I got to the top of the hill my heart sank, my house was engulfed with flames higher than the highest mountains.

"No," I whispered, "No!"

My feet hit the ground hard as I hurdled myself towards the blazing pit of flames, as I swift fully approached my home something cold landed on my cheek, then my arm, then my whole body, I looked up to see dark rain clouds blotting out the night sky.

They came in fast, I thought as it started to rain.

The wind picked up but the cold was the least of my worries, the flames withered in the gail and started to slowly die.

When I got to my home the flames were half the height they were before, thunder growled at me from the heavens above and lightening hit the ground somewhere close by, I didn't turn around, I wasn't concerned about that.

I dodged the flames that licked at my arms and legs as I tried to get through what looked like a door, but as I shoved half of my body through the whole a pile of bricks fell down from the roof – the house was falling apart!

Tears were once again rolling down my cheeks as I realised there was nothing I could do, the only people who had ever truly loved me were probably dead and there was nothing I could do about it.

I thought about just going in, just letting the fire take me as it had took them, but I knew I couldn't, it wouldn't be what they wanted.

Then I thought of running for help, but since we were out in the countryside I would be running for hours.

Then suddenly the nightmare changed, it was after the night, in the morning when I was searching through the rubble, hoping not to find a body, something to tell me that they had gotten out all right.

I dug and dug in the dirt for hours on end, not stopping until my hand hit something soft, the colour drained from my face as I scrapped away the ashes and bits of brick to reveal dads hand; it was blistered and a dark shade of red - almost brown, I could tell it was dad by the bit of paint on his hand where I had spilt some permanent red paint all over him and he hadn't removed that bit in time, I smiled at the memory.

After a few seconds I thought I saw movement where his face was, I dragged his body clear of the rubbish and onto some green grass.

"Dad?" I asked, a hint of hope in my voice, "Dad wake up,"

I nudged his arms gently – they were cold.

I checked for a pulse on his neck, when I found none I withdrew my hand like his skin had somehow burnt mine.

"I didn't mean it," I cried, "I don't hate you I love you!"

I rested my head on his chest and cried for longer than I can remember; only looking up when the rain had finally stopped and my crying had subdued.

Then the nightmare ended as darkness twisted its way in, covering everything in sight until there was nothing left.

It felt warm in one way, to float in eternal nothingness, to be one with the shadows… but then… there was the cold damp feeling in the pit of my stomach, the feeling that death was only inches away from engulfing you and spitting you out as only a mere memory.

My head hurt as I fell off the mattress wet with sweat and onto the floor, knocking the clock from its stand and flinching as its glass shattered into what seemed like a thousand pieces.

I breathed heavily and sat up, the covers wrapped around my arms and legs making it difficult to move, my heart stung with the painful memory and I somehow knew the nightmares were yet to come.

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A/N: Yes, I know, some of you may not like the idea of the Beyblade cross-over thing, but that's just the way it is. I did a story once of how he became a blader… But it was deleted from my computer! ::cries:: EVIL COMPUTER VIRUS SCUM!!! I'LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!!!! ::runs around in circles:: Yes… I'm weird this way ":) REVIEW PEOPLE!! OR I SHALL SEND THE-EVIL-COMPUTER –VIRUS-SCUM-I-HAVE-YET-TO-FIND-AND-DESTROY-AFTER-YOU!!!