Chapter four: Kai.
Isis turned around the corner, she cursed. She was completely lost in the maze of backstreets and alleyways. She sighed and closed her eyes, silently counting back from ten trying to calm down.
She felt the hairs on the back of her head prickle. She opened her eyes, looking up. Once again there was no one there. She started walking again, trying to ignore the trickles of rain that began to fall from the sky.
"This place is as unpredictable as England." She murmured, more to herself than anyone else around her.
She noticed a small light emitting from one of the warehouses. It was raining really heavily now, chucking it down so to speak. Isis walked in; hoping no-one was in.
To her surprise there wasn't. Someone must have forgotten to turn it off when they left. She thought to herself. She climbed over the low iron barrier and decided to explore the place.
She noticed the beystadium in the middle of the room. She felt for her launcher, she was bored and there wasn't much else to do while the rain thrashed about outside.
"Let it rip!" She muttered, setting her Dragweena loose. She let it spin for a while, watching it as it waited for an opponent to come into contact. Not that there was one of course. It spun back into her hand and she sighed.
"I thought you had a try out?" Isis spun round, it was Kai. Once more he had stolen into her presence without her noticing. She breathed a sigh of relief.
"Wha? Oh, yeah I did."
"Did?"
"That's right." She told him, he walked up to her from the door.
"You're cold." He told her; she shivered as though to prove him right.
"I didn't notice." He raised his eyebrow.
"Why aren't you at the dojo?" He asked her.
"Because I need to train." She lied. "Fine; I got lost." She admitted, "It started to rain and... I just landed up in here." She felt awkward at the silence between them.
"Do you want to go home?" He offered.
"Not yet," She said, reddening slightly when she realized how fast she said it. "I mean..." She trailed off.
"So where do you want to go?" He asked her. She stared for a while, not quite realizing what he said. She blushed again.
"Me?"
"Yes you."
"Oh, well..." She trailed off, thinking of somewhere to go. "How about the river?" She suggested, smiling.
"Let's go." He said. She stood there, confused. He turned around. "Are you coming?" He asked, she jumped out of her daydream and made her way towards him.
When they emerged outside it was raining heavily. The torrents thrashed down as they began walking down the ally. The winds were bitter as well. Numbing her skin with its icy grip. Isis shivered, goose bumps playing up on her arms.
Kai watched the girl next to him. What was it about her that had made him want to protect her so badly? She was like the Bladebreakers, same happy type as them all yet some how she was different. She's hiding something he realized, that was why she was different.
Isis sneezed.
"You okay?" He asked her.
She sneezed again.
"I'm... Achoo!" She sneezed. Falling forward slightly.
"Come on." He muttered. He took her to a small inn out of the way of everything and everyone. He nodded at the inn keeper who was eyeing them suspiciously.
"Where are we?" Isis asked, she was soaked through to the bone, shivering.
"Wait here." He told her. Disappearing through a doorway. Isis never felt so lonely in her life.
"Who are you?" A male voice asked her.
"No-one."
"Wrong answer, who are you?" He repeated. Well done Kai, thanks for leaving me here with a load of weirdoes. She turned around.
"That depends on what you want to know." She said, avoiding the question.
"Okay then, what's your name?" He asked.
"Tell me who wants to know." She persisted. The male spun her round.
"Tell me your name bitch." He growled. She slapped his hand away. He laughed menacingly then grew serious almost straight away.
"How do you know Kai Hiwatari?" He asked her.
"Why?" She asked, avoiding all his questions. He lost his temper.
"For fuck's sake just tell me woman!" He shouted at her. He went to hit her but was stopped, Kai's hand preventing him from doing so.
"Get off her now." He spoke quietly, his voice deadly.
"K... Kai!" The boy backed off, his face going an ashen colour.
"If you go anywhere near her again then hear it from me you shall regret it." He used the same deadly voice as before. The boy fled.
"Who was that?" She asked, accepting the jacket he gave her.
"He was no-one." He told her, his tone finishing the subject.
They walked out of the inn back into the rain. Isis folded her arms, still shivering, not so much of the cold, more because a cold was setting in.
They walked out of the alleys in silence. The rain had stopped around five minutes after they had emerged from them. They walked down through the crowded city and down to the river.
He took her down to a local beauty stop along the river side. She gasped at the sparkling river as it ran its course, at the few trees that sparsely populated the area and the brightly coloured wild flowers dotted around.
The two spent the rest of the day talking; mostly about their travels and adventures. Isis told him about her recent tour in Europe in the solo tournament. Kai told her a few things about what he had been doing while he was away from the Bladebreakers, though not too much.
Isis remembered something about what the Espanola Angeles had said, about why they needed a new member.
"So you're back because of a tour your going to go on? Is it on an island by any chance?" She asked.
"How did you know?"
"It was something the team I was trying out for said, that's all."
"So you did go?"
"Yeah, they kinda gave me the creeps though. The person who was taking me to the try outs kept going on about defeating you guys, and how I'd be an invaluable part of the team because I'm Tyson's cousin."
"What did you say to that?"
"Well I told them to piss off duh." She said, as though it was obvious.
"Why?"
She looked at him peculiarly.
"Because I like you guys." She told him. "And there's no way I'm betraying Tyse, I'm no traitor." Kai nodded.
"You'd better be going back, it's getting late." He told her. "So? I've told you, I can look after myself." She told him.
"Yeah, but the rest of the guys will be wondering where you are." He got up, waiting for her to do so also.
"Okay fine. I'll see later some time?" She asked an innocent question.
"Maybe." He told her, walking off.
