Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade as sad as I feel about it.

Warnings: Shounen-ai, ooc:ness and later fluffyness… and probably also corniness

Chiaki-chan: I'm so sorry. This chapter is probably the worst one so far. It is written in Kai's point of view, since Rei is unconscious and all. And I suck at it. So try to survive this and I can go back to the normal.


Chapter 3: Messed up

"Was Rei crying?" I heard Max's voice from the hallway. I actually felt guilty and… sad?

"Rei? Crying? Seriously Max, I can't remember when Rei had cried…" There was a short pause in Takaos speech. "Oh my god!" It didn't take long to the foul-mouth to rush in my and the neko-jin's room, where I was sitting on the bed, thinking. "Kai what happened?" Soon the dragon was joined with the other two.

"None of your business." I grunted.

"Well, something must be really wrong, to make Rei actually cry!" the blue-haired boy shouted at me. I really wasn't in a mood to argue with anyone right now.

"Don't make me repeat myself." I warned opening my closed eyes to give Takao a glare to shut up. And he actually did close his mouth glaring back at me.

"Dizzy, do you know what happened?" Kenny asked whispering. Oh great. Wasn't the computer ever closed? She was sure to find herself from junkyard if she said a word.

"It's not my place to tell you." The bitbeast answered. Very smart move from her.

"Since when have you actually kept your mouth shut?" the Dragoon's blader murmured turning to face his friends and the computer.

"I may be talkative, but even I have an instinct of self-preservation." The woman's voice answered sounding offended.

"Don't you think that maybe we should go after Rei and ask him?" The blond-haired boy suggested. It is such a nice feeling, when others speak like you weren't there. Like I minded anyway.

"Let him be." I spoke closing my eyes again. "He'll be back after he has cooled down." Or so I hoped. To my surprise, the others actually listened without arguing and exited the room, leaving me with my thoughts again.


I looked at the clock: twenty to nine. This was getting annoying. Why was I glancing at the clock ever five seconds and feeling restless?

I sighed in defeat. So I was worried about Rei, nothing wrong with that. He was a member of my team after all and it had been more than half an hour ago when he had left. I closed the book I had been trying to read. It was rather ironical that when the other three team members were quiet, I couldn't concentrate. I stood up and left the room.

The moment I opened the door to the living room, three pairs of eyes turned to look at me worriedly.

"Kai. Don't you think that we should go find him?" Max spoke.

"He was upset, so he could have got lost or something." Takao agreed, looking at me almost pleadingly. If I wasn't also worried about the Chinese blader I probably would be enjoying the look the younger boy gave me.

"Put a fire in the fireplace, I'll go get him." Did I just say that? Argh! Feelings are such a waste. Since when had I become this soft?

I was about to exit the hut, when something got over me and I grabbed the amber-eyed boy's scarf and gloves with me. He probably had taken only coat with him anyway.

Not long after I stepped outside snowflakes started to fall from the sky. Ignoring them I went to find where Rei could have gone. Luckily, the tiger had been distressed, making him careless. Otherwise he hadn't left behind the little imprints on the snow, which started almost opposite of the front door. Keeping my eyes on them I went deeper into the forest.

After walking briskly about ten minutes, I still hadn't seen any sing of the other youth. I had been following the prints and I was positive that they were the neko-jin's. I heard a thud when something hit the snowy ground straight ahead.

Pacing up I continued towards the noise. My heart skipped a beat in fear, when I noticed the amber-eyed beauty lying on his stomach on the ground his long, ebony hair spread around him. I hurried to the other's side checking his condition.

His skin was all cold, but having dealt with frostbites before I was relieved that he wasn't in mortal danger. Still, I had to get him into warm as fast as possible. I put the gloves and scarf, I had taken with me and my own jacket on him. Picking him up, I headed back to towards the cottage.

Of course the snow had decided to make it even harder for me, so the tough snow on the surface collapsed making me walk in 40 cm deep snow. But I didn't let it slow me down.

If you ask me, it took all too long to get back. The youth in my arms was shivering and even the thought that his life wasn't in danger didn't ease me.

As soon as I opened the front door of the hut all three boys that had been waiting ran in the hall way. They stopped on their tracks when they noticed the unconscious Rei.

"Takao, get all blankets you find. Max and Kenny, fill every bottle available with as hot water as you can get." I ordered. My anger started to grow when the others jus stayed there staring. "NOW!" I shouted snapping them out of the daze.

They ran to get what I had asked for and I made my way to my and the Chinese boy's room, taking off his coat and wet clothes, changing him to a dry, warm ones. I laid him down on the bed under the covers. Soon Takao entered carrying a pile of blankets that we put on the tiger and the hot water bottles were also putted on the bed to keep it warm.

As the others still fussed over Rei I hanged our outdoor clothes back into the crack and made my way in the living room to lean against one of the walls. My mind was spinning. I didn't know what to think or what to feel. For once I was all messed up.

At some point the others joined me in the living room looking gloomy. It took a good ten minutes from them to start speaking. Surprising it was the foul-mouth to speak first.

"What happened?" Takao inquired again standing in front of me.

"It doesn't concern you." I answered looking at him seriously. I knew it was coming, but didn't really care to dodge the punch the dragon blader threw across my face. I know I deserved that one, and besides, like the boy could actually hit hard enough to hurt me.

"The hell, it does concern me!" He yelled grabbing me by the collar of my shirt. "Rei is our friend and he almost froze to death, so I think you better start explaining! I wasn't surprised if this was all your doing."

"Do you actually think I wanted this to happen?" I asked him raising my voice. It was my fault, but still it didn't mean I wanted it to happen. "Do you really think I'm enjoying this?"

"Well I wouldn't be surprised if you were!" Takao shot back. "Oh right. You might lose a valuable blader, of course you care." He continued with disdain.

"You really think that much of me?" I asked hiding the emotional mess that was getting worse inside me.

"Then why would you care?" The midnight-haired boy questioned.

"Because…" I started, but couldn't end the sentence, unsure about the actual reason.

"Because he's a team member? Because he's a friend? Because of what?" the other youth pried. But I couldn't find myself answer the questions. Why did I care?

"You can't even say it!" Takao mocked. I noticed his grip had loosened from my collar, so I brushed the hand away and walked towards the front door.

"Running away?" The dragon asked challenging.

"I'll be back within two hours and if you even think about trying to lock me out, you'll find yourself missing one of your dear limbs." This made the loud-mouth shut up at last. Snatching my coat with me I went outside.

I took a deep breath trying to calm myself down. For a second I actually could have carried out my threat. It was a sign that I was losing control over myself, and I didn't like it.

After five minutes just standing there, I started walking towards the main road, both Rei's and Takao's words echoing in my mind.

Did I really hurt the ebony-haired so much? Then why did he try to get me open up if I did? And why did I care? Why couldn't I say I cared for Rei because he was my friend? Would it have been a lie? Did I care because I would feel guilty if something happened? I would feel lonely? I would...

My eyes widened. Did I care because I had… Oh shit! That couldn't be the issue, could it? Had I really become so pathetic? But if that was the case, then what? It wasn't like I could do anything about it? And the least that I wanted right now was another fight with the amber-eyed beauty.

I gave a little, maniac laugh. Somewhere on the way I actually had started to call him a beauty. Well, it was true. I couldn't even place when this all had happened. Why me?

I snapped out of my brooding when I realised that I was standing in front of a two floored cottage. I glanced at the name on the letterbox: Väyrynen. Oh well… Could always go ask, if they had any ideas to stop Takao whining. Like that would be possible.

I rang the doorbell and it didn't take too long when a girl opened the door. She had a shoulder length blonde hair and green eyes. Was this even the right address?

"You are Kai Hiwatari from the Blade Breakers, am I right?" She asked smiling. Don't say she's a fangirl or something.

"Don't worry I won't star screaming and trying to get your autograph." The girl chuckled. "Come in. Anna and Tommi haven't yet got back, but you can wait here, if you want." She gestured me to come inside and so I did. I didn't really feel like going back yet anyway.

"Would you like coffee? Or maybe tea?" She asked as she took two mugs from a cupboard.

"Coffee is fine."

She put the coffee machine on and looked at me. "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't introduce myself. I'm Meeri, Anna's niece." I just nodded as a greeting and she just kept staring at me. After a while I got really annoyed.

"What?" I asked bluntly as the coffee machine beeped to inform it was ready.

"Tell me, did you fight with your team member Rei Kon?" She asked out of the blue making me blink couple of time in confusion.

"What makes you think that?" I hide my real curiosity behind my normal cold tone.

She chuckled again and poured the coffee in the mugs. "Just a guess. You look a little bit confused and I don't think that anyone except Rei Kon could do that to you." Okay, this girl was weird. "I mean. I don't know you really, but what I have seen in the tournaments and television and read from the magazines I think I have a good possibility to be right. Of course mostly the writings are pure bullshit, but still."

I glared at her, but she just smiled. "I guess I was right then." She stated giving me the other mug, taking milk out from the fridge and opened the sugar box. Then she seated in on the other side of the table to face me.

We sat in silence and when the girl spoke again, I had already drunk half of the liquid. "I normally speak really forward, so may I ask you a really personal question?"

"Ask, but that doesn't mean I'll answer."

"Fair enough." She said then kept a pause scrutinizing me. "Are you and Rei together?"

I choked. Who did this girl think she was?

"Okay…" The girl muttered before I could even open my mouth. She started staring at me again thinking and then suddenly she changed the subject. "So why did you fight?"

"None of you business."

"I guess it's not, but sometimes it's easier to speak to a stranger than to a friend." She looked at me and sighed. "Not that you would talk to anyone I guess, but let me say this; I think that Rei cares about you more than you give him credit for." Leaving me think about her words she stood up and went to a phone table to write something. "I think you should go back and have a nice long talk."

Easy for her to say. Takao would probably be on my throat as soon as I stepped in. I had met this girl twenty minutes ago or so and now she was already acting like some shrink. She probably would be enjoying herself with Dizzara.

"So shall we go?" She asked while walking to the wardrobe to put her quilted jacket on.

"We?" I raised an eyebrow. Surely this girl wasn't going to come back to the hut with me.

"I'm coming to keep the others busy. You don't want any eavesdroppers, now do you?" She grinned smugly.

"Hn."

"Thought so."

TBC


Chiaki-chan: -shiver- I can't believe it. I actually wrote an oc. I don't even like writing them! –sigh- No can do I guess. Had to have something to help with the future things. But still, I feel rather pathetic. I know this chapter sucked, but we all have bad days, don't we? Oh well, I try to make the next one better.

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