Title: What Was Once Lost Is Now Found
By: Moonlit Sea
Disclaimer: Don't own Beyblade or any of its characters (anything else you don't recognise I own).
A/N: okay there's a little Kai/Max in this chap. Just thought I'd give you all a little warning.
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And now dear readers I give you chapter twenty-four of What Was Once Lost Is Now Found.
(-Thoughts-)
Chapter 24 - Time To Get You Back.
Ray lay on his bed resting. This was turning out to be one of the strangest trips they'd ever had. There came a knock at the door.
"Come in."
The door opened and Tiffany walked in.
Ray sat up, "Tiffany, anything wrong?" he asked.
Over the past few days Tiffany hadn't strayed far from Tyson's side. So it was unusual to see her without him.
"I was wondering if you could help me." She said walking over to him and taking a seat on the edge of his bed.
"Sure."
"There's a few things that my brother refuses to tell me or answer." She said in a shy voice.
"Like what?" Ray asked now curious.
"Well he told me back at the hospital that he's got a 'thing' for Kai. But everytime I ask him why he doesn't do anything about it. He snaps at me and says it's none of my business." She explained.
Ray sighed, "That's kinda a touchy subject for him."
"Why?"
"Perhaps you should ask him. It's not really my place to say."
"But he won't answer me, and every time I go and ask Kai he just glares at me and walks off." Tiffany said.
Ray looked surprised, "You asked Kai?"
She nodded, "Is there something wrong with that?" she asked innocently.
"No, I'm just surprised that's all."
Tiffany looked confused and didn't say anything for a few moments then said, "How am I suppose to help my brother if I don't even know what's wrong?" she stated with an annoyed sigh.
Ray gave a small smile.
"Just don't tell them I told you, okay?"
She nodded.
"Before your 'accident' Tyson and Kai were a couple, but after you went 'missing' it affected Tyson greatly. To the point where he shut himself away in his room refusing to talk to anyone, even Kai. I'm not quite sure what happened but I think they must've had an argument or something, as they now refuse to talk to each other." Ray explained.
"So that explains it." She smiled. "Thanks Ray."
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Max was on his way to Ray's room, he was hoping he could help him in getting Tiffany 'back', but as he opened the door he heard, "Thanks Ray." He peeked in and was just in time to see Tiffany give him a kiss on the cheek.
Ray blushed, "N-no problem."
Max immediately slammed the door close and felt a tear run down his face. Ray was using her memory loss to get her for himself, Max gave a small growl and headed off in the direction of the only person he felt he could now trust. Kai. After all they were practically in the same boat.
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In his room Kai sat looking out the window into the garden below. Tyson and Kenny were there, Tyson was actually doing some training without anyone telling him to. A small smile came to Kai's lips as he watched the teen train but it soon disappeared as he remembered that they might never be together again. He was so busy watching Tyson that he didn't hear someone opening his door and jumped when it slammed. Kai turned to yell at the person and was surprised to see a sad looking Max. He was leaning against the door with his head down as if looking at the floor.
"Max."
The blonde didn't move or make any indication that he even heard Kai. After taking one last look out the window Kai went over to him.
"Max." putting a hand on the teen's shoulder.
Max's head shot up, "What!" he snapped "Oh, hey, Kai."
Kai looked at him and saw the trail of the tear.
"Why are you here?"
"Because you're the only person I can trust." Max replied, pushing himself away from the door and sitting on Kai's bed.
Kai didn't know whether to be surprised or flattered.
"I hate him, Kai." Max suddenly said "I hate him."
"Hate who?" walking over and sitting next to him.
"Ray! That's who!"
(-Ray? Why would Max hate Ray?-) Kai wondered.
As if reading his thoughts Max went on to explain.
"I was going to see if Ray could help me with Tiffany but when I got there I saw her kiss him!" another tear made it's way down his face.
Kai gave a silent growl at the mention of Tiffany's name then he got an idea.
"Max, you want to get Tiffany back?"
"That's a stupid question, Kai." Max replied.
"Then why don't we kill two birds with one stone." He said.
Max gave him a confused look.
"We get both Kinomiya's where it hurts." A small smirk making it's way on his face.
Max understood what Kai meant and gave a slight evil smile but one thing still puzzled him.
"How does that work for me? Tyson's obvious but Tiffany's lost her memory, remember?"
"Maxie, Maxie." Kai said with a shake of his head. "Do you not know the meaning of temporary?" he said rhetorically.
Max chuckled. This was going to be fun.
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"Anyone seen Kai?" Tyson asked at dinner that evening.
"Nope." Ray answered.
"What about Max?" Tiffany asked.
Kenny shook his head.
"Someone mention us?" a voice said from the doorway. Everyone turned round and almost died in shock. There in the doorway way was Max and Kai but what everyone was staring at was the fact that the two were holding hands.
(-Please tell me I'm not seeing what I think I am.-) Tyson thought.
(-Oooookay. that's… certainly different.-) Tiffany thought.
(-Who are those two trying to fool.-) Ray wondered then caught the look of hurt in Tyson's eyes. (-Oh.-)
Kai and Max walked in and took their seats.
"So…uh you two, when did this happen?" Kenny asked nervously.
"Today." Max answered casually, then looked over at Tiffany who smiled at him. It appeared she didn't really mind. (-I told Kai it wouldn't work on her.-) he thought sadly.
Tyson kept staring at Kai in total shock.
"Something wrong, Kinomiya?" Kai asked coldly.
Tyson shook his head.
"Then stop staring."
Tyson looked sadly down at the table. Kai smiled inwardly, he knew it would work. The thing was he didn't think Max would be able to keep this up. For it didn't seem to have any effect on Tiffany at all but then something about her caught his eye.
Dinner was served a few moments later. Tiffany excused herself saying she needed to get something. Tyson stared down at his dinner then pushed it away saying he wasn't hungry and went up to his room.
"Okay, you two. You can drop with the act now." Ray said.
"Act? Whatever are you talking about, Ray?" Max asked.
"You're both trying to make Tyson and Tiffany jealous."
"You're dreaming, Ray." Kai said. "Tyson doesn't mean anything to me anymore."
"Oh really." (-Then why put up with this charade?-) Ray thought.
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Tiffany was on her way back from the kitchen when she heard the conversation. She was angry when she heard what Kai had just said. (-So… he's playing with my bro, huh? Well we'll just have to teach him that no one messes with Kinomiya's. Especially not with my brother.-) she went up to Tyson's room forgetting about everything else. She knocked on the door.
"Tyson? Tyson, can I come in?" she got no reply but walked in anyway.
Tyson was lying on his bed looking up at Dragoon.
"Hey." Tiffany smiled taking a seat next to him. Still she got no answer. (-Hmmm. I know.-) she snatched Dragoon out of Tyson's hand, which got an immediate reaction.
"Hey! Give that… oh hey, Tiff."
"I want you to know that it's just an act to get you jealous." She said handing Dragoon back to him.
"Huh?" Tyson said placing Dragoon back in his pocket.
"Kai and Max."
"Oh. Like I'd care anyway." Lying back on the bed.
Tiffany gave a small giggle. "Oh you care alright. And I know of a way to get them back."
"Them?" Tyson looked at her partly confused.
"What? You didn't think that it affected me too?"
Tyson shrugged, "Well yeah, kinda."
"Well it did, I just didn't show it as much."
"So you remember then." He said to which she gave a nod. "What's this idea you have anyway?" now curious.
"First, tell me. What do you think of Ray?"
Tyson blinked, "Ray?" he asked.
Tiffany again nodded.
Tyson shrugged again.
"He's okay."
"Do you think he's cute?" she asked.
"I guess. W…" a sudden grin appeared on his face when he realised what Tiffany was planning. "But what about you? How are you going to get Max back? It's not like you can go out with Kenny."
Tiffany chuckled, "No, but I have someone in mind. First we have to convince Ray."
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"No way, Tyson." Ray said once Tyson told him their 'plan'.
"Ah come on, Ray. Please."
"No!"
Tiffany sighed this was getting them nowhere.
"It's only until Kai gives in." Tyson said.
"Tyson, you know as well as I do that Kai doesn't give in." Ray stated, "Why not go ask the Chief?"
"Because he's not cute enough." Tiffany suddenly stated. "No offence to him or anything."
Ray gave a small blush.
"You… think I'm… cute."
"Would we be here otherwise?" Tyson said sarcastically rhetorical.
Ray shook his head, "Sorry, Tyson. But I won't do it."
Before Tyson could say another word Tiffany said, "Then do it for me."
"Huh?"
"Seeing Tyson happy makes me happy and you wouldn't want to see me sad. Would you, Ray?" giving him a puppy dog look.
Ray looked from Tiffany to Tyson and back to Tiffany.
"Okay! Fine! You win, I'll do it."
She smiled, "I knew you'd see it our way."
"Just remind me never to get on the wrong side of either of you. You're a menace when you're both together." He joked to which the two laughed.
"Just don't do it too quickly or it'll seem phoney." Tiffany added.
"You mean like Max and Kai's 'sudden' relationship." Ray said.
She nodded.
"Okay, so now we've got Ray. Tell me who you're planning to 'hook-up' with." Tyson said intrigued.
Tiffany just smiled, "You'll see tomorrow. I need both of you to come though."
"Sure." Tyson said.
Ray just nodded.
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Later that night when she was sure everyone was asleep Tiffany crept out of the house, went over to her car and drove off to a place where they would always meet. She parked her car in the car park and walked behind the twenty-four hour store. She waited for a couple of minutes then decided to give Firefly a little 'exercise', placing her blade on her launcher and launching it. No sooner had she done this, another blade suddenly appeared and began attacking Firefly. Tiffany gave a smirkish smile.
"Firefly, Thunder Strike!"
But to Tiffany's surprise a second blade appeared and before she had time to react Firefly was sailing through the air. She caught the blade expertly and said, "I see you brought a friend."
"Hope you don't mind." A voice said out of the darkness.
Tiffany shrugged, "Didn't think you'd be able to keep it from her. How's your brother, Kara? He still beating people up?" she asked sarcastically.
Kara walked out of the shadows along with Danny. They both caught their blades as expertly as Tiffany caught Firefly.
"That's not funny, Tiffany."
"Did I say I was?" she retorted. Her anger showing clearly in her eyes.
"Why did you call us here anyway?" Danny said hoping to avoid an argument between the two.
"You mean why did I called you here." She corrected.
Danny gave her a look that said, 'just get on with it.'
"I… kinda need your help."
"And why should we help you?" Kara asked suspiciously.
"Try the fact that if I wanted to I could put your brother in jail for what he did to me!" Tiffany snapped.
Kara gave a small growl and Tiffany looked to Danny.
"I need you to pretend we're going out again."
"What?" the two Mythicals said in unison.
Tiffany rolled her eyes, "Look, I'll explain everything tomorrow. Right now I just need you to say yes."
Danny gave a nod too shocked to speak and Kara glared daggers at her.
"Great. I'll see you guys then say…"
"In the lobby of your fathers business." Kara interrupted with a small smile.
"Fine." (-Like I didn't know that was coming.-) she thought sarcastically. She turned to go then said, "Oh and before you start planning my funeral, Kara. I'd tell him how you feel. It worked for me and Max." she felt a sudden ache in her heart after saying that but decided to ignore it and continued back to her car.
Danny looked over at Kara a confused look on his face.
"What's she talking about, Kara?"
Kara suddenly turned a slight shade of pink.
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The next day Tyson, Ray and Tiffany all went out early leaving Max, Kenny and Kai alone in the house.
"Kai, I don't think this is working." Max said.
"It's working fine, Max." Kai replied as he leaned back into the chair, his eyes closed.
"For you maybe but it doesn't seem to affect Tiffany."
Kai opened one eye and looked over at Max.
"Oh no. You may not have seen it, Max but I did."
"Seen what?" Max asked.
"The look of hurt in her eyes." Closing his eye.
"Really?" Max asked a tad excited.
Kai gave a nod.
"Then maybe she does remember." He said happily talking more to himself than to Kai.
"Any of you seen Tyson or Ray?" Kenny asked walking in. He was surprised to see both Kai and Max sitting apart from each other.
Kai opened his eyes and sat up at the mention of Tyson's name then gave a slight worried look when he heard that Ray was also 'missing'.
"Hey, if you two are suppose to be together. Why are you sitting apart?"
"Uh…" Max said trying to come up with a reason. "I'm annoyed with Kai."
Kai looked at Max and raised an eyebrow. (-He's annoyed with me? Surely he could of come up with something better than that.-) but he decided to play into the role anyway considering there was no other choice. He got up, walked over to Max and sat next to him at which Max conveniently turned away from him.
"I'm sorry, Maxie." He said a tad seductively "I didn't mean to annoy you."
Max gave a small blush at how Kai's voice sounded making the scene only more 'convincing'.
"Er… I think I'll go see if anyone else has… um seen them." Kenny said backing up out of the room.
After making sure Kenny was gone Kai turned back to Max.
"You're annoyed with me?" he asked in a 'that was the best you could come up with' tone.
Max shrugged, "It was all I could think of. Besides it worked, didn't it." Giving Kai a cheeky smile.
"Max." Kai said as he sat back down next to him "Sometimes you're so like Tyson it's scary." Giving a small chuckle.
Max didn't know whether that was a compliment or an insult.
"Is that a good thing?"
"Yes and no. You become much more like Tyson and I think I'll give up going after him and stick with you instead."
Max gulped seeing the predatory look that shone in Kai's eyes.
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