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Author's Note: Konichiwa! What's up everyone? Well, I'm here with chapter six, as promised! This chapter's definitely under my favorites list! It's so great! First off, I'd like to thank my friend, Yuko-Chan, for helping with this chapter! Thank you, Yuko! I would also like to thank Sapphire Angels Devil for the truth/dare used in the chapter! I thank all of you reviewers who also gave me some ideas. If I run out, I'll have the ones you wrote! So thanks to everyone! Anyway, without further ado…Chapter Six! SilverRose88
Chapter Six
The Date
"Max, truth or dare?" Tyson asked.
"Um, truth," Max replied.
"All right, I have a good one. If you were gay, who would you like?" Tyson said.
"Um, I don't know," he said, blushing a little. "Ah…Rei, I think…"
A small bout of silence followed this statement. Tyson glanced between Max and Rei, Kai was just staring off into space, and Max and Rei were staring at one another. Then Tyson started laughing and the tension broke.
Rei looked away, a blush crept onto his face. Me? he thought, hm…I-I've never thought of that before…Max?
"All right, Rei, truth or dare?" Max said.
Rei blushed even more and mumbled, "Dare,"
"I dare you to go screaming down the street that aliens are invading the earth," Max said.
"Where'd you get that idea from?" Rei said.
Max shrugged. "I dunno. I'm not writing this story," (-) "Are you doing it or not?"
"Yeah, sure, fine," Rei said reluctantly. He went outside and the others watched from the window. "Aliens! Aliens! They're coming!" Rei yelled, running maniacally down the street, waving his hands over his head. "They're invading the earth! Run for your lives!"
The people on the street stared at him, and one person who was watering their plants turned the hose and sprayed Rei with water as he ran by the house. Rei returned to the dojo, dropping wet, and was greeted by Tyson's hysterical howling, Max's snickering, and Kai's amused smile.
"Towel?" Rei questioned, wiping his raven hair from his face.
Tyson was laughing so hard, that all he could manage was, "B-Bath-Bathroom.."
"I'll help," Max said, leading the way down the hall. Rei blushed momentarily and followed.
They returned awhile later, Rei back in this regular clothes, and a towel wrapped loosely around his long hair.
"That was just wonderful," Rei said sarcastically.
Kai scoffed. "Better than running in your boxers yelling 'I'm a girl!'," He glared at Max who shrugged.
"Rei, your turn," Max said.
Rei was just about to reply when Tyson's grandfather walked in.
"All right boys. Enough for today. Tyson's got kendo practice to do," he said.
Tyson whined dramatically. "But, Grandpa! We're playing a game!"
"Tyson. You're practicing and that's it!" His grandfather gave him a stern look and left.
"Oh, man," Tyson groaned. "Sorry guys,"
"No problem, we'll pick up again tomorrow," Rei said.
"Yeah, and tomorrow you have your date with Tala and Hilary. Don't forget, Tyson," Max said, smirking.
Tyson groaned again and Kai tried not to strangle Max. Damn, I wished they'd have forgot, Kai thought angrily.
The next day, Kai, Max, and Rei returned to Tyson's dojo to continue the game. Max and Rei made Tyson call up Tala and set to meet at a small café shop in town in twenty minutes.
"I hate you guys," Tyson complained after hanging up.
"Now, call Hilary," Max said.
"I'll call her afterward," Tyson said. "I'd better get going,"
"We're coming too," Rei said.
"Oh, yes! Then you can come and save me!" Tyson said hopefully.
"Nah, we're just going to watch," Max said.
"But-But who's going to save me from Tala?" Tyson said, pouting. "He-He's so creepy! What if he kidnaps me or something crazy like that?"
"I'm going to be there, remember," Kai said, looking at Tyson.
Tyson stared up at him. "Yes! Kai'll save me!" he exclaimed, grinning, and hugged the older blader, not really realizing what he was doing.
Kai blushed, and awkwardly patted Tyson on the back, then moved away.
"But, Kai was dared not to interfere, remember?" Rei said.
"Oh, well, Tala will probably be normal if Kai's around," Tyson said confidently, feeling better.
The group walked down to the café, and took a table waiting. Kai took off, wanting not to be seen by Tala until later when he could come and destroy the date. Kai smirked deviously and found to tree to sit beside where he could keep an eye on Tyson.
"Hey, Rei, that guy's staring at you…" Tyson said, nodding towards a guy a few feet away.
Rei froze. "No! That-That's the guy I had to ask out!" he exclaimed. "Tyson, hide me!" He shoved his chair behind a bewildered, yet amused, Tyson.
The guy walked over and said to Rei, smiling, "Hey,"
"H-Hi," Rei said quietly.
"So, how come you called?" the guy questioned.
"I-I, um, lost your number," Rei lied. Max and Tyson stifled laughs.
"Well, then, let's just go out now," he said.
"Bu-But, wait! You've got it wrong! I-I'm not really a girl!" Rei said. He pointed at his clothes. "See? See? Guy clothes!"
"But you were wearing a dress before," the guy said. "Ah, I get it. You're a tomboy, that's cute,"
"No, it's not! I'm a guy!" Rei exclaimed.
"Sure, you are. It really matters not,"
"Listen! I don't want to date you!" Rei said.
Tyson looked at Rei pointedly. "Remember?" he said.
Rei looked confused for a moment, then realized what he meant. "F-Fine," he said, reluctantly, and walked off to another table.
Tyson burst out laughing. "That was hysterical!"
"What was?" came a voice.
Tyson turned to face the red head who had appeared. "Tala," Tyson said quietly.
Tala grinned and said, "Tyson. Ready for our date?"
Tyson sighed dramatically. "Yeah, sure, let's go," he got up and followed Tala to another table. Max sat alone watching the two groups and trying not to fall over laughing.
The bastard's arrived, Kai thought angrily, watching from behind some trees. I'll give him awhile, then go over.
"I was surprised that you called me here, Tyson," Tala said.
Tyson shrugged. "It was nothing," he said.
"Oh, but it is something. I'm glad you did," Tala said, reaching for Tyson's hand.
Tyson blushed. Okay, this is really…odd…All right! I just have to pretend that I'm with Kai, yeah, with Kaiwait, why'd I say Kai? Argh! I'm just with a friend, nothing more, nothing less. What would I do if I was out with "Ooh! A carnival!" Tyson said, pointing to a sign a few feet away.
Tala looked where he was pointing, then turned to Tyson. "Would you like to go?" he asked, grinning at the cute excited expression on the other boy's face.
"We can? Yes! Yes!" Tyson said, bouncing up and down childishly.
Tala grabbed his hand and led the over-zealous boy down to the carnival grounds. Tyson was a bit too excited to realize the real meaning behind Tala holding his hand. Instead, he dismissed it as odd, and started looking around to see where to start first.
What's Tyson up to? Holding Tala's hand like that! Kai muttered angrily to himself. I'd better get in soon, oh, crap, I'm losing them! In the midst of the crowd surging in, Kai was pushed away from the other two. He shoved past the group of people, wanting to yell, Get out of my way, bastards, but didn't want to give himself away.
Tyson was dragging Tala around to practically everything. They went on some rides, the Ferris wheel, the roller coaster, and the bumper cars; they played some of the games as well.
Damn, he's got a lot of energy! Tala thought as he followed Tyson down the aisles of games and booths. But that's what makes him so cute.
Tyson stopped abruptly and Tala almost crashed into him.
"What's wrong?" Tala asked.
"Oh! I want that!" Tyson said, pointing to a large stuffed teddy bear. "It's awesome," Tyson walked to the game booth to play, but Tala took his hand.
"Wait," he said. "I'll win it for you,"
Tyson blinked, surprised, but shrugged. "Um, all-all ri"
"Tyson!" came a voice. Kai was running towards him, budging through the crowd.
"Hi, Kai!" Tyson said, waving. "What are you doing here?"
"Oh, just passing by," Kai lied.
"Then, keep on passing," Tala said stiffly.
"Tala," Kai said, equally stiffly.
Tala nodded. "What do you want, Kai?"
"Nothing really," Kai replied.
"Then, get lost," Tala said. He moved next to Tyson and put an arm around Tyson's shoulders, and pulled the younger blader close. Tyson blushed, confused. "Tyson and I are on a date," He smirked.
Kai tried not to yell off at him. "That doesn't bother me. Date away,"
"Kai, get the hell out of here!" Tala said.
Kai said nothing, and turned to Tyson. "Which one did you say you wanted, Tyson?"
Tyson, still blushing from having Tala's arm around him, moved away and said, pointing to the bear, "That one! Can you win it, Kai?"
"Not a problem," Kai said with a smile.
"Hold it! I am winning that for Tyson," Tala said, seething. "You, Kai, can be on your way,"
"But Tyson asked me to win it," Kai said.
"No, he didn't! I was going to win it before you showed up!" Tala said. He turned to Tyson and asked politely, "Tyson, who would you like to win the animal for you?"
Tyson looked between the two of them and shrugged. "I don't know. I just want it!"
Tala and Kai turned to each other, and sparks flew. They made a mad dash to the booth and slammed down the money for the game. The vender gave them three balls each, but in their rage and urgency to win, they both missed the pyramid of bottles completely.
Tyson shouted from behind them. "What are you doing? You guys stink! Let me play!"
"NO!" Kai and Tala yelled, turning to him, that Tyson cowered and backed away.
I'm winning this for you, if it's the last thing I do! they thought angrily.
Tyson watched as both Kai and Tala failed about twenty times, each time worse than the last. They kept paying money to get more balls and had probably spent about ten dollars. (A/N: I don't know how much it really costs to pay one of these kinds of games. So, ten dollars may be too much or too little. Hehe….)
After about ten minutes, they'd even drawn a crowd. Tyson tried to get them to stop, it was very embarrassing. But the older bladers just snapped at him and went back at it. Another five minutes passed by and finally, Kai and Tala stoppedboth won Tyson the big stuffed bear.
"There! I told you I could do it!" they both said, shoving the bears into this arms.
Tyson almost fell over. "How am I supposed to carry all of this?"
But Tala and Kai weren't listening. They were glaring angrily at one another as if they wished nothing than the other ill.
"Why the hell did you win one? I said I was going to win it!" they yelled at each other.
"Um…guys?" Tyson said. "Can we go now? I'm hungry,"
This got their attention. Both of them whipped around to face Tyson. "All right! What do you want? I'll buy it for you!" they said, peering into his face.
Tyson stepped back. "Um…cotton candy?" he said quietly7.
"I got it!" Tala said, and quickly ran to the cotton candy booth a few booths down.
Kai stared after him with a smirk. What a fool. He just gave me a few minutes alone with Tyson…he thought. "Come on, Tyson. Let's go look around," he grabbed Tyson's wrist and led him through the crowd in the opposite direction.
"Wait! Kai! Wh-What about Tala? He's got my cotton candy!" Tyson said.
"He can catch up," Kai said.
Once they were awhile away, Kai slowed to a walk, still holding Tyson's hand and aware of how nice it felt.
"Hey, Kai, why'd you work so hard to win me the prize?" Tyson asked quietly after a while's worth of silence.
Kai's blood went cold. (A/N: Ha. Kai's pretty cold-blooded already, don't ya think? But, we know he's a little softie underneath all that. ) "Um, well, it's because I like you, Tyson," he said after a moment, heart pounding.
Tyson stopped in the middle of the crowd. "W-What?" he stammered, a pink blush crept up his neck and spread across his face.
Kai sighed and turned to him again, and gave a slight shrug. "You heard me. I want to win you the ear because I like you, Tyson," he answered.
Tyson stared at him, wide-eyed. Then, he slowly began laughing. "Y-You don't really mean that, do you, Kai? You're just joking. I-It's part of the 'I love you' dare, right?"
Kai blinked, feeling as thought he'd been slapped. He smiled lightly, turned and leading Tyson along again. "Yeah, only for the dare," he lied, heart crushing.
Tyson followed Kai, wondering why Kai's reply seemed to hurt so much.
"What the hell do you think you're doing, Kai?" Tala roared. "I looked every where for you! Why did you just walk off with Tyson? I'm his date, not you!"
"What are you talking about? We were just waiting for you," Kai said simply.
Tala resisted the urge to punch him and turned to Tyson. He smiled and handed Tyson his cotton candy. "Here you are, Tyson,"
"Thanks!" Tyson said, with a grin. "OH, but Kai, you don't have one," he said, turning to Kai.
The older boy shook his head. "It's okay, Tyson,"
"No it's not! Here, have some of mine," Tyson shoved his cotton candy before Kai's face.
"Tyson, that is for you," Tala said through clenched teeth.
"But, Kai has to have some, too! Come on, Kai!"
"No, it's okay, Tyson,"
"Please?" Tyson said, staring up at him with his big sad eyes.
He looked so adorable and innocent, that Kai couldn't refuse. And, on the plus side, Kai knew it'd piss Tala off more. "All right, just a little," Kai said with a soft smile.
Tyson cheered and Kai ripped off some of the cotton candy. Tala watched angrily.
"So, Tyson, what would you like to do now?" Tala asked, shoving between him and Kai.
"Um, I-I don't know, you come up with something!" Tyson said .
Tala stopped walking as he saw a sign. He grinned. "How about the Tunnel Of Love?" he asked.
Tyson blinked. "…But we aren't in love…"
Tala shrugged, and Kai stifled a laugh. "We can pretend," Tala said, shooting Kai a cold stare. "I think it'll be fun," He began leading the way to the love tunnel.
"But, what will Kai do?" Tyson asked, turning to look at Kai.
"Kai can wait at the end of the ride," Tala said evenly.
"But, that's not fair! Maybe we can all go in one boat!" Tyson said.
"There are only two seats," Kai pointed out. "And, it will be you and me in a boat. Tala can wait for us at the end,"
"No! I am the one on the date. You are just intruding. Get lost, Kai," Tala spat.
"I have as much right to be here as you. It's a public carnival. Not a private one," Kai replied.
"We are on a date, and you are getting in the way!" Tala said.
"Oh, but it doesn't really matter what you think, does it? If I'm bothering Tyson, then I'll leave. But, I don't think I am. Am I, Tyson?" Kai asked gently, facing the other boy.
"Huh? No, you aren't!" Tyson said, grinning.
"See?" Kai said, turning back to Tala. "You're the one with the problem. Maybe you should leave,
"I'm not leaving! This is my date, and you're ruining it!" Tala said fiercely.
Tyson watched as Kai and Tala stared shouting back and forth about who was going to sit with him. Tyson shook his head; this date was getting insane. He opened his mouth to speak, but just then someone called his name, and Tyson turned to see Robert coming over. Kai and Tala were too busy fighting to notice.
"Hey, Robert," Tyson said. "What's up?"
"Nothing really. Enrique dragged me here awhile ago, and I then I saw you, so I just came over," Robert replied. He then noticed the loud fighting between Kai and Tala. "What's going on?"
Tyson sighed. "I'm on a date with Tala,"
Robert looked at him quickly. "Tala? I'd have thought you'd be with Knever mind. What's Kai doing here?"
"Just passing by," Tyson lied. "They're fighting over who'll ride with me in the Tunnel Of Love. I don't know why they're making such a big deal out of it though,"
Robert smirked. Of course you don't… "Hey, if you don't want to wait, do you want to go with me? I've got nothing better to do and this might take awhile,"
Tyson looked over at Tala and Kai and decided that Robert was right. "All right," he said. "Hey, Kai, Tala, watch my prizes, okay?" he said to the other two boys, who nodded, and followed Robert into the tunnel.
"I told you to leave, so get lost!" Tala exclaimed.
"But Tyson said I wasn't bothering him," Kai turned to look and Tyson and blinked. The younger blader was gone. "Huh? Where'd Tyson go?"
Tala spun around in time to see Tyson and Robert get into a swan boat and float into the tunnel. "There! He's with Robert!"
"What!" Kai exclaimed. He ran after them and jumped into the next swan, shoving a couple out of the way. Tala jumped in after him. "What the hell are you doing? Get your own boat!"
"But then I'll be staring at your back, and I want to see Tyson," Tala said.
"I don't care! Get out!"
"Shut up, we're moving already,"
Kai glared at him, then turned to face the swan boat in front of him.
Tyson and Robert were talking continuously about beyblading.
"Have you been practicing much?" Robert asked.
"Oh, yeah! Everyday, as much as I can. How about you?" Tyson said.
"Same," Robert replied.
"What are they talking about?" Tala hissed.
"How the hell should I know? I'm trying to listen!" Kai snapped. But no matter how hard they tried, Kai and Tala could only hear bits and pieces of the conversation.
"keep practicing, okay, Tyson?" Robert was saying.
"Don't worry, Robert,"
"Practice? Practice what?" Tala said, leaning closer to hear better, without falling into the water.
"someday, I'll be good enough" Tyson said.
"then we cantogether" Robert said.
"lot's of fun!can't hardlytill that day!"
"I'll wait for youbutor I'll get mad"
"Don't worrypromisewon't let you down"
Kai and Tala paled, staring at Tyson's and Robert's backs. "What the hell are they"
"talking about?" Tala finished.
They looked at each other, anger boiling in their veins. "Robert!" they hissed seething, fire in their eyes.
The ride slowly came to a stop. Robert and Tyson continued their discussing on beyblading and getting better to have another battle. Tala and Kai come out after them, both with the wrong idea in their heads, glaring viciously at Robert's back.
"Oh, hey, look!" Tyson said. "Tala and Kai came right after us,"
"So they did," Robert said. "Hey, Kai, Tala,"
The two said boys glared at him.
"Tyson, we're going!" Kai shouted, grabbing the boy's wrist and dragging him off yelling back at Tala, "The date's over!" and to Robert, "Stay away from Tyson!"
Tyson followed after Kai, confused. "What's up? Kai?" he asked.
"What were you doing? Going on the ride with Robert?" Kai asked.
"Weeellll…You and Tala were fighting so much, that I just decided to go with Robert instead of waiting for you two to decide," Tyson replied, still confused. Why is this bothering him so much? …Not that I mind…It's actually kind of nice…
"What were you two talking about?" Kai asked.
"Huh?" Tyson asked.
"In the boat. You and Robert. What were you talking about?" Kai repeated, more fiercely.
"Oh, we were"
"Tyson! You're back," Max called, waving.
Tyson grinned, and walked over, eager to get away because Kai was being weird. "Hey," he said. "Where's Rei?"
"Still on his date. He's trying to convince the guy that he's really a boy," Max said. "I'll go get him, then we can go," He walked over to where Rei was yelling at his date.
"Listen! I'm not a girl! I am a boy!" Rei yelled.
"No one as pretty as you can be a boy," the guy said. "So, you don't have a boyfriend, right?"
"Of course I don" Rei began, but then slowly smiled. Boyfriend…Now why didn't I think of that? "Of course I do. You just said I was pretty, so of course I have a boyfriend," Rei said, smiling.
"What! Then why are you out here with me?" the guy said, angrily.
Rei put on a girly voice and replied, "Well, you see, my boyfriend and I got into a fight, but now we're back together,"
"Where is your boyfriend? I want to meet him!"
Oh, no…ummm… Rei turned and pointed to the blonde boy walking over. "There! He's my boyfriend! Max!" Rei called, waving.
Max walked over and said, "Hey, ready to go?"
"Yeah, let's go!" Rei replied, grabbing his wrist and quickly walking off.
"What was that about? You were pointing at me about something," Max asked.
"Oh, um, the guy couldn't get that I was really a boy, so I told him you were my boyfriend and that worked," Rei explained.
Max stared at him. "You told him that I was your boyfriend? Why me?"
Rei blushed. "Oh, well-well…I don't know! You were standing right there!" he said, blushing more.
Max grinned. "Whatever. Let's go, Tyson and Kai are back,"
"Hey, Tyson, how was your date?" Rei asked.
"It was fun! Kai won me this bear!" he said happily, hugging the big bear to his chest like a child.
Rei and Max smirked, a bit surprised, and turned to Kai. "He did, did he?"
"What happened to your 'don't interfere' dare?" Rei asked.
Kai glared at him. "It flew out the window," he said. "Quit smirking like that. Are we going or not?"
"Let's go, let's go, let's go!" Tyson chanted, leading the way down the street to the dojo.
