OMG it's finished! this chapter anyway. XD i bet you all thought that i'd forgotten you. not at all. just frantic with exams. I am officially finished high school for the rest of my life. YA-TA. anyway. enjoy the Takao chapter. X3


"We'll play ghost town to choose who has to go."

They stood in a tense, silent circle. For several minutes.

The quiet was too much for him, Takao burst out suddenly. "Guys! What are we doing just standing here!"

"Your it." said Max, as everyone backed away from Takao, as if his bad fortune was contagious.

"Kai is your best rival Takao, he wouldn't kill you…"

"Yeah. He'll just ANHIALATE Dragoon in a bey-battle sometime soon."

"Actually, because you're just about the only one who understands him, I calculate your chances to be pretty good."

"Ch… fine thing." Takao muttered as he stumped through the dark bedroom moments later.

Kai slept at the far end of the room, and as Taka was approaching apprehensively, he noticed something odd. Kai wasn't breathing.

Kneeling suspiciously beside the mattress, Takao pulled back the cover and found…

A pillow. Kai was gone. He'd snuck out to go training god knows where for the night.

Aha! Takao sat back with a devilish cats' smirk. Perfect. He would sleep in Kai's bed, and when the others came to bed, they'd see it and when Takao told the others that Kai was perfectly cuddly when he wasn't awake… it was an easy $60.

He shoved the pillow over and snuggled down on Kai's bed, pulling the covers back up, making sure the pillow looked like a snuggling Kai as much as possible. Happy with a vision of sleeping in money this time tomorrow night, Takao fell asleep.

Hours later, long after Rei, Max and Kenny had gone to bed (indeed seeing Takao apparently snuggling with a sleeping Kai) the real Kai silently slid open the door from the garden and slipped back inside and made for his bed. He'd been training with Dranzer since he'd said he was going to bed earlier this evening. Yawning, and without even glancing at his bed, he dropped himself onto the mound under his blanked he assumed was his pillow.

Takao screamed.

The bedroom became a dark flurry of flapping blankets and sleepy beybladers. Everyone jumped to their feet, diving towards Takao's scream, thinking that it was some axe murder who had let himself in.

A moment or two of confused fighting followed before Kenny found the light switch and everyone stopped dead.

Rei was pushing against the side of Kai's face, Kai had one hand around Max's throat and one foot pressing Takao's abdomen into the mattress. Rei was gripping one of Max's arms and Max had Kai's wrist in one hand and Rei's in the other. Takao was yelling something unintelligible.

Everyone blinked. Then let each other go and fell backwards, gasping.

Kenny, glasses askew looked like a frantic frog as he hopped about. "KAI! B-but I thought that you and Takao were sleeping together!"

Kai sat bolt upright in surprise. His dark eyes snapped to Takao's. "Oh really." The glacial voice made the others shudder. "And what would give you that idea?"

"Erm… uh… well you see Kai…" Kenny fumbled, his enormous brain scrabbling for an answer.

"Kai, I was waiting for you to come back." Takao, now sitting up, flushed a bright red. "I was uh… worried when I saw you were gone and didn't want to disturb the others and so uh… yeah."

Everyone watched Kai closely as he rolled his eyes. Takao flinched as Kai reached out, but the older boy only tapped his fist against Taka's forehead.

"Idiot. Go back to sleep."

"Uh… but your bed…." Takao shifted under the warm blankets.

Kai had turned away, sending the others back to their beds with a cold glare. "Whatever." He fussed with his scarf. "You can stay."

Takao blinked. Then pounce on Kai for a hug. He knew this was pushing it, but hell, be was just glad to be alive.

When Kai went to bed, Takao curled up against Kai's side, smiling sleepily with relief. Kai let him.

Even if Taka didn't make $60 tonight, he was just happy to be alive, alive with Kai beside him.


Does this count as sap? i don't think so...

Ghost town, for those of you who where never children, is a game in which people stand in a circle, and the first person to make a noise loses. Takao would SUCK at this game.

This chapter is alot different from the first two, hope that's alright, I recently have been reading alot of TyKa fics and so i had to do something unconventional. hope you all enjoyed. thanks for reading. Love you all!