People said a while back that they felt sorry for Tyson...well none of you will after this chapter. Hee, I had my last exam today...NO MORE EXAMS! Wahey! Wazoo! Can you tell I'm a bit high? Anyway, thank you to everyone who reviewed, love and hugs to you all!

Endoh Chiaki: I'm glad you liked it. ike I said last chapter, this chapter's kinda short. I promise the next one's longer though!

WolfDemonQueen: Good!

skimmie: Here it is!

Kanilla: Yay! Someone else noticed the distinct lack of maleOCs! Drop me a line when you post it, I wanna read it! I just get so sick of the everyonexOCs because they don't want to use Hilary, Emily, Mariah and Mariam...

Just that good: Kurse you guard! Kurse you and all you do! Sorry, having a Final Fantasy 8 moment there...the final boss says 'Kurse you' and I think it's funny...

Ellen: Hee, judging by the two reviews you left the site was messing with you...and continued to do so! Doesn't matter though.

MikeyWaysgirl: Poor little insane Kai. But he's really cute like that...

Echo in the Dark: It's going quite well...I called him Andy. The OC, I mean...

miriam906: I'm glad you liked it, and when I get a few minutes I'll go and check out your fic, 'kay? I have to post this and get off right after because my brother needs to email his uni...

Curtis Zidane Ziraa: One of the guards speks Russian, just not that stupid one. When I say Mary-Sue, I mean someone who is sickeningly perfect and is very often the author with their bad features spruced up a little. It's just a me thing, but ever since I used to read Final Fantasy fics and I found OCs paired into my OTPs I've hated them...

kai kon: Well I went and looked at the fic, but the translator said that Hikaru-Chan15 wrote it...which I was NOT very happy about. I got the basic gist of the review you left and yes, I am VERY particular about people using my stuff...especially when they say someone else wrote it...and I know just about enough Spanish to recognise my own author notes...bah. I reviewed and asked the translator to put that right. And if Akire777 wants to translate anything else, my email address is up now so no excuses! Permission or removal! Hoo boy... Aside from that, thank you for your nice comments!

BloodyShadows: I love angry Rei, he's so...angry. that sounded lame, but I like him angry, I just don't write him like that often or it'd be a little OOC...

snowy leapord 101: I'm glad you liked it!

Naru Hiwatari: I'm -always- cruel to Kai...maybe one of these days I'll give him a happy middle and beginning as well as a happy ending...

animeobsession: I know a Gary too, but the only Mary I know is incredibly stupid and not very nice at all. Maybe she's part of the reason I don't like Mary-Sues...

Ice Spirit: Kill himself? Nah. He has in the past and probably will again, but not in this fic...

PandaPjays: While I agree that they are all incredibly gay, I disagree that there are no female characters. There are four female characters- Hilary, Emily, Mariah and Mariam. that means you only need one OC. ONE! Not five, or in the worst cases more than that! Sorry, I'm being very rude, but over-OCing drives me mental, and it's not like I'm not mental enough to start off with...

Anyway, here's the chapter. It's short, but the next one's longer, I promise!

Rei laid in his own bed that night, worrying about Kai. He'd never seen anyone so frightened before... With a sigh, he rolled over. Sleep was eluding him, and so were all the answers he wanted. Why had Kai told him he loved him? Did Kai remember telling him that? Why did it bother him so much? And why had he said he was Kai's boyfriend? Why did he keep going back all the time?

Because...Kai needed him. And...he'd said he was Kai's boyfriend because... 'You want it to be true.' Cut in his mind. Rei sighed again and closed his eyes, feeling as if tomorrow should just skip to the point where he'd be able to see Kai...

"Kai?" Angelina walked into the room, pencils and paper at the ready, only to find Kai sitting in the corner, on his beanbag, covered with the duvet up to his neck. She gasped as she looked properly at his eyes. They were darting around suspiciously, wild and wide. He bared his teeth as he saw her, snarling. Angelina decided it was in her best interests to leave.

"Kai? Kai, are you in here?" Kai crawled out from under the bed, glaring. As he saw that it was Rei and not Angelina, his face settled into a peacefully blank expression. He walked over to Rei and leaned against him. Rei understood what he wanted- he wanted to be held, to feel safe again. His arms wrapped tightly around Kai's waist, and he whispered reassuringly in Kai's ear. "It's okay, Kai, I'm back, I'm here, you're safe, and no-one's ever going to do that to you again if I can help it!"

"S..." Rei held his breath, waiting for a repeat of the day before. "Spaseeba..." Rei almost sighed, then caught himself. Speaking in Russian was better than hurting himself, and it was better than him not speaking at all. "Shh, it's okay, it's okay, Kai. Everything'll be okay, don't worry..." He kissed the side of Kai's head, bringing up one hand to stroke the Russian's messy hair.

"Y...Ya tebya lyublyu...spaseeba..."

"Kai, stop thanking me...and...I...I think I might love you too..." Kai looked at him, puzzled, and Rei blushed. "I know what I said before, Kai...but I...I thought about it...I really thought about it...and..." Rei flung his arms around Kai's neck, getting as close to him as he could. "To hell with Mariah!"

Kai's hands came to rest on his waist, and he sighed, face buried in Kai's collar. "Hold me closer..." He whispered. Kai's hands slipped round to his back, pulling them tighter together. There was a clicking sound and Kai suddenly let go of him, backing away. Rei turned, and found a rather puzzled Tyson behind him. "Um...hi?" Kai stared at him warily. "You okay, Kai?" Kai continued to stare.

"He's okay, Tyson, he just had a bit of a rough night last night. You didn't say you were coming..."

"I wanted to surprise you both!" Tyson beamed. "I just thought, you know, after all the stuff with Voltaire-"

Kai twitched suddenly, growling. "Nu vse, tebe pizda!" Tyson eyed him nervously, and Rei gawped. Crisis point. Kai launched himself at Tyson and tackled him to the floor, showering him with punches. Tyson yelled, and Rei heard the tell-tale footsteps of Jack and his crew. They burst in through the door and dragged Kai away. He shouted and struggled as Tyson scuttled away, hiding behind Rei.

Rei held no sympathy. "Tyson, get out of here, I'll be back later!"

"But what if he gets you?"

"Tyson, he isn't going to 'get' me. Just go."

"But-"

"Get out!" Tyson obeyed the yelled order while Rei tried to sort out the mass of flailing limbs that was Kai. They'd wrestled him to the floor and he was hollering, desperate and scared. Rei tried to get between the guards, but one pushed him back, so hard that he tripped and fell. Kai saw him fall and yelled even louder, dragging up some unimaginable strength from somewhere and ripping free, crawling over to Rei and pulling him up so that he was sitting, holding him against his chest. Rei glared at the guards over Kai's shoulder, and they left, quietly and quickly.

"Kai, I'm okay. It didn't hurt, I was just surprised. Thank you for worrying about me, though." He sighed. "I'm going to throw Tyson out of a window if he does anything like that again..."

"Zalupa..." Kai muttered.

"Hm?" Rei yawned. "I'm kind of tired, Kai...would you mind if I went to sleep for a little bit?"

"Niet." Kai said softly. Rei closed his eyes, leaning against the Russian comfortably.

"I'm not digging into you or anything, am I?"

"Niet." Kai stroked Rei's hair with reverent fingers as the neko-jin drifted off to sleep, breathing delicately.

"Kai?" Rei woke up in the morning with the Russian's name on his lips, but found himself not in Kai's arms, as he had been. Far from it- he was lying on the sofa at home, nose pressed into the threadbare cushion. He sat up, rubbing his eyes and yawning, trying to work out how he'd ended up back home...

"You're awake now, huh? What happened to you coming back? I had to go looking for you with Mr. D! We thought you'd been kidnapped!" Rei sighed, remembering the night before.

"Tyson, you walked in and started talking about his grandfather! How stupid -are- you? Do you even know how terrified he is of Voltaire? How could you walk in and say something like that?" Rei stood up, facing Tyson angrily. "He would have killed you. Because he's so afraid. He's afraid of Voltaire coming back to beat him up him again, he's scared witless and YOU came in and struck up a conversation about him!"

"Rei, he's mad! Clinically insane!" Rei swelled with fury, and even though in reality he was a couple of inches shorter than Tyson, he seemed to tower.

"WELL WHAT WOULD YOU BE IF YOUR GRANDFATHER ABUSED YOU ON A REGULAR BASIS?" He screeched. "AT LEAST HE'S TRYING!"

"Look-"

"No, you look! You might think Kai's insane, well fine! But I don't! Because he's not insane around me! Because he knows he's safe! And no matter what you might think, I know I'm safe with him! You should have just left me there last night, Tyson, I would have been happier waking up in his arms than on your sofa!" He bared his teeth, hissing with anger. "I'm going to see him." He turned and started to walk away.

"But we have training!" Tyson protested. Rei stopped short and whirled around, furious.

"Take your training and stuff it up your backside, Tyson! You go and train with Max, because I have more important things to worry about than beyblades!"

Next Chapter: The Demolition Boys visit Kai, and Tala goes for a job interview.

R&R please!

PS: I just realised, there ARE five female characters in Beyblade! There's MingMing as well! Jeesh, what do they need OCs for?