Devotion and Rivalry
By: Salvaged Wings
Rating: PG-13 possibly R
Disclaimer: I don't own BeyBlade or any of its characters.
Warning: Language, Situations, Yaoi
Summary: Sequel to Clandestine Wolf. Facing the difficulties of life Kai, Alexis, Razor, and Brian and trying their best to survive in a world they know little about. Takes place five years after Clandestine Wolf. What will happen when devotion towards one another is plagued with rivalry?
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Chapter One – The Visitor
If anyone were to knock at the door it wouldn't be answered nor heard despite the fact that someone was home at the two-story home. The front door was locked, for good reason because no one was inside the house itself, but the three-car garage had its white door opened with the radio playing loud enough to drown out the sounds of the clinks and clanks of someone working on a vehicle. The garage was large, containing only one car and a racing bike in it at the moment while it also had a large stand- up toolbox with everything and anything that one could dream of to need to fix their vehicle with.
This two-story home was where Kai, Razor, Alexis, and Brian resided at since they all had finished High School. It was five years after the final bout with the last forces of Biovolt and it had taken months for everyone there to recover from their injuries, but the emotional ones were still slowly healing in more than one of them. They all had grown up and matured for the most part, their looks changing only barely other than their wardrobe and their older presentation. The four had decided to move in together, more comfortable with each other than all the others who had gathered at the mansion in South America. It had been too crowded and it lacked the social life that they all needed to take up on. The home was a light creamy tan color with Blues and whites here and there to accent the home. The front yard had a small walkway towards the front door while there was a small garden around the house. The back yard was large and fenced in. it contained a pool, a fresh vegetable garden, and a few large shady trees. Life was comfortable for them, and they grew to live their new home with each other.
Just arriving and walking up the driveway was a young man about the age of twenty-one, his eyes and aqua blue color while his black hair was whisked back into a simple hair tie. His features were handsome and dark, his skin a gentle cream color that contrasted greatly with his dark hair and dark clothes. The man wore baggy black pants with a loose midnight blue shirt that had a white skull on the front of it. From the bottom of the pants one could hardly make out the pair of worn dark sneakers that he wore. His name was Aidan, and he was a friend of Kai's from his senior year in high school. Often enough Aidan visited, but not often enough to ever get to know or meet the person called 'Lex' that Kai often spoke of. The twenty-one year old had finally gotten it into his mind to visit when he very well knew that his crimson-eyed friend wouldn't be at home.
Leaning against the frame of the garage door Aidan glanced around the garage, noting both Kai's precious car and the pair of feet sticking out from under its left side. The music was loud enough; almost too loud he had to admit. He know that Kai was protective of his car, hardly ever letting someone open the door and sit down in it without glaring an utter dark warning, and now here someone was working on the car without him even being home. With curiosity Aidan waited to be noticed, but it didn't take as long as he had thought it would because the person under the red painted car wheeled out from under it and sat up, head turning as the attention of a pair of steely blue eyes fell upon him. He couldn't help but to blink and stare at the female figure before him.
Standing up Alexis brushed off her dirty hands on the pair of old, knee-worn pair of dark blue jogging pants causing smears of oil and muck to be made upon the already dirty and dulling material. She had grown taller, nearly standing just as tall as Kai himself who had topped off at a good six foot five inches. Her darkly tanned skin had mellowed out a bit into a more comfortable creamy caramel while her stark white hair had been grown a few inches below her shoulders. The soft strands of white were pulled back into a messy tail at the nape of her neck, still several strands escaping the rubber band that held it there. Her shirt was certainly different than what Aidan had seen before, an odd design that fitted her form perfectly with its baby blue material. The shirt was sleeveless and made of fine mesh that was clearly see-through, but to cover the pair of full breasts was a solid piece of baby blue material across the chest area. The shirt was on the shorter side allowing her flat stomach and navel to be seen along with the gentle curve of the small of her back. Her expression looked perplexed and in want of answers.
Steel blue eyes narrowed slowly as Aidan remained silent and giving her no answers. Alexis had no intention of asking the young man for answers, as he should clearly see that she wanted them or that he should leave. Under her gaze Aidan shrunk back a bit, offering a slight chuckle to try to ease the thick tension and discomfort in the air. "Hey, I was wondering if Kai was possibly around somewhere because I needed to.. Um.. Speak with him. I've never seen you around here before, my name's Aidan." With a flirtatious smile he held out his hand to Alexis, half expecting her to melt that harsh gaze and jump at the fact that he was offering his hand to her to shake. His expectations were in vain because she did nothing of the such, merely staring at him so intensely that he felt as if he'd melt like butter if he didn't get it to soften. In fact after he gave it some thought she had reacted just how Kai had when they first met each other, which in his mind made them seem so much a like. 'Family maybe?' Dropping his hand with a shrug Aidan gave another of his smiles, dismissing the subject. "Care to give me a name to call you by, or am I just going to have to call you 'Cutie' or 'Beautiful'?"
"Call her that and she'll snap your arm in two. Dare to call her another oh so brilliant nick name you might brainstorm and she might just snap your neck. What the hell are you doing here, Aidan? You know very well that Kai wasn't supposed to be around until later and he told you not to show up when he's not home...ever." Brian had emerged from the side door that connected the house to the garage, padding quietly to the side of Alexis with an even fiercer glare on his features along with a deep look of disapproval. He, like all the others, had grown as well but he didn't reach any taller than five foot eleven. His lavender colored hair was ever so slightly longer and swept back behind his ears. His eyes had changed to a soft dull gray hued lavender color and his voice a wonderful tenor. With the warm weather they were having this summer he wore something more comfortable than he had when he had been with Biovolt. Brian's attire consisted of a light gray muscle shirt and loose, dark red, baggy cargo shorts that reached down to his knees. He wore sandals, looking as if he had just thrown them on and walked out into the garage. His decision to go with Kai, Razor, and Alexis was based on the fact that he wanted to learn and be around Razor; whom he was starting to have a fascination with, or rather a rapidly growing fascination that started when they had first met. "Alexis, Kai is on the phone for you. I'll keep Mr. Frisky here company."
At the mention of Kai being on the phone Alexis softened her features some, a mild smile playing on her lips as she slipped past Brian and went into the house. The phone wasn't far, sitting just inside the door on a small corner table. It was a small cordless phone, the color a see-through dark onyx; several of them roamed about the house so that when someone called they wouldn't have to hunt a single phone down. "Kai?" Her voice was calm, collective, and somewhat joyful in tone. There was a short pause before Kai actually spoke up, some of his comments directed towards Razor in the background. "Don't worry about the bill, I'll pay it…. Alexis. What took Brian so long to get you the phone?" He sounded almost….concerned. "I was in the garage fixing your car. Someone came to visit and Brian got side-tracked talking to him."
In the background Alexis heard Razor mumble something with a mouth full of food, the words not really understood. "Don't talk with food in your mouth. Don't be a wise ass. Swallow it, don't spit it out. I swear you're as bad as Tyson at times…. 'Lex we're going to be late getting home--"
"I'll wait up for you then," Alex interrupted before Kai could even bother to tell her just to head to bed when it started to grow late. Kai was quick to comment on her decision. "You shouldn't sacrifice your good night's worth of rest just because I'm going to get home late. The longer Aidan is late in meeting us here the later we are going to end up getting home tonight."
Between the two there was a pause, each thinking over their own words before Alexis finally spoke up, sounding rather amused. Despite the fact that she had acted like she didn't know whom Aidan was she knew very well who the young man was from all the visits he made. Kai had made her promise to keep from meeting him for her own 'safety.' "Aidan's in the garage with Brian. He showed up about ten minutes ago, maybe longer. I don't know how long he was standing there looking at me as I fixed your car. I had the music up loud again. He was asking my name when Brian stepped in to tell me you were on the phone."
Kai put his hand over the mouthpiece of his phone, his words a barely heard smothered whisper to Alexis' ears. He was telling Razor where Aidan was and why he hadn't showed up yet. Razor gave a reply before the hand was removed and Kai spoke up, "I've told him at least one hundred times not to come around when I wasn't home. What the hell does he think he's going to pull off? 'Lex…. Alexis, he didn't do anything, did he?"
"No, Kai. He didn't do anything 'to me.' I can take care of myself, and you know that. Don't go and start treating me like I'm some fragile little flower that needs to be protected and watched over all the time. Now I'll clean up real quick and bring him down to the café for you. He certainly won't leave on his own unless Brian gets after him, and if that happens you know Brian won't let him get off the hook that easily. He was pissed enough when he saw that Aidan was here. If I would've known he was going to show up you know I would've gone inside, but you have got to stop trying to protect me from everything. He may have his reputation but I have my own, Kai. Let him play with fire…" There was a pause in her words, attention drifting elsewhere. "I need to go. Brian has started a fight again. Bye."
Before Kai could say anything there was a click only to be followed by the dial tone. Kai looked a bit taken back, crimson eyes started to fade into concern. Despite the five years the two still hadn't been ever able to say 'I love you" to each other. With a sigh he closed his cell phone after ending the call, eyes drifting to look towards Razor who was now patiently settled in his own chair, blue eyes staring off into nothingness. Both had grown taller, their frames having bolder shoulders yet slender masculine frames that were firm with slight but strong muscles. Unlike Kai the blue haired young man opted to wear shorts instead of pants, his attire consisting of blues and whites while Kai wore more dark and shady colors. Razor had grown out his hair a little longer, thanks to Brian's constant suggestions and hints, and had it often braided by the Russian blader he was fond of. Once Brian had opened up he reminded Razor a lot of Tala, only he had his own personality and its quirks.
"Come on Razor, we need to get home before Brian kills Aidan. He had better have a good explanation of why he went to the house while we were waiting for him here." Rising from his seat Kai left a folded bill down on the receipt, more than enough to pay the bill and to leave a good tip. Razor was quick to fall in beside him as they made their way out of the Café just a block away from their home, their pace quick enough to almost be a jog. If they wanted Aidan alive then they needed to get home quickly, only when they got home there was a whole new situation which left both of the young men standing there slack jawed at the beginning of the garage.
When they had arrived Brian was merely leaning against the racing motorcycle, which was his, watching the scene play out before him with a mild look of pure amusement on his features. Before him, fighting it out with nothing but bare fists and other limbs, was Aidan and Alexis. How that predicament came up gave both Razor and Kai and swim for their money, and Brian looked as if he was going to give no answer, simply shrugging his shoulders as if it didn't matter. They all knew Alexis wasn't violent and only opted to fight when it meant standing up for the pack or if she was very provoked in the matter.
As Razor moved to step forward Kai grabbed his wrist, shaking his head once. Silently he was saying, 'If Aidan deserved this then let him have it. She can handle this.' Releasing his friend's wrist Kai narrowed his crimson eyes, watching now as the two fell to rolling about on the ground trying to pin one another. Out of the two Aidan looked to be the one more beat up, eye starting to bruise and the opposite cheek already a deep bluish color. As soon as one would get the upper hand the other would shift and throw a bigger fight only to turn the tides over and over. Finally Kai spoke up, his voice demanding that it be listened to or else, "Both of you stop this nonsense, now."
Alexis was the first to listen, more than willingly allowing herself to be dominated by Kai and his presence. Aidan on the other hand didn't look as if he'd ever listen in several lifetimes, taking this sudden loss of fight in the young female he had been rolling around on the floor with and using it to his advantage. In a mere moment he had his body pinning her face-first onto the concrete floor of the garage, his own hands holding her arms down by the wrists and his body straddled on top of hers. If it had been a game, which he had thought it most certainly was, then it had certainly gone all wrong because as soon as he had lowered his head to whisper into her ear she had gone rigid with her steel blue eyes widening to the point her pupils shrunk to nothing but pin points.
What happened first Aidan couldn't tell, but he was flat on his back on the ground with Brian holding Razor back and Kai looming protectively and full of concern over Alexis. He figured it was either Kai or Brian that had shoved or pulled him away from the woman before Razor could get to him. The once calm, cheerful, yet stern blue haired twenty-one year old had turned into something Aidan had never seen before, his blue eyes churning with bitterness and his features scrunched into a look of hate. The thing was Aidan didn't understand what exactly he had done wrong, but it was clear he was lacking a good bit of information about who Alexis really was.
"You had better leave Aidan. Now." Brian's soft lavender eyes narrowed, his voice stern and just daring Aidan to defy it. Razor was relentlessly squirming in his arms to be let go, and he had to admit he was having trouble keeping a hold on him and holding him back. Over the years he had certainly grown stronger and a hard person to contend with in the ring especially since he had started kickboxing. Kai had Alexis cradled in his arms, her face buried in the crook of his neck and her arms circling his broad shoulders. Three pairs of eyes watched as Aidan cautiously stepped from the garage, walking down the driveway and turning to head back to his own home somewhere further down the road and over a few blocks.
"If I knew this would've happened I wouldn't have let her got at him, Kai. He said that I was only 'protecting' her when I ended up fighting him and he commented about how weak you looked compared to him, and she just jumped at him. You know her and how she's stepping up to protect us when we have our backs turned or when we aren't there. Don't blame Aidan or jump at him for what happened. He didn't know and it isn't his concern to know what happened to her before. That's something we've all left behind." Brian spoke truthfully, loosening his grip on Razor as he stopped fighting against his grip and leaned back against his chest with a pouting huff.
"But I more than well warned him not to ever come him while I'm not around. You and I both know that he likes to go at any girl he seems someone else with, and that doesn't make her any different than any other girl. I don't blame you for it because like you said you didn't know it was going to happen, but I will blame him. He has no right to do what he did--" Before Kai got to finish he was interrupted by Brian's insistent voice.
"But you never gave any indication that he has to keep his hands off. Rather you invited him otherwise by the way you kept hiding her from him. Aidan knows better than to mess with things that are yours, but how was he to know that you have a 'thing' with her? You never let him see her, not even with you around. It's as much your fault as it is his, Kai. Stop treating her like a kid who's hiding his prized piece of candy. She's human, too, you know." With that Brian shifted his weight, warning Razor before he started walking towards the door to the house. Razor quietly followed behind him, glancing back at the shocked yet angered face of the Dranzer blade wielder.