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Chapter 5 an invitation to stay

I was so early in the morning and already so much had happened, Kai's life was spiralling down hill a few weeks ago and suddenly all in one shot everything his heart desired most had returned to him. He couldn't have felt more content simply sitting on the shore with his best friend on one side and his newly returned bit beast on the other.

'this is the most perfect day in my life almost to perfect' Kai thought as he glanced over at Meiley who was looking at him with a relaxed expression on her face "what ya thinking about" she said catching his gaze, he sighed sort of sadly and looked down to the ground.

"is there a catch in all this?" he had to ask he could feel the knot in his stomach grow with the thought of there being a down side to everything that had just happened. Meiley raised an eyebrow at him and sat up straight "a catch to what?" she said a little confused.

Kai hesitated for a moment he wasn't to sure how to voice what he wanted to say, the fact was he really didn't want Meiley to leave anytime soon and that was a thought that was scaring him. In his head he was reassuring himself that she came to stay with him and that she wouldn't have come all the way from England just to give him back his bit beast and then just leave…. 'or would she?' that last thought made his heart panic a little.

"Kai what's up" Meiley said with a little more force in her voice, Kai snapped his head back up bringing himself out of his daydream, he was looking right into Meiley's eyes, she had a confused and slightly concerned expression on her face, but Kai took more notice on how close she had gotten to him.

"I was just… wondering how long you were staying here that's all" Kai said staring blankly at the sea, Meiley saw sadness in Kai's eyes 'is he worried that im gonna leave him soon… holy crap he is" she thought looking at him.Kai gripped the grass a little tighter anticipating Meiley's answer to be the one he didn't want to hear.

Meiley watched Kai tense up. her concerned expression faded into a soft smile, she leaned in a little closer to him and playfully rested her head on his shoulder, Kai could feel his cheeks burning all the way to his ears but he liked the feeling of having her close to him, slowly he rested his head on top of hers breathing in the sweet vanilla and jasmine scent of her hair.

"Is that the catch you were talking about?" Meiley said while smiling playfully, she could feel Kai's steady breathing blow strands of her hair and the heat of his head she found to be surprisingly warm and comforting.

Kai caressed his head against Meiley's and nodded so she could feel his reply. He was beginning love the feel of her hair it was unbelievably soft and shiny, it was like lying on a heated silk pillow.

"well apart from visiting you and reuniting you with Dranzer I also have some other business to attend to" said Meiley she dug her hand into her pocket and brought out her silver flip phone in front of her and looked at the time, it was 5:30 In the morning (I don't know about the rest of the world but here in Australia at the moment its still dark even at 6 in the morning so im just gonna make up the time the sun rises in Japan).

"what kind of business have you got at 5:30 in the morning?" said Kai looking at Meiley's phone. His deep voice tickled Meiley's ear making her cringe slightly.

"well I only just got here a few hours ago, so first I need to find an apartment right after the airport finds where they put my bags…" Kai lifted his head of Meiley's to face her but immediately missed the soft feel of her hair "what happened with your bags?" he asked, intrigued with the way this conversation was heading, from the way she was talking it sounded like she was in for a long stay.

"they never came through the terminal so I complained big time and they confirmed that the bags were on the plain but must have gotten mixed up with some other luggage, I was furious with them and their was no way I was gonna wait for them to find it especially after they said it would take them a couple of hours to find them so I went for a walk and found you"

"okay… but how long are you staying for?" Kai returned to his first question realising it had not yet been answered. Meiley gave him her famous mischievous grin but did so in a very bright way.

"I am staying for as long as I need to" she said very cryptically another trade mark of hers that Kai found both charming and annoying.

"and how long would that be for" he said edging her to give more detail.

"quite a while I'd imagine… as long as I want basically, I've been given a fair bit of power since my dad died, I can just about do what I want, but on certain conditions" her answer couldn't have delighted Kai more except for the part about certain conditions, though he didn't show it he was secretly smiling inside he wanted her to be around as long as possible he remembered how it felt when Meiley left the abby all those years ago.

It felt like his soul got stabbed, his heart was shattered into a million pieces when he was told that she was dead. To have all that happen to him again would be pure torture.

"what kind of conditions?" he asked a little concerned that their was something that could stop them from being friends again.

"I have full control of my life just as an adult would though legally I can't drink or smoke not that I want to smoke anyway but you get the idea, but only on the conditions that I get an education and complete school or at least have a year 10 certificate. when I was younger my caretaker William was made my legal guardian until I turned 16, now I have total control of my family fortune as well as the house and everything in it and now what I do with my life is up to me, though the government do like to keep an eye on me probably because I'm a noble and 29th in line for the thrown"

Kai looked at her strangely there was so much about her that he didn't know, but it had been 8 years since he had last seen her or had any contact with her, it was like meeting her for the first time all over again.

"so what are you gonna do know have you left school or what" Meiley looked up at him happily, she was glad he asked her that for she had yet another surprise for him.

"well I have left my old school but I have transferred to a new one, you see I want to go into the same line of work as my father I always have but I need certain qualifications, this new school I'm going to has can give me those qualifications, the school has two parts to it one half his a regular privet school and the other has courses form elite organisations and universities that are not only hard to get into but usually top secret, you have to be either invited or recommended to be able to get in"

she pulled out a cream coloured envelope with gold embroidery and handed it to Kai, he took it and looked at the royal looking letter it was an invitation addressed to a Lady Meiley Sadierah Croft:

Dear Lady Meiley Sadierah Croft

We are pleased to inform you that Lord Henry Richard Crofts pre application for you has been acknowledged and accepted as you are know eligible for entry at the ARA (Arcadian's Royal Academy)special course division (ARASCD).

In accordance with this invitation to join the ARASCD you must first personally apply for our courses as well as register at Arcadian's Royal Academy high school as part of the ARASCD condition of entry. To be able to participate in the ARASCD courses you must also be a registered student at ARA high school in accordance with our state laws.

Note that an A grade level is standard in English is required to qualify for ARASCD the rest of your classes you chose to participate in at ARA high school are your choice and are not counted towards your overall marks in the ARASCD.

In accordance with this invitation please return a letter of interest if you chose to be part of our program if not then don't reply. If you chose to apply then send your application to the school office by the start of the school year.

Please be sure to sign on your application which classes you wish to partake in English is the only compulsory subject you must apply for.

Sincerely yours principal off ARA high school and ARASCD mrs Magda hige

Kai looked at the letter with great interest especially when he saw the school crest at the top of the letter and recognised it to be the same as his school's crest. this letter was sent to her from his school.

Kai's eyes widened in realisation this letter meant that Meiley would be going to his school. Meiley watched Kai's expression with great interest, she had agreed to the invitation long ago.

"my father used to go to this school when I was younger I told him that I wanted to go to and learn all the secrets that he knew for myself so he sent in a pre application for me and they kept an eye on my grades and skills until know seeing as I'm old enough and more then qualified" said Meiley peering down at the letter and then at Kai.

Kai's face brightened "this is my school this means your going to go to the same school as me" he said gazing into Meiley's bright green eyes the excitement in his own eyes surfaced when she nodded at him confirming that she new this was his school and that she was indeed going.

"I heard that your school has dorms so I have come a few weeks before school starts to get everything organised" said Meiley taking the letter back from Kai "I've already chosen my classes the school knows my situation what with living out of this country so I arranged that I would live over here and complete my schooling. all that's left before I start is to get the uniform, books and get myself a dorm" she said happily and looked again at the time on her phone.

"were are you going to stay in the meantime" Kai looked at her with a questioning expression, truthfully Meiley hadn't thought about that until she got to the airport she wasn't worried though.

"that's why I need to find and apartment or at least a hotel or something" she said as if it were obvious,

"you can stay with me If you like I have plenty of room for you" the thought hit Kai a while ago but he wanted to wait for the perfect opportunity to say it. He looked away from Meiley a little embarrassed that he was acting so different but he really wanted Meiley to stay with him. Meiley was a little surprised at Kai but she only smiled sweetly at him then also looked away and considered his offer, the pause for her reply was almost too much for Kai to take but he didn't push it or show any signs of anguish.

"what about Voltaire I don't think he really liked it the last time I was around" she said remembering the looks Voltaire used to give her whenever she was near Kai she never felt to comfortable around him and always acted defensive when he was.

Kai only smirked for the first time all morning he new something she didn't "Voltaire is in jail for conspiracy to take over the world, he wont bother us" he said almost laughing he loved having the freedom of not having Voltaire around to control him as well as having all the privacy he could ever want.

Meiley smirked also "I new it" she thought out loud she then considered Kai's offer again then finally made a decision and turned to face her friend with a soft and almost tired expression.

"you sure I mean you wouldn't mind having me around a little while. I don't want to impose or anything" she didn't know why but she felt a little giddy with Kai being so friendly and caring, Kai shook his head with a small smirk "I don't mind and you wouldn't be imposing on anyone its only me at home and seeing as I'm the one inviting you to stay I can't see their to be any problem" his cheeks began to turn pink he couldn't remember the last time he behaved this way his heart was pounding and he didn't understand why.

"well if that's the case then I can't see any problems either" Kai's heart stopped for a moment then began to thud viciously in excitement this was defiantly the best day of his life, his attention was then brought to Meiley's phone that started ringing the tune of the phantom of the opera.

"hello Meiley Croft speaking… yeah… you found it… ok I'll come right now, where do I go to collect them…ok…ok…thank you bye" she hung up and flipped her phone back into her pocket.

Kai listened as clearly as he could without making it look to obvious he guessed that it was the airport and he was right.

"that was the airport they finally found my luggage and are sorry for the inconvenience" said Meiley in a mocking sarcastic tone, she stood up and watched Kai do the same

"lets go then" Kai said turning towards Meiley with his trademark blank expression Meiley only cocked her eyebrows in response and gave him a very sly expression and turned to walk up the small hill she didn't see Kai smirk at her from behind he found her sarcastic charm very alluring.

Meanwhile a few hours later at Tyson's dojo a very tired and grumpy Tyson awoke to the sound of crashing beyblades and voices outside his room "AAAAARRRRRRRRHHHHH WHATS WITH ALL THE NOISE" yelled Tyson bringing his sleepy head up from his pillow.

His vision was a little blurry but it cleared enough to see Hillary slide through his door "Tyson your still in bed figures hurry up and get dressed already everyone's outside and ready" Hillary exclaimed at Tyson with her hands on her hips.

Her voice shattered the still quiet of his room hurting his ears Tyson was very irritated by her intrusion and was to stubborn to do as he was told. He plunged his head back into his pillow and moaned loud enough for Hillary to hear.

Hillary sweat dropped and then smirked in amusement then sarcastically said "fine then sleep in I guess you don't want to go to the BBQ after all" her smirk got wider when she saw Tyson's head snap up from his pillow.

"oh man I completely forgot" Tyson practically yelled, this got the attention of the others outside. Max and Ray walked in to see what all the commotion was about when they saw Tyson fussing to get out of bed.

"ha typical Tyson forgot about his own BBQ" said Hillary towards Max and Ray so they would understand his sudden outburst, they both burst out laughing.

"but of course only Tyson could forget his own BBQ" said Ray grinning at Tyson's annoyed face. "and his own birthday and public holidays and the start of school" said Max adding on to what Ray had just said.

Tyson by this stage was up and looking for his normal jeans, blue shirt and red short sleave jacket his grumpy attitude was rising and the others couldn't stop laughing as they walked out of Tyson's room to let him change.

"hmpf how would they like it if they got woken up by Hillary" he smirked at his own joke then stopped realising how stupid it was considering Hillary was one of the people laughing at him.

Outside grandpa was preparing the BBQ and Kenny was helping set up the table Hillary saw them and felt obligated to help and started to arrange the cutlery, Ray picked up a cooler full of soft drinks and Max followed closely behind with a tray of meat.

He caught up to Ray and looked over his shoulder to see the white tiger team enter the scene Ray's face lit up when he saw Mariah look at him she smiled at him and blushed. Max saw and gave Ray a nudge in the ribs letting Ray know he knew something was up. Ray only blushed and continued to take the cooler over to the table before he welcomed everyone.

A few minutes later and Tyson made his way out of the dojo to great his visitors "hey guys nice to see ya make yourself at home" said Tyson cheerfully, he was no longer grumpy due to the fact that he could smell grandpa cooking burgers.

"thanks Tyson" Mariah said equally as cheerful, just then Miguel and Matilda entered with Raul and Julia "hi everybody" said Julia waving her hand at everyone "hey guys I think you're the last to arrive" said max happily.

Miguel looked around to see who was there and noticed that a certain member of the bladebreakers was not there "are you sure where're the last to arrive" he said looking around once again to make sure he hadn't missed anything maybe Kai wasn't even coming, he knew that Kai was depressed and maybe didn't want to come but still he was pretty sure he heard that Tyson and the others convinced Kai to come.

"um yeah why do you ask" said Tyson then he noticed Miguel looking around for something, Tyson followed his lead and then finally noticed that Kai was not there.

"hey guys where's Kai" said Tyson burrowing his eyebrows together, the others looked around until Ray spoke up "he hasn't shown up yet, know one's seen him all day" Tyson shrugged "oh well I'm sure the old sourpuss will show up eventually"

Tyson ignored the concerned looks he was getting from his friends and carried on with the party 'I hope he's ok its not like Kai to be late' Ray thought looking at the empty doorway.

It was know 11 0clock, Kai and Meiley have been to the airport and picked up Meiley's bags she had with her 2 large bags that would have been a huge burden to carry so Kai called home to and got his butler to come and pick them up in his Rolls Royce.

They were coming around the corner to a neighbourhood with a lot of very large houses and mansions. there was only a handful of these houses as the property they were on was very large also, further down the street coming close to an area that was almost deserted was a huge mansion made of grey masonry.

"this is your place?" said Meiley looking out the window of the Rolls Royce "its beautiful… reminds me of home" they stayed in silence until they reached the front entrance.

"come I'll take you to your room" Kai said not removing his sight from the door, this was the first time Kai had ever had any of his friends in his house not even Tyson and the others had been inside his house and he wasn't exactly sure what to do.

He lead her inside and were met by the site of a large room with a massive staircase in the centre of the room that had a split up the centre. The hole house was very royal looking it was a two story mansion not including the basement and the attic every know and then a maid or a butler would walk by and do their jobs.

Kai brought Meiley upstairs and into a large hallway, she was memorising everything she saw so she wouldn't get lost she had good bearings when it came to living large houses what with living in croft manor all her life.

"this will be your room" Kai opened the mahogany door and revealed a large room with at four poster bed with red satin sheets there was matching red and white drapes around the windows and the four corners hanging over the bed, the white fabric was see through and made the hole room look very elegant.

Their was a walk in wardrobe and a personal bathroom through the door next to the wardrobe. Around the room was a desk with a computer on it as well as a plasma t.v and a stereo on the wall (a/n this is a very cool room I wish it was mine).

"cool" said Meiley they walked in and she inspected everything in the room she dropped her stuff besides the bed and fell back on the bed so her legs were dangling of the edge, her arms were stretched out on the surface of the bed.

Kai gently placed her other bag at the end of her bed and leaned on the post at the end of the bed, he had his arms crossed and was looking straight out of the window, but he couldn't help steal a couple of sideways glances at Meiley, seeing how vulnerable she looked laying on that bed made his skin tingle he had the powerful desire to tough her but he controlled himself enough not to.

Meiley closed her eyes and took in a deep breath, when she opened her eyes she noticed Kai looking at her through the corner of his eye. "what's on your mind" she said calmly swinging her legs over the bed so she could sit upright on the pillows with her hands behind her head.

"nothing important" said Kai a little sheepishly knowing that he got caught in the act.

Just then their was a knock at the door Kai walked over to the door and opened it to find one of his butlers bow in front of him.

"I am terrible sorry to disrupt you master Kai but about 5 minutes before your arrival your friend Tyson called to remind you of his BBQ" said the butler with a smile

Kai only closed his eyes and got into a posture that showed that he really couldn't care "thank you Charles" he said dismissing his man servant and closed the door.

Meiley sat up straight and listened to what the servant said "guess I kind of ruined your plans huh" she felt a little guilty and let it show, Kai smirked "its just a stupid BBQ, Tyson probably only wants me to go so he can try and get me to battle him" then it clicked thanks to Meiley he now could do just that not to mention he could battle Meiley as well.

He thought about it then convinced himself that it was at least worth a try "would you like to come we can get a free lunch of Tyson and maybe give Dranzer a test run" he carefully chose his words to make the concept of going to Tyson's intriguing.

Even though Meiley saw right through him she was hungry and was just as eager to battle as Kai was "sure besides I would very much like to battle the kid who got the glory of being the third consecutive world champion" she said grinning almost evilly, Kai was startled at her reply he expected her to want to rest a bit but instead he also wanted to blade against Tyson.

He smirked uncrossing his arms and walked side by side with Meiley to Tyson's house.

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