A Year To Live

Author's Notes: THANK YOU!!! You made my days!!! Lol, just when I was all depressed over the fact that I flunked both Maths(33/100) and Chinese(41/100), I GOT THE BEST REVIEWS EVER!!! Thank you sooooo much!!! You can't imagine my elatedness when I read those reviews! Keep it coming! I totally live on it.

Oh, right, the story… I'll make this chapter longer, and work on the next chapter so I can post that one in a week's time.

And good news is, I'm on a one week break, so I'll dedicate mornings to writing. (I'll most probably end up dedicating the whole day since I love the computer so much…)

Alright, how does China look like? I dunno… Have never been there in my life, all thanks to the date my auntie chose to get married… I got mixed descriptions, see. I've got six classmates from China, and my best friend and good friend went to the Beijing trip. My seniors went to the Xiamen trip. (WAAAHHH!!! My ancestors come from Xiamen and I never got the chance to go there!!! GRRR…)

Okay, those classmates gave me an all appealing account of their days in their homeland (Winter and fruits), and my friends… told me about the rather disgusting aspects of their experiences. (Beggars and toilets…)

Please justify my views.

5—A Promise well kept

Ray

Sue me if I'm doing the wrong thing by not informing the rest of the team… I just can't bring myself up to break the news to them, either they were too busy having the hell of a fun time on deck, or just enjoying the peace and bliss of having nothing to worry about.

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In two days, the ship reached their destination, docking at Beijing's harbour. This was met by: Relief for Kenny; no more sea sickness, rejoice for Ray; after such a long time, he was finally on home soil, for Tyson, it meant food, Max, it was new sights. And the only one who had a scowl on his face, was Kai. However, this was largely due to the fact that Tyson had jumped on his toe.

The weather here was dryer, and being the hot season, it wasn't so bad. There was an occasional cool draft blowing from the sea, and they were not on the receiving end of attention. The Chinese, were trying to settle down the beggars who had all just emerged to beg money from a relenting American tourist.

Within a couple of minutes, the BBA bus pulled up in front of the quintet and Mr. Dickenson beckoned them all to hop on. He spared a fleeting glance at Kai, who was still shooting death glares at Tyson, assured by the usual behaviour.

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They checked in at the Hotel Phoenix. (A/N: Ok ok, sorry for interruptions. But I realised that there're a lot of such hotel names around. 'Feng Huang Jiu Dian'… Is that a real hotel???) All along the lift ride to the 32nd floor, Max was hopping up and down, sending shudders up and down Kenny's spine.

"Stop that Max!!! You're going to bring the lift down!" Kenny scolded, but to no avail, Tyson joined in.

"Noooo…" Kenny whined as Ray hid a grin.

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"Let it RIP!"

In preparation for the Asian tournament, they trained day and night, as it was heard that teams here were more formidable than you could imagine. Bitbeasts passed down from dynasties of changes and ever increasing discoveries of new 'stones' that could increase a Beyblade's spinning velocity.

You could say, that one of the best places to find the most ancient and influential Bitbeasts, is China. Many of their best teams, had never been let out of China, and it was therefore, no data about how strong they were.

That was why Kai was working them so hard, working everyone on speed, strength and defense.

"Give us a break! If you're not tired, we all are!" Tyson shouted after getting berated harshly by their team captain.

"Yeah, we haven't got all the strength you have to keep training…"

Only Ray knew better. And he also knows that Kai wants to keep it this way.

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In the safe confines of Ray and Kai's shared room, things were another matter. Ray could only watch Kai swallow the painkillers and get on with stuff. He would sometimes wake up at night to find Kai restless and in pain, with both hands clamped over his head. There were headaches so severe that Kai wouldn't be able to restrain himself from making a sound. Or maybe see him suffering another episode of vomiting. And when he tried to reach out, Kai would turn away, and shut himself off from the rest of the world.

So it went, for the next whole month, they breezed through the preliminary rounds, eliminating five groups, no sweat, and qualified for the fight to the top with ten other teams.

Just when things were going smoothly, problems have to emerge.

Kai was eating lesser and lesser. He was much more withdrawn and the killer headaches were getting worse. In Ray's mind, was a fierce debate of whether he should let the rest of the BladeBreakers find out about Kai's current condition.

As for the phrase, 'Everyone has a breaking point' goes, Kai was reaching his breaking point. But no one, was a aware of that…

End of Chapter

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I hope this chapter isn't a disappointment. It is to me…

NEXT CHAPTER: Breaking Point

I don't have a preview for you guys owing to the fact that my muses have deserted me and are being really cold and mean to me for the moment. But any way, I HAVE SOME TITBITS!!!

The rest of the Bladebreakers are going to find out. Finally! As for how…… Should I tell you? Yes? No? Yes?

Weeelllll…………… why don't you review me first, then I shall post SOON? Maybe in a couple of days, instead of the usual overdue 2 weeks? I've got plans for the next chapter, so it shouldn't be hard to write… SO? PRESS THAT BUTTON AND REVIEW!!!

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