Lei-chi Kon's Rants: Whoopee! I am back, and here again to update my fanfic! Weee!!! n.n Sorry, I'm a little high on sugar intake today… 'coz I drank tea and ate honey O.o And plus, I'm having this unusual fetish for blondes. (Mystel! Miguel! Hey that rhymes XP) I wanna watch G-REV!!!! –curses- I wanna watch I wanna I wanna I wanna!!!! –gets into her 4-year-old tantrums- Meh but anyway…moving onto the real thing!

I'm gonna post a new fic. n.n It's called Final Stage and I hope you guys like it as how you like this…thing. Though I can't promise it having "regular" updates…(it's not really finished yet, I just want to know how people would react to the first chapter).

As always, thank you for those lovely people who kept on reviewing me. I love you all!!! –cries and gets all dramatic like a winner of Miss Universe O.o;;-

I STILL WANNA WATCH G-REV!!!! I miss my Hiruta dammit!!! (Even though he's only show in G-Rev in only one episode… . ) And Boris looks so…COOL…. O.O I'm in love with Boris!!!!!!

Boris: Hands off, woman.

Lei-chi: Kawaii-ness!!!! –glomps Boris-

Boris: -.-

But still here it is, Chapter Seven! –cheers- And as usual, the answering the reviews thingy is at the bottom. Thanks again!!!

Disclaimer: Oh my god!!! Someone stole Bakuten Shoot! Beyblade from me!!! -as if-



Chapter Seven – Morning After

The morning sun's rays landed on Rei's face, signaling for the new day that awaited them. His golden eyes fluttered open, him yawning and stretching his arms. He looked around for a clock, and when he located it, it surprised him—eleven o'clock. It was already noontime and he was still asleep! Anyway, they slept at about three in the morning…. He shook his head and looked at Kai, who was still asleep beside him, and his eyes widened with bewilder.

The blanket was by now slightly misplaced, revealing the upper parts of the two boys' bodies. One of Kai's arms was placed under his pillow, supporting his head. Another was…well, draped over the neko-jin's slender physique, as if clutching him as his own, clung too tightly and possessively.

Rei felt himself giggle, mainly it was because of Kai's silliness, he could become naughty after all…. Chuckling more he decided it was time to wake up, so he started shaking Kai from his slumber, not before removing the pale arm clinging to his waist. Soon after a few more seconds the crimson-blood eyes came into view, still slightly droopy.

"Wake up, Kai-KUN," Rei teased, tugging onto the older boy's arm.

"Don't call me that, it's annoyed me too much…" Kai mumbled as he leisurely pushed himself upward, ruffling his two-toned hair still messy from sleep. Rei followed suit and after a few minutes they were now fully awake, Kai brushing his teeth inside the bathroom, the doors wide open and Rei brushing his hair, untied from its ribbon.

Rei was looking quite thoughtful, obvious in his features that he was thinking something deep. Then all of a sudden he burst out his thought from his head, gazing at the Russian lad.

"Why do you have face paint, Kai?"

No response.

"…Because, you never told me why before…"

Still no response.

"…If you don't want to tell I understand…" Rei mumbled, starting to return his golden gaze back to the mirror, continuing the combing. Just as then Kai stepped forward to him and glared at him through the reflecting object, crossing his arms.

"If you would just stop thinking of petty things, then I'll talk to you seriously," the older boy snorted, shaking his head as Rei started to smile and tried to look innocently at him.

"I know, I'm starting to do that usually, but I just can't help it! So many mysterious things going on around here…" he tilted his head around the room to add effect to his statement. Kai smacked him gently on the head and started chuckling. "What? I didn't say anything funny!!!"

Kai shook his slate head again and signaled for the door. "C'mon, breakfast…or in this case lunch."

"Wait, wait, I'll change first…"

"Do it quickly!!!"

The silence between them was quickly swallowing the area, making the Chinese feel a little tense and fidgety at the situation as the two strolled down the corridors to the 'main dining hall'. He couldn't help but feel nervous, sure he knew perfectly that staying quiet was one of the captain's best expertise but he couldn't shake the feeling that something might happen and he wouldn't be ready about it. Suddenly a ring surprised him and when he found out, Kai's celphone was ringing—someone was calling him. Annoyed Kai took out the cel from his pocket, scowling after he had read the name on the caller ID. Puffing he answered the call.

"What do you want?" his first warm greeting sounded abruptly, making the Chinese who was observing him frown. Few seconds' silence, then Kai spoke up again. "Alright already! Wait there and don't touch anything!" he shouted, ending forcefully the call sliding in the device into his pants' pocket. He snorted again and started muttering something under his breath.

"Kai…" Rei began, making Kai glare to him as he was now in a bad mood. Rei quickly averted his eyes and looked at everything except the older boy just next to him. "You know, it's not nice to talk at the phone like that…"

"Try having a girl that always bugs you 24/7!" Kai reverted to him, crossing his arms as they persisted the walking. The neko-jin felt himself lost in thought for a moment, then something came to him and he managed to smile back at the captain.

"I have Mariah, and she's been in my life ever since birth."

Silence. Then it was Kai's turn to smile. "Why? Does she annoys you? As far as I remembered I believe she was the closest thing to you. I think she's your girlfriend."

Rei snatched his head up and continued to smile at Kai. "Key word: WAS. And she's not my girlfriend, I don't even think that! It's like marrying my sister! Eech!"

"We both have a rabid 'girlfriend'. Strange enough," Kai concluded, rolling his eyes to add sarcasm to his sentence. Rei chuckled and nodded his head in agreement. "Tch, you're going to meet my—" Another roll with his crimson eyes "—fiancée, she's waiting at the living room…. Better introduce you now, what do you think?"

"W-whatever you want to do I…I guess," Rei stuttered, actually feeling nervous at just meeting someone new. Hang on Rei, it's just a friend of Kai! No big deal! His mind screamed at him, but he couldn't still couldn't stop fidgeting with his hands and soon Kai took notice of this.

"Are you nervous?" Kai inquired, looking at his golden depths. Rei immediately shook his head.

"N-no! Of course not!" he replied, nevertheless even just his voice it could easily be interpreted that he was lying. Kai rolled again his eyes at Rei's obvious lie and instantly grabbed Rei's hands that were clutched tightly with each other, grasping it into his own pale hand. The Chinese again felt his eyes widened with surprise.

"No reason to get nervous, kitten, it's just a stupid bitch who's going to meet you," he assured him, looking back at the space before them. Just as then the neko-jin noticed that the older boy's pallid hand was still holding his own tanned hand, adding confidence to himself. He ignored it, and unnoticed to the both of them they were walking side by side down the corridor, holding each other's hand in their grasp.

Finally they had reached the end of the corridor, and then, the dreaded living room where this certain 'girlfriend' of Kai was waiting. The raven-haired teen's hand began to shake terribly again, and he felt the older boy's own hand clench to his tighter, and as he gazed into those cold crimson glare he saw was nothing near of coldness…. It was…ugh, something, he just couldn't think what it was that was there.

Yup, the girl was the one in the photograph that he noticed, her long lavender hair tied by two, and in her outfit she was actually looking quite good. Rei almost blushed, why was he thinking like that with Kai's fiancée Baby pink bandanna on her head, baby pink long-sleeved turtleneck, black fitted skirt, light pink stockings and black shoes. Rei started to remember another girl with what he saw and he sweat dropped. Mariah…pink in all her glory….

"Oh! So that's Rei!!!" her first greeting to the two boys, jumping up from her seating on the black sofa and running towards the pair that had entered the living room. Sugar-high, she began to perk up as if like a hyper Max…. Oh. Rei smacked himself again mentally on the head. Her rosy pink eyes travelled up and down the neko-jins physique, as if scrutinizing every detail on him while her amused grin was widening. "You're Rei right?" she asked, looking up to meet his golden eyes. Rei nodded slightly. "I thought so! I'm Weinn, nice to meet you!" she almost screamed at him, grabbing his free hand and started shaking it wildly.

"Ahem, Weinn, I think Rei's had enough," Kai interrupted, removing Weinn's hand from the abused paw of the neko-jin. Weinn didn't react, but the Chinese was quite sure that she had felt a bit disappointed.

Despite of it, she continued to smile as she glanced back at the raven-haired teen. "You know, whenever I get Kai to talk, he always talks about you, do you know that?!"

Rei's golden eyes widened as he gazed at Kai to ask questions, but then those crimson-blood eyes ignored his attempts of getting him to talk. Sighing he glanced back at the shorter girl in front of him, but only blushed to find that she was staring at the hands that were clamped together—his and Kai's. He quickly removed his hand away from Kai, thinking that she might misunderstood it with another meaning. He almost fell when he noticed that she was smiling interestingly, that wasn't really the reaction he was expecting….

"Kai!" she yelled, glaring at the oldest teen. Rei almost fell again, wasn't she just smiling a while ago? Now she's getting angry…eep. "I can't believe it! You're replacing your fiancée with…that?!" she pointed at Rei, disgustingly. Rei was starting to sense his embarrassment level rising. "…I can't blame you, she's prettier and sexier than I am!"

Rei blushed more as he heard the girl giggling—she was joking after all and Kai knew that he wasn't reacting a bit. What bothered him most was that Weinn mistook him for a girl! Well he actually appeared quite girly…. His usual bandanna was positioned on his forehead, but his hair wasn't in its usual wrap, instead only tied with a red, flashy ribbon. He was wearing long-sleeves that day, so his muscular toned arms weren't obvious, and his Chinese top was very long, up to his knees that it appeared to be a skirt. Red wraps were tied along his waist, and his pants underneath were almost fitted and his Chinese shoes didn't help at all too.

"Er…I'm not a girl," he uttered, blushing more. Weinn covered her mouth in shock, apologizing ecstatically as she started studying Rei again.

"I'm really sorry, Rei-ch…kun! I…I thought you're a girl…because you're so pretty…" she admitted, her cheeks painting with red tint.

"I understand. Most people mistook me for a girl at first glance. It's not so fussy…and they also said it was because I was pretty or beautiful…"

Kai took this as his another opportunity to interrupt. "I believe that's enough introduction for one day, can we move on to the real thing here, please?" he sarcastically announced rolling his eyes. Weinn grabbed something from her bag and she set them on the table, Rei and Kai both following behind her.

The lavender-haired girl then revealed her black and pink Beyblade, Drazzangra. "Well you see, Draz tends to lose balance immediately after a few minutes' spinning, and her attack isn't that much powerful as before, therefore, she's low in balance and attack. However her defense and endurance is the same. I don't know what happened!"

The Chinese sat beside her on the floor and grasped Drazzangra and began to disassemble it, while Kai was looking over the Beyblade parts brought by Weinn. "I think the attack ring and weight disk should both be replaced," Rei mumbled as he searched around the table for a screwdriver.

"These won't be any good," Kai depreciated the various parts, earning a depressed look from Weinn. "These aren't what we need for the problem of your blade. Sorry, but you can go home now," he slurred, standing up from the floor. Rei shot him an angry glare.

"Don't listen to him, Weinn. If he won't help you I will," the neko-jin assured her, thinking deeply. "Aha! I remember now! Wait here." At that he started to run towards the corridor again, leaving a stupefied Kai and Weinn behind, watching him disappear from view. After a few minutes he returned, panting heavily, clutching a small bag that seemed to be a bit heavy. "I'm right, I brought my spare parts," he grinned, setting it apart from the girl's and examining each carefully. "This!" he cried, holding up a black attack ring. "This is perfect! Just enough weight to keep the blade in balance and enough wideness to attack another blade…. And this weight disk should do the trick…."

After a few more seconds of assembling he finally had it finished, looking like it was brand new. Weinn jumped and down with joy. "I came here for Kai's help but you're the one who helped me instead! Thanks Rei!"

Rei once again glared at Kai, who did nothing but scoff at the girl's every small reaction. He reached out for Driger in his pocket and offered, "We better test Drazzangra first."

"Outside!" Kai added, pointing at the door. His fiancée giggled and immediately rushed to the portal, still giggling. The neko-jin wondered, why was she so happy? It's really weird to have sugar-high and hyper girls always by your side…. Just like Mariah…. He added the last bit to satisfy his statement.

Once they were outside, Rei took out his launcher and Weinn also did with hers, attaching the Beyblade to the device. Later after a few times of spinning (A/N: I'm too lazy to describe spinning Beyblades…. Besides you'll get the picture ;) Weinn ultimately had a final conclusion. "Drazzangra's gotten better!!!" she screamed, launching herself at Rei who fought back to retain his balance. Kai watched at the scene, just staring, his face still blank and devoid of any emotions. "Xie-xie Rei-han! (1) Hontou ni arigatou!!! (2)"

Rei blushed and nodded, but he was a bit confused that this girl knows how to speak Chinese…although he knew that it wasn't that unusual anymore.

"I'm half-Chinese half-Japanese," Weinn voiced out as if she had read Rei's thoughts.

"So you finished your business here, you may go," Kai cheekily mumbled, crossing his pale arms and gesturing for the gigantic gate waiting for the girl's departure. Weinn was saddened, not obvious from her grinning expression but the Chinese sensed this eventually and she headed for the gate. Just as then Rei stopped her from her tracks as an idea struck his mind.

"Kai! I have an idea!" he shouted at Kai, who was glaring at him from stopping Weinn. "Let's ask Weinn for her help! Girls are better at this kind of stuff!"

"Help? For what?" she asked, walking back, confused. Kai rolled his crimson eyes and started to go back to the mansion.

"I can't do anything now can I," he whispered, earning a smile from Rei's lips.

"Thanks Kai!"

Weinn blinked innocently. "Huh??"



Chapter Seven – Morning After – To be continued…



Lei-chi Kon's Rants: Hahaha!!! I know, nothing happened in this horrible crappy chapter!!! Because my mind wasn't working well so…sorry for a pitiful result. Gomen. Weinn is finally here (my OC) and she will be with them for a while…if she agrees to help in a homosexual-relationship-problem. HAHAHA! Anyway…as always, please RR!!! Tell me how I did this time!!! Oh, the translations! (for those who doesn't know)

(1) – Chinese for "Thank you, Rei!" (–han is for respect in Chinese, same as for –chan, –kun, –san and –sama in the Japanese lingo)
(2) – Japanese for "Really, thank you!!!"

There…. I added that just for the sake of showing that Weinn is half-Chinese and half-Japanese (that I believe she mentioned earlier…). Those who are curious of Weinn, you may ask me her bio/profile!

The answering the reviews thingy:

Virtual white tiger - Hiyee new reviewer!! n.n Noooo…I seriously don't believe that I'm THAT good. I'm just…lucky. n.n;; Anyhow thanks for the review!!
Forfirith-on-a-sugar-high - Haha better believe it!! XDDD No it was because…I was rushing at that time, there are so many things running through my head I can't think straight…so gomen!! -desperately bows her head- Haha you're right it's the fluffy chapter…and YOU! Stop doing the puppy-dog-eyes!! It's TORTURE I tell you, TORTURE!!!! –writhes in pain- Oh and thank you BTW. n.n
A dragon's crystal - Hey gurl what do you know, you're RIGHT! Kai's fiancee did show up in this chappie! Good going! XP –sighs- Thank goodness you're not kiling me…I thought that I'd die with what I just wrote! O.O And about the "more fluffy scenes next chapter"? You'll just have to see about that…. XD Thanks!
kero-chan39 - Thank you!! And I updated!! Hooray!! And I'm flattered! –blushes-
SoulSister - WOW! A new reviewer! It's nice to know you like my plot. n.n Thank you!!
saFire flamE - Haha LOL!!! I updated as quick as I could…hope you enjoy this chapter! Thanks!!
TNTiggris - Heehee…the chapter you've been waiting for!! Hooray!!!!!!! Surely you're enjoying this now aren't yah?!?! –winks-
MadMaddie - Hehe, thanks!! I agree, I liked that part too. It gets the cheesy part outta me XP. But bleh anyway, I hope you'd still find the next chapters interesting too!! nOn
devilburns - Giihihihihi. Thanks!!
Ice Dragon638 - Aw, you're not late!! And um…they sorta got together…well you probably had read it by now!! XDD Thanks!!!!
darksaphire - You're not late too! You're right, I also have a hectic schedule at school. Lots of projects, assignments, stupid projects, reports, THOSE STUPID PROJECTS!!! Augh they get me mad!!! –grits teeth- But tell the truth I don't study…at all!! O.O Really! It's because of my lazy hormones…ahh even at school…. (That's why I'm always rushing and cramming… u.u;;) Yup Seme-Rei is kinda hot and sexy XP not to mention…unusual O.o But yah, it's unusual for him to be all angsty in fanfics…(Meh in G-Rev he doesn't even seem to smile!! Stupid Rei-chan.) But anyway…thank you!!!!
autumnburn - WAI! You're back! (I think you're back…I think you're one of my previews reviewers…) But anyhow…thank you!!!

So that's about it…have nothing else to say—oh wait! Don't forget to review in Final Stage. I'd really appreciate it. Hmmm…I think that's all! n.n

Please RR!!! Thanks!!!



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