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Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade and its characters! Sigh…I wish I could own Kai and Rei though…maybe Bryan or Tala too…

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Breathe – Chapter 2: Friends, friends, and oOh…Letter!

Kai stormed out into the castle and headed towards the garden. How could his grandfather made a pathetic idea like that?! He, Kai could rule the entire kingdom on his own! He doesn't need a stupid wife nagging him to this, and that. While Kai was busy thinking up reasons on why he doesn't need a wife to rule a kingdom with him, he didn't notice that there is some people joined him in the garden.

"Hellooo…!!! Earth to Kaiii…!!!" A girl with platinum blond hair and dark violet eyes waved her hand in front of Kai's face.

Kai blinked unexpectedly and heard a boy snicker. He resumed back to scowling and ignored the girl in front of him, and walked towards the concrete bench.

"Dizzi, I think you scared Kai," replied the boy who has icy blue eyes and flaming red hair.

The girl who was named Dizzi or Dizzara rolled her eyes and slapped the boy in the head.

"Youch!"

"Idiot! If Kai was scared then he would have screamed like a banshee and try to slice us in half with his sword!"

Before the red headed boy could reply, yet another boy came out from the castle. The boy has navy blue hair and his eyes were also navy blue. He burped loud and patted his stomach while walking towards them. Dizzi cringed her face and waved her hand again. But this time, getting the odour out of the air that the boy just made.

"Eww…Tyson! Where are your manners?!" scolded Dizzi.

"Good Morning to you too, Diz, Tala," replied the boy who was name Tyson.

"Haha…morning to you too, Tyson," answered the red head.

Meet Tyson Kinomiya, Dizzara (Dizzi) Tokugawa, and Tala Ivanov, Kai's childhood friends. Tyson is the son of the general of Hiwatari kingdom: Yamato Kinomiya. Dizzi is the daughter of one of the king's advisors: Yoshihito Tokugawa, and Tala is the son of another one of the king's advisors: Fabian Ivanov.

These four teens: Kai, Tyson, Dizzi, and Tala met when they were 5 years old. After Kai's father died in the war (his mother died right after his birth), Kai has been going to the garden ever since. Once when he was there, he saw Tyson, Tala, and Dizzi playing by the pond. Soon enough, Kai found himself playing with them, and with that they became friends.

Years passed since then, as Kai grew up, he came more quiet, a little distant and anti-social. But even though he's like that now, Kai's still friends with them, now closer that ever.

"Been stuffing your self with food again, Tyson?" Kai smirked.

Tyson glared at Kai. When it comes to food, Tyson would always be the first one and the last one sitting on the table. That is how much Tyson loves food, both figuratively and literally.

"You call that a glare? Hmph…pathetic." Kai continued.

Tyson looked at Dizzi and Tala. "O-kay, what the hell is going on?! Why is Mr. Grumpy-Pants so pissed off and even if he is, then why is he lashing it out on me?!"

Dizzi shrugged and walked towards the bench where Kai was sitting and took a seat right beside him. Tala went on his thinking pose and pretended to think.

"Hmm…let me guess…your grandfather told you about your fiancé, am I right?"

Kai looked at Tala quite surprisingly, and Kai never gets surprised. But he regained his composure and replaced his surprised look with a 'Go to hell' look. "How the hell did you know that?!" He demanded.

"Whoa, Kai has a fiancé?" asked Tyson.

Before Tala could answer, Dizzi started to laugh uncontrollably. The three boys looked at her in confusion (yes, even Kai too). Usually, when Dizzi acts like that, it means that she got hold of some orange juice. Yes, you heard me, orange juice. Dizzi has an affinity for the orange substance.

"Ermm…Dizzi? Are you ok?" asked Tyson as he took a seat in the grass, in front of the laughing girl.

"Haha…y-yeah…haha…just p-peachy." Dizzi managed to choke out, while holding her stomach from laughing so hard.

Kai had enough of this and placed his hands by Dizzi's shoulders, shaking her slightly. "What the hell is so freakin funny?!"

Dizzi stopped laughing when Kai shook her shoulders, but she gave a goofy grin towards Tala's direction. The red headed boy just raised his eyebrow in complete and utter confusion. Seeing that Tala didn't get what she meant yet, Dizzi's eye started to twitch quite venomously.

"You don't get it do you?" she asked quietly, looking at Tala who just shook his head.

Tyson rolled his eyes. "How could he not get that? Diz, you were practically laughing your ass off like some hyena."

"I'm still waiting for some explanation," Kai gave them a cold glance.

Dizzi suddenly closed her eyes and started to breathe inhale; exhale. With that, she opened her dark violet eyes and without any warning, she started to yell at Tala. And she could just go on and on, ranting about anything she could think of.

"Oh, haha…HOW THICK COULD YOU GET?! WE JUST HEARD THE FREAKIN CONVERSATION TWO DAYS AGO AND YOU JUST SUDDENLY FORGOT?! YOU HAVE A VERY BAD MEMORY, MISTER! AND WHAT'S WORSE IS THAT I HAD TO PUT UP WITH YOU AT THE TIME! YOU COULDN'T STOP YOUR FREAKIN LAUGHING AND WE ALMOST GOT CAUGHT BECAUSE OF YOU AND YOUR LAUGH!"

Dizzi continued on with her ranting, while Tala just stood there shrinking, and shrinking…. Tyson just watched, wincing slightly at Dizzi's voice, and Kai? Well, he's just sitting there, both arms and legs crossed, and eyes closed. But you could tell –if you know Kai very well, that he's very amused at the sight in front of him. Well after that very painful lecture (well for Tala at least), Dizzi stood up from her seat and stormed off inside the castle leaving the three boys alone.

"That was…very unexpected, to say at least," said Tyson who his ears are still ringing.

Tala nodded his head. "I'll say…. Anyway," he turned to Kai. "We –as in Dizzi and I, we found out about your engagement because we were eavesdropping, by accident! We never meant to do that! Cross our hearts and hope to die, I swear on someone's grave! We never, ev-"

"We get the point already!" yelled Tyson.

"Oh, ok then good. So yeah, we heard your grandfather and my father and Dizzi's father talking about you're old enough to rule, etc, etc. Oddly enough your grandfather suggested for you to get married! Can you believe it? Your grandfather made the idea!"

"So, its just Kai's grandfather making the idea, what's so odd about that?" Tyson raised his eyebrow, frowning slightly.

Tala sweatdropped. Sometimes Tyson could be just so naïve. "What I mean is that sometimes advisors of the kings suggest ideas like that. Besides me picturing Voltaire having an idea like that is so peculiar, don't you think?"

"Now that you mention it…haha, you're right!" Tyson started snickering.

"See? I didn't forget what I heard one bit."

Kai smirked. "Well you have to tell that to Dizzi."

Tyson stopped his snickering and suddenly had fright in his eyes. "Kai! Are you nuts?! Do you want Tala to die in an early age?!" He suddenly rolled his eyes when Kai smirked and nodded and Tala just glared at Kai. "Ok, scratch that, you might but he doesn't deserve that! You remember what happened the last time! A wrath of a woman is worse than death!" (AN: *whacks Tyson with a frying pan* Tyson: @_@ owies…my head!)

Kai shrugged. "Yeah, I guess you're right…for once at least." He received a sloppy glare from Tyson's direction, but Kai just ignored it. "Although here's thing that I don't get. Why would my grandfather would make an atrocious idea like that?! I could handle a kingdom just fine! I don't need a stupid wife to nag me all day with this and that, rambling like a weird banshee! She could even go and work with servants for all I care!"

Out of nowhere, Tala just laughed…real hard, like Dizzi did. Both Tyson and Kai (yes, him too) looked that the red headed boy in confusion. First it was Dizzi who started to laugh insanely and now Tala as well! Kai couldn't take anymore. One more person laughs and he'll go insane with them! Finally, the red headed boy stopped laughing, although he left a maniac grin in his face.

"I'll ask again, and this time I want an answer." Kai said in a calm yet deadly voice. "What the fucking hell is so funny?!" (AN: *acts like a 3 year old* oOh…you said a bad word! Bad, bad, bad! Kai: -_-;;)

Before Tala could answer, something interrupted him yet again. It was Tyson's stomach grumbling to get the attention. His stomach grumbled so loud that you could here it from the other side of the kingdom and back again. The hungry boy just laughed uneasily when the other boys glared at him.

"What? I'm a growing boy here!" Tyson defended himself.

"Tyson, you're 16 years old. I'm very positive that you are not a growing boy anymore. I'm even more surprised that you're not getting any fatter the way you eat." Tala stifled a laugh while Tyson just 'hmph'ed and walked back towards the castle.

Tala turned to Kai. "Now, where was I…oh yeah! The reason I was laughing is because, the person you're marrying is well…she's a he."

Kai just looked at Tala like the red head grew another head or something. "What do you mean 'she's a he'?" he asked.

"My friend, what I mean is that you are marrying Rei Kon, the son of Lord Rai and Lady Leila of the southern lands." Tala's maniac grin never left his face when Kai just stood there in shock.

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Crystal: Should I end it here?

Random People: NO!!! *starts throwing things at Crystal*

Crystal: Owwies…! ;___; That hurt! Buts, even though all of you are meanies *points at the Random People*, I'll still continue the chapter.

Random People: YAY!!!!!

Crystal: --;;

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Just after Rei found out about his engagement, he hardly concentrated about his martial arts training so he decided to abandon that for now. He walked towards the gazebo where his tiger, Driger was taking a catnap.

Driger is a white tiger with black stripes and silver eyes. I you look at Driger's white and black fur closely, you'll see a tinge of green. Like his master, Driger can turn his eyes into slits when he's mad, and can run very fast without breaking a sweat.

Rei suddenly sensed that there are people coming towards him and Driger, and he was right. Walking towards the gazebo are three boys. The first boy is tall, has lilac hair and lilac eyes. The second boy is fairly shorter than the first boy, he has a messy blond hair and cheerful skyblue eyes. The third one is probably the smallest one out of the four (including Rei), he has shaggy brown hair that covers most of his eyes, and he wearing glasses too; most of the time he carries a book with him.

"Hey Bryan, Max, Kenny," Rei smiled as the three boys took a seat inside the gazebo.

"HEY REI!!!" said Max enthusiastically.

"Don't mind him. Rei. He just ate something with a lot of sugar that's all." Kenny replied dryly, while Bryan just smirked.

Meet Rei's childhood friends, Bryan Kusnetzon, Max Mizuhara, and Kenny Minamoto. Bryan is the son of Sergei Kusnetzon: the head of the army of Kon Kingdom. Max is the son of Judy Mizuhara: one of Lady Leila's lady advisors. Last but not the least, Kenny is the son of Ichiro Minamoto: one of Lord Rai's advisors.

These four boys met when they started their first martial arts training together (yes, even Kenny too. Ironic isn't it?). At first they didn't get along very well. Bryan thought Rei was a girl and took it as an insult right away. For their first week together training, both Rei and Bryan kept on insulting each other, while Max just runs around like a wild monkey, and Kenny is just sitting there, looking all shy.

Their teacher was so stressed that he gave them a little quest: to find this rare purple flower with pink stripes on it. The four boys reluctantly agreed, but only because they want to prove to the others that they were better than them. So the search began. Time passed and not a single flower in sight. Max and Kenny already gave up searching, but still followed Rei and Bryan around who were still bickering at each other. To make the story short, they did found the flower with pink stripes, but Rei broke his ankle, which led to Bryan helping him until they found the flower. Soon after that, the four boys started to become friends until now.

"Rei?" asked Kenny, snapping Rei from his deep thought.

"Huh?"

"You look like you've met your doom." Bryan looked at him.

The neko-jin sighed. "You're probably right. I think today is the day that hell froze over."

"Why?" asked Max curiously, finally having some of the hyper boy's sanity back.

With that, Rei told them about his engagement to Kai Hiwatari. Rei tried to make it enthusiastic, really he did. But in the end, it turned into dull, boring, and miserable.

"Wow…poor Rei," Max patted him on the back.

"And now I have to write him a letter to get to know him better," Rei shuddered at the thought.

Kenny nodded. "Yeah, too bad we couldn't help though. I mean you're parents probably sent your response to the other kingdom already, not to mention you also have to prepare your vows, the catering, the musicians, the decorations, the guests, the invitations…"

"Why didn't just say no? I'm sure your parents would understand." Bryan interrupted the brunette.

"Yeah, I tried. But even if I did say 'no' I'd still have to do it. Besides you didn't see my parents' reactions, their faces were all giddy and happy and stuff." Rei explained while petting Driger making the white tiger purr even though he's asleep.

"Oh," the rest of the three replied.

"Well whatever floats your boat," said Bryan. "We'll leave you alone for know so you could get a chance to write to your future husband." With that he left the gazebo smirking triumphantly.

Rei glared at his back. "Jerk."

Both Kenny and Max sweatdropped at the sight in front of them. "We'll follow Bryan ok? We'll see you later, Rei," said Kenny leaving the gazebo with Max to catch up with Bryan.

"SEE YOU LATER REI!!!" yelled Max.

Rei just sweatdropped and took a piece of paper, a quill, and a bottle of ink from out of nowhere. 'Might as well get over with it,' he thought, sighing slightly.

About an hour later of letter writing, or in Rei's case pure torture, he finally finished the letter, smiling with satisfaction. He left the gazebo immediately so he could go to where the messengers take their rest. Walking down the grassy area, he read his letter again, and again to check any errors. While reading the letter, Rei accidentally bumped into someone in the corridors. Being the neko-jin he, Rei balanced himself to prevent him from falling, although he didn't get a chance to help the other person from falling down on their butt.

"I am so sorry! I wasn't watching where I was going. Are you ok? Hurt? If you are, then tug on my hair really hard. I am so sorry…" Rei rambled with a tone of concern in his voice. Even though Rei can be a kind-hearted boy, he sure can annoy you with his rambles. Usually they last for about a minute, but the last time he rambled it took about half an hour to shut him up.

"Kon, shut the fuck up," replied the other person who has an oh so familiar lilac hair and not so very warm eyes.

"BRYAN!!!!!!" Max yelled as he saw Bryan sitting down on his butt looking very irritated. "WHAT IN THE GODDESS' NAME ARE YOU DOING?" he asked curiously.

"I'm sitting down right here, in the middle of the corridor because I wanted to," Bryan replied sarcastically. "Help me up here, Rei!"

Rei shook his head and helped Bryan up while Max came running to them like a galloping horse.

"Are you done writing a letter to your husband?" asked Bryan.

Rei frowned. "He isn't my husband! Well, not yet anyway…"

Max looked at the letter in Rei's hands. "Whoa…can me and Bryan read it?"

"Yeah, sure I guess," answered Rei while handing the letter to them.

"Whoopie!" yelled Max.

The three of them kept on walking while Bryan and Max kept on reading the letter. The two of them didn't even notice that they were already at the destination and that also Rei went to talk to one of the messengers. They were almost finished reading it until Rei snatched the letter from their hands.

"Hey! We aren't done reading yet!" cried Max, while Bryan just started to glare.

Rei rolled his eyes. "I have to give the letter to the messenger? After all that's why I came here, right?"

Max just nodded slightly while Bryan turned his glare at the messenger. His glare was so cold and deadly that the poor man almost peed into his pants! Both Rei and Max saw this and the only thing they could do is, sweatdropped.

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Crystal: There! Chapter two is done! Hmm…I hope it's long enough to satisfy you thirsty readers! LOL! Just keep on reviewing and I'll keep on writing ok?

Kai: When is Rei's letter going to be here?

Crystal: *shrugs* I dunno, probably in the next chapter, perhaps? Why anxious?

Kai: No… .

Crystal: =DD Anyways, please R&R and I'll see you soon! This is Crystal saying, Kai is obsessed with Rei!

Kai: *blushes slightly* you weren't supposed to say that! You're suppose to say 'Sayonara!', you baka!

Crystal: ;__; I'm telling Rei!!! *leaves*

Kai: Wha-?? HEY COME BACK HERE! *leaves as well*