Crystal: *looks for Tala* Talaaa…where are you?!
Tala: I'm right here! -_-;;
Crystal: oh…hehe…I knew that…YUP! ^_^;; Anyways, thanks so much for the people who reviewed, or even read! This story is for all of you to enjoy and I'm really, really glad that you all like it! ^_^
Tala: Umm…Crystal…I think I should probably tell you that Kai is looking for you…with a very, very pissed look… *sees Kai entering with Rei trying to calm him down*
Crystal: uh oh…umm…TALACOULDYOUDOTHERESPONSESFORMETHANKS!!! *runs away*
Tala: -_-;; Now I get to do all the hard work, sigh…lets get started shall we?
Sarcasmcat: Thanks! =)
Kai-lovr: LOL! Yes…Kai needs to go to anger management classes. Although I think he does…only he skips the classes… *shakes head disappointedly*
StarryNightObsession: Yes…Kai seems to be the overprotective one than Rei…and yes, your right again…Rei is wayyyyy to gentle, and loving to be a seme! ^_^ LOL, I do give Maxie sugar…only Kai, Rei and the others hide them… -_-;; And Bryan did burn something once…its quite scary…haha. Oh, cool! You're also Filipino, Chinese, and Spanish? Hehe…you know that Filipino song in my profile? Do you know what it means? ^_^ I'll give you a treat if you know, LOL!
Legolas19: Thanks! =)
Enelya Aldarion: LOL, thanks! I'll think about the Tala/Bryan thing… =)
Bluumberry: Yes…I hate it when they fight too… =( Although, what has to be done, has to be done! Don't worry though…very soon they won't hate each other! ^_^
Platinum Rei: Lol, thanks! And yes… "You better run and scream like a banshee." Hehe…I don't know how I came up with that… =DD
FORFIRITH-on-a-sugar-high: Hehe…why do you need to remember the "skinning alive" part when your cousins visit? LOL, are you going to do it to them? *smirks*
CRaZy NeK0-JiN: LOL, I agree with you…Rei-chan's too nice to skin anyone…but who knows, maybe he does, haha. ;)
Tariki Rania: I'm glad you like the letters! ^_^ Oh, cool…your relatives set up an arranged marriage too? That never happened to my family…lol wonder how they treat each other…
Keisan: Yeah, Kai got what he deserves…really badly. Rei's really, really nice, ne? LOL, you'll be surprised when they meet. Hmm…maybe I should put a preview thingy…what do you say? How about I give one right after the chapter? ^_^
Iversons Babe: Yes…thanks I guess. And you're right…I don't like Mariah…she's too pink and preppy-ish! *shudders*
SoulSister: Yup, Kai got what he deserved! ^_^ No offense…but I really, really, like Kai but…he was being mean to Rei-chan! . Oh, and Tala as an uke, eh? Hehe…I'll think about it. *winks*
c0tt0n kand3e: *sniffs* Aaahhh…why do people keep on forgetting?! It's Crystal! -_-;; Sighh…I guess you're forgiven! ^_^ LOL, its interesting? You really think so? Haha…well, anyway…Thanks!
Sexy_Felton: I'm glad you find it intelligent! ^_^ And you fell in love with my story as well? Hehe…Thanks! Oh, and it's not in my place to tell you what is a beyblade…you have to ask the professional pros! *looks over where the Bladebreakers are*
Your favouritest cousin =) aka Lourdes: Haha…thanks! ^_^ Oh, and what you said on msn…I'll just take that as a compliment! ;)
Readhair_gal_Gin: umm…thanks! =)
Bebe Macy: Don't be so down, Macy! And yes…your welcome for your long ass review…LOL! ^_^
Tala: *sighs with relief* There, all done. Since Crystal isn't here to give you ANYTHING, I went to the bakery for a little while…and I bought brownies for each and everyone of you, well like four pieces to a person. Oh, since Crystal isn't here, I'll be nice enough to do the Disclaimer since she's a very lazy ass.
Disclaimer: Crystal doesn't own Beyblade. If Crystal owns it, then hell froze over, Tyson had a diet, Max doesn't like sugar, Kenny threw his laptop away, and Kai became a very nice and considerable person! Since none of those things happened, Crystal doesn't own Beyblade and she never will.
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Breathe – Chapter 5: What do you mean I'm meeting him?! Part one
"REI!!!!!!!!!!" yelled a very hyper voice throughout the corridors. It seems that Max is looking for our neko-jin, it also seems that the blond boy is clutching something in his left hand very tightly.
Meanwhile, in the library, Rei looks like he's reading a magnificent book for his literature work. Although he looks like he's reading, Rei just keeps on reading the same line over and over and over…until he heard someone yell out his name. The raven-haired boy looked up from the book and cringed his forehead in confusion. Who in their right mind would yell right in the morning?!
"Rei! There you are!" The library door slammed open and there stood Max, with a very happy smile, and a very optimistic look.
Rei frowned. "What's wrong Max? Did Kenny get stuck in that small chair again? Did Bryan insulted the chambermaids and now he's being punished?"
The blond boy just shook his head, still keep on smiling. Instead of answering, he shoved the thing that he was holding to Rei and started to skip towards the red sofa. Rei looked at the item and saw that he was holding the very same parchment from before.
"Max…" said Rei, while still looking at the parchment.
"Yeah?"
"Where did you get this?" Rei held the letter up so his friend could see.
Max saw the letter and said, "Oh! One of the messengers was looking for you, but you were doing your literature thing, so he gave it to my mother. But then Mother was busy with your wedding and stuff," He saw Rei paled slightly and Max smiled inwardly. "That she told me to send you the letter!"
Rei just 'oh'ed and went to sit on the wooden chair where he was sitting. He wrote some pretty mean and harsh things on the last letter so he would probably expect some rude words on this one. Unknown to Rei, a pair of jolly, blue eyes were watching him carefully and curiously. Max kept on watching Rei make up his mind whether he should read it or not and just throw is to the nearest fireplace. The blond boy couldn't help but ask if the neko-jin should start reading the letter. After all, he WAS supposed to help Rei look enthusiastic for his special day.
"Aren't you going to open your letter?" Max asked.
Rei just shrugged and went back to his studies. "Nah, maybe later I guess. You know I'm not really fond of this situation that I'm in right now."
Max sighed. Yep, this is going to be hard. He decided that he couldn't do it alone, so he suddenly stood up and walked towards the door. He looked back at his shoulder to see Rei so concentrated on the book, with his forehead burrowing and all. Max left the library and went in search of his other friends, one with the lilac hair and the other one with brown hair.
Max hummed to himself since the corridors are pretty silent, until he reached a big brown oak door that has a falcon carved in the middle. Rule number one if your going to be friends with Bryan Kuznetson is: if you want to talk to him and he's in his bedroom, knock first! The blue-eyed boy shuddered when he remembered what happened to Kenny when he didn't knock the first time, anyway Max took a deep breath and knocked really loud on the claw shaped knocker thingy… Anyway, he waited for an answer, and surprisingly none came. Once again he tried, but once again nothing came to open the door. Now, he's debating himself whether he should barge in or not…
'Ah, what the hell,' Max thought. 'I'll just barge in…I'm sure he won't mind…right?' He took another breather and with the count of three, Max pushed the heavy oak doors, and found himself going inside Bryan's humble abode. Seeing that no one was there, Max sighed in relief but realized that Bryan wasn't in his room. Max frowned and left the room thinking that he did all of that for nothing.
He was walking with his head down low that he didn't realize that someone was also walking towards him, before Max could look up, he collided with someone and fell off his butt.
"Ouch!" Max said while rubbing his bum slightly. He looked up to see Bryan and a boy with navy blue hair and navy blue eyes right beside his friend.
"You ok Max?" asked Bryan, with a slight amusement in his eyes.
Laughing nervously, Max said, "Hehe…yeah, I was looking for you actually. Did you see Kenny? Because I was going to tell you guys something…" He trailed off, staring at the guy right beside Bryan.
Bryan noticed this and began to smirk. "Oh, how selfish of me. Max this is Kinomiya Tyson from the Hiwatari kingdom. Kinomiya, this is Mizuhara Max, the son of Lady Leila's advisor."
Max smiled shyly and put his hand out. "Nice to meet you…uh…"
"Tyson, just call me Tyson," the boy with navy blue hair replied taking Max's hand, shaking it slightly. Both boys suddenly felt a jolt when they shook hands, but they shrugged it off. Max noticed that this Tyson boy didn't let go of his hand yet and flushed slightly.
Both forgetting that Bryan was still in their presence, the lilac haired one coughed slightly, making the other two startled. Max looked at Bryan with embarrassment and asked, "Where is Kenny by the way?"
Bryan frowned. "Didn't you know?"
"Know what?" Max frowned slightly, making Tyson think that it's cute when Max frowns.
'He's cu—what am I saying?!' the bluenette suddenly thought. 'I just met him for goodness' sakes!'
While Tyson was scolding himself mentally, Bryan explained to Max that Kenny and his father went to the Hiwatari kingdom, while Tyson and one of Lord Hiwatari's advisors came here to see if everything was going well, like Kenny and his father doing at the other kingdom.
"Oh," was all Max said after Bryan's explanation. "Well, where are you two guys heading?"
"Well, Sir Ivanov said that I should see what Rei looks like," said Tyson while looking at Max and Bryan.
Bryan shrugged while Max just nodded shyly. "Rei's in the library studying his literature. Oh, and Bryan…Rei received his reply now."
Hearing this Tyson looked at Max with slight curiosity. "So, Kai's letter is here? Already?"
"Of course," replied Bryan, looking smug. "Our kingdom has a the fastest messengers you can find."
Max rolled his eyes. "You have to forgive Bryan, he's very smug when it comes into something that he likes, anyways, were here!"
Right in front of them was the library door. Tyson looked at it with awe, it's twice as big as the library they have in their kingdom! He noticed Bryan opened the door revealing humongous shelves full of books, maps and things, several rows of table all polished and clean, and on the last row of the tables sat a boy whom Tyson thought was suppose to be Kai's fiancé, Rei Kon.
"Hey Rei!" cried Max, skipping all the way where Rei was sitting down.
Rei looked up from what he was reading and saw Max's very huge grin, Bryan's emotionless yet amused look and another boy whom he didn't know, but he has a very awed look on his face. Rei smiled slightly and motioned the other boys to sit on the vacant chairs.
"So what's up?" asked Rei, putting his books away so he can chat with his friends.
"Rei? So you're Rei Kon!" the boy whom Rei didn't know suddenly jumped up and down from his chair. "I knew it! Haha…Tala owes me 10 shillings* for this one!"
"Erm…not to be rude or anything…" Rei said. "But, who are you?"
Tyson sweatdropped and laughed nervously. "Oh, right. My bad, umm…I'm Kinomiya Tyson from the Hiwatari kingdom."
Hearing his fianc's surname, Rei's eyes widen as the size of teacup plates, his mouth opening and closing like a fish's mouth and his face has paled quite a lot. Certain thoughts were inside his head while the other three was just looking at him with curiosity in their eyes. Rei snapped back into reality when he saw three pairs of eyes watching him with interest.
"Do you mind if you share what were you just thinking?" Bryan smirked again while Rei just glared at him.
"No, why the hell should I say it to you, huh?" Rei turned to Tyson and gave an apologetic smile. "I'm sorry about that. Umm…well, did he send you?"
Tyson looked at Rei with confusion written in his face. "Who sent who?"
"Did he send you, you know…that Hiwatari guy?" Rei asked again.
"OH! You mean Mr. Grumpy-pants!" Tyson laughed at Rei's face. "Haha…I call Kai that because he's always grumpy. Anyway, no…he didn't send me here. I'm here with one of Lord Hiwatari's advisors to see if the preparation is going well and vice versa. While were here, one of your advisors are in the other kingdom as well."
Rei looked at Max to see if the boy understood what this Tyson guy said, and apparently, Max has a very weird look in his face right now. Also Rei noticed that Max keeps on staring at the bluenette. The neko-jin smiled inwardly. 'It seems like someone has a small infatuation on someone,' he thought.
"Oh, ok then." Was the raven-haired boy's reply.
"So, Maxie here told us that you received a letter from you fiancé again," Bryan changed the subject. "So, care to tell us what is it about?"
Rei shook his head. "I haven't read the letter yet. I was busy catching up on my literature work that I kind of forget." He sweatdropped and slightly scratched the back of his head.
"Well? What are you waiting for, your wedding? Go and read the letter, idiot!" said Bryan impatiently while Max and Tyson were nodding their heads enthusiastically.
Only Rei could do was roll his eyes and opened the letter. It sure looked pretty short, compared to what he wrote the last time. The letter read:
To Rei Kon:
And you call yourself a royalty as well? Peh, some royalty you must be either! And I shouldn't be in hell either because you fit for that occupation! Haha…I still don't know why I waste my time writing pathetic letters to pathetic one like you, hmm…must be because I'm pity you.
As I said about the other letter that I wrote, I could care less if I pissed you off. Why can't you get it inside your pathetic excuse of a head that I don't GIVE a damn! 'Cuz for one thing, I doubt that you'll skin me alive "figuratively" and "literally". You're too weak to skin me alive! I don't think your even fit to be the heir of YOUR pathetic excuse of a kingdom either! Your more like…a serf farming our lands…haha.
Well, HOPEFULLY you will get my point and you'll stop writing to me because, one more letter coming from you, I will head straight immediately to your kingdom and beheaded you…with my bare hands! And haha…bite me? You're so sad you know that?
Kai Hiwatari
P.S. Are you even worthy of me writing my name in here?
"Damn, I know that Kai can be cold-hearted sometimes, no wait scratch that, he's always cold-hearted, but still…this letter is way too harsh." Tyson said peering over the letter when Rei handed it to him.
Max looked at Rei. The neko-jin knew this was coming so he didn't have any shocked look on his face. Instead, he had a calm aura, you can't actually tell what the look on his face was, and his eyes looked dull and emotionless…turning into slits by the second…
Before Bryan could talk, four adults came inside the library. It was Lady Leila, Lord Rai, Judy Mizuhara, and Sir Ivanov. All of them have smiles on their faces, which means that everything is according to plan. Rei tried to calm down himself because his parents would notice how pissed he was.
"Hello," greeted Lady Leila. "I trust that you've introduce Young Kinomiya, Bryan?"
Bryan nodded. "Yes, I already have."
"Ah, good," replied Lord Rai. "As you can see, Rei meet Sir Ivanov from the Hiwatari kindom. He's one of Lord Hiwatari's advisors."
Rei managed to cool himself off and looked at the sight of the man called Sir Ivanov. For a mean, harsh heir for the other kingdom, Sir Ivanov and Tyson were nice people. He couldn't help but wonder if his mother was right about her theory… He shook his head and put his hand out and smiled slightly.
"Nice to meet you, sir."
Sir Ivanov smile widened a little bit more and shook hands with Rei. "It was very nice to meet you as well. I've wonderful things about you, Rei and I must say all of them are right."
The neko-jin blushed slightly from the compliment. "Thanks…"
Sir Ivanov turned towards Rei's parents and started to have a conversation about how the wedding preparation was going really well. While the adults were having the conversation, Rei turned towards his friends. They were all smiling like Christmas came early, well except Bryan who had a smirk instead of a smile. Once again, Rei became suspicious at their actions and began to interrogate them.
"Why are all of you smiling?" asked Rei narrowing his eyes.
They didn't respond, but only widened their smile…or smirk for that matter. Max and Bryan motioned Rei to turn around while Tyson stifled a laugh. Rei reluctantly obliged the blond and the lilac-haired boys and turned around. When doing that, he saw his parents and the advisors looking at him like he already got married.
The neko-jin shifted in unease and finally asked, "Is there something wrong?"
Lady Leila shook her head. "Oh no, Rei. It's just that…both kingdoms have decided that you and the Young Hiwatari would stop writing letters now."
"Excuse me?" Rei was quite dumbstruck and happy at the same time. He couldn't believe that he would FINALLY stop writing letters to that jerk! Although he was still happy…or maybe shock, surprised, dumbstruck…Rei still couldn't figure out this feeling…that there was something going on that he doesn't know about.
"You heard your mother right," Lord Rai replied. "Because…"
Before could Judy continue what the Lord has to say, Tyson interrupted her by his stomach grumbling really…loud and well loud. The blue-haired boy just laughed nervously and scratched his head.
"Erm…sorry about that…" he apologized.
Lady Leila and Judy were chuckling slightly. "No need to apologize. After this discussion, we'll have a wonder breakfast," said Lady Leila.
"Anyway," continued Judy. "You're not going to write any letters anymore, since well, why write letters when you can meet your fiancé in person?"
'Why write letters when you can meet your fiancé in person…' That quote was repeated over and over and over again inside Rei's head. "W-what do you mean, Miss Judy?" he mangaged to stutter out.
"It means that you and Kai are going to finally meet in person." Judy announced.
After hearing that, Rei fainted.
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Crystal: I'm back! ^_^ Anyway, I'm sorry for the short chapter… ;_; Hmm…there was a bit of Tyson/Max…I hope it was ok? So yeah…OH! This is the first part of chapter 5, the next part is well…about how Kai will handle when he meets…REI! And their currency thingy, I used shillings...like in the Shrek movie! =D Oh…I still need help for the question that I asked in the last chapter:
Which is better: Tala being the seme and Bryan the uke OR Tala being the uke and Bryan being the seme?
Crystal: Ok, now I have to go, I have to look for Tala, and I also have to hide from Kai… ^_^;; Until next time! Ja ne! Oh, and review, review, review! ^_^ OH YEAH! Silly me...the preview! ^_^;;
"What do you mean 'were meeting'?" demanded Kai as he abruptly stood up from where he was sitting. "We already wrote letters to one another, isn't that enough?!?!"
Voltaire gave his grandson a cold glance. "No, you still have to meet him. Why are you so upset anyway?"
Kai didn't answer his grandfather, instead he stormed off the study slamming the door so loud that it almost cracked. Voltaire sighed, and rubbed his temples. He motioned Tala and Dizzi to follow Kai and with that, both of them left the study.
Crystal: There we go! That's for you Keisan! ^_^ Well see you all next time!