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-Begin Chapter Three-

A Familiar name

Kai sighed as he stared out of his window. The sky was inky black, silver eyes followed the lights of a plane traveling across the sky until it was out of sight. He was sitting up in his bed. He longed to sleep, his sore muscles from all that cleaning intensified that wish. Yet he could not, something was keeping him from sleeping.

He fell backwards, head landing on the pile of pillows he had gathered in his attempt to fall asleep that had, so far, lasted nearly an hour and a half. He started to feel rest creeping up on him. Teasing him, taunting almost, he wouldn't sleep yet he wasn't awake. His mind slowly started to go over what had happened during the day, mostly the trophy cleaning. His hands ached and were sore. He remembered cleaning one trophy nearly one hundred times to make it shine like the rest, it had belonged to one Leo Hirotome. The name was familiar, but he really couldn't place it.

-Two Hours later-

Kai was completely covered in sweat. His sheets were have tossed off him, sleeping form tossing and turning and his bed. He was having a dream, yes, but was it really a dream or was it a nightmare?

-Begin Dream Sequence-

A small six year old was cowering behind a chair, a tall purple haired man with a black mask was holding a whip up in the air, about to strike down one the scared child once again.

"Impudent fool! How dare you lose a beybattle to someone weaker than you!"

"Boris! I'm sorry! Just don't hurt me anymore."

"You're not really sorry. But I will make you sorry." At that moment the ringer to his door buzzed and Boris dropped the whip on his desk. "Come in."

A guard in a dark red uniform stepped into the room. Behind him were two more guards holding a small girl's arms. She looked to be about Kai's age. "Sir." The guard addressed Boris "We found her spying on our training of the new students. What should we do?"

Boris seemed to take a long time in deciding upon his course of action. He crossed over to the small brunette and crouched down. "Do you blade?"

"Yes." Her voice was small but defiant. "What's it matter to you?"

"Tell you what. You beat our best blader in a BeyBattle and I'll let you go."

The guards looked at Boris as if he'd lost his mind and so did Kai, who was peeking at Boris from behind the chair that served as his hiding place. Neither guard nor small child questioned him, as it would lead to a most certain untimely demise.

- Half an hour later -

Kai stood behind a large glass window about 25 feet away from the BeyBattle arena. He was curious as to why he was alone in Boris's private viewing area and not with the rest of the students or why thee were several guards in the room with them. His hands were still pressed against the glass as was his face so he could see the battle better.

In the arena were two people. On one side was a tall gangly boy with black hair. He was about 16, his name was Valciev. On the opposite side was the six-year-old girl. She looked very determined to win.

A computer's automated voice called out. "3" At this the younger girl pulled out blade and launcher. Valciev was all ready to go. On "2" The girl put her blade on the launcher. At the count of "1" She flipped the launcher around so she was holding the top of the launcher and the snowy white blade was one the bottom. The computer's voice was lost as both battlers called out "LET IT RIP!" Both blades were sent off the launchers and spun at very high speeds into the dish. A computer screen showed how many revolutions per minute each blade made. The girl's was 5, 400 while Valciev's was 5,450.

The girl looked like she was not about to waste any time in this match. "Dalila, attack!" The white blade went around in circles around the other blade. The circles got smaller and smaller until the blades were touching each other. Valciev's helplessly trapped in the middle as the white blade made sparks fly. Eventually, it became too much pressure for Valciev's blade to handle and it flew out of the arena.

The younger girl held out her hand so the palm was facing the arena and the blade flew into said hand. She pocketed both blade and launcher. Boris grabbed Kai's wrist and started to pull him out of the room. Valciev left the arena shamefully, only other members of the alley knew what torturous horrors lie in wait for those who failed Boris.

Kai became confused as when he looked back he saw the guards following them, guns out. They weren't going to kill the girl? Were they? Kai didn't doubt that would be what Boris would do, but that was mean, then again, Boris was cold hearted enough to do something like that.

The girl glared at Boris as he entered the room, pulling the bluenette along with him.

"Let me go, you promised you would."

Boris nearly laughed at her, instead a mere chuckle came out of his mouth. "Next time you should get it in writing."

The girl glared even harder at Boris, a glare that would come to be known as Kai's death glare. "Maybe I wasn't clear enough. If you let me go, no one will get hurt" She had pulled her blade and launcher out, and attached the blade to the launcher. It was trained in between Boris's eyes.

Boris pulled out a gun and placed the barrel against Kai's temple. "If you launch that blade, I will shoot Kai here dead, but if I fail to do so, the guards will do it, and then they will kill you."

The death glare worsened and she let her arms hang limply against her sides, pocketing the blade and launcher again. "Fine! Just don't hurt the kid."

Boris smirked evilly. "Guards! Take her to the dungeons."

Kai felt anger and hate towards Boris build up inside him. Boris didn't have a right to do this. Then again he never had a right to do any of the things he did.

The guards grabbed hold of the girl's arms and started to drag her out of the arena.

- That night -

Kai found himself in a dungeon. He sighed and started to squeeze himself through the bars, something he had done all too oft lately. He found a guard on duty and jumped up onto his shoulders and chopped both sides of his neck swiftly. The guard fell to the floor and Kai took the ring of keys off his belt. He crept around the dungeon looking for the cell holding the other prisoner.

He came upon the last cell and looked inside of it. He found the girl as he had expected and she was asleep, also to be expected. There wasn't anything else to do while trapped down here. What wasn't expected was the white horse standing guard over the little girl. It was pure white, and it let out a faint white light. The brunette was propped up against one of the horse's legs. Kai didn't think it was a horse though. It had a unicorn horn and it angelic wings. Clear blue eyes stared down at chibi Kai intently. She nodded her head and started to nudge the girl gently.

"Wake up, young one. There is someone here to get you out of this cell."

The girl shook her head slightly and stared at Kai with a befuddled expression. "Was Dalila right? You'll help me out?"

Kai nodded his head and held up the ring of about a hundred keys. The small bluenette tried one of the last keys, given the position of the cell. On his twelfth try he got it right. The door creaked open. The girl stood up and pulled out her blade, the white horse disappeared into the bit chip. She walked out and watched as Kai closed the door.

"I'm Lily Hirotome." She held out her hand.

"Kai Hiwatari." He shook Lily's hand and then pocketed the keys after locking the door. "Go straight, then take a right, go up stairs, take a left. There's a statue of Boris, hide behind it. I get something then find you. I'll Lead you out and leave with you."

Lily nodded her head and took Kai directions. Kai left in the same direction but took a left and dropped the keys on the guard and left up a different set of stairs. He crept around each camera's range and stayed in the shadows. Finally, he came to a pair of metallic doors. He entered the room and looked in amazement at the black blade that was chained to a stand in the middle of an arena. He nicked the blade out of its hold and put it on his launcher, he wanted to test the blade out really bad. He launched the blade, the computer screen said 2, 000 rpm; that wasn't bad for someone his age.

The blade landed onto the floor. When it hit a sudden wave of energy sent Kai into the nearest wall. He felt pain in his right arm. He struggled to his feet as another blast pushed him into the wall. It started to collapse, miraculously it didn't hit Kai. The blade sent out another pulse of energy. This continued for about five minutes. When it was finished, half the Abbey lay in ruin.

Kai stood up and started to run his way out of the building. Several guards tried to stop Kai, but he dodged them all successfully. As he left the front gate to the Abbey, there were several Russian police cars gathering around the area. Kai tried to keep himself from sight, but it didn't work to well. One of the officers spotted him.

The officer chased Kai as he tried to get away from them. The officer grabbed Kai's broken arm.

"Hey slow down kid. We aren't going to hurt you."

"Yes you are hurting me. My arm hurts." Kai was wincing in pain as he turned towards the officer.

-End dream sequence-

Kai woke up to his alarm clock blaring full blast. He whacked the thing good and hard, shutting it up. He pondered over his dream for a few minutes before getting ready for another school day. He stopped with his hand on the door knob. He walked back into his bathroom and looked at himself in the mirror. He took off the earring that he had put on habitually, straightened the tie and buttoned up his jacket. He wanted to defy the principal, but he didn't need to do detention for the rest of his life.

Kai missed a food fight completely and got his books for the first class of the day. This day would be rather humdrum for Kai, as it would be until he got out of the school.

- At 8: 30-

Kai leaned against the mop he was using. Outside was beautiful, beautiful to practice that is. However, Kai really wasn't thinking about that, it had slipped into his mind once or twice, but he was really thinking about his strange dream the other night. He didn't remember most of it, but he now knew why the name Hirotome struck him as familiar.

"Hiwatari!" Kai nearly jumped at the principal's voice yelling almost directly in his ears.

"What sir?" Kai was tired, and his voice proved it.

"Who told you that you could take a nap? You're supposed to be cleaning the hallways."

"No one, sir. And I still stick by what I said earlier, the janitors should be doing this, unless you save this work for the students to do."

"Good. And Hiwatari, that is none of you business, now get back to work, unless you want to mop the classrooms tonight too."

Kai shrugged, the shrug was accompanied by his catch phrase "Hn". The principal gave Kai the evil eye, but if the student noticed he didn't give a damn. Kai eventually finished and got back to bed at 2: 20 in the morning wondering why the hell he had opened his big mouth the night before. He drifted into sleep as soon as his head hit his mountain of pillows.

-New York, America-

A brunette walked into a Beyblade store. She looked at the magazine racks and selected one. Purchasing it, she left the store. She walked down a ways and opened the magazine to the article about the world championships. Tyson Granger was the world champ again. She stared at the navy haired boy's cocky picture. 'How did someone like that get to be world champ?' she wondered to herself. Giving up on finding out that answer. She looked over the team's picture, taking a longer time on a familiar Kai Hiwatari than the others.

Kai, as usual, was standing with his arms crossed, glaring moodily at the camera. 'Does that kid ever smile? Or does he just no like having his picture taken?'

She snickered and looked at the caption, which told her he was Kai Hiwatari. She furrowed her brow thoughtfully at his name before she put the magazine into her back pack. She jumped onto her red bike and started to petal towards the BBA office nearby.

-End Chapter Three-

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