Disclaimers- And this goes for all future chapters...I never owned beyblade, still don't, and never will. I do however, own my OCs and as far as I know, Takao Aoki owns Beyblade, for that's the name on the manga!

-Begin chapter eleven-

Enter Salima and Friends

Kai followed Lily and Leo, having nothing better to do, and besides, Tyson's dojo was in the direction they were going in. Lily, being as acutely aware of her surroundings as she was, turned around to stare at Kai.

"What are you doing here, Hiwatari?"

"Hn. None of your business."

"Whatever."

With that, their short conversation was ended by Lily turning around to continue on her way to the park. At the entrance to the park she stopped and sighed. Kai was still behind her.

"Kai, are you following us?"

"No. I just feel like training in the park."

Lily gave Kai a very good glare and then continued to walk. Kai continued on his way, branching off the path Lily was following but he soon veered into the woods and followed her silently.

Lily stopped in a clearing surrounded by six trees, each climbable, and each the same type of tree. Leo paused next to Lily and looked around at the six trees.

"Which one do you think he's hiding in, sis?"

"How about none?"

Lily, Leo and Kai looked over to the source of the voice. All three sets of eyes came to rest on a certain blue haired adult.

"Hello, Hitoshi. Got a good reason why you called me here?"

"Yeah, actually I do."

Hitoshi walked over to the sister and brother and held out a white cylinder tube, with a clear pop off top. He held it out for Lily to take, which she did, but tossed Hitoshi a confused look.

"What's this for?"

"This is some information about your old team mate that I think you should see."

"Huh?"

Hitoshi didn't even answer Lily as he left the clearing. Lily glared at his back, and opened the canister. Inside was an issue of "Beyblader's Monthly". She gasped upon seeing the cover picture.

On the cover of the magazine was a familiar red head, staring off the page with a half smile half smirk and her black eyes looked directly up, showing no emotion. The title, in big yellow letters said "Old BeyGirls Member Gets Amnesia?" The headline was "or an underground team's scheme?"

"Oh gods, the press found her."

-Somewhere else in town-

The BeyGirls and the BladeBreakers, barring Kai and Lily, walked along one of the streets.

"Man, I can't believe he just left like that."

"Probably got annoyed and left to train, didn't you notice the way most of the girls were staring at him?"

Max snickered at Rei's comment. "Yeah, Tyson, you should be careful around Kai the next few days. I'm not sure he liked the staring"

"What about you, Max? Remember, you helped me."

"But it was your idea, Tyson."

"No it was yours."

Everyone else sighed and or rolled their eyes. Lea piped up, "No matter who's idea it was, both of you are responsible for what you did to Kai."

"Yeah, you both are. Lily and Leo are gone too, I wonder why that is."

"Could be something to do with the BBA. Ever think of that?"

Everybody stopped and turned around to face none other than Lily in the face. "And the next time I leave abruptly, I'll remember to leave a note, to save you all a few gray hairs." Lily's team mates sighed at her sarcastic tone.

"So what was it now, Lily?"

"Nothing. I'm just saying that could be one of the possibilities."

"Really."

And so the war of words started between Lea and Lily. Leo shook his head. "So, where are we going?"

Tyson looked down at the red head. "I think my place."

"Oh, okay."

Rei got a funny feeling running down his spine and looked around the area, his eyes passed over a very familiar red haired figure on the other side of the street and he did a slight double take. No one was there now, but he could have sworn he had seen Salima a few minutes ago.

"Something wrong, Rei?"

Rei looked down at his cousin. "No…Just thought I had seen an old friend…guess I was imagining things."

"Perhaps."

In about ten minutes the group had reached Tyson's dojo and gone around back to see if Kai was there. They didn't find Kai, but instead found three people they hadn't been expecting; Kane, Jim, and Goki.

"Hey guys."

"Hey Tyson."

Rei looked around, why wasn't Salima there? Wasn't she on their team? Hillary also seemed to notice.

"Hey guys, where's Salima?"

"What? Oh, she's been acting little strangely as of late."

"How come?"

"I dunno really. But after the press interviewed us, they wanted to talk to Salima in private, after that…well…"

"Is she here?" Rei thought that he could have seen her, and maybe the traffic blocked her leaving.

"Yeah, but as soon as we left the airport, she took off without a word."

"Oh…" Rei looked at the ground, something must have been bothering Salima, that just didn't seem like her.

"Maybe we should look for her."

Max nodded his head in agreement to Tyson's statement. "That's sounds like a good idea to me."

"I guess we should look for her."

Jim looked over to Kane. "Its not we should, its we will."

"Right, lets met back here at seven."

With that group broke up and headed out, the BeyGirls helping out for some reason of their own. Kane followed Lily after she left.

"Lily, can I talk to you for a sec?"

Lily turned around. "What, Kane?"

"Do you have any idea what this thing with Salima might be about?"

Lily nodded and handed Kane the magazine she had rolled up in her hand. "Yeah…that cover article might be a clue."

Kane stared at the cover in disbelief. "What?"

Lily grimaced. "Oh, it gets better, read the article itself."

Kai looked down at the two with a frown on his face.

'So there was something she was hiding from us after all…'

-Nine that night-

The appointed meeting time had passed two hours ago, and the sun had already set, but Rei was still searching. He had searched all over town, but still he hadn't seen Salima save for that glimpse all day. He had one last place to check before he gave up though; the bridge where they had met during the cyber bit beast trouble.

Rei continued on his way and stopped just a few feet shy of the edge of the bridge. Salima was standing on it, wind tousling her hair slightly as she stared into the water. Her arms were crossed and she was leaning against the railing. Rei frowned, she looked very troubled. He quietly walked over next to her and leaned against the railing as well. Salima didn't even look up, or pay any attention to him.

"What's wrong, Salima?"

Salima jumped slightly and looked over to Rei. "Oh, hi Rei." Rei's frown deepened as he saw tears welled in her eyes.

"What's wrong?"

Salima turned her attention back to the water, "Nothing, Rei. I'm fine."

"You don't look fine to me."

"I swear, its nothing."

"If you say so." A few minutes of silence passed between the two. "You know, your team mates are worried sick about you."

Salima closed her eyes, a single tear falling down her cheek. "I know…"

Rei cast a troubled gaze at her. "Come on, what's wrong?"

Salima sighed in defeat, "I really can't remember a thing from anything further back than two years ago. A lot of people come up to me, saying they know me…and I can't remember them. The first thing I do remember is Kane, Jim, and Goki helping me onto my feet. They were always very kind to me…but now some people are saying they caused me to lose my memory."

Rei blinked a few times, this didn't seem like the Kane, Jim, and Goki he knew. "They don't seem like they would do that."

"I know, that's what I keep telling myself…but over half my life is gone from my mind, and I can't remember anything before that one moment. I don't know if that's the truth really, how can I face them, if I can't trust them?" Salima was crying a bit harder by now.

"I'm sorry I brought this up, I didn't want to hurt you…"

Salima turned around and start to walk away. "Its none of your concern, Rei."

Rei placed a hand on Salima's shoulder. "Of course it is, you're my friend."

Salima shrugged off his hand. "Tell them I'll talk to them at Tyson's dojo in the morning." She walked away before Rei could do anything to stop her.

Rei walked back to the dojo, in silent contemplation. Everyone was waiting for him.

"We were worried about you, Rei."

"…"

"So did you find her, Rei?"

"Yeah…"

"Where was she?"

"On a bridge…"

"What happened?"

Rei looked up at Salima's team mates and bit his lip, after a second he decided not to tell them all of what Salima had said. "She said she'd talk to you here tomorrow morning and left." Rei then walked into the dojo and brought his sleeping mat over to the far corners in the room.

"Pulling off my stunt Rei?"

Rei looked up coldly at Kai and got into the blankets and turned his back to the Kai, he was not in the mood to talk about anything, he needed to think. Kai shrugged it off, deciding to leave Rei alone, and brought his sleeping mat, blankets and pillow to a different corner than he usually slept in

-End Chapter Eleven-