Disclaimer: If I owned Beyblade, it'd have serious problems. You know that already. ^.^

Rating: Same old.

Notes: Wee. Sudden urges are fun. O.o Mostly. It REALLY sucks to have a sudden urge when you're at school and then it's gone when you get home. That reminds me...There's this one fanfic idea I've been brewing in my mind for the last two months and I'm trying to put together a summary for it to see if any of you might be interested. I wouldn't start it until after InuBodi and Dranzer are done, but I'd still like to hear what you guys thought of it. Maybe I'll type you up a summary when I post the next HoW chapter today. Well, anyway. On to the chapter. ^.^

Obsidian Estate

4

The sunlight that lanced through the bedroom window struck Rei's eyes, causing him to growl. "Damnit." He muttered. He did -not- feel like getting up. He had never slept so well in his -life-. Scowling slightly, Rei opened his eyes to glare at the velvet cloth that covered the four-poster bed.

"You don't happen to have a watch, do you?" Came a voice to his right. Ah, that's right...Rei had nearly forgotten that there was only one bed in the room he and Kai had to share.

"No. I've never had a watch. Not that I can remember..." Rei responded, looking over at Kai. "God, I hate you." Rei told him.

"What'd I do?" Kai asked, sitting up and yawning.

"Nevermind." Rei muttered. Yeah, Kai may already know that Rei loved him but Rei still wasn't going to tell his captain that he was gorgeous.

"If you say so." Kai shrugged, looking out the window.

"OW! What'd you do that for, Tyson?!" Someone yelled from the hall.

"Well, you weren't going to get up otherwise! Come on! I'm starved and I want to explore!" Tyson called back.

"For once, I'm going to take Tyson's side on something. I'm starved and I want to have a look around the place." Kai said, yawning again. Kai shoved the rest of the covers off of himself before standing up and stretching. Rei returned his eyes to the velvet covering in order to avoid blushing.

"Good morning, Masters." Someone greeted from the window. Neither Kai nor Rei had realized that it was open. "I am DawnWind." The hawk introduced herself as she perched on the window ledge.

"It is a pleasure to meet you, DawnWind." Kai responded, smiling sleepily.

"Hello." Rei replied, offering the red-tailed hawk a smile.

"Your clothes from yesterday should be clean and in the drawer where you found the night clothes." DawnWind told them, pointing her beak to the dresser.

"Who cleaned them?" Rei asked, sitting up.

The hawk seemed to shrug. "We haven't figured that out yet." DawnWind replied.

"You mean...You don't know how they got cleaned?" Kai asked.

"Exactly." DawnWind said.

"Odd..." Rei murmured.

"Well, I'll leave you two be. Breakfast should be ready when you go downstairs. The dining room is on the left of the entrance doors. And, welcome to the Obsidian Estate." DawnWind turned and launched herself into the air. She vanished in the glare of the sun.

"Might as well get dressed and everything before Tyson finds us." Kai said, looking over at Rei.

"Yeah. How the hell do I brush my hair without a brush?" Rei asked, getting out of bed.

"Not sure. There may be a brush in the bathroom." Kai said, approaching the dresser and opening the top drawer to find his and Rei's clothes. Freshly cleaned. Kai removed Rei's and handed them to him before removing his own and closing the drawer.

"My bathroom." Rei said, grinning at Kai and rushing to the bathroom.

"Oh, fine." Kai muttered. He heard Rei laugh from the other side of the closed door. Kai quickly changed before seating himself on the bed and waiting for Rei to come out.

Brush in hand, Rei opened the bathroom door. "Yeah. This place has everything but electricity." Rei muttered. "Which is good. I hate electricity. The only thing technology is good for is Beyblading."

"I agree." Kai said, standing up and going to the bathroom. "Beyblading's an essential. A must have." Kai said, smirking.

"Yup." Rei grinned, sitting down on the bed and taking his hair out of it's rap as Kai closed the bathroom door behind him.

The dining room could have seated an army, or so it seemed. It was -huge-. Thought mostly decorated in white and cold, the tables and chairs were the same mahogany as most of the other wooden furniture. The china that was set on the table was a clean white rimmed with real ruby. Rei wondered how you rimmed china with ruby. But none of this held the eyes of the team as much as the mural that covered the walls. And only Kai and Rei recognized what the mural was. It put the legend of Dranzer and Drigger into pictures.

"Welcome to the Obsidian Estate, Masters and welcome to you as well, guests." The raven that spoke was perched on the back of one of the chairs and was watching Kai intently.

"You must be NightWings." Rei said, tilting his head to the side a bit.

"That I am and it is a pleasure to meet you Masters Kai and Rei. I assume you are all hungry?" NightWings said.

"Yes!" Tyson answered, finally loosing patience.

NightWings let out a soft caw that must have been a laugh. "Then have a seat, if you will. I will see who I can find to bring your meal in. I think ObsidianDancer would be willing..." NightWings left the chair and glided to the floor before hoping out the door that was on the opposite end of the room from the dining room entrance.

"I still haven't figured out who ObsidianDancer is..." Rei said.

"Me neither."

"Hey. You said we couldn't understand the cats, right? What about the birds. We can understand them. Well, Tyson and I can. Kenny can't. He said that he could understand the orange tabby though." Max said.

"Good morning, Masters." Melas greeted from the dining room entrance. IceMoon and Soul were not with him this time. "Did you all sleep well?"

"Hai." Rei and Kai both said. They exchanged a brief glance before looking away. Melas' whiskers twitched. Rei had a feeling he knew about their conversation the night before.

"Is my room supposed to whisper to me?" Kenny questioned.

"Oh, yes. You did get stuck with Idai, didn't you? Yes, your room is one of the speaking ones. As is the room that the Masters share. Though their room is quite shy. Idai is usually very talkative. You will get use to her if you stay long enough." Melas assured Kenny. "Ah, yes. This reminds me. I must apologize. It appears that we misjudged your companions, Master. See, they are not human either. Kenny, you are related to us as Rei is. Which is why you understand us. Max and Tyson are both related to NightWings like Rei so they can understand the winged creatures of Obsidian Estate." Melas explained.

The creaking of wheels could be heard from the huge double doors that NightWings had left through and the five friends looked over at it and were shocked to see an extremely large horse pulling a cart through the door.

Melas trotted across the long dining room to greeted the stallion. "ObsidianDancer! It is good to see that you have returned." Melas greeted, twitching his whiskers in a greeting smile.

"And it is good to have returned." The horse responded, stopping once the cart he pulled was through the door. "It is wonderful to return here and find that you have summoned yours and Night's relatives. It is a good time." The horse said.

"Yes. It feels magnificent to have them in the mansion. With the heirs, there is so much more life in the mansion." Melas purred. Realizing that the five were still there, Melas remembered that he should introduce the great stallion.

"Masters, guests, this is ObsidianDancer. He is leader of the Obsidian Shires. He, NightWings, and I have been caring for the Obsidian Estate for thousands of years."

"Yes. Now, if you wish to eat, you will have to unload the cart yourself. I cannot do it." The stallion snorted. The team moved forward and to the back of the cart, starting to unload it.

The shire watched them with his dark eyes, seeming to smile. He was as pleased as Melas and the others to see that the descendants of NightWings and Melas were such good friends. Once the cart was unloaded, the black shire started to back the cart out of the double door, lifting his white-feathered hooves as he pushed back on the cart. "I will see you all later." The shire said, tossing his long black mane in a horse's-wave before the doors shut.

Oh, piff. Now I'm having trouble deciding how to make Kai and Rei an actual pair. I mean, they told each other and everything but it just doesn't seem right for them to all-of-a-sudden be together. Not after them just telling each other and then going to bed. It's not right. I need help! Your guys' suggestions are welcome and needed ;.; Help me! Thanks for reading and please review! *Wonders why she bothers when people happily review anyway* ^.^ I love my reviewers! Hear that? I love you all! *Cackles* Yeah. Right. Going to go read now. Wanna pass time until can ask my mom if I can have a coke. I NEED a COKE *Dies of lack of caffeine.* Later!

P.S. - Anyone want to tell me why Word accepts 'jsut' as a word when I type that instead of 'just'? I don't remember asking it to add 'jsut' to the dictionary. O.o Though it now considers all Beyblade, YYH, and HP names as real names and all of my original story names are considered real. Beyblade is in my Word dictionary. ^.^ Even better than all of that? My REVIEWER names are in my dictionary! Now...If only I could add definitions. *Snickers*