Chapter Two

The Kamazia Pastoral Tournament

I am unwritten, can't read my mind, I'm undefined
I'm just beginning, the pen's in my hand, ending unplanned

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

"What are you two doing here?" I watched as Hitoshi walked forward towards the two girls. Every step forward he took they took one back. I wondered what had them so afraid of him cause saying they where twitchy didn't exactly cover it.

"Un, nothing, just, kinda leaving," Sakura said turing half way and darting off with Yumi at her heels. In her rush a slip of paper and what I guess was her phone fell out of somewhere.

Calling after her I picked up her stuff but she was so far gone I guess she didn't hear me. Turning to Hitoshi who was shaking his head with a sigh.

"Who are they?" I asked him.

"That'd be Sakura Ebony Luvit and Yumi Shini, two of the best bladders that I've ever had the displeasure of meeting," Hitoshi said sighing again.

"Really, how come I've never heard of them?" Rei asked.

"You'd never heard of Brooklyn till the BEGA thing two years ago, not all the best bladers come to the world championship you know," Hitoshi said almost the exact same thing Sakura had said earlier.

"How come they ran off when they saw you?" I asked turning over the paper trying to figure out what it said.

"We have a deal and I think they broke it not quite sure," Hito said motioning for me to give him the paper, "That and I bet that they lost that they haven't paid up for," he added with a small smile. I handed him the paper because I couldn't read it and Kenny who had been looking over at it with me couldn't read it either.

"I don't know what it says its just a bunch of letters," I said handing it over to him. When Hito got it he laughed as if it where some private joke.

"So what does it say?" Kenny asked when Hitoshi didn't say what it said.

"It says, 'Tournaments this year, you know what that means time to get your ass kicked, Call me Love ya PS don't tell Hero I said that," Hitoshi read shaking his head.

"What tournament? And who's Hero?" Tyson asked.

"Hero no one you know," Hito said rolling his eyes stuffing the paper in his pocket, "And she's talking about the Kamazia Pastoral Tournament 2006," Hitoshi said with a sigh.

"The what?" I said confused.

"The Kamazia Pastoral Tournament," he repeated, "Its this tournament similar to the BBS World Championships."

"How come I've never heard of it?" Kenny asked.

"You may as well take a seat cause this is going to take a while," he answered with a sigh. Running his hand through his hair, he waited for everyone to take a seat and get comfortable before talking.

"The Kamazia Pastoral Tournament is held normally held once a year but because of the whole BioVolt thing and BEGA the scheduling has been off and they haven't had one in three years. Its an invite only tournament which is why you've never heard of it. Most of the time the people who cant or don't enter the BBA world championship are who enter it," Hitoshi began.

"So what do those two girls have to do with this?" I asked from my spot in Rei's lap.

"They're the team championship winner for the past I think four years," he said, "and they're the doubles runner up, well Sakura is anyway."

"But Beyblade teams need at least four people," Tyson said.

"Well last I heard Sakura's team consisted of her, Yumi, Brooklyn and some girl named Akira," Hitoshi said with a shrug.

"Brooklyn, as in the Brooklyn from BEGA?" Tyson said shocked.

"Yeah, that same Brooklyn Adams, why do you think they're normal moves are so much the same? They're on the same team, well most of the time when they're aren't mad at one another," Hito said with a far away look in his eyes.

"So you knew Brooklyn before the whole BEGA incident last year?" my twin asked with an accusing look in his eyes.

"Yes and no, I knew of Brooklyn from Sakura but I'd never met him," Hitoshi explained.

"Why'd they run when they saw you?" Kai asked.

"As I said, they lost a bet and don't want to pay up," he laughed at whatever he was thinking.

"Anything you care to share?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Maybe another day for now I'll keep that bit of truth to misled for future reference," Hito said.

"So what this deal you were talking about?" Kenny said getting back to business.

Hitoshi then began explaining the workings of the Kamazia Pastoral Tournament. It had four parts, eight depending on how you looked at it. There where a doubles match set, a singles set, and a team set. The doubles were simple two bladers with three matchs and you had to win the best two out of three. The singles where the same only with one person. The team matches where one doubles matches and two singles matches. Each set (Doubles, singles, team) had a first through three place. However only the first place winner got the trophy, a check, a year entireness to the Pastoral Manor and an automatic invite to the Kamazia Pastoral Tournament the next year. Technically you only need two people for the team set, but it was harder. Hitoshi then went on the explain that the tournament was always held at one of the Pastoral facilities just never the same one twice. The only way to find the location was to travel to a set of locations that the Pastoral tournament organizer choose beat a blader there and get a clue to where the tournament was being held. All beginners at the way the tournament work got a sort of helper that made sure that you knew the workings and how everything was set up.

"So how do we find out where we're suppose to be going? I mean we are invited right?" I asked.

"Well its either mailed to you or someone will deliver it. I'm guessing that Kura and Yumi are here with ours," he said, "I doubt that they'd come all the way over here just to tell me to call them."

"So how long have you known them anyway?" Tyson asked looking up at his big brother.

"About eight maybe nine years I don't know its been a while though," he said after some thought.

"So you knew them before you went away?" to that he nodded.

"How'd you met them?"

"Well it was a long time ago," he said thinking, "It was in the beginning of 9th grade like the first week or so. I was on my way home and when I was leaving I saw some upper class men messing with this little girl, gees she was about nine or ten, I still to this day don't know why she was outside my school but anyway. She seemed to be pissing them off a lot, I cant remember exactly what happen but she swung at one of them and hit him real hard and they all kinda jumped on her," he smiled at the memory, "I jumped in and dragged her away but she didn't need my help, she was completely unscratched. About a block or so away she started yelling at me and hitting me so I let her go and the second she could she decked me as hard as she could in my face," Hito said with a chuckle.

"Hey I remember that day, Grandpa was really mad cause he thought you gotten into a fight with a girl,' Tyson exclaimed.

"Yeah and it seemed embarrassing to say I got beat up by a nine year old trying to save her, so I clean the whole dojo for a month as punishment."

"Gee if she hits people for helping her I don't want to see what she does to people she doesn't like" Max said.

"Well she apologized for it later," Hitoshi shrugged it off.

"So what are we going to do about this tournament," I asked still thinking about it.

"Well I'm going to give Sakura a call later, but for now you guys are going to go back to practicing," Hitoshi said shooing us all away towards this bey dishes. As we walked away I heard Max and Tyson eager chatter about this new challenge.

TBC