Yo. Here's another chapter. By the way, if you got your hopes up thinking
that Lan's question was uh. romantic, it's not. But just read and find out
for your self! And remember the other genre was General. But there will be
romance in the progress for those who like romance.
Disclaimer: You already know I don't own Beyblade so I don't need to say. Oh fine then. I don't own Beyblade. Wish I did though so I could put Oliver in it more! YAY! Oliver! He's cool. My fave Beyblade characters:
Kai
Ray
Oliver! Hehehe
Sorry!
(He has Terrible hair though _
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"What is it Lan?" Kai looked at Lan confused. She was grabbing onto his bare arm and had a look of concern on her face.
"Well. You may think that.. Well, I'm making a big deal out of nothing but, I was thinking and things have become a little desperate, I mean we've come across many hard challenges and when you guys are in desperate need for help, I just feel so left out and useless. I don't do anything. I want to help you Kai, especially now with the Blade Sharks appearing and all. But I was afraid that requesting this would just waste your time and prevent you from training yourself."
"So what are you saying Lan?" Kai answered looking at her with a small frown on his face. {She has been acting weird lately; she's not going to ask me out again is she? Well, I guess I have to break it down to her again, why does she even try? Poor girl.}
"Lan.."
"Kai.. I want you to teach me how to Beyblade." She finally said
"WHAT?!" {OK, I did NOT expect that.}
"Kai?" Lan was surprised by his reaction.
"You want to know how to Beyblade? But why?"
"Well. Because they always have to count on you to save the day when things go wrong. And I was thinking they can't always count on you, what if something happens? Like you're injured? You're going to need back up, thing's would have become much easier if I was a Beyblader as well. Remember in the Asian Tournament when Tyson over-slept and Ray and Tyson were going to become late? Max had won his match and so did you, if they were late then you guys would have had to forfeit but if I knew how to Beyblade, we wouldn't have had to worry. You know what I mean? There've been some very close calls lately and we can't ensure that they won't happen again. So.. Please?"
"I. I. Why me?" Kai was too stunned to say anything intelligent. Just put Lan into uncomfortable positions by asking her questions. He decided to try and help, "Why didn't you ask Ray?" {Another dumb question, I'm supposed to help her out here, Why do I have to be so daft around girls. Look at her face. Lan..}
"Well, I asked you because. You're my best friend and uh.. You're the best Beyblader around here and we can spend some quality time together and I think you'll be a good teacher and what do you mean by why didn't I ask Ray? Why should I ask him?" Lan tried to explain, she didn't practice this conversation so she didn't know what to say, she wasn't even sure she wanted to waste her time to learn how to Beyblade. {Well, at least I'll learn a new skill, and what's the deal with Ray? Weird boy}.
"Um. nothing about Ray, um nothing. Are you sure you want to learn?" {That was more intelligent by one percent.} Kai wasn't being himself this evening, even he knew it. He needed a shower.
"No, I'm not sure I want to learn, that's the thing. But if things get really bad, I'll just push my self."
"Lan, I don't want to teach you if you're unsure about what you're doing, it'll be a lot more complicated and hard for me, only ask me if you're sure about things. Is that clear?" Kai said in a slightly harsh voice.
"Yeah Kai, sure, I'll ask again if I'm sure, but if I'm not then sorry I bothered you." She then gave Kai a small peck on the cheek although she didn't smile and still looked quite down and unhappy.
{Damn, what did I do to her? Well what I said is true, she'll just have to accept that. But she did. She still has the right to be unhappy. So I shouldn't care. But why do I? I hate all these touchy feelings, I prefer to be grumpy.}
As Lan and Kai came out of their corner, Kai left Lan to do what ever she wanted while he went and took a shower.
As Kai got in and turned the water on, he closed his eyes and thought deeply about Lan wanting to Beyblade. With him being the teacher. If he was being the teacher then he would want to teach her alone, but then he thought about being alone with Lan, what would happen between them? He started to worry; Lan was very persuasive at times. She knew how to flirt but she wasn't OTT, she was perfect. Perfect for him. Hopefully Lan wouldn't try to do anything and would be serious. If he taught her then she would have to concentrate and put up with his harsh orders. But Kai didn't want to hurt Lan; he loved her in a way that was unexplainable. Friendship was always the beginning of a bigger relationship. Especially between him and Lan.
As Kai shampooed his hair and done all that other bathing stuff all he could think of was Lan, he didn't even notice doing that was slightly queer. He started getting stressed; he decided what he would say to her. He wanted to do what was best for Lan; no matter what he would have to do he would have to warn her though. He just hoped that Lan wouldn't be weak, but he knew she wasn't weak. Hopefully everything would be fine.
{Hope. Sometimes you could never trust Hope.} Kai thought as he finished his shower.
As Kai came out of the bathroom, after he brushed his teeth, he saw Lan on her bed with a Beyblade magazine but obviously she had got bored as it was sprawled next to her and she had a bit of a grumpy look about her.
He decided to tell her now.
Kai walked over to her bed, bent down and whispered in her ear. "We start training tomorrow. You better be ready 9:00 sharp in the afternoon or you're in for it."
Lan was shocked and she turned to look at him sharply. Kai wasn't smiling; he would never say a joke even if he was paid. But as Lan peered into his eyes, she saw them glint with kindness and playfulness she only saw once in a blue moon, her heat warmed up and she smiled slightly. He was being serious.
"9 o' clock? Are you sure that late?" Lan said looking at him.
"I want to be alone when training Lan, if that's a problem for you then tough, we won't train. Live with it. I don't want to train in broad daylight with them lot looking at us." His eyes quickly glanced at the rest of the Bladebreakers for a quick second.
"I understand Kai; I wanted to train alone as well. But England will get dark quickly, how can we train in the dark?" Lan was still unsure.
"We'll manage. Unless you want to train in the romance of the moonlight shining on us." He smirked a playful sarcastic smile.
"Wow, a joke, Kai I never expected that." She winked at Kai with a similar playful smirk.
"See you tomorrow Lan." Kai said making his way to his bed and getting in.
{Wait a sec. How am I to train without a Beyblade? Oh well, I guess Kai will figure it out some how, or maybe I can steal Ray's, or take Kai's. Hmm. well, I guess I'll have to do some shopping. Nah I'm not bothered. I'll just let Kai worry about that. Hmm. but then he'll have even more things to worry about. Tomorrow's our first lesson. I guess we can wait.} So Lan said good night to the people whom she liked and got into bed and surprisingly, fell asleep in a short amount of time.
When they all had woken up they were at the Royal Stadium and Max was just about to go up against another team for that day's battle. Soon Max had won easily. Tyson was next and he had won easily too. This team was easy to beat. Ray was up; his battle hardly lasted more than three seconds.
"Man that was so easy! There was no point in even going to the match today! We could beat them in our sleep!" Tyson said punching the air with their victory.
"Yeah they were easy Tyson but don't get too over excited, there are still a lot more teams who're much harder than these guys, just wait till our second battle." Ray said logically to the over enthusiastic Tyson.
So the Bladebreakers hung around the stadium watching other people's matches wondering if they would be going up against them one day and wanted to know if they were hard. They also watched the Blade Sharks' battle, they had won 3 - 0 again.
The weak were definitely being pushed out of the Tournament with heavy blows. Soon only the strongest will remain.
"WE WELCOME BACK THE BLADEBREAKERS FOR THEIR SECOND MATCH FOR THE DAY!" Jazzman screamed through the microphone. "AND LET'S SE WHO THEY'RE PLAYING AGAINST!"
A.J: AND IT'S THE AMAZING TEAM WHO REPRESENT FRANCE!!! THE BAGUETTE DREAMERS! THEY'RE SUPER COOL AND UNDEFEATED!
(I know I'm thinking up of really freaky team names but I can't think of anything serious!)
Brad was commentating another match that was playing at the same time so he wasn't there.
A.J: Awww it's such a shame Brad aint here! Then we really can get the party started! BUT cos he aint here, WE CAN PARTY AL NIGHT LONG ENGLAND!!!!!!
And the audience in the stadium cheered and screamed out excitedly.
As Jazzman introduced who'd be playing who (Ray was about to go against team leader Jean-Pierre), Lan looked over to see how Kai was doing, but he was no where to be seen.
"What? Where did Kai go? He was just here a minute ago." She looked around the stadium but couldn't find Kai anywhere. She was just about to go and look for him but figured that he could be anywhere and it'll be impossible to find him and that if she went out then Kai would come back and she would be wondering around England looking for someone who was sitting in her place in the stadium. So she stayed put and decided to watch the match and see if she could get any tips from the Bladebreakers matches.
Ray had won his battle but just barely. Max was next and he had won his easily enough. But when smart mouthed Tyson went against the fat guy who was eating a Baguette and he had trampled him. Tyson was so stunned he couldn't speak but they had already won the match so it was no use for him to whine. But he was still sulking a bit.
Lan told the others that Kai had gone somewhere, he didn't return during their match. The rest of the Bladebreakers were quite surprised that Kai had left without taking Lan with him. That's what he usually did.
They went over to se if Kai was anywhere in the stadium watching any matches but they couldn't find him anywhere. "Why would he just leave like that without telling me?" Lan said still searching around.
"Join the group Lan; he always ditches us without telling us where he went." Tyson answered putting his hands behind hid head.
"I said why didn't he tell ME Tyson." Lan said rudely.
"Whatever you little smartass.." Tyson mumbled.
Luckily for Tyson Lan didn't hear or he'd be out the window.
So the Bladebreakers and Lan walked around London looking for Kai but they couldn't find him anywhere. So they went back to the hotel but Kai wasn't there either. Lan was getting worried; Kai would never just leave without telling her first.
Soon it was 5:30 and Kai still wasn't back. Lan started to get slightly depressed and she lay on her stomach on her bed glumly with her head in her hands and staring absent mindedly at her pillow. Ray saw this and became a little worried and wanted to try and see if he could help but decided to leave her alone.
{Time out. I JUST SAW THE EPISODE WHEN KAI GOT BEATEN BY THAT FREAK JOHNNY!!!!!! WHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HATE THAT BOY!!!! AWWW!!! POOR KAIKAI!!!! WHAAA.... KAI!!!!! I FELT LIKE HUGGING THE POOR um. cartoon? @_@ AWWW BUT HE LOOKED SO SAD AND SWEET (Kai sweet??? *_* @_@) BUT AWWW!!!!!!! POOR KAI!!!! KAI!!!! Goo goo Kai.. KAI STILL RULES!!! HE'S NOT A LOSER!!!!!}
{Time in}
It was 6 o' clock when the door of the hotel room opened and in came Kai, Kai didn't expect a yelling at when he entered the room.
"Kai where were you? I was worried and you just left without telling any body where you had gone! Not even me!! Explain yourself!" Lan screamed at him in front of everybody. Kai tried to say something but Lan interrupted again. "How could you be so inconsiderate? You just left! Just walked right out of the stadium in between a match! Why? How could you be so rude?"
"Lan's new to this, she doesn't realise that Kai does this stuff to us all the time, well, maybe she does, and she DOES go with him every time he ditches us." Tyson whispered to Max.
"Lan." Kai had finally managed to say interrupting Lan's ramblings. "I'll tell you at 9 when we start training k?" He whispered to the hysterical Lan, he had a playful look in his eyes again that held a secret and mystery, Kai's eyes were actually shining and he had a small, small, small tiny, tiny, small, small mysterious smile on his face. (Poor Kai-Kai. WHAAA!!! Kai...)
"Um. Ok." Lan said slightly taken aback. She had expected to yell at him for a few more minutes before he actually managed to speak. She had a little bemused expression on her face.
"So where exactly were you Kai?" Ray said as he didn't hear what Kai had whispered to Lan.
"Just out in London. Why, you weren't worried about me were you?" Kai responded curtly.
"No, well, uh I guess a little but Lan's right, why did you just leave without telling anyone?"
"Cos I didn't want to. Happy now?" Kai said as he made his way to his bed.
"Actually no." Ray mumbled to himself. [Man, what a grouch].
Lan wondered what Kai was doing. Was he telling the truth? They had looked almost all over London (come on, combing London in a few hours? Impossible!) Well, she'd have to find out at nine. What was so secretive that he couldn't share it with the others?
As the rest of the Bladebreakers just sat and talked a load. Lan and Kai just sat on Kai's bed not saying anything, impatiently waiting for nine o' clock to come. Well, Lan was impatient; Kai just relaxed and enjoyed watching Lan getting pissed off cos of how slowly time was moving and all the secrets Kai was keeping from her and she kept on looking at her watch and the clock on the wall wondering if time was plotting against her by going extra slow.
Kai was also starting to become bored so he started fiddling around with Dranzer wondering if his teachings would be effective on Lan so she won't fall asleep out of boredom of a Beyblade while they tried to train and learn and teach.
As Lan looked over at her companion she noticed a little lump sticking out of Kai's great baggy blue trousers. Lan figured she'd just have to wait and find out; she couldn't help it if she was immensely curious. Lan wanted to know what was in Kai's pocket now. She couldn't wait any longer. She shuffled up close to Kai pretending she wanted to snuggle up to him, she rested her head onto his shoulder but saw that there was no way she could get to his pocket without it becoming so obvious that she was trying to get to the item inside his pocket. Cursing the Velcro that was sealing Kai's big pocket in her mind she just drew away from Kai with her arms crossed with a frown on her face. She looked like an over grown baby.
"Lan." Kai said smugly.
"What." She answered in annoyance.
"You'll find out what's in my pocket at nine, we only have an hour to go. Be patient." And he smiled at her in a crooked way just to tease Lan.
[Was it that obvious? Wow, I'll never become a pocket picker then.] Lan joked to herself.
"Oh shut up smart ass." Lan answered back, not knowing what to say to Kai's 'cleverness.' Kai chuckled to himself and gently gave Lan a peck on the cheek to cheer her up, without the others seeing.
9 o' clock pm soon came. The Bladebreakers (excluding Kai) were just about to get into bed. While the other two (you know who I mean) walked towards the door.
"Hey where're you guys going?" Ray asked.
"Out." Lan muttered.
"Out where?" Max said.
"Outside" Replied Kai.
"Just tell us where you're going!" Tyson said fed up with their games.
"I'm just taking Lan out somewhere for a while that's none of your business. We'll be back shortly. Just get to bed, you have a match tomorrow." Kai said to them turning the door handle.
"OoooOOOOoooOOOOHHHH! Are the two lovebirds going someplace private for a little smooch?" Tyson said annoyingly making kissy kissy noises but then finding himself being hit in the face with a pillow been thrown by Lan.
"Shut up Tyson." And she and Kai left the room.
"Geez, what's her problem? I bet they are going out to make out. That's what they do everyday. Humph. Not like there's anything else to do with that girl. She doesn't Beyblade or gives us tips. All she does is hang around Mr. Grouchy egging him on and dissing the rest of us." Tyson was interrupted by the others moaning and turning off the lights. "Well fine then, don't talk to me."
"Shut up Tyson." All the people in the room said. The team just wanted an early night in. To think about where Kai and Lan went off to at 9 o' clock.
(eek. This is getting long. Never mind!!)
"So where are we going Kai? What WAS that in your pocket? Where did you go this afternoon? Oh, I should have brought a coat. I guess it isn't really that dark, yet. So where are we going to train again? What're we going to do?" Lan was asking Kai millions of questions once they had set off in London's streets walking to Kai knows where.
Kai smiled at Lan and put a finger on her lips. "I'll tell you when we get there." He said slowly. And he turned back to walking. Lan stayed quiet for about 10 minutes then she started talking again. Surprisingly Kai wasn't getting annoyed, if it was someone else yapping and not keeping her mouth shut, Kai would have said a snide comment about 10 minutes ago.
It was starting to get a little chilly but it didn't really have any effect on the two. But Lan just decided to link arms with Kai just for fun. Soon the teenage couple, (not in bf and gf way, they're not going out remember? This is why Lan wanted to go out with the grouch. They act so friendly together! In MY fic!!!! MINE!!) had reached a big park, Lan wasn't sure if it was Regents Park or not. But it looked larger than Regents Park but it was a little dark so she couldn't really see for certain.
The two entered the park and saw people coming out of it walking in groups of two or three or more. So there weren't really that many people in the park. Lan tried to see the sign that said whatever park it was but Kai had steered her away and into a bunch of thickly dense trees.
They walked further making their lighting more dimmer with every step they took. "Um. Kai, I think this is far enough, soon I won't even be able to see my own hand in front of my face."
"Don't worry just a few more steps. We're here." Kai unlinked arms with her and walked towards a spot where the trees weren't so closely grown together and a beam of moonlight shined on the path where Kai stood. Lan looked at where Kai was standing and saw a tree stump that was in the shape of a Beystadium. She smiled and walked towards Kai.
"I thought you were joking about the moonlight thing." She said smiling and tickling his chin.
"I was. But then I came out from the match to find a place where we could train and I didn't know how long it would take me so I just left early. I didn't want to take you because I wanted it to be a surprise. I looked up at this spot and saw the hole in the trees beaming down on this spot so I just decided that we could blade here. If you don't like it then tough, I'm not bothered to find another place."
"I'm guessing you didn't chop down a tree and made a Beystadium out of it just for me hmm?" Lan knelt down and examined the tree stump.
"Well, it was actually just a flat tree stump; I just used Danzer to create the dish shape."
"OoooOOOOoooOOOOHHHH" Lan said teasingly.
"Oh be quiet. Oh yeah, and after I had finished finding a spot for us to train, I bought you this." Kai reached down into his pocket and drew out the mysterious object Lan had tried to nab before; it was concealed in a box so Lan couldn't see it straight away. "Well, open it." Kai said smiling slightly handing her the box.
Lan took the small silver box out of his hand, unwrapped it and in the box she saw Kai's present.
Her very own Beyblade.
"Kai.." She took it out of the box and examined it. Her Beyblade was Black and white with a navy blue attack ring and a silver defence ring. All of Lan's favourite colours, well, the silver wasn't on her mind but it still looked great.
"You like it? I chose it especially for you cos I know you like those colours. If you'd rather pick another one for yourself I can always return.."
"No. No it's, its perfect. Thank you Kai." She interrupted and with that she hugged Kai tight and kissed him on the cheek then hugged him again.
[Guess she likes it.] Kai smiled on the inside.
"Now Lan, I didn't buy it for you for you just to play with it, it doesn't come with a bit beast of course so it wont be as powerful, but hopefully it will be powerful enough once I'm through with you so it'll have some hope to defeat at least Max." (No offence to Max but uh... he's kinda the worst Beyblader, he's still really sweet though! But sometimes he can be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO annoying.)
"I know Kai, don't worry. I won't waste you money." Grinning at Kai she pocketed the silver box and kissed Kai again making him blush. Luckily it was dark.
"It. It's called Dolphate."
(I know the blade's name isn't 7 letters long but I didn't want the blade to be called Dolphan. All the other bit beasts' name begins with a D and is 7 letters long. Well I couldn't think of any thing better and Dolphate cos of a Dolphin and the "PHATE" is "fate" so meh. And I'm not bothered to think of anything else).
"It has the spirit of the dolphin in it, Dolphate is a mystical beast but I managed to get it cheap cos the idiot who sold it was, well, a dumb ass. It's pretty special. So take care of it." Kai warned her.
"Alright, but now I have a Beyblade I know I aint gonna sleep with it like you sleep with yours." Smirking evilly at Kai.
"Shut up."
"Hah, hah! Well, come on; teach me the basics and all that other stuff you know." Lan snuggled up to Kai and then forced him to sit on the ground.
So Kai started explaining about all the rings and weight disk and all that other Beyblade stuff along with the rules and tactics. Kai was glad Lan wasn't falling asleep. After he had explained the speaking part of the Beyblade lesson, they started to do the practical part.
"Let's see if you can actually aim the Beyblade to make it land in the dish." Kai said getting up and putting his hands in his pockets, his right hand feeling around to make sure that Dranzer was still in there. Kai was very protective of his Beyblade, that's why he sleeps with it. (Usually right now I would make fun of him but I still feel sorry for him cos he lost that stooopid match. Poor Kai!!!)
"Oh shut it Kai, I'm not that completely useless." Lan pulled the rip cord and Dolphate span around the dish in a circular motion.
"Good. You can do that. Now just try to make your blade obey your orders."
"Man, I'm talking to a Beyblade, how sad." Lan wasn't very enthusiastic about this part. "Um. Move to the left?"
Kai laughed, inside, about her uncertainty. He knew that he would be able to train her to become one of the greatest Beybladers, at least he hoped he could, he DID manage to teach some pathetic kid Anthony (or whatever his name was) to be able to beat Tyson in one night. He wasn't a completely useless teacher, but this time he was teaching Lan and if she's not up to the challenge, she'd just be lazy and say "ahhh to hell with this." Hopefully she wouldn't do that this time.
As Lan began making progress and learning and becoming used to ordering her Beyblade around with the help of Kai's coaching, she soon was probably able to win a match against an amateur like her self. Kai was so glad she was a quick learner so he wouldn't have had to repeat things over and over again.
Although watching wasn't as nearly as good as experiencing something for him self. Kai decided that he would have a friendly battle with Lan to see how well she was doing on their first lesson.
"A match? You, me? Match? NO! You'll cream me!" Lan shook her head furiously.
"Come on Lan, stop being a baby! I want to know how well you're doing!"
"I'm doing fine. No match!" Lan said stubbornly picking up her spinning Beyblade, turning her back to Kai and crossing her arms.
"Lan." Kai put a hand on her shoulder and drew up close to her making them face, face to face. He gently stroked a small strand of hair away from her eyes and kissed her lightly on the nose making her blink and a little upset because of her stubbornness. "Please?" Kai said please, that would be the last time he would say that word.
"Fine." Lan uncrossed her arms and got her Rip cord and Shooter ready in her hands.
"Good," Kai did the same. "Don't worry; I'll go easy on you."
"You better." Lan said winding her Beyblade up, she was still quite pissed that she'd have to fight one of the best Beybladers on her first lesson. "Oh yeah, and by the way. Never in my life am I going to say during a match 'Let it Rip,' that's just sad."
"Fine. 1.2.3. Go." And Kai pulled his rip cord and his Beyblade landed in the tree stump dish.
"What?! Hey no fair! Go you. er. thing. Beyblade! Um. Dolphate!" Lan hastily pulled her rip cord. But as she pulled it, with her martial arts strength she 'let it rip' so hard and quickly Dolphate span around so fast, it had become invisible to Kai's eyes with occasional moments when it flickered could Kai see it. Lan on the other hand was moving her eyes with the Beyblade concentrating hard actually being able to see her blade.
[What? It. it's invisible! When did Lan become that strong? Am I seeing things?] Kai thought in his head, he was becoming confused, he couldn't see her blade. Kai was a sitting duck.
Kai was getting pissed; he wasn't going to lose to an amateur. He growled and desperately tried to find Lan's Beyblade.
"What's wrong Kai? Why don't you attack?" Lan said evilly.
"I. I can't see it. Your Beyblade, I can't see it" He was still trying to move his eyes quickly enough to try and make a move, but it was hopeless, Dolphate was spinning too fast. Kai never knew how strong Lan really was.
"Well I still can." Lan said firmly and slowly in the darkness.
[Oh no. She's going to attack, damn! I taught her Dolphate's most powerful attack! Please say she wasn't listening to me!]
Unfortunately for Kai she was.
"DOLPHATE AQUA PUMP ATTAAAAAAACKK!!!" Lan had become in the middle of an image with a great tidal wave erupting behind her with her hair blowing around her face and a great beast came behind her.
Dolphate was a navy blue dolphin with some extra sharp fins coloured black and silver. It had jagged fins and bright shining eyes. It had, as most dolphins do, a white belly. It was an amazing sight. Kai gasped when he saw it. When he saw its power. Its speed. It's image. Dolphate's main colour was white and silver.
The great silvery beast came out emitting such a great power it was unbelievable. It attacked like lightning.
Something happened. Something as fast and painful.
Something shot out of the dish cutting Kai's right cheek.
Kai didn't feel anything at first because it all happened to quick, but he had started to feel the searing stinging pain as a long slash cut across his cheek. He could feel the blood leaking out.
"KAI!" Lan quickly picked up the still rapidly spinning Dolphate, pocketed it and ran over to the stunned Kai. She looked at his cut face her eyes shining with worry. She saw the look of surprise on his face. Eyes wide with shock. Mouth gaping open. Dark shadows under his eyes. The thin red line of blood with a bloody trickle running down his stunned face. He looked as if he was paralysed.
"Kai?"
Kai came back to life and stared hard and cold at Lan. Still a little bemused. He frowned, Lan was scared that he was angry. Closing his mouth he hastily used the back of his hand to wipe away the blood from his face, looked down at his hand and found a smear of red.
Growling he turned his back to Lan and walked away from her looking for his blade. Lan just stood there wishing she could kick herself for hurting Kai. Making him lose his dignity. She didn't think she'd win, but she guessed she must have pulled the cord way too hard and Dolphate making an appearance, what was up with that?
Kai had to walk about 8 feet away from where they were battling, his blade had shot out far, he soon found it lying on the floor smoking slightly. Kai picked it up and noticed on one of his spikes of his attack ring, it had a small drip of blood on it. He quickly wiped it away and shoved it back in his pocket. His blade had been used against him
"Lan." He finally spoke in a harsh way, his back still to Lan.
[Damn, he's annoyed at me.]
"You are a very strong and powerful girl. Your fighting skills will come in handy with Beyblading. Your strength will do us good and you will be practically unbeatable. You don't even need a bit-beast." He turned around with a smile on his face but he had dark lines under his eyes. He made his way back to the worried girl and stood in front of her. Lan thought he looked slightly mad in the psycho way.
Kai reached up and held her chin in his fingers still grinning. "I wasn't sure if training you would be a good idea, I didn't know that you would make a compatible training partner and team mate. You're absolutely stunning and amazing Lan.
"In the next few days I'm going to do what I can and train you to be the best, better than me maybe. With your strength you would think that you wouldn't really need tactics and strategy to win because you can just do a head on attack and shoot your opponent out of the dish, and cut them." Kai blinked, his cut had started to bleed again. Lan looked at him guiltily. But he still smiled.
"I want you to know that you have a great power inside of you and a gift. If I teach you, you will become unbeatable. I'm going to train you so you know every strategy and many different ways that you can win a match. Although I need to know, truthfully, if you're up to it. Training every night like this but much harder than usual. You have the potential to be a great Beyblader, that gift should not be wasted. Will you do it and not complain? I have to warn you that I'll be harsh, I don't want to be harsh with you, but I'm going to have to too make it certain we will win this tournament if I persuade the others to add you in the team, so you won't feel left out and we can have a certain win. I think we'll have a better team with you on it, as a reserve though. You'll be a star Blader under my training." Then Kai gave her a quick small kiss on the lips and smiled at her. Not fully of course, Kai will never smile a Sora smile (big goofy happy smile).
"I'm up to it Kai. I'll be serious. Don't worry." And she hugged Kai tight not wanting to let go, just so relieved he wasn't mad at her. They shared a small kiss again then Lan rubbed away some of the blood from Kai's cut. "I'm really sorry Kai, I didn't mean to." She snuggled into him again and they stood there in each others arms for a while before they set off back to the hotel.
(KAI'S GONNA WIN KAI'S GONNA DEFEAT JOHNNY!!!!!!!! YAY!!!! KAI!!!!! KAI KAI KAI KAI KAI KAI KAI KAI KAI KAI KAI!!!!!!)
As the two walked out of the park away from the darkness of the trees they saw it was pretty dark. The two of them walked down the road side by side. Kai dared to put his arm on Lan's waist and walk with her, Lan took advantage of this and held Kai around the waist as well and then used her left arm to wrap it around Kai's neck and walk holding on to him.
If you saw the two walking together, you would really think that they were a real couple walking in each others arms down the darkened city streets of London.
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Meh, that was chappie number something, oh yeah, 5. ~_^ Awww. I wonder if I'm enjoying writing this story, I'll only enjoy it if I get good reviews (wink, wink, wink!) GO KAI GO!! GO BEAT JOHNNY!! (it's so obvious he is, this show is such a cliché) but still... GO KAI GO!!! GO KAI GOOOOOO!!! 2.4..6..8.. WHO DO WE APPRECIATE? (well, me of course ~_^ he he) KAI!!!!!!!!!!!
KBA: um I think I got a bit hyper..
Kai: you can say that again.
KBA: Quiet you! Just stand in the corner like I told you to and look pretty. (starts hugging Kai) Awwwwww!!! Me no can get mad at you!!! Awww!!!! U so sweet?! (Kinda). WIN KAI WIN!!!
Kai: I can't breathe!!! Gerrof me!!!
KBA: Um.. Let's see. NO!!!
Kai: ;_;
KBA: Awwwwww cheer up! Here's Lan!
Kai: ^_^
Lan: Who is this blue haired freak?
Kai: O_o What?!
KBA: Um. ignore this insanity!!!!!!!!!
Lan: Who are you people?????
KBA and Kai: O_O o_O
Disclaimer: You already know I don't own Beyblade so I don't need to say. Oh fine then. I don't own Beyblade. Wish I did though so I could put Oliver in it more! YAY! Oliver! He's cool. My fave Beyblade characters:
Kai
Ray
Oliver! Hehehe
Sorry!
(He has Terrible hair though _
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"What is it Lan?" Kai looked at Lan confused. She was grabbing onto his bare arm and had a look of concern on her face.
"Well. You may think that.. Well, I'm making a big deal out of nothing but, I was thinking and things have become a little desperate, I mean we've come across many hard challenges and when you guys are in desperate need for help, I just feel so left out and useless. I don't do anything. I want to help you Kai, especially now with the Blade Sharks appearing and all. But I was afraid that requesting this would just waste your time and prevent you from training yourself."
"So what are you saying Lan?" Kai answered looking at her with a small frown on his face. {She has been acting weird lately; she's not going to ask me out again is she? Well, I guess I have to break it down to her again, why does she even try? Poor girl.}
"Lan.."
"Kai.. I want you to teach me how to Beyblade." She finally said
"WHAT?!" {OK, I did NOT expect that.}
"Kai?" Lan was surprised by his reaction.
"You want to know how to Beyblade? But why?"
"Well. Because they always have to count on you to save the day when things go wrong. And I was thinking they can't always count on you, what if something happens? Like you're injured? You're going to need back up, thing's would have become much easier if I was a Beyblader as well. Remember in the Asian Tournament when Tyson over-slept and Ray and Tyson were going to become late? Max had won his match and so did you, if they were late then you guys would have had to forfeit but if I knew how to Beyblade, we wouldn't have had to worry. You know what I mean? There've been some very close calls lately and we can't ensure that they won't happen again. So.. Please?"
"I. I. Why me?" Kai was too stunned to say anything intelligent. Just put Lan into uncomfortable positions by asking her questions. He decided to try and help, "Why didn't you ask Ray?" {Another dumb question, I'm supposed to help her out here, Why do I have to be so daft around girls. Look at her face. Lan..}
"Well, I asked you because. You're my best friend and uh.. You're the best Beyblader around here and we can spend some quality time together and I think you'll be a good teacher and what do you mean by why didn't I ask Ray? Why should I ask him?" Lan tried to explain, she didn't practice this conversation so she didn't know what to say, she wasn't even sure she wanted to waste her time to learn how to Beyblade. {Well, at least I'll learn a new skill, and what's the deal with Ray? Weird boy}.
"Um. nothing about Ray, um nothing. Are you sure you want to learn?" {That was more intelligent by one percent.} Kai wasn't being himself this evening, even he knew it. He needed a shower.
"No, I'm not sure I want to learn, that's the thing. But if things get really bad, I'll just push my self."
"Lan, I don't want to teach you if you're unsure about what you're doing, it'll be a lot more complicated and hard for me, only ask me if you're sure about things. Is that clear?" Kai said in a slightly harsh voice.
"Yeah Kai, sure, I'll ask again if I'm sure, but if I'm not then sorry I bothered you." She then gave Kai a small peck on the cheek although she didn't smile and still looked quite down and unhappy.
{Damn, what did I do to her? Well what I said is true, she'll just have to accept that. But she did. She still has the right to be unhappy. So I shouldn't care. But why do I? I hate all these touchy feelings, I prefer to be grumpy.}
As Lan and Kai came out of their corner, Kai left Lan to do what ever she wanted while he went and took a shower.
As Kai got in and turned the water on, he closed his eyes and thought deeply about Lan wanting to Beyblade. With him being the teacher. If he was being the teacher then he would want to teach her alone, but then he thought about being alone with Lan, what would happen between them? He started to worry; Lan was very persuasive at times. She knew how to flirt but she wasn't OTT, she was perfect. Perfect for him. Hopefully Lan wouldn't try to do anything and would be serious. If he taught her then she would have to concentrate and put up with his harsh orders. But Kai didn't want to hurt Lan; he loved her in a way that was unexplainable. Friendship was always the beginning of a bigger relationship. Especially between him and Lan.
As Kai shampooed his hair and done all that other bathing stuff all he could think of was Lan, he didn't even notice doing that was slightly queer. He started getting stressed; he decided what he would say to her. He wanted to do what was best for Lan; no matter what he would have to do he would have to warn her though. He just hoped that Lan wouldn't be weak, but he knew she wasn't weak. Hopefully everything would be fine.
{Hope. Sometimes you could never trust Hope.} Kai thought as he finished his shower.
As Kai came out of the bathroom, after he brushed his teeth, he saw Lan on her bed with a Beyblade magazine but obviously she had got bored as it was sprawled next to her and she had a bit of a grumpy look about her.
He decided to tell her now.
Kai walked over to her bed, bent down and whispered in her ear. "We start training tomorrow. You better be ready 9:00 sharp in the afternoon or you're in for it."
Lan was shocked and she turned to look at him sharply. Kai wasn't smiling; he would never say a joke even if he was paid. But as Lan peered into his eyes, she saw them glint with kindness and playfulness she only saw once in a blue moon, her heat warmed up and she smiled slightly. He was being serious.
"9 o' clock? Are you sure that late?" Lan said looking at him.
"I want to be alone when training Lan, if that's a problem for you then tough, we won't train. Live with it. I don't want to train in broad daylight with them lot looking at us." His eyes quickly glanced at the rest of the Bladebreakers for a quick second.
"I understand Kai; I wanted to train alone as well. But England will get dark quickly, how can we train in the dark?" Lan was still unsure.
"We'll manage. Unless you want to train in the romance of the moonlight shining on us." He smirked a playful sarcastic smile.
"Wow, a joke, Kai I never expected that." She winked at Kai with a similar playful smirk.
"See you tomorrow Lan." Kai said making his way to his bed and getting in.
{Wait a sec. How am I to train without a Beyblade? Oh well, I guess Kai will figure it out some how, or maybe I can steal Ray's, or take Kai's. Hmm. well, I guess I'll have to do some shopping. Nah I'm not bothered. I'll just let Kai worry about that. Hmm. but then he'll have even more things to worry about. Tomorrow's our first lesson. I guess we can wait.} So Lan said good night to the people whom she liked and got into bed and surprisingly, fell asleep in a short amount of time.
When they all had woken up they were at the Royal Stadium and Max was just about to go up against another team for that day's battle. Soon Max had won easily. Tyson was next and he had won easily too. This team was easy to beat. Ray was up; his battle hardly lasted more than three seconds.
"Man that was so easy! There was no point in even going to the match today! We could beat them in our sleep!" Tyson said punching the air with their victory.
"Yeah they were easy Tyson but don't get too over excited, there are still a lot more teams who're much harder than these guys, just wait till our second battle." Ray said logically to the over enthusiastic Tyson.
So the Bladebreakers hung around the stadium watching other people's matches wondering if they would be going up against them one day and wanted to know if they were hard. They also watched the Blade Sharks' battle, they had won 3 - 0 again.
The weak were definitely being pushed out of the Tournament with heavy blows. Soon only the strongest will remain.
"WE WELCOME BACK THE BLADEBREAKERS FOR THEIR SECOND MATCH FOR THE DAY!" Jazzman screamed through the microphone. "AND LET'S SE WHO THEY'RE PLAYING AGAINST!"
A.J: AND IT'S THE AMAZING TEAM WHO REPRESENT FRANCE!!! THE BAGUETTE DREAMERS! THEY'RE SUPER COOL AND UNDEFEATED!
(I know I'm thinking up of really freaky team names but I can't think of anything serious!)
Brad was commentating another match that was playing at the same time so he wasn't there.
A.J: Awww it's such a shame Brad aint here! Then we really can get the party started! BUT cos he aint here, WE CAN PARTY AL NIGHT LONG ENGLAND!!!!!!
And the audience in the stadium cheered and screamed out excitedly.
As Jazzman introduced who'd be playing who (Ray was about to go against team leader Jean-Pierre), Lan looked over to see how Kai was doing, but he was no where to be seen.
"What? Where did Kai go? He was just here a minute ago." She looked around the stadium but couldn't find Kai anywhere. She was just about to go and look for him but figured that he could be anywhere and it'll be impossible to find him and that if she went out then Kai would come back and she would be wondering around England looking for someone who was sitting in her place in the stadium. So she stayed put and decided to watch the match and see if she could get any tips from the Bladebreakers matches.
Ray had won his battle but just barely. Max was next and he had won his easily enough. But when smart mouthed Tyson went against the fat guy who was eating a Baguette and he had trampled him. Tyson was so stunned he couldn't speak but they had already won the match so it was no use for him to whine. But he was still sulking a bit.
Lan told the others that Kai had gone somewhere, he didn't return during their match. The rest of the Bladebreakers were quite surprised that Kai had left without taking Lan with him. That's what he usually did.
They went over to se if Kai was anywhere in the stadium watching any matches but they couldn't find him anywhere. "Why would he just leave like that without telling me?" Lan said still searching around.
"Join the group Lan; he always ditches us without telling us where he went." Tyson answered putting his hands behind hid head.
"I said why didn't he tell ME Tyson." Lan said rudely.
"Whatever you little smartass.." Tyson mumbled.
Luckily for Tyson Lan didn't hear or he'd be out the window.
So the Bladebreakers and Lan walked around London looking for Kai but they couldn't find him anywhere. So they went back to the hotel but Kai wasn't there either. Lan was getting worried; Kai would never just leave without telling her first.
Soon it was 5:30 and Kai still wasn't back. Lan started to get slightly depressed and she lay on her stomach on her bed glumly with her head in her hands and staring absent mindedly at her pillow. Ray saw this and became a little worried and wanted to try and see if he could help but decided to leave her alone.
{Time out. I JUST SAW THE EPISODE WHEN KAI GOT BEATEN BY THAT FREAK JOHNNY!!!!!! WHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HATE THAT BOY!!!! AWWW!!! POOR KAIKAI!!!! WHAAA.... KAI!!!!! I FELT LIKE HUGGING THE POOR um. cartoon? @_@ AWWW BUT HE LOOKED SO SAD AND SWEET (Kai sweet??? *_* @_@) BUT AWWW!!!!!!! POOR KAI!!!! KAI!!!! Goo goo Kai.. KAI STILL RULES!!! HE'S NOT A LOSER!!!!!}
{Time in}
It was 6 o' clock when the door of the hotel room opened and in came Kai, Kai didn't expect a yelling at when he entered the room.
"Kai where were you? I was worried and you just left without telling any body where you had gone! Not even me!! Explain yourself!" Lan screamed at him in front of everybody. Kai tried to say something but Lan interrupted again. "How could you be so inconsiderate? You just left! Just walked right out of the stadium in between a match! Why? How could you be so rude?"
"Lan's new to this, she doesn't realise that Kai does this stuff to us all the time, well, maybe she does, and she DOES go with him every time he ditches us." Tyson whispered to Max.
"Lan." Kai had finally managed to say interrupting Lan's ramblings. "I'll tell you at 9 when we start training k?" He whispered to the hysterical Lan, he had a playful look in his eyes again that held a secret and mystery, Kai's eyes were actually shining and he had a small, small, small tiny, tiny, small, small mysterious smile on his face. (Poor Kai-Kai. WHAAA!!! Kai...)
"Um. Ok." Lan said slightly taken aback. She had expected to yell at him for a few more minutes before he actually managed to speak. She had a little bemused expression on her face.
"So where exactly were you Kai?" Ray said as he didn't hear what Kai had whispered to Lan.
"Just out in London. Why, you weren't worried about me were you?" Kai responded curtly.
"No, well, uh I guess a little but Lan's right, why did you just leave without telling anyone?"
"Cos I didn't want to. Happy now?" Kai said as he made his way to his bed.
"Actually no." Ray mumbled to himself. [Man, what a grouch].
Lan wondered what Kai was doing. Was he telling the truth? They had looked almost all over London (come on, combing London in a few hours? Impossible!) Well, she'd have to find out at nine. What was so secretive that he couldn't share it with the others?
As the rest of the Bladebreakers just sat and talked a load. Lan and Kai just sat on Kai's bed not saying anything, impatiently waiting for nine o' clock to come. Well, Lan was impatient; Kai just relaxed and enjoyed watching Lan getting pissed off cos of how slowly time was moving and all the secrets Kai was keeping from her and she kept on looking at her watch and the clock on the wall wondering if time was plotting against her by going extra slow.
Kai was also starting to become bored so he started fiddling around with Dranzer wondering if his teachings would be effective on Lan so she won't fall asleep out of boredom of a Beyblade while they tried to train and learn and teach.
As Lan looked over at her companion she noticed a little lump sticking out of Kai's great baggy blue trousers. Lan figured she'd just have to wait and find out; she couldn't help it if she was immensely curious. Lan wanted to know what was in Kai's pocket now. She couldn't wait any longer. She shuffled up close to Kai pretending she wanted to snuggle up to him, she rested her head onto his shoulder but saw that there was no way she could get to his pocket without it becoming so obvious that she was trying to get to the item inside his pocket. Cursing the Velcro that was sealing Kai's big pocket in her mind she just drew away from Kai with her arms crossed with a frown on her face. She looked like an over grown baby.
"Lan." Kai said smugly.
"What." She answered in annoyance.
"You'll find out what's in my pocket at nine, we only have an hour to go. Be patient." And he smiled at her in a crooked way just to tease Lan.
[Was it that obvious? Wow, I'll never become a pocket picker then.] Lan joked to herself.
"Oh shut up smart ass." Lan answered back, not knowing what to say to Kai's 'cleverness.' Kai chuckled to himself and gently gave Lan a peck on the cheek to cheer her up, without the others seeing.
9 o' clock pm soon came. The Bladebreakers (excluding Kai) were just about to get into bed. While the other two (you know who I mean) walked towards the door.
"Hey where're you guys going?" Ray asked.
"Out." Lan muttered.
"Out where?" Max said.
"Outside" Replied Kai.
"Just tell us where you're going!" Tyson said fed up with their games.
"I'm just taking Lan out somewhere for a while that's none of your business. We'll be back shortly. Just get to bed, you have a match tomorrow." Kai said to them turning the door handle.
"OoooOOOOoooOOOOHHHH! Are the two lovebirds going someplace private for a little smooch?" Tyson said annoyingly making kissy kissy noises but then finding himself being hit in the face with a pillow been thrown by Lan.
"Shut up Tyson." And she and Kai left the room.
"Geez, what's her problem? I bet they are going out to make out. That's what they do everyday. Humph. Not like there's anything else to do with that girl. She doesn't Beyblade or gives us tips. All she does is hang around Mr. Grouchy egging him on and dissing the rest of us." Tyson was interrupted by the others moaning and turning off the lights. "Well fine then, don't talk to me."
"Shut up Tyson." All the people in the room said. The team just wanted an early night in. To think about where Kai and Lan went off to at 9 o' clock.
(eek. This is getting long. Never mind!!)
"So where are we going Kai? What WAS that in your pocket? Where did you go this afternoon? Oh, I should have brought a coat. I guess it isn't really that dark, yet. So where are we going to train again? What're we going to do?" Lan was asking Kai millions of questions once they had set off in London's streets walking to Kai knows where.
Kai smiled at Lan and put a finger on her lips. "I'll tell you when we get there." He said slowly. And he turned back to walking. Lan stayed quiet for about 10 minutes then she started talking again. Surprisingly Kai wasn't getting annoyed, if it was someone else yapping and not keeping her mouth shut, Kai would have said a snide comment about 10 minutes ago.
It was starting to get a little chilly but it didn't really have any effect on the two. But Lan just decided to link arms with Kai just for fun. Soon the teenage couple, (not in bf and gf way, they're not going out remember? This is why Lan wanted to go out with the grouch. They act so friendly together! In MY fic!!!! MINE!!) had reached a big park, Lan wasn't sure if it was Regents Park or not. But it looked larger than Regents Park but it was a little dark so she couldn't really see for certain.
The two entered the park and saw people coming out of it walking in groups of two or three or more. So there weren't really that many people in the park. Lan tried to see the sign that said whatever park it was but Kai had steered her away and into a bunch of thickly dense trees.
They walked further making their lighting more dimmer with every step they took. "Um. Kai, I think this is far enough, soon I won't even be able to see my own hand in front of my face."
"Don't worry just a few more steps. We're here." Kai unlinked arms with her and walked towards a spot where the trees weren't so closely grown together and a beam of moonlight shined on the path where Kai stood. Lan looked at where Kai was standing and saw a tree stump that was in the shape of a Beystadium. She smiled and walked towards Kai.
"I thought you were joking about the moonlight thing." She said smiling and tickling his chin.
"I was. But then I came out from the match to find a place where we could train and I didn't know how long it would take me so I just left early. I didn't want to take you because I wanted it to be a surprise. I looked up at this spot and saw the hole in the trees beaming down on this spot so I just decided that we could blade here. If you don't like it then tough, I'm not bothered to find another place."
"I'm guessing you didn't chop down a tree and made a Beystadium out of it just for me hmm?" Lan knelt down and examined the tree stump.
"Well, it was actually just a flat tree stump; I just used Danzer to create the dish shape."
"OoooOOOOoooOOOOHHHH" Lan said teasingly.
"Oh be quiet. Oh yeah, and after I had finished finding a spot for us to train, I bought you this." Kai reached down into his pocket and drew out the mysterious object Lan had tried to nab before; it was concealed in a box so Lan couldn't see it straight away. "Well, open it." Kai said smiling slightly handing her the box.
Lan took the small silver box out of his hand, unwrapped it and in the box she saw Kai's present.
Her very own Beyblade.
"Kai.." She took it out of the box and examined it. Her Beyblade was Black and white with a navy blue attack ring and a silver defence ring. All of Lan's favourite colours, well, the silver wasn't on her mind but it still looked great.
"You like it? I chose it especially for you cos I know you like those colours. If you'd rather pick another one for yourself I can always return.."
"No. No it's, its perfect. Thank you Kai." She interrupted and with that she hugged Kai tight and kissed him on the cheek then hugged him again.
[Guess she likes it.] Kai smiled on the inside.
"Now Lan, I didn't buy it for you for you just to play with it, it doesn't come with a bit beast of course so it wont be as powerful, but hopefully it will be powerful enough once I'm through with you so it'll have some hope to defeat at least Max." (No offence to Max but uh... he's kinda the worst Beyblader, he's still really sweet though! But sometimes he can be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO annoying.)
"I know Kai, don't worry. I won't waste you money." Grinning at Kai she pocketed the silver box and kissed Kai again making him blush. Luckily it was dark.
"It. It's called Dolphate."
(I know the blade's name isn't 7 letters long but I didn't want the blade to be called Dolphan. All the other bit beasts' name begins with a D and is 7 letters long. Well I couldn't think of any thing better and Dolphate cos of a Dolphin and the "PHATE" is "fate" so meh. And I'm not bothered to think of anything else).
"It has the spirit of the dolphin in it, Dolphate is a mystical beast but I managed to get it cheap cos the idiot who sold it was, well, a dumb ass. It's pretty special. So take care of it." Kai warned her.
"Alright, but now I have a Beyblade I know I aint gonna sleep with it like you sleep with yours." Smirking evilly at Kai.
"Shut up."
"Hah, hah! Well, come on; teach me the basics and all that other stuff you know." Lan snuggled up to Kai and then forced him to sit on the ground.
So Kai started explaining about all the rings and weight disk and all that other Beyblade stuff along with the rules and tactics. Kai was glad Lan wasn't falling asleep. After he had explained the speaking part of the Beyblade lesson, they started to do the practical part.
"Let's see if you can actually aim the Beyblade to make it land in the dish." Kai said getting up and putting his hands in his pockets, his right hand feeling around to make sure that Dranzer was still in there. Kai was very protective of his Beyblade, that's why he sleeps with it. (Usually right now I would make fun of him but I still feel sorry for him cos he lost that stooopid match. Poor Kai!!!)
"Oh shut it Kai, I'm not that completely useless." Lan pulled the rip cord and Dolphate span around the dish in a circular motion.
"Good. You can do that. Now just try to make your blade obey your orders."
"Man, I'm talking to a Beyblade, how sad." Lan wasn't very enthusiastic about this part. "Um. Move to the left?"
Kai laughed, inside, about her uncertainty. He knew that he would be able to train her to become one of the greatest Beybladers, at least he hoped he could, he DID manage to teach some pathetic kid Anthony (or whatever his name was) to be able to beat Tyson in one night. He wasn't a completely useless teacher, but this time he was teaching Lan and if she's not up to the challenge, she'd just be lazy and say "ahhh to hell with this." Hopefully she wouldn't do that this time.
As Lan began making progress and learning and becoming used to ordering her Beyblade around with the help of Kai's coaching, she soon was probably able to win a match against an amateur like her self. Kai was so glad she was a quick learner so he wouldn't have had to repeat things over and over again.
Although watching wasn't as nearly as good as experiencing something for him self. Kai decided that he would have a friendly battle with Lan to see how well she was doing on their first lesson.
"A match? You, me? Match? NO! You'll cream me!" Lan shook her head furiously.
"Come on Lan, stop being a baby! I want to know how well you're doing!"
"I'm doing fine. No match!" Lan said stubbornly picking up her spinning Beyblade, turning her back to Kai and crossing her arms.
"Lan." Kai put a hand on her shoulder and drew up close to her making them face, face to face. He gently stroked a small strand of hair away from her eyes and kissed her lightly on the nose making her blink and a little upset because of her stubbornness. "Please?" Kai said please, that would be the last time he would say that word.
"Fine." Lan uncrossed her arms and got her Rip cord and Shooter ready in her hands.
"Good," Kai did the same. "Don't worry; I'll go easy on you."
"You better." Lan said winding her Beyblade up, she was still quite pissed that she'd have to fight one of the best Beybladers on her first lesson. "Oh yeah, and by the way. Never in my life am I going to say during a match 'Let it Rip,' that's just sad."
"Fine. 1.2.3. Go." And Kai pulled his rip cord and his Beyblade landed in the tree stump dish.
"What?! Hey no fair! Go you. er. thing. Beyblade! Um. Dolphate!" Lan hastily pulled her rip cord. But as she pulled it, with her martial arts strength she 'let it rip' so hard and quickly Dolphate span around so fast, it had become invisible to Kai's eyes with occasional moments when it flickered could Kai see it. Lan on the other hand was moving her eyes with the Beyblade concentrating hard actually being able to see her blade.
[What? It. it's invisible! When did Lan become that strong? Am I seeing things?] Kai thought in his head, he was becoming confused, he couldn't see her blade. Kai was a sitting duck.
Kai was getting pissed; he wasn't going to lose to an amateur. He growled and desperately tried to find Lan's Beyblade.
"What's wrong Kai? Why don't you attack?" Lan said evilly.
"I. I can't see it. Your Beyblade, I can't see it" He was still trying to move his eyes quickly enough to try and make a move, but it was hopeless, Dolphate was spinning too fast. Kai never knew how strong Lan really was.
"Well I still can." Lan said firmly and slowly in the darkness.
[Oh no. She's going to attack, damn! I taught her Dolphate's most powerful attack! Please say she wasn't listening to me!]
Unfortunately for Kai she was.
"DOLPHATE AQUA PUMP ATTAAAAAAACKK!!!" Lan had become in the middle of an image with a great tidal wave erupting behind her with her hair blowing around her face and a great beast came behind her.
Dolphate was a navy blue dolphin with some extra sharp fins coloured black and silver. It had jagged fins and bright shining eyes. It had, as most dolphins do, a white belly. It was an amazing sight. Kai gasped when he saw it. When he saw its power. Its speed. It's image. Dolphate's main colour was white and silver.
The great silvery beast came out emitting such a great power it was unbelievable. It attacked like lightning.
Something happened. Something as fast and painful.
Something shot out of the dish cutting Kai's right cheek.
Kai didn't feel anything at first because it all happened to quick, but he had started to feel the searing stinging pain as a long slash cut across his cheek. He could feel the blood leaking out.
"KAI!" Lan quickly picked up the still rapidly spinning Dolphate, pocketed it and ran over to the stunned Kai. She looked at his cut face her eyes shining with worry. She saw the look of surprise on his face. Eyes wide with shock. Mouth gaping open. Dark shadows under his eyes. The thin red line of blood with a bloody trickle running down his stunned face. He looked as if he was paralysed.
"Kai?"
Kai came back to life and stared hard and cold at Lan. Still a little bemused. He frowned, Lan was scared that he was angry. Closing his mouth he hastily used the back of his hand to wipe away the blood from his face, looked down at his hand and found a smear of red.
Growling he turned his back to Lan and walked away from her looking for his blade. Lan just stood there wishing she could kick herself for hurting Kai. Making him lose his dignity. She didn't think she'd win, but she guessed she must have pulled the cord way too hard and Dolphate making an appearance, what was up with that?
Kai had to walk about 8 feet away from where they were battling, his blade had shot out far, he soon found it lying on the floor smoking slightly. Kai picked it up and noticed on one of his spikes of his attack ring, it had a small drip of blood on it. He quickly wiped it away and shoved it back in his pocket. His blade had been used against him
"Lan." He finally spoke in a harsh way, his back still to Lan.
[Damn, he's annoyed at me.]
"You are a very strong and powerful girl. Your fighting skills will come in handy with Beyblading. Your strength will do us good and you will be practically unbeatable. You don't even need a bit-beast." He turned around with a smile on his face but he had dark lines under his eyes. He made his way back to the worried girl and stood in front of her. Lan thought he looked slightly mad in the psycho way.
Kai reached up and held her chin in his fingers still grinning. "I wasn't sure if training you would be a good idea, I didn't know that you would make a compatible training partner and team mate. You're absolutely stunning and amazing Lan.
"In the next few days I'm going to do what I can and train you to be the best, better than me maybe. With your strength you would think that you wouldn't really need tactics and strategy to win because you can just do a head on attack and shoot your opponent out of the dish, and cut them." Kai blinked, his cut had started to bleed again. Lan looked at him guiltily. But he still smiled.
"I want you to know that you have a great power inside of you and a gift. If I teach you, you will become unbeatable. I'm going to train you so you know every strategy and many different ways that you can win a match. Although I need to know, truthfully, if you're up to it. Training every night like this but much harder than usual. You have the potential to be a great Beyblader, that gift should not be wasted. Will you do it and not complain? I have to warn you that I'll be harsh, I don't want to be harsh with you, but I'm going to have to too make it certain we will win this tournament if I persuade the others to add you in the team, so you won't feel left out and we can have a certain win. I think we'll have a better team with you on it, as a reserve though. You'll be a star Blader under my training." Then Kai gave her a quick small kiss on the lips and smiled at her. Not fully of course, Kai will never smile a Sora smile (big goofy happy smile).
"I'm up to it Kai. I'll be serious. Don't worry." And she hugged Kai tight not wanting to let go, just so relieved he wasn't mad at her. They shared a small kiss again then Lan rubbed away some of the blood from Kai's cut. "I'm really sorry Kai, I didn't mean to." She snuggled into him again and they stood there in each others arms for a while before they set off back to the hotel.
(KAI'S GONNA WIN KAI'S GONNA DEFEAT JOHNNY!!!!!!!! YAY!!!! KAI!!!!! KAI KAI KAI KAI KAI KAI KAI KAI KAI KAI KAI!!!!!!)
As the two walked out of the park away from the darkness of the trees they saw it was pretty dark. The two of them walked down the road side by side. Kai dared to put his arm on Lan's waist and walk with her, Lan took advantage of this and held Kai around the waist as well and then used her left arm to wrap it around Kai's neck and walk holding on to him.
If you saw the two walking together, you would really think that they were a real couple walking in each others arms down the darkened city streets of London.
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Meh, that was chappie number something, oh yeah, 5. ~_^ Awww. I wonder if I'm enjoying writing this story, I'll only enjoy it if I get good reviews (wink, wink, wink!) GO KAI GO!! GO BEAT JOHNNY!! (it's so obvious he is, this show is such a cliché) but still... GO KAI GO!!! GO KAI GOOOOOO!!! 2.4..6..8.. WHO DO WE APPRECIATE? (well, me of course ~_^ he he) KAI!!!!!!!!!!!
KBA: um I think I got a bit hyper..
Kai: you can say that again.
KBA: Quiet you! Just stand in the corner like I told you to and look pretty. (starts hugging Kai) Awwwwww!!! Me no can get mad at you!!! Awww!!!! U so sweet?! (Kinda). WIN KAI WIN!!!
Kai: I can't breathe!!! Gerrof me!!!
KBA: Um.. Let's see. NO!!!
Kai: ;_;
KBA: Awwwwww cheer up! Here's Lan!
Kai: ^_^
Lan: Who is this blue haired freak?
Kai: O_o What?!
KBA: Um. ignore this insanity!!!!!!!!!
Lan: Who are you people?????
KBA and Kai: O_O o_O