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"I can't believe how forward some of those female fans are." Robert sighed, shaking his head as the doors to the elevator closed before a crowd of squealing girls could join the famous beybladers.
"You're telling me. It's going to take me forever to get this lipstick off." Johnny whinged, wiping at his cheeks with the end of Kai's long scarf. Not that the mixed blader noticed, his lips had been back on his lover's the moment that Spencer had moved in front of them and blocked them from the crowd.
"I'm sure Oliver would have something to help with that." Michael cracked, getting a smack from the French man in question. Rei simply shook his head and heaved a sigh, trying to lean back against the mirrored wall behind him only to remember too late that he was one row away from the wall and leant straight into a chest instead.
"Sorry." He squeaked, straightening up while Garland snickered behind him.
"It's not like you weigh that much Rei." The BEGA captain assured him while his flame haired lover looked over the nekojin with concern.
"Are you sick?" Brooklyn asked seemingly out of nowhere to everyone in the elevator, catching even the attention of the couple in the corner.
"He better not be. I'm not dealing with all those idiot fan girls with just Tyson and Max. They encourage them for god's sake." Kai growled, giving his team-mate a look over, checking him for his usual symptoms of fatigue or sickness. Blinking golden eyes, Rei shook his head and laughed Brooklyn's concern off.
"No, I'm okay. Maybe a little bit tired that's all. I've been on planes most of the past 48 hours." He offered a smile, trying to cover up the melancholy that he knew was probably all over his face. He'd brooded most of his way through supper, only managing smiles when fans asked for an autograph and even those were forced, automatic even. He hated watching the other couples be able to sit together and flirt like nobody's business while he had four tables between he and his lover and all he'd wanted to do was be with him. Waiting out the last hours of the evening until they could spend more time together was going to kill him.
"Bed before midnight then." The phoenix decided, glaring when Rei began to open his mouth to protest. "If you're jetlagged, then you need to sleep it off. We're only here for the weekend and as much as I rather –not- deal with all the fans, we have to; even more so because the hotel is crawling with them. I won't have my team's heartthrob cranky with his fans." Smirking maliciously at the last part of his lecture, Kai managed to get snickers from most of the elevators occupants while Rei just crossed his arms and huffed. Gods his team captain was such a parent, even if he was only a few months older than the nekojin.
Sparing the group from anymore banter and being cramped together, the elevator reached it destination, pinging brightly and waiting for someone to punch in the code that would let them out. Spencer reached forward and did the honours, the door sliding open at the same time as the second elevator, the mass of teams all filing out at once.
Smirking to himself, Rei purposely let himself get jostled around in the crowd so it didn't seem that pre-planned when he slammed into Bryan's back. Placing his hands on the other's hips to make it look like he was trying to catch himself without sending the pair of them flying, he gave the denim covered skin an affectionate squeeze before getting out an apology.
"Sorry…" he muttered, looking up at his lover trying to hold back a smirk while he felt several pairs of eyes on them. Bryan simply gave him a bored look, mischief dancing through his eyes however and didn't bother to swat the long, tanned fingers away.
"Watch where you're going cat." He drawled and walked away, going back to discussing some kind of attack tactic with Claude. Rei hadn't pulled his hands back either, letting them drag away slowly as Bryan left, a small smile on his face that didn't go unnoticed.
Raising an eyebrow, Kevin turned to report what he'd seen to his team captain but he was quickly tuned out by a stressed lion. The yammering monkey had been more than enough for him at dinner and now he rather just talk strategies with Michael. Huffing and crossing his arms, Kevin stalked off to the White Tigers/All-Starz room, trying to decide what to do about what he saw. Lee obviously wasn't interested….Gary was too busy stuffing his face still at the buffet and Mariah was down at the pool with the other girls and Kenny. Smirking slightly, he came to his decision. He'd go down to the pool. That way he could go to the person who would make the biggest fuss –and- see Ming Ming in a bathing suit. She seemed the type to wear one of those skimpy two pieces.
Laughing to himself, the green haired imp didn't even notice the odd looks the other teams were giving him as he filed by, even his own room mates debated leaving him to security. Running into his room, snatching up his own swimsuit, he dashed out again, tossing an explanation to Eddy, the only one who bothered to ask, and decided to take the stairs to the pool.
Speeding along, he hardly noticed the fans that he nearly ran over, ignoring both the spluttering and the squeals that his presence got, his mind only on one thing. The pool deck finally came into view, the Beyblade girls looking to be chattering happy on the side, their hair not wet so they obviously hadn't been in yet. Smirking to himself, Kevin decided to make himself know in his usual aggravating way. He slipped into the change room undetected and quickly changed, then made a beeline for his pink haired team-mate, crashing into her back and sending them both flying into the pool.
"ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!" Mariah's screech could be heard outside of the enclosed pool and her three other fellow nekojins even pricked their ears even though they were all several floors above her. "KEVIN I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" the pink haired nekojin was seething as she tried to hold the top of her exploded bikini in close so she didn't flash anyone.
"Sorry Mariah…but you want to hear what I came to tell you. Hi Ming-Ming." The youngest White Tiger winked at the aquamarine haired singer who tittered a giggle. The other girls rolled their eyes and Emily slipped into the water to help the nekojin with her bathing suit problem.
"Do the rest of us get to know or is this a team only thing?" Julia asked with a smirk, eyeing the green haired boy who was still making eyes at Ming-Ming.
"Oooooooh….I think you'd all have an interest. 'Specially you, ya yaoi lover." Kevin managed to tear his eyes away from the pop star and gestured over his shoulder at Emily. The flame haired girl raised an eyebrow, both somewhat offended and curious at the accusation.
"Another pair of banging beybladers?" she asked with a smirk, folding her arms over her chest. The White Tiger nodded and suddenly he had the undivided attention of all six girls.
"Who is it? Who is it? Who is it?" Hilary demanded, bouncing up and down on the side of the pool, her chest doing enough of the same that Kevin forgot what he was about to tell them for a moment.
"Right…who's what? Oh yea! Rei annnnnnnnd…."
"REI!" he was cut off by the shriek from his childhood friend, wincing and having to step away a few feet while the other girls gave Mariah wide eyed looks. "Who's Rei with?" she demanded, fists balled in fury.
"Bryan." Kevin squeaked, no longer wanting to tell this tale. Damn, the she-cat could be scary when she wanted to be; particularly when her forever-crush was brought up in discussion. The night she found out he was gay was so bad that most of the White Tiger team, Rei included, had spent hours mediating it out of their memories forever.
"Bryan? Pffft. You're crazy monkey boy. Were you not at that final or what?" Emily managed to react first with a smirk and a shake of the head. Mariah seemed to be calmed by this notion as well, letting out a short breath.
"Exactly. You must be seeing things. What did you see?" she laughed, tossing her hair over her shoulder. Her now amused expression betrayed her. Her heart was still going a million beats a minute at just the thought of her lovely team mate being with that Russian hardass.
"Rei falling all over him as they got out of the elevator. Big kitten eyes and everything." The description got a round of 'awww's from Julia and Mathilda and an eye roll from the pink one.
"Sure. Right. He probably tripped and his eyes went like saucers from surprise." She snorted and pushed herself back on deck between Ming-Ming and Hilary.
"You just watch them this weekend and you'll see I'm right. Rei and Bryan are together or at least doing some major flirting." Kevin repeated, nodding firmly and getting several eye rolls but at least one confused look.
"Why shouldn't they be together? They'd be so pretty. Like moonlight and sunshine." Julia interjected, pouting her heavily lined lips.
"Because Bryan nearly killed Rei a few years back. Dizzi has the battle on her hard drive if you'd like to watch." Kenny came up behind the group with the stack of towels he's been assigned to go find. With that, the group began discussion that intense battle, splashes and sprays helping to illustrate the points until they, as well as the fresh towels, were all good and soaked. Kevin loved to make a mess like that….and Ming-Ming's bathing suit had a good deal of white it in.