A/N Haha, I wrote this a long time ago and I totally forgot to update. Gomen gomen! Anyways, enjoy?
"B-But! How did this happen!" Rei wailed despairingly.
"Ew! I'm a dumb blonde now!" Carmen burst into fake tears.
"Who did this!" Rei snapped incredibly angry at his now blonde hair.
"Well, let's see, who was showering before you? They would have the perfect opportunity to slip dye into your hair. After all, you two showered last, last night so only the person before you could do this." Kenny frowned as he entered some data into Dizzi.
"That would be Kai." Tyson pipped up.
"Blaming me again are you? What proof do you have? Get a life, Tyson." Kai snorted as he walked out.
NOT AGAIN! WHOEVER WAS DOING THIS WILL DIE! Kai was so angry right then that he bumped into Mariah on her way to Rei's house.
"Kai, what's wrong?" her worried eyes, alleviated his anger a bit.
"Some one's playing practical jokes on everyone but me including themself to make him/ her look innocent and now everyone hates me!" Kai exploded and gritted his teeth.
"Carmen right?" Mariah frowned knowing the mischievous girl's nature.
"Yea, how'd you know?" Kai asked surprised.
"It's her way of initiating you into her respect list. All you gotta do is prank her and she'll respect you" Mariah steered him back into the house.
"What should I do?" he wondered out- loud.
"I'll tell you a secret, she's most afraid of insects and bugs." Mariah winked and headed for the basement.
"Thanks," he smiled inward for once.
All day, Kai worked on his master plan avoiding everything including everyone.
"If I put this here, then she'll walk over. Now all I gotta do is attach this to that and Phase 1 will finish!" He leaned back deep in the night apparently proud of himself and grateful for his training at the Abbey for the first time.
"Kai, we brought you breakfast." Rei peeked his head in only to find Kai fallen asleep over his desk and drool coming down from his mouth.
"Er, Kai?" he sweatdropped,
"Don't come any closer or I'll shoot!" Kai jumped up frantically from his desk and his hands closed around an imaginary gun. Unfortunately, he stumbled into his desk and his multitude of plan papers flew up into the air!
"What's all the papers?" he asked curiously.
"N-nothing!" Kai gasped and stood up straight.
"Another prank! Kai! You've gone too far already! Out of this house! I don't want to see you again!" talk about an angry tiger!
Kai walked dismally away from Rei's house, thinking exactly how HAD things gone so wrong. He sat down beside a garbage can, a sudden shadow falling over him made him look up.
"Carmen..." he growled low in his throat and stood up towering over her.
"Yes, Kai?" she smiled sweetly up at the boy standing in front of her.
In one quick motion, he had her hanging upside down by her feet.
"You can't outsmart me!" he sneered as she dangled upside down like a bat.
She moved faster than he could comprehend and the next thing he knew, a sharp pain had enveloped his wrist and he immediately dropped her. Carmen flipped and landed on her feet.
"You were saying?" she smirked at his glaring face.
"Fine, you think you're so strong? Beybattle me!" he snarled and whipped out his blade.
"Alright," she produced her blade from her pocket and called out,
"3, 2, 1, LET IT RIP!" both blades launched into the sidewalks and headed for the other!
Carmen's blade was white and black, producing grey as it spun quickly along.
Yes, Dranzer was closing in on her; she WILL be crushed! Just before they were about to clash, the grey blade swerved to the right and Dranzer crashed into a wall!
"You forget! I have fought in these streets all my life! You can't possibly beat experience!" Carmen laughed gleefully as her blade smashed Dranzer into the same wall.
Kai gritted his teeth and called on Dranzer, his mighty bit beast!
Dranzer appeared with a war cry and bumped the grey blade away far enough to squeeze himself out of the hole. She blew fire at the grey blade, but just as suddenly as it was there, it was gone. The phoenix screamed in agony as the grey blade appeared behind her and scratched her deeply.
"My bitbeast is a black puma, Shoa, element of shadow! You can't hit what you can't see!" she chuckled as the grey blade disappeared once more.
Kai smirked, this was no different from some other blades he had faced. He led their blades into a puddle of water and jumped out again. Now her blade left trail marks. Dranzer managed to fry her once, but the fire dried up the water and now, he couldn't see her again.
Cursing his bad luck, he led them further along until he came to a large field.
"Perfect." He grinned as he order Dranzer to set only the grass on fire. Well, needless to say, the field got burnt and so did Shoa.
Without warning, Carmen ran up to him and gave him a hug that could rival Gary's.
"What the hell!" he managed to choke out.
"You're my official big brother!" she cried and beamed up at him.
"What! How did I-? Huh!" Kai looked confused and Carmen laughed.
"Rei's a good older brother, but he's never around. He's always hanging out with Gary and them." She looked down and drew circles on the ground with her foot. Something wasn't right. This wasn't the smirking, sneaky, confident Carmen that he knew! Suddenly feeling stupidly compassionate he asked her,
"What's wrong?"
"It's this guy, he thinks he's so smart and strong! If only I could beat him once in a battle then that'd show him! But I don't have anyone to train against, but then again, I don't even know how to train" she trailed off and this time Kai could tell, she was telling the truth.
"But you'll never!" a large chubby boy with short black spiked hair walked up to Carmen and sneered at her.
"I don't have to, Kai will!" she involuntarily pushed Kai to meet the chubby boy.
"He's not Kai! You're so stupid! Kai would never talk to someone like you!" he pushed her making her stumble backwards.
"I am, I would and I have Dranzer." He flashed the blue blade before replacing it in his pocket.
"K-Kai!" the younger boy backed away timidly this time.
"Yes, however, I will not battle you; Carmen will. And she will win." He stepped back and nudged the terrified girl, before whispering in her ear,
"You can do it, I know you can." It was incredibly mushy and corny but he somehow felt sympathetic to the girl's plight. It was weird since he had so passionately hated the girl before, but when he realized how lonely she was, he knew she wasn't much different from him at the Abbey.
Empowered by Kai's new confidence in her, Carmen stepped up and readily challenged the boy.
"Hey, Kai! Watch my special moves! And when she gets creamed, you can be my friend!" he launched his blade viciously, in fact, too hard and his blade was off balance a bit.
"What makes you think I want to hang out with scum like you?" Kai laughed at the boys chagrined look.
"Well, because you like people who are powerful right? And if I win, then that means I'm powerful and you'll like me." The poor boy was so confused and frightened of Kai he lost some of his previous confidence.
Kai just snorted.
"But you won't win so I WON'T hang out with you."
Carmen knew what Kai was doing and used it to her full advantage, hit after hit landed squarely and perfectly, soon the boy's blue insect could take it no longer and dissipated with a puff of blue smoke and an agonizing cry.
"But, but but- how!" the boy grabbed his blade and ran off.
"See, you don't need an older brother, you're capable of taking care of yourself." Kai remarked and headed back towards Rei's house.
"But can you stick around? What if he comes back?"
"Then you psyche him out." Kai smirked but frowned as rain started to fall steadily.
"Off all the blasted times to rain," he muttered to himself and broke into a jog.
Looking back, he saw that the rain had no affect on Carmen. That is to say, she wasn't the slightest bit wet. The rain fell everywhere but where she was standing!
"How'd you do that?" he asked her suspiciously.
"I have magic." With a snap of her fingers, Kai was completely dry and absolutely no rain was going anywhere near him.
"Is that how you pranked the rest of the people?" Kai had an exasperated tone in his voice.
And odd look was directed his way as if to say, 'Duh!'
"So I still don't get why you had to prank other people to make me look bad."
"Because I had to make sure." An answer so simple yet so varied it could've meant anything.
"Of?"
Just a brilliant smile was her answer.
Deciding that she wasn't going to give him a straight answer, he ran to his room and began to write in his journal.
"Today was the oddest day of my life. Not only did I somehow touch Carmen's life, I also feel as if I have changed as well. I can't believe I have so easily forgiven her, but I have, and now she's somewhat my younger sister. Weird, eh? Not to mention she managed to make me feel sympathy and compassion... Stupid girl...
However, these changes seem to be for the better and I'm glad I went to Rei's stupid reunion, even if I didn't really reunite with any of them. I have a feeling they hate me now more than ever, and as always, I don't care. Its kind of sad I have to leave tomorrow, but now I believe I'm ready for anything.
Yes, I suppose I'm ready for love too, though who will win my heart, that will remain to be seen. Love, I can't believe I used to believe it was a useless emotion I'd never need. Lately, though, I've been feeling lonely, and I believe that only love can fill that void. It's not like me to be so optimistic, after all, who could only love me for me? Everyone I know likes me because I have money, I have power, and they believe I can fulfill their pleasure. How wrong they are. I am still a virgin. Traditional as I may be, my virginity is given away only once and I want that person to be someone special.
If I can ever find that girl, I would never let her go, but I do not foresee it any time in the future. I end this entry here.
Ps. Carmen really was the one behind the pranks, but I can't hate her for the reasons explained above."
Owari
A/N Sappy! Ew... lol, I don't like it either, but I'm ending this here. Sequel? Maybe. Depends... anyways, so tell me wut u think, and if u flame, I don't blame u, I wud flame myself too. Ugh, I hate the way I ended it, but I had to get this over with to concentrate on my other fics, bsides, I didn't really like this fic from the start anyways. P cya later!
-Tenma Kitsune
Ps. I'm over Beyblade now, so don't expect anymore stories about this Anime '' Though I really do feel like doing a sequel for Kawaii Kitties...
