Hey. Sorry this chapter took so long to write but it's fairly long. It's also my favorite chapter because they've finally landed in Australia!

My thanks to Panda Pjays once again for editing.

I'd reply to reviews but while that emails floating around I'm fearing for my account. When everything is cleared up I'll thank you all personally, but for now THANK YOU!

Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade, however I do own Amanda, Holly, Matt, Jackson and Alec. And any other characters that pop up.

Enjoy!

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Blink.

Blink.

"No friggen way."

Blink.

"That's…not possible."

Blink.

"Who would've known how well he could hold his liquor?"

Lets explain the situation, shall we?

The boys had arrived at the airport, got their tickets, and were pleasantly surprised to find that they were in First Class.

They had got to their seats (Kai and Rei, Max and Tyson, Kenny by himself.) and within the hour they were off.

However only 10 minutes into the flight one of the boys had found himself on the receiving end of a flirting airhostess. Who had pulled out a bottle of champagne and asked if he would like to share with her. She would pay.

How could he disagree?

After only 10 minutes it was obvious that the young blonde airhostess wasn't used to drinking, even in small quantities. But the biggest shock was that the young male had drunk nearly half the bottle and seemed fine. No slur, no heavy eyes, no excessively loud laughing. It was as though he hadn't drunk anything. Or at least not as much as he actually had.

"Amanda! What are you doing!"

Another airhostess, this time a brunette walked over to the drunken blonde, now known as Amanda.

"Hi Holly! Isn't this guy cute?" Amanda giggled.

"C'mon Amanda. I think you should have a lie down."

"But Holly!"

"No buts!" Holly tugged Amanda to her feet. "I'm very sorry about this."

"It's fine." The man said.

Holly walked off with a stumbling and giggling Amanda.

The young male had then wandered off to the toilet and then returned to his seat, next to Kai.

Yes, that's right. Rei Kon can hold his liquor.

Bet ya didn't see that coming.

Rei sat down and reclined in his seat, and noticed his teammates stares.

Tyson and Max gaped.

Kenny's eyes were visibly larger.

Kai simply sat there, no emotion on his face, but his eyes showed that he was just as shocked as the others.

Rei raised an eyebrow.

"Yes?"

Tyson started making fish faces. "Dude…why aren't you drunk?"

"Good question. The answer is simple: I've developed a tolerance."

"Are you saying that you're an alcoholic?" Max asked, eyes wide in wonder.

"No. I've simply drunk a lot of alcohol when I was traveling and so am able to take more without getting drunk."

"In other words, you're a heavy weight." Kai said.

Rei turned to him and smiled. "Yes."

"But how the hell did you drink? Traveling isn't cheap!" The Chief said, pushing his glasses a little higher up his nose.

Rei grinned, his fangs glinting. "As I traveled I did odd jobs to get a little extra cash. Several times I worked in pubs, clubs both normal and nightclubs, and other places where alcohol was supplied. And where there's alcohol, there's drinking competitions."

Three pairs of eyes widened.

One pair was still looking at Reis lips and fangs. Bad Kai.

"You entered drinking competitions!"

"Only the ones where the alcohol was free."

"Still!"

"Don't worry. I'm not an alcoholic or anything. Most of the comps were for money anyway."

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2 hours later found Tyson, Max and Kenny asleep. Kai was reading and Rei was watching the in-flight movie. And swaying slightly.

Kai looked at Rei, concerned.

"Rei? Are you ok?"

Rei looked up at Kai through half lidded eyes.

"I think the alcohol is starting to effect me." He said, a slur slightly evident in his voice.

Kai smiled at the neko-jin.

"Go to sleep Rei. Sleep it off. And pray you don't get a hangover."

Rei smiled back and reclined his seat slightly.

Kai went back to his book, Rei moving around every now and then in an attempt to get comfortable.

Then all of a sudden, Kai felt a weight on his shoulder.

He turned his head slightly to look at Rei, who had snuggled into his shoulder and drifted off to sleep. Kai smiled and put his book away, trying as hard as he could not to move too much.

He rested his head on top of Reis.

"Sweet dreams, Rei." He whispered, as he too drifted off to sleep.

Rei's hand found Kais as he dreamed, and both boys smiled.

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"This is your captain speaking. We will be landing in Sydney Airport shortly. Please fasten your seatbelts and move your chairs to the upright position."

Kai woke and yawned, looking at Rei who was still sleeping. He tried to raise his hand to shake Rei but found it weighted down by Reis hand.

Kai gently removed his hand (even though he didn't want to) and shook Rei gently.

"Rei. Wake up. We're nearly there."

Reis amber eyes gently opened.

"Kai? What-?" Rei rubbed his eyes, before looking around to get his bearings.

"I'll just repeat that. Please fasten your seatbelts and move your chairs to the upright position. Thank you."

"Oh are we landing soon?"

"Seems that way."

Kai looked over the seats in front to see how the rest of the team was.

Max and Kenny were buckled up and Tyson was pawing at his eyes with one hand and trying to fasten his seatbelt with the other. Kai let out a quiet laugh.

"Hey? What's so funny Kai?" Rei asked, pouting at Kai.

"Nothing Kitten. Just Tyson waking up normally."

Rei smiled, and looked out the window.

"Hey look!" Kai leaned over to look out the window too. Max, Tyson and Kenny also looked out the window.

"Wow! Check it out!"

They were currently flying a little further south than Sydney, and were circling around so they could fly in the right way.

They could see green fields running, in some cases, right down to the sea.

"Attention all passengers. We should be landing shortly. From all the crew, we hope you enjoyed your flight."

The plane descended, shaking slightly as it went. Several loud bangs were heard, causing a few people to panic, before the place hit the runway.

The plane was taxied around for a few minutes, then it stopped and the airhostesses opened the doors.

People started standing up and getting their onboard luggage from the overhead compartments.

The boys stayed in their seats though.

Eventually, the amount of people still in the plane dropped to only a few and the young men got their on-board bags, stretching as they stood.

They walked towards the exit. Amanda was standing at the door, smiling to the people as they walked out.

Her smile grew as she spotted Rei.

"Sir! I hope you enjoyed your flight!" she said, smiling brightly.

Rei smiled back.

"It was lovely. Thank you."

Amanda smiled and handed him a small folded over piece of paper.

Rei smiled, though the other boys could tell it was forced. They all nodded to her and walked out along the hall.

As they walked they looked at the slip of paper in Reis hand. He had opened it and they could clearly see eight numbers.

"Three guesses as to what that is." The Chief said, walking next to Rei and raising an eyebrow at the paper.

Rei sighed, scrunched the paper up into a ball and threw it into the first bin they came across.

Max laughed. "Poor girl. Hope she doesn't wait all night for you to call."

Rei smiled weakly. "Same here."

Tyson let out a loud whoop and a laugh.

"Feels good to be back in Australia!"

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After getting their luggage, the five young men started walking towards the entrance, when they noticed a man holding a sign saying 'The Bladebreakers' standing near the door.

He was wearing a business suit, however he fidgeted as though he was unused to it. He was very tanned and had blond hair with incredibly dark brown roots that looked like it had never been brushed.

They walked over to him. He grinned.

"Hey guys! Welcome back to Australia! I'm Matt and I'm gonna taking you to the main office of the Australian BBA where you'll meet up with the director."

They all nodded in conformation, with the exception of Max, who cocked his head to the side.

"Don't most people say 'G'day mate'?"

Matt blinked once. Twice. Then laughed.

"We're not all like Steve Irwin! We don't all say G'day and put mate on the end of every sentence. And we don't wrestle crocs either."

"Oh." Max blushed and lowered his head, obviously embarrassed.

Matt laughed again. "It's ok, dude! You're not the first person to think that. We often get stereotyped like that. But we're used to it."

Max looked up and smiled.

"Good. I'd hate to be the first."

Matt smiled at them all, avoiding Tyson's jealous glare.

"Well! Lets be off shall we!"

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10 minutes later saw the boys in a limo with Matt.

"You all came here during the last tournament didn't you?"

"Yes." "Hn." Was the chorused reply.

"Did you do much site-seeing?"

"I know I did a little. Not much though. The big thing was going to Ayers Rock." Tyson said, smiling at Matt, and then looking to the others.

"Same here. But I only went to Ayers Rock." Rei said. Max and Kai nodded to show that it was the same for them.

"Ayers Rock? Well at least you saw Australia's biggest attraction. However, we know it as Uluru."

"Ulu-wha?"

"Uluru. It's aboriginal, Tyson." Kenny said with a sigh.

"Oh right. I knew that."

They all rolled their eyes.

"Sure ya did Tyson." Kai said sarcastically.

"SEE! Kai believes me!" Apparently Tyson doesn't know what sarcasm is.

"So how long to we get to the main office?" Rei asked.

"Hmm." Matt rubbed his chin with his hand. "Well, it takes about 20 minutes to get from the airport into the city. Then it'll take us about 5 minutes to drive through the city to the office. So about 25 minutes." He said with a smile.

There was silence for a while as the bladders looked out the windows to see the approaching city.

Then something happened.

No, there wasn't an explosion. No, they didn't arrive. No, Rei didn't leap onto Kai and start making out with him, even though he really, really wanted too.

What happened you ask? Simple. Tyson's stomach stared growling. Loudly.

Tyson smiled sheepishly. Max giggled, as did Kenny, Rei smiled and rolled his eyes, while Kai smirked.

Matt let out a loud laugh.

"You should have told me you were hungry, Tyson! We have snacks in here."

He pulled a sliding panel on one of the armrests across and they saw a small stash of snacks. Rei pulled the panel on his side open and found a small stash of drinks, including…

"Vodka?" Rei looked strangely at the bottle, which Kai quickly grabbed from him and put back in the compartment.

"No more booze for you."

Rei pouted.

He looks so sexy when he pouts. Damn him and his tempting sexiness. Kai smirked.

"What do you take me for Kai? An alcoholic?"

Kai shook his head negatively. "No. I just think you've had enough."

"Speaking of which," Kenny piped up, "Why don't you have a hangover? You had a lot of alcohol."

Rei sat in thought for a few seconds, then shrugged.

"I dunno. I've never had a hangover. Ever. Must be a neko-jin thing."

"Oh yeah! I forgot you were a neko-jin." Tyson said sheepishly.

"Same." Max said.

Rei looked at the two boys, whom, he noted, were sitting rather close to each other, and smirked, one of his fangs popping out over his lip.

"It's ok. There's not any major difference between humans and neko-jins. Just our physical appearance really. And some other physical aspects. And how we ma-" Rei slammed a hand over his mouth. "Uh…the last one isn't really important."

Max and Tyson shrugged it off and started talking. The Chief gave Rei a look, as did Matt, but they got over it.

Two others however, didn't.

One, a quiet Russian. The other? A loud, laptop incased bit beast.

"Ma? Ma what kitty?" Dizzi asked loudly from where she sat on Kenny's lap.

"Don't call me kitty!"

"Then what were you going to say?"

Kai turned to Rei. "Yes. What were you going to say Rei?"

Rei gave them both looks. "You don't wanna know."

"Yes we do! Here, Kai. Grab me and bring me over to where you are. Maybe Rei will whisper it to us!"

"No!" Rei said quickly, a blush appearing across his face.

Kai, meanwhile, had gotten Dizzi (with Kenny's permission) and had dragged her over.

"C'mon Rei!" Dizzi said.

"No!"

"Please kitten?" Kai said, pouting at Rei, a look that Rei had never seen and therefore hadn't built up a resistance for.

Dizzi noted that Rei happily let Kai call him kitten.

"Fine! But lean in cause I'm gonna whisper it."

Kai leaned forward and put Dizzi in Reis lap. Rei curled in on himself slightly and then in a light voice whispered.

"The other difference is in what we do when we…. when we…" Rei's blush deepened and he looked to Kai. "When we mate."

Kai blushed too, while Dizzi, in a quiet voice asked, "Would it be asking too much to know exactly what that is?"

Rei, blushing even heavier now said. "Yes. No I wont tell you that Dizzi. Ask Drigger. He might tell you."

Dizzi humphed. "Fine. I'll ask Drigger. Give me back to Kenny."

"Ok. But first, you have to promise me something."

"What Rei?"

"You can't tell anyone that. Its really embarrassing."

Dizzi sighed. "Fine, fine. Give me back now."

Rei passed Dizzi to the Chief. When he sat back down he noticed Kais spaced out look.

When they mate? Something different when they mate? Hmmmmm. I wonder what it is? Guess I'm gonna have to find out. Kai smirked.

Rei, noticing that Kai was now smirking almost evilly turned to him.

"You can't tell anyone either Kai. Please? Promise me you wont Kai."

Kai looked at Rei, his eyes shining with something that Rei couldn't name at that moment. Their heads drew closer, so close they could feel each other's breath and Kai breathed out a quiet "I promise".

They were so close.

Only millimeters apart…

"FINALLY!"

Kai and Rei sprang apart.

"Finally we're here!" Tyson called out happily, oblivious to Kai's death glare.

The limo rolled to a stop in front of a tall building with a big 'BBA: Australia' sign near the top and a smaller sign down at ground level.

Kenny pushed his glasses up his nose a little and turned to Matt as he got out of the car.

"I have a question, Matt." Matt nodded to show he was listening. "Why is the main office of the Australian BBA in Sydney, when the capital of Australia is actually Canberra?"

Tyson and Max looked at Kenny strangely.

"Canberra? I thought Sydney was the capital." Max said.

Tyson nodded. "Same here."

Matt smiled. "You just got your answer. Most people think Sydney is the capital of Australia. So the main stadium and the main office are here."

"Oh." Tyson nodded to himself. The he started looking confused. "If Canberra's the capital, then where is it?"

"South."

"Ok." Tyson started grinning. "So when do we go in?"

"Right now."

They walked into the building. The foyer was large with chairs scattered around the place. There were several doors going off into different room.

"In this office there is also rooms for traveling bladers on the second, third and forth floors. Down on this floor there's a restaurant," Tysons face lit up. "A games room," Maxs' face lit up. "And finally," there was a loud roar from one of the rooms. "The lounge, where the TV is. Currently the cricket is on I think. Probably the Ashes. But it could be Rugby."

"Doesn't anyone watch bey battles?"

"When they're on, yes. But right now all of Australia's attention is on the cricket."

There was another loud roar.

"Sounds like we're doing well."

Matt led the boys to an elevator and once they all got in he pressed the button for level 9.

"The director of the Australian BBA is Alexander Esplin. But everyone just calls him Alec. He can be quite the comedian too. He's going to be telling you what you'll be doing for the first few weeks that you're here. Then you'll be picked up and dropped off at your hotel."

"Hotel? We're not staying here?" Max asked. They had all expected that they would be staying in a few of the rooms that the BBA office provided for the traveling bladers.

"No. You'll be staying at the Sydney Hilton. You'll be in Sydney for at least 2 days so Mr. Dickinson wanted you to be comfortable. The rooms here aren't exceedingly comfortable. Mostly because bladers only come here to sleep, and eat sometimes."

"Oh. Ok."

Ding!

The elevator doors opened at level seven and a young man with blond straight hair that nearly reached his shoulders stepped in. Then he saw Matt.

"Matt!"

"Jacko!"

The two hugged and laughed a little before turning to the confused beybladers.

"Guys, this is Jackson Duldig, an old friend of mine from school, who I haven't seen in…how long?"

Jackson shrugged. "I dunno. All I know is it's been too long."

The two started talking happily, the young boys listening and even laughing at some of the things that were said by the two.

"So you're coming to the reunion next Saturday aren't you? We're all going to Alec's house."

"I should be able to come."

"Alec? As in Alec the head of the Australian BBA?" The Chief asked.

"Yup. Alec is part of a big group of friends from school. He's only as old as us. I'm presuming you thought he would be old?"

Kenny blushed and nodded.

Matt and Jackson laughed loudly. "Don't worry. Most people think that the head of any business is somewhat old, or older than most. We wont tell him what you thought."

Ding!

The five boys, plus Matt and Jackson, who apparently needed to talk to Alec walked out of the elevator and down a hall to a large door with 'A. Esplin: Director of Australian BBA' on the front.

"I'll wait out here until you're done." Jackson said and he sat on a chair by the door.

Matt smiled at him and knocked on the door twice.

"Come in."

Matt opened the door and they all walked in.

A man the same age as Jackson and Matt sat behind a desk looking over some papers, but he looked up and smiled when they came in.

"Boys! Welcome to Australia! I'm Alexander Esplin, but you can call me Alec."

"It's nice to meet you Alec." Rei said with a small bow. Kai nodded his head at the man. Tyson Kenny and Max also bowed.

Alec laughed.

"You're in Australia boys. And though I know that it's probably habit now, you don't have to bow. Now please, have a seat."

He gestured to the couches and chairs scattered about on one side of the room.

They all sat down.

Alec dug through some of the papers on his desk before he pulled out a folder, letting out a triumphant 'AHA!' and he walked over to the boys.

"Well boys, I guess it's time for you to learn what you'll be doing for the next few weeks."