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I am so sorry for the long delay in the updates. I was really stuck on where to take this and then classes started up again so for the past however many weeks I haven't touched this but I thought I should finish it before the new semester starts next week. I hope you all like the update and I apologise in advance if it isn't consistent – I had to reread my own story to know what I said…

I know have a clear idea for how I want this story to end…hopefully it'll play out how I want…this chapter is a pinnacle I guess you could say…there won't be many after this I don't think…the other chapters have been a lead up to this one and what comes after…it's a bit unbalanced in the number of chapters though…I pray that it won't appear to be too rushed…

Sorry that it is short.

Dedication: To Jen

REVELATIONS

I could feel his warm skin underneath my fingertips and yet I shivered. I knew though that I was not cold. This was just one more instance in which I came to realise that around him I am not fully in control.

"I am not made of glass Kai."

I turned those words over in my head for a moment as I removed my hand and before I could stop them the following words flowed from my lips in barely a whisper.

"I know….."

I trailed off slightly and we were encompassed in a large awkward silence. Tyson went to leave again thinking I had finished but the last three words came and then they hung in that awful silence as I watched Tyson finally make his way over to the Chief.

"But I am."

Those words reached my own ears and at the sound of them I just wanted to die. I had tried for so long to not say what I felt inside and then I had to blab out the pinnacle of all of my fears to the one person that I never wanted to hear them. I didn't want him to know my weaknesses.

I didn't want him to know the extent of my fears.

And I definitely did not want him to come to understand that he was the source.

The source of everything.

Everything that makes me weak.

Everything I fear.

It's him.

And it sucks to know this within myself but it would be drastically worse if he knew as well.

I watched him walk away and I wanted to call out to him. I wanted to reach out and pull him against me but I held my tongue. I stopped myself. I couldn't ever show him. I understood now. I mean I always knew that it was different with him. But now, because of the happenings of the past few days, I finally could put it to words.

I couldn't ever let him see…that I loved him.

xXx

I looked up briefly from watching my blade blur in its dance around the ring with Max's and I saw the shock on Tyson's face as he turned from Kai. It confused me so I turned my attention to the taciturn leader of the Bladebreakers and I was in disbelief at the amount of raw, unbidden emotion playing across his features. I know that I have only recently acknowledged that he too is human just like me but I have never ever seen him with anything other than passion for power or the fire that goes hand in hand with annoyance burning in his eyes.

This look was dazed and yet so concrete.

It was like he has slipped up. It was almost like he has let something slip; something that he never wanted any one to know.

It was slightly unnerving to see someone who you thought you knew act so completely opposite to what you were so sure of. But all it really proved to me was that I was not as observant and as intuitive as I thought I was.

I couldn't help but wonder what had happened between those two. Ever since the 'fight' Kai had been acting weird and Tyson too for that manner. I know that the private matters of the heart had absolutely nothing to do with me but that didn't stop me from being curious and it didn't stop the fact that if Kai ever did something to hurt Tyson in a way that wouldn't heal in a couple of day, say like a bruise, then I swore that I would make his life a living hell…ok so maybe hell was too strong of a word…but I could guarantee that his life wouldn't be so pleasant if he ever hurt Tyson. If he ever hurt him I would make sure he regretted it.

xXx

That night I lay upon the covers and stared at the ceiling and no matter how many times I blinked or rubbed at my eyes, his image stayed in front of me. It was almost like it was ingrained onto my eyeballs or something. The sound of his voice at his omission and the look in his eyes…they were haunting me and I couldn't hear or see anything else but him. I was beyond stunned at the meaning that those words had. I know it must sound strange but I feel like he admitted not only a weakness to me but made himself so incredibly vulnerable in the process. Why had he done that? Was it a momentary lapse or did it mean that on some level he trusts me. I hoped it was the latter. I mean he could have told me that he was addicted to chocolate which is technically a weakness but that kind of omission doesn't make him vulnerable…and some how I don't think he would be particularly bothered if I ran past him with a chocolate bar on a string.

It was just a totally different kind of… revelation… I suppose you could say.

Two nights later, I was still turning his words over and over in my head. I lay awake and stared blindly at the myriad of stars just outside my window. It was so strange how much I could draw a parallel between the stars and me and Kai and me. I mean, that's how much he was on my mind. I was seeing similarities everywhere. I guess that sounds a little weird. How on Earth are the stars anything like Kai? And I'm not so corny as to say that they twinkle with such a light that must be so bright to be seen here on earth but still we only seem to see just a fraction of their beauty….or how he lights up my life like that stars light up the clear night sky….nothing like that.

Kai isn't like the stars….but how I feel – I mean the distance….well what I mean is that I can see the stars. I can see their beauty and all and all I have to do to see them is to look out my window on a cloudless night and they are right there…and it is the same kind of thing with Kai. That is, he is right there and I can see him and everything but he just seems so far away – like the stars in the night sky.

Meh! I said I wasn't going to think corny things but when I think about him I just can't seem to help it. I shook my head in a rather futile attempt to clear my head.

It was in the early hours of the morning when I strode out of my room and down the hall. I walked into the kitchen and jerked to a stop just inside the door…he was there…alone…at such a late hour…sitting at the bench. He looked like he was so far away and I had never seen him with that dreamy – that was the only word I could find to describe the expression on his face – look. It was kind of disturbing in a way. I crept closer and I saw that he was running his finger over and over in a repetitive pattern across the wood. I watched his hand move and I felt my eyes widen when I realised what shape he was drawing. Two half upside teardrops…in other words a crude heart.

That puzzled me. Why would he be repeatedly drawing an imaginary heart with his fingertip? It was strange. But then it was like I stepped outside myself and I looked at the scene with new eyes and I coupled the dreamy look on his face, the face smile with the almost imperceptible frown marring his features and the heart shape…oh my god! He was in love.

For some reason that realisation hurt more than I thought it would, I became incredibly jealous in a matter of seconds. There was no other word to describe the feelings that were bubbling within my chest.

I stared for a long time and then I sighed deep within myself and moved to sit beside him. If he was in love than so be it. I would help him get the one he wanted.

"Love is the most powerful thing on Earth," I declared as I sat down on the stool to his right. I felt him jerk when he realised my presence. I know he was looking at me but I refused to turn to him.

He was silent for a long time before he muttered, "I disagree."

I didn't say anything as I knew he wasn't done yet.

"Greed and the lust for Power far outweigh Love in the balance of things."

I shook my heard and repeated what I had said previously, "Love is the single greatest thing on Earth for it is the only one that incorporates the feelings of someone else."

"Humans are weak in nature. They hunger for power and the greed consumes them. Love is for the weak – it hinders ones perceptions of things."

I echoed his previous words, "I disagree."

I could feel his eyes on me and I couldn't help it, I turned to him.

"Maybe love is wonderful…but unrequited love just sucks," he murmured.

I just kept looking at him.

"…to be loved may feel wonderful but when you feel so deeply for someone and you know that they will never ever feel the same it eats away at you. You feel empty inside…"

I was so stunned. He was hurting so much inside…just like I was... "Are you speaking from experience?"

He does not answer me and for the first time since I had sat down beside him he looked away from me, this however did not hide from me the gentle blush that stained his cheeks.

I looked at his profile for several more seconds before I nodded slowly. I understood that point of view very well…"I understand," was all I left him with as I stood and walked out the room. This new knowledge on the enigma that was Kai was burning inside me.

It shocked me a little at how fragile he seemed. I hadn't seen him like that since that say he let it slip that he could be broken…

The person that can break him seems to be the only one that could heal his suffering…and for some reason, even though I didn't want to break him – ever – I want to be that person, so I could be the one that could heal him.

I didn't know if that really made any sense….but in my head it did.

I want to be the person he loves.

But I know that it couldn't possibly be me. He dislikes me, this much I knew for certain. He has shown his contempt for me over and over so it was a little surprising that he confided in me.

I flopped down on my bed.

I would get him the one he wants. I want him to be happy. I want him to smile.

xXx

I watched him walk away from me again and the moment he disappeared from my immediate sight, that is the moment he rounded the corner and I couldn't see him without moving off my chair, I let my head drop against the counter top with a resounding and yet rather dull thud.

I let even more slip.

I was truly heading for a disaster if I couldn't learn, well relearn, to hold my tongue in check around him. He is going to think I'm a puddle of emotions and so pathetic. But then I guess I am pathetic so I can't really challenge that.

He says he understands but I am in doubt to what he believes he actually understands. Does he know that I love him? That I am in love with him? Is that what he understands? Or was it more that he understands what it is like to be in love with someone that is not willing or is too oblivious to return the favour? Is it that that he understands? Or was it that he could simply grasp what I meant? I think that that is what he understands?

If this is indeed the case then he does not understand much at all.

I want him to be by my side.

I want him to stay here.

I want him to be mine.

…stay here….be mine….forever.

xXx

AN: the pov changes are Kai, Rei then Tyson and then Kai again.

The final line is from something that I read quite a while now – I do not remember where it comes from…and I doubt that it is copyrighted or anything….but it was an inspiration for me for this chapter so I thought that I would credit it.

Once again I really am sorry that I took so long to update this and WYWNK for that matter – I will update that one relatively soon I promise like I said, I was stuck, then I had classes and then exams and then I was away this past week. But I want you to know that I have not abandoned Revelations or WYWNK. I will finish Revelations even if it kills me. It was my first multi-parter in the Beyblade fandom so I will complete it.

I apologise for that very sporadic updates. This is my final year and I have been actually doing some work for once instead of coasting completely along. Got my results back….if anyone cares I didn't fail anything. Did pretty alright considering the amount of actual study I did….heh….I'm so lazy!

Well, catch you later.

Be safe

-BG

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