DISCLAIMER: I do not own Beyblade

Thank you to my reviewers: Flamable-Devil, Mikin Ishida, FireieGurl, D. G., Minako Mikoto, x-Shadow-x, Rimnerel Ayasugi, Evilmiko21, Sakura Blossom-Cilla-85

Special thank you to x-Shadow-x and Rimnerel Ayasugi: Thank you very much for your kind words…I appreciate them more then I can say in words.

Dedication: To Jen

(Edit: I just changed it so it was all in first person pov again…thanks to Rimnerel Ayasugi who pointed out that I had changed it half way through for a couple of lines – I have no idea why I did that!)

xXx

REVELATIONS

The next day I woke up late as per usual but what was a little puzzling was that no one, namely Kai, hadn't come and done something disastrous in order to wake me up. I peered through sleep hazed eyes at the clock resting on my bedside table. It was displaying the numbers 11:26, I blinked in disbelief. What was going on?

I lay there in my cocoon of blankets and I listened. There was no noise. It was absolutely silent, that is if you ignored the sound of the cars driving past the main road in front of my house, the birds chirping outside my window or next doors phone. It was really weird but I think they must be exceptionally hard of hearing because you can seriously hear their phone ringing from down the end of the street. It was most annoying when they got calls early in the morning when you are trying to maintain some semblance of sleep.

Anyway back to the fact that there was no noise coming from the other occupants of this house. I wondered where they could be. They weren't in the back yard by the Bey dish. I would have been able to hear them talking or yelling or at least the beys whirling. But there was nothing.

I slowly swung my legs out and I got up, I didn't bother with any slippers this morning. I made my way done the hall keeping my ears open. But still there was nothing.

As I entered the kitchen I caught sight of a sheet being pinned down on the counter with an apple. It was Max's hand writing, apparently Kai had given them the day off and Max and Rei had apparently decided to go into town for the day. Ok, so that explained where those two were but where was Kenny, he basically lived here as well. I picked up the apple and took a bite as I turned and that is when I noticed that the little red light on the answering machine was blinking.

I shrugged and made my way over to it and listened as Kenny's voice sounded, disturbing the previous silence.

"Hey guys. I got your message Kai so I won't bother coming over today. I've decided to go to the next town over for the day they have an interesting exhibit opening at their museum that I wanted to check out. I'll see you all tomorrow."

Well that pretty much told him where Kenny was. Now where was Kai hiding? I peered out the window; the sun was high in the sky so there was no way that he was still sleeping, though that didn't stop me from peeking in the room that Kai inhabited just in case. Nope, just as expected the taciturn leader of the Blade Breakers was not there.

I wandered back to my own room and changed my clothes and then I meandered down the hall and grabbed more food to quell my rumbling stomach from the kitchen; I figured I could always grab more after I determine where Kai was hiding at.

I figured that he couldn't possibly in the house as there was no noise bar the sounds I made as I walked around and I already knew that he wasn't sleeping in his room so I concluded that he must be outside in the yard or else he had gone out someplace else without so much as a note to tell anyone where he was. Which if that was the case it really didn't surprise me at all.

I slid the glass door that separated our living room and the patio open and stepped out on to the pebbled tiles. As I moved out from under the shade I shielded my eyes against the sun light that seemed to be glaring most brightly at me and that is when I saw him.

Well to be more accurate what I saw was more like a rather formless shape lying on the grass; once I got used to the sunshine it became most obvious that the shape was certainly not formless and was most certainly Kai.

He lay on his back on the grass in the partial shade of an overhanding tree. I crept closer not wanting to disturb him. He had his feet dangling in the little fish pond that my Grandpa had made when I was little but never really looked after hence there was no fish in said fish pond. I stood there, for I don't even know how long, just watching as his chest rose and fell as he breathed in deeply. His arms were stretched out either side of him with his fingers slightly curled up. He was a picture…a perfect picture of youth and of calm and it slightly shocked me. For all the years that I have known him I have never ever seen him look so completely at ease with himself and the world. I have never seen him look so innocent and young as he did right at this moment.

I moved so I was within his peripheral vision and I knew that even if he hadn't already sensed that I was there watching him he most definitely knew it now. I watched as his whole demeanour tensed and then a split second later he relaxed again. He had accepted my presence in what was obviously deemed as his private time and for that I was grateful but he didn't look at me or formally acknowledge me. I figured he would when he was good and ready. I sat down at his side. Close enough so if someone was watching they would say we were sitting together but far enough away to keep his space.

So that is how I managed to watch him watch the sky. For several moments I just gazed at him before I too lay back on the grass and watched the blue sky and subsequently the puffy looking brilliant white clouds that floated on past my view.

I lay there and watched and listened until the silence got too much for me and I asked the question that had been, I'd say burning a hole in my pocket only that doesn't really match…

"How did you know?"

He didn't say anything at first but I knew that he had heard me and if I was patient then maybe he would answer me.

"I just do," he said quietly after a moment.

I contemplated this before I asked again, "But how did you know. That you were in love that is. Was it sudden, like 'Oh! I'm in love!' or was it a slow thing?"

"Tyson…" he said warningly.

"Please Kai. I just want to know."

He sighed in reluctance. "I guess I have always felt something. I mean they were the only one that could get to me so completely. They got in behind my defences and just wouldn't leave me alone. I accepted their presence in my life but I wasn't comfortable showing how much I in fact grew to like it. I still can't."

"I see."

"This person….they make me feel things that I didn't think were possible. They always manage to make me smile and more often than not they succeed in annoying the hell out of me. But they are always there for me and although I have never said thank you and I have never expressed my gratitude they still stick by me."

"I see."

"I know that they will never turn away from me. They have had so many chances already and still they are right here with me."

"I see."

"I don't really know what it is or how I can to know it but its just deep with in me. I love him. I love him with everything I am and it's so strange because until recently I never acknowledged it but this feeling it's been there for so long now."

"I see….What!"

I turned to him sharply hoisting myself up on my elbows so I could look down at his face. He couldn't have just said what I thought he said, could he have? I blinked… no…I must have just completely hallucinated…can you audio hallucinate…if that even possible….?

I was in the middle of my inner argument when I heard him sigh.

"No, you heard right."

"Oh….oh….oh!"

Way to go Tyson, now he must think you are a total moron…real smooth there.

"I – uh – I…um…I better go."

I stood up and walked back to the house as fast as my legs could carry me without actually appearing like I was running away.

All the while I brain was turning what Kai had told me over and over and over and I can't deny the fact that he was in love with a man completely shocking I was also kinda elated because that meant I really wasn't that weird after all and all these thoughts that I had been having about Kai didn't mean I was a total freak. But the down side of knowing that he was in love and seemed to have been in love for quite some time with another man is the fact that he was already in love.

How could I possibly compete with that?

And strangely enough I felt betrayed. I thought I was the only one that could irritate Kai. I thought I was the one that broke down his walls and got to him. I felt cheated that he attributed that to someone else; this someone else that he was in love with.

But still…I had made myself a promise. I would find out who it was and I would help him, as I now know it is a him, realise how truly great Kai was and thus make Kai smile and thus achieve my goal of making him happy.

xXx

I watched him run away, well more accurately walk away with great pace, and I sighed again. I can't really blame him for his reaction. I just in no uncertain terms that I am gay and he freaked out. I really am an idiot.

I thought he was understanding all that I said. All the times he said 'I see', here I was thinking that he was reading between the lines and seeing what I was really telling him but no that was just his way of telling me that he had accepted that information and I could know move on with the next bit of my story.

'You fool Tyson. You don't see at all.'

I turned back to watching the clouds. They had such uncomplicated lives.

xXx

AN: Oh My Gosh! Another update so soon after I posted the last one. Please don't die of shock! Heh… I was going to work on WYWNK but I sat down at the computer yesterday morning and this just came to me and then I had work so I had to stop…and then I picked it up again tonight and I kind of forgot what I going to say and so I ended up saying something new and I hope its ok…

I am really sorry it's rather short but this is all I wanted to say in this chapter. I know I made Tyson really oblivious but it just wouldn't work if I had made him astute…

Hope you all like the update…there isn't many more to go I don't think….haven't written them yet so we will find out together! eh heh heh

Anyways I had better go and get some sleep so I am awake at work tomorrow cause that kind of helps some!

Be safe

-BG