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I'm happy I've caught up with all my main projects for the next few months so that means that all my time is going to be used to write these projects. So yah, for you.

I'm sorry to inform you that I will be in Cambridge, Ohio. It's a farming area. That means no computers, no cell service, no nothing. It's only for the week of spring break so I'm sorry if you have to wait. I'll try to put up a few chapters before I leave so I won't leave you hanging. I have my palm pilot so I'm be able to write and read quite a bit of fan fics still so yah for me and palmy. So sorry if that is your plan for that weekend. It's the weekend of 4/15/06- 4/23/06.On with the story!

Disclaimer: I don't own beyblade. (This is for the stupid people who think that you have to own something to write about it. I don't own my friends and I write about them!)

Chapter 10: Feelings and Old Friends

Emily's Viewpoint

Kai and I walked out of the back gate onto the pavilion and sat inside of it. "You see very happy to be back with me."

"I'm very happy to see you. You have been in the hospital for a very long time and I missed you." Kai pouted and smirked in his evil yet playful manner.

"You are very good at being seductive, Kai. I can be too though." I softened my voice and he just smirked back.

"Good, because you'll need to be when you're with me." I smirked back and I stood up. I pushed him off his seat onto the lawn. I climbed on top of him and just sat there like we had done so many times. Someone came out and Kai climbed behind a bush and pulled me after him.

"You guys should be more careful where you play around. I mean I just came to visit Emily who I thought to be in the hospital and I find this. Funny huh. Kai you should know better than to take advantage of people in the hospital." I knew someone who treated Kai like that. It was none other than Ray.

Kai and I came out from behind the bush. Kai just sighed and leaved against the pole of the pavilion. "Emily looks better than fine to me, Ray." Mariah's shinning face came out from behind Ray.

"Yah, I've been out of the hospital and back to full strength for more than a month now. It's been closed to anyone especially Kai, I don't know why but they decided to. How are you two, haven't seen you since the wedding." Emily said brushing herself off from the grass that she had landed and dragged across.

"Kai's not the same Kai that he was when he left, that's for sure." Ray said taking a look at Mariah. Mariah nodded smiling at Emily.

"Neither am I. This wouldn't be the first time either of us played around with someone who was in a hospital or nearly just came out." Ray walked over to Kai.

"Kai's not usually a girl's man. He's more of a girl magnet and he's repelled to them." Kai laughed.

"Emily's different, she's more up to my standards and she's a never ending challenge. She lives to prove that she's better than me." I nod in agreement.

"It sounds like another beyblader named Kai I know. I'm sure you know him. He looks like you, acts like you and beyblades like you." Mariah laughed as well as Ray and Emily.

"Let's go in, it's kind of cold out here. Don't you agree? I'm going to make something to eat." Everyone came in and sat down to eat the food that I prepared.

"Emily, I didn't know you cook. This meal is wonderful and is wonderfully prepared. Who taught you?" I hadn't been taught but I learned on my own following directions.

"I've never been taught how to cook I just found cooking to be like science very exact and following directions and sometimes you have to make your own discoveries." Kai sat their politely eating and just nodding when ever he agreed. "So how have you two been doing?"

"I've been fine Emily, you're the one who was in the hospital. No one told me what it was for though. I was wondering now that I just remembered that." Mariah looked at me, I was wondering if I should tell her everything or just a little bit. I'll go with a little bit.

"I was in for led poisoning treatment, nothing very bad. It just effected me very badly. It wasn't enough to kill someone." Kai laughed. Ray and Mariah looked at him.

"You make it seem like some little dog bite. According to the doctor you had a very low chance of not needing a heart transplant as well as lung and other things. You're lucky, you are in fine shape now but it could have been potentially dangerous." Kai said sitting.

"Thanks for making it feel like getting out of the hospital is just a game that I just happened to win and keep my life. You have to be so gloomy don't you." Kai shook his head.

"No, I don't. I just have to put things in perspective for someone who thought it was so easy for her and nothing was going wrong." I agreed, I made it seem like it was easy. If it was easy then why did it take me 2 months to wake up from the treatment?

Ray and Kai went of to Kai's room to catch up then they'd go see Max while I talked with Miriam and Mariah. We went to my room and it was good because it was sound proof.

Mariah couldn't wait to ask questions and surprisingly Miriam knew the answers to these questions. "So what's up with you and Kai? And don't deny it, Ray and I saw you."

I started blushing. "Well Kai and I were partnered up by Mr. Dickinson. We are going to the same school and well with a few problems. It came to Kai constantly saving me. Sometime during all the times he saved me he started liking me. We would tackle each other onto the couch and stuff like that. It was just playful and later…

Mariah started laughing. "I'm sorry it's just so funny. Kai doesn't usually pay attention to anyone especially, not girls. He lives in his own world and only comes out of it to beyblade. Did you see Emily and Kai in the courtyard?"

"No, what did they do?" I blushed and hid my face.

"Well Kai was being Kai except freakier. He smirked and closed in on Emily. Emily complimented Kai on being all tricky. He smirked again and Emily tackled Kai to the ground and then we interrupted and they hid in a bush." Mariah and Miriam were laughing. I was so embarrassing why had Mariah have to be there.

Miriam opened her mouth to speak "That's so sweet. You should be careful and watch out for yourself though Emily." I hadn't thought about. Kai was really strong and he could easily smash me or crush me. But I think she was talking about something beyond that. I think she meant like him getting me pregnant. I was scared and I was shaking and then I fell to the floor.

Kai and Ray's Conversation (Earlier) Kai's Viewpoint

Emily and the girls went to talk while Ray and I catch up. "So, what's with you and Emily? When did this happen?" Ray had to get into my business didn't he?

"Well Emily kept challenging my power and helping me and sometime then I fell in love with her. She is so weak if you look at her but with her skills and talents she's so strong. She was having problems defending herself so I stepped in and helped her and then well is now." Ray smiled.

Ray's thoughts: Kai was really in love and it's great. He can finally settle down like everyone else. Well except for Tyson and Hilary but they have each other and are happy so all is good.

Kai's Viewpoint "So when did you first kiss her?" Hm. It was back at the house then. Yah.

"It was when we came here for winter break. She was giving me a new beyblade that was very powerful and I asked her which would we should be more afraid of an evil blader having it or me. She surprisingly said me and then well we kissed and yah." I really didn't want to talk about this but he does so new topic please.

"So are any of the things that happened to Emily your fault. Emily told us that you liked to play around with people in the hospital so are they?" I laughed.

"No, Emily was already very badly hurt before I played around with her easy temperament. She's so easy to annoy and she's a challenger to defeat. I have not yet ever defeated her except with Black Dranzer but no one except the whole Bladebreakers team could beat Black Dranzer." Ray nodded. Emily was a worthy opponent for me to face.

"Yah, she's a powerhouse of power isn't she? I'm surprised she hasn't beaten you a few times by now. When she worked with you she memorized your strategy couldn't she counter that to win." Ray said.

I laughed. "Emily and I are too evenly matched. We both memorized and countered the other's strategy. We know each others from all the practices."

Ray and I talked for awhile and we met up in the cafeteria with the others. "Hey where's Emily?" Mariah and Miriam looked at each other like the didn't know where she had gone. "Where is she?"

"Um, in her room sleeping. She fell asleep while we were talking. She just nodded off on to her bed. She's sound asleep but don't wake her up. Check on her later." Max and Ray looked at their wives and the looked upset. Miriam's excuse didn't convince anyone.

"Where is she Miriam?" Miriam couldn't look Max straight in the face. She just walked away. We turned to Mariah.

"She seriously is in her room, go check. She just fell asleep while we were talking." I got up from the table and Ray and Max followed.

I quietly walked into her room. I asked Max and Ray to wait outside. I more or less told them to by pointing to the wall but I could have yelled at them but I didn't. Emily was asleep like they had said. She was waking up and I started to leave. She saw me and freaked out. "Kai, what are you doing in here." She hid under her covers. Something was bothering her usually she'd yell at me to get out and be playful. Something they talked about upset her for sure.

Emily's Viewpoint

"Sorry." Kai mumbled. "You didn't show up and we wondered why you'd fall asleep while talking to Miriam and Mariah." Why did I go to sleep while talking to them, why did I act so odd when Kai was in here? Why do I feel so embarrassed around Kai? I'm in jeans and my hoodie and that's more covering me than normal. Usually I'm wearing my skirt and then I'm embarrassed but why now.

I walked over to Mariah and Miriam after dinner. We were alone and everyone was asleep. "What were we talking about when I feel asleep?" They looked at each other with a look that seemed they were trying to find a way to put it nicely. "Just say it."

"In my exact words Emily I said 'That's so sweet. You should be careful and watch out for yourself though Emily'. Then you were thinking and feel asleep while you were thinking." That was it. It gave me a fear of something, someone I had never been afraid of. It scared me to think about it.

"Why am I scared now, what made me scared of Kai now?" I knew the answer to my own question but I didn't have the answers I wanted. Miriam said it as gentle as she could to put be into it gently.

"He doesn't exactly scare you, you're scared for yourself. You're not ready to be a mother now and neither are we. We're married and we're not ready. You're scared because protecting yourself was Kai's job and now you've realized that you are going to have yourself on this level…and…" Miriam couldn't think of whatever she was saying.

"He's protected you but you just now realized that he could be a threat. You will agree to any challenge but you don't really think about the dangers and on this level of what could happen it's very dangerous. Kai is forceful, I don't think you have anything to worry about but just keep that in the back of your mind." Mariah was right. I guess anyone could become a threat. I just didn't see Kai as a threat.

"I guess your right but I now feel so powerless and weak. I've never felt like this before except when Kai took my bit-beast. Tri-gator was the one protecting me but then he could always turn on me and when I saw that happen on TV it would scare me like this. No one to protect me and if someone protects me, they could always turn on me. I guess that's why I preferred to protect myself." Everyone nodded.

I ran back to my room and locked myself in the back rooms of the secret room. I could use it to study, practice or just be alone and now I needed it so I could be alone. Would Kai do that to me? Would I allow that to happen to me? What kind of person would do that to someone else?

I heard someone coming into the doorway. I took out Tri-gator and launched it at whoever was there. "Emily, what do you think you're doing in there? I mean this is only for practice not to be alone." It was Judy, I don't think attacking your director was the proper thing to do when you're upset either.

"I guess it is but I needed to be away from everyone and everything sometimes and this is the perfect place." Judy smiled.

"So what's up? What's wrong?" I needed to get back into the grove of protecting myself. Kai couldn't do it for me forever, he could but I don't think he or I want him to.

"Nothing that concerns the director of our team, Judy. I just needed to be alone and think that's all. I find it much easier to think in quiet by myself." It still sounded weak as if I was scared of her yelling at me for putting my defenses up.

"Okay Emily, whatever you say. We are going to be running some test runs of everyone's blades including yours so you'll need to get down there." I nodded. It was just a test on my beyblade but everyone included Kai and I was being a weak defense and I'm the bordering country of Kaistan so I better become a stronger defense or he'll knock 'The Wall of Emily' down.

Judy turned around. "I can tell him and the others that you're not feeling good if you wish to stay alone up here." Did I really want to be alone? Or did I just want to know how not to be weak? Other than Kai who did I know who was a strong force field of power? Dani was so I'd ask her.

"Yah, thanks. I don't think I can face them and especially him in the condition I am now." Judy nodded. She looked at me in a weird way.

"I have to tell you Emily, you're fine. You just changed and you don't want to but you really should give this new way at looking at life a chance. Try." I sighed and nodded.

"I try but I don't make any promises that I will like the new me and my new life." Judy laughed and shook her finger.

"You've enjoyed the 'new you' for about a half a year now. You just realized the new dangers that come along with it. Every part of life has new dangers these are just less obvious and scarier if they happen." She was right.

"Thanks, I'll keep that in mind next time. I guess I'll try harder to except it and move on. I'll be down in a few minutes." Judy left leaving me to think about being the old me or the new me. Why did I have to choose? Couldn't I just be tough and protect myself in extreme dangers and let Kai protect me most of the time? Yes, that's what I'd do. I would now call Dani to find out how to be tough again.

She didn't answer her phone so I left a message on her cell. "Hey Dani; it's Emily. I wanted you to help me be strong and self dependant like before I moved away and got hurt. I need to return to being like that. Call me back, thanks."

I walked down the stairs and I realized that the new me had something that the old me didn't; Kai. It was something that I was missing from my old life. He made my life secure and happy. He made me happy, something I hadn't been before and neither had he. We needed each other.

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