Light: This is strange.Ami's actuallyserious--?
Ami: I know it's weird. I have an idea. How about we invite Tyson and Kai to join our conversation so that it isn't dull and boring?
Light: That's a good idea. Go find them.
Ami: Alright I'll beright back. (runs off and quickly comes back) I couldn't find them.
Tyson: That's because I'm right here. That cook off was so much fun!
Kai: Tyson don't tell them what it's about. You idiot.
Tyson: I never said I was going to Sourpuss. Anyways why are we even here?
Kai: You dragged me here so how would I know?
Tyson: Oh yeah...right. Well how about we battle then? What do you say Kai or are you chicken?
Kai: Whatever.
Tyson: Kai! Are you even listening to me?
Ami: Okay... this is getting nowhere. Light let's just do the disclaimer.
Light: Ok sure... But after I want to see Tyson and Kai battle. Of course I'm cheering for Kai! You can cheer for Tyson.
Ami: Of course I will Tyson is awesome! Anyways to remind all of our faithful readers as well as those who happen to stumble upon this fic, Light and I own nothing of Beyblade except for everything Light has bought in stores and the stories we have created together or alone. Also please review because reviews are just awesome to read! Anything else we got to say, Light?
Light: Yup. On with the battle ...uh I mean story. Also Ami, Kai is way better than Tyson.
Ami: Whatever. Go Tyson! Well everyone enjoy this chapter while Light and me enjoy Tyson and Kai's battle. See you all in the next chapter!
Light: Kai is better.
"Hey everyone! Welcome back to another of Tyson and Rei's Behind the Scenes of Beyblade. Although Tyson usually greets everyone, he's very grouchy today." Rei smiled into the camera before pulling away and focusing on a grumpy Tyson.
"I am not," Tyson replied, irritableness evident in his voice.
"Ever since Hillary tricked you in to that dating show…" Rei began before he was quickly interrupted by Tyson.
"I can't believe she did that. And I can't believe that Max ended up getting the girl." Tyson pouted.
Rei laughed before responding, "I'm surprised. You didn't even want to be on that show in the first place."
"Yeah but she didn't even give me a chance."
"Are you sick?" A look of worry crossed Rei's face.
"Why would you say that?" Tyson's bad attitude lessened.
"You're weirding me out. Anyways Tyson, I thought of a way to cheer you up. We haven't read fan mail in a while so I brought a whole bag of letters with me." Rei smiled as he held the camera in his right hand and a bag of letters in his left.
"Fan letters?" Tyson signed. "We never seem to have any good luck when we answer them."
"Tyson, are you really going to deprive your fans of their letters? No wonder Kai got so many bags the last time." Rei stated, trying to get Tyson mad enough to read them.
Tyson just answered angrily, "Stupid Kai."
Rei continued. "Finally you have your own bags of letters and you don't even want to read them."
Tyson smiled excitedly. "I got bags of letters, really?"
"Yeah, actually I brought a whole bag of your letters with me. Here," Rei said as he handed Tyson a letter. "At least open one of them."
"Yeah, you're right, Rei. I would never deprive my fans of their deepest wishes."
Tyson opened the letter and began reading it silently. Rei watched as Tyson seemed to make no attempt to read the letter out loud, so he grabbed the letter and read it out loud himself.
"Ineedyou writes, "Kai, you're always on my mind…" Rei stopped reading abruptly and glanced at Tyson, smiling nervously. "Oops. How did one of Kai's letters get in here? Sorry Tyson. Try this one."
Tyson folded his arms against his chest before answering, irritably, "If it's for Kai, I give up. Do the show on your own Rei."
"Tyson, don't be depressed. Here I'll read the next letter." Rei opened another letter. "Pureofheart writes Tyson, I've always wanted to see the Bladebreakers compete in a contest such as a cook-off. I know it sounds weird but I would just love you for it. Thanks."
A wicked smile formed on Tyson's lips. "This is the best letter we've ever had. A cook-off sounds like fun."
"Uh…Tyson, do you even know how to cook?"
Tyson only chuckled before saying, "Of course I do. Now we just need to gather up the players. Are you in Rei?"
"Sure."
Tyson began singing to himself out loud. "Food, food, food…"
Tyson and Rei looked around for the rest of their team. Rei spotted Kenny and Max talking. Along with Tyson, he walked over to them.
Tyson yelled excitedly, "Max! Kenny!"
"What's up, Tyson?" Max asked.
"Why are you in such a good mood?" Kenny questioned.
"We're all gonna compete in a cook-off!"
"Actually a fan sent a request in for a cooking contest between the Bladebreakers, so are you guys in?" Rei explained.
"Definitely," Max answered.
"Sure, sounds like fun," Kenny added.
Tyson's smile widened. "Great! Now we just gonna find…" Tyson paused as he saw Kai walk by. "Ah ha! Kai!" Tyson ran after Kai and caught up to him. "Are you ready, Kai because not even you can't back out of this cooking contest?"
"What're you talking about?"
"Hey Kai, a fan sent in a letter asking for a cook-off competition between the Bladebreakers. So are you in?" Rei explained.
"Come on Kai. Its food we're talking about here."
Kai smirked and replied, "Whatever."
"Yeah!" Tyson yelled, taking Kai's response as a yes.
"Uh…Tyson, we have just one problem. We're one player short. I was thinking maybe it should be a tag-team cook-off. Draw paper to choose the partners, but we're not even," Rei stated, as he began to ponder what they should do.
"Where are we gonna get one more player?" Tyson wondered.
Rei thought for a moment before finally answering, "How about Daichi? He's not exactly a Bladebreaker, but he's been with the team for a while."
"Daichi? He's too short and he'll just end up eating all the food."
Tyson continued to bad mouth Daichi when Rei noticed Daichi coming up from behind Tyson. Rei indicated to Tyson that he should shut up but Tyson only ignored him and continued.
"Oh yeah! At least I know how to cook." Daichi replied, surprising Tyson.
"Where did you come from?" Tyson asked surprised by the red-haired boy's sudden appearance.
"Well any normal intelligent person would have seen me coming. I guess you really are stupid." Daichi answered, stressing the word intelligent.
"Why you…!" Tyson yelled as he began chasing after Daichi.
Rei called after them. "Hey you guys!"
A couple of minutes later, Rei got Tyson and Daichi to settle down and started to explain the cook-off to Daichi.
"So do you want to be in the contest, Daichi?" Rei asked.
"Sure. As long as I'm not paired up with Tyson, I'll be able to win this easy. Stupid here, can't even boil water."
"Hey! I can too, you little-!"
Tyson began chasing after Daichi again. Finally all the players were gathered together, and three of the six players, Max, Tyson and Rei, each pulled out a piece of folded paper that Rei had placed in Tyson's hat with the remaining team members' names.
Max grinned after unfolding his paper. "Hey Kenny, you're on my team."
"I'm teamed up with you Kai," Rei stated next.
"No! How did this happen! I'm partners with Daichi." Tyson yelled with apparent unhappiness.
Daichi answered sarcastically, "Oh great."
"Umm… guys. Don't we have a problem?" Max asked. "We still need judges, ingredients, and a place where all of us can cook."
"Oh no! Max is right. I never thought that far ahead." Tyson yelled worriedly.
"Don't worry Tyson," Rei added. "My family owns a restaurant here in Japan. I'm sure it'll be okay to use it for the cook-off." Rei pulled out a cell phone and dialed his parents' restaurant. "Oh, you guys should go find judges for the cook-off while I make plans for the contest." Rei said as he covered the mouth piece and then quickly returned to the phone after someone had obviously answered on the other line.
"Sure." Tyson smiled as everyone left Rei on the phone and began to look for judges.
A couple of minutes later, the group rejoined Rei, a few new people in tow- Tyson's Grandpa, Oliver, Enrique, and Tala.
"Great. You guys did a good job- huh? Wait, why is Tala here?" Rei asked eyeing the red-head.
"He wanted to come." Kai answered.
"Yeah, you have a problem with me, Cat boy?" Tala snickered.
"No, not really," Rei faked a grin. Looking at everyone else, he continued. "Okay… well let's get going. I called Mr. Dickenson and he got a bus to take us to my parents' restaurant. It should be waiting for us."
"This is gonna be great!" Tyson yelled as he rushed past everyone and headed towards the exit. As Rei had said, a bus was outside waiting for them. But not any bus, it was the official BladeBreakers' bus. They all went inside, Tyson still leading the way. Tyson sat next to Max while Tala took a seat across from them. Rei sat across from Kai while Tyson's Grandpa sat next to Kai. Both Tyson and Max were loud on the way to the restaurant and everyone seemed thankful when the bus finally stopped at their destination.
"Yes, we are finally here!" Tyson yelled as he jumped out of the parked bus. Everyone else followed out from behind him. "I'm so excited. I can't wait to start." Tyson smiled as he raced towards the restaurant.
"Tyson! Slow down!" Rei called after him. Tyson turned his head in Rei's direction and grinned.
"Aww come on Rei. It's not like I'm going to hurt..." Tyson trailed as he slammed into the front door. The rest of the group sweat dropped before they rushed over to him.
"Are you okay, Tyson?" Max asked as he bent over to check.
Lifting his head, Tyson moaned, "Oww. That really hurt."
Rei reached down and helped pull Tyson to his feet. "I warned you."
Tyson only smiled. "Come on Rei. Let's just get inside. I'm hungry."
"Thinking with his stomach as usual," Kenny signed as everyone laughed.
As the group entered the restaurant, they were greeted by a man that looked similar to Rei, but was taller, had a shorter haircut with a spike to it, and was wearing baggy pants and outfit similar to Rei's except with a long sleeve shirt. A warm smile graced his lips as he said, "Welcome. How has everyone been? Rei told me you all are having a cooking competition."
"Yeah and it's going to be great, Rei's dad. I can't wait to start!" yelled an excited Tyson.
"That's the spirit. Just follow me and I'll lead you all to the kitchen. We only have two stoves and ovens but I know you guys can all share."
"Wow, this is awesome!' Daichi said in awe of the cleanliness and neatness of the kitchen.
"Duh." Tyson scoffed.
"Do you want to start something?" Daichi yelled.
"Yeah shorty. Whatcha gonna do about it?" Tyson argued back, challenging his partner.
"Tyson, Daichi stop arguing. We have a cook-off to start." Rei signed, sensing their tension mounting.
"Fine," Tyson gave in, folding his arms the way Kai always did.
"Yeah, fighting Tyson is a waste of time anyways." Daichi nodded.
Tyson was about to say something when Kai smacked him in the arm.
"Oww. Hey! Why did you hit me?" Tyson yelled as he turned to look at Kai.
Kai smirked and answered, "Felt like it." Tyson was not happy about this at all.
"Boys," Rei's father cut in. "Please stop arguing. If you want to fight, defeat your opponents through the cook-off."
They all looked at each other.
"You're right, Mr. Kon. I'll beat everyone at cooking even if I have to be teamed up with Daichi," Tyson beamed with his fist raised in the air.
"Good." Mr. Kon smiled a spitting image of what Rei would grow up to become. He began to explain the kitchen. Meanwhile Tyson was whispering to Max.
"Mr. Kon looks so much like Rei. I bet Rei'll look like him when he's older."
"Jealous that he'll look like one hot Kitty?" Max teased.
"Of course not!" Tyson protested before mumbling and stealing a glance at Kai. "But I bet Kai will look even hotter than Rei." Oh my- what am I saying, Tyson thought as he smacked himself lightly on the head.
Kai and Tala, who had both been watching Max and Tyson, smirked at the two idiots, while Mr. Kon finished explaining the kitchen.
"Any questions?" Mr. Kon asked as he looked at the teens.
"Umm... what were you talking about?" Tyson asked since he hadn't been paying attention at all.
"The kitchen and where everything was. Weren't you listening? Okay I'll explain it again." Mr. Kon replayed a similar over cap of the kitchen again. This time making sure that Tyson had understood it all. "Well now that that's finished, I decided a little meal plan for the contest. Each meal must have Cod, rice, vegetables, and a dessert. You can add flavors or whatever you want to make your dish better than the others. Other than that, you all have one hour, usually the amount of time a cooking contest is, to finish creating your meal. So how's that sound?"
The Bladebreakers and Daichi liked the idea and nodded or in Tyson's case yelled excitedly in agreement.
"Everyone choose a place to work. You know where all the ingredients are so pick a place so we can start the contest." Mr. Kon said as the Bladebreakers and Daichi split into their teams of two and picked a counter to work on. Rei handed his father the camera before joining up with Kai.
"Okay. Let the cook-off begin!" Mr. Kon yelled as the three teams set off to get their ingredients and began cooking their meal. Mr. Kon meanwhile told the judges that had been brought to go relax and sit at a table while the food was cooking.
It had only been minutes before the first mishap occurred.
"Daichi, what're you doing!" Tyson yelled as a knife just barely nicked his head, a few pieces of blue hair fell to the ground.
"I'm cutting the vegetables."
"Like a lunatic! Give me that knife! Go work on the fish!" Tyson yelled as he grabbed the knife out of Daichi's hand and began cutting the vegetables himself.
"Fine," Daichi resigned and went over to the fish. Grabbing a pan, Daichi began adding oil and then one of the two fishes to it. Tyson turned around and saw what Daichi was doing. He dropped the knife on the cutting board and went over to him.
"Idiot, what are you doing!"
"I'm cooking the fish like you said," Daichi said as he placed one fish into the pan.
"No no. I meant cook it in the oven. The oven. We don't have time to cook it in a pan."
"It's faster to cook on the stove than it is in the oven. But fine, sheesh, I'll stick it in the oven." Daichi said as he placed the fish into a glass baking dish.
"Good. Now hurry up." Tyson said, before he walked back to the vegetables. Daichi placed both fish into the dish and left it on the counter when he heard Tyson yell for him to start working on the rice. "I'm going, I'm going. What a nag."
Meanwhile Max was put in charge of cooking the fish while Kenny began to fill the vegetable steamer with water as well as boil water on the stove for broccoli and cheese rice. Max got out a basting brush as well as a container of his favorite mustard from his pocket. He spread it all over the fish before placing the dish into the oven. "Mmm this is going to be good."
"Max you done with the fish yet? You should really start cooking the rice." Kenny said as he began placing chopped vegetables into the steamer.
"Okay. I'm coming." Max grinned. "Mustard fish mmm."
In the meantime, Rei and Kai were going strong with no problems so far. Rei was preparing the Cod, adding lemon zest and pepper to it while Kai was cutting the vegetables to be stir fried. Tyson and Daichi were very loud and Kai was getting annoyed with their stupid ness. Sure Tyson could act stupid pretty much all the time but with Daichi there as well, they were even ten times as loud and brainless. Too preoccupied with his thoughts on the annoying twosome and with his duty to cut the vegetables, Kai never noticed Tyson chasing after Daichi. Tyson bumped his elbow into Kai and the knife just nicked his finger, blood slowly started to seep out of the wound. Rei looked at Kai and the blood. Kai just glared at Tyson and Daichi causing them to run back to their spot and licked the blood away from his finger before returning to the carrot he had been cutting.
"Hey Kai, are you okay? Want a Band-Aid?" Rei asked, concerned.
"No, this is nothing compared to the Abbey. It'll stop bleeding in a minute." Kai answered as he continued to cut more vegetables. Rei just sweat dropped.
"Whatever you say buddy," Rei said before sticking their fish into the oven and going over to Kai to take the cut vegetables and start sautéing them in a pan. Kai left to start creating the mushroom flavored rice.
Meanwhile, Kenny was adding the broccoli to Max's and his broccoli and cheese rice.
"Umm Max, how come the rice doesn't look cheesy? You did add cheese to it, right?"
"Umm..." Max looked down and rubbed the back of his head. "More like mustafied it." Max chuckled.
"Musta- you did not add mustard to the broccoli and cheese rice Max!" Kenny wailed.
"It tastes good. You should try it." Max suggested as Kenny eased out of his panic. Lifting a spoon of "mustafied" rice to his lips, Kenny tried a bit.
"I guess it'll have to do. Adding cheese now would just be ridiculous." Kenny signed, finding the rice not as delicious as Max did but with not enough time left to make a new batch. Max started on the dessert as Kenny began creating the plates of food for the judges. "Max don't you dare add mustard to the strawberry jello."
Max just grinned widely, "Now that's just weird, Kenny."
For Daichi and Tyson's team, Daichi was creating the plates for the judges while Tyson began making the chocolate pudding that was to be their dessert. Daichi went and cut the fish. He realized right away that he forgot to stick the fish into the oven and that it remained in the glass dish still. Glancing to make sure Tyson wasn't looking; Daichi quickly added the cold fish to the plates and shrugged. "It probably tastes better cold anyways."
Meanwhile Kai was working on the strawberry shortcakes, which was their desert while Rei was busy filling the judges' plates with food. The cake part of their desert was baking in the oven so Kai began cutting up the strawberries to add to the top. Rei glimpsed Kai's way and saw him slip a strawberry into his mouth.
"Kai, don't eat all the strawberries."
Kai only smirked and answered, "I'll try."
Suddenly several waiters came into the kitchen and took the finished plates from Daichi, Rei, and Kenny. When the desserts were finished, the waiters returned to take them out as well. The three teams stayed in the kitchen and cleaned up, placing their extra food on plates and in bowls for themselves later.
A tall male waiter walked into the kitchen and told them all that the winner had been finally decided. Taking the extra food with them, the three teams saw the judges and placed the food down on a nearby table. Going up to the judges, Max noticed that Tyson wasn't up front leading the way as usual.
"Tyson?" Max asked looking around for him. He caught sight of Tyson's infamous red and blue hat. "There you are. Where did you go?" Max questioned Tyson when Tyson caught up to him.
"No where buddy," Tyson answered, flashing a slightly nervous grin. "Let's just get to the judges." Rei and Kai eyed Tyson from behind suspiciously. The judges sat in a semi-circle at one of the restaurant's table, all facing the three groups. Tala sat on the farthest left followed by Tyson's Grandfather, Oliver and then Enrique on the farthest right side.
"This is it," Max spoke what everyone else inside was feeling.
"Yes it is, Maxie." Tyson smiled watching the judges' faces.
Tyson's grandpa was the first to speak. "Okay little dudes, we tried all of your meals and…"
"Frankly, only one meal was actually rather good and edible." Tala cut in. Everyone stared in Tala's direction.
"He's completely right." Oliver added. "The only meal we could actually finish was Rei and Kai's."
"So Rei and Kai are the winners of the cook-off!" Enrique announced.
All three teams looked at each other, judging each other's response to the outcome.
Tyson smiled as he said, "Well cooking isn't really my thing. Great job Kai and Rei."
"Yeah you guys worked really hard and deserve this win." Max grinned too.
"Man, I'm tired." Kenny moaned as he sat down at the judges' table. Everyone smiled or laughed, the mood becoming carefree and sociable.
"Wow that was so much fun!" Max exclaimed, jumping up and down as if on an invisible pogo stick.
"Yeah, I agree. I hope we get another letter like that again," Rei added, smiling. A light tap on his shoulder and a looming shadow brought Rei to turn around and look up. His father was smiling brightly.
As he handed Rei back his camera, he boasted. "That's my son, a genius chef just like his old man."
"Dad…" Rei blushed slightly from the praise.
"Oh man was that cook-off great! Now the only thing left to say is that I love..." Tyson ran towards Kai, his arms stretched out as if preparing to hug him. Kai's eyes widened as he prepared to step to the side. Tyson ran past him and hugged the table where the rest of their cooked food was placed "... your food Kai and Rei. It's so much better than ours."
The others burst out laughing while Kai couldn't help but smirk, and a previously slightly bothered Tala watched the blunette's actions before smiling as well.
"You had me going there, Tyson. I thought you were going to hug Kai," Max said as he calmed down from laughing.
"Hug Kai?" A slight blush formed on Tyson's cheeks. "Where did that idea come from?" Tyson shrugged the idea away and focused on the table again. "Mmm...food."
Everyone laughed again as Rei remembered something Tyson had said.
"Hey Tyson, how did you even know our food tasted good?" Rei asked.
"I snuck a bite when no one was looking." Tyson confessed.
"Tyson!" Kenny scolded.
"It smelled great. I couldn't help it. It was like it was calling me. But now that the contest's over, we can eat it." Tyson said as he reached over to grab Kai and Rei's rice. Kai smacked his hand away.
"Don't touch our food."
"Oh come on Kai. Don't be so stingy!" Tyson whined.
"Actually I'm surprised he didn't eat it all." Max mused.
"Yeah, its so unlike him," Rei added.
"You guys! I'm standing right here. Stop talking to me like I'm not," Tyson said annoyed before turning back to Kai. "Anyways come on Kai, you can have some of mine."
"I think it might kill me," Kai stated bluntly.
"It will not!" Tyson yelled, insulted.
"You eat it then."
"Fine," Tyson remarked as he grabbed a piece of cut fish and bit into it. His face contorted into a look of disgust. "Yuck, it's cold. Daichi, didn't you heat this up?"
Daichi only smiled and said, "I thought a fish popsicle would be unique."
"Daichi, you idiot!" Tyson yelled.
"See I knew it would kill me," Kai commented sarcastically.
"Shut up Kai!"
"You guys, stop fighting." Max interjected.
Rei turned the camera to face him, bringing the lens back far enough to capture his face. "Well I guess I'm going to be the one to end today's show. I hope the food made your mouth water, PureofHeart. See everyone next time!" Looking back at the table, Rei noticed that everyone was already sitting down to eat. "Hey save me some food! I'm hungry too!"
Then the connection was terminated.