Ayamari: Notes:

1) I do not own Beyblade

Chapter Two: Answers?

The Bladebreakers walked into the dojo and were quickly greeted by Tyson Grandfather. His normal Hawaiian attire was replaced with his traditional kendo gear as he walked in the side door. He smiled happily and said, "Yo, little dudes. What's up?"

"We wanted to see if Tyson was feeling better yet?" Kenny asked staring at the old man. Mr. Kinomiya slowly walked across the room, a thoughtful expression on his face as he approached the young group. He suddenly grinned and sat on the floor.

"The little dude's still sleeping. Sorry little dudes, he can't chill with you today. Why don't cha come back tomorrow and see if he's feelin' better then," He said with more laughter. Kai sighed softly then led his teammates outside and started to walk towards home with an unhappy scowl.

Kenny laughed slightly as the group stopped at the corner. He turned to his friends and said, "See, Hilary was just making it up! Tyson's fine, well, not entirely fine, but he will be soon. Meet here tomorrow morning?"

"Yeah," Kai said wearily as he turned towards home. Kenny crossed the street and started off, his ever faithful laptop at his side. Max turned to Rei and gently kissed him before he crossed the street and walked towards home. Rei sighed softly and looked towards his hotel feeling slightly disappointed. Slowly he walked towards the hotel, glancing back at the direction Max walked in every once in a while.

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Hilary walked towards her school angrily going over the events of the day. She was positive the boy she'd seen was Tyson. She stopped at her school and glared at he vacant grounds as she thought, 'It had to be Tyson, Who else dresses like him? No one, that's who!'

"All right I lied about HALF the class seeing it, but still, I know what I saw!" Hilary yelled angrily. Hilary glared angrily at the lot for another few minutes before she started walking away. Hilary grumbled various swear words under her breathe as she walked and frowned when she kicked some unknown object. Hilary knelt next to a small blue bag mostly hidden in the bushes and roughly pulled it out. Hilary glared at the small blue book bag and dug in the open section for some hint as to the owner. A soft gasp escaped her lips as she pulled out a sheet of scratch paper with a name neatly written across the top. She pushed the paperback in the bag, closed the bag, and raced back towards the Bladebreaker's frequent training location.

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Kai stared at his beyblade as he paced in circles around a small beystadium. His mind kept drifting back to his encounter with Hilary earlier. Angrily he thought, 'Stupid Hilary. How dare she scare everyone like that with some stupid Story! Stupid Tyson getting sick two days before a tournament, now I'll have to battle! Stupid.'

Kai stopped pacing and launched his beyblade into the dish. He scowled as he watched his blade circle the dish a few times before it shot out of the dish at him. Kai ran his fingers over the scratch on his cheek as he growled to himself, 'Why? What the hell is wrong with me? Why can't I stop worrying about Tyson? I have talk to him, see him. Maybe then I can concentrate. Yeah, I'll just check on Tyson in person then practice.' Kai reasoned as he picked up his beyblade and walked quickly towards Tyson's place once more.

'Kai, are you worried about the tournament or Tyson?' Dranzer asked softly. Kai growled in response and walked faster. Dranzer ominously added, 'Perhaps you had better start to worry Kai, You may be their leader, but Tyson holds the team together, even you. His strength of Heart is something you need, all of you need more than you realize and even I can feel his strength waning.'

"Dranzer, what do you mean?" Kai asked as he paused for a moment. Dranzer didn't respond and Kai raced towards Tyson's house.

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Rei growled softly as he paced across his hotel room, his eyes focused on the window. His growl died down when his beyblade glowed dimly and his bitbeast said, 'Worried?'

"About?" Rei asked as he sat next to the window. Rei scowled as he heard his bitbeast laugh within his mind.

'Tyson, Max, Kai… any of your teammates?' Driger purred in Rei's mind. Rei's scowl deepened.

"Should I be?" Rei growled as he turned his attention to his glowing beyblade. Rei watched as Driger appeared next to the blade and sat back and watched him. "Driger? What's up?"

'Something… I can't reach the other bitbeasts. Dragoon, Draciel, Dranzer… I should be able to contact them, but something's wrong.' Driger said, worry coating every word as it rang through Rei's head. Rei stood and shook his head in an attempt to clear the worry. 'Rei, something is missing, gone to a place even bitbeasts can't go… I fear that whatever it is was the most important part of our group. We must do something, now!'

"Right, let's go. We'll start with Tyson," Rei said as Driger faded back into his bit piece. Rei grabbed his beyblade and raced from the hotel room, fear coursing through his veins like ice.

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"Hey Draciel, something's wrong, I can feel it," Max whispered as he sat on a park bench. The nagging worry had been clinging to him since breakfast, and steadily getting worse. "Draciel, what….what if Hilary was right?"

'Perhaps we should go see Rei and Driger, maybe they can help settle your unease,' Draciel said as Max stood and walked from the park. 'Max, will you always trust me, even if I should lose my sense of self?'

"Always Draciel, always," Max promised as he stopped outside the park entrance and looked around. He stopped and stared at the corner heading towards Tyson's as a small tail of hair whipped around the corner. Max's heart pounded in his chest as he thought, Rei…going to Tyson's? What's happened?

'Max, don't forget me, I'll find a way to protect you, forever and beyond always,' Draciel said as Max took off running to Tyson's house after the sprinting Rei.

"I Swear I won't forget you, not ever!" Max said as he watched Rei race into the Kinomiya Dojo. Max stopped outside the entrance and smile at Kenny who was staring after Rei. "Hey Kenny, came to see Tyson?"

"I forgot to give him his homework," Kenny whispered in shock. "Rei was in a hurry… why?"

"Don't know, hey Kai," Max said as Kai walked past him and into the dojo. Kai looked a little ruffled, but otherwise his composure was the same as always so Kenny and Max shrugged at their captain and followed him into the dojo. A police car pulled to a stop outside the Kinomiya Dojo and a young officer stepped from the car.

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Hilary wandered into the Bladebreakers training grounds with a victorious smirk. She looked around, expecting the remaining boys to be there and screamed when she found no one. "Great! I have something important to show them and they're not here! Typical boys, never where they are supposed to be! Damn Them!"

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Kai, Rei, Max, and Kenny sat in a small circle as Mr. Kinomiya told them paced the floor and talked. His voice and face showing how old the man truly was, "After you left I went upstairs to check on T-man, and he was there. I called the police, but they said he had to be missing for over twenty-four hours. They sent over one officer to search the neighborhood, but that's all they'll do unless a ransom note shows before the twenty-four hour mark hits. But something's happened to him, I can feel it in my bones."

"Hilary was right," Max whispered in horror.

"For once," Kenny added with a sour note. Kai and Rei nodded in agreement as Mr. Kinomiya drifted over to the police officer. Max suddenly leaned against Rei and started to cry softly.

'Max, it's okay…Tyson's strong, and he has Dragoon to protect him.' Draciel whispered to her friend. Max nodded against Rei's chest but stayed where he was. Kai looked away and watched the phone, praying it would ring and Tyson would say it was another childish joke.

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Hilary sat on her bed staring at the blue bag lying innocently on her bedroom floor. Sighing deeply, Hilary slowly lowered herself to the ground and dragged the bag to her side. She dumped the contents on the floor and slowly sorted through them putting items in small piles; past homework, school books, pencils, pens, spare beyblade parts, and miscellaneous junk. She turned her attention to the books and smiled as she thought, 'So he does study.'

Turning her attention from the books Hilary picked up the stack of past homework assignments with good marks. Every paper had one name scrawled across the top of the neatly done homework. Hilary sighed softly and ran her fingers gently over the name before she gently kissed the paper. 'I love him and if I ever see him again I'm going to tell him.' Hilary thought as she kissed the neatly written name, 'Tyson Kinomiya.'