All You Wanted
Ch. 5: I Can't Love You
Hey people! I'm really really sorry about the long wait. I've been extremely busy. We've had a lot of work in the past few months …blah you get the point. I'm pretty sure I'm half dead cause I've been up so late. I've taken 1 exam and I have more coming up in April. So I'm really sorry about how long it took, but hopefully I'll have more time to update cause I'm on break.
"Where the hell is Kai? He should've been here 10 minutes ago." Tyson complained.
"Come on Tyson, give the guy a break." Hilary said, gently patting his shoulder.
"Feh, I knew I should've been captain." Tyson mumbled.
"Hey, we really should get going." Max said.
"Yeah. I'm expecting to see someone." Tyson stood up and headed for the door.
Hilary, Kenny, Max, and Ray all looked at each other.
"Can you tell me why she's captain again?" Kyogue asked, lazily shaking her coke with two fingers gripping the top of the can.
Tala was leaning on the wall on the other side of the locker room as to keep up with Nami's punishment, looking grouchy. Sanya grinned at him and waved. Tala's ears heated up and he stubbornly turned his head, refusing to face her.
"Boris chose her to be captain now will you kindly shut up?" Bryan muttered.
"You did not tell me to shut up." Kyogue said dangerously. Bryan grunted, ignoring her.
"It's like talking to a brick wall." Kyogue muttered.
"Just shut up." Tala grumbled. Kyogue stood up and walked over to Tala and threw the empty coke can at his head. Tala growled angrily.
"Let's go to the stadium now." Sanya said loudly, trying to divert their attention.
"As soon as I kill her…" Tala said.
"As if you could." Kyogue said.
"Just get cleaned up and go." Bryan said annoyed.
"Just wait, woman, just wait." Tala growled.
"Nami?" He wanted to look down at her and tell her. He wanted to, but something had frozen over.
"Don't look at me…please, don't speak, don't do anything…just let me go…If I don't forget, I'll never let go…" She thought, her cheeks were red from embarrassment and the tears flowed unconsciously down them. Shards of her heart had miraculously mended themselves and then it felt as if it was put through a shredder.
His thumb gently brushed over a tear pushing it away. Nami flinched as if his touch burned. He was holding her other arm and she had the mad urge to tell him everything and it was driving her insane. Nami suddenly pushed him back and ran faster than she ever could, tears falling down her cheeks.
"Kai…I'm afraid. I'm afraid that I'll never let go, I'm afraid you'll get hurt, and I'm afraid I can't stop loving you…" Nami wiped her eyes with the back of her hand.
Kai just stared. Officially frozen numb. She was here…so close, and alive. "Don't be afraid…"
"Alright everyone, thank you for registering for the Beyblade Battle Association Tournament 2007. Today, we start a beginning for our top competitors and I hope, a different future for all beyblading events." Mr. Dickenson announced.
Everyone in the crowd cheered and waited.
"Now, I will introduce our teams. Ahem…"
"Are we going to wait for another year or is she coming?" Kyogue asked impatiently.
"Probably wait for a year." Tala mumbled.
"Team 6: Kai, Tyson, Max, Kenny, and Ray." Mr. Dickenson called. The group of boys and Hilary walked up the stage steps and greeted the crowd before stepping back and becoming submerged into the rest of people in the audience.
Tala stared at the stage, eyes wide, mouth open, "What fresh hell is this?"
"Well you kind of had to expect something like this." Bryan said, frowning deeply.
"Yeah, kind of did." The whole group turned to face the amethyst haired 17 year old who stood quietly next to Bryan, staring coldly up at the stage.
"Where were you?" Kyogue asked.
"On the moon." Nami said sarcastically, "I was getting the registration crap done."
"I'm pretty sure a trip to the moon and back would've been faster than how long it took you to get here." Tala commented.
"You shut up. They had more stuff to sign this year, the line was huge, and it was all going slower than a freaking turtle race." Nami snapped.
"Maybe the turtles were handicapped." Sanya suggested. Everyone on the team narrowed their eyes at her in a, "You're not helping." manor. Sanya shrugged.
"Going along with that." Kyogue muttered, "Did you-?"
Kyogue's question went unanswered as they were called up. Lots of people stared as Nami crossed the stage. She simply ignored it all, her face hardening. Mr. Dickenson even looked surprised.
Hilary on the other side felt tears pricking in the corner of her eyes. Nami had become so frail and haunted. Tyson's face had become like ice. Ray, Max, and Kenny were dumbstruck. Kai was standing stiffly, face pale and still in shock from his recent encounter.
"Good to have you back, we've missed you." Mr. Dickenson muttered into the microphone.
"I'm not back for keeps, and sorry to ruin your happiness, but I didn't want to come here." Nami said in monotone before she walked off the stage and back into the numerous rows of chairs. Tala, Kyogue, Sanya, and Bryan followed her.
Hilary felt Tyson place a hand on her shoulder, "Don't worry about her."
"Didn't you see her? She was so…different. She looked ill." Hilary said, her concern getting the better of her.
"Yeah. She is looking different." Ray said.
"Why in the world is she working with Tala and Bryan?" Max asked.
"Most likely blackmail." Tyson muttered. Everyone looked at him as he stood up and paced across the locker room.
"Tyson's probably right." Kai said, sighing.
Everyone's gaze shifted to him and then back to Tyson.
"Theory?" Ray asked.
"The party...2 years ago." Tyson said, "Nami left that night, she wasn't really happy and joyful after that, and maybe you could say tearful too. She was blackmailed that night."
"Haven't we become observant?" Kai mumbled.
"He's right." Hilary said.
"For a surprising change that is." Ray said quietly.
Tyson gave Ray a look before saying, "Let's concentrate on a way to get through to her, but we can't afford to lose to their team. That's what the main idea is. If Boris loses, then they'll all be off. Boris is probably just testing them for something."
"He has definitely matured over these past months." Hilary thought.
"A little harsh, don't cha think?" Sanya said.
"Just train or something." Nami muttered, waving a hand as she walked out the door.
"Where's little Miss Frosty Dictator going now?" Kyogue asked.
"Snog her boyfriend." Bryan said, sneering slightly.
"If you're going to be like that, you might as well resign." Tala muttered, crossing his arms.
"I thought you were going to be against her for the restraining order and all." Kyogue said, raising her eyebrows.
"I am, but I don't hate her guts. She's been through a harder time then you think she has." Tala said, closing his eyes.
"Right…whatever. Problem is she's too stubborn to admit it." Kyogue said, shrugging.
"That will be one of the fewer things we will ever agree on." Tala said, the corner of his mouth curling into a smirk.
"Damn Straight." Kyogue said, leaning back and stretching her legs out on the couch.
Nami took a stroll down the hallway. A look of confusion and anger mingled and was expressed clearly on her face. She tucked a long strand of lavender behind her ear before pocketing her hands.
The feeling of anxiety slowly filled her mind and consumed her body. She shakily leaned against the wall and sighed. She suddenly felt a hand scooping up her amethyst locks and tugged her hair ribbon free, letting loose the purple sea of hair.
" Atlanta, what the heck did you do to your hair? Some screwed up hairdresser messed it up or something?"
Nami was relieved to find Crystal combing the purple with her fingers. Truth be told, she really hadn't been paying much attention to her appearance. If it wasn't for her daily uniform, she would've probably gone into public in her pajamas, but thankfully, she had a closet full of different uniforms all consisting of the same dark colors.
Her hair had become wavy and tangled. It had actually grown a few inches, and reached a couple below her waist.
"So, saw what happened up on stage." Crystal commented conversationally.
"You would, Jewels…" Nami scoffed, pulling her hair out of the other's hands.
"Come on, I wanna mess with your hair and make it sparkly." Crystal whined.
"Fine…as long as it'll shut you up." Nami sighed again, "But no sparkles. Just normal."
"Ah! Don't give orders to me. First, you need to go and take a shower the minute you get back to your hotel. A nice, hot, soothing shower that'll wash away all the mess, but that's not why I'm here. I brought you something…" Crystal handed Nami a photograph.
"W-Where did you get this from?" Nami asked, her voice breaking. It was the same photograph she had taken with Kai at the party. She had kissed his cheek in the picture…
"Kind of found it." Crystal said grinning.
"I don't want it." Nami said darkly, shoving it back at the black-haired girl in front of her.
"Alrighty. I guess it's free for blackmail right? Atlanta-chan?" Crystal smirked.
"Yeah." Nami muttered.
"WHA? Girl, you need help." Crystal declared.
"I know."
"WHAT!"
"If you keep flipping out, I'm leaving." Nami said irritably.
"NO! Wait!" Crystal hooked onto Nami's arm and dragged her along to the stadium.
Crystal suddenly shoved Nami through the doors and then closed them behind her, keeping her trapped inside the large and empty stands.
It wasn't really empty because someone was standing across from her. The very person she dreaded to see…
"Tyson? Who was it that you were expecting to see?" Hilary asked all of a sudden as the room had been cleared of their teammates who had been seeking comfort at the hotel.
"Nami…"
"WHAT? And you didn't tell us this because?" Hilary questioned.
"I knew she would be here from the start, but it was Mr. Dickenson…who told me that she was coming for sure." Tyson said.
"And?"
"She joined up with Boris and Voltaire right after that night." Tyson sighed, pocketing his hands and giving Hilary a sad look.
"Out of her own will?"
"Blackmailed into it remember? The only reason for Nami to give in to a threat like that was if someone would be killed. I'm going to go ahead and point out Kai." Tyson said.
"He would kill his own grandson!" Hilary gasped.
"He would…" Tyson's last bit of the conversation immediately killed the atmosphere and Hilary knew that he wasn't lying.
Crystal would die a painful death. That was the first thought that entered the lavender-haired adolescent's mind when she realized who it was. He of course, was the person that had been haunting her for the past 2 years, and she wasn't likely to forget.
"Nami?"
"Leave me alone. I have no reason to talk to you." She responded, bitterness stinging her tone.
"You told me something. That night, before you left." Kai mumbled, walking up to her.
She looked away, her face hardening. She felt a cold finger tilt her chin upwards, but her eyes darted the other direction.
"Look at me." He forced her to lock eyes with him.
"Don't touch me." Nami muttered.
"Aishiteru…" Kai whispered before he pulled her towards him and she collided into his embrace. Nami stood stiff. Everything at that moment seemed to be right, but her conscious took over and she pushed him…
"I can't love you."
tbc...
YAY! Spring Break is finally here! I'm so freaking happy because I finished this! Oh by the way, 'Aishiteru' means 'I love you' in English (Japanese…). I want to thank everyone for their tremendous patience cause I'm a crappy writer and I take too long to update! Please review anyway! Ja ne!