i don't own beyblade. this chapter's quite sweet. enjoy.
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Chapter 9:
It had been a normal day. Everyone decided to stay in today. They just played video games, read, and ate. It was about 11 when they went to bed. Kai had fallen straight asleep and Max stared at him for a little bit before he fell into slumber. A low groan had woken Max up. He stared at the clock that he was facing. It was 3 am. Max turned to see if it was Kai who woke him up. It definitely was. Kai was lying on his back covered in sweat, a huge worried/angry/anxious frown on his face. He was grunting and moving a bit. 'Is Kai…having a …nightmare?' Max thought. He watched, worried. Should he wake him or leave him. Then suddenly, Kai bolted up, arm stretched, reaching for something that wasn't there. His arm dropped and his breathing was still heavy. He sat like that, not moving at all. "Kai?" Max said softly, sitting up slowly. He looked at Kai's face. His eyes were staring downward, shadow about to engulf his sad, deep in thought eyes. When he didn't get a reply, Max put a hand on Kai's bare shoulder. "Kai? Are you alright?" Kai fell back on the bed and turned his back on Max.
"Fine" he said in a deep cold voice. Max wasn't going to accept that as an answer. Kai obviously wasn't 'fine' and he wanted to help. He shuffled a bit nearer Kai and put a hand on Kai's arm.
"Kai, you had a bad dream, do you want to talk about it?"
"No" he answered plainly not facing Max.
"It'll help."
"I don't need help. I just want to go to sleep."
"But…"
"I don't want or need to talk about it Max. Go to sleep." Max shuffled away and lied down facing Kai's back. An hour had passed and Max was dying with concern. He couldn't sleep and he knew Kai wasn't.
"I know your not asleep Kai." Max said. He got no reply. "Please talk to me?"
"I don't want to Max."
"Kai I'm worried, I've never seen you like that."
"Well don't be. It's not like I'm not used to it."
"You've had them before?"
"Yes"
"Kai, let me help I don't like to see you upset."
"I'm not upset and why should you be worried?"
"Because I care about you and I don't mean like fancying you, I mean as a friend."
"If you cared you'd leave me alone like I wish."
"I do care and that's why I'm risking getting hit in the face to make sure you alright. Kai, talking about it will help!"
"I doubt it…I can take care of it."
"You obviously can't if you're still having them!"
"Just leave me alone Max" throughout their small conversation, Kai never raised his voice more than quiet talking. Max on the other hand was getting extremely worried about his crush and getting a bit angry he couldn't help him. The moonlight was shining on their bed from the window above their heads. It was dim but they could still see each others features. Max leant over Kai to see his face. And he saw something he had never expected. There was a single tear stain on Kai's cheek. Max's eyes widened with concern.
"What happened Kai? It must have been bad to make you cry."
"I'm not crying."
"You may not be crying but you shed a single tear, and that's still a lot for you. Please Kai I want to help. Keeping it in is just going to make it worse." Kai had just about enough of this. If Max didn't stop he was going to shout at him. He turned to lie on his back and tell Max straight in the face to leave him alone. But when he turned, he met Max's huge, marine blue, glistening eyes. He stared at them for a moment, completely lost in them seeing the sadness and worry. He blinked bringing him out of the trance.
"I really don't want to talk about it Max" he looked down at him, still leaning over Kai.
"Why?"
"Cos…it …still…hurts…" he couldn't lie to Max. Max looked at him in silence for a bit, a little shocked.
"If it's that bad, you should tell someone."
"I have. Mr. Dickenson knows, and Rika…"
"Do they know you still have nightmares" Kai nodded. "But they're not here now."
"They can't be there for me every time I can't sleep."
"Someone should be."
"It's not that big a deal Max, I can handle it."
"Then why can't you go back to sleep?"
"Because I don't want to. I wanted to think about the dream."
"You wanted to or were forced to?" Kai looked at Max, unsure how to answer that. Seeing he wasn't going to get a reply, Max asked another question. "Was it about your childhood?" Kai's eyes started to sting, he needed to close them. He nodded. Max sighed. Him and the rest of the Bladebreakers knew Kai had a dodgy past but they didn't know how dodgy. Having a grandfather who pretended to love you just to use you was bad enough but there was a lot more to it.
"It was about my parents…" Kai continued. Max wasn't expecting him to give any more detail. Kai on the other hand thought Max wasn't going to leave him alone until he told him what happened in the dream.
"Your parents?" Kai nodded, eyes still closed. There was a silence where Kai thought Max knew enough but he could hear Max's mind begging him to explain.
"It's a long story and I don't particularly want to retell it but I'll summarise. Neither I nor my parents knew what Voltaire's business was all we knew was the headquarters was in Russia. For a holiday, Voltaire took us to Russia and to his 'company'," Kai paused, Max knew something painful must have happened, "I won't go into detail but…he separated me from my parents…physically…painfully…" Kai stopped and opened his eyes, not meeting Max's. "I was re-enacting what happened." Max was on the verge of tears. He saw a tear trickle down Kai's cheek. 'What the hell did that bastard do to him?' Max thought. Kai finally looked up to meet Max's eyes. Those ocean eyes were sad which made Kai feel worse. Max wanted to ask so many questions but knew Kai wasn't ready to tell. "That's why I didn't want to talk about it" Kai said still staring into Max's eyes.
"Kai? I'm…sorry. If you ever need to talk to someone, please feel free to come to me…I want to help." Kai nodded,
"Thanks" Max got off Kai and lay down next to him. After a minute of silence, Max whispered to Kai.
"I'm here for you Kai." Kai smiled, he liked having Max close to him and he liked someone being there to talk to. Mr. Dickenson was always away on business and Kai would never open up to him anyway and Rika, well she was all over the world. Granted, if Kai needed her, she'd be by his side like a shot but, he needed to be with someone 24/7.
"I know." Kai whispered back and shuffled a bit nearer Max. They fell asleep like that.
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please review this chapter, i'm not sure if that was a good idea for Kai's past. i may go into detail in later chapters...i dunno. thanks for reading