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Author Notes: 'ello! Again, it's been a while. I'm so sorry the updates are so slow, and I really have no good reason. This chapter is pretty crappy. I wrote most of it on graph paper. XP I just grabbed whatever was around and went all, 'rawr' and wrote. So, there you go.

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Ideas/suggestions would be appreciated beyond human recognition. I have the beginning up to the Christmas Party all planned out, and then the end done, as well as the beginning of the sequel. There's just this huge space in between that I need to fill. I know, I know, I am NOT organized. Everyone knows that, I assume.

I've gotten complaints about the ReiHilary. Here is my response: go away. Don't like it, don't read it, simple as that. Sheesh, I expected shit about the JuliaxRaul thing, but ReiHilary?

Disclaimer: Dranzen does not own Beyblade, nor does she watch it anymore. But you freaky lawyers don't care about that, do ya?

Warnings: Strong language, as usual, shonen-ai/yaoi, however you want to look at it, implied incest, and very, very, very, VERY slow updates. Oh yeah, OOC-ness. Especially on Kai and Rei's parts.

Pairings: ReixHilary, Assumed-One-Sided HitoshixKai, TysonxKai, JuliaxRaul, Assumed-One-Sided MaxxMariam

Chapter 9

"Rei!"

"Be quiet Max."

Max glared at the back of Rei's head, rubbing his upperarms in a desperate attempt to keep himself warm. For the tenth, unhappy time that night, he scolded himself for not wearing a heavier jacket. Of course, when Rei had said they needed to talk, he hadn't figured that two hours later, the two of them would be huddled outside Kai's apartment building, supposedly on a spy mission.

Sadly, Max considered that ti would've probably been Hilary in his place, had she and Rei not had another, heated argument earlier that day.

"Why are we here again?" Max grumbled, earning a flick on his nose from the Chinese boy.

"Spy Mission." Rei sighed in response. "Now be quiet."

"I get that!" Snapped the blond, ignoring Rei's request. He had become increasingly irritable from the cold, and the lack of an explantion from Rei. "But, why of all the people in the world, would we be spying on Kai? In negative nineteen1 no less."

"It could be colder." Rei replied absent-mindedly, deciding to ignore Max's complants.

"Not in April2 it couldn't!"

"Sure it could."

Max groaned, shifting in the squatting position he and Rei had taken behind the bush. From the apartment building they were completely concealeld, but on the other side a blind pidgeon could probably notice them.

"This is embarrassing," Max hissed, scrunching his nose up unhapily. "I think I'd rather be par part of a panty-raid right now."

Rei smirked, eyes never leaving the building in front of them. "Don't temp me, Max my Man. Don't fucking tempt me."

"Watch your mouth!"

Again, Rei ignroed him, brushing a loose bang out of his eyes. Hilary, he noted sadly to himself, would not complain this much. She would, actually, probably be ecstatic to find out what scandalous activities Kai was up to.

Scandalous was the appropraite word for Kai's dreamy state lately, and the unusual silence between him and Rei. Kai was quite obviously hiding something, and this time Rei was fully aware of it. He hadn't noticed things like this before, if they ever happened before. He did, of course, noticed this time when Kai bumped him off to, instead of bowling or the movies or something equally as fun, study of all things.

Kai didn't need to study. His brain would explode from all the studying he had done in the ninth grade.3

Something was definitley up, and Rei was determined to know exactly what was up.

"What?" Rei hissed as Max poked his shoulder (hard!) for a third time.

Max gulped, poking a thumb over his shoulder shakily as he stammered out a reply.

"St...Stalker!"


The car was a rusted red, and putted along at a very slow pace. It was, however, Hitoshi's car, no matter what it looked like or how disruptive the sounds it made were. It had taken him ages just to save up for this thing, let alone a nicer car, that worked more often than not. He didn't like people poking fun at his hard-earned trophy, and most of the people who knew him, knew that.

Except, of course, for Tyson.

Tyson, being a typical younger brother, would not rest until Hitoshi had ripped out every single last strand of his light blue hair. Hitoshi did not doubt that he would succeed.

Tyson liked to make fun of Hitoshi's car. Comments included the usual rust bucket and such, but he also took this chance to comment on Hitoshi's character. Hitoshi, being the mature adult he was, always attempted to ignore his younger brother. Emphasis on attempt.

So, when one night, Tyson said that Hitoshi had the most beautiful car he had ever seen, hugged his brother, and then literally skipped away, Hitoshi just about shot himself.

Something was up, so Hitoshi hopped in that 'beautiful' car of his, and followed his brother right to...


Yellow eyes narrowed in a far more serious way than Max had expected from his long time friend. Of course, it wasn't like Rei normally took anything seriously, so what did the blond expect?

"I don't think so." Rei mumbled after a moment, looking for the puttering car to the equally run down building they were currently 'spying' on. "Just leave them...I doubt they'd be after us."

Max's pale face did not change at all and his blue eyes burned fire as Rei looked back at the building. "You know why crazy people stalk good looking guys like us? Sex, Kon. Fucking sex." This comment earned a jolt from Rei, who again turned to face the blond with a cocked eyebrow.

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"What do you think I'm talking about?" Max cried out, voice shooting up a few octaves. He was nearing the point of hysteria, and Rei knew what this meant.

He covered his ears, scowling and awaiting the onslaught of absolutely un-manly like squeaks.

"S-E-X! It's on your stinking mind every goddamn second of the day, Rei! Same reason you date girls. The very same reason for why we exist currently! Our parents freaking--!"

"Yours should have divorced each other sooner." Rei grumbled under his breath. digging his fingers deeper into his ears. "Just fucking shut it already!"

"--rape! Too fucking young! Are you even listening?"

No, thought Rei, turning completely around awkwardly in his squatting position. No he was not.


"What are you so happy about?"

Tyson grinned back at the dual-haired athlete standing in front of him and crossed one leg semi-awkwardly over the other. "Well, you answer that one yourself, koi4." he replied in the cheery tone he had been using for the past hour that Kai had been around him.

Said teenager frowned, prodding at the slow-going coffee maker. Hitoshi had bought it for Kai not soon after he got Kai his current apartment, right after hearing about Kai's insane addiction to coffee. A guilty feeling squeezed his stomach as he watched it slowly make the black, energizing liquid. Again, he couldn't quite place it, but nonetheless stepped away from the counter it restedo n.

"Don't call me that." he called absent-mindedly over his shoulder, opening a cupboard just to stall. He shuffled through the several, completely identical mugs in it as though looking for something specific that was obviously not there.

Tyson ignored the usual comment. He had gotten used to it, as Kai had seemingly gotten used to his now official nickname. At least, with Tyson anyways. If anyone else called Kai their koi, and Tyson was within earshot...well, the bluenette would get violent, really quickly.

Kai knew this, but he couldn't think of a single person who would willingly call him their koi. He could think of one he wished would, and another he wished wouldn't, but then...that was all the confusion of one's very first relationship.

Date one, love another. In this case, their older brother.

Their very sexy older...

Kai froze for a moment, and then reached and squeezed the handle of a mug.

No. His thoughts would not go that way, not again.

Sighing and shaking his head, he held the cupboard door with one hand, the other setting a mug down on the counter, nearby the evil coffee maker. He grabbed another one, just in case Tyson decided that he was going to be overly spontaneous and drink some coffee.

Another shiver ran down Kai's spine, this time out of fright at the image that crossed through his mind.

Tyson was hyper enough as it was, coffee would just make it much, much, worse.5

Kai shut the cupboard door with a creak of the hinge and click as it shut completely. He turned from the cupboard, looking for something else to do.

He was committing himself to something he was really not ready for, he realized with a painful twang in his stomach. This wasn't right, and this wasn't fair to Tyson.

A pale hand ran through messy, dual-haired locks as Kai turned around, surveying the kitchen. He should just fake sick...that wouldn't be as bad a lie. He could live with that.

"Kaaaaaaaai!"

Kai was snapped out of his frantic thoughts by Tyson's whine, and the sound of the slightly younger teenager standing up from Kai's couch and coming towards the kitchen. The Russian stiffened, holding back a stressed groan.

"The one time I really fucking need Rei's help," Kai mumbled to himself, letting his hands fall loosely to his sides. "And it's a secret issue. Figures."

To Tyson, he called as strongly as he could, "I'll be right there. Just hold tight, okay?"

"Mm-hmm!" Tyson footsteps stopped, and he bounced back to the 'living room' as Kai had dubbed it. It also served as his dining room on most days.

Only most days.

Crimson orbs narrowing in an analysing way, Kai left the small kitchen, just out of view of Tyson. A second later he spotted a window, and hurried towards it, using it as his temporary retreat.

As he opened the window slowly the bright light of his apartment leaked out and into the dark night beyond. Kai's apartment had a balcony, but he didn't trust it enough to go out on it. That, and the door wouldn't open.

Kai leaned his head out slightly, breathing in the welcome winter air. It stung his nostrils in a comfortable manner, clearing his head.

"You have alot of books, Kai. Have you read them all?"

"...I don't know." Kai replied, distracted. He opened his relaxed eyes, surveying the ground below. His apartment wasn't that high up along the building, only on the bottom half.

Randomly, Tyson began reading out titles, asking Kai to respond yes, if he had read them, and no, if he hadn't. By the time Kai noticed the car that continuously drove past the building at an annoyingly slow pace. He raised an eyebrow, calling a fifth yes to Tyson.

Just when he was about to shrug it off and shut the window, a piercing shriek that he barely understood echoed across the empty neighborhood, making Kai's eyes widen.

"Don't fucking touch me Kon! This is all your fucking fault! Ah...god...if I get freaking raped I am so going to fucking CASTRATE you!"

A bouncy figure...bounced...into view, and Kai's eyes followed them, his mouth hanging open slightly. Tyson had stopped calling out book names and came up behind Kai, peering around him.

"What the heck was that?" he asked. Kai didn't answer properly, just shook his head disbelievingly.

"Don't! No! NO, God DAMN IT!"

"Oh, shut up, Max! Someone'll call the police!"

Hissing to himself random, angry things, Kai slammed the window shut making Tyson jump.

"Dammit, Rei!" he growled, turning swiftly around and moving to exit the apartment.

Tyson watched him walk to the front door, which wasn't that far away, open it, and then slam it behind him. The younger Kinomiya brother was quiet, blinking confusingly. Shrugging it off, he looked back out the window.

He had a bad feeling in his stomach, as though something was going to happen. Something bad, obviously. Which would explain why the feeling was bad.

Duh.

He pushed the feeling away, as well as the familiarity he felt towards the slow moving vehicle below him. Other than Rei being...around, he guessed, nothing would ruin tonight.

Although Tyson, personally, figured that their little outings had been 'dates', Kai had obviously not. And that had been a problem. Until Kai, albeit awkwardly, asked Tyson out.

Humming to himself, Tyson began to trace Kai's footsteps towards the door, but shutting off the lights on his way.


Yes, that's the end. Sorry guys...and I know the humor is really, really, bad or non-existent. It's midnight right now, and it's taking me forever to write.

Be happy I updated! lol. XD

Review! And remember: I like suggestions.

I am exhausted, sick with the flu, and just back from camp. Yay.

1 Degrees Celsius, which isn't that cold.

2 The last chapter was in January, so let's say that Kai and Tyson have been 'dating' for a while now. Rei just noticed.

3 This assumes that grade nine would be the last year of Jr. High, and the year that also decides how you would spend High School. Go away.

4 I'm hoping I got this right. Koi, I think, is short for 'koishii', which I believe means lover or something of the sort. And Koi would be 'love.' In other words, it's just Tyson being weird.

5 Random comment: Coffee is good. Makes hyper people insanely hyper. Yes?