Disclaimer: Suheil373 doesn't own Beyblade or its characters, but she does own Raul, Hitate and the plot of this fiction.

Author note: Hiyaz! You people are so lucky that I'm spending extra time at my parents' house and that other than that I'm impressively inspired... it's probably for being offline for so long, lol.

Have you guys read my one-shot 'Canvas'? I'm not reccomending it or anything, but I just wanted to let you know that in three days (orhas it been four...) I was afraid that it would get more reviews than this story. o.o It has 13 reviews right now, and I'm laughing at myself because this story is now 4 chapters long and it still has 18 reviews XD I'm so pathetic, lol. Anyway, enough ranting...

Well, here's the newest addition to the story, I hope you like it!

Enjoy!

Chapter 3

Hilary talked to Kai for what seemed like hours. She told him everything she felt, all her worries, all her anger; everything. She had never thought that he would be the sort of person that would listen and absorb everything that someone told him. But even though he was silent most of the time, he did give her quick tips and answered if she asked something... very briefly, of course.

'At least it's something...' thought the brunette, smiling inwardly.

It had been about two minutes since she had stopped talking. She looked at her watch and blushed, "Oh! It's that late already? I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to talk so much, you must be so bored. Silly me, haha."

"Hm," the gray-eyed teen stood up and extended a hand toward the girl as to help her up as well.

She smiled shyly and took it, "Thanks." He gently pulled her up and there she stood, dusting herself off. "Eh... How can you stand sitting there all day? Look at all this dirt..."

Kai ignored her and walked into the dojo; the brunette followed him, still dusting off her white skirt. As they entered they saw Tyson and Kenny sitting there with Max and Ray. They all sat there, just relaxing, talking, and eventually Hilary and Tyson ended up in an argument which was soon interrupted by Ray.

He yelled over the arguing voices of the two, "How about we all go eat ice cream?"

Immediately the navy-haired boy perked up a this, "I want a banana split!"

Hilary rolled her eyes, "Who cares right now? Order it when we get there!"

"Shut up, Hilary! You and your big mouth!" he snarled back at her.

"Nice come-back, asshole! Did you make it up all by yourself or did someone else dumber than you help make it?"

"It's better than yours!"

"Yeah, right. At least I've got wit, all you have is an empty crab shell up in that big head of yours!"

"Enough!" yelled Ray as Tyson opened his mouth to retort, and immediately they stopped arguing. "We'll go to the ice-cream shop in peace. Don't argue or you won't go, Tyson."

His eyes widened, "Why just me? She's the one that started it!"

The amber-eyed teen raised an eyebrow, "Yeah, but you almost took it too far. I know what you were about to say. Just think before you open your mouth, okay?"

"Fine," grumbled the blue-haired boy as he crossed his arms over his chest.

Max grinned at Tyson, "Hey, how about we go eat too? My treat."

"You'll be broke if you pay for Tyson's," said Kai, smirking.

The others laughed and agreed, but the blunette scowled, "Ha, ha, everyone laugh 'cause Kai said a joke. Whatever..."

"I want the biggest banana split you've got. Make it with chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ice-cream; put caramel over it, then put pineapple... Mmm. Oh! And I also want melted chocolate over the pineapple, and tons of sprinkles! Wait! Make that melted chocolate on the pineapple, cherries, gummy bears, then sprinkles! Okay, that's it..."

The girl looked sort of confused, but nodded anyway, "Alright... I guess. I'll need you to dictate that but... slower so I can understand you."

After Tyson repeated his request slower this time and got what he wanted, it was Max's turn to order, "I'll have a big one... make it chocolate and vanilla, and put strawberries, no wait... cherries... no... I want both cherries and strawberries on top and chocolate chips," ordered the blue-eyed blonde, licking his lips as the red-haired girl served his ice-cream.

The amber-eyed teen looked thoughtfully at all the flavors, then snapped his fingers and smiled at the same girl that gave Max and Tyson their ice-cream, "I'll have a small white-chocolate... and... that's it, I guess." He looked down at Kenny, "What will you have, chief?"

"Uh... I'll have vanilla. A small one, please," he said shyly.

Hilary looked at the four boys and shook her head at them. Once the two boys were given their ice-cream and had paid for them, it was her turn, then Kai's. She walked to the cashier and confidently made her order, "I'll have a medium sized, strawberry flavored with strawberries on to--"

"And I'll have the same," interrupted the slate-haired teen.

She blinked and looked up at Kai, "I thought you were going to order separately..?"

He shrugged, "Whatever."

"Here you go! That would be $5.00," said the red-head sweetly.

"Oh!" Hilary took out her wallet, but the blunette was too fast for her as he placed a $10 bill in front of them, took his cold candy and walked away. She stared after him, "Uh... Kai, it's okay, I can pay for mine. And you forgot the change too."

"Keep it," came the simple reply. He sat down on a table apart from the others and started picking at the sweet strawberries coating the cold substance.

The brunette sat across from him, "Thanks. You didn't have to, though."

"Hm," he nodded.

She smiled at him, "I didn't know you liked the same flavor as me!"

"I hadn't tried it before."

"Oh," she ate a strawberry and looked up at nothing in particular, blushing. "What flavor do you usually eat?"

"I don't."

She looked at him, a bit startled, "Never?"

"I've tried it before," said Kai, taking another strawberry. After he swallowed it, he glanced at the brunette sitting in front of him, "Tyson never leaves any."

Upon hearing this, Hilary burst out giggling, "Yeah, that sounds like Tyson. We all know he always eats everything he can get his hands on!"

"I heard that!" yelled the navy-haired boy, but Max smacked him back to their own conversation.

"Pay attention, Tyson!" whispered Ray. "Look... we all want Hilary to leave that jerk--"

Tyson interrupted him, "Yeah, I don't know what she's still doing with him. He's miles away!"

"Lower your damn voice!" whispered the Chinese boy fiercely. "Now, as I was saying... How about we make her like Kai?"

Kenny raised his eyebrows in disbelief, "You can't be serious. It's highly improbable that we could pull it off, considering how very much in love she is with Raul. I can't say I approve of her still liking him, but I'm not supporting your idea either. What if she finds out? She'll get really angry... not to mention she's impulsive; she'll murder us! And Kai! He'll murder us even more! Count me out of this one."

"They won't find out!" exclaimed Max, grinning. "Come on, Chief, please?"

"Yeah! We only need to give her a little push. And it's only her! I'll handle Kai, he's the harder one to work with," said Ray in a low voice, trying to encourage the brunette.

Tyson was already halfway done with his banana split, but he took a pause and looked at the black-haired boy, "How can you tell that she won't find out? If we're all pressuring her to like him, won't it be suspicious?"

Kenny nodded, "For once, I agree with Tyson."

The blunette's face turned to an enraged expression, "What do you mean 'for once'? I always say smart stuff like that!"

Hilary looked toward the boys, who were sitting two tables away from her and Kai. The blonde smacked his brown-eyed friend once more, and they were all back to whispering to themselves. 'I wonder what they're all so pumped about? Hm... Surely it's a secret if they're whispering among themselves... Meh... boys will be boys."

The silver-eyed blader that was sitting across from her gulped down a mouthful of strawberry goodness, then said, "They're talking about you."

"Huh?" she replied, surprised. "About me? ...How do you know?"

He scoffed, "I heard them."

"Oh... What did they say?"

"Something incredibly foolish. Just leave them be, you'll know," then, he took another spoonful of the melting, strawberry mush.

The girl tilted her head to one side for a few seconds, staring at Kai, then went back to normal. Now she was curious... 'They're talking about me... what? What could they be talking about? ...Maybe my disastrous relationship with Raul..? Hm... Could be.'

In front of her, the boy placed his spoon on the table, causing her to look up, "Are you done?" she asked, looking at the halfway eaten, cold blend sitting in front of him. "But you didn't finish it... Are you just gonna throw it away?"

He didn't respond, instead he walked over to the other table in which the other guys were sitting. They all stared up at him as he placed the little tub of velvety concoction in the middle of the table and stalked off. The brunette girl's lips formed into a silent 'oh', then she grabbed her ice cream and walked over to the boys as well, only, she kept hers.

"Max, don't you dare touch that strawberry ice-cream! It's mine!" scolded Tyson as Max had made an attempt at grabbing Kai's abandoned dessert.

Ray shook his head at the boys, seeing as the blonde kept trying to take the ice-cream and the blunette kept yelling at him to leave it where it sat, melting. "Hilary, are you ready to go?"

She shrugged, "Yeah, I guess... I mean, I'm a bit tired."

He nodded, then looked back toward the other boys. Kenny had gotten up from his seat, "Are you coming with us?"

"Nah... I'm going home. I'm tired as well, see ya," and he ran off.

"Okay then, let's go. I doubt Ty and Maxie are gonna want to leave, so yeah," he walked toward the door, held it open for Hilary, then walked out after her. After a few minutes of walking in silence, he tried to start a conversation, "Nice weather, eh?"

She smiled, though still thinking about what Kai had told her, "What are you up to, Ray?"

The boy blinked his amber eyes and raised his eyebrows, "What do you mean?"

"I know you're up to something. Why else would you guys be all secretive and whispering without filling Kai and me in?" Hilary placed her hands on her hips, stopping in her tracks. "Well?"

He laughed, stalling to try and find out a way to get himself out of this one. As he found it, he stopped laughing and answered, "Well, Kai's birthday is coming up in a few weeks and we wanted to plan something for him. We couldn't tell you without being all secretive because you were sitting with him, away on some other table."

She raised an eyebrow, "Are you absolutely sure?"

"Yeah. Why would I lie to you?" he asked, grinning falsely.

'Hm... so does that mean that Kai didn't really hear anything? Or is Ray really lying? Or maybe he heard wrong...' Hilary placed one hand on her chin, thinking. 'Maybe... Oh, I don't know. I'll just ask him about what Kai said.'

On the inside, the amber-eyed teen was hoping beyond anything that she believed him, 'If she doesn't believe me I'm so screwed... What did I get myself into? Now we have to make a party for Kai, too. The others are gonna kill me... but what else could I say to her? If I didn't lie then the whole thing would be ruined...'

She placed the hand on her hip once again, "Sorry about doubting you, but it's just that Kai said that he heard you guys whispering something 'incredibly foolish' and that it was about me."

As if on reflex, Ray replied, "Kai must have misunderstood, or not heard anything at all. You know Kai, he's weird like that. He most surely heard me mentioning that we had to tell you later." He smiled inwardly, 'Yeah, that's it, Ray, that's just what you had to say!'

"Really?" came the slate-haired teen's voice from above them.

The other boy's eyes went wide and he immediately froze in front of Hilary, who simply looked up at the captain of the Bladebreakers. Kai leaped down from the branch he had been perched upon, arms crossed over his toned chest, an eyebrow raised, his silver eyes glaring at his lying teammate.

He strode over to their side, his seething glare directed straight at the black-haired teen, "You may drag her into your scheme, but not me. Don't take me for an idiot, Kon. We've never had any problems, and I wouldn't want you to start now."

To be continued...

Ohh! What's Hilary gonna think now? Lol. Poor Ray, first I had him in Hilary's black list and now he's almost on Kai's. Don't worry, he'll be fine... maybe. Heehee! I'm liking how this story's coming along, do you? Leave me a review, please!

And, if it's not much to ask, please tell me if you spotted something that you didn't like, or a grammar mistake, or if Kai was out of character, if any of the others were (except Ray, I'm doing that on purpose... for now), just any sort of thing that sticks out to you and you figured it either wrong or you liked it. It doesn't have to be a long review, just tell me stuff other that "Update, it's good" or other brief things. o.O;

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