Suki woke up next morning to the piercing screams of Ishuzo.

"WAKE UP! YOU GOT A PHONE CALL!" She yelled slamming the door open.

Suki sat up automatically and took the phone. "Hello?" she asked in a sleepy voice.

"Hey! I heard you're having a battle today!"

"Teletha?"

"That's right! And I suggest you get out of bed now, girl, you got a lot of preparing to do!" she said happily.

"Tessa, its 8:45 in the morning. The tournament doesn't start 'till 2:30 in the afternoon." said Suki.

"I'm going over to help you ok? Ok! See you later!" There was the tone that indicated that Tessa had already hung up.

"Yeah, sure. Bye." Suki replied to the tone. She pressed the button to hang up, and instantly the phone rang again.

"Hello?"

"Good luck in the battle today!"

"Yumiko, I'm not even fully awake yet."

"How? Do you need to prepare? Ill help! Ill go over and help you!"

"Yumi, Tessa is going to…"

"Go over? Great! The three of us can make a plan for you to defeat all those losers! Oh, by the way, I'm taking Maya! See you in a while!" the hang up tone came to her ears again.

"Doesn't anyone say 'bye' anymore?" thought Suki. She gave the phone to Ishuzo who was still in the room and said "Maya's coming." Ishuzo gave a squeal and ran out the door, slamming the door shut.

Suki cuddled back in bed and closed her eyes, but the door slamming open shot them open as well. She sat up, and stared at Kazumi in the doorway. She was standing there with a tray that had food in it.

"Get up! Time for breakfast!"

"Mother, its 8:46. In the morning! AND ITS SA-TUR-DAY!"

"No its not, its 8:47. And so what if its SA-TUR-DAY?" she said closing the door, walking over to her bed and setting the food tray in front of her daughter. "Here, eat. You need energy."

"And sleep." Mumbled Suki. She started eating. She was only half way through, when the door slammed open once again, and two girls went in the room. "What the…"

Instantly, both girls were beside her bed smiling innocence in their expressions. 5 seconds later, Ishuzo and Maya came into the room as well with dolls in their hands, laughing followed by Kugamoro.

Suki set her eating utensils down carefully and said, "Are you all aware that there is something called 'knocking on the door'?"

The others just laughed.

It was already 2:30 and Suki was being summoned to confront 5 judges and their questions. After answering all of them, she was informed that there would be a battle against the Blade Breakers and the Blade Squids. "There is 4 bladers in the Breakers team, and the Squids have 3. However, they are unable to battle because one of them broke his leg just yesterday. They are in need of a substitute; do you wish to take his place?" Suki thought about it for a moment and then said, "Perhaps. But I need to speak to them first."

One of the judges stood up and said, "Over here please."

Suki followed her into a room where two boys were talking. One was tall, thin, dark blue eyes, white skin and black hair. He called himself Chogokin. The other was also a tall boy, but he had brown eyes, brown hair and brown skin. His name was Vincent. The boy Suki was supposed to substitute was James, who hadn't showed up.

They talked and Suki made it clear that she was only to help them that day. The judge was notified of Suki's agreement with the boys and went to inform the others.

Apparently, Chogokin was fighting against a Ray Kon, Vincent against a Max Tate, and Suki against a Tyson Granger. Suki said she was going to go wander around, and the boys told her to meet them at that room in 10 minutes.

During all that wandering, Suki caught glimpse of 5 guys, probably new since she had never seen them before. One of them was sort of tall, dark blue hair, dark red eyes, white skin, blue hat, yellow shirt, blue jeans and white with red shoes. "I'm starving!" said the guy. "Where's the food?" Suki looked at the buffet next to her, grabbed a cookie and walked to them. "Tyson, will you calm down! We have to talk to the judges first!" said a short boy with brown hair, big glasses and a laptop.

"Chief's right, Tyson." Said a blond boy, with green eyes, and a green with yellow shirt.

"But Max!" whined Tyson, "I'm so hungry! If I don't eat anything, I'm gonna die!"

"You just ate like about ½ and hour ago!" pointed out a tall guy with long black hair held in a white fabric; he had a ying-yang bandana and cat like yellow eyes.

"Ray." Said Tyson seriously. "You, my friend, seem to forget that I have 5STOMACHES!"

"Tyson." Said Ray, imitating Tyson's tone, "there is no such thing as a person with 5 STOMACHES!"

"You guys new?" said Suki in a cold voice, biting into her cookie.

"Yeah." Said Ray.

"Where the heck did you get that cookie!" asked Tyson. Suki pointed to her back with her thumb and in less than a second, Tyson was gone.

"Thanks for that." Said Ray. "Ray." He said offering his hand. Suki stared at it for a moment, and then took it.

"Max." said the other boy, also shaking her hand. "The one you got rid of is Tyson."

"Kenny" said the short boy, blushing. He didn't offer his hand; instead he walked away saying he needed to talk to the judges.

"And that's Hiwatari." Said Ray, pointing to a boy a little far from them.

That was the first time she had noticed him from up close. He was wearing deep purple pants, black shoes, and some red anklets, red belt, black gloves and a white scarf. His hair was gray in front and blue on the back. He was leaning against the wall, his arms crossed and his eyes closed. He also had 4 blue marks on his face; 2 at each cheek.

"Names Kai." the guy said.

"Suki." she said, taking her glance off him. "You guys bladers?" she asked.

"Yeah." said Max.

"The Blade Breakers to be Exact." said a voice behind her. She turned around only to see Tyson and a plate full of everything in the buffet. He gave her a dumb smile and began to eat.

"The... Blade... Breakers?" Suki asked narrowing her eyes.

They nodded, and started backing up slowly; they probably thought she was going to ask them for their autograph. But she didn't.

"Hey guys," said Kenny, walking to them. "They told me were battling against the Blade Squids. Says that there's a substitute for one of their members."

"Can they do that?" asked Tyson with his mouth full.

"I guess, since they did it with James..."

They kept talking, but Suki wasn't listening. If she was right, then her opponent was going to be that boy that ate so much. The boy that she had just met.

"You battling?" asked Max.

"Huh?" she snapped back to reality.

"YOU BATTLEING!" demanded Tyson.

"Yes." she replied.

"Against?" asked Ray.

This brought Kai's attention. He opened his eyes and looked at Suki, who noticed his eyes were sort of the same shade of hers. Their eyes met, and for a few seconds, she thought about the answer. "I'm Battling you guys; I'm the substitute of James, Tyson, you're my opponent..." she thought about it, then realized she couldn't bring herself to tell them the truth.

"You'll see," she said simply. "You'll see." she turned and ran towards the direction she had come in, leaving the Blade Breakers wondering, "Who is she battling with?"