Author's Note: Second last chapter everyone! Thanks to everyone that reviewed and even bothered reading it means a lot! So special thanks to;
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Chapter 34
The chants were loud, so loud that every corridor and every floor of the stadium was filled with sound and the name of 'Kai.' Aton was still wandering behind his father not paying attention to where they were going, but stopped when he had heard the cheers. Surely they wouldn't be chanting someone who lost?
"Dad?" Aton didn't look at his father but instead looked over his shoulder to where the arena was. Where he last saw his brother being beaten up. Adonis had turned around and watched his son before wondering why he had stopped and even wanted his attention.
"Yes?" Adonis raised an eyebrow and tried to think of why people would be chanting someone's name, as he could hear them too, but he wasn't concerned.
"I think Kai's won." Aton smiled, and continued to look over his shoulder, wondering how on earth his brother has managed to pull it off. Adonis frowned and dismissed Aton's thoughts.
"Impossible." Lotan was too strong for Kai and Dranzer to beat, how on earth could he have pulled that off? Aton turned around and started to run. He wanted to go see what all the commotion was about, and he wanted to see if his little brother and sister were okay.
"I'm going to check." He called back, whatever his father was going to show him could wait - Kai and Sota couldn't.
Adonis stood and tilted his head, and sighed again. "I will too…" He glared at the current retreating Aton. The man turned around and decided to go find out exactly what had happened. His frown did not leave his face.
It had been two days since Mr. Dickenson had decided to let Kai rest - since multiple fans wanted to see another Tyson and Kai beybattle. The thing was, Kai wasn't going to be waking up soon, and even though the fans wanted to see the battle. It couldn't be done logically. Kai would wake up and he would be tired and need even more time to re-train, and Tyson would be able to train continuously so it just wouldn't be fair on Kai to give him a impossible battle. Then again that was what many people had said about Lotan. Mr. Dickenson was going to proclaim that Tyson Granger was the World Champion for the fourth year running since he had won by default. Still, the fans of Kai and any other beyblader wanted to see a match between the two and so Tyson was allowed to keep his title - although when they did battle… They would see who would take the title for real. Everyone just had to wait until Kai woke up…
"So how is he?" Max asked, slightly cheerful trying to think of a good side to this, well maybe the good thing was that he wasn't dead… Yet.
"Not good. Terrible." The nurse shook her head at the teenagers giving them all a sense of despair, what if he really didn't wake up? They looked at the nurse, who happened to have no care in what she was saying - it was a nurse that probably was never keen on the idea of becoming one.
"He had punctured a lung… Broken ribs, over-exhausted both his body and any organ, he is dehydrated and has large cuts and bruises everywhere." The nurse looked at each of the boys faces, all of them were showing some sorrow or worry. Tyson managed to find his voice box, which was unusually quiet and decided to ask the question that was on everyone's mind. "But he won't die…"
"He's stable." The nurse walked off, leaving Tyson and Rei agitated and Max more than sad. Kenny had gone to retrieve Dranzer and his beyblade - which had melted. Taking Dranzer out of the chip had been hard work, just so the chip wouldn't break or snap in half.
The doctor had come out and looked grimly at the document he was looking at, he gave each of the bladers a glance, then went back to his report.
"You can go in." He told them all, and they all began to wander in hoping that Kai was okay. When Kai had collapsed a team of paramedics, they had been called half-way through the battle since one of the Hiwatari children would be badly hurt. "He does look pretty," Tyson stopped himself from saying anything - but Rei managed to finish it. "Bad." Kai was laying down with a ventilator stuck down his throat, it didn't look too comfortable. His arm was covered with wires or tubes giving the boy everything he would need to help him recover quickly.
The door opened and most of the BladeBreakers turned around to see who it was. "Is brother in here?" Sota was in hospital clothes and plodded in bare-footed, she had looked in most rooms, trying to find her beloved brother. The older boys smiled at her and nodded.
"Yeah." Max was the only one that gave her a verbal response. Sota walked up to the bed and frowned lightly as she saw the machines and tubes running out of Kai. She sniffed and remembered her mother looked like that.
Sota had been allowed to go see her mother, not like she could talk about anything but she did want to see her because she had never any idea on what her mother looked like. Kai was hooked up to about two machines, one of which was giving a heart-rate. It was slow and steady, at least he was still living.
"Will he wake up?" Sota clambered onto the bed, taking special care to touch any part of the wires or tubes that ran into Kai's left arm. She sighed took her brother's right hand and clasped it into her two smaller ones.
"We don't really know…"Rei gave a small smile and looked at the small, sad girl that was looking down at her brother. He would have been embarrassed if he was aware on what was happening.
There was a comfortable silence as everyone sat down and wished Kai better, though the small girl was the first one to break it. "I don't want him to leave." By that she must of meant die. Which was something everyone was hoping wouldn't happen.
"I'm sure he knows that." Tyson forced a smile and hoped that he wouldn't regret his words later...
After about a month, Kai was awake and after a few more weeks he was almost back to normal - minus the restriction on what he could do.
"You shouldn't be walking." Lita came into his room, and watched as he attempted to stand up. Where on earth did he think he was going? He still wasn't his healthy self yet.
"I am not going on a wheelchair," Kai turned and glared, and Lita sighed in turn. From everything Kai had went through he only had one scar, which wasn't large, more like the length of a nail. It was one scar that was just above his left eye, covered by the bangs of his hair.
"Oh yes you are!" Lita stomped her foot as she watched Kai fail on standing and fall back down on the bed. He got tired too easily to be walking.
After about half an hour Lita had managed to coax Kai into sitting on a wheelchair, while she pushed it, of course his male pride came to annoy him again.
"This is embarrassing." Kai glared round at Lita and hoped she would let go and let him push himself around. Even if he was suppose to do as minimal physical activities as possible. Lita shook her head, and continued to walk out of the ward, meanwhile Kai managed to keep his glare fixed on anyone that gave him more than a second glance.
"So? Now where do you want to go?" Lita chuckled as Kai just grunted obviously hating the fact that he was depending on some else rather than himself.
After a few minutes of silence and the only sound being the footsteps of Lita shoes, Kai managed to tell her his destination.
"To see if my mothers any better…" He hadn't heard of anything of her, just because he hadn't asked, just in case something bad had happened. Though eh was sure if something bad had happened he would have definitely been told about it.
"I heard she's not on life-support anymore." Although Kai's recovery was quick, Enya was still in some coma, or non-physical state where she couldn't really move. The doctors had suggested it was because of the bitbeast. It wasn't a real person that had inflicted the damaged, and also Kai had Dranzer to help replenish his energy.
Kai didn't say anything, but just waited patiently as he came closer and closer to his mothers hospital room, which happened to be labelled room thirteen. He glared at the sign, it looked as if all superstitions had gone out the window. When Lita had opened the door and actually let Kai wheel himself inside she looked at the woman who she had become very close to over the years. "Can you leave?" Lita smiled as she was pulled back into reality she was nodded. "Sure, though don't try to walk anywhere!" She chuckled when she received another one of Kai's famous remarks. "Whatever."
He looked on at his mother, now only a drip with fluids was left. She would wake up soon if she continued on the way she was going, Kai sighed. The bruises that had once been purple and blue had died down to light greens and yellows. At least she now looked like she would live with all of the dried blood gone.
"Can you hear me?" A finger moved, and Kai couldn't help but sigh in relief, he would now be able to ask some questions… Even though he would have wanted to have a decide answer, more than a yes or no anyway… "I'll take that as a yes… But…." There was a short pause, Kai wondering how he would say this without making himself look like a complete idiot.
"I think I know who did this to you…" The finger stayed still, and in Enya's mind she wished that her son didn't know as he would end up getting too angry, not like she wasn't but still. Kai was the one with explosive anger that would hurt as many people as possible just to calm himself down. Whether he felt guilty afterwards was something completely different.
"If I'm wrong… Answer me, and if I'm not don't…" He hoped his mother would tell him the truth, because if he did found out she had lied to him he had no idea what he would do. "Is the person that is causing all of this trouble -."
Before Kai could finish he was interrupted by none other than the person he was going to ask about. He glared slightly and moved away from his mothers bedside. Adonis looked surprised when he noticed Kai was in the room as well.
"You're here too?" Adonis shut the door behind him gently and gave a small smile to his son, which didn't look happy to see him.
"She is my mother after all." He grumbled, still looking at his father through narrowed eyes. Why was his father here? He hadn't came once to visit him, why did he come here first - hell Kai was sure he hadn't even seen Sota.
"I'm not moaning at you I'm just surprised you would be up and about." Adonis replied happily, but there was something in his voice that made Kai want to shiver, "Not really." He glanced down at the wheelchair he would be using for a few more weeks.
"When will you be discharged…?" Adonis sat near Enya's bedside and Kai tensed, his father had a strange aura surrounding him, it was one that seemed just so… Different from the usual one that he had around him. Kai glared again, this time folding his arms and saying his words bluntly. "Stop acting like you care."
"I do." Adonis replied, but was quickly answered by Kai again.
"Lair." Kai mocked, and Adonis frowned slightly not knowing were his son's attitude was coming from.
There was a pause, and an awkward silence, which was something that both Hiwatari's preferred over speaking to one another. "I thought you trusted me…" Adonis broke the silence and looked over at his still-glaring son. "I did." Kai shrugged and refused to let down his glare.
"So you have never fully trusted me?" Adonis asked, wondering if it was the best decision to come back, even though it had appeared like Kai was slightly more trusting…Well than usual.
"The only reason why I let you come near Sota was because she does have a right to know what a horrible, cowardly person was her father." That wasn't really the reason, but Kai didn't want Adonis to know that he had trusted him, and now that seeds of deceit had been planted at the back on his brain then he would have to stop trusting this man.
"Was?" Adonis raised an eyebrow wondering why his son had used the past tense.
"I hope you rot in hell." Kai turned to look at something else, other than his father he didn't want his father here. He just wanted him to disappear. Again.
"Calm down. You're saying that as if I've physically struck you." Adonis frowned as Kai hissed back in pure hatred, "Don't worry my stepfather made sure of that." Adonis sat down, he sighed and glared back at Kai now not liking the tone Kai was using. "So I've heard."
"Hey guys." Lita smiled and sat next to Rei. He gave a smile in return and went back to looking around and finally asked, "Hey, where's Kai?" He had seen Lita taking Kai some place but he hadn't stopped to ask as Max and Tyson were already ahead and yelling for him to hurry up. It was his turn to buy the food…
"I took him to his mothers room. Didn't want to intrude, you know?" Lita looked around, and at the food that was on the table, she gave a confused look to Max who was putting mustard onto his chips. She turned her nose up at it, it didn't look very nice.
"Yeah, guess you're right." Rei nodded and also tried to stop himself from laughing as Lita seemed to move as furthest away from Max as possible.
Aton walked around the corner, he had a small smile on his face until he had noticed that his brother was not there with everyone else. "Where's my little brother…?" A worried frown came across his features just in case Kai had decided to disappear again. But Lita just smiled warmly at Aton and told him where he could find his brother.
"In his mother's hospital room." Aton sighed, he would leave Kai alone then, since he never did like people coming in, in emotional times. Aton casually sat down, happy to get a seat.
Kenny added, "I saw Adonis heading there too." He had seen him, but he wasn't sure that Adonis had seen him… Kenny had smiled, but Adonis looked slightly annoyed about something and had gone off in a lift. Aton froze, and turned to Kenny wondering why he hadn't told him that first thing, then again the boy was smart, not psychic.
The purple-haired boy asked slowly as if he was still trying to get his brain to process it. "Adonis? Was going to my mother's room?" His eyes narrowed and then suddenly felt something in his gut. It began to twist and make him feel uncomfortable, this wasn't good.
"Yeah? Why?" Kenny asked, but everyone else at the table sensed that there was something very wrong.
"Nothing, I'll be back in a minute." Aton s slipped out of the chair he had only sat down on and began to walk away. Rei and a few others frowned until Max finally asked, hoping that someone would be able to answer.
"What's wrong with him?" Kenny looked around, but most of them had went back to their meals, slowly eating. "He'll probably be away to check if they are trying to kill each other." Selene stated, it was unusual for her to talk, especially since she seemed much more pre-occupied on Tyson's table manners… Which were nothing too pleasant.
"Yeah they two have never got on." Tyson remembered the first time he had seen Kai and Adonis talk to each other, it was as if Adonis had done something unbelievable and Kai had known, and had hated.
"So what was I meant to do? Come back even though I had failed to -." Adonis was interrupted again by the raging blue-haired boy. Kai was sure that his blood pressure was now through the roof.
"- bring Aton back? That only made me trapped in the Abbey, and Sota be given a beaten by those horrible step-parents!" It wasn't his past that was annoying Kai so much it was Aton's and Sota's they had had bad lives as well and here was his father saying nothing was his fault!
"You cannot blame me for not knowing they would hit you." Adonis frowned deeply, and Kai was on the edge of his chair, wanting to stand up and hurt his fath-- hurt Adonis…
"So, it makes it okay. Just because you didn't know!" Kai yelled, and again thought about leaving, but then the other thought of Enya and Adonis in the same room alone… He decided to stay even if Adonis was annoying the hell out of him.
"Look, Kai, so-." Adonis wasn't allowed to finish the sentence.
"Don't dare call me that!" Kai was now going to sever any link he had with his so called father. Adonis was never there for him, sure he had helped at the start of the year but then he had just disappeared. Adonis on the other hand was much more concerned in calming his son down.
"This isn't doing anything for your health, calm down."
Kai waited for a few minutes, if he was wrong then nothing bad would happen he would just end up with no leads… Then again how could he know if he was right without letting on that he knew…? Kai blinked and looked up at his father, and asked a bold question, his hand still holding onto his mothers.
"If mother dies… Can we hold a funeral?" Adonis nodded and Kai tenses wondering if he had really been wrong, but then Adonis answered verbally. "Yes, It would be the normal thing to do."
A triumphant smirk appeared across his face, even though his anger was building up to extreme levels.
"I was right, it is you…" Adonis's head snapped round to his youngest son and gave him a look of confusion wondering where he had got that idea from. "Why would you think that?"
"The blue book, I had always wondered why mother would agree to something like that to a bitbeast." Kai was referring to the very first time he had read that book. His own mother had used her own genes, not like he had remembered that after everything that was happening.
"You know Kai. Do you have this blue book?" Adonis raised an eyebrow and Kai glared, he wasn't sure what to say. He was in a hospital so… He decided to tell the truth.
"Yes. I do." Was all that Kai said.
"Hand it over and I'll prove it was not written by me." Kai looked at him suspiciously eyeing him up and down wondering if he should give the book over. Kai took the book out from under the wheel chair, he had kept the book and Dranzer with him at all times, no matter where he had been.
"Go on then." He threw the book at his father, which caught it in an ungraceful way an smiled when he looked back down at his son.
"You know, I'm actually pretty surprised…" Adonis trailed off again and sat down closer to the wheelchair just so Kai would be able to hear. "…And disappointed that you would think…" Kai had heard what he had thought was some sort of 'I can't believe you would think I done this!' Kai immediately felt guilty and slightly stupid.
Aton was grateful that the hospital had placed phone boxes inside; at least he didn't have to walk so far and he would have enough time to phone and also get to his mother's room. Just in case this feeling wasn't just a feeling. Aton had been told to report anything unusual or anything that was worrying him, and this was definitely worrying him.
"Yes, Police…" Aton was bored with the monotone the operator always used, no matter when he had phoned, the lady would always sound as if he was interrupting her from some greater task. When he had heard the serious voice of the police operator then he knew at least he would be taken seriously.
"Is the Inspector that is working on the Hiwatari case there, the one that has attempted murders on the family members…?" There was a small drone going on in the background and Aton couldn't help but be irritated when the officer had said some cliché line.
"Sure, I'll hold." Aton wasn't sure if someone up there hated him or if it was just a very bad year for him. None the less he was thankful that no cheesy music came on to annoy him further, and after a few minutes a voice that he recognised came and answered.
"Yes. It's Aton… Hiwatari." The conversation would need to be short he had already racked up five minutes when he had only suppose to be on for a few. Still Aton had to make sure that this Inspector would do as he said, not like he could force him to.
"Would it make any sense to think that Boris… Isn't the one behind all of this?" There was a stop of consideration on the other side of the phone and then the questions started coming. Ones that Aton was sure he wouldn't be able to answer over the telephone.
"Yeah, I think I may know." Aton muttered, not really wanting to be right. Aton listened as he was given a small lecture on why he should give the police as much information as possible. Aton sighed, and then knew he would have to hang up, he'd been on for just under ten minutes…
"I'll talk to you later, though send someone down here. To the local hospital since I think my little brother may end up in trouble…" There was another pause and then more questions were thrown at him, but he dismissed them and answered.
"I've got to go. Get here quickly." Aton slammed the phone down and went towards the lifts.
Author's Note: Well I will update as soon as I can… Since I have wrote the dialogue for next chapter then it shouldn't take too long… The last chapter will be a LONG one. I think… Or rather I hope, to end it well… So please review, even though it was slightly boring compared to the others.
