Don't Say You Love Me
By Mishi-chan
Disclaimer: I do not own BeyBlade in any way. It's because of Takao Aoki that we have such hott bladers XD
Chapter 2
Dranzer ripped through the soil viciously as Kai focused on the movements of his blade. They had been practicing for hours now and, to Kai's relief, Tyson and Co. were still nowhere to be found. Or so he thought. Kai heard a yell from inside the dojo, followed by a yell that sounded something like, " Grandpa!" Meanwhile inside the dojo, Tyson was yelling at an elderly man in a traditional kendo outfit.
" That stick could've hit me Grandpa!"
" That just shows you need to keep up your training, my man! And it's not a stick!" the old geezer replied with a roar. For the first time since their arrival, Grandpa turned to face the group only to notice a new face.
" Whoa, who's the new dudette?" He asked in confusion while staring at the young girl with a black messenger bag.
" First of all it's not "dudette", it's Tsukino. Second, your aim was off when you attempted to hit the baka. So he's not the only one who needs to practice his kendo," Tsukino commented with a skeptical expression as she took his kendo stick and balanced it in her hands. Grandpa had a look of astonishment on his face. No one noticed Kai as he slipped back inside the dojo through the back door. He leaned against the wall and began to watch. Kai's crimson-eyes came to a stunning realization as his rested upon Tsukino. The girl before him was the same girl who rammed into him earlier. Tsukino began to flip the kendo stick around, when she suddenly jumped into the air. She came back down and hit Tyson square on the head. He began to shriek in pain as the wood collided with his skull. The coffee-eyed girl tossed the stick back to Grandpa.
" That's how you do it," Tsukino remarked, pointing at Tyson's agony with her thumb. Grandpa nodded his head in approval while Max and Rei laughed at their friend's "misery". Tyson finally stopped screaming and turned to Tsukino.
" Well Tsukino, it seems you have met Grandpa," Tyson said as he turned to Grandpa, " and Gramps, this is Tsukino. She's our new teammate and will be staying here with us." Then under his breath, Tyson muttered, "Unfortunately." Tsukino heard this comment, took the kendo stick again and bopped him on the head. As soon as he started screeching again, she gave back the stick with a smirk tight on her face and her arms crossed against her chest.
" So, can we have another mattress?" Rei finally asked. Grandpa nodded with a smile and led them into the dojo.
" Wait right here. I'll get one from the other room," he told them, and with that, he left. Tsukino's eyes scanned the room, and then they rested upon the two-toned, blue-haired boy.
'SNAP!! That's the same guy from earlier!' Tsukino thought as recognition dawned upon her. A flashback of her fall earlier on her roller blades replayed across her mind.
" Hey Max, who's that over there?" she questioned the blonde innocently as she pointed to the stoic team captain.
" Oh, that's just our team captain, Kai" Max happily replied with a bright smile.
" A.K.A. Mr. Sourpuss!" Tyson added, emphasizing "sour". Kai "hned" a reply as Grandpa stepped back into the room with a mattress and a blanket.
" There you go, little dudette! Hope ya enjoy your stay!" Grandpa said excitedly. Then he leaned over to Tsukino's ear and whispered, " Don't let Tyson bug ya. You should really hit'em in the head more often." Tsukino smirked at the last statement, and then took the futon and the blanket. She took them to the very far side of the room where no one was and laid out her bed quietly.
" Great, just what we need. Another Kai," Tyson mumbled sarcastically under his breath. He then felt another pain on his head and cried out in pain again.
" I heard that," Tsukino growled while removing the kendo stick from Tyson's now very bruised head. Tyson continued to rub his head in soreness.
" Ouch! Where'd that stick come from?" Tyson moaned as Tsukino spun the stick around. Tsukino didn't answer; she just stopped spinning it laid it down against the wall as she walked out of the dojo.
" Good job Tyson. You've only known Tsukino for less than a day and you've already offended her THREEtimes," Rei commented after Tsukino had closed sliding shade of the dojo. He sighed, but then crawled into bed. Max gave Tyson a weak smile, then headed off to his own bed. Tyson shrugged his shoulders and eagerly jumped onto his futon. As soon as he hit the pillow he was out like a light. Grandpa had already left the room, leaving Kai all alone with the three sleeping teens.
' Tsukino huh? So that's the klutz's name,' he thought while standing up from his spot against the wall. Kai walked outside the dojo and into the silvery moonlight above the eastern sky. He looked in front of himself and saw the young female sitting upon one of the rocks at the edge of the small pond. Tsukino looked up at the sound of Kai's soft and almost silent footsteps, her chocolate eyes glittering with the reflection of the full moon. She silently stood up and walked back towards the dojo.
In passing, she whispered in Kai's ear, " Like I said earlier, no one's usually there when I turn the corner…sorry." Tsukino then continued into the dojo, leaving Kai to his thoughts.
The sun hung low in the sky as it turned into the morning dawn. Tsukino sat upon the rocks next to the small pond. It was only about the 6 a.m., but she was wide-awake. The clear water shimmered in the pale, red light of the dawn's awakening. Tsukino stood up from her seat and turned to walk inside the almost silent dojo. As she slid open the dojo's door, a cold face stared back at her.
" What're you doing up?" Tsukino questioned her team captain as Kai stepped out the open door.
" Hmph. I should ask you the same thing," Kai replied coldly, looking over his shoulder slightly to face his new teammate. Tsukino sent him an icy glare, then proceeded into the dojo. Kai continued into the courtyard. He launched Dranzer into the dirt and it began to spin around at a rapid rate. ' Great, I had to get to baby-sit yet another amateur and it had to be a stuck-up girl,' he thought as he practiced.
'Well, at least it's a serious girl,' another voice in piped up in Kai's head. He recognized it as his bit-beast, Dranzer.
' A girl is a girl. They don't belong in the beystadiums. Besides, she's also a klutz,' Kai retorted while recalling yesterday's "incident".
'Ah! I'm insulted! What's wrong with being a girl? I had to get a guy for a master –'
'Dranzer?' Kai cut off.
'Yes master?'
'Shut-up you stupid fire children.'
'Hmph! I'm a phoenix! A phoenix!' Dranzer ranted as he retreated from Kai's mind. He practiced for a while longer before calling Dranzer back to his hand. By now, the sun was high in the sky. Kai walked back towards the dojo when all of a sudden, there was a screech from inside followed by a loud "whack" and another screech. Kai walked inside the building to see Tyson rubbing his head, a laughing Max, and a sighing Rei standing next to a ticked-off Tsukino, who had the Kendo stick back in her hands again. Kai crossed his arms and raised an irritated eyebrow.
" What happened?" he inquired in his usual, cold demeanor. Max stopped laughing for a moment and turned to his captain before he spoke.
" Hehe . . . well you see . . ."
Flashback
Tsukino walked in to see a yawning Max and then Rei walking in from the kitchen with an apron and chef's hat. Tyson snored loudly as Tsukino passed. He continued to snore and with each snore, Tyson got louder. Rei gave Tsukino and Max a plate of waffles as Tsukino sat back down next to them.
" Here ya go," he said cheerfully. Tsukino took the plate and cut up her meal. As she reached for a bite, a humongous boom of a yawn was heard from Tyson's mouth. She threw down her fork and stood back up.
"Does that idiot ever shut-up?" Tsukino questioned forebodingly. Rei shook his head "no" with a weak smile apparent on his face. Tsukino sighed but then smirked and left the room. She came back with a jalapeno (A/N: It's pronounced hal-e-pea-no) pepper, dripping with red-hot Tabasco sauce. The young teen went over to the cap-clad boy and eagerly stuffed it into his mouth. Tyson immediately awoke and screamed in excruciating pain and heat. Tsukino whipped out her lovely Kendo stick and whacked him in the head. He screamed once more, only louder this time.
End Flashback
"And after that is when you came in," Max finished. Tyson was still rubbing his head from the "whack" and Tsukino had sat down to eat her waffles. Rei had left to get more waffles for Tyson. After all, he was a human garbage deposal. Kai smirked at Tyson's misery, then glanced at Tsukino she looked up from her waffle at the same time.
"What can I say? The baka wouldn't shut-up! Tsukino replied in response to Kai's glance. Rei came back in the room with ten pounds of waffles for Tyson. The navy-haired idiot snatched them eagerly and began to once again stuff his face.
"MMM! Thwese are good Wei!" He sputtered, spewing waffle everywhere. Everyone ducked to avoid the "waffle bullets". Kai climbed to his feet first.
"Well since the moron has woken up, it's time to train," Kai said with an icy stare to everyone in the room.
"WHAT?! NOOO! Tyson screeched. A piece of waffle the size of a baseball flew out of his open mouth and straight for Tsukino. She quickly whipped her Kendo stick back out and whacked the waffle away.
"Batter Up!" she uttered as she hit the "baseball" waffle. The piece flew way with tremendous force as it soared across the dojo. . .and right into Kai's face. All was silent as he quickly shook it off and gave a death glare to Tsukino, who was trying her hardest not sneer. The best she could do was suppress it into a smirk.
"Congratulations, you'll be today's first victim to my blade," he said as turned away and walked out to the courtyard. Tsukino boldly walked out after him as Max and Rei exchanged nervous glances.
"This match will definitely be . . . interesting," Max commented hesitantly. Rei only nodded in reply while Tyson burped loudly.
"Can I have seconds?"
Kai readied his blade as Tsukino readied hers. The teammates got into blader stance as the rest of the team filed out of the traditional Japanese building.
"3! Tsukino shouted.
"2!" Kai grunted in reply.
"1! Let it RIP!" They shouted in unison as the duo released their blades to do battle. Dranzer and Hikari circled for a moment before Dranzer moved in for the attack.
" GO! DRANZER!" Kai commanded his blade. The blue beyblade charged toward the opposing crystal blade. Sparks flew as the two forces collided. Hikari was pushed back slightly, but then pushed forward in retaliation. Dranzer was pushed backwards towards her master and Kai clenched his fists in slight aggravation. " DRANZER!" he called out, " BLAZING GIG!" Dranzer became illuminated by a seemingly wild fire. It charged forward while a fiery phoenix arose from the blaze. Just as the fire was about to hit its target, a voice cried out suddenly.
" Hikari! Evade," Tsukino calmly commanded. Hikari sped up and spun up a nearby rock. It used the angle of the stone and took flight into the air.
" Now attack! CRYSTAL GALE!" Hikari came back down at an alarming speed, a mighty force of icy wind surrounding it. The two mighty attacks collided into a great blast of power. The blades flew backwards in the direction of their individual masters, but not to them. Dranzer soared behind Kai and implanted itself into the wooden fence. Hikari scraped past Tsukino's right arm and became engraved in a nearby tree. The smoke from the clash blew away in all directions, eventually revealing burn marks upon the soil.
" Wow, a tie!" Max exclaimed safely from the sidelines. Kai pocketed Dranzer and walked off silently. Tsukino retrieved her crystal blade with her left hand and walked off into the direction of the dojo.
" Hey, Tsukino nice match!" Rei complimented as she coldly brushed by. Tsukino didn't acknowledge him, just continued into the dojo and slammed the door behind her. As soon as she was out of earshot and sight, Tsukino learned against the wall and breathed heavily, with crimson blood trickling down her right arm.
The days passed as team practices wore on. Tyson still lost due to his and the rivalry between Tsukino and Kai still wreaked havoc on whatever the stadium was. But they always ended up in a tie. A few weeks had passed since the battle and it was a cloudy, sun-less day much to the BladeBreakers dismay. The group of four walked back to the dojo from the BBA registration office. Kai departed from the team as soon as they left the office after registration for the tournament. Along the way back to the dojo, the group was silent for a moment, before Tyson spoke up.
" Who wants PIZZA?!" he shouted loudly. Max and Rei jumped in surprise while Tsukino flinched slightly. A now very familiar Kendo stick whacked him in the skull for the fourth time that day. After they got over the shock, Rei and Max nodded in agreement. Tsukino saw a shadow shift in the corner of her eye.
" Oh . . . you all go ahead . . . I'll catch up!" Tsukino stated, then she ran off with a determined look on her pale face. Tyson shrugged his shoulders, then led Rei and Max to his "beloved" pizza. On the other hand, Tsukino had secretly doubled-back behind a tree next to the road. As soon as the trio was out of sight, Tsukino looked back into the forest and scanned the area for the shadow. The coffee haired teen wandered into the heart of the wood. All was deadly silent, and then there was a small snap from behind her. Tsukino whipped around in time to see a shadow streak across the pathway. The brunette took a guarding stance and stared intently at the bushes in front of her.
" Who's there?!" she growled viciously. The bushes rustled again as an old man with purple hair and strange, black goggles stepped into sight.
" Aww, now is that any way to treat an old friend?" the strange elder questioned with an obviously fake innocence.
" Boris," Tsukino snarled with a glare that could freeze the sun, " What do you want? Why are you back?" It started to sprinkle lightly onto the ground and Boris began to circle Tsukino in a predator-like way.
" Always right to the chase, eh? Fine, then I've come to take you back. So just come along quietly . . . for old times sake," he said with a smug smirk, stopping behind Tsukino. She quickly whirled around to face him.
" I'd rather die than give you that satisfaction!" Tsukino hissed venomously at the purple-haired freak. Boris's face twisted in irritation and annoyance.
" Fine then," he spat, " I'll just have to take you back by force." Boris turned his back to her and walked back toward the shadows of the deep green forest. As he walked away, tons of beyblades shot out from nowhere. Boris turned his head back to face Tsukino and smirked. " See you later. And then he disappeared. The beyblades continued in their "race" to Tsukino. She whipped out her launcher and shot Hikari out in a speedy defense. Hikari knocked out the entire area in front of her, but the blades were coming from every angle possible.
The black blades came from behind and slashed at her back. She growled in pain as the blades ripped through her pale skin. The shower of raindrops came down harder, mutating into a downpour of liquid bullets. Hikari knocked out as many as she could, but lost speed due to the rain. A few of the blades turned away from Tsukino and ganged up against the crystal blade. After a few moments, Hikari lay on its side in the thick mud. The beyblades continued their assault on the teen as Tsukino fell to her knees. The last blade attacked Tsukino's bleeding wound in her side. She let a cry escape her lips before falling to the ground as black-clad figures raced towards her. Just as she closed her eyes in pain and exhaustion, Tsukino heard their heavy footsteps melt away...
...and anew pair of soft ones stop in front of her.
Well, there you have it. The next chappie of DSYLM. Who do the soft footsteps belong to? Why was Boris after Tsukino? And why does Tyson have an obsession for pizza? So wait for next time in Don't Say You Love Me! R and R! BEWII!
Mishi-chan