Zomg. New chaptterrr.
I got it up in time too! Hoorayy!
Thank you to my reveiwers: Angel Neko-Jin and KaiROXMyWorld. I'll reply to them now because I forgot. -Blushes-
Angel Neko-Jin: Pmsl! You read it again? Zomg. But, I agree, it was a great beginning! Thank you so much! Yeah, I have a thing for those flashbacks too. There will be more this chapter! Thankkk yoouuuu.
KaiROXMyWorld: Thank youuu.
-Anyway, This chapters a lot more stuff going on it. More Flashbacks and the plot begins to show here too. And sorry for the random title of Chapter 2 :'. It's a line out of 'Just A Girl' By No Doubt.
This Chapter isn't as long as the last one, but it's only like 400 words off.. or something like that.
And again ths chapter is dedicated to Angel Neko-Jin, I think she's been hanging out for thsi chapter.. I think? Oh! And I'll dedicate the ohter half to KaiRoxMyWorld, because she/ he Reviewed.
Disclaimer: I Don't own beyyybladddeeeeee. -I Don't get why we need to say this crap-
Anddddd I didn't proofread it.
'Cruel To Be Kind'
Chapter 2: What I've Become Is So Burdensome
Kai's eyes glared into hers as she thought deeply how to explain their lateness to Kai. "Well?" He torn his eyes from hers and stormed over near the couch.
"We got a little carried away. Tyson couldn't stop eating" she paused looking at Kai, he wasn't too impressed. "And they asked me How I met you" Kai's face fell as he looked toward the floor.
"Did you tell them?" he asked pulling his head up to look at her, his expression soft and calm.
She nodded and gulped. "Yeah" She turned to face her back to him. "I'm sorry, they just kind of put me on the spot.." she said softly and began walking down the hall.
"No, they have a right to know" he replied and she turned back around. "Only how we met?" he asked and she nodded in reply.
Kai slowly sat himself on the couch and Nina walked back into the lounge, she made her way to the couch and sat herself next to him. They sat in silence for a few minutes before Nina looked over at Kai.
"I never really thanked you for getting me out of there" she shuddered, "Thank you so much" she smiled as her arm gently touched his.
He turned to look at her, a small genuine smile playing on his lips. "No problem" he leaned back against the backing of the couch and put his arms behind his head.
She stood up and looked down at Kai. "Night" she yawned as she stretched her arms over her head. "Bright and early?"
Kai nodded. "6" he stated simply. "Can you switch the light off when you go to bed?" he asked slightly opening one eye and looking at her.
She nodded. "Sure" and with that she headed down the hall and in to Kai's room, but before she entered she switched the light off with a smile. Fourth door down.
-Dream-
"Kai, you've taught me so much" the wind whistled through her hair, blowing it in all different directions.
He just smiled and closed his eyes. "I didn't teach you anything" she looked at him, confusion flashing through her eyes.
He just laughed as he made his way to the edge of the branch; he looked down toward the ground and put his stone cold face back on as he turned to her. "You rediscovered your own talent" he stated as he fell from the branch.
"KAI!" she screamed at the top of her lungs and crawled as quickly as possible over to the edge of the branch. She smiled, his hand had caught the last branch and he had let himself down onto the ground.
"C'mon Nina" he encouraged. "Its fine" he reassured her.
"I'll go down the safe way, thank you" she turned and was about to go back when she heard chicken noises. She looked down at Kai. "Oh, no! You did not just start making chicken noises.
Kai smirked as he continued with the chicken noises. "ALRIGHT!" she yelled at him and rolled her eyes. "What do I do?"
"Just fall, none of the other branches will hit you. They're too short." He paused and looked up at Nina with squinty eyes. "And when I say now, reach out your closest arm to the tree, try and grab onto a branch" he shrugged his shoulders as he put a hand to his forehead, trying to block out the sun.
"And then what? Oh, Just fall TO MY DEATH!" she yelled down at him, why did she agree? Stupid chicken noises.
"I'll catch you" he assured her with a smile.
"Promise?"
Kai rolled his eyes. "Jesus Christ" he mumbled under his breath. "It's not that far down" he pointed out.
"Far enough to me to break an arm or two!" she yelled and turned her back to look back at the tree.
"I Promise."
She smiled and turned back around. She looked down to where Kai was and bit her lip. "So do I just.. fall?" she asked, worried and confused, but she knew she could trust him.
"Yeah" he replied putting his arms out in a catching position. "I'm right here."
She nodded, the fear began to build up in her stomach, it was making her feel so sick. She closed her eyes and bit her lip. She fell.
That fear was suddenly released as she fell, instead of that sick feeling in her gut, now it was thrill, this sudden jump pumped adrenaline through her veins and made her feel fearless, untouchable.. Free.
She began to listen for Kai's voice, hoping it would come soon. It had only been a few milliseconds since she fell, but she was waiting.
Now she was worrying, it had been way too long, but then again Kai liked to tease her. She again listened intently, waiting to here his sweet voice.
"NINA!" his voice screamed out. She instantly reached out for a branch in fear of not finding one, but her fear had caught up with her. There were no branches left. Too late to scream.
Serve pain jolted through her body and she screamed out in pain. "NINA!" His voice called again, his voice dripping with concern, pain and fear.
She couldn't move her legs, too much pain. She struggled to even open her eyes. "K.. K..k-kai?" she managed to say as her eyes opened.
To her surprise her vision was clear and she saw Kai being tied with rope by 5 men dressed in a purple uniform. "NINA!" hot tears stained his pale cheeks. "I'm so sor-" he was cut off by a stab in the stomach.
Kai's eyes widened in horror as blood began to spurt from his abdomen, he fell to his knees as blood pooled around his feet. Nina watched in shock as Kai took his last breath of life and fell face first on the soft grass that was now covered in his blood. Dead.
Nina used her last spark of energy and screamed out for help as hot tears rolled down her cheeks. "Kill her too."
"NINA! NINA! WAKE UP!"
-End Nightmare-
She opened her eyes and saw Kai and the rest of the team surrounding her bed. She sat up straight away and clung onto Kai like a life line as tears fell from her eyes. "Hey, hey" Kai rubbed his hand up and down her back. "Shhh. its okay, its okay" he cooed in her ear.
He turned his head too look at his bewildered team mates. "Back to bed. Extra training tomorrow, you'll need your sleep" he ordered.
They nodded in reply and slowly made their way out of his room. "Rei, how about you make us three hot chocolates?" Kai asked as he turned his attention back to the blubbering Nina.
Rei smiled. "They'll be ready in a few minutes" he said quietly, flowing Max out of the room.
"K-kai?" she sobbed into his chest. Muscly Chest.
Kai began to rock her back and forth. "I'm right here" he cooed into her ear again, but her grip tightened around his waist.
She smiled and turned back around. She looked down to where Kai was and bit her lip. "So do I just.. fall?" she asked, worried and confused, but she knew she could trust him.
"Yeah" he replied putting his arms out in a catching position. "I'm right here."
"Don't leave!" she whispered harshly. "Stay here!" she whispered again as she poked her head out from Kai's wet shirt.
"I'm not going anywhere" he gave her a reassuring smile and she buried her head back into his chest. He frowned in confusion. What happened?
-A few Minutes Later...
Nina sat on the couch in a little ball, a blanket around her body and a mug of hot chocolate in her hand. Her eyes were all red and puffy; she sniffled a little and wiped her nose with a tissue.
Kai sat next to her, a mug in his hands too. Though, he didn't plan to drink it. Kai drink Hot chocolate? He ran a hand through his hair and looked down at his wet bonds singlet. He would've changed it, but Nina wouldn't let go of him. Women.
Rei sat across from them both, his long hair tied back into a flip bun, he also sat there wearing a shirt and a pair of long PJ pants with a mug of hot chocolate in his hands.
"What happened, Nina?" Kai finally asked and put his mug of hot chocolate on coaster that was sitting on the coffee table.
Nina bit her lip. "I had a nightmare" she stated, trying to avoid the question by looking deep into her hot chocolate.
There was a long silence. She contemplated weather to look up or not. She looked up and saw Kai staring at her with an eyebrow raised. Doh.
She looked over at Rei and decided not to go into too much detail. "Well" she began, "Kai and I were sitting in this really tall pine tree. We were talking about beyblading and stuff when Kai jumped out of the tree. Some how you" she pointed at Kai, "had grabbed onto the last branch and.. I don't know" She shook her head lightly. "Then you wanted me to do it and I said no, but then you started making chicken noises." She stopped and looked over at Kai. He looked very confused; he had both his eyebrows raised. She then looked over at Rei and he had a smile on his face.
"So I agreed. You promised me if I didn't catch the branch you'd catch me, I believed you, so I fell" she gulped. "It felt really good falling and stuff, until I heard you scream out my name. I tried to reach out for a branch, but it was too late and I hit the ground. When I opened my eyes you were being tied up by these guys in purple suits and they stabbed you. I tried to get up and run, but I couldn't, the pain felt so real" her body began to shake, the tears welling up in her eyes again. "And they were about to kill me."
Rei swallowed and looked over at Kai. Kai was frowning deeply, he was thinking, but he couldn't come up with anything. All he knew was that this had happened before; Nina had had a bad dream the last time she stayed with Kai. She had a nightmare that Theo was killed and a few months later he was murdered.
Kai looked up at Rei. "Rei, I'll see you in the morning" Kai bowed his head.
Rei nodded and stood up, he gave Nina a tight hug and went off down the hall into his bedroom. "Did you want me to stay with you?" Kai asked, his eyes showing concern.
She nodded. "Yeah" she said shakily.
Nina slid into bed silently, enjoying the soft sheets brush up against her skin. She watched Kai slowly take of his shirt, he then turned back toward her and walked up to the bed, and he silently slipped.
"I'm right here."
-Early in the Morning...
Kai wriggled for a moment and suddenly felt a pair of arms grip tighter around his waist. He found his arms around someone else's waist too, he quickly removed them and tucked them both behind his head. The body next to him squirmed and he felt a light weight fall on his chest. Maybe he should get out? He opened his eyes and looked down. Nina. Maybe just a little longer.
Her head rose and fell with his chest, he coughed, and she could feel the muscles in his chest tighten. Suddenly she felt a soft hand comb her hair; she couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
He looked down and saw her eyes flutter. Shit. Kai wriggled again and softly, gently slid out of bed. Nina opened her eyes and looked up at Kai. "What.. What are you doing?"
"Early training session" he said, his cold face staring down at her. He turned away and walked over to the closet.
She sighed, pushing the covers of herself. She had startled him, she shouldn't have opened her eyes, she shouldn't hav-
"Nina?" she heard her name and looked up. Kai stood there with no shirt on, only long PJ bottoms and his hair stuck out in all different directions.
"Yeah?" she smiled taking a few steps closer toward him.
He bit his lip and ran a hand through his hair before he looked toward the ground. "It's nothing" he stated standing up tall and putting his cold face back on. "Be reading in five minutes" he added and left the room.
Nina frowned as she made her way over to the closet and searched through her bag of belongings. She pulled out her white ¾'s, her blue heels, a white single, her blue and white stripped jacket, a hairbrush and a pair of flat, almost sports like shoes, white of course. She walked across the carpet to the door and opened it. She made her way down the hall and into the bathroom.
She changed out of her PJ's and into her normal outfit. After tying up the laces on her shoes she stood up straight and ran the hairbrush through her short brunette locks, flicking the ends out as she went.
-Later, at the park...
"Thanks for.. last night" she blushed, slowing down her jog into a slow walk.
Kai smiled at her. "Don't mention it" he stopped and took a deep breath as Nina caught up him. "It's not the first time it's happened."
Nina stopped as soon as she reached Kai. "What?" she frowned in confusion at Kai.
"About a month before Theo died you had this dream that Theo was shot dead and bled to death" he looked down toward the grass, "It took him a week to convince you it wouldn't happen" a small smile crawled in to Kai's lips.
"But it did" she looked down at her feet. Why couldn't she have stopped it. "We could've stopped it."
"Could've, would've, should've" he said, "The past is the past, Nina" he added.
The tears were welling up in Nina's eyes. "How can you talk like that? As if he doesn't even matter!" she whispered harshly, furiously wiping back the tears.
He looked up at her. "No point in dwelling on the past, Nina" he turned his back to her and looked at the now rising sun.
"He was our best friend Kai!" she yelled at him through the sobs. She walked in front of him and stood there, her eyes staring into his.
"I know, Nina" he paused, "People come and go, some leave nothing, others do."
"I can't believe you!" she screamed, the tears making her eyes red and puffy. "You guys were friends for years and now you don't even give him the least bit of respect by remembering him!"
"Theo would've wanted it like that. He would've wanted us to move on" Kai crossed his arms over his chest and closed his eyes.
"You don't even care about him!" she was sobbing wildly, "I thought you were different Kai, despite what people said about you, from the first day I met you I always thought there was a heart of gold under all that cold and unfriendly crap, but obviously not!" she wiped back her tears again and grabbed her bag.
She swung the bag over her shoulders and ran. "Goodbye Kai Hiwatari" she whispered too herself as she sprinted along the grass, having no idea where she was going.
Kai slowly opened his eyes; he turned his head and watched her run off with her bag on her back.
-Flash back-
"Shhh. Nina. It's okay, it's over now" Theo cooed into her ear. He rubbed his hand down her back a few times.
"What happened, Nina?" Kai looked at her with soft eyes.
She began to sob again. "Theo, you and I" she began, "we were walking down this crowded street and we turned into this alley way" she paused, taking a deep breath, "and you were there Kai. We talking about the next tournament we were going to enter when this guy came out of the corner waving a gun in the air" she managed to say before shoving her head into Theo's chest.
Kai placed a hand on Nina's shoulder. "Then…?" he gulped, worried about what she was going to say.
Nina pulled her head out of Theo's chest and looked at Kai. "You guys pounced on him. Tackling him and stuff" she wiped her eyes, "After you two smashed the crap out of him, Kai you stood up while Theo tried to tie him up. Kai, you were walking over to me when that guy shot you in the thigh, and then-" she burst out into tears, "Theo, you ran over to Kai when that guy shot you in the back" she whispered the last part and grabbed onto Theo like a life line.
-End Flashback-
Kai remembered that night too well. After Theo went to bed with Nina he came out about 3 hours relieved that she had finally fallen asleep.
Theo sat himself on the couch next to Kai.
-Flashback-
Theo sighed as his head fell back against the couch. "Kai, I'm worried" he stated turning his head to look at Kai.
"What? About a stupid dream?" Kai rolled his eyes. He stood up and walked into the kitchen.
Theo turned around on the couch so his knees were digging into the cushions. He placed his arms on the top of the couch with his head in between them. He watched Kai pull out a glass from the cabinet. "Well. It has happened before."
"What?" Kai whirled around and looked at him, confusion written all over his face.
"No way near as bad as this, but.. She had a dream that she found the perfect blade underneath this cream leather couch" he paused to see if Kai was still listening and he was. "So the next day we went to book into this hotel in Anaheim and in the lobby were these exact copies of what Nina thought she saw in her dream. She went over and actually found a blade under one of the couches, thought it was old and worn, beyond repair, But still! I couldn't believe it!" Theo's eyes widened in amazement of the memory, like it had just happened.
Kai bit his lip. "I wouldn't worry about it Theo. It's only a nightmare and from what you've told me her whole dream didn't come true. Don't get worked up about" that's what Kai was also trying to tell himself.
-End Flashback-
Kai was worried, pure and Simple.
End
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