Title: Keeping Secrets
By: Moonlit Sea

Disclaimer: Don't own Beyblade or any of its characters

A/N: okay, I know I said it be a while before I updated but I had a flood of ideas for this story. -smiles-
MyOwnWoRLD: thanks.
You/Kai fic fan: yeah I'll keep it going. No worries.
Dranzen: eek! Okay, okay it'll stay it'll stay.
Frankie the Spunky One: thanks.
Ileftmybraininmylocker: thanks. Will do.

(-Thoughts-)
/bitbeast talking/

Chapter 2 - Nearly Found Out.

As Tyson, Max and Ray walked back to Tyson's, Max decided to ask Tyson about what was going on earlier.

"Hey, Tyson. What's going on between you and Ruby?"

"Huh? What are you talking about, Max?" trying hard not to sound nervous.

Ray listened interestedly to the conversation.

"You two seemed awfully 'cosy' together in math."

"You mean he didn't sit next to you." Ray suddenly said to Max.

Max shook his head and Ray looked over at Tyson curiously.

"What? A guys not allowed to choose who he sits next to?" he said a tad sarcastically.

"It's not that, Tyson." Max said. "It's the way you made her giggle then stay behind with her."

"One might think that you two have some sort of secret." Ray teased.

"Come on, guys. This is Kai's sister we're talking about here. He'd kill me for even smiling at her." Tyson said half defensibly.

Max and Ray looked at each other, both thinking the same thing 'he's hiding something.'

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When Kai and Ruby got home. Ruby went straight to her room dumped her stuff in it and headed for the garden. Kai was already there when she arrived.

"Took you long enough." He said.

"Very funny."

"You ready?"

"Oh yeah." Putting her blade on her launcher. "3…2…1 Let it rip!"

Both blades head straight for each other.

"Go get 'em, Phantom!" Ruby shouts.

Kai looked mildly uninterested, he always won against her and it was starting to get boring but she needed the practice. Dranzer dodged all of Phantom's attacks easily. Kai frowned something wasn't right, he was winning way too easily.

"You're not concentrating, Ruby!" he looked at up at her only to see her smirking.

"Aren't I." She said rhetorically "Now Phantom!"

Kai watched as Phantom suddenly increased with speed and attacked so fast and frequent that it appeared there were several of them. Dranzer began to wobble and Kai growled.

"Looks like I'm gonna win today, Bro."

Kai gave her a quick glance then look back to the blades.
"You'd think that wouldn't you." He said calmly "Dranzer, flame sabre!"

"Oh no you don't. Phantom!"

The Phoenix and Hawk came out of their respective blades and crashed into each other with a resounding bright light. As the light cleared both Dranzer and Phantom had stopped spinning.

"A tie?" Ruby blinked a little amazed. "Woo hoo!" she said happily.

Kai walked over, picked up Dranzer and Phantom and headed over to his sister who was smiling proudly.

"You're getting better." He said handing back Phantom.

"Is that a compliment?" she asked a tad teasingly.

"You wish." Heading indoors.

"That's what I thought." She sighed then looked down at Phantom. (-Good job, Phantom.-) she thought (-guess all that secret training with Dragoon and Ty is paying off, huh?-) as if reading her thoughts Phantom glowed and she chuckled heading in herself.

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Later that night Max sat outside wondering about all the things he'd seen and heard between Tyson and Ruby. Tyson wasn't kidding when he said Kai would kill him for just smiling at his sister.

"Max?"

Max turned at the mention of his name.
"Hey Ray."

"Whatcha doing out here?"

"Thinking." Max replied.

"About Ruby and Tyson?"

Max gave a nod, "Do you believe Tyson when he says there's nothing going on between them?"

Ray shook his head.

"Me either."

"Its obvious Tyson's keeping some sort of secret." Ray said.

"Yeah… hey you think he and Ruby are going out?" Max suddenly said.

They looked at each other before bursting out with laughter. Tyson could be stupid at times but he wasn't that stupid.

"Good one, Max." Ray said still chuckling a little.

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Tyson lay on his bed thinking about the 'questioning' Ray and Max had given him. Was he being too obvious? He hoped not, he didn't fancy the idea of dying if Kai ever found out. (-Maybe I should stop seeing so much of her.-) he thought then chuckled to himself. (-Yeah, right, like I could do that.-)

/Then what are you going to do, Tyson?/ a voice said.

Tyson looked over at his blade and smiled. (-I don't know, Dragoon. I want to spend more time with her but at the same time I can't. And I can't avoid her because that would make them even more 'curious'.-) he gave a frustrated sigh.

/Perhaps it's time you should tell them./ Dragoon suggested.

(-Are you kidding! Kai would kill me! And I kinda promised Ruby I wouldn't tell anyone.-)

/But how much longer can you go on like this? You nearly were caught today weren't you. Luckily for you it was only Max./ Dragoon pointed out.

Tyson blushed a little at nearly getting caught with his arms around Ruby.
(-You're not helpful. You know that.-)

The Dragon chuckled /It appears you've trapped yourself in a corner with no way out./

Tyson groaned. (-Leave me alone, Dragoon. I'm having a crisis here and all you can do is make fun of me.-)

/I'm sorry, Tyson. I couldn't help it./

(-Sure you couldn't.-) Tyson though sarcastically then he suddenly he got an idea. (-I think I'll give her a call.-)

/Are you sure that's a good idea? What if Kai picks up?/ Dragoon said.

(-He won't and I don't remember asking your opinion.-)

/Touchy./

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Ruby sat in her room waiting for the time when she would sneak out and meet up with Tyson. Just then her mobile rang making her jump, she smiled as she looked at the caller id.

"Hello."

"Hey, Ruby." Tyson's cheery voice said.

"Hey, Ty."

"How ya doin'?"

"Better, now that I'm talking to you."

Tyson chuckled and Ruby could tell he was blushing.

"Sometimes I wonder how you're ever related to Kai." He joked.

"Don't we all." She replied quietly. "Hey guess what…" changing the subject.

"What?"

"I drew with Kai today." She said beaming happily.

"Really? Awesome!"

"Yeah…" she then heard a floorboard squeak outside her door she looked over at the door her eyes narrowing.

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Kai was walking past Ruby's room on his way to his own when he heard "I drew with Kai today." As her door was slightly open Kai peeked in curious to see who she was talking to. He saw her sitting on her bed talking on her mobile. He moved to lean against the wall when the floorboard squeaked. He cursed himself mentally for forgetting about it then heard her say, "Yeah… er… listen I gotta go." "Uh huh, same to you. See ya." Kai quickly walked round the corner and watched as he saw Ruby come out of her room and look up and down the corridor.

"Anyone there?" she asked "Kai? That you?" she took another quick look in the corridor then shrugged going back into her room and closing the door.

Kai continued on his way to his room. It wasn't that he cared about getting caught for listening to her conversation but it was something about the way she spoke to that person. She was hiding something from him, and was going to find out what it was. Whether she liked it or not.

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Well hoped you all like it
Moonlit Sea