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Chapter 5: The Team

"Amano-san!" Gingka smiles. "We did it. We made the team!"

"I know. Omdetou." She smiles and looks back down at Leone and Pegasus sitting before her. She glances over at her hardworking assistant, Hanawa Benkei.

"Hanawa-Kun." The purple haired boy looks up with a curious yet eager look.

"Hai, Senpai?"

"Oi," Gingka taps Benkei's shoulder. "How is she your Senpai?"

"Hanawa-kun is in Middle School still." Kyoya says from across the room.

"Notice me, Senpai." Benkei whispers.

"What?" Kyoya asks.

"Nothing!" Benkei turns back to his work.

"Hanawa-kun, can you go find Stamos-san and Hasama-san?"

"Hai!" He stands and runs out of the room.

"How is he in Middle School?" Gingka mutters under his breath.

"He's only one year under us, Hagane-kun."

"Hagane-Kun?"

"Mado-Kun?" Masamune comes in silently. He tosses her his bey and walks over to his small locker.

"You're the guy who gave us the tour!" Gingka taps his chin, trying to remember his name.

"Yeah, you're that guy." Kyoya teases Masamune. A playful tick mark appears on Masamune's head as he turns around.

"Oh?" He grabs something from his bag and shoves it towards Kyoya. The white object hit Kyoya's face before he can fully dodge.

"HA!" Masamune stands with stars in his eyes and hands on his hips as Kyoya lays gagging on the floor.

"What was that?" Madoka asks.

"My gym socks!" Masamune laughs evilly. Kyoya retaliates by whipping out Masamune's worse enemy…a medal.

"Oh, What's this?!" Kyoya's voice mocking says. "Oh yes, it's the first place medal from last year's beyblade competition!" Masamune pouts in the corner with a small sign above him: Emo Corner.

"Kyoya-kun." Madoka laughs as she puts the medal away. "Come on, you guys need to get to practice! Coach is waiting!" He nods and picks up his gear. Masamune and Gingka do the same.

"Hey Amano-Chan."

"Yeah, Gingka?"

"What's the relationship between Kaichou and Kadoya-Senpai?"

"The two of them met back in middle school. They hated each other at first but after one year at Nationals, they hit it off. They faced against this really hard guy and both of them lost. I guess they bonded over the loss or something. Since then, they've been best of friends. They help each other train and they've been there for the other one a lot."

"Oh." Gingka blinks and walks over to Masamune to grab something.

"Hey, there she is!" King comes in with Hikaru and Benkei. "Madoka!"

"Hi, Stamos-Kun."

"Why wouldn't you call me, King?"

"Cause in Japan, you call people by their last name." She giggles. King playfully taps her arm.

"Well, I'm giving you permission….AGAIN….to call me King. Please do."

"Fine, King-Kun." Madoka laughs as King playfully pouts and walks away.

"Let's just go." Hikaru puts her hands on her hips.

"Why do you even sign up if you don't like to battle?" King asks as he high fives Kyoya and Masamune.

"Cause…." Hikaru steals a glance at Kyoya, who raises an eyebrow. "I just do, okay? It's not like I have to battle. I'm just the sub so it's fine!" She walks out and onto the field.

"Well, okay then." King turns to Gingka. "Don't think I've met you yet. I'm King Stamos. Nice to meet you."

"I'm Hagane, Gingka. Nice to meet you." They shake hands.

"ALRIGHT, LET'S GET TO BATTLING!" King grabs a tighter grip of Gingka's hand and pulls him out of the room.

"Coming, Mado-Kun?" Masamune asks.

"Yep." He nods and leaves with Kyoya. Benkei and Madoka rush to get everything ready and moved outside to their table.

"Welcome to Beyblade training. Your first tournament is in a month, let's get moving." Coach hands out different training techniques to the different bladers. Kyoya and Masamune, the two Senpais, go to the stadium to battle. Gingka and King go to the track field portion and begin running around with their beys. Hikaru goes to the stadium stairs and launches her bey onto the hand rails, again and again.

"I've never had training like that." Gingka pants as he runs along with King. King laughs and pulls ahead with his Variares.

"The point of this is to raise your bey's speed and to raise your awareness of what your bey goes through in battle."

"What's your bey? I've never seen one like that."

"It's called Variares DD. It's a special bey from my homeland, Greece."

"Oh yeah, you're a transfer student. Why did you transfer?"

"I transferred…" He looks down for a minute before coming back up with a smile. "Cause I was curious about Japan! You guys have some awesome bladers here!" He takes off with his bey, forcing Gingka to try to catch up.

"GO STRIKER!" Masamune's voice carries over, catching King and Gingka's attention. The two look over as a large explosion happens from the stadium.

"LEONE!" Kyoya yells. Their clothes whip around them and they raise their arms to block the dirt kicked up from the battle.

"They're pretty awesome, aren't they?!" King shouts over his shoulder.

"Yea…" Gingka doesn't get to finish before Masamune shouts again. King and Gingka come to a stop and watch the battle.

"GO TATEGAMI-SENPAI!" Benkei's voice screams from the sidelines.

As Madoka walks across the school yard, she still couldn't believe the outcome of the battle. It ended in a tie and a trip to the nurse's office for both boys. Coach had just laughed and taken the boys, saying practice was over and to get cleaned up and go home.

Madoka giggles to herself and just continues walking. She told the others she had to run something over to the office and she'd meet Gingka, King and Benkei at Bull Burger, the restaurant owned by Benkei's dad, Hawana Kyousuke.

Something catches her attention, a small boy with blond hair, sitting on the ground with his back leaning against a tree.

"Um, hi there." She calls as she walks over. "Who are you?" She looks at the boy's school uniform, which is different from theirs. The boys uniform for their school was black pants, a white shirt, and a color choice tie. The girls had a similar choice with skirt pattern colors. This boy wore black pants with a white short sleeve shirt and a yellow sweater.

"Me?"

"Yeah." She gulps slightly. "You don't come to our school, right?"

"No." The boy stands and brushes off his pants. "I'm not."

"Then who are you?"

"Tendo, Yu from Dark Nebula Academy." He smiles darkly. "I came to check out the competition."

"I don't think we face you."

"No, not at first, but if you win your first match, you do." Yu giggles darkly. "See you soon, Madoka-chan."