Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade nor any of the characters, used in the story.
Warnings: Yaoi – boy x boy, AU, possible OOC
Pairings: Tala x Kai, Bryan x Kai, Rei x Kai
~***~ Lost Past ~***~
Rei blinked before slowly turning to Kai with wide eyes.
"Uhm…. Kai? Do you know what this means?" He asked slowly watching the younger boy for any reaction.
But Kai didn't pay any attention to him as he stared at the screen, his brain trying to process everything that was happening. What the hell was Tala doing on that stage? And in TV?! Wait… Tala and others DID come to the city hall an awful lot sooner than the concert should start… that wasn't something people normally did. Not people… only that stupid Tyson and the actual band… members. Kai blinked. Could they be…?
"Rei… those are… they are the Demolition?"
Rei frowned before nodding slowly.
"Yeah… you didn't know?"
Kai frowned, his gaze still glued on the screen.
"I… I didn't…" He mumbled. So… Tala, Bryan, Spencer and that little prick were the Demolition boys? … Why, why didn't they say anything? Kai blinked, suddenly remembering Tala's and Ian's gaps when he said he never heard of Demolitions… That's why they were so surprised… But… They still should say something! Kai DID tell them he didn't know anything about the band… but.. he could ignore that. It's not like he particularly cared, right? His gaze ran over singing figure of Tala and slowly shifted to Bryan playing the guitar…
"Kai?" A voice pulled him from his thoughts and he finally looked at the boy sitting next to him. "I asked… do you know what that means?" Rei asked motioning towards the TV.
"I don't." Kai shrugged, making Rei frown deepen.
"Kai… they said your name…. Your FULL name." Rei knew that Kai hated that… when ANYONE called him 'Alexander', but strangely… he didn't witness any mad reaction at those boys… maybe because Kai was… shocked? Well, Rei hoped so.
Kai shot Rei a little glare.
"Maybe if they didn't hear it from YOU, they wouldn't call me that."
Rei blinked, surprised, before frowning.
"From me? Kai,… I don't know them. How could they hear that name from me." Rei bit his lip as he watched the younger boy, he felt a bit hurt, now that Kai's anger was being turned his way.
"Well, it was you who yelled it in front of Tala." Kai answered, before looking up at the screen again. The redhead was grinning and saying something before closing his eyes for a second and then proceeding in singing another song.
"Tala…?" Rei's frown deepened. "Kai… didn't you just say that you didn't know about the band? So… how do you know singer's name?" He asked slowly, watching as younger's body stiffened. "Kai?"
The bluehaired boy slowly looked from the TV down at Rei.
"I… met them." Kai answered and tried to fight the sudden urge to look back to the performance.
"Met them? Where?" Rei blinked. What…? But… Kai didn't say anything like that to him. And… meeting some bands members… he could tell him about that. "Where?" Rei asked again when he noticed how Kai's eyes flickered between him and the screen. And the teen frowned again. Well, it was obvious that Demolitions caught Kai's attention. And they were first band that actually succeeded in that, not only band, but… Kai hardly paid any attention to anyone if he wasn't sure they were worth it… Rei looked up and glared at the screen, he knew it was stupid, but he felt somehow… jealous? He frowned and shook his head, when he noticed that Kai was FINALLY looking again at him. With a guilty face? Now what did that mean? The boy mumbled something, but Rei didn't quite catch it…
"What did you say?" He asked slowly when Kai looked away. (And he wasn't looking on the screen, for what was Rei thankful.)
"At the pub… yesterday." Kai repeated and began to play with the chocolate that was still standing in front of him.
…it took a while till the words sank down in Rei's brain properly. So THAT was, where Kai was yesterday? THAT was, why was Rei sick worried about him?
"Kai!" Rei pulled away from the boy, so he could properly glare at the younger one, "You know how you got when you drink ANY alcohol!"
Kai rolled his eyes. Yeah… he knew why he didn't tell Rei anything about his late pub visit… It was always like this, and the teen didn't like that patterning tone in Rei's words one bit.
"Rei, I am old enough, you don't have to be such a mother hen to me." He grumbled.
The other's glare hardened.
"I'm NOT a mother hen, Kai. I'm your lover; I have EVERY right to be worried, when you so STUPIDLY decide to go to pub, that late in the NIGHT. You know what single DROP of alcohol is doin-"
Now it was Kai's turn to glare, the screen and concert fully forgotten.
"Why the hell, do you always pull out that stupid alcohol thing?! I'm a fucking Russian for your information, alcohol's in my BLOOD!" He growled, yeah… This wasn't their first argument about alcohol and Kai doubted it was their last. Alcohol was a thing they always argued about, well at least they always argued about Kai drinking alcohol, when Rei wasn't around.
Rei snorted.
"Well when it comes to drinking, you may be African or anything else, but certainly NOT a Russian." (1) The dark haired boy glared; even though he had the feeling he was crossing the invisible line.
"You get all 'snuggly' and 'purry' after just a little amount of that thing! You don't know what you're doing then! You wouldn't even fight back if someone tried to rape you!"
And Rei was SURE he did cross the line, when Kai stood up, took the check and turned back to Rei, while looking at the ground, his eyes being shielded by his bangs.
"Get out of the way…"
Rei winced at the cold tone and sighed. "Kai, I-"
"I said, get out of the way!" The younger boy now looked up, glaring holes into other.
Rei stood, letting Kai walk around him, and watched as the younger boy paid, before storming out of the coffee.
"…Kai… I didn't mean it…" He mumbled, but there was no one who listened to him. The boy looked up at the screen again, glaring at it.
***
Kai huffed as he stormed down the street. Why the hell did Rei always have to bring that up? Kai was old enough to drink alcohol, at least in his own eyes, even though he knew what effect it did on him… but that didn't matter Rei could practically tell him that he was a whore, indirectly of course.
Kai growled, and to all that Rei called him stupid. He didn't care if Rei cared about him or not, there was no one who called Kai Hiwatari stupid and lived to tell the tale. Well, there was Rei now, but that didn't mean that Kai won't be pretty pissed off and mad and -.
"Hey, are you Kai Hiwatari?" A voice asked him and Kai's gaze snapped up. He frowned when he noticed a man watching him closely, a man he didn't know.
"What if I am?" Kai snapped at him and ignored the way the other lifted his eyebrow.
"I was looking for you." The man said and Kai frowned. He DIDN'T know that man, he was sure, so why was he going around looking for him?
"If you're some beggar, you can go fuck yourself." He growled out, eyeing the man suspiciously. He ignored the fact that the man wasn't dressed as one of those people…
But the man seemed to be taken aback, if not insulted a bit.
"No, I'm not," – hm, definitely insulted, Kai mused as his eyes didn't leave the man, waiting for an explanation.
"I was send by Ivanov, he told me to bring you to the backstage, when I'll find you."
Now… this was interesting… "And. Ivanov is?" Kai didn't think he heard that name before… even though…
The man blinked. "Uhm… Tala Ivanov, singer from The Demolition Boys, ring any bells?" The man motioned towards the building next to them. Only then, Kai's mind proceeded the noise coming from inside the building, and blinked surprised, that he didn't notice when he returned back to the city hall. His sight returned from the building to the man in front of him. The man has long hair, shorter than Rei but still long, (even though, In Kai's opinion EVERYONE had shorter hair than Rei) and seemed a bit older thank Kai, himself.
"You know, I'd never though I'd find you here. When Tala dedicated the concert to you and said you were inside, I would await you being there…"
Kai rolled his eyes before glaring again. "Whatever." He crossed his eyes in front of his chest.
The boy – man lifted his eyebrow and stood to side motioning towards back doors.
"So… are you coming inside?" When Kai didn't move the other just shrugged. "Hmm, fine, we can wait for Ivanov, here, I don't care."
Kai looked around and his frown deepened. Well, he was there already, he could talk with Tala and the others and ask them, why they didn't tell him about them being the band members…
"How long till the end of the concert?" He asked slowly, studying the other boy.
The man blinked, looked down at his watch before smiling again.
"Something around an hour."
Kai sighed and nodded.
The boy grinned and motioned towards the door again. "This way."
Kai rolled his eyes and walked inside.
"Oh, I'm Garland, by the way."
***
Garland blinked… and again. From the time the boy sat down on the couch in the Demolitions dressing-room, he didn't make a single movement – and it was more than an half an hour already. Not one movement, not one word… not even answer, when Garland asked him if he wanted something to drink, the boy just shot him a really dirty look, so Garland stood up and waited by the door. He thought about contacting Tala, but as he knew the boy and his spontaneous actions, he wouldn't care about the concert and would come rushing right there. He still remembered how excited the boy was, when he was talking to Garland about that boy and asked him to get him backstage…
FLASHBACK
"Oh, come on, Garland. It won't take long, you know." The redhead almost begged. The other member of the Demolition Boys pretended not to hear their conversation – well, at least Spencer and Ian did pretend, seeing that Bryan wasn't in the room, in that moment. He was probably playing with his guitar, as was the habit of his.
Garland rolled his eyes.
"I said no. I don't have time to be playing your servant Ivanov. I have more important things to do."
Tala lifted his eyebrow. "Yeah? Like what?"
"…like meeting people, going to places and so on." The other said looking away.
The redhead rolled his eyes.
"Oh, don't worry, I'm sure Brooklyn can get here, himself, he doesn't need a babysitter." He stuck out his tongue at the other.
Garland snorted at his friend childishness.
"It's not about Brooklyn. I just don't like going around looking for some boy you want to fuck." Yeah, the boy knew what a playboy Tala was and he really didn't want to spend the day, by looking for some one night stand for the redhead. He was sure it wasn't healthy for him. Or both of them.
Tala looked away at his friends words.
"… it's not about fucking this time…" He mumbled, making Garland look at him. Tala had that serious expression on again, the same one he had when he was fighting Garland in that gang street fight, trying to make him understand, that he and his friends wasn't fighting for anything the thought, they did, and that their 'leader' was just fake and he was leading them on. And he succeeded in opening their eyes in the end even thought it was after the redhead took lot of beating and ended in a hospital for a long time. Spencer and Bryan were furious when they found out later, but that was after Garland and the others left the gang and apologized to Tala and some time after that, they became good friends. But Garland never forgot redhead's serious expression, it was so different from his normal one or that mad one when he was pulling pranks on the other; and somehow the fact that the boy was pulling that expression out now, made him believe that this was really about more, not just fucking around.
And Garland sighed.
"Oh god… why do I put up with you?"
Tala grinned, HA, so Garland DID give in. He shot a victorious glance in Spencer direction who chuckled and shook his head, before turning back to Garland and giving him the sweetest smile he could muster.
"That's easy. It's because, you are so thankful, that I got you and the others from that gang you were in, and-"
"Again, trying to blackmail Garland into something?" A voice from the doors interrupted the redhead and Tala looked up grinning at Bryan.
"Yep!" He made the 'V' sign with his fingers, causing Bryan and Garland to roll his eyes before Bryan walked to Spencer asking about some details of the concert and the other just shrugged.
"Whatever… what does the boy look like again?"
END OF FLASHBACK
His eyes scanned the boy again. Tala himself said that this wasn't about fucking, though, even Garland had to admit, the boy looked pretty good. Had lean figure, amazing hair and what did stand on the boy most out, was his red eyes. He never saw anyone with such fierce eyes before… the boy was simply an eye candy. Perfect…
"Stop staring." Kai growled and Garland chuckled.
Well… almost perfect. That was that attitude of his, but strangely he thought that Kai seemed like he belonged there…with the others coldhearted bastards also known as Demolition boys.
"Sorry." Garland chuckled again and turned to the doors, when he heard the yelling and screaming of some girls from outside.
"Seems like it's the end…" He mumbled and after a second of thinking walked away from the door. If what he thought was right, then-
"Is he here?!" An excited redhead burst inside the room looking around. Garland sighed thankfully when he noticed what a painful impact made the doors with the wall, where he was standing just seconds ago. He was really glad he moved from that spot. The boy lifted an eyebrow as he watched as Tala's eyes brightened and the redhead smiled happily when he noticed the bluenette sitting on the couch.
"Kai!" The said redhead yelled, running towards the younger boy and almost glomping him, the glare of those red eyes, stopped him, probably.
"Uhm…soooo… how did you like the concert?" He asked slowly, blinking innocently – the look always helped him with Alexander back then, so… maybe Kai still had that weakness?
"I heard about one song." The other answered coldly and Tala sweatdropped….
"Oh…" Or maybe he got rid of it…
"I didn't know you were the band." Kai said as he stood up glaring holes into the redhead, his voice clearly stating that he waited for an explanation.
Tala gulped down.
"Uhhmm… I thought, you were just… pretending you didn't know us?" He grinned.
Kai opened his mouth and was about to growl something along the lines of the redhead being just stupid and about Kai wasting his precious time with them, but his intention were interrupted when the other members of the band entered the room.
"What was that Tala? We always give people an encore so why did you-" Bryan started but stopped, when he noticed a person that shouldn't be in their room… "run away like that…." He finished, blinking.
The blonde smirked at Bryan's expression, before walking to the other couch and sitting down, Ian following him closely.
"Hey Alexander. So Graland did find you in the end? That's good." The boy smiled kindly, but frowned when he noticed something flashing in other's eyes.
"STOP calling me that." Kai growled out and the others blinked.
Tala frowned as his eyes studied the younger boy.
"What? Why? It is your name, right?"
Kai sent his way another angry glare.
"I don't care whenever it is, or it's not. Don't call me that." Yeah, no one was allowed to call him that way. The only one who did was Voltaire and the mention of that name brought Kai unpleasant memories. So if he could refrain from using that name he would. The boy frowned as he noticed the others occupants of the room fell silent and had either wondering look in his eyes as Spencer or one that Kai couldn't quite decipher – just as Bryan and Tala… and Kai couldn't help but felt a little pang of guilt in his chest. He shouldn't behave like that, just because he was upset with Rei, but… this whole situation was getting out of his hands. He didn't have slightest idea what was that familiar feeling that caused him to come to the city hall, to actually agree to wait for Tala and the others in the room or the feeling that actually make him help them sooner that day. And the fact that he was even talking with them, was confusing as well. Kai normally ignored strangers. Today he thought he was paying a debt off… but, he wouldn't be here NOW if he would, right? He sighed frustrated, closing his eyes and ran hand trough his hair – this all was seriously confusing. Kai's eyes suddenly flew opened, when he felt a hand on his shoulder. Looking around he noticed the redhead giving him a worried look.
"Are you okay? Kai?"
Kai couldn't help but stared in those blue eyes, while his brain preceded the information of being called Kai, not Alexander… calming down slowly he nodded his head.
"Yeah… I didn't want to… snap like that." He mumbled before finally looking away from those eyes. He didn't say sorry… and Tala noticed… another prove that his Alexander was back with them.
"Sit down," Tala didn't wait for the other to do as he said and pushed him down on the couch, "Do you want something to drink?"
Kai's eyes slowly looked around the room as he was thinking, before slowly nodding.
"Water…" He knew that now, he would stay a little longer that he wanted in the first place, but… he didn't particulary want to meet Rei so soon after their argument. And as he knew the other, Rei would try to find him and apologize again, Kai didn't want to hear that, not right now. Kai watched as Tala left the room, somewhere in the back of his mind noticing that Garland went with him. So… Rei will have to wait.
He closed his eyes again, letting his back rest against the back of the couch, just to open them again, when he felt the couch sinking lower with another weight. He blinked and looked up at Bryan as the boy glared at the little coffee table in front of them.
"What?" He asked offended. Kai didn't like when ANYbody invaded his personal space.
But the other didn't seem one bit bothered by the tone of younger's voice.
"The marks," Bryan looked up from the table, looking at Kai's face. "You didn't have them yesterday…" He mused and watched as Kai unconsciously lifted his hand to touch the blue triangles.
"What with them?" The bluenette asked in dangerous voice, he didn't like when anybody insulted his triangles… Tyson was doing that a lot, not that Kai let it be at that, no, he was the captain of their team after all, so he did his best to make Tyson regret it. And fifty laps around the city could do wonders, really. Not even talking about the day he made Tyson go through their whole training routine three times… Kai would make it five, if Rei wasn't there and didn't talk him into 'letting the poor boy have some rest, because he had a date with Hilary later'. Kai couldn't help but smirked sadistically at the memory. He knew exactly what was running through his head that time – and that being that the day with that bit- ehm… Hilary was far more torturous that anything he could come up with probably.
But his mind was forced to come back to reality once again as Bryan's voice cut across his thoughts.
"Nothing, I… like them." He mumbled before offering Kai a little smile.
Kai blinked… well, he didn't meet with this reply before…. No asking about what it means? No saying that it's childish or stupid? Nothing?
"…really?" He asked slowly, watching closely as the other boy nodded.
"Yeah…"
Bryan couldn't stop the smile that was playing with the corners of his mouth. And he wasn't sure he wanted. The triangles on Kai's face… he didn't think that the boy was still doing it, actually the thought of the triangles didn't occur to him, till now when he saw Kai with the blue paint on his face, but it was nice seeing that Kai couldn't say goodbye to the paint. It was giving Bryan some kind of hope that maybe… after all they could still be in Kai's life… just like those blue triangles, the same their Alexander was painting on his cheeks every morning. Bryan still remembered the 'paint me' incident and from the grin Spencer was flashing him, he was sure the other boy remembered it too…
FLASHBACK
Seven years old Bryan was sitting in a room with slightly older Spencer, looking down bored at the book that was currently situated in his hands; it was one of Spencer's books. Not that the book itself was boring, Spencer didn't have any boring books, seeing that the said teen was able to read his books over and over so many times that Bryan didn't bother counting that after the first five, (even though he could be reading them over, because they didn't have much to do in this stupid orphanage, that was if they weren't forced to do something by Boris) but Bryan was too bored to even read that book. And it was all because Boris took his blade along with Tala's and Alexander's – because they weren't behaving. What the hell, they just pulled one stupid prank… okay, so maybe Boris was that pissed because they pulled that prank on HIM, but Bryan had to admit… it was well worth it. Seeing Boris with that pink paint all over of him was great… and what was even better was Tala's "Boris, the pink is SOOO not your color" comment, before the three boys ran away, but of course Boris caught them and there was more punishing than just taking away their blades… but whatever, the bruises will fade and bones will heal with time… and it's not like they weren't used to it.
Bryan let a little smirk cross his face when he thought about Boris's expression again, yeah… it WAS worth it… Suddenly the door to the room burst opened and a six year old Alexander walked inside, marched over to Bryan and glared. Bryan couldn't help but blinked as he was looking at the boy – or better the blue paint that was all over his face. He would laugh if he didn't notice the tears in other's eyes that Alexander so stubbornly refused to let fall down, not that Bryan didn't understand. It was like that in this orphanage, you couldn't allow yourself to show any weakness, if you didn't want to be punished even more. Boris hated it when the boys showed any emotions – Spencer once made a comment that it seemed like if he wanted to make future soldiers of them, and Bryan sometimes had the feeling that even though the thing was said as a joke, it was not that much far from truth.
Bryan blinked and his eyes returned to the boy in front of him. In Alexander's left hand was a paint and brush, seeing that he had the right one in gypsum – one of the signs of Boris's punishments and the other was almost pouting as he looked to the ground before looking to Bryan's eyes again.
He held up the brush and the paint and frowned and Bryan wanted to chuckle at the determined glare the younger was giving him.
"Bryan… paint me!"
That was the last drop needed, and Bryan burst out laughing. Alexander did pout then, glaring at laughing Bryan and chuckling Spencer…
END OF FLASHBACK
Yeah… they were laughing at the boy then, but Bryan did at the end paint Alexander's cheeks. He didn't know why the boy wanted blue triangles on his cheeks, but he didn't care. Alexander was happy about them and the others could at least tease him about 'looking cute and pretty with that make up on his face'. And even though Alexander was upset about it, he didn't stop making Bryan paint those triangles on his face every morning 'till his right arm wasn't okay again, so he could do it himself…
Kai blinked at the smile on other's face before looking away. What was that?
***
Garland rolled his eyes at his friend that was currently, humming a melody from their last song of the concert and was rummaging through the little ice box in the other room.
"So?" He finally asked, not liking the silence any more.
The redhead lifted his head, blinking innocently.
"So what?"
"Stop playing games Ivanov, what did you want to ask?"
The innocent look disappeared and was replaced by one of Tala's mischievous grins.
"I wanted to ask something?"
Garland sighed before pushing himself away from the wall he was leaning at and walked over to the redhead.
"You came all the way here, instead of just giving him water from your room, so yeah, you did want to ask something."
The redhead smirked.
"You know me too well… so.. what do you think about Kai?"
Garland crossed his arms in front of his chest before shrugging.
"Great body, bad attitude… I understand why you like him." Tala grinned, but the other continued. "Just don't show him to Brooklyn." At the confused look from his companion Garland added.
"You don't need any more rivals, do you?" He shrugged again, before turning back to the door and walking out, seeing that Tala had the bottle in his hands.
The redhead blinked… Rivals? But… Garland didn't know anything about the black haired boy, did he? So what…
"What do you mean?" He asked running after the other.
Garland looked at Tala… he really didn't notice? Somehow he could really be stupid.
"You'll see."
***
1 – something that my love came up with ^^ so that sentence's not mine really, I just edited it a bit…
A/N: So that's all for this chapter. But… first things first. Thank you all for your wonderful reviews ^^ they really made me happy… Actually I didn't think that people would like this story this much ^^;; thank you all again.^^
Okay… and now to the second part - This chapter seems a bit rushed to me, and I'm sorry for that and I also returned back to the flashbacks for few moments. I don't know but somehow it seemed as the best way to explain the things in the story for me.
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Gemi