Disclaimer: I don't own Beyblade nor Tala, Bryan or Kai… or anyone else for that matter T_T
Warnings: Yaoi – boy x boy, AU, possible OOC
Pairings: Tala x Kai, Bryan x Kai, Rei x Kai
A/N: Hey everyone! I'd like to thank you all for your wonderful reviews and seeing that I didn't send the responses (for what I'm really sorry!) I'll write them here only this once…
Thanks to all again! And now… let's get to the chapter…
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~***~ Lost Past ~***~
Garland looked around worried. It was already some time that he saw his friend for the last time, and he was worried…. No one could really know what could run through the other's head when he was alone. True, most of the time it wasn't much more than the nature and Garland was happy that his friend could find at least something that interested him, but he didn't have the best feeling now that he was out with Brooklyn and that boy was nowhere to be seen. When they said goodbye to Bryan and Tala the boy had some… distressed feeling in him even though he had that ever present smile on his face as always. But Garland still had that weird feeling. And it didn't help that his friend didn't have a cell phone – always saying that it's something against the nature and that he could live fully content life even without it (Garland didn't even mention that it seemed that Brooklyn could live his life without most of the things the other people claimed as necessity), so without a cell phone it was harder to locate the other teen.
Garland was going to give up and call Mystel to help him, when there was suddenly a hand on his shoulder and if the boy didn't have absolute control over his body reactions, he would jump up, but like this he just lifted his eyebrow as he turned.
"Brooklyn? Where were you?" Garland asked, once he came face to face with the boy who disturbed him. "I was looking for you." He said with a little frown playing over his features. As answer he got a little smile.
"I'm a little hungry." The smile didn't waver one bit and Garland found himself shaking his own head disbelievingly, but felt relieved.
"Whatever…" He sighed before looking at the boy in front of him once again. "What do you want to eat?" It wasn't very often that his companion asked for something – even indirectly and he was more than happy to satisfy his wants. (A/N: OMG… I don't think I ever wrote such an innuendo when I didn't intend it… REALLY XD)
"… the stuff we ate yesterday? Pizza?" Brooklyn asked slowly and softly almost as it was the whisper of the wind in the trees.
Garland smiled and nodded, turning his back to the teen and leading the way to the nearly restaurant he noticed, where he was sure pizza will be…. So he didn't notice that little smirk on the other's lips.
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Tala smiled at Kai, who was currently sitting next to him and was looking through the menu, and Tala couldn't help but was staring at how the sun played with the color of younger's eyes, making them even more red if possible and the were glittering as those eyes were two rubies – which Tala knew they weren't. No… Kai's eyes were so much more worth than being just rubies…. Actually everything on Kai was worth more than anything this world could provide…
Tala blinked at his thoughts and shook his head. Sure he didn't think something along those lines right now… NOT. Sure he was attracted to Kai, shared some memories with him so he was fond of him – really much, he even loved him more than his other…. Partners, but… he wasn't IN love with the boy. Right? RIGHT YOU STUPID HEART?! Tala lowered his head and glared at nothing in particular, because it was kind of weird to glare at your organs that couldn't be seen. And from the look that Bryan was giving him, he was probably growling at that organ that seemed to beat faster every time he looked at Kai, too – which was probably as weird as glaring at it, so Tala sighed and gave up, looking over at Kai – and that seemed to make his heart more happy than Tala would like, that thing in his chest proceeding to pump his blood faster and let it travel through his whole … - Tala blinked and frowned. No… not WHOLE body – the way Kai was licking his lip, prevented Tala's blood from doing so and it seemed that all of his blood settled in one place – a place Tala wouldn't want it to go. At least not then and not there and NOT with Kai fully dressed… DAMN.
He didn't even notice when a waitress got to their table and it took a few weird glances from Kai and a kick to his shin from Bryan to wake him up from his musings and making him look up startled.
"Wh-What?" He asked looking at the girl who was smiling sweetly at… Kai. Too sweetly. Tala's eyes narrowed and he growled.
"We're still deciding… come back later." or never, his mind mocked and Tala glared at the waitresses some more. What the hell did she think she was doing?! No one was allowed to look at Kai that way – no if they weren't his childhood friend… ok, so not even Spencer of Ian were allowed to look at the younger boy like that, Tala decided and looked over at Bryan. He actually couldn't even imagine Bryan looking at anybody like that, Bryan just wasn't that type for casual relationships… Sure what Tala wanted from Kai was a casual relationship, right? … or… maybe not.
"Tala." A voice finally started him and he looked from Bryan, who was currently looking at him as if Tala lost his mind, which he didn't, and the redhead turned to Kai.
"Yes?" He asked slowly offering a little smile.
"We ordered already, are you going to as well?" Bryan asked, this time, motioning towards the waitress that must return at some point, while Tala was staring. And Tala blinked looking up at the girl, who was giving off her sweet smile again, making the redhead sick.
"Uh… coke. The rest I'll share with Kai." He grinned, resting one of his arms on the said boy's shoulder. To which Kai just lifted an eyebrow, ignoring the girl that winked and disappeared. And somehow Tala couldn't seem to ignore the suspicious look Kai was giving him and Bryan.
"What?" He snapped when Kai's eyes once again turned to Bryan, not that Tala was jealous that Kai wasn't giving his whole attention to him, of course not, he just wasn't that… excited about what he could think, yeah, right…
But the look Kai was giving him, there was something wrong. "What is it?" He asked again when it seemed that the boy didn't plan to say anything anytime soon.
Another look in Bryan's direction, before the bluenette leaned back in his seat, so he could more or less look on both at the same time.
"Are you two… together?" The boy asked slowly and Tala almost choked at the coke he was sipping from, that the girl brought just a seconds ago from when Kai asked that. Bryan just stared at Kai as if he lost his mind, before blinking and reaching over to Tala to pat him on the shoulder, trying to help his friend with his choking.
And he stopped when Tala waved his hand at him, showing him that he was all right and his coughing calmed down slowly. He took a deep breath before looking at Kai.
"What the hell?!" He asked, hoping that his tone was enough to let Kai know, that NO they weren't together and the will NEVER be. … not that Bryan didn't have nice ass, of course, he had a really good ass, Tala mused as he ran his eyes over the boy sitting opposite of him. And Bryan had nice abs too… muscles, hmm… and neck and, oh… the glare the other was sending him, okay so Tala probably looked too much. He coughed once again and Bryan rolled his eyes, deciding that he should explain it to Kai before that cub could make things worse.
"No we're not. We're just really good friends." Bryan said, looking into Kai's eyes, trying to make him understand that there was NOTHING between the two of them. When Kai gave him a look that clearly said that he didn't believe him a word, Bryan sighed.
"Look, we know each other our whole lives, that's why we could seem like there is something but there isn't. Not from my side and surely not with that cub." He mumbled motioning towards Tala… and he ignored Tala's yell, when Kai blinked and chuckled. And Bryan had to smile at that. Yeah it was sure nice to hear that sound after so long, Kai's soft chuckle washed over him like a warm wind, making his heart jump… and that stupid smile on his face widened. Damn why did that little one have to still have the ability to make Bryan smile and feel like an idiot because of that? For God's sake, Bryan was a heartless bastard! That was what the world thought of him and he had an image to uphold, he couldn't just loose it like that! And even so, even though he liked being the coldhearted, loved it actually it made some things a lot easier, for example scaring the fangirls off into safe distance, even so he was there smiling like a fool because of one stupid chuckle from a boy he didn't see for more than ten years… God there was something seriously fucked up and he'll have to find out what it is before it'd become even worse. Maybe he was coming down with something? Yeah it could be, the day before he heard Spencer talking to Ian about 'May's fever' or something… that could affect him too, right?
Silently thinking to himself, he didn't notice when the waitress put their pizzas in front of them and left… as well as he didn't notice the glare the redhead was sending him.
Tala was glaring at Bryan and at his smile… what was with that boy? Only a few moments before Tala could swear Bryan would see no one like THAT, but… he wasn't so sure anymore. And him not being sure had something with that puppy look the other was wearing on his face right then, probably. And he felt a really unpleasant jump in his stomach and his glare intensified when he realized that the look was directed at Kai. Tala frowned… Could it be that he missed that look? Of course at the beginning he himself told Spencer that Bryan was going to sleep with Kai and he even wanted to let the boy have Kai, but… that was before he knew who Kai was… and Kai being Alexander changed everything. Everything, because Alexander was Tala's friend. Tala made friends with Alexander first and… Tala frowned. And he loved the boy even back then… yeah… he thought that it was just a brotherly loved at first, that he was just some kind of best friend, protector for Alexander, but when Spencer took him to the side one time, after he found him beating some random kid up, before the boy was glaring and growling at Alexander, and asked him why was he doing that, and what his relationship with Alexander was… after that… Tala began thinking that maybe… there was more to it than just a friendship…
"But you are gay, right?" Both boys blinked when they were once again pulled from their thoughts when Kai asked them the question and Tala blinked before chuckling, being accompanied by Bryan.
"Well I would think that was more or less clear from the way Tala was hitting at you the first night." Bryan said, laughing, not realizing what he said until it was too late. At the time he DID realize it though, there were two pairs of wide eyes staring at him, before the red ones turned to look at the redhead, who gulped down at the narrowed glare that was sent his way.
"What?" Kai asked, and the redhead just hoped that he imagined the venom in other's tone of voice. He thought about laughing and telling that it was just Bryan joking but… the look Kai was giving him prevented him from doing so and Tala gulped down, before opening his mouth…
"Look, Kai, I-"
"Tala?" A voice from behind him came and Tala was thankful to whoever it was, because Kai glare was lifted off of him as the boy turned around to look at whoever spoke.
"Bryan and Kai…. Hi." The newcomer grinned, looking surprised.
"Garland, what are you doing here?" Tala smiled and prayed that if he kept the conversation long enough, Kai would maybe forget Bryan's words… at least he hoped.
The other boy lifted his eyebrow.
"What happened? You seem almost happy to see me." Garland's grin widened, before he looked behind himself. "We were in the area and Brooklyn wanted to go eat."
Tala blinked. "Brooklyn?" He asked and in next moment growled low in his throat, when the said teen came from behind Garland and smiled that damned smile. The same smile so many admired, even though Tala didn't understand why. He didn't think that smile was 'cute' or 'sweet' or any of the things the girls who were hopelessly in love with Brooklyn were saying about his smile, the only thing that came to Tala's mind as he watched the other teen was… unnatural. Unnatural and maybe strained, but surely not sweet… He growled once again and moved closer to Kai, noticing, that Bryan glared at Brooklyn as well and Tala made a mental note to ask him about that later. Right now, their problem was Brooklyn. The Brooklyn that smiled at Kai.
"Hi." The boy said ignoring the looks present Demolition boys were giving him as he focused on the shortest boy.
Kai frowned but nodded his head a little, a silent greeting. Somehow… he felt the air become thicker than before and he squirmed under other gaze, wishing the boy would just look away from him, and was rewarded when the other did so, looking at Garland, once again.
"Those are friends, right, Garland?" Brooklyn asked in that voice of his that made Garland smile, he knew Brooklyn didn't have many friends back then, and the concept of friend must still be pretty hard for him to understand and Garland wanted to help him to understand. So he smiled and nodded, missing the glint in others eyes that appeared for a second.
"So we can eat with them?" Brooklyn was facing Garland now but his eyes darted to side and ran over Kai's frame, making the redhead glare at him some more before Tala turned to look at Garland, making sure that his glare was hard enough to let the other know, that no, NO WAY was that nature freak eating with them, with KAI.
But unfortunately it seemed that the silver boy didn't notice his warning glance as he looked at Brooklyn before slowly nodding.
"Probably." He smiled a bit when Brooklyn let another smile on his face and the ginger haired boy was going to sit down next to Kai – and even Garland was surprised when Tala growled and Bryan stood up, walking over to the free place next to Kai at the same time with Tala's growl. And Garland winced quietly when he noticed the redhead glaring daggers into his friend. He knew something like that could happen when Brooklyn laid his eyes on Kai, but he didn't expect such a … strong response from the Demo boys. Normally Tala didn't care that much for his 'one night's fucks' and Bryan didn't care at all, so… this probably really was more than that. Sure, he knew about Kai being their childhood friend, but to tell the truth, he still thought that Tala was maybe just after his ass, and good one for that matter. It was just a bit out of character for those Russian to care about someone other than their little group that Garland had hard time believing it. But… he'll probably have to. He sighed and shot one apologizing look to Tala before he turned to Brooklyn.
"You know Brook… we can go sit over there… I saw a nice place near a window." He said offering a smile, but when those sad eyes turned to him, he sighed… he could never deny the boy anything. "… or we can sit there." He motioned to Brooklyn on the now unoccupied place and sat down with him, doing his best to not see the angry look Tala send his way, when Brooklyn sat down opposite Kai… trying and failing miserably.
Kai blinked when he noticed how… uncomfortable the mood became when the two sat down with them. He didn't really understand – well, he himself wasn't that comfortable around Brooklyn, but that from what he thought they were all friends, so there was no need for such… cold exterior. Well… he was probably the last one who should talk about cold exteriors, but he couldn't help it. He sighed and looked to Tala and Bryan before looking to the two other boys. Normally he didn't mind silence, but now… it was making his head hurt and his muscles tense. So he sighed once again before opening his mouth.
"How did you meet Tala and the rest, Garland?" He asked slowly, not really wanting to disturb Bryan, Tala and Brooklyn, because the former two were too busy with glaring at the ginger boy and said boy was doing his best to smile innocently. But he probably did disturb them after all because when he opened his mouth all eyes were turned to him.
Way to go, Kai. He growled inside his mind – he never liked the attention, really, but it was too late to feel sorry for himself.
Garland blinked.
"They… helped us. Me, Brooklyn and the others I mean. Well, Tala did and Bryan tried to kill me after I got Tala into hospital, anyway." He smiled at Kai, thankful, seeing that the glaring/smiling contest stopped for a minute. "I went to see him after and somehow… we didn't want to kill each other anymore and… we became friends." He shrugged, even though happy for Kai to ask something, he didn't really want to go back there even in his mind, because the threat that Boris was, the hurt from his lies and from what he made them did were still kind of fresh… He didn't want to be reminded on those times and he didn't want to remind Brooklyn on those times as well. He suspected that the boy still had some issues when it came down to Bega – that being the name of the gang they were in. So… it was time for the change of the topic, he grinned at Kai.
"So how did you become a world famous beyblader?" Garland asked slowly ignoring the wondering look Brooklyn send him.
Kai frowned… he could accept Garland's decision to change the topic but he wasn't happy about where it was going. He didn't want to think about his grandfather if he didn't have to – he didn't have any nice memories concerning him.
"…you can say I was on the wrong place at the wrong time." He muttered and his frown deepened when he noticed Tala opening his mouth – to ask something about that no doubt, but thank Gods was disturbed by the waitress.
"So guys… decided finally?" She asked flashing her smile at Kai and then the two other new guys.
Tala shot another glare at her… really he didn't understand how someone could have such a sickening smile – well someone other than that nature freak that was currently sitting at the table with him – and frowned.
"I'm not that hungry anymore… what about you Bryan?" He asked, looking over at his partner, ignoring the look Garland was giving him. There was no way, he was staying anywhere Brooklyn, or better there was no way, he was letting Kai anywhere near him. And it seemed that Bryan thought the same because he nodded and stood up.
"The pizza doesn't sound so appealing anymore." The boy muttered and looked at Kai.
And Kai blinked looking at Garland as if expecting him to have an answer for the weird behavior of the two…
"But… it would be a shame if you'd leave before I'll be able to get to know Kai better." Brooklyn said and smiled and Kai had suddenly the feeling that maybe he did understand the two after all. Tala didn't see that happy when the boy appeared – and Kai couldn't say that he blamed him. Not when Brooklyn was looking at him like that, with those piercing eyes, that weird smile… and when Tala grabbed his arm and stood up, pulling Kai up as well, he wasn't even angry and didn't try to pull away.
"I don't think he'd like that." The redhead spat out before sending one more or less pissed off glance at Garland before stomping away, his hand still clutching Kai's arm as the boy was pulled behind him and the bluenette could feel Bryan right next to him.
Kai didn't say anything kind of happy that he didn't have to stay in one place with Brooklyn – the boy made him feel somehow weird, and Kai didn't have the feeling that it was weird in the good meaning of that word, so he really didn't protest when he found himself outside, further in the park, away from the restaurant they were sitting in just a moment ago, with a fuming Tala and kind of mad Bryan. He was just… curious.
"Why did you do that?" He asked, his voice carefully guarded. "I thought they were your friends." Not that HE was the one to talk about friends…
The redhead looked at him before looking away, and Kai almost had the feeling that he was pouting.
"Garland is. NOT that freak." He muttered and glanced at Bryan who nodded as answer to Tala's nod. "I don't like Brooklyn. I don't like the way he looks at you." Tala growled out, looking at Kai.
To that, the bluenette frowned. Okay, he too didn't like the way Brooklyn was looking at him (He felt way too exposed under those wondering eyes), but still…
"Why?"
Blue eyes looked to his with such intensity, that if Kai wasn't trained to control his body completely he would take a step back… Heck, Tala must be really pissed off by Brooklyn, Kai guessed; because for that whole time he knew Tala, the redhead didn't look this mad - not that he knew Tala for a long time. And when the said boy moved closer to him, Kai stopped his musings and frowned.
The other boy was also frowning.
"Because I like you."
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Rei looked over at his teammates who were currently seated around Kenny's laptop, surfing on the web. He chuckled and shook his head – he didn't really understand why Tyson tried to find his name every time he got on net – it's not like those fans were writing ALWAYS something new… and what was even bigger mystery to him, was why were Max and Kenny always looking for sites where Tyson was mentioned with him. Ok… so maybe it was because Kenny didn't let anyone besides himself touch his laptop and Max was too nice to say no, or that it was too stupid, so he stayed with Tyson and cheered over every new discovery…
"Yay!"
… just like now. Probably another site of another fan girl of Tyson's.
"Hey! That's just not fair!!!" Tyson's yell came and Rei found himself blinking. That wasn't a happy yell so maybe they found something different?
He grinned and moved over the group of boys.
"What is it?" He asked slowly, trying to hide his smile… which was pretty hard currently.
Max grinned as he turned to his teammate motioning towards Dizzy.
"We found a page with a name '50 reasons why to hate Tyson Grander and 1000 why to love Kai Hiwatari'. And it's actually funny." Max's eyes were shining with humor and Rei lifted his eyebrow, but before he could ask more, Tyson interrupted.
"No, it's NOT. Those things aren't even truth!" He screamed turning back to the laptop. "Here for example this. '25. Tyson has always something in his mouth… and most of the time it's JUST food.' What is THAT supposed to mean?!"
Rei chuckled.
"You know… maybe it IS truth…"
Max nodded and Rei did his best not to laugh at the boy's innocence.
"You do eat pretty often, Ty."
"I second that, Tyson." Dizzy's voice came and to that even Kenny chuckled. The only one who didn't seem as if he was having a good time was the world champion, who was currently glaring at the site in front of him.
"Well… that doesn't matter! But… Kai isn't that great as they say!" he scrolled down the page where list of 'why to love Kai Hiwatari' was starting and began to read.
"'His badass attitude is cute.' That stupid.. it's NOT cute… it's… freakish. 'He's the best blader.' That's not truth, I did defeat him!"
Rei rolled his eyes.
"You know Tyson, that was BEFORE some time… Maybe if you had a rematch, Kai would defeat you, this time."
It didn't seem that Tyson even heard him as he was babbling about the site and all those things that the girl wrote about Kai and supposedly it wasn't truth and Rei wasn't really paying attention… that was, until something else was mentioned.
"And here… 'He has a hot and famous boyfriend.' He SO doesn-" A hand came to rest on Tyson's mouth and Kenny shook his head.
"You know that REI's Kai's boyfriend right?" He asked, his eyes telling Tyson that he should probably shut up…
"… oh… yeah." The world champion looked at Rei and shrugged. "Sorry Rei."
The dark haired boy just shook his head. He could understand why was Kai going on those long walks now… He sighed and was going to say Tyson that it was okay, he could understand, when someone interrupted him once again.
"Look they have even photos!" Max said, pointing on a link next to the 'hot and famous boyfriend' point. "I didn't know they knew about the two of you." He grinned and before Kenny could realize, the blonde clicked on the link. The picture showed just a moment after and the four boys gaped.
"… I guess that's not you, Rei." Dizzy's voice said and Rei blinked… that was truth… There was no Rei on that picture. That was not Rei holding Kai tightly against his chest… That was not Rei, Kai was staring at, at that picture. No… it was Tala of the Demolition boys…
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A/N 2: I'm sorry I didn't update sooner. I don't really have an excuse why I didn't so I won't try to think of one, I just had too many things on my mind and didn't really want to write anything for some time so… I'm sorry it took me so long. I really am.
But… I hope you all liked the chapter… Please let me know whether you did or no, I'd be really thankful. Bye now!
Gemi