Tyson walked through the streets looking franticly. He had no idea where to look for someone like Kai, and spent most of his afternoon just searching the different neighbourhoods. When he'd finally gotten annoyed with his search, he decided to take it to the next level. Tyson stopped in front of Kenny's house, looking up at it. He hesitated for a second before taking a deep breath and entering it running quickly up to Kenny's room. He flung the door open, without yelling this time, and Kenny looked up at him. "Oh hey Tyson, is something wrong?" Kenny asked him not being as startled this time.
"I need you to help me with something!" Tyson shouted at him.
"If it has to do with Max, I'm not sure I can. I have no idea how to change his feelings after being called cute by two boys like you and Ray so suddenly. And I actually wanted to talk to you about that. What was your actual meaning behind that word, because I don't really understand what's going on anymore," Kenny told him quickly and starting to sound a little annoyed.
"We have no time for that chief! I need you to help me find Kia!" Tyson yelled angrily at him.
"Tyson, I'm not sure I should be helping you with something like that! You're going to physically drag him into this bet of yours, and besides you told me I can't interfere!" Kenny yelled back.
"Hey, I made up the bet and the rules! I can change them if I want to!" Tyson told him clenching his fist. He wanted his revenge, and he would get it at any cost.
"But Tyson, that wouldn't be fair to Ray!" Kenny told him in a pleading sort of way.
"Just help me find Kai and then the rules can go back to what they were before!" Tyson begged getting ready to drop down on his knees. Kenny didn't say anything. "Please! At least give me a hint!" Tyson continued. Kenny let out a long sigh.
"If I were you, I'd be looking in places with beystadium's, or the park, he seems to go there often," Kenny told him in a defeated tone.
"Of course, how could I be so stupid?" Tyson asked, and then ginned happily. "Thanks chief!" he yelled as he ran out of Kenny's room closing the door, with a slam, behind him.
With Kenny's new advice Tyson worked quicker at looking for Kai. He went to the park first, since that's where Kai had been spotted the most lately, but he wasn't there. Tyson than went searching at every beystadium in town he could think, but they all turned up empty, besides the few rooky bladders. With a sigh, Tyson headed back home. It was almost dinner time now anyways, and either Kai would be at the dojo for dinner, or Tyson could assume he'd fallen of the face of the Earth.
Ray on the other hand was having more luck in Tyson's task than Tyson was, or in Ray's opinion he was having the same amount of luck. Ray had decided to take a walk down the main street, right down the town's marketplace, to clear his mind and hide amongst the people. But just to his luck, in the midst of his confused and swirling thoughts, he bumped into something rock hard and stumbled a few steps back. Ray could only guess it was a person, since he was walking down the middle of the street staring at his own feet instead of in front of him, but the person didn't seem to notice him, or just didn't care. Ray looked up, and his jaw dropped. "K-Kai," he stammered as his mind went completely blank for a few seconds.
"Ray," Kai said standing very still with his arms crossed, "Watch where you're going."
"Right, I'm so sorry," Ray said quickly backing up a step.
"Hn," Kai answered.
"Can you please not answer like that," Ray mumbled just loud enough for him to hear. Kai raised an eyebrow at him. "It just makes me think that you don't really care or something," Ray told him.
"Maybe I don't care," Kai said a little coldly.
"Well you should. I just walked into you and said sorry. At least say 'Hn' with a little emotion," he said starting to pinch himself again. On any other day Ray would have just accepted the 'Hn' and kept on his way, but now he was forcing himself to carry on.
"Hn," Kai answered him with a lot of annoyance and anger in the tone it came out in. Ray let out a little chuckle.
"See, that's better," he said backing up another step.
"What's wrong with you?" Kai asked him in a slightly more casual tone.
Ray froze and turned a slight pink. He didn't know what exactly it was, but he guessed that Kia noticing something was off made him a little nervous. "Never mind," Ray said quickly looking around for a reason to leave. Kai raised his eyebrow at the boy again. "Don't look at me like that!" Ray blurted out as he turned a little redder.
"Like what?" Kai asked curiously, his eyebrow still up. He knew something was defiantly off with Ray. Usually he'd have gotten sick of talking to him by now and just left, but now he seemed to be pressing the conversation on.
"Like that!" Ray yelled, and then said the next sentence as quickly as he could. "With your arms crossed, and your eyebrow up, and just with that sexy look on your face!" This was the strategy Ray had come up with for talking to Kai while he was sitting alone thinking. He'd talk quickly, and either loudly or quietly so his words were hard to understand. That way he would still be saying what was on his mind, but Kai might not necessarily understand it.
"I thought I just heard the word sexy?" Kai said, but it was in more of a question, "Talk slower."
"No," Ray told him shaking his head, happy that Kai was unsure of what he'd head. It meant his strategy was working.
"Hn," Kai said in his emotionless tone.
"Well I really have to get going. I'll see you tonight at the dojo, maybe," Ray told him quickly again, and then turned running back down the marketplace street.
Ray entered the back yard of the dojo quickly. He spotted Tyson sitting down in the grass under a tree with his arms behind his head, and marched over to him. "You sent him after me, didn't you?" Ray asked him angrily.
"Sent who after what?" Tyson asked snapping out of a nap he'd been having.
"You sent Kai after me!" Ray yelled standing over him with his arms crossed.
"I did not! I couldn't even find him!" Tyson yelled back.
"Well why else would Kai be at the marketplace? That doesn't seem like a place he'd go to on his own!" Ray told him. He was really beginning to hate Tyson.
"I swear I didn't send him there! I didn't even know where you went after you left here! I didn't even find him when I was looking for him! He wasn't in any of the nearby neighbourhoods, or at the park, or training at any of the beystadium's!" Tyson told him standing up so he was level with Ray.
"But you agree you were looking for him so you could send him after me?" Ray asked.
"Of course I was, but I didn't find him and I didn't know where you were, so how could I have sent him to the marketplace to find you?" Tyson asked him. He was getting annoyed with the Ray that had been trapped inside for so long, and he just wished Ray would lose the bet so he could win already and this rude, angry, Ray could go away.
There were footsteps coming from behind Ray, and he turned to see who was there, as Tyson took a step to the side to take a look. It was Grandpa G, and he wasn't looking too happy. "Are you little dudes fighting again?" he asked with his hands on his hips. Tyson and Ray nodded. "Well you shouldn't be. I don't know what you're fighting about, but I heard you mention your home boy Kai and you shouldn't be talking about one of your homies when they're not here. I sent the dude down to the marketplace to pick up some stuff for the dinner I'm making, you dig?" he asked them.
"I told you I didn't send him after you!" Tyson yelled in Ray's ear. Ray let out a growl.
"And it better stay that way," he told him clenching his fist. Tyson laughed.
"You wish it would," he told him. "But wishes don't always come true."
"Tyson, I will murder you!" Ray yelled turning and grabbing the front of his shirt. Tyson laughed.
"Relax buddy," he told him. "I'm sure you can handle talking to Kai without losing the bet in the process." Ray raised his fist, but he was stopped from doing anything more by a shout from behind him.
"Wow little dudes, no fist fights!" Grandpa G yelled making Ray let go of Tyson and lower his fist. "Now if you dudes really need to let out some steam, go pick up a sword and fight it out in the dojo!" Ray looked over his shoulder at Tyson's grandpa, and then back at Tyson.
"No way Ray, we're not going to physically fight this out," Tyson told him trying to keep his voice calm so Ray would too.
"Why not, you scared I'll be better than you at that too?" Ray asked him.
"No, I'm scared you'll get hurt since I actually know what I'm doing," he told him trying desperately to keep his voice calm. Ray just laughed.
"That's just another way of saying your chicken!" he yelled. Tyson glared at him.
"Alright Ray, but don't say I didn't warn you when you end up getting hurt," he told him, and turned leading the way to the front of the dojo. Ray laughed again. Tyson had no idea what he was capable of.