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Warnings: A bit of swearing, surprisingly from Kai and Miguel X3 I hope you enjoy!
A sense of dread settles in the pit of Miguel's stomach as the war of words rage between brother and sister. Tears of betrayal and devastation flow freely like rivers down Raul's cheeks as he screams at his sister, who in turn screams back just as loud.
"This isn't going to end well," Miguel mutters to himself as he tries to figure out a way to stop this fight from progressing further. He really wished Kai was here. He can stop an argument dead in its tracks with a simple flick of his tongue.
Miguel himself, is no pushover when it comes to fights either, Kai just seems to have a better way with words than he does.
"I love him and there's nothing you can say or do that will change my mind!" Raul suddenly cries, emitting his love for Tala to everyone in the room subconsciously with a sense of defiance in his voice.
As the words ring through the sudden silence, Raul abruptly turns on his heel and bolts for the door, clumsily stumbling into anyone in his way.
"Ah, Raul!" Miguel calls as he follows but as he steps into the hallway, he can't see any sign of him. Did he run out through the front door and into the rain? He'll get sick in this terrible weather!
"I'll go after him," Garland suddenly mutters and before anyone has a chance to reply, takes off through the door as well, following in Raul's footsteps.
"Dammit!" Miguel curses as he steps back inside, slamming the door shut behind him in anger, turning a narrow gaze to Julia who is standing in the middle of the room, her face holding a sense of anger. Miguel takes Julia's objection to Raul's relationship with Tala to heart as well. He is also rather fond of Raul. He's a sweet kid who wouldn't hurt a fly.
He's also friends with Tala and to hear her say such things about him, looking down at him as some kind of deranged criminal only makes his anger boil. Kai was in the abbey once as well. He was trained as a solider too; does that mean she sees him as a heartless jackass as well?
Oh, she better not. Kai isn't the only one with a protective mode.
"What's wrong with you?" he asks her with a hiss in his voice. "Why can't you just accept Tala for who he is?"
Julia snaps her head up, a look of surprise on her face for a split second before it turns into anger and frustration. "Because he's Tala Ivanov," she hisses in reply, sounding like the answer should have been obvious.
Miguel merely narrows his eyes at the response, his glare looking suspicious like the glare of death Kai has perfected over time. "Oh right, Tala Ivanov, the fucking anti-Christ, I forgot," he says with sarcasm and frustration heavy in his voice.
Choosing to ignore the blatant sarcasm and the uncomfortable stares around her, Julia defiantly folds her arms over her chest and continues to appear angry, like she's the victim in this whole mess. "I wouldn't trust him as far as I could kick him."
"You don't seem to trust your brother either," Miguel is quick to point out, earning himself a bristle of indignity from the young female.
"He was in the Abbey!" she all but screams, throwing her arms into the air in a sign of frustration. "You've heard all the rumors about that place. Those kids were like tiny solders, trained to hurt people, how do I know they won't hurt Raul?"
Slam!
The door suddenly flies open, slamming against the wall behind it and nearly falls of its hinges. A heavy silence fills the room immediately as many of the unwilling occupants swallow thickly with fear, cringing at the presence of the Beyblade enigma. The aura that Kai is emitting is a dark and dangerous one, which seems to cause the room temperature to physically drop a few degrees.
"What the hell is going on," Kai growls, his eyes narrow and as dangerous as his aura.
"Hey Kai," Tyson greets him with a somewhat friendly and nervous grin as he tries desperately to break the tension. "How you doing? The Blitzkrieg boys here?"
But just as that question passes his lips, the sight of a very tall and muscular blonde steps into view behind Kai, towering over his much shorter friend, but his presence doesn't appear to be nearly as threatening as the small teen before him. Looking around the room at all the shocked face, Spencer bites the inside of his mouth to stop himself from smirking. Despite not likening to be the center of attention, Kai sure knows how to take away the spotlight from someone, doesn't he?
"That they are, Tyson," Kai replies slowly, but does not glance in his direction. His voice is even and calm, but his eyes hold a vicious edge to them, narrow and fiery. He takes a step into the room and the room's temperature seems to drop a few degrees more, causing a few of the less outspoken bladers to shiver with a sense of fear and back away. "Tala, however, followed little Raul out into the freezing rain."
Although knowing how much danger he would be in to question Kai at this point in time, Enrique so desperately wants to query Kai about the little Raul comment, but receives a quick jab to the ribs by Max, who simply shakes his head at him, mentally telling him that now is not the best time to ask.
"Can someone explain to me why Raul ran out of here, crying his eyes out?" Kai asks the quiet group.
Silence. Complete and utter silence.
"Ok," Kai sighs with frustration, the delicate eyebrow just above his right eye gives a sudden twitch. "I'll ask one more time, but if no one answers me this time, I'm going to turn violent," the tone in Kai's voice is nothing short of deadly and the threat of violence hangs heavily in the air.
Just to add more affect to the promise of absolute and sheer torment, a loud crack of thunder roars from the sky as lightening rains down, illuminating Kai's figure. But even though the thunder was loud and the lighting severe, Kai doesn't even twitch.
"Why in god's good name did Raul run out of here?" Kai asks once again. "And someone better bloody well answer me."
Miguel looks over the group, noticing that the once outspoken Julia is standing quiet in the middle of the room. He too sighs in frustration at everyone and turns to face Kai, not finding him remotely intimidating. "He ran out of here because someone-," he stresses, looking directly at Julia, who seems to inwardly wince. "-didn't agree with him being in a relationship with Tala."
"Oh, really…?" Kai drawls, stepping further into the room, each step precise and seemingly threatening, stopping a few feet from Julia. "Is that so?"
Subconsciously Julia takes a step backwards, inwardly reeling at the absolute hatred on Kai's face. She glances around the room, looking for some sort of support from the others, but they all appear reluctant to interfere, some even appear to looking at her with their own sense of frustration and annoyance.
Miguel is the most prominent figure with that sort of emotion. He releases a pent up sigh of annoyance and moves to stand behind Kai. He places a hand on his shoulder and whispers into his ear, the scowl on Kai's face darkening with each passing second.
Hoping and praying that there is a way to prevent what is to come, a few of the bladers try to turn the conversation elsewhere as they turn their attention towards the Russian blonde standing in the background, appearing to be more body guard than blader.
"So, how you doing Spencer?" Tyson asks, desperately trying to gain the blonde's attention. "What brings you here?"
As soon as that question left his mouth, Tyson knew it was a very stupid question as the Russian slowly turns to him, his sea green eyes seeming piercing right into his soul. "I'm here to prevent Kai from murdering anyone," he replies in a clear and precise voice, a small devious grin playing on his lips. "If I feel like it of course."
The response causes Tyson and a few others to sigh, knowing that there is no way in hell they can prevent the verbal lashing Julia is about to receive.
May God have mercy on her, because it's certain Kai and the Blitzkrieg boys most certainly will not…
Lifting up his hand, Kai successfully silences the room, once again training all eyes his way. "I was in the abbey too, doesn't that make me a cold hearted prick?" he states more so than asks, not giving the young woman in front of him a chance to reply. "And yet, I noticed that you didn't say anything against my relationship with Miguel."
Despite feeling tears prick at the back of her eyes, Julia swallows thickly and tries to stay defiant. "That's different."
"How is that different?" Kai demands more than asks. "The only difference I see is that we're not related and that I have absolutely no problem talking back to you. And believe it or not, Miguel has a tongue just as sharp as mine. He's just not as willing to use he's as much as I am."
Despite the serious and deadly atmosphere in the room, a small smile appears on Miguel's face at those words. He thinks Julia probably already knows he has an acid tongue already.
"Do you know what I think?" Kai continues, still not giving Julia a chance to say anything. "I think you're objecting to this relationship because you think Raul can do so much better. I understand that," he says with a genuine look of understanding flittering across his features before turning to anger again. "But to have a fight with him that resulted in Raul running out of here crying his eyes out, now that I don't understand."
Julia swallows thickly again, her resolve to play the victim slowly crumbling with each truthful word. "I just don't want him to get hurt."
"Well, he most certainly wasn't crying tears of fucking joy!" Kai cries, curling his hands into fists by his sides, his profile trembling slight as he tries to suppress his anger. "Tala wasn't even here, so you can't blame him, so that leaves one person who hurt him here today, and that's you."
"Why are you like this?" Julia asks, now letting tears to fall from her eyes, tears that have been threatening to fall the moment this whole thing started. "He's not your brother!"
"If he was, he wouldn't be out there in the pouring rain, crying!"
"Kai…" Miguel says gently, seeing that Kai is taking this objection to Raul's relationship a little
too personally and debates whether or not he should try to stop this from progressing further. He believes that Julia deserves more verbal lashings from Kai, but he doesn't want his precious lover to get too distressed.
"No, I'm not done yet," Kai suddenly says, replying to Miguel's silent question with an abrupt shake of his head. He takes a moment to regard Miguel with his eyes softening a little, silently telling him that he needs to continue a little bit more yet before turning back to his one-sided verbal sparing match.
Drawing a deep breath, Kai continues. "Listen, believe it or not, Raul is like a brother to me. We might not be blood related, but that doesn't matter. He's dating my best friend for heaven's sake, I think that gives me the right to be supportive rather than argumentative, don't you think?"
A sob hitches in Julia's throat and she looks away in shame, guilt replacing the expression of anger completely.
Even though he feels that he has made a point, Kai still feels the need to continue, to prove once and for all that it isn't about who her brother chooses to love, but her reaction to it that really matters the most.
"How about I present you with an example of why your behavior was so inappropriate?" Kai asks, but this time his voice only holds irritation rather than murderous rage. "Max is like a brother to me as well. Do you think I was pleased to learn that he was seeing someone? And even though it surprised me, it didn't matter whether or not he's the dominate one. No offense Max."
Reeling back in surprise, Max blinks his blue eyes slowly for a moment, a nervous laugh escaping his lips when everyone suddenly turns their gazes towards him. "Er, none taken."
"I wanted what was best for him," Kai states as he places a hand on his heart to prove that he is being sincere. "Instead of getting into a fight, I took the time to get to know his boyfriend and can safely say that Enrique is actually very good for Max, despite his outwardly playboy appearance. No offense, Enrique."
Enrique wears a look similar to Max's, his now known boyfriend. "None taken," he replies automatically.
"Jesus Christ!" Johnny exclaims, snapping his attention to his own blonde haired teammate, disbelief blatant on his face. "Who else is in a secret relationship?"
A series of uncomfortable coughs and shuffling of feet causes Johnny to want to take back that question; even more so when he spies a delicate blush spreading across Robert's cheeks and nose, and the sudden interest Spencer has in said German.
"I don't want to know," Johnny mutters as he shakes his head and sinks away.
"You are going to apologize to him," Kai suddenly demands, his anger making an appearance again. "Or so help me God, I'm going to drag you kicking and screaming out into the pouring rain and make you apologize myself!"
"Ok," Miguel suddenly announces as he abruptly takes Kai into his arms and holds him tightly against his chest. "That's enough. I don't think there's anything more to say."
Suddenly, Kai's mobile phone rings, startling everyone in the room.
Whooo, that was a fun chapter to write actually. Nothing against Julia, I like her actually; I just wanted to try my hand at someone else being the 'bad guy' for once X3 There's going to be fluffy Tala/Raul goodness in the next chapter.
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