Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade, and I do not own Inuyasha.
Chapter 3 An Official BladeBreaker
Kagome snuggled down into her pillow, ignoring the chirping birds and the morning sun, there was no Shippou to wake her up today! She rolled over and pulled the covers over her head with a contented smile that was not going to last much longer.
"Tyson! Wake! Up! Now! It's after 10:00 in the morning!" Came a suprisingly close voice, that sounded nothing like Shippou.
Kagome grumbled and pulled the covers over her head. 'I'm not Tyson, leave me alone' She thought, not trusting her voice this early in the morning.
Kai scowled and walked to the edge of the bed and yanked the covers back as he used to whenever Tyson wouldn't get up. What he saw was not Tyson.
Despite himself, Kai couldn't fight down the blush that covered his cheeks. Infront of him was a half-naked Kagome who had drawn up into a fetal position the moment the covers had been pulled down. She bolted upright, ready to yell at Shippou for waking her up.
Her sapphire eyes widened in shock and her face turned crimson. She grabbed her pillow and threw it at him. "Get out, Get out!" She said, grabbing random things and throwing them at him.
Kai covered himself with his arms and backed out of the room, tossing aside her alarm clock and teddy bear. He closed the door and took and deep breath, muttering to himself as he walked down to the only other room possible, the guest room where he had expected Kagome to be.
Max and Rei snickered as loud voices and crashes came from within Tyson's room. They snuck downstairs to where Kenny sat with Dizzy, discussing recent data and joined him at breakfast. Soon after them Kai and a bruised Tyson came down the stairs to join them. Last but not least was the furious Kagome who kept sending death glares to Kai.
Breakfast went by without much trouble, since Tyson, Max, and Rei were all shoveling food into their mouthes, Kai had not been at the table long as usual, he went to start his training early, which left Kagome and Kenny to discuss the basics.
"Push yourself Kagome! This is nothing compared to what we will be doing so don't think you're doing good yet" Said Kai, who had been chosed to train Kagome for the next week to get her up to par wth the Blade Breakers. The others had been all to happy than to have Kai out of their hair, even if it meant to dump Kagome on him.
She panted heavily, and putting her hands onto her knees. "Calm down I'm almost...Finished with this course!" Kagome said between breaths. She stood up to her full height and wipped her head with a handkerchief.
"Almost isn't good enough, Stop being weak and do it!" Kai said
Kagome growled and nodded. 'He is the captain of the team so I'm supposed to do what he says...but he doesn't have to be so mean about everything!' She thought as she launched her beyblade back into the course, spinning between poles and tearing through a few wooden blocks. Her speed decreased, but Kai's nagging voice kept her angry enough to keep willing it with her mind. She tore up a steep hill, gaining speed because of the extent of the anger, concentrated into her blade. Her blade lept over the wall and stayed balanced as it tore across a sheet of ice, slicing it in two. She rounded the beyblade and made it spin around a pole and then hop over a few logs to the finish.
"I did it!" Kagome said, with a delighted smile, that didn't go unnoticed by the ever-observant Kai.
Kai gave her a look. "Congradualations, you just passed the advanced test. Now you are truly a Blade Breaker." He said, turning and walking away with his fists balled.
It took a moment to register in Kagome's mind. "That was a test! How come I didn't know that I was going to be tested!" Kagome shouted, running after him.
"Because I didn't tell you." Kai said simply, ignoring her outraged attitude. "Be happy you passed on the second try. Had you have failed I would have sent you home."
Kagome gaped at him, "You would have sent me home after all I did to move in here!" She asked.
Kai didn't respond.
"Why was I taking the advanced test? Isn't there like...a standard test that would be easier?" Kagome asked.
"Because everyone else in this team passed the advanced test, there is no excuse for you not to. And don't even think that because you're a girl I'll slack off on you." Kai said, walking out of the nearest door to get away from her.
Kagome smacked the volleyball back towards the otherside of the net, earning a 'good shot' from Max. They had jump gotten out of the pool (they were celebrating Kagome's score on the test; an A-) and Tyson had suggested a game of volleyball before they went inside. At first they had only planned to play one game, but they were currently on the fifth.
"Max, it's coming to you!" said Kagome as Mike spiked the ball.
"Tyson, c'mon! We're down by 5!" Rei said as he passed the ball back to them to serve.
"I'm too hungry to play volleyball!" Tyson complained.
"We just ate before we went swimming! And you had a five course meal!" Kagome said as the others laughed.
"You haven't been here long enough to know Tyson's eating habits yet. He usually has about 3 meals and three snacks a day, and by snacks I don't mean an apple or a pb&j sandwich. I mean half of a pizza with everything on it."
Kagome gaped at him, and then turned her amazed eyes to Tyson who was grinning sheepishly. "You should have a guinessess world record or something!" she said.
Max grinned, "You know I'm pretty hungry too, maybe we should go inside after all."
Kagome pouted. "Alright, but just know that we were winning!" She said as Rei and Tyson nodded and began heading for the house. Kagome waved, "I'm going to get my things and I'll meet you guys inside!"
As she walked toward the pool where she had left her towel and sandals, she noticed Kai sitting at one edge of the pool, currently oblivious to her presence. She grabbed her things and approached him, tapping him on the shoulder.
"What do you want?" He asked, as cold as always.
Kagome flinched. "Are you alright? " She asked.
Even though Kai was a bit suprised by her question he didn't show it at all. "Why should you care?" He snapped.
Kagome thought up an answer. "Well...because I'm your teamate, and even though you're always so mean, you're my friend too!" She said, hoping her cheery demeanor would encourage him to opening up to her.
Kai frowned at her words. They weren't true, he was not her friend, and they were barely teammates. For some reason he was having trouble saying so. Stilling himself he stood up and began to go inside. "Let's get this straight, I am not your friend, I am the captain of this team and that is all I am to you." He said, before continuing to headtoward he garage instead.
Kagome's mind froze, and she found it hard to come up with a come back. Her eyes stinged with tears, even though she knew in the back of her mind that he would say something mean to drown her spirits. She stood up and wipped her eyes heading back in to the others with her things. And once again she thought with a bittersweet amusement, he had made her cry, just as Inuyasha had.
Dinner went by with the same silence, exept for the occasional thud of a pair of chopsticks hitting a plate. Kagome put her plate up and gave a bow to the maids that were on dish duty.
When she got up into her room she sighed,"Another day has already gone by, I'm having fun...but, at that moment, Kai seemed so depressed. Like Sesshoumaru, kinda...but his arrogance is more like InuYasha's, I guess that's why I mistake them so much." She said aloud.
She grinned and began to change into her pajama's. "Now that I think of it, the only emotions I've seen from him are anger and depression. I wonder what could have happened to him to make him like that...Wait a minute...why do I care really? He said he wasn't my friend, so why should I care if he's depressed or not? " She asked, doing her nightly stretches.
She sighed. "I guess it's because I want to be his friend...I want him to accept me I suppose...how selfish of me...But I can't help but to like him, It's just me." She said, wrapping her arms around herself.
She walked over to the window and looked down at the garage, which was directly infront of her window, only a little below. "Heh, I can use this for an escape route if need be." She said, closing her window.
Kai pressed himself to the outside wall, hoping that she did not look sideways and see him. He let out a breath when she closed her window.
He returned back to his thoughts on Kagome's words. 'So she truly does want to be my friend, she doesn't think that I'm some troubled soul for her to save...That's a first. But it's still impossible, I don't even know how to be a friend, how can I be something that I don't know about?' He thought, looking up at the sky.
'It doesn't matter, I'll never let anyone in anyway so why should I care?' He thought.
End
This one is short too, but I can't help it! It's so much easier to write a short post while my mind is still on the subject than to write a jumbo post that takes three weeks to do. Oh and, Kai is sooo in denial!
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