(S)he is a Lady
Serie: Beyblade
Pairings: Bryan/Kai
Warnings: Language, Tyson bashing
Summary: The Bladebreakers are in Germany visiting the Majestics, who currently are gathered in Roberts castle, when Voltaire and Boris shows up and reveals a shocking secrets about Kai for the Bladebreakers and the Majestics.
Disclaimer: Some dude named Takao owns Beyblade not me. Anyone else thinks is just a bit odd that the main characters somehow just happens to have that name too?
Oi! Attention over here plz.
Singel words or phrases in italic in running text means that something are emphasized.
"Italic" means thought (except when in a flashback then it's normal texture)
Underlined words means Russian
Underlined and bold means bitbeast speak
And as usual I have my wonderful beta Miako6
AN: This is not what I originally planned to write a chapter 6 but then I realised that this story has been way too serious for a couple of chapters so I decided I'd make a fluff chapter. Yay fluff! Hope you like!
One million thanks to all of you who reviewed -gives Kai plushies-
Also special thanks to Ugawa, Anime-rocz-nd-u-no-it and blazing-fire-phoenix for encouraging (bugging) me with my update
CHAPTER 6: Baby Steps
Feeling warm, comfortable and most importantly very safe Kai was slowly and safely being pulled out of the realms of sleep into consciousness despite her efforts to remain sleeping. With a soft groan of displeasure the Russian bluenette allowed her eyes to flicker open.
"Morning"
Moving her gaze, that had been resting on the wall, to the ice wolf who's shoulder she was so comfortably laying on. Idlenessly stretching her body only to curl up closer to the red head craving more of his body heat. Just because she cold stand extreme cold didn't mean she liked it she was a phoenix after all.
"Morning"
She replied lazily trying to make her body go back to sleep but without success. So instead she simply rested in her brothers secure embrace both simply enjoying each others presence. Neither of them bothered checking for the time since they both knew that it was a bit earlier than 5 am. The time when the guards came to get you to the morning exercise in the abbey. If you weren't awake then you had to bear the consequences, this leading to that the long lasting abbey-children learned to wake up at or before 5 am and as mentioned before some habit are hard to break.
Resultantly the wolf removed his arms around the bluenette phoenix they needed to get up and get dressed. The others would come into his room after getting up and he wanted for Kai to be fully done so that he could shock the three other Russians. Well Bryan was his main target but this didn't mean he would neglect his other two team mates.
Disregarding his sleeping clothes Tala started to put on his normal attire, he had just pulled his shirt over his head. When the distract voice of Kai reached his ears.
"Tala?"
"Yeah?"
Came the slightly muffled reply, the wolf was still trying to find his way out of his shirt.
"I don't think my clothes will fit me anymore."
Finally finding his way out of his shirt Tala turned to look at his sister. The phoenix was frowning lightly and she was fingering at the end of her sleeping shirt that due to her… new shapes had slipped several centimetres to bear the bluenette's pale skin and the countless scares that marred it.
"Close your eyes."
"Tala"
Kai's tone was very similar to the one a mother would use to a particularly annoying child. Huffing slightly and crossing his arms over his chest, Tala pouted.
"Fine, be a grouch then."
"Alright, alright."
She sighed and closed her eyes which prevented her from seeing the knowing smirk that formed at the red head's lips, that always worked. Turning around the wolf went over to his bag, opening it and taking out a big box. Holding the box behind his back the ice wolf positioned himself in front of the phoenix.
"Now open your eyes."
Slowly opening her eyes the two toned bluenette was meet with the sight of Tala beaming at her like a maniac. Questioning she raised one eyebrow. Taking that as his cue the ice wolf pulled out the box from behind his back and held it up in level with the bluenette phoenix's face.
"Happy birthday!"
"We don't know when my birthday is Tala."
The phoenix responded but took the box nonetheless. She walked over to the bed, placing the box on the bed and herself next to it. Throwing a sceptical look at the red head, who still was beaming like a maniac, she lifted the lid up. When she saw what was inside the box her mind was immediately filled with several questions which when she lifted her head to meet the wolf's eyes was wordlessly transferred between them.
"I figured now that you are free you'd get rid of your stupid disguise and then you'd need some new stuff and with your fashion sense or lack there off I thought I'd better take care of that."
"But Tala it's so much."
In the box was several of armguards in different colours and two piles of shirts.
"Well I haven't been able to give you a real birthday present in all the twelve years we've known eachother. So I figured that I had some catching up to do."
Standing up abruptly Kai walked over to Tala only to hit him, quite hard, over the head. However before Tala even had the chance to react to this the phoenix hugged the red head fiercely. Completely baffled the only thing Tala managed to spit out was a rather unintelligent.
"Uh…"
Taking a few steps back the bluenette watched her brother's attempt to form a coherent sentence.
"Want an explanation?"
She said with an amused smirk on her lips. Finally being able to form coherent words Tala responded, though a little bit shakily.
"Yes, please"
"The slap was for thinking you'd ever would need to "catch up" on my birthday presents without you I'd still be Voltaire's emotionless slave and the hug was for the present."
Tala feel silent, he had no idea that she had felt that way. It touched him yet he felt that she gave him too much credit, however he didn't tell her that. When it came to matters of trust like these you couldn't change the phoenix's mind. What she had decided went and no one could change her mind about that and for that he was forever grateful. She was the only one who never had doubted him when Boris had turned him into a cyborg.
"Get dressed you sap."
Flashing him a smile Kai once again positioned herself next to the box on the bed and looked at the content in the box, closer this time. After some contemplating she'd decided on a purple turtle necked t-shirt and a pair of silver coloured armguards. It was then she realised a rather peculiar problem. Just as she was about to voice this the wolf tossed her a pair of ash grey trousers.
"Take a pair of mine."
"Thanks."
Suddenly something dawned upon the Russian bluenette and a bright pink blush settled itself on her cheeks. Even if she had lived most of her life locked up in the abbey dressed as a boy she wasn't completely oblivious to the fact that women were in need of… certain clothing for their, well assets. Something she didn't, swallowing she prepared herself for what would come.
"Tala?"
"Yeah?"
Taking a deep breath to the phoenix composed herself, it was only Tala for god sake!
"Uhm…. I don't think I can wear these clothes."
Sighing tiredly the wolf turned towards the bluenette phoenix.
"Why not? I thought we already had dealt with this?"
Both his voice and face showed that he was rather tired at the whole I-don't-think-I-can-do-this thing.
"Its not that it's… it's… Idon'thaveabra."
"Pardon?"
"I… I don't have a bra, okay?"
Not being able to stop himself the wolf grinned wickedly towards the clearly uncomfortable phoenix before turning around and grabbing a plastic bag and tossing it to the bluenette who easily caught it.
"Didn't know your size so I got a couple of each."
Looking at the bag in her hands to Tala, who's grin turned into smug instead of evil-looking, and back to the bag. With a pure look of confusion and surprise at her face, this however quickly disappeared to the benefit of anger and indignation.
"You bastard! You knew all the time! Why didn't you just give them to me directly?!"
"This was so much more fun."
The wolf responded cheekily with the grin ever present, his reward for this was a very colourful swearwords yelled at him in a rather loud voice. Now the bluenette normally was a person that could control her temper to a very large extent but all that she'd went through yesterday and last night had, with all right, taken quite the toll on her. Grabbing her clothes and storming into the bathroom she slammed the door shut.
Even with the rather thick bathroom door closed Tala could still hear the phoenix's voice cursing him and wishing him a horrendous and very painful death. However the bluenette's voice got fainter and fainter until it was blocked by the door, although the wolf remained smirking he knew that Kai was still, without a doubt, cursing him. Turning his head towards the door that led to the hallway, the ice-wolf looked expectantly at it, as if expecting it to swing open. After a couple seconds (patient never really was Tala's strong side so…) he realised that it wouldn't. He rolled his eyes and walked over to the door mumbling something about cowardly wimps and wiped morons. Grabbing the door handle he pulled the door open and was met with the faces of the three other Blitzenkreig boys, scoffing he spoke.
"She is in the bathroom you big sissies."
Stepping aside to allow the others to enter the room.
"It's called self-persevering Tal something you obviously lack."
"What did you do this time then?"
"Why do you guys always put the blame on me?"
The only answer he received was three identical eye rolls.
"Fine. She was all hyped up about the whole I'm-a-girl thing so I riled her up a bit so she wouldn't think about it."
"Tala I'm impressed."
"Yeah, me too never knew that you could think."
"Thanks. Hey! That was unfair Bry!"
But the falcon only sniggered in response accompanied by the snake and even if the whale didn't participate he looked very tempted to do so. Huffing the red-head crossed his arms over his chest feigning offence. However before he had the chance to utter his opinion the sound of a soft click from the bathroom door stopped him. Four pair of eyes immediately but whatever they had though they would see wasn't even close to what they saw, even Tala was surprised.
--The bathroom earlier--
Slamming the door shut she tossed the clothes on the toilet chair her irritation reaching it's pike. Her voice became more shrilled and high-pitched and the cursers more violent, but as always, her outburst faded quickly. Sighing tiredly she started trying on the bras that Tala had gotten her. Finally finding one that didn't push her breast's up to her chin and wasn't strangling her
(AN: Guys you might think I'm exaggerating but just to point things out I'm not. Picking a bra is some serious science, especially the first one. Girls you know what I'm talking about.) (B/N: Yes, I know what you're talking about; I still have troubles with it T.T)
Putting on the rest of the clothes she was surprised over how well they fitted her. She looked at herself in the mirror the purple shirt was tight much like the black one she'd used to wear when she dressed like a boy except for the short sleeves that covered her shoulders. It was actually nice; she didn't like long sleeves since they sometimes hindered her movements but she'd always been slightly nervous over the fact that some of her scars might show. Hence the reason she always wore her scarf something that she now wouldn't have to do. She sighed in pure relief, the scarf was the piece of her clothing that bothered her the most it was always tangling or being pulled away by the wind. Thank God (who she didn't believe in but that was a completely different matter) she wouldn't have to wear it anymore.
(AN: Gasp! Did I just make Kai scarf-less?! I must be ill –checks temperature– nope not ill guess I actually did that then. But don't worry all scarf-lovers with the right motivation I might just make a certain someone convince her into wearing it again. -grin-) (B/N: you better get Kai to wear it again, scarfless Kai is not Kai!!)
The ash-grey trousers that she'd borrowed from Tala was, since they were Tala's, one or two centimetres too long which meant that the hem of the legs was touching the ground. The waistline was different to what she used to wear as well gone was her extremely high waits (also another way to hide her forms) replaced with a considerably lower waistline.
(AN: Like Tala's pant in season 1 just with out the blue and orange stripes, the "fluff ball"-thingies at the feet's and those weird blue things that hung a his hips)
The trousers were comfortable even if she would have preferred something less formfitting. The silver coloured armguard shone slightly when the cold bathroom light hit them. Raising one arm, the phoenix's looked more closely at the armguard taking in its details and construction. Smiling slightly she admitted to herself that Tala had done a very good job in picking them out; they were beautiful, well made and very comfortable almost as if they were form fitted after her arm. They were definitely her favourite piece of her attire.
Giving herself a last over-look in the mirror she conducted that she didn't look that bad. The removal of her bandages had given her distinctive curvier, more feminine shapes, she noticed slightly bothered, she wasn't sure if she liked this new body of hers. Her face was as it always had been, at least something that hadn't changed, she thought half grateful half sadden. Her fingers ghosted over the tattoos that had been imprinted on her face just weeks after she'd arrived to the abbey. Signs of her slavery, of that she was a mere object, property of Voltaire Hiwatari, but also made to give her face a more rough, square formed jaw line instead of its actually soft slightly heart shaped form. Heartshapedhow she hated that word; it sounded like a description at some wimpy heroine in a pathetic love story.
Sighing she realised that there was nothing more she could do to prolong the moment she'd have to exit the bathroom and face the ice-wolf. Throwing one last look in the mirror just to make sure that she hadn't put on the clothes the wrong way round or inside out, if Tala saw that he'd never let her live it down. No every piece of clothing was put on properly, taking one last deep breath she unlocked the bathroom door. While she scolded herself for being so nervous after all she'd been through it was this, this brought her out of balance.
However when she pushed the door open she wasn't met by only a pair of stunning ice-blue eyes but also three other pair of eyes one being an enchanting emerald colour, the second a piercing sea blue and the third containing smouldering magenta coloured eyes. stopping dead in her tracks, all previous courage she'd built up disintegrated, she wasn't ready for this.
AN: And that's all folks! -walks away from computer to look out of window-
Me: Oh lookie a carnival! –jumps up and down- I love carnivals!!
–sees people carrying pitchforks and torches-
Me: Huh?
-brick with note attached crashes through the window-
Me: Iii! –reads note- -swallows hard-
-picks up megaphone-
Me: LISTEN BECAUSE OF eh… DEMOCRACY DECISIONS –whispers- and because I value my life –raises voice again- I HAVE DECIDED NOT TO END MY FIC HERE. I WILL CONTINUE!
-Mob starts to moonwalk away-
Me: eh… -walks back to computer- So here we go again.
The four male Russians were all in different states of shock. The redheaded wolf, who had had been slightly prepared at what he would see, was just surprised. The whale and the snake were both in a state of light shock and the falcon, well to say that he was completely and utterly shell-shocked would have been as calling the world wars minor arguments.
"Wow Kai you look…"
"Really great sis."
The redhead finished off the burly blondes sentence.
"Yeah like those girls that walks on the tables but without the bones!"
The younger member of the team exclaimed cheerfully being snapped out of his shock by the voices of the two older members of his team.
"Huh?"
Wad the not too explicable answer Kai managed blurting out, taking mercy for his sister Tala explained.
"He saw some fashion show with really skinny models, he thinks you look like them but without the bones prodding out. But if you don't start to eat more I'd say you'll look exactly like them."
"Tala"
She sighed while rolling her eyes she'd lost count on how many times they'd had this conversation about her weight and eating habits and since it never lead anywhere she decided to let it drop it. That was when she saw it.
"Bryan your bleeding!"
Her voice several octaves higher than normal and laced with worry for her friend and secret (AN: Yeah right) crush.
"Huh? Wha?"
Bryan asked being snapped out off his awake coma condition he'd been in since Kai had pushed open the bathroom door. He had understood that she would look different from what he was used to but this. This. He had always thought of Kai as beautiful, it might have seemed strange to some but not him he loved her lithe body that contained such strength yet was so soft at the same time. Therefore, when the door had been opening he'd known that she'd be even more beautiful but he hadn't expected her to be so… breathtaking.
The purple shirt hugged her now-revealed breast and clung to her slim waist, that without the bandages was much more noticeable. The trousers which waist only reached up to the widest part of her pelvis showed off the soft very feminine curvy shapes of her hips. Only to continue to wrap themselves around her well shaped legs making them seem even longer and more alluring. The silver coloured armguards wasn't as broad as her previous dark red ones nor did it have the long sharp metallic pike or ovals this contributed, both the colour and its softer slimmer design, give her a feminine radiation.
As soon as he laid his eyes on her standing in the doorway he'd been devouring her with his eyes and his mind had slipped so deep into the gutter he was pretty sure he'd need a submarine to get it out. She was like an oasis in his desert, vital and so very tempting.
(AN: I know that oasis/desert thing is soooo cheesy but I just couldn't help myself and if you take in consideration that it's Bryan who's thinking this its so super fluffy! -squeal-)
"You're having a nosebleed, a pretty massive one actually."
Spencer said in his very serious doctor-like voice but his eyes, filler with amusement, betrayed him. Tala being… well Tala he of course couldn't keep his mouth shut grinning smugly he made his voice heard.
"Yes I wonder what could have caused that? Do you have any idea Bryan? Have you been feeling anything… out of ordinary lately?"
Glaring heatedly at the redhead Bryan slowly got himself out of the hypnosis like state he'd been in feeling a wetness at his lips and chin his tongue instinctively darted out to lick his lip. When his tongue came in contact with his lips he felt the very distinctive bitter coppery taste of blood. Raising his hand to wipe it of, he was stopped halfway by the blond whale who trusted a handkerchief into his hand.
"Use this."
"Thanks."
After wiping the blood of his chin and lips he proceeded to hold the handkerchief under his nose.
Spencer, Tala and Ian were all trying their hardest not to laugh out loud since the knew he reason to Bryans predicament. Kai on the other hand was worried, it was not like Bryan to suffer from sudden nosebleeds like this one. Her worry pushed away the normal nervousness she would feel when she was too close to the falcon and she walked up to him to feel his forehead. Finding it perfectly normal tempered she took a step back to look more closely at the lilac haired blader.
Seeing this Tala felt like he'd been hit by several trucks it was so obvious why hadn't he thought of it before? It was the perfect evil plan!
"Bry you look a bit pale, are you sure you're not coming down with something?"
The wolf said feigning anxiety, quite poorly actually and with one single look at his cerulean eyes filled with mischief, not many people would have believed him. Most certainly not Kai an expert at judging people's intentions by their voices and facial expressions and more familiar with the Russian red-head's tricks and quirks than anyone. But this was not the most normal circumstances her major crush bleeding profoundly from his nose and her own maternal instincts kicking in and a top of that hearing that said crush might be falling sick. All of these things combined erased a large part of her famous character judgement.
"Really? Maybe you should lay down."
Before she'd even finished her sentence Kai was dragging the falcon towards the bed she and the wolf previously had occupied. Meanwhile Bryan was busy glaring a hole in the wolf's head, who along with Spencer and Ian were shaking in silent laughter. Forcing himself to sober up Tala put the second part of his plan into action.
"Kai when do you usually meet with the others?"
"At 5.45, for breakfast."
"Okay you stay here and keep an eye on Bryan and we'll go down and tell them you'll be down later."
"Shouldn't Spencer do that?"
"Damn! Excuse, excuse, excuse, excuse! Aha! Eureka!"
"I need to talk to him about his blading. Make sure he's okay before you come down."
With that he quickly dragged the two others out of the room, closing the door and pulling them along down the hallway and around a corner before stopping. Being out of harms risk so to speak he, quickly followed by the other two bladers, burst out laughing.
"Oh my god I can't believe..."
"He actually got..."
"Did you see the looks?"
"She didn't get why..."
"Hilarious"
Finally sobering up to the extent were they could speak in full sentences without doubling over laughing. The three boys decided to use that time they had to set up some new guidelines on how to treat Kai as well as informing the other occupants of the castle of these.
--Back to the bedroom--
Dumbfounded the phoenix stared at the now closed door were her brother and two of her closest friends had been standing seconds ago.
"That was weird."
"Not really, after all it's Tala we're talking about."
The lilac haired falcon said shrugging, swinging his legs over the edge of the bed onto which he had been pushed earlier.
"Oh no, don't even think about it. Your not getting up until your nosebleed has stopped."
The bluenette stated firmly and resolutely placed her hands on Bryan's chest and once again pushed him down onto the bed. Sighing Bryan forced his temper down, he knew Kai only did what she thought was the best for him that however wouldn't stop him from inflicting severe and possibly lethal pain to Tala later.
"Kai really I'm fine."
"Your bleeding that makes you per definition not fine."
Kai said in a tone that very much declared that she wouldn't believe him if he didn't gave her the most convincing argument she'd ever heard. But since he just couldn't tell her that he was having a nosebleed because she had aroused him to the point that he almost lost his self-control, so he decided to try an other aspect.
"Look it's just a guy-thing, nothing important."
However as soon as he'd said that he knew that he shouldn't had. His uttering only seemed to agitate the bluenette further as she glared irritated at him, flinging her hands up as she released a small cry of frustration.
"First Tala and now you! If it's to bloody unimportant hen why the hell wont you just tell me?"
Jerking his head towards the obviously agitated phoenix's the falcon asked.
"What Tala also had a nosebleed?"
Sighing annoyed the two-toned bluenette responded.
"No he said something about that you'd like if I took of my bandages and when I asked why he just said that it was a guy-thing. Now will you tell me?"
"Yes I liked that you removed those bandages, very much to be honest."
Hearing those words Kai felt her cheeks heating up rapidly, she was thankful for the fact that she was sitting down her legs suddenly felt very weak.
"Oh uhm well I was meaning if you could tell me hat that guy-thing was."
She said rather uncomfortably wriggling her head in her lap her eyes focused on the suddenly very interesting pattern of the wooden tiles on the floor.
"Oh!"
Was the only thing Bryan could say at the moment he felt a bit embarrassed about the whole conversation. Tala was so going to pay for this. However he'd be damned if he'd let an opportunity like this slide out of his hands. Shifting his position a little so he was closer to his beautiful, alluring phoenix, who still didn't look at him but kept her eyes firmly onto the floor. Tossing the bloodied handkerchief away, his nosebleed had stopped anyway, he spoke up softly.
"Well I guess even he has to be right sometimes, you really look much prettier without the bandages, you know."
Widened crimson orbs filled with surprise and shock snapped up to meet his own emerald. The look in her eyes made him a bit upset and sad. "Why does she thinks so little of herself? Can't she see how beautiful she really is?"
"B-bryan?"
"Yes?"
He moved even closer and reached out with his own lager hand placing it over her own still fidgeting fingers to still them and hopefully, make her feel a bit more secure about herself.
She opened her mouth slightly but no words came out. Bryan leaned in some more, letting his fingers move in slow careful caresses over her hand. His eyes still locked with her bottomless crimsons.
When their eyes locked Kai felt her heartbeat speed up, those green emerald eyes that with one single lock could make a cold-hearted serial killer quiver in fright where now giving her a look full of tenderness and caring it made her feel… beautiful. She tried desperately to remember what it was that she had thought of telling him, but with those eyes on her, her mind drew a blank. And when he again moved a bit closer her mouth went dry and her breath speeded up she told herself that whatever it was she had planned to tell him most probably wasn't very important anyway.
Her lovely ruby eyes were filled with so many emotions, all twirling in the depths of those of so captivating orbs. But that wasn't important what was important was what wasn't there; fear. Nowhere in her fascinating crimson eyes where there even the smallest trace of fear so he moved forwards, just a little to see her reaction. Her breathing became faster and her eyes darkened into the colour of molten lava but no fear appeared in them.
So he leaned in even further thinking that maybe, just maybe he'd let Tala get away with this before pushing such unnecessary, irrelevant thoughts out of his head. Focusing completely at the two toned bluenette goddess in front of him. Just as he was to move those last centimetres and claim the soft sweet pink rose petals that where her lips.
She was so confused yet excited, he was so close and the way he looked at her made her heart speed up so much she was sure he'd hear it. It seemed like he was going to kiss her but he couldn't, wouldn't do that right? She wanted him to, dear God (who she still didn't believe in), she wanted him to kiss her so badly but what could he possibly see in someone like her? He moved even closer and here eye lids started to slip close as if they had a will of their own.
Their lips was just centimetres apart when.
Knock, knock!
"Breakfast is being served in the dining hall now."
A female voice with a heavy German accent called through the door.
At the knock Kai had almost jumped out of her own skin, jerking her head away from Bryan's she quickly scrambled of the bed. Looking everywhere except at the falcon before calling out.
"We'll be there."
Meanwhile Bryan was mentally groaning in disappointment and contemplating on who he should kill first the person outside the door or Tala until he was interrupted by the phoenix's uncertain voice.
"Uhm… Bry-an uhm we probably should…"
She made a quick gesture towards the door with her hands before she started to wring them together again. Sighing he pushed himself off the bed.
"Yeah I guess we should."
It was clear to anyone that she was very uncomfortable in this situation and he couldn't help but to feel a bit guilty. This was most definitely not the way he'd imagined it to end. When he moved towards her she quickly turned around and walked towards the door. A stab of pain jolted through Bryan at this, she acted like she was afraid of him with new determination he speeded up his steps and when she placed her hand on the doorknob he placed his own over hers.
Feeling the lilac falcons hand upon her own made Kai take a sharp intake of breath and her body to go rigid. His gentle squeeze when he turned the doorknob made her relax slightly. When he let go from the doorknob he pulled her hand with his, lacing their fingers together. Seeing the faint but still very present blush on her pale cheeks made the ball of guilt and pain in his stomach dissolve in the blink of an eye.
"Come on lets get this over with."
He said tugging lightly on her hand to pull her along the corridor. Things might not have turned out the way he'd originally planned it but this was also good Bryan thought happily as they walked down the hallway.
Kai was on cloud nine at the moment. Bryan had almost kissed her and ever if he hadn't had those intentions he was holding her hand. The small pessimistic voice in her head was tied up, gagged and tossed into the deepest corners of her mind, she was deliriously happy as they walked down the hallway.
TBC!
AN: So what do you think? I know I was a little semi-evil with the whole kiss thing but they cant kiss just yet, I have more plans for them! –evil laugh- Now is the time when you click on the little purple/blue button left at the bottom and tell me everything of how you thought of the chappie! So of you go, Shoo –waves hands- REVIEW!! (and I'll write faster…)
Love Manda