Summary: "We were two different people who didn't know of each other's existence. Even though our worlds were far apart, it was so close at the same time. Our worlds were brought together when 'she' decided to call me her son again." (AU, KaRe)
Notes: Yuriy is Tala and Takao is Tyson (:
Disclaimer: Beyblade characters are © to Takao Aoki
Warnings: Swearing, bits of violence, shounen-ai, bad grammar, OOC people and weirdness.
Together
Mao noticed the boy's shocked face and asked, "Is there something wrong?"
Kei took this chance to make a comment, "I bet he's fallen for our beloved Rei."
Reiko took this chance to whack Kei in the head, "Shuddap."
"Hey! That's not nice." Kei growled as he held his head.
"You're not either." Reiko said as she stepped forward, "Hiwatari-san, people will look down on you if you show that kind of face." She smiled.
"Shut it, Kon-san." 'Hiwatari-san' looked down, his cold expression back on his face.
"Hey! You can't talk to my sister like that—" Kei began, but was interrupted by Mao.
"Shut the hell up you guys. Let's get this over with; I have lots of things to do later."
"Fine." All seven teens said at the same time.
"Umm, what are we doing anyways?" Rei asked, feeling a bit embarrassed that he was the only one who didn't know what was going on.
"Today, we're here just so you can get acquainted with the band members." Mao smiled.
"Oh." Rei answered simply.
"Hey there! I'm Yuriy!" The red-head who was sitting on the second chair jumped up and grinned, "I rock at the guitars."
"Quit braggin'." The one sitting beside Yuriy said. He had lavender coloured hair and eyes. He stood up too, "I'm Bryan, the bassist."
"And I'm Takao! I play the drums." Takao gave Rei a big smile.
"Uhm.." Rei bowed, "I-I'm Rei Kon, nice to meet you." Before Rei knew it, Yuriy and Takao began bombarding Rei with questions.
"Are you a girl?" Yuriy asked.
"How old are you?" Takao asked.
"Do you have a lover?" Yuriy asked.
"How tall are you?" Takao asked.
"When's your birthday?" Yuriy asked.
"What's your starsign?" Takao asked.
"What's your grade average?" Yuriy asked.
"Errm, no, 15, no, 165cm, J-July 8th, C-cancer, and an A average... (1)" Rei answered the questions meekly, still feeling quite overwhelmed.
"Cool!" Yuriy and Takao said at the same time after Rei answered all the questions.
"Quit makin' him uncomfortable." Bryan came and said. Too bad for Rei, Bryan himself made Rei scared shitless because of his tall and muscular form.
"By the way, that kid there is Kai—", "I'M NOT A KID!", "—He's the vocals in our group." Yuriy said as he pointed to Kai.
"Umm, nice to meet you." Rei bowed politely.
"Crap! We have to leave now!" Kei cried as his digital watch beeped. He grabbed Reiko by the arm as they opened the door to leave.
"I have to go, too." Mao said, "Take care of my honey!" Mao walked up to Rei and was about to kiss him, but he ducked down quick enough to miss her kiss.
"Reeeiii, don't be so meaaaaann." Mao said as she hugged Rei.
"Shouldn't you get going now?" Rei said as he pried his Mao off of him. Mao finally let go of him and walked up to Bryan, "Hey, he's in your hands now. He may act mature on the outside, but on the inside, he's still a kid. Take care of him, 'kay?" Mao smiled.
"Yeah, yeah, get going now." Bryan replied as he pushed her out the door.
After she left, there was an awkward silence. Yuriy decided to speak up, "Umm, let's go for a drink!" Everyone agreed to go.
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Rei was currently feeling very, very, very uncomfortable. The reason was because he was surrounded by four weirdoes. The weirdoes were actually the band, but he called them weirdoes anyways. That was because they all had goofy outfits on, even the 'kid'. (Kai)
They wore goofy outfits because, well, they didn't want anyone to know that they were there.
Yuriy had an afro, which was actually a wig. He had huge sunglasses that made him look, well, weird. He wore a shirt with a flamboyant design and matching pants. Lastly, his shoes didn't match.
Takao's outfit was less crazy, but still crazy. He didn't wear a wig, but he did wear huge sunglasses. His clothes weren't as flamboyant as Yuriy's. Rei thanked god that Takao's shoes matched.
Bryan's clothes were pretty normal, but he had worn a wig that had pink hair. He also wore sunglasses, but they were the normal size. There was a bandana wrapped around his neck, covering half of his face. Bryan wore shoes that matched.
Kai didn't wear a wig or anything flashy. But he did put on a pair of sunglasses and a surgical mask...
"Sooo, why do you guys have to wear all this again?" Rei twitched at Yuriy's non-matching shoes.
"Do you want to be attacked by fangirls?" Takao replied.
A waitress suddenly came over, hand and voice trembling, "W-what would you like to o-order?"
"CHOCOLATE MILSHAKE!" Takao yelled, causing the waitress to jump up in shock.
"Coffee." Bryan said in a scary voice.
"Iwannabananamilshakewithstrawberriessugariceorangechocolatelemonadeandcoffeemixedtogether!!!!!" Yuriy cried, scaring the waitress even more. (AN: Is that too OOC? Tell me if it is –o-")
"Treah." (Tea) Kai tried to say 'tea', but the surgical mask muffled his voice. The waitress got even more freaked out and dropped the pad she was writing on. Rei, being the nice gentlemen he is, picked up the pad for her. "Tea please." He gave her a dashing smile that made her whole figure turn to jelly.
"R-Right away!" She smiled widely at him, her cheeks super red.
"Woah man, Rei, I didn't know you're a ladies man." Yuriy said.
"What are you talking about?" Rei asked, oblivious at the fact that he is a ladies man. 'He really is just a kid.' Bryan though inside is head.
Soon after, their drinks came and they began to talk about random things like school and stuff. Yuriy and Takao talked about themselves and felt the need to talk about Bryan and Kai, too.
"Ne, Rei-chan, what year are you in?" Yuriy asked.
"I'm in my third year of junior high school... (2)"
"Really!?" Takao said, shocked, "I thought you were only in your first year!"
"How about you?" Rei asked Takao.
"I'm also in my third year of Junior High..." He replied.
"I'm in my first year of High school!" Yuriy grinned, "Kai is too, Bryan is in his second year of high school."
"Really—"
Rei was suddenly cut off when a voice behind him was heard, "E-excuse me, I couldn't help overhearing but, are you the band members of Kai Hiwatari's b-band?" She looked at everyone hopefully.
"Erm..." Everyone looked at each other nervously. Yuriy scratched the back of his head. Unfortunately for him, his wig got caught on his fingers, causing the wig to fall off. What was worse was that when he turned around to see what happened to his wig, his sunglasses came off.
"OH. MY. GAWD!! YURIY IVANOV!!!" The woman cried as she jumped up and tried to get onto Yuriy.
"RUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNN!!" Takao cried as everyone got up and ran for the door. Since Yuriy didn't have time to put his disguise back on, he caused a lot of attention, causing more fan girls to try and catch them.
That's when it hit Rei, why the heck was he running, too!? Rei decided to find the nearest alley and turn to it so he can get away from the mob of people. When he did turn into an alley, the entire mob followed him instead of the band members. When Rei realized that he was still being followed, he continued to run, thinking, 'Why meeee!?!?!'
Rei finally couldn't take it anymore and just stopped running, hoping that the mob of people weren't going to hurt him.
He was wrong.
"You! Who do you think you are!? Eating casually with that band!" The leader of the mob grabbed Rei by the collar of his shirt.
"And also! Why did Mao-sama choose, YOU!? You have no freaking breasts!" The girl groped his chest.
"That's 'cause I'm a guy!" Rei said pissed. Did he look that much like a girl!?
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?" The girl and everyone in the mob yelled. All this time, the whole world had thought the new assistant was a girl!
After some apologies, the people all left Rei alone, now happy that their idols aren't going to have someone to seduce them.
'Geez, I hope the rest of the world will soon find out that I'm a guy...' Rei thought sadly, as he walked out of the alley.
——————————————————————At 'SHINE'
"Rei! What happened to you!?" Yuriy said worriedly as Rei went through the doors of 'SHINE'.
"They thought I was a girl so they cornered me. We then talked, they found out I was a dude, and they left. The end." Rei said as he walked towards the nearest chair.
"Cornered!?" Yuriy looked worried, then he started to laugh, "D-don't tell me t-they t-t-thought you—you-you were a girl!" Yuriy then fell onto the floor, laughing like crazy.
"Huh? What happened to Yuriy? GAH! REI! ARE YOU OKAY!? PLEASE SAY YOU'RE OKAY!" Takao cried as he shook Rei crazily.
"He won't be if you don't stop shaking him." A deep voice said behind them. It was Kai, "Come on you lazy people! Get to work! Our day of the concert is coming closer and closer! Get ready!" Takao and Yuriy did what he ordered and went back to practice.
Kai handed Rei some towels to fold. Kai told him to bring them to the locker rooms after. After when he was finished, he picked them all up and headed towards the locker rooms.
"Hey, kid!" Rei looked around and pointed to himself, "Yeah! You! Get us some water while you're going to the locker rooms! And be quick about it!" Kai yelled as Rei headed towards the locker room.
"'Kay." Rei said as he went to look for a vending machine, not angry at Kai's rudeness because now he knows how much stress Kai is under.
————————————————————————- With Kai
While Kai was waiting for water, he watched his band members practice. Every time he would notice a mistake, he'd scold them.
Suddenly his phone rang. Kai picked it up and answered it.
Back then, no one knew that the phone call would change their lives forever.
1 I don't know if the information is accurate or not ): I got all the info at absoluteanime . com (remove the spaces)
2 The school system will be different from the ones in America.