Ok coursework is finished! Now revision begins!

Thanks for the reviews everyone but I am afraid it might be a while before we see Kai and Hilary back together!!

sorry

I do not own Beyblade!

Kai stood with Ray watching as the girls they loved went out of sight, Kai shuddered he had no idea when he would see her again and it hurt. It hurt badly! Beside him Ray looked to be in as bad a shape as he was.

"We will see them again!" Ray stated

"Yeah, it's for their own good"

"Even they saw that"

"Yeah and Hilary she'll be OK she's tough"

"So is Mariah, God I love her"

"I already miss her"

"Well, now we better put the tough guy act back on"

"Ray, no one will believe you if you do that"

"Are you saying I'm not tough?"

"I'm just saying that no one expects tough from you!"

"Yeah well no one expects emotion from you so stop crying"

Surprised Kai put his hand up to his cheek, a tear had formed and fallen down his face. He stared at his fingers and the salty water they had brushed away, he couldn't remember the last time he had cried. Had he ever cried?

"Thanks for the heads up Ray" He breathed in some air and allowed his usual cold expression to cover his face as he folded his arms across his chest. Ray did the same only he allowed his arms to fall to his sides and set his face into a serious expression. They looked at each other and after a nod of approval to each other they turned and returned to the rest of the group.

--

Mariah was looking down at the food on her plate it was bacon and eggs and normally she would be wolfing it down but today…., she struggled to act normal. She picked up her knife and fork and started to cut, slowly raising the food to her mouth fighting the nausea that was overcoming her. She couldn't do it, she slammed down her fork, stood up and dashed from they table and out of the room.

"Hey sis what's up?" Lee looked after her surprised "she hasn't been well for a few days" he told the others sitting with them.

Around the table sat Daichi Grandpa the remaining members of White Tiger X team and the PPB All Starz. Hilary sighed it had been just over three months since they had left the island and she was finding day to day life tough. She thought hard and suddenly understanding dawned on her, Hilary stood and excusing herself from the table she followed her friend into the bathroom. Mariah stood shivering holding onto the sink tight as tears fell fast down her face.

"Lets play a game Mariah" Hilary sat down on the toilet

"Hil's not now I feel sick" Mariah was standing over the sink shuddering

"Its called 'is my best friend pregnant' want to play?"

"Hilary, I'm not pregnant" Mariah laughed forcedly

"Step 1 has she been eating unusual foods? I think the pickles and cream breakfast you had today counts, step 2 is she puking a lot?" at that moment Mariah threw up into the sink

"Well that's a big fat yes. Step 3 is she eating lots? And yes I noticed that you had seconds and thirds for lunch yesterday. Step 4 is she late? And I know you haven't been on for ages now so don't even think about lying"

"Well your one to talk," Mariah turning yelled at her "you're the one who was eating the apple and onion salad yesterday, you threw up twice last night, and ate loads at dinner…." Mariah stopped realising what she was saying, she dried her eyes and stared at Hilary gasping "You too? Oh Hilary!"

"What can I say, in this game we both win" Hilary smiled in a grim sort of way, Mariah sat down heavily on the floor and looked helplessly down at her hands.

"Kai?"

"Who else, Ray?"

"Yep!"

"Neither of you thought to use protection?"

"No! I still can't believe I was so stupid but…."

"You were just concentrating on being with him for the little time you had left" Hilary finished her sentence.

"Yeah, didn't you guys use anything?"

"No I thought about it once on our last night but we had already done it once and so many other times it seemed pointless to bring it up, I mean then we would have had the worry of whether or not I was pregnant and I didn't want Kai to worry about me, especially as we were leaving soon. Besides I doubt they had anything like that in their medicine cupboards"

"What the hell do we do?"

"Well I have an appointment at the doctors tomorrow, you want to come with?"

"Sounds good, we need to know for sure."

"I wish we could get in touch with them"

"Yeah but it's probably a good thing they don't know, they wouldn't concentrate on what they were doing if they knew"

"Yeah plus my dad will kill Kai when he finds out"

"Lee will probably do the same to Ray"

"Lets wait till we know for sure before we do anything"

"Good plan."

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Kai fell onto is bed exhausted his face was scratches and marked, it had been a rough day filled with hard work. They had taken down another of Boris' laboratories filled with scared and damaged children. The place had been new so it looked although the kids would all be aright after a little rehabilitation, he however would never get over any of this, he often felt like crying as he saw young faces tragically sorrowful. Thank God Hilary had gotten out of here, he couldn't have coped having her see all this. He sighed, Hilary just the thought of her made him smile he hadn't seen her for so long but whenever he closed his eyes there she was, something good and pure that he could hold onto. He lay for a few minutes just thinking of Hilary imagining her sitting outside the dojo laughing and joking with Daichi.

"Hey" Kai turned his head and looked at the speaker.

"Ray! its good to see you it's been a couple of days," Ray walked forward and gasped.

"Man your messed up"

"and I was just thinking how pretty you were looking"

"Kai was that a joke? Didn't know you could do that"

"What can I say, I've mellowed" Ray flopped on the next bed along and sighed

"I've spent all day with Lex he's doing well" Kai grimaced remembering the state in which they had found Lex, he had been closed off unable to communicate, whenever he was touched he would fight, who knew what had happened to him but somehow Ray had a good affect on him and he was beginning to improve. They were stll unable to find his family so they had decided to let him stay at the base under a strict watch "What's up with you?"

"Don't ask," Kai felt so tired he pulled Dranzer from his pocket and ran his thumb over the bit chip. How had beyblading come to this? It had started out as a simple sport the way most sports do, a few people thought it up as more people played rules were added, as more rules came into play it became more complex. How had this simple sport become so powerful that men were using it to gain power and control?

Why did men like Boris have to take this game and corrupt it?

"That bad huh?" Ray could see the pain in Kai's face, he had Drigger in his hand and turned his head down to stare contemplatively at it. At that moment Tyson Rick Max and Kenny walked in, they each copied Kai and Ray and lay on their beds. None of them bothered to ask how things were going they all knew that the answer would be shit or very shit. Tyson grinned sleepily

"Guys?"

"What's up Ty?" none of them bothered to lift themselves up, they were all exhausted

"I would give the world for a cheeseburger right now"

Even Kai joined in the exhausted laughing that followed this statement, Tyson may have changed and become calmer quieter less selfish and less arrogant but he could still eat for Japan. Kai smiled as he thought about the BBQ's that Hilary had insisted on making a regular occurrence. He remembered how he had missed the first one so she insisted on fixing one for his birthday. He still had no idea how she had found out that it was his birthday but to his surprise he had enjoyed himself and boy did she make good burgers.

"When we get back" Kai pulled himself up for a moment "we'll have to get Hil's to set up a BBQ for us"

"Oh yeah" Tyson agreed "Burgers and Ribs"

"Corn on the cob"

"Crisps"

"Sausages"

R&R