I DO NOT OWN BEYBLADE! WHY!

Kai: Because you're an idiot!

Aacura: what was that! (Major death glare)

Kai: Erm nothing...

Aacura: (Turning sewwt again) Hope you like-y!

Kai: (Sweat drop)

(Ray's POV)

Wednesday morning finally came. There was still some sleepy in my eye so it was a little blurry. I looked out of the open window, and there was the sun. Smiling at the clouds… hey, wait! The sun doesn't smile! I rubbed my eyes to see it was Max's fine blonde air I could see. He was looking out of the window, in some sort of a trance. His eyes were glazed over, and he was drawing. Sat on the window ledge with a pad resting on his knees, fluent pencil strokes floated across the paper, as he occasionally glanced out of the window. I snuck up quietly, well, we wouldn't want him to jump and fall out of the window, two stories high now did we! I could see that he was drawing the scenery, and it may only be in pencil, but God did it look magnificent! The landscape of the school was drawn in such fine detail.

"How long have you been up?" I asked softly, so as not to startle him,

"I wanted to catch the sun rise."

"So you got up at five!" I was shocked,

"Nah, eight… I missed it." He laughed and smiled at me, a glorious morning smile. I too laughed at my bizarre friend. It was half past eight now, so we both missed breakfast. Ah well, I wasn't that hungry anyway.

(Normal POV)

"I'm going to shower." Ray stripped down in the bathroom, lifting up his shirt over his well toned abs, sliding it over his silky hair that made his bangs flutter back to the sides of his face. His face… Ray looked at himself in the mirror, at his face in particular. Remembering what that man had said…

Flashback>

"But try not t mess up your pretty face. That would be a crime in itself."

End Flashback>

The water pounded on his chest. He tried not to wet his hair this morning, as it would take way too long to get ready, and would be late for lessons, so he simply didn't have the time.

Finishing from making himself squeaky clean, he wrapped a towel around his water logged body and stepped out of the tub. But since the water had stopped thrashing down the plug hole, he could hear voices (no, not those types of voices!). Max was talking to someone. Probably Tyson.

Confident his nudity was covered, he stepped out of the bathroom, almost knocking out poor Tyson with the door… wait! That's not Tyson! Even though he did have blue hair, it was a set of smooth slate bangs, covering his eyes slightly, and gelled back, deep sea blue hair at the back of his head. Definitely not Tyson! Being slightly taller than Ray, and as a personal note, even more fit!

"S-s-sorry." Ray stumbled out. The other guy stepped out of the way slightly. He raised his head to eye his attacker… and froze. His pupils miniaturized and a slight look of fear showed. Of course, only for a brief moment, until he re-composed to his blank, cold stare. Max cut in the few second silence the two had.

"Oh right, sorry! This is my cousin Kai Hiwatari. Kai, this is my pen pal and roommate, Ray Kon." Ray snapped out of his gaze at the wondrous, if a bit creepy, form in front of him,

"Oh, hi. I'm… who he said." Words seemed to fail Ray at this current time, so Ray put out a hand to shake. But Kai, being Kai, ignored the friendly gesture and shook his head. He turned back to Max,

"Here are your time-tables which you forgot to collect." He said so both of them could hear, thrusting the sheets of paper towards Max. Then he bent down to whisper something to Max, "He isn't anything like that Granger dork, is he?" Max shook his head with a sad smile. Kai reached the door frame (the door was open the entire time), then looked over his shoulder to look at Ray again, "I'd put some clothes on if I were you… classes start in fifteen minutes… and it's cold out." He then left. Ray gazed out of the doorway, swearing he saw a cheeky glint in his… his… beautiful, crimson eyes. Then he blushed horrifically, realizing that he had only been standing in a towel! Max laughed at his embarrassment, and shut the door so as Ray could get dressed in privacy.

"Did I say something wrong?" Ray asked confused.

"Nah, he's always like that with everyone. You should see him around Tyson. Yikes! He's like that except with the people in his group."

"Group?"

"Yeh, they're his friends. Four in total. Ian, Spencer, Bryan, and his best friend, Tala. There was another member of his gang, but she went to a different University, or so I reckon." Max lifted his bag onto his shoulders. He was wearing a blue, long sleeved shirt, and green trousers today, completed with the white Nike trainers.

"Oh, there we go then." Ray also heaved his rucksack on his back, dressed in an all red top, same design as his village wear, but lined in black and his black trousers. They were ready, so they headed off to their first class which they were in together,

"Ack! Chinese! I can't get away!" Rat whined, and scowled at a chuckling Max Tate.

R&R please! Luv ya! Aacura xxx