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"Let me go! I said let me go!" a petite girl about sixteen years old was frantically trying to free herself from the iron grip of a man who had her pinned down. "Tun Sie es schnell! Billy!(Do it fast! Billy!)" he barked at the red head kneeling in front of him drawing a clear liquid into an injection, "Are you blind or what, Werner? I've gotta do it carefully. Otherwise she would end up dead!" Billy retorted, which shut Werner up. The girl's cries slowly turned into sobs and died away.

"Sie ist bewustloss. Nimm sie! Fischer…(She is unconscious. Take her! Fischer...)" Werner ordered his minion. "Ja..(Yes..)" Fischer nodded and dragged the girl away. Werner then turned towards Billy, "Lets deal with the boys now."

"Hey guys! Did you see this?" Kenny was in such a hurry that he didn't even notice Grandpa going through with his morning training. He realized that and sprinted back to wish him a "Good morning Grandpa!"

"What is it Kenny?" Hillary, who had just managed to wake Tyson up, asked. Kenny was trying to catch his breath now.

"Were you talking about the missing bladers and the dead man in Yokohama?" Max asked waving the newspaper in front of Kenny. Kenny nodded in affirmative. "Strange, isn't it?" Ray said as he seated himself on the floor. "What is strange?" a still drowsy Tyson asked as he entered the room. "The missing bladers are the runners up of the other three groups!" Kenny exploded. "Whao! Calm down Chief!" Tyson said sitting down beside Rei.

"They were the runners up in Groups A, B and C yesterday! Akira was the runner up in the Group D, but she got selected in the team," Kenny explained.

"The report says that the three in bladers were spotted with the dead guy at a newspaper Kiosk and at about three o'clock this morning the dead body of the guy was discovered and the three bladers are nowhere to be found," Ray read out the essence of the report.

"The news sure came out very fast," was all Hillary commented. "Guys I have a feeling the police would come here too," Max intervened.

"How are we anyway related to this whole shit?" Tyson wondered aloud his eyebrows knit together in a frown. "Not us… Akira. She was the runner up in the 4th group. That links the four of them. The police might consider that a lead too," Max elaborated.

"So, how does that make me a suspect?" Akira stood at the door, her hands folded. She looked pretty upset or rather pissed off, to be more precise. She was dressed in jeans shorts and a white T shirt. Her raven hair with its soft curls was tied up in a pony. All heads in the room turned towards the source of the voice and their mouths fell open. Her already long legs seemed all the more long and all the more attractive! "Ugh..ugh.." Hillary coughed and nudged Kenny in the ribs. Max gave Akira a half smile as she walked towards him. "Do I look like a criminal to you? Do I, Max?"

"Oh no… you don't have the slightest idea what you're looking like to me," Max's mind was giving him all kinds of ideas, but ended up saying, "Well, some of the most notorious criminals in history have been beautiful women," and gave her his charming smile.

She raised her eyebrow, accompanied by a smirk, "Like?"

"Ummm… if you're asking for names…" Max was tongue tied and was mentally kicking himself now.

"Whatever…" she shrugged and settled down beside Rei, "Where is the report Rei?"

Hillary mouthed "L-a-m-e," and Max shrugged sheepishly.

She read the report twice, "Maybe you are right Max. They might come here. The article mentioned me too. "

"I thought so. But it'll be alright. As long as you haven't done anything wrong," Max said, a little hesitant.

"She seems a little more sociable today," Hillary whispered to Tyson who was now standing beside her. Tyson's thoughts echoed hers.

"Ready to train?" Kai announced his arrival.

Akira looked up at him. Their eyes met and remained so for a moment. Kai was rather relieved to see her sitting beside Rei and seemed to have been involved in a conversation.

"Kai? Did you read the newspaper?" Kenny asked their captain.

"Hn" Kai nodded.

"Max and Akira think that the police might come here for Akira. You know they mentioned her in the newspaper too."

"Maybe, Kenny. Let's not worry about that now. I don't want Tyson to slacking off," Kai said walking towards the backyard through the back door. Akira turned around as the door behind her slid open.

With a small pool and big place to practice, the dojo was indeed a perfect place to train.

"You don't have to worry about that Kai. I can take care of any damn blader in the world anytime, anyplace," Tyson said, too cocky for his own good.

"How about we test that assumption?" Kai said pulling his launcher out.

"Oh yeah!"

Tyson and Kai readied themselves at the dish while Max did the countdown. Rei and Hillary crouched beside Kenny while he was ready with Dizzy to record the stats of the match. Akira stood at the door, her hands folded, a silent observer.

"3.. 2.. 1.. LET IT RIP!"

Tyson launched his blade and it landed right at the center of the dish. Kai's blade circled his, and entered in for the attack. Tyson dodged, "Kai, this isn't child's play."

Kai stationed himself at a height, right at the rim of the dish. He sped right towards Kai and slammed right into Dranzer, too late to realize that he had a trick up his sleeve. All he did was give his blade a slight tilt, and attack him underside, in the most vulnerable spot of his beyblade.

"What the f***? You sneaky…" Tyson swore as he realized how big a fool he was. He opened up his blade for attack, by trying to climb up the dish! It was one of Kai's oldest moves: bending and tilting.

"That is what I call slacking off," Kai and smirked. "Akira! You next."

Akira walked towards the dish, "Who is it?"

"Rei, how about you?" Kai walked towards Rei while, Rei took his place.

"Serpa! Viper Sting now!" Akira's viper, opened up her hood, followed by the hiss of the deadly viper.

"A giant silver – blackish snake… Eww.. the look of it is itself spine chilling!" Hillary said as Serpa gave her goosebumps.

A thousand poisonous needles shot out at Drigger as he cried out in pain.

"Drigger! Tiger claw attack!" Ray frowned as he ordered Drigger to attack.

She was indeed very strong, and her creepy bit beast added to it.

With the final attack, Rei emerged victorious.

"That was quite good, Akira," Rei said as he picked up his blade.

Akira pursed her lips in disappointment.

"Ah.. don't be disappointed. What do we have training for?" Hillary said and patted her on the back.

Akira shot her a Do you mind? Look, and shrugged her hand away. She walked right towards Kenny, "What was wrong Kenny?"

"Ummm… your defense? You still have to work on that," he said looking at her. "Our Maxie can help you out with that if you want him to," Dizzy added.

"Sure. I'd love to," Max flashed her a smile.

"I'll think about it," she said.

The rest of the training session passed without much action. There was some analysis of each of their blades, considering that the Bladebreakers were fighting in the arena after a long time.

As everybody walked back into the house for lunch, Kai stopped Akira, "Akira, we need to talk."

"What is it?" Akira asked turning towards him.

"It is about the case of Yokohama. The dead guy had a photograph of yours in his phone, marked under a title, 'Targets'. The police want to talk to you about it. Don't panic or say anything in front of the others," Kai said as the expression on her face turned into a frown, "Mr. Dickenson arranged for you to meet them at his office at six in the evening. I'll be coming with you too."

"No thanks. I'll be fine," she said as turned away.

"I'm informing you. Not asking your permission!" Kai said and walked past her into the house.

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