Chapter 14.

Disclaimer: I don´t own anything in Beyblade.

Warning: Yaoi story, harsh language and violence.

"Talk"

´Thoughts´

On with the story!

"Damn it!" The wall got a huge gash from Ray´s fist. He couldn´t bring himself to calm down. He had never felt so helpless in his life and the terrifying feeling was running through his entire body. He was losing his best friend and couldn't do shit about it.

"I need to be strong." He told himself over and over with gritted teeth and he closed his eyes.

But it was much easier in a Beybattle. If he could bring himself to be strong there and give it his all, it would all turn out okay. But here… he needed to be strong so he would not lose it, if it all would turn out for the worse. If Kai…

"Guys…I need you here…" He said in pain.

Tyson… Max… Kenny… The Bladebreakers. His team.

Lee… Mariah…Kevin…Gary… The White Tigers. His clan and family.

He didn´t want to be alone if Kai would … die.

"Tyson, I need you strength to believe now. The strength to believe when the odds are against us. For Kai´s sake. He has to know he is not alone."

His tried to say the words with such meaning, but the tears of doubt would not stop to fall from his eyes. A soft hand on his shoulder pulled him out from his hell of thoughts and he turned around to meet the nurse.

"If you two are close, then he knows he´s not alone." She said.

Slowly he felt himself to get calmer. Even this stranger gave him a better feeling. It was helping him beyond relief. "Yes…"

"The doctors are doing everything they can. We will certain get the outcome soon." Even when she told the routine line he felt better.

She smiled at him. "Feeling a little better."

He looked down at the floor. "My panic attack is over, but until I know…"

"I understand. Try to sit down, I be back in a moment to check up on you."

When he saw her disappear around the corner, he was going to sit down as she said, but a new thought hit him as sudden as his thunder attacks. There was someone who could help him through this.

Almost before he took the decision, his legs were carrying him with running steps down the hall and out of the hospital.

...

Wyatt was surprised to see his butler standing by his cabin; waiting for him. He had just come back from a refreshing walk in the woods. His thought of Kai and Ray had for a moment calmed down but he had a feeling that it soon would change.

"Young Wyatt, I´m afraid I have some bad news." The man said. He was reaching his older years. His brown hair had started to change color to grey but he other than that, he seemed to be in well shape. His posture showed how proper he was just like the family he was working for. Right now he was dressed all in black except for white gloves.

"What is it? What´s wrong?" He asked in worry. He didn´t care that some of his classmates looked at them because of his outburst.

"You friend young Kai has been forced to go through another operation. I don´t know how bad it is, but it happened last night. I'm here to pick you up and drive you to a waiting helocopter."

"But mom and dad said…" Then he knew. It was probably really bad, since he was allowed to go home. What if he had to say goodbye? Could Kai really….?

"I understand. We leave right now." With shaking steps he walked over to the black limousine that waited for him. He closed the door in the backseat as his butler talked to the teacher.

"Kai…."

...

The morning was coming fast. It had taking Ray twenty to thirty minutes to run back to the school, thanks to his successful shortcuts. Panting slightly he looked up at the school who started his hell. This stunt was the first thing he did when he arrived so it was no problem to do it again. His motive was as clear as his plan.

(Flashback)

"So if Dranzer is in parts, why didn´t you say so?"

"I didn´t think it would matter what blade I use. This is not a tournament." Kai answered where he sat on the bench with closed eyes and enjoyed the suns warmth. Ray was lying on his back with his head in Kais lap comfortly.

"It's no fun if you don´t use Dranzer." He said simply.

"Sorry, but I only have one backup because I need a new part for Dranzer. But I think it will be a challenge for you anyway." He said with a smirk. It was his time to try and cheer up his teammate.

"No thanks not interested."

(End of flashback)

He smiled at the memory. "Which means you didn´t take him out of your room, right Kai?" With that he jumped up on the pipe, just like before and started to climb. It went slower than the first time, but it was because of the running. He grabbed hold of the window edge and hauled himself up so he could get a good hold with his feet. As he had guessed, the room was dark and empty. He could see his empty bed and a few things that belonged to Kai. He knew that he had a good chance in not getting caught, since everyone in his grade was on the school trip. The youngest classes were mostly on the first floor but he didn´t take any chances.

"Now, this is the second floor. Why would they have the window locked?" His guess was met with luck as the glass square came open when he pulled at it. That too brought back memories.

(Flashback)

The window was open carefully and slowly. His two hands got hold of the windowsill and he climbed up and landed silently on the desk. ´So good so far´ he thought.

The window got closed again just as discreetly and before anything else could happen the figure got violently grabbed in the neck. ´Shit! ´ He was quickly pulled into a pair of strong and familiar arms.

"Couldn´t wait until tomorrow I see." He should have thought he couldn´t sneak up on his captain and lover.

"...Not a chance."He admitted and he leaned in deeper and met Kai´s lips in a kiss he had longed for.

The kiss was much missed and he wanted more for every second but like Kai read his mind he pulled away and looked into his eyes. He guessed they were quite easy to see in the dark.

Kais Rubin eyes looked very dark on the lack of light but he loved them anyway. Realizing they had barley spoken yet he just said what came to mind.

"I´ve missed you Kai." He loved the smile he got back.

"I´ve missed you Ray." It was all he needed to know as he pushed his lover back they fell onto his bed with him on top. He didn´t waste any time to open Kais white shirt open and attack his neck. Not so carefully he scrapes the skin with his fangs in the way he know the Russian likes so much.

"Ray, this room has very thin walls...let´s not" he silenced him with a new kiss. "I´ll be quiet." He murmured and rolled over to get the other on top and motioned him to do his work. Kai moaned and took control. With his usual dominance action, the phoenix flipped him over quite harshly and breathed in his pointy ear, making him almost go crazy. "You´re right, what was I thinking. It´s worth it." He whispered in a husky voice and almost ripped off his shirt.

(End of flashback)

Ray´s eyes widened as he caught himself reaching out his hand almost as to reach someone. He knew of course who and he shook his head in embarrassment of the memory he just had. It was not a bad one, absolutely not. But just not the right time now. He soundlessly jumped down from the desk and started to look around. It was too much of a risk to turn on a light so his good eyesight was a blessing when he was moving around and lifted Kais clothes to find the object he was looking for.

"Where are you? "He whispered as he gave up on the clothes and moved over to the closet. He reached up on the top shelf and moved his hand around because he couldn´t see but it was not there either. His next target was the bedside table and when he found Beyblade parts he thought he had found it but...

"What the...? This is only the spare parts..." His frustrations came quickly. ´Could Wyatt had taken it?`

His movement became faster and possibly louder. He yanked at Kais travel bag to see if it was there but no success. He looked under his bed, the closet again. Even the bathroom. When he came out he felt defeated. He wouldn´t be able to reach Wyatt's room, it was soon time for people to wake up and he needed to be away from there by then. He sat down on the bed to think it over. Kai hadn´t mentioned at all where it could be. He shook his head before he covered it in his hands. "C´mon Dranzer! Kai needs you!"

Like an answer of his prays there was a glow next to him that caught his attention. He would recognize that red light everywhere. "He couldn´t have..." He said with a devious smile and reached out his hand under the pillow to bring out the blue Beyblade. Dranzer welcomed his touch with a quick glow. "Kai, you sneaky bastard."

With one silent movement, the room was once again empty.

...

He felt so tired but didn´t want to give in. It felt wrong. He couldn´t hear it but a feeling that was screaming in his body told him to fight. Was it his friends? Did he fight death? Or did he fight life?

The coldness was fading but the darkness stayed. "I´m fading..." left his lips. He couldn´t remember anything resent or either a person's touch. The only he felt was his eyes who felt heavy; they wanted to sleep. But did he? No he wanted to feel something again.

"Focus...focus...focus." he said over and over and pictures came back to him of Fights, yelling, hurt. And his fall. Voices who were calling on him.

Ray... Wyatt... He didn´t want to leave them.

I have to fight this. I have escaped loneliness before and I won´t give in now. I can´t... "Ray, Wyatt. Be good to each other...I will..." he said.

...

"Excuse me, any news on Hiwatari Kais condition?" Ray asked the nurse at desk. A doctor passed them right on cue and she got a firm expression just like the other woman had, he was wondering if they did that out of respect of the more educated staff. "Are you a relative?" She asked as the doctor rounded the corner. Ray looked at her with a pleaded face. "But I thought..."

She hushed him and motioned him to come closer. "I know, but not in the presence of the doctor."She whispered. He had guessed right. She looked again before whispering; "Nothing new yet but either way, it shouldn´t take long now. Go and sit down." He smiled at her and nodded before going back to his seat were he kept his travel bag. He had just been sitting a couple of minutes when a familiar group of people were arriving from the door. "Hi, we want to know Hiwatari Kai´s condition." The man said to the nurse who asked questions about their relations with the patient. He was explaining the economic situation when Ray's eyes came in contact with Wyatt´s who gasped at him.

"What are you think you´re doing! Get away from there." He said and run forward towards him, making his mother to call after him. Even the father and the nurse were looking at them.

Ray wasn´t sure if the student was going to attack him again but he held his ground and tried to be calm. "Wyatt please..."

"No, get out of here. I told you to stay away." He growled and glared like him.

The tiger knew that this was turning out for the worse when his parent came over too. "What is it honey?" The blonde woman asked.

"I want him out of here. He is no relative to Kai."

Wyatt forced himself to calm down when his mother put her slim hand on his shoulder. "But Wyatt, this is the boy from before maybe he is a friend to Kai."

"He is the one who is responsible for Kai being here! I want him out!"

"I never meant for this to happen, you know that..." he tried to say but the brunette didn´t listen.

"I know nothing about you. Absolutely nothing except that you are a manipulate guy who is taken advantage of Kai."

"That´s not true Wyatt..."

"Young man, I think it time for you to leave." The father put in and gave him a look that was not up for any more discussions. Ray glanced at the door were he knew Kai would come out. He wanted to stall it more but his chances weren't big.

"Excuse me; I'm the one who let him stay there. He is a good friend to the patient and he is really worried about him..." The nurse tried to say in his defence.

"Thank you, but I don´t think your service is needed at the moment." The man said nonchalantly and almost waved her of like an irritating fly in his presence.

Ray felt rage building up inside him, but said nothing. He gave in and reluctant got up from his seat and got his bag. It wasn´t because of them, but because he didn´t want the nurse to get in trouble for his sake.

Her face showed him that she didn´t like this, but he tried to smile it away. He appreciated what she had done. To tell Wyatt´s parents that he was Kai´s boyfriend would not help the situation either so he settled with a retreat right now.

"Thank you." Wyatt´s father said and Wyatt looked pleased as well. But the face changed from good to bad when Ray passed him and noticed the glowing object in the tiger's hand. "What are you doing with that? Give that to me." He said and reached for Dranzer. Rays eyes turned to slits in seconds.

The blonde woman screamed out in fright as she watched in horror her only son hit the ground with a gasp. Wyatt felt the air leave him of the impact and he too watched up in surprise at Ray who was glaring at him with a dangerous face. Ray was on the inside pleased this time. He hadn´t been force to punch him; a simple shove had been enough.

"Don´t press your luck Wyatt." He warned.

Wyatt´s father recovered first of the grownups and pointed at him in an accusing manner but he was looking at the nurse. "Call security, I want him escorted out of here. He is a violent person."

"Ever thought about that your family want a little too much?" Ray said. The man glared at him.

"How dare you!"

"Wyatt, are you okay honey?" the mother said and was going to help her son up but he just glared at Ray.

"Miss, this troublemaker should be arrested." The man continued.

The woman didn´t know what to do. "Sir, I'm sorry but your son approached him first."

"He has stolen Dranzer from Kai!" All three looked at Wyatt again. "Give it back Ray, you have no right to take it!"

"I know you don´t like me, but you have no control over this." Ray said. "I'm his teammate Wyatt. Dranzer is staying with me until Kai return and there is nothing you can do about it. Try and take from me like a child again and you will have to face the consequences."

"Threat me all you like Ray. It will do you no good." Wyatt answered as he got up from the floor with his mothers help.

"It´s not a threat, I simply are giving you advice. Do yourself a favour and let this go."

Wyatt felt himself almost burn on the inside. His hands were shaking; his shoulders were shaking in anger. And he did the only thing he knew at the moment. He cried.

"You stupid jerk! Why did you have to come here! Everything was fine without you. You have ruined everything for me by just being you. Do you have any idea how much I HATE you!"

"Wyatt!" his mother snapped. She did not raise a son with that language.

"No mother, he needs to know. " He said and approached Ray who didn´t even flinch. "I hate you."

Their eyes were stuck on each other...and Ray felt his anger fade. Just like that? He felt a familiar calm inside him. And he knew what it was. Pity.

"Then why don´t I see hate in your eyes, Wyatt?"

The brunette blinked by the comment but recovered quickly. "You should see it, because that´s how I feel. Kai was happy before you came here. You couldn´t handle that he was coming back to me. He was coming to ME!"

"Son, listen to me..." His father stopped and looked at his wife who held his arm. She had a sad face. She knew her son needed to get these feelings out. As a mother it had not been hard to see to tense her son had been lately, and she guessed this was the cause of it.

"Yes he did. As a friend."

"No! It´s because of you. He would have figure out how much he means to me if it weren´t for you. You tricked him intro believe that he needed to be perfect like you. Kai don´t need that and fame, he needs someone who loves him for who he is!"

Ray felt like he saw the teen in a whole different light. Never would he have thought that Wyatt would be so mature and caring. Why hadn´t he seen it before? This explains his friendship with Kai.

Shame came over him. Why had he let his jealous feelings get in the way of his judgement? If he had been calmer about this then he would have seen this side of Wyatt from the beginning. And Kai would not have been hurt.

"Oh, Wyatt. I´m anything but perfect. And I don´t expect Kai to be either."

"Liar!"

"I'm not. I too want Kai to be himself and I was glad that he had made a friend here..."

"But as long as it was just a friend right? You couldn´t let him find happiness on his own, that was another story right?"

"He did find happiness on his own. He found me."

"Kai does not love you!" Wyatt cried and stomped his foot.

"There is nothing in the world that you can say or do, to make me think otherwise."

"You don´t know about Kai and me. He came back to me. Thought me how to blade, showed me how it was to be in love for the first time! He gave all that to me and it was real!"

Ray looked at him sadly. "I believe you."

"What?"

"I do think Kai gave all that to you. Because that´s the kind of person he is. But I also think you are mixing up your friendship with love and see things that are not there because of your angry feelings for me."

Smack. The hit came fast and with force. If not Ray had such good balance then he might had fallen. His cheek turned red by the hit and it stung too. But because he held his ground and turned back towards the brunette, then he had made even bigger impact on him.

"See Wyatt. No matter how hard you hit I will be here. No matter how much you try, you can´t erase me from Kais life."

Wyatt's hand were shaking as he sobbed, he hated the fact that the Chinese was right. But it hurt too much to accept it.

"Accept it or try and kill me. The choice is yours because I'm a part of Kais life no matter how we all feel."

The teen were taken back by the comment. He would never try to hurt the other no matter how much he hated him. It was just so frustrating. Defeated he looked down at the floor and let the last tears fall on his shoes. When he felt Ray moving away from him he tried a last time to with the argument.

"Ray... If you are so sure that Kai loves you and not me, why didn´t you step aside and let Kai and me try and sort out our feelings?"

Ray stopped for a moment before turning back at him with a sad face. "Because... I had him Wyatt. And if you two had gotten along so well as you are saying... I wouldn´t be able to let him go. I love him too much."

"Then that don´t make you any better than me. You would fight for him too, so you can´t judge me."

"I fight for him because he loved me back and told me that every day. Can you really say you fight for the same reason?

Check mate.

Wyatt sobbed. He was too tired to do anything else. Except from Kai he had never been so affected by a person before.

Ray didn´t feel any better or relived until a unique glow caught his attention. The Beyblade in his hand was acting different from anything it had done before. It wasn´t his totem but the feeling couldn´t be misunderstood. Something was happening. The signal went through him like a blessing and he felt so happy. Without even thinking twice about it he walked back to the others. "Wyatt."

The brunette looked at him without emotion before he held up the glowing Beyblade in front of him. "Dranzer...what is happening?" he asked amazed.

"It is glowing with power doesn't it?" Ray smiled. And before he could say anything else the door was open and three doctors came out with Kai in his bed. When they saw all faces they smiled at them.

"The operation was a success. He is stable."

End of chapter 14. As soon next chapter are ready I will post it! Thank you for reading. Cya!