Title: Obsession

Author: PandaPjays

Chapter Title: Hell on Earth

Rating: T

Warnings: Yaoi. KaiRei TalaBryan if you don't like, don't read it. Fairly creepy themes and violence towards the end.

Disclaimer: If anyone has ever thought I owned Beyblades they were WRONG. I just like stealing the characters and using for my own amusement

Author Note: Annnd here we are back for another chapter! Did you miss me? Maybe? Anyways I'm now thoroughly depressed because on Monday I have to go back to the evil domain known commonly as 'school' Not cool.

On the bright side I am five episodes away from having watched all of the first season of beyblades. Have such gems to use at school such as 'Hey Mum! I believe in myself! How super-cool is that?' That may have been a slight misquote but you get the picture. I LOVE it, it is wow.

Both Panda-chan and Brick have been watching it too- though they didn't have much to say about it… (Yes, the fact that I'm waiting for comments from my computer and plushie is frightening me. Maybe going back into civilisation isn't such a bad idea…)

Thanks to Lainy Wolf for staring at the last few pages of this chapter with me until we figured out what was wrong with it (I still haven't figured out what was wrong with it but rewriting it seemed to do the trick)

Ah well! And thanks for listening to me rant… again…

-Panda, Panda-chan and Brick.

"Leeeeeee" Rei whined as they walked through the doors of the mall. "Can we just not do this?" He asked. "It's not like anyone would ever know. I promise I won't tell Tala that we never went shopping."

"It's not going to work Rei." Lee told him flatly. He had been enduring similar pleas from Rei since he had dragged him out of the café after it had closed and shoved him in the car.

Thankfully, he had the foresight to put child lock on the door on Rei's side or he would have had even more difficulties. He had already he to pull Rei back inside the car after he tried to escape through the window. Twice.

"Why not?"

"Because it just isn't. Do you really think I'm going to give up an opportunity to see you be completely embarrassed? No way in hell! Why do you think I snatched this rare and beautiful opportunity from Tala's claws?"

"Because you like to see me in pain?"

"Exactly." Lee smirked and walked a few steps forward before turning back to Rei and spreading his arms. "Just think, you could have been going shopping with Tala."

Rei suppressed a shudder at that thought. He didn't even want to entertain that possibility. That was just wrong.

"My thoughts exactly. At least this way you can go shopping with someone who has an IQ above that of an eight year old."

"Lee!" Rei exclaimed, shocked and indignant on Tala's behalf.

"You're right… That too generous isn't it? Tala's mental age can't be a day over three."

"I'm so glad that we've had this little talk. Now can I go home?" Rei asked, one of his feet already edging toward the door.

"Nuh-uh. No way. No how." Lee told him firmly, quickly stepping toward Rei and gripping him above his elbow. "You may as well deal with it. You're going shopping however you look at it. Either you and I can walk beside each other and go shopping like nice friendly adults OR I could frogmarch you the entire way. It really is your choice."

Rei thought for a moment before shaking Lee's arm off his own and straightening his clothes, glaring the entire time at Lee.

"I'll take that as an 'I'll be good Lee because I know that I'm not going to win this one… or any one now that I think about it'."

Rei hesitated for a moment before nodding curtly, his glare never wavering.

"That's my boy!" Lee said smirking.

Rei grumbled as Lee began to walk into the nearest door. "If you keep on grumbling like that I really will buy you hot pants." Lee called from inside the shop.

Rei blushed as people looked around to see whom that comment was directed at. "I hate you." He told Lee when he joined him in the shop.

"You're so cute when you're angry."

"Not as cute as you'll be."

"What?"

Rei inwardly cursed. What sort of comeback was that? You're losing your touch, Rei, you really are.

"Glad to see we have that sorted then!" Lee told Rei, grinning predatorily. Rei really didn't like that look. "Now, come and have a look at this pair of pants."

Lee led Rei to near the back of the store where a mannequin was set up wearing a nondescript shirt and-

"No way in hell." Rei stated flatly.

"Now, you see I was hoping you'd say that. What size are you?"

Rei told him without thinking, then realised what Lee was intending to do. "No! You are not getting me in those, no way, no how."

"Yes way. And you know how? Because I know your mother's phone number and she has some lovely baby photos of you that I'm dying to put up in the café, I think our customers would really appreciate seeing you in diapers and having your first bath."

"I hate you."

"You've already said that. Try coming up with a new insult. Now-" he thrust the pants into Rei's hands and thrust him at a changing room, "-go and try them on. And at least pretend that you're enjoying yourself. Everyone's looking at us strangely."

Rei shut the door of the changing room and called over top of it. "I'm not the one blackmailing me with baby photos. How did you find out my Mum's number anyway?"

Lee smirked when he heard Rei crash into the side of the small cubicle. "I have my sources."

"Remind me to kill those sources when I get out of here."

"Be my guest. I have all the information I need"

Rei sighed and rolled his eyes before looking at the pants dubiously and unfolding them. "Mary, mother of God." He whispered. Louder, he called to Lee. "I don't think they're big enough."

"They're your size. Just try them on for God's sake! I don't want to argue with a grey door for the rest of my life. It's so much more fun when I can see your face.

Rei sighed and put one leg into the dreaded pants. He manoeuvred his leg until he could see his foot at the other side and stuck his other leg in the other hole. He straightened and tried to pull the pants up.

They didn't budge.

Rei jumped and pulled hard on the pants, trying to get them up past knee level.

The moved an inch.

He smirked. No pair of pants will beat me!

He continued to use his technique of jump and pull until- "Lee?"

"Mmm?"

"They won't fit over my boxers."

Lee blanched. "You tried to wear underwear with those pants?"

"I wasn't meant to?"

"NO. Now for God's sake hurry up! There's only so long I can stand outside another guy's dressing room without getting suspicious looks from other people."

Rei rolled his eyes as he peeled off the pants and looked around furtively before also taking off his boxers as well. Naked from the waist down he began to pull on the pants again. "Lee. You're a chef in a café of all things. Your reputation is pretty much gone anyway. Get over it."

Lee rolled his eyes and hit he door of the changing room. "Hurry up, will you?"

Rei smirked and saluted, knowing that Lee couldn't see him before using his jump and yank technique to pull up the pants finally and zip them up.

He opened the door and leant against the frame of it, tired from his effort to get the pants on. "What do you think?" He asked Lee, not noticing the flash of a camera from the second storey of the building.

Kai stared in awe at Rei. The black leather pants he was wearing were tight. Tight tight, Not normal tight. Tight tight. They showed off every one of the Chinese man's slightly feminine curves before beginning to flare at the knee. A long, decorative zipper was on his left leg, ending around the middle of Rei's thigh. The leather of the pants had been patched together, giving the pants a rough look that made Kai want to run down to Rei and- he controlled that urge.

"Well?" Rei asked, still leaning on the frame of the changing room's door, not noticing that not only did he have Kai as an audience but had also stopped all female traffic in the area.

Lee blinked. "We're buying it."

"But Leeee they're so tight."

"The point exactly. We're buying them."

Rei huffed in annoyance before shutting the door of the room with a bang and proceeding to peel off the pants.

Lee jumped in fright when his phone went off, vibrating in his pants pocket. He picked it up and glanced at the name of the person calling him. He rolled his eyes and hit the accept button putting the phone to his ear. "Tala? Why the hell are you ringing me?"

-Just making sure you and our dahling ReiRei are having fun. Me and Bryan were thinking about coming to join you two. You know, just so we can have true collaboration and all.-

"No. You set a foot in here and I'll remind Rei that it was you that came up with this idea. He's not the happiest person at the moment."

"Damn right I'm not!" Rei yelled over the door as he began pulling his old, blessedly loose pants back on.

-Was that Rei in the background? What did you do to him to get him sounding that cranky?-

"He's not cranky, he's stroppy. I think he's never had a good shopping experience before."

"And the bad streak isn't ending." Rei complained as he walked out of the room and glared at Lee. "Is that Tala?"

Lee nodded the affirmative and Rei held out his hand. "Give. Now." Apparently he had forgotten how to string sentences together. Lee complied and handed the phone over.

"Tala!"

Tala's voice took on a wheedling tone -Yes ReiRei?-

"Don't you yes ReiRei me nothing! Tomorrow I'm going to skin you, then use one of Lee's old knives to take out your liver so I can feed it to an old lady!"

Tala blinked on the other end and looked at Bryan who had begun listening in on their conversation when Tala had put it on speaker phone. "Um… no thank you? Is there any way I can get out of that?"

-Convince this maniac to take me home. Right now.- Tala and Bryan heard scuffling on the other side before they heard Lee's voice.

-No.-

"I haven't even begun to convince you!" Tala protested smirking.

-Good. And, anyway, I know that you won't even begin to try will you? This whole escapade was your idea-

"But I like my skin!"

-So do a lot of people. Sacrifices must be made.-

With that ending note, Lee cut off the conversation by hanging up, leaving both Tala and Bryan blinking down at the phone.

"I can't believe you." Rei told Lee huffily as he was marched into another store. "You know I'm not going to wear those… things. You can't make me."

"Baby photos remember? Anyway, you'll have a great time on the night. And those clothes will make it that much better. Who knows? You might find a special someone."

Rei scoffed. "At a nightclub? I've heard too many weird stories about weird people at places like that."

"Hey! Not all weird people go to places like that! Think of Tal- no wait, bad example."

Rei smirked. "My point exactly. Anyway, I'll probably get there and just stand on the sidelines; I'm not a nightclub person. I don't do places like that."

Lee grinned as he selected a long, plain, blood red shirt and held it against Rei's chest. "That is why we have to teach you."

Rei sighed. "Last I checked you didn't do places like that either. Remember you once told me you thought they were undignified or something similar."

"Actually, I think I said something more along the lines of uncivilised places of sin." Lee told him smirking. "But you shouldn't believe all you hear."

"Does that mean I shouldn't believe anything you say?"

"I didn't say that, I said that you shouldn't believe everything you hear. You should always know that whatever I say is ingrained with wisdom beyond my years." Lee told him before thrusting the shirt he had been pressing against Rei's chest into his arms and pushing him into a changing room. "Like when I tell you that that shirt should look great with the pants of pantliness."

"They have a title?"

"They deserve one. They look great on you."

Rei rolled his eyes as he quickly buttoned up the shirt and stepped out of the dressing room, arms spread so Lee could see the shirt properly. "And you wonder why Tala has decided that you're not as straight as you make out to be."

Lee tutted. "Remember what I said about not believing everything you hear. That can also be interpreted as don't believe everything you hear from Tala. That guy is a few beans short of a burrito. You're going to get a call from a nearby asylum one day asking if you've seen someone matching his description."

Rei sighed. "So what do you think of the shirt?"

Lee appraised it. It was very plain. But that was a good thing- it wasn't there to take away the impact of the pantliness of the pants. Apart from it's deep red colour the shirt's only feature was that it ended in two sharp points at the front, drawing even more attention to the pants. It was perfect.

Rei shifted uncomfortably. "Well? Can we just buy this and leave?"

Lee nodded reluctantly. It looked like Rei's torture session was over. He couldn't think of any sort of accessory that would enhance the look of the outfit, only take away from it. He sighed. "Coffee?" He asked.

Rei smirked. "Don't we get enough of coffee everyday?"

Lee shook his head and sighed. "You can never have too much coffee. Besides, think of this as checking out the competition."

Rei raised an eyebrow. "Why do I get the feeling you're not telling me something?" He asked suspiciously. "Was there some other reason you dragged me on this torture session?"

"Maaaaybbeeee" Lee drawled before walking ahead of Rei towards the coffee shop. Rei sighed and began to follow him.

He noticed out of the corner of his eyes a semi-familiar head of blue hair walking toward him.

Doesn't he come to the café? He wondered absently as he passed the other, their shoulders rubbing against each other.

Rei suppressed an involuntary shudder and hurried to catch up with Lee. Weird he thought as they entered the coffee shop. "Have you ever met someone who just gave you the creeps?" He asked Lee as they took a seat.

The chef thought about it for a second before shaking his head. "Nope, not that I know of. Why?"

Rei thought of the man he had passed briefly before shaking his head and smiling. "No reason. I was just wondering. Now, what did you want to ask me?"

Lee blinked at the subject change before smirking. "What made you think I wanted to ask you something?"

Rei ticked off each point on his fingers. "You saved me from Tala's idea of shopping which would have involved me going to the nightclub in a thong or similar. You paid for my outfit when I know you can't afford it. You're buying me coffee." He paused to consider something. "And you're going to come to a nightclub when I know that you don't like them."

"So are you." Lee defended himself.

"But I don't have a choice. Tala will knock me out and chain me to the bar if he has to. He's too afraid to do anything like that to you."

Lee snorted. "Tala? Afraid? That man's never been scared of anything in his life. He probably just accepts that I have a lot of knives and know how to use them. He wouldn't be afraid of them. Just probably doesn't like pain."

Rei shuddered. "Just don't go Hannibal on me, ok?"

Lee nodded and grinned. "Aye aye, cap'n"

Rei sighed as their coffee came and he put as much sugar as possible into his cup. "So? What do you want to ask?"

"Are we back to this again?"

"Yes, we are. Now tell me."

"What if I told you I had nothing to say?" Lee asked, taking a cautious sip of his coffee.

"I'd call you a liar."

Lee smirked. "You wouldn't call me a liar now, would you?"

"I would if you were lying." Rei replied.

Lee raised an eyebrow before grinning. "Never play poker." He told Rei. "At least not at my table."

Rei took another sip of his coffee and grinned. "Point taken. So? What did you want to ask me?" He asked for the third time.

Lee sighed and brought his cup to his lips, giving him some time to think about what he wanted to say to Rei. "It's about my sister." He said eventually, setting his cup back down on the table.

"What about her?" Rei asked carefully. He could tell that it was going to be something favour-like Lee was going to ask him.

"She's been looking for a job lately and…" Lee trailed off to look at Rei hopefully, "I told her I'd ask you if there was room for her at the café."

"Uh…huh" Rei said eventually. He looked down into his cup, thinking of something to say. "Um…"

"It's ok if you can't employ her. I was just hoping that you could, she'd be a big help, don't you think?" Lee asked, playing with his cup.

"…What's her name?" Rei asked, mentally going through all of the figures and documents he had spent his entire day sorting, figuring out if he could actually afford to employ someone else.

"Mariah. She's been looking for work for an age but isn't having that much luck." Lee told Rei.

Rei nodded slowly. "I'd have to think about it but I can't see any problem with it. I've heard that Tala's been interested in coming to help you in the kitchen anyway so he'd probably like it if someone came to take his place."

Lee's eyes widened. "You're going to let that thing in my kitchen?" He asked.

Rei shrugged. "You win some you lose some."

Lee narrowed his eyes. "You just want to torture me with more contact with the red-haired freak don't you?"

Rei shook his head. "No. He actually came to ask me if he could start spending some time in the kitchen."

"…And what did you say?"

"I said I'd have to ask you." Rei told him, taking another sip of his coffee. "I'd have to talk to your sister before hiring her, of course, but it should be ok. Tala will be happy."

"Hmm." Lee grunted. It didn't sound either approving or disapproving.

Rei smirked. "I'm so glad that you like that idea!" He said cheerfully. He mood died when he felt someone watching him. He turned around to scan the crowd but couldn't see anyone. Stop it, he scolded himself. You're just jumpy because you hate being around so many people.

Lee frowned as Rei turned around but said nothing.

Kai sighed contentedly as he looked down at the camera he had brought with him. He had had a vaguely unsettling feeling in his stomach when he had picked it up before following Rei and Lee shopping but he had squashed it. Now he was glad he had.

Steeling himself for the ordeal of leaving Rei's presence, Kai stood up and began to walk away, directly toward the nearest place he could develop his pictures.

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