Me: Wah! My baby's finished! -hugs document and cries-

Kai: Over dramatic much?

Me: No! My baby! -hugs document tighter, sniffling-

Tala: Shouldn't you be happy?

Me: But my baby's flying away!

Kai:...

Me: -sniffs- I managed to get some Miguel/Kai in there. Hope you like it. Wah! It's finished!

Kai: -under his breath- one year later... Please Read and Review.

Disclaimer: I no own.

"Hey, Oliver, I'm gonna go catch you later," Johnny said. "There's something I need to do..."

"Alright then," Oliver said, sounding surprised. "Uh, wait Johnny!"

"What?" Johnny asked, looking over his shoulder.

"Happy new year," Oliver smiled.

"Yeah, yeah whatever. Same to you too," Johnny said. "And go stand next to Bryan! Sheesh, just tell the guy you like him already!" Johnny ran out the door and he was sure that Oliver was shaking his head and smiling.

Tala walked into the library and raised an eyebrow when he saw that Johnny had fallen asleep on the couch. He rolled his eyes and walked over to the couch, closing the book that he knew Johnny had already finished and laid it on the coffee table.

"Just like that day…" Tala whispered.

"What day?" Kai asked quietly.

"I'm sure he's told you up to New Years?"

"You apparently ran out, chicken," Kai said.

"Ah…" Tala mused. "Come on, I don't want to wake him." He followed Kai out of the library and into the kitchen. Both sat down at the counter.

"He's quite the scholar, isn't he?" Kai asked.

"He is. Never would have thought it, would you?" Tala responded.

"Well, the rich back in the Enlightenment were the ones who were educated," Kai pointed out.

"Be serious," Tala rolled his eyes.

"History is serious," Kai responded. "Alright, fine, not really. Never thought that he had the patience for books. So what happened after you ran off?"

"Oh," Tala said. "Well…"

Johnny ran outside. "Tala!" he shouted. "Tala!" The red head had disappeared from sight and the snow had covered his footprints.

"Tala!" he shouted again. "Damn it…" Tala surveyed him from behind a tree. Why was he looking for him?

"Jonathon, what are you doing out here?" Robert asked, standing next to the red head. "It's freezing."

"Tala ran out here," Johnny said simply. "And quit calling me Jonathon."

"Well he's probably long gone now," Robert said and then he added when he saw Johnny's look of frustration, "He'll be fine. He is a Blitzkrieg Boy." He paused. "But you, however, are not. Now come inside. You'll freeze." Johnny grumbled curses under his breath as he followed Robert to the door. He surveyed the dojo grounds one last time before he begrudgingly went inside, closing the door behind himself.

"Why?" Tala muttered to himself. "Why, Johnny?" He took out his beyblade and he felt the familiar warmth Wolburg provided for him. "Can you tell me why, Wolburg?" The beyblade glowed and Tala sighed.

"Guess not," he sighed.

He made it a point to avoid Johnny for a day or two… although he had fun watching the younger red head trying to find him.

January 2

"I am not going to ask him!" Johnny shouted as Robert pulled him across the room.

"You want to find Tala. Spencer, Ian, and Bryan do not know where he is. The sensible choice is asking Kai- in fact, you should have gone to Kai firs, Jonathon!" Robert said, pulling Johnny by his upper arm.

"I'll find him on my own!" Johnny snapped, still struggling to get out of Robert's grasp.

"Jonathon, be still. You are acting uncouth," Robert said. "Act dignified like I'm sure your ancestors did."

"Quit using that blasted word!" Johnny said, "And who cares what my ancestors did?! I sure don't!"

"Kai," Robert said, stilling to a halt.

"Robert," Kai said, raising an eyebrow and taking a sip of his coffee. "Can I help you?" his gaze shifted to Johnny. "Still wearing Tala's jacket?" he smirked as he got the heated response out of the red head.

"What does it matter if I am?!" Johnny exploded but Robert covered his mouth with his hand.

"Jonathon, please," Robert said. "Johnny is looking for Tala. Have you seen our other red headed friend?" Johnny said something that oddly sounded like "I am not his friend!" but Kai and Robert chose pointedly to ignore him.

"Last time I saw him, he was headed out the mansion to go practice his beyblading skills," Kai mused. "He's been feeling cooped up lately… so you can either check the training grounds on the dojo or at the park. I'd check the private park grounds first and then the dojo. He won't be in the public beyblade spots- he's not a lover of the fans like Enrique and Tyson." Kai smirked.

"Understandable," Robert said, "there is only so much fan mail one can take."

"And he will only use the training grounds of the dojo as a last resort- he can't be around Gramps too long and Tyson, well… that name says more then enough," Kai winced. Johnny took a moment to observe Kai. He was looking longingly across the room. Johnny glanced over his shoulder. There was Aaron, Mathilda, Claude, and Miguel. Kai wasn't straight, so Mathilda was out of the picture (Kai had better not like his cousin! He didn't want Kai as a cousin-in-law!), he was pretty sure that Rei like Claude and as much as he hated to admit it, Kai was very honorable and protective of his friends so no Claude, Aaron didn't seem like someone Kai would like so… Miguel?

"Don't you have private beyblading arenas at your place, Kai?" Robert asked.

"I do but Ian was playing with explosives at the same time Tala and I were beybattling… and you can get the rest," Kai winced. Robert nodded in understanding.

"Alright, thank you for the both of us, Kai," Robert said, glancing at the brooding red head. "Johnny, you'd best go look for him now before you lose his tail." Johnny nodded. He began walking to the door but Kais' voice stopped him.

"McGregor,"

"What do you want, Hiwatari?" Johnny asked.

"If you don't find him, you're welcome to camp out at my place for a few days," Kai said. Johnny nodded curtly and Kai had the feeling that Johnny would be taking up his offer .Johnny walked out and glanced over his shoulder and saw Robert bidding Kai goodbye and going to talk to Spencer. Johnny sighed, went outside, and pulled out his cell phone.

"Hello?"

"Matti, don't say my name out loud," Johnny said. "I don't want Miguel to know its me?"

"Why? What's up?" she asked.

"Get Miguel to go over to Hiwatari's table, would you?" Johnny asked.

"And how do you suggest I do that?"

"Just do it as a favor for me," Johnny sighed.

"So you owe him?"

"Yeah, kind of," Johnny said. "I'll catch you later. Love you."

"Love you too, cous," she said, hanging up the phone. Johnny put his cell phone back in his pocket, walking by Bryan.

"Did you get all that, Tala?" Bryan smirked into the phone when Johnny was out of earshot.

"Thanks Bryan," Tala said. "I owe you."

"I know," Bryan said, hanging up the phone.

It's needless to say that Johnny couldn't find Tala, the red head had gone to the café where Kai was, where Johnny had previously had been, and realized that Robert was gone. He sat down next to Spencer.

"Where's Robert?"

"He had business to take care of," Spencer said. "Why go through all this trouble to avoid the boy, Tala?"

"Why not tell Hiro you like him?" Tala retaliated.

"Fair enough," Spencer said, taking a dignified sip of his coffee. "So…"

"Hn," Tala said. "Ow!" He rubbed the back of his head and glared at Kai.

"Shouldn't you be flirting?" Tala demanded. Kai glared at him with a light blush staining his cheeks.

"Shouldn't you be letting Johnny find you?" Kai hissed. "I just sent him to where I thought you were."

"No," Tala sulked. "I can't deal with him right now."

"Then when can you?" Kai demanded. Tala was silent and pushed his chair in, walking out instantly. Kai was going to follow but Spencer grabbed Kai's hand.

"He's right Kai, go flirt," Spencer said, taking a sip of his coffee. "Johnny will find Tala eventually, whether it be today, tomorrow, or a week from now, Johnny will find Tala if he wants to badly enough." Kai sighed and didn't argue with Spencer, going back over to Miguel.

January 3

"Look, I'm not saying-"

"McGregor, I get it," Kai said. Johnny nodded.

"Your room will be this one. Mines at the end of this hall and Tala's is the one on your right. Ian and Bryan's is downstairs. I would advise staying clear of it and Spencer's is the one on your left," Kai said. "The library's downstairs, we passed it. Kitchen's right through the library doors and from there you'll find the dining room. Dinner's at seven," Kai said. Johnny nodded, heading into the room and dumping his stuff on the bed. He sighed and decided that he may as well check out the library.

He headed downstairs, finding himself in awe at the great collection. Who knew Kai was such a bookworm?"

"Kai's not really a bookworm. This is mostly books that his grandfather bought for him at the age of nine. The only kind thing the man ever did for him," Johnny jumped slightly and spun around. Spencer was sitting calmly in a chair, holding a book in one hand and two piles were on the coffee table.

"Did I speak out loud or something?" Johnny asked.

"Yes, you did," Spencer said with a nod. "English books are in the section behind me."

"I-"

"Can't read Russian," Spencer said, standing up, "Which is the section of books you are currently headed in finding."

"Oh…" Johnny said feebly.

"You're welcome," Spencer said, closing his book and heading out the door.

"Spencer!"

"Hm?"

"You're no leaving because of…"

"No, I have some business to take care of," Spencer said. "You would have nothing to do with my choice of leaving, not now and not later." Johnny nodded as the tall blonde left the room. Johnny sighed and plopped down on the couch. He picked the top book up from Spencer's pile. Russian. He took one from the other pile. English. He opened it but only got to the first page before he put it on his chest and fell asleep.

"I'm home," Tala announced to practically no one as he thought the house was empty. He walked into the library and saw a sight that made him hold his breath.

"What's he doing here?" Tala muttered to himself as he walked closer to the younger red head's sleeping form. He sat down on the coffee table, taking the book off Johnny's chest.

'Shakespeare?' Tala thought as he put the book onto the table after closing it. 'One of Spencer's reads, no doubt.' Johnny shifted in his sleep. Tala stiffened and then relaxed as Johnny turned onto his side.

"Tala,"

"Yeah?" Tala responded out reflex. He cursed himself when he realized that Johnny had spoken his name in his sleep. He rose to leave but a hand grabbed his wrist.

"You're not getting away this time," Johnny glared at him.

"Johnny…" Tala gulped.

"I have been running around for two days trying to find you, damn it!" Johnny cursed. "Two days! Didn't you have the gall to face me?!"

"Who said I was avoiding you?" Tala said.

"Bryan,"

"When did you talk to him?" Tala demanded and then muttered under his breath, "That traitor."

"I didn't. You just told me," Johnny said and Tala stared at him, dumbfounded. "Well for god's sake Tala, if you won't respond to my words, then respond to this!" He stood up quickly, only letting go of Tala's wrist to grab his shirt and pull the red head down.

His lips met Johnny's innocently at first but then Tala's senses kicked in.

'You want him, Tala!' he thought to himself as he pulled Johnny closer and began to kiss the boy back. Johnny felt himself smirking and when the need for oxygen became to great, they pulled back.

"You realize you could have had that three days ago if you'd just kiss me at that damned party?" Johnny asked.

"Well let's make up for lost time," Tala smirked, capturing Johnny's lips in another kiss.

"You pervert," Miguel admonished Tala. Kai jumped slightly, turning around, and Tala merely gazed at the blonde steadily.

"I have good reason to be one," he said. "Now if you'll excuse me, I'd like to be there when Johnny wakes up…"

"How did he…?" Kai asked as Miguel came to embrace him from behind. "And when did you…?"

"I heard enough of the story to get a gist… so you too, at the café?" Miguel asked.

"Yeah me too," Kai said.

"You know, I think Tala's right about one thing," Miguel mused.

"Tala? Right about something other then Johnny?" Kai snorted. "What is it?"

"We need to make up for lost time," Miguel said with a slight smirk. Kai's eyebrows raised and then he smirked.

"I won't argue with that," Kai said, turning to face Miguel as the blonde leaned down to kiss him passionately.

Kai felt himself smiling. He had it all.

Me: It's over! Thirteen chapters and a year later!

Ian: And she gave me permission to read this part of the notes: To tie up the Tyson and Kai issue, she will likely be writing a sequal... She is trying to concentrate on her other stories so if she takes to long to get it up and you reviewers want the sequal, feel free to tell her.

Johnny: -sweat drops- you were not this melodramtic when you were writing it! Drama queen...

Max: -gives puppy dog eyes- Please review! You know you can't resist the puppy dog eyes!