Author's Note: Thanks to everyone that had begun to read the third part of this Trilogy! It's an epic, but really I love writing this one! I don't know why either as it seems to be attracting less attention but who cares! Anyway thanks to everyone that added this to their favourites or/and alerts! Big thanks to;
d1bontemp - Speechless? I hope it's the good kind of speechless! You like darker fics? Excellent because I don't think I could think up a darker plot to be honest O.o Thanks for reviewing!
kavbj - He is unlucky, that and he is somewhat easy to torture in fics. Selene is different, and you will be told why in a few chapters time! 'Go Hilary!' I can't believe I just read that, glad you liked her though. I don't actually mind her... O.o I'm turning insane... Thanks for reviewing!
isthatnecessary - Yah long review! She wasn't, I think that was because I had so many people in the one place another one would just kill me to be honest! She might get along with Selene I haven't really thought about the kind of friendships that will be made and broke... If any. You'll find out... Very soon what Selene is hiding, but I'm afraid not in this chapter. Thanks for reviewing!
Chapter 3
Selene was not bothered in the morning by Kenny or Rei. They had both thought that someone asking if they were okay – when they had only had a nightmare was a little extreme and decided to let the last nights' event slip. Even if Selene did look quite peaceful just sitting munching some toast that she had made herself she was not in any way relaxed.
Kai wasn't the type of person that relaxed anywhere though he did feel slightly uncomfortable when he knew that Selene was hiding something from him. He couldn't care less if it was another order she was given to try to kill him he just wanted to know. He wanted to know now.
He glared constantly until the girl looked up and held his gaze for more than a second, and then went back to looking into space which just infuriated Kai more. Causing a scene was not something Kai was known for and he wouldn't start now, not for some information that would turn out to be nothing.
The rest of the BladeBreakers were doing what they usually did, when the fan-girls where not anywhere to be seen that was. Outside was a fairly warm day, the sun was out and there was only a few clouds that threatened to drift in front of the warm star.
For the moment it appeared that Max was the strongest, even Tyson was more worn out than usual, and Kai hadn't even bothered telling any of them to work harder, which was giving the impression that Kai was happy at their performances. Really, he was just sitting down wondering about how he could let his mother die at the hands of his father. He no longer cared who got the Championships Title nor did he care for beyblading.
"You look pretty tired." Kai looked up, gave an uncaring glance at everyone else before looking back at Kenny. He didn't understand why everyone else didn't understand that he wanted to be left alone.
"I'm fine." Which was no indication of how he really felt, he didn't feel fine he didn't even feel anymore. He was just so stupid to even try to trust his father, and then he had only realised it at the end of the whole tournament and that was went he couldn't even move himself. How did anyone else know what he felt – he had killed his mother by not being able to stop Adonis.
"Okay, if you say so." Kenny went back to watching and recording the beybattles that were taking place. Kai stood up quickly; the little heat was annoying him greatly. He would not usually be outside in warm weather even if he had lived in Japan.
Kai went back into the dojo where he was greeted with nothing but narrowed eyes. Kai glared back at the girl who was lying, sprawled out on the floor, trying to cool herself down. "What?" He knew that Selene knew he knew that something was wrong and that there was a much greater reason for having her calf scarred. Still Kai had no idea what he would do to get her to talk – unless she would talk herself, which was pretty much unlikely.
"You look sad." Her voice held no spite nor did it hold any happiness, it was just a blank observation on her behalf. Kai shrugged off what she said, knowing that he probably didn't look very happy, and he felt like he never would be again.
"What happened to your leg?" Kai asked again, Selene sighed and sat up, the heat was annoying her, she was used to the cold – she would rather be colder than warmer, it was easier to warm up than it was to cool down.
"My leg, what about it, feels fine to me." Selene tilted her head to one side, acting the fool, a small smirk came to her face, which just put Kai over the edge. He was so close to yelling at her, to just hurry up and tell him. Though he didn't, he bit his tongue and moved on.
Selene watched as Kai left, something about him had changed, as if a cloud were hanging over him, shutting him from any contact. Selene began to wonder, why was Kai even more distant? She knew about the death of his mother, and even she had been ridden with guilt and loss. Maybe she should tell him what had happened or the other way around…?
Though he probably wouldn't be able to see why she had come here and told him he was the one that was going to die. She would never have come here if she was the only one in trouble, she was just too proud for that. Then again – he had said something that had been very close to Kai's personality which was why Selene came to warn him. Just in case.
Kai would never open up to her, not after what she had done all of last year – that was a complete mess. Emotionally and physically, though Selene pondered over one thought, would he open up to Lilita? It was clear that the whole death of his mother had taken…Something away from Kai, he was no longer the first up and stayed in his room, even his long walks to wherever-it-was-he-went had been slowly coming to an end.
"Kai..." The voice of Selene made Kai stop in the middle of the corridor, waiting to see what she was going to say – if anything useful. Selene stood up and joined the taller teenager who was standing still in the hallway. "I'll tell you when Lilita tells me I can." Kai listened, though did not like the answer and walked off knowing fine well that if Lilita were in Selene's shoes she would have told him there and then.
He didn't understand, if Selene had came to warn him wouldn't she'd want to tell him what was going on – and how on earth was Lilita involved in all of this? Then again if Selene could communicate with Lilita that also meant that she would end up coming out – that was if she wanted to tell Kai herself, but Kai doubted that highly, it wouldn't be that big, not enough to get her to come all the way over here to try to convince him or warn him.
By evening, the group was exhausted and the tired captain tried his luck at falling asleep, which only ended up as a two-hour nap, which didn't help him very much. It made him even more tired, and even more uneasy about going to sleep, especially because he shared a room with none other than nosy Granger.
Tyson was a heavy sleeper, who would only wake up naturally if there was one of two things around – beyblades or food. Though Kai also knew that Tyson wasn't as dumb as he normally let on, especially when he became concerned about something he would then purse it until he found out what was wrong.
Selene was annoying Kai, in fact she wasn't – nothing annoyed him anymore, yet everything just made him angry, even if it was someone who was trying to help him. He had failed to do something, and had begun to hate any achievement that someone spoke of. If any subject started with, 'oh guess what I did,' Kai left the room before he had time to strike the person.
He lay down on his bed, and didn't even bother to look around to see if Tyson or anyone else was in his room, he just sat down, tired and angry – and most of all lost. Ever since he had watched his own father kill his mother, his world just seemed so fabricated, everything appeared before him and then, wham! He would end up alone again.
Even though he never wanted to admit it, he hated silence he hated being alone, he was sure everyone did. The people that were trying to help him where his friends, though he couldn't open up to them as much as he had tried, it was not because of the Abbey and it was not because he didn't want to, he just didn't feel normal when talking to them. As if they were talking to him because they pitied him, because they felt like they needed to be there or else he would collapse under the strain.
Kai sighed, he would need to lock the door, which was one reason why he didn't mind sleeping in the same room as Granger, his room was the only one that had a lock, which meant Kai was sure to get some peace and quiet. He could hear the rest of his team coming in, and it was a fifty percent chance that Tyson would try to get into his room, or else he would go to the kitchen.
The teenager went over to the door quickly, and locked the door, letting a breath out as the door was sealed shut. Kai rested his head against the door and closed his eyes wondering if Tyson would be mad at him for keeping him out of his own room. Kai could feel someone coming down the hall, though it was not the careless thumping of Tyson's feet.
"Kai…?" It was Rei, and Kai could tell that he was slightly concerned as he had stopped right outside Tyson's door. Kai removed his forehead from against the door and slowly moved away from the door. "What?" He called back, hoping that the neko-gin would just leave him alone.
Rei on the other side of the door had been worrying non-stop about his captain, he hardly ate or even trained he just stayed silent even when they were trying to get some information about their beyblading techniques – which he would usually give a huge lecture on. No one mentioned the fact that Enya was gone and was now dead, and that whole event must have made its mark on Kai. Trying to cope with something everyone knew, but Kai had never been good at opening up and so he just blamed himself ignoring the fact that other people had felt the same pain.
If she had died of natural causes then it wouldn't have been as bad, it wouldn't have made Kai feel like he hadn't managed to accomplish something and since Rei suspected that Kai was a perfectionist then it wasn't a great thing to know that he had supposedly failed to save his mother from his father.
"Kai, are you really okay?" Rei went to open the door but ended up blinking as he realised that the door had been locked from the inside. Max and Kenny had now joined up with the neko-gin in the hall, each of them with a worried look on their faces.
"Can you unlock the door? Please?" Rei looked at Max who also tried to open the door, but he failed as well. Rei and everyone else were beginning to get more than worried. Selene was outside and did not know of the sudden chaos that was happening inside the dojo.
The red-eyed boy sat down on his bed, slowly thinking about what he could do and why he was even here, he had shown that he could beat a very powerful bitbeast yet Tyson could have managed that no problem. He was still World Champion and it did mean that he was the best blader in the entire world…. Tyson was better than him.
"Leave me alone." Kai muttered as he heard what Rei was asking him to do as they would come in and look around trying to find something – like a knife where he had cut himself, or something equally as stupid. He would not do something so obvious that would get him into trouble so easily, he would do something that would be slow, so no one would see the complete change. Then he would disappear, forever and ever and no one would notice.
Selene had come inside and noticed the small crowd that was gathering at Tyson's door, Selene frowned, this wasn't going to help. She was waiting on getting a phone call so she could talk to Lilita, so she would then be able to tell Kai about what happened – or not, it all depended on what Lilita said.
As if on cue the phone rang, and Selene sighed in relief, she would be able to entice Kai out of his room if she was allowed to tell him. Then again if she wasn't she could always get Lilita to have a chat with the blader. Selene watched the other members of the BladeBreakers for a moment before she answered the phone, and went back outside, wondering if it was good or bad news.
"Well?" Selene didn't even acknowledge the other girl on the phone, all she wanted was to get to the point quickly to see if she could tell Kai or not. It would put his mind at ease, at least then he wouldn't think Selene was trying to trick him again.
"No, you can't." Was the brief answer that Lilita gave Selene, of course Selene wanted to tell Kai, just so the rest of the team could see if he was okay, so Selene decided to try to get Lilita to reconsider and let her tell. "Why not, have you found something else out?"
Selene frowned as she heard Lilita sigh on the other end of the conversation, something was different, she seemed much calmer than usual and that wasn't a good sign. "Look, just not yet… He'll take it badly." Selene raised her eyebrows in surprise even though the other girl could not see what she was doing.
"Someone is trying to kill him, how wrong could he take it?" There was a small snort of amusement then another pause from Lilita. Selene didn't know how Lilita found out things that no one would even dare think, yet she did and her only excuse was because she was slightly better off than most families.
Selene heard Lilita sigh again, "Just wait until I'm there okay. I think more than Kai is in danger." Lilita's voice was quiet as if she was whispering to stop anyone from overhearing, though Selene strained to hear what the other girl was speaking of.
"You mean it took you this long to figure that out?" Selene narrowed her eyes, if Lilita had taken about a week just to figure that out then she could be wrong about not to tell Kai anything.
"No. I mean more than...we thought at first." Selene frowned and looked over her shoulder, sighing as she could still hear everyone trying to get Kai out of Tyson's room but obviously failing. "
Any examples that your theory is right, or is that all just guess work?" Lilita huffed on the other end, she wasn't too keen on talking to anyone over the phone on these types of situations. Who knew who was sitting in and listening?
"Trust me." Came the quick reply of Lilita, there was another pause and Selene couldn't help but get slightly annoyed at how slow things were going. Her family had managed to save up the money for her to come here and she had bet Lilita that could easily have asked for the money.
"Well get here quick." Selene hissed back, she didn't want to be questioned by more than Kai, she was sure that Rei had seen her limp too – he was also had to wake her up from that nightmare so he would end up asking…eventually.
Lilita noticed the background noise that was the BladeBreakers trying to get Kai to open the door. "Why, anything wrong?" She frowned when she heard something rustling, which was, Selene walking off the porch and onto the cool ground while changing the phone to her other hand.
"My limp, it still hasn't went away," She looked over her shoulder again hoping that Kai would now act as some sort of decoy so no one else would overhear the conversation. Lilita suddenly realised where on earth Selene was hinting at, "Did he say anything?" On the other end of the conversation Lilita sat down, and bit her lip wondering if her so-called friend had any trouble because of it.
"Only questioned me about it – like a hundred times!" Selene snapped, the mention of 'he,' could only mean one person. All the response that Lilita gave was, "Where is he now?" She knew about the death, she knew that Selene would most likely arouse suspicion about what was happening by staying quiet and limping around the place.
"He's locked himself in Tyson's room." Selene stated and looked around the garden that surrounded Tyson's dojo. Lilita was concerned and asked, "Why? Is he okay?" Selene smirked, she had an idea to get Kai out of that room.
"Just still stressed about what happened to Enya, I'll put him on." Selene was sure that Lilita would thank her but she got the opposite response. "What, no!" Selene rose an eyebrow even though she was pretty annoyed at Lilita's sudden change.
"Why not? You've got nothing to lose and anyway you might be able to get the dear boy out of the room." Selene decided to stay quiet just so Lilita had some time to think over what she was doing carefully, who knew she could put Kai deeper into self-loathing by saying the wrong words. "Okay."
Before heading inside, something began to nip at Selene and she couldn't help but feel as if she needed to tell this girl her thoughts. "Lita…" She muttered. Of course it was only on very rare occasions that Selene called the other girl by her nickname than her formal birth name. "What?"
"He needs someone to talk to… I think he thinks it's his fault that Enya died." Selene frowned, she wondered what was running through the blue-haired teenager's mind.
"I'm sure most of us would in that situation. I'll choose my words carefully….I'll try at least." Lilita sighed.
Selene walked into the dojo again still watching as everyone else banged on the door and were asking nicely for Kai to at least open the door. "Kai! Open up, phone for you!" Selene hammered on the door a little louder. "Go away." Kai voice came quickly as if he really didn't want to speak to her at that moment in time.
"Fine I'll tell Lita your being a big baby!" She put on an insulted and angry tone, just so Kai would maybe reconsider what she was saying. Rei watched as the raven haired girl sighed when she didn't get the response she wanted. "Go ahead."
"Just open the door, just get the phone and lock the door again." Selene frowned and looked at the rest of the BladeBreakers that were currently in the hallway, trying to get their captain out of the room. "You lot go to the living room." The sudden order caught a few of them surprised.
Tyson blinked and frowned not sure that he wanted to leave – he still hadn't got Kai out of the room. "What – this is my house!"
"Do you want Kai to come out then I suggest you let Lita handle it."
Rei looked at Tyson how sighed and left, Max and Kenny slowly following him. "How do you know she'll get him out?" The teenager asked with a hint of curiosity in his voice, he wondered why they were to leave… Selene didn't know if Lilita would get Kai out of the room, all she wanted was to Lilita just know how badly Kai was being affected and get here as soon as.
"She has a way with words." Selene smiled quickly and knocked on the door again hoping that Kai would know that she would not have enough strength to bash open the door and sneak into the room. The door unlocked and Kai glared at the smaller girl.
"Here," Selene gave a small smile as if she was actually happy, which was the complete opposite of what she was really feeling, rage. Kai snatched the mobile off the shorter girl, and puffed a response in her direction. "Whatever." He quickly shut the door again, locking it quickly he frowned when he placed the phone to his ear – yet he heard no sound from it or the other side of the door.
"Hello?" He frowned as for a brief second or two as the line was completely silent though then the voice he thought he was going to hear, came loudly. Lilita tried her best to act cheery and happy even though she was sure that things would only get worse.
"Hey, hey! Long time, no hear!" She heard Kai sigh at the other end and her cheery voice did not match the saddened expression that appeared on her face.
"This isn't a good time." Kai muttered, edging away from the door just in case someone was being nosy and listening in on what he was saying to Lilita.
"I know. What was it Selene said, you were hiding in your room?" Lilita had only heard that he was being sad, quite frankly he sounded even worse than she had imagined, she knew about the death of his mother yet she didn't believe it would affect him this much.
"It's not my room." Kai stated blankly, his grip on the phone coming a little tighter, trying to figure out why exactly Lilita wanted to speak to him. He wanted to ask what was going on but then he would have to trade information – probably.
Lilita smiled slightly, she knew that Kai and the rest of the family must have been taking it hard…The rumours of Kai being in the same room as Adonis injected the poison were true… She began to wonder how one would feel if they saw their father kill their mother out of cold blood. "So you were hiding?" She wasn't being horrible, it was normal to hide away after something horrible happened.
Kai just sighed and gave his usual reply that no one knew if it meant yes or no. "Whatever." There was a pause in the conversation, something that neither of them enjoyed, Kai decided he may as well ask about what happened, and who knew Lilita may even decide to tell him.
"What happened to Selene's leg?" Lilita looked around from where she was, she was thinking about telling the blader in person, then again she would be coming soon enough and she was sure that a few days wouldn't matter too much.
"I'll tell you personally when I come to Japan." Kai blinked, why on earth this was so important no one even knew if he really was going to be attacked or try to be killed!
"Why are you coming here?" Kai frowned he wasn't sure he wanted Lilita over in the same town as him, he was sure that the whole thing was just a complete lie, though why would either of them lie…? Kai gritted his teeth trying to figure out what on earth was causing everyone else to get so edgy.
"To tell you what you want to know, and hear." Lilita said plainly as if it were as clear as day, her tone had went from hyper-happy to serious.
Kai narrowed his eyes, glaring at a random piece of carpet, he wasn't sure where this was going but it wasn't going in a good direction. "Which is?" The answer he received stunned him for a brief moment. "You didn't kill anyone."
Another pause, Kai shook his head, keeping the phone next to his ear, he had killed someone he had done nothing – he was the reason why his father had done that. He hissed back down the phone to the teenage girl.
"How would you know?" He did not relax, in fact he was sure another headache was coming on if not a migraine. Lilita snapped back obviously not enjoying the hateful tone Kai was using to speak to her.
"Because you weren't the one that injected Enya with that poison - it was Adonis, not you." No one spoke for a while, only the occasional noise of breathing was heard from the receiving end of Selene's phone.
"I never did anything." Kai hissed quietly again, hoping that Lilita would just drop the subject and leave him the hell alone.
"You never killed her either." Lilita answered back, hearing the ever spiteful tone. Kai sighed and he squinted his eyes as a flashback of his father took over his senses. "If I could have…" He muttered, still aware that he was on the phone with someone, trying not to let the repeating images distract him too much.
"Moved? Then your father wouldn't have done it then… He had tried to do it before as well. You couldn't protect her twenty-four-seven…You had just finished fighting one of the strongest bitbeasts known. Give yourself credit for being able to walk." She said matter-of-factly wondering if any of her words were sinking in.
Kai suddenly realised that he was acting stupid, in other words he felt completely stupid for even talking about the subject to another human being. Trying to get Lilita away from the topic he quickly yelled back. "You don't understand."
Another sigh was heard, "Then explain it to me." Kai was contemplating on whether he should just hang up or just tell her to leave him alone.
"I don't need to. I can handle this by myself." Kai retorted unable to feel anything but rage, and self-hate for the things he had and hadn't done.
"Then your losing." Lilita said sharply, forgetting what she was meant to be doing.
"Shut up." Kai snapped back and closed the mobile phone over quickly, ending the call. He glared at it for a moment before looking at the door.
Author's Note: Well that was a kind of boring chapter… Next one will be a lot more fun…Since you get to find out…what Selene's being hiding! Aren't I nice! Usually I would leave things like that till the end -cackles- (An extra 1000 odd words since I'e not updated in a while...) Well review please!
