Author's Note: I've been really trying to update this fic since I really am keen to get it finished throughout this holiday. Still thanks a lot to everyone that has read/added to favourites/ or alerts. A very big thanks to everyone who reviewed;
isthatnecessary - Well you'll find out...in very basic terms how Selene got the scar... You'll find out later about the strange acts of Lilita! I think maybe it's because...Selene's been in the story a lot more (even in the other stories...) Well thanks for reviewing!
kavbj - fabutabulously monstafabuleriffic? You should get medals for that! The only thing I've made up with a friend was a disease called 'Chimparianism.' Which just meant that you were random. Well thank you for giving the chapters a rating of fabutabulously monstafabuleriffic! Thanks for reviewing!
DancerInTheDark101 - Yeah Kai...will get worse then better I guess... And by worse you'll find out in this chapter, heh heh! Thanks for the whole 'you're improving thing' good to hear I'm not getting worse! You'll find out later why Lilita is acting the way she is! Thanks for reviewing!
d1bontemp - Glad you are enjoying it then! A little sad this chapter, a little scary I guess you could say too. Then again I'm sure it will get a whole lot worse before the fic ends happily...or does it... Anyway thanks for reviewing means a lot!
Chapter 4
After Kai had decided to come out and handed Selene's phone back in a very ungracefully way and everyone decided not to ask the question of 'are you alright?' This was only because the blood-eyed boy was sending glares in every possible direction. Which even stopped the very bravest World Champion from saying anything out of place, Kai quickly left and sat outside which was worrying to see that he hadn't disappeared like normal, which meant things were abnormal – which also meant something was defiantly not right.
Tyson wasn't surprised or even angry that Kai had taken it upon himself to lock himself in his room. It wasn't as if he was going to break anything or harm himself, but Tyson did just want to know what was wrong, it was times like this he wished all of the secrets would come out.
Rei sighed and frowned as he sat himself down on the clean floor, he wondered what Lilita had talked to him about to get him out, but by the look on his face he hadn't enjoyed the conversation much. Even Kai wasn't that great at putting such an annoyed look on his face with such ease.
Selene sat down and let Hilary talk away to her about the latest things that were happening, nothing really interesting came up so Selene decided to excuse herself and left the brunette hanging mid-sentence with an insulted look on her face.
"So how did you get that cut?" Rei looked up at the standing Selene, though she just blinked and walked out – much to everyone's annoyance.
By the time dinner was eaten and everything was calm again, there was a strange aura that was starting to surround the blue-haired blader. No one really wanted to talk to Kai, just in case they were suddenly attacked by his heated words. The phone began to ring and Tyson quickly disappeared to answer it before Gramps did.
Speaking of Gramps he had entered the living room and had tried to cut the strange atmosphere but ended up talking to the one person that was causing the uncomfortable silence. "How'd you feeling K-man, yah dig?" Before anyone knew what had happened, Kai glared at Gramps, and left the room quickly.
Tyson on the other hand was in a slight huff at what was being proposed. The tournaments were starting all over the world and it just happened that a certain team had flown in, and needed a place to stay until their luggage got found.
"Why don't they just go to a hotel or something?" Tyson tried everything, thinking hard and asking as many questions just so this team wouldn't stay. It wasn't as if he hated the team itself, but Tyson knew that with the way Kai was feeling then they would only aggravate everything.
Tyson came back into the living room, and looked sullenly at everyone else, knowing fine well that the next week would be hell, emotionally on them all. "Mr. Dickenson was on the phone just there…." He waited until he got everyone's attention, and then continued to tell them all the bad news. "…There's been some muck up at the airport…So Mr. Dickenson asked me to accommodate another team…" At the sudden news everyone was about to start asking the same questions that Tyson had.
"Mr. Dickenson can't spare any money…Because of last years damage…on the stadium and of course he could only…afford the tickets for the other teams…" It was certainly bad news, even Rei could hear the cheerless tones Tyson was using and he usually was up-beat if it meant more people to beyblade.
There was silence, each of them knowing that Kai didn't really get on well with another team, hell, he hardly got on with them – his own team found it hard to even communicate with him at times, and now was one of those times.
"So…What team'll be coming?" Max asked casually wondering why on earth Mr. Dickenson was ordering or requesting such things when he should know about the loss of Enya. Even Kai wouldn't get over a death that quickly, now that Max thought about it. How were the other Hiwatari siblings coping?
"Possibly the worst that could come in a time like this…" This was a very strange situation, throughout the years they had learned to step around things and be very delicate when asking or requesting even the smallest favours off of Kai. Now that this hard-headed team was coming, would Kai end up hurting someone – or himself?
"The Demolition Boys…" Everyone suddenly sighed and wondered if the whole thing was just horribly planned and was just trying to just make Kai's distressing situation even worse. The thing that annoyed Tyson was that he couldn't exactly just let the Demolition Boys sleep outside in the cold nights. Tyson sighed again and sat down not really looking forward to tomorrow.
The knock that seemed to end the happy moments that they were all having - with none other than Kai, they had managed to talk to him casually, and obviously he was happy to talk about anything other than the locking incident that happened yesterday. Though when the door went, Kai shut up, knowing who would be at the door. Of course since Selene had no idea who the Demolition Boys were she was happy to sit in the middle of the floor with Hilary that had come over a few minutes before.
"Hello everyone..." Tyson smiled lightly as each of the grumbling Russian walked in, not really wanting to depend on Tyson Granger of all people for a place to stay. They all walked into the living room, a small circle that contained the rest of the BladeBreakers and the two girls were positioned in the middle of the large room.
"Since when did the BladeBreakers have girls in its team?" Bryan yawned still not taking into account that Tyson could through them all out, yet it was unlikely that the teen would do so.
"Me? In a team, unlikely since I don't own a beyblade…Though apparently own a bitbeast…." Selene sighed and turned back to face Rei, whom she had been talking in hushed voices, mainly about the scar on her leg.
"So when do you eat?" Tala blinked and then looked at each member of the BladeBreakers individually taking in their uncomfortable appearances. As if the Demolition Boys knew it, there was something extremely wrong with the BladeBreakers, even Max had a blank face, instead of the happy smiley one that he would usually greet everyone with. But most of all, the Demolition Boys noticed the side ways glance every now and then that would be directed at Kai. Kai would be just sitting on the floor, leaning his back against the wall and staring off into space.
"We can have it now I guess…" Tyson said carefully as if he were choosing his words very carefully. "Em…Kai…What do you want…?" There was no direct response. Kai returned from his thoughts and gave a brief look at Tyson, and then shrugged not caring about anything. Tala and the rest of his team gave one another a few glances just so they knew that they were seeing the same thing. "Whatever." Kai spoke at last, standing up and leaving the room.
As soon as Kai left the rest of the BladeBreakers, and Selene and Hilary all let out incredibly deep sighs. "Well…at least he's still talking…" Hilary sighed and got up to help Tyson with setting out any cutlery and Rei stood up just to help Gramps with any cooking that he may do.
"Sit down guys, you're welcome." The Demolition Boys simply grunted at Tyson's retreating form and sat down on the floor, much to their displeasure of having to sit on cool wood. They were all pretty tired but couldn't help but to watch what the BladeBreakers were speaking about.
"So when will she phone exactly?" Max turned to look at Selene, a slightly worried look on his face. "She's probably asleep right now…Time difference and all." Selene gave a small smile to the blonde even though he smiled sadly back, but he too got up and left to help with the even larger lunch that was to be made.
"We should have her on speed dial…" Kenny said, only to receive a few chuckles from the kitchen. Hilary popped her head out, just passed the door wondering why on earth this girl had got Kai out of Tyson's room. She had been told about it only a few hours after it had happened.
"That's a good idea Kenny…Though I don't think she would appreciate any time Kai decides to lock himself in a room to be phoned and begged to help." Selene chuckled she could image how annoying it would be…Especially with the time difference she had just mentioned.
The Demolition Boys looked at one another when they had heard Kai's named being mentioned and the information that followed after it. "Why did Hiwatari lock himself in a room?" Spencer frowned a little confused and amused that someone would even do it. The Russians watched as Hilary frowned lightly and looked at Selene, miming 'They don't know, do they.'
"Hilary…Be quiet, there's no point in adding to the mix, okay?" Tyson muttered when he came in, knowing fine well what had happened, although the house was large, the walls were thin.
"So what's got you all up in knots?" Bryan looked between them all, even the usual calm and collected Rei had a worried look etched across his face. Max smiled and started to laugh nervously, as if trying to cover up what happened. "So how are you guys?" Max glanced at Rei who seemed to get the idea and left since he was in no mood to socialise with people that were emotionally devoid.
The entire house was fine and as the Demolition Boys had said, was quite…adequate for sleeping arrangements, the next few hours were only spent on training and coming into the house for some sort of liquid to replenish themselves. After everything was done, such as preparing the table and all the food everyone came in quietly and started eating.
The usual etiquette that everyone ate at was slightly changed, Tyson no longer talked with his mouth full, and even Max and Rei didn't try to start a conversation. At first the Demolition Boys had thought that maybe it was because they were here but it appeared apparent that the reason was; Kai.
"So do you just look at your food?" Bryan broke the silence as he had watched Kai sit and stare at this plate making no attempt to even pick up chopsticks to eat the rice with.
He had his eyes and face out of view as he was sitting at the right side, and Bryan was further down the table. Kai's hands were fists holding his head up as if they were some sort of support. He smirked when Kai slowly rotated his head so he could see one of the blood red eyes that gazed at him.
"Unlike Granger that inhales it." Tala smirked at Bryan, both had made a dig at each of the two most respected beybladers and they had done absolutely no–"Shut up." Kai hissed the reply, it was cold and blunt. The whole of the BladeBreakers and the two females suddenly stopped eating and looked at Kai, not wanting to start any sort of argument or fight.
Hilary bit her lip, she hadn't seen too many people angry, and she didn't like the feeling that had suddenly appeared at the table. Selene kept her head down trying to stay out of it, knowing fine well if she spoke then Kai would go off into a rant about her. "Kai... Just…." Kai's head snapped round to look at Rei who was sitting directly in front of him.
"Don't dare…Don't dare tell me to calm down Kon." He hissed, and narrowed his eyes. The rest of the group were slightly shocked as Kai had never once used Rei's last name. Rei didn't really know what to say, what else could he do other than tell Kai to calm down, he had tried to get Kai to eat somewhere that would maybe be less likely to be targeted by Bryan.
"Getting worked up just because we're here isn't going to help you in the tournament." Bryan sneered, knowing fine well that the best way to annoy Kai was to offend his beyblading style and strength. However the answer he received was something neither of the Demolition Boys were expecting.
Kai turned to look at Bryan, as if he had just seen a very disgusting piece of dirt Kai snarled, and snapped back at them. "You think I'm worked up about a crappy tournament?" The whole Demolition Boys sat quietly, knowing that something was certainly wrong. Since when was a tournament crappy to Kai, he had almost died against Brooklyn, proving that it was more than just a game to him….
"Just shush both of you...We're trying to eat." Selene knew that she would get her head bitten off, but at least it would take away the horrible tension, or…make it a whole lot worse.
"Don't tell me to shut up!" Kai narrowed his eyes at the raven haired girl, knowing fine well that she could have just shut up and not have dragged anything else on. Only he received a glare back, "I didn't. I was simply giving you advice before you wear my glass of water…" She had always known that if she had come here that she wouldn't be able to get Kai on her side again. Even if she were to be calm and loving, Kai just wasn't stable enough to trust anyone else just yet.
"Whatever." Kai snapped and got up and left, leaving the bowl of rice and the other hot food alone on it's plate. As soon as Tala thought that Kai was out of ear shot he decided to remark about his behaviour, "Yeash, didn't think Kai would be the one to have tantrums..." Bryan and Spencer would have laughed or chuckled if it were not for Tyson, Rei, Max and even Kenny suddenly coming to his defence in a very aggressive manner.
"Shut up!" Rei snapped, narrowing his eyes like Kai had done to him, he was in no mood to have his friends insulted, not when…not when something he would never understand, was happening to them.
"Yeah leave him alone!" Kenny interjected, out of everyone that yelled at Tala and his group they were most surprised at the usually timid brunette began shouting at the cold Russians.
"Don't come to my house and insult my friends!" Tyson frowned and glared at the captain of the Demolition Boys, Tala didn't really know what had happened but it seemed as if they were all very protective of the eldest team member.
"Don't say that! That's horrible!" Max crossed his arms, and looked away from them as if he was disgusted at what they had just said. Tala raised both eyebrows in surprise but that was as much emotion that he let onto his facial features.
'What the hell has Kai done to make these usual-happy guys so…Different?' Tala agreed with himself knowing fine well that it was Kai's fault for making them all suddenly attack him like that, it had to be Kai's fault since he too was acting the weirdest out of the lot of them.
Looking at the girl that had told Kai to shut up Tala noticed that she was rubbing her head as if she were trying to wash away a headache of some sort. "I think I'm going to hurt Hiwatari..." She stated after a while, breaking the odd silence that only contained the occasional clank of cutlery or placing of a glass.
Rei was the first one to answer her, "Why?" He knew that even when Kai had glared and snapped at him, that he had wanted to hit him very hard, just so he would realise that he was making them all suffer because he wasn't opening up.
"At least then he'll tell us." She stated out loud, knowing that the other team in the room would have no idea what she was talking about. Rei frowned, not liking what Selene was suggesting, but the rest of the BladeBreakers had abandoned their meals and had decided to listen to the soon-to-be debate.
Rei was trying to think of some sort of calm and passive approach to try to get Kai to tell them all what he was bottling up inside him, because it was clear that it was not healthy. "He doesn't need to be hurt; all we can do is-." Though his idea was cut off as Selene had decided that she didn't want to hear about a 'wait and see,' plan that would, possibly fail in getting any information quickly.
"- What wait till he wants to talk, please when have you known Kai to even talk when he can - never mind needs to." Selene glared, she knew that she was almost making friends with the BladeBreakers by trying to save their dear captain but it did seem evident that Rei was not going to be calling her friend for a little while longer.
"It's better than forcing him to talk." Rei frowned, even though he knew he was at the dinner table, and he could feel himself getting angry he just couldn't stop himself from answering, it was like an impulse. He hated when his own views weren't given a chance to even be considered.
"I have my way you have yours." Selene started to play with her food, finding the intense stare from Rei a little too much for her to handle and lowered her gaze to her food, trying to look calm and bored just to annoy the neko-gin more.
"So yours will only make him feel worse." The Demolition Boys and everyone else believed that they couldn't get more uncomfortable than they were at that moment. Of course it just got worse.
"Care to bet on that?" This shocked most of the table, even Spencer was a little taken aback by the way those words had been said. Rei was about to say something back until a very unexpected person interrupted to stop the immature and horrible argument.
"Stop it - both of you! I can't believe you two are actually arguing about this of all things!" Tala was slightly surprised at who had taken charge, he had once thought that maybe Tyson would yell and try to stop it but he seemed a little distracted by something else.
"Kai's got enough on his mind, and I'm sure if he heard you two trying to bet on him he'd feel much worse! Both of you grow up and stop moaning at each other! When Kai really needs to tell us he will - he always does! If he's your friend then you should at least have some faith in him that he'll tell us if something is that wrong!" Max took a deep breath trying to came himself down and frowned at each of them he wasn't sure why no one else had intervened but he just couldn't stand people arguing.
Selene sighed and sat back fully in her chair, and looked down at the ground finally realising what she had said. I never thought I would be scolded from someone younger than me…How humiliating… Selene sighed and whispered an apology that Rei managed to caught with his sensitive hearing.
I don't think I've felt so small before…"Well, at least he has eaten something today..." Rei tried to say something positive, just so he could end this meal as fast as possible. All he wanted was for Kai to run through, say he was fantastic and laugh out loud. It would never happen but that was why it was called a wish.
"What exactly are you talking about...?" Bryan asked carefully not sure that he would be able to handle so many people yelling at him. He had seen the concerned look on Tala's face and the strange twist of emotion on Spencer's face, he was sure that even he looked slightly more expressive than normal.
"Long story…." Selene explained, really it wasn't a story…It was history and what had happened over the past few years, which would mean she would need to tell them why Kai was acting the way he was, and that certainly was not her place to tell them that.
Bryan rolled his eyes, "Then why don't you make it shorter." Selene looked at him before answering, wondering why he was so curious, she didn't know that Kai used to be apart of the Demolition Boys.
"Can't, that's why it's long." She stated and stood up, stretching and taking her plate to the kitchen, Bryan frowned at the answer simply because it meant that he wouldn't be told right away.
Rei sighed when he noticed who had came into the kitchen, he had taken the chore of washing the dishes off of Tyson simply because he had enough to deal with while being host to so many others. Before Rei knew what had happened Selene was holding onto the worktop of one of the kitchen counters. "Huh?" He tilted his head looking at her slightly baffled to why she had suddenly fallen forwards.
Rei heard Selene's breathing and it was in no way calm, she quickly gasped out an answer. "I...I'll be back in a minute..." She stumbled into the hallway, hoping no one would be in the bathroom as she quickly went in and shut the door, not caring about the lock.
She grabbed onto the sink, hoping that she would be able to support herself, unable to see clearly as images and sounds began to rack their way through her mind. She closed her eyes wondering why she even needed to be reminded of that horrible event.
She heard the door open but was unaware of who it was, and it was none other than Kai. "What's wrong with you?" There was no concern in his voice only curiosity, and they were in context two entirely different things.
Selene didn't answer but fell down to her hands and knees worried that she would end up saying something stupid out loud she asked, told, Kai to leave. "Get out!" Only a few seconds ago Kai had managed to calm down after what had happened at the table, but to be shouted at with such hostility only placed him back in his unstable temper.
Kai's eyes narrowed as he locked the door, thanking once again that the room was lockable, he roughly grabbed Selene's arm, and pulled her from the ground. He looked at her, glaring into her fear-filled eyes. "What gave you that scar on your leg?" He hissed, though Selene muttered an answer that wasn't going to make Kai any happier.
"Get lost!" Selene yelled back, only to have Kai frown deeper. He sighed as he tried to calm himself down, not really wanting to harm the girl. "Just tell me…" He trailed off as he watched her face etch in pain as he tightened his grip on her.
"I told you to leave. Now leave." Kai didn't leave nor did he let her arm go, but flung her against the wall, and grabbed her throat.
"Selene, I'm not in any way a patient person…Tell me now…" The grip on her throat was tightened and relaxed just to show her what he would do, of course Selene was lost and disorientated in what was happening as she heard things from the night she received the large scar on her calf. Kai narrowed his eyes, and look dangerously at his hand that was currently around a thin neck.
"I can't…" She muttered shaking her head, looking down, away from Kai's piercing eyes. Kai on the other hand wasn't sure what the hell he was doing. He was angry and just as confused as Selene was. "Tell me!" Already Selene had tried to slacken the grip of her throat by using her free hands, but was failing miserably as she scratched and pulled and pushed the hand away from her.
"Tell me!" Kai's voice was getting louder and louder, and they both knew that someone would end up coming and wondering what was happening. "I…I'm sorry…" Selene muttered, still looking away from Kai. "Look at me! Tell me what happened!" Selene wasn't aware but she began to cry, and Kai was unaware on how much he was hurting her until she did.
"What the hell is going on, open the door now!" Kai on the other hand was not going to open the door, they would come in and possible see the horrible scrapes on his arms and piece what he had done together. Someone else called out, "Selene are you okay?" It must have been Hilary as it was the only other girl in the dojo.
"Tell me!" Kai shouted again in Selene's face, he had lost control completely. The door was broken as a few feet kicked it in, Kai didn't notice what he had been doing until Rei had pulled him back away from Selene.
Kai froze, what the hell had he been doing? Why had he done that to Selene - she had already told him that he would find out why couldn't he wait a little while…Why did he want to know now… He took a step back…and gulped. Rei looked nervously at Kai, seeing the flicker of surprise and sadness in his eyes. I can't even control my emotions anymore…"What…what am I doing?" Kai muttered to himself and looked down at the current sobbing girl.
The Demolition Boys had seen enough, Kai had something wrong, and it had to be large enough to choke a girl…Something he hated was men hitting women. They began to wonder what had happened to their old team-mate.
"I'm fine! Just leave, I want to talk to Kai alone anyway!" Selene yelled back at them, there seemed to be some discussion at the other side of the door, but soon footsteps faded away. Selene rubbed her eyes from any other freshly fallen tears. Rei looked on, still worried but it appeared that Kai had…Calmed.
"What do you want to know…?" Selene didn't look at Kai, not even once, and he didn't know why but he felt even worse. She can't even look at me…I'm…I am…a monster…He knew why he had done it but the reason didn't make any sense. He had almost strangled her so he could find out how she had hurt herself, it was certainly ironic.
"Why am I targeted, what's happened to your leg…?" Kai looked at the floor ashamed at what he had just done, what the hell was wrong with him? Maybe he really should just do something to end this all….
"I don't know why you are being targeted…Lilita might know though…My leg was…slit…" Selene cleared her throat, knowing that because of the short crying and strangling session she had, it made her throat sore to speak. "It was slit by…the person that wants to kill you…" Kai's head snapped up, and tilted his head trying to add the two pieces of information together with what he knew.
"When you said there had been attacks…on others…?" He trailed off, no longer feeling like he could talk and be listened to, he had lost all self-respect now. He had no idea on how to act around everyone else now. Especially Rei.
"There have been attacks…Just…on me…at the moment." Selene still did not look at Kai, she didn't know why but it wasn't because she was scared she should have been scared…But it was a strange feeling as if Kai had only hurt her because she had done something wrong.
"So you think you're going to be killed along with me…" Kai felt worse, not only had he just been wandering around wanting this killer to come and get him he was also letting this unknown murderer closer to Selene. Oh he felt like crap…
"I…I'll leave…tomorrow." Another rush of guilt, much worse than what he had first felt. "You must really not want me here." She sniffed and looked in the mirror that was facing her, she chuckled a little finding that it was all in Kai's entitlement, trying to kill her would certainly even the score out…
Selene went to walk past Kai, but again he caught her arm. He felt her whole arm going tense, and did not relax for a second. "I didn't mean to…." He muttered and let her arm go, wondering why he had lost it and why he felt the way he did.
He wondered if it was possible to explode with so many emotions running through him and now that he was left in the bathroom himself as Selene walked out he muttered, "I…can't do... this anymore." He held his hands to his face, covering any sort of tears that would fall – but none, not even one came.
Author's Note: Kai's gone crazy! Only kidding though he does have a serious emotional problem. I actually have no idea where the tension came from but I hope I did okay with it, please review! They make me smile!