Author's Note: Most people will most likely be reading the new Harry Potter book that was released but anyway I have to wait a while till I get it (the only bad thing about having one HP book and six other family members.) Anyway thanks to everyone that has read this fic/ added it to favourites or even placed it on alerts! Big thanks to;

Irn2 - Yup, actually a pretty random villain that I made up when I was surfing the net. But anyway glad you like the Demolition Boys coming into it, and they do...play a large role - kind of in this story. You'll find out if anyone else knows! Thanks for reviewing!

isthatnecessary - I actually have thought of some of those ideas... Hmm... Oh well, I'm sure everything will come together soon. Usually when I have to write a chapter with very little going on I get discouraged and just sort of put it off, so thanks for review, much appreciated!

kavbj - Use those very large words as much as you want, even as much as the amount of times you used 'very' in that review heh heh! A little bit of suspense in this chapter, who knows you may be driven mad yourself because of the slight...slight...cliff hanger! Thanks for reviewing!

Chapter 6
With something as important as a tournament coming up, some would think that the BladeBreakers would be up-beat and ready for the challenge, it was however, the opposite. Since Kai had attack someone that didn't want to tell him something no one wanted to take the risk that he would go completely insane in the middle of a match. It wasn't a great discussion since no one wanted to believe that Kai was that bad. Now all they had to do was to get Kai to agree that he wouldn't take part in this tournament.

"Kai. You know about the tournament coming up, right?" Max smiled timidly and wondered if was going to get yelled at, he didn't like anyone shouting and Kai was just intimidating almost all of the time.

He looked at the blonde with as much disinterest as he was now frequently looking at everything. Nodding to show that he was at least listening Max felt that everyone else was being cruel by making him just go and try to speak to Kai. Then again he hadn't yelled at him yet.

"What about it?" Kai was sure there was more to this conversation than Max coming to check if he knew if there was a tournament coming up or not. Shifting uncomfortably the young blonde sighed, "Well…I – we think…That…em…you should take the time to calm down – relax you know. And sit out this…tournament for – just this once."

Kai stared blankly at the blonde wondering if it was indeed everyone's thoughts that he should sit out, it wasn't a bad idea... "Sure, Max." Suddenly a large pang of guilt assaulted Max's system. Why did he agree so quickly?

"I'm sorry Kai. For what happened to your mum." Kai had looked away not bothered at what Max was saying, even though he was probably shocked at his reply, Kai just didn't feel as if he could really beyblade even if it meant losing his 'great reputation.' What was the point if he was just going to get beaten by Granger again?

"You…know you can talk to us right?" Kai slowly glanced back at Max who was currently leaving Tyson's room – where Kai now spent most of his time only to have few social interactions with whoever tried to make him feel better.

Max closed the door quietly and went back to the living room, where everyone was resting. Another good thing about the Demolition Boys coming was that they made good opponents for practising with.

Before anyone else could ask how it went, Selene asked, "Well? I didn't hear any shouting." She tilted her head to one side wondering why Max looked so guilt-ridden, maybe it was because he just told a friend that he couldn't participate in a tournament just in case he went nuts.

"He took it…rather well actually…He just said okay and that was it." Of course Kai loved beyblading and it was again not good news that he didn't try to get into the stadium to play.

"Someone really should talk to him…" Selene, although getting strangled and possibly killed she was still concerned about Kai's well-being, it wasn't a nice feeling to know that she was the reason why he had went slightly over the edge.

"Well that girl's coming again so shouldn't she be able to get something out of him?" Hilary sighed, she didn't know the girls name simply because she was as much of a stranger as Selene had been.

Rei didn't like the fact that so many people were going to get involved, sure Kai was ill but why couldn't they all just keep it between the BladeBreakers? "We hardly even know her, really." Of course his thoughts were contradicted by Selene, it appeared she was no longer shaken and silent like she had been yesterday.

"That's not the point. Kai knows her, it has nothing to do with us not trusting her or not. She's simply coming to try to help him, not us." Selene stared blankly at Rei as she watched him slowly sigh and nod in agreement. He guessed that as long as Kai was back to normal then anyone was welcome.

"What if she makes him worse?" Bryan was throwing a bottle of water up and down, bored once again since he was no longer training. Plus any topic that had Kai Hiwatari in it usually caused his interest to wander.

"Unlikely. She may make him yell but that's about it." Selene was sitting on the floor and typing on Kenny's laptop – and the small brunette had left to fetch something's from his own house.

"Wouldn't that make him worse?" On the other hand if Kai was expressing emotion it couldn't be all that bad.

"He's already attacked me, if he attacks her then he's as bad as he could get." Most of the BladeBreakers and all of the Demolition Boys were oddly interested in that statement, knowing that she would be asked too many questions she just shook her head and continued talking. "Look, we'll just have to see…." She went back to typing – which once again set off everyone's curiosity.

"Why are you always on Kenny's laptop?" The slow typing stopped and she looked up wondering why on earth she was being asked so many questions. "I'm looking at the image of that stupid monument, the one with the message and names on it." She mumbled as she looked back down at the screen she was happy that she had managed to find a small video on it so she could replay it until she had it all wrote down.

"Why?" Tala was wondering how exactly this girl was getting to go near a laptop that held a lot of data on each of the BladeBreakers, if anything was changed then it would become a disadvantage.

"There is a reason why people can't read other peoples minds…." Selene trailed off as she was engrossed in typing out what she was seeing, when she didn't hear anyone moving she rolled her eyes. "Does privacy ring any bells?"

The tournament was for the regional championships of Japan, and of course Tyson was the current champion there as well, so most teams had flown in just to see if they could match the World Champion in this smaller championship.

The BladeBreakers were happy that they didn't have to share a minivan with the Demolition Boys as they would have glared at them all just to shut up. The door opened and the BladeBreakers blinked unsure on how to respond. "Kai?" Max wondered if he was just planning on coming and beyblading, dismissing the request Max had made a few days ago.

"I can still watch right…?" He turned to look at each of his team-mates and received multiple smiles, "Sure!" Kai sat next to Rei, who was sitting behind Max and Tyson. Kenny and Hilary were at the back, the male brunette still trying to explain all of the rules but only confusing the other.

Gramps once again was driving much to everyone's concern, but they had managed to get to the stadium with just a few scraps on the car… Sighing as they got out, it appeared that the paparazzi were waiting just for them. It was actually quite good that Kai had come along or else it would have resulted in more questions. They all quickly made their way into the stadium and sighed, thankful that they wouldn't be getting too many questions fired at them while they were here.

As the beyblades continued and finally it was the BladeBreakers turn to battle, the commentators where slightly confused. "It appears that the BladeBreakers haven't included Kai's name." This had caused a sudden explosion of whispers, including other teams wondering what they could be up to. The Demolition Boys were the only ones that felt slightly grateful that Kai wouldn't be blading, the others felt angry and confused at the action.

"I wonder what they've planned AJ?" Brad had seen Kai, and in fact Kai was sitting on the bench with everyone else but he was not in the line-ups and therefore wouldn't be playing. The spectators were angry and wanted to see another Tyson and Kai match which were usually the best, though if they had gotten what they had wanted then Kai would be out in no more than a few seconds.

Sitting down and listening to the sudden whispers and then a few stupid fans yelling, 'Put Kai on the team!' Made Kai feel even worse – his friends were now getting yelled at by some strangers because he couldn't beyblade, he couldn't beyblade because he was supposedly ill. He was supposedly ill because…he was weak.

"Looks like Kai's leaving." He knew that everything that he would do in this stadium would be followed since when did a team decide not to let their captain play – not like he was being a very good captain.

Seeing the blue-haired teen leave Tala couldn't help but narrow his eyes at the retreating back, it was not that safe for Kai to leave somewhere and go elsewhere his self since he could end up attacking someone for saying the slightest thing.

"Judy, what do you think the BladeBreakers are doing…Not letting Kai beyblade?" Emily turned and gave a confused and angry look, not knowing what the other team was up to made unnerved her.

"I have no idea, but it does give us a chance to win. Let them take out their best players if they want, it only makes it easier on us." Which is strange…Why would they want to make it easier?

Of course everyone in the BladeBreakers had been training less, and of course was mentally occupied with trying to get Kai better they had forgot main things, and even the most loyal fans would have to have said that their blading was sloppy.

"Well I'm gonna see why he's not playing." Michael wondered why the BladeBreakers were so up-beat even though they were losing, and of course weren't playing one of the strongest members, something didn't seem right.

"Fine, but be back here by the end of this match. I need to tell you how you'll defeat Lee." Judy made sure that she got a verbal response off of Michael before he left to look for the cold blader.

"Okay, okay." He turned quickly and went out to the corridors of the stadium wondering where Kai could be he started to wander, though in a very fast pace knowing that he had somewhere to be in a short while.

Kai was found a few minutes later, sitting down on a bench just outside the locker rooms. "So what you playin' at?" Kai on the other hand wasn't even aware of Michael's presence as he was currently in deep thought of self-loathing. Of course when he opened his eyes he was then conscious of what was happening around him, and that there was someone speaking to him.

"Thinking that you're too good to play here?" Kai blankly looked up from where he was sitting at the tall Michael. He didn't want to talk to anyone, even if he was calm – he was angry inside and he knew he would do something stupid if the All-Star didn't disappear quickly.

"Go away." Kai said sternly knowing that it was unlikely that the other boy would leave, he was nosy and stubborn meaning he wouldn't leave unless he got an answer.

"Or maybe it's because your team doesn't want you to play…" Michael saw that he had hit something that made Kai stand up slowly, thinking that he was on the right track of something he decided to keep going. "Even if they're going to lose it doesn't seem to bother them that you aren't playing. Doesn't bother anyone…" Again Kai turned to look at him, a blank expression.

"I dare you to say that again." Kai narrowed his eyes, and his whole body tensed, thinking about fighting or not. Michael didn't seem to notice the deadly aura that began to surround the other teen but was about to continue until he was knocked off his feet, receiving a very sore left hook from the teen.

Michael was going to get up and retaliate but was stopped in insulting him as a familiar redhead appeared. "Hiwatari. Move." Tala watched as Kai backed off and left quickly, a little annoyed that Tala had appeared. On the other hand Tala glared at Michael. "Stay away from Kai if you know what's good for you." He glared and turned on his heel and left wondering if Kai was now away, trying to fight another member of a beyblade team.

Looks like he's getting worse… Tala wandered around, looking to see if anyone else had been knocked to the floor as Kai had went past. He went past a few adults too, he wondered if they were just parents of young fans or maybe even engineers for any emergency blading equipment.

"You don't have to baby-sit me." A voice came from behind him he had wondered for a split second how he could have gotten behind him, Tala turned around to see an annoyed Kai.

"Then explain why you didn't stop yourself from attempting to beat Michael to a pulp." Tala raised an eyebrow, thinking about the excuses that Kai could use to get out of this if Michael went and told. Someone would end up piecing the fact that he wasn't allowed to beyblade and his sudden anger problem.

"He was annoying." Kai shrugged though it didn't stop Tala from asking question, he knew that he had done it because once again he had lost control the point was to get Kai to admit he now had no control over his anger.

"He's always annoyed you, why punch him now." Even Tala was known for a bad temper, but he had never physically harmed anyone that was annoying him without a very good reason.

"It's none of your business." Kai snapped, his arms folded against his chest unaware that there was someone else in the corridor.

"Lame excuse." Tala narrowed his eyes wondering how on earth someone would be able to help him if he wasn't even going to admit that he was pissed off from what Michael had said.
"Shut up." Kai said blankly and went to turn around though was stopped as Tala continued to speak.

"You'd better go back to your team, they look too pre-occupied with where you are than their matches." Kai looked over his shoulder, an unpleasant look of disgust on his face. "Are you saying I'm the one at fault if they lose?" Tala was getting angry, and Kai was already angry so it was not going to help the situation any.

"That's exactly what I'm saying. You've ignored your responsibilities as captain, quiet frankly you shouldn't be captain if you're just going to sulk about something that can't be changed." Without any indication Kai turned around and punched Tala. Tala wasn't expecting it to hurt as much and felt the anger within him double, "You don't know anything." Kai hissed and left as fast as possible.

Tala was thinking about punching him back but wouldn't that just make him sulk and be sullen even more? He didn't really know, but quickly turned to get back to his own team that would be competing against Grangers title. He'd get his own back later.

Judy had been thoroughly annoyed when Michael was late, and was even more furious when he told her what had happened, of course leaving out the fine details that he was saying things to get a reaction out of him. Emily had been shocked that Kai of all people had lashed out at someone, and of course it wasn't long until rumours were spreading around about the incident. Which only made the BladeBreakers even more worried about their captain and once again they placed less effort in their game.

"Well, it's not right!" Emily was now just as furious as Judy was, and she decided that she too would have a word or two with Kai. Marching out leaving her team she wondered what had provoked the usually calm blader and doubted that Michael would have not said anything.

"Excuse me, but are you Emily York?" A male voice called from behind, the teenager turned around but her frown did not leave her face. "Yes?" She watched as the man walked towards her, she knew that he must have been someone important as he was smiling and wearing what looked…expensive.

"My niece is a big fan – may I ask for an autograph?" He asked politely, thinking about it Emily decided to, she might as well give something back to her fans and it wasn't going to do any harm.

The man frowned and glared at Emily's back when she turned to use the wall to lean on as she signed her name in large loops. As she turned around the man's frown disappeared and again he was smiling. "Here you go." She smirked as she handed it back, only to have her wrist grabbed.

"What are you doing?" She yelped, trying to pull her hand back from the older man. She looked up to see that his face had darkened and his eyes were now misted with hatred, she was about to yell and scream for help.

"Why haven't you beybladed today…" He asked, the terrifying look not disappearing, meanwhile Emily just stuttered trying not to be so scared – it wasn't as if no one would see them leave…"Well first…I usually just plan my attacks…before hand…" She noticed that the grip on her wrist tightened, "How exactly?"

"On my laptop." Emily said carefully wondering what was with the questions, maybe this guys was just one of those creepy older fans, Niece? Yeah right.

"You are lazy…" He stated, she used a computer instead of working it out physically, how lazy could she get? Emily on the other hand thought that she was very fit for someone that uses a computer – or was this someone that was scared of technology?

"Excuse me!" She tried to rip her hand away from the man, but he easily kept his grip on her thin wrist. "As lazy…as a sloth." He murmured and decided that it would be best to leave while everyone else was interested in the matches.

"Let me -!" Emily started to scream though was suddenly silenced as the man let her wrist go and gripped her throat, much like Kai had done himself but in a much more aggressive manner. "Shush Sloth. Or else I'll kill you here."

Author's Note: And the crazy killer is at it again…Thanks for reading! Please review that is if you can rip yourself away from that HP book!