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Chapter 29

There was always such hassle when the beyblading tournaments drawed nearer. Sure Judy didn't mind the pay rise but the hours were long and her work usually was composed of watching some old beyblading videos and trying to think of a new type of beyblade.

It was pretty late and so most of her co-workers were away home. She however didn't want to go home, no doubt she'd have some policeman at her door every few minutes just to make sure she was safe. She was a grown woman she could take care of herself.

A few clanks and squeaks came from the door behind her. "Could you please leave me be," She sighed as she wrote a few pointers down, it appeared that some bitbeasts responded well with heavy metals. "I'm trying to figure this out before I need to go home." Her voice lowered and she was expecting that whoever it was to leave.

However there was something else that happened, she heard the door slam. "I'm afraid that you're coming with me." Judy frowned and she slowly turned around on her chair, what was this guy talking about? Maybe there was a meeting that she had forgotten about... at such a late hour? No, that couldn't be it.

"Excuse me?" Judy frowned at the man, she'd never seen him before. Then again most of the students worked here part time, perhaps he was one of them. Yet wasn't he a bit old to be a student? Judy stood up, about to yell at him. She was one of the leading scientists here she didn't need someone telling her to come with them.

"Like I said, woman, you're coming with me." It was then that Judy's attention turned to what he had in his hand. A gun. Judy gulped but contnued to frown in his direction. Perhaps this was someone out to get the information they had accumulated throughout the years? It wouldn't be the first time someone had tried to use dirty means to acquire such information.

Silence choked at her for a moment or two, she was hoping that this was all a bad dream, that she had fallen asleep at her workstation. Apparently not as she was grabbed roughly and dragged towards the door. Judy didn't know whether fighting would be a good idea. If he didn't have a gun then maybe she could have fought back and managed to escape but right now – that was pointless.

"You're one of those Angel killers aren't you?" She hissed as he grabbed her thin arm tighter, that would probably leave a bruise. "I thought it was just a joke that I was going to be next..." she mummbled to herself. Okay so maybe she had been rather dumb in not heeding the officers advice. Yet what could she have done? Hid in her home until the police caught him? Sure, it'd be fine – if only she didn't have bills to pay.

James was amused at how the woman reacted, she would lash out or even yell something insulting at him yet a mere reminder of the gun made her as quiet as a mute child. Leaving the facility undeteced was fairly easy seeing as there was barely anyone there to begin with. With the the thought of dying on her mind Judy started yelling in the car park hoping that someone else, was armed and, would come and help her.

Apparently not as James bashed the butt of the gun the woman's neck. She'd defiently feel that in the morning. Still James couldn't help but feel annoyed at his brother. He could be here afterall, helping him, but no...

He'd went away: thought that Olivia was more important, thought some kid was more important that finishing this job. Well, James thought with a cruel smile, he'll burn in Hell for that beytrayal.

It was an odd feeling: it was cold certainly but it was refreshing, he could feel each breath he took as the bitter wind entered his lungs, however he couldn't help but feel slightly irrated when he heard someone speak to him.

"Where the hell do you think you're going now?" Kai sighed to himself when he heard the voice. Great, he'd managed to get half way down the street and he was already being questioned. Why couldn't people just leave him alone? He wasn't going to go and get stabbed again.

"What do you want?" Kai asked back not bothering to stop walking. The redhead rolled his eyes, it wasn't his job to make sure Kai didn't die but he was sure that he'd no doubt be made out to be cruel or an idiot if he didn't stop Kai right now.

"Don't answer my question with one of your own." Tala continued to walk towards Kai and stopped in front of him, who seemed annoyed by the action. Kai was not in the mood to have some lecture, especially not one from a Demoltion Boy. What exactly was he doing wrong anyway? All he was doing was going on a walk, yeah a walk.

"I can do what I want." Kai hissed back, the reply that Tala recieved only made his eyebrow twitch. Oh, how Kai was lucky that he'd almost been killed a few days ago. Or else Tala wouldn't have been so leneinet.

"Get back to the hospital." Tala frowned as Kai didn't reply, well at least he wasn't moping about the place like he had been for the past – month or so. There was a sudden chill in the air which made Tala hiss under his breath. Kai on the other hand didn't even move a muscle. That was until he seemed to disregard what Tala had said and tried to walk around him.

So maybe Kai shouldn't have been surprised that he'd be unsuccessful in leaving the hospital unnoticed. He really did need to work on his disappearing skills, they seemed to be rusty after the phase of locking himself in a room for who knows how long. "Where are you going then?"

"Away from you." Kai hissed back, he didn't want anyone to come with him. He wanted to see it for himself, and himself only. He didn't understand why everyone was dotting around him still. He understood why they should be a little wary. However that was in the past – all Kai wanted to see was-

"How witty – you seriously are insane." Tala appeared angrier than what he had once been. The fact remained that Tala had seen how oddly Kai had acted and there was no doubt in his mind that the kid was still completely loopy. "Someone's trying to kill you and-" However it was Tala's turn to be interupted.

"Someone's trying to kill you too." It was with that statement that both teenagers seemed to be shocked into an uneasy silence. Neither of them would like to remember that there was someone out there trying to hurt them. Not once did it occur to Tala that he could be caught and killed. Sure he'd had the warning, the policeofficers following him around but really, now that he thought about it. Tala was in just as much danger as Kai was.

"Just get back to hospital Hiwatari. What are you planning on doing anyway?" Kai smirked apparently the redhead didn't need to be reminded that he too was also a victim – perhaps not a victim yet – but nonetheless he was a target that would be shot at soon.

Perhaps Kai could lie to the redhead, say he was away on his usual walk and that he'd be back in a few moments. Then again he doubted that no matter what he said to the other he wouldn't believe him. "I just wanted to see if it was true." Kai started walking again.

"If what were true?" Tala muttered and hoped that the blader would at least start making some sense. Sure he didn't understand the pain of death, with the guilt ontop of that but still... Kai had ben acting too illogical for Tala to even begin to comprehend.

"That criminals return to the scene of the crime." Kai smirked when he heard a snort: not of amusement but one between the line of disgust and disbelief. It wasn't everyday someone could visit their own crime scene. Not that many would want to.

"You need help." Tala caught back up with the briskly walking blader. Now that the pleasent chit-chat had disolved like snow in water, neither Kai nor Tala could say anything to one another without it coming back to the the idea of death.

There was silenceas the two teenager walked with one another. Kai was thinking about how he could get rid of the other. Meanwhile Tala couldn't jelp but ask a question. "What's your obsession with these killers?" Kai gave the redhead a glare, he wasn't obbsessed. He just wanted to see them locked up.

"I don't have an obbsession." Kai shooked his head, everday for the past month he'd been accussed of doing what they were. He wanted to at least know that he wasn't as cruel as he appeared to be – he wanted to at least know that the killers had some humanities. Although that idea was failing quickly.

"Yeah because trying to find them after you almost die is a normal pass time." Normally people would hide under the law: seeing as it would and is supposed to protect them if they happened to be targetted by such monsters. Why did Kai have to be the exception in most rules?

"Look – I don't need to listen to you: so get lost." Well, he could say that he appriecated the fact that Kai was being a little more blunt than normal. Tala however couldn't help but want to smack some sense into the boy.

"This is pathetic, Hiwatari." Tala continued to glared disapprovingly in Kai'd direction, still he knew that this was basically a lost battle. It was Kai afterall and he never did do anything anyone said, he still a stubborn ass. "Get back to hospital before I drag you," Tala frowned when Kai looked around for a moment before crossing the small road.

"You can't make me. I'm going and that's it." Kai hoped that Tala would drop it and leave him alone. In all honesty he didn't want anyone else seeing teh place he almost died, he didn't want his blood to have marred the already dirty floors. He just wanted to believe that it was all a crazy hallucination.

Thankfully he didn't hear any other cold or angry remarks, so hopefully Tala wasn't planning on coming along. Apparently not as Kai turned round to see Tala walking causually behind him. "What are you doing?" He should have known, Tala was probably the hardest person to get rid of. The nosey...

"Following you. We don't need you appearing up hacked and slashed in a few hours." No doubt everyone would blame him then. It wouldn't the greatest feeling knowing that half the country hated him for something he did. Or rather he didn't do.

"Whatever." Kai blantantly ignored Tala for most of the way: hoping that he would be enraged so much that he would leave. Okay, slightly over-enthusatic thought but he couldn't be blamed for hoping. It didn't take that long to aarive at the street, mainly because Kai kept trying to walk into random alleyways – which were no doubt mazes made to confuse every tenent nearby – to try to lose Tala.

Eventually Kai gave up, it was becoming dark and Kai was tired, he could always try tomorrow... On teh other hand Tala would probably inform someone of this and some guard would be glued to his side for the next few weeks. The house was still taped up, but there didn't seem to be any police around, for now.

"So this was where you almost got killed?" Tala gazed around the street for a moment. The place didn't look like a murderer could stay here, it was far too upper class than Tala had been expecting. Most of the neighbouring houses looked new.

The two teenagers quickly stepped inside, Kai went straight for the living room in which he had been stabbed in. "I thought the blood on the floor would tell you that." It hadn't been cleaned up, in fact there seemed to be blood along the hallway. He must have been bleeding rather heavily for that to have happened.

"Sorry if I didn't examine the floor." Tala rolled his eyes and began wandering around teh otehr rooms not exactly interesting in watching Kai remembering probably the scariest night of his life. Kai hadn't noticed the redhead leave until he heard him mutter some words uder his breath as he came back in. "This place gives me the creeps..." Tala frowned as he looked outside. It was becoming darker, quicker than he had thought.

Kai had stood there with a small frown on his face, "Nothing, let's just get outta here." Tala waved the silent question off and hoped that he would be able to leave this place as quickly as possible. The whole thing made the blader shiver. A quick nod and the two teenagers went towards the front door, that was until it opened.

"Neither of you will be going anywhere..." James smirked when he saw the two teenagers freeze – he could remember one of them, the one who he had the pleasure of stabbing in the gut. Ah, good times. However neither Kai nor Tala were going to be taken away by some madman so easily and so they both darted into the room to their right.

They hadn't seen James pull out the small pistol again.

"Come out now, or else I'll kill you when I find you." James yelled, he hoped that these two would have played the 'oh please don't hurt me' card but apparently that wasn't so. Even the kid that had wanted to die a few weeks ago seemed rather spirited. What was going on in the world?

Kai couldn't believe this. It was happening, again. He should have listened to Tala for once. On the other hand he didn't ever want Tala to know that – his ego might just grow a little too big. "That doesn't sound exactly fair..." Tala mumbled as he shoved an old wooden chair up against the door. Well at least he shouldn't be able to – two shots fired and holes were ripped in the door, breaking parts of the chair and letting the wooden fitting fall to the floor.

"Oh crap."

Sighing, he couldn't help but feel slightly bothered at the fact that Sota didn't seem to shut up when he said. No, but when Kai asked? Instant silence. It shouldn't have bothered him, but it did and so once again he couldn't help but snap at the youngest sibling. "Sota, stay still."

She pouted as she crossed her arms, "I want to see Kai." She whined, there was something odd going on – Aton never left the mansion and now they were on the other side of the country? Plus, why was he worrying about Kai? What was wrong with him?

After teh funeral she had seen the small changes, like him staying in his room – yelling at her if she dared to come in and have a chat with him. She was sad, she understood death: however she did not understand why her brother was acting so abnormally.

"You will, we just need to sort something out." Aton sighed and tried to shake off the dreaded feeling that he was too late. Too late for what exactly he didn't know however he had recieved a phonecall from the police. It seemed that Kai had offered to take the heat of the press away.

Again, the phonecall from Kai himself had unnerved him greatly. Since when did Kai not speak to his little sister, and since when did he say such odd things like 'take care of Sota if anythign happens'. What was the idiot planning on doing? He'd been stabbed already, surely he wasn't thinking about recieving another one.

"Is Kai okay?" Aton winced at the question, he hoped Kai was alright or else he truly would be the worst elder brother history. He smiled at the young girl and gave a small nod – that was all she needed to smile brightly afterall.

He'd thought against bringing Sota with him, but with what had been happening – what had happened to Robert was more than frightening: he wanted to be able to keep an eye on Sota himself. No doubt Kai would have done the same, which oddly made Aton feel a little better about his descision.

Still, the plan was to take the heat off the police: giving the main newspapers each large sums to shut off that story or write it off as nothing. At least to stop making out that the police were doing nothing, which was quite the opposite.

A pity that Sota and Aton would land from that private jet of theirs to find the Investigator with some rather disturbing and upsetting news.

Author's Note: Onto the next chapter! (oddly enough I've wrote chapter 33 but not chapter 32 or 31... hmmm, anyway I shall try to finish this fiction as soon as possible...) Onwards to the next chapter!