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Chapter 3:
"What the hell?!"
The last thing Kai's sees before daylight invades her eyes is the sight of Tyson standing in the threshold of her doorway, his eyes wide, his face oddly blank and his mouth open, nearly touching his chest.
She feels her legs fall out from underneath her as her knees buckles over the window sill, causing her to lean backwards. She automatically clutches her towel to her chest with her good hand, acting upon reflex as the other unintentionally moves to grab onto something to stop her from falling further. But a pain of protest in her wrist prevents her from grasping onto anything and her back hits the tiled awning just outside her window.
Thankfully, her window isn't that much higher than the awning to cause any damage on her back, but its high enough and the roof steep enough to cause her to slip over the tiles, leading her to the guttering of the roof. With her current injuries, there is no way she can land on the ground without breaking something.
Fortunately, she manages to roll over onto her side just in time and stop herself from falling off the roof completely with the elbow of her injured hand, her upper body leaning over the side, giving her a great view of the courtyard.
The towel, mercifully, stays in place the entire time and she peers over the edge of the roof at the hard ground below.
That was a little too close for her liken.
She manages to scramble back onto the roof, panting softly from her what could have been fatal experience. She lies on the roof for a moment, her heart racing from the fright and she closes her eyes to sooth her frail nerves. Her wrist is aching, her ankle throbbing and her heart threatens to leap out of her chest as a very light dusting of red flitters across her cheeks.
Slowly, she forces herself to sit up; her good hand tugging at the towel around her, making sure everything she doesn't want to be seen is covered. She is now sitting on the edge of the roof, her injured foot hanging off the side as she clutches her towel to her chest with her good hand, her injured hand lying idle next to her. Her hair, still wet from the shower, curtains around her shoulders, sticking to her bare arms, her stormy gray tresses framing her face once more.
Oh dear God…She's sitting on the roof, injured, in just a towel, in front of her teammates who always thought she was a guy.
This is…just so typical of her life!
She tilts his head back to look at her bedroom window, immediately the sight of a midnight haired teen appears in her vision, gripping the window sill with his hands as he leans out the window himself.
"What are you trying to do, kill me?!" she yells as him as Tyson simply stares down at her, his mouth open as wide as his eyes, which are currently like dinner plates himself.
"You-you're a chick!" he splutters out, pointing a finger in her direction, his face becoming red.
"What's going on?" A familiar voice of her neko teammate reaches her ear and she peers over the edge of the awning, her hand gripping her towel tighter when the appearance of five other teens enter her sight.
Just perfect…what else could go wrong today?
"Kai!" Max yells with alarm in his voice. "What are you doing on a roof?"
"In just a towel…" Ray adds, his eyes narrowing to take in her profile before widening and taking a step back in shock. "Hiding your obviously female features?"
Hilary's cheeks burns a bright red when she too notices Kai's obviously female attributes. "Oh my goodness," she whispers.
"Ah!" Kenny yells in his usually overactive manner to state the obvious. "You're a girl?!"
Kai reels her head back in shock from the outburst, a part of her so badly wanting to crawl into a hole and die, while another part of her is utter pissed that they are simply standing there, gawking at her. Gawking and yelling out her secret.
"Tell the whole neighborhood, why don't you?" she hisses dangerously at him, her eyes easily falling into the famous Hiwatari death glare.
"Eep!" Kenny squeaks and jumps to hide behind Max.
The blonde haired teen looks up at her before blushing darkly at how scantily clad she is and abruptly turns to look away. The thin piece of material she is wearing does nothing to hide her attributes, just covers her up from being completely naked. Her bust is quite large, and rather perky that the guys wonder how she was able to hide them. Her hips are quite round with a tiny waist and seemingly flat stomach.
Oh, and she had a butt, Ray notices.
A heavy and uncomfortable feeling of awkwardness falls over the group, Kai more so as she's the one on the roof in just a towel. She planned to one day tell the group about her true gender, but this isn't the way she had in mind.
Oh well, what done is done, now if they would just stop gawking she might be able to get down from the roof without further humiliation. Or is that asking for too much from the Gods at the moment?
"Why are you dressing as a guy, Kai?" Max asks the million dollar question; a question that Kai is in no mood of answering.
Slowly, Kai turns her glare on him, momentarily forgetting that she sees the young blonde like a brother. "I'd thought you would have the common decency to ask me that after I get down from here!"
"Right!" Max replies, a blush still apparent on his cheeks. "Sorry!"
This is just a little too weird for him at the moment; just like everyone he's sure. Kai Hiwatari, the badass of Beyblade, the toughest, strongest blader the BBA has ever known, the most sought after teen on the face of this planet…is a girl?
Not just any girl, while Kai was very good looking as a guy, she's absolutely beautiful now. She looks like a different person, and yet she has the same ice shattering glare that Kai is famous for. And those tribal markings on her cheeks, they appear to be tattoos, yet do very little to take away her feminine features now that her male clothing are gone.
How in the world did they miss this rather important detail about their teammate, their captain who they toured with for a whole year together in cramp confinements? Are they really that oblivious to their surroundings, or is Kai just very good at hiding?
Perhaps it's a little of both.
"What happened?" Ray asks, continuing to simply stand there and look up at her. A small part of him, Kai suspects, is actually enjoying the view and she promises herself to deliver a swift punch to his guts when she gets down from here.
"Tyson practically pushed me out of the window," she explains as she turns to glare hatefully at the teen standing flabbergasted at her window.
"What?" Hilary says before her eyes turn a dangerous shade of dark brown and she plants her hands heavily on her hips in a sigh of disapproval and anger. "Tyson, you jerk! I can't believe you would do something so stupid!" she yells as loudly as she can.
To push Kai out the window is unacceptable. To push a girl Kai out the window in just a towel while she's injured is simply unforgivable! Wait until she gets her hands on him…
"I did not!" Tyson yells in protest, ready to defend himself to the death it seems. "She fell out!"
"You barged into my room without knocking," Kai retorts with a hiss. "And you scared me!"
"Well, you scared me!" Tyson replies just as quickly, once again pointing an accusing finger in her direction. "How long have you been a girl?"
Kai makes a little sound of annoyance as she turns away and glares at him from the corner of her eyes. "Since I was born, you moron."
Tyson's eyes widen when he recalls his question and he shakes his head frantically, a light dusting of pink also gracing his cheeks. "No, I mean why didn't you tell us you were a chick?"
"You never asked," Kai replies quickly, her eyes slipping shut as she can feel a massive headache coming on. "You just assumed that I was a guy. Not my fault, now is it?"
"Don't turn this back on me!" Tyson continues to yell, mad, annoyed and more than anything, bewildered that he had no idea that one of his closest friends is a girl!
"You're a girl!" he yells for good measure, trying to convince himself of the reality he is now facing.
"I think we've already established that!" Kai cries out in frustration, her headache building stronger and stronger, and she is still stuck on the roof for heaven's sake! Ok, so their reactions are something she expected, but really though, shouldn't they at least help her down before putting her through an interrogation?
"Now would you just shut the hell up and help me down from here?!" she practically orders, fed up with everyone's reaction towards her, disregarding that their shock is totally understandable. "I've been up here long enough, thank you very much!"
"Can you walk to your bedroom window?" Ray asks, appearing to be the first one to snap himself out of his shock and to assess the situation fully.
Kai glances back to her bedroom window and studies it for a moment. Its close, but a sudden painful throb from her ankle reminds her that she can't walk at the moment due to an untimely sprain. She's not even going to attempt it, in fear of doing more damage to herself…and her pride.
A part of her wishes the blitz boys were here, they'd know how to get her down from here with minimal fuss. They might even kill her teammates for staring at her; which is something she wouldn't mind at the moment.
"I can't walk on my ankle," she mutters as she looks down at the injured limb with a bitter gaze. "I think the fall caused more injury."
A flicker of concern appears in Ray's eyes as he too looks at the heavily bandaged foot hanging off the rood, not liking the look of it very much. "How about you jump and one of us catches you?"
Kai blushes darkly at the suggestion, her eyes widening and she clutches her towel closer to her body. The thought of actually dropping over the side of the rood and landing in Ray's arms like a weak damsel in distress almost makes her blanches, her tough female pride refusing to allow such a thing.
Maybe one of the blitz boys, sure, she trusts them with her life. They're strong and would be able to hold her up easily, they would never let her down. So while she trusts Ray enough to blade beside her during a battle, to place her dignity in his hands is another thing entirely.
"I'd rather risk further injury to my ankle than risk permanent injury to my neck and back when you drop me," she replies quickly, before her eyes narrow into a glare. "Besides, I don't trust your hands…"
Ray physically deadpans at her reply, his ego taking a knock that Kai doesn't trust him in her time at need. And what does she mean, she doesn't trust his hands? It's not like he would try to cop a feel of those luscious breasts of hers on purpose, now would he?
"Well, can you climb down?" he asks, shaking his head to remove that last train of thought.
"I can't use my hand, you twit," Kai replies harshly, seemingly reaching the end of her rope as she lifts her bandaged hand to show him, to remind him why she was showering in the first place.
"Er, what about your other hand?" he cautiously asks.
Kai's eyebrow gives another twitch, something thing is steadily becoming a permanent feature on her face. "The one holding the towel in place?"
Ray gives her a neko grin and a light blush, while everyone else around him blushes darkly as well. "Yeah?"
"Oh," Kai growls softly under her breath as she outwardly seethes, bowing her head to hide her dark blush of embarrassment behind her veil of stormy gray hair. The only scenario playing in her mind is the one where a huge gush of wind suddenly appears and blows the towel off her completely. With the way her luck has been today, it's definitely a possibility that she really shouldn't risk.
"You would like that, wouldn't you, you pervert?" she hisses, wrapping the arm of her injured hand over her chest to keep the towel around her extra secure.
Ray presses index fingers together as the others around him stare at him in surprise, or in Hilary's case, disapproval. "Can't blame a guy for trying," he mutters, seemingly having fun at Kai's expense.
Oh, she is so going to kill him when she gets down from here.
"Hang on," Hilary says as she grabs the two nearest boys, which happens to be Kenny and an oddly silent Daichi, by the scruff of their shirts. "We'll find a ladder, or something." She then proceeds to drag the two away.
Kai watches them leave, releasing a very heavy sigh. "Oh god, could this get any worse?" she mutters.
"Hey," A familiar and sexy voice suddenly calls out, causing Kai to physically stiffen, her eyes widening with a sense of fear and disbelief. "What's going on?"
Peering over the edge of the roof to gaze into a pair of stunning sapphire blue eyes, Kai blushes darker than she has ever done before. "M-Miguel?"
Oh, I'm having too much fun writing this. Why didn't I think of something like this sooner? X3 Ray's such a pervert in my mind.
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