The Beyblading world mourned when news hit, there wasn't a dry eye for days and it was the headline for the entire month on all the papers and news stations; Kai Hiwatari found dead from apparent overdose.

Ray had scoffed, shaking his head when he had read the headlines. He wasn't surprised that Kai would have had to fake his death, he was only surprised he had done so barely three months after he called their relationship off. He was a bit shocked that Kai chose overdosing as his way to go, though with the way the media ate it up it was like he knew it was the only way to go without bringing up any kind of suspicion.

There was no funeral, as stated in the will that had been found by the 'body', how much he had paid off the authorities was something Ray always wondered. The wealth Kai had inherited from his grandfather went to the BBA, apparently Dickenson knew of Kai's 'condition' and Ray figured the elderly man was going to be able to keep funneling Kai's money back to him.

Everything that had happened after the headlines had broken went by fast, and not once had Ray ever seen Kai again after that day on the hill. Though Ray wasn't all that surprised, just disappointed.

It had been some years before he allowed himself to fall in love again, wanting to give himself the time to get over Kai and when he did, he fell hard for this other man and it wasn't until the newspapers put out the headlines for his own wedding, like they had for all the other major Bey Bladers, did he see Kai again.

It was his wedding day, that Kai had decided to make himself known to Ray once more. He had gone the lengths of dying his hair, letting it grow down to the middle of his back. He had gained a substantial amount of more muscle than before, for what an 18 year old body could handle. To anyone else, he looked like a fit and normal teenager, nobody would have known that he was THE Kai Hiwatari in those seats, watching his ex-teammate, ex-lover, getting married.

Ray knew, it didn't matter what Kai had done to his hair or his body to try and keep up the charade of being dead. He knew those eyes all too damn well to not know it was him, who stared and smiled as he said his I do's to his new lover, who finally approached him after the ceremony and danced with him; for old times' sake.

"Why did you come?" Ray asked, the words had been on the tip of his tongue the entire night.

Kai shrugged, he wasn't exactly sure why he had come, he just knew he wanted to be there with him, even if it was just for a few hours.

"So much for not watching me age..." Ray muttered angrily, getting a snort in response from his dancing partner.

"You look good for a thirty-two year old." Kai smiled warmly, getting a playful slap in the arm.

"That's no way to talk to your 'uncle'." Ray laughed, and it was real.

For so long he had hated Kai, for leaving him the way he had, even if he understood why, but tonight he was just glad he had come; he had missed looking into those damn eyes. All that hate was gone for tonight, and they were friends once more.

"Are you happy?" Kai asked as he spun Ray around, trying to keep up the charade of uncle and nephew sharing a dance instead of two ex-lovers.

The smile that had been on Ray's face all night dropped and he stopped at arm's length, stopping the spin back to Kai. He released Kai's hand, and Kai could see him thinking over his answer.

"I am." He lied, and Kai could see the lie within Ray's eyes, could hear it in his voice. "Are you?" He asked after a second or two of silence.

Kai shrugged his shoulders once more. "I get by." He held his hand out once more for Ray to take and smiled once Ray took it again and finally completed their dance.

It was almost painful when they said goodbye, when Kai watched the two newlyweds drive away with the biggest smiles on their faces as Ray waved frantically out the window to the guests that had stayed later. Their eyes met and held, a bit longer than they should have, and they both smiled to one another like old friends. Yet inside, as the car drove out of sight, Kai felt the burning anger in the pit of his stomach.

He fought himself the rest of the night, as he lie awake, memories of the past playing in his mind along with tonight. The smile Ray had worn throughout the entire wedding, even when Kai could see that he was getting tired. The longer he lay thinking about it; the ceremony, the vows, the kiss... The anger was back, almost ten-fold as he remembered that kiss. Though he had no right to be angry, he knew that, but it didn't matter. He was now burning with that anger in his stomach, cursing himself for ever letting Ray go.
He tried to subside the anger by telling himself it was for the better, and for a while it worked because of how happy Ray looked, but it was still hard; it was still unfair.

That was the last he had actually seen Ray, and Ray had seen him. Over the years he kept a watchful eye on him, to make sure his husband was the man he thought he was, and Kai was happy to know that he was. It was never easy seeing the two together, still wrapped in their love like Kai had seen on their wedding day almost five years ago.

He thought it would get better, but it never did, and he finally snapped. After having watched the house for days, making sure he knew Rays husband's schedule to a fine point before he made his move. He wasn't sure if he had been so scared in his life, but it was too late now. He was already standing in the middle of the kitchen, having broken through the back door, when Ray came around the corner and almost jumped out of his skin.

"Fucking Christ Kai, what the hell are you doing in my house?!" Ray asked, his hand still placed over his rapidly beating heart.

Kai's mouth opened to speak but his words didn't come out, and Ray could see the confusion in his eyes as he tried to say something.
Ray sighed shaking his head, some wisps of white mixed with the black.

"C'mon and sit down with me." He coaxed Kai into the living room, the other male following quietly.

The two sat in silence, Kai's leg nervously twitching as he sat across from Ray in his living room. He shouldn't be here, there was a reason he let Ray go all those years ago, and now he was stuck because of his own stupidity and selfishness.

"You dyed your hair again." Ray finally broke the silence, taking in the dark blue hair Kai now had. "Looks good." He mused, getting a smirk in return.

"You're getting gray hairs." There was a lump in his throat, when it had gotten there he wasn't sure, and his words came out almost hoarse.

Ray only chuckled, brushing back a bang. "Why are you here?" He asked, golden eyes meeting crimson.

"I wanted to see you."

"Why?" Ray asked, and there was no mistaking the anger in his tone. "Wasn't the whole point of this was so you WOULDN'T see me?" He all but yelled, his fists balling together between his knees as he bent forward on the couch.

"It was... But- "Don't you dare say you miss me!" Ray practically hissed, his pupils wavering, and Kai's mouth snapped shut. Ray pushed himself from his seat in a fury, his fists shaking at his sides as he began to pace angrily in the center of his living room.
"Don't do this... Don't do this to me... Not... Not after all this time!" He yelled, though he never met Kai's eyes with his.
"How dare you do this to me! You didn't want to see this! You didn't want this!" Angry tears were rolling down his cheeks, and he hadn't even noticed when Kai had stood and taken hold of his arms in a gentle hold, standing before him.

"That doesn't mean I still didn't want you." Kai argued back, only for Ray to shake his head.

"Then you should have kept me." He half sobbed, fighting back a purr as Kai's hands rubbed his back in small circles.

Ray felt himself inch closer to Kai's chest, his eyes slowly drifting closed as a purr finally erupted past his lips. He knew it was wrong, not when he wore that wedding band on his finger. He should have pushed Kai away, yelled at him some more for what he did, but he couldn't find it in himself to do so.

"Runaway with me..." Kai breathed into the top of Ray's hair.
It was a while before Ray responded, his arms had come around Kai's body and he held onto him as if it would be the last time.

"I can't..."

"Please?"

"No." Ray pulled back in order to look into Kai's eyes. "No... I love my husband Kai... I'm sorry..."

Their lips were only inches apart, and like a hidden string was wrapped around them and pulling them closer, their eyes began to slip close the closer they got until Ray snapped out of it and pushed Kai back, hard, away from him.

"You need to leave..." His voice barely wavered in his order.

Kai gave him a questioning look and Ray could see that Kai wasn't going to go that easily.

"I mean it Kai, you need to leave... NOW." He ordered once more, and they both jumped when the sound of a key stuck into the lock in the front door. "Go out the back, quickly." Ray rushed him back to the kitchen, where Kai had come in before.
He was pushing and shoving, ready to slam the door behind Kai as his husband was barely stepping through the front.

"I'm sorry." Kai muttered, trying his hardest not to grab Ray right then and there and just run off.

"Go, and don't come back..." Ray said, closing the door on Kai before he could say anything back.