Beyblade Fan Fiction ❯ Flaming Heart ❯ Chapter One ( Chapter 1 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade, Kira or Mimi or any songs, unless informed otherwise


AN: I have nothing to say except read and enjoy, please


Chapter One


The multi-colored lights danced around the stage, the crowd cheering loudly to their favorite band as of now. It was an all female band, and fairly new. Each girl was in her late teens, two of them were nineteen, the other was eighteen. The guitar started first, drums soon coming in to follow the beat, the opening lasted at least twenty seconds before the lead singer came in.


She finished, closing her eyes, smiling at their cheering. She listened to her friends laugh behind her, always excited for another concert. They left their equipment, waving out to their fans as they left the stage. The oldest of the three was Kira Lin; tall, skinny, but well-built, short black hair with a red streak, amber colored eyes and lightly tanned skin. She had a quick temper and an even quicker urge to protect the other two girls. She played the black and red bass guitar for the band, being Chinese she had very fast hands.


The youngest was Mimi Lewis, an American, her hair was long to her mid-back, pulled into two low pigtails, her hair was an icy color of blonde. Her eyes were a piercing golden, emerald green and she was fairly skinny. Slight curves, and tanned skin, she was kind of happy-go-lucky, and found almost everything funny. She played the black drums in the back, drumsticks red and she also sang back-up.


The second oldest-or second youngest, which ever you call it-was Rayne Kovalevskaya. A Russian, she had very fair skin and a frail, innocent figure. At first glance, her hair was white, but if you watched her long enough you could see the sheen of blue-falling down her spine in a braid, her eyes were sharp and saw most everything. She was usually the quiet type, polite, but on stage she was the lead singer for Flaming Heart, and she lost all recognition of her other self.


They saw their manager, a Japanese man they called ’Kei’, his hair was long, to his waist, and a black/blue color. His eyes were dark brown and he was usually-like now-in a comfortable outfit of a t-shirt and jeans. He raised his hand for a high-five from each of them, which he received. Mimi, being the last, he grabbed her around her waist, giving her a quick hug.


“Good job, girls…this time the concert was sold out.” he let Mimi return to her friends, they thanked him, but before they could change he stopped them, “By the way…you have a rival.” Kira turned to look at him,


“And who might they be?”


“AFK, a new band, like yourselves…all male though. Three of them, Max Tate, the drummer, Kai Hiwatari, the lead singer and Ray Kon, the guitarist.” he listed them off, counting them on his fingers.


“ ’AFK’?” Mimi asked out, Rayne looked at her.


“I wonder what it could mean?” Kira scoffed, mumbling, loudly.


“Ass-FucKers…” she was hit in the back of the head by a water bottle, “Ow! That was my head!” Rayne stuck her tongue out at her friend, giggling when Kira swung out at her and missed. Before a fight could start, Kei cleared his throat.


“And I’ve scheduled you to meet them.” the girls’ jaws all dropped,


“We have to meet our rivals?!?!?!” Kira yelled, she crossed her arms, huffing.


“You better hope they’re cute, Kei…or you’re screwed.” Mimi mumbled. Kei laughed,


“I’m a guy so I really wouldn’t consider them cute to me.” Rayne sighed, rolling her eyes.


“When do we go?”


“Change your clothes and we’ll leave now.”


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The girls got out of the sleek, black car, craning their necks to see the top of the large hotel where they arrived at. Mimi had put on a tight, purple, T-shirt. There was ivy on it and a girl chasing a butterfly, it stopped half-way on her thighs. She had on dark, blue jean, capri’s and white flip flops.


Kira put on a black vest, white mid-drif underneath saying Beware in red. She had loose black pants on, the seams were red and black tennis shoes. She also had a black, base ball cap on her head, backwards.


Rayne changed into a dark blue camouflage, tank-top, it was tight fitting and also had long sleeves, the collar stopping before her shoulders, the tank-top had spaghetti straps. She had denim, mini-shorts on and white tennis shoes.


Kei came behind them, pushing the teens in through the revolving doors. He went to the front desk, asking AFK’s room number. Getting it, he lead them to the elevator, he pushed the up arrow button, it lighting up red. The doors dinged open and they walked inside.


“What floor?” Mimi asked, looking at all the buttons. Kei reached over and pushed the button that said TOP above it. “The top floor? Is it big?”


“The whole floor is one large room.” Rayne explained, leaning back on the railing. Mimi looked in awe,


“Cooooool….” Kira rolled her eyes.


“Whatever.” she mumbled. Soon the bell dinged again and the doors slid open, revealing a hallway that showed a door at the end. “Let’s go.” she dragged Mimi from the elevator, letting her run the length of the hallway. Kei stopped her in front of the door, knocking on it politely first. It was quiet, then there were noises, and the door opened a crack.


“’Sup?” he asked, raising an eyebrow and the cerulean blue eye.


“Who’re you?” asked the voice, he was soon pushed to the side and the door opened fully. A black haired guy looked at them curiously, then smiled.


“Nice to see you again, Kei. This is the band, I guess?” he indicated the girls with a nod.


“Yep, who answered?”


“Max, he’s kind of high on sugar right now.” they laughed, then he moved to the side to let them through. He gave a small wink to Kira when she passed, who blushed. He closed the door and smiled at the girls’ looks of admiration to the room. Half the lining of one wall was windows, ceiling to floor, two hallways branched from there, probably leading to rooms. “So, do I get intros?” he asked, leaning on the back of the leather couch. Kei nodded,


“This is Mimi Lewis, the drummer,” he pointed to her and she smiled, with a loud ’hi!’, “This is Kira Lin, the guitarist,” she blushed, waving a little to him, “And this is--”


“Rayne Kovalevskaya.” came another voice. They looked to one door, where another member of the band was leaning on the door frame. “The lead singer.” he had dual-toned hair, the front slate blue, that back dark blue. His eyes were crimson and his skin was a little pale. He was in a tight, black tank-top and the girls could see he was well-built, baggy, black jeans hung off of his legs. “I’m Kai, also lead, nice to meet you.” he walked over to them, taking Rayne’s hand and kissing her fingers lightly. She pulled away quickly, blushing brightly.


“Nice to meet you as well…you pronounced my name well…are you Russian?” he nodded, “If I may ask, who are you?” she asked the black haired boy. He smiled,


“I’m Ray.” he had a loose white t-shirt on, a yin-yang symbol on the front. His hair was pulled into a long ponytail, low on his head, blue jeans hung off his legs. He was barefoot. His golden eyes returned to Kira again, she watched out the window, seeing his reflection watching her. “Where’d Max go?”


“Over here!” he came into the main room with a wave and a happy smile. He had a loose blue tank top on and loose gray sweats. His hair was slightly spiky and blonde, his eyes were cerulean blue. “What’s up?” he introduced himself to the girls and they did back.


“Well, now that everyone is acquainted, I’ll be taking my leave.” Kei smiled with a wave, heading to the door. Kira skidded in front of his way.


“You will be coming back right?” he scratched his head.


“Well…not tonight. You’re staying with the guys tonight.” her jaw dropped and Rayne cringed behind them.


“Excuse me?! We’re staying here with men we’ve just met?!” her voice had a slight accent, that could be heard more clearly in her yell.


“Pretty much.”


“You can’t leave us without any parental supervision!”


“I’m not you’re parent.”


“You’re an adult!” Kira put in, he pushed her out of the way to get to the door.


“So are you, you’re nineteen and Ray is twenty-one, Kai is twenty and Max is twenty.”


“You’re our guardian!” he opened the door,


“And as you’re guardian I say this is okay.” and he left. Kira sank to the floor, Rayne patted her back.


“Don’t worry, we won’t do anything.” Ray told them politely. Rayne nodded,


“It isn’t that we don’t trust you--”


“Yes it is!” Kira snapped,


“--it’s that we’ve never been left alone with men before. Along with we don’t have anything to wear to bed and we don’t want to impose.” Kai sighed,


“You each can borrow clothes from us, and stay in our room, it’s fine.” at Rayne’s quizzical look he answered, “We share one room, three beds…either you sleep on the floor or each of you share one bed with each of us.”


“I’m fine with it.” Mimi told them, Max didn’t bother her. In fact they acted exactly the same.


“I’m okay as long as you keep your hands to yourself.” Rayne told them, “I’d actually prefer to sleep with Kai…no offence to either of you…” Ray held up his hand,


“None taken. Kira can sleep with me.”


“I don’t care.” Max giggled, “Oh…Mimi, we can go through my clothes and find you something for bed, c’mon.” he lead her down the left hallway. They returned not much later, Mimi had her hair down and now wore a camouflage t-shirt, same length as her other one, that said Sshhh…I’m Hiding From My Homework on it in bold yellow letters. She yawned cutely, rubbing her eyes.


“I’m sleepy…” Kai looked at Rayne, who pull Kira from the floor, and took her wrist.


“It’s late anyway, we should find you something to wear. Ray, get Kira something too.” Kai took Rayne down the hallway Max had taken Mimi, Ray tapped Kira’s shoulder.


“Come on, Kira.” She allowed herself to be lead down the hallway, Mimi took a piggy back ride from Max, falling asleep on the way to the room. Kai bent down, digging through the drawers of the large oak dresser, Rayne looked away from his muscles over to Kira and Ray, Kira sitting on Ray’s bed-obviously because of the red blanket with the large yin-yang in the middle-Ray finally pulling out a tank top and shorts of his. “This okay?” he asked, she took them, nodding thankfully and heading into the bathroom in the room.


“Rayne.” she moved away from the closed bathroom doors, turning her head right into Kai’s chest. Blushing wildly, she jumped away, covering her face. “I don’t have rabies you know.” she blushed more in embarrassment for acting in such a way. She grabbed the large black tank top from him. Heading for the second bathroom, she paused, hearing one of Flaming Hearts songs. “Hello?” It was Kai’s cell phone ring. He nodded a couple times, “Bye.” then flipped the red razr closed. He chuckled at her puzzled expression.


“That was…”


“Everywhere, one of your earliest songs. I used to be a big fan, still a fan, but not as much seeing as I’m your rival.” his crimson eyes seemed to burn into her icy ones, burrowing deep into her soul. She turned away, feeling a clench in her chest. “I stopped being such a big fan after what was in Teen Popstar not that long ago…” her heart froze in her chest, she teetered, feeling light heated. She could hear some malice in his voice,


“It wasn’t true…” she mumbled. He made a ‘Hn.’ noise at her, she clutched the black fabric closer to her chest, tears welling in her squeezed shut eyes. “It wasn’t true!” she stated one more time, running into the bathroom as Kira came out, closing the door loudly. She tugged the drawstring on the shorts so they fit on her hips better.


“What happened?” her eyes widened in slight horror as Ray slapped Kai across the face, hard, leaving a finely placed red hand mark.


“You need to watch what you say to her, Kai. That incident shattered her, you can’t say things that hit that close to home--” Kai turned around with a sharp glare in his eyes, shutting Ray up. He trudged over the end bed, black covers and pillows on it, silk. He climbed into it, pulling the blankets over his head. Kira thought she saw a small shudder of despair come from him, but ignored it.


“He brought that up?” she asked, putting a hand on Ray’s shoulder. He nodded solemnly.


“With Kai you never know what’s on his mind…sometimes he voices it, sometimes he doesn’t. He does whatever he thinks is best for him, not the person he’s talking to.” he looked over at her with a sigh, “It’s hard to be his best friend, you know? All the shit you have to put up with, with this guy around.” he picked up a pillow from his bed, throwing it and hitting Kai, knowing he was listening. The pillow slammed into his shoulder, Kai grunted loudly, Kira giggled, hearing him curse into his own pillow.


“Are you going to get that?” she asked, indicating the pillow.


“And end up in reach of monstro? Not happening.” he stated flatly, glaring at the lump in the blankets. “Come on…let’s go to bed?” he suggested. She nodded, climbing in on the other side. Moments later she heard the bathroom door click open, Rayne sniffing slightly, Kira sighed, even in the darkness she could imagine Rayne’s puffy red eyes and helpless looks. Her feet slid across the floor till they reached Kai’s bed, it creaked slightly, then stopped. Telling her Rayne was in bed, where she was to-most likely-sit awake in the dark.


*~*~*~*~*~*~*~


“Kira…Kira! 221; a harsh voice whispered loud enough to wake her up. She slapped away at the hand shaking her, opening one amber eye.


“What?” she snapped in a whisper. Rayne’s ice eyes twinkled with delight, strange this early in the morning. Wait…what time was it? Kira sat up on one elbow, looking at the florescent red numbers. “6:15...” she mumbled, of course. Rayne wakes up late on weekdays, but on weekends-when everyone else stays in bed-she has to wake up early.


“Where’s the camera? I know you carry one, where is it?” she asked. Kira looked her right in the eyes,


“Why?” she asked dumbly, Rayne giggled quietly, moving out of her view.


“Look at them…” Kira sat up fully, covering her mouth so she wouldn’t squeal from the cuteness in front of her. Well…next to her. Mimi and Max-who had fallen asleep together- were snuggled together, their faces so innocent you wouldn’t believe they were over ten. They also looked closely related, with blonde hair-Mimi’s lighter-perfect, baby smooth skin and slight freckles. Even how they acted when they were awake made them seem like brother and sister. “Isn’t it so kawaii?” Kira looked at her,


“Ka-what?”


“Kawaii… ;it means ‘cute’ in Japanese.” Rayne explained. Kira made an ‘Ohhhh…” expression, then nodded to her pants on the floor. Rayne walked over, barely touching the ground so she wouldn’t wake anyone else. Pulling out a silver digital camera, she moved-just as quiet-to Max’s bed. Turning the flash off, since the lighting was perfect in the dawn, and leaning close enough to get them both in, she smiled, clicking the picture. Mimi made a cute face like she was waking up, but didn’t, instead curled closer to Max, pulling the covers up more. “Got it.” she mumbled, then her eyes wandered aimlessly to Kai, Kira watching her back the whole time. She tip-toed to his bedside, leaning down slightly, just to see his face and not wake him. She watched him silently, then grinned taking the camera from behind her back, taking a picture of him. She giggled quietly, covering her mouth, Kira smiled. “He’s cute when he’s sleeping…not so…” she stopped, thinking of a word to describe him, “…vicious.” she giggled more at her concluding word. She turned to the large window, like the ones in the main room, but a sliding door, looking through pictures on the camera. Kira had slumped back onto the pillow, going close to Ray for warmth. A squeal broke the silence of the room, instantly waking Kira and Ray, Mimi and Max following a minute after.


“What happened?” Max asked groggily, he rubbed his eye, Mimi sitting up and poking his cheek, her hair ruffled from moving around. Ray hopped out of his bed, seeing Kai looming over Rayne, Kira got out of the bed quickly, untangling herself from the blankets, grabbing her camera from the floor. No one said anything, waiting for Kai to do something. Kai rubbed his eyes quickly, falling off the bed, due to a flash in his eyes. Kira reached over and dragged Rayne from the bed, holding her behind her, the camera in her other hand.


“Down, boy.” she growled at him. For once, Rayne was glad that Kira was so protective, in truth, when Kai was on top of her, she was scared out of her mind. Ray helped Kai from the ground, Kai still rubbing his eyes viciously. Glaring at Kira with the eye he wasn’t rubbing. “Good flash, ain’t it?”


“Oh, shut-up...crazy, bitch…I wasn’t going to do anything.” he mumbled, walking into the bathroom. Ray looked dazed, then over to where Max and Mimi had crawled off the bed.


“What happened?” Mimi asked in a quiet voice, tugging on the hem of Kai’s black tank top. Rayne looked at them, sighing deeply.


“He was half-awake when I took the picture…the flash wasn’t even on…I don’t understand how he--” Ray cut her off.


“He always wakes up right now on Saturdays, he must have seen you.” she nodded, accepting his reply.


“--but when he saw me, he grabbed me and pushed me to the bed. I don’t think he would have done anything, I was just surprised that’s why I screamed.” Rayne explained, Kira looked into her photo album on the camera. Deleting the picture she took to get Kai off her friend, laughing at the two pictures Rayne took. “See…he isn’t evil when he’s unconciouss.”


“Hey…don’t we have a concert today?” Max asked, looking at Kai when he came from the bathroom, Rayne not looking at him.


“Yeah…at noon in the park, we’re opening for them.” he indicated the girls. Max yawned and stretched,


“Well, time for breakfast then. Who orders?” Kai shrugged, Ray started to the phone. Rayne slapped his hand.


“What are you doing?”


“Ordering breakfast.” she slapped his hand again as it reached to the phone, “Okay, you can stop that.” she did it one more time for good measure.


“We’ll make breakfast.” they stared at her.


“You can cook?”


“Yeah, me and Mimi. Kira’s food comes alive.”


“HEY! I resent that! It only happened once!! JUST ONCE!!” the boys looked concerned, “But they’ve won several contests…” their looks eased,


“So, what do you want?” Mimi asked, a smile coming to her face.


*~*~*~*~*~*~


“Okay. All done.” Rayne stated, giving Mimi a high-five, everyone still in their pajamas. They handed each of them their breakfast over the counter, Rayne refusing to look at Kai, out of shame. Ray took his plate gratefully, he and Kira both having a traditional Chinese breakfast, Rayne and Mimi couldn’t even pronounce it. Max and Mimi had strawberry pancakes, loaded with syrup and powdered sugar, three long sausages each, and biscuits and gravy. The others stared wide-eyed as the Americans dove into the large breakfast, all of them wondered how they could eat so much and still have perfect figures. Rayne shook her head, sighing, handing Kai his plate of eggs-sunny side up-a slice of ham and bacon. She herself had six triangles of French toast, light strawberry syrup and powdered sugar, strawberries on the side.


“How is it?” Mimi asked, looking to the side at her friends, taking another pancake into her mouth, Kira nodded happily, Kai made a ’Hn.’ noise again, Ray said a small thank you and Max just stuffed his face more.


*~*~*~*~*~*~
-Noon/Park-


“It 217; so nice outside.” Mimi closed the red curtain, looking at Kira who was braiding Rayne’s hair for her. The clothes designer forced Mimi into a black t-shirt with red seams, the band’s logo on the front. Black shorts with a red stripe down the side. The hair designer put her hair up into two pigtails, high on her head, a thin layer of hair down. A red streak going down and into the left ponytail. Kira tied off Rayne’s hair turning to Mimi.


Her clothes designer put her in a black tank top, a black jacket over that with the band’s logo across the front. Her pants were tight down to the middle of her calves, black with large red striped along the side. Her hair was as it normally was, but pulled into a short ponytail, the red streak in her hair falling over her face as the only source of bangs.


“So? We’re all in black, I’m just glad there’s a screen over us so no heat gets to us.” Rayne cleared her throat, it was still a little croaky from yelling so much. Incidents?


1. That morning when Kai grabbed her
2. Falling into a fountain on the way there
3. Grabbing onto Kai for a stronghold while falling into the fountain, pulling him with her, making him mad, that in turn made her scream
4. While changing clothes after the fountain incident, Kai walked in on her
5. Mimi tackling her to the ground five times already
6. Kira tickling her
7. Ray surprising her as she came out of the car
8. Watching a scary movie not that long ago
9. Cold water mysteriously getting dumped on her (she kept glaring at Mimi who continuously giggled about it, knowing she did it)
And 10. Getting pushed by Kira right into Kai.


Fun, huh? She tapped her throat, thinking of how many times it was Kai’s fault. Her clothing designer piled many clothes on her until she found a tight, black, tank-top that stopped an inch above her belly-button. The tank was torn in places-meant to be that way-and had the band logo on it. Her pants were black and tight around her hips, loosening near her knees, she glared at the floor. AFK was going to open for them, and she was curious to know what song they would do. She’d never heard any. Not even noticing, she heard their band already start playing.


“Huh? When did they go on?” she asked, peeking out the curtain, she could see a lot of people, mostly teenagers from fifteen to her age. Max laughed, playing a perfect beat along with Ray playing the guitar. Kai’s voice soon came in after the intro, Rayne’s jaw dropping, he sounded…good.


Kai looked over at Rayne as the music ended, smirking at the loud cheers. The band left the instruments, walking back stage. Kai put a hand on Rayne’s shoulder, leaning into her ear, “I am still your rival…and I might win.” then he backed away so she could go out. Casting a final glare at him she left through the red curtain, forcing his face from her mind completely.


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END!!! Of this chapter anyway….R&R!!


Song Credit: The first song was Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely) by P!INK, the second one sung by AFK was Breaking the Habit by Linkin Park, the song mentioned-Kai’s cell ring-was Everywhere by Avril Lavigne.