Beyblade Fan Fiction ❯ How we came to be ❯ Secret ( Chapter 1 )

It was the middle of June. The Bladebreakers had settled themselves in a town not far from New York. It was a modest house, but affordable and very private, just as they liked it. A couple of years ago, Kai had gone on a `rescue mission' to get his two best friends out of the hell they were in. He had come back with a girl round his age. The boy, they learned later, had died months before he had left for Russia. Though she had never given the cause of his death, and Kai never asked.

 

This girl had been a friend with Kai for a long time, and it showed in the way they behaved towards each other. When alone, he was the cold, heartless leader everyone thought he was, and she was, according to Tyson, an icy bitch. But when together, the team saw Kai smile his rare smiles, emotion just a little evident in his eyes, and the girl talked a lot more around him. As the weeks passed they got to know her as well as they could.

 

Her name was Faith, her eyes changed colour when her mood changed, she was as old as Kai, had known him for a very long time and that was all she let loose. It turned out her shell was twice as hard to break. Days went by like a breeze and the bladebreakers were starting to prepare themselves for a new tournament. And that's when it all began.

 

Faith showed up in the common room, where the whole gang was watching TV.

“Hey guys, have you seen Kai? I've been looking for him since dinner.”

Everybody shook his or her heads. Her eyes started to go brown, evidence that she was starting to worry. Kai's strange behaviour had started to escalate in the past few weeks. He hardly ever showed his face anymore, except when there was training or dinner.

He started to wear long sleeve shirts and he was even colder to his team than before. Even Faith had trouble getting him to talk. And in one of the rare moments she could still talk with him, there was certain dreaminess in his voice and his eyes looked like his mind had taken a long holiday. It all looked familiar in her eyes.

Faith thought back of tala for a brief second and mentally slapped herself. No, Kai wouldn't, he's strong, way stronger than that, and how could she think so low of him? Faith didn't know if it was the small hope in her heart of the denial in her heart that was talking. She didn't know what she would do if she would be wrong.

 

She went up to his room again. The last time she had been there, there hadn't been any response after the knock. But since he was nowhere else, this was the last hiding place. A soft knock on the door. “Kai, you in there?” she could pick up the sounds of Kai cursing, something falling and breaking, a drawer opening and closing. Faith tried to go inside and found the door closed. Little alarm bells went of in her head. Knocking a little louder she demanded entrance. After a few minutes he finally showed up, the expression of his face not happy.

 

“What you want? I'm busy”

“Kai let me in, I want to talk.”

“We can talk right here Faith, so spill.”

Her eyes started to turn amber. Since she had left the convent, it had started to get very hard for her to control her eye colour, so her emotions were very visible lately.

“Kai, let me in, or do you have something to hide?”

An evil smirk showed on Kai's face.

“I got nothing to hide, but you're missing something here Faith. This is my room, so it's also my decision to let someone in or not.”

To say she was angry would be an understatement.

 

She hit Kai, which made him stumble backwards, giving Faith the opportunity to go in. not far from his bed she saw shattered glass. It wasn't a big amount, so it couldn't have been a normal drinking glass. She made her way towards it, but two hands grabbed her fiercely and turned her around.

“What the hell do you think you're doing? This is MY room, now get OUT.”

Crimson met amber. And the tension was growing every second.

“Not unless you tell me what you're hiding. That's not a drinking glass you dropped, right?”

Her voice was calm, but everyone that knew her, heard the tone of blazing anger underneath that icy voice. He slapped her. They started fighting. Kai was winning and as he sat on top of her to give her the final punch, reality came back as he saw her condition.

 

Her lip was bleeding, so was her nose, a future black eye and some bruises were evident. Kai looked at his hands in disbelief; his knuckles had blood on them….her blood. He had hit her, the only one he had sworn to protect. Shock showed on his face and he crawled of her to stumble backwards to the bed. He looked at her.

“Oh my god, Faith, I'm-I'm so sorry, I-I-I...I don't know what came over me, I just…I don't know.”

 

For a while Faith didn't seem to move. Fear went through him, an emotion that hardly ever controlled him. He hadn't gone too far, did he? No, she wouldn't be dead, sure she bruises easily, but she's tough. It'll take more than a few punches to kill her. Kai still moved back towards Faith. When he saw her eyes were open and her breathing was normal, he sighed in relief.

 

He didn't kill her.

 

He took her in his arms and sat her upright in his bed. He looked at her while putting back a few strands of her blond/blue hair.

“Faith, can you hear me? How many fingers am I holding? Faith?”

She groaned. This was definitely going to hurt tomorrow.

“Could you keep it down a little? I'm not deaf, no need to shout and you're holding up three. Just let me relax a little.”

“I'm so sorry Faith, I didn't mean to….”

 

“Then what happened? And what is that glass on the floor? What are you hiding from me Kai? I thought we promised not to keep any secrets?”

Kai looked down, shame washed over him. She was right, ever since they first met; they had never kept any secrets from each other. And now he had been carrying one around for so long and hurt her while doing so. He felt her hand on his chin as she tried to make Kai look her in the eyes.

`Kai, Kai, look at me….”

He looked up at her, seeing her eyes tinge with black. She was sad, though her voice stayed calm.

“Look, whatever it is, know that I'll be there for you. Whatever it is, I'm sure that we can work it out.”

“It's not that easy.”

“It's only as hard as you make it.”

 

Her eyes showed only truth and determination. He swallowed, hard. His voice now seeming to falter him he rolled up his sleeves and looked back to her. Her eyes went grey, fear evident in the gasp she had let out. No, this couldn't be, not him too.

In one of Kai's armpits were several needle marks. The glass on the floor had been a syringe once. As he saw no change in her shocked expression, he stood up. But before he could turn she had thrown herself in his arms. He couldn't see her face, since she had buried it deep in his chest, but he could feel her body shaking: she was crying. They stood like that for a while until her black eyes looked up to him.

“How long have you been on that shit?”

“Not long.”

“Why?”

“Life isn't that great ya know. All the pressure of being captain of the best team in the world. It puts a lot of stress…..”

“Stop lying”

 

“What?”

“C'mon Kai, you really think I'd believe that crappy story of yours? We've both been through a whole lot of shit together. I'm not one of your teammates; I know what you have seen. Don't go shitting me bout pressure.”

“Why do you want to know so badly?”

“Because if I lose a friend to that shit again, I definitely want to know what made him start.”

Kai frowned.

“Again? You mean tala…”

“Yes, tala was on that shit too, but I didn't find out until it was too late. I don't want to lose you to it too Kai. I don't know what I'd do without the both of you. Please don't leave me.”

She had started sobbing again. Old memories of how she found tala had come back to her. She couldn't stand the thought of waking up and finding Kai that way. Kai took her in his arms, stroking her hair softly. He started thinking long and hard. What made him start to begin with? What had been the cause of it all?

 

“I don't exactly why, but I think it had a lot to do with the letter I got weeks ago. It was from Boris, and it was bout how he was going to hurt and kill you if he ever saw you on the tournament. How he would take you away from me, to a place where I couldn't help you. And I- I got scared. I don't want to lose you, but I didn't wish to scare you either. I thought drugs could take away that worry, that fear. I guess I'm a weakling.

 

“No you're not. Every one has a moment that they only see one option. I had it too once. Not long after tala died. But every time I even tried to take that needle, I saw tala again, and what happened to him. That was the only thing that stopped me Kai. You didn't have that, all you had, was fear. Now where is that letter?”

He walked to his nightstand and handed the letter to her. Without even reading she just ripped everything in a million pieces. She looked him straight in the eye, eyes tinted green in determination.

“I'm not scared anymore Kai. From the moment you got me out of there till the day I die, I'll never fear him and his army of clones anymore. I'm safe now, safe with you, and he cannot scare me anymore. But it seems like he still has you in his grasp.”

“Will you help me?”