Beyblade Fan Fiction ❯ Return to the Past ❯ Kiro ( Chapter 2 )

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Return to the Past

 

Chapter 2 Kiro

 

She was walking through the familiar icy landscape with snow and wind everywhere, a little snowflake landed on the tip of her nose Katerina smiled lightly, the snow wasn't real- everything here wasn't real. And yet, she had been here before- many times before. Katerina gazed in front of her she was searching for a certain someone, the inhabitant of this none real place. It was his world; he had created somewhere it inside her mind... a place she only would try to enter when she was left with no other options, she had only done that once and ended up in a coma. It was usually him who brought her here, when she was younger it had been for training purposes, but now that she was older he only did it to tell her important things. With all the unreal snow falling gracefully around her, she finally saw him.

 

The old man, dressed in, what seemed, thousand years old clothes and with his long white beard that touched the earth below, was staring out into the nothingness. He turned around and watched her with his completely white eyes.

 

He was her bit beast- White Owl.

 

A beast… that wasn't even close to what he was in truth. The story about him was long one to tell, and Katerina knew it quite well. He used to tell the story as a bedtime story for her, when she was young girl.

 

: Mistress:, his voice echoed : Soon it will be time for past, present and future to be balanced once again:

 

Katerina shot him a confused look she knew he liked to talk mysteriously, but she knew she had to consider every word spoken. He brought her into this state of mind for a reason.

 

: You must leave soon: Katerina didn't miss the seriousness in White Owls voice, she didn't like it one bit, never in her life had she heard him talk like this. Everything around her started fading into darkness, she was regaining her consciousness.

 

The first thing she noticed was the bleeping noises all around her, Katerina let out a grown. Those noises were too loud for her. She turned her head towards the noises, but couldn't really tell if they came from specific direction.

 

They must be all around me Katerina thought to herself, so I can't be home...I would remember those sounds, she concluded, so where am I?

 

Katerina sat up and growled at the pain that immediately shot up her spine. She blinked with her eyes a few times, but she could only see darkness.

 

All right, so I'm blind for the moment Katerina thought calmly, she had tried this blindness before in the past six months, so she knew from experience that she could nothing about it but to wait.

 

Okay, so my eyes are out of order for the moment...all right let's see what else we can hear.

 

Katerina closed her eyes and started to listen intensely:

 

It's raining outside...so the window in this room must be open.

 

People, who's walking outside the room.

 

Stupid machine noises!

 

Katerina relaxed and opened her eyes. So far she could conclude that she wasn't home, but in another place with people. Besides from the three things she heard, she could most definitely feel that this wasn't her bed, her bed wasn't this hard, her bed was soft in the right way, and she had brought both her parents near insanity in finding the right bed, so she knew how her bed felt like. But there was something else, something familiar about the smell, the smell of extreme cleanness. A light went on in her head.

 

Of course... I'm in a hospital! She exclaimed loud inside her head and smiled, but the smile was soon replaced with a frown, why am I in a hospital-.....Oh no! She thought as yesterday's events rolled by her head as a movie, her and Gou outside on the ice, her nose blood and then nothing.

 

Her attention changed as her ears picked up the footsteps of a person, a person who was nearing her room. And she was right, within minutes her door opened and closed. She heard the click from a pen and some scribbling, and turned her head towards the sound.

 

"Katerina?" the deep male voice asked. Katerina smiled glad that it wasn't some stranger, but Doctor Krustov. He was a little fat man with a big full beard and glasses; he had taken care of her ever since she was a little girl, and he was the only one on this hospital who knew how her mind and body functioned with all this energy she had inside.

 

"Doctor Krustov?" Katerina answered. Since she was blind for the moment, she couldn't see that Dr. Krustov smiled at her, but she could hear that he let out a sigh of relief. Katerina couldn't help but to laugh at little at that.

 

"Oh you think its funny do you?" Katerina immediately stopped her laughing, something wasn't right, not only could she now feel it, but she could also hear it from Dr. Krustov tired voice.

 

"Katerina, you have been out for the past three days, and I heard from your brother and your parents what happened-" Dr. Krustov said while dragging out a chair and placed it beside the bed and sat down, Katerina turned her towards the noise she was about to open her mouth to say something when she heard that Dr. Krustov continued, "But I want to know if this...incident... has something to do with what you came to consult me about three months ago".

Katerina looked straightforward and took a deep breath, "It does,” she answered quietly. The Doctor nodded and took out his pen and wrote it down on his note pad. He looked up when he heard her speak.

 

"Doc, you haven't told my parents yet...have you?" she said and turned her head in the direction she last heard his voice, the doctor shook his head no as an answer to her question.

 

"Doc. you haven't...right, you haven't said anything" The doctor looked at her slowly; she should have seen that he shook his head. Dr. Krustov looked more closely at her eyes; slowly he laid the note pad on the little table beside the bed and pulled out a little flash light from his pocket clicked it on, while keeping his attention on her eyes. He moved the flashlight from one side to another, but Katerina's eyes didn't response, he leaned back against the chair for a second.

 

"Katerina, can you see me?"

 

Katerina hesitated for a moment before answering:

 

"No".

 

Dr. Krustov crossed his arms and looked down at the floor for a moment in thought before looking up at her again.

 

"You said that blindness was one of the side effects, yes?" Katerina nodded in response. Dr. Krustov stood up and sat the chair at its rightful place; he walked over to the bed again and crutched down in front of her.

 

"Katerina, because it was your parents who brought you in this time I have to tell them what I know. And what I know is that you have suffered from these strange attacks for six months, but Katerina-" Dr. Krustov took in a deep breath," in all that time I have known you, I have never seen you in such horrible state, and I'm sure your parents and brother haven't either." Dr. Krustov paused for a moment, "Will you let me tell your parents all that you have told me or do you want to do it yourself?"

 

Katerina pondered for a moment, she was sure that both her parents would be angry at her for not saying anything to them, and right now she wasn't in the mood to be faced with her father's angry silence and her mother's constant lecturing.

 

"You tell them, I think its better that way"

 

The doctor nodded at her answer, "all right I will" he said comforting.

 

The doctor was just about to walk out of the door, when Katerina suddenly remembered something he said early, something about how long she had been out.

 

"Hey doc! What day is it today?" Katerina yelled out, making the doctor stopped and looking back at her.

 

"Monday" he answered shortly and walked out of the room. Katerina let out a huge sigh and fell back on the bed.

 

“Well at least I missed the stupid meeting with Hiro,” She muttered to herself.

 

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Dr. Krustov walked in a steady pace out to the waiting room where he knew that the Hiwatari family would be waiting for him for the latest news about their daughter.

 

When he reached the door to the waiting room, he stopped for a moment and took a deep breath. In this moment he felt lucky that he had experience in dealing with this family before. He grasped the door handle and stepped into the waiting room.

 

The minute he stepped inside Hilary and Kai stood up, Hilary instantly went over to him while Kai leaned up against the wall with arms crossed. Hilary looked up at him desperately clutching her hands together tightly.

 

“Please Dr.Krustov, tell me she is alright” Hilary pleaded.

 

Dr. Krustov shifted his gaze from her to Kai who also was looking at him intensely.

Gou was sitting on one of the chairs, like his father he was also following the doctor with his eyes, but with a more sad expression.

 

“Your daughter is awake, but I think you should sit down” Dr. Krustov said as calmly as he could. Hilary first looked at the doctor with widen eyes and back at Kai, she went to sit down beside Gou and placed her arms around him, Kai continued to stand.

 

“Three months ago, your daughter consulted me about a growing problem of hers. She said that she sometimes suffered from nosebleeds followed by strong pains and epileptic attacks…sometimes it could also lead to momentarily blindness. I took a-” while Dr. Krustov was talking, Kai and Hilary shared a knowing worried look- was it true what happen for them 18 years ago could happen again…for their children?

 

“But the blood test showed nothing and we decided to do nothing more about it. I would like to keep your daughter in for observation, but I'll we need your permission.” Dr. Krustov ended.

 

Gou looked up at his parents, he was puzzle why they didn't say anything to the doctor, both of them seemed lost in another world.

 

Gou shook his mother lightly, “Mama” he whispered, Hilary snapped out of her thoughts and looked down.

 

“What?” she asked him, Gou pointed with his finger towards the doctor who was waiting patiently for them to sign the papers.

 

“Oh yes” Hilary said stood up smiling lightly at the doctor while signing the papers.

 

“You told us that our daughter was awake, but you didn't mention if she was fine” Kai suddenly said out of the blue, Hilary looked shortly back at him and then at the doctor.

 

“That's right” Hilary said, “You didn't”. Dr.Krustov cleared his throat and looked at them.

 

“Your daughter is blind” was all he said before leaving the family in peace in the waiting room. A nurse came in just when Dr. Krustov left, telling that them that had to leave the hospital.

 

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It was decided that Katerina was to stay at the hospital till Dr. Krustov had figured out what was wrong with. No one was yet allowed to see her, partly because she didn't want anyone to see her like this, she was sure that the word about her illness had spread out in the beyblade world. Her parents had respected her wish to be alone, but others certainly hadn't. The press had tried to gain entrance to the hospitals she even had phone calls that asked if she was dying.

 

Well, it's good to have some fun in life, Katerina thought.

 

She was slowly getting used to the fact that she was blind. She had tried it before the attacks started. As S.I.E coach she had to be prepared for anything, and during her training period she had walked around as a blind person on purpose for six months. It all had started with that she once saw a blind kid trying to learn how to beyblade with all the others kids around bullying him. She was twelve at the time, and she had been angered, but fascinated at the same time. Why shouldn't a blind kid be able to beyblade, after all, since the introduction of her new way to use energy in battles, there existed whole new possibilities for bladers. But if she was going to teach him she would have to know what he was going through and so she did.

 

For six months, she wore black contact lens, with black sunglasses, a stick so she could get around and wore the blind bandage on her upper arm. She also managed to learn touch-typing. In the first month she drove her mother insane because she kept walking into doors and falling over various things, but slowly she got a small feeling on how it was to be blind. And after two months, she started to practice her beyblading, and she found a way to blade as blind person.

 

Katerina started to wander if she still had those items, she would need to call her mother and ask. On cue, a nurse entered her room holding a telephone. She placed the phone in Katerina's lap and lifted the bed into a sitting position.

 

“Don't worry;” she said cheerful, “It ain't one of those nosy reporters. It's a friend of yours” the nurse smiled and left.

 

Katerina placed her hands on the phone, “Please, don't let it be Hiro Granger!!” she silently whispered to herself. She took the phone to her ear, “Hello” she said a bit fearful.

 

“ARE YOU SICK!!!!WHY ARE YOU SICK??? ARE YOU DYING??” a voice screamed into her ear making her dropping the phone in pain in her ear.

 

“Katerina? KATERINA!” the voice screamed. Katerina desperately fumbled with her hands round the bed trying to find the phone while the voice kept screaming. Finally she found the phone and put to her ear.

 

“RAVEN stop your shouting will ya! Don't make me deaf too” Katerina said loudly.

 

“Oh sorry” the voice said apologetic while Katerina massaged her temple with her fingers.

 

“It just that we hear in the news that you were seriously ill, and when you didn't call we just assume the worst” the neko-jin explained.

 

“We?”

 

“Yeah, me, Tyler and Mickey. Tyler and Mickey called me and asked if I had heard anything from you and I said I didn't. And I asked my parents about it and they won't tell me if your parents have told anything, instead they act all weird around me”

 

“Really” Katerina said in uncaring voice, while Raven continued speaking.

 

“So what is wrong with you?” She finally asked.

 

“I don't know yet, but Dr. Krustov told me he has a theory on what could be wrong” Katerina answered.

 

“All right that's good, look Kat promise me to call `cause Rin is messing with my things again…HEY get away from THAT.... RIN!…"

 

Katerina rolled her eyes as she heard Raven and Rin arguing heavily in background.

 

Raven and Rin were always on each other's throats, and sometimes it could be funny to listen to. After a few more minutes Raven finally returned to the phone.

 

"Sorry about that Kat, y'know siblings can be a real pain, especial my sister!" Raven snorted, "But it's good to hear that you are feeling better-" Katerina interrupted before Raven would start to talk about something else.

 

"Look Raven, I have to go, the nurses say that I need my rest" she lied.

 

"Oh... Okay...Call me all right!" Raven said cheerful.

 

"I will...Bye" Katerina replied and hung up the phone.

 

There was a knock on the door and a nurse popped her head in, not that Katerina could see it.

 

“Miss Hiwatari, are you interested in a visitor” She asked sugar sweetly.

 

“Depends on who the visitor is” Katerina said shortly.

 

“Me” she heard a boyish voice say, Katerina smiled at the sound of her brother's voice, she had missed her him.

 

The young boy climbed up in her bed.

 

“What are you doing here?” Katerina with mischief, hoping to rouse her brother into a little refreshing argument, but Gou did something she expected last. He hugged her tightly, she responded by putting her arms around him.

 

“Gou?”

 

“I would do anything to get you well again,” he said in small voice. The two sat like that for sometime without saying anything to each other. Then Gou decided to break the silence.

 

“Mama and Papa are acting weird. Papa is talking on the phone all the time and Mama keeps looking at baby pictures of you and me”

 

Katerina chuckled amused, “Don't they always do that,”

 

“Not like this.” Gou looked up at his sister, “Last night I woke up in my room and Papa was there, staring out of my window, he told me to go back to sleep and not to worry, he said that as long as he was there, nothing could hurt me. He hasn't done that since I was 7.” Katerina listened to her brother's concern, he was indeed right; their parents wouldn't behave like that without a reason.

 

“They are just worried,” she concluded and the two of them just sat together in peace.

 

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The visiting hours were over and Gou closed the door to his sister's room, but as he left he couldn't but feeling helpless. He was used to see his sister strong and be the one who took care of those around her.

 

But when he saw her that evening out the frozen lake, shaking uncontrollably, he felt powerless. He remembered he had thought that she was dying. His mother had calmed him down afterwards, and his father had said that she would be all right. But the nagging feeling that she might die kept coming back; even Dranzer's peaceful singing didn't help him this time.

 

He would do anything to make her well.

 

Crash!

 

Suddenly Gou found himself on the floor. He looked up and saw a hand in front of him offering him to help him up from the floor. Apparently he had stumble into a man. A man who looked like he had been to hell and back, he had long hair and beard and wore scruffy clothes that patched together in many places. He had never seen the man, and yet, to Gou he seemed somewhat familiar. The man smiled at him, Gou kept his stoic face in place.

 

“Excuse me sir. I didn't mean to bump into you” Gou said politely, but cold and stood up on his own, brushing dust off his clothes.

 

The man just smiled at him and walked past him like nothing happen. Gou walked a little further and hide himself behind the nearest door; he followed the strange man's every movement.

 

The man stopped in front of his sister's room. He was just standing there staring at the nametag, which indicated who was occupating the room in the moment.

 

After what seemed forever the man finally left. Gou came out from his hiding place, and raised his eyebrow.

 

"What was all that about?" He said to himself.

 

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Katerina looked in the direction of the doctor's voice. Dr Krustov had told her she would leave the hospital today, he was pretty sure on what was causing her illness. Her parents and brother were also present.

 

"So, what you are saying is, there is something wrong with my energy?" Katerina asked not really believing what the doctor had said.

 

"Yes, I believe that your energy is unbalance somehow, and every time you have to use a certain amount of energy, you get sick. Isn't that true Katerina, didn't you tell me yourself that the attacks happened right after training or when you had to use energy for teaching" Dr. Krustov pointed out.

Katerina nodded in agreement that was true.

 

Dr. Krustov shifted his glance from Katerina to her parents and back again. He went over to the table where a box stood; he had brought it with him when he came to check on Katerina. He opened the box and took out some pill bottles and a watch. He walked back to the bed and put one of the pill bottles into her hand, letting her feel it.

 

"These pills can make it a little easier for you. They can devour the extra energy you have and hopefully prevent you from getting sick." Dr. Krustov explained, then he took the watch and put it on her wrist, again he took her hand letting her feel the little piece of technology, "This watch can tell you what time it is if you push down the button to the left, but it's main function is to tell you when you have to take your pill, which will be every 15 minutes"

 

"WHAT!" Katerina exclaimed horrified.

 

"Katerina, keep your voice down" Kai said coolly from the wall he was leaning on. Katerina turned her head in his direction.

 

"But Papa, I have to take pills four times in an hour that's a lot of pills in a day" Katerina reasoned.

 

"You don't have to take them in the night" Dr. Krustov then said, and looked at the people in the room, "Well, my work here is done. Katerina I hope you will find a way to restore your energy into balance again." Dr. Krustov shook Hilary's hand and left the room.

 

Hilary walked over to the bed where her daughter was sitting; she gave her a smile even though she couldn't see it.

 

"I brought your things with me. All your all blind stuff was up in the attic, just ready to be found" Hilary tried to say cheerfully. Katerina gave her weak smile and nodded her thanks.

 

Kai, Hilary and the children walked out of the hospital after Katerina had been dismissed. Katerina's one arm was linked around her mothers, Gou walked behind his Papa, his hands down in his pockets. Suddenly out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a shadow. He stopped and looked in the direction. His eyes widen a bit when he recognized the person.

 

It was the same person he saw last night after his visit. The man flashed him a grin.

 

“Gou!” a stern voice said. Gou whirled round to see his father looked at him with a stern expression.

 

“C'mon”.

 

Gou gave a last glance to the place the man had been at before following his father, but when he looked… the man was gone.

 

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The day was quickly followed by the night. Gou sat in his window gazing out into the night reflection about the past day. Since they arrived home Katerina had been busy by learning how to get around the house as a blind person, just as she had when she was 12. That resulted in, her, walking into the doors…many times, before she got the steps right.

 

Normally, he would have laughed at her in those situations, but now it seemed wrong. He didn't want his sister to be blind, he didn't want her to take pills and he certainly didn't want her to walk into the doors all the time.

 

He just wanted her to be back to her old strong self.

 

The worse thing is that she just accepts it Gou thought to himself why isn't she trying figure out what is wrong with her? Gou looked at the alarm clock.

 

3.34 am… I should go to bed, Papa will be pissed if I'm not rested well Gou thought, and just when he was about to jump down on the floor saw he a familiar shadow moving outside, he frowned.

 

It can only be him

 

He grabbed some clothes and rapidly pulled it on. He grabbed Dranzer and headed out of his room he moved quietly down the stairs making sure not to wake anyone. He then grabbed his jacket pulled it on and went outside.

 

He closed the door, turned around and gasped lightly. Outside their gates, stood the man as if he had been expecting him. Gou walked slowly up to him.

The man bowed slightly for him.

 

“Greetings caller of the phoenix”.

 

Gou stared dumbfounded at the man and raised both his eyebrows at the man's performance.

 

“Who are you?” Gou asked coldly. The man stood up straight again and flashed Gou a big smile.

 

“I am Kiro, and I'm here to help you” Kiro said awfully cheery. Gou stared at old man distrustful.

 

“Help me with what?” Gou said his voice dripping with suspicion. Kiro took a hold on the gate bars with his hands and lowered himself to Gou's height.

 

“Would you do anything to help your sister?” The man whispered and looked straight into Gou's eyes. Gou was locked in the old man's gaze.

 

“Anything” Gou answered firmly. A smile entered the man's features.

 

“Then you must come with me” Kiro said, “It's the only way”.

 

Gou shifted his gaze away from the man and back at his house where his family were sleeping, and then back at the man again.

 

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To my readers, if you now feel that you are kind of hungry, need to go to the bathroom or just need a break from reading, this would be the perfect time to do so, thank you for your time.

 

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Katerina had never been so silent in her life as she was in this moment, in this deserted place. When they woke up this morning to do annual morn running they discovered that Gou was missing. Her parents called the police, while she had been out all day trying to locate his energy. But thanks to do the pills and sickness, she was unable to do a long-distance energy locating.

 

She was frustrated beyond any reason. Her energy was cut to a third of what it use to be, so she had tried to call Raven, Tyler and Mickey, but all of them was gone at the moment.

 

But what angered her most was the lack of reactions from her parents when the police had been there. The detectives had insinuated that her brother had run away from home, or kidnapped. And what had her parents said…absolutely nothing. She didn't even hear a cry from her mother.

 

The emotions within her had taken over and she had screamed at the police and her parents, telling them that Gou wasn't stupid enough to just be kidnapped or run away like that, their father had taught them better. She said that Gou must have gone with someone he trusted, and for a reason.

 

And again she got no response from either her parents or the police. She had been so mad that she furious packed her shoulder bag with necessaries, and then stormed out of the house.

 

She must have walked for some time, and finally reached the forest an hour ago. She had launched her beyblade, and used her echo sound technique. It was a technique that gave her an exact image inside her head on how the landscape looked like. It was indispensable for any blind beyblader in this time.

 

Katerina was sitting down; fresh tears were starting to fall down her cheeks. She was so confused about her parent's behavior. They acted like there was nothing wrong and they had never…ever in her life behaved like that; Katerina wiped the tears away with her hand. Her blind stick was folded together and her blade was still spinning around. What was she supposed to do now?

 

:Mistress: a voice echoed in her head, :Mistress, It's time for us to leave:

 

Katerina shook her head at the voice of White Owl.

 

; I can't White Owl…My brother is missing; Katerina answered in heartbroken voice.

 

:He's not to be found here, but elsewhere: White Owl replied.

 

; You know where my brother is!; Katerina asked loudly.

 

:Yes: was short reply. Katerina stood up; she folded out her stick and grabbed her shoulder bag.

 

;Where is he?; she urged White Owl

 

:Follow me mistress:

 

Katerina followed after White Owl energy. At one point she felt something weird surrounding her.

 

She cried out in pain when all the noise from the cars, people…the city in general hit her unprepared ears, she covered them with her hands to shut out the noise and leaned up against the nearest wall.

 

;White Owl where are we?; she asked while trying to get use to the new noises to inform her about her surroundings

 

:The past:

 

Katerina's eyes widen behind her black sunglasses.

 

;The past?;

 

:Yes, the past.: White Owl confirmed, :The past!:

 

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YESSS I'm done with chapter 2, I hope it wasn't too boring. Anyways, I'm going to bed now.