Beyblade Fan Fiction ❯ Running Water ❯ hidden motives ( Chapter 4 )

J.H: So after many shows of Beyblade on youtube and after reading fics I have now again realized my obsession and love for this show that I can now happily say I'm in the mood for writing for it. Which for you means more updates. YAY!! And does anyone else notice that on absolute anime, they have Max in BLUE overalls on the main beyblade page? ::ponders::

 

Krystal: and for me that means a hyper chipper hikari once more…joy…

 

J.H: You know you looooove meh.

 

Krystal: ::silent::

 

J.H: …Krystal?

 

Krystal: ::silent::

 

J.H: You know sometimes I hate you…

 

Krystal. But you love me anyway.

 

J.H: ::headdesk::

 

Disclaimer: Don't own, don't sue. I only own them in my very dysfunctional mind.

Warning: go to one.

 

 

Chapter 5- Hidden Motives

 

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“What part did you not understand Tyson?!?! The part where I said he ran out and I lost him? Or the part where I said I couldn't fucking find him anywhere?” Rei yelled breathing hard as he clenched and un-clenched his hands, Tyson was on the couch and Kai was on the phone talking in the other room.

 

“Rei calm down, I'm sure he's alright, he was just upset at your reaction is all. He'll be back.” He said trying to calm the other boy down.

 

Kai came into the room scowling, “Well he didn't pick up his cell any of the times I called with mine, or Tyson's, I just called Mr. Dickerson and Kenny and told them what's going on so they're going to try and if they can't do it, Hillary's going to give it a try.” The two boys winced at that, Hillary was one to get very mad when you went somewhere without someone knowing especially for a long period of time and if you didn't call or answer, you'd get the brunt end force of her rant. “So Rei please calm down, we'll find him. He's probably just really heartbroken right now and is trying to think this through even though he has no reason to.” Kai said and Rei bit his lip.

 

“This is all my fault you guys. If I hadn't of reacted the way I did when he told me this wouldn't have happened. None of this would've happened if I would've have just gotten the courage to do it at the party.” Rei swallowed hard and Kai and Tyson looked at each other and nodded.

 

“Rei how bout we take the cars and go looking around.” Rei opened his mouth and then shut it looking hesitant, “Tyson will stay here and man the phone in case Max or someone else calls.”

 

Rei finally nodded, “I'll take the east side of town and you can take the north and then call each other after we're through.”

 

“Sounds good.” Kai nodded.

 

“Ok then I'm out, talk to you soon.” Rei left basically slamming the door behind him and they soon heard Rei's car start and then peel out of the drive.

 

“I hope we find Max soon or calm him down, and we need to do it fast, Rei's going to end up hurting himself or someone else if we don't do something.” Tyson said looking up at Kai who just nodded. “What the hell was Max thinking running off like that anyway?” Tyson sighed and rubbed his eyes. “You'd better go love, it'll be getting dark soon.”

 

“I know I'm worried about Rei to, and he was probably thinking the same thing you were when you told me.” Kai couldn't help but smirk at Tyson's blush.

 

“Oh just go.” He said, getting up. Kai closed the space and the two kissed long and slow before separating, “You need to go now and look for Max, Rei will be calling in the next hour and he'll want a report.' Tyson said.

 

Kai nodded, “I know, I just hope we can find him soon. If not…” Kai left the statement open and Tyson swallowed filling in the blank himself. “I'll be back love, don't wait up if I'm late. I'll call you later. Love you.”

 

“Ok and I'll be waiting for Max to call us back. I love you to.” They kissed again and Kai turned and grabbed his keys on the way out the door. Tyson stood there even well after Kai left. He finally moved and grabbed the phone dialing the number he knew by heart. He bounced as he waited then cursed.

 

“Hey this is Max. I can't come to the phone right now, so leave a message and I'll get back to you when I can.” BEEP

 

“Max its Tyson, where are you dude? We're all worried sick and Rei is fixing to go Godzilla on our asses cause we can't find you or get a hold of you! Please, please call me back and at least tell me your ok. Please.” He hung up the phone, he knew he sounded desperate but maybe that would give Max a reality check that they're worried about him.

 

“Max where the hell did you go?”

 

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“Oh my gosh Maxie!” Judy yelled running up to her son and hugging him. Max hugged back grinning widely, he hadn't seen her in months.

 

“Mom! You really are here! Why didn't you tell me?” Max asked, the two pulled back from the hug but still held the other's arms.

 

“Well we weren't suppose to be staying at all, but our next flight had to get rescheduled for some reason so we're all here for a week. It's funny though cause I already planned coming back and staying here when we were done with our business meetings, and I was going to call you later after we got settled to tell you that I was here but it looks like Michael took care of that.” She grinned and hugged her son again which was gladly returned.

 

“Well all I can say is that this is the best not planned surprise ever.” He said and the two laughed.

 

“Judy, I hate breaking this reunion up but I need your help.” Emily said though her voice sounded more smug then sorry and Max had to keep from glaring at the girl.

 

“Can it wait Emily? Max just got here.”

 

“Sorry Judy but it can't. We may be getting a problem with the upgrade for Eddie's blade.” Judy blinked.

 

“Problem? How? Oh never mind don't try to explain I'll be right there, sorry Maxie I need to go fix this really fast. We'll go out to dinner though when I'm done ok?” she asked, at Max's nod she turned to Michael, “Keep him entertained Michael?”

 

“No problem Jude.” Michael said tossing a baseball from one hand to the other, nodding Judy left with Emily into the other room. When the door shut Michael smirked, `Oh I'll keep him entertained all right. It's just a matter of timing.' He thought to himself, as he watched Max go and sit on the couch.

 

“Now then,” he said and went and sat by the blonde, “what's wrong?” he asked. At Max's blank look he sighed, “Listen I know you were crying when I bumped into you and I didn't want to worry Judy. So what's wrong?”

 

“It's just something stupid. Don't worry about it.”

 

“Yeah right, it's something stupid just like Judy didn't reschedule the meetings so she could see you.” Max looked up at this.

 

“She did that?” Michael nodded.

 

“Yeah she did, so tell me what's wrong or I tell her and she'll get it out of you.” He threatened.

 

“There's someone I like and I told them and thinking on it now I don't really know how he responded…I just got up and ran.” He groaned and leaned back against the couch. Michael took this as an invitation and raked his eyes over Max again before stiffening.

 

`He likes someone?!' he forced himself not to shake the kid, “Ok makes a little sense…who is this person you like anyway?” he was going to kill them for taking Max's attention from him!

 

“You remember Rei?”

 

“The weird one that acted like a cat?”

 

“Yeah.”

 

Michael suppressed a growl, he had only briefly met Rei, but the boy would pay. “Good choice, he seems like nice person.” Michael said pasting on a fake smile. Max smiled to, thinking of Rei had always made him smile.

 

“Hey I got an idea! How bout you stay here with us for the week? I'm sure Judy would love it and it'll give you and Rei some time to clear your heads.” Oh he was brilliant, everyone was going out Saturday and now he just had to somehow convince Max to stay. That would be easy enough; they would be leaving to go shopping early and he would just say that him and Max stayed up late and that they were tired. They wouldn't be back till late into the after noon. He would make him move then and then Max would be his.

 

“Oh that's a great idea.” Max all but yelled bouncing in his seat. He stopped suddenly and looked nervous, “I need to call Tyson though and tell him what I'm doing, I'm sure all the guys are worried about where I went.” He pulled his cell out and gasped. “Oh my god! How did I miss all these calls?”

 

“Cell doesn't get good reception in this area.” Michael shrugged and watched as Max listened to the voice mails, wincing at each one.

 

“Oh man, they're all worried sick about me.” He hung up and then dialed Tyson's number.

 

 

Tyson was nervous, scratch that he was a nervous wreck. Kai and Rei had been searching for two hours now and he called Max at least five times and now he was pacing. He jumped on the phone when it rang and kept himself from yelling into the phone, “Max?!”

 

“Yeah it's me Tyson.”

 

“Max?! Oh god, are you ok? Are you hurt? Where are you? Do we need to come get you?”

 

“Woah calm down, I'm alright. I'm with my mom right now, I ran into Michael by accident and I'm in the room now.”

 

Tyson let out a huge sigh of relief, “Max don't ever do something like that again! We've been worried sick! You've been gone for hours and we've been afraid something happened to you.” He chocked and wiped at his eyes furiously.

 

“I know I'm so sorry Tyson. I didn't mean to worry you guys so much.”

 

“I know Maxie but never do that again!” Tyson yelled.

 

“I promise. Oh but I may be staying over here with my mom for the week.”

 

“Ok, are you going to come get some cloths?”

 

“Probably. What?” there was a pause and mumbling in the background, “Yeah I'll be over there in the hour to get some stuff.”

 

“Ok I'll tell Kai and Rei to meet us over the-“

 

“NO! I mean please don't, I don't want to see Rei yet.”

 

“He's worried about you though! We've been having to calm him down!”

 

Max swallowed, “I imagine, but I don't want to face him, not yet. Please?”

 

Tyson couldn't see it but he knew Max was doing his puppy dog eyes, “Fine, can I just meet you over there then?”

 

“Yeah.”

 

“Ok I'll meet you over there in an hour then.”

 

The boys said their good byes and hung up as Judy walked out of the room. “We'll that's taken care of. So now how about dinner? Michael can you guys fend for yourselves tonight?”

 

“Sure thing Judy, but I need to ask you something in private before you go.” Judy looked at her watch then motioned for him to follow. Max blinked and then leaned back on the couch again.

 

Judy closed the door when Michael walked in and crossed her arms, “What do you need Michael?”

 

“It's about Max actually. And before you say anything, yes everything is ok.” He said when Judy opened her mouth, “He's just had a little trouble with a friend and needs a place to crash so they can think whatever happened over. I was thinking that maybe he could stay here since we're here for the week anyway.”

 

Judy nodded, “Ok that sounds fine. Where would he stay though?”

 

“With me, I always get a room to myself anyway so it wouldn't be a problem having him crash there.” He shrugged seemingly nonchalant to the idea of Max staying over. Judy nodded again, “Oh and don't mention that I asked you this. Bring it up during dinner so it seems like it was your idea.” Another nod.

 

“Ok but this worries me about his friend. Do you know anything that happened?” she was worried.

 

“Not exactly, listen you never heard this but when I found him he was crying so it must've been something bad. I didn't get anything out of him though.” He snapped his fingers and grinned, “I know how about Saturday you leave Max and me here and we'll talk? He really wasn't wanting to talk about it earlier so maybe with you being gone he will.” Oh yes this was playing out just how he wanted it to.

 

Judy smiled, “Oh Michael that's a great idea!”

 

“No problem,” he had to keep himself from smirking on this one. “But just so you just don't walk in when we're finally getting somewhere.” Oh the horrible pun, “Call me or text before you guys leave or are about to leave.”

 

“Alright, but we won't be back until late in the afternoon anyway so that'll give you sometime to wake up, eat and then at least started talking.” She narrowed her eyes, “Maybe we should do dinner to.” Michael had to contain his excitement.

 

“Ok that'd be fine. Just make sure we're through before you come back ok?” Judy nodded, “Well I won't keep you any longer so go to dinner. I'll run by Max's and get some cloths for him.”

 

“Do you need the address?”

 

“Nope already got it.” Judy nodded.

 

“Thanks again, I didn't know Max was feeling bad.” With that she turned and left. Michael barely contained his laughter. His plan was now set into motion, and everything was going according to plan. He'd been planning this for months. Judy hadn't really rescheduled her meetings Michael did but then `forgot' Judy's number and had the people call her. It was just plain luck that they didn't tell her one of her own rescheduled it.

 

He heard the door shut and laughed, “Oh yes Max, two more days and you shall be mine.” He glanced at his watch, “Well I guess I can go get his cloths now.” He said putting on a sweet smile. He hummed to himself all the way out of the building.

 

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J.H: What? An update? Within in the same month? Within the same week? :o *Le gasp*

 

Krystal: Aren't cha proud of her? She did it all by herself without any prompting.

 

J.H: Oh shut it. ::looks at readers:: Please R&R!