Beyblade Fan Fiction ❯ The Real Me ❯ Chapter Eight ( Chapter 8 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Disclaimer: Anyway, I said I owned beyblade and then they sued the pants off me since I didn't have anything else that they could possibly want.... okay, so I lied....

Notes: I was really surprised that the last chapter got so many reviews so fast, and that it was so popular. I promise, I will explain about AJ, but I will not forget about the TyHil. I'm pretty sure that would be one of the main pairings.... but the KaiAJ-ness is so much fun that I wanna write more.... then the matchmaking/evil plot killing shall begin. Hope you're enjoying this!

Tyson had to laugh. Max and Ray sent him an evil glare. "Dude, what does this guy eat?"

"Well," Max said to Ray, "We aren't carrying Tyson, so at least we won't have to worry about dropping him and having him fall through the floor."
"Hey!" Tyson whispered loudly, trying not to wake up Hilary, who was asleep in his arms. "Not nice."

"Tyson?" Hilary asked, her voice hazy with sleep. He looked down to see her eyes still closed. She buried her head into the crook of his neck, causing Tyson to blush a red color. He could feel her shaking, especially with her arms around his neck, since she was being carried bridal style.

"Hil, I'm right here," he said quietly into her ear. She made a content sound and immediately relaxed.
"mmnn.... love you," she whispered into his neck, causing Tyson's entire face to go completely red.

"Dude, are you okay?" Max asked. "We're the ones carrying sourpuss over here."

"She... she just said that she l..lo...loved m...me," Tyson stuttered.
"Yeah well you better not tell her that when she wakes up," Ray said, carrying Kai's feet. "She'll kill you. And potentially us, seeing as we were in the room."
"Well you two better hurry up with Mr. Insensitive, seeing as he might kill you two if he realizes that he pretty much passed out in the car because he hasn't eaten or slept decently in forever." Both Ray and Max nearly jumped, narrowly avoiding dropping their captain, who shifted a little, in his sleep.

It took them ten minutes, but they got the two worn out teens into their beds. Meanwhile, Daichi started jumping around, yelling about how no one told him that they were spending the night at the hospital. The end result of that would be a scarf-less Kai and a mummified Daichi.

The entire place was silent when Kai opened his eyes. Well, this was not the place he had expected to be. The last thing he knew was that they were going to get some food, and it was about six am. He looked over to the clock. It was pretty dark for four pm, he thought. The clouds were dark, and rain threatened to fall. He pulled out Dranzer from his pocket, examining the bit, which glimmered brightly, revived and responding to his touch.

He was still in a half awake stupor when he hit the shower, but by the time he was out, he was wide awake and stumbling around grabbing clothes and his cell phone and taking a running start out to the kitchen, where Tyson and Hilary sat, watching the television mounted into the wall. Max and Ray were nearby, in the living room.

"Why the hell didn't someone wake me up?" Kai was practically seething. He didn't even know what day it was, and besides, disoriented and Kai were a bad combination.

"Uh," Tyson started, "We tried, but it didn't really work. You kind of passed out, and you wouldn't wake up. If you didn't wake up by tonight, we were going to take your ass to the hospital. It's been about thirty some hours." The navy haired boy put a hand behind his head sheepishly. "Heh..."

Ray put a hand on the boy's shoulder. "We're going to go get some food. You've got to be starving."

Kai shrugged. Hilary looked up at him from where she sat at the bar in the kitchen. "Come on, Sourpuss, let's go. We'll go see AJ afterwards." She gave Kai a faint smile, which he returned, to a minimal extent. The young woman pulled out her cell phone. "I'll call my aunt and uncle and tell them to meet us with Mr. Dickenson. They've been hanging out all day. Something about grants and meetings, crap like that."

Max entered the kitchen. "I heard talk of food-" he saw Kai, and smiled. "Hey, how are you?"

"Does everyone know that I was out for the past day and a half or something?"

"Well someone had to carry you into the house," Daichi said, coming in from outside. "I met that AJ chick. She's cool."

"Yeah," Max said, leaning against the counter. "We really hit it off. She's into a lot of the stuff I like, being from the same country and all."

"Come on you guys," Hiro said, grabbing car keys. "Let's go if we're going. Visiting hours aren't going to last forever, and we need to get some food. And tomorrow, you start training, like it or lump it." Daichi huffed at the older Granger's comment, annoyed.

Kai followed Hiro outside and got into the back seat of the SUV. A few moments later, the rest of the group piled in, and the captain started up the engine. Kai was already tired, and he noticed that one of his prized scarves hung outside, tied around the tree.
"Tyson, what the hell did you do with my scarf?"

"You have about twenty million scarves, and Daichi wouldn't shut up. We thought he was going to piss you off even more if he woke you up."

"Hn." Kai silently agreed that Tyson was probably right, and that sleep did do him some good. Not like he was going to admit it or anything.

Ray nudged Kai with an elbow. "She asked about you," He said, referring to AJ. "Wanted to thank you or something like that," he added, with a glance that told Kai everything he needed to know. Now he was just about ready to jump out of the car and run to that hospital.

"Get whatever you'd like everyone," Mr. Dickenson said, in a pleasant mood. "It's on me this time."

"Yeah!" Tyson started ranting on about the many food choices he had to choose from.
"Mr. D, where is my aunt and uncle?"
"They're coming," The chairman answered, ordering an appetizer. The rest of the group chatted away about beyblading, and upcoming tournaments.

Then Max decided to start something.
"You should've seen your brother yesterday, Tyson," Max said. Kenny, Hilary, and Daichi immediately started laughing.
"Do you really feel the need to share this?" The older brother asked, laughing nervously.

"Oh come on Hiro," The blonde American said. "This is really funny."
"Do tell," Mr. Dickenson stated. "Let's hear what happened."
"We decided to go see AJ around noon," He began, smiling widely. "And we're talking about beyblading, and all kinds of American stuff, and then-"

"And then Hiro walks in," Hilary says.
"Wait! This is my story!" Max yelled at her. She rolled her eyes and he continued. "So Hiro walks in, and he's all trying to suck up to AJ."

Kai clenched his fists together and Ray grabbed his arm. Hilary smiled at him to say that the story was purely in fun, and that his girlfriend wasn't cheating on him in a hospital. After all, that would only be entirely weird.

"Anyway," Max said, continuing, "AJ starts rolling her eyes and acting really annoyed, which I think she wasn't actually faking." Everyone started giggling except for the coach, who shorted in frustration. Max turned to Hiro. "You were laying it on waaaay to thick. Then AJ looks at him, dead in the eye and says -"

"My boyfriend would kick your ass if he was in the room right now!" Kenny, Daichi, Hilary, and Max yelled this loudly all at the same time, attracting the attention of the nearby patrons of the restaurant. The rest of the group - except Hiro, who hung his head in rejection - laughed wildly.

"How come Hilary is crazy about you, Tyson, and her cousin, who is older, won't even look at me?" Hilary blushed, along with Tyson, while Kai worked hard to disregard the comment.

"Maxy, that was the highlight of my day." Everyone looked at Kai. "What?"

"I've never heard you laugh like that before," Tyson said. "I didn't know my brother's downfall - cough - rejection - cough - was so darn funny." Kai shrugged.

"It's a rare occurrence," Mr. Carson said, coming up on the table. "These days, at least," he added quietly so only some choice members of the group could hear.
"How's she doing?" Kai asked anxiously. His wife slid into the half moon shaped booth and smiled at him.

"She's doing fine," Mrs. Carson said, her previous concern long forgotten. "She's back at Hilary's house, with her aunt. The trip home from the hospital wore her out, but she didn't want to stay there."

"Oh," Hilary said. "Is she staying or going back to Miami?" Kai looked up again, praying that he'd like the answer.

"I had asked her to come to from Miami for a reason. In a few weeks, we'll worry about that reason." Mr. Dickenson smiled. "We've discussed it with your mother, Hilary, and we've decided that AJ will be staying with you for a while."

"Awesome!" Hilary said. Ray nudged Kai, who stepped on his foot, causing Ray to wince. "Now you guys will see where I learned it all." Kai grunted. "Of course, I had some help..."

"I knew your fighting style was different," Daichi said. She rolled her eyes.

"That's because you were all expecting me to have a style similar to Tyson."

"Well duh!"

Hilary looked over at Kai, who opened one eye and looked over at her. It was late, and she knew where he was headed. She had promised her cousin to help him out. The two of them had lied and said they were going to bed early, which would've worked for Kai, who was exhausted, but he would prefer to spend time with her, even if she just wanted to sleep anyway.

"Go on, go out the back door." Hilary slid something across the hardwood floor, which Kai picked up. It was a key. "For the front door, though I'm pretty sure my mom left it unlocked.

"I owe you." She laughed. That was an understatement.

"And I have that story..." She smirked.

"While I have some pictures..." He watched as she furrowed her brow in confusion, obviously unaware of what he was talking about.

"From when?" Hilary yelled. Kai jumped across the room and clamped a hand over her mouth.

"Shh. I'm leaving. Don't scream, you'll get us caught."

"Yeah, yeah." Kai nodded, pressing a kiss to her cheek.

"Thank you," he said, sincerely. Once he was gone, Hilary's ears pricked. It sounded like someone was outside the door that led to the rest of the dojo.

"It was probably nothing," she said aloud, and disregarded the thought.

Although, unknown to them, someone else saw what was going on in that room, but didn't hear the words. And he was hurt. Kai always knew that Hilary belonged to him, but here he was, kissing her? Before she went to the US, they didn't even talk that much, much less have an interest in each other. In his mind, he figured AJ probably helped them get together.

"Damn it, Dragoon."

AJ was waiting outside on the front steps when Kai showed up, taking a seat next to her. "I thought you'd sprint over here, personally," she whispered sarcastically. He shrugged, and suddenly she was in a tight hug.

"Don't ever do that again."

"This was nothing," she said, referring to her new wound. "I'll be okay pretty soon as long as I get enough protein so the hole heals up." She returned his hug, something that definitely counted as an anti-Kai, seeing as she usually started something like that.

"Hn."

"Would you say something, please?" She asked him, standing up and opening the front door. "I missed you," she whispered, pulling him up as well with her right arm, as to keep her left side from moving.

"I missed you too." AJ looked at him, and caught a glimpse of his face, which had been shielded by his bangs up until this point. She didn't need to point it out, knowing exactly what he was feeling.

"Come on Phoenix, let's go upstairs." She tightened her grip on his hand, and felt something hit hers. She stopped walking, turning around. "You can't blame yourself," She whispered. "I have a title, and people are always trying to mess around with me."

"Not my family, though," He said back, darkness seeming to smother his thoughts.

"Come back to the light," She whispered. He raised his head up to her level, and she put both arms around him. "Don't let him win, Kai. If the darkness claims you, he wins."
"He tried to kill you," Kai whispered. He knew he was about to break down, and he knew that technically, AJ was the one who should've been coming to him for support, since she was just shot. But he had let this stew in his mind, and he needed to get it out.

"And did he?" AJ asked, resuming her attempt to get him upstairs.
"No." They reached the top of the flight of stairs in silence, sneaking to the guest room, the one AJ's parents weren't using.

She shut the door behind him and sat down on the navy blue plaid comforter, taking off her sweatshirt and massaging her shoulder. "I trust you," she whispered softly. He laid down on the bed, and watched her. "It isn't that bad anyway," she said sincerely. "I can still do -" She rolled over and pinned him to the bed, "- this!" AJ began tickling him, something that she typically didn't do. However, desperate times call for desperate measures.

After about three minutes of trying not to laugh, the almighty Kai gave in, laughing, and praying that no one woke up as a result. "Why.... why... are you... doing this?" He asked her, in-between either laughing, or biting his lip and trying not to laugh.

"Because, I needed to hear you laugh." He quirked an eyebrow.

"That was entirely cheesy, Aud."

"I know, but true. That place scared me shitless," she told him. His face hardened back into seriousness.

"Do you know how much you scared me?"

"I heard about you nearly pummeling the rent-a-cop from Dad," she whispered. "I didn't mean to freak you out."

"When I found out," he said, having a hard time finding the words, "I thought he might have messed with your head. He's never messed around, like this, with people I care about. I felt like everything was crashing down around me." AJ nodded, laying her head on his chest. "Do you know how much I thought you were going to die?"

"Phoenix, I've got you. I'm not going anywhere." They laid like that for a while, in silence, until he thought she was asleep. It was funny, they hadn't seen each other in over a month and they didn't act like complete hormonal teenagers. Apparently, near death experiences do that to a person.

Kai waited a few more minutes, then picked her up, turning down the bed.
"I'm awake you know." He laughed a bit.

"You always do that, don't you?"

"Yep." He pulled the blankets up over her, and slid into the bed from the opposite side.

"Now," he said, pulling her closer. "There's five more days until our anniversary. What would you like to do?" She shrugged, then crushed her lips against his.

"You have over a month of making up to me to take care of."

"That's fine with me."

The next morning, Tyson surprisingly got himself out of bed and dressed before ten am. He actually turned down food from his grandfather and went out back to where the rest of the team, minus two members were training.

"Where's Hilary?" Tyson asked them.

Hiro shrugged. "I haven't seen her. She was gone before we got up."

"Did Kai ever come back last night, Tys?" Max asked. Tyson shook his head.

"No," the champion said, through clenched teeth and balled fists. "I'm going to find Hilary," he said, frustrated, and stormed back into the house. The next sound the group out back heard was a slammed door.

"Wonder what's got him so freaked out," Ray stated. The rest of the group couldn't help but agree, so they decided to follow their annoyed friend.

"What is he muttering about?" Max asked. "Daichi, did you go and tick him off again?"

"Not that I know of." After a few moments, the group recognized the route. He was walking to Hilary's house. Luckily for them, their dear friend Tyson wasn't bright enough to check behind himself every once and a while.

"He's lucky we aren't planning on kidnaping him," Hiro said, with a laugh.

"Yeah, or else he'd probably be dead before he realized someone kidnaped him," Kenny agreed. They continued on in silence, watching Tyson knock on the door, which was answered by Hilary's mother. She allowed him to enter, which he did, at an alarming speed.

"What the hell do you think he's doing?" Hilary asked from behind the group, whose members jumped up in surprise.

"He's probably looking for you, he was ticked off about something."

"So he was the one outside the back room last night..."

"KAI, I AM GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU!"

Ray looked over at Hilary, and she looked back at him. "Oh shit."

"I agree completely."

Well, I was planning on breaking the news to everyone in this chapter, but, as you can see from the semi-cliffy(I think it counts as a cliffhanger...), that will be coming in the next chapter. And maybe it will be in Tyson's POV, or at least focusing on what he saw, not from Hilary and the rest of the groups' POV, because we all want to see what our favorite 'I-am-going-to-barge-right-in-and-make-a-scene-without-knowing-what-is-goin g-on' type is going to do. And then FINALLY there will be some training, and perhaps a fight. Anyway, thanks for reading!(there's more than 40 reviews for this story, and I can't thank you all enough!)

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