Beyblade Fan Fiction ❯ To Chibi, With Love ❯ Then and Now ( Chapter 1 )

Authoress: CKK

 

Rating: Still PG-13 for its safety belts, if not R.

 

Pairings: KaixRei, TakxHir, LaixMao. I'm thinking about adding YurixBoris/Bryan as well. That will make two yaoi and two non-yaoi. ^-^

 

Warning: Again, this is a Yaoi fanfiction, despite the fact that there are a few female/male pairings like LaixMao and TakxHir, the main pairing is KaixRei. And despite Rei's beautiful long hair, he is a boy, making it a boy/boy relationship. Not beer and football but kissing and sap. Get it, got it, good it. Now read it if you like it.

 

Author's Note: Hey all. I see you make it pass the prologue. And I'm assuming that if you are reading this, then you like what you read and are awaiting the ReixKai fluff.

 

Kai - /raises eyebrow in interest/

 

Kitten - You can read it too Kai-kun.

 

Kai - Hn /ignores Kitten/

 

Kitten - /sweatdrops/ Well, for those who don't know, I spend late nights on this chapter since I had little to no time through the week to work on it, but I finished it, much to Kai and Rei's relief.

 

Kai - Finally, you stupid id-

 

Rei - KAI!!! No cursing at the authoress. Bad things happen when you anger her.

 

Kai - /mutters/

 

Kitten - You better mutter, or no KaixRei fluff at all! And I'll band you from reading Chapter 1.

 

Kai - /glares/ Hn.

 

Kitten - You better `Hn'...because I like it when you 'hn'.../blushes/ Epp! I can't wait till I get to Chapter 3 so I can make you all over-protective and adorable to Chibi Rei.

 

Rei - Yes, Kai is very kawaii when he is like that. /smiles/

 

Kai - /mumbles/ I am not kawaii or adorable.

 

Kitten - You keep saying that Kai-kun and someday, someone might listen to you. Believing you is another story.

 

Kai - /eye starts to twitch/ Just. Start. The. Disclaimer. Ana.

 

Kitten - Oh yeah, I should do that.

 

Kai - Baka...

 

Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade aka Bakuten Shoot Beyblade. Man, I wish they didn't make us do this all the time. It's like making us rub it in our own faces. Anywho, the only thing I own in this story is the story idea itself and plot. /cheers/ Yay me! I also own that new box of imported chocolates that I'm eating throughout writing this chapter. Hell, it might even appear in the story as far as I know so… don't sue me.

 

 

Chapter 1: Then and Now

 

It was early morning in the discrete, outsized neighborhood where the Hiwatari residence in Japan resides. The owner of the household, Hiwatari Kai, has been up since dawn on this lovely Sunday morning… though he was always up at dawn on any morning, be it lovely or not.

Now you may be wondering why the 'dearly loved' captain of the BBA Revolution owns a home in Japan, let alone be living in it at this point in time. This thought alone will give you all the knowledge you need to know about what happened to the BBA to have brought Kai to this very point in time.

You see, the summer after the members of the BBA have been in their third World Championship tournament; Hiwatari Souitirou, Kai's 'esteemed' grandfather finally kicked the bucket, leaving Kai to be one of the most richest teenagers in the world. The Hiwatari fortune not only left Kai with a 'mansion' outside of Moscow that could be easily considered a castle, but several other mini mansions throughout the world; one of them just happened to be located in the countryside just outside of Takao's hometown.

Since Kai was only sixteen at this time, he still needed to have a guardian till he was regard as an adult by law. Of course, this is where the kind-hearted and understanding Daitenji-sama, owner of the BBA came in. He took Kai under his wing, leaving Kai to live in the Hiwatari mansion in Japan with his servants so he could continue training and competing for the BBA.

That was two years ago.

Since then, the BBA had been the World Team Champions again for two years straight and Takao, much to Kai's distaste, was still the World Champion. Kai was now eighteen and now only got visits from Daitenji-sama that were beyblade related. It was summer, meaning no school and nice, quiet, long and relaxing days… which also included his beyblading routine of course… and only being quiet in the early morning hours before Takao woke up.

Yes, Takao 'lived' with him, along with the other members of the BBA in a sense. Much to Kai's dismay, his place was considered a walk in Five Star hotel to Takao, Max, Kyoujyu and Hiromi. They all had their own houses but for training proposes, mostly during tournaments, they would just stay over Kai's house. It worked out well (if you do not include the constant brawling between Kai and Takao). The house had its own enormous beystadium and equally massive beyblade training grounds; so as Takao put it, "Why knock a good thing?"

Kon Rei, on the other hand, was a different story. Like mentioned about, Takao, Max, Kyoujyu and Hiromi all had places in the city to stay, but the dear neko-jin did not. So, since Kai has about fifty-four king-size bedrooms in his little 'house' in Japan, he offered one to Rei to have whenever he was in Japan. And now, two years later, the Hiwatari mansion in Japan was now deemed to be Rei's second home.

Does living with the beautiful neko-jin affect the slate-haired boy? Not more then being around the neko-jin usually did… which is a lot. Mind you, Kai never showed it.

Yes, you heard it right. Our dear seemingly cold-hearted, silent, self-involved captain has feelings for our little neko-jin. This might be new to you, but it is definitely not new to him.

You see, Kai knew he was attracted to guys for a few years now. It was something he realized on his last year at the abbey. Now being attracted to the young Chinese boy of the BBA only started during the second year of the BBA being together. Rei was known to be a good friend to Kai. He was the only one on the team that Kai could tolerant for more then a few hours, meaning that when it came to sharing things like bus seats, hotel rooms, beds, and other effects, Kai and Rei were together no questions asked.

Kai did not just tolerant Rei's presences, but enjoyed it. Rei understood the value of silence, leaving him be when he wishes for his 'quiet time', or even joining him in the joys of silent meditation or thought. Rei also knew the right times to start a conversation, and how to start a conversation that Kai himself would say more then his usually 'hn' and 'whatever' after a short period into the chat. This, along with Rei's beyblading skills and maturity for his age, gained Kai's respect and eventually, his friendship.

By their second year of knowing each other, Kai was noticing things that he didn't care much about before. The way Rei smiled at people, the way he would laugh at Takao and Max's childishness and would sometimes even join in on the little games, how his face would be set when concentrating on a battle and how his eyes turn into slits when angered. All the little things about Rei intrigued him, leaving Kai wanting to know more about this neko-jin boy and be around him more.

This lead to knocking sense into the neko-jin when the time was needed, keeping the boy from danger with lines like 'They're too powerful for you without Driger' and 'This is my battle', or just taking Rei's blade and ordering him not to battle and go to bed. He also realized that, while he usually would retreat to his own thoughts during Takao or Max's battles, he had always paid close attention to the neko-jin's battles… or the neko-jin himself.

Did this register in Kai's mind as 'a crush'?

Hell no!

Did his little acts of brief kindness, good advice, and diminutive chats become more common?

Oh yes, it did.

Was Kai finally opening up to someone?

Yeah right! He is still the locked journal of the unknown.

And why the hell not?

He is Hiwatari Kai, that's why. And three years later, he is still Hiwatari Kai; the seemingly cold-hearted, silent, self-involved captain of the BBA who now lives with the love of his life and has been doing so for the last two years.

Did it finally register in Kai's mind that he had a crush on the neko-jin?

Yes, for a long time now.

Has this crush blossom into love.

More then likely.

Did Kai admit this to himself?

God no, he's still in denial about it. How could he be in love with his teammate anyways? Was it possible? And if so, who says that Rei floats in that boat, let alone bares the same feelings for him, one Hiwatari Kai. So what if he did. Would they really want to risk the friendship that Rei and himself had built over the last five years? Who says that they would even make a good couple, let alone stay together?

Furthermore, what if it wasn't love that Kai was feeling? What if it was lust or a need for companionship that has yet to be fulfilled in his life, and more so, not meant to be fulfilled by the neko-jin boy? Kai is indeed just lost and confused about this subject in his life.

And this is why he is up so early on a Sunday morning. Though the BBA trained seven days a week, it was decided after much debate (this meaning Takao bugging Kai for long periods of time before Kai at last giving in to Takao, with the help of the others team members of course) that they could sleep in on Sundays, though Kai still woke up early. Kai also, of course, made up a special training routine for Sundays to make up for the lost morning hours.

Now that you understand that, you may be wondering what Kai is doing to occupy his time while waiting for the others to come and train later on today.

He's reading.

Not just anything, but Russia books that Yuri of Team NeoBorg sends him. Typically, Kai would be reading something that concerned beyblading, bit beasts, history, and other things of interests… but this time, it was different.

You see, Yuri and the other members of Team NeoBorg know Kai all too well. It was only a matter of time before Yuri and the others figured out that Kai fancied someone and who it was. Now Yuri, being Kai's 'best friend' and all, force Kai to agree to read the next three books he sent him, no matter what they were. So Kai, keeping to this agreement, is now in his study two hours after dawn on a lovely Sunday morning, reading 'How to Know if a Guy Like You: The Homosexual's Guide for the Slow, Stubborn and Blind' the first of three books that he would have never touched in his life if it weren't for Yuri.

Of course, Kai grumbled about having to read a self help book with a ridiculously long title, but he wasn't worried about anyone finding out about it. The book was in Russian after all. The only people who would be able to tell what he was reading were his servants, who native language was Russian; but Kai could easily hide the book away so no one would see it.

Now, it is our favorite neko-jin that he is worried about.

You may have noticed that Rei, by nature, was a curious person. Roughly a year ago, he always wondered why Kai wouldn't be at breakfast or at the stadium training on Sundays before the rest of the team came, like he usually was. Since Rei liked the deal of sleeping in on Sundays, he never really had that much time to search for the captain. It took him a few months of half an hour patrols around the mansion to finally come across Kai in his study, reading Russian books.

"Kai…" Rei inquired, unsure if he should disturb his captain in his private study. He usually respected the seventeen year old's private time, knowing how much being alone meant to the stale haired boy; but it took Rei so long to finally win the Sunday morning game of cat and bird he'd been playing with Kai, unknowingly to the captain. Now that he won, he wished to gain a bit more of a reward then the knowledge of where Kai was today.

Kai looked up at the raven haired boy, a bit surprised of finding him at the doorway to his study. Of course, he didn't show this. To Rei, it looked like Kai had looked up from his book to study the neko-jin, searching with his eyes for a visible reason why the younger boy was peeking into the entrance of his study before returning to his book, giving a nodded to acknowledgement.

Rei, use to Kai's gesturing ways, took that as a sign for him to enter the study. Rei had never been in Kai's private study before. He couldn't help but be in awe at the rows and rows of dark cherry wood shelves, all containing books and maps in all different sizes, ages and languages. There was also a matching cherry wood desk at the end of the room, in front of the large red chair and huge open windows. More red cushion chairs and sofas were scatter throughout the room; and there was Kai, lying lazily across the closest sofa to the window, using the morning sun for light.

Rei wandered into the room silently, scanned the room with his golden eyes. Kai looked up again to observe the neko-jin as he toddled gradually towards him, his head whipping around the room, trying to get in every detail of his new discovery. He couldn't help but smirk at the boy's curious kitten-like antics before turning his attention back to his book.

Upon Rei's arrive to the sofa that Kai was now occupying, he stopped in his tracks, staring at the boy in front of him. Despite Kai's permission to enter the room, Rei was still a bit unsure if he should bother the older boy. 'What am I thinking? Kai wouldn't have let me in if he didn't mind me talking to him'. With this, Rei asked the first question that came to mind.

"What are you reading?"

Kai was silent for a moment, leaving Rei to fidget a little where he stood. He wasn't thinking if an answer. The answer was obvious. Nor was he reading the book. He had stopped reading it upon Rei entrance.

Then what the hell was he doing?

Observing Rei, naturally. Kai didn't have to be looking at the younger boy to do this either. He could sense every move that Rei made. It was something that he was trained to do at the abbey. You had to know where and what your opponent was doing while looking at though you weren't studying them at all. It made for a good surprise attack.

To Kai, yes he did want to talk to Rei, he always enjoyed doing so, but it was always fun to see the way that the neko-jin acted while trying to start a conversation at a time when it looked like Kai was busy with other things.

"A book." Kai lied, flipping to the next page. He was still examining the neko-jin before him using his training and not actually reading the book. Rei had grown in the last two years. He was taller now, but still a few inches shorter then Kai himself. His body, though grown and matured, was still lithe and lean like a cat, while Kai was more sturdy and masculine.

The neko-jin still prefer the Chinese style robes, though it was a strangely intriguing combo. Like before, he wore his baggy black pants with his long white over-robe shirt with gold trim, which reveal the side of his pant legs; but the Chinese side claps were not on the robe itself, but on the short sleeveless black vest with matching gold trim, which ended right at the bottom of his ribcage. His red sash was replaced with a similar one, but instead of long ends hanging at his side, there was an odd Chinese decoration of ropes, string, beads and rings. One thing that didn't change was his hairstyle. Still long raven hair tied back with its white wrappings, and his red yin and yang bandana tied around his forehead to keep his wild bangs off his face.

Rei sighed at Kai's answer, muttering to himself about 'bad questioning' before continuing. "I mean, what book are you reading?"

Kai was again silent, smiling inwardly to himself before sitting up on the sofa, leaving room on the love seat for the younger boy. Rei, noticing the 'Kai-like' hint to sit with him, took a seat next to the Russian boy. "It's a book Yuri sent me from Russia. He knows I enjoy reading so he sends me a book once a month."

Rei nodded, looking over the ruby eyed boy's shoulder at the open book. He had seen this language before, but it wasn't one he understood. The only languages the Rei knew were his native language, Japanese and English. Kai, to his knowledge, knew those three languages as well, along with his own native language. So if Rei couldn't read the writing and Kai could, he could only assume that it was in Russian.

"I should really learn how to speck Russian someday. Whenever Yuri and the others are over, all they do is speck Russian and laugh at the fact that I don't understand them." Rei puffed his cheeks out childishly causing Kai to smirk at the boy.

"Maybe someday I'll teach you, but right now training is what you need to focus on" Kai stated, turning back to his book.

Rei pouted, but soon smiled slyly up at his captain. "Kai?"

"Hn"

"If I ask you a question, would you answer it?"

"You just asked a question and I'm answering you." Kai grin to himself before looking up at the Chinese boy.

Rei glared at Kai, causing Kai to laugh softly. Upon hearing Kai's soft laughter, Rei beamed. It was rare when Kai laughed, even now when his captain's more open and talks a bit more freely. These moments were special, especially when it was him, Kon Rei that made that delightful noise escape Kai's lips.

"Okay," Rei started, still grinning at Kai. "I am going to ask you another question and I would like you to answer it truthfully."

Kai stared into Rei's golden eyes, searching for the trick behind the cat. He knew Rei had something up his sleeve, Kai could tell from the crafty grin that's on his kitten's face. 'My kitten? Where the hell did that come from? Though it suits him well…' Kai thought before nodding at Rei, letting his previous thought play in his mind again.

Rei crawled closer to Kai, causing Kai to blink in surprise when the neko-jin's face was just a few inches away from his own. Rei's grin widened as he lifted his hand in front of there faces, pointing finger extended upwards. Kai glared warily at the finger for a few seconds before Rei shot it down on the book in his lap, pointing at a random line on the page.

"Say this line out loud."

Kai stared at Rei, having not completely expecting that type of action. He quickly replaced the surprise look that Rei had caused to show on his face a few seconds ago with a questioning glare.

"That's not a question Rei." Kai stated

The neko-jin nodded. "I know. I didn't ask the question yet. Now say the line out loud."

Kai smirked at that. "Are you ordering your captain to do something?"

Rei just grinned sweetly. "Of course not. I would never do such a thing. I was asking politely for you to do something for me."

Kai stared at Rei with his sugar coded smile for a moment before turning to the book to look at the line. 'Damn neko-jin and his adorable ways. If he was anyone else…' Kai trailed off in his thoughts before at last speaking the line in the book out loud.

Rei stared in awe as his listened to Kai speak his native language. His waited a few seconds for the words to absorb into his head before testing the words on his tongue. It took him a few tries to say it right and Kai watched him inquiry as Rei tried to speak in his own native tongue. Rei smiled up at Kai when he got the words right, causing Kai to raise his eyebrow in question.

"What does it mean Kai?"

It dawned on Kai then that Rei, in his own sneaky way, was trying to learn a little bit of Russian. 'Note to self: Don't let thoughts of Rei seduce my mind while subject of affection is in the same room.' He couldn't help but smirk at the neko-jin, deciding that for his kitten's efforts he would answer his question.

"It means 'Do not worry little one, for even though you are surrounded by darkness, remember that the sun will soon come and warm your face with light'."

Rei beamed at Kai's translation, feeling a warm, fuzzy sensation stir deep inside his chest. Those words were similar to something his mother use to say to him when he was young and afraid of being alone at night. Speaking them always use to soothe him and allow him to sleep without nightmares.

Kai stared at the neko-jin before him. For some reason, the golden eye beauty had closed his eyes while listening to his translation and started purring softly to himself. The sound was captivating in itself, but coming from Rei it was almost erotic. No, not almost, it was erotic. If Kai didn't have the self-control that he did have, he would have jumped the purring beauty and ravish him without a second thought.

"Rei?" Kai growled, trying to keep the desire out of his voice.

"Hmm?" Rei opened his golden eyes to stare back his garnet eyed captain.

"Why are you purring?" Kai asked, instead of saying something else that was a bit more inappropriate.

"Oh," Rei whispered, breaking the eye contact to look intently at his lap. "It's just that, what you said…" Rei paused, looking back up into the radiant ruby eyes in front of him. "It reminded me of something similar that my mother use to say to me when I was little."

All desire for the neko-jin was lost, replace with an understanding gaze. Kai knew that Rei's parents died when he was young, though Rei never went into detail about it. Rei was then raised by Lai's parents since Rei had no other family. Kai was glad that he never knew his own parents for to him, he rather have no memories of his parents then to have a taste of what its like to have them, only to lose them.

It then hit Kai like his fist hits Takao's face. Both Rei and himself are orphans, something that he never really thought about before. Rei has no related family and Kai himself didn't have anyone since his grandfather kicked the bucket, though he wouldn't really even consider that man who he believed to be Satan reincarnated into a insane old perverted geezer family. In a sense, without their friends, they're both pretty much alone in the world.

The warm and cheerful Rei and the cold, self-involved Kai, two completely opposite people were in an odd way, very alike. 'Like the yin and yang on Rei's forehead…" Kai trailed off.

A peculiar silence floated between the two as they gaze into each other's eyes. They both saw unknown feelings flicker in the other's eyes and both wondered what the other was feeling and thinking at this moment in time.

Until Rei's stomach growled, breaking the silence. Rei blushed lightly at his stomach's bad timing before moving away from Kai and getting to his feet. "Sorry, I didn't have breakfast yet." Rei turned to face Kai. "Did you eat yet?"

Kai stared at Rei for few more seconds before turning back to his book to continuing his reading. "Hn."

Rei nodded. "Well, I'll see you at training then." Rei smiled, retreating to the door and disappearing behind it.

From that day on, Rei would wake up on Sunday morning and head to Kai's study before breakfast. Every time he came, he would do the same as he did before. Though it was a strange bonding activity, it was something special between the two boys. So it continued to happen every Sunday.

And now, it was Sunday, and Kai was reading a Russian book that he would rather not translate to the Chinese boy. Rei didn't know about his interests in the same sex, let alone that it was the neko-jin himself that Kai was interested in. The thought of revealing, or in this case, hinting towards it was mortifying.

"Damn Yuri and his accursed self help crap." Kai muttered while flipping to the next page. Just because he agreed to read the book doesn't mean he had to like it, and he would be damned not to show his dislike of the book. Really, he wasn't even paying much attention to the words his eyes were staring at. If someone asked him what happened in the first chapter, he wouldn't be able to recall. Not like he cared. The faster he read the damn book, the sooner he could forget it all and put the book to good use... as firewood.

"Good morning Kai." Rei yawned, wobbling through the door and plopping down on his familiar spot on the sofa.

"Hn"

"Not a good morning for you?" Rei asked, resting his arms and head on Kai's shoulder like usual now whenever he came into Kai's study on Sunday morning. It was one of the few odd moments when he would let someone touch him, and Rei was one of the few people who could get away with touching him unharmed.

Kai grunted, flipping to the next page.

"That bad, huh?" Rei yawned again, just barely covering his mouth in time.

Kai grumbled, skipping a few pages ahead in the book. Seeing that the crap wasn't going to get better anytime soon, he slammed the book shut and tossed it to the side. Rei blinked in confusion at this strange reaction toward a book. Kai never treated a book like that.

"Guessing it's not a good book, is it?" Rei inquired.

"No" Kai stated flatly.

"Yuri sent it to you?"

"Hn"

"What's it about?"

Kai stiffened at this, looking from the sleepy neko-jin resting on his shoulder to the book. He glared one of his most deadliest glares at the poor book that just wanted to help before finally answering.

"Relationships."

"What about relationships?" Rei pressed, surprised that the Russian boy would be reading up on something like that. Was Kai trying to learn how to make friends or-

"How to know if-" Kai paused for a second, trying to decide if he should continue or not. He turned to face Rei. The boy seemed to be almost asleep. 'Strange… Rei isn't one to stay up late at night. Why would he still be tired?" Kai thought.

"Are you okay?" Kai questioned, frowning at the younger boy.

Rei blinked again, a light blush spreading across his cheeks as he stared droopy eyed at Kai's questioning glare. If Rei wasn't so sleepy, he would be worried that Kai might be trying to find the answer in his eyes like he always did. Kai's stare was like a soul reading stare that you couldn't escape from.

Anyways, he couldn't tell Kai that the reason he was tired was because he didn't sleep at all last night. How could he when crimson eyed, two tones blue haired Russian was the one haunting his mind and keeping him up. Usually Rei would sleep thought the night with dreams of himself and Kai in normal situations, but lately he had been having dreams of ghostly touches and soft kisses. These dreams would then soon be filled with passionate gasps and husky moans and soon…

Well, let's just say that Rei would wake up with a little problem down under. Upon waking up from these dreams of Kai in a relationship beyond friendship, Rei's legs would be so tangled up in his sheets from tossing and turning that it was almost as if a giant spider had started to gift wrap him in it's web.

So, his legs were rendered useless and all the neko-jin could do was wiggle around and tug at the fabric with his hands, growing more frustrated as the battle between the Chinese martial artist and the unyielding bed sheets raged on for more then five minutes.

It wasn't for another five minutes that the neko-jin finally free himself from his worthy adversary's hold. It was just when he was kicking the defeated opponent away from him that he realize that he was balancing on the edge of the bed, and Rei proved to the world that neko's don't always land on their feet… but on their backs with their feet closer to the ceiling then the floor.

So that is how the Chinese martial artist lost to the bed sheets.

Embarrassing? Yes, very. He liked… okay, understatement… loved his captain for a very long time now but felt content with just living with the secret love of his life; but now it was as if his body was demanding for him to move and catch the guy or be tortured with dreams of 'what could be' and continuous battles with his newest rival, the damn bed sheets.

But Rei was scared for many reasons. First was messing up a very fragile friendship that himself and Kai had worked so hard to build. Second was the fact that he didn't know if Kai liked guys that way. Third, was that he didn't know if Kai like him that way.

Do you understand now why Rei is so dismayed?

I hope so because right now I have no more time to explain since I need to tell you that Kai noticed Rei blushing and is now feeling Rei's forehead with the back of his hand.

Of course, this is just making Rei's blush deepen. It wasn't a usual act like when Rei rests on Kai's shoulder on Sunday mornings in his study before asking his usually 'What does this mean' question. Kai checking his temperature was not something commonly done.

DAMN IT, KAI'S HAND IS ON HIS FACE! ON HIM, KON REI'S FACE!!! What do you THINK is going on in Rei's head right now?

Absolutely nothing. He's too busy staring crossed-eyed at the hand on his forehead and blushing even more so then before to be able to think of anything.

Kai, seeing that the neko-jin's head was not hot, removed his hand and continued to glare at the younger boy, waiting for an answer. Of course, Rei was still drawing a blank here, so the two just stared at each other. And you all know how patient our dear captain is.

"Rei!"

Rei blinked, finally coming back to reality. "Oh, sorry Kai. And yes, I'm fine, just tired."

Kai continued to glare at the raven-haired boy, raising his eyebrow in question. "Why?"

"Ah…" Rei paused, trying to think of something. He wasn't good at telling lies, and the truth was not only embarrassing, but would be telling Kai that he was having some not so innocent dreams about the Russian boy. 'Come on brain, think of something!' And amazingly, his brain had it's first intelligent thought of the day.

 "I've just been having… troubles sleeping." Rei replied. 'Yes, good brain! If you had a mouth, I would give you a cookie!'

"Bad dreams?" Kai inquired.

"You could say that…" Rei murmured.

"No more scary movie nights then."

"What?" Rei jumped. 'Oh no, Takao is going to kill me…'

"No sleep not only affects you, but the whole team. You are probably not the only one having troubles sleeping after watching stupid movies. So, no more scary movie nights and tonight, you are going to bed early."

"But-"

"No buts Rei. Now go eat breakfast. You need to have some energy during practice."

Rei sighed, pushing himself off the sofa and headed towards the door.

Kai leered secretly to himself. Though Rei may have to work extra hard during practice for the next few days to make up for his sluggish performance today, at least he had a way out of telling Rei more about the stupid book.

"Kai?" Rei stopped at the door and was now facing his captain. "You didn't finish telling me about the book."

'Damn it! Stupid luck! I will KILL Yuri for this!' Kai cursed in his mind, trying to think fast of a way out of it, but finding none.

"It's about relationships Rei." Kai muttered

"You told me that already Kai." Rei pointed out, walking back to the sofa to have a seat again.

"Then why are you asking about the book again?" Kai glared at the neko-jin beside him.

Rei smiled despite the 'Don't ask questions or else' glare that Kai was giving him. "You didn't tell me what kind of relationships it's about."

Of course, by now you may have realized that Kai is cursing like a mad man right now. I would normally tell you his thoughts, but his cussing level right now is way too high for a PG-13 rating so…

"Romantic…" Kai grumbled so low that Rei just made out what the Russian had said.

"Romantic relationships?" Rei questioned, blushing lightly at the thought of Kai reading about such things. If Kai was interested in a romantic relationship then that means that the stale-haired boy was not only single, but looking! 'Yes! Kai was never interested before in things like dating. This is good!'

"Yes," Kai answered reluctantly. "Yuri made me agree to read the thing. It's some self help book. Like I need help with my love life. I don't have one." Kai complained, letting his head hit the back of the sofa.

"That's probably why Yuri sent it to you." Rei reasoned.

"Hn."

Shaking his head, Rei got up and heading towards the book.

"Don't touch it Kon."

Rei blinked, turning to face Kai. "Why not?"

"I said so."

"But you didn't teach me a line from the book yet."

"I'm not reading that crap to you."

"Why not?"

"It's crap."

"So?"

"Rei!"

"What?"

"I said, don't touch it!"

"Come on Kai."

"No!"

"It's just one line."

"I said no!"

"One-"

"No!"

"But-"

"No!"

"Please!"

Kai flinched. Rei was doing the adorable, irresistible, sad kitten-eyes with pout look. It always made Kai's heart twist and no matter how hard he tried to resist it, Kai could never say no to the love of his life when he gives him that look.

"Fine." Kai gave in, falling back in his seat.

Rei smiled brightly at this and grabbed the book from its spot on the floor where it was abuse before running back to his spot on the sofa. Rei opened the book, flipping through random pages till settling on one in the first chapter. He scanned the page prior to settling on probably the longest line on the page. Pointing it out to Kai, the Russian looked at it, slightly paling as he read it in his mind. Glaring at the page for his bad luck, he read the line out loud in Russian. Rei smiled when he understood a few basic words and repeated the line back to Kai. Kai nodded roughly when the neko-jin said it correctly before silence fell upon the room. It stand like that for a little while till…

"Kai…"

"Hn."

"What does it mean?"

Kai was silent again before turning to face the neko-jin, looking the boy straight in the eyes before translating the line to: "Love is love; it shouldn't matter what gender you are, but what you feel inside so you shouldn't be ashamed of being attracted to the same sex."

Rei's eyes widened slightly at this. Yuri gave Kai a self help book on homosexual relationships, and Yuri wasn't one to joke about a sensitive subject like homosexuality. This could only mean that Kai, was in fact, gay as a guy wearing a pink shirt.

'Oh Kami does love me! Kai is attracted to guys! …oh Kami, Kai is attracted to guys!?! I'm a guy and his face is less then fifteen centimeters from mine! Okay, don't panic Rei…'

"Ah… do you believe in that statement Kai?" Rei questioned as if to reinsure himself that the information he had just discovered is true.

Kai was silent for a long time, trying to decide if he should tell the truth or not. And, much to his dismay, his mind told him something that he actually remembered from the book. 'All good relationships, both friendship and romantic, is based on trust and communication.'

'Stupid book and its damn knowledge on things like this.' Kai cursed yet again in his mind.

"Yes," Kai started. "I do believe in that statement Rei."

Rei smiled up at Kai, looking straight back into those alluring wine-colored eyes. Hope had now lit a candle in Rei's love life with Kai and now he had to make sure not to blow it out. "I agree with it completely too."

The two stare deeply into their companion's eyes; thoughts and actions of what to do play in each of they minds, both confused as to where they should go from there. Their own minds were just not helping so they just gazed into the other's eyes, both looking for a sign as to what to do or say next.

And that sign finally came.

In the shape of Kinomiya Takao bursting in through the doorway.

"Finally, I've been looking for you guys everywhere! You guys wouldn't believe it, but there was an all you can eat buffet today at this really great restaurant! All you can eat for one thousand yen if you came at seven am! So I got Max and Kyoujyu and Hiromi up early to go there. It was great!!! There was bacon and eggs and ham and toast and omelets and bagels and waffles and all different kinds of fruit with whip cream! It was so good! And-"

"What Takao is trying to say is that because we woke up early today, we decided to come by early as well."  Max added from behind the Dragoon master's shoulder. He looked from Kai to Rei before added. "You okay Rei? You look like you were up all night."

Rei smiled weary at his friends by the door before getting up and heading towards them. "Yeah, I didn't. Been having troubles sleeping." The duo gave concern looks at their friend. "Nothing to worry about. Once I eat breakfast, I'll be fine. See you at training." Rei waved, leaving the room and heading to the dining room.

"Wonder what's bugging Rei. He never use to have troubles sleeping." Takao said, watching Rei turn the corner.

"Yeah, he loves sleeping. He even tries to have a cat-nap or two daily." Max added, turning toward Kai. "Do you know what's wrong with him Kai?"

Kai glared at the two for a moment before getting up off the sofa. "No, but I think it's those stupid scary movie nights you idiots have, so forget about planning another one."

"What!?!?"

"Awe, come on Kai."

"I said forget it."

"But Kai, Rei doesn't get that scared."

"I said no!"

"Come on-"

"No!"

"But-"

"NO!"

"Kai- AHHH" And so, Kai started his morning training routine early, starting with launching himself at Takao and tackling the poor boy to the ground to beat the daylights out of him while Max tries in vain to pull Kai off of his friend.

Author's Note: Mergie, I can't believe I fell asleep last night while doing the final spelling and grammar check.

Rei - /pets Kitten-chan's head/ Its okay. You were up till four in the morning trying to get this up.

Kitten - /yawns/ Yup, and I'm very proud of this chapter. I mean, I got the 'explain the past' stuff done and two cute KaixRei moments. I'm sorry for readers who like to get right to the plot, but I'm a writer that likes to take my time and build on relationships before throwing them into the fire. It's more fun that way. So Rei becoming a chibi will not happen till Chapter 3. But it will be well worth waiting for and be all but sweeter.

Kai - I do NOT need help with my love life.

Kitten - Yuriy-kun thinks you do.

Kai - /smirks/ Oh really… /grabs the surprised Rei and pulls him into a passionate kiss/

Rei - /blushing like a mad man/

Kai - Hn, self help my ass.

Rei - /nuzzles Kai's neck and purrs/ Mmm, Kai-koi. /sighs happily/

Kitten - /sweatdrops/ Oh dear… hmm, thanks for reading Chapter One everyone, and please if you have the time, rate it. Thank you. /sees Kai biting Rei's neck/ WILL YOU TWO JUST GET A DAMN ROOM. I don't like sap in front of me.

Rei - I think you miss having a boyfriend Kitten-chan.

Kitten - /nods/ Yes, I do. And my ex-boyfriend better not read this or he'll be chasing me like a dog after a piece of meat in a meat truck.

Rei - That's not- Ohm, Kai-koi…

Kitten - JUST GET OUT OF MY ROOM YOU IDIOTS!!! /pushes them out of room and slams the door/ Finally. Okay everyone, hope you enjoyed the chapter. /smiles/

Name and team Help (in order of appearance):

Japanese = English

Kai Hiwatari = Kai Hiwatari (Don't you just love his name?)
BBA Revolution = Bladebreakers (Whoot to the BBA!!)
Souitirou Hiwatari = Voltaire Hiwatari (He makes me wonder were Kai got his good looks)
Mr. Daitenji = Mr. Dickenson (no comment)
Takao Kinomiya = Tyson Granger (Names like Tyson and Tidus are over-used, I swear)
Max Mizuhara = Max Tate (Strange how Max's English name is shorter then his Japanese)
Kyoujyu = Kenny aka Chief (Note how he doesn't have a last name in both versions)
Hiromi Tatibana = Hilary (I Don'T know...)
Rei Kon = Ray Kong (Yes, they were very creative when coming up with that one)
Yuri Ivanov = Tala (meh, Yuri is cool, no matter when name he has)
Team NeoBorg = Demolition Boys (I still get a good laugh from their dudded Team name)
Lai = Lee (I really hope I don't mess up with the KaixRei fluff with that name. Only one letter in the difference)