Beyblade- Truth and Lies

Author- Luna P aka Nikki

Editor- QX aka Steph

Rating- PG13 as with all of my stories may go up in later chapters

Warning- contains Yaoi fluff possibly lemon and lime but that would be in later chapters

Summary- takes place the first night after the episode First strike. Kai is back with the bladebreakers and everyone seems happy to have him back but Rei's confused and when everyone leaves leaving just him and Kai alone his true feelings start to show. KaixRei obviously do I write anything else?

Nikki: Ahh here I go again I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that this story is NOT a one shot. I don't know how long it's going to be I know that it's going to be short about three or four chapters but it will definitely be more than one chapter

Kai: great prolong my suffering why don't you?

Nikki: what's your problem you're dating Rei aren't you?

Kai: yeah but that's the only good thing about this fic

Nikki: whatever do the disclaimer

Kai: (thinks) of course Nikki owns Beyblade and she has lots of money so sue her already

Nikki: WHAT! Rei!

Rei: Kai that was mean

Kai: (glares)

Rei: but cute, anyway here's the real disclaimer Nikki does NOT own beyblade or any of the characters she just likes to write about people who have more interesting lives than she does

Nikki: I'm not sure If that's better or worst, ne, at least he didn't tell people to sue me

Rei's POV

I sat on the window ledge looking down at the people below as they went about their hectic lives. They had no idea about what was going on around them and most of them wouldn't until it was too late. I sighed heavily it had only been an hour or so ago when Mr. Dickinson had told us about Voltaire Hiwatari and his plans to rule the world using highly trained bladers and manufactured bit beasts as warriors to gain what he thought rightfully belonged to him. Jesus who was this madman? Oh that's right, he was Kai's grandfather, yeah that had stirred up a bit of a commotion. God I had had to take in so much over the past few days, I mean just yesterday Kai teamed up with the demolition boys and stole the all stars and the white tigers bit beasts using the powerful black Dranzer and not only that but he was willing to do the same to us. I clenched Drigger tightly in my hand I couldn't believe all of this it was like one of those soap operas on TV that never made any sense. I didn't understand my feelings, a few minutes ago I was so happy to have Kai back, on the team that is, but after everyone had left leaving me all on my own with him I realised how upset I had been that he had left. I realised how betrayed I had felt and still did. I wanted to feel angry with him, hell I wanted to hate him but I couldn't, I couldn't do it, there was something else, another emotion stopping me from feeling anything but betrayal. Ahh I couldn't take this I had been hurt badly not physically and not really mentally but hurt non the less.

"Are you ok Rei?" I heard Kai ask form where he was sat on his bed but I refused to look at him just shook my head.

"No" I heard him sigh and out of the corner of my eye saw him lye back down, I didn't mean to be so cruel but I was afraid of getting to close to him. I mean if Voltaire offered him black Dranzer back and he took it, if I was as close to him as I had been the first time I'd be crushed. I suddenly became aware of how cold the room had become and closed the window. I shivered and rubbed my arms. I didn't know what to do I wanted to talk to Kai ask him what had happened and if he had really ment all the things he had said or if it was black Dranzer working through him. But I was afraid of the answer. I sighed and rubbed my eyes I was so tired. Truth of the matter was I hadn't slept since the day he left, I just couldn't. I wanted him to be near to me I wanted him to be safe before I could even think about closing my eyes. I wanted to go and scream off the top of the tallest building just shout my problems away. What was this other feeling in my heart? Wait, heart, was that it? I had to admit that before this whole situation I had started to feel something like that for him but now, now I was just confused. I stared out of the window and saw a bolt of lightening flash across the dark sky, followed by the deep rumble of thunder. I cringed at the loud noise, I'd never really liked thunder, being a neko-jin I hated loud noises and thunder was a loud noise but I didn't care about that.

'Dark lightening attack!'

I shivered at the memory of Kai ordering black Dranzer to attack us, I never wanted to remember that again but every time I saw him the memories came flooding back. Was this how it would be for the rest of my life cringing at long buried memories every time we looked at each other. I don't think I could stand that, I couldn't stand not looking at him but I can't stand those flashbacks, would I have to leave the bladebreakers? No there had to be another way, would he have to leave the bladebreakers? No I would never let him leave us again, ever. I glanced over at him he was lying on his bed with his eyes closed and his hands behind his head he was acting like nothing had happened, but something had, he'd left us, betrayed us and all so that he could get the power he craved. I felt tears welling in my eyes and turned back to face out of the window, it had now started to tip it down with rain, I felt like the weather was reflecting upon my emotions. I mean the rain was staining the windows as the silent tears were staining my face. I closed my eyes and brushed the tears away.

'All together again, NEVER AGAIN! The days of Kai the bladebreaker are through'

Had he actually said that? Yeah he had and it really hurt more than anything else I was terrified of loosing him. Before I had missed him so much and would have done anything to get him back but now that I had him back, well, he scared me, I watched entranced as the rain cascaded down the window making it impossible to see through it. I wondered if the others were thinking about this or if they had just accepted it. I wish I could but I can't.

'Ever since that day I became a...a bladebreaker'

He had said that with such disgust and resentment it was as if he had never cared. Maybe he never had. Even though he was right here in the room with me I had never felt more alone and uncared for in my life. I glanced over my shoulder to see Kai staring at me his crimson orbs firmly fixed onto me unwilling to let me out of his sight. Maybe I'm thinking too much maybe he was sorry for what he did. Maybe he did care.

'I resented being thrown in with a bunch of no talents'

No, that's all he thought about us, about me, I was a no talent an amateur unworthy of his company. I locked eyes with him but tore away, I couldn't do that, and I wouldn't. I didn't want to see the hatred and contempt that lay within him. The window was my only source of relief it was an escape. I closed my eyes and leaned my head against the cold windowpane. My head was throbbing due to all these thoughts and with each thought my heart pounded with an unbelievable amount of pain. Why was that? Why couldn't I decipher my feelings?

'Don't you see only now I can have a taste of true power and I won't give that power up, ever'

Power, that's what he craved, that was his weakness Boris had offered him power and he had taken it without a second thought. I could still see the faces of my friends and old teammates as he took their bit beasts from them laughing as he did so. Did he regret doing it? Did he know how much he had hurt them as he ripped their bit beasts from their blades? If Max hadn't have shown up when he did would he have taken Drigger from me and Dragoon from Tyson? If he had won would he have just left us on the ice, defeated and alone? Wait even after he lost he had left us on the ice come to think of it if Judy hadn't of come back around in the plane I don't know how we would have gotten home. I opened my eyes to see him sat next to me on the windowsill. I watched him as he stared out of the window his eyes firmly fixed on the rain as it smashed into the window.

"Why did you do it?" I ment to ask this question in my head not yet prepared for the answer, but it had slipped out of my mouth and there was no way to take it back now.

"Hn?" I stared up at him his eyes studying my every move my every breath

"Nothing" I stood up and walked over to my bed I lay down resting my throbbing head on the soft pillow. Looking for comfort and finding it. I stared up at the ceiling suddenly finding what I thought used to be boring incredibly interesting.

'Dark lightening attack'

I cringed at the memory once again even though the attack was not aimed at me I could feel the pain shoot through me as if it had hit me nothing more than a few seconds ago. I rolled onto my side and came face to face with the phoenix. 'Holy, why were these beds so close together?' truth be told I couldn't remember no matter how hard I tried. Maybe at one point we had wanted to be close together, I still wanted to be close to him but I knew that that would never happen. I stared at him for a while studying every feature on his amazingly perfect face.

'I always thought that you were part of the team Kai, even though you never wanted to admit it I always thought you felt a little something for us'

'Sorry chief didn't feel a thing'

Didn't feel a thing? He didn't feel a thing; I felt the tears starting to sting my eyes and rolled over unable to look at him for any longer without bursting out into tears.

'Now is the time to finally prove my superiority by beating the bladebreakers at the one thing they love the most'

"Rei" I glanced over my shoulder to see Kai sat on the edge of the bed with his back to me. Hmm ashamed of me again

'Ever since that day I became a... a bladebreaker I resented being thrown in with a bunch of no talents'

"A no talent is that all I am to you?" Kai turned around to face me apparently shocked at what I had just said but I had been holding all of this in for hours and hours and needed to get it out of my system before it tore me apart. "Don't look at me like you have no idea what I'm talking about!"

'I've been watching you through all of your matches, I know your moves better than you know them yourselves'

"I can't believe you Kai! You come back and expect everyone to just accept it! Well I can't! Do you know what you put me through, I thought that I'd never see you again, well the good part of you anyway!"

"Rei, what are you...?" Kai stood up and moved closer to me but I couldn't take him being so close to me and found myself backing away before I had even thought about what I was doing

"No Kai! The truth is, I've been thinking about what happened for hours now! I've been reminiscing over what you said to us when we were battling on the ice. You don't have any idea how much you hurt me and even if you did I don't think you'd care in the slightest!"

'I don't care about championships titles or trophies all I want to do is increase the strength of black Dranzer and become the most powerful blader ever. All I have to do is beat my dear old team, it's not official but it'll do'

"Rei that is not true, I do care that I hurt you and I'm so sorry for it but I can't take it back no matter how much I want to what's done is done and I can't change it." Again he moved closer to me and I backed further away only stopping when I bumped into the wall.

"You want a battle now Kai? To become the best one must defeat the best right? But then again I'm not the best am I? Tyson is, I'm just another no talent!"

"No you're not your one of the best bladers I've ever met"

'To become the best one must defeat the best'

'I resented being thrown in with a bunch of no talents!'

"No I'm not, I'm good, I can stand my ground in a battle but I'm not like Tala or the demolition boys I'm not like you"

"Rei why are you saying this?"

"You don't understand Kai! I wanna hate you for what you've done! I wanna hate you soo much but I can't! I can't" I slipped down the wall and buried my head in my knees as soft tears slipped down my cheeks my emotions were screwed beyond belief one minute I was furious with him and the next I was breaking down into tears. I felt his hands on my shoulders and stared up to see his crimson eyes filled with concern and sadness, for me, he was concerned for me. I reached up and placed my hand on his face, lightly tracing the blue triangles painted on his pale cheeks. "NO! Kai get out of my head!" There go those emotions again. I pushed him away from me and ran over to the door grasping the golden doorknob tightly in my hand.

"Rei, where are you going Rei?"

"I don't know maybe if I went back to the white tigers you'd know how I felt when you left us for the demolition boys!"

"Rei don't even joke about that"

"Who said I was joking?" I opened the door and ran off down the corridor tears staining my cheeks as I ran.

"Hey Rei where you going?" I heard Tyson ask as he walked back to his room, his dad following closely behind I stopped dead in my tracks, I wanted to keep moving keep running but my legs wouldn't obey my orders to move

"You don't wanna go outside, it's really coming down" Tyson's father smiled and placed his hand lightly on my shoulder. I spun round to face him, my fangs were bared and shining in the dim lighting that the hotel provided. My eyes were mere slits and overflowing with anger that I could no longer contain. I growled angrily and knocked his hand from my shoulder before running off down the hall. I'd been running for what seemed like ages, this hotel seemed to have an endless amount of corridors each leading onto the other never ending. I growled angrily as I ran down yet another endless corridor, I had to get out of there before I tore the place down. I stopped when a came to a door and pushed it open with force that should have knocked it away from the frame but it just banged against the wall. I cringed at the loud noise and grabbed my ears in pain, after a while I stepped out into the heavy rain that drenched me within minutes. I cringed again as the door slammed closed but shook it off. I surveyed my surroundings and soon discovered that I was on the roof I growled again as a lightening bolt shot through the sky illuminating the dark night. I calmed myself slightly and took Drigger out from my pocket, after fitting the launcher I held him out at arms length.

"3...2...1...Let it rip!" I yelled as I pulled the ripcord and sent my blade flying up against the wall it bounced back after making a nasty dent in the otherwise smooth wall.

'The best, I am the best! I beat them all one by one and soon I'll be in control of every bit beast on the planet, after adding your three to my collection no one will be able to challenge the bit beast army that I will have at my fingertips!'

I growled again and watched as Drigger hit against the wall and flew up into the air a small green light shone out of the bit as another lightening bolt streaked the sky with a bright white light that half blinded me. I shook it off and stared at the blade as it fell to the ground and dodged various objects that stood in its path.

'Dark lightening attack!'

I fell to the floor at the memory of those words, my tears streamed down my face but were masked by the heavy raindrops that dripped down from the dark black clouds.

'Don't you see, only know I can have a taste of true power and I won't give that power up, ever!'

"DRIGGER! TIGER CLAW ATTACK!" I screamed over the rumble of the thunder. My mind was so screwed up I was lost in myself and I was frightened. I wanted Kai to hold me in his arms and tell me that everything would be ok but that would never happen. I smiled when Drigger spun into my view spinning infront of me with the bright green light shining from the bit I felt as if he was trying to cheer me up, if he was it was working.

'All together again, NEVER AGAIN! The days of Kai the bladebreaker are through!'

I pushed myself up off of the wet floor and stared down at the blade infront of me "GO DRIGGER" I watched, as the white tiger appeared infront of me in all of its glory. It ran against the wall and chipped off a small section.

"If you're not careful you're going to tare the hotel apart" My gaze shot in the direction that the voice had come from. I knew who it was before I had even turned my head and sure enough there he stood, in the doorway shielded from the rain his crimson orbs firmly fixed on me and every move that I made.

"Come to steal my bit beast or just gloat at how unworthy I am to have one?" I asked ice dripping from every syllable like the rain dripped from my ebony locks. He shook his head and stepped out into the rain, I watched carefully as he became drenched within a few minutes.

"You're not unworthy Rei" he walked over to me and I backed away as if a frightened kitten backing away from a stronger, fiercer predator "and you know it, you're just so confused right now"

"Can you blame me? After all that I've been through!" he continued to move closer to me and in turn I backed away finding myself up against a wall as I had been earlier.

"No Rei I can't, what I did to you and the team was unacceptable, I have no excuse. I'm sorry" I stared down at the floor as Drigger spun into view I sighed and swept him up into my hands. "How about we have a battle" I stood up and stared at Kai a little shocked and a little frightened about his suggestion.

"Why?" I asked as I clutched Drigger protectively to my chest

"To prove that you're not unworthy, to prove that you're a good blader, no, to prove that you're a great blader that can do more than just stand your own. I'm not asking you to be like the demolition boys or me, I'm asking you to be you" I studied him as he spoke considering what he had just asked me to do

"NO! Why should I?" I realised that I sounded like a spoilt child but I was so confused, I pushed past him for the second time today and ran over to the other side of the roof. I stared down at the city below me as the people rushed around in the ice-cold rain trying to get home and out of the brutal weather

"You're pathetic" I turned to see Kai stood next to me and shot him a death glare he just smirked and walked to the other side of the roof placing Dranzer in the launcher and holding her out at arms length as I had done with Drigger earlier.

"Why are you doing this?"

"I've already answered that, now are you going to battle or not?

'To be the best one must defeat the best, sorry chief didn't feel a thing. All together again, NEVER AGAIN! Dark lightening attack! Ever since that day I became a...a bladebreaker, I resented being thrown in with a bunch of no talents. The days of Kai the bladebreaker are through. The best, I am the best! Don't you see only now I can have a taste of true power and I won't give that power up, ever. Now is the time to finally prove my superiority by beating the bladebreakers at the one thing they love the most. I've been watching you through all your matches, I know your moves better than you know them yourselves'

"Hn, maybe you're right Rei maybe you are a no talent"

"What?"

"Prove me wrong Rei, battle me with all you've got, battle me with all you're mind and all you're heart, prove me wrong"

'I've been watching you through all your matches I know your moves better than you know them yourselves'

"Fine, you want a battle you'll get one" I placed Drigger back in the launcher and held him out at arms length "3...2...1...Let it riiippp!" I pulled the ripcord and sent my blade flying into the icy cold air. "GO DRIGGER!"

"DRANZER" the two blades smashed into each other with full force causing them both to wobble but they regained balance and went for another attack. I jumped back as the lightening struck the lightening rod that stood just behind Kai. He laughed and ordered Dranzer to attack. Dranzer hit Drigger and sent him flying into the wall, the wall chipped and Drigger crashed to the floor he swayed slightly and I fell to the floor as he began to slow. "Rei, you're not going to beat me using the same old techniques"

"DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! DRIGGER, TIGER CLAW ATTACK!" Drigger picked up speed and charged at Kai's blade knocking it out of balance.

"DRANZER" the phoenix pulled itself back together and flew up into the air it dropped back to the ground and ran at my blade for one final assault.

"DRIGGER" I screamed at my blade as I fell back to the floor, I had been running on pure fury for what seemed like ages and had used up a ton of energy but I wasn't prepared to loose to Kai. I had to prove that I was just as good a blader as he was. The blades charged at each other, I watched as my bit shone with a bright green light and Drigger appeared above the blade. The same happened to Kai's blade his bit shone red and Dranzer appeared the two bit beasts charged at each other. We both watched intently as the blades hit into each other, there was a huge cloud of smoke and we couldn't see our blades but we both knew one thing, only one would be left spinning, now all we could do was wait...

Nikki: Oh my God I left it in a cliffhanger

Kai: great

Nikki: ahh what is your problem?

Rei: so who won

Nikki: you'll have to wait and find out

Rei: ahh

Nikki: hey I have an idea, you guys out there can review and tell me whose blade you think will be left spinning

Kai: yeah right you just want reviews

Nikki: yeah so, :P please review I like to read about what you think of my work, all reviewers get a Rei and Kai plushie all flamers get a Mariah plushie (holds out Mariah plushie) all cower in fear from it's hideousness (sorry to all Mariah fans but she bugs the hell out of me)