Chapter 1 Change of Hearts

1 year later

-"You're leaving, aren't you?"

Kai nodded his head lightly towards a tall adult with kind of spiky blue hair, Heero, Tyson's older brother, and hanging his head down slightly, he started to walk off, his footsteps resounding distantly around the empty hallway.

-"Why? You are the strongest player in the team, Kai, the team needs you," stated earnestly once again Heero, truly being persistent of not wanting Kai to leave.

Not as strong as Tyson, went quickly through Kai's mind, and his face shaded with an almost frown. "Have my own reasons," he replied in a familiar to an absolute world, cold voice to the newest team captain, without stopping to look at him, and passing his hand through his hair blanketing his right cheek a little bit, he left.

Heero watched Kai's figure departing from him in the dark, looked away and walked back inside of the Dom, thinking his own thoughts.

-"What? NO! He can't leave, damn it, the tournament starts tomorrow, fuck!" shouted out loudly Tyson, being really pissed off, but in a moment felt a knocking out clip and felt as if his head was about to fall of his neck, when Heero's strong palm hit the back of his head strongly.

-"Stop," said Heero calmly, and let his hand down, looking almost absent-mindedly at the wall where Tyson was standing at. "Stop swearing, it makes you no less stupid than you already are. And you kiss Hilary with this mouth?"

Hilary didn't know whether to smile, or cry, but blushed hardly as a tomato, while embarrassed Tyson was mumbling something confusing under his nose, knowing and hating his brother for being older and smarter.

-"Anyway, Kai does not think about anything more than only himself, but I'm sure that in someway he care about all of us. I think that his goal is for Neo-Borgs, he still desires power more than anything else," added in a little bit ordering tone Heero and turned away from the visible sad Tyson's face, never wanting the world champion be so sensitive about someone like one of his not loyal teammates. Get over it, Tyson.

-"Long time no see. Dared to join us again?" asked uncaringly a tall with hair of the blood color guy, wearing an almost skin-tight white clothes, tightening and showing of his slim but muscular figure. The cold lifeless gaze of Tala matched that of the silver blades of his beyblade he was holding in his left pale hand.

Kai didn't answer and another narrow toss from his new teammates followed shortly.

-"Welcome back, Kai," said bitterly Spencer as he rose up from the leather seat he was sitting on lazily and started to walk over to Kai. He was one of these gigantic, strong, but immensely dumb people with the only thing in their mind: Food and Sleep. In Spencer's case, he also wanted to win and be the top one.

Kai looked up at Spencer in a cold and seemingly angry glare and Spencer moments after changed his mind of coming over to him: though he was much taller and most likely stronger than Kai, Kai's physical appearance and steel cold gaze was making absolutely everyone want to respect him...or else!

-"Well, I guess I'll take that as a yes," uttered firmly Tala, without getting a response on his question from Kai, and turned his head to the side enough to see Kai's expressionless face in his peripheral vision. "We should include you to some new things and changes Boris has done to the team lately," he paused, and the beyblade in his hand was tightened into the palm of its owner, as Tala's eyes glittered wildly with light. "We have another new teammate."

Kai's expressionless face changed quickly from uncaring one...to even more uncaring. So what? "Another android from Biovolt Corporation? How surprising..." he said, not hiding the tones of boredom in his voice and unfolded his arms from his chest.

Tala smirked, the bared white grin of his had reflection of evil and confidence in them, and he apparently had forgotten about what happened to him two years ago in one of the tournaments. But it was quite visible that he put on all of his strength to forget that.

-"No. Just someone transferred from another team." Someone who will kick your ass..."Kai, meet the newest member of Neo-Borgs," he finished in most proud tone, as he stretched out his pale white arm, showing in the direction of the black corner, where, Kai just noticed, a dark figure was standing at.

The figure in the corner moved slightly and a quiet, hale voice, with bits of mockery in it sounded. "Tala, I don't need the applause, not from you...so you know what to do," said the voice...female's voice, and the figure came out into the light.

Kai, not thinking about the clear "Shut up" the voice sent to Tala, turned slowly to look at the figure, suddenly having a weird feeling of knowing this person already.

The direct light from the lamp shined down on the figure, quickly revealing tall black, up to her knee, boots, striped in long silver lances, than a black-gray color skirt, skin tightening around her thighs and almost up to her waist. Her upper body was worn in dark-gray blouse-like top, long wide sleeves of which were covering up her hands fully, and almost reaching her knee line.

-"I've heard of you, Kai. You are the blader who defeated Brooklyn and accidentally lost to someone like Tala last year," said the girl earnestly, and fully came out into the light, not knowing of seeing the sings of terror reflecting on Kai's shocked face, him, feeling like nothing was a reality anymore. The familiar gentle face of the girl was partly covered with her long dark hair, just the way he had remembered all this time.

-"I'm Arwen."

Kai was just staring at her with wide eyes, unable to let out even a slight breath, but Tala's lips parted and moved formerly to mutely say Fuck you towards Arwen, unable to ignore everything as good and as professionally like Kai did.

Not caring what Tala sent her, Arwen looked to Kai, waiting for him to say something, or at least move. She did know that he was one of these cold powerful shadow bladders, more preferring to stay in the shade of the wall than the stage lights, but Kai was just staring at her, as if he saw a ghost and that was making her feel quite uncomfortable.

Arwen raised an eyebrow. Is everyone in this team deserves to be slapped with a trophy for being so weird? She thought, looked away from Kai, and slowly walked of the light and went to the leather seats, waiting for Tala – the team captain, so say something about the upcoming tournament tomorrow.

Tala saw that she paid no attention to him, muttered an angry "Hmph" and went in the direction of the door to his luxury room, hardly pushing a rock heavy Spencer from his way, as he blocked it. "Fine. We have a busy day tomorrow so I advice everyone to go to sleep. Now everyone get out," he snarled, his eyes became lifeless again, and without saying anymore words to anyone, walked away from his teammates, always hating to ever talk to them, into his room.

-"Get yourself out," mumbled with a smirk Arwen, her eyes watched Tala's figure fading away, and herself, she turned around and started walking towards the exit outside, a slight wind already blowing through the small holes in the door, but it didn't bother her at all. This wasn't something that would take her attention anyway. She passed by Kai.

-"Wait."

Arwen snapped out of her thoughts as soon as she felt a strong gloved hand grabbing her hand by the wrist, and stopped, looking at the before-silent beyblader with a discontented face. "What? Let go," she said in a quiet voice, sounding quite ordering. Obviously not liking the fact that she was held by the wrist, by someone she didn't know.

-"What happened?" Kai's purple eyes were shaded darkly with his long hair above his forehead, and he was making to attempt to look up at her. Nevertheless, he held her wrist tightly in a strong grasp, not letting her go. "What are you doing here?" he asked another question in a quiet tone, his heart beating quickly, but he ignored that completely.

-"Excuse me?" re-asked surprised girl, her eyebrows raising up in most surprise, not knowing, understanding and wondering what was this blader's problem. Really wanting him to let go of her hand. What's he doing?

Kai started feeling weirdly bad. Nervous. Upset.

What's going on? Has she forgotten me when a year has passed? No, it can't be so.

-"Do you remember me, Arwen? Tyson, Hilary, Bladebreakers?" he asked, giving it another try, looked up, the light finally shining out the shade from his face, revealing his seemingly worried eyes. Are you pretending, bluffing? Please tell me you are. His hand unnoticibly for himself loosened the seizure on her wrist, but Arwen felt that perfectly.

-"Huh?" she re-asked once again, but than her eyebrows moved down slightly to her eyes, her face soon covered with a deep frown. As soon as she felt the grasp becoming lightly weaker, she quickly moved her hand to herself, breaking loose from his grip in a moment of time, putting the palm of other hand on her red wrist from his strong grasp. "What are you talking about? Remember you...what? I know you, I know Bladebreakers of course, but remember them?" she asked again, her voice sounding loud, clear, but also unmistakably angry, but when she noticed him looking down...kind of sadly, her face expression softened.

You don't remember...how can it be? Was thinking Kai rapidly, and lowered his head down slightly, not really caring about the fact that she broke out of his hand, he was too busy and shocked about what he just realized and found out. You couldn't just forget me...I never forgot you...what happened?

Arwen smiled softly, not feeling angry anymore, she just couldn't be angry at him for some reason. Guy probably was bored and got lonely or something...she thought, let her hand down from her partly red wrist, and reached for his face, making a slight touch down on his chin as she with one quick movement tilted his chin up, ignoring his surprised mute gasp, locking her gaze with his.

-"Don't be down. Cheer up," she said with a smile, while looking straight in his light purple eyes, noticing herself being unable to look away. They are so...familiar...it's like I've looked in them before, she thought, and by the time she let her hand down, she wanted to touch him again. Oh, crap..."Yeah, cheer up," she repeated absent-mindedly, not looking away from his eyesight, feeling how much she was drawn to him for some reason. Damn Dejavous, I now start to believe that I was supposed to know him...

Wondering what was that till-up all about Kai, stared back in her eyes for quite a time, really wanting...to feel the touch of her hand again, and by that he really wanted that. He couldn't stare in her eyes forever...that hurt. "I can't," he answered quietly on her double-cheer-up, looked away from her absentminded gaze and walked away, to one of the rooms in the hotel, wanting to look back to his memory, but not doing so...

Arwen stared at him walking away from her, watching the long white ends of his scarf flowing behind him in the rhythm of his movements, not wanting to look away from him, wondering what was going on. She felt drawn to him for some reason, but it didn't make any sense! She didn't even know him as a person, only like a famous beyblader, who had the unimaginable power within him and his beyblade. Maybe they were supposed to be...friends?

This was like an illness, just some weird feeling of traces of a sudden attractiveness, giving her the creeps of thinking that they were kept in her heart for quite a time. But what she did about it, she thought quite rational: She ignored it.

I don't believe in what you stated. You can't be right; I do not see a reason for me to forget you and some other people, I'm sure that I've never known you before...sorry...