Vows and Tribulations
AN: Sorry to all who have been waiting for updates and the like from me. I've been snowed with work from school, cos my final exams are now within sight. Four and a half weeks of school and then it's all over. Then on to University! This is another TyKa fic, and I got this idea when my mind started to stray in the middle of my German oral exam, then kept on straying for the rest of the day. Did absolutely nothing all day. I promise an update for 24 will be on the way soon, I have it written up now and ready for posting! I shall also try to update Demolition, but I'm afraid Fallen is on hold until the summer vacation cos I'll start profusely twitching if I have to study to get an A in German and write Fanfiction in English XDXD.
For Ashla: Cos she knows the pain of the Leaving Cert. Good luck!
One
The blood red sunset poured in through the bathroom window of the local gym. A young man had just emerged from the showers, and after having gotten dressed, he moved towards the mirrors at the sinks to sort out his hair. His long slate bangs stuck to his face because of the water, and he felt a cold chill trickle down his spine. He looked into the mirror at his face: the face paint he had once adorned so often in his youth was now gone, a memory he put away when he left beyblading behind three years ago. His amethyst eyes still maintained the cold quality they had always held during his days of being a beyblader. This quality had earned him a significant amount of respect through the sense of fear they could instil with a single withering look.
Now eighteen, Kai Hiwatari had spent the last three years finishing his education and rebuilding his grandfather's company. Constructing Biovolt from the ground up had been a long and tiresome process, as well as an expensive one, but he felt that it had been a worthwhile project to take on board. He wasn't too far from people he knew, as he now had Tala, Bryan, Spencer and Ian working for him under the new Biovolt: the primary objective now not being to use Bit Beasts as weapons to fight others, but to research Bit Beasts and to come to the defence of them and their Beybladers. Only a few weeks previously had Biovolt and the BBA joined forces and they were now working together. Mr Dickenson always commended the work of the new Biovolt, often joking that the Bay City police were entirely incompetent in matters involving beyblading and beybladers.
With not a lot of free time available to him, Kai relished any free moment he was given, and since he wasn't in good contact with his friends in the G Revolutions, he either spent his free time catching up on more work, or, as he had done today, at the gym. He had no intention of slacking on his training. Not at all.
Sighing, he started to draw his wet bangs away from his face and searched the pockets of his jeans for his comb. The squeaking noise of the door to the shower room rung out, causing Kai to wince slightly, but he chose to ignore whoever it was that had entered, or exited, and carried on with what he was doing. Suddenly choosing to look at his feet, the Biovolt CEO noticed that his comb had made its way out of his pocket and onto the floor. Rolling his eyes and letting out a sigh of annoyance, he bent down to pick it up. He stood up again, comb in hand, and jumped when another face was staring back at him.
"What, am I that scary Kai?" the familiar face smiled at him. It was Tyson.
"That depends," Kai replied, almost smugly, not paying his old friend any attention as he began to wash his comb through. It wasn't until Tyson's arms slid around his waist that Kai chose to take Tyson a little more seriously. "What are you doing!"
"Holding on to what's mine," Tyson replied, a seductive smile now spread across his features as his arms remained around Kai's middle.
"What's yours?" Kai seemed irritated. "Last I checked, I belonged to no one."
"Oh don't tell me you forgot, Kai," Tyson started to taunt the older man, a knowing tone to his voice. Kai shot Tyson a withering look, and for a moment Tyson seemed fazed by it, but his composure swiftly returned. "We're eighteen now Kai, and you told me that at eighteen you'd be all mine."
"I said no such thing! Let me go!" Kai's annoyance started to show and he put the comb down on the side of the sink and turned to face Tyson, attempting to push him back, but Tyson remained where he was, pulling Kai closer to his own body.
"You really don't remember?" Tyson's taunting was starting to get to Kai at this point. "Alright then, I'll remind you. Let's have a reminder of events three years ago…"
Flashback
Tyson's lips were pressed gently over Kai's, the bluenette savouring this moment of closeness with the normally impassive older teen. He suddenly felt himself being pushed away, by Kai no less.
"Hey!" Tyson wailed, looking at Kai's face which had turned a deep shade of red. "Why'd you do that!"
"I'm not going to kiss you, Tyson," Kai replied, trying to hide the redness that was creeping out across his cheeks.
"Why not!" Tyson asked indignantly. "Do I have bad breath!"
"I…I…" Kai was struggling to think of an excuse as to why he pushed the younger teen away. "I'll kiss you when you grow up." A quick save on Kai's part.
"When I grow up?" Tyson looked slightly puzzled at this. "You mean, when we're adults, you'll kiss me? Full on for real?"
"Whatever," Kai shook his hand in a nonchalant fashion. He just wanted Tyson to shut up and not try kissing him again.
"So…can I marry you when I've grown up too?" Tyson asked, almost meekly. Though slightly taken aback by this, Kai figured that between now and whenever Tyson and Kai were to meet again as adults, Tyson would have found a beautiful woman and they'd be engaged anyway.
"Sure, whatever," Kai agreed, lying back down in the grass, taking up a small piece in his mouth and going silent, closing his eyes. He didn't notice the happy smile that spread across Tyson's face.
"So you'll be all mine then…" Tyson muttered quietly to himself. Acknowledging that Kai wasn't going to answer him, he laid down in the grass himself, and the two were in companionable silence for some time.
End Flashback
"Oh no…" Kai muttered, recalling every detail of that agreement. Tyson's coming here seemed inconclusive proof that he had not found a woman as Kai had hoped, and this was evidenced by the fact that Tyson's arms remained around Kai's waist and that he'd referred to Kai as 'his'.
"Eighteen constitutes as grown-up Kai," Tyson continued, a devilish spark igniting in his eyes. "And that means you're all mine." Kai couldn't argue, the use of the word 'constitutes', which would have been seen as a pretty big word in the younger Tyson's vocabulary, did signify his ascendance into adulthood. Plus he used it in the right context. Kai was now officially backed into a corner. "So Kai…when do you want to get married?"
"Hold on!" Kai protested, still trying to pry Tyson's arms from his waits but to no avail. "That was a long time ago Tyson! I didn't think you'd remember!"
"Well, I did," Tyson appeared to be deriving great joy from this entire scenario, and even more joy from the strange looks the pair were getting from the other men present in the shower room.
"Tyson, I'm not gay!" Kai hissed.
"Well, neither am I. I'm bisexual, I like men or women," Tyson replied, as if it didn't matter that the volume of his voice was rather high. "And out of all the men I know, you're the one who promised to marry me." Tyson looked Kai up and down. "Plus you're a lot sexier than I recall you being." Kai's face flared up to a similar shade of red as it did back when Tyson first kissed him.
"Shut up Tyson!" Kai gave him a warning glare, bringing their faces to within inches of each other.
"Easy now you," Tyson placed his finger on the tip of Kai's nose. "That's no way to treat your fiancé now, is it?" Tyson finally released his arms from around Kai's waist. "You coming? I was heading back to mine to get something to eat. You hungry?"
"I'm fine, thank you," Kai replied, gritting his teeth to try and stop himself from lunging out and killing the bluenette.
"OK come on then!" Tyson reached forward and grabbed Kai's arm, Kai swiftly reaching for his comb before being dragged out of the shower room by the ecstatic younger man. He had the distinct feeling that making that promise to Tyson was a huge mistake.