Hello everyone!

Before you wonder this has nothing to do with any of my other fics!!

I was contacted not long ago by who asked me to write this story. I do not own any of this really, not the characters, not the plot nothing just the blood sweat and tears…ok maybe it wasn't that bad but I did work hard on it.

This story has nothing really to do with any beyblade episodes, the main characters are the Blitzkrieg Boys and the Blade Breaker teams. KaiHil centric as usual for me but it was a request so don't blame me.

So this is totally dedicated to ari dark princess

I do not own Beyblade

Kai Hiwatari was generally considered to be one of the luckiest boys in the world. He was the Ritchie Rich of the day, he had a nursery the size of most peoples houses. Every toy, every film, every game he had ever wanted he received. All he had to do was say what he wanted and he got it, his friends at school were brought with whatever he decided to hand out, and they were sold just as easily.

His birthday was the 24th of December but he still got more presents for each day than most got on them both. He was also allowed to throw a huge party during any point in the year just to make up for the fact that his birthday was overshadowed by the public holiday.

He got more presents then as well.

If he wanted a particular band to be transported to their mansion to perform for him alone as a simple treat he got it, if he wanted a roller coaster built in their back garden his father had picked up the phone and called in the contractors before the day was out. His beyblade coach was the best one that money could buy but if he couldn't be bothered to do the practice and exercise he didn't have to. Getting movies on video or DVD before they had even gone into most cinemas was just a perk that came from having a mother in the industry.

To top it all off he never considered himself to be spoilt because he never met anyone who would dare to say it.

Of course there were a few things that Kai had missed out on, his parents worked almost constantly to provide him with his lifestyle and he often felt lonely. His mother, a director was usually abroad while his father the owner and CEO of Hiwatari Enterprises worked in his office almost 24/7. Neither of them usually made it to his birthdays and they rarely spent any time with him at all. His dinners were eaten in front of a TV watching whatever movie he had decided to see, or playing a video game, but he was usually alone, lonely.

Yes lonely was the best way to describe the young Kai Hiwatari.

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It was his seventh birthday that both his parents managed to get to, Kai had been thrilled to see them there and had been equally thrilled to discover that they wouls spend Christmas day together as well.

"Mom?" Kai asked as he watched his mother tuck him in

"Yes honey"

"Will Santa bring me everything I asked for?" he asked innocently

His mother sighed almost impatiently "Kai… Santa isn't real" his mother told him gently "he's just an imaginary person that parents who can't control their children use to make them behave at Christmas"

"Not real?" the boy questioned looking tragic "but what about my presents?"

"Oh honey you'll still get presents" his mother reassured him "but Santa is just like the Tooth fairy or mermaids or fairies. They're not real."

"But Nanny said…..!"

"Well Nanny lied" his mother told him sternly "and the sooner you learn that people who tell silly fairy stories can't be trusted the better off you'll be" And with that his mother left his bedside and moved away "One day though you'll be a great businessman like you father and you will run his company. Isn't that better than any silly story?"

"Yes mommy" Kai nodded sniffing a little

"Money and power is all that matters in this world Kai, money is what brought you all the lovely things you have and power is how your father was able to earn his money. So just remember that, money and power"

The lights went out leaving the young boy to ponder on what his mother had said.

Money and Power?

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At the age of twenty five Kai was considered one of the most eligible bachelors in the world, his father had made him a CEO of the Russian branch of Hiwatari enterprises. It was a well known fact that as soon Kai's father died or decided to retire he would take over the whole company. If only he had a superhero identity he would have been compared to Bruce Wayne.

Sometimes Kai was thrilled with his life, he was wealthy, he was attractive, he was intelligent and incredibly cultured. The only complaint anyone ever had about Kai was his cynicism, thanks to his emotionally stunted upbringing he was unable to be completely happy. He had never had that childlike naivety most people experienced and so was unable to understand how other people could be so trusting. He also never understood why some people had a need to help others, he had no problem passing homeless people on the street and couldn't remember ever having the wish to do something for someone else.

Of course these things never bothered the tall bluenette, he was relatively happy all things considered. He had a group of friends none of them as wealthy as him but none of them had a bank account that dipped below seven figures. Still for the most part he was aware of his wish to be with company, he had never liked to be alone. He had friends around for ridiculously expensive parties on the major holidays and when he was at home it wasn't hard to make sure he didn't sleep alone. Still, for all his friends and girlfriends he often felt intensely alone, lonely.

Yes lonely was the best way to describe the older Kai Hiwatari

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Sitting in his office Kai frowned, Tala was lying on the couch that Kai used to nap on when he stayed at the office to late, or when he found an assistant attractive. Getting up and moving away from his desk Kai walked over to the couch and kicked at his friend.

"Get up you dumbass" Kai hissed angrily

"Never" was the groaning response

Childhood friend Tala had been his best friend from boarding school, St Andrews the boarding school they had attended was tough and you needed someone who had your back. If a fight starttd out it was Tala and Kai you wanted on your side because if they were against you it wouldn't be pretty.

Nowadays of course he and Tala had each others backs in a different way, together they would go to bars to pick up girls and when one needed to ditch a partner the other would help deliver the news. It was a perfect system… or at least it had been until recently.

Tala had met an amazing girl in a bar and for once said girl had shown no interest in the attractive redhead. For some reason Tala had been unable to move on, he had constantly moaned and complained about how he was unable to be with the girl and he needed to see again.

"Look you kow who she is just do what you normally do."

"Not this time" Tala weakly raised his head to shake it "I need to win her fair and square. I think I love her. I won't have someone follow her around to find out all about her"

Annoyed with his friend Kai sighed, normally the way he or Tala would pursue a difficult girl was to hire an investigator, find out who she was and then lie and cheat until the girl gave in. It was a simple life really, fun and without any real responsibility. Of course usually after they finally got what they wanted the girl would be tossed aside but that was an obvious inevitability, when you're as rich as they were you learnt that girls were only after one thing, money. They had learnt this lesson the hard way and after being burned a few times they were ready to fight fire with fire.

Unfortunately their status quo was now endangered, Tala was talking about love.

"Oh come on" Kai muttered to himself how could Tala be spouting this rubbish, they had both learnt in their teens that girls only came after them for two things, their looks and their money. "Tala it's just an act"

"No" Tala sat up grumpily "she really doesn't care about money"

"Says who…? Her?"

"Everyone who knows her, besides she already has a seven figure salary"

Kai smirked so much for not finding out everything about her "So your getting her fair and square?"

"I just found out a few things, that's all" Tala huffed and folded his arm across his chest

Kai smirked at his frined suggesting "Maybe she's just not into guys?"

"No I wondered that, she's straight"

"Maybe she just thinks your unattractive?"

"No!" Tala sat up indignantly shooting an angry look at his so called friend "Anyway she admitted to a friend she thought I was hot"

"You've been listening to her conversations?" Kai was surprised it was unusual for one of them to stoop that low.

"Well….just her phone ones….I had to" Tala moaned "she just didn't respond to anything"

"So she thinks your 'hot' whats the problem?"

"I dunno….but I do know one thing!" Tala looked up excitedly his eyes sparkling

"Whats that?"

"She and a friend of hers are going to a gallery opening"

"And you know this because she told you or because of her phone conversations?"

"Phone conversations" Tala mumbled his response so quietly that Kai almost didn't hear it but in truth he didn't need to hear it, he knew the answer.

"Why are you telling me this?"

"Well I thought" Tala gave his friend a sheepish grin "if we went, you could distract the friedn and I could…" his voice took on a begging tone and if there was one thing Kai despised it was being begged

"Fine" Kai answered him readily enough, he had worse things to do than attend a gallery opening and if this girls friend was hot he wouldn't be too bothered about spending time with her. "But really I wish you'd just get over her!"

"You are the best friend a guy could ever…."

"I know, now get out and go do something useful. Maybe go and see how your company is doing"

"Whatever you say boss." and with that a very happy Tala left the room

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Dressed in his tuxedo Kai stood champagne glass in hand listening with slight interest to what the guide standgin in the cente of the room was saying. He had leanrt all this before but it was always nice to be able to nod knowingly and watch as he got admiring glances from the surrounding people.

"And so we brought this exhibition together, with these great and famous pieces we can show how the impressionist era took its affect forming some of the greatest artists known to man, Monet, Leroy, Pissarro…"

"There she is" Tala hissed to Kai directing his attention to the pinkette and the girl with aquamarine hair that had just walked in

Looking appraisingly at them Kai instantly recognised the pinkette as the girl from the bar the other night. She wore a black cocktail dress and turned down the offered champagne in exchange for juice. Her friend wear a similar dress but in navy blue as she accepted the drink with a nod and a slight giggle

'Oh god!' Kai thought to himself 'she's a giggler!'

"Lets go over" Tala hissed

"No" Kai shook his head "don't look at her, don't look around pretend to listen to the person talking. That way she'll see you and she'll be impressed your just here!"

"Oh yeah I remember!" Tala nodded like an obedient schoolchild "and then when she's looking at the pictures I 'accidentally' bump into her!"

"Exactly" Kai nodded, it had been a while since they had used a gallery to pick up girls, it was hard to remember the rules for these things.

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Tala edged carefully around the room, he had kept the girl in his sights ever since she had entered. He had taken a quick note of the route she was taking and then ensconced himself in front of one of the Renoir's looking at ut carefully.

Standing next to Tala Kai tried to determine how long it would take for the two girls to come over, he was getting a little bored now, his 'date' for the evening looked good but he seriously doubted she knew anything about art. There was nothing worse than a girl pretending to care about art, literature or music. This would be a long night.

Finally the two girls stopped at the picture next to them and Kai noticed the slight blush on the girls face as she saw who was standing near to her. With a causality that Kai couldn't help but admire Tala took a slight sip from his glas and then switched his attention onto the next picture. As he did this he 'noticed' the pink haired girl and gave her a slight smile.

Blushing prettily the pink haired girl smiled back and shifted her gaze to the floor, Kai sighed, this would be a very long night.

Moving next to Tala Kai said aloud "Cezanne, but not one of his best peices"

"I like it" Tala odded looking at it studiously "of course I suppose watercolour wasn't his usual medium"

"A boring piece" and with that Kai moved on

Tala stood just him and the two girls, after a few seconds the girl with aquamarine hair moved away but the pinkette shook her head and remained standing by the picture

"Do you think it's boring?" Tala asked looking down at the girl beside him

"I thinks its interesting" the girl looked at him blshing a little "he didn't work in water colour a lot and I like it"

"Me too, my names Tala Ivanov" he knew her name thanks to his investigator but he couldn't exactly let her know that!

"I know" the girl looked down at the floor nervously "we've met before at that bar, and that club. I don't know if you remember….?"

"I remember but you wouldn't tell me your name so I hoped that by telling you my name again it might segue neatly into you telling me that your name is…." he paused to allow her to tell him who she was

Shyly the girl bowed her head and whispered "Mariah, Mariah Wong" she looked up at him flashing him a smile

"A lovely name"

"Thank you" she blushed again looking down at the floor before looking back up at the picture.

Kai could see that his friend was finally making progress with his latest 'crush', he watched the two of them with interest. Tala did seem to be acting differently with her. Then Kai saw it, the friend, that blue haired giggling idiot was about to make her way back over to where her frined and Tala stood flirting. He'd have to make a move…and quick

Kai grabbed an exrtra glass of champagne and quikly moved forward to cut in before the 'giggler' could interrupt Tala.

"So!" Kai presented his spare glass to the 'giggler' "do you find all this interesting or are you as bored as I am?" As usual Kai had found the right thing to say and before he knew it the 'giggler' was predictably giggling.

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"I swear Tala if I have to see her one more time" Kai hissed down the phone

It had been just over a week since the art gallery and Tala was still loved up with Mariah and Kai was getting increasingly frustrated with Ming Ming her friend from the gallery

"Just one more week" Tala pleaded "she loves double dating with you two"

"I don't know why" Kai growled angrily, he had been as annoying as possible in an attempt to make Ming Ming dislike him but for some reason the girl didn't seem to notice and she just kept on hanging around! "God I wish I hadn't gotten into this!"

Just then his secretary looked around the door nervously "Um Sir?"

Bored by the interrruption Kai gave the woman a cold glare "Yes?"

"Ming Ming is here to see you"

At the other end of the phone Kai heard Tala snort, without a word of farewell to his friend Kai hung up.

"Let her come through" Kai sighed, one week. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad

"Hi sweetie"

"Oh God" Kai muttered under his breath he'd forgotten how annoying her voice was, he wondered if he was feeling a little sick.

"What was that?" she asked tilting her head to one side and smiling

"Nothing….sweetie" 'Now I feel sick' Kai thought to himself.

"Aw" Ming Ming moved around the desk to drop a kiss on his cheek.

It was then that Kai noticed that his 'girlfriend' had a rather large bag on one arm

"What have you got there?" he asked curious despite of himself

"Oh just somethings that I fiund in this incredibly cute shop that I thought would be perfect to give your office a more exotic feel"

'SCREW TALA! DUMP HER! DUMP HER! DUMP HER! DUMP HER!'

"Isn't this frame just the cutest?"

"Almost as cute as you" he said sincerely, Ming Ming blushed appreciatively pretending to be shy and embarrassed

"Well you can have it on your desk and this lamp!" she pulled out an old fashioned mteal lamp, personally Kai thought it loked like a watering can but he nodded appreciatively

"Of course I can't really see me using an old oil lamp anytime soon" he told her prosaically

"No silly" she gave him a playful shove…. God Kai hated playful shoves! "you just have it as an ornament"

"You really ought to let me pay for these" Kai told her

"They're gifts" she told him "I brought them for you!"

"Right" Kai nodded but he had made a rule years aog never to just accept gifts witout doing something oin return. He had had a bad experience once when an ex had shown up at the office to take back all the 'gifts' she had given him. After that Kai had always ensured that a gift that was given to him was somehow paid for. If not with mney then with seomthing equally expensive.

He poicked up the lamp again nodding appreciatively as he gave it a polish with his cuff, it really was a nice piece.

"You like it?" she squealed happily

"I sure do" Kai nodded putting the iem down onto the desk. "but if you've given me a present I must give you one"

"Oh no" she shook her head "that's not how gifts work"

"Oh really?" he shook his head pretending to look upset "and I was thinking of us getting you a nice necklace and maybe spending some time in" He paused before he said the magic word, the word that made all gilrs act like children in a candy store "Tiffany's!"

"Oh Kai!" she threw her arms around his neck "I'd love to!"

'Of course you would'

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It had been just over two weeks since he had broken up with Ming Ming, the girl had appeared broken hearted but she cheered up immensely when he refused to take back the matching diamond necklace bracelet and earrings he had brought her.

Luckily enough ther break up hadn't destroyed anything and Tala was still happily dating Mariah. Kai missed his nights out with Tala but he was beginning to readly understand why Tala was so happy, Mariah seemed like a decent girl and she was always willing to come to social events and she had a quick wit and the three of them usually had a good time.

It was as Kai was musing over the ways things were working out for his friedn that he realised he was missing something

"Damn"

He had forgotten one of his files, one of the deals he was considering at the moment centred on a big meeting today nad he had left the file at home. The meeting started in tweny minutes and he had no time to run home himself, he would have to send a courier and try to delay the meeting without seeming rude. He would have to make conversation!

This plan combined the two things that Kai hated most in the world, someone else going thorugh his things and unnecessary chit chat.

"God I wish I had that folder here" throwing himself down into his chair he picked up the phone to call for his secratary

"Sir?" out of what seemed like nowhere to Kai a young brunette appeared in his office, she was holding something in her arms

"Yes?" he snapped angrily

"I believe this is your's?" looking at the object in her arms he gasped, he recognised it, it was the folder he thought he had forgotten.

"Where in the hell did you get that?" he asked in utter disbelief

"I found it on a table top" the girl shrugged

Slightly suspicious Kai eyed the brunette as she stood as though awaiting instructions, she wore a simple white shirt that accentuated her lean figure beautifully and a black pencil skirt, it was very traditional but the way her hair was tied neatly to one side in a side ponytail made her look fascinatingly different. Normally people around the office wore black and white but their hairstyles were conservative as was their footwear. Looking at the girls feet he grinned, the heels she wore were bright purple and as he looked up he noticed purple earrings hanging from her ears.

It seemed strange to him that he would have a beauty such as this wandering around the office and not even know it but then again maybe she worked at one of the lower levels. As he viewed her he smirked, she didn't seem even the slightest bit nervous at his obvious appraisal of her looks.

"Will there be anything else sir?" she asked politely holding out the file and placing it into his hands.

For a split second he was tempted to ask her to stay but then he remembered his stupid business meeting, he had to go "No, not now, you can go" Kai informed her, the young girl then bowed politely and walked out of his office.

Ok this fic is very different from my usual ones and it needs a little time and work, the second chapter gets a little more interesting

Please R&R