Hey! This is might be a bit long (I'm not sure how long yet. Heh). Hope you like it.

I've edited the chapters a bit but they're only small changes so you don't need to read the entire thing again!

Disclaimer- I don't own beyblade.

Warning- Yaoi in later chapters. Don't like, don't read.

When the stars cease to shine

Chapter- 1

Tala Ivanov stared at the poster on his wall, at the face of one of the world's hottest supermodels at the age of 18: Kai Hiwatari.

Tala wasn't really into celebrities, infact he was disgusted by the way how every detail of their life was covered by the press and read and talked about by people. But the thing about Kai was that his history was some sort of mystery, just like he was. No matter how hard those paparazzi tried, they just couldn't get anything juicy about him. They knew nothing beyond the fact that he was the heir to the Hiwatari fortune, lived with his grandfather Voltaire Hiwatari in his estate somewhere outside Moscow after his parents died in a car crash, and had been introduced to the world of modeling at a very young age. He had a private home tutor, and rarely stepped out of his house unescorted. He didn't go to wild parties at nightclubs, didn't do drugs (not as far as the media knew), didn't get into controversies and fights, was single (again as far as the media knew), he had legions upon legions of fans, and had graced the cover of every magazine that was worth reading. He was an interesting topic, the object of everyone's fantasy. This was one of the main reasons why Tala liked him enough to put up his poster on his bedroom wall. The other was that Kai was just too damn gorgeous to be ignored in the middle of some magazine, and he had the most amazing ruby eyes Tala had ever seen.

He had this poster for almost three months now, and was somehow falling for the handsome blunette he barely knew every time he looked at it. "How do you manage to be so mysterious?" He wondered out aloud, reaching out to the poster from where he sat on his bed. "How do I manage to be so foolish? Falling for a guy who doesn't even know I exist? I'm no different from those deranged screaming fans I despise!" he fell back on his pillows with his arm over his eyes, exasperated. "The only consolation I have is that I don't squeal and scream and faint when he makes a rare public appearance." He sighed and yawned, stretching and arching his lithe physique. "Life's so boring! What would you do if you were bored?" he asked the boy on his wall, as if he would give him an answer. "Look at me! Reduced to talking to posters! Damnit… I should go get drunk…" He got up and went to the bathroom in an attempt to try and freshen up.

After selecting a pant and shirt from the mess that was his wardrobe, Tala looked at the clock. It read 9.45. "Perfect. I wasted an entire Saturday without any effort. I must be some sort of specially gifted person." He got his keys from where they sat on top of his TV and waltzed out of his small one bed room apartment. "Don't get robbed while I'm away!" He had somehow gotten into the habit of talking out loud to the objects in his house, and his house on the whole, while he was alone. He irritated himself when he did it, although at the same time he felt some kind of satisfaction. He felt absurd even as he thought about it.

"I wonder which bar I'll go to this time?" He asked his keys as he bounded down the stairs two at a time. He lived on the fourth floor of a 5 storey building. And since most of the time the lifts didn't work, he had gotten used to using the stairs. Besides, it was good for his health. He didn't get as much exercise as he used to, apart from his weekly pub crawl.

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This time he had some extra money as he had gotten a well-deserved raise. So he decided to go to one of those posh places, a longer drive away from his house than usual, but hey, he didn't care. He turned the volume on the radio just a few notches below the maximum, he sang along where he knew the lyrics, and hummed where he didn't. He was having a damned good time, and he wasn't even in the pub yet. "I wonder if I'll feel even better when I get my first drink?" this time it was his car. But he was feeling too good to get irritated at himself. So he laughed "Weird old me!" and continued on his quest for entertainment.

When he finally reached The Hazy Moon, the place was crowded beyond belief. Just the way he liked it!

He went over to the bar, and ordered some vodka, on the rocks. He just barely noticed the dark haired male sitting beside him, his cheek cupped in his palm, staring dejectedly at the empty glass in his hand as he swirled around the leftover ice cubes. He suddenly got up and headed toward the exit.

Just then Tala turned to see who had tapped him on his back, when his eyes fell on the black leather wallet that sat there on the seat. Without thinking, he just grabbed the wallet and took off to find its owner. He reached he parking space just to see a shiny black Mercedes pull away and into the road.

"Hey you! You left your wallet!" He screamed and flailed his arms but the car never stopped. He cursed as he opened the wallet to find a name or address. What he did find was rather surprising. "Well, I'll never!" He jumped into his car and pulled away, even as the guy from the bar yelled "Hey you need to pay for that you know! Get back here you punk!"

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When Tala opened the wallet, he couldn't believe his eyes. There was a driver's license in the wallet. The person in the picture was breath taking despite the poor quality of the photo, his red eyes gleaming. "Just how on earth do you manage to be so gorgeous even in what can be described as the worst picture that you have ever taken?" He asked the person in the wallet. "I never thought this day would come during my entire lifetime…I must be blessed!" He grinned to himself as he glanced at the picture of Kai Hiwatari and at the same time tried to keep up with the Mercedes which was going really fast. He had lost sight of it by then.

He gave up trying to follow the car and just drove according to the mentioned address. Before long, he came across the Mercedes, which was parked on the side of the road, before a bridge which ran over a river. No one was inside. So he got out of his car. Scanning the road, and finding no one there as well, he headed toward the bridge. What he saw almost made his heart stop beating…

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Hm… Tala seems slightly kooky in this… Do forgive me if you didn't like it.

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