Title: Odd2 Chapter 12

Rating: T

Notes: A quick thanks very much to everyone who had read, reviewed, faved ect. This is the last part! I really hope you all enjoyed reading it.

Summary: Kai has returned to where he truly belongs, but now he needs to prove himself, not just for his team but to himself.

When the Bladebreakers arrived back at their hotel, none of them knew how to feel, after all they had managed to get their team captain back, they proved to him that although they didn't have the power like Black Dranzer, their faith in their own skills and the friendship they all had was worth some much more than being given an easy ride. They were powerful together.

"What if he lied to us?" Tyson thought as he sat down on one of the seats in his hotel room, he bit his thumb nail as he thought.

"Nah, that's not like Kai," Max said and the other teen looked at him angrily.

"Yea, but it's like him to stab us in the back?"

"Tyson, we've gone through this all ready, Kai doesn't understand the meaning of friendship…" Kenny began, but Tyson interrupted him.

"He's dating Max! Does no one else see the problem here?" He cried out, looking at them all, wondering why he was the only one who got the problem.

"We are going slowly," Max informed him, although after what had happened he wondered where they should place their relationship now; "Besides he's back with us, he'll be back, trust me,"

"I do trust you Max, but I still don't trust him," Tyson informed him.

"I'm pretty sure friendship needs to have some kind of trust," They all turned to see Kai standing at the doorway and he nodded to them; "But that's fine, I'll just prove myself,"

"Kai, what did you have to do?" Rei asked, but then he saw the light in Kai's eyes, a gleam, telling him he probably didn't want to know the full details.

"I just gave Black Dranzer back," Kai shrugged and sat next to Max; "So?" He looked at the others in question.

"Well, I guess we should start back with some more training," Kenny told him, and sat at his other side, to show how much the team had improved, Kai looked over the information carefully, taking in everything that he had missed; "My only concern is we have no information on the Demolition Boys,"

"Yea, they like to attack quickly, with no wasted moves," Kai commented and noticed they all stared at him, wanting him to dish the dirt on the Abbey, sighing he gave them what they wanted; "Boris is making an army of beybladers, what you saw at the Abbey on that first day is nothing compared to what was going on further underground,"

"How long has it been going on for?" Max asked him, if Kai knew more about the Abbey than they did, then it must be part of his past, although he felt a shiver run down his spine as he thought; Further down the Abbey? They have underground training facilities? It must be huge if there are so many people becoming beybladers… Its worse that they are all going to become an army of them.

"Years," He closed his eyes for a moment, deciding that he had to tell them the truth, they had proven that they were strong with or without him, they deserved to know; "It's where I grew up,"

"Wha?" and "No way!" Came from the other four, they never expected to learn that.

"Aw dude, we just thought you heard so much info on those guys because you used to live here!" Tyson exclaimed, although it did explain so much, although those kids seemed brainwashed and Kai didn't, he was always so cold, the Abbey would have been the best place to make him like that; cold hearted and uncaring. Until they came into his life and slowly wore down his cold heart, allowing Max to break through a little gap.

"I was being trained to be the strongest beyblader, but as a child curiosity got the better of me, when we saw Black Dranzer for the first time. I decided that it was going to be my beyblade, but I didn't have the power to control it, instead I destroyed part of the Abbey and was unconscious,"

"But, you came to Japan?" Kenny asked, not understanding how Kai could go from living in Russia to living in Japan, it took months of paper work to do that.

"Yea, my grandfather owns the BioVolt Company, who runs the Abbey, he's based in Japan, that's why I lived there," Kai clarified.

"Your grandfather?" Rei checked making sure he wasn't hearing things.

"Yes,"

"Who could do that to their grandchild?" Max said, trying to get his head around it all and found himself unable to; "Who could force to make a kid some solider?"

"Why does he want an army of…?"

"To take over the world," Mr Dickinson interrupted them and they all looked over at the old man who stood by the doorway, looking at them all with a grim expression; "We've heard many rumours about the Abbey, but we didn't know what was going on, none of our investigators could get in to find out,"

"Yea, security is tight. It's like Boris said, they start training early, they always have in Russia," Kai informed them; "That's why no one batted an eye lid at the training facilities here, it's expected,"

"So, you're Russian?" Max asked with a slight smile.

Kai shook his head; "No, at least, not a Russian citizen. My mother was half Russian and half Japanese. My Grandfather already owned this company by the time she came into the family life,"

The group listened carefully, it was something new, to have Kai disclose such information about his family and everyone wanted to know more, but there was only so much information that the bluenette to give out so readily and that was the most important information that they had to know about.

"We should get ready and train," Kenny said and looked over to Rei and Tyson, who both nodded and left the room.

"Kai, why do they need to steal other's bit beasts?" Mr Dickinson asked entering the room fully as Rei closed the door behind himself, deciding that Kai had given out enough information that and he could use it in the BBA's investigations.

"Because of their power. Combine all those bit beasts together, with all their different skills, and you would have the ultimate beyblader," Kai remembered what he had been told by Boris when he rejoined the Abbey it was what Black Dranzer had been created for, to be the ultimate beyblade.

"I… I see," He took his leave and wished them luck in training and once more the door was closed behind him.

"Can we beat them though? That's my question," Kenny said as he looked down over everyone's data once more, he needed to update Kai's, since he had started a new data bank for his Black Dranzer, but that wasn't relevant any more.

Kai remained silent and Kenny felt his heart thudding in his chest; Please, please say we can! I don't want to have those guys take over the world…

"What's the data that you have for our team?" Kai asked and looked at the computer screen, carefully looking over the information once more; "All right, the training is going well, but it needs to be more intense,"

"But we're already training hard?" Max asked, not sure that was going on, were the Demolition Boys really that powerful?

"Trust me, the harder we train the better our chances. You caught me out with your new beyblade, but even then, without all your speeches and…" Kai trailed off but Kenny just nodded at him.

"If we had just given up on you, had seen you as nothing more than a traitor, then we would have been defeated,"

"They are that powerful?"

"Yea, I can give you weakness'' but I doubt it will help, we just need to train for longer and harder, anything could happen with those guy's, so we need to be prepared," Kai continued and began to give Kenny more information while Max left the room to join Rei and Tyson in training.

"You know, I am so glad you are back," Dizzi finally said and Kai looked at the laptop in surprise; "I know, but we needed you Kai, the team just didn't feel like a team with you being gone,"

"I…"

"I agree," Kenny said softly; "You are an important member of our team, you have our backs, even though you might not say exactly what could help us in a battle, you always give enough clues that we can find out own way to it. You help keep Tyson on a tight leash – which is a feat in itself! You help me with training and you let Rei talk to you about things that he knows the rest of us wouldn't understand,"

"And Max, poor guy pined for you," Dizzi added and Kai smiled.

"It's good to be back,"

XXX

The day had finally arrived, the Demolition Boys verses the Bladebreakers, it was the day of the ultimate beyblade battle, but few knew how serious this battle was going to be.

"There's a lot riding on this," Kenny said to Dizzi as he finished off everyone's beyblades, Rei had allowed the youngest member of the team to have Driger during the night, but it was 'only this one time'.

"Yea, I really hope the guys will be okay," Dizzi said, her voice tinged with worry.

"Yea. We haven't figured out who should be battling today either, Kai wasn't sure, he knew Tyson had to battle, there was no way we'd be able to keep him on the bench without him starting a riot of some kind,"

"From everything Kai has told us it's hard to say Chief," Dizzi said, going through all the information that had been processed; "Kai should be in the match, to prove that Boris has no hold on him,"

"Yea, I agree, but what if he goes against…"

"You know you really should go down for breakfast Chief, you've been in the same position all night!" Max said as he walked into the room and picked up his beyblade and also Kai's beyblade, who had walked in behind him.

"You haven't slept?" Kai asked and Kenny looked away.

"Kai you really think he would?" Dizzi asked him and he shook his head.

"No, but still, we need you to be level headed," Kai told him and Kenny nodded slowly.

"I'll just drink lots of coffee,"

"Better hurry, we're leaving soon," Max pointed out to him and Kenny checked the clock on his laptop and then the clock next to his bed.

With a cry he left the room, running down the hall as Max laughed quietly and looked over at the laptop;

"How bad is he?"

"Max today is a serious day, more so than any other. Kenny wants to make sure your beyblades are in tip top condition," Dizzi informed him and Max just nodded.

"I know, but he's always so tense…"

"It's his passion," Kai informed him; "We don't have to get it, but he enjoy's what he does, he might grumble about it from time to time, but this is more than a hobby to him, if he wanted to he could get into the BBA and be a technical analyst,"

"So why doesn't he?"

"Age restrictions," Dizzi said, making sure they didn't forget that she was still on; "And Kenny loves you guy's, how could he just leave?"

"What was he worrying about when we came in?" Kai asked her.

"Who should spin. Although Tyson has to,"

"It would be awful if he didn't…" Max noticed the look Kai gave him and held his hands up; "It's true, he'd be a big distraction!"

"So Tyson's in, what else?" Kai asked her.

"Well, Rei would be the best bet," Dizzi trailed off for a moment, gathering data on how to bring this out; "The problem between yourself and Max is your bit beast types,"

"Spencer is likely to spin," Kai stated.

"Kai should do it," Max announced the Kai looked at him in surprise, though the blonde just grinned at him; "You have so much more to prove than I do,"

The bluenette remained silent and then nodded; "All right, we have a plan,"

A few hours later however the plan unravelled, Kai was the first to spin and after two battled he was defeated, but as he came back to his team, he found himself not caring.

I did my best, I gave it my all.

"Kai, I'm…" Kenny began but the bluenette dismissed him, his focus on Rei, who was up against Bryan.

"Watch yourself Rei, Bryan deals out some heavy punishment," With that advice taken Rei headed out.

"If I had done more research on Spencer's blade…" Kenny said, knowing he was at fault for Kai losing Dranzer.

"Don't worry about it," Kai told him, but his eyes never left the beydish; "Right now Rei needs our support,"

As they watched, they found that Bryan did like to deal out some heavy punishment, physical punishment with his own bit beast. However although Rei was in pain, he was unwilling to give up; If Kai can give it his all, even though the odds were stacked up against him, then why can't I?

"Go Driger!" He cried out, as his hair came undone and his beyblade seat Bryan's out of the dish for the second time; but after that attack he fell to the ground, exhausted.

"Rei!" The team ran over to him, the White Tiger's joined them as the medical staff ran across and carried Rei off to the hospital, with Mariah going with him.

"He…" Max began, he never thought he would ever see someone that beaten up over this sport.

"He gave it his all," Kai finished for him and looked at Tyson; "You're up next,"

"Yea, don't worry, I've got this," Tyson told him confidently.

"Watch yourself Tyson, they are playing hard ball," Kai warned him and the other teen nodded.

"I will, I've got you guys watching my back too," He walked away from them, heading to the beydish where Tala was waiting for him.

The first battle started off promising, although Kai knew that the red head was holding back, making Tyson feel more confident and he'd make a mistake.

Even if we warn him, he wouldn't listen. Kai thought as Kenny called out to him, as he predicted, Tyson's beyblade was out.

Although surprised, Tyson looked at the red head, determined that BioVolt wouldn't win.

There is too much to lose, I can't… I won't let them win!

The final match was one that had everyone holding their breath, it looked to be so close, but in the end Tyson managed to win it all and freed all the bit beasts that had been stolen, including Dranzer.

"Yes!" Max and Kenny cheered, jumping up and down while Kai looked on with a smile.

"Good job Tyson," He commented as the other teen came down and the other two hugged him, his garnet gaze went across the stadium to where his grandfather had been sitting, only to find him being escorted out by the police and Boris had disappeared; It doesn't matter, that is my past and my future… He looked over at his team, wanting to join in but knowing that he couldn't, knowing that the barrier that was there was unlikely to leave him, instead Max saw him looking at them and moved towards him.

He held out his hand and Kai grasped it and pulled the blonde towards him, although they didn't touch.

"Now what?" He asked softly.

"We go home, we'll do this slowly," Max whispered back with a smile that was contagious; "You can tell me what you want, we can hang out as friends,"

"No," Kai removed his hand from Max's grasp and his cold mask was back on, leaving the blond completely confused.

"Kai? But…"

"I don't want to be just a friend to you Max," He said clearly as Tyson and Kenny looked at them although the crowds cheering hadn't stopped; "I want us to go out together, as we were supposed to be doing,"

Max blinked in surprise, but a smile returned, noticing that Kai's eyes weren't harsh and cold, but they seemed to be getting warm and hopeful.

"Sure! I'd like that,"

Tyson looked over at Tala who was looking around for Boris, as was the rest of his team, but they didn't catch sight of him.

"Hey guys!" He called over to them and Tala glared at him, as if it was his fault that Boris had disappeared; "Why not let Mr Dickinson help?"

Blue eyes widened in surprise and looked over to Kai, who had heard the exchange and walked over to him; "What do you have to lose?"

"Why should we trust the enemy? And a traitor," Tala spat out and Tyson was ready to snap at him when Kai spoke.

"Because you and I both know what would happen if you were to return to the Abbey having lost. If Boris is still there it might even be the death of all of you," Kai added, although his own team thought it was dramatic, the Demolition Boys knew it to be true.

"All right, so then what?" Tala demanded to know, then noticed that Mr Dickinson was walking over to them, with some police following; "Huh? What's this?"

"Kai has told us a lot of what has been going on at the Abbey," The older man said to Tala, who became defensive; "We need as much information as possible and with you four boys having been part of it for so long, you could aid our investigation,"

The rest of his team all looked at their red haired leader, and he could feel their eyes boring into him and finally he nodded slowly; "Fine,"

"But, where will they live?" Tyson asked and the opposing team looked at him in shock, after all he did sound concerned for them; "They can't…"

"Don't worry Tyson, we have accommodation getting ready for them,"

"You can't stay in Russia," Kai stated and everyone looked at him; "Help Mr Dickinson in his investigations and you guys can stay with me for a while, until this settles down,"

"We don't need your charity," Tala snarled at him, but Kai didn't even blink.

"I'm just helping an old friend, Tala,"

Max looked at them in surprise as Tala seemed to have calmed down once more and nodded before leading his team off to be interviewed.

"Well, this has been some trip," Kenny commented with a smile; "But I don't know if I want to see Russia again in such a hurry,"

"Kai, are you sure you want them…" Tyson began and the bluenette smirked.

"Trust me, I know what they are like," Kai assured him as they walked out of the arena and found people cheering their names.

"So, how are you going to tell them that we're…" Max began and Kai shook his head.

"We'll go slowly, like you said," He whispered; "I want you and Kenny around my place though, you two were the key to making me…"

"Open up?" Max suggested as they got on the bus, managing to get away from their new fans.

"Yea, they might need more time, but…"

"They'll need more help Kai," Kenny said as they waited for Tyson to get on the bus; "After all they've been there for much longer than you, they are damaged to such a degree that certain things might never come back to them,"

"Like?" Max asked, wanting to know what kind of example the shorter teen would come up with.

"Well, fun for example. Our sense of fun is probably different to theirs,"

Kai nodded, knowing it was indeed true; "Even so, if there is a chance that we can help them we should try,"

Kenny giggled; "You're sounding like Max. I guess this is what happens when you're a couple,"

"We're going slow," Max stated and Kenny nodded.

"So long as I am not going to be the odd one out I am fine with it," He declared and saw Kai take Max's hand into his own, deciding now to go and see what updates their beyblades would need.

"I'm never going to leave you again," Kai whispered, now nose to nose with Max, who smiled and moved in for a kiss.

"Aw guy's! Get a room!" Tyson cried out as he got onto the bus.