Beyblade Fan Fiction ❯ The Search For The Keeper ❯ Destination Reached ( Chapter 4 )

AN: Well, how's it goin people……….please don't kill me for the cliffhanger *dodges rotten tomatoes* hehehehe, well here's the chapter you've been waiting for! Oh ya, my new story is an Inuyasha story, so check it out if you like Inuyasha and tell ur friends. Next chapter of this story, I will put the pairings up if u haven't figured out already, k! ^_^

Disclaimer: *mumbles* stupid lawyers. *in loud voice* I do not own Beybalde. If I did, would I be here? I own my characters though and the plot.

Thanks for Starry Nights for editing this chapter as well as the chapter 3

"…." Talking

`….' Thought

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Translation:

Nani - what

Hai - yes

Imoudo- younger sister

Oni-chan - older brother

-chan - term of endearment, friendship, fondness to friends. Put after name.

Gomen - sorry

Reviews:

Resse: Thanx for the review! Here's the next chapter, actually the next three chapters! ^_^

Memories*char: Thanx for the reviews and the parings are right! Wow, I'm impressed, nobody else has guessed right on the first try! Cool! ^_~

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The Search For The Keeper

Chapter 4: Meetings and Unsuspected Surprises

"Now, I would like to introduce the Captain of Team Celestia. You never want to mess with her, here's the gorgeous HAOMA!" The announcer yelled as the crowd hooted and cheered as a beauty with jet-black hair and blue streaks in them, calmly walked across the stadium, a tiny smile on her face.

"It's HER!" Kai gasped out while staring at his childhood friend and long time crush, even though he wouldn't admit it, while she looked at the crowd. She didn't glance towards where he and his team members were and he was a little disappointed.

"Hey, Kai do you know her?" Tyson asked. The others were looking at him with shocked faces. Kai ignored Tyson and started mumbling out-loud without realizing it.

"If Haoma is here, then she has to be here too." He mumbled out staring at the black beauty. Now, the rest of the team were officially freaked out. They never knew much about Kai's past except that he's rich, he lived in the Abby once, and his grandfather tried to take the Bladebreakers bit beast. This was shocking; they never suspected Kai to get to know others since he was anti-social. It was surprising that he knew the team captain, and from the sound of it, another girl on the team. The question was, what were their connections to Kai.

"And now, ladies and gentlemen, let's meet the final member of Team Celestia!" The announcer shouted as the crowd roared, hooted, and clapped even more than before. As the announcer said this, Kai unconsciously leaned forward in his seat. As a result, the rest of the team leaned forward to see who would make Kai act like this.

"Let's meet the dangerous, the cunning, loveable, undefeated, talented and so much more, JUN!" The announcer gushed out as the cheering from the crowd increased.

Rai turned towards the girl with ebony hair pulled up in a Chinese bun held up with Chinese hair sticks as she walked out onto the stadium, a reddish tint to he cheeks showing.

`She's beautiful.' Rai thought as his eyes followed her walking up to her teammates, a shy smile showing as she waved to the crowd. `I wonder how she knows Kai. Great, like I have a chance with her anyways, she probably already has a boyfriend. Wait a minute! When did I start thinking about her like THAT! I don't even know her. Stop it Rai! You're getting way over your head!' He shook his head to clear his thoughts and to stop the blush that formed on his cheeks.

"It's HER!" Kai gasped out, jumping out of his seat. The others stood up as well, wanting to know who the girl is that caused this reaction to the normally unemotional Kai.

"Okay everybody, that's it for today unfortunately. Be here tomorrow morning because that's when the tournament begins. See you all tomorrow and remember, LET IT RIP!" The announcer finished as the crowd gave a final cheer before leaving for the day.

With the crowd leaving, Kai pushed his way down to the way they came through to enter the stadium, where all the participants of the tournament were. He had seen his sister and Haoma enter there after the ceremony ended. While he was almost to the door that led to the hall, someone grabbed his shoulder and turned him around. There stood his teammates with confused and concern looks on their faces.

"Kai, who are they?" Rai asked, while the others nodded, wanting to know the answer as well. Kai contemplated about not answering, but he decided not to be mean and ignore them. `Damn, I knew staying with them would make me soft and weak.' He thought. `Or is it that you think of them as your friends and you are actually starting to care for them?' Another part of his mind interrupted. `Shut up.' He retorted back, but he knew that, that voice was right.

"You'll see. Come on! I don't want to miss them if they leave." Kai answered to his `friends' before turning back around.

The others just stood there, shocked at Kai's action. They were so sure that he would brush them off. They all had the same thought going through their heads, `maybe now he considers us as his friends.' They shook out of their trance and with smiles on each of their faces, followed after Kai.

They were walking down the hall, when Kai stopped all of a sudden. There, a couple of metres in front of them, the girl known as Jun, had her back to them while the others stood facing them. No one had noticed them yet.

"Okay, who told the announcer to say all that stuff?" Jun scolded to her friends. Silence met her question.

"Okay, if you want me to admit it, it was embarrassing." She said through clenched teeth.

"It was me." Haoma coolly announced, a small smile on her face, her blue eyes shinning with amusement. The rest of the girls' jaws dropped as they stared at their reserved friend who hardly played pranks on others, even though she was really good at it.

Then Jun snapped out of her daze and hugged Haoma.

"I'm so proud of you. I couldn't have done it better myself." Jun gushed out at her best friend.

"Ya, some of Jun's personality has definitely rubbed off on you." Lily laughed out as the others agreed. Haoma just scowled and turned away from the others.

"Now, what are we going to do? We don't have to be here until tomorrow afternoon. That's when the final match is taking place." Shina asked.

"Well, you guys could keep training." Liz said, chuckling. The girls' faces paled as the gaped at Liz.

"SLAVE DRIVER!" Shrieked Shina as she chased Liz around the group of girls while the others laughed at Shina's antics and Liz's forwardness to train them.

Haoma just shook her head and looked in front of her. She gasped out loud at who she saw. There stood him, just as she remembered him three years ago, except he was older. She started getting that funny feeling in her heart whenever she saw him. She realized that she had been holding her breath ever since she gasped out. She willed herself to breathe and looked at her crush, not like she was going to admit it to anyone.

The others had stopped when Haoma had gasped out. Liz, Lily, and Shina turned to who Haoma was looking at, with confused faces. They turned and saw a group of guys and one girl around their age. They noticed that Haoma was staring at the boy that was in front of all the others, with blue markings on the side of his face.

Jun, whose back was to the other group looked at Haoma. She was staring intently at something or someone behind Jun. That's when Jun noticed that feeling she had before had increased 10 times, but she was too busy to notice it. `It can't be. No, I'm just getting my hopes up!' She thought, but that feeling was still there. `It is him!' She concluded as she turned around. What she saw made her heart stop. There stood her brother, calmly as if this thing happened everyday. Her eyes started watering with unshed tears. `What am I doing? I'm supposed to be mad at him. Forget it, I've missed him too much. I had to be a caring person.' Jun concluded.

Then to everyone's surprise, Jun ran up to Kai and hugged him, her tears dripping onto his shirt. All Kai did was smile his rare true smile down at her and put his arms around her to return the hug. Now everyone else, except Haoma was confused.

Haoma just smiled at the sibling reunion. `They must have missed each other a lot.' She thought as she looked at her childhood friends.

Then Kai's piercing blue-grey eyes travelled from his sister towards Haoma and their eyes locked. He gave her a half smile and she softly smiled back at the greeting. Then he turned back towards his sister, which Haoma was glad that he did so, because then he would have seen the blush that had formed on her face. However, Kai had turned his head away from Haoma to his sister so that Haoma wouldn't see his flushed face.

Everyone else was confused and didn't know what was going on. They looked at the two who were hugging then at Haoma who had a smile on her face. Then Shina had enough and walked in between the group.

"What is going on here?" She shouted. That broke everyone out of their shocked daze.

"YAAA!" The others shouted as well.

Kai and Jun jumped apart at their shouts.

"Way to ruin the moment Shina." Haoma muttered out, rolling her eyes.

"What moment?" She retorted back out. She stalked over to Kai and looked intently at him, Lily and Liz right behind her. Kai was beginning to become really annoyed at their staring and narrowed his eyes at them. That's when the girls noticed his eyes. They were the same piercing blue-grey eyes as Jun.

"Hey, you must be Jun's brother. You guys have the same eyes." Lily replied, pointing at his eyes.

The Bladebreakers then stepped forward and looked between the two.

"Ya, she's right." Max stated, while the others nodded their heads.

"What I would like to know is why the sappy reunion?" Shina calmly asked, arms crossed with a smug look on her face.

"Sappy?" Jun gasped out, a look of horror on her face. "At least I didn't cry when………"

"I take it back!" Shina yelped, clamping a hand over Jun's mouth. Jun merrily nodded. Shina breathed a sigh of relief and turned around, but was faced with her inquisitive friends.

"When did you cry?" Liz questioned.

"What was it over?" Lily intrigued.

"What are you two hiding?" Haoma called out from where she was still standing from the beginning of the whole scene. Only she and Kai were in their original spots.

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm………so Jun, who's this?" Shina asked waving her hand, motioning towards Kai.

"Oh sorry. This is my brother Kai." Jun happily answered with a smile on her face.

"Nice to meet you." They greeted Kai and he nodded his head to return the greeting.

"Well these are my friends Lily, Shina and Liz. You already know Haoma." Jun slyly said to Kai, poking him in the ribs. He just glared at her while she raised an eyebrow at him, the glare not affecting her. After a moment of silence, Jun narrowed her piercing blue-grey eyes at Kai.

"Aren't you going to introduce your friends?" She questioned.

"Now, why would I want to do that? I don't want to scare them." Kai smugly replied, with a smirk on his face. The Bladebreakers were shocked at what he said. Kai was never the one to make jokes. All Jun did was roll her eyes and smack the back of his head.

"OW! I was only kidding." He gritted out to his sister.

"Oops! Sorry, cancel that." Jun proudly said, waving her hand in front of his face, her head turned away from him.

"You know, you could apologize a little nicer." Kai stated.

"Nani! Me apologize nicer? I'm not the one who hasn't come to see his imoudo in three years."

"Well, you could have come to see me. Why do I have to do everything?"

"You know what? I would have gladly come to visit you if I knew where you were!" Jun shouted at him. "And for your information, you don't do everything."

"Ahhh, I missed this." Haoma deeply sighed as the two siblings argued about nonsense.

"You mean this is normal; I've never seen Kai act like this before." Zeo asked Haoma as the rest of the Bladebreakers agreed.

"Ya, they fight more than any of us fight with each other when we play pranks and that's a lot." Shina replied.

"It's normal. They never mean anything they say. This is going to take a long time, after all, they've got three years of fighting to get out." Haoma said.

"Oh really?" Came an irritated voice behind them. They all jumped and turned around to see Kai and Jun both with their left eyebrow raised.

"That was fast." Haoma coolly replied.

"Sorry to disappoint you Haoma-chan." Jun taunted. Haoma scowled at the name.

"I told you not to call me that."

"Oh, call you what Haoma-chan." Jun retorted back. Haoma's face darkened.

"Oooo, this is gonna be good." Lily and Shina whispered to the others, flashing the same mischief smile.

"Well, if you don't stop calling me that, I'm sure everyone would love to hear your nickname when you were a child." Haoma stiffly said.

Jun stiffened at that.

"Hehehe, gomen, I didn't mean anything." Jun squeaked out, backing away from Haoma, only to bump into the girls.

"What childhood nickname." Liz innocently asked as the girls tried to corner Jun.

Jun scrambled out of the way and bumped yet again into someone. She turned around and saw the most gorgeous guy she had ever seen. `Kami-sama, he's gorgeous,' she thought. She quickly shook that thought away and scrambled behind him, away from her crazy friends that were following her.

"They're advancing! Call the guards, the Navy, the Japanese government, even the Emperor! It's a conspiracy!" Jun shouted behind Rai, hiding her flushed face. Rai had a faint blush on him too, but hardly anyone paid attention to him since they were all looking at Jun.

"Jeez, quit it Jun. You're getting worse than Shina." Lily lazily replied.

"HEY!" Shina yelled.

"Actually, I learned that from her." Jun mumbled, staring at Shina. All other faces turned towards her.

"WHAT! I swear it was a conspiracy!" She retaliated back.

"What was?" Zeo questioned, intrigued at the girl in front of him. He wanted to get to know her for some reason.

"Ummm………long story." Shina nervously replied, coughing into her hand, while covering up a blush the boy conjured up as he gazed at her.

"Anyways, three years right? That's a long time." Shina finished, trying to change the subject.

"Ya," Kai and Jun agreed.

"I left to improve my blading skills and met with these guys. Who knew my imoudo would do the same thing." Kai explained.

Jun was still behind Rai when Kai turned towards her.

"I suppose you want to know who you're clutching." Kai smugly said with an arrogant smirk.

Jun stepped away from Rai and stood beside him. To cover up her shyness to Rai, she put her hands on her hips and retaliated back to her brother.

"That would be helpful."

"Well, the one you were hiding behind is Rai." He steadily said, not even glancing at Jun. `Rai,' she repeated in her head. `It suits him.' She turned to Rai and gave him a shy smile before turning to the others.

"That's Zeo, Max, Kenny, Tyson, and Hilary." He finished, pointing to each person as he called their name.

"Hi, nice to meet you." Jun said bowing to them. "I hope my brother hasn't caused you too much trouble." She said, patting Kai's back. Kai scowled and turned away, while Jun chuckled. They all exchanged greetings before they settled down.

"So, you guys know why we are here, what are you guys doing here? Are you here to watch the tournament?" Inquired Haoma to the others.

"Well, we were invited to come and watch the Legends Tournament." Kenny answered.

"Invited………but they only specifically invite ………" Liz's eyes widened at her realization, "you're the current World Championship Team." She blurted out to the others. The Bladebreakers nodded their heads to confirm the statement.

"We're the Bladebreakes." Tyson smugly replied.

"Bladebreakers." Shina repeated. "Sounds familiar."

"Well maybe because I told you yesterday." Liz snorted out, rolling her eyes.

"Yesterday?" Lily questioned. Liz sighed in annoyance.

"Remember I said that the Bladebreakers would be staying with us. I told you that when I was reading Mr. Dickinson's letter."

"Ooo." Shina's eyes dawned in remembrance.

"So, you guys are Mr. Dickinson's acquaintances?" Kai asked his sister.

"Yes, they are." Came a voice behind them. They all turned to see Mr. Dickinson smiling at them.

"Before the Bladebreakers, it was Team Celestia that the BBA sponsored." He explained. "I'm glad some of you know each other." He finished.

"Know each other? That's an understatement! We got siblings here!" Shina puffed out pointing at Jun and Kai.

"Yes, well I wasn't aware of that."

"Oh well, what's done is done" Concluded Lily.

"Ya, well this is a surprise. Who knew that when we came here, we would meet Kai's sister and see a different side of him," Max said.

"What's that suppose to mean?" Growled out Kai.

"Oh nothing………" Drew out Max. Kai chose to ignore his comment.

"So, how old are you Jun? You look like the same age as Kai," Hilary inquired.

"That's because I am. We're twins." Informed Jun.

"NANI!" Everyone but the sibling and Haoma shouted.

"Oh, sorry. Did we forget to mention that?" Jun asked with a blank look on her face.

"Yes, you did forget that technicality." Shina replied dryly.

"So, who's older?" Liz inquired.

"That would be me." Kai coolly said.

"Only by an hour!" Fumed Jun. She hated being teased by Kai because he was older than her. He would always take advantage of that saying she had to listen to him because he was older.

"So, it still means I'm older and therefore am your oni-chan."

"Well then oni-chan, you've got some birthdays to make up. After all, I'm your only imoudo and you are my oni-chan."

Kai stared in disbelief at his sister's statement before he started mumbling to himself.

"We'll see." Kai arrogantly replied and Jun pouted.

"Well, I hate to break the get together, but I have to go." Said Mr. Dickinson.

"Nani! You're not staying for the tournament?" Asked Shina.

"No, gomen, but I have important matters to get to. Well, I hope it won't be a problem if the rest of the Bladebreakers stay with you guys after the tournament."

"That's fine with us," answered Haoma. "You guys are staying right?"

"Ya, I don't think Jun will let use leave, especially me." Kai replied.

"Oh come on, that was a given." Retorted Jun, a smile on her face.

"Well, then let's get going. You guys came on the BBA bus?" Lily asked as she got nods for answers. "I remember those."

"Okay, we'll pick up your luggage from the bus and put it in our ride and go home. It's pretty late anyways." Summed up Haoma.

"Ya that ceremony took long. It's already 8:00 pm. We have time for dinner and then bed, since tomorrow we gotta wake up early for last minute training." Jun grumbled out as they walked out into the parking lot to the bus and the limo, which would take them to Haoma's mansion.

"Is that yours?" Kenny questioned, pointing at the black limo.

"Ya, the people who are running this tournament gave it to us for today and tomorrow, so free ride to do whatever." Shina grinned.

"Very nice ride." Zeo grinned as well, while he and the others grabbed their luggage.

"Thanks. Why don't we stop at a pizza place for dinner before we go home?" Haoma said.

"HAI!" They all agreed as they got in and the limo drove off.

"………………"

"So, you guys know any good pranks?" Shina questioned.

"SHINA!" The rest of Team Celestia shouted as the limo sped away to a nearby pizzeria.

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Well, that's all for now. How'd u like it, R & R so I can put the next chapter up ^_^

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