Chapter: Hey, I'm famous

~ so next chapter, not quite as dramatic as the previous one, but still quite legible XD ~

"Yuriy!", Kai shouted and turned in his deck chair in the direction of Tala. At that moment, the person addressed stepped onto the veranda, after having had a bite to eat and tearing himself away from Eve. Suspiciously he glanced at Kai and growled: "What's going on Kai? Did you think I was dead yet?"
Listless, he let himself fall into the deck chair next to Kai and held his face in the warm sun. His white shirt was open and revealed an impressive view of the Russian's broad torso, his hair hung a bit tangled and damp on his face after showering. Kai, for his part, let out a harsh laugh and propped himself up with his elbows on the right armrest in order to better target Tala.
"No, I didn't think so, but I'm glad you're still with us. After all, you owe me a little information update."
A daring smile played on his lips, the crimson eyes fixed attentively on his best friend. In the beginning he preferred not to even listen to Kai and to calmly enjoy the warm rays of the sun on his skin, he now tilted his head questioningly and waited for an addition.
"Let's make it short and sweet: What happened between you and Leylan yesterday?" Asked Kai, not looking away from his friend, crimson against ice blue. Although it was an, actually, harmless question, Kai put a certain sharpness in his voice, an unmistakable emphasis. Tala held Kai's gaze and sensed the subliminal message in his voice.

If Kai wanted something, he got it - that was one of the lessons Tala had learned in his long friendship with the cool half-Russian. Discussing made little sense with Kai, a defeat seemed almost inevitable. Nevertheless, Tala let out a flash of displeasure in his eyes for a brief moment, just as long as Kai noticed.Then he lowered his eyes to his hands and began, albeit with a sigh: "Last night, huh? We had a more or less necessary argument about various topics."
"More precisely, Yuriy, more precisely," Kai cut in between them.
"Yes, yes, there will be. In any case, I asked her about her behavior during training, where she drove herself to exhaustion and then later, when she showed up on the training ground, there you guys ... well you guys are so strange looked like a silent battle of words or what I know. ", he said calmly and in no way let the quays, narrowed slits, disturb his eyes.
"She hit me because I wanted to impose a protector on her and of course she didn't need one, that she had been standing on her own two feet long enough and that I was definitely wrong. The reason why she finally got so angry that I was excessive in her behavior Attributed cowardice and pride. I told her she just disappeared because she was too cowardly to face bigger problems and she's just too proud to admit that to herself, especially herself. That was it. ", Tala concluded, still looking at his hands. Kai slowly sank back into the deck chair and rubbed his chin thoughtfully. It was ages before he raised his voice again and, clearly suppressing the curiosity in his voice, said: "What did she say about me? I think you left that out earlier."

His gaze rested expectantly on Tala, who slowly raised his own and looked at Kai apologetically: "Not much, Kai. Actually, irrelevant."
But Kai by no means escaped the evasive tone of Talas, which was followed by a well-measured Kai look of level 5. Annoyed, Tala turned her head, but continued: "Well, so she said, when asked what the rapprochement meant during training, there was absolutely nothing going on between you. In the end I asked her about it, like you you felt when she suddenly disappeared 1 ½ years ago and if she hadn't thought of you for a second ... she replied that she didn't have to justify herself to anyone and that it was always about Kai, but never paid attention on their feelings, no one ever thinks back that it was you who first hurt them and let them down.I'm sorry buddy. "
Kai had got up and was now standing in front of Tala, who was waiting in horror for his next action. At Tala's tense posture, Kai had to grin seriously and laughed, "What's going on, Yuriy? Do you think I'll beat you up now? I'm not tired of life yet, my best, I know that you are a serious competitor."
With that he held his hand and pulled the surprised-looking young man up until they were face to face. Kai put his hand on his right shoulder, albeit a little hesitantly, and said: "Thank you Yuriy. You know that I value you very much and that you are the last person I want to hurt with a word. If I ever did or will do it, just look over it, because it can't be meant seriously. Maybe you wonder why I suddenly talk so sentimentally ... but maybe I was wrong for a long time. Doesn't mean that From now on I will stand for peace and flower power and make friends with everyone here in the house, no, but maybe I was wrong about Leylan and she is more for me than I thought before. I want to try my feelings a little Granting freedom of action and who knows ... maybe I'll emerge as a winner in the end. So, to cut a long story short: Thank you for standing up for me like that, buddy. "

Tala had listened to the gray-blue-haired Russian with her mouth open and still couldn't believe his ears. But he quickly recovered, nodded with a grin and patted Kai lightly on the neck: "I will mark this day in the calendar, hahaha. No problem, man - we're friends! Although I always like to hear you tell me ´Yuriy ´- you should appreciate this privilege. In any case, I have been living half my life with your behavior, but if you would change it a few degrees I would, frankly, have nothing against it. ""Let's see what can be done there.", Kai replied with a grin and then added: "Well, what do you say, do we want to end this nice conversation with a proper fight?"
"You can bet on that.", Tala replied challengingly and both of them grabbed their blades and starters, which they carried close at hand as always, and played a friendship match a few meters from the wooden floor of the veranda, without any boundaries, without any arena .

After "breakfast" with Kai, Leylan had left the house, more or less unnoticed, and was now on a real memory trip through Tokyo. If she wandered around aimlessly at the beginning, her feet now carried her as a matter of course to all the places where a piece of her life had taken place. Without noticing it, she ran through the street where Tyson's house was still standing, the large back yard, surrounded by cherry blossom trees, the spacious apartment building in which she had held one or the other victory party with the Bladebreakers and now, where only Tyson was left Grandfather lived and seemed to be filled with heavenly calm. Smiling, she indulged in her memories and, with her hands buried in her trouser pockets, let her feet carry her on and on. It wasn't long before she recognized the next point to remember: a small bridge directly over a large, glittering river.
The day more than five years ago came to her mind when she first met the Bladebreakers. She remembered Mr. Dickenson's hand on her shoulder and how he introduced her to the boys in an almost solemn voice. Leylan's mind came to the forbidding, but no less curious, red-eyed look that Kai seemed to challenge her with his entire demeanor right from the start. And the feeling of strong dislike that had risen in her at that time could be felt almost realistically.
For her part, she had studied him long and hard, without hesitation, and then classified him as a serious competitor.At the time, she would never have thought it possible that they would later become an unbeatable dream team, side by side up to the top of the international Beyblade elite. A slight smile spread across her face and she thought:> Back then we were ONLY friends and it had, more or less, worked. <

Her mind slipped to the rest of the team, which she scanned for further competition with a single expert glance. She had to laugh quietly when she realized that she was only dividing her current friends into competitors or underdogs. Above all, Max had given her a contemptuous look at the time, he thought she was the weakest of all, but with his rather defensive manner he could only rarely stand up to her rapid and aggressive fighting technique. She took a deep breath in the fresh air, let the gentle rippling of the water sink in, and then continued on her way. She looked back again and thought: 'Coincidence or fate? <
She approached the sea, noticeable in the increasing number of people who crossed her path. Even if Leylan was not in the mood for company and being close to people at the moment, she continued to put one foot in front of the other, a vague guess in the back of her mind where her path would lead her now. The sun shone pleasantly warm down on the people and joyful voices and hearty laughter reached her from everywhere. Leylan looked around uninterestedly, scanning the laughing faces just a few feet away from her, wondering if each of them was the master of an orderly life. Suddenly she was rudely torn from her thoughts when a little boy, holding his big sister's hand, began to point at her and happily jumped up and down. He called: "Chihiro look, Leylan from the Baldebreakers! You have a poster of her in your room!"

He excitedly pulled his sister by the hand and was about to tear himself away when the older one reprimanded him in a stern voice: "Stop it now - you can't just jump on a famous personality like that!We'll go up to her in a very civil manner and ask for an autograph, right? "

The little one nodded with wide eyes and obediently stayed next to his sister. Although Leylan had not escaped her low whisper, she looked surprised at the tentative greeting from the girl.
“Hello, who are you?” Smiling, she went down on her knees in front of the boy and with great difficulty suppressed a laugh as he stared at her with