Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade, Beyblade Vforce, Beyblade Grev or Gundam Seed (o.o)

A/N: Well this is the last part of this story. Hope you enjoyed reading as much as I’ve enjoyed writing:D

It’s a Date

Part III (Epilogue): It’s a Date!

Hilary hugged her shaking frame. God it was so cold and what she was wearing wasn’t helping her one bit. Note to self, never let Tyson choose the stuff for me to wear. Hilary sighed and looked around. Not a person in sight. Figures. It was kinda late anyway.

“Stupid Tyson,” Hilary cursed under her breath. If it wasn’t for him, she wouldn’t have had to go on that date with Kai. And if it wasn’t for him, she wouldn’t be outside in this cold, alone in some park.

Hilary raised her head staring at the twinkling stars above her. Well, at least it was a nice night, she smiled, relishing the view, it wasn’t everyday the sky was clear.

She closed her eyes and breathed the cool air. Gotta look on the bright side… she fell silent for a moment, Nothing could possibly ruin this moment…

-

Tiny droplets of rain began pelting the sidewalks, people without umbrellas started to run around in search for shelter, except for one two-toned blader who was too busy looking around for his runaway date than care that he was getting soaked to the bone.

Where the heck is that girl? It’s pouring like hell… I’ve got to find her…

-

As soon as the first droplet hit Hilary’s face, she immediately realized that she had spoken too soon. This is not my night… Hilary whined as she hugged herself tighter. Not only was this stupid sudden rain going to make it hard for her to head home, it was also making the air a hell of a lot colder than before.

“Damn I could kill for a cup of hot chocolate right about now…” Hilary managed despite her already clattering teeth.

Hilary heaved out a sigh as her thoughts drifted to the events that had taken place that night, momentarily forgetting that she was sitting alone on a lone bench in some random park soaking wet.

She sighed again. If she hadn’t been so touchy they would have never have gotten into that argument and she would still be inside that warm warm bistro. But then if she didn’t, she would still be in that warm bistro, yes, except she would have probably popped anyway. (Because of boredom) Small things like boredom tend to irritate her easily. But realizing her current situation, she concluded being in a warm bistro, still on her date, despite the boredom (or agonizing silence) was better than sitting here soaking wet.

“I guess I should probably apologize when I get back to the dojo,” Hilary mumbled to herself. “Gah… I should probably find shelter…” Hilary concluded, standing up. She walked slowly away from the bench (she couldn’t speed up even she wanted to). The chilly breeze suddenly turned into a harsh violent gale, making the trees rustle around her. This cannot be safe. Hilary swallowed as she tried moving faster (The strong wind was pushing her back).

Hilary clenched her fists. “Oh for the love of…” Hilary cursed under her breath as she managed to get out of the way, barely missing the stray branch that the harsh winds blew her way. “It’s getting really dangerous out here! The weatherman didn’t say anything about this freaking storm last ni—“ Hilary jumped at the sound of thunder clapping. Warning bells set off inside Hilary’s head in mild panic as she hastened her pace. She had to find a safe place. No trees, no big objects that had the tendency to fall, somewhere concrete and cement. Wow, what we learn in Health Class is useful after all, Hilary found herself thinking. She blinked and shook her head, “And why the heck am I thinking about this now?”

-

“I wonder why they aren’t back yet. They should be back by now… Did anything happen to them?” Rei wondered as he stared out the window of Tyson’s dojo. The storm was holding its own out there, he wondered if the two were too.

“Oh c’mon Rei, they’re probably having fun in some deserted alleyway doing God knows what…” Tyson smirked as he shooed Rei’s worried thoughts away.

Rei rolled his eyes, “Tyson, there’s a raging storm outside, why the heck would Kai pick this moment to do God knows what with Hilary in some deserted alleyway?”

Tyson flinched at Rei’s tone of voice and faced the young Chinese lad, “Fine, fine you win,” Tyson said raising his hands up in mock surrender. He picked up an umbrella and turned around to go.

“Let’s go and find them,” Rei nodded.

“I’ll go and get Ma—“

“Tyson!”

The Dragoon master blinked, “Nevermind…”

“Tyson! Tyson! Somebody’s here to see youuuu!”

Tyson sweat dropped and turned to Rei again, “Did you give him the keys to the cupboard where we keep all our sweets?”

Rei shook his head, “No,”

“But then how’d he…” Tyson wondered as he scratched his head. Maybe he used Draciel? No, no… their beyblades can’t cut through wood, that would be… like magic. But then in the ‘magical’ world of Bakuten, everything is possible.

“Tyson? Are you alright?” Rei asked, waving a hand in front of Tyson’s face, successfully breaking his trance.

“Oh, oh yeah, I’m just fi—“

“Tyson!” Came Max’s voice again, “He’s waiting for you you know!”

“Yeah, yeah I’m coming!” Tyson yelled back, he motioned for Rei to follow, “Let’s go, we’ll find them after we talk to this guy,”

As they entered Tyson’s living room, Kintaro stood up from his seat and gave Tyson a thumbs up as he smirked, “Mission Completed,”

-

The rain came down a lot steadier than before, much to Hilary’s relief, as she continued to half run half walk down the street sidewalk. I wonder if Kai made it back already… Hilary thought absent mindedly as she continued to look around for establishments where she could shield herself from the rain. But to no avail. She picked up her pace and hastily turned sharply around the corner, bumping into another person in the process.

“Woah!” Hilary shrieked, squeezing her eyes shut, bracing herself for the impact when her body meets the stony ground. Suddenly she felt a tug on her wrist, causing her to fall back on something which was definitely not the ground. Hilary looked up, squinting to get a better look at her savior.

“Is that…? Is that you Kai?” Hilary muttered before she blacked out.

-

“---ey! –ila—ry!”

Eh?

“Ma—s-op—at!”

What?

“Hi-la-ry!”

“Max! I told you to stop that, Hilary might—“

Hilary’s eyes fluttered open before Rei could finish his sentence. She sat up rubbing her eyes. “Rei? Max? Where am I?”

Rei’s eyes softened as he explained their current situation, “Ah, we’re in Max’s house, its way too stormy outside to get back to Tyson’s so we’re stuck here for the night,”

Hilary stifled a yawn and looked around, Rei was by the coffee table making what seemed to be like cocoa, and Max was seated on a chair next to her, grinning, “Max’s house? So where are the others?”

She added, before standing up to look out the window. She shuddered, Wow the storm worsened again… Outside, some trees were uprooted from their spots, random people running for their lives, hoping they wouldn’t get hit by the thunder that rumbled in the heavens and the shrubbery… well let’s just say they were too ruined to be even called shrubbery.

“Yeah the storm has gotten worse, good thing it kind of let out when we went to find you guys,”

She nodded and then blinked noticing something else different, like… for example the clothes she wore. She was sure she wasn’t wearing a t-shirt before… “Guys? Who changed my clothes?”

At this the two boys turned beet red. Max was the first to speak, “I-it wasn’t us! Mom came in and did it! It wasn’t us! Please don’t kill us!”

Hilary giggled at Max’s answer, “Ok, ok, Max, I just wanted an answer, I don’t intend on killing you,” But I do intend on killing somebody else later, She added as an afterthought.

Something ‘ping’-ed in Hilary’s mind as she remembered something, she turned back to the boys, “What about Kai? Did he make it back to Tyson’s dojo?”

Max shook his head, “No, but he’s over in the other room down the hall with Tyson and Kintaro, want to go visit him?”

Hilary felt herself smile, “Ah I’ll drop by later,” She said as she plopped down again on the cot. “Hey Rei?”

Upon the call of his name, the Chinese lad turned to face the brunette, “Yeah?”

“How did you guys find me?” She asked wrapping a blanket around her form. The cold wind was somehow getting in, she realized, holding the blanket tighter.

Rei blinked at her, “You don’t remember?” He started, “You bumped into us and then suddenly blacked out, you were tired I guess,” Rei explained passing her the hot cocoa he was making earlier.

“Oh…” Hilary trailed on, taking the hot mug from Rei’s hands. So it wasn’t Kai who found me a while ago… Hilary thought as she sipped her hot cocoa.

“Thanks guys,”

“No problem!” Max smiled at her, while Rei just nodded.

Hilary smiled back at them as she stood up from her cot, neatly folding the blanket that was covering her before, before heading for the door.

“Where are you off to?” Rei asked, looking up from his mug.

“Ah, just going to drop by Kai’s room, I have to tell him something, See you later!” Hilary explained before walking out the door. I’m off to apologize…

“Ah, okay,”

There was silence for a few minutes before Max spoke up again.

“Oh! I forgot to tell her something!” Max gulped before running out the door after the brunette.

Rei blinked. “Err… ok…”

It’s good to have friends… I guess…

-

“C’mon guys! It’s good to have friends!” Tyson convinced as he turned to Kai, “Well in your case, it’s good to have new friends!” Cue nervous laughter.

Tyson sighed as he got no reaction from the two, again. They had been staring at each other for hours now, not one giving up. Oh well, in Kai’s case, he was glaring. Tyson wondered why Kintaro’s presence affected him so much. Did he really have that kind of effect on people? Or was it because he was hired to intrude into Kai and Hilary’s date (of course neither knew that) and was ordered to shamelessly flirt with said gal? Either way…Tyson sighed again. I have to find a way to make things between these guys peachy keen. Okay. “Hey guys!” Tyson hollered, effectively making the two guys face him. He carelessly slung an arm around both boys, “Have you guys read that manga Gundam Seed?” Without even waiting for the two to respond, Tyson continued, “Okay! So aren’t Kira and Athrun great? I mean with their friendship and all, don’t you wish you were just like them?”

Kai rolled his eyes and smirked, “Yeah, mainly because they tried to kill each other,”

“Ah, but it was just a spur of the moment thing!” Tyson explained, pointing a finger at Kai, “They team up to fight evil and regain their friendship in the end!”

Kai shrugged, “Yeah, but they still tried to kill each other,”

Tyson shook his head, “Gah! How many times do I have to tell you they regained their friendship in the end?”

Kai scoffed. Kintaro smiled.

“Now don’t you two want to be bestfriends like those guys?”

“No,” Kai answered right away. I would really try to kill him if that ever happens

“I would want to, but Kai here seems to be a little too touchy,” Kintaro explained narrowing his eyes to look the phoenix blader in the eyes mockingly.

“Hn,” Kai gritted his teeth as he glared back.

And so began fifth the stare-glare battle.

“I’ll be in the next room…” Tyson sighed in defeat as he headed for the door.

Kai blinked as his enemy turned around, “Ah, I’m coming with you Tyson!”

Tyson nodded, “This is so much more troublesome than beyblading…” He muttered and made a move to twist the door handle, to his surprise though the door opened by it self… Tyson yelped as he stepped back, allowing whoever it was to enter, “Hilary?”

“Oh hi Tyson, have you seen Kai?”

Hearing the girl’s voice, said lad turned to face the owner.

“Ah, Hi there,” Hilary started, she blinked and caught sight of Kintaro, “Oh hi too Kin-chan,”

Kintaro smiled warmly at her, “Hello Hilary-nyan, sorry I have to leave now, I’m going to go help Rei with the hot cocoas,” He waved at her before he walked off, leaving Kai, Hilary and Tyson.

“So...uhh… yeah,” Tyson swallowed as he pushed Hilary inside the room, “So now, I’m guessing you have stuff to talk about! Bye bye then! Have fun kiddos!” Tyson beamed as he made a move to shut the door.

“TYSON! Whatever you do, do not—“

CLICK.

“—shut that door,” Max breathed as he abruptly stopped in front of the navy haired teen, panting.

Tyson raised an eyebrow at his friend, “Not shut the door? Why?”

“Because the lock is broken!” Max explained to his dense friend.

“So?”

Max felt the urge to slap his forehead.

-

“So umm… Kai?” Hilary started, slowly looking up to meet his gaze. “Er… about earlier, um… I’m really sorry I lashed out on you like that, I just had err… issues,” the brunette swallowed as she bowed down, “I’m really really sorry!”

Kai narrowed his eyes as he stared at the girl, What was she apologizing for? He was the reason she lashed out on him anyway, “You didn’t mean to anyway,” Kai mumbled bluntly as he turned away to look out the window.

Hilary blinked as she straightened her posture, that’s the closest thing I’ll get to, ‘It’s not your fault’ or ‘It’s alright’ I guess… “So we’re okay now?”

“Yeah,” Kai shrugged as he walked over to the door and placed his hand on the handle and made a move to open it.

Kai cursed under his breath.

“What’s wrong?” Hilary asked walking over beside him.

-

“KINOMIYA!”

Tyson and Max jumped.

“I guess Kai just discovered the problem,” Max mumbled nervously as he fumbled for his cellphone. “I’ll try calling my dad,”

“TYSON! OPEN THIS DOOR RIGHT NOW!” Came Hilary’s angry voice.

“Gah!” Tyson panicked as he pounced on Max, causing him to drop his cellphone.

“What are you doing Tyson?” Max protested, placing his hands on his hips, “If we don’t do something they’re going to be stuck there until my dad gets back!”

Hearing what Max had just said from the outside Hilary pounded on the door, “Tyson! This is your entire fault! When I get out of here… I’m going to…”

“Hey it’s not my fault you screaming banshee!” Tyson yelled back.

“It is too you dork!”

“IS NOT!”

“IS TOO!”

“Actually Tyson, this is all your fault,” Max pointed out as he continued to explain what really happened, “If hadn’t hired Kintaro to mess up their date, this all wouldn’t have happened,”

Hilary’s left eye twitched. Kintaro? Hire? Mess up their date? “TYSON! PREPARE TO MEET YOUR MAKER!”

“Shut up Max! I don’t want to die yet! I haven’t even gone on a gourmet trip around the world yet! I wanted to do that at least once you know!” Tyson inched closer to the American, hands clasped together in begging position.

“But I wonder…” Max continued, ignoring Tyson who was shivering with fright, “Why did you hire Kintaro to ruin their date?” Max narrowed his eyes as he smirked evilly, “I’m dying to know,”

“Yes Tyson, please do tell us,”

Tyson swallowed as he heard Kai’s murderous tone from inside the room, “Well… oh for the love of… fine! I just wanted to see if you would get annoyed if another guy made a move on Hilary! There I said it, can we please stop all this murder talk now please?”

Max sweat dropped, “That’s all?”

“Yeah, its so obvious that they’re head over heels for each other, so I thought they needed a little push,” Tyson explained gloomily, fearing his demise.

Max’s face brightened, “You mean all that was to match make them?”

“Yeah,”

Max gave his friend a thumbs up, “I guess you beat me to it, I was planning to ‘push’ them to each other some time this month too,”

Tyson looked up to his blonde friend, “For real?”

“Yeah,” Max grinned, “Wanna go get some cocoa?”

“Heck yes, I think I’ve sweated off all the water in my body,” Tyson agreed as he walked off with Max.

“Oh,” Max remembered, “We’ll get you out of there in the morning!” Max shouted over to the couple.

“Until then why don’t you make out or something?” Tyson added in. Cue maniacal laughter.

-

Hilary and Kai almost fell out of their positions. Weren’t they all engaged in a heated verbal battle just a while ago?

“When I get out of here… I’ll make Tyson run like he’s never run before,” Kai threatened under his breath.

Hilary shook with uncontrollable rage. When Iget out of here Tyson will be nothing more than a sorry beaten pile of pulp mush.

The two’s murderous thoughts were abruptly put to a stop when they heard Tyson’s last smart-ass comment.

“Until then why don’t you two make out or something?”

Hilary felt heat rise up to her cheeks as she slowly backed away from the door. What the hell is that Tyson saying? Why I oughta… She gulped as a hand caught her wrist. She turned her head, “Er… Kai? Wha—“

Hilary’s eyes widened as Kai turned her around and captured her lips into a gentle kiss. Did he actually just take Tyson’s advice? Hilary thought, her mouth left hanging open, giving Kai the opportunity to do something more with her than just touching lips.

Hilary’s blush turned a darker shade of red. God can he kiss… Hilary thought as she started to kiss back, her hands moving up to clutch the hem of his shirt convulsely.

After a few minutes, Kai broke apart and leaned in to whisper in her ear, “I’ve always wanted to do that,”

“I…” Hilary started, staring straight into Kai’s burgundy eyes. “I…umph—“

And Kai silenced her, kissing her again, a lot more passionately than before though.

It took them another good 10 minutes to break apart.

A very flushed Hilary looked up at Kai, panting. “Hey Kai… back at the restaurant did you make Kintaro go away because you were jealous?” Hilary asked snuggling into Kai’s warm chest.

Kai just shrugged. “He was way too annoying,” (Translation: “Yes I was,”)

Hilary giggled, as her hands dropped to Kai’s waist, “Yeah, yeah… so you want to go out again sometime?”

“Hn…” Was Kai’s response as he buried his face into Hilary’s hair.

“Ok… it’s a date then,”

Owari.

A/N: Finally it’s finished! Hehe… well you’ve just read the last chapter of this 3-shot! It’s pretty long… (I tend to always make the epilogues long) and it seems the paragraphs seem to be to close together.. how come they take away my spaces? … hehe…Hope you enjoyed! Reviews are appreciated:D