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History Repeats Itself	By : Resting-Madness Category: Beyblade > AU - Alternate Universe Views: 229 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: : I do not own any characters or situations from the Beyblade universe, nor the universe of Paranoia Agent. This is just for fun, I make no money from this story.

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Paranoia:
Rei lay in bed, wide eyed and horrified. What he saw on the news continued to play on his nerves. They showed no face, but a drawing - a rather crude one, but good enough for Rei to get a picture of what the kid looked like. Shaggy hair, baseball cap, maybe about 4'10''- with his skates on... The reports say he wore a smile when he did it. A smile which meant he enjoyed hurting people. Slugger would enjoy hurting Rei.
'There really is a kid out there... He really will find out what I did.' Rolling onto his side, he stared out the window beside his bed. 'He'll find out; and when I'm on the news everyone else will find out as well. Who knows what will happen to me then.'
Moonlight shown in through the window, reflecting in his eyes turning them green as the blue mixed with his gold. He hated moonlight, it reminded him off his hair. Not his hair, the hair of the boy, and that boy reminds him of that day... Closing his eyes he growled shaking the memory.
'This is such bull. How would anybody know. How will anyone find out unless I give them a reason to find out.' Closing his eyes, he rolls onto his other side so that he was no longer facing the window. 'Never think of him... Never speak of him... that's what the news report said - kinda creepy if you ask me.' He opened his eyes and jumped to the corner of the bed.
"Everyone will know what you did."
"G-Garland! But... You can't be here!" He stared in horror of the only witness to his crime. The guy's ice blue hair shined brilliantly in the moonlight making him look almost ghostly, and cryptic. Bright blue eyes bore through the Chinese teen. Garland smirked with private lsughter in satisfaction in Rei's paranoid suffering.
"Everyone will know, because Lil' Slugger knows... He'll get you, Rei. He gets everyone."
"No!" He grabbed his pillow as a weapon.
But the image of Garland only laughed before disappearing into the corner of his mind. The echo bounced around in his brain like a butterfly trapped in a net. Rei shook his head, hoping to clear a path for it to get out, but it only seemed to cause more problems as he thought momentarily of Garland, seeking out this serial basher Lil' Slugger, and telling him what he had done.
Rei then saw himself alone on the streets. All alone... Nothing but the sound of Garland's laughter and the scraping of a... The scraping! Getting up and out of bed, he rushed into the closet across from him. He slammed the sliding door over, and dropped to his knees to fish around his closet for the baseball bat that he had kept from his old school when he was on the baseball team.
Standing, he held the bat in his hand. If this sounds anything like I had heard at school... Letting the weight of the head drop to the floor, Rei walked a step or two listening to the sound it made on the floor. A low scraping, just as he had heard in school... Could it be? In the Principals office - in the bathroom...? Was Lil' Slugger already on to him?!
'No! No! He can't be! He doesn't even know me - he doesn't!' Scared, Rei took off; the bat was still in hand, dragging along the floor. 'He can never know! He won't get me!' The darkness in the house seemed to shift around him, clearing a path right to the terrified teen. Slugger was coming, he could hear him - he could hear his bat! It was scraping along the floor. 'He's gonna get me!'
Garland's laughter rang out, surrounding him. His taunting laughing grabbed his feet, keeping him in place. "Hahahaha! What's the matter Rei? Are you scared of me? Just like you always were - taking your fame - taking your good name. No one will ever know who you really are. Wanna be!"
"It's not true!"
It started off low, then it started to grow. The sound. That ominous scraping sound. From where? There, on the floor coming down the hall right to where Rei stood. The rolling of the blade wheels, steadily drumming into the pace of his heart. Causing it to beat faster and faster.
Witless, the teen turned around, seeing a flash of gold before everything went black.
"Aaaaahhh!" He popped up from his desk, panting hard.
Giggles and whispers went up in the room. He was in class at school. He must have dozed off - or spaced out. Either way the teacher: a large, oatmeal-faced, dump of a woman, stood beside his desk tapping her foot, annoyed because he had decided to disrupt her class.
Smiling innocently, he lowered his head. "Sorry, Mrs. Takatori."
"Detention, Rei. One hour. After school today." As always, her words were sharp, cruel and to the point. Almost like a bite in the ass, leaving permanent marks as a reminder.
His shoulders slumped in misery. "Yes, Ma'am." How could this happen to him. On the plus side, he wouldn't be harassed again like three days back when those guys, Kai's friends, found him walking home. It was awful. He can still remember their laughter and teasing.
~~~ Flashback ~~~
Rei was walking home to his new house after school, with his head hung low. Classes went surprisingly well, no one mentioned anything to him about his old school, and he even met up with Tyson again during lunch. The only problem was with the pair from the bathroom, Tala and Bryan. They seemed to have it in for him - or they were fucking around, and he was nominated as the absorber. Either way, he didn't like it.
Rei looked up into the sky. The blue hue was beautiful; however, he quickly looked back down. He hated blue - anything blue. The color blue ruined his life, as far as he was concerned. And he didn't need the constant reminder of his past.
"Hey there, kitty." Tala said, standing beside him so suddenly.
Rei drew in a sharp breath from fright. He calmed himself down, then growled. "What do you want, Tala?"
"We don't want anything."
"We?"
Bryan appeared at his right. A sinister smile playing madly across his sneering face. The grey haired thug looked like he was on the strongest drugs out there. Rei knew they were looking for revenge because he'd kicked Bryan in the bathroom.
Hoping for an escape route, Rei tried to put on his best smile and softest tone as he said, "I'm sorry about the bathroom thing, I panicked... I thought you were gonna try something with me - no harm, right?" He looked at Bryan, whose face showed nothing but amusement to whatever he and his friend were planning. "I didn't even kick you that hard - I couldn't have. I wasn't wearing my sneakers, remember?"
"Yeah," Tala slipped an arm around the Chinese teen's waist. "We remember it all very clearly."
While Rei was, once again, held captive in the red-head's arms; Tala's friend - or lover - grabbed his legs, yanking the sneakers from his feet.
"Hey! What are you... Aaa," he tried to break free. "Doing?"
"Tala and I want to give you a message." Bryan informed, tossing the footwear anywhere they would land over his shoulder. "That you're walking on egg shells with us." Holding Rei's legs so that they were suspended in the air, Bryan and Tala ran the newbie into the woods beside the school. And Rei kicked and screamed the entire way.
The woods were thick and enclosing, skinny trees as far as the eye could see. It was like a maze. As if someone had purposely grown them so that there was only enough space for a singular person to walk between them.
"Put me down! You fuc-..." He was cut on the cheek by a low branch. "I'll tell Principal Aoki! You're gonna get in touble!"
They weren't listening to him. They only seemed to run farther with every word he said.
"Since we couldn't find egg shells, we found the next best thing." Tala was shouting from his excitement.
There was a clearing in the woods, and in this clearing lay a large patch of thorn bushes. The vines twisted and twirled around each other making silent threats of the harm they could do to a person who got too close.
"No! No! Please don't!" He continued to wriggle in their grips, but it did nothing. His words were never heard. The last thing Rei felt was the air surrounding him before he was incased with pain from the vines slicing into him.
He walked home with more internal ache than physical. Barefoot the whole way through the woods, his feet suffering second in the trauma. And all the way home in the darkening evening, he could have swore he heard the sound of scraping against the street. He must have been hearing things.
At least he thought so then.
~~~ End Flashback ~~~
But that was just one bad problem. He could ignore everything else. He was positive that if he kept a clear mind then everything would be fine. It's been a week in school now. Everything will be OK.
"Class, tomorrow evening we're going to be doing a little activity." The teacher put on her best scary face - which for her wasn't hard to do - and she stalked between the desks of her students. "We're going to play a little game titled, 'To the Fear'."
The class looked around, "ooh-ing and aaah-ing". They seemed to love games like this. Rei didn't quite understand, and he wasn't sure if he wanted to.
"H-how do you play, Mrs. Takatori?" Asks sweet little Max. He scared really easily Rei found out fast. And he never walked alone, he was usually with the largest group of people when he went home from school. Maybe Max wasn't that bad a guy to befriend. A large group would ensure Rei's safety as well - wouldn't it?
"I'll explain it to you tomorrow. When your parents sign the permission slips, I've just put on your desk. Your homework assignment is on the board," her words were rushed now as she knew the bell was about to ring. "Write it down. I don't want anyone claiming I didn't give you any."
A muffled chatter of "Yes ma'am" went up from the class, as they took out their homework booklets to write down the assignment.
Glancing in the direction of Bryan, the gray-haired thug puckered his lips like he was sending a kiss to Rei, before he sneered into a chuckle. Rei glared at him. He knew they were gonna try something again. Glancing over at sweet unsuspecting Max, he smiles, knowing that joining him would be the perfect solution to his bully problem.
Sure enough the bell rang almost too quickly, releasing the students - though no one dared to move without Mrs. Takatori's permission. Which she gave with a simple nod of the head. Filing out like military cadets, the class filled the hall with the other students weeding their way to the next classroom.
Rei walked over to his locker then spun the dial until the lock popped open. He pulled open the door and froze. He watched what happened in slow motion, as a baseball bat fell from his locker. The end seemed to be covered in some red paint - or...
"Blood." A voice directly in his ear whispered.
Spinning around as quickly as he could, Rei saw no one special as the halls began to empty. 'Who could have done this? Why would anyone put a baseball bat in my locker?' He picked it up, and continued to glance around for anyone that would turn their gaze from his in a hurry, giving themselves away. But no one looked.
"Come on, Rei!" Tyson called from down at the end of the hall.
"Yeah..." Stuffing the bat in his bookbag so no one would see it in the trash, Rei joined Tyson so they could walk to the cafeteria together.
...
"Freaky assignment, huh?" The blunet declared. He took a large bite of his cheeseburger. "I mea-, where do- she get the nerbe." He swallowed. "To make us do something that weird."
Rei shrugged. "Well, we don't really know what it is yet." He picked at his fries with disinterest.
"Are you gonna eat those?" The Japanese teen points his finger, close enough to poke them.
"Yeah, Tyson, I am." Finally picking one up, Rei stuck it in his mouth then slowly begins to chew. He had to do this slowly, so he could concentrate on not choking on it. Rei's eyes wander up, and as he looks about the lunch room he notices that people are staring at him. "...Tyson?" He narrowed his eyes in confusion.
"Yeah?"
"Is it just me, or... is everyone looking at me?"
Looking around Tyson blinked, shaking his head a little bit, he replied. "I guess they are. ...Hmm, I wonder what's up?"
"Hey everybody," A red-head that Rei didn't know stood up. "I saw a picture of Kon on my computer; he was holding a baseball bat - kinda like this one!" Holding up the banana on his lunch tray to show to everyone, he waved it about. "Well, maybe not exactly, but let's play pretend."
The lunch room occupants looked around to find out who Rei was, some of them following the eyes of people who knew him to where he sat with Tyson.
"Rei?" His companion tried to get his attention.
"It was on a site called: Fetish Frenzy'. And you can guess what he was doing with it." The student pretended to thrust the banana in and out of his mouth and the students laughed and hooted merrily. "But there was a bit of red on the tip, so chances are he slicked it up aaand..." Turning around so that everyone saw what he was doing, the red head pretended to thrust the banana in and out of his ass!
The cafeteria was in an uproar; they looked for his reaction, pointing at the blush. Rei's eyes dart from left to right. What site?! What the hell was this kid talking about?!
"What's the matter, Rei? Did you fuck yourself too hard!?" The jerk called.
Kon heard a few other nasty comments from other people who had seen this so-called website. Wait a second, now he knew who the guy was. The red hair, the tall form, sleepy blue eyes. He was the kid who had bumped into him the first day.
"Rei, why is Brooklyn saying all that stuff about you?" Tyson questioned. "Is it true? Do you - have a thing for baseball bats?"
"Of course it's not true! He's just making it up!"
He'd like to know where the hell someone got a picture of him with a baseball bat from - especially since they said it had a red tip. Slapping his ears repeatedly with his hands, Rei stood up.
"Come on!" Snatching Tyson by the hand, Rei hurried him out of the cafeteria, heading to the library.
The room was quiet and mostly empty minus the study nerds, and the kids that got into trouble and were sent there. Rei dragged Tyson over to the computers and sat down. "Rrrr, what did Brooklyn say the name of that site was again?"
Tyson sighed with hungry frustration. "Fetish Frenzy - but come on, Rei... So what if you did all that stuff; my lunch is getting cold."
Rei wasn't listening, he checked out the website. To his horror, there he was. In his school uniform, in a picture that looked like it was brand new - just taken as he was in the hallway by his locker. Someone was watching him, and they took his picture. Clicking for the next photo, he saw one from his old school, he was in his baseball uniform. Rei was bent over tying his sneaker - harmless enough, but when you looked at it too quickly, it did appear that Rei had one of the bats lined against the fence up his butt. It had fallen over from a gust of wind. He remembers it hit him before falling onto its side.
"Boy rips uniform for a little on the field pleasure." He read the caption. "Son of a..."
Tyson looked fascinated suddenly, and he tried to click the next shot, but the computer screen jumped and the photo was stripped away into nothing but a blank screen.
"What are you upset about? It looked cool... nothing to be embarrassed about. Rei?" Tyson looked around for the Chinese teen, but he had taken off.
Rei ran down the hall into the bathroom, he had to wash his face, clear his mind - peace - any Goddamned thing that would erase his embarrassment!
"He's gonna get you, Rei!" Garland chuckled.
"Shut up!"
"He's gonna destroy your life!"
Rei held his ears trying to cut the voice away.
"Just like you've destroyed mine!"
"Enouuugh!" He banged his head against the wall over and over. "Shut up! Shut up!"
"Rei?" Max came into the bathroom. "Are you all right?" He checked verbally.
Rei stopped what he was doing. His mind now clear. "Yeah, I'm fine; sorry I lost it back there."
"It's understandable. If I knew that people saw pictures of me like that." He shook his head in dismay. "I don't know what I'd do."
"Yeah, well, it wasn't you, was it?!"
Max blinked, a little scared of the enraged behavior towards someone who has no malicious intention."I'm sorry, Rei, don't be mad. I won't bring it up again, I promise."
Rei sighed angrily, to calm himself. He was being rude and he didn't want to. "No. I'm the one who's sorry. I didn't mean to snap at you like that... What are you doing here?"
"Well, I saw Bryan and Tala messing with you that day... I thought maybe you'd like to walk home with me." The kind blond came closer to the tense teen, resting a hand on his shoulder.
"Yeah... yeah, I would. Thank you."
Max smiled, pleased that Rei would walk with him. Then without another word he left the bathroom.
Rei's head dropped between his shoulders and he sighed. 'Come on, Rei, get a hold of yourself. I don't know who started that website or why, but at least it's gone.'
The bell rang in the hallway. He sighed, relieved by this then walked out of the bathroom to continue the rest of the school day.
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