WARNING: Triggered Topics. Read at your own risk ⚠️

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SUN  ARC

Aiga Akaba takes a deep breath while facing the big door.

He feels so nervous. He doesn't know how he will do this so wish him a bit of luck.

Then a gentle hand touches his jacket and he turns on his side to see his sister reassuring him.

"If you think this is the good thing to do then do it. I will be here to support you" Naru encourages his brother.

The maroon boy was shocked but smile like all of his nervousness wash away. His lovely sister is the best

He knock on the door three times.

"Come in" A sweet voice called and both Akaba siblings slowly open the door

What greets them first is the sight of a nice girl wearing a sweet smile Kristina

"Hello, what can I help you two?" Kris asked, curiosity dripping into her voice

In the corner of Aiga's eyes, he spots Free layin— rather than sleeping on the couch. His sweat drop as the scene unfold, he can't still believe that a strong blader like him has a lazy side.

The blond seem to recognize someone was there when he slowly open his eyelids, revealing tired emotionless pitch black eyes.

Aiga mentally shakes his head and reminds himself to focus on the main goal here.

"G-good morning" Aiga greeted while mumbling low curses the way he shuttered "I hope I'm not disturbing anything and there is something you need to see" the maroon boy tried his best to be polite as much as possible while clutching tightly the tablet

Free narrows his eyes in the odd scene, for some reason he can feel something bad about this.

"Sure, what it is" Kris answered although part of her was worried about the way the Akaba siblings shifted uncomfortably

"Before I show it, please don't tell Valt I told you this—" Aiga stopped, realizing it was sounding suspicious—wait he's gonna recognize it either way" he mumbled to himself in the last part but it was heard by everyone in the room

Well, that just caught Free and Kris's attention more.

"I don't know how to explain this so I'm just gonna show it, even though it might look like not a big deal but I'm still concerned" Aiga explains and hand over the tablet he's been holding the whole time

Kris takes the tablet with worries swirling in her stomach and Free who is previously sitting on the couch, take a look as well

The manager's eyes widen in horror when she sees all things on the table shoe and the more she sees the more she looked pale, and Free has a grim expression on his usual emotionless face and looks like he's controlling himself.

The girl almost falters but slowly regains her posture.

"Aiga and Naru thank you for showing this thing to us, I'll make sure to fix this immediately," Kris said with authority in her voice that make the Akaba siblings subconsciously straighten up their posture

"Hai," The Akaba said in unison and left the room to give them space because they looks so much troubled

Well apparently, Aiga is not only shown the video of harassment... He finds another thing as well that looks very concerning as well.

When the two kids are already out of sight. Kris grips her fist tightly that almost turns white as she grits her teeth in frustration

"I'm an idiot," She said to herself with her voice scarily near to choke

"No, you—" Free was about to say something

"No! Free! I should have known! I'm the manager and I already have suspicion and yet I did nothing!" Kris scream in frustration and thankfully the office is now soundproof or else other people will see her in this state

Free look up to his sister figure, he hates when she's like this, it always breaks his heart.

Well, he couldn't blame her for acting like this but still...

Kris takes a deep breath to calm down. She's the manager so she needs to act relationally, the drama can continue later.

Her previous breaking state quickly turns into determination

Free almost blink in surprise, he know girls can always switch moods but he was still shocked at how Kris managed to compose herself so quickly.

She's a strong girl and that's why she's the best manager.

Kris went over to her laptop and shart to type something on the keyboard and the Free itself can't comprehend what she was doing

Her sapphire blue eyes narrowed in concentration and Free just stood there silently admiring her work and so he look over the laptop too to see what was going on

A short moment of eternity until his eyes widen in surprise again, it seems she finds what she's trying to look for

"No wonder I can't see this thing... because my account is blocked! And the official BC Sol account and other members' account too!" Kris said to herself in anger.

(Who in the world would block her!? Are they trying to do this on purpose so she can't see the things they do to Valt?)

(How dare they. They're going to pay!)

Free can see an imaginary fire behind her and if hadn't known better, Kris is one step breaking things around her

There's the reason why you shouldn't piss her off. She's scary despite her angelic innocent face.

Free must do something too

"Where are you going Free?" Kris asks when the blond is walking away

"Find Valt" He simply said but there was a trace of concern in his voice. He's still shocked by the things he found out today.

"Wait! What are you going to do?" She asks frantically.

"Don't worry I'm just going to talk to him and bring him here" and with that Free disappeared in her sight

Kris silently hoped everything will work out somehow.

Enough chit-chat, she still has work and investigation to do.

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"Go Valkyrie!"

A determined shout echo through the quiet forest as the wonder boy stands still at the old ruin stadium and keep cheering on his partner with a deer watching in the background

Valkyrie's spin keeps getting accelerated with blue electric trails surging through

Then the bey hit the walls and sent flying through the air. Welp nothing changed

Valt's eyes widen in surprise and were about to catch when someone else does

Confused hazelnut brown eyes meet an unreadable black void eyes

The bluenette blink and quickly regain his composure as his solitude friend suddenly appear out of nowhere in front of him who's staring at him straight in the eyes that make him feel a little bit uneasy

Disregarding that feeling, he put up a grateful smile "Thanks Free"

He was about to snatch Valkyrie when the golden boy make an unexpected move that took Valt by surprise

Free move away his hands, not letting Valt get his bey

"F-free?" The bluenette stuttered and was startled at his friend's strange behavior

"Why you didn't tell anything?" Free ask in an audible whisper but the pain and sadness are heard loud and clear

This is the first time Valt sees his golden friend in this state and it makes him worry than what the guy just asked earlier

"Free what's wrong?" The bluenette asks but he feels the question itself is the wrong one

The blond sighed exasperatedly but regain his composure and take a step forward

Valt jolted in surprise when Free put both of his hands on his shoulder. Shock Brown eyes meet black eyes with some unknown hatred

"Why didn't tell us that you're being harassed?"

Eight words but enough to make Valt freeze in his place

"H-huh?" Is the only word he manages to utter out loud as Free narrows his eyes

"Harassed means you're being disturbed and bothered persistently either physically or verbally. It's similar to being bullied, Valt" Free explains carefully

Then Valt understand what was happening now so he put up a reassuring smile "Oh, I see, well don't worry I'm fin—"

His words got cut off when Free tighten up his grip on his shoulder but not tight enough to hurt. He flinches when he can feel Free shaking hands on his shoulder.

"No Valt it's not fine. Those people are going too far" Free spat with poison lace on his voice. The bluenette would admit that he suddenly feels afraid of him even though it's not directly to him.

This is a rare moment where Valt had seen Free look so angry in not beyblade related.

Meanwhile Free looks over to Valt's eyes to see the confusion and fear swirling in his hazelnut eyes. He takes a deep breath to calm down himself because Valt is too innocent.

Too innocent to realize what is not normal—

Or maybe he already considered it normal

Free can feel his heart breaking for a small second before composing himself

He needs to fix this sooner or later before it gets worse.

Taking a deep breath, he muster up all the courage he had to look straight in his eyes — which is hard because he feels guilty.

"Valt come with me, we need to talk".

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Valt doesn't know why he's in Kris's office.

Did he do something? He's getting nervous

He looks around to see Kris like she's about to cry, Free with a painful expression, Trad with visible concern on his face, Raul is oddly frowning, and a very worried Agne. This is the rare scene you wouldn't see every day

'What is happening?!' Why the room is so gloomy?' Valt thought worriedly. It's been a while since a BC Sol drama happened.

Better find out what is happening. He feels left out for not knowing the situation

"G-guys? What happened? Valt asks to shutter cause he feels like it's sounded so wrong

The moment he asks that question, every attention snap to him made him gulp in surprise.

"Dear do you realize what's the situation you are in" Ange spoke softly  first with her loving mother side that everyone loves

Valt shakes his head and Ange sigh in sadness

"Valt we're talking about the harassment and death threats you've been receiving," Trad said directly to the point

The room went cold and silent at his statement.

Valt's eyes widen in surprise and his throat is left dry. He looks down at the floor while anxiously fidgeting his fingers. He doesn't know what to reply

Kris looks at the young boy in sadness. She still can't believe these things are happening. Valt is a sweet and kind boy and he doesn't deserve this

So she walks over to the anxious young blader and bends down to reach his height to grab his hands gently. Valt's eyes widen unexpected action and Kris's eyes soften.

"Valt, I know ignoring haters is a good thing and I'm glad you're doing a great job about it but if things are out of line like this, you should tell us next time" Kris softly tells him

Valt almost melt at her sweet gentle tone feels some of the stress he's been feeling lately slowly disappear

And so the next few hours revolve around this concern and how it will solve

Overall, Valt is glad his friends always got his back. He feels so grateful

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Aiga is on mission

here's sure either why he's doing this either. Ever since he meet Valt, start blading, and joined BC Sol, he feels like something unknown inside him bloom

This is strange but it feels warm and light that brings him new happiness and experience.

Looking from left to right. He made his way through the forest to find a certain someone

He's always training here in the forest because it reminds him of his home. So he's starting to feel familiar with the place so he knew the route to the secret ruin stadium as well.

Aiga from above to see a tree and a mischievous glint showered his eyes with a threatening smile to take over.

This mission is serious but who says he can't have fun?

He grabs a low branch of the tree and grabs another one with his free hand then pull himself up and places his left foot against the tree trunk, and he disappears into the leaf-covered branches.

He has always climbed trees since he was chance life fee in the forest, so that's why he has a built body and experience that helps him to move from tree to tree and swing from vine to vine.

With an agile body, he lift another tree and look under it, and found what he was looking for.

Valt Aoi sitting comfortably in the tree's trunk like he's thinking something deeply the way his eyes look so dull

Aiga has an inch idea why he's acting like this.

An idea pops out in his head, he's not sure if this is good considering the situation but he'll never know until he tries.

Silently crouch on the lower branch so he won't spot him, adjusting his grip for a moment to make sure he's holding. the branch tightly then let his body fall.

"Boo! "

Valt shrieked in surprise, instinctively scrambling backward from the figure who suddenly appear nowhere.

For a short tense moment, he manages to calm down himself when he distinguishes who is it

Aiga Akaba is hanging upside down from the tree, with a mischievous smile plastered on his face

"Omaygosh" Valt breath himself and look over the maroon boy with a hard stare

"Aiga please come down and be careful, you'll fall at this rate! " Valt scolded him but his hazelnut eyes looks very concern

Aiga snorted at his words, both amusing how he thinks he will fall and annoyed for worrying about him.

But he let himself down the tree because the dude looks like have a heart attack at any second.

Valt sighed in relief and chuckle

Aiga raises a suspicious eyebrow at his companion's odd behavior "What?"

Valt shakes his head "Pfftt nothing, I just realized how funny and cool you look earlier"

As much as Aiga wants to feel happy about his words, he feels slightly concerned about his quick change of mood. Sooner or later he will think he is Bipolar in this state

The previous dull hazelnut eyes are now shining bright in happiness. "Thank you," He said softly with overflowing gratefulness

For some reason, Aiga can't look him straight in the eye because it's too bright and he might go blind.

"W-welcome," he say eventually, trying to ignore this weird feeling creeping up on him

"So are you up for a battle?" Valt said with his infamous grin and hold up his bey Valkyrie who sparkle in anticipation

All the awkwardness the maroon boy felt earlier quickly faded away as he put up his usual cocky smirk and hold up his bey Achilles who glint in the accepted challenge. "That's why I'm here"

And two battled while having so much fun like the world around them didn't exist and just focus on their enjoyment.

Free who is silently watching this whole time, smiles softly and gratefully.

Maybe he judges the younger maroon too much by thinking he's dangerous.

But he realized they owe Aiga for telling them about Valt's crisis and for cheering him up at the same time

He wants to see more. He wants to see those two happily but next time on the stage when they face off each other for the championship.

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A/N: I don't think I manage to portray the emotion in the characters very well. This chapter looks rushed but I hope you guys still like it.