EDIH

1: ECHO

Bey City, Japan, Earth (Four days later) 

Tyson was bored out of his mind in class, listening to the droning voice of his teacher while absentmindedly doodling on his notebook. He glanced around, noticing other students – like Hilary, for example – were writing notes like the good students they were. Other students, like himself, were bored out of their minds.

"Sensei, how does this apply to real life?" A voice asked suddenly. This caught Tyson's attention because he recognized the voice. It was none other than the blue-haired, red-eyed, loud-mouthed Hikaru Kuwashima. He was sitting three rows in front of him, next to a boy identical to him except Shun – his younger twin – had been paying attention like the good student he was and he looked shocked at his eldest brother's words.

"Kuwashima," The teacher said in disdain, looking at the seventeen year old boy in front of her, "you know that mathematics is one of the principles of life-."

"Basic math. They have calculators now, you know," Hikaru answered, looking out the window, "Why do we need to know anything about limits or derivatives or anything like that? Why are we getting our heads filled with all this useless junk?"

"Kuwashima, step out of the classroom now." The teacher said, obviously not happy with the older twin boy. Hikaru grinned and did as he was told, waving goodbye at Shun, who hid both his eyes with his long bangs.

Tyson didn't blame Hikaru for his outburst. He didn't understand why he needed to know this. Still, Hiro, his father and his grandfather wanted him to graduate from high school at the very least. The bright side to that was that he was already in third year so he was almost done with everything. That made him let out a sigh of relief.

"Orikasa," The teacher turned to the girl who had been looking out the window for a long time, distracted just like Tyson. The girl jumped, standing up before the teacher smiled, "would you mind solving this problem?"

"Sure, sensei, my pleasure," The girl answered before going up to the board. She used the proper equations and steps to answer the question, flawlessly showing her skills. Tyson, Shun, Hilary, Kenny and two others weren't impressed. Aya was intelligent, even if she hardly showed it.

Tyson was cut off from his observing upon seeing a note on his desk. He opened it then turned to the girl that sat next to him, "Kaori, what's with the secrecy? The witch won't hear us from the back."

"Just read the note." She whispered back, gesturing at the paper. She looked back at her notes, writing furiously. Tyson shrugged and did as she had told him. He read the note with some difficulty - he was rusty in Russian – but was able to after a minute or so:

I'm having trouble with someone in the BBA training halls. Can you help me and meet her? You'll be good for her. – K.

This worried Tyson slightly because Kaori didn't ask for help when she was mentoring in her new job in the BBA. Besides being rather stubborn, more so than he was, Kaori was a Beyblade prodigy in her own right, with her ability to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of a blade during the heat of battle and also determining its type, what direction it was spinning in and the components that made it up. Kenny had labelled it the KK-Bey prodigy to not get them mixed up with the other two types.

The other types of prodigies – the TK-Bey prodigy and the B-Bey prodigy – were rarer to see, especially the B-Bey prodigy. Tyson wondered if the student Kaori was having trouble with was one of those prodigies and started thinking about it in depth, something that would've surprised anyone that knew him.

TK-Bey prodigies were prodigies of the game that seemed as if they were born to play the game. They possessed great power and were able to form strategies while battling. Prodigies like these included himself, Kai, Ray, Max and mostly everyone they knew. Still, it was hard to find TK-Bey prodigies these days.