Title:After the Tears
Author: angelofdarkness39
Genre: Romance/ Drama
Rating : T
Pairings: Roxas x Naminé
Summary: Sora, Naminé and Roxas; a love triangle. At the beginning of the year, they meet Kairi. Will Sora still be able to keep his secret identity or will he let them figure it out all of a sudden?
Disclaimer: I own Kingdom Hearts 1, 2, re: chain of memories, final mix, and 3. Says Square Enix
A/N: Here it is, my first ever Kingdom Hearts fanfiction. (Yahoo?! I don't know what to say) laughs anyway, thanks to my dear brother, I got addicted to this thing. Enough! I don't have any more things to blab about here. Anyway, here's my Story, AFTER THE TEARS.
Chapter 1: A Perfect Start
It was the beginning of the school year and as usual, Roxas hated it the most. Introducing ones self to others repeatedly even if they know you is what he exactly hated. Imagine yourself telling them what you had told them last year again, it would be boredom if you listen to them for a second time.
He entered the school with his eyes still full of exhaustion. His eye bag as big as the size of a bag of a three-year-old pupil. Roxas is a guy with brunette spiky hair with aquamarine blue eyes and small lips. He is a popular since most of the girls like him. As he walked down the hallway, he saw Naminé crossing lands with him.
As soon as he saw the presence of Naminé first, his atmosphere turned the other way around, from a bad frame of mind to a good one. Roxas doesn't know why whenever he sees the presence of Naminé, it makes his day complete. One word would describe it, "LOVE".
The thought of it slightly scares Roxas, he can't fall in love with his best friend, it's not just right.
"Naminé!" he called out as he walked a little bit faster then came up to Naminé who was walking towards her locker. "How's it going? I haven't heard from you since like…"he mumbled the last word then paused. "The end of the school year." He continued as he watched Naminé open her locker.
She turned the volt with the combination 17-5-9-20-0 to open her locker. Years have past but still Naminé's the only person who knows her locker combination. Never did she dare to tell it to anyone even though she sees people act that way.
She turned to Roxas' Face then smiled. "I'm sorry Roxas, for not calling you this summer. I was busy doing a little charity in the Halloween town put up in our zone." She explained.
Roxas was put into confusion when he heard Naminé say about charity in Halloween town. "I didn't know that Destiny Islands has a place or town called that?"
Naminé chuckled. "You didn't go out your house this summer right? Everybody knows about that."
"No." he answered, plainly. "I was busy on my trainings and lessons. And one more thing is that, my schedule's a little tight for me to go out and wonder in Destiny Islands"
She chuckled, for the second time around. "How enthusiastic of you Roxas. As far as I'm concern all you wanted to do during you're summer is to visit all the corners of the world. Am I right?" she asked, sarcastically.
All through the years, Naminé has always been so sarcastic. Roxas likes that attitude on her, whenever he sees her so happy, it means relief for him. Relief that he doesn't have to worry much about her since he sees her happy now.
Naminé's really his best friend. Roxas can't even hide a thing from her. Stalker is not the right term but best friend is. After a second or two, Naminé snapped her finger as she remembered something very important.
"I got to go Roxas; I got to pick up Kairi." She closed her locker, waved Roxas goodbye then ran of.
"Wait, Naminé, who is Kai…"he said as his voice got softer and softer seeing Naminé getting farther from where she was standing a while a go. He turned back then walked straightly towards his designated room.
"Class A-1." he whispered as he looked up to the spot where the room name was written.
"Roxas. You're in class A-1 also?" a person from behind him asked. Roxas turned back and saw Sora, Naminé's crush, smiling with all his guts and glory. By the look of his face, Roxas can say that his in a good mood.
"You're in the class too?" asked Roxas.
Sora smiled. "Yes, me, Naminé and you are classmates again." He started walking towards the door as Roxas followed him. Sure, Naminé shows affection for him but the fact that he doesn't return them makes Roxas want to kill Sora.
At their status now, they're friends, along through with Naminé. Sora changed a lot since the time that Roxas and Naminé had been part of his life. The Sora that they've known before was a rude and stubborn one.
In terms of popularity, Roxas is no match for Sora. A lot of girls have a crush on him, even Roxas' best friend, Naminé. He's much cuter than Roxas in the way that Sora has two dimples at both sides of his cheeks.
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Roxas pulled out a chair at the leftmost side of the room at the fourth row. At that hour, Sora was feeling something bad; he didn't know what it is so he decided to sit at the other side of the room where he can be alone to think it over.
Naminé's best friend, Roxas, always did reserve a sit for her whenever she's near to being late. She always has to go to somewhere even if she knows that classes are going to begin and break time is over. She entered first, then after five seconds, the teacher of the room finally entered.
Everybody stood up as they greeted the teacher except for Roxas, who kept on asking Naminé questions about the person she told him a while ago.
"Naminé, where have you been?" he whispered at the person beside him still standing up together with his classmates.
She turned him, making them do a face-to-face act. "For the last time Roxas, I accompanied Kairi all the way here."
"Who's Kairi anyway?" after the teacher's greeting, the class sat back to their seats where they withdraw themselves a while ago.
"There she is" Naminé pointed out the crimson-headed girl beside the teacher who keeps on lowering her head. Kairi had always been a quiet person.
Sora was quiet, following the things the class was doing. His head was all lowered down so he can't see if someone's standing beside the teacher. He was alarmed when he heard the teacher tell that there was a new student this school year. He hastily looked at the front part of the room where the teacher was standing and saw a very familiar face standing beside her, the new student.
'Kairi? Isn't this the girl that I was put into an arranged marriage for?' he thought as his eyebrows crossed paths. Before jumping into conclusions, he first listened to her introduction.
The cerulean-blue eyed new student started only after receiving the teacher's signal.
"I am Kairi, I come from Twilight town and I know that's far from here. I hope I can get along with you fine." She introduced herself then gave of a bow in front of them.
Again, Roxas bothered Naminé by tapping her shoulder.
"Nami, why does she have to bow after her introduction? What does it mean?" he asked as he kept watching each and every one of her reflections.
She giggled softly. "That's a form of respect in Twilight town. Roxas try to read and you'll find out a lot of things that you don't know about yet." Roxas just nodded. Naminé is right, but one thing that Roxas always did hate was reading.
Sora's eyes widened a he heard the stupid words that came out from the mouth of the new student. 'Twilight town…Kairi. No! It can be. They're making another move again. This time they've found me.' He thought. He put down his head on his arms, which were on top of the other then bit his tongue to see if that was a nightmare.
The thing that just snapped him back to reality is when he saw a hand in front of his face. He looked up to see who's face was it and saw Kairi, smiling.
"I'm Kairi. And you are?" she said not knowing that most of the girls were glaring at her already.
He didn't bother to take the hand. Nevertheless, he did bother to tell him his name. "Sora." From the start, Roxas had been watching Sora's every move and he can say that Sora's out of his mind this time.
'He removed his attitude of being rude already. Could Kairi be the reason for him to bring back his rudeness?' he thought then shook his head upon coming up with the answer. 'No, he doesn't know her; she's just a new student in here.' He shook his head again not knowing that Naminé was looking at her.
"Roxas, what are you doing?" she asked then looked back to the teacher again after giving a smile to Roxas.
He just grinned. That was so embarrassing for your crush to see you fooling around during class hours.
As he was coming out of an answer, he wasn't able to hear the teacher's introduction. Lucky for him that he still was able to hear the most important part of it.
"Let's make it more interesting," the teacher said as she got something out of her bag. "Take a look at these cards of cartolina I'm holding right now. It will be by partners. What you're going to do here is to draw a little symbol representing you and be able to explain it." She continued as she scanned the whole room.
"You can pick your partners now." She added up as she looked at Kairi and gave her a wink. The new student just smiled with her shyness still present.
"Hey, Kairi right?" Sora asked as he turned to his side to see Kairi. She nodded. "You want to be my partner?" that can't be possible; Sora just gave an offer to the new student in class.
As he went on with his junior high years, he had always shown that he hated the new students so much that he doesn't mind to talk to them. But this time, it's different. Maybe one reason for it is because he really changed a lot.
"Okay." Kairi didn't know what to answer him. It was too good to be true that a cute guy like him would ask her to be his partner. She bit her lip as she remembered that she wasn't allowed to get a crush on somebody. It was strictly off limits for her to.
After two minutes, the teacher ordered them to go to their partners then distributed the cartolina.
"Kairi." The teacher called out. "Who is your partner?" Sora stood up.
"I'm her partner." He answered. His answer made many girls in the room whine. They weren't expecting the new girl to be close to Sora for a little amount of time only. Kairi just blushed.
After distributing the cards of cartolina, the bell rang which means a great relief for students from boring classes. As Naminé stood up, Roxas followed. She went up to Sora and greeted him.
"How are you today Sora?" she asked with Sora still seating on his chair. He finally stood up then came near the blonde haired girl.
Sora grinned as he rested his hand on Naminé's shoulder. "I'm fine. Don't worry about me." Then he walked out of the room.
"Sora!" yelled Roxas. "Wait for us. I'm not going to let you go to the cafeteria without us." He said as he caught up to Sora. The two girls remaining in the room just followed.
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The position of the cafeteria wasn't too far from the room they had just stepped out from. Actually, it was only twenty meters away from Class A-1, the class that the four belong to. When they reached the cafeteria, they saw that they weren't a lot of persons present in there.
They got their food then looked for a table. When Sora spotted one, he got near it and pulled up a chair then sat down immediately. The three just followed with silence along with them. Half of their food was eaten in silence when Kairi decided to break it up.
"So, Sora, tell me about yourself. Your likes, dislikes, friends and…" she paused as she took a small sip out of her lemonade. "Your family."
"Believe me, Sora won't answer red hair. He doesn't talk about his family since he entered here." A guy with jade green eyes and striking red hair spoke as he stepped near the table Sora chose to sit at.
'Axel. Here he goes again.' Thought Naminé as he sent him a secret glare so as to with Sora.
Kairi looked back to see who it was. "Who are you calling red hair? Have you looked in the mirror lately and saw that yours is the same color as mine?" she commented.
"Sorry about that." Axel said in return as he stretched out his hand and positioned it in front of Kairi. "Axel and you are?"
She just took the hand as a sign of respect for the guy who just bumped her on the first day of classes. "Kairi." Unexpectedly, when Kairi shook hands with him, he suddenly kissed it.
Naminé chuckled. "Get used to it Kairi. He's really that stupid."
"I repeat." Axel once again opened his big mouth as he pulled up a chair next to Kairi. "Sora never did tell any little detail about his family." Sora just glared at him.
Upon scanning the table, he saw Naminé and prepared to do what he was used of doing to Naminé, tease her. "Then again, why not ask the blonde hair in front of you, maybe she knows something about it."
-Flashback-
One day on a famous place on Destiny Islands, Sora was sitting on the grass watching the beautiful view in front of her when Naminé joined in.
"Hey!" he greeted, looked towards her then turned back to what he was looking at.
She took a seat behind him then sighed. "What do you want us to talk about again?" she asked.
"Why don't you tell me about your family?" requested Sora, for the very first time.
For a moment, he was happy that once again, he dared to talk about a thing called family. It was a great relief for him to do that. Naminé bit her lip deciding if she must continue with this conversion or not.
In one second, she decided. Since he's the one who asked for it, maybe it's not bad to answer it. "Well, my father's at Hollow Bastion right now for a business trip. My mother's living with me and my little sister now. For now, I also consider Roxas as my big brother." She answered, straightforwardly, without any other words added in it.
She took her braveness as she tried to ask Sora the same question. "What about your family?" she didn't dare look at him the fact that she didn't want to see Sora's reaction upon her asking her something about his most hated thing in the world. She was a bit GUILTY on what she just did.
"I live with my foster parents." He started making the eyes of the person beside him grow wide.
Seeing her reaction, he hastily snapped her back to reality by holding her hand. He smiled and she returned the smile. "Don't be sorry for me. I had a purpose for it."
"Could I know what it is?" she asked.
-End of Flashback-
"Shut up pumpkin head!" Roxas defended his best friend.
"Calm down Roxas, I was just making a little entertainment." Answered Axel. After that, silence was there again.
Since Roxas was so interested at the traditions of Kairi, he decided to interview her instead of them being so quiet and all. "So, Kairi, you told us that you've been transferring schools since you started junior high?" she nodded. "Why did you choose to study in our institute?" he asked.
She gulped. "Where looking for the prince of Twilight Town, Xin."
Upon hearing Kairi say that name, Sora lost his spirit to eat. He stood up, carried his half-full tray then walked away. Naminé was planning to follow him but he stopped her before she could even stand up. Naminé just chose to stay for her not to hurt Sora.
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That was Chapter 1 everybody. What a cliffhanger! What could Sora's forgotten identity be? Why did he walk out when he heard Kairi say the name "XIN" in front of them? What could be the reason why Sora was living with a foster family? So many questions yet not answered.
Read and Review. Then after that, tune in to the next chapter of AFTER THE TEARS, a kingdom hearts fanfic by angelofdarkness39.
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