Chapter 1: The Nerd Who Didn't Believe in Love

Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts is not mine. If it was, I would've made Kingdom Keys real.

"Selphie. What? Why are you looking at me like I'm stupid? You just asked me what my name was." Selphie said matter-of-factly. The other girl held her textbooks to her chest as she readjusted her glasses.

"No I didn't." She said softly.

"Whatever. Tell me what your name is, snob." Selphie said rolling her eyes.

Selphie was a popular girl, and she was a new girl who was known as a nerd at her old school. Just great. She just came into the building and already had the new title of a snob.

"Kairi." Kairi replied.

"Okay. Ground rules, geek. I rule this school. You disobey one command of mine and I will harm you severely. Next rule, don't touch the hot boy known as Tidus. He's my boyfriend. Next, do whatever my comrades say to do. Also, stay away from their boyfriends." Selphie said strictly.

"You don't need to worry about that. I don't believe in love." Kairi said.

"Hah! Everybody, the new girl Kairi doesn't believe in love!" Selphie snickered. A group of girls behind Selphie laughed.

Ugh. Being a redhead was hard enough but this was just ridiculous.

Selphie, the brunette, was like an angel. She wore a skin-tight yellow dress with matching yellow high heels and shoulder length hair. Kairi, however, was a redheaded nerd. Her hair also reached her shoulders, which were covered by a black tank top with a white one over the top. She also had on purple biker shorts underneath a purple skirt, a blue belt, and white slip-on shoes with purple caps. Kairi also wore a black choker, a yellow wristband, a purple arm band, and a pair of bracelets.

"Oh yeah. There's the rejects, or your future comrades. The main ones are Namine, Aqua, and Yuffie. Namine is dating no one, Aqua's dating Ventus, and Yuffie's dating Leon. Oh yeah. Then there are the twins, Roxas and Sora. They are the main boy rejects. The rules are stay away from the populars, stay with the rejects, out of my way, don't touch our boyfriends, and do whatever we say. Later!" Selphie said, walking away.

"I cannot follow your rules." Kairi said.

Selphie whipped around and grabbed Kairi by her collar, lifting her off the ground. "You're just a brat! A stupid, smelly, snobby, geeky, nerdy, and utter brat!" Selphie hissed before throwing Kairi across the room towards Aqua and their gang.

They caught her just before she hit the ground.

"We believe in what you say. We don't follow her rules either." Sora was the one who whispered to her. Kairi got up, grabbed her books, and ran to the bathroom, where tears spilled out of her eyes.

"Kairi, are you okay?" Kairi sniffed and turned around.

"Just leave me alone!" Kairi said to Aqua.

"Kairi, listen. I need you to be strong! Selphie will be like that for the rest of her life! Don't give her the satisfaction of knowing that she got to you." Aqua said.

"You're right. I will stand up to her!" Kairi said, stomping out of the room with her books.

"Wait, Kairi! She knows… karate." Aqua said the last part slowly because Kairi was already gone.

Kairi stomped through the hallways to Selphie.

"Hey, Selphie! You know what I think? I think the social hierarchy is the stupidest thing ever invented by students! I don't need a scale to tell me who I should and shouldn't be friends with! I can already figure out that Aqua and her friends are some of the coolest people in this school! You're number one on the list of people not to hang out with." Kairi said.

"What did you just say, Kari?" Selphie said.

"It's Kairi. And I said you're the worst person anyone could have as a friend." Kairi repeated.

Selphie was furious. She did a karate kick and Kairi flew across the room.

"Kairi!" She heard panic in the person's voice as they caught her. Kairi felt lightheaded. She had a feeling something was broken. All she saw was a glimpse of the ocean before everything went black.

"Kairi!" A voice called to her.

Kairi opened her eyes slowly, only to see the ocean. She blinked. How was she seeing the ocean? She looked closer. The ocean was shining, and a beautiful cerulean blue. But then she saw there was no sky. And there was a black dot in the middle of the ocean. Her eyes widened.

"S-Sora?" She asked. She realized she was looking into Sora's eyes.

"Kairi!" He exclaimed. She recognized that voice. It was the first thing she heard when she woke up, and the last thing she heard when she blacked out. It was Sora.

She saw that she was in an all white room. "Am I in a hospital? Why am I in a hospital?" She asked. She looked around better and saw that Aqua, Sora, Yuffie, Roxas, and Namine were with her.

"Yes, you are in a hospital. You got kicked by Selphie and you broke some ribs. Luckily Sora caught you when you flew through the air." Aqua said. If Kairi was any other normal girl, she would blush at the fact that Sora caught her. But Kairi didn't believe in love, so she didn't blush. Kairi looked at Sora.

"Thank you, Sora." Kairi said politely.

"You're welcome…" He said, hesitantly.

Kairi nodded and attempted to sit up, only to gasp in pain and fall back again.

"Whoa, there beautiful. You've still got broken ribs, and your good looks aren't going to heal them." Roxas said, winking at her. Sora glared at his twin. Kairi rolled her eyes. He was trying to flirt with her. Didn't he know that she didn't believe in love?

"Roxas, listen close, because I'm only going to ask you this once." Kairi started. Roxas came over and leaned his ear down by Kairi's mouth. "Where do babies come from?" She whispered.

Aqua heard, and covered her mouth to keep from smiling. She could tell what Kairi was doing.

"AH!" Roxas screamed as he ran out of the room. Kairi smirked.

"Whatever you told him, I don't want to know." Sora said, walking out of the room after his brother.

Once Roxas and Sora were out of the room, Aqua and Kairi burst out laughing.

"What?" Yuffie asked. Aqua whispered to her and Namine what Kairi had said, and they covered their mouths before laughing like crazy. Kairi giggled, because her ribs hurt a lot.

Kairi froze as Sora walked in again. The sun came out again for the first time in weeks, pouring through the clouds and the window. The sun hit Sora as he walked in. Kairi saw his eyes again, and felt strange. They glowed in the sunshine, and he looked at her, and smiled. Kairi felt even stranger as he walked to her. Suddenly, the room vanished, all except for Sora. Kairi felt so strange, she thought she might scream. She sat up, the pain nonexistent She felt her breathing get faster, and she thought she might pass out. And she was right.

Kairi looked around. It was pitch black. Then grass appeared below her, and a starry night sky above her head. She was standing in a meadow, all alone. Then Sora walked towards her. She ran towards him. She wrapped her arms around him, and he did the same. They were hugging! And Kairi liked it!

"Sora…" She whispered.

"Kairi?" Sora said. It was like they were speaking telepatically.

"Sora…" She whispered again. Sora started walking away through the meadow.

"Don't leave me!" She called out.

She ran to him, and wrapped her arms around him, causing them to fall into the grass. Kairi looked into his eyes.

"Stay with me." She said. But then he faded, and the meadow did too.

"Sora!" She screamed as she fell into a pit of darkness.

"Kairi, wake up!" Kairi recognized that voice.

"Sora! Is that you?" She called into the darkness. Then her eyes snapped open, and she saw two doctors, Sora, and Aqua. Everyone looked panicked.

"What's going on?" Kairi asked.

"We thought you had a heart attack, the way you just fainted and kept yelling my name and telling me not to leave you." Sora said.

Kairi blushed. Wait, what? Kairi blushed? Kairi decided she was very sick, and that's why she liked hugging Sora, and why she blushed.

"Do you feel okay, Kairi?" One of the doctors asked.

"Not really… can you call my mom?" Kairi asked.

"We already did. She's almost here." The doctor said.

"Kairi!" Kairi's mother burst through the door. Kairi sighed. That was her mother. Making an entrance as always. "My baby!" Aerith Gainsborough, Kairi's mother, said.

Kairi was very embarrassed to have her as her mother. It was embarrassing just to be related to her, let alone have her as your mother.

"Is she okay?" Mrs. Gainsborough asked.

"Yes, but she says she doesn't feel okay. We'll look her over again, but I think this is new to her, an internal thing. We're not sure, but it could be just an emotion that's new to her. She has been scared, mad, sad, happy, all the emotions before right?" The doctor asked.

"Well, no. She's never been in love before." Aerith said. Kairi covered her head with the blankets.

"Not even a crush?" The doctor asked.

"Nope."

"Hmm… does she have a fear of love?"

"No. She doesn't believe in love. She lives by the saying, 'If you never let anyone in, you'll never get hurt.'" Aerith said.

The doctor looked at Kairi, who still had the blankets over her head.

"Umm… Can we talk to you alone?" The doctor asked. Aerith nodded.

"You two had better get home. You have school tomorrow." The doctor told Sora and Aqua. The two nodded and walked out of the room after the adults. Kairi felt so alone.

She looked around for something to do, and saw that her mother had brought her favorite book. She picked it up and began to read. But she couldn't focus. Butterflies swarmed her stomach, and she felt sick. She thought she might throw up. She put the book back on the table and clutched her head. She felt a sharp pain in her side, and she screamed. The doctors from before ran in, and her vision began to blur.

"Mom… it hurts so bad…" She whispered, her breathing getting faster. She screamed again, but it was very quiet. This time, Kairi's mother screamed for her daughter, as the beeping, as well as Kairi's breathing stopped.