Author's Note: Okay, It's Nicole, the "Kairi" in our penname. I'm also the one writing Moonshine. Anyway, this fanfic is a rivalry between me and "Selphie." Lol. All in fun. See, she created the one where Kairi was a jerk, so now I'm turning the tables. This time I'm changing POVs. So, rate, and be honest. (meaning say mine's better. Jk!) :-D. We appreciate all you readers do for us!

Author's Note: The name of the story is mainly just cuz I like it. Besides that, though I need a reason. Kairi's name means "water," of course. Sora has the Light Keyblade. A major source of light is fire. And like Fire on Water, this is really interesting. Bad or not, I don't know, but it's still interesting. Lol. No, Sora's not on Kairi. Lol.

CHAPTER I: PROBLEM NUMBER 1

Kairi's POV: (font, Sylfaen) Introductory

I wake up and stretch after turning off my alarm clock. Good dream… Sora and I really took that raft together by ourselves. I giggle. It's too stupid. Yeah, he's my best friend, but it's still stupid… Since we've entered high school… he's been hanging around more guys. I really don't have much more "real" friends. I mean, I'm popular and happy, but I still want that special something. I haven't found it yet. But I'm really curious if it could be in Sora or Riku. Riku… Selphie likes Riku. I remember that. Even if I do still hate her. You see, we were best friends. Even before high school. At the beginning of the year, just a couple weeks ago, she told our star Blitzball player, Seifer, that I liked him. The truth is, he's a jerk. He's conceited and arrogant. Just plain annoying. He's also the most popular guy in school. Sora blitzes and he's good, but it's not his main thing. It's the only sport he plays but he's also involved with other academics, like community service. I pulled him into it, really. I used the excuse that I would be lonely and bored if he didn't come. People were asking us all day if we were "together," but we're just best friends. Kind of. His real best friend is Riku. I just kind of tag along, but they don't leave me out either. I smile. Okay. So maybe we all three make the best of friends. But Riku and I don't talk outside of hanging out with Sora. He and Sora talk, Sora and I talk, but we don't. Some times I wish I could change that.

Anyway, it's Monday. Another school day to go. I drag myself out of bed and into the shower. After I get dressed, I brush my teeth, do my hair, put on make-up, all that fun stuff. My outfit is, of course, the school uniform. Required for both guys and girls. Although, the boys wear kaki pants and a blue, plaid tie with a white button-up shirt. Riku, on the other hand, defies this tradition. Well, if it's not him, then it's one of the group of boys he hangs out with other than Sora. In fact, I don't think they like Sora at all. The group calls themselves the Jaguars. I don't like any of the boys to be honest except for Riku. But then again, I've known him my whole life. I go to the kitchen and sit in a chair for a few moments before getting up and making a bowl of cereal. Mom's probably still asleep. I have a dad, too. I've just never really met him. Mom says when I turn 18, since I'm a princess, I have to return to Radiant Garden and start fulfilling my duties there. And I'm already promised a husband, so I don't know why I bother here with boys. Or why I bother at all. I finish my cereal and go outside. As I walk down the road, the bus passes me. I don't ride the bus because it's too loud, too crowded, and people act completely inappropriate, so I walk. I feel kind of bad for Sora, though. He lives on the island. He has to take his boat and then catch the bus. I think I'd ask to be home-schooled.

I finally get to school. I have 5 of 8 classes with Sora, because he's in my grade as well, except he's older in the way that I was born the year before in April and he was born the year after me in the summer. I go to my first period class. It's English. I sit in the front of the room to the left, and Sora sits back with his Athletic friends in the back/middle of the room toward the right wall. I sit with the cheerleaders. I am a cheerleader, after all. Not the captain, but it's fun and a good hobby. It's my only sport.

"Hey, Kairi." One of my friends, Shelinda says.

"Hey," I reply. "What's going on?"

"Nothing." She slumps.

"What's wrong?"

"My boyfriend and I are in another fight. He didn't txt me back yesterday and when I asked him what was wrong, he blew up."

"I'm sorry. I wish I could help, but I've never…"

"I know…" She perks up. "We need to get you a boyfriend."

I'm surprised. "What?!"

"Yeah. You'd be cute with the right guy. Heck, you'd be cute with just about any guy."

I giggle. "Yeah, sure." I haven't told anyone about Sora. He's just a friend anyway. I don't like him like that. We're just close. He and Riku are the only one's that I almost told my secret to. I'm a princess. No one here knows that. It's my secret.

Sora's POV: (font, Trebuchet MS) Getting to know Sora

I laugh with my friends, Tidus and Wakka. This is really stupid. They show me a video on their phone of some ventriloquist show. It's a dead pirate. He says he accidentally blew himself up with a cannon. It's hilarious. The video ends and I look up and over at where my friend, Kairi sits in English. I swallow. I've been having these weird dreams. They're only natural, but I've dreamt about girls before. Never like this. I've had dreams where I kiss the girls, but not to where we do anything more sexual. And why her? I've known her practically my whole life. She's a really good friend. But still, she just looks so pretty. I tear myself away from fear of staring. I'm not going to do anything. She's too good a friend. I don't wanna lose her to a stupid relationship that will not work out. Not likely anyway. I feel a vibration in my pants. I jump and pull out my phone. That did not feel very good right now. I read the txt. It's from Riku, my best guy friend.

"Hey man, wer skiping this period. wanna come?"

I never go. He knows that. I txt him back. "Nah, its cool."

He txts back, "Ok, c u latr". Riku's a year older than me, and a year ahead of me. He's a sophomore, so he has some older friends already. It's cool. It created some problems last year, with me still in middle school and him a freshman, but we were still pretty close. Last summer we were gonna try to build a raft to see if there were other worlds outside this world. It didn't work out. We had a storm… and all that kind of stuff. Kairi was going to come too. Tidus turns to me.

"Have you ever seen that before?"

"Nope." I reply.

Wakka pipes up. "You in the dark, man."

I rub the back of my head. "Yeah, I know."

"But you're still one of the best blitzers on the team. You playing again this year?" Tidus always helps me out.

"I plan to." I notice a chill and put on my letterman's jacket. It says "Fischer" on the back, because it's my last name and what most of the jocks call me. I'm not a jock, but our star player on the team is. The teacher goes to the front of the room after about 5 minutes since the bell rang for class and starts to teach the lesson. We open our grammar books and begin studying how to diagram a sentence. English is my good subject, so I decide to take a nap.

Kairi's POV: Reasoning

I try to pay attention in English. That's why I sit at the front. I hate this subject. I speak English, and I don't sound stupid. Isn't that good enough? How am I supposed to diagram a sentence? It makes no sense. I look over at where Sora sits. He'll help me out. But he's asleep… Great… I'll get the answers from him later. I don't see the point in diagramming a sentence anyway. It can't be put to everyday life. This is just a piece of the "junk" teachers have to teach us. I slump, wishing I were in math class. That's my good subject. I'm also pretty good in science. Our class is taking Biology this year. Next year we take Chemistry and then Physics. I'm looking forward to Physics. Now that's something you can put in everyday life. I suffer the through the end of class.

Sora's POV: The Dream

I sit with Kairi on the beach now. The sun is setting and lighting up the sky in beautiful pinks, purples and reds. She nudges me playfully.

"C'mon, Sora!" She gets up and takes off running into the ocean.

"Huh?" I laugh and follow her, taking off my shirt for swimming. It's hot and it's sure to be refreshing. She stumbles on something and falls down. I trip on her and land on top of her. We laugh and I get up. She giggles at me and suddenly stops. She looks at me intently. In a second, I have her face cupped in my hands and I'm kissing her passionately. She takes off her shirt revealing her swimsuit top. I kiss her more. My hands travel to her back and untie her top. It falls in the water. She wraps her arms around my neck as we kiss and I pick her up a little.

I'm nudged. "Sora! Get up!" It's Tidus.

I wake up with a shock. I breathe hard. It's like I was caught. But there's no way anyone else could have seen that dream, right? Why are they becoming more frequent? Why are they always the same person? I've made some hard decisions. Decisions the guys tease me for really bad. I want to wait for that stuff until I get married. And the real reason is, is because people don't think a guy could possibly wait that long. I'm determined to prove them wrong. Kairi wants to wait too… We talked about this before, but her reasoning was different. She never told me why, though…

"I'm meeting my dad one day,"is all she said. It makes no sense to me. So what if she meets her dad? Good for her. "I'm not supposed to do that. …It just isn't an option." Why not?

Whatever the reason, I ignore. I finish my work fast and put it in my book. Kairi and I have PFD next period. It's Personal Family Development. Whatever that means. It's a class. The bell rings and I hurry out the door.

I get to PFD and sit in my chair. I put my book and backpack under and beside my desk. The teacher hates me bringing a backpack, but she can get over it. I get up and grab a classroom set text book and sit back down in my seat. Again, I sit toward the back corner of the room so I'm not noticed so much. Kairi sits a few rows over and up two desks. She comes in shortly after most of the people have come in and taken their seats. She comes up to me.

"Can I use your answers for the English homework? I really don't get it. It's really stupid."

I smirk. That's funny. "It's not stupid. It's easy. It's just remembering where the nouns and verbs and stuff go."

"Well, I don't get it. Please?" She goes to get it. I grab the book first and decide to give her a hard time about it.

"I don't think so." I hide the book behind my back. She reaches around me with both arms to try to grab it. It fails. Then I become very aware that she's pressed up against me. She's on her tip-toes trying to reach. And then, I become even more aware of the guys eye's that I sit with watching her. And I'm not talking about the situation. They're checking her out. I stop, realizing I was the cause of those three things. I hand her the paper.

She huffs fakely, unaware of the circumstance. "Thank you." She says, pleased. I try to pretend like nothing just happened, so I don't worry her. But then, I'm not sure of what to do. I just sit down and think. I start to become really angry with myself. She's a friend. Why should I care if guys check her out? I do. Crap. What? I do? Since when? That's weird. I can't even remember when. Crap! Crap! Crap! I can't like her! I can't! I bang my head on the desk, but try to make the least noticeable sound. I feel so stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Sadly, I draw attention from one of my other friends.

"What's wrong with you?" Rex asks.

"Nothing." I reply.

"Uh… huh…" He said, disbelieving.

"Whatever." I lay my head the opposite direction, not trusting myself enough to fall asleep again. I wait until work is passed out for me to do, and I do it. Then I go back to my stupid-pity-party. At least, until I'm poked. I look over.

"Sorry. Just seeing if you were asleep." Rex says. He's really starting to get on my nerves. "But are you and Kairi together now or something?"

I'm suddenly wide awake now. "No." I almost exclaimed that…

"Really, 'cuz earlier you two seemed…"

"So? That doesn't mean anything. We're friends. Ask her. She'll say the same thing."

"Okay, okay. Jeez."

I must have snapped at him. "Sorry, but I'm just tired of people saying crap about that, I guess. They're always telling us we should go out. Or asking us if we are. And then telling us to."

He laughs. "Then maybe you should think about it. She's hott."

"She's been my friend since the first grade!"

Kairi's POV: Defending and Revealing

I'm not stupid. I know when I'm being talked about. I hear Rex, one of the jockey jerks, talking to Sora, pounding him about our relationship. And I can hear his responses clear as day. I slump. Apparently he really doesn't care about me. He's just sick of the responses people have been coming to us with. Fine. I can back off. After all, they were starting to really get on my nerves too. Anyway, I finish up my work after having copied Sora's work onto mine. I threw some random stuff in there, too, just to try to confuse the teacher. Keep us both outta trouble. He should appreciate that. I turn in my paper and grab Sora's work to give it back to him. As I walk up, Rex stops me.

"Okay, Kairi. Do you like Fischer?"

I'm stunned now. "Huh?" I take a glance at him. His head is hung, so I can't see his expression. "He's like my best friend. So, yeah. I guess I do."

"No," he says. "Do you really like him?"

"You mean…" I knew what he meant the first time. "Like I said. He's my friend. I love him. I wouldn't give him up for anything." Rex squints at me as if unsure. "Got a problem?"

He smirks. "Nope." I'm taken aback. What did I do? He knows. How? I didn't say anything. Maybe it was my demeanor, or disposition. How did I give it away? Still, I'm going to play it off. Hopefully it's not as evident to Sora.

Author's Note: Okay, so that was my first chapter. Pretty self-explanatory. Sorry for the monotonous structure, but it is the first chapter. Meaning, more to come and more excitement! As you may have noticed, I put different fonts to help distinguish the characters a little better in the different POVs. Such as Kairi's lady-likeness, and Sora's laid-back style. My computer doesn't offer a whole lot of different fonts, but I really like the ones I picked out. I hope you did too. Rate! I'm in competition! XD!