Disclaimer: Sorry, I don't own Kingdom Hearts, unlike them I write about it instead.

Summary: It's hard enough for Kairi Aozora to be in the same school as Sora Hikari, but living with him…well we might have some problems. SXK, RXN. OCC. Not a sequel to Growing.

Kairi: 16
Sora: 16
Roxas: 16
Namine: 16
Riku: 17

Can't Live With You, Can't Live Without You
Chapter 1: We've established that I Hate You

Oh joy…science class. Kairi's hardest subject and the one she despised the most. It wasn't like she was going to need to know how to dissect a frog anytime soon, yet here she was getting ready to do it anyway.

"Now class, you're going to need a partner to dissect the amphibious creature in front of you," Mr. Unzari announced.

'Frog, frog. It's called a frog for Christ sake stop calling it an amphibious creature. It's called a frog,' Kairi's voice rang in her head as Mr. Unzari struck another nerve. The man really was boring and annoying. His last name, Unzari even meant tedious and boring. That's got to say something doesn't it?

"So please line up in the front of the room and I'll read the list so you and your partner may begin the dissection of this amphibio—"

Kairi coughed extremely loudly causing Mr. Unzari's sentence to be cut off. For God's sake it was a FROG and a DEAD one for that matter. Kairi sighed and walked up to the front of the room with her best friend Namine. Namine was always good at this kind of stuff and Kairi prayed she'd be partnered with the smart, yet beautiful blonde girl.

"Mimi you are partnered with Midori," Mr. Unzari recited his list of partners as Mimi and Midori let out a shrieking squeal. Kairi had to flinch because it was so high pitched. "Toshi you are partnered with Mayumi."

'That's unfair! How come he partnered Toshi and his girlfriend THREE TIMES, yet he can't even manage to partner me with my best friend once this whole year? COME ON!' Kairi whined in her head.

"Kairi you are partnered with Shun," Mr. Unzari stated and Kairi sighed in disappointment.

'Well it could have been worse it could have been So—'

"Sora," Mr. Unzari mumbled as his words dripped with annoyance. It seemed that Sora hadn't showed up for class yet and Mr. Unzari was just about to announce his partner. "Well apparently I can't announce his partner because Sora isn't even in cla—"

The door bursted open and of course Sora had come in late…again with his perfect timing too. "Yo. What's up? Sorry I'm late Unzari. Next time I'll try to show up somewhat on time," Sora explained smoothly as he walked to his seat, plopped his books down and headed to the front of the class where everyone else was lined up. Kairi gave Sora a dirty look as he walked by casually. How could he just waltz in like nothing was wrong? Was there seriously a mental problem in his head or something?

Kairi could've sworn there was smoke coming out of Mr. Unzari's ears, but she didn't want to point it out loud because then Mr. Unzari would suddenly explain how our ear drums can sometimes beat so fast that they could suddenly produce a substance similar to smoke and then…

Ugh, even thinking about it made Kairi's head hurt.

"Well, Mr. Hikari your partner is Megumi," Mr. Unzari stated flatly "Roxas your partner is Namine," Mr. Unzari continued and moved on with the rest of the list.

When it was finally over Kairi went to go search for Shun, her partner, but she couldn't find him for some odd reason. Was he absent? No he couldn't be! This counted as a big chunk of Kairi's grade and if she failed science her mom would kill her for sure.

Kairi rushed up to Mr. Unzari's desk and complained, "Mr. Unzari…uhh…sir…I don't think Shun's here today and I need a partner. I kind of can't do this project all by myself and I—"

"Unzari," Sora interrupted as Kairi grunted, which caused Sora to give her a strange evil glare in return, "Megumi's absent and I need a partner."

"Perfect," Mr. Unzari began…

'No…no…PLEASE…please don't make—' Kairi's train of thought was soon cut off as her prediction came true.

"Sora and you can become partners. Now I have to get a move on! See you kids later," Mr. Unzari finished as he walked away to study another group.

Kairi was in a mental state of shock and in plenty of denial. 'Oh my gosh. No, no, no, no this can't be happening! Now I'm going to fail. I'm going to fail. Oh my gosh I've never gotten a failing grade on my report card.'

"Now this is just dandy," Sora muttered and Kairi snapped out of her mental breakdown to shoot Sora a death glare, which was common in Kairi and Sora's occasional conversation…or lack of.

"It's not like I wanted to be your partner," Kairi retorted angrily as she swiftly turned on her heel and walked to the back of the classroom where the last frog dissection set up was.

"Well Mrs. Premadonna Drama Queen, I'm just here to get a good grade and—" Sora was soon abruptly cut off by Kairi.

"PSHH. Did I just hear Sora and good grade in the same sentence? Since when did you care about academics?" Kairi interrupted.

"Since I felt like it," Sora replied.

"Bull," Kairi hissed as she put on her white robe and her gloves as Sora followed suit.

"Stop pretending like you know me or something cause you don't," Sora demanded.

"But I do know you Sora. I've known you since the kindergarten. We've been at the same stupid school and trust me it hasn't been a party being in the same classes with you every single year," Kairi pointed out with a smirk of accomplishment on her face.

There was silence as the two just stared at each other in a heavy death glare match as if they were daring the other to turn and look away.

Unfortunately their match was cut short.

"Oh my! You guys are behind. I'd get a move on if I were you so stop staring at each other," Mr. Unzari scolded as Kairi's eyes showed a 'what-the-heck-are-you-smoking?' kind of look.

Kairi rolled her eyes, "Whatever I can do this with or without your stupid help." Kairi began grabbing the knife and staring at the dead frog lying on its back and suddenly Kairi remembered…

She was scared of dissection…that was kind of why she wanted to be Namine's partner.

"Well can you kind of hurry, I don't have the rest of my life you know…" Sora explained.

"Shut up. I'm trying to focus," Kairi lied, but in reality she was trying to gather the courage to actually make a cut. She looked at the sheet to guide her through the dissection.

First: Cut a gash vertically through the bottom of the neck all the way to the end of the stomach.

'Not so hard right Kairi?' Kairi thought, 'I mean it's like slicing a piece of bread.'

Suddenly Kairi felt sick as she made that 'frog and bread' relation.

"Oh gosh don't tell me your scared. Scaridy Cat!" Sora teased.

"Why are you so immature? I'm trying to focus," Kairi replied with annoyance hanging off her voice.

"Ouch I think I hit a nerve. Now Kairi's being mean," Sora whimpered sarcastically.

"I'm not mean, I just hate you and I'm not mean to anyone else I'm just mean to you," Kairi pointed out. And it was true. In fact people knew Kairi as a nice, sweet, hardworking girl. She wasn't mean to anyone else unless they had truly done something horrible to her. Yet for some reason Sora and her would bicker like they were at war.

And under the circumstances they might actually be at war.

"Gosh just let me do it. I bet you I could do a better job than you," Sora challenged rhetorically.

"You think you're better than me?" Kairi enunciated on every word. Did he just challenge her on dissecting a frog? If Sora wanted a challenge Kairi would be more than willing to take on the challenge and shut Sora's mouth completely by winning.

And that was another thing. For some reason Kairi and Sora were competitive about each other. It had all started when they were young…

When they used to be best friends.

But of course things led to another and somehow they ended up hating each other…a lot.

Sora attempted to snatch the knife out of Kairi's hand, but she pulled her hand away.

"I'm not a retard, Sora. I actually know how to cut a frog open you know? Kind of like what I want to do to you right now," Kairi commented smartly as she began cutting the frog neatly. Every slice she did back and forth she felt like she could feel it on her chest.

Second: Take out all the main organs such as the lung, heart, stomach, liver, and intestines.

"Oh Jesus," Kairi mumbled as she felt her head get dizzy from all the preservation chemicals.

'I have to do this. I just have to. Sora isn't better than me at dissecting a frog. I am smarter. I am better. I am…tired…' Kairi thought as she fell backwards and blacked out for the first time in her life.

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"—should wake up in soon," a female voice said. She seemed to be having a conversation with someone.

"Did you call her parents?" a familiar annoying voice questioned.

"Yes I called them Mr. Unzari now go back to your 4th period class and stop worrying," the female voice insisted, but Mr. Unzari tried to stay. Eventually the female voice pushed Mr. Unzari out the door.

Kairi was half conscious at the moment, but thought right now would be the best time to wake up fully. She tried to open one eye, but there was a bright light above her causing her eyes to shut. She groaned from the pain, which caused the nurse to focus her attention on Kairi.

"Oh you poor dear. I told them they shouldn't have the frog dissections again, but did they listen no? And look where one poor student ends up…" the female voice rambled.

Kairi's eyes opened and they slowly began to adjust to the light. She then noticed the strange uniform the lady was wearing and recognized it as the nurse's outfit. "You're the nurse right?" Kairi asked. The nurse nodded.

"And at your service. How are you feeling?" the nurse interrogated, "Any dizziness?"

"Just a little lightheaded, but I'm fine. What time is it by the way?" Kairi wondered.

"Well 4th period lunch just began. If you want to you could eat something. I really think you should get some food in you. You look like you need the energy," the nurse suggested.

"Yeah, umm…I'm just going to go to lunch and…yeah…" Kairi stuttered as she tripped over an object on the floor. "Oh there's my backpack." Kairi picked up her backpack and rushed out of the nurse's office.

'I can't believe I fainted! That was humiliating!' Kairi thought embarrassedly.

Kairi arrived near the cafeteria soon and she opened the huge double doors. Everyone was busy doing their normal routine and they didn't seem to notice her as she walked passed (which she didn't mind). Finally she reached her table that was in the corner of the cafeteria near the vending machine.

"OH MY GOSH. KAIKAI ARE YOU OKAY?" Selphie and Yuffie shouted at the same time. Kairi just rolled her eyes and sat down trying to hide her embarrassment.

"It's not like I died. And don't call me KaiKai," Kairi demanded as she shoved her backpack underneath the table. Kairi hated it when Selphie and Yuffie called her KaiKai, but then again it was typical for Selphie and Yuffie to make nicknames. Both of the girls were known as the hyper duo. Kairi always thought it was more than a coincidence that their names kind of rhymed.

"Kairi are you sure you're okay?" Namine asked extremely concerned as she put her paper and pencils aside. Namine was an extremely excellent artist and usually drew at lunch, but rarely spoke. The girl's never minded that she rather draw than speak to them. "You've never blacked out like that before."

"Well, I'm here now and I'm fine right?" Kairi insisted as she got up, "I'm going to go get some lunch right now. The nurse said I'd be fine if I got some lunch." Kairi walked to the lunch line to get a deli sandwich.

"YO RIKU!" a familiar voice that caused Kairi's head to boil shouted.

"What do you want Sora?" the silver haired teen named Riku asked. It turns out that Riku was right in front of Kairi on the line.

"Mind if I cut you?" Sora asked, "I'm really hungry."

"You sure as hell can't…" Riku refused, "But…you can cut me from the back."

This comment made Kairi want to twist off both of their heads and throw it on the ground.

"Sweet…" Sora grinned as he tried to step in front of Kairi.

"I don't think so," Kairi growled as she gave Sora a death glare.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't Kairi. How do you feel? You still a bit dizzy from fainting over the frog?" Sora mocked as he pretended to faint. Riku just laughed along and held his stomach.

"Go away," Kairi hissed quietly. Sora stopped his teasing and turned to look at her giving her a strange look.

"What?"

"I said…go away." Kairi was about to push Sora away from the line, but the cafeteria staff interrupted her.

"What would you like to order?" the lady asked kindly as Kairi stepped away from Sora and ordered before him. The lady did as she was told and handed Kairi the sandwich. Kairi thanked her and sent a triumphant smirk at Sora before she paid and went back to the table.

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"So as you can see the quadratic formula solves for any factoring problem you have…" Kairi's math teacher droned on. Math was Kairi's last subject of the day. Kairi was good at math, but it was pretty boring.

'Please…shut…up…' Kairi pleaded silently in her head. Kairi's palm propped up her head and she looked like she was about to fall asleep any second now. Kairi then glanced at the clock. 'Only 10 more seconds of school left! Only 10!' Kairi smiled to herself and started packing her stuff in quietly so the teacher wouldn't notice.

"So your homework for tonight is page 35—" but the teacher was soon cut off by the sharp ringing of the bell signaling that school was finally over. Kairi grabbed her backpack and zoomed out of the door. She headed for her locker to relieve her back a couple of pounds from her textbooks and then met up with Namine so they could walk home.

"Hey Namine," Kairi greeted as Namine turned around and waved to her.

"Let's go now. I have so much homework today," Namine sighed sadly as they walked out of school and back home. Kairi and Namine lived near each other so they walked back home from school every day.

"I hate science," Kairi muttered.

"Aww, it's not that bad," Namine defended as she opened her drawing book to examine her latest sketch.

"Easy for you to say…" Kairi retorted, "You're practically a living brain. I actually have to study to get good grades."

"Well, at least you can get good grades. That's all that matters anyway. Your grade in science is a B+ that's pretty good," Namine complimented as she slammed the sketchbook shut and put it back into her backpack, while still walking.

"Well, your grade in science is an A…ugh…let's not talk about school anymore. I'm going to get a headache," Kairi urged.

"Yeah, I agree," Namine seconded as they turned into their street.

"So how's your latest sketch going? What's it about?" Kairi asked curiously as Namine blushed. "What? Oh my gosh…are you blushing?"

"I—it's nothing…" Namine stammered.

"Oh my gosh…let me rephrase my question…" Kairi cleared her throat, "Who is it about?"

"N—no one! I mean…n—nothing!" Namine stuttered once again as she started to walk at an extremely fast pace.

"What's the rush Namine?" Kairi asked with a small smile on her face as she too began to power walk.

"I'm not walking fast…" Namine denied.

"Oh so this is normally how fast you walk right? You just walk at 100 mph every day hmm—?" Kairi was then cut off.

"Oh look my house! Nice talking to you Kairi! Love ya bye!" Namine squeaked as she ran toward her house. Kairi just stood on her driveway cracking up hysterically at how strange she was acting.

'Soooo…Namine likes a boy…I wonder who he is…' Kairi then started listing possible choices in her head as she entered her house. When Kairi walked into her house she was strangely greeted by silence, which was rare in the Aozora household.

"MOM!" Kairi shouted as she searched through the living room and most of the main floor. "MOM! WHERE ARE YOU?" Kairi searched frantically around the house, but there was no sight of her mother. Finally she ended up in the kitchen to see a note taped on the fridge.

Kairi,

Meet me at the local Café Umai right when you get home. I need to tell you something important. Bye sweetheart.

xoxo,
your mother

'Uh oh…this can't be good.'

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Yes! Yes! LJ is back and she's up with a new story. Chapter 2 should be posted sometime today and if not tomorrow morning! Sorry for keeping you all waiting. I hope you like my newest fanfiction idea! Enjoy!

x3,
LJ