First Fic... blah blah blah... This was actually written in March, but just haven't had the time to check it over or post it. Hardly had the internet since then.
It's a Sora/Kairi fic... kinda... Will focus a lot on other characters, so there is no real main character. Most have really important roles.
Anyway, I'm not gonna ramble. Don't own Kingdom Hearts... Well, technically I do, and Kingdom Hearts II, but not RE:COM, never came out in Europe :( and I can't be bothered getting swap magic to play it.
It was rushed, any mistakes, tell me, please.
*As of the 22nd of August 2010, I'm rewriting the whole story. Shouldn't take too long.
Sora Carmichael – Age 15 – Destiny Islands hottest Soccer prospect.
Kairi Shaw – Age 16 – The 'adopted' daughter of the mayor of the islands.
Riku Gallagher -Age 16 – Just entering junior year. Lifelong friend of Sora.
Roxas McCartney-Middleweek - Age 16 – Carefree teenager with underlying family problems.
Tidus Martingale – Age 16 – Son of one of the gym teachers at Destiny High.
Selphie Tilmitt – Age 16 – Self proclaimed 'match maker extraordinaire'.
Wakka Kharral – Age 16 – Goalkeeper for the DH soccer team.
Namine Snow – Age 16 – A budding artist. In sophomore year.
The song in this chapter is Teenage Kicks by The Undertones.
Are teenage dreams so hard to beat
Every time she walks down the street
Another girl in the neighborhood
Wish she was mine, she looks so good
I wanna hold her wanna hold her tight
Get teenage kicks right through the night
I'm gonna call her on the telephone
Have her over cos I'm all alone
I need excitement oh I need it bad
And its the best, I've ever had
I wanna hold her wanna hold her tight
Get teenage kicks right through the night
I wanna hold her wanna hold her tight
Get teenage kicks right through the night
August 31st 2009
"Sora?"
"Hm?"
"Wake up."
"No."
"It's half past seven, time to get up."
"Not it's not, Summer, bed."
"Yes it is, School, now."
"Fuck off."
"Move, now!"
"Nah."
"Yes, Sora."
"No, Squall."
"Move, or I'll send those pictures to your girlfriend."
"A, She is not my girlfriend, and B, There are no pictures."
"Oh, really?"
"Ya, really."
"Just move, you little dumbshit."
"Fine."
With that a figure emerged from the bed. Hair flicking up at all angles, he yawned awkwardly, before looking at the clock on his cellphone.
06:27
"Dammit Squall." He threw the phone onto his bed, "well, I'm awake now, might as well go for a shower."
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"Where the hell is he?" A silver-haired boy asked anxiously.
"He'll be down in a minute Riku." Riku looked around the room, it was quite plain, with light blue painted walls, a small lamp emitting a dull light across the light, wooden floor. He tapped his foot anxiously, waiting for the appearance of his porcupine-haired friend.
"Time?" He inquired, his mind adrift.
"Erm... hang on," Squall scanned the room for a clock, "It's Eight-Twenty, you guys best be off." Minutes passed with Riku and Squall occasionally making idle chitchat.
"What about you then, Mr 'Senior'?" Riku attempted to start a conversation.
"I, my shiny-haired amigo, shall be driving, in a car."
"Why can't you give me and the idiot a lift then?"
"Simple," Squall stood up and walked into the kitchen, before returning to the room, "I don't have any baby seats." He laughed, removing his jacket from it's hanger.
"What happened to the mopey, emo Squall? I actually preferred him."
"Nothing happened, I'm still the same." Squall retorted, coolly.
"It's that chick, isn't it?" Riku stood up, a smile began to surface on his face. "What's her name? Rinoa?" Squall looked away, which led Riku to presume he was blushing. "It is! Aww, is little Squally going to pick up his little girlfriend?"
"It's not like that."
"Yes it is." Squall and Riku both turned as they heard the voice calling from the top of the stairs, "He's totally smitten."
"Oh, you're alive?" Squall asked, "And to think, that's us just off the phone to the undertaker, headstone ordered, agreed a time, hell we even got one of those cardboard coffins, you know, save the environment kinda thing."
"Too far, bro."
"Well I'm off, enjoy not being freshmen kiddo." Squall messed up Sora's hair, before walking through the front door leaving the two bewildered teens standing alone in front of the open doorway.
"What time is it, Sora?" Sora handed Riku his cellphone, while he ran back upstairs.
"It's Twenty Five to, we'd better hurry Sora." Riku was about to close over the cellphone when he noticed Sora had an unread message, and Riku, by virtue of being Riku, thought he should check it out, just to see who it was from. When he checked the message he wasn't surprised in the slightest to see that it was from Kairi, one of Riku and Sora's best friends and the girl that Riku was convinced the latter was crushing on, it seemed obvious through Riku's eyes anyway. Well it won't hurt to have just a little peek, will it?
Just as Riku was about to read the message, Sora came bounding back down the stairs, shirt unevenly buttoned, jacket only on one sleeve, tie too tight.
"You got a message, man." Riku stated coolly.
"Who from?"
"Erm... Kairi?"
"Read it out to me," Sora began running around the house, scavenging for a pen and calculator.
"Ok... 'Hey Sora, Can't wait for School' Double upwards arrows, possibly denoting smitteness over you." Riku smirked.
"Shut up, and continue." Sora ordered him.
"'Can't believe I just said, well, typed that, ha.', funny stuff, Kai'. 'Can't wait to see you', Smiley sticking tongue out... Very suggestive." Riku waggled his eyebrows.
"You sick minded prick," Sora laughed.
"Ooh," Riku said, sounding slightly feminine, "She got you a present, wonder what it could be, probably a dild..."
"Gimme that!" Sora shouted before snatching his phone from Riku.
"I was only saying that she got you it, so, y'know, you can put your 'girl parts' to good use."
"Yeah, that's right Riku," Sora proclaimed sarcastically, "I'm a cross-dressing hermaphrodite, blah-blah-blah, lets move," He swung his school bag over his shoulder and walked out the door, leaving Riku, who was standing, confused.
"How is that possible?"
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"Demyx, I'm away to school," A voice boomed down the hallway.
"Catch you later, Rox, enjoy being a sophomore."
"Yeah right," Roxas scoffed as he pulled the front door closed. Placing his pearly white earphones in his ears, he grabbed his sticker-emblazoned satchel and began to walk to school. It was a few miles to get there, and was mostly uphill, but he had left with plenty of time to spare before the bell would sound to commence his second year of high school. He decided to call some of his friends, out of sheer boredom.
"Sora?" Nah, spoke to him last night.
"Riku?" Probably with Sora, or some random chick with herpes, and that's the truth. Roxas started laughing, which drew some strange looks from those around him, looks that he replied to by staring daggers through those who dared to send him them.
"Wakka?" To early in the morning to be referred to as 'Mon'.
"Kairi?" She's basically Sora's babysitter, plus she'll probably start constantly going on about how she isn't a freshman any more. Why isn't it a freshwoman? And why do they have to be fresh? What if they don't have showers? Moving on...
"Namine?" I'll probably end up freezing up over the phone. Roxas decided just to leave it and resigned to the fact that he would have to spend another year in hell. Just as he was putting his cell back in his pocket, it began to ring. He looked at the caller ID, which was anonymous. He decided to answer the phone anyway.
"Hello?"
"Hey Roxie!" A girl screamed down the other end of the line.
"Oh, hey N-Namine." Roxas replied, he was bright red, but she couldn't see this, well, he hoped not.
"How are yoooooou?" She seemed pretty excited.
"I'm okay thanks, yourself?"
"I'm superfandabulous thank you very much Roxiee."
"Are you okay? You sound a Bit st-"
"Okay? I already told you, I'm superfandabulous." Roxas heard another voice over the phone.
"Give me the cell Namine, now!"
"No!"
"Do you want me to tell Roxas abou-"
"Here you go."
"Thank you Namine," The girl on the phone fumbled with it for a moment hurting Roxas' ear. "You still there Roxas?"
"Yep, Hey Kairi."
"Hey, sorry about her, are you going to Selphie's party on Friday? Nam' wanted me to ask."
"Uh, sure, you going?" He inquired.
"Yes-sir," She giggled over the phone.
"Sora will be going then," Roxas smiled.
"What was that?" Kairi asked. Roxas was unsure whether she had heard him or wondered why he had said it.
"Uh, nothing, I gotta go Kairi, see you soon?"
"Yeah, Hang on Roxas, you've to meet Sora and Riku at the fountain in the town center before school."
"Okay, see ya" He hung up the phone, before looking around, taking in to account where his feet had taken him while he was on his cell.
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The sun was shining down on the islands, reflecting off the shimmering blue sea, a gentle breeze was causing the grass to sway softly back and forth. The whole of what many people deemed to be the 'main island' was buzzing as it was the first day of school, much to the chagrin of the pupils who had to attend said educational institutes. There were three high schools on said island: Destiny High School, Destiny Academy and Hillside Grammar institute, a private school, which just so happened to be on the side of a hill. The students who attended Destiny High School had to wear a uniform, which consisted of a white shirt or blouse, black pants or a light blue tartan skirt, black shoes, and a tie, depending on their year group, with the freshmen and sophomores wearing a light blue tie, with dark blue and white stripes, and the juniors and seniors wearing a tie that was a single shade of blue, not too light, not too dark, which had the school emblem printed on the front. The pupils at Destiny Academy however were given the choice of wearing whatever clothes they wanted, within reason of course.
There was one pupil from Destiny High School who couldn't wait to go back. Her crimson red hair fluttered in the breeze as she lent on an old stone wall, looking out to the sea. "It's beautiful, isn't it?" She turned to see a girl wearing the same school uniform she was. The girl had brown hair, and was slightly smaller than Kairi.
"Oh, hey Selphie," Kairi replied, "Yes, it is."
"Where's Namine?" Selphie asked, walking over to the wall, before jumping up onto it. She patted the wall next to her, "Sit." The redhead complied.
"I let her off her leash," She giggled, "She's away to get Roxas, Sora and Riku, they're over at the fountain."
"Do they know that we'll be off timetable today?"
"I doubt it, Roxas couldn't care less, Riku has to 'hang' with his freshman 'buddy all day, and Sora, he's just a lazy bum."
Selphie jumped off the wall, turning to her friend, "You like him, don't you, Kairi?"
Kairi began to laugh, "Me, like him, no... don't be silly, as a friend yes but like hi-"
"Ha, your cheeks are as red as your hair" Selphie pointed at Kairi, laughing."Kairi and Sora, up a tree, doing thing they shouldn't be."
"Whatever happened to k-i-s-s-i-n-g?" Kairi asked her raven haired friend.
"Ah, you're getting a bit old for that, your sixteen now, he's fifteen, bit too old for kissing."
Kairi giggled nervously, "What if, lets just say, I have a friend, she goes to Hillside, she's sixteen, your teasing her over a boy, only she's never kissed anyone, ever, what do you say then."
"Aww... that would be such a shame, imagine being sixteen, and never having kissed anyone, you can drive, but you've never kissed anyone, except your family."
"Yeah," Kairi looked out towards the sea, her mind elsewhere.
"So, what's this friends name?"
"Erm... Kai-a-ria... yeah Kaiaria."
"So your telling me, you have a sixteen year old friend who has never been kissed, who's name rhymes with Diarrhea?"
"Eww," Kairi squirmed, "But, basically, yes."
"Well, what do you say you bring ol' Diarrhea to my party on Friday and I'll hook her up with someone, maybe Sora?" Selphie squealed jumping up and down.
"No!" Kairi said abruptly, before covering her mouth, "I mean, I'll phone her tonight, she might be able to, not sure what the junior dorm curfew is at Hillside."
"Probably won't matter, apparently Sora's in love with a certain girl at our school anyway." Selphie began to hum.
"Who?" Kairi asked.
"A certain, beautiful redhead." Selphie giggled.
"Who is it, Selph?"
"Guess?"
"Erm... Oerba Dia Vanille?"
"She's in Riku's year, right?"
"Yeah she is." Kairi nodded.
"No, then it's not her, they are in our year."
"Hmm... There are no redheads in our year, Selph."
Selphie sighed, "Have you ever wanted to just slap sense into your best friend?"
"All the time, why?"
"Oh, nothing." Selphie looked out to the sea, She is so... Glaket... I mean, come on. She turned back around. "Oh look Kairi, It's Namine and the boys." And sure enough, Kairi turned to see Namine, with Riku, Roxas and a very wet Sora in tow. This caused both Kairi and Selphie to burst into a simultaneous fit of laughter, directed at the poor brunette.
"What... t-the... What the hell happened to you Sora?" Selphie asked, holding back tears. Her question was met with incoherent mumbles. Kairi looked at Sora, feeling pity for him. But she couldn't think of anything to say to make him feel any better, so she said the first thing that came to her head.
"Woo, Wet T-shirt contest," She started waving her hands in the air, which caused Sora to start laughing. "How did you manage this?"
"Well," Sora grumbled "If you really must know, Roxas thought it would be funny to throw me into the fountain."
"C'mon Lazy bum," She walked over to him and put her arm around him, lets go."
Riku turned to Selphie, "You know that isn't what really happened?"
"I guessed as much," She had to look up to meet Riku's eyes, he was quite a bit taller than her, "Well, Riku, enlighten me, please."
"Alright..." Riku began to explain what had happened.
"Oh Hey Nam." Sora shouted towards the petite blond who was walking towards Sora and Riku, "You seen Roxas?"
"No, We told him to get you here."
"Probably saw you and ran a mile," Riku stated, coolly.
"Why would he do that, Mr Meanie?" She asked, Punching his arm.
"One, He's head over heels in love, and two, You punch like a man."
"Hey!"
Riku gestured towards her, "Compliment."
She smiled towards him, before turning her eyes towards Sora, "Speaking of head over heels."
"No, no, no, I'm not hea-"
"Look Sora it's Kairi," Riku pointed out, which caused Sora to freeze up, a petrified look on his face. "Just kidding!" What followed could only be described as pure idiocy, as Sora chased Riku around the fountain, Namine turned to see Roxas standing next to her.
"Oh hey, Roxas." She smiled at him.
"Uh, Hi..."
He threw his satchel onto the ground, before sitting on the side of the fountain. "Enjoy Twilight Town?" he asked her.
"Yeah, It's really, really hot."
"Told you so, did you try the sea-salt ice cream?"
"Yup, t'was yummy." She turned to him, and licked her lips, which caused him to look at his shoes, he must have been as red as the Twilight Town sky.
"What the hell are they doing? Roxas asked.
"Well, Riku pretended Kairi was behind Sora, who loves her... anyway, he fell for it and now he's mad."
"Want me to see if they have any sea salt ice cream in the ice cream parlour over there?"
"Okay Roxie." A few minutes Roxas returned holding two sky blue ice creams. "Thank you Roxie," Namine took her ice cream from him. "They two are still at it."
"Hey Sora," Roxas shouted, "Got a minute?"
"No," He panted for air, "B-bit busy."
"I've got a picture of Kairi in her underwear."
He waved his cellphone at Sora, who came storming over, "Let's see it!" he demanded.
"Ooh, you perv Sora," Roxas turned his head and smiled at Sora, who didn't notice Riku crouching down behind him. Sora then tried to push Roxas who replied with a push of his own, causing Sora to tumble over Riku and into the fountain.
"I am going to kill you!" Sora shouted, his hair flat, water gushing from his mouth.
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"Here we are then." A now somewhat dry Sora stood in front of his friends, his arms stretched wide, beyond him was a large brown building. It was hard to tell how old it was from the outside, although the style of the building suggested it must have been a few decades old.
"Still looks like a carpet factory." Roxas groaned, "I am not going in there." This caused Namine to grab his arm and drag him towards the front door.
"Well that was interesting," Kairi commented on the interaction between Namine and Roxas, slightly bewildered. The school bell rang, so they ascended the flight of stairs and entered the school. Kairi walked up to the first member of staff she saw. "Excuse me, where do we go?"
"Freshmen go to the games hall, Sophomores to the conference room, Juniors to the social area and seniors to the music department." The man instructed her, monotonously.
"Okay, thanks." She walked back to her friends. "We go to the conference room, Riku, you've to go to the social area, see you later?"
"Yeah," The silver haired teen replied, "Later, Sora."
"Later man." Sora waved as Riku began to head away from them.
"To the conference room!" Selphie cried, pointing her arm skywards before running off through the crowd.
"This is gonna be one hell of a year."
16/6/09 Updated 22/08/10. Updated 20/10/10