Vanitas and Sora are both brothers. Vanitas is a year older than both Sora and Kairi, who are the same age. Except Sora and Vanitas are polar opposites. Vanitas has black spiky hair, and light golden-brown eyes. They're completely different than Sora's sparkling dark blue eyes and light brown hair. Sora was the "perfect student" that teachers love to have; Vanitas is the one that teachers pass just so that they don't have to put up with them next year.
Vanitas is a grade older than them, and is a Junior at Destiny High.
"Kairi! Wait up!" Kairi turns, and sees Namine running to catch up behind her, with a strange look on her face. "There's a new student. She has short black hair, blue eyes, and next class with you. I can't remember her name… something with an 'n' on the end." Kairi frowned. New students were never good, not at Destiny High. Walking cautiously into 4th period Science, she sits in her seat. Sora sits in front of her in this class. Walking in, he grins at Zack Fair, another of the popular kids. Sora plops in his seat and smiles at Kairi. This is new, Kairi thinks to herself.
"Hey," Sora says, looking at her. Kairi glances around, blushing, just to make sure that he's talking to her. "Um, hey Sora." Just then, the teacher walks in. Way to go, Kairi, she thinks.
"Good morning, class. As you know, today is a very nice day. And we've been studying pressure and chemistry. Why don't we all go out and do an experiment?" The classroom erupts with cheers as we all stampede out the door, following Mr. Kimoya as he leads the way to the football field. The new kid still hasn't said anything, and she trails behind everyone, looking on guard, but still innocent-looking. She's wearing the standard school uniform, which is a good sign; new students usually never wear uniforms if they mean trouble. The standard uniform for girls was a white button-down short sleeved shirt with a light and dark blue plaid mini skirt, matching tie, tall navy blue socks, and black shoes.
Actually, the girl looked really cute in it. Up at the front of the line/cluster of walking students, Zack is lecturing a sheepish Sora.
"Dude, Sora, you just gotta tell her how you feel. What's the worst thing that could happen to you?"
"Rejection?" Sora whimpers miserably, "Rejection could happen to me." Zack rolls his sky-blue eyes and put his hands into the pockets of blue jeans. The boy's uniforms consisted of a long-sleeved white shirt, with a tie like the girl's, blue jeans, and black shoes.
"Relax. It always happens. It's not like you'd be the first guy on the planet to ever be rejected." Zack pats Sora on the back as he runs his hand through his spiky hair.
"I dunno…" He closes his cobalt eyes thoughtfully. "I can only be rejected… by a girl who can actually rock the school uniforms." His eyes open again with a smile. "I can only be rejected."
As soon as the class finishes setting up the project and settles down, Mr. Kimoya calls up the new kid.
"This is Xion. She's a transfer student from Twilight University, and was top ranks in her class."
Twilight University!? As in the college? Whoa.
"I'm sure that you'll all make her feel welcome, won't you?" Kairi nods her head, along with the rest of the class.
It's a good thing that she hasn't met Vanitas yet. Other wise he might become her "Kairi? Why don't you be her Mentor?" Yep, that's what I was afraid of Vanitas becoming.
Kairi swallows. "Me?" Mr. Kimoya nods. She walks over to Xion, and leads her over away from the group. Each new student receives a Mentor on their first day at Destiny High. The Mentor's responsibility is to make them feel welcome at their new school. This is Kairi's first time being a Mentor.
"I'm Kairi. Your name's Xion, right?" Xion nods. "Nice to meet you, Xion." Kairi sticks out her hand, and Xion shakes it and clears her throat. She says the first words Kairi has heard her say.
"Nice to meet you too, Kairi. So, this is Destiny High. Who is the person with spiky black hair and the golden eyes? He seemed really nice." Xion's voice was as adorable as her. Too bad she was talking about Vanitas. Kairi stifles a groan, reminding herself that Xion was new and didn't know anything about the students.
"Him? That's Vanitas. He's not… the best influence. Not the nicest person in school," Kairi explained tentatively, choosing her words. "He can be a… bit of a bully sometimes," A bottle rocket shoots off, and Sora, Tidus, and Zack all yell triumphantly.
"Victory!" shouts Zack, high fiving Tidus and slapping Sora on the back. "Come on, Sora! Celebrate with us!" But Sora isn't listening; his stare is directed at the fence surrounding the football field. Kairi follows his gaze there, and groans. On the other side of the fence are Vanitas, Squall, Axel, Yuffie, and Tifa. And they all have the same smirk etched into their faces.
"Who are they, Kairi? I know Vanitas… but who are the others? Shouldn't they all be in class?" Xion asks Kairi, but all Kairi can hear is her heart thudding.
Yuffie is here!?