Once You've Moved
Chapter 2
Mission: Infiltrate Haters
Kairi made a small kicked puppy noise, before turning away, and walking out the class. She leant her head back on one of the boards proclaiming that 'Fashion kills people in Africa'.
She took in a few deep breaths before walking in again. She wondered where she'd sit. She kept her head bent down, and walked to the back of the classroom; they might not see her that way. She had no idea where to sit, so she decided she'd make a decision when everyone else was sat down.
She rifled through her bag and eventually found a little bracelet she had made when she was little with her best friend. Her best friend made one too, but Kairi doubted that her best friend had kept it.
She slowly picked at the knot tying the string together, and carefully drew the beads off it, one by one.
She watched the small plastic beads fall to the ground, shining wet with tears. They glimmered softly in the morning light that was streaming through the windows.
The background noise only accompanied her grief.
The short clip played through her head over and over again. She squeezed her eyes shut to get rid of it. But it wouldn't go. It just wouldn't go!
Naminé sits at her desk, drawing pictures of people, dying. Sora and Riku fighting, with Sora pinned up against the back wall, his neck colliding with the bookcase tip. Roxas tripping up girls as they walk past, Axel laughing as he does so. Olette screaming at Hayner. Hayner shouting back. Pence being pushed into the corner by a taller kid. Kairi cries.
Kairi couldn't help but cry. Her friends weren't homicidal, neither did they push each other about, or other people about and laugh, they didn't fight, or get bullied.
It wasn't true.
That wasn't them.
"STOP IT!" Kairi screamed. She hoped it was all just some part of a play or scam to wind her up. She was scared. What if it was the real thing? What if Naminé drew pictures of Kairi dying, and what if Riku broke Sora's neck, and what if Roxas and Axel started bullying people, and what if Olette screamed at Hayner so much she burst, and what if Pence got bullied?
What would she do then?
"Who shouted that?" came a voice. It was Roxas's.
Kairi bit her lip, and stood up slowly, brushing herself down.
"What's you name?" he asked, Kairi rolled her eyes, So they don't remember me, huh?
"Kairi."
No one gave shocked faces, or looked around at each other. Roxas looked at Axel, but that was it.
"Kairi? I knew a Kairi. We all knew a Kairi. Are you that Kairi?" he asked, moving to Axel's lap. Kairi's eyes widened. Axel... Axel... and Roxas...?
"Erm..." Should she say 'Yes' or 'No'. If she said 'Yes' then maybe they'd stop killing each other, but maybe if she said 'No' they'd kill her, "Ye-Yeah..."
This time everyone looked right up at her, even Naminé who had previously been busy drawing a very graphic picture of someone with red hair burning in some fire. Kairi hoped it wasn't her.
Naminé's eyes were shining, and she quickly looked back down, scribbling more vigorously.
Sora turned his head away from her, Riku stared on, a corner of his mouth sliding upwards. Olette's lips trembled, Hayner crossed his arms and turned away. Pence was in a situation where he couldn't really do anything but cower, shrinking further and further into the carpet.
Roxas and Axel, on the other hand, were laughing.
"What?" she asked, desperately seeking information on what was going on. It was a scam, it had to be!
"You really don't know what's going on, do you?" Axel smirked, watching Kairi fumble with her fingers, glancing up at the others every now and then, "You're the reason we're all like this, you know?"
Kairi gulped, I am?
She couldn't see how she was. She waited for Axel or Roxas to say something else, something to prove that it wasn't her fault. Axel sighed, and carried on, "You don't get it, do you? Well, you know what, you don't need to."
Kairi squeezed her eyes shut, and fell to the floor.
Just a dream, just a dream, just a dream.
.o.o.o.
Her bag fell to the ground as she pulled the keys out of the door, shutting it behind her.
"Dad! Daddy, I'm home!" she cried out, before racing upstairs and getting changed into something more after-schoolish.
She sat in her room, reading her latest text message from Yuffie.
We're not dead Kai we're all fine you having fun? Ring me
Kairi dialled Yuffie's number and waited for the beeps to stop. Soon, Yuffie's voice could be heard on the other line.
"Hi Kai! How ya been?"
Kairi took a deep breath, and smiled, Yuffie didn't have to know, "I'm great! Everyone's still the same! It's so fun, I wish you were here!"
She could almost hear Yuffie grin, "Glad to hear it! I wish I could, too, but everyone over here's got their hands full... even ME! I mean, and I go to school and all! I think it's a bit unfair. Don't you?"
Kairi nodded slowly, "Ye-Yeah, it is kinda unfair. But at least I don't have to do anything!! Ha! HAHA!" she cried, smirking.
Yuffie replied with a, "Damn, Cid's here, see you later, yeah? Bye!!" There was a click then a monotonous 'Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep'.
Kairi sighed and flopped onto her bed, she laid a hand to her head, and wondered what on earth was happening.
Then she had an idea.
She picked up a phone book and dialled another number.
A sarcastic tone reached her ears, "Hello?"
Kairi stifled a giggle, it had been so long since she had heard that voice on the phone. "Hi. This is Roxas's mother. Can I speak to Axel, please?"
The voice spoke again, "Axel speaking. What is it you want?"
Kairi bit her lip, what did she want? She just wanted to talk to her friend, like she did before. When they were little, and they sat on the tram together and talked about everything, and when they were on the train and he made sure she didn't get pushed about, or when they were at school, and all their friends would be happy, and didn't want to kill each other. It just didn't make sense!
"I wanted to know how you were. I haven't spoken to you in a long while!" Kairi laughed nervously, tugging at the collar of her t-shirt. There was silence at the other end of the line.
"Roxas's mother has been dead for two years, Kairi."
Kairi slapped her forehead. Axel had seen through her clever ruse, and what's more, if Roxas was with him, then she was more than likely going to be pushed around the next day and all the days after that by Roxas.
"I'm sorry... I just want to know why you're all acting like this, and you all 'hate' me..."
Axel pondered for a moment.
"Because we hate you. Goodbye."
And yet again, Kairi heard the monotonous sound of a 'Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep'.
She sighed and rested her head back on the pillow.
She remembered what Cid had once told her:
"Once you've moved, everything changes."
She had never quite known what it had meant, until now. And now that everything had changed, she wanted it all back. ALL OF IT! But what could she do?
She could dress up as someone else and pretend to be like some sort of 'Pease maker' and stop them from hurting each other, and learn to realise that Kairi was actually a very nice girl and couldn't possibly have made them be so mean to each other. And then she could 'come back' as Kairi, and they'd all love her, and she'd love them, and then they'd all live 'Happily Ever After'.
Except, she couldn't do that.
It would just not work.
Maybe she could infiltrate the system.
This was how she saw it:
They all hated each other, but, as a group, they hated Kairi.
Therefore, they were a team.
If she knocked down one of them, then she could get into the 'team' and make them all like her again.
It was a long shot, but it might just work!
She screamed with joy, and laid back onto her bed.
So, who to get to...
She thought back on what people looked like when they realised it was her:
Naminé's eyes were shining, and she quickly looked back down, scribbling more vigorously. Sora turned his head away from her, Riku stared on, a corner of his mouth sliding upwards. Olette's lips trembled, Hayner crossed his arms and turned away. Pence was in a situation where he couldn't really do anything but cower, shrinking further and further into the carpet.
She could try Pence, but that was too easy. They'd be expecting that, and besides, she didn't know how he really reacted to her since he was being bullied at that particular moment. He was probably the one with most hate for her...
Naminé's was about to cry... But then she started burning whoever was in that picture even more. So, maybe not Naminé...
Riku was basically trying to kill Sora, and she had also noticed as the day had progressed that the silver-haired teen had been trying to get at Sora, whereas Sora had been running away a lot, but when faced with Riku, he would... well, try to kill Riku back. So, maybe not Riku. Or Sora.
Olette was a possibility, but Kairi had never really got on well with Olette to begin with, so she doubted it would work.
Hayner was completely out of the question; when younger, Kairi and Hayner would compete and decide who got onto the swings first. Plus, he hadn't even had the guts to look her in the eye. Well... no one had really, but she had something against Hayner.
Roxas and Axel were obviously the 'leaders' of this 'I-HATE-KAIRI' group that the said girl had formed in her mind, so she was not going to go anywhere near them; even though she'd probably have to go on the train and tram with Axel every day. Maybe she could put in a good word here or there. It probably wouldn't help anyway.
Kairi gasped with exasperation.
She brought out a notebook from one of the cardboard boxes scattered around the place, and flicked out a pen from her pocket. She tore out all the used pages and chewed the end of her pen before scribbling down some notes:
Mission: INFILTRATE HATERS
Naminé
Sora
Riku
Olette
Hayner
Pence
Then Kairi began to play a game she used to play when she was little, she would press her finger on each person as one word past, singing:
"Ip dip, sky blue, it is you!"
She underlined the name that was crushed underneath her finger, and grinned. She had better start working on her plan.
.o.o.o.
Mission: INFILTRATE HATERS
Naminé
Sora
Riku
Olette
Hayner
End of Chapter
A/N: How was it? Good? Bad? I guess the next chapter is when the real SoKai begins... Can you feel the excitement? Roxine will come in... erm... chapter 5? There, a promise, Roxine – unless I have further plot developments that acquire me to not do so – will arrive at Chapter 5!
Or Chapter 4.
Something to LOOK FORWARD TO!!
Yayyyyyyyyy!
P.S. Sorry it was kind of short... I'll make the next one EXTRA big!! Just to make up for it!!