Once You've Moved
Chapter 4
Free
Word travelled quickly of how it 'happened'.
Of course, most of the stories were completely wrong, and had nothing to do with the actual happenings. These stories included such fibs as how he was pushed off the top of the Clock Tower, or how he was run over by a tram.
Kairi's nostril would twitch everytime she heard these sorts of lies. She wasn't sure what to believe, because it was just a rumour. And couldn't people keep their noses out of other peoples' business?
"And, then, like, he, like, then, he, like..."
Obviously not, Kairi mused, laughing inside at the way these people articulated their very precious words.
As she reached it, she placed a hand on her locker, and slowly stroking down until her fingers reached the dial, and she twisted it until a short click sound could be heard and she pulled the door open. Inside, there were a few books, her games kit, and the pictures she had put up about a year ago.
One by one, she picked them off, leaving only some blue tac and a gap in the surrounding dust that was quickly filled in.
She kept a straight face as she stacked some more books on the already growing pile of books she had already had in the lockers.
She turned away, and carried on her way to history. Once inside, she'd be bombarded with questions and such. But she would ignore these silly, trivial things and move straight onto sitting next to Naminé. Once at this point, the two girls would... do history.
Kairi wondered how Sora was taking it...
Like Sora, probably. Except, she didn't really know what being 'Sora' was like, so she was not one to judge. She hoped he was taking it badly. Really badly. Because it was his fault.
All of his fault.
And she had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Nothing, at all.
Nuh-uh.
Not one bit...
...Except for everything.
But what could she do about it, now?
It all started when she first met Sora. And this led onto different things, like meeting Naminé, and then meeting Riku, and then Axel, and then Roxas, and then Olette, and last of all Hayner.
And that led onto other things, like friendship, and then she moved, and that had been a big step. And, then she came back.
She laughed at how stupid she had been back then. At how her tiny little world revolved around Sora, and waiting for Yuffie to have time for her, and wondering when she would be friends with the 'gang' again, and what the hell Roxas and Axel were thinking.
She shut her eyes tight, and tried washing the memories away. It seemed to be the best thing to do at times like those.
Smile it off.
She reached her classroom and stepped inside. Her predictions proved correct and questions flew past her head, almost hitting her. She didn't like questions; they made her head hurt. She felt like a crazy person just come out of the asylum. Not that she knew what that felt like, it's just what she thought it might feel like.
And suddenly doubt swept over her pretty auburn head. What if what she had done, had been the wrong option?
What if, she had taken the wrong road, and ended up somewhere adrift a nothingness pit of gloom, and a dark abyss.
It was quite possible; when she closed her eyes, it was all she could see. Or couldn't see, as the case may be.
She eventually reached the place situated next to Naminé and felt her dark gaze bore into her.
"What?! What is it you all want from me? I'm just here to leeearn, not answer your stupid questions about some bastards who got themselves hurt! Okay? You got that clear?"
The crowd began to disperse, and Naminé breathed in heavily, "Cruel. But you got rid of them. Therefore, you're no longer in debt to me."
Kairi's breath jolted. The words she'd been waiting to hear nearly all year, being spoken to her, and she didn't know what to say. She felt like jumping on the table and screaming with joy. But then again, she felt like going to sit in the corner and cry.
She was at a loss.
"So, you're finally free. What are you going to do now, Kairi?" she asked, smiling gently. Kairi gasped, almost inaudibly. Naminé had been horrible to her all year, what had suddenly brought on this change of attitude?
No wait... she could guess.
There was a possible mark of three reasons.
And they all revolved around Kairi's 'deeds'.
Kairi blinked, and looked around. The world seemed different now. She was popular, she had secret admirers, she was on top of all her homework, school wasn't that boring. There was nothing wrong.
A.K.A. nothing she could do.
Except...
A chair squeaked on the floor as Kairi raced as hard as she could through the corridors leading to the door. She rushed outside, and practically threw herself round the corner and onto a tram. She checked her watch every five seconds, waiting for the tram to get to where she needed to be.
Come on, come on...
The tram finally came to a halt at her stop. She breathed a sigh of relief, and carefully made her way to the front doors, she stepped through and went on straight to the lifts. The lifts took her to the chosen room. She squeezed her eyes shut, and forced herself onwards. She heard the flapping of curtains against an open window, and the mutter of chatter.
Her instincts told her when to turn. She opened her eyes, and saw him.
Laid there, sleeping, like an angel.
She felt a hand clamp down on her shoulders: "Look what you did, Kairi."
Kairi looked at the boy in the bed.
And saw faint marks over his hands and face. There was a deep gash down his right arm.
"That's what you did."
Kairi's mouth tightened. She could save him now. "I'm free."
"Really?"
"Yes."
The voice beside her laughed, she could almost see his smirk come out with his laughter, "So, I guess, 'the world is your oyster' now then?"
"I wish..." Kairi mumbled, her eyes starting to water. The voice beside her turned round and she saw Axel's lanky form.
"But all the stuff you've done's turned the world into your lobster."
Kairi mumbled a 'Uh-huh...' and sniffed, Axel pulled her into a one-armed hug, as she kept sniffing. "I hate you..." she muttered, darkly. Axel merely shrugged.
"I know."
She breathed in quietly, then left Axel's grip.
End of Chapter
A/N: Heh. Writer's block sucks. And my mum doesn't believe in it. Which sucks more. But what sucks most is that no one prob'ly knows what's going on. Well, it's a year later. Yes. A year.
And I'm sorrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyy for the AkuRoku. S'all part of the plot, folks. All part of it.
Roxine AND SoKai in next chapter! Party!
(And that chapter will be put up soon because it's so short. In fact I'll put it up tomorrow!)