It's Kai, Not Kairi
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Author's Notes: Apologies for not updating. Sorry if it's not that detailed, getting lazy over the summer. This fanfiction was inspired by the manga Girl Got Game.
Kairi Narumi was a normal teenage girl attending an all-male school for her freshman year. She was an athlete, a dreamer, and a decent student. She was also an avid manga-reader. Therefore, she was fully aware of the whole land-on-guy-and-oh-no-I-kissed-him situations. But never had she dreamed that it would be even possible in the real world.
I, Kairi Narumi, has had her first kiss...
Kairi stared down at the body that cushioned her. Quickly, she scrambled off of Sora and crawled away to a safe distance, looking the other way and wishing to melt to some faraway land.
Bystanders stared at them, interested, but silent. Time seemed to have stopped.
Kairi looked around. It felt like the whole world was staring at her. Her eyes began to sting and the crowd became distorted figures.
Mom, I want them to stop. Mom…Mom…
"AH HA HA HA HA!" A voice shattered the silence.
A flaming orange hair teen was breaking through the crowd that started to form around Kairi and Sora.
"That was funny, ya. That was your first kiss, you two?" He laughed at his own joke then smiled broadly at both of them as if waiting for an answer. Only glum looks were returned.
"Aw, come on, man. Just laugh it off, ya? Just a joke?" His smile lowered and he looked around.
Noticing that nobody else was laughing, he backed away and disappeared into the crowd.
As if that was a cue, everybody started whispering to each other.
"Man, didn't Wataya have anger management problems when he was little?"
"That kid must have the worst luck, messing with a guy like him."
"Yea, I heard he still has problems controlling his anger."
Eavesdropping, Kairi opened her eyes wide and her mouth dropped open. She's seen him mad before, but to think he had anger management problems? From the corner of her eye, she saw that he was just sitting there, as if he was deep in thought. He didn't really look mad. That was until she caught his eyes; they were on fire again.
The whispering subsided and a hundred pairs of eyes were looking at the two students sitting on the floor.
Sora slowly ran his finger tips over his lips and looked as if he was a little boy who lost his dog.
Confused, Kairi tried to see what was going on in his mind. But before anything else happened, Sora jumped to his feet and ran past everybody, ignoring eye contact.
"Wait, Sora! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to land on you! It was an accident," Kairi stammered as she tried to stand up.
A horrible pain shocked her left leg. She fell back on her back and winced. Everybody else was continuing what they were doing as if there wasn't an injured student bleeding to death.
Feeling hurt and confused, she gingerly rolled up her pants leg, which clung to her skin, and gawked at the bloody mess. She didn't notice footsteps echoing towards her while she was crying over her leg.
"Let me take a look."
Slightly jumping, Kairi looked behind her shoulder. A tall blonde was leaning forward looking at her leg.
Without standing, she turned around and showed the blonde her wound. She carefully looked at him. His blonde hair was messy like most of the other kids and his sapphire eyes looked energetic, yet slightly bored as if he was used to inspecting people's legs.
She bit her bottom lip as he poked her leg around. Then, he ripped the bottom of his shirt and tightly tied it around her knee.
"That will stop the bleeding. Your leg isn't broken, just badly bruised. Just go to the nurse later." He stopped and looked at her in the eye for the first time. His bored expression turned into keen interest.
He stood up, took a step back and let out a long whistle. "Wow, you really look like a gal. Freaky how people could look like that."
"Got my looks from my mom's side. Ah ha ha ha. AH HA HA HA! What a knee slapper!" Kairi deliberately laughed and slapped her knee, only to realize that it was her bruised one.
The blonde raised an eyebrow at her and stared.
Feeling herself burning up, she slowly got up and muttered a thank you.
"No problem, man. Oh, and you should tie your shoelace. Is that how you-"
"Ow!"
"Hey, you ok?" The blonde ran over to her and kneeled next to her.
Painfully, Kairi got up to a sitting position, her nose, already slightly bruised from yesterday, throbbing with pain. She felt something moist drip from her nose.
"My dog, I got another bloody nose." Kairi gently touched the crimson liquid slowly edging its way to her mouth.
"Dog?"
Kairi looked at the blonde as if she forgot he was there.
"Oh, yea. My mom use to say that a lot. I don't know why. I guess she just wanted to have her own way of cussing." Kairi smiled and wiped her nose on her sleeve and stood up moaning.
"Well, thanks for everything. The name's Kai by the way. Kai Narumi. Hope to see you around." Kairi started towards the cafeteria.
"Wait!"
Kairi looked back and saw the blonde coming towards her. He looked at her then bent down on one knee. He took her shoe and started to tie her untied shoelaces.
"You might fall again," He smirked and looked up, "and my name's Tidus."
He stood up and saluted.
"Well, go eat your breakfast. See ya."
Kairi watched as Tidus walked away to wherever he had to go. She let out a long sigh and looked down the long hallway that led to the cafeteria. She didn't feel like eating anything, after all that has happened.
Classes didn't start until after breakfast, which meant she had an hour left. Despite her bruised leg, she climbed up the stairs, limped into her dorm, and fell back on her bed.
She closed her eyes and put her arm over them. Despite her throbbing leg and nose, she could only think of those blue, blue eyes.
It was her first kiss. Why did it have to be this way?
"Stupid shoelaces. You ruined my life," Kairi sighed as she briefly got up to take of her uniform jacket.
She was about to toss it onto the floor, but the sight of the school logo stopped her.
What was she doing here?
Suddenly, it wasn't her shoelaces' fault. It was his.
Kairi bit her bottom lip and wiped away the tears that had suddenly squeezed through her shut eyelids. Her grip on the jacket tightened, her knuckles turning white.
She felt as though an entire volcano seemed to have erupted inside her as she started to sob.
"It's your fault! It's all your fault, big brother!" she cried into her jacket. "It's because of you that I'm here!"
"I hate you! I HATE YOU, SQUALL! I HATE—I hate..." Kairi fell face forward and silently sobbed as she thought of that horrible, bloody night.
"Squall! NO! Mommy! Squall, what's going on! What's happening?Why is Mommy lying on the floor like that?"
"Kairi, Don't worry, just go to Selphie's house and don't come out until I go and get you. Go, NOW!"
"NO! I'm not leaving! I have to protect you!"
"Kairi, just do as I tell you, LEAVE!"
"NO!"
It was my fault he died. Only if I had listened, he wouldn't have been killed by those mysterious creatures. I was so scared.
Anger and frustration was replaced with guilt as Kairi cried into her uniform jacket. Using her dead brother as a scapegoat was a new low.
"What are you screaming about?"
Kairi gasped and glanced up to see Sora standing by the bathroom door. His hair was wet and a towel hung over his shoulder. Apparently, he had skipped breakfast as well.
"Crying over an accidental kiss? Is your life really that dull?"
Anger slowly took over his seemingly indifferent face.
"I think it'll be best for you to shut up. Some people are going through much more than you. Think of them," he hissed.
With that, he violently threw his towel at Kairi's face and headed towards the door.
Kairi knew it was best to leave this guy alone, especially due to his history of anger management problems. But her pride possessed her entire body and soul.
She grabbed the towel and angrily threw it at Sora's head, standing up.
"YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M GOING THROUGH!" she shouted after him.
Sora stopped in his tracks as the towel slid off his back. He only readjusted his book bag and left.
As soon as he was gone, the bell rang to let her know that it was almost time for her first class.
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The halls were bustling with boys getting to class. She was nearly trampled on and almost died trying to get to the gym lockers. She let out a silent scream as soon as she walked in.
Bare skin was all she was able to see everywhere she stared. A whiff of sweat and cologne smacked her in the face.
"Hey," one of the boys nearest to her waved. An unnecessary welcome.
"Uh, hi," Kairi managed to say as she edged towards the back row of leftover lockers, using her hands as blinds.
As she took off her book bag, she realized she had to change too. Her face turned pale as she started conjuring all the possible ways she could change without being noticed.
On the other side of the wall, she heard the faint flushing sound of a toilet.
"That's it!" Kairi nearly said aloud.
She grabbed her gym clothes and went into the locker bathroom. Luckily, it was completely empty. Just her, the three urinals and sinks, and the lovely stall. She went in the only stall and latched the lock behind her.
She stripped off her clothes and tightened the ribbon that bound her flat, but not nonexistent, chest. Then she threw over her gym shirt and pulled up her gym shorts.
"Can't believe I'm going to haveto do this everyday," she muttered, picking up her clothes and pushing herself out of the stuffy stall. She nearly bumped into the person who was waiting.
Kairi mumbled an apology and looked up to see who it was. It was Tidus.
"Oh, hi!" she greeted.
"Hey." He smiled and went past her, but stopped. He stepped back and looked at her hesitantly.
"You really, really look like a girl. I don't know why but I have this feeling that…"
He stopped talking and furrowed his brows. He then walked closer to her and bent over his face, staring deep in her eyes.
Kairi felt extremely uncomfortable, his nose was almost touching hers. She was able to see her scared reflection in his blue orbs. Then, without any notice, she found herself pinned against the wall.
"Wha-What are you doing?"
Not replying, Tidus only continued to stare. Kairi began to blush. Finally, he let go of her.
"Odd. Sorry if I scared you."
He looked back at Kairi uncertainly and shook his head.
Wanting to get out, she limped out as fast as her leg could take it.
Man, I'm gonna lose it.
Revised: 072509