- Chapter Six -
(This Much Grief Over a Necklace!?)
MH: (Sigh) awesome car…
Roxas: are you still drooling over that car?
MH: …yes…
Naminé: (Sigh)
Disclaimer: I do not own anything, including Manolo Blahnik,
I dedicate this chapter to Utada Hikaru's album 'Ultra Blue' (Yes, I'm obsessed with J-Pop).
Reader Responses:
BlueChihuahuaCrimsonFlame: Well, the title of chapter five is 'Kesenai Tsumi' because of the song that Kairi sings in the chapter.
- (Roxas) -
The glorious Mustang car's door opened. A young man and a secretary stepped out.
"Tell Shochiku 'no', I will not act in the sequel, the first movie itself was too stressful."
"Yes, sir,"
"Then tell Michelle, I'll meet her for dinner at 7:00. Tell Eliza that I'll see her for lunch at 2:00 on Friday, and make sure Jacqueline gets informed that I will go to the theater with her at 9:00. Tell Riza that I'll probably be back home late on Sunday."
"Yes, sir," replied the secretary. She started dialing numbers into a cell phone.
Roy Mustang had officially entered the building, and was instantly crowded by fangirls.
Roxas rolled his eyes. Yet another unnecessary celebrity entering the school's atmosphere. He noticed Naminé still trailing after Kairi.
- (Naminé) -
What was she going to do!? Kairi's expensive necklace was missing, and it was probably at the bottom of a trashcan or something or other.
This was not good.
"Um, Kairi…" Naminé trailed off. Kairi wasn't listening, being too wrapped up in talking to Sora. She sighed inwardly, and headed to Mrs. Curtis' class.
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Mrs. Curtis had finally started teaching her intended class, Social Studies.
"Okay, can anyone tell me the capital of Amestris?" Mrs. Curtis asked. "Roxas, do you by any chance know the capital of Amestris?"
"Um… Central City?" Roxas answered the question.
"Amazingly, that's right." Mrs. Curtis sighed.
Today, Naminé was sitting right next to Kairi, who was sitting right next to Sora.
"Sora, can you please tell us what kind of internal disputes the government of Amestris had before the parliament took over?" Mrs. Curtis barked out the question.
"Er, it had…um… uh… something to do with… the leader…?" Sora inadequately answered.
"Close enough, but we've been studying Amestris for the past three months; you should know the internal disputes of its government by now." Mrs. Curtis said. Sora hung his head.
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"Um, Kairi?" Naminé tried to talk to her sister. It was after Social Studies, and Naminé had finally found an opportunity to talk to her red-haired sister.
"Yes, Naminé?" Kairi asked. Naminé looked at the floor.
"Listen, about the necklace that you lent me the other night…"
"Yeah? What about it?"
Naminé took a deep breath. "I… I think I lost it. I'm sorry." Naminé scrunched her eyes closed, waiting for the torrent to begin.
Strangely, it didn't begin. Naminé slowly opened her eyes. Kairi stood there, still as stone.
"K-Kairi…?" Naminé was worried.
Kairi turned around, a small smile on her face. "Ah, that's okay…" But Naminé could tell that the necklace had been something of great value to her.
And Naminé had lost it.
- (Roxas) -
"Riku, does this belong to anyone you know?" Roxas asked the silver haired boy, showing the necklace to him. Riku looked at it with skepticism. Then a smirk appeared.
"Does it belong to your girl-"
"No, do not start that again. I don't know, and I was wondering if you knew. I'm sure your eyes were on every single girl at the party." Roxas said, putting a hand on Riku's mouth before he could utter 'girlfriend'.
"Hey, I was not, I'm dedicated to only one girl now. No, it's not familiar." Riku said. Roxas sighed and scratched his head in frustration.
"Well, have you asked Naminé if the necklace is hers or not?" Sora asked.
"It could easily belong to Kairi…"
"No way, I know exactly what she was wearing last night! A red dress with two crystal flower pins, and heels, I think they were probably Manolo Blahnik-"
"Okay, we don't want to hear about your obsessed-ness about Kairi, Sora." Roxas said, smacking his brother upside the head. Again.
"Ouch, Roxas; you're gonna leave a permanent scar if you keep smacking me…"
"…Serves you right." Roxas responded. The band members (minus Sora) exploded into laughter.
- (Naminé) -
Naminé was sitting alone again. Kairi was, like always, surrounded by her cloud of avid admirers, and there wasn't any spot to sit at besides at her empty table.
- (Roxas) -
Right after lunch, Roxas had Gym. The day's sport was kickball.
Yet another sport that Riku owned everyone at. Roxas wasn't up to kick yet, and so he started daydreaming. His mind flashed back to the party. There was pumping music, singing, dancing bodies, and… Naminé. She looked ethereal in her flowing white dress, and her euphoric scent enhanced that feature. She was a quiet angel amongst screaming fans.
There was a necklace around her neck, as delicate as lace.
Oh.
"Roxas, you idiot; you're up to kick!" someone pushed him up to the kicking plate. The ball rolled towards him at the speed of light, and Roxas was able to thrust it into the ceiling. The ball landed on top of one of the rafters and lodged there. The class groaned.
"Aw, man!"
"Roxas…"
"Mr. Strife, will you please assist me in getting the ball down from the ceiling after class?" asked the gym teacher. Roxas groaned.
- (Naminé) -
In science class, Mr. Marcoh was talking about biological creations.
"It may or may not happen in the future, but scientists may decide to combine regular people with animals like snakes or bulls." The old science teacher was saying. The class 'Eew'ed at the prospect of being biologically combined with an animal.
English wasn't exactly interesting… but Geometry got better.
"And so, class; what do we do when x equals negative 2bc over radical 6?" the Geometry teacher asked the class.
"Mr. Strife?" This time, the teacher was directing the question at Sora.
"Urk."
"Surely you know the answer to my question!"
"Uh, sure… the answer is…" Sora tried to answer the question.
"The answer is x equals negative bc radical 6 over 3." The overly smart girl in the back of the room sighed (I had to do math for that. If the answer is wrong, please tell me.)
"Correct! Moving on…"
Naminé wasn't paying any whatsoever, and continued working on her latest creation, Kairi's lost necklace. She shaded in a part of the clasp (which she had drawn broken) and sighed. The necklace may have been lost forever, but Naminé could still depict it in all of its lost glory on paper. Perhaps she could finish it and give it to Kairi as penance… now that was an idea…
At the bottom right corner, Naminé signed her name with a flourish and a sigh.
Naminé Gainsborough
- (Roxas) -
By the time Roxas had fished out the ball from the rafters, Geometry was almost over. With a quick curse, he ran from the Gym to the class.
As he was halfway to the classroom, the bell rang; and school was over. Students poured out of the classrooms like a huge river, and Roxas was the salmon trying to get to his goal. He tried to sort his way through several different streams of people, looking for the girl with long blonde hair…
- (Naminé) -
Naminé followed the crowd of students filtering out of the room. She pushed her way past throngs of equally pushy students.
Someone shoved her forcefully, and her books scattered to the floor. Hurriedly, and before anyone could trample on them, Naminé quickly gathered her belongings and hurried to her locker. (Yes, this happened to me a long time ago… still happens today.)
Her sketchbook lay forgotten on the floor.
- (Roxas) -
Roxas sighed. He had not found Naminé… and so the necklace had not been returned. The Geometry room was right in front of him, but since no students were left, Roxas headed to his locker. Maybe he'd find her tomorrow… hmm? What was this?
There was a tattered and trampled sketchbook on the floor. It looked familiar. Roxas picked it up gingerly and observed its contents. There were pages upon pages of drawings, of various subjects, Kairi; people, birds, even buildings, but what was this-?
There were two drawings of him. One was colored; the other was in black and white. He flipped to the latest page.
The lost necklace, exactly as he had found it, even with the broken clasp. In the bottom right hand corner, was the name:
Naminé Gainsborough
Well, no doubt about whom the book belonged to, and the necklace likewise. With a frustrated sigh, he headed to his locker.
Luckily, he was able to open his locker this time, because both Sora and Cloud were gone from the school premises.
With a defeated sigh, Roxas headed home.
- (Naminé) -
"Kairi… I'm really sorry about the necklace, I really am." Naminé muttered to her sister.
"I told you before, it's okay!" Kairi smiled. Naminé knew that inside, Kairi was sad about the loss of the necklace.
Later, as they entered the house, Aerith stepped over to greet them (You haven't forgotten about her, have you?).
"Well, how was your day at school?" she prodded.
"Fine…" both sisters said simultaneously.
"Hmm… I see. How about you come inside and have some Paopu juice? I'm sure you must be parched." Aerith said, ushering in the two girls.
- (Roxas) -
While Naminé and Kairi were having a juice break, Roxas and his band were practicing in the garage (cliché, no?).
"Okay, from the top." Roxas said. The band started the song. Before the lyrics even started, though; Riku stopped them.
"No, no, no. The guitar should be a bit more… harsh sounding." The silver-haired boy dictated the lead guitar, which was what Roxas was playing.
"Fine, it's your song…" Roxas said sarcastically.
"That's right, it is my song, and you will do the song exactly as I have envisioned it!" Riku said, not catching (or ignoring) the sarcastic tone in Roxas' voice.
Since it was Riku's song, he was playing lead vocal; along with the guitar.
"Okay, let's start again," Riku instructed. This time, Roxas didn't play as smoothly as he first did, and Riku seemed satisfied with that.
- (Naminé) -
"…oh no…"
"What is it, Naminé?" Kairi asked. Naminé was frantically searching her backpack, looking for something.
"Where… where is it!? I know I had it after Geometry… oh no, this is not good…" she mumbled to herself.
"Naminé, will you tell me what is going on!?" Kairi exclaimed, grabbing Naminé's shoulder.
"M-my sketchbook! It's gone!" Naminé cried, her blue eyes filling with tears.
"WHAT!?"
- (Roxas) -
Practice was interrupted by an unexpected guest.
Seifer had moved from the Destiny Islands a long time ago, almost four years. He was infamous as the school's bully.
"What's up, losers?" Seifer asked sarcastically.
"What're you doing here, Seifer?"
"…Nothing." Seifer's hand swooped dangerously low beside Riku's bag, but Roxas didn't see him extracting anything… hopefully.
"Just so you know, my band is going to own yours!" Seifer cackled, leaving.
"…That was weird." Sora said, pointing out the obvious. Roxas did the only thing he could do.
"Ow! Roxas, stop smacking me!"
"…Serves you right."
- (…) -
Seifer looked at the piece of paper in his hands. Large and fancy letters at the top signaled that this was in fact the song that Riku had written.
'UNDO by Riku Harada,' (If you get the joke, laugh really loud) Seifer read the title.
Stealing Riku's song was his best bet. Seifer smirked and left.
- TBC-
MH: I'm sorry that I couldn't make this any better, so… yeah. Anyways, I'm gonna finish this one up in about three weeks so… anyways; I'm going to be starting up my newest fic soon… be on the lookout for a shiny new KH fiction!!!!
A/N: As a side-note, I'm trying to think of a title for Kairi's side of REWRITE, and I know I already have one posted, but if any of you have a better one, I'd be glad to change it!!! Your reviews keep me alive! (Smiles like Sora) SO REVIEW!!!
Roxas: (sighs) this is so lame…
Naminé: (sighs) maybe you're right…
MH: MUTINY!! MUTINY!!!!!! (Scribbles frantically in mini memo pad) be… sure…to…cause… much…angst…for…Roxas…and…Naminé… Hehehehehe…
Roxas: Uh oh…
Naminé: You've done it now, Roxas.
Roxas: Naminé, you're supposed to be on my side!