Author's Note: It's 1:51 am on Christmas Day. I wanted to make SURE I posted this before I pass out again. ON WORD THIS WAS 5 PAGES LONG! So I cut the end and meshed it in with Chapter 8. I promise you that you will love it.
But you can still hate me, cause I'll cut it here.

HAVE A MERRY FUCKING CHRISTMAS!


Chapter 7

Things Get Slightly More Complicated

"Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet "


When she heard the news, boy was she pissed.

What was she doing wrong? I mean she's absolutely gorgeous, maybe as far as saying she's totally flawless, and she's got a personality that's knocked the noblest of men off their feet. She's got a perfect smile, a hot body, eyes bluer than the Mediterranean sea, and he still won't look at her. Not even a glance.

What. The. Hell.

Kairi is always nice to him, to both of them, and now she hears some stupid rumor that bothRoxas and Sora are an item now? Oh no. No, no, no that just doesn't work for her. A couple days ago Sora's eyes were on her, and she got all the attention she deserved to have. Now he won't even spare her a glance in class. What the hell? Is she not good enough anymore? Did he just replace her with freakin' Roxas or something? Whatever happened to that cute, flustered, STRAIGHT boy (who couldn't pry his eyes off her) she'd met that first day of school?

Ugh.

It's been four weeks. Four long, painful weeks of constantly trying to win both of them over. Sora's been practically ignoring her and Roxas, as usual, is playing his I'm-too-cool-for-you card on her. He's been playing the hard to get game for the past four years she's gotten to know him better, and she's starting to get bored. It's just in her nature; when a game gets boring she just ditches it. But if the prize at the end is good enough, she cheats her way through.

None of her tricks or cheats seem to work on this one, though. What has she been doing wrong? She tries the nice act but Roxas brushes her off. She tries the sympathy game but he doesn't give her the light of day. She's tried jealousy but he never seems to care enough to do anything about it. Every game in the book and the boy hasn't ONCE laid his eyes on her without that look she hated so much.

Why is it that Kairi wants what she can never have? Never? Well, I wouldn't say that. There are ways, of course... But I think the first thing I've got to do is win Sora back over.

And knowing Sora, something like that should be waaaayyyy too easy.


"So, how are you and Sora doing?"

Roxas looks up from his Biology worksheet to his blonde friend and smiles; the very mention of Sora made his heart skip a beat. "Great. He seems more acceptant of it than the first couple days."

Naminè smiles too, sliding over her sketchbook to show Roxas the chibi doodle of them she'd been working on. The blonde boy chuckles; he can't imagine how hard it was to draw their hair... "You guys are so cute together, ya' know? Everyone's talking about you."

"Oh yeah? Like who?"

"For one thing Olette's been spreading the news like crazy. Hayner's been bugging her for the four weeks you've been together to shut up about it." Naminè laughs, twirling a long lock of blonde hair on her pointer finger and pulling back her sketchbook to draw more. With a few expert strokes of the pencil, she'd drawn a very silly looking chibi Olette on the paper, hearts bulging out of her eyes with a very angry Hayner in the background, and Roxas couldn't help but laugh when he saw it too.

"You know how she gets with these kinds of things. Remember in seventh grade when she thought you and I were a thing?"

Roxas rolls his eyes and scoffs. "She wouldn't shut up about it for weeks..."

"Months, even."

They both burst into laughter at the memory of Olette trying to pry a confession out of Roxas. Olette was always a very... gossipy, loud kind of girl. Even since the day they'd first met in second grade, but that's a story for another chapter.

"Ah man, good times..." Roxas sighs, shaking off the last bits of laughter. "Seriously though; everyone's talking already?"

Naminè sighs, staring up at the blue skies above them. The weather was fantastic today, and she was glad to be here with Roxas when it wasn't raining or they had to flee inside. "Yeah. Though something's been kind of bugging me since the two of you got together."

Roxas looks up from his Biology worksheet again, over to his friend with a quizzical look. "...okay?"

"Kairi seems kind of... pissed off about you two being together."

The blonde boy shrugs. "How do you figure?"

"Well it's just that she's always annoyed when I mention your or Sora's name, and she's seeming kind of off lately. Seriously, the girl's pretty pissed off with you guys. Can't you go and talk to her or something?" Naminè asks with a gentle look in her eyes. She just wanted to be a peacemaker. She hated seeing Kairi like this, but didn't want to be a burden on Sora or Roxas...

"Eh." Roxas shakes his head, scribbles a couple answers onto his homework and looks forward towards the quad's fountain in front of them. "Sorry, Nami. Last time I tried to talk to Kairi about something didn't turn out very well. Remember how she went all female-rapist on me?"

"Well yeah but... I dunno... just make sure you keep an eye on Sora, okay?"

Roxas scoffs, turns back to his homework and tightens his grip on his pencil. "Believe me, I will."


Sora was sitting in his dorm like usual, playing Kingdom Hearts 358/2 days on his DS.

And that was when the ninjas attacked!

. . .

Nah, I'm just playing you. The only person that attacked was Kairi, when she burst into the room, tears flooding down from her eyes to her cheeks. Sora didn't even know how she managed to get into the boys' dorms! The girl must have connections or something... She sat there and cried, throwing herself into Sora's arms the second she ran in. "U-Um... Kairi...? Are you okay?"

She whimpers, snuggling into his warm chest. "No! My boyfriend broke up with me!" She cries, holding onto Sora tightly, wrapping her arms around him snuggly hoping for the reaction she wanted. False tears wetted the fabric of his Utada Hikaru t-shirt. She inertly smiles, the sick thrill of knowing her trick would work making her feel the most remote bit of joy inside her. It had to work; she even managed to schmooze her brother Reno into letting her into the boys' dorms to visit Sora. If that wasn't a sign, I don't know what is!

"Oh. I'm sorry to hear that." Sora replied, patting her on the head but still not hugging her back. Something felt very off about this... but he didn't know what it was.

She looks up at him with tear-stricken, glimmering eyes and brought her face close to his, noticing that yes, Sora was getting flustered just the same as he used to. Even when he knew he had Roxas he still got a little uncomfortable around Kairi and that's exactly what she wanted to happen. "Me too... I just don't know what I'm going to do without him, Sora."

"Y-Yeah. What to do."

She brings her lips to his ears and whispers, still faux-sad, "Will you do me a favor as a best friend?"

Sora stiffens, visibly uncomfortable. "W-what?"

"Kiss me?"


Naminè was panicking. She couldn't get a signal to Kairi's phone when she called.

Message C21: I'm sorry, but the number you have dialed it out of the service area and cannot receive your call. Please hang up and try again later.

She was getting sick of constantly hearing that stupid message play over and over when she called her, and knew that Roxas was getting just as tired. "Anything yet?"

"Nope. Her phone is definitely on, it just says she's out of service range." Naminè sighs, dialing her phone number again and pressing the warm metal to her ear. "Damnit! If she's still in the dorms she should have service... Do you think her phone is off?"

Oh my gosh.And then it hits Roxas. For two days there's been no service in the boy's dorms.

"Nami, we have to get to the boys' dorms. Now."


Sora's blue eyes were quite wide indeed. "Y-you w-want me to wha-what?"

The crimson haired girl kisses his cheek softly and loves the way he shudders and tries to move. She knows the effect she has on him and loves it; this is how it should be, so pretty soon she'll have Roxas like this too. She's sure of it. She won't stop trying. She always gets what she wants. "I said I want you to kiss me, So."

"B-But I'm dating Roxas, Kairi..." he stutters, still numb. His body was betraying him; he wanted to get out of here as soon as he could but he couldn't get himself to move. What the hell?

"Oh? Well..." she brings her lips in close to his, stares devilishly into those widened, azure eyes and says with a flirtatious chuckle, "He doesn't have to know, Sora. Besides, I don't see him anywhere."

Sora honestly didn't know what to do at this point. He just snapped his eyes shut and tried his hardest to wake-up. But everytime he clenched his hands into fists and tried to wake him from what felt like one pretty sick, sweet nightmare, he couldn't come to grips with reality.

There seriously was no escape... was there?


"S-Sora!"

The door to dorm 108 flew open, revealing a close-to-kissing Sora and Kairi. Naminè's jaw nearly fell to the floor when it dropped and Roxas looked so pissed off it seriously wasn't even funny. Not even kidding; I have never SEEN Roxas so mad. Kairi, however, had the sickest, most demonic smile on her face as she pushed Sora off her and loped over toward Roxas, faux-tears still running down her cheeks.

"Roxas, I'm glad you're here... Sora just tried to kiss me and I told him it was wrong since you two were dating but he wouldn't listen and I didn't know what to do!" she cried, still trying to sell her little act off to win over the two of them. Slowly and surely, the blonde boy made his way to the other side of the room, towards his brunette boyfriend and Kairi inertly smiled; had she done it?

He helped him up and stared him directly into his eyes, the anger from before moving from his eyes to his mouth, residing in his voice. "Sora, I'm sorry." The brunette's heart nearly dropped when he heard him start to speak.

But all depressed thoughts ceased when their lips met, soft and gently but fervent all the same. Something about this kiss, though, felt different to Sora, like there was a new found passion neither of them knew about this entire time. Gradually they grew more and more into the kiss, quickly forgetting why they were kissing in the first place and wrapping their arms around each other, pulling each other further and further into it.

By the time Roxas's tongue had found Sora's, Kairi had already stormed out of the room.


Algebra class never felt less intimidating to Sora.

He used to walk in to be greeted with death glares and Kairi-related paranoia, but now he walked in to be greeted by his boyfriend, who sat in the seat behind him. Sometimes Roxas would poke at the back of his neck with his pencil just to get a giggle out of him, other times they passed notes or snuck out to the hallways just to talk or be alone. Sora wasn't exactly all that worried about Kairi anymore...

But Roxas was always on the alert. Seriously, he's like a fucking dog around Sora; he's always so protective of him and as annoying as it can be sometimes, it really gets to the brunette. He knows he cares, and it makes him happy beyond all measurement or meaning of the word.

Their days usually started when the announcements blared at them to start getting ready for classes, and when they had free time left over from preparing themselves for the day; they sometimes managed to wrestle each other into a somewhere-around-20-minutes make-out session before hurrying off to their period one classes. They'd sit together at lunch and talk about their day, etc, and when they got back they'd invite over a couple friends to study together. Eventually everyone left so the two of them would curl up to watch a movie. Sora typically fell asleep first, so Roxas was always the one to put him back in his bed and shut down.

Things were... simpler than they were before. But little did they know Kairi had only made things more complicated when she left the room that day...


Axel: ...thought you said this Chapter was about me!
Me: I know I know. I'm sorry. the NEXT two chapters are all about you and Roku-chan, kay?
Axel: Fine...
Me: We good? No chances I'll wake up on fire this Christmas morning?
Axel: No worries, we're cool. Besides, Roxas took all my lighters anyways... -_-;
Me: Mean! You should ask Santa for more!
Roxas: DON'T GIVE HIM IDEAS
Kairi: Keep it down, I'm sleeping -_-
Roxas: So like, are you just a natural bitch or do you have to work at it?
Kairi: (death glare) WHAT?
Roxas: Hm?
Me: O_O Can you feel the RokuKai love in air?
Roxas: Yeah, Miku... I'm feelin' something, and it ain't love (Sora not included in that statement)
Sora: I feel so wanted :'D Read and review, you guys. Feel the love~~~