File 10: Winter Waterland » Volume 1
The title is based on the Christmas song, "Winter Wonderland". First of, I really want to thank Kisdota-The Freak Gamer for reviewing nearly every chapter of this story. You've been so grateful to do that. Oh and, to answer your question, yes I'll be adding Vincent/Yuffie. But that won't happen for a while just to let you know.
Genre: Adventure/Romance
Disclaimer: The following characters of "Secret Agent Kairi" are from the video game, Kingdom Hearts. Square Enix and Disney rightfully own them. The setting-taking place in the story is original also and does not exist anywhere in Japan. The story, plot, and maybe some original characters are under my name. There will be some references to the game. Don't attempt to copyright.
(Pence's voice) – "Previously on Secret Agent Kairi"
"I can't believe you would do that Kairi!" one of Kairi's classmates told her.
"Do what? What have I've done?" she asked not knowing what was going on.
"Its all over the school. You cheated on Sora with a junior guy named Riku," her classmate answered. Kairi couldn't believe what she hearing; much less know what cheating is exactly but she could tell it was something bad. "It says so in Tsuki Girl's blog."
"Tsuki Girl?" Hayner said while looking at Sora's phone, as did the rest of his friends.
"Who does this girl think she is!? Gossip girl?" Olette said. It definitely felt like they were on an episode of "Gossip Girl". Just in Japan but who could this Tsuki Girl be.
"It says right here that she blogs about the students of Tsuki High. Her story of Kairi cheating on me was just made yesterday," Sora said tapping on his screen.
"Hey Riku!" Yuffie greeted hugging him. "I'm so glad you're here. Now we can fully talk about this situation." Yuffie grabbed him and brought him to the others. "Guys, this is Riku. The guy Kairi is supposedly dating while cheating on Sora."
"What are you looking at?" a voice asked making her jump. She turns to her left and saw Roxas right there. He goes up to her and checks where she was previously looking at and then back at her. "Are you jealous of this?"
"Are you?" she fired back.
"What?" Roxas said getting defensive. "I'm happy for my brother. I'm not jealous of either of them. Why would you say that?"
"Let's see, you don't like Kairi talking about your brother when she is around. You seemed to be disappointed when you heard they got together and you have been always looking at them since." Where did the shy girl go? It's like she flipped the script on him. Roxas just walked away from her not giving a respond. Namine was having second thoughts of what she just said. She kind of regretted saying all those things she just said.
It was now snowing in Tsuki as the citizens dressed up in coats, jackets, boots, hats, and a scarf to stay warm. Here in the city, it wasn't that bad compare to other cities in Japan. The rain of snow would be slow and soft not making a threat to anybody but the catch to all this would that there would be strong winds happening with no warning. Some people liked it but others hated it. Even the temperature could drop at a fast time. Christmas also was a special event in the city. Parades could be held and decorations would just be seen around the city. It definitely was Tsuki's favorite part of the season.
Anyways, school has just finishing up and winter break was now ahead for our young teens including Christmas. They we're gonna be off from school for three weeks starting at December 20 and coming back on January 11. Too bad Sora and Roxas were going to be gone with the family to Tokyo and Olette was going to Hawaii. Pence were also going back to his hometown to visit his relatives. All was left was Kairi, Yuffie, Namine, Xion, and Hayner in Tsuki.
The gang exits the school entrance and decided to head into the city to eat at the Highwind. That was until their cellphone ringed. "Its Tsuki Girl again," Hayner said as he takes out his phone including his friends and other students of the school
The text says, "Just hold it right there you guys. Winter break doesn't start till I say a personal little message. It may be a break to you guys but it isn't a break to me. You'll be hearing from me time to time during the break. Gossip is what I do and will do for a while. And you guys thought you were free from me? Think again. Have a nice Christmas break everyone."
"Does this girl really have to do this?" Hayner asked as he and his friends walked to the city. "It feels like she is trying to ruin every student's lives by exposing it to the public."
"Yeah but so far, she hasn't posted anything about us since that day the fake story broke out about Kairi cheating on Sora here," Olette told him.
"And Selphie stuffing her bra," Roxas added laughing.
"I forgot about that. Thank you Tsuki Girl," Kairi said admiring her for a bit. "So far in these past days, Tsuki Girl has been posting gossip about everyone and all her stories are addicting to read.
"Yeah like that one story of this couple having sex in the bathroom," Xion adds.
"Or the one where one of our classmates got arrested by the police for stealing a bracelet," Pence said. Every post Tsuki Girl was entertaining to read but you never know that this could come back to haunt you when you end up in her blog. Selphie was feature the most since her life was more interesting to talk about.
"Kay, enough about her you guys," Sora says. "What are we going to do? Roxas and I leave tomorrow for Tokyo." No one could think of anything but Kairi had a look on her. "What are you thinking Kairi?" he asked looking at his girlfriend.
"I clearly remember I promised Namine that we'll have a sleepover at her house," she replied. "Then that's it. We're having a sleepover!"
"I'll call Riku if he wants to come," Yuffie said dialing his number.
"Hooray for a sleepover," Namine cheered. "Wait, what?"
~ Secret Agent Kairi ~
Aerith opens up the front door of the house meaning nobody was home. She was told Cloud left Tsuki in pursued Organization XIII as they were reported to not be in the city anymore. Kairi and Yuffie were actually the ones to go do the job but Cloud took instead because he wanted Kairi to have her first winter break with her friends. Aerith thought it was nice for him to do that. He was really starting to act like Kairi's father. She also started to feel sort of an attraction to him but she tried to keep it professional by not getting involved with him.
"I guess I'm alone for the day," she said to herself. "No one is going to be around." She then suddenly jumped on the couch. "Yay! I finally get the experience to be home alone! I can do whatever I want!" She was in joy having never been home alone even as a teenager. It was her dream. A stupid dream but now it was happening. Her phone then rang but she continues to jump on the couch as she answered it. "Hello?"
"Aerith," Leon replied.
"Yeah!" Leon could tell she happy right now judging by her voice.
"Rinoa and I are coming to your place later. Since Cloud was gone, I thought you'd feel lonely at home," he told her.
"Rinoa? As in Rinoa Heartilly the principal?" she asked and Leon said yes. "Okay, bye then." Now Aerith's dream ended in a short amount of time. Then she fell onto the floor seeing she hasn't paid attention to where she was jumping. "Oww," she said weakly.
"Mom we're home to pick up a few things," Kairi announced but she didn't see her. "Mom?"
"Just go," Aerith replied weakly still on the floor. "I'll be fine."
"Ohkay then. My friends and I are going to sleepover at Namine's house. So you have the house to yourself like you wanted." Yuffie and her then went upstairs.
"Easy for you to say," Aerith said dropping her face on the floor.
"I guess we'll be heading to Mrs. Strife's house," Rinoa said to Leon already holding her things. "I get to see their house now."
"Just hold on as I finish this," Leon said finishing looking at one of his student's paper. He examines it and gives it an 85 out of a 100. "Here you go. Good job man," he said giving the paper as the student left the room. "Now we can go." Leon gathers his things putting it in his bag. The two of them head for the door when they bump into Mrs. Shimizu.
"Sorry to interrupt but do you guys hear about Tsuki Girl?" she asked.
"Yeah," Rinoa answered. "I don't who she is though. I've had students come to my office complaining about her but I find it entertaining actually. Us teachers here like hearing about this stuff."
"Mhm, anyways, I heard that she is one of the students here," Mrs. Shimizu examining the hallways of the school looking at the students suspecting they could be Tsuki Girl. "I've tried to get info but that's all I'm hearing. Do you guy-" Mrs. Shimizu then noticed Leon and Rinoa weren't with her. She saw them running across the hallway already. "Hey! I wasn't done yet you idiots! So much for getting those two a present for Christmas," she said crossing her arms.
"This is your house?" Roxas, Hayner, Pence, and Riku said at the same time looking at Namine's house shocked like the others were before.
"Yeah, we had the same reaction as you guys," Yuffie said passing them going through Sora's trunk to get their stuff. "Wait till you get inside."
"Don't tell anybody please," Namine begged. "I don't want anybody at school to find out about this. You know how shallow some of them are." Riku could see where she was coming from and she was right. Their school did have shallow people.
"You're secret is safe with me Namine," he told her making her smile.
"Thank you Riku. I know we've only known each other for a week but you're a cool guy," she told him.
"So I've been told." They enter into the house; I mean manor, and Namine's friends who haven't seen it yet just gasped. It looked bigger than it did on the outside. A few workers could be seen walking around the house cleaning it, carrying laundry and other things.
"Okay you guys, enough of how I live. Lets go with to my room," Namine said heading upstairs. Later on, she opens the door to her room as everyone comes bringing in their things and dropping onto the floor. The boys were gonna give the same reaction about her room but she stopped them.
"Don't even do it," she said.
"But its just so hard to believe you live like this," Hayner let out. "I mean, look at this!" Namine just rolled her eyes and goes into her bathroom. There wasn't any bother to turn on the lights because she could still see seeing how it was the daytime despite the falling snow. She turns on the faucet wetting her hands and splashing her face taking a look at herself in the mirror sighing.
"I have to tell Roxas about my feelings but I'm scared. Scared of getting hurt," she said herself. She grabs a towel to dry up her face. Little did she know that Sora was standing by the bathroom entrance hearing this as he silently leaves going up to Kairi.
"Can I talk to you alone?" he asked.
"Yeah sure," Kairi replied as he takes her to the balcony. Their friends didn't bother to disturb them.
~ Secret Agent Kairi ~
"So what is it?" Kairi asked Sora.
"You know how you told me about Namine liking my brother a while go before," he asked.
"Yeah. What's your point?"
"I heard her talking to herself in the mirror and she said she is scared."
"Scared? Scared of what?"
"Getting hurt from Roxas." The couple both looked through the window looking at Roxas who was playing around with Hayner, Pence, and Olette. "And I feel scared now that I heard her say it. I mean, what if Roxas doesn't like her?" Kairi just crossed her arms and looked at the wonderful view of Tsuki and then making a small scoffed.
"That can't be true. When they are together, he is always happy with her and they have a great time. It's hard to believe that he doesn't feel the same way." Kairi was glad that Sora brought this up. She hadn't thought about Namine if her feelings weren't going to be return. It was always the same thing. They looked great together, they were great friends, and so on. But if her feelings weren't return, who knows what is going to happen?
Namine comes out of the bathroom not seeing Sora and Kairi in the same room. She goes up to Xion and asks where they are. "They're right out there Namine," she replied pointing to them. Namine turns around and sees them talking about something. She looks forward and just sits on her bed.
"Hey Namine," Roxas called out to.
"Hmm?"
"You have so much movies and TV shows here on your self," he said looking through them. "You got like the first two seasons of 'Gossip Girl', the first DVD of '90210', and you even have all six seasons of 'One Tree Hill'. You must really like teen dramas don't you?" he asked. Namine just smiled.
"Yeah. I do. I'm obsessed with them," she admits but everyone knew that. She then goes by Roxas as he continues to look over her collection.
"Look at her," Kairi told Sora. "Have you've ever noticed she is more happy with him?" Sora looked at Roxas and Namine and sees them laughing.
"Yeah but what if he doesn't like her and is just doing this to make her happy?" Kairi didn't want to think about this anymore. She didn't want to see her friend get hurt especially by Roxas, one of her first friends when she came here.
"Can we please not talk about this?" she asked holding herself. Obviously it was getting cold and her and Sora weren't wearing anything for the weather. Sora the just held her close to him.
"Yeah. Lets just leave it alone for now," he said kissing her on the lips.
Aerith heard the doorbell ring. She was watching a re-run of the new "Melrose Place" seeing how it was on hiatus till January. She clearly remembered watching the old one when she was younger. "I'm coming," she said opening up the door revealing Leon and Rinoa. "Tell me why again you guys came?" The two just entered and took a seat.
"We," Leon stopped when Rinoa looked at him. "I mean me, didn't want you to feel alone. After all, isn't your husband out of town?"
"Yes. Yes he is," Aerith replied. "He is very busy at this time around."
"I must say you two are great parents to Kairi and Yuffie. Doesn't working for the government time consuming?" Rinoa asked.
"Yeah it does," Aerith replied. "But my husband and I find time to spend with our daughters."
"I find it odd though that your husband is a blond and none of your daughters seem to have that hair color," Rinoa explained. Aerith and Leon glanced at each other knowing she was suspicious about their family. "Well I guess your daughters take their look after you more." Now Aerith and Leon just sighed relieved of what she suspect earlier.
"So I've heard you've known Leon since high school. I can't believe I've never met you," Aerith said.
"Yeah well, Leon and I were not even friends at the start till we got partnered up in some class project. I wasn't much of social person back then but I always was talking to people when I used to work at the Highwind with Cid," Rinoa explained.
"You worked at the Highwind?" Aerith asked. "Oh my god, I can't believe I've never met you and yet I always used to go there when I was a teenager."
"It's alright. I've never even met you either."
"Its weird. I remember the first time I met you. You were these very happy women who loved working at the school and interacting with the students. Now that Leon has come, you've been acting a little different lately."
"Okay, shall we talk about something else?" Leon asked trying to change the subject.
"What's wrong?" Rinoa asked curiously.
"I don't know. Ever since we all got here back in Tsuki, we've been talking about our past lives too much," he answered.
"It's called catching up Leon. It's been a while since we were here," Aerith replied. "Haven't you missed being here?"
"Yes."
Rinoa got from her seat and saw the pictures of the family. What she didn't know was that these were taken recently since they've been here. There really wasn't a good way to show pictures when they were younger. Then she head for the book case just looking at the books until she saw the whole "Twilight" books making her gasp, so she took one that caused the cooking book to fall, but not really, slowly opening the entrance to the secret HQ. Both Aerith and Leon just sat there in their sits while this was happening hoping Rinoa didn't notice this. "You have these! I love these books!" she said looking at one of the books not noticing this happening.
Leon quickly stood by Rinoa trying to distract her while Aerith shoves the cooking book back inside the shelf. She does so as it slowly starts to close again. Aerith stood by it as it closes and Leon was just talking about the book waiting for her to give the signal to say its clear. "I wonder if she'll make a fifth book?" Rinoa thought.
"Who knows?" Leon said guiding her book to the couch. "Maybe she is working on it right now." They took a seat and so did Aerith relived that Rinoa did not found out about this. It would be hard to explain why it was there. For the rest of the night, they would just watch or talk.
~ Secret Agent Kairi ~
During the sleepover at Namine's house, everybody was having a fun time. Music was being played in the background and everybody was prancing around dancing. They were just having a great time doing whatever they want. Riku was having fun with them. His friends were never this fun. Then Hayner turned off the music and his friends complained to him. "We've been doing this for over twenty minutes now," he said. "Aren't you tired?"
"Wait, let me get something," Namine says going to her bed.
"Namine, what are you doing?" Hayner asked seeing her grab a pillow.
"Just something I always wanted to do," she said as she hits him with it. Roxas then hits her with a pillow. "Roxas!"
"You declared a pillow fight," he told her. "Now everybody has to join." Roxas just continued to hit her and she hit him back. Their friends grabbed their own pillows they took and starting hitting each other. The sad part was that there weren't any feathers flying around. That was just TV shows; this was real. Laughter was heard and the yelps of getting hit. Sora was always getting hit by his girlfriend and never got a chance to hit her. Then he thought of something. He just snatched her and gave her a kiss till he hit her with the pillow.
"Sora!" Kairi yelled hitting him back. Hayner was about to hit Olette when she hits him right in the face knocking him down. She gasped checking to see if he was okay.
"Are you okay?" she asked when Hayner grinned at her getting up. "It was an accident."
"Yeah right. Now you'll pay," he said making Olette run for it and she just somehow went into the bathroom closing the door but forgot to lock it, so he came in closing it.
"Stop! I have a shower head and I'm not afraid to use it," Olette threatened holding it up to him.
"Hmph," he said turning away. "You don't have the guts."
"Wanna bet?" Olette turned it on and splashed Hayner with it getting him all wet. "Whose got guts now?!" Hayner goes up to her grabbing her while she held onto the showerhead. "Aaah! Hayner! Put me down!" It was obvious Hayner wanted to spray her too but since Olette was gripping it tight, water was being sprayed everywhere. When he finally got it out of her hands, he sprayed her getting her wet. "Aaah! Hayner! I hate you!"
"Of course you do," he said.
Namine then barged in wondering what the screaming was all about. "What is going on here? We all can hear you." Hayner and Olette stopped their water fight glancing at each other and then back to Namine. Hayner then grabbed her and Olette sprayed her. "Aaahh! You guys! Someone!" Kairi came in and got wet when Olette accidentally hit her making her stop.
"Gimme that!" Kairi said taking it away from Olette.
"What is going on-" Sora was interrupted when Kairi turn back on the water getting him wet.
"What the hell?!" Roxas came in and got soaked. "Kairi!" Roxas was about to run after her when he slipped on the floor bring Sora down with him. Sooner or later, the others came inside to check what was going on and got caught in the fight. They all were soaking wet with Kairi playing around with the showerhead getting everybody and the whole bathroom wet.
"Okay, we had too much fun," Olette said drying up her hair looking at a mirror. "It took us hours to clean up that whole mess." After their water fight in Namine's bathroom, they had to clean the bathroom and dry it. Each one then took a shower one by one to clean up. Everybody sleeping bags were laid out on the floor.
"Yeah. Let's not do that again," Xion said cleaning out her ears. "I don't think I'll ever clean such huge wet mess again."
"Hey you guys, look at the picture I took," Pence said holding out his digital camera. His friends laughed as they look at it. They all were having such a great time. Pence clicked to see if there was more but he found out he also recorded it. "Oh, I forgot I recorded it too."
Namine was waiting by the bathroom door for Roxas to finish. To think in her own house, she would be the last to shower out of everybody. Getting impatient, she decides to go into her closet to grab her pajamas, bra, and a pair of panties. She comes out holding it as Roxas finally comes out. "Took you long enough," she said getting in and closing the door.
Roxas goes back into room smelling refreshed when he gets pulled aside from his brother out of the blue and the two were now in the closet. He was wondering what the heck was he doing. "Okay, why did you just pull me off the side like that?" he asked him.
"Do you like Namine?" he asked.
"What?"
"Do you like her?" he asked again. Roxas didn't want to answer his brother's question. He knew if he told the truth, he would get some negative reaction from him.
"Can we not talk about that," he said walking away.
"Why are you scared to answer?" Sora called out.
"If you knew, you would know why," he answered leaving the area. Sora didn't know how to take his answer. Was it bad or was it good? He just didn't know. He would want to tell Kairi but he wanted to make sure what his brother meant. Nobody would want to see Namine get hurt. She is still a little naïve about these kinds of things like Kairi. She doesn't even know how it feels to have your heartbroken. And given who she was before they all met her, Roxas was probably the only guy she ever liked. Sora then recalled the conversation him and Kairi had about the two.
"I have something to tell and promise me you won't tell her brother," Kairi asked Sora as the two take a seat on a bench of the school. The two were having their alone time away from their friends.
"What is it?" he asked.
"Wait, promise me."
"I promise not to tell him."
"Okay. Namine likes your brother," she let out. Sora was about to say something but Kairi continued before he did. "Now I know its kinda shocking-"
"Shocking? I'm so happy my brother can finally have somebody for the first time. How long has this been going on?" he asked.
"Since grade school but she never would tell him how she felt."
"Why?" Kairi just sighed.
"You should know why Sora," she asked. "You guys haven't even noticed her till I came along. It kinda… makes me mad that you guys haven't at all."
"Well now she is with us thanks to you," Sora told her. "I think you're the best thing that has ever happened to her… and me," he added making her smile.
"I'm still learning about this whole relationship thing. So I'm naïve here," she said.
"Don't worry, I'll teach you the ropes and everything."
"I would love that," she said giving him a kiss on the lips.
Sora snapped out of his thoughts just taking a breather. "Why do I have bad feeling about this?" he asked himself. He just had this strange feeling about this but he didn't want to think about this. He hated feeling all gloomy and sad, so for now, he was gonna put this aside and think about it another time.
For the first time, Cloud is absent in the story. When starting this, I had no clue what to write or think. All I had in my head was the sleepover Kairi promised Namine earlier and that was it. Next chapter will be the mid-volume finale meaning the first half of volume 1 is done.
Thanks for reading this chapter and review please!