Music in Time: Our Song
By: Orika
Orika: Hey guys I'm back. Sorry for the ever long lack of update. I've been busy school stuff you know.
Vampire Orika: Excuses, excuses Mortal.
Orika: But it's true not that you would know anything about it since you're not the one going there.
Vampire Orika: I hate to be in your shoes.
Orika: You're inside me…
Vampire Orika: Oh yeah that's right sorry my fault.
Orika: (Sigh) Alter egos…
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or anything.
Chapter 9: Coincidence or Not
After the eventful night they have all gone to bed tiredly. Kairi, Naminé and Roxas had stayed the night at the mansion, under the request of Rinoa. Ansem was more than happy to let them stay for awhile.
Sora drifted off in his dreams. The same dream that gave him comfort only this time the images were clear. She had auburn hair, her eyes as blue as the sky and her lips always in a tough manner gesture.
"Sora…" She said softly. "Wake up you lazy bum!" She screamed.
Sora woke up as a streak of light that peeked inside from the window. At the instant he remembered. He quickly got off bed and went out of the room heading the room he knows where she was.
Sora saw Rinoa heading downstairs.
"Hey morning Rinoa, is Kairi awake?" Sora asked.
"Now that you mention it, their gone, they left a note saying their going home." Rinoa said.
"What but what if…" Sora said but Rinoa cut him off knowing what he was gonna say.
"Don't worry Sora the note says they won't take long, and that they'll head straight to the café."
"Okay… So I'm heading straight to the café." Sora said and ran towards the stairs.
"Sora…" Rinoa called.
"Yeah...?" Sora asked turned around.
Rinoa raised an eyebrow and said; "You're not planning to go in the streets in your pajamas are you?"
Sora looked down and realization hit him as his face reddened.
"Yikes!" Sora said and immediately head back to the room with a few trips on the floor as Rinoa laughed at his new found trait of clumsiness.
Meanwhile at the entrance of the city a dinning van came in. The driver looked around the familiar city. His former home, a memory he buried a long time ago.
"Let's see Brave Heart Café here I come…" He said as he drove off the street at the road of his former home.
As Brave Heart Café was about to open, the others was looking at Kairi's hair wondering when she had it dyed.
"We heard that you fought with Mei Mei…" Rikku said.
"Where'd you heard that?" Kairi asked her mouth twitch.
"Zidane sent a gm last night, saying that Sora's girlfriend totally blew off Mei Mei and her obnoxious boyfriend including the bodyguards." Hayner said.
"That monkey mouth has too many to say." Kairi said in which Naminé giggled.
"Monkey mouth nice one." Naminé said. "Well Zidane did kind of resemble a monkey." She said.
"See I told you. Zidane does look like a monkey these two confirmed it." Hayner said.
"Zidane is gonna be furious." Paine said.
"No he wouldn't. I actually called him Monkey Boy by chance and all he did was laughed." Kairi said.
"Uh question…" Rikku said. "Riaki when did you had your hair dyed?" She asked.
"I didn't…" Kairi said plainly as she looked at them. "This is the original colour of my hair. After my counter with Mei Mei I figured blonde is so out of the list." She said.
"Hey that's quite insulting just to remind you Naminé, Rikku and my hair are blonde." Roxas said.
"I said Mei Mei not you three." Kairi said.
"Oh, okay…" Roxas said walking towards the kitchen door in which everyone laughed.
When the laughter subsided Sora took his chance.
"If your hair is auburn then your real name is Kairi, is that right?" Sora said still wiping the counter not looking at them.
Everyone stared at Sora and was confused except for Kairi, Naminé and Roxas. Somehow the three knew where it was going.
"Yeah that's right…" Kairi said going to the counter. "If you'd observe the name Riaki is actually an anagram of my real name." She said when she saw Sora's lips moved she intercepted. "Why? Because as I said before I got into trouble the last time I came here so I had to keep a low profile, but seeing that they've hitched on Naminé I figured there's no reason to hide anymore is there?" She said looking at Sora as he was staring back.
The others except for Naminé and Roxas having no idea of what the conversation was about had left to their duties.
"So what was it you wanna tell me?" Sora asked determined to get the answer from her.
"Tell you…" Kairi said acting innocent; she was having a hard time trying to tell him and thought maybe she needed more time. "Not that I would know of or that you would remember." Kairi said.
"You were trying to tell me something before you got that message from Naminé, something that I should remember." Sora said.
"Oh that…" Kairi said thinking of a quick scapegoat. "I was just about to remind you of uhh, the time I threw you at the fountain when you surprised me." She said.
"And…" Sora prompted.
"To say I have strong and quick reflexes." Kairi said.
"I figured that after seeing what happened to Kuja and the others." Sora said. "She's stalling…" He thought. "Though something's telling me you three know something I don't." He whispered but it was loud enough for Kairi to hear.
"Something you don't remember, right?" Kairi said stressing the word "remember".
Sora was about to say something when someone came in and took a sit at Kairi's assigned table. Kairi took a menu from the side of the counter and went to the customer. Roxas has gone to the kitchen to avoid any question and Naminé as well gone to her duty.
Kairi handed the menu to the customer. She took out the order slips and pen ready to write. She looked at the customer observing. She could tell it was a male from the trace of the broad muscles under the jacket. He was wearing a hood so she could not tell what he looked like.
'I'm ready…' Kairi thought. 'If you're one of the Silver Eagles then your toast, I don't care if it costs me my job. But there's no way I'm gonna let you lay a single finger on Naminé.' She thought.
"I'll have a cappuccino whipped cream." He said.
Kairi raised an eyebrow and thought; "I don't remember having those in the menu but those are listed at the menu back at…"
"Sorry sir but we don't have those in the menu." Sora said in case the customer started complaining. He figured if he left it to Kairi things might go ugly. "Maybe you're at the wrong café."
"No? But the right waitress is serving me." He said looking at Kairi.
'Is this guy hitching on Kairi?' Sora wondered his blood rising. He looked at Kairi. She was smiling; a knowing smile in which had him raised a brow.
"Sorry but if you'd want a cappuccino whipped cream and a honey dipped donut, I suggest you head to the train station and go to Destiny City. This is Brave Heart Café not Twilight Café." Kairi said. "Leon…" She said stressing the name.
The man laughed and he removed his hood revealing a silver white hair and a pair of aquamarine eyes.
"How'd you figured it was me?" Leon asked.
"Well, you're the only one who eats those for breakfast." Kairi said giving Leon a knowing look.
"Yeah right... Hey Naminé how ya doing..?" Leon said waving at Naminé.
"Oh hi Daddy…" Naminé said smiling.
Leon glared at her and said; "I'm not your father."
"So may I take your order for real…?" Kairi said.
Leon laughed and said; "Okay, okay let's see." Looking at the menu he took a glance at Sora and back at the menu. "I'll have black coffee and pancakes." He said.
Kairi scribbled it down, and then she looked at Leon. "What syrup would you like? Honey, strawberry or chocolate..?" She asked.
Leon grinned showing his white teeth and said; "You know I hate honey and pink isn't my colour it's yours."
"Chocolate then…" Kairi said scribbling it down and started to head for the counter. "Oh and Leon my hair is not pink but if I remember correctly that man had pink hair he looked kinda girlie." She said as she passed the note to Sora.
Sora wasn't paying attention he was looking at Leon having the feeling he knew him from somewhere.
"Helllllloooooo, anybody home?" Kairi said snapping her finger in front of Sora's face.
"Right black coffee and one chocolate pancake..." Sora said taking the paper from Kairi and passing it at the window connecting to the kitchen.
"So you two perform here?" Leon asked.
"No…" Kairi said. "So how are the others?" She asked.
"Same as usual though we don't get to many customers anymore ever since you two quit singing." Leon said.
"We didn't quit singing, we just quitted performing." Naminé said. "And sorry about that..." She said.
"No worries… So how are things going, any progress?" Leon said and took a glance at Sora then at Kairi.
"Well so far not much but as you can see we found Sky." Kairi said and Naminé coughed intentionally. "And don't you dare tell his parents, having them come here is the last trouble we want." She said.
"Of course, we already had difficulty convincing them to leave it to us." Leon said reasonably and stared outside.
Sora leaned on the counter towards Kairi.
"Who's Sky?" Sora asked feeling jealous.
"Someone who'd gone missing three years ago… Remember what Eiko told you about my three months coma." Kairi asked hoping it would give him a clue.
"Yeah, I remember…" Sora said.
"Well that wasn't the only story. I mentioned it to you once about the tragedy; "Sky" who was with me at the time went missing after we jumped off at the sea. The storm was ferocious at that time we figured he was carried away." Kairi said.
"Oh…" Sora said as he took the tray of ordered food at the window and gave it to Kairi saying; "So you're looking for him and that he's here in Twilight City?" He asked.
Kairi nodded and served the order to Leon.
"You know, now that you mention about three years ago, I quite remember the time I first came here." Sora said.
"I remember you mention about that. You had amnesia you said." Kairi said.
"Yeah but not about the time she found me. I actually woke up in the shores near the city." Sora said thinking. "I think I may have…"
"Drifted off from the sea." Kairi continued for him.
"Yeah, though I don't remember being on a ship, boat or anything… And I was with a girl the last time I remember but it's so vague I couldn't exactly recall what we were doing." Sora said.
Kairi and Leon exchanged looks and Naminé looked at Sora.
"It's Sora isn't it?" Leon whispered.
Kairi nodded and said; "Yeah it is I figured it for quite awhile but the problem is he doesn't remember anything except me but the image was blurry."
"And you know what the girl in my dreams." Sora said aloud.
"Oh yeah your blurry fantasy girl..." Hayner snorted.
"Yeah, actually her image became clear." Sora said.
"Really what did she look like?" Rikku said eager like a love struck teen as she went and leaned on the counter.
"Funny you should ask what she looks like." Sora said thinking. "She happens to look like Kairi." He said as his gaze drifted to Kairi. "Quite a coincidence isn't it?" He asked the question in the air but he was looking at Kairi as if he was asking her.
Everything fell into silence and only the sound of the door opening broke the eerie silence as Rinoa came in.
"Morning everyone…" Rinoa greeted didn't notice that Leon was looking at her.
"Good morning…" Everyone greeted except Leon.
"Hey, morning…" Leon said throwing a salute at Rinoa.
Rinoa looked at the Leon and raised an eyebrow and said; "Do I know you from somewhere?"
"Not that you would remember." Leon said sarcastically.
Rinoa went behind the counter.
"You two knew each other?" Naminé asked looking at Leon.
"No comment…" Leon said mocking Rinoa.
"Ooh okay… No further questions." Naminé said
Rinoa arched her brows trying to remember to get out of his mockery.
"You know him Rinoa?" Sora whispered.
"He looks familiar but I can't put my finger at it." Rinoa said to Sora and then she remembered Leon's greeting to her. "It can't be…" She said imagining one person who had always greeted her that way. "There was only one person who gave me that kind of greeting…" She said.
Everyone was taking glances between the two. They were looking back and forth thinking that they were having some kinda fight. Well Leon made it sound so.
"Squall…" Rinoa said in an almost like whisper tone but loud enough for everyone to hear.
As if on cue Leon finished his food and brought out his payment and laid it on the table, he then headed to the door.
"I'll be at the house you two." Leon said as he opened the door. "You know you two; it never occurred to me that you three will be working here. It's quite a coincidence." He said then looked at Rinoa. "Or maybe not, it is as they say: It's such a small world after all." He said leaving.
But then it got Kairi looking back and forth between Rinoa and Leon; "Well that was strange… Wasn't Squall, Leon's first name?" She thought and looked at Leon who was walking away. "But I thought he hated being called by that name…" A smile formed on her lips. "Something is definitely up and I'm eager to find out."
End of Chapter 9
Vampire Orika: What a cheap ending for Kairi and Sora…
Orika: Quit it I had a hard time making this. My imagination isn't working right. But anyways Leon finally makes an appearance and they made a scene good thing there were still no customers around.
Vampire Orika: Great more chapters to add.
Orika: Hey I'm budgeting my time my semester break, I'm gonna be busy again once classes starts. It's cutting off my story making. If ever I was a writer and I had an editor I figured I would be screamed all the time for deadlines.
Vampire Orika: Nice idea then, I'm gonna be your Editor and you'll have to do everything I say.
Orika: Ugh and I thought having an alter ego is bad, this is gonna be worse. Well until next time…