Author's Note: Hey ya'll! I'm here to continue the fanfic!! Yay!! Anyway, thanks for the reviews! A fair warning: this chapter is full of fluff! Don't say I didn't warn you! Here's part 2 now!!
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Sora's POV
I picked up my home phone and dialed Kairi's home number. If she wasn't home, then that would've probably caused me to have a heart attack, but she was. Someone picked the phone on the other line. It must've been her mother, but I wasn't sure.
"Hello?" She asked.
"Kairi?" I asked hoping it was her.
"No, this is her mother. Who's calling?"
"It's Sora, is Kairi home?"
"Yeah, hold on a minute." I waited for a minute before I heard Kairi get on the phone. "Sora?" She asked. No offense, but she sounded awful.
"Kairi." I took a deep breath. "Where were you today? I went through school worried about you that something happened."
"Sorry Sora, I tried to call you last night. I wasn't going to be coming to school today." I heard her cough on the other line.
"Are you okay? You sound awful." I asked with concern.
"Not really."
"Well, don't worry. You'll feel much better tomorrow because for our anniversary tomorrow, I've planned out a picnic on the beach, swim in the ocean, and then watch the sunset on the paopu island." I grinned picturing this moment. She was speechless. "Kairi?"
"I'm sorry Sora. But I can't go out tomorrow. I have bronchitis." Kairi answered. I just stood there in shock.
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Chapter 11: Anniversary, Part 2
"What do you mean? You're not serious are you?" I asked lying down on my bed.
"I am." Kairi said coughing really loud and hard. "Sorry. We shouldn't hang out tomorrow."
"Well, we don't have to go out tomorrow. Why don't I come over tomorrow and we'll hang out at your place?"
"I probably won't have that much energy. Are you sure?"
"Positive." I answered. She then agreed to letting me come over. "I just have to run a couple of errands tomorrow and I'll come over, okay?"
"Okay." Kairi said before sneezing. "I love you."
"I love you too, bye." I said before hanging up.
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The next day
Kairi's POV
I woke up that morning early. Surprisingly, I felt a lot better than I did yesterday. When I went to the doctor's office on Thursday to get checked and found out I had bronchitis, he gave me some very special medication that can get rid of bronchitis in less that a week. I just started taking it Thursday night and took it after each meal on Friday. So far, I've been feeling a little better each day, but still not well enough to go out and go wild. My coughing has gone down and I got more sleep than I had during the past couple nights. I sat up in my bed and stretched myself out a little bit.
When I got out of bed, I checked my alarm clock. It actually wasn't as early as I thought it would be. It was 7:30 am, but on a Saturday, that's considered getting up early. I walked over to my window to open the curtains up. Unfortunately, I didn't wake up to a bright blue sky. Instead, this morning had grey skies with rain clouds hovering over us. The trees outside were swaying, so it must've been windy too. I could use some fresh air, so I opened my window. I sighed looking at my calendar. Today was mine and Sora's three-month anniversary. I was really happy about it being today, but I also wasn't because we couldn't go out or do anything fun.
After walking out of my room, I went into the kitchen to get some breakfast and take some medicine. Turns out my mom wanted the fresh air too because all of the windows in the house were opened. As I slowly ate my bowl of cereal, I noticed my cell phone over on the table right near me. I decided to pick up the phone and call Sora and see if he remembered to come over or not. I looked up Sora's number in my address book on my phone and then dialed it. The other line rang and then he picked up.
"Hello?" Sora asked on the other line.
"Hey, Happy Anniversary." I said blushing. I always blush when I say stuff like this.
"You too. How are you feeling?"
"A little better than yesterday. The medication's really working. When are you coming over?"
"I'm on my way over on my errands and I should be done in a few hours. So, I'll come over then, okay? Bye." Sora sure seemed in a hurry for some reason. Oh well. At least he remembered.
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A Few Hours Later
After the morning went by, I started to feel better than I had when I woke up. I had just taken some more medicine and took a shower about an hour ago. It was quite cold, so I just wore jeans with a sweatshirt today. My sweatshirt was light blue with Destiny Islands High School in white letters. I just sat on the couch watching 7th Heaven while I waited for Sora to arrive at my house. It was almost twelve by now. Sora probably should've been here by now. I wondered what he was doing.
The doorbell rang as the show went to a commercial break. It was Sora for sure. I walked over to the door quickly and opened it up letting Sora in. He grinned as he wrapped his arms around me tight. I joined in the hug that I always loved getting from him. After breaking the embrace, Sora kissed me on the cheek and locked his hands with mine. I couldn't help but grin and blush.
"How're you feeling?" Sora asked walking with me over to the couch.
"Flushed." I said laughing a bit. Sora sat on the couch next to me as my show came back on. "Thanks for coming over. It's been quiet for the past couple of days."
"No problem." Sora said as he relaxed on the couch groaning at the show I was watching. He never liked 7th Heaven for some reason. "You're watching that show again?"
"Yeah. I like this show, what's wrong with it?"
"I'm not NEARLY half as good looking as that guy who plays Simon!" He pouted. I'll admit, I am a Simon fan girl. (A/N: I am seriously a fan girl of Simon in real life! ) "Why do you even like that guy? Having a crush on him is like having a crush on Riku!"
"Sora Hikari, are you jealous that I have a silly crush on a celebrity?"
"No!" Sora said laughing. "The Keyblade Master does NOT get jealous! I just don't understand what you see in that guy."
"I can't help the fact that he has great hair and gorgeous face. And his voice is pretty sexy." I said keeping my eyes on the television. "And how is having a crush on Simon like having a crush on Riku?"
"Because, that guy acts JUST LIKE Riku! The walk, the voice, the attitude, the ability to date a million girls at once." Sora said going on and on. "Anyway. Let's watch something else." Sora then snatched the remote from my lap and switched it over to a Blitzball game on another channel. "Now, these guys are better looking than that other guy!"
"Hey! Give me the remote!" I said reaching over to grab the remote from Sora who completely dodged me.
"Over my dead body!" Sora said running out of the room. "Too bad you're sick because you don't the energy to chase me!"
"I may be sick, but I'm not THAT sick!" I said running after him and jumping onto his back.
Sora and I just started laughing. He ended up carrying me all the way to my bedroom refusing me to give the remote up. I tell you, this boy is stubborn. If he wants something, he fights for it. Still on his back, Sora turned so his back was facing my bed and he dropped me there. I just laid there laughing and catching my breath. Sora then collapsed onto my bed next to me laughing along with me.
"Man, good thing your mom isn't home. She'd think we're nuts!" Sora said sitting up and resting his head on his arms looking at my ceiling.
"It's official, we're just as crazy as we were ten years ago." I agreed while coughing a few times. "I remember the one time you put ice cubes down my shirt at your 8th birthday party! I was really hot and you said you'd cool me down and then before I knew it, there were ice cubes down my shirt."
"Yeah. I remember the time you buried me in the sand that one time when we were 12 when I was sleeping on the beach. I got pinched by a few crabs and they hurt BAD!" Sora said sighing. I laughed at the crab comment. "Man, good times! What do you want to do next that doesn't involve fighting for a remote?"
"Can you cook?" I asked.
"I can cook grilled cheese. Does that count?"
"I was thinking of that. Let's go cook some lunch 'cause I'm hungry." I said getting up off the bed.
Sora followed me down to the kitchen, but as when we were downstairs, I began slipping on the floor. I began to fall back only to be caught by Sora. I looked up at him laughing nervously and blushing. He just grinned and helped me regain my balance. How did water get on the floor? It wasn't raining. I just headed over to the kitchen and grabbed some food from the fridge as Sora grabbed a towel and wiped up the "puddle" of water. Once he was done, Sora joined me in the kitchen where I was grabbing a can of tomato soup from the cupboard.
"Tomato soup too?" Sora asked grabbing bread and cheese from the fridge.
"It's a great combo." I said opening the can with a can opener.
After the can was opened, I poured it into a soup pan where I could cook it. Sora was putting together bread and cheese and preparing to cook the sandwiches. Once the food was prepared, we both headed over to the fridge. I grabbed milk to make the soup creamy and Sora grabbed us each a Pepsi to drink since he was getting thirsty and he knew I would want one later.
"Okay! Let's get this show on the road!" Sora said doing some last minute preparations before he was ready to cook.
"Take your time on the grilled cheese. The soup will be a few minutes." I said pouring milk into the soup and turning on the stove. It smelled funny, though. "Sora, does it smell funny to you?"
"Yeah. It actually does now." Sora agreed. "It smells kind of like……gas. Like the gas for a car. It's coming from somewhere in here. Well, we can check it later. We should start the cooking."
"Yeah." I agreed and after that, we both turned on the stoves, and right before our eyes, the stove EXPLODED! There was a bunch of smoke and after the smoke cleared, there was a burned stove along with a blackened Sora and I was blackened myself too.
"What…was…that?" Sora asked speechless.
"The…gas…was from…the stove." I replied speechless too that my mom's stove just exploded. "My mom will not be happy with this."
"Well, then we'll just have to clean it now will we?" Sora asked.
"Yeah." I agreed. "There's a mop in the closet and I'll fill the bucket with soap and water and get some sponges."
Once we split to get our different cleaning tools, Sora headed over to the closet and I headed over to the drawers next to the stove, which thankfully did not explode. We dunk our tools into the soap and water that I filled the bucket with, and started cleaning. Every now and then while we cleaned, Sora and I would occasionally get into soap sud fights and start throwing soap at each other. It ended up being really funny when Sora accidentally got some in his mouth and started burping out bubbles.
After rapid cleaning for a whole hour, the kitchen was finally all cleaned up and looked good as new. Sora and I were all soapy when we were done. So, we went over to the sink and started washing off the soap, which Sora started putting in my hair and I would throw some back in him. After we were all washed up too, it was about 2:00 now. Too bad our soup and sandwiches were burned. So, we just ordered pizza instead. Sora ordered it and it came within a half an hour. The doorbell rang.
"I'll get it." Sora said getting up off the couch. He opened the door to the person delivering the pizza. "Kaito! What're you doing here…with…a…pizza?"
"I'm…uh…working at Pizza Hut now." He replied. I walked over to join them.
"I didn't know you worked there." I said greeting him. "Did you just get a job there?"
"Yep. Anyway, here's your pizza. It's…um…1800 munny." Kaito said handing me the pizza box and Sora took out munny from his wallet.
"Thanks man. See you around." Sora said shutting the door. "So, which should we watch? A horror flick or a romance flick?"
"I'm kind of in the mood for a horror flick." I said opening the box.
"Then how about Sleepy Hollow?" Sora offered. I nodded agreeing and he turned on the DVD. Sora came and sat on the couch with me and started eating the pizza with me. "You know, these olives taste kind of weird."
"Yeah. They do, don't they?" I agreed looking at my pizza realizing what I was looking at. "Sora! These olives have eyeballs and eight legs!"
"SPIDERS!" Sora started coughing. I started to cough them out too. I won't go into detail because it got pretty gross, but after we coughed them out, we were calm now except for the fact that we now had a spider-infested pizza in the living room. Sora took the pizza and threw it out in the garbage. "Isn't there anything to eat that doesn't have spiders or doesn't explode?"
"Ice cream?" I offered. Sora took up the ice cream offer.
I pulled out the tubs of Cookie Dough and Mint Chocolate Chip and started scooping them into bowls for us. There shouldn't be anything wrong with this ice cream. I haven't taken it out since last weekend and neither has my mom. After it was scooped, we took our bowls back to watch our scary movie, which really was pretty scary. There were times when I'd grab Sora's hand during a scary part and he'd just put his arm around me. This is one of the reasons why I'd always watch horror movies with Sora. After we watched the movie, my mom came home from work.
"Hey guys, you should go out and watch the sunset, it's phenomenal tonight." My mom said coming in through the front door. "How was your guys' day?"
"Interesting." We both said slowly at the same time.
"Kairi, how're you feeling?"
"A lot better than the past couple of days." I replied to my mom.
"Well, I'll leave you kids alone."
"Actually, we were going outside. It's fine." Sora said getting up off the couch and locking my hand in his to walk me outside.
Once we were outside, we sat on that swing in the front yard. It was still cold today. Even then, the sunset still looked so beautiful just setting beyond the horizon and above the ocean. The sky was now bright orange color with some purple in it. I shivered a bit in the process while watching the sunset. Knowing this, Sora put his arm around me.
"Are you cold?" He asked.
"It's been cold lately. It's never been this cold on Destiny Islands." I replied shivering.
"You know something, Kai. This day reminds me of the day we first met ten years ago." Sora said looking out onto the horizon.
"How?"
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Flashback
It was an evening in January when we first met. I was playing with Tidus, Selphie, and Wakka and I had no idea where Riku had gone to. The sun was setting and the weather was cold just like this day. I was also right after my birthday. I had just turned 6 years old. So, we were playing with my new toy wooden sword. But, while I was playing with them, Riku finally came back. I wondered where he was and then introduced a new friend of his, you.
"Hey Riku, where have you been?" I asked.
"Sora, I wanna introduce you a new friend of mine." Riku stepped aside of where he was standing and revealed a small girl my age with red hair that went down to her shoulders, blue eyes, and wore a white sundress. She had her arms behind her back. I couldn't help but blush. I actually found her quite pretty. "This is Kairi Uchida."
"Uh…hi." I greeted Kairi for the first time. "It's…nice to meet…ah!" I began to say before I tripped over Tidus' foot and fell on the ground face first. Kairi started to laugh. "Yeah, I should warn you I'm quite clumsy."
"You're funny too!" Kairi said still laughing. "It's nice to meet you, Sora. You're cute too!" I blushed when she said I was cute. I had a feeling this friendship was going to be interesting.
End of flashback
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"Did I seriously say you were cute when we first met?" I asked.
"Yep and I thought you were cute too." Sora said playing with a strand of my hair. I laughed at the thought of us liking each other when we were 5 years old. "Hey, sorry today didn't turned out like we hoped it would."
"Sora. Today was a great day." I said locking my hands in his. "It's our three-month anniversary. I don't care about how much you prepare or how much money you spent or any of that stuff. I care about you and the fact that we spend time together. Most boyfriends do fancy stuff for their girlfriends for this occasion, but they treat them horribly in every day life. I'd rather have a great boyfriend than a fancy anniversary." I said stroking Sora's cheek. "All I want is to be with you. That's all."
"Well, I actually got you a gift." Sora said reaching into his pocket. "Close your eyes." I closed my eyes very nervously wondering what Sora's gonna give me.
"Sora, I hope it's not something that's going to freak me out!" I laughed with my eyes closed.
"Don't worry, you'll love it. Now, open your eyes." I opened them to find a small box with a gold ring in it. I sat there in shock.
"You're not proposing to me, are you?" I asked getting a little confused.
"No, don't worry." Sora laughed shaking his head. "Do you like it?"
"I love it!" I replied cheerfully. Sora then took the ring and placed it on my finger. For some reason, I felt like I was getting married.
"Read what it says."
"I…love…you." I read the silver inscribed words on there. My eyes began to water. This would have to be the best gift I had ever gotten from him. "I love you too, Sora." I said hugging him tightly. "We'll never be apart will we?" I asked while still in his arms.
"I'll never leave you. By the way, there's a part two." Sora said breaking the embrace. My eyes widened.
"How could you afford this?"
"You know those extra jobs I've been doing?" He asked and I nodded. "I was raising extra money for the ring." I grinned and blushed. I knew Sora cared about me a lot, but I never knew he cared THAT MUCH. That's really cool. Sora went back to what he was grabbing and when he turned around, he was holding a star-shaped fruit! A paopu fruit! "Kairi Uchida, will you share the paopu with me?" I sat there more in shock than I was when he gave me the ring. With that, I blacked out and fainted.
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"Kairi? Kairi?" I heard Sora's voice. I slowly opened my eyes to find myself back in my room and on my bed.
"What happened?" I asked rubbing my head and sitting up.
"I asked you to share the paopu and then you fainted." Sora replied helping me regain my balance.
"The paopu fruit? You want me to share it with you?" I asked.
"I love you deeply, Kairi. And I think I'm ready. What about you?"
"Sora…" I began to say while looking at Sora's ocean blue eyes. "I can't. I'm sorry. I just don't feel ready for a lifelong bond. I'm really sorry."
"It's okay. I understand." Sora said placing the paopu fruit down and coming up behind me. "I could never pressure you into anything like that. You don't have to share it if you're not ready. I'll wait for you."
"You will?" I asked.
"Always." Sora wrapped his arms around me from behind. "If we're ever apart again, I'll wait for you and I'll never forget you."
I turned around and came into eye contact with Sora's eyes. Our faces were just inches apart. Suddenly, I felt like I was getting a fever again, only in a good way. Sora locked both of his hands in mine and I looked down at our hands focusing mainly on the gold ring he gave me. After looking up, I found myself lost in Sora's eyes like I usually do. Sora then leaned in slowly and pecked me on the lips. I closed my eyes as he did so and kept them closed even afterwards. I opened my eyes after a few seconds and we stared at each other for a minute.
This time, I leaned in and planted my lips on Sora's. To deepen the kiss, I wrapped my arms around his neck and he wrapped his arms around my waist. This was probably the best kiss I've ever felt since we started dating. It almost feels like you two are the only people in the world and everything else doesn't exist. It also feels like you're floating in midair and you are defying gravity. After a minute, I broke the kiss. Still, in Sora's arms, I realized something.
"What's wrong? You look troubled." Sora asked.
"Oh crap. I just realized something."
"What?"
"I still have bronchitis." I said wide-eyed. Great! Now I was going to make Sora sick! "I'm so sorry if I make you sick!"
"It's alright. I'll survive." Sora laughed. He pecked me on the cheek. "It's worth every minute of it."
"You're damn right!" I agreed. After saying that, Sora's stomach rumbled.
"I'm kinda hungry. You wanna go eat at the mall?" He offered.
"Okay, let's go." Sora and I then left the house hand-in-hand.
Author's Note: Okay! I'm finally DONE! Not with the whole fan fiction, but with this chappie! There's still much more to come! So, anyway look for the next chappie!