Me: Hey Everyone! I know it's been a very long time but trust me when I say that this chapter was a big challenge for me to write because I wanted to get it just right. A lot of the details I had to check and recheck just to make sure it was all in sync but I really think that this one will be one of your favorite chapter's because it has plenty of story plot points!
Roxas: Can I just tell them what's going on?
Me: No!
Sora: What about me? I do play a big part here after all
Kairi: You're not the only one
Riku: We all know that I'm the star of the show!
Yuffie: Just shut up IKU!
Riku: Stop calling me that Yossarian!
Yuffie: If you stop calling me that then maybe we'll have an agreement
Riku: Really?
Yuffie: Nope! But the look on your face was so worth it! Haha
Me: So in other news, I was still a little on the fence of wether or not I wanted to write a sequel to this story but I have something to ask you guys! Do you want me to continue part two within this story or do you just want me to make up a whole new story document?
Namine: Wait! Before you say that there are a few other things that you should mention!
Me: Oh Yeah! I already almost forgot! So I've been working on another two stories and one of the is called Ominence Revenance and the other is called Cheats and Masks. I think if you enjoyed this story as much as I have you will definitely enjoy Cheats and Masks! It's pretty much another high school story but it's set in a Private Boarding school. Roxy here is our main character and he's some prestigious rich boy and he's got a lot to learn. The gist of it is something happens to where he loses all his money (not going to tell you how that happens now you must read to find out!) and it's just going to be really cool!
Roxas: I guess so
Me: An you still get our wonderful commentary! In both of these stories! I'll tell you more about Ominence Revenance down below and I'll leave both of their links there so you can read it if you want but I do think you'll enjoy them!
Sora: Hazzah! Let's get on with the story!
Roxas: Hazzah? Really?
Sora shrugs turning off the lights
Chapter 27: Remembrance
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There were so many things that I wanted to tell her that day, but nothing would come out...
My only regret is not telling her sooner. I was once told that my soulmate was near me and I thought I knew who she was. I was wrong. I finally found the right girl but I guess as fate would decide, it wasn't the right time. I find myself going over these same ideas. Could I have done anything to prevent this? Would she even care? I can't answer this but who know what life has in store for us. I should get going, it's almost time. Time for a new adventure...
- Roxas
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Namine sat in the car just waiting for Roxas to say something, but he stayed silent gripping onto the wheel deep in his thoughts. He knew he was probably making her nervous with his silence but he just wasn't sure what he was doing. This was all kind of impulsive, that's the last time he takes any advice from Sora is the only thing he could make his mind on. Heck taking advice from the one guy that's never had a real relationship? He was better off talking to Riku.
They pulled up to a place that Namine wasn't too familiar with, "Let's get out here" He says giving her a smile turning off the car and stepping out. Namine takes one look at the place and smiles. The skate park hadn't changed the only thing that was different was that no one else was there. Namine walked to where Roxas was standing letting out a little chuckle, "There's no way I'd ever forget our encounter here" she states feeling bittersweet knowing he didn't remember what she was talking about. Staring at the ground Namine barely took notice of what was going on around her.
Roxas grabs onto her hand startling her momentarily while leading her down by the river located near the skate park. At the edge of the hill was a painting set with all the different colors of the rainbow and paint brushes set up. Namine's eyes light up as she turns to look at Roxas with a questioning look on her face, "What's all this?" she asks as they stop near the painting set. Roxas takes a deep breath, "Namine you know there's a reason that I wanted to talk to you and this is part of it." Roxas gestures to their surrounding area, "I remember, you, me, and everything"
It takes Namine a few moments to process the words that had just come out of his mouth, "I can't believe" Namine says barely above a whisper, "Look, I'm s-" Roxas is cut of by Namine throwing her arms around his neck pulling him into a hug, he hugs her back holding her in his arms, "I knew you'd remember eventually, I really missed you" Roxas looks into the distance to a tree where Xemnas steps out from taking a look at the pair receiving a glare from Roxas. He nods his head before disappearing back to where he had come from.
"I'd say the same but it's not like you've been gone in my head and I have to apologize for the Ass I've been" she pulls back a little to look at his face and for a second she could see an emotion that she'd never seen on him: regret.
"Well you remember we kind of already establish that you're an ass" Namine's eyebrows perk up as a cute sinister smile appears on her face as Roxas lifts his brows and narrows his eyes at her, "Oh really now?" he says in a playful tone as she bites her bottom lip nodding her head trying to keep herself from laughing. He immediately begins to tickle her as she squirms trying to get away managing to knock them both to the ground on the soft grass.
"I give!" she yells laughing as he stops his torment lying on his back, "So you going to paint me something?" he asks staring up into the clouds, "Well I do have a lovely paint station set up" Namine turns around lying on her stomach scooting closer towards him, "I'm glad you like it" he looks up at the blonde. She was so happy you could see it on her face. He had forgotten what it felt like, to really mean something to another person. He pulls her towards him kissing her sweet lips.
"Aww, look at the lovely couple" the voice made Roxas' head snap up immediately looking at the one person he didn't ever want to see, "What the hell are you doing here?" Roxas asks in a low annoyed tone. Ventus smiles ignoring his younger brother looking at Namine, "How are you Namine? My little bro treating you good?" she smiles a little awkwardly, "I'm good, and yes he is"
"Stop ignoring me and tell me what you want" Roxas speaks slowly and clearly to get his point across. Ven's demeanor switches from his relaxed mood into a more serious one as he walks closer to the pair, "You know you've caused me a whole deal of trouble trying to track you down. What I've been trying to tell you is that our Father, he's out of prison. I heard he's back in town and he's looking for you. Just wanted you to know so watch out for him. If he gives you any trouble just give me a call, I'm out of here" Ven stalks off out of sight, he didn't really want to be around Roxas at the moment, it really just brought back painful memories of what he did to his younger brother. He already had too much stuff to deal with. He'd make sure Marluxia would look out for him for the time being because as luck would have it, he had to leave town for some personal business.
Roxas was silent zoning out just keeping his thoughts to himself, he practically jumped out of his skin when he felt something touch his shoulder. His head snaps towards the hand, "Sorry" Namine says taking her hand back as he shakes his head, "That's fine, I'm just…. I don't know" Namine knew there really wasn't anything she could say, this was a big blow to Roxas and even he didn't know how to react to it.
"How about we just go back home? I can always paint you a picture some other time" she suggests, "Well you're going to be busy tomorrow" Roxas says looking at her while she stares at him confused, "What's tomorrow?" she asks trying to figure out what was going on, "Our first date" Roxas smirks, "Come on let's get out of here" Roxas offers Namine his hand pulling her up and the two quickly pack away the paint set and sit in the car.
The drive back to Yuffie's house was pretty quiet with only a few words being spoken. Roxas was still distracted with the news. He pulls into Yuffie's driveway and walks her to the door, "I'll see you tomorrow at school" she nods her head looking down at their shoes, "Roxas, if you ever need to talk, I'm here for you" she hesitantly looks up at him. Roxas pulls her into a hug, "I know, and when I'm ready to talk to you about it, I will" he pulls away giving her a quick peck on the lips before heading to his car and driving away.
Namine let's out a small sigh that she hadn't realized she was holding. She was so happy that Roxas finally remembered everything, she just got him back and now this had to happen. The worst part of it all was that she didn't know what to do or how to help. Being there for him is all that she'd be able to do. It was no use trying to figure it all out now, she turns and opens the door as Yuffie and Kairi both come tumbling out with some clear cups as she eyes them, "Were you just listening?" she asks as the shake their heads
"It's a funny story actually, tell it Yuffie it's always funnier when you tell it" Kairi laughs nudging Yuffie, "Of course it is, so you see, uh we were just on our way to the kitchen and we started talking about what we like to…" Yuffie momentarily pauses as Kairi opens her mouth, "Eat!" she shouts as Yuffie nods her head, "Yes that is what we were discussing when I said, Hey Kai, why don't we just go out to eat? And she agreed, so that's why we were by the door" Yuffie smiles widely proud with her tale as Namine crosses her arms over her chest giving her a stare down, "That doesn't explain the cups you were holding"
"We were holding cups because we don't like the cups they have at the place we were going to go" Kairi says saving their tale, "But now that you're here we can just order in!" Yuffie says hopping up and down excited, "And now you can tell us where you went!" she continues pulling her into the other room.
Namine sat down and told them what had happened at the skatepark, "That was so sweet and I'm glad Roxas finally remembers everything! I was getting tired of his wanting to fight and complain, well he never really stops complaining" Kairi laughs
"While normally I'm totally against watching melodramatic tv series, we have netflix and I'm feeling like we should watch something that can keep even me entertained which is a challenge itself" Yuffie pulls out the TV remote as Kairi get's a sly smile on her face, "Consider that challenge accepted because I have the perfect show, that even you will love" Yuffie hands her the controller, "Alright, show me what you got" Namine laughs at them, "Don't forget, we have school tomorrow" she mentions as they both throw a pillow at her, "Buzz kill" Yuffie says smiling as Kairi pushes play to the show.
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Roxas sat on the roof of the house just looking at the stars wishing he'd been given a different life. It was dark and the pain was deep… some of the only people he cared about were gone. Courtney, his brother, Zac, and other's all have a real family, that's all he ever really wanted. A true father and mother that wouldn't see him as a kid from the wrong side of the tracks or just a bother. Growing up was lonely and even though Demyx and Axel became his family it was never something that could fill that void in his heart.
Namine, that's someone he couldn't stop thinking about. She didn't deserve to be used for the sick pleasure of a twisted man, but there wasn't much he could do to protect her. He tried to pretend he'd forgotten her but that obviously didn't work out in his favor. Not that he really wanted to forget her. If only she could forget him. Maybe things would be different had he not been given his mission.
Roxas sighed and now on top of that he had to deal with his father. He hadn't seen the man since the night he was almost beaten to death. A night that had haunted him for years that would always replay in his head
Flashback
It was pouring down rain on the miserable fall day. It was already pretty late and Roxas quickly finished his last chore of the day. The place was spotless and he barely had enough time to fit in homework. Things were a lot harder with his big brother gone. He slowly shut his eyes, the pain was too terrible to think about. A few drops of water splashed on his face waking him up from the terrible memory, "Great, now Dad's going to be mad. I swore I fixed those holes" he said peering up at the ceiling. He quickly ran to the sink opening the cabinet pulling out some rusty steel buckets and placing them right under the drops of water.
The house they lived in was pretty banged up. There were holes in the wall and some of the window panes were completely missing. Roxas and Ventus had boarded up the windows to keep the rain from coming in. The holes were made from the drunken rages that his dad would fly into.
Roxas sat back down on the wobbly chair that was supposed to be fixed a week ago; his father never got around to it. He sat and stared at some of the math problems he still had to finish before he could go to bed but it was hard to concentrate with an empty stomach. He stood back up and headed to the refrigerator already knowing it was a futile move; food wasn't going to magically appear out of nowhere. He opened it his blue eyes hopeful just to be disappointed.
Courtney usually gave him food, but even so it was hard for him to take it from her. She knew that so she started to leave baskets at his house full of different foods. He knew it was her but she never once said anything about it when they were together. He hadn't been able to see her for a while. His dad was really on edge with Ven. He made his way back to the chair sitting down ignoring his aching stomach.
The lights immediately shut off and the only illumination was coming from the thunder that roared outside the house. Of course his Dad forgot to pay the light bill again. Roxas sighed as he looked for some old candles. He couldn't remember where Ven had put them. He walked into his brother's room blindly searching for the candles. He froze when he heard the rattling of a truck. His Dad was home.
Sometimes he'd be in a good mood, after a long day of work and drinking he'd usually pass out without saying a word to him. Roxas stayed quiet as he heard his dad shuffle out of the truck slamming the door mumbling to himself. Roxas wasn't exactly sure but it sounded as if he was arguing with someone outside of the house but then it got quiet again until the house door was being banged on.
"Roxas! Open this damn door!" His dad yelled pounding harder. Roxas braced himself as he walked to the entrance. He hesitated for a moment contemplating not letting him in at all. Roxas knew he was really drunk but opened the door, "What the fuck happened to the lights?!" He roared trying in vain to switch the lights on as Roxas stays quiet and out of the way, "Screw it, I'm hungry" he says pulling out a sandwich. Roxas eyed it in the dimmed light, he was so hungry.
"Dad?" Roxas says quietly not trying to disturb the man, "What?" he asks in an annoyed tone, "I-I-I j-just, uh.." he dad let's out an aggravated sigh, "Just fucking say it already or get the hell out of here" Roxas flinches as his dad walks over to him shoving him against the old refrigerator, "You're so fucking pathetic, how the hell are you my son? You're mother was a whore anyway, you're probably not even my son. I know if you were mine you wouldn't be such a fucking coward"
Roxas looks to the ground as his Dad's attention turns to the buckets on the kitchen table, "What did I ask you to do about that ceiling?" He asks in a deadly tone, "Y-you a-a-asked me to fix it" Roxas replies seeing the sheer anger and hatred in his father's eyes, his own reflecting fear. His Dad grabs ahold of his face and the back of his head dragging him toward the buckets, "DOES IT LOOK LIKE IT'S FIXED?!" He yells tossing the boy straight into the steel buckets filled with water. Roxas cries out in pain as his dad walks towards him pulling out his belt whipping the boy mercilessly, "I should have let your mom abort you!" He yells continuing his assault.
After being thrown against another wall, Roxas felt himself slipping. It was like he was there in his body but at the same time he wasn't. Everything was a blur and the kicks he received from his father, he could barely feel them anymore. The only comfort in the thought that he might die would be that he would never again have to endure another night with this man who calls himself a father. Any really father wouldn't lay a finger on their child. And then suddenly, the pain stopped. Roxas looked up from the floor that was already covered in blood. He saw someone punching his father, he couldn't see the guy's face but his hair was blonde.
"It's going to be okay, you're going to be okay" those were the words that the mystery man spoke but Roxas was already too out of it to even say thank you.
End of Flashback
The police soon arrived and took his father to jail to wait for a trial. The next time Roxas woke up he was in the hospital and Courtney had stopped by to leave him her special apple. Roxas knew this dream would start to haunt him again.
He was startled when he felt an arm on his shoulder, it was Cid, "Hey there, so how you doing?" Cid asks with a serious tone. Roxas was taken aback, he didn't know Cid could be serious let alone have any type of meaningful conversation.
"So you know?" Roxas asks looking at his uncle who shrugs, "He's my brother in law, I was there for your mom's wedding, she was beautiful"
They both stayed silent for a few moments both lost in their own thoughts. Cid never talked much about his friend or his sister, "Roxas, I grew up with your dad and he wasn't always bad. Things happened to him that even he can't comprehend or get over. Listen to me, you're old enough now and you don't have to see him if you don't want to but that's your choice"
"I just find it so surreal, I can't believe that he's finally getting out. He almost killed me…" Roxas brows furrow, "I'm afraid" he admits looking up at his Uncle, "You don't have to be. He can't hurt you if you don't let him. You're not the same kid you were Roxas, I remember the first time I met you. Shy punk. I got along well with your dad when we were kids and then when we grew up and he started drinking. Thanks to my sister I did get to visit you and your brother, and I'd have to say you've grown up a whole lot since then. You were quiet and it always seemed like you were in some type of pain. I didn't know that he was abusing you two, I never once imagined he would go that far. I'll leave you alone for now but just know if you need anything well I'll be in the kitchen. Which reminds me dinner's ready" Cid smiles hopping up on his two feet
"Hey Cid?" Roxas says as Cid pauses, "Thanks" Cid nods his head slipping into the house and down the stairs. It was a shock to him when he learned about his brother in law. He hadn't seen him in years, hell the only reason he saw him was when he had to. He opened the kitchen door to find Sora already sitting at the dinner table eating some waffles, "Hey I made you dinner and you eat that frozen garbage!?" He shouts as Sora takes another bite out of his waffle, "I wasn't interested in dying today" he says smiling
Roxas walks into the kitchen then goes straight to the cupboard pulling out a bowl and some cereal, "You too?!" Cid shouts in disbelief, "Cid you can't even properly clean this house, what makes you think we'd trust your cooking wouldn't kill us?" he asks as Cid sighs mumbling to himself pulling out his own bowl and filling it with his home made soup,"Ungrateful children" he mumbles taking a seat with his nephews
"Is it supposed to be that purple color?" Roxas asks peering into his uncle's bowl, "Is it supposed to have a face?" Sora looks at the bowl almost falling out of his seat, "I swear it just winked at me!" He shouts as Cid shakes his head, "Don't be ridiculous" he takes his spoon and tries to place it in the bowl when the soup reacts becoming a gel like form attaching it to Cid's face. He tries to pry the thing off of him in vain. Sora laughs as Roxas joins in with him, "I'll get the bag, you get the spatula" Roxas says opening up a cabinet pulling out the bag.
The kitchen door swings open, "Hey…" Riku pauses looking at the scene before him, "I don't even want to know" he shakes his head as they finally pry the creator off of Cid's face and toss it into the bag, "And this is why we don't eat your cooking" Roxas states tossing the bag into the trash.
"Weren't you supposed to be at camp?" Riku asks taking a seat across from Cid, "Aww did you miss me?" Cid taunts pinching his cheeks, "Not remotely" Riku smacks Cid's hand away from his face as he chuckles, " It's a Funny story… I was on my way to camp when a crazy storm hit and my car ended up stuck in the middle of nowhere. I eventually found a small diner and spent my time there waiting for a toe-truck," Cid pauses suddenly realizing he's the only one left in the kitchen, "Kids these days" he shakes his head carefully approaching his pot of food, he had to be extra careful when it came to cleaning up his cooking.
"So what are you doing over here?" Roxas asks Riku taking a seat on the couch, "There was no one at my house so I figured I'd come over here and see what you two were up to"
"Where's your brother?" Sora asks as he jumps in-between the two
"He went back to his boarding school. He was just on break the last time he was here" Riku leans back on the couch, "So why aren't you all in the pissy mood you usually seem be in where ever I come around?" he asks looking at Roxas, "I remember everything, so I don't hate you anymore. It's as simple as that" Riku laughs patting his back, "Great I've missed Mr. Moody" Roxas just shakes his head, "I'm not Mr. Moody, I just think you can be a little full of yourself, but that's what makes you my friend"
"Aww, I'm glad we've all made up" Sora says pulling both of them into a group hug, "Dude! Not cool!" Riku says fixing his hair, "Yeah almost not as cool as you and your obsession with your hair" Roxas and Sora laugh reaching for his hair, "Do you guys want to die?" he asks threateningly while the cousins look at each other, shrugging and ruffling his perfect mane before running up the stairs with Riku chasing after them. At least Roxas' friends and cousin could keep his mind off of his father.
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It was around five am when Namine turned over in her bed wide awake. So much had happened in the past few months she couldn't believe it. She was just glad that Roxas had his memory back. Yuffie and Kairi totally freaked out when she told them what had happened, although she left out the run in they had with his brother and the information he divulged. It was pointless trying to go to sleep she had been trying to all night but only managed a couple of hours. She stands up from her bed and quietly heads down the stairs.
Namine makes it to the kitchen and get's herself a glass of water. She takes a seat when Kairi comes running into the kitchen with Yuffie, "What's going on?" she asks startled, "We slept in!" Kairi yells pulling on a coat, "It's only five in the morning school doesn't start until 7-" Namine stopped talking as Kairi shoved her phone in her face, she pushed it back a little to read the screen reading 7:45am.
"How did we sleep in?!" she asks while running up the stairs grabbing some clothes and tossing them on and quickly running back down. Yuffie grabbed some toast and handed her one as Kairi looked through her purse to find the keys, "We must have forgot to change our alarm clocks back to our regular time since we just got back from camp" she explains as they head out and hop into her car.
"I told you we shouldn't have stayed up watching The Vampire Diaries" Namine says shaking her head, "But come on I wanted to see Damon and Elena get together!" Yuffie whines taking a bit of her toast as Kairi stops at a red light, " Nope, Elena has to end up with Stefan, they have such a good relationship" Yuffie spits some toast out, "How can you say that? Stefan is so boring and such a goodie two shoes and Damon is amazing and he deserves to get the girl. I'm tired of every girl he loves telling him it'll only be Stefan, I love stefan. Damon needs some loving"
"Damon is a jerk and he was the bad guy that killed plenty of innocent people" Kairi retorts as Namine sighs, "Can we not argue about this right now?" she suggests trying to keep the peace when Yuffie smiles evilly turning her attention to the blonde in the back of the car, "I know how we can settle this, who do you think Elena should end up with?" she asks as Namine points to the light that just turned green.
"That's a perfect idea. Tell us Nami!" Kairi commands as she turns into the parking lot of the school, "Umm, I think she should ditch them both and find someone else to love" Namine answers quickly opening the car and stepping out already halfway into the hallway as Yuffie and Kairi complain over her answer before finally catching up to her at Mr. Ansem's door.
"Why haven't you gone in?" Kairi asks, "Well first of all I was waiting for the two of you, no point in making him any angrier than he'll already be with us being late and interrupting his class" Namine explains as Yuffie waves her hand, "Yeah but we'll get out of it, I am a ninja you know." Kairi and Namine sweat drop as Yuffie opens the door having them follow her inside.
Mr. Ansem pauses during his lecture slowly turning to whoever had the nerve to interrupt his class, "Ahh ladies, decided not to skip this morning?" he asks as Kairi let's out a shaky laugh, "Well you see, the reason why we're late, well Yuffie does a better job at telling it than me" she steps back pushing Yuffie forward, "Aww don't be shy Kai I think you do a way better job than me" Yuffie goes ahead and pushes Kairi back to where she was.
Mr. Ansem continued staring at them not so amused, they were wasting his time. Namine sighs lightly pushing her way through Yuffie and Kairi, "Mr. Bartlett, the reason why we're late is because I forgot to turn my alarm on and they were at my house so they didn't wake up either" Kairi and Yuffie stare at Namine with their mouths open shocked that she not only talked in front of the class without stuttering any word, but she also took the blame. There's no way they could let her do that so they both try to talk to their teacher but he just raises his hand to quiet them.
"I appreciate your honesty Naomi, now take a seat, all of you. I'll let it slide this time but be warned, next time you come late there will be consequences" They nod their heads and start heading to their seats but Namine pauses and turns back to Mr. Ansem, "And for future reference, it's Namine, not Naomi"
A small smile comes to Mr. Ansem's face, this girl had spunk, "Alright, Namine." he acknowledges as she takes her seat. Normally Leon or Roxas would be near her but they seemed to be missing from the classroom.
Yuffie reluctantly takes her seat next to Riku, "Don't talk to me" she says taking out her notebook flipping to the page she left off on, "Wasn't planning to" he says flicking his pencil to get a girls attention as Yuffie rolls her eyes at him, "But just for the curiosity factor, why are you not speaking to me?" he asks turning to look at her but she was ignoring him writing in her notes, "Ah, I get it, you had a steamy dream of me last night, didn't you?" he smirks seeing her reaction, "Ew! No! And that's the reason why I'm not talking to you because you're a jerk"
Kairi smiles overhearing their conversation turning around, "Come on Yuff, he's the Damon to your Elena" Riku looks at her confused, "Who's Damon and Elena?" he asks as Yuffie violently shakes her head in protest, "No, never. He's more like Klaus to my Caroline"
"Riku's not like Klaus" Sora says totally clued in on what they were talking about, "Do I even want to know?" Riku asks eyeing Sora, "What? It's not a bad show, what do you think Kairi and I do when we hang out?" Riku shakes his head disapprovingly, "Definitely not that"
"Am I interrupting you four? Or is it the other way around?" Mr. Ansem says hovering over them glaring, "Sorry about that, we'll stop talking" Kairi pretends to zip her mouth shut.
Yuffie rolls up a piece of paper and throws it at Riku while Mr. Ansem turns his back towards them. Riku looks up from his phone glaring at Yuffie who just looks off into space like she did nothing wrong, "Must you act like a child?" he whispers,"Are you talking to me?" Yuffie asks nonchalantly but he just ignores her making her smile, she won this round.
Riku leans over giving Yuffie his smug smile, "You want to go on a date tonight?" he asks while she stares at him with wide-eyes before scoffing, "uh, not if my life depended on it, why don't you ask one of your harem girls to go with you" like hell he'd let her win anything, "Your loss, but this is a one time offer. I don't normally do charity but in your case I just might make an exception" he shrugs
"You're such an ass" she replies, "Yup, an ass that you just so happened to kiss" he smirks sitting upright back in his chair. Damn, he would never let her live that kiss down and now she'll be haunted with it for as long as he felt like torturing her with it.
Mr. Ansem looks down at his watch before he abruptly stops his lecture, sitting on the corner of his desk,"Alright, class over, get out of here" he commands as everyone looks at him confused, they still had twenty minutes left. Riku didn't need to be told twice and was already out the door by the time the rest of the class got the message processed through their heads quickly following him.
"Hey where is Roxas? Didn't he come here with you guys?" Namine asks catching up to Riku and Sora, "Yeah about that, well he and Leon were sent down to the office. He should be in our next period" Sora explains taking out some books from his locker.
Kairi walks over to them holding a flyer in her hands, "Can you guys finally believe it?" Riku looks at her taking the flyer out of her hands, "The school dance is this week!" she yells excitedly as Yuffie sighs, "Just another silly dance" she says while Kairi smiles, "Hey it's going to be a whole lot of fun, you and all of us! So Riku who are you taking this year?" she asks hinting towards Yuffie, "I don't know yet, I'll go with a few girls"
"What? A few girls?" Yuffie questions turning to look at him while he shrugs, "I'm not going to deny girls happiness and just go with one" Kairi shakes her head, "Yeah you should have seen him during homecoming, he had five dates that night and each of them had their designated time slots" but she did have to admit a lot of those girls were happy so sure maybe he did do something that wasn't always socially acceptable but heck if the girls that wanted to go with him were okay with it then well it was up to them.
"So it looks like me and you need to find ourselves some stand up dates" Kairi says looping her arm with Yuffie, "I don't know, I mean I have the dress and all but this isn't really my thing. Skate park? Why not, Masquerade? Not so much besides can't we have a better theme than that? I swear they use it all the time" Namine pulls onto Yuffie's other arm, "You have to go if I'm going, you promised me you would" Yuffie sighs, "Fine, I'll go but I'm not promising anything else"
"So we have twenty minutes, what do you want to do?" Sora asks closing his locker shut, "I say let's ditch the rest of the day and go to the beach" Riku suggests, "You and your beach, we can't miss another day of school besides we don't have Roxas with us" Kairi says pushing him back into the group, "Fine, then what boring thing do you want to do? Go to the library and read about Egypt's Golden age?" Riku asks sarcastically
"I have a better idea than that flower boy" Yuffie says in a singsong tone, "I'm not a flower boy" he says as she smiles poking his cheek, "I think doth thou protest too much" she skips down the hallway pausing when she realizes she's alone, "Are you guys coming?" she asks. They all look at one another and shrug following her down the hall.
"What are we doing?" Namine asks afraid of what Yuffie might say, she just hoped it wasn't something illegal, "We're getting Roxas out of the Principal's office, duh" she says like it was the most obvious thing in the world. They slowly approach the office and Yuffie peeks into room. Roxas and Leon were sitting near the receptionist who was typing away on her computer.
The principals door slowly opened and Demyx and Axel walked out of it and stopped to say something to Roxas before walking into the hall seeing everyone else piled against the door, "hey what are all of you doing here?" Demyx asks smiling, "Well we were trying to get Roxas out of there, what were you guys doing in the principals office?" Namine asks as Axel crosses his arms, "It was for the burning down of the dining hall at the camp, but in our defense come on I'm fire prone" Demyx nods his head, "That's what I said but it didn't matter, and now we have some community service"
"We're also not suppose to get in any more trouble this year, but hell it's our last year here so it doesn't matter, what's the worse that can happen?" Axel says while Yuffie get's a smile on her face, "So does that mean you'll help us?"
"Sure" they both say, "All you have to do is get Sora in there and claim something's wrong with whatever family member you want and that'll get him out of there" Sora nods his head, "That seems easy enough, I don't think I can screw that up" he takes a deep breath before walking into the office. Roxas eyes him not sure what Sora was up too but with his luck the idiot would get them in more trouble.
"Ms. Davenport?" Sora says slowly as she stops typing looking up at him smiling, Sora was always a good kid and she rarely ever saw him in the principal's office, "Ahh Sora, what is it?" she asks in a sweet voice, "I'm going to need to take Roxas home, there's been some terrible news" Roxas looks over at him, this was the oldest excuse in the book like she would really believe that load of bull, "What's wrong?" she asks concerned. Roxas couldn't believe it she was actually buying it, "It's our great grandma, she just passed away and Roxas was really close to her. I know he's in trouble but he's just acting out because he's upset about it" Aden thought about it for a moment and he was pretty sure they didn't have a great grandma.
"Alright, I'll let the principal know that he had to go but I'm sure she'll still want to see him. For now you can take him with you" Sora nods his head solemnly as he motions for Roxas to follow him.
They both walk out of the office and Roxas immediately smacks Sora,"Ow, what was that for?" he asks rubbing his head, "I was just acting out, you know I'm so upset" he says sarcastically, "Now that you're out what do you say we ditch this joint and head to the beach?" Riku suggests yet again, "Are all the fan girls coming to?" Riku laughs he knows how much Roxas hates the fan girls. Demyx runs up to Roxas pulling him into a hug, "It's good to have the new slash old you back!" Roxas smiles, "Alright you can let go of me know, why are you guys out of class early?"
"Mr. Ansem must have forgotten to take his pills today, he just let us out for no apparent reason" Riku answers him, "So I heard you got into a fight with Leon" Namine mentions getting closer to Roxas, "We weren't even fighting, Mr. Ansem just hates me, it's as simple as that"
"Crap, we have crazy ass Sephiroth next" Axel mentions not looking forward to it, "Maybe he's so happy with our class for winning the camp thing that he just give's us all A's" Demyx says in a hopeful tone. The bell suddenly rings, "It has not been twenty minutes" Riku says taking a look at his phone, "Well when the bell rings, it means go to class, so let's go"
They all take their seats in biology as Mr. Sephiroth slowly walks in with a scowl on his face, "This doesn't look good" Demyx whispers frightened, "Nah he probably just forgot to take that stick out of his ass this morning" Axel says reaching into his back pack feeling something fluffy pulling out the dreaded bear, "What the hell?!" he says shocked, "I've thrown this thing away given it away and last week I burnt the damn bear and yet here it is, with it's creepy ass smile" Demyx scoots far away from Axel, "I told you that thing's possessed!" he accuses point his finger at the brown bear.
Larxene walks over and takes a seat next to them laughing at the bear, "Looks like you couldn't part with your little friend after all" he tosses the bear across the room where some girl gladly picks it up, "Hell I've tried everything to get rid of it" Larxene rolls her eyes, "Sure you have"
"STOP TALKING!" Mr. Sephiroth orders and they all shut up, "Our next project that I'm assigning you won't be a walk in the park and you will have groups that I myself have assigned. No trading or complaining once I put in those groups. If you all finish your projects without a major incident, then I will pass you this semester. Fail and well, trust me you don't want to fail me now but just in case my warning isn't clear enough. If one of your members fail, you all do. Now the groups will be assigned as the following: Kairi, Xion, Tidus and Sora. The next group: Yuffie, Seifer, Axel, and Demyx. Group three: Namine, Riku, Roxas, and Leon. Group four: Selphie, Rikku, Larxene, and Fredrick…" Mr. Sephiroth finished the groups and ordered them to sit together.
Yuffie smiled skipping on her way to the group passing by Namine, "I'm just glad I don't have to deal with pretty boy this time" she quickly takes a seat next to Seifer, "Although I do have to deal with you" he smiles at her, "Long time no see" she puts on a polite smile ignoring him and turning her attention to Axel and Demyx, "I just think as long as we don't have to dissect anymore cat's I'm fine with any assignment" Demyx smiles
"Can we just burn this place down and be done with it?" Axel suggests lying his head down on the table, "I'm down with that" Seifer says, "Axel you can't fail this class again" Demyx says ready to run at the first sign of a certain biology book, "Fine, I won't burn it down, for now"
"I have no idea what were doing but this is already boring" Seifer says turning his attention to Yuffie, "So Yuffie, what do you say to me, you, and a bottle of champagne tonight?" he puts his arm around her and she slowly removes his arm from around her, "Do you remember in fifth grade, you said that I was ugly and I'd be lucky to have any guy give me five minutes of their time?" he makes an attempt at trying to remember what she was talking about, "No I do not remember saying that but I do recall freshmen year, you were into me back then"
Yuffie rolls her eyes, "For like five minutes then I realized you were the same jerk from fifth grade" Seifer laughs, "Nah that's not the reason you won't go out with me now. It's Riku isn't it?" he says poking her side making her jump, "No, he's just another jerk I'd rather go on a date with you than him" Seifer smirks, "Great, then I'll pick you up at 8:00" he knew she was going to say that, "Wait a minute, I never said I-" he cuts her off, "too late" she sighs, "Fine but I reserve the right to leave early" he shrugs, "That's up to you but trust me, you're not going to want to"
On the other side of the room Namine hesitantly takes her seat next to Roxas who was busy glaring at Leon who was seated next to Riku right across from them. It's a good thing that Riku didn't have too big of a problem with Leon or else this place would turn into a death match. It was already difficult enough with Roxas hating Leon, and Namine felt like she was directly in the middle of it.
"Can we all just agree to get along for the time being?" Namine asks looking at the boys, "Give me one good reason I shouldn't knock your teeth out?" Roxas asks still glaring at Leon, "Look I don't like you either, but for starters it's not like you could knock my teeth out -" Roxas cuts him off, "Do you want to bet?" he ponders slightly leaning forward with Namine grabbing onto his arm, "Stop it, both of you" she scolds looking at Riku for help but he was currently busy with the blonde bombshell sitting at the table right next to them. Looks like the peace treaty was going to be up to her.
"You want a reason?" Leon says leaning back in his chair, "Damn right I do" Roxas retorts, "This doesn't change anything between us but, I quit my group" Roxas' glare slowly faded from his face replaced with shock and the announcement also grabbed Riku's attention, "What do you mean you quit?" Riku and Roxas ask in unison, "Just like I said, I quit, it's as simple as that"
"You gave me so much shit for quitting" Riku mentions, "So who did you leave in charge?" he asks, "No one" Leon replies yawning a little, "What do you mean no one, when Cloud left, he left you in charge" Riku says, "Are you going to keep asking me pointless questions? Wait, don't tell me, you really don't know? Cloud never told you?" Leon sits up in his chair looking at Riku who shakes his head, "No, I have no idea what you're talking about" Leon laughs, "So you're all saying you guys thought I was in charge?" he asks in disbelief while they all nod their heads in agreement, "I was never in charge, just like Cloud was never in charge, there is someone above us that is in charge but I can't be telling who it is"
"Why did you quit?" Roxas reluctantly asks in a not so friendly tone, "That's also none of your damn business" he replies in the same tone, "Guys let's just agree to get through this project without any incidents can't you both just make a truce for now?" Namine says taking out her notepad writing down what Mr. Sephiroth had on the board. She sets it down on the table looking at both of them. Roxas and Leon were just staring at one another from across the table not wanting to make the first move. They had hated each other for so long this was going to be impossible. Roxas was almost willing to fail than to get along with Leon but he also knew based on experience that this was some type of lesson. If they didn't play nice he'd end up chained to the bastard like Riku and Yuffie.
"I feel bad for their group" Kairi comments watching them from across the room, "On the bright side we totally have a great group because we all get along" she continues as Sora smiles, "And you got me" he says pointing to himself making them laugh,"What is he even going to have us do?" Tidus questions as Xion shakes her head, "I'm afraid to find out" Sora puts his arm around her, "You have nothing to worry about, I'll protect you" he smiles friendly at the girl. Kairi awkwardly looks at the clock to avoid staring at the pair, "Hey is something wrong?" Tidus asks as she quickly turns to look at him waving her hands in front of her, "No, nothing at all" she lies smiling
"ALRIGHT! Now that you all have had a chance to meet your group. You'll all be heading to the library. You have been excused from the rest of your classes for the remainder of the day and are expected to stay in the library, with the exception of lunch. Now get out of here" Mr. Sephiroth orders as one brave or stupid soul raises their hand. He immediately glares at the kid raising his hand which just so happened to be Fredrick aka Pence, "What?" he asks in an annoyed tone, "Uhh.. I was just wonder what we're doing?" Mr. Sephiroth sighs placing his hand on the bridge of his nose, these kids sure were stupid, "You're on your way to the library" he says in a short answer when Fredrick raises his hand again, "What?" he says in an more annoyed tone, "I understand that what I meant was that we don't know what our assignment is, all you said is go to the library"
Mr. Sephiroth chuckles, "Oh, so are you the teacher now?" he asks, "N-no but I just thought it would be nice to know what we're doing" Mr. Sephiroth let's out a sigh but keeps his crazy smile, "You just thought it would be nice to know what you're doing. Well right now I'm telling you what you're doing is wasting my time and what you're supposed to be doing is getting to THE LIBRARY!" he yells as everyone but Axel scurries out of the room
"Straggler" Mr. Sephiroth says to Axel who just shrugs walking out of the class room eventually making his way into the large library walking up to Demyx patting him on the back, "This place sure brings back Memories" he smirks evilly making Demyx jump, "Come on cuz you got to admit those pajama's were terrible" Larxene pops up next to him, "Grandma made them for me! But it doesn't matter now Axel and I have a pair that can't be burnt on fire" Larxene starts laughing hard making Axel blush a little as he smacks Demyx with his biology book, "I don't wear those girly ass things damn it!" he shouts as she pinches his cheek, "Aww almost as cute as the little bear you like to carry around. What else do you have hiding in your closet" she teases as he removes her hand from his face
"I threw that bear away and you saw that chick take it" he says as she stops laughing, "Then why is it right there?" she asks pulling the bear out of his bag. Demyx takes one look at it, "I told you it was possessed!" he yells running towards Yuffie and Sefier, "What's wrong with you?" Seifer asks not really caring, "The bear is possessed" Yuffie looks up from the book she's holding completely interested, "Possessed you say?" he nods his head, "The thing keeps showing up everywhere Axel is" she smiles, "Let's have a seance!" she yells excitedly, "I'm not so sure that's a good idea" Demyx says worried the thing would start haunting him instead, "Don't be a chicken! All we need is a dark room, some candles and a few books" Seifer smirks, "I'm down for all of that but scratch the books that's boring" she sighs eyeing him, "It's for a seance, not a make out room" he shrugs, "Can't blame me for trying"
Yuffie get's up walking over to Axel and Larxene taking a look at the bear, "This thing is creepy" she says holding on to it as the other two nod, "So are you down for the whole seance thing?" she asks as Axel nods, "I'd like to know why the damn thing keeps popping up everywhere I am so I can tell whoever it is doing this to go to hell" Larxene smacks him across the head, "Idiot! You don't tell dead people that haunt you to go to hell!"
"Watch me" he says as she rolls her eyes, he just had to be stubborn, "I'll be back" Yuffie says as the pair argue.
Namine was sitting at a large table with the boys. Roxas and Leon sat the farthest away from each other not having come to an agreement and both being stubborn to not be the one who gives up first. Riku sit's next to Namine who just shakes her head, "You know them both very well, how long do you think it'll take before they cave?" she asks, "I'd say they could both go months without talking to one another, in other words we need to force their hand" Yuffie approaches them with the bear in her hands, "Hey look at that you may actually have some girl in you" Riku says to Yuffie who shoves her way in between him and Namine turning her back to him, "Do you want to join in on a seance? Demyx's convinced that this bear is possessed and since you're not doing anything else right now. I figured you'd like to join"
"I think I'll pass on this one, I have to get Roxas and Leon to come to an agreement and work together" Yuffie looks at the boys who just glared at each other, "Good luck with that but I would say use your friendship card on Leon" Namine nods her head, "Yeah, I'll do that and good luck with your seance" Yuffie smiles hopping back down to her own table. Namine smiles a little turning to Riku, "How about you talk to Roxas and I'll go talk to Leon?"
"Alright, I'll see what I can do with him" he says walking over to the brooding blonde, "Your girlfriend sent me over here to talk you into getting along with him" he gestures towards Leon, "Hell no and you're not going to change my mind. I hate him almost as much as I hate my family" Riku just shrugs, "Well at least I can say that I tried but Namine's not going to give up so you're going to have to deal with that, she's you're woman after all" he punches Roxas lightly as he shakes his head, "shut up"
Namine smiles walking over to Leon giving him a small wave, "I already know what you're going to say Blue eyes" she laughs, "I think you and Roxas are more alike than you know and you should give each other a chance. Let what happened in the past stay there and make new memories"
"Me and him alike? I've never heard that one before" he crosses his arms, "Fine, how about you do this for me? You're my friend now and as my friend I'm asking you to please try to get along with Roxas. You don't have to like him or even be his friend, we just need to get through this project and then you both can go back to hating each other as well as ignoring each other but I would like it if you'd guys just bury the hatchet" Leon sighs, he really didn't want to do that, "Let me think about it" Namine smiles, "That's all I'm asking for" he sighs yet again, "Stop looking at me like that"
"Like what?" she asks all innocently, "You know like.." Leon imitates her face making her laugh out loud catching the attention of the Librarian giving her the evil eye, "Looks like you just got on her bad list" she lightly smacks his shoulder, "Stop that and if I did it's all you're fault" she jokes as he just shrugs standing up walking over to Roxas and Riku, "Look I know you hate me and I don't give a damn if you don't want to be buddies because that's the last thing I want. We have to get through this project"
"You know you've got some nerve talking to me after what you did to my cousin" Roxas couldn't let go of what had happened to Sora, just thinking about it made him angry bringing him back to the day that he visited him in the hospital, "Look I know you won't believe me when I tell you this but I had nothing to do with what happened to your cousin. I told the guys to back off but I'm not in charge so there was nothing I could have done unless I wanted my arm broken as well. Listen for Namine's sake let's just pretend to get along or else she won't stop bothering us"
"Whatever, I don't trust you or like you but I will do this for Namine and after this is over you better stay away from me and her" Leon just waves him off while walking back to his previous seat, "I can't promise she won't stay away from me" he says to himself.
Sora sat across the table from Tidus and Kairi. He couldn't take his eyes off the pair and he couldn't really explain why. Xion was talking to him about something but she could tell he was distracted, "Is there something wrong?" she asks while he breaks his stare coming back to his senses smiling, "No, nothing's wrong haha. I just never noticed how much time Kairi has been spending with Tidus. It's cool that she has another guy friend other than well me, Roxas, and Riku"
Xion reaches out and grabs onto his hand, "Sora, can we go somewhere to talk privately?" she asks while he nods his head, "Sure, let's go." they both rise from the table when Kairi pauses her conversation with Tidus, "Where are you two going?" she asks, "We'll be right back" Xion says pulling Sora with her who looks a little confused.
"Wonder what that was about" Kairi says taken a bit aback, there was a little attitude in Xion's tone, "I have no idea" Tidus shrugs opening one of the books they pulled from the library.
Xion led Sora to the upper section of the library where no one was around; mainly because no one was allowed to enter that area during this time because it was under reconstruction. She let's go of his hand, "I think we need to talk" Sora was confused and he never liked the sound of that line, "Alright, what do you want to talk about?" he asks hoping it had nothing to do with their relationship.
"Do you like Kairi?" Sora falls over that was one thing he never thought she would ask him, "What? I mean sure I like her we're best friends, I don't' think you could be friends with someone as long as we have been if you didn't like that person" he laughs nervously placing his hand behind his head, "No, I know you like her like a friend obviously, what I mean is do you like her more than a friend?" Sora hesitates, "Uh… well I-" Xion let's out a small laugh sighing a little, "I should have known, you love her. Look I'm fine with it, really. I do like you but I think you and Kai are a sure thing"
"No, wait Xion" she cut's him off, "No, Sora you need to listen to me; things between us just can't happen, you just need to get it out of her, make her tell you how she feels. Look I have an idea that just might work" She smiles at him, "Okay I'm listening" he smiles back at her, she was really being cool with this. She quickly tells her of her plan and although he's somewhat confused about it he agrees to it. Xion was a girl and she did know Kairi maybe not as well as he did but if he knew Kairi as well as he thought he did then they wouldn't be in this situation at all.
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The room was dark as Yuffie lighted the candles placing the bear in the middle of the circle of salt, "I'm scared of the dark" Demyx whispers as Axel smacks his back, "Come on man up we need to know what the hell this thing is and what it wants"
"Maybe it wants his soul" Larxene says creeping Demyx out even more, "Aren't you supposed to be with your group?" Seifer asks butting into the conversation, "It's just a group of bitchy girls I'd like to avoid and some dude"
"Don't kid me you'd get along with a group of bitches" Axel smirks to himself as Larxene smacks him, "And you think you're so smart" she rolls her eyes at him, "Okay let's get started, everyone needs to touch the bear, it will serve as the channel between us and whatever it is that could be haunting you" they all reach out and touch the bears head, "All we need to do is ask yes or no questions. I'll start, If there's anyone in here in with us, can you give us some sort of sign that you're here?" the candles flicker off making the place pitch black, "I don't like this" Demyx says as the candle lights flicker back on.
"Okay, for yes you can move the bears left arm and for no you can move the bears right arm, do you understand?" the bears left arm twitches as Demyx starts shaking, "Is it just me or is it getting colder in here?" he asks looking at the others as the bears left arm moves again.
"Are you haunting Demyx?" the bears right arm moves as he let's out a sigh of relief, "Is Axel the one that you're haunting?" nothing moves the bear stays completely still, "Am I the one you're haunting?" Axel asks directly as the bear heads turns to look at him, his left arm moving, "Screw you spirit! Leave me the hell alone!" he yells glaring at the bear, "Didn't I tell you not to say that!" Larxene yells at him, "I do what I want to, women!" she smacks him glaring at him, "Like hell you do! Dumbass" she yells right back
"I'll tell you what I think" he grabs one of the candles lighting the bear on fire, "Dude what's you're problem!?" Seifer shouts getting away from the burning bear, "Maybe this will send that spirit a message" Axel says flipping off the air, "WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!?" Mr. Sephiroth yells opening the door seeing them all surround the burning bear.
"We we're praying to our aztec gods?" Yuffie says smiling a little dumbfounded as he stares at them, "Just get out and sit down with the rest of your class! I leave you children here with the simplest instructions and you all can't even do that! Now all of you will sit down!" they all scurry out of the closet back to their seats in the library
"We have a problem" Yuffie whispers to Larxene because she was the most agreeable and most likely to listen to her out of everyone else, "What? I know if we ever do that again there can't be any fire around" Yuffie laughs nervously, "The problem here is that when you end a seance, you're supposed to say 'Now is done, leave in peace' and we didn't"
"Well then we do have a problem" the girls look at one another noticing everything had gone quiet again. Mr. Sephiroth stood over them peering down at them, "Get out of here" he says glaring at the pair of girls. He didn't have to say it twice they both run out of the library gladly not challenging him and getting in worse trouble.
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The Lunch bell rang and everyone was glad to get out of the Library, they had been there for the whole day so far and Mr. Sephiroth still hadn't told them what their assignment was. Yuffie was already sitting at the lunch table with Larexne when everyone else showed up, "The only bright side to getting kicked out of class is that we had enough time to get our old table back" Yuffie smiles.
Riku takes a seat next to Roxas while Sora goes to get food from the lunch line, "So Roxas, I heard soccer is starting up again. You going to play again this year?" Roxas shrugs his shoulders, "Yeah, I may hate football but I do like soccer" Namine looks over to him, "You play soccer? I didn't know that" he nods his head, "Roxas is seriously the best player on the team, he's just really good with his feet. I just wished cheerleader's were allowed to cheer for all sports" Kairi says sitting next to Namine
"The meeting is today after school" Riku says handing Roxas some of the information, "Really?" he asks knowing about his plans with Namine after school, "It's mandatory, you know coach may like you but he also doesn't want anymore trouble from you"
"Yeah but I kind of already made plans" He looks over at Namine who smiles, "Hey it's fine, this meeting sounds important" Namine says as Kairi get's a big smile on her face, "You have nothing to worry about, she can just hang out with me after school until you guys get done" Namine eyes her suspiciously, "Don't you have cheer practice after school?" she questions as Kairi let's out a shaky laugh, "Girl it's an experience that you won't forget"
"I'm not going unless Yuffie comes" they all look over at Yuffie who was preoccupied with a slingshot, "What are you doing?" Kairi asks as Yuffie reaches for a grape placing it into the slingshot, pulling it back and letting it go. They all watch it go across the table heading towards Riku's face. He was looking at some girl at a different table moving his head out of the way letting the grape go past him and pelt the other Rikku in the face.
"You're going to have to do better than that Yossarian" he says turning his attention back to her, "Which one of you hit me with a grape?!" Rikku yells looking at them. Yuffie shrugs, "Not my original Target, but not a bad replacement" she whispers to Namine as they all stay quiet looking at Rikku, "Whatever you freaks, not you Roxas" she winks at him before standing up and heading out of the cafeteria.
"I swear she's still not over you" Kairi says playfully pinching Roxas' cheek, "Yeah, I'm not interested. I already have my eye on someone else" he smiles a little looking across the table at Namine who smiles back before turning her attention back to Yuffie, "So Yuff are you coming with me?" Namine asks her as she reloads with another grape, "Sure" she says not really paying attention launching another grape that Riku smacks out of the way.
"Can you stop doing that?" Riku asks picking up a grape and tossing it at Yuffie, "Can you stop being a douche?" she asks moving out of the way, "I'm not a douche, I helped you get away from your ex and you don't even appreciate it. I gave up Ellie just to help you, and now she won't answer any of my calls, not that I've called her"
"Stop!" Namine yells at the pair, "You two need to stop fighting! Once and for all! You two either need to become friends and bond or just stay away from each other, we are all tired of your petty little arguments and we don't want to deal with it anymore. So after school and practice you two will spend the remainder of your day together" Namine declares as Yuffie slowly raises her hand, "Namine, I have a date tonight"
Riku accidentally drops his phone looking at Yuffie, "You have a date?" he says a little shocked, "Are you really surprised? I'm not ugly" she says in a bitter tone towards him, "No, that's not it, it's just… nothing. Look I've got some better girls to talk to so I'll catch you all later. And Namine it's nice that you want to get us to stop fighting but you know I don't have a problem with her, she has the problem with me. So if you want the fight's to stop then talk to her" Riku stands up and heads out of the cafeteria. Kairi watches him as he goes quickly running after him catching up to him in the cleared out hallway, "What was that?" she asks getting him to stop walking, "What was what?" he says already bored with the conversation
"Come on you clearly stampeded your way out of there as soon as Yuffie said she had a date, is that just a coincidence?" she waits for him to say something before realizing he had zoned her out, so she smacks his arm, "What were you saying?" he asks as she sighs, " I said is there a reason why you left when Yuffie said she had a date?"
"Ah, Kai, I see what you're trying to do but believe me it won't save you. You still need to ask Sora out on a date, you lost that bet. There is no way I'm letting you out of it, and as for Yuffie well I don't care if she's going on a date with someone and I'm out here because, you see that girl over there?" he asks pointing to a brunette waving at him at the entrance of the school, "Yeah well Molly wanted to go for a ride with me and I'm down for it. So I'll see you later" he winks at Kairi as she rolls her eyes watching him head out of the school with the Molly chick.
Kairi walks back to the cafeteria watching the crowded area almost made her not want to try to get back to her seat and then the food started flying so she just shut the doors and went straight back to the library.
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Yuffie and Namine had to make a pit stop to the girls locker room trying to clean themselves up from the food fight that broke out in the cafeteria. They were still trying to investigate who started it but it was pointless. You take two rival schools and force them together stuff like this was bound to happen all of the time. The girls were at a lost with what to wear, they didn't have any P.E. clothes with them since they took them with them to camp.
Kairi walks inside smiling at the two girls, "Sora told me that I'd find you two here, what's taking so long?" she asks looking at them, "Well we are covered in cafeteria food and we don't have anything to change into" Namine explains as Yuffie takes a cupcake off her shirt shrugging a little before taking a bite into it only pausing when she realizes Namine and Kairi are staring at her, "What? It's a good cupcake" she defensively says
"I have something you two could wear, but I'm not sure how up to it you will be" Kairi says slowly, "Look I'd wear anything to get out of these clothes unless it was Riku's clothes, in that case I'd have to sanitize it before it came anywhere near me but I'd probably just burn it" Yuffie says in a happy tone, "I think Yuffie is on to something but I have a feeling you're not going to offer us Riku's gym clothes" Namine says wearily
Kairi laughs going to her locker pulling out the uniforms. Yuffie eyes them suspiciously taking a hold of one of them as Kairi hands the other one to Namine, "You're going to enjoy this aren't you?" Namine asks as Kairi nods her head. Yuffie shrugs quickly putting the cheer uniform on, "I don't normally wear things like this but, you know I totally get why all the girls do, it's so breezy" she says spinning around in the skirt making Kairi laugh.
Namine takes her time to put the uniform on not really wanting any of the attention it could possibly bring her from any dudes, "Aww you two look so cute! Let's head back to the library before Mr. Sephiroth finds out that we're not there"
Yuffie and Namine reluctantly make their way down the hall to the doors of the library, "I can't go in there" Yuffie says trying to run away when Kairi pulls her back, "Yes, you can and you have nothing to worry about. Riku's not in there, he left during lunch" Yuffie stops trying to run away, "Where did he go? Not that I care" she quickly adds in the second part not to seem to anxious, "I think he had some type of appointment or something like that" Kairi lies opening the doors and pulling them both in and shutting the doors behind her before they can get out.
Everyone in the library doesn't even pay attention to the three girls and they let out a sigh of relief. Yuffie closes her eyes, she was just glad that Riku wouldn't see her like this, he would be bothering her about it nonstop, "Hey there cutie, I've never seen you on the cheer squad before. How about I show you around?" his voice floated from behind her she quickly turns around, "Yuffie? Since when do they let dudes join the cheer squad?" her eyes snap open to that voice and of course Riku was leaning against a post with a water bottle in his hand eyeing her up and down, "i don't know you tell me, when did you join the team?" she retorts taking his water bottle smiling evilly, "Don't even think about it" he says pointing at her, "Don't even think about what?" she says innocently slowly walking toward him, "If you do it, you know I'm going to get you back and I don't take you for being stupid" she laughs a little opening the water bottle and quickly tossing some of the contents toward him and hightailing it to the other side of the room in the protection of her group of guys.
"Yeah, I'm going to go back to my group" Namine says leaving Kairi and Riku alone. Kairi hands him a towel (which she pulls out of nowhere) which he gladly takes thanking her, "So what happened between you and Molly? You usually don't come back when ever you leave for the day" Riku hands her back the towel, "None of your business little Miss Nosey and you know if you spent this much effort trying to tell Sora how you felt you would have a boyfriend to be bothering, not me" he walks away from her and heads back to his group.
"Kairi, what are you doing?" Tidus asks walking over to her, "I'm on a mission to find a girl named Molly, do you know any Molly's? This one has brown hair and she's about this tall with dark brown eye's, she's very attractive she kinda looks like she's foreign and has a beauty mark right on the side of her right eye" Tidus thinks it over, "I think I just might know who you're talking about. I know a Molly in my spanish class and she has that type of description but I wanted to talk to you" Kairi shakes her head a little, "Um, yeah I'm sorry I know I've been all over the place these past few days" she apologizes as he grabs a hold of her hand, "Kairi it's fine, I just wanted to know if you'd go to the dance with me?" he asks looking down smiling at her, "I'd love to" she says smiling back at him giving him a hug.
"Now about this girl" she continues urging him on, "My spanish class is taking place right now if you want to go down there and have a word with her. Besides I know a way of getting her out of class" Tidus opens the door for her and they both sneak out and quietly go down the hall to room 314A. Kairi knocks on the door opening it and walking in with Tidus, "Hi Ms. Martin we just came down from the principal's office and they want to speak to Molly" she nods her head, "Molly you can go with them"
The brunette packs up her class work before following them out of the classroom. They walk silently for a while before Kairi stops pulling the unsuspecting girl into an empty class room, "You were the one that was with Riku earlier right?" Kairi asks as the shocked girl looks at her confused then raising her hands in defense, "Look I didn't know he had a girlfriend and you have nothing to worry about he didn't do anything with me so it's not like we should have a problem. Damn looks like this is happening again, I should try to find out more information about these guys" Kairi starts laughing but pauses, "First off I'm not his girlfriend, I'm just his friend and I wanted to know what happened between you two"
Molly looks at Kairi like a crazy person, "Why don't you just ask him?" Kairi giggles, "Well you see, I did and he said to ask you" she lies, there's no way Riku would tell her anything especially about a girl where things didn't go so smoothly, "Well like I said he didn't do anything with me" Molly says with a disappointing tone, "I mean I tried everything but he just wasn't into it and even he couldn't explain it. It just didn't work if you know what I mean" Kairi looks at her confused, "Uhh I'm not so sure what you're trying to say" Molly laughs a little gesturing with her hands pointing them between her legs, "It didn't work, now do you get it?" Kairi's face turns bright red as she slowly processes what the girl was trying to tell her
"Ohh and what he's never had that problem before?" she asks looking at the ground, this conversation just took a very uncomfortable turn, "Not that I know of, look If you're not taking me to the Principal's office can I just go?" Kairi nods her head and says bye to the girl who probably thinks she's some weirdo now, "So did you find out all you want to know?" Tidus asks as she steps out into the hallway, "Yeah I found out everything, let's go back to the library"
Kairi already knew the way that she would torture Riku with this newfound information and totally get him back for all of the things he's done. She talked some more with Tidus laughing about some of the things that had gone on in the Cafeteria that she missed. They approached Sora and Xion who were looking at different books, "Hey Kai, remember this one?" Sora asks handing her the book. She smiles looking through it, "I used to love this book, my mom read it to me every night" she explains remembering the nights when she still had her mom.
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Roxas and Leon were sitting near each other, sure they weren't speaking but at least they weren't killing one another, "Hey guys" she says smiling at them and they both look at her making her blush a little, "Since when did you become a cheerleader?" Roxas asks, "It suits you" Leon says as she let's out a tiny laugh, "Yeah, I'm not a cheerleader I just need something else to wear since the food fight ruined my clothes" she explains taking her seat near them as Riku joins their group, "Why are you wet?" Leon asks looking at Riku
"Wait let me guess, a girl said no and you wouldn't back off so she decided to take measures into her own hands and melt you like the wicked witch of the west?" Roxas teases smirking while Riku glares at the blonde boy throwing the empty water bottle at him hitting him squarely on the head, "Ow, what the hell?" Roxas says rubbing his head, "And that's why you're still lame Mr. Moody and Yossarian tossed water on me because she's crazy" he shrugs when he feels someone smack him on the back of his head he turns and sees Yuffie glaring at him
"What is your problem psycho?" he asks rubbing his head, "You're my problem you prick" she places her hands on her hips, "What else is new?" he says already bored with this fight, "Nothing just wanted to make sure you knew you were a jerk" she smiles
Riku looks over at her clueless, "Sorry Yossarian, I zoned you out, you were saying something right?" she just throws her arms up and walks back to her group, "Wait, that's Yossarian? I thought her name was Yuffie" Leon says confused, "Yeah I call her Yossarian because it ticks her off"
"No what I don't get is why you're an ass to her she's hot" Leon comments watching Yuffie walk away, "Well I'm glad that you two aren't killing each other" Namine says looking at Leon and Roxas who just glare at each other, "Damn you" Roxas says as Leon flips him off smirking as Namine shakes her head in a disapproving way, "Spoke to soon"
They all stop talking when the Library door slams open and in walks Mr. Sephiroth, "Alright Maggots! It is time that I tell you the first part of your project! So far all of you have done it" everyone was so confused but it was Mr. Sephiroth and if anyone understood his logic then they would have to be as crazy as Mr. Sephiroth.
"Let me explain. I strategically placed you in groups that you would have to be forced to work well with and since none of you haven't left the confines of this library you are all onto the next part of you're project. You must find something green and be creative!" Mr. Sephiroth slams his hand down on the table.
"No one should have left this guy in charge of our classroom, I swear this crazy bastard is going to get us all killed if we don't find a way out of here" Axel whispers to Demyx, "I don't want to die yet!" he says panicky looking around to make sure that Mr. Sephiroth didn't hear him and was relieved that he was too busy taking out books from the shelves, "And after you all are done finding the green thing, you must all suffer through the Pirate's challenge" he threatens pulling out the tale of Moby Dick
"Now get to work!" He yells storming out of the library, "Even I think I'm going to lose it, he's making no sense!" Namine says annoyed with Mr. Sephiroth's cryptic messages, "I say we forget about whatever he wants us to do and do nothing" Riku suggests shrugging
"We'd never get away with that and I don't want to do any damn after school work especially since I don't even like being here in the first place" Roxas says putting his head down on the table, "Then we should get started" Namine says pulling out a paper and pen starting a list for all things that are green.
"What have we done to get ourselves in this mess?"
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The school bell rang as Namine and Yuffie followed Kairi to her cheer practice. They weren't looking forward to the girls because a lot of the cheer leaders had a bad rep to their name mainly because they were never given much of a chance to show who they really were. They walked into the gym to see plenty of the girls already laying out the blue mats and warming up ready to begin.
"What the hell are you two doing here? Trying to be wannabe's wearing those uniforms" Selphie says approaching Namine and Yuffie who just glares at her, "I didn't know they let whore's on the team" another voice says making them all do a double take at Rikku stepping off of the bleachers, "That's why you have yet to join" Selphie retorts back, "Ladies! Stop fighting!" Kairi commands
"So why are you two here?" Selphie says turning her attention back to Namine and Yuffie, "We're just waiting for someone and it's none of your business" Yuffie says stepping towards her, "Selphie get back to warming up" Kairi says pushing her back towards the group as Yuffie and Namine make their way to the bleachers watching the girls all do their stretches. After a good five minutes of stretching Kairi announces that their tumbling is the first thing they want to work on.
Selphie smirks to herself, this was the perfect time to show off and as according to her own plan she volunteers first. She takes a deep breath running straight down the matt doing a round off back handspring buckling a little on her second one. Yuffie scoffs a little letting out a small laugh setting Selphie off, "What are you laughing at!?" Yuffie just waves her off, "Nothing... it's nothing" she says still laughing, "What? Think you can do it better?" Selphie challenges.
By now everyone had become silent watching the scene in front of them unfold. Yuffie stands up from the bleachers handing Namine her bag, "I know I can do that better" she says as Namine is left speechless watching her bold friend walking all the way to the end of the blue matt. Yuffie stretches a little making sure to roll her ankles and wrists. Namine couldn't believe she was doing this, she hadn't done something like this since... well it had been such a long time.
Yuffie smiles knowing that everyone was watching her and she wasn't about to disappoint at least she hoped she wouldn't because that would even embarrass her. It was time to draw on the power of the ninja. She knew what she was doing and she had been carefully just waiting to show up Selphie and although this was a more tame version of what she had planned but it was as if God himself ordained this chance of revenge and she was going to milk it.
"We're waiting" Selphie says with her eyebrow arched, Yuffie just ignores her pulling her hair up into a bun. Yuffie pauses for a moment and then runs down the matt going into a round off then a double back handspring, back tuck, another back handspring into a full twist layout landing spot on her feet. Selphie crossed her arms across her chest angrily. Yuffie smiles looking at everyone one else who had their mouths open. She slowly backs off of the matt as Kairi runs over and grabs ahold of her arm interloping them, "Yuffie! I didn't know you could do that!" she exclaims as Yuffie laughs, "Yeah I can do a lot of things, I'm multi-talented like that" Yuffie boasts
"You should totally just practice with us today!" Kairi suggests hopefully, "You think I'm good? You should see what Namine can do" Yuffie whispers as they both look at the blonde still sitting on the bleachers. They both walk over to her and she looks at them suspiciously, "Nami…" Kairi says pausing while Namine watches them carefully, "I'm almost afraid to ask you what you want" Namine knew it wasn't going to be something she liked. Yuffie always had a certain look in her eye when she had to tell her something or ask her something that she probably wouldn't like.
"We don't want anything terrible, it's just that Yuffie said that you have some tumbling skills yourself that you've been holding back" Namine's face turns red as places her hands in front of her waving at Kairi, "NO wayyy I"m not doing that at all I'm fine sitting here in fact I'm busy and I have to do an essay that I've been meaning to get to so I'm going to the library!" Namine grabs her things and rushes out of the gym before either of the two can stop her.
"Mark my words, she will do it at least once" Kairi says laughing evilly then turning to look at Yuffie, "So how about practice?" she asks as Yuffie shrugs her shoulders, "Sure why not" she answers going to the matt with her.
Selphie was glaring at her the whole time but she knew she still owed her for a certain something she did for them during camping; one thing was for sure, someone was about to pay up on that hair cutting deal.
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Practice was over so Kairi and Yuffie went in search for Namine and were pretty sure she'd be with Roxas. After gathering her books Namine headed to the parking lot looking for a certain blonde boy. She was curious to know how his soccer meeting went. She stepped out of the main building into the parking lot spotting Roxas standing next to Riku. He waved to her smiling again. She never got tired of seeing him smile but then again he rarely smiled before, it was a nice change to see take over.
Namine get's closer to the guys when she feels someone barrel straight into her knocking her over. She slowly looks up at the culprit, "Yuff! What did I tell you about knocking me over?" she questions the bubbly girl who just gives her a plain stare, "Uhh you said and I'm totally guessing now, to not knock you over? But hey you can't blame me on this one! Kairi and I were looking all over for you! And I was just excited to see you!" Yuffie pulls the petite girl into a hug squeezing her, "Yuffie… I can't breathe" Yuffie laughs letting go of her letting Namine catch her breath.
"Well if you want to know what you missed since you ran out, Yuffie is seriously a beast!" Kairi says excitedly, "Like seriously she did a double kick basket toss not to mention a full down from not only a scorpion, but also from an arabesque. Then we tried a liberty down to a ladder then pushed back up to a liberty and she nailed that too" Namine looks at her a little confused, "I'm not sure half the things you just said but it does sound like hard work"
"Too bad she still refuses to join the team" Kairi says nudging Yuffie a little, "I'm sorry, I'm not a girly girl and although I do like doing that stuff I don't want to do the other half of the job, I don't like the idea of actually cheering for a team besides I like being in the crowd so I can yell profanities to the other team!" Yuffie says overexcited, "Well I'm glad you two had fun" Namine smiles as Riku and Roxas approach them
"Great you're here" Yuffie glares at Riku, "Why wouldn't I be here?" he asks not sure what she meant by that, "I'm not talking to you" she states turning her back to him, "Whatever like I care" he says leaning against a car. Kairi smiles evilly watching Riku, oh she was going to get him back for sure! She would just bid her time wisely and then go in for the kill. She was proud of herself.
"So how was the soccer meeting?" Namine asks Standing next to Roxas, "It was okay, got yelled at by coach but overall I'd say he can't get rid of me so it's all good" Roxas shrugs as Sora comes running towards them barreling straight into his cousin, "Idiot! Get off of me!" Roxas says pushing him off, "Sorry about that but I was just late getting here!" he smiles widely scratching his head before standing up pulling Sora up with him
"Why did the coach yell at you?" Namine continues with their conversation, Roxas smirks, "It's because apparently I lack conviction and I have the tendency to talk back to annoying authority figures" Namine shakes her head, "You do realize that that's not a good thing right?" she questions, "I'm working on it, hey let's get out of here" he grabs onto her hand and proceeds to pull her away from the group, "Where are we going?"
"Well I did promise you that date but for now we're just going to my house besides it's not like they'll even notice we're gone" she looks back at the group letting out a little laugh. Kairi was talking with Yuffie probably trying to convince her to join the cheer team and Riku and Sora, well she wasn't sure what they talked about but they all seemed pretty distracted. It was true that they didn't even notice them sneak away.
After ten minutes they were walking through the door, "Namine you're back! And you're a cheerleader!" Cid yells coming out of the kitchen, "She's not staying here she's just visiting, don't say anything about the uniform and please don't tell me you tried to cook again" Roxas says suspiciously as Cid let's out a nervous laugh standing in front of the kitchen door, "Nope, no cooking for me! I learned that lesson! Which means you're doing the cooking from now on" he points his finger at Roxas
"Fine, now go take care of whatever mess you caused in the kitchen" he shakes his head, "It was good seeing you Namine! Don't be a stranger! I've gotta go take care of the green thing hiding under the sink" Cid takes a deep breath before charging back into the kitchen
"I swear sometimes I feel like I'm the only adult in the house" he shakes his head before hesitating a little deciding on what he wanted to say, "Hey, uh, Namine… I want you to have something" he leads her over to the couch and the pulls a silver key out of his pocket, "Roxas... isn't that the key you worked so hard to get?" she asks as he places it in her hands, "Yeah but I want you to have it, I don't want it falling into the wrong hands, besides I know you will keep it safe and honestly it's a little to tempting for me to just keep around" Namine smiles at him, "Alright, I'll make sure nothing happens to it, so what are we going to do now?"
"How about we get out of here and start our date?" he tosses his backpack on one of the chairs that happened to be around, "That sounds good to me. This will be a little interesting, how does it feel dating a not really but kind of cheerleader?" she smiles up at him, "I'm not complaining, you look good, let's go" they both leave their things there walking out of the house. He already knew where they were going to go and he knew that she would love it.
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Yuffie hesitated a moment before knocking on Kairi's door. She waited a few minutes when the door slowly opened, "Hey Yuffie! So what brings you here? Finally reconsidered joining the team?" Yuffie started laughing, "Maybe I came to the wrong place for advice" she jokes pointing at Kairi's face. Kairi looks at her confused so Yuffie takes out her phone and snaps a quick picture of her handing her the phone to look at herself
Kairi starts laughing as well joking a little, "I guess that's what I get for doing my makeup in the dark, come on are you going to tell me what advice you need?" Yuffie walks into the house and tugs on her shirt a little, "Is this about Riku?" she asks, "Pfft ha what? Why would I be asking about him? He's just a jerk" Kairi laughs, "You know you like him there's no point in trying to deny it any longer besides I think he likes you"
"The only thing that Riku likes is how he looks in the mirror" she shakes her head, "That's true but if that's not what you wanted to talk about, then what?" Yuffie sighs sitting on the couch, "I can't believe I'm saying this but I've got a date tonight and it's been a while since I've gone out on one and I'm kind of rusty at it, do you have any advice that can get me through it?"
"Who's it with?" If Kairi was going to help her, she was so going to demand all of the details, "Now I can't believe I'm saying this either it's with Seifer and it's not that I like him or anything but he kinda talked me into going on a date with him and long story short now I'm stuck with going on this date and can you just help me?" she whines a little dropping her her head a little, "Yeah you know I will! This is so great! You're going to look like a million bucks!" Kairi starts hopping up and down
"Yeah I may be a little crazy for going on this date but I can't find a logic reason to get out of it. I mean you could always just do a girl a favor and shoot me in the foot" Kairi stops her hopping laughing a little nervously, "Yeah, Yuff? I can't do that to you so you have no choice, come on let's go upstairs" Yuffie whines as Kairi drags her up the stairs and makes her sit in the chair right in front of the vanity mirror.
"Do you have any idea how you want to wear your hair?" Kairi asks brushing it out, "Uhh, can't I just put it in a ponytail and call it good?" Yuffie looked a little clueless, "Let's just start with some makeup" Kairi decides, "Okay I'll let you do my makeup as long as you don't end up making me look like a clown, then again that could just scare him away" Yuffie smiles, "No, I'm making you look nice not a monster that scares little children"
Kairi takes her time doing the makeup and decides to give in to Yuffie's request and leaves her hair in a high ponytail. She eventually finished and looked at Yuffie puzzled when she started laughing, "What? Is something wrong?" she asks, "No, it's just it's kind of funny. I came here to get advice for the date and you ended up doing my hair and makeup that's all" Kairi falls over
"It's fine you do nice makeup, I swear I really don't like using eyeliner but you know it does make my eyes pop! Being a girly girl isn't really my thing but it's nice knowing that I can pull it off if I ever have a reason to" Yuffie couldn't really believe it but she was actually looking forward to this date although she wasn't really sure why, it's not like she ever really liked Seifer except for that brief time freshman year.
Kairi takes a seat on her bed, "So do you know what you're going to wear?" she asks figuring she'd have that part planned out. Yuffie slowly spins around in the chair looking at Kairi, "I can't believe it! Out of everything I could have forgotten I forget to bring the dress, oh well I can always stop by my house and get dressed thanks Kai I owe you one!" Yuffie quickly grabs her things running out of the house.
Kairi waves her off, Yuffie on a date that was something she wanted to see. Then it hit her, she never did give her any real advice for the actual date, she laughs a little quickly fixing her makeup. Kairi knew it was about time that her little sister would be home so she waits at the door. Fiona comes up the walkway carrying her backpack. She takes one look at Kairi and runs towards her hopping up into her arms, "Hey Fie! How was your day?" she asks taking her inside the house, "It was great! The teacher really liked my story book and wanted me to show it on our open night where all the parents go and see how their kids are doing and I can't wait for dad to go!" Kairi smiles taking her into the kitchen, "Do you want something to snack on?" Fiona thinks about it, "No, I want to play house. Do you think Sora will come over later?"
It was true that Sora hadn't been visiting as often as he used to and Fiona was always asking when he would show up. She'd have to text him to come over, "I think so but for now you can go clean your room and then we can play besides I have to make something for dinner tonight and you can help me" Fiona nods her head, "Okay I'll go do my room now" Kairi sets her down and she goes running up the stairs. Kaylie heads back into the kitchen.
She starts wiping down the kitchen counter when Riku comes barging in through the front door, "Hey do you know where everyone is?" Kairi raises her eyebrows towards him, "What? Did I do something wrong?" he takes a seat on the stool, "Well it's nice to know that you came here to hang out with me"
"I did come to hang out with you" Riku says inconspicuously, "Well Namine is on her date with Roxas, I think Sora is hanging out with Xion, at least the last time I saw him he said he was going to her house. Yuffie was over here a while ago before you got here and she went home to get dressed for her date but I think she just might be on it right now, he's taking her to Alice's restaurant" Kairi answers sitting next to him
"She really went on that date with Seifer?" he asks a little shocked that she would go out with a guy like that. Kairi wiggles her eyebrows giggling, "Jealous?" she says poking his face as he glares at her, "No, I just thought she wasn't that desperate go out with a guy" Kairi smacks him over the head, "You idiot! Yuffie's not desperate to go out with a guy she's just not the type of girl that says no to everyone that asks her out! Besides if you haven't noticed she's hot and it's your own fault that you didn't ask her out first!" Riku rubs his head, "You done talking?" he asks ducking the second time Kairi aims for his head
"Look you need to get this through your head, I don't like Yuffie. Sure she's hot but we're not compatible although I am curious to see how Yuffie is on a date since you did tell me where they'll be" he get's this mischievous look in his eyes, "Oh speaking of compatible, Molly told me what happened, i mean what didn't happen between you two. Looks like you're body doesn't agree with your flawed logic" Kairi pulls out some strawberries and begins cutting them, "Yeah rub it in why don't you, besides just because we didn't hook up doesn't mean anything" he reaches over and steals a strawberry earning himself a disapproving look from Kairi, "What?" he asks eating the sweet fruit.
"Can you at least be useful?" she asks, "Sure, what do you want me to do?" she points at her phone, "Can you text Sora and tell him to come over?" Riku smirks grabbing her phone quickly sending him a message. He sets the phone down still smirking while Kairi just continues on her way until she notices the look on his face, "What did you do?" she asks reaching for her phone pulling up the message he sent.
Hey Sora! I had a very dirty dream about you last night. Let's reenact it tonight!
-Kairi
"You Idiot!" Kairi yells tossing a pair of tongs at Riku who just doges it and laughs, "Come on don't pretend you didn't and if you didn't don't pretend you don't want to" Riku winks at her, "Great is this what you tell girls?" Kairi quickly types out her own message:
Hey Sora, forget the previous message it was just Riku being a retard but what I told him to text you in the first place is to come over here because Fiona really wants to see you!
- Kairi
"Don't knock it until you try it besides I don't need to use any of those cheesy pick up lines" Kairi rolls her eyes, "Yeah but seriously I think you're game might just be lacking I mean it usually never takes you this long to get a girl you like out on a date. Well either way it looks like you've missed out" she smiles slowly watching his reaction which just seemed to be confused, "What girl are you talking about?" he asks eating another strawberry, "Yuffie"
"Not this again which reminds me I do want to see her on a date which means that I've got to see this and like I said you did conveniently tell me where'd they be" Riku says placing his hands in his pockets, "NO! You are not allowed to go and ruin Yuffie's date!" Kairi threatens.
"Nah she'll do that on her own" he get's up to leave when she grabs him by his arm dragging him back to his seat, "You are not allowed to go stalk her on her date! Hello talk about invasion of privacy" he sighs, "Come on Kairi this is a rare thing what if it never happens again? You're really going to make me miss out on this once in a lifetime opportunity?"
"Maybe if you weren't such a jerk to her I'd have not problem with that but knowing you you're just going to interrupt it somehow and then it will all be ruined and then she'll hate you forever and then you'll grow old and die alone because the one girl you really liked thought you were a jerk and didn't want anything to do with you anymore" Kairi pauses when she hears the door knock, "You know you have an overactive imagination?" he asks, "You stay right here and I'll be back" she says sticking her arm out pointing at him.
She walks over to the door and opens the door to Xion and Sora, "Hey Kai we came over to see fiona" he explains as she smiles at the pair, "She's upstairs, you two can go see her and I'll be up momentarily, I need to finish talking to Riku" she explains as Sora taps her shoulder, "Kairi?"
"Yes?" she asks turning to him, "Riku snuck out the back door" she snaps her fingers in anger, "That idiot! He better not ruin Yuffie's date" she could only imagine what he would do. Sora and Xion head into the house, "We can watch Fiona for you if you want to go and get him" Xion suggests, "Nah, I'll just text Namine I think she's on her date with Roxas at the same place and they can take care of it besides I'm making dinner"
"We're going to the dance together!" Sora blurts out before saying anything about the mention of food which took Kairi by surprise but she quickly regains her composure before smiling at them, "Congratulation's! Looks like we all have date's to the dance now" she says less enthusiastic, "Sora! Xion!" Fiona yells running from the top of the stairs jumping on Sora who smiles back at the girl, "Hey there little buddy!" he says ruffling her head setting her down. Fiona grabs onto his and Xion's hands pulling them upstairs with her, "Let's go play house!" she says until they disappear out of sight.
Kairi let's out a small sigh slowly trudging back to the kitchen pulling out some more ingredients placing them out on the counter putting the strawberries into a container sealing it shut and putting it in the refrigerator. She almost drops the container of vegetables she was holding when Sora was standing in front of her, "Hey, you going to come upstairs?" he asks lightheartedly
"Um, no… I got to make dinner and Fiona wanted to spend time with you so I'll stay down here and do this, so go have fun" she tried to put a smile on her face but even he knew something was bothering her, "You okay?" he asks putting his hand on her shoulder, "I'm fine, just tired haha it's been a long day" she lies but he just nods his head heading back up the stairs.
Kairi just couldn't understand all the mixed feelings she had inside. She felt heartbroken it was a pain that pierced her chest and she wasn't sure whether she wanted to scream in anger or crawl into her bed and just cry. Tidus was a great guy and she did like him but it still weighed heavy in her heart when she knew that all she really wanted was Sora and it was driving her crazy. Why did he have to like her cousin? She couldn't believe she didn't realize it when they were 'fake-dating' but it was honestly one of the best relationships she'd ever experienced. She just couldn't get his deep blue ocean's eyes or the silly smile that she grew to love she remembered the first time she met him
Flashback:
Sora was walking past the park enjoying the first day that his parent's let him walk home alone. The truth was that his Uncle Cid was supposed to take him home but had somehow forgot not to Sora's dismay. He proudly stuck his chest out and strode down the sidewalk like he owned it. He wasn't really sure what time it was or if he was going the right way but he wouldn't admit that. The first thing he learned was that you'll find your way eventually.
He was passing by the basketball court when he saw a girl with the prettiest hair that really just reminded him of food. He snapped out of it when he noticed she was crying. He walked over to her concerned, "Are you okay?" he asks as she wiped her tears sobbing, "N-no" she let's out, "What's the matter?" she points over to a group of kids playing with a pink ball, "I'll get it back for you" Sora says smiling wide as she looks at him a little confused, "Really?" she asks wiping her face as he nods his head, "You can count on me!" he says walking over to the group of guys.
Kairi sat on the ground of the court watching the boy with brown hair trying to talk with the other kids. She didn't have many friends at her school so she was excited about the idea of having one. She flinched a little when she saw him get shoved by the bigger boy. She takes in a deep breath slowly standing up gaining courage to stand up to those bullies. She runs over to the group and start's yelling, "YOU BIG BULLY! HE WAS ONLY TRYING TO HELP! JUST GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS TO YOU GUYS!" she yells crouching down helping Sora up.
The older kid just laughs, "Whatever you crybaby redhead freak, we're out of here we don't need any babies yelling at us" the kids say walking off of the basketball court, "Are you okay?" Sora asks looking at her almost making her fall over, "That's what I should be asking you silly" she giggles, "Me? I'm fine, in fact I was about to show that kid who's boss" Sora says trying in vain to flex his non-existent arm muscle.
Kairi laughs, "It's okay that you didn't get my ball, those guys were pretty scary" she admits as he get's off of his back walking over to a bush near them pulling out the pink ball much to her surprise, "Who said I didn't get it?" he chuckles smiling with this wide good grin as her eyes light up, "Thank you!" she yells running over to him giving him a hug making him drop the ball, "Oops" she says as he laughs picking it back up
"Here you go" he says handing her the ball as she holds onto it, "Thank you" she smiles, "You have pretty hair" Sora blurts out before thinking making her smile, "You really think so? The kids at my school don't like my hair, they call me a tomato" she frowns a little as he laughs, "But tomatoes don't taste good" boy could he be clueless, "That's not funny" she protests, "I don't hear people making fun of you're hair because it's looks like a porcupine thingy" she huffs pulling her ball closer to her chest, "You know I never thought about it but I like animals!" he says still smiling
"Is there something wrong with you?" she asks eyeing the boy who shakes his head, "No, not that I know of" he shrugs, "Do you want to be my friend?" Sora asks putting his arm out expecting her to shake it, "What are you doing?" she asks confused by the gesture, "I see grownups do it all the time" he explains as she shifts the ball into her left arm following his same gesture shaking his hand, "Now it means we'll be friends forever! I'm Sora" he says excitedly making her laughs, "Yeah we will be! I'm Kairi!"
The two continued talking up until Kairi's mom arrived to take her home dropping Sora off at his house. Her mother smiled looking at Kairi, "I like you're new friend he seems really nice, so you're not afraid of getting cooties like all of the other girls?" she asks looking at the her daughter who just shakes her head, "Sora doesn't have cooties" she says giggling. Her mother was glad she made a friend. She knew Kairi was having trouble with some of the kids at school and was glad she met someone, "Did you know that you two go to the same school?" she asks Kairi. When they had dropped of Sora she had the chance to meet his parents who were surprised his uncle hadn't picked him up, "yay! That means we'll be friends forever! That's what we promised!" she yells happily as they pulled into the driveway of her house.
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It was true though they had been friends through thick and thin but she still couldn't help but feel something for the porcupine boy she met so many years ago. Xion walks into the kitchen with her bags breaking Kairi out of her own thoughts, "Hey I gotta go but I'll see you tomorrow" she says waving bye heading out of the house. The truth was hard to take sometimes but the truth was that Sora was in love with her cousin and not even if she wanted to would she be able to get in between that, it wouldn't be right.
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Namine and Roxas were sitting inside Aerith's restaurant laughing, "I can't believe that really happened" she says in disbelief, "Well you know Axel and Demyx, being with them is like being with the most skilled troublemakers" he says when something catch's Namine's eye, "Hey look over there" she says hinting at the table a few feet away from them. Yuffie and Seifer were just seated looking over the menu, "What are the chances they decided to come here?" Roxas observes turning back to Namine.
"When I was here a few years ago, Yuffie had the biggest crush on Seifer. I didn't know who he was until this year and I still can't believe she ever liked him. I'm actually surprised she agreed to go out with him" Namine explains taking a drink from her glass of water, "I haven't really ever paid much attention to Seifer he's just someone who get's on my nerves every once in a while" Roxas shrugs.
Namine stays quiet for a moment deciding to change the subject, "Look I know you don't really go to school dances but I've never really gone to one here and well -" Roxas cut's her off, "You're the exception to that rule, I'll go with you besides if I don't go with you I don't want to know who will" she smiles reaching over grabbing onto his hand, "You sure know how to treat a girl" she giggles, "What do you expect? If I treated you like an ass you'd dump my ass" she laughs, "That's true, but you know what they say, every beast has a bit of beauty inside"
"I've never heard that one before but you read more than me" he says when he feels himself being nudged over, "Hey guys" Riku says getting into the booth with them, "Hey we're kind of on a date right now" Roxas protests as Riku wave's him off, "Trust me, you two will have plenty of dates, besides I doubt this will ever happen again" he says intently watching Yuffie and Seifer
"Dude, just leave us alone" Roxas says pushing him back out of the booth, "Fine I have a better Idea anyway" he says walking away from their table and out the restaurant door. Once outside he watches a couple approaching the restaurant, "Hey don't you two go to school with me?" he asks looking at the pair, "Yes and you're! OMG I can't believe that you're talking to me!" the squeaky girls starts hyperventilating, "So you two out on a date?" he asks giving the girl a wink, "Yeah we -" they guy starts to say when the girl hits him over the head with her purse, "No! We are not out on a date! In fact I don't even know this guy" he looks at her, "But Sasha" he whines but she quickly shuts him up with a death glare, "Well if you're not his date, want to be mine?" Riku suggest
The girl squeals trying to contain herself she really felt like she could burst into confetti, "YES!" she yells grabbing onto his arm in a death grip but he didn't mind as she pulled him into the restaurant leaving her previous date outside confused on what had just transpired.
The pair was quickly seated conveniently right behind Yuffie and Seifer. Yuffie quickly notice's the pretty boy and almost hide's realizing he's already seen her, "Damn" she whispers underneath her breath, she was going to need some great disguise to get out of this place in one peace. Any time she went out and pretty boy was around things usually ended up in some type of disaster; although it was usually her fault but it's not like she'd ever admit it.
"Is there something wrong?" Seifer asks leaning back in his chair snapping her out of her thoughts, "Nope! Nothing whatsoever because we're all good here and nothing crazy is going to happen!" she says hoping for the best. Seifer looks at her a little weird, "It's a good thing you're hot" he says as she rolls her eyes
Across the room Namine and Roxas look at the four of them sitting near one another, "Uhh maybe that wasn't such a good idea" Namine says looking at her phone, "What is it?" he asks, "I just got a text from Kairi saying to keep Riku away from Yuffie and Seifer" Roxas turns to look at Riku as he approaches the table, "It's too late now, might as well enjoy the fireworks" he shrugs as they both watch him and the pair on their date.
"Hey what are you two doing here?" Riku asks walking up to Yuffie and Seifer. Yuffie let's out a groan, "Ughh, what are you doing here?" she asks slumping down in her seat, "What? I heard the circus is in town so I decided to head on over here and see what the big fuss was about" he smirks looking at the pair, "Can't you just go away?" Yuffie pleads covering her face with her hands embarrassed.
"This is supposed to be a date not bring your friend to the date date" Seifer says looking at Yuffie, "Okay first off he's not my friend and I have no idea what he's doing her, unless it's to ruin this date like the jackass he is" Yuffie glares at Riku, "Oh that's what you two are doing? You're on a date? I thought this was just some charity" Yuffie shuts her eyes taking a deep breath before opening them and grabbing onto a loaf of bread hitting Riku with it, "Get out of here!" she yells
"Fine, whatever I don't care I was just curious" he says shrugging, "Yeah and curiosity killed the cat remember?" she says poking him on the head with the loaf of bread and he just backs away. Riku begins to walk away briefly stopping leaning over towards Seifer, "Oh yeah and Seifer, she has a thing for kitchens" Riku says patting his shoulder giving Yuffie a wink before walking out of the restaurant leaving his date at the table. Yuffie sat there with her mouth gaped open, she couldn't believe he just said that, "What is he talking about?" Seifer asks confused, "Nothing… look I'll be right back" she says getting out of her seat walking towards the exit when she spots Riku talking to some girl, "What the hell was I just about to do?" she asks shaking her head before walking back inside and taking her seat across from Seifer, "That was quick" he states, "Yeah, I was just a little distracted but it's all fine now!" she says smiling wide.
Namine lets out a sigh of relief, "I'm just glad that nothing happened, last time they were at a place like this together they ended up having a food fight" Namine explains, "I heard about that, but now that's over what do you say we head out of here?" Namine eyes Roxas suspiciously, "Where are we going?" she asks as a smile creeps up on her face, "If I told you it wouldn't be a surprise" she let's out a small laugh as he pays for their food, "Come on" he says grabbing onto her hand slowly pulling her on her feet.
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Selphie spotted the brunette she had been looking for all around town, this was her payback for annoying the hell out of her since their first meeting. She was in disguise wearing a short black wig and some big framed dark glasses. Selphie made sure to sharpen the scissors she put in her purse. The girl hosting the night sat her right behind Yuffie who was enjoying her piece of cheese cake at the moment.
"You know, I never really eat this" she mentioned blabbing away. The waitress came by Selphie's table, "What would you like to order?" she asks taking out her pad, "Coffee is fine for now" the waitress wrote down the order on her pad and headed to the back where the kitchen was located.
Selphie's heart was pounding, she'd only have one chance to get this done right, she already knew where to run to make her exit. Yuffie was laughing, she wasn't having too terrible of a time with Seifer. Selphie shifted her seat so she was facing halfway toward Yuffie and slowly pulls out the scissors. In the blink of an eye Selphie grabs ahold of Yuffie's long ponytail snipping her long hair as short as she could before making a b-line straight to the back of the kitchen and out the back. It was all over within seconds. Yuffie's short hair fell out of the ponytail since she didn't have enough hair to stay up.
Yuffie slowly brought up her hands to feel her hair, she wasn't even sure how to react. She was too shocked to react, Seifer's mouth was gaped open before he gained his composure, "Look I'm not really into the short hair thing, but we had a good time, I'll see you around" he quickly get's up and heads to the counter to pay then leaves without another word.
"Great, there goes my ride" she sighs as Aerith walks up to her, "Yowza girl, you're new hair, it's a lot shorter" Yuffie covers her face with her hands, "Is it that bad?" she asks.
Aerith puts her arm around the teen, "Nothing that some scissors can't fix, come with me" she says pulling her to the back.
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"Watch your step" Roxas said carefully leading Namine up the stairs of an old vacant building. He made sure she kept her eyes closed until they reached the building so she wouldn't see where they were going.
They made it to the top in front of a plain grey door, "Where are we?" she asks as he opens it leading her out on the rooftop.
"This is the old clock tower" Roxas says bringing her near the edge stepping down to sit right in front of the big clock. Namine follow suit taking her seat next to him, "The view is amazing, you can see the whole town from up here" she smiles
"I use to come here all the time when I was younger, it's kind of the place that just let me forget about all of my troubles" Roxas explains kicking his dangling legs, "Everyone needs a place like that" Namine lets out a little laugh
"Really? So where was your place?" He asks interested, "Uh, well you see, it was this treehouse that I built with my friends when I was just a kid" Namine smiles a little embarrassed
"Yeah, I figure everyone needs a place like this, I normally don't bring people here" he says looking out onto the town. It had been years since he was there. The last time he went there, well it was with Courtney. He couldn't help but think about her every time he was there. It was their place after all…
Flashback
"Hey! I've been looking all over for you!" The blonde girl laughed as she plopped down next to him, "Yeah, sorry I've just been kind of out of it lately. Sora is annoying the hell out of me so I just wanted to get away from him" Roxas explains leaning back
"He's not so bad, I think he's pretty chill" she says smiling widely, "And I also think you're just a grumpy pants" she pokes him on the shoulder giving him a wink, "Yeah, yeah, speaking of which, where have you been? It's been a week since I've seen you" he says looking at her.
Courtney's smile slowly faded from her face, "It's my cousin, he really hates you and is just trying to keep me from seeing you but I don't care, you're my best friend and that's all that matters" she says with a determined look on her face.
"You do realize you're kind of a dork?" he says with a breathless chuckle, "Yeah but you know you love that about me" Courtney laughs winking at him.
"Yeah, you sure are special" Courtney could detect the sarcasm in his voice so she playfully slapped his arm, "For a best friend you sure are mean" she laughs, "There's no way I'm going to marry you now" she states as a fact
"You can't take back your promise" He retorts putting his arms behind his head, "I was like ten!" she protests, "Well, the heart wants what the heart wants" she laughs again, "You do realize that if we do get married you're going to have to lighten up right grumpy pants?"
Roxas opens his eyes to look at her, "Do you realize when we get married you're going to have to stop calling me grumpy pants?" Courtney puts her hand on her chin as if to think though what he was saying, "Nope, you're always going to be grumpy pants but it's better than googlie bear"
Roxas laughs, "It is a whole lot better than googlie bear so I guess I can't complain" he shrugs, "Feel better now?" she asks concerned, "I'm fine" he reassures her handing her a blanket.
"Thanks, it was pretty chilly up here but hey we should head home, your uncle and aunt will be worried besides I need to get home or else I'll get in trouble" he sighs as she tries to pull him to his feet.
"Fine" he says reluctantly following her out of the building.
It was a quiet walk to the corner of waller street; it was the place they would part and go their separate ways. Roxas never liked saying goodbye to Courtney not knowing how long it would be until they got to hang out again.
"Roxas, I'll see you soon" she said as they stood on the side walk, she walked a few feet away before turning back, "Hey Roxas?" she asked as he stopped walking, "Uhh yeah?" he was a tad bit confused, "Just in case my cousin does manage to keep me away from you.." she quickly pressed her lips against his pulling away all too soon, "see ya" she says before slipping away into the dark.
Roxas stood there for a little longer, hopefully things would turn out for the better and then maybe he could be with Courtney for real. That was one of the happiest moments for him, but at the time he didn't know any better. He didn't know that the girl he found himself falling for would be taken from the world in some cruel act of fate…
End of Flashback
"Roxas?" Namine says snapping him out of his thoughts, "Sorry, I was just thinking"
"About what?" She knew it really wasn't her business but it seemed to weigh heavy on his mind, "Nothing really, just glad I brought you here" he says grabbing ahold of her hand.
It was a little weird for him. Namine was the only girl he could be around and not think about Courtney but at that moment, it was like even she couldn't keep those old thoughts at bay.
Namine's blue eyes sparkled as she stared at the stars. Roxas silently watched her, he knew what he felt for the blonde girl was strong. The idea of telling her the truth was going to slowly drive him crazy inside. Maybe he could put it off, just pretend that nothing was wrong.
The only reason senior year wasn't a total bust was because of Namine but even knowing that he had lied to her just made him feel like scum. Namine was so nice and forgiving. She called him out on his crap and wasn't afraid to tell him what she really thought.
If the situation was different, then maybe they would have met a long time ago. He recalled seeing her once before when he was younger. It must have been from the time she was visiting. He knew she didn't remember because she would have mentioned it by then if she did. Maybe one day he would tell her the story.
"So this is where you are" A gruff voice came from behind the two. Roxas froze he knew that voice, it was one he hadn't heard for years. He slowly turned around, "Dad?"
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Riku walked back into the restaurant and over to his date, most of the time he would have just left but felt as though this girl needed some type of explanation especially since she had ditched her date.
Sasha was sitting at the table with a stern look on her face, "What do you want jerk? You do realize that I left my wonderful boyfriend for you" she said in a disinterested angry tone, "I'm sorry" he says plainly taking a seat
"Wait… What?" Sasha's stern look melted into one of shock, "I know, I'm not one for apologizing or anything like that but I didn't want to be an ass to you. You seem like a pretty cool chick, it's just that I'm not the dating type and I just felt like I owed you some sort of explanation. I ran into your boyfriend outside. He's waiting for you"
Sasha was surprised she'd heard all about Riku but he really wasn't a bad guy just maybe misunderstood, "Uh, thank you and I hope everything works out between you and that one girl" Sasha picked up her things and headed to the door
"Great now even she thinks I have a thing for Yossarian" he sighs walking up to Aerith who was standing behind the diner, "Having a rough night?" she asks handing him the bill, "You could say that again" he let out a sigh paying for the meal.
"It'll get better, besides you're not the only one" Aerith gestures to a girl sitting a few feet away from him. Riku stood there trying to figure out if he'd seen the girl before. Aerith just smiled taking a step back into the kitchen.
The girl was a brunette but she had a pixie cut. Riku was curious to see who the mysterious girl was when she stood out of her seat. He quickly made his way towards her to where when she spun around she ran straight into him.
"Yuffie?" he asked a little shocked, he had just seen her fifteen minutes earlier and she had long hair.
Yuffie let out a frustrated growl she was not in the mood, "Whatever, just get it over with, go ahead make fun of my hair, say that my transformation into Yossarian is complete and then leave me the hell alone" Riku just kept quiet and after a couple of minutes standing there Yuffie sighs, "I'm leaving" she states pushing her way out of the restaurant
Riku just followed her outside as she pulled out her phone, "Great! What do you want?! To make fun of me? My hair is already haggard and if my night wasn't already worse enough my date dumped me so why can't you just leave me alone!" Yuffie yelled on the verge of tears
Riku just pulls her into a hug immediately calming her down. He stayed silent for a while just holding the crying girl, "Why are you being nice to me? You're usually an asshole" Yuffie says wiping her tears, she really didn't like being venerable especially in front of Riku.
"All I was going to say is even with short hair you're beautiful…" Yuffie rolls her eyes, "Pretty boy, you sure have a weird fascination with hair" she says pulling out of the hug.
"Yeah maybe if you took better care of yours it wouldn't have fallen out" He teases, "If you must know that bitch Selphie is the one who did it, and I was hoping she'd choose to mess with your hair since you do have an unhealthy obsession with it"
"It's not unhealthy besides girls love it" he says running his hand through his hair, "Really?" she says unimpressed, "You know you love it"
"Shut up" Yuffie rolls her eyes, "So what happened to Seifer?" Riku casually asks leaning against the restaurant wall, "Turns out he doesn't like girls with short hair so he just left" Yuffie takes a seat on the floor.
"Need a ride home… Yossarian?" Yuffie glares at him, "Too soon?" he asks, "You think!" she says smacking his leg, "Why are you sitting on the floor?"
"Why are you leaning against the wall?" she questions back, "Come on let's just go, I'm not in the mood to fight with you right now" he says walking towards him car, "yeah you would so lose" she smiles flouncing behind him.
"Sure you're not bipolar?" he asks as they reach the car, "Sure you're not a girl?" she shoots back as they get into the car, "Can I drive?" she asks, "No, I don't want to die"
"What makes you think me driving equals death?" she questions, "You're always running into things when you're walking around, point made" he says turning on the car, "You will let me drive this car one day pretty boy" she states.
"Just keep telling yourself that" Riku pulls out of the parking lot. The drive to her house was a quiet one. Yuffie was just wrapped up in her own thoughts over what had happened that night and how she was going to handle it all.
Riku pulled into her drive way, "Riku, even though I still think you're a prick and a complete peacock asshole, thank you for tonight" Riku shrugs, "Even though I still think you're an annoying air head, your welcome, I'll see you tomorrow" she get's out of the car and heads into her house.
There was some noise in the kitchen so she made her way into it, "Mom?" she asks stepping inside, "Hey! Just looking for that old china bowl, the one grandpa gave us!" she yells pulling out the bowl from underneath the cabinet, "So how was your date?" she asks turning to face her daughter, "You know you're hair is a whole lot shorter, was it like that this morning?"
Yuffie laughs, "Nope, let's just say it was an unexpected change! But yeah the date with Seifer kinda went terrible and Riku drove me home" she explains eating some pretzels her mom had taken out, "So you and Riku are finally together? Honey! He is a fine catch! Just like your daddy!"
Yuffie covers her face with her hands, "No mom, I don't like that jerk" Her mom just laughs, "He's such a sweetie pie! And he's one hot piece of as-" Yuffie almost dies of shock, "Mom!" she says dramatically falling on the floor
Her cousin Edward walks through the door pausing when he sees Yuffie lying on the floor of the kitchen, "She's playing dead again?" he asks walking over her, "Yuff, sweetie, if you're going to stay down their, can you at least do a little cleaning?" she asks tossing her a pan and mini broom.
Yuffie just laid still until her mother and cousin walk out of the kitchen. She silently gets up and steals the remaining pretzels before running up to her room. Catching a glimpse of herself in the mirror she walked toward it.
She was never really much of a girly girl and having long hair only got in the way whenever she was skating or doing any of her other activities. She smiles to herself remembering what Riku had said, 'Even with short hair you're beautiful'
"Ugh! Why am I thinking of this jerk!" she yells pouting tossing herself on her bed as her mom walks by the room singing some disney song. It took a few moments before she burst into her daughters room.
"If there's a prize for rotten judgement, I guess I've already won that.
No man is worth the aggravation that's ancient history been there done that.
Who'd you think you're kidding he's the earth and heaven to you try to keep it hidin' honey we can see right through you girl you can't conceal it we know how you feelin' who you're thinking of
Ohhh no chance no way I won't say it no no.
You soothe you sigh why deny it uh oh.
It's too cliche I won't say I'm in love!"
Her mother danced around her bed room singing the Hercules song while Yuffie just laughed, "Sing with me!" she yelled pulling her daughter off of her bed. The two continued to duet the song with Yuffie singing Meg's part and her mother playing the part of the Muse's.
"At least out loud, I won't say I'm in looovvee" Yuffie finishes as her mom high fives her, "Now if only you could say it out loud" her mother gives her a quick wink before running out of her room. Yuffie let's out a scoff but just giggles her mom sure was weird.
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The older man stood awkwardly his black hair was full of white reminding anyone of pepper and salt. He had deep dark eyes but from the wrinkles on his face, anyone could tell he had been through a lot in his life.
Roxas didn't know what to do. He hadn't seen his dad since that night, he even refused to testify against him during the court trial to avoid him. Now the same man was right in front of him. It was the weirdest sensation that Roxas was at loss for words but plenty of feelings were soaring through him some of them being rage, regret, and just plain anger.
"Roxas.." The man said before pausing, he knew the kid had grown up but there were still things that he needed to hear. Namine stayed silent watching both of them. She slowly reached down holding onto Roxas' hand. He looked at her felt himself calm down a little.
"What makes you think that I would ever want to talk to you after what you did to me?" Roxas' tone was controlled, it really strained him when all he wanted to do was yell at the man.
His dad smiled a little, it wasn't a sadistic smile, it was more of a sad small smile that can be only seen through the eyes of a solider when he's lost the battle. His father knew that there was no way to reconcile with the boy he had abused.
"Roxas, I just wanted to see how you are doing, that's all. There's more that you need to know, I'm not the same guy I was and I can't apologize enough for what I did but you need to know something that I've kept from you. If you want to know what that is, then you know where to find me" His father waves a little before disappearing back down the stairs.
Roxas hated it but he knew he was curious to know what the man had to say. He sighed a little letting all of his anger out while Namine sat silent still looking up at the stars.
"I can't believe him, he was such an asshole and people don't change at least not people like him, it would be like trusting my brother again" Roxas says, "Look Roxas, I know what you went through but it wasn't me going through it you know? I don't think I can give you any comforting thought in regards to this subject, just know that I support you in what ever you decide is right for you"
Roxas shrugs his shoulders, "I think I just might find out what he has to say, the very least he owes me some type of explanation to what happened to my mother"
Namine nods her head holding onto his arm, he pulls her closer holding her. Even with all of the negativity surrounding them, he knew this was always going to be his favorite memory of them together. He knew it wouldn't last…
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Aerith was cleaning the counter when the bell rungs signifying the door opening. She didn't turn around, "I'm sorry but we're closed" she sang out. grabbing some of the cups she placed down.
"Aww, even for an old friend?" Aerith almost dropped her cup but the mysterious man caught it, "Cloud? What are you doing here?" she asks pulling him into a hug.
"Well, I was back in town and I just asked around to find out where was one of the best places to eat around here and they sent me your way" he gives her a wink as she shakes her head, "Why do I get the impression you're sucking up to me?"
"Because I am" he states making both of them laugh, "Hey I did say I'd come around to try this place out, except I believe the last time I said that, you only had a place in the mall. Amazing what a person can accomplish in a few months" Cloud took a seat across the counter handing her the cup he was still holding on to.
"Enough about me, what have you been doing?" She asks taking the cup and placing it beneath the counter
"Just doing the college thing, same old same old. I remember your dad was really into the idea of one day owning a place like this" he states looking around the place, "Yeah…" she says quiet in her own thoughts.
"It's funny watching Namine and her friends, they just bring back old memories of the days we were in that school causing trouble" Cloud smiles as Aerith scoffs, "You mean you causing trouble"
"Aw come on! You can't say that, as I recall a certain girl with blue eyes snuck me out of detention with her unconventional methods" she smiled a little, "Don't mention it" she says blushing
"Then again flashing the man to let me out is pretty cool" he laughs as she covers her face, "Cloud!" she whines, "Well it's a good thing that one of us grew up" she says placing her wet towel down.
"Say, what are you doing this weekend?" Cloud asks, Aerith pretends to think about it, "Um, I am actually chaperoning the school dance. Kairi asked me to do it and I agreed" she explains, "So what's the policy on dance crashers?"
"Why don't you just chaperon with me? It could be fun" she suggests, "Alright then it's a date and I won't hear any less of that" Cloud knew she would protest so he stopped her before she could open her mouth, "I'll pick you up at eight tomorrow so we can discuss the details" he leans over the counter giving the girl a quick peck on the cheek then in his own cool way, walking out of the restaurant.
Aerith smiles to herself, she never really got over him. Maybe this would be their second chance.
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Ventus scratched his head looking at the map, he had an idea of where she would be but the news did come as a shock, "Looks like time to take a break" he says to himself taking a seat on the grass. Those were the days, he smiled to himself. He missed his friends but just like life directs, everyone always goes their separate ways. He closes his eyes; he had been searching for her for the past two days and to no avail. Being this far away from Roxas at this moment wasn't the best idea. Ven knew he must be going through hell back there but Marluxia was looking after him and so was Cid.
"Hey I found him!" A familiar girl's voice ring's through his ears, "Always a sleepyhead, right trent?" his eyes flutter open and he smiles looking at the familiar face, "Come on give the guy a break, we haven't seen him for a fews months now" the voice was another familiar one. Ven sits up looking at the pair in front of him, "Aqua! Terra! What are you two doing here?" he asks standing up giving each of them a hug
"We had to see how you were doing! We just got back from a camping trip" Aqua says smiling, "Don't tell me you're both still posing as high school students" Ven guesses and they both nod, "That can be a little creepy" Ven says laughing at them, "Hey you wanted an inside look at what was going on in the camp and so did we. I met your brother and his friends, they're a great group" Aqua says
"I wasn't directly in the cabin with them, I was apart of a different group. I did run into an ex though. I made it seem like I wanted her back but the truth is I just wanted to make sure that the guy she chose to be with was going to take care of her" Terra shrugs
"Yeah she was lying, they weren't really dating. I forgot how much drama high school had" Aqua laughs, "Going to high school with you two was definitely not a pleasant experience" Ven says remembering the multiple times he'd get dragged into their drama, "You were younger than both of us and yet you were still in the same grade, I doubt a smarty pants like you would have had the best time ever but come on you have to admit that we had some great times" Terra says recalling some of the classes they had shared
Aqua ruffles Ven's hair making him smile, "You know you and your brother are like spitting images of one another?" he nods his head. Aqua grabs ahold of both of their hands and leads them back to the grass forcing them to sit down with her.
"I do hope he and Namine get together! You should see them they're soooo cute" Aqua gushes, "Well then you'll be happy to hear that they are together. I saw him last night, I followed him to the skate park and interrupted his date. He was not happy to see me at all and I don't blame him but I had to tell him about our father" Terra shakes his head, "Why don't you just tell him the truth Ven?" neither Terra or Aqua ever understood why Ventus was willing to have his brother hate him.
"You are the nicest guy I know" Aqua says shaking him, "Hey what about me?" Terra asks leaning back to catch a glimpse of her, "Yeah he still trumps you in the nice category, he never broke the necklace I made him" Terra sighs, "You're never going to let me live that down are you? I was ten" Ven laughs pulling out the old necklace, "You still have it?!" Aqua yells excitedly, "Of course I do, I grew up with you two and I said I'd always keep it with me. You two helped me the most when I needed it"
"My point is made, if Roxas knew the real you like the real you, rather than the you make him think is real, I know for a fact he would love you" Aqua sincerely looked at Ven.
"Whenever I start to get close to him, bad things begin to happen. I can't explain it; the first time I left him it was hard but the only way to protect him from our father. When our father was gone I just couldn't step back into his life after telling him to get lost. Then he had to get involved with Courtney, Zac, Cloud and Leon. I tried to get close to him and then, well you guys remember what happened. I should have been there and not sent Xemnas in my place, that was my fault" he runs his hand through his Golden locks, "I like Namine for him, she's a good girl. A little shy but she seems to be strong willed and a good friend. My only issue with her is her brother. Cloud hates Roxas and there's nothing I can say to change his mind, Roxas' a good kid he just needs a little push in the right direction" he amirs
"What about last summer? Or wasn't that this fall? When you were talking to him again?" Aqua asks trying to remember their previous conversation, "Yeah, we were getting along fine and I was going to tell him everything and stop acting like this to him. That didn't happen, for some reason his girlfriend told him she slept with me and it was pointless to convince him otherwise so I left again. I don't think he'd ever forgive me for all the lies I've told him. All I ever wanted to do was spare him pain and despite my best efforts I can't even do that" Ventus looks down at the grass
"Ven, you saved him that night. Your father may have driven you away but you did save him multiple times" Aqua was trying her best to comfort Trenton, she knew he always acted as if nothing hurt him or affected him. There were those rare moments when the sadness would seep through and they were there for him. Ventus was only twelve when he left Roxas with his father.
Flashback
Ventus had dropped Roxas at his school, he was pretty excited for his second day of school; he couldn't stop talking about his friend Courtney. Ventus was just relieved that he was making some friends. He had met Aqua and Terra around that time and they were still close although they were a few years older. Ventus approached the beaten down house eyeing his father's truck in the driveway. He was supposed to be at work but as Ven would know he probably got fired again. He had to stay home from school because Roxas got out early that day. This was the day he was planning to run away with him. He hadn't told Roxas what he was planning but that's only because his father would get any secret out of the boy. The only problem was now his father was home.
Ventus slowly opened the creaky door trying not to make too much noise. His father was laying on the couch when he walked in, "What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be in your Middle school?" he asks opening one of his eyes, "I just dropped Roxas off at school and he needs someone to pick him up and I thought you were working today so I was just going to clean up here and get him in a couple of hours" his dad waves him off standing up and slowly staggering into the hallway tripping over something, "Shit!" he yells but Ventus just ignores him.
A few minutes later his father reappears with a few trash bags in hand, "What the hell is this?" he asks glaring at the boy, "Just some trash I have to take out" Ven puts on a fake smile trying to keep cool, "Do you think I'm a fucking idiot?" he says opening the bags tossing the clothing at him, "What did you think you were going to do?!" he yells throwing the other trash bag at him, "You want to know what I was going to do!?" Ventus yells back kicking the bags out of the way frustrated, "I was going to take Roxas out of this hell whole you call a house and find a better place for me and my brother!" Ven wasn't afraid of him and his Father despised that about the boy, he couldn't control him.
"Leave and don't come back. Don't even think of telling Roxas anything I may not be able to hurt you but I will punish him for your insolence! That would hurt you, you care so much for Roxas you would do anything and I know that. If you leave now I won't hurt the kid ever" Ventus wasn't sure what to do, he was only twelve and he needed to protect his brother, "Can you give me your word you won't lay a finger on his head?" His father nods his head, "Now get out"
Ventus takes one of the bags and heads out walking around for a couple of hours. He stopped a stranger on the street asking for the time, it was already a half an hour past the time Roxas got out. Ventus makes his way to the elementary school, he had to make sure his father picked him up. It was getting pretty cold for the midday and it only took him about five minutes when he spotted Roxas playing with himself on the big toy. Ven takes a deep breath, he had to do this but he would at least make sure he got home safe.
Roxas spots Ventus waving at him and happily running towards him, "Ven!" he yells catching up to his older brother, "How was your day?" Ventus asks in a neutral tone, "It was fun!" the eight year old says bouncing a little when Ventus notices him missing his backpack, "What happened to your backpack?" he inquires as Roxas looks at the floor, "I don't need a backpack" he whispers Ventus reaches over and ruffles his hair making him smile, "Dad's going to be mad, don't tell him anything" Roxas nods his head.
They were about a block from their house when Roxas noticed the bag that Ventus was carrying, "What's that for?" he asks as Ven abruptly stops walking, "I'm leaving" he says Roxas looks up at his older brother confused, "Can I go with you?" he asks with a tiny smile, "No, you can't" Ven says sternly as Roxas reaches out and grabs onto his hand tears threatening to spill, he didn't want to be left alone with their father. Ven turns his head away from him, "I'm going to tell you this once and you better listen to me." Roxas sniffles a little nodding his head, "I can't live like this Roxas. I'm not your mom, and I'm tired of taking care of you like it's my job. Maybe if it wasn't for you Mom would still be here. Don't get on Dad's nerves and you'll be fine." Ventus pulls his hand away and begins walking the opposite way from their home.
"Wait, you can't leave! Don't leave me here" Roxas was crying now, the fear was seeping through. Ventus shut his eyes, this thing he was doing was to help his brother not hurt him, he turns to look at Roxas, "Stop crying! You need to grow up! Not be the pathetic little cry baby I see in front of me" Roxas wipes his tears off of his face, his sadness being replaced with anger, "I hate you!" he yells before running to the house slamming the door, "I'm sorry Roxas, it's the only way I can keep you safe for the time being... I love you" Ventus whispers to no in particular. He had no idea where he was going but he would be back for his brother.
The next morning Roxas got himself ready for school for the first time all by himself. When he went outside he found a backpack filled with supplies, he picks it up and heads off to school. Ventus watched him from afar, he spent the night in an abandoned building in the woods. And that's what he did for the next few years meeting different people and other misfits like him that didn't have a place to go.
End of Flashback
"But you watched over him and took care of him when he needed something" Ven shrugs sure Aqua had a point but even so, "Yeah I was there for him when he needed something not someone" Aqua smacks him across the head, "Give yourself more credit than that, you were there when he needed you the most"
Whenever Ventus was around Aqua and Terra, she was always trying to convince him to come clean to this brother. He guess she had a point but there were things he hadn't told Roxas that he swore he'd take to the grave. The night that his father was found out by the police. He was there… He was there for Roxas….
Flashback
Ventus watched the truck pull up and his father stumble out of it slamming the door shut. He had confronted him at the bar but his father just blew him off and he wasn't going to let him go so easily this time. Ven walked up to the man who just laughed when he saw the boy that had left two years ago suddenly appear already forgetting their brief encounter at the bar, "And the prodigal son returns" he laughs. Ventus could tell he was way past his normal drinking binges he didn't even remember him from twenty minutes ago, "I thought I told you to never show yourself around here again"
"Bill, we had a deal and you broke it. I told you not to lay a hand on my brother and you have" the man laughs again, "Bill? Show some more respect to your father" he orders, "You are not my father or Roxas'!" Ven glares at them man who pauses, "Who told you?" he asks, "Doesn't matter, I want my brother and if you don't give him to me there will be consequences" Ven threatens
"You little piece of shit. Get the hell off of my property before I have you removed!" he yells shoving Ven, "You have one day, I'll be back tomorrow for my brother" Ven walks away feeling riled up. He had been gone for a while and hadn't had time to check up on his brother. He asked Marluxia to do it and learned that Bill had gone back to his old ways. Ven sighs leaning against a tree still keeping his eyes on the house. There were no light's on, Ven had a strange sensation overwhelm him. Something was wrong with Roxas. He hears something crack from inside the house and he quickly kicks the door in.
There was Bill hovering over a bloodied body, he never thought he'd go that far. Anger overwhelmed him, "You asshole!" he yelled charging for him knocking him down and pummeling his face in. The man was knocked out and Ven rushed over to Roxas, he was still breathing but barely conscious, "Hey, it's going to be okay, you're going to be okay" he lifted him up and moved him to the couch. He pulled out his phone dialing 9-1-1.
"What's your emergency?" The operator asks, "My friend was beaten badly by his father, he's bleeding and barely conscious. His father is also down but he'll be okay, he's an alcoholic and he's been severely abusing my friend for some time. You need to get him out of this house" Ven continues listening to the operator doing everything she says, "We'll be there in ten minutes and we're sending some people form CPS down their" he hangs up the phone waiting for the ambulance and the police. There were getting close, practically knocking down the door when he slips out the window unnoticed.
Ven watched then take care of Roxas lifting him to the ambulance while a police car escorted a very drunk Bill to the back seat in handcuffs. Ven followed the ambulance to the hospital and stayed their all night. Roxas had a broken rib and he wasn't sure what else, he only had a few moments to read his chart before the doctors would catch him.
Ven slipped into the room and watched his little brother, he felt so bad, what had he done leaving him with that man? He should have known that guy would have never kept his promise. Roxas stirred a little in his bed waking up to an empty room. He had the weirdest sensation that someone was watching over him, he knew there was someone that saved him, he just wished he knew who to thank. After a lengthy chat with Chid Protective Services they assured him that he wouldn't ever have to deal with that man.
Roxas didn't want to be put in any type of home so as soon as he healed he got the hell out of there. Ven made sure he was fine but stayed out of the way, his brother sure had grown up and didn't need another person but he knew that deep down all Roxas needed was someone to take care of him. He would try to find those people.
End of Flashback
"You idiot!" Aqua smacks Ven over the head again, "I love you Aqua, but if you smack me one more time I'll never tell you anything ever again" she gasps dramatically before regaining her regular composure, "Look Ven, I love you to but you can be hard headed at times"
Ven looked back out on the view from where they were sitting, he wasn't sure if he'd be able to find her. He only hoped he could and then he would get back to Roxas as soon as possible. It was time for him to know the truth…
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Kairi was standing outside in her back yard. She felt crushed and broken, why didn't she realize her feelings for Sora sooner? With a heavy heart she made her way back into the house. There was a fruit bowel sitting on the table and even though she'd lost her appetite she picked up a huckleberry. It was as bittersweet as she was feeling.
Sora came tumbling down the staircase with a wide smile on his face when he noticed Kairi's distant posture, he knew that something was wrong. She was completely zoned out.
"Kairi!" he yells popping right in front of her making her scream and take a leap back as he proceeded to laugh, "Sora! Don't scare me like that!" she scolded picking up the piece of fruit she just dropped.
"Sorry, so do you have a date for the dance?" He asks still smiling while she nods her head, "Yeah, uh, I'm going with Tidus" he just gives her a thumbs up as she narrows her eyes at him
"Kai, you've been acting a little strange lately" he says out of nowhere, "Excuse me?" Kairi's tone was already defensive, he had no idea what she'd been going through
"Kai, you say you're fine when you're not and I just want to know what's going on" she just shakes her head turning her back to him, "I don't get it… Sora, I mean we haven't even been talking as much as we use to, maybe we're just growing apart and I just can't deal with this anymore"
Sora approaches her getting closer, "What do you mean? Kai we've been friends since we were kids, you can't just stop being my friend" she couldn't calm herself down she was beyond upset and she knew that she just wanted to get away, she had to get away.
"Well maybe that's not enough!" she yells abruptly turning towards him pushing past him knocking over the bowl of fruit. She just kept walking out of the door with Sora rushing right after her.
"Just leave me alone!" she yells at the brink of tears making Sora freeze, this whole plan that Xion cooked up was going down the drain. Even when he asked her to stop she just kept on walking.
He quickly pulled out his phone texting Riku to head over to Kairi's house so Fiona wouldn't be alone. After placing his phone back in his pocket he continued his pursuit of Kairi, "Kairi you know I'm not going to stop following you so you might as well just talk to me" she ignored him and just picked up her pace. She ignored his pursuit of her for a few blocks when Kairi suddenly stopped short, "Of course I'd end up here" she whispered to herself in a bitter tone. She opened the small gate and walked around the basketball court, the girl that was here on that day had grown up. The goofball friend had also grown up, she closed her eyes.
She knew she kept a strong front for her family but the loss of her mom had hit her hard. She never was ever really able to come to terms with her mother's death, it was like it just suddenly happened and then Kairi had to grow up and take care of her sister and father since he was falling apart. Kairi took a seat on the bench and just let the tears flow. She felt like she was losing everything she cared about. The pain was so strong it felt like she had swallowed a big dry pill and her chest ached.
Sora approached her slowly not wanting to startle her, he looked around, the basketball court had changed a little now having a huge fence surrounding it. She noticed his presence but she just didn't care anymore. She sat silently with her tears holding her knees up to her chest like she did when she was a kid, it was soothing for her.
"Kai?" Sora questions cautiously as she looked up at him with a blurry vision, she was not the girl he was so use to seeing, the one full of life that would fight with him over such senseless things like food.
"Just being here brings back memories of her…" she sniffled wiping her nose, "I'm so sorry I wasn't there for you sophomore year, when your mom died. Kairi, I just don't get why you're so mad at me"
Kairi tosses her head back and laughs incredulously standing up revived and angry again, "Really!? You don't know?!" she yelled furiously, "No I don't so can you just tell me already so I make things fine with us?!" She was starting to get on his nerves as well with her cryptic messages
"Sora you to understand things will never be fine with us… and it's because…" Kairi paused taking in a deep breath, she already felt crushed so she might as well say it, "It's because I'm in love with you!"
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Kairi: Yay! I finally said it to his face!
Me: Yes you did and you go girl tell that man how you feel!
Namine: I really liked getting to meet Yuffie's mom, you can so see where she get's her independent personality from
Riku: You mean her crazy side
Yuffie: IKU! Shut up you're just jealous because your mom's not as cool as me!
Roxas: This chapter was kind of dark, I mean the whole abuse thing was pretty sad
Ven: Hey I told you I wasn't a jerk, I've been looking out for you little bro!
Roxas: Yeah Yeah
Kairi: I liked it when Riku finally told Yuffie she was beautiful
Yuffie: And now I have my signature short hair
Me: Yeah I was going to give you short hair earlier but I figured I'd make it into a moment for you two
Everyone: Aww!
Axel: Yeah I'm still hating that bear
Demyx: Does that mean we're going to be haunted forever?
Me: You're just going to have to wait and see and I'll try to post it sooner that this one because I've already begun working on the chapter
Namine: Don't forget to tell us about your other story!
Me: Oh Yeah! I just forget these things! So Ominence Revenance is a mystery story and it starts out with a girl who doesn't remember anything and all she has on her is a notebook with her name. Weird things are happening and it's just a cool story that you should all check out! I'm also writing it with my brother and trust me when I say he is a really good writer and he should be because he's 13 years older than me!
Axel: Don't forget to leave a review if you want the next chapter!
Me: Feel free to leave any requests or ideas that you have or would like to see! I read all of them and I try to reply to all of you! And I always give everyone who review a free preview to my next chapter! And before I forget here are the links to my other two stories!
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Ominence Revenance:
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Me: I really enjoy your feedback and I honestly love everyone of you that have been with me throughout this story! Only Three Chapters Left! Then the sequel will begin as a request from all you! But you should give my other two stories a chance because they will have all the characters you love just with modified personalities, they can't just act the same all the time or that would be boring! Let me know how you like the story down below in the reviews!
