Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, Square-Enix does. But that doesn't mean I can't make strange crazy high school love stories with its popular characters, so HA!
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SoraxKairi fic. Are you wondering how Sora and Kairi felt after the night of the party? Don't worry, it's all written in here... chapter 7 now for all of ya! =)
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CHAPTER 7 - Partners, or more?
Kairi leaned back from the kiss and looked into Sora's sky blue eyes. He was in complete shock. Did Kairi just kiss me?!?
Before he could do anything, Kairi picked Sora's mask and took it off. Immediatly, she let it fall on the floor. She had recognized him... what would Sora do now?
Think of something, quick! But as he tried to think of some action, Kairi blushed deeply and started to talk.
"I'm s-sorry, I-I ju-just wasn't... wasn't...I..." she said slowly, feeling embarassed with the situation. Sora opened his mouth to say something, but no sound came out. Kairi then turned to leave. Selphie and Yuna followed her.
Did Kairi get disappointed when she saw it was me? Maybe when we meet at school she will hate me for not telling her who I was, for taking advantage of her, or something... Sure, none of that was true, but Sora's mind was now locked on not-thinking-well mode, so he started to think of all the bad things that could happen...
All of his friends had worried looks on their faces. Tidus tried to make Sora feel better ("C'mon Sora, I'm sure she's just a bit confused..."), but he wasn't listening. He was confused himself. So he just headed home without saying a word.
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Unfortunetly for Sora, there was something called school. And a person whose name was Kairi attended that school, so he would have to face her one time or another.
When he got there on Monday morning, Kairi hadn't arrived. He sighed, and sitted on his usual place in the back of the classroom 2-B. Yuffie entered that exact minute, and gave signs of trying to talk to him, but gave up when she saw the mixed look of worry and fear on Sora's face.
Kairi came into the classroom a few minutes later. Spotting Sora, she blushed a bit and sat on her desk, avoiding the boy's gaze. Maybe he would have forgotten about Saturday night? What was she thinking when she kissed him? It wasn't normal for her to act like that... and although Kairi did like the kiss, she would never admit it.
"Hello class! Today we..." said Mr Sephiroth, arriving at the classroom, but was interrupted by a knock on the door. The school cleaner, a huge man named Barret, gave Sephiroth a note saying it was from the director. The teacher read the note, and mumbled some words while doing so.
"Right...right...of course..." Sephiroth read, "by the end of the year...right...what? I can't believe it! Ah, of course, that Professor Aerith, she must have told him I'm supposedly a 'crazy maniacal evil guy that can't teach!'! I KNEW I didn't like that woman from the moment I saw her..." he said with a strange glow in his eyes. "But what she doesn't know is that the director is my buddy, so HA!"
Sephiroth coughed a bit, then continued with his class. "Anyway, as I was saying, today you will be divided in pairs to work on the science project about ecossystem you'll have to deliver by the middle of the year. I'll call out the names of the pairs, so get together when I say your name."
"Harley and Tidus!"
Tidus nodded to the friend next to him and both sat together and started discussing about their work.
"Maria and Yuffie!"
The girl named Maria had a scared look on her face as she turned to Yuffie slowly. Yuffie just shrugged and grinned friendly at the other girl.
Sora thought for a minute. Please, let me be with Kairi... But, wait, wasn't he too embarassed to even look at Kairi's face right now? Why would he want to work with her? But considering his luck, it surely wouldn't...
"Kairi and Sora!"
Crap.
Kairi turned to look at Sora. They both sat there uncomfortably as the teacher continued to call out names. They would be science partners to the rest of the semester.
"So..." Kairi decided to take the iniative. "Why don't we make a model for our project?"
"Oh, yeah, that's great."
"Yeah."
They looked at each other's faces silently, without thinking of anything else to say. Fortunetly, the school bell rang and they were off to break time soon enough. While Sora made his way out of the classroom, he felt a hand grabbing him from the back. It was Yuffie.
"Okay Sora. If you really wanna get real with Kairi, you're gonna have to do better than that." she said angrily.
"But... I don't know if she was happy with that other night..." said Sora, looking down.
"Of course she did! That's why she's all shy!" Yuffie said. Sora looked at her now and raised an eyebrow. "That's right, she is shy because she can't admit she liked that night. Didn't you ever asked yourself why Kairi doesn't have a boyfriend, being so popular?"
Actually, Sora had never thought about that. Why didn't Kairi have a boyfriend? Surely guys must ask her out every day, but he never saw her accept anything. Sora couldn't think further on the subject because that exact moment Riku came to him with nobody else than... Selphie, of course.
"Sora, if you don't move we won't be able to get tables at the cafeteria, let's go!" Riku said, grumpy as usual. Yuffie told him they were discussing Kairi and Sora's situation when Selphie squealed. They were used to it by now, though.
"Aaah, I never would have thought that *that* hot guy at the part was Sora!" said Selphie giggling. Everybody rolled their eyes, but Selphie continued anyway. "But I have heard enough from the 'oooh so cute prince Sora' on Sunday. Now can we get down and eat something?"
Selphie turned to the stairs and started to walk away. "WAIT, SELPHIE!" yelled Sora, Yuffie and Riku together. She obeyed.
"What?"
"What do you mean by 'you have heard enough from Sora on Sunday'?" asked Yuffie, curiously.
"Ah, that. Well, Kairi couldn't stop talking about him for a *minute*, if you understand me. She was all like, 'Oh-my-God, I can't believe I did that, but you know, he said so nice things to me, I thought it wouldn't be a problem', and I was like, 'But it isn't a problem, after all, you know Sora, right?' and she then was like 'Yeah...' and I said, like 'And you liked the kiss, right?' and she then said 'Yeah...'"
Sora couldn't believe that. Is that true? Kairi said she *liked* to be with me, to kiss me? He looked at Yuffie and Riku, and to his amusement, both carried identical smirks on their faces.
"I knew it! I just *knew* it! Feminine intuitions, I say!" said Yuffie proudly.
"Feminine intuition?" asked Riku, raising an eyebrow at Yuffie. "What a load of crap."
"You never question a girl's intuition, you stupid giant brat!" snapped Yuffie.
"What did you just call me, you annoying little weirdo?" snapped back Riku.
Feeling that argument could go on for hours, Sora went to the cafeteria hoping he could talk to Kairi and maybe sort things out. He was feeling more confident now. He saw her sitting on the leftmost table, talking animatedly to Yuna.
"Hey, Kairi," said Sora, arriving at the girls' table. Kairi looked at him with a confused expression.
"Hi, Sora. What's up?"
"Well, I was thinking that, we, maybe...uh..." Sora started to say, but he noticed Yuna was staring at him; he couldn't tell his feelings for Kairi if he was being followed by a pair of different-colored eyes. So, he tried to invent something so that they could talk privetly. He remembered the science project. "ah, yeah, you know, the science project? Well, I was thinking that, uh, we could go to my house, and, er, do the model there, if you'd like."
Kairi nodded. "O-okay, then... tomorrow after school then?"
"Yes, that's fine." Sora then remembered Kairi didn't know where his house was. "Since you don't know where it is, I can take you there."
She smiled, and the boy smiled back. It was a good plan; they could do the project, and maybe even talk about the recent events...
Sora was so happy he wasn't even bothering the constant arguments between Yuffie and Riku on the table.
"I'm the right one!" said Yuffie.
"No, I am!" said Riku.
"Sora, who is right???" both said, glaring at Sora.
But Sora just smiled.
"I believe I am, my dear friends."
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A/N: Phew, I took quite a while thinking about a good beginning to this chapter. I wasn't going to make Kairi found out the masquerade prince was Sora yet, but then I thought the story would move too slowly (even slower than it already is =D) if I didn't. So, if you want to know what will happen next, Sora will find out more about Kairi's personal life, and that she isn't so perfect as she seems. Is that a good thing? Wait and find out ;)
A few personal thank yous:
juzlovnsora: Hey if it's not one of my faithful readers/reviewers ^_^ And you guessed what was going to happen in this chapter!!! I wasn't really sure if Kairi should take Sora's mask off (see A/N above) but then I read your review and I thought it was a good idea. Anyway, thanks for your comments, hope to see you here again!=)
MoonFlow-Kairi: Lol, please don't be confused. This chapter must have clarified a bit =) and now that you mention it, that scene does in fact looks like the one in Cardcaptors the movie! I loved that movie ^_^
BubbleFairy03: Oh my God, congratulations on your birthday!!! I'm posting this chapter as a gift for you, okay? ;) As for the InuYasha thing, I didn't read the manga much but I saw the anime, and I agree that Miroku is very funny! Have you seen the episode when Sango says "You haven't ever asked me that." Then he stares at her and grabs her hand: "Sango, would you bear my child?" "You don't have to ask me now!!" Lol, that was hilarious!
Zilly: Actually, I've never tasted peanut butter.(weird question, but anyway) =D Thanks for your review!
I'm going to take off now. See ya next chapter! ^_^ Please review if you don't mind =)
Tallis