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SoraxKairi fic. Oh.My.God. This story reached 58 reviews!!! I can't express how happy I am. Well, maybe I can, by posting this new chapter, how about it? Sorry to keep you waiting. Enjoy! =)
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CHAPTER 9 - Subscribing to the competition
"Wow, man, you mean you and Kairi are actually dating now?" Tidus asked, amazed.
The boys were in their P.E. class, and today both classes were joined together because the teacher had an announcement to make. While they waited, Sora told them how his encounter with Kairi had been.
"You are so lucky. No guy has ever gone out with Kairi before. You'll be famous." Riku said, smirking at his younger friend.
"Aw, shut up. I'm asking you for advice. I've never had a girlfriend before..." said Sora, thinking.
"Girls like to go to restaurants, ya" said Wakka with his usual weird accent. "You know, those fancy ones where you need a reservation and you have to borrow money from your parents, ya." As an afterthought he added, "Don't tell her that you borrowed the money, ya?"
That moment the teacher Cloud spoke, sounding as emotionless as usual. "This weekend an event will take place here in the school, and I'd like you all to sign this list," Cloud took out a list from his notebook, and showed it to everybody, "Saying which tasks you would like to participate in. There are plenty of them - team racing, marathon, tug-of-war, you know - and you have to choose one or more. If you don't want to participate... Well, trust me, not participating is something you don't want to do." He gave the students a frightening look.
Cloud gave the list to Sora first, and he looked at the possible things he'd like to do. When everyone had had the list, it looked like this:
(2-B) SORA: team racing, tug-of-war, secret challenge, marathon
(2-A) RIKU: team racing, tug-of-war, secret challenge, marathon
(2-A) WAKKA: team racing, tug-of-war, secret challenge, marathon
(2-B) TIDUS: team racing, tug-of-war, secret challenge, marathon
(2-B) YUFFIE: team racing, tug-of-war, secret challenge, marathon
(2-B) KAIRI: team racing, secret challenge, marathon
(2-A) SELPHIE: cheering team
(2-A) YUNA: cheering team
Sora got a bit surprised that Kairi was going to participate instead of cheering, but he figured that Yuffie had been involved. After the class, they all headed to the cafeteria, and Sora sat at his usual table with Yuffie, Tidus, Wakka and Riku. While he was eating his beloved cookies, he saw Kairi entering the cafeteria, carrying her lunch bag.
She's probably going to sit with Selphie and Yuna, Sora thought. However, he was wrong. Kairi walked past the table where the girls sat, and went straight to the table where Sora was, grinning.
"Hi everyone!" Kairi smiled, sitting next to Sora and opening her lunchbag. She took out a sandwich and started to eat, as if she did that everyday. Sora found that a bit weird; surely, Kairi wouldn't want to affect her popularity by sitting with the weirdos at his table?
But then, he remembered, she was his girlfriend now. Were they supposed to do everything together? That sounded a bit... claustrophobic, maybe? Kairi was a nice girl, though. It was good to spend time with her. And his friends were definitely supportive. Especially Yuffie, when she wasn't making fun of him.
But, some guys from the table next to theirs were looking at them with confused looks. One of them came to the group's table. He had blond hair, and a strange black tattoo on the side of his face.
"Hey, Kai, what's up?" said the guy suspiciously. "Why are you sitting here with these idiots? Come on, let's go outside and I'll show you something," he said, talking as if Sora and the others weren't listening.
"No, Zell, I'm fine." Kairi said, sounding annoyed and maybe a little bit scared. But the guy named Zell insisted.
"You can't be serious, Kai. You're staying here?" Zell tossed Sora a disgusted look.
"Yes, I'm serious! Now leave me alone, I'm trying to eat." said Kairi. Zell pretended not to hear this. "But why?"
"Because... Sora is my boyfriend!" she said, hoping this would end the subject and make the guy go away. Instead, however, he started laughing.
"Sora? This little boy here is your boyfriend?! Haha, I can't believe it!" he turned to his friends at the next table. "Hey guys, guess what? Kai's got a boyfriend! It's that kid over there!" With that, all the guys roared with laugher, and the whole cafeteria went silent. Meanwhile, Sora looked at Kairi. She seemed really sad with what they were saying. Or was she sad because she didn't want a boy like Sora to be her boyfriend, and instead she wanted a handsome and popular boy like Zell?
Kairi stood up, grabbed Sora by the arm and dragged him up the stairs. Sora could still hear the guys laughing down at the cafeteria, but Kairi wasn't stopping. She ran up all the staircases until they reached the last floor, the school roof. It was an open area in which they could see most of the city - it was a beautiful sight. But Sora couldn't focus on appreciating the view, for Kairi had started to talk.
"I'm really sorry. I didn't think it would be so difficult." she said, looking down.
"You don't need to be sorry. They're just... real jerks, that's what they are." said Sora in a cheery tone. But Kairi didn't look up.
"I guess..." she didn't sound relieved by that either. Sora sighed, looking at the sky. It was very blue, like the sea, and there weren't any clouds in sight.
"If we believe everything will be alright, if we have faith... nothing can go wrong," Sora said, watching two birds chasing each other playfully.
"Yes, I suppose..." said Kairi, also looking at the birds.
"And," continued Sora, "Believing... makes us stronger, you know? Because we know what we think we can do. I believe... that you and I can be happy, even if people like Zell don't want us to be happy. And I believe we should live each day like it could be our last. So, don't be afraid to be happy, even if you feel others are letting you down."
A tear rolled down Kairi's cheek as she whispered, "Thanks, Sora."
Sora smiled, looking at her. She got closer, and looking deeply into his vibrant eyes, Kairi said, "I... want to kiss you now."
"I might not be good at it," Sora blushed.
"Of course you are good at it. We've done this before!" Kairi smirked. Sora had never seen Kairi smirk; it was a bit weird.
"Yeah, but they were like, just a peck on the lips, not real kisses."
"Enough of that!" Kairi leaned in closer to him and kissed him. It started really simply. Then Kairi decided to go further and used her tongue. Sora got a bit surprised by that, not having ever been kissed like that before, but enjoyed anyway. They spent a good five minutes in the "process," until the school bell rang and they were forced to stop.
"I wonder what that secret challenge event will be?" Sora said out loud, walking with her to their class.
"Oh, I just hope it's not something hard to do, like fighting." said Kairi.
"Ah, fighting is easy." said Sora, imagining himself in a sword fight with Riku. They used to do that a lot, but Sora never got a real sword to fight with, and besides, Riku always won anyway. "I mean, if it's with swords, It'll be a piece of cake."
"Really? You know how to fight with swords?" asked Kairi, amazed, when they reached class 2-B.
"Yeah. I might teach you someday, how about it?" said Sora, trying to imagine naive and gentle Kairi trying to slice something with a sword. Now that would be something to watch.
"That would be fun." she answered, entering the class and sitting on her usual place, Sora sitting behind her. It would be Math class, but Professor Aerith didn't show up.
Professor Sephiroth entered the class, saying "Hello, class. Professor Aerith is very ill and couldn't come today, so I'll be taking her class for today. By the way, if the director asks, I had nothing to do with it, okay class? Right, now let's start from Lesson 5, How to Be The Coolest Villain Ever. MWAHAHAHA! Ahem."
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A/N: Wow, this one took a while to come out. I mean, I already have chapters 10 and 11 written out, but I couldn't think of anything good for this chapter x_x so forgive the crappiness, pweaze? BUT, I have good news! I now have a kick-ass beta-reader, so thanks Fruity and Delicious for correcting my many mistakes!
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fantasy-dude: Thanks! ^_^ I like cliffhangers, but tragic stuff? Hm... I don't think I'll add tragic stuff to this story
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