6H: Heehee! Back with chappy....6! Oh, and I'm The SIX of Hearts! It's time for a celebration!!!!
Anaretsu: Hikari...Please, just stop now....spare us...
6H: Oh feh!
Sora: I'm still upset! This story is so depressing!
6H: Sora! Look atthe title! The story is called 'Wind!' Does that sound like a HAPPY story to you?
Sora: But you keep hurting Kairi!!!!
Kairi: What's going on?
Anaretsu: Sora's throwing a fit about the genre of the the story again.
Kairi: Again?! God, Sora!!
Sora: I was BLEEDING in chapter 4!!!!
6h: IT WAS DRAMTIC!!!
Sora: IT'S AN ANGST FIC!!! THAT'S WHAT YOU KEEP TELLING ME!!!!!
6H: Oh shut it! All of you!!! Here's chapter 6 of Hearts!!!!
Anaretsu: -_-U
Wind~By the Six of Hearts
Chapter 6~Her Powers
It had to come, she knew it. She just didn't think it would be so soon.
School. She had to return. She had already gone home. Her parents sobbed and wanted to help. But there was nothing they could do. It's not like Kairi was going to have a kid. She had already gone to the hospital the day she returned home. There would be no child-that had been determined. Kairi's mom was releived. Kairi though...didn't care.
Her eyes were still blank dark pools of blue mirrors-the simply reflected whatever she saw, and you couldn't get behind them. So on the new morning of that Wensday Kairi made her way down from her house on the outskirts of the small town. Sora was waiting for her at the end of his driveway, so the two walked in silence down the road.
The white school building loomed in the distance. Kairi froze. 'No...no I can't do this!!' She turned to run but Sora grabbed her arm.
"Kairi...You've already missed a week of school. It's time to come back. You have to face this. And it'll make you stronger. Just ignore them. And remeber you won't be doing this alone. I'm here with you." He led her into the school yard. Kairi looked around for her friends or Riku. All she saw was Cloud brooding under a tree while his fan girls crowded around him and talking in endless, meaningless chatter. The two walked down the hall, stopped at their lockers, and then went to class. As soon as Kairi walked in, the calls was dead silent, as if she'd died and this was her funeral. And here she was, being dragged in laying in her coffin. Selphie and Yuffie watched her sadly from the corner. Tidua froze in the middle of throwing a book across te room and sat down without a sound. Riku wasn't there.
Sora and her walked down the aisle and sat in their desks. Yuffie and Selhie uncomfortably made their way over to her desk.
"Well, what wrong with you people?" Yuffie asked the silent class. "Continue what you were doing!" And they all did.
"Hey, Kairi. Are you feeling better?" Selphie asked.
"Riku and Sora got in a fight last week when you were out. Both got pretty badly injured. Oh, Sora. You look better since then." Sora just nodded at Yuffie. But Kairi didn't look at them. She was looking in a place beyond here-an unreachable place were no one would find her.
"Kairi...um, Riku...we dismissed him. He's no longer your gurdian. That's okay right?"
"Of course it's okay! He only-I mean...I'm sure Kairi's fine with it." Sora watched Kairi with worry in his eyes. She was so distant today. What was wrong with her? He thought she was getting better. Maybe school was getting her down. Or maybe she really wasn't better. He could just-
The door of the classroom opened, and the class once again became dead silent. Riku, with his ice blue eyes, had arrived. He walked over to Kairi's deak in a desprate way.
"Kairi! I'm so sorry! I didn't know what I was doing! You have to beleive me!" He grabbed her hand and begged for her forgiveness.
"Let go of her! You have no right-!" Yuffie tried to pry him away.
"I do so have the right! Let go of me!"
"Get your hands off of Kairi!" Suddenly Riku was forced back. A red mark appeared on his face. Sora stood there with his arm outstreched.
"You again...what are you? The hero?" Riku taunted. Sora just glared at him.
"Who do you think you are? You hurt Kairi in an unreverisble way and then you beg for her forgivness. Can you even imagine the pain you put her through? Do you even know how she feels now? She will never fully recover. And it's all your fault!" The two charged at each other and began fight in front of Kairi's desk. It was pretty even sided, and everyone else, including Tidua, were too shocked to break them up.
"STOP IT!" The two boys froze and looked at the source of the comand. Kairi stood up behind her desk, her head now facing down, with tears coming down her face."Don't fight anymore...Just..." She ran out of the room, and Sora pushed Riku to the ground to follow her.
~Don't try to live so wise.
Don't cry cause you're so right.
Don't dry with fakes or fears,
Cause you will hate yourself in the end.~
Kairi sat against the wall of the school, her head buried in her knees in an attpemt to mute her sobs. Sora walked up slowly to her.
"Kairi, I-" He just didn't know what to say. The feelings in side him could not be put into words. So he just stood there, wanting to make the pain stop for her. Wanting to be able to make the pain go away, to dry the tears, to make her the way she was, to...love her? He shook his head. Kairi needed a friend, not a lover. A boyfriend was the last thing she wanted at this point in time. So, he sunk down next to her and put his arms around her to protect her from the world. "It'll be alright, Kairi. Things'll work out somehow, I know it. Everything will okay, one day...and remeber, you're not alone. I'm here with you..." Soon, the sobs ceased and the tears began to run out. They had missed most of the school day, but what did school ever do for them anyway?
Sora looked at her crimson hair, thinking of somethig to say.
"Kairi..why do you have gurdians?" He could feel her pulling away from him, but he held onto her. "Tell me." She sighed in defeat.
"But then you'll leave me. And then I will be alone." He looked down at her blank eyes which stared up at him. She looked like a little kid, almost.
"No, Kairi. I'll never leave you. You can tell me anything." She sighed again, and slipped out of his arms. She silently walked toward the road in front of the school. Sora followed. They walked until they were in a dark forest together. What on earth were they doing here? But before he could ask her anything, she turned around to face him.
"The reason is this. Watch." She walked to a rather old tree and touched it with her one hand as she sat down on one of the huge above ground roots. Slowly the tree began to light up. Glowing orbs of light hung out of the braches, casting a blueish glow in the drak forest. "See that? It's the soul of the tree. It's my power."
"Power?" She nodded. Sora sat down on another root to listen.
"Yes. I am able to call souls out of living things. Of course, I can put them back- and I never hurt anyone or anything. But...The village people weren't very kind to me when my powers first appeared."
"When did they first become obvious?"
"I don't know...I think I was like two or three. I remember no one would ever play with me or help me. They were all afraid." All this time, she never turned her eyes to look away from the tree.
"So you have gurdians?"
"My power could be very useful if it fell into the wrong hands. My guardians protect me and make sure no one gets their hands on me."
'Now it makes sense. The blank eyes, the inability to trust...and Riku knew all this. Why would he break Kairi's trust and hurt her?' All these thoughts ran through his mind at a dizzing speed. Yet, never a word he said to her after she finished her last line. They sat near the tree, and didn't speak. The soft sounds of the soul of the tree serenaded them as the gazed on the beautful sight.
~Don't try to live so wise.
Don't cry cause you're so right.
Don't dry with fakes or fears,
Cause you will hate yourself in the end.~
END Chapter 6-----------
6H: That was a good chapter. Nothing too sad happened, right Sora?
Sora: *crying his eyes out* (wouldn't that be a weird sight?)
Anaretsu:-_-U
6H: Uh...I think Sora needs emotinal therapy. See you in the next chapter!