6H: Oooo!!! Chapter 11!!!!

Anaretsu: Great... more torture.

6H: That's not nice!

Anaretsu: Maybe, maybe not.

6H: feh. I don't have any clever opening remarks, so here's the fic!

Wind~By The Six of Hearts

Chapter 11~His Powers

Kairi walked into school the next day and say all her friends, even Riku, standing around the usual tree in the front courtyard of the small school. But Sora wasn't there.

She walked into the classroom after stopping at her locker. Tidus was throwing things across the room at other kids, Yuffie and Selphie were talking about how a mysterious someone-aka Leon- was leaving love notes in Yuffie's locker. But Sora wasn't there.

It started to rain, so everyone had to eat in the cafeteria. Wakka was discussing a new stratagy they could use against an enemy attack that was never going to happen anyway. Cloud was silent as he rubbed his temples, signaling he had a migrain. Riku, who had been reinitiated and given most sincere apologies, hypothized what the school lunch was made out of, and argued with Tidus that it couldn't be nuclear subtantces- it was either rubber or rat poison. But Sora wasn't there.

After school was let out, she waited outside for him to come,thinking he had just been at the nurse in first period and at lunch had eaten at another table. But he never came. She knew- she saw every person who walked out of the building. So she walked home alone. As she walked along the road, a few people she knew said hi. But then there was the rest of the town- the ones who despised the very air she breathed. They scowled or glared at her. A woman beckoned her child to come in as Kairi walked by.

~My knee's still shaking, like I was twelve.

Sneaking out the classroom, by the back door.

A main railed at me twice though, but I didn't care.

Waiting is wasted on people like me.~

As Kairi passed by Sora's house, she heard a piano playing a soft and sad tune. Walking to the door, she debeated whether it was a good idea to see him now. She went to knock on the door, but it swung open a crack. She carefully slipped in and walked down the hall, following the music as she went. Every step made her more nervous, espically the final one that got her into a big room with a piano in the center. Sora sat there, his fingers gracefully moving over the keys- the slighest touch producing a beautiful sound. He looked over to her with his blue eyes and stopped playing.

"Kairi." he said, flatly.

"Sora, I heard the music and the door was open-"

"I know why you're here. Don't try and fool me. I know." his cold unfeeling eyes looked back at her.

"Why are you acting this way?"

"I took care of you...listened to everything you had to say. And then you go back to Riku and believe everything he tells you. I kind of felt like you threw me aside."

"Threw you aside? Sora, that's nuts! Can't I be friends with you and Riku?!"

"Is that all you two are? Friends?!"

"Can't I have friends other than you?!!You're so selfish, Sora!" she yelled.

"And you're miss innocent all of the sudden? You're selfish at times, too!"he yelled back at her. "Didn't you think about what I told you?! I was in pain! I was alone! I thought you'd understand!!!" Kairi felt streams of tears make her way down her face.

"Why are you being so impossible!!?" she yelled back.

"Why are you acting all bubbly and happy?! Are you hinding your true self?!"

"What do you mean? You like it when I'm miserable?" Sora winced back.

"No...that's not what I meant. It just seems like you changed and...it was like you left me behind. I just felt like I could trust you, more than anyone else. And when we first met, I could tell you were hinding things and that you didn't want to trust. I wanted to help teach you to trust again, espically after what happened. It's hard to be strong...so along the way I broke down. But you were there to catch me when I fell." Kairi looked straight at his blue eyes, and saw the emotions spilling from them. He seemed so sad and mournful. Kairi couldn't figure out why. "Kairi...

"Kairi, that night at the party, I saw you feeling sick so I went to see if you were okay. But then you went off with Riku. I thought I handed you right over to him, because I could've been able to tell what he was inteding."

"What do you mean?" Sora sighed and looked away from her.

"I have powers too. Mine are different, though. I can read people's heart-know if they're good or bad...I should've done that so I could've seen what would happen..."

"But Riku didn't do it."

"But at least I could've known! I could've been able to prove that he was innocent! I could've stopped this whole thing from ever happening..." He fell to his knees on the floor from greif. "When they first appeared, my dad left my mom and me without a second thought. He hated me because I wasn't normal. That's how I lost my only friend-because he hated people with these special abilities! I became tainted and he left to live with my grandfather-who also hates me now! Why do I have to bear this terrible burden? Why?!" He broke down in sobbing. Kairi watched him, and began to feel an immense sadness for Sora. She quietly and wordlessly waled over to her sorrowful friend and gently placed her amrs around him in an embrace. He leaned on her shoulder as he let the tears falls.

"It's okay...shhhh, it'll be fine. I'm not leaving you, ever. Everything will okay, one day...and remember, you're not alone. I'm here with you..." she comforted, like a mother.

~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 11---------------

6H: Aww....they made up and they did it in such a cute way. Poor Sora, eh?

Anaretsu: How grevious!

6H: Indeed! Wait! Are you COMPLEMENTING ME??

Anaretsu: Nope. Just commenting. And by they way, that chapter SUCKED.

6H: WAHH!!!!!!

Riku: See what you did!

Anaretsu: You're the one who goes around wearing dresses!!!

Riku: It's NOT a dress!!!

Wakka: *looking at picture* Well, it is debatable, man.

Riku: Not you too!!!

6H: See you in Chapter 12!!!