Disclaimer: NO FELLOW FAN FIC BUDDIES, I DO NOT own any of the Kingdom Hearts stuff nor the song lyrics I used in the story. I clearly stated the name of the songs (if I used bits of it) and the band that sang them. OK?

Two months have gone by, it's May now; all the while Sora had been frequently meeting with his psychologist (his mom forced him into therapy after the 'incident'). She thought he had been on drugs, or something else. She was constantly checking up on him, asking how he was doing, to see what he WAS doing, to make sure he wasn't attempting to kill himself again, or just to talk cause there was no one else in the house. Cloud and his wife had found an apartment near town and only visited once a couple of weeks. To make sure Sora wasn't too lonely, cause he began to shut himself out again, he bought him a dog; leaving the decision of what it would be called up to Sora. "Kip". 'Why kip?' Cloud had asked. 'Cause that's the name of Napoleon's brother.' 'Who's Napoleon?' 'NAPOLEON DYNAMITE! Geesh Cloud, you're a friggin idiot.' 'Whatever, it's your dog.' So it was, Sora had named the dog Kip. Kip was a black and white Border collie pup. (Kip was totally adorable, which would only help Sora attract MORE girls than he would usually without him. Lol)

"You excited?" Yuna asked as she lifted Sora's backpack to him.

"About what?" Sora slipped on his backpack and tugged on the strings at his side to tighten the loops around his arms. He looked back up at her. Yuna was his neighbor and cousin (A/N: ok, I didn't know what other kind of excuse to use to explain why she'd be in his house in the morning).

"Starting school again. You haven't been there since…um." She trailed off now changing her mind about bringing that up. She looked at the wall beside her then back to Sora. "Nevermi---"

"Not really." Sora interrupted her.

She just smiled nervously and then crossed her arms across her chest as she leaned back against the wall behind her. "Sorry."

Sora knelt down a bit slipping on his navy blue vans, "No, I don't care. Everyone at schools gonna hassle me about it all day anyway." He gave her he cheesy grin and then walked out the room calling back, "You ate breakfast yet? Cause I'm leaving in a few minutes."

Yuna pushed off the wall and followed him into the hallway yelling, "Yes, I did. I think we should just leave now, it's already near 7:50!"

Sora pulled his car into the parking lot of the school and scanned the place for an open spot. "There we go…" he said to himself as he spotted two empty spots by each other. Putting his car in 'park' now he pulled out the keys and then turned to Yuna, "So…?"

She shrugged and began to open the door just as a black Celica pulled up right beside them speedily nearly running into Yuna's barley open door. "Oh My Gosh!" she shrieked as she jerked the door back in and jumped a bit. "Freakin ass holes!" she cursed (which rarely ever happened). Sora wanted to laugh at the sudden and super rare outburst of his cousin but still was angered at the idiots in the other car. They almost hit his car door, not to mention his COUSIN. Sora opened his door to his left quickly and walked around the front of the car to confront the bonehead who nearly killed Yuna.

He approached the car with a serious look on his face, keys in hand. Girls excited the car giggling and the one that caught his eye was Kairi. SHE was the idiot driver. He unclenched the fists that had formed in his hands (he was prepared to knock the daylights outta the sucker, he thought it was a guy. Wrong). Kairi giggling as well as the other girls shut her door and unwrinkled her skirt; tousling up her hair a bit she looked up and spotted a guy standing in front of her car.

"Oh my god----did I almost hit you?" she said before even really registering in her mind it was Sora. After the couple of seconds of silence (Sora didn't answer her) she remembered, "Oh." She shifted her book bag on her shoulder, "Sorry." She dropped her keys in her bag and walked off with her group of friends trailing her and whispering. A few looks of confusion were shot back at him from a couple of the girls.

"Who was that?"

"Geesh, what's his problem?

"You think he was traumatized?"

"He's kinda cute."

"Shut up."

"Oh c'mon. I saw you checking him out, too."

"Whatever."

"Do you know him Kai?"

"OMG, he's still watching us. SHHH!"

The group fell silent and just continued there way through the parking lot and headed for the quad. Kairi kept silent the entire time though as the girls chattered away. She had zoned out: 'he's really back. I haven't seen him in…months. My gosh, he's grown thin---well, just a little bit. Not horrifically thin or anything. He's still as cute as usual though, maybe a bit cuter. What the hell am I saying? Argh, Kairi, you're constantly lying to yourself. You know he's cute----very hott. Hrmm… I wonder where he's been, if he missed school for that long---it must have been…big. Should I ask him? He probably won't even talk to me…does he hate me? The way he was staring at me…so cold and without emotion. He didn't look too happy to see me, god I hate myself. Why is it that-----'

She was pried out of her thoughts by the ring of the school bell. "Time to get to class. I'll see you girls at lunch." Kairi's friend Lana said as she rose from her seat on the bench and headed down the hall. Kairi still seated on the bench gazed around the circle the group had formed, Tidus was there, Selphie too, Ginger, Alyssa, Maggie, Angel, Laura, and Tammy. Kairi smiled up at her friends and then too got up.

"I guess I'll try and get to class actually on time today." She laughed and the girls laughed along with her. Each waving good-bye to her and spread out in different directions to their own classes. Footsteps jogging a bit were heard coming from behind her. 'Is that Sora?' She spun around to see the blonde haired boy catching up to her with a grin on his face,

"Where are you off to in such a rush? You nearly forgot I was still over there." He slinked his left arm around her waist and nodded to a few of his friends that walked by. Looking back down at her, "So?"

Kairi shook her head and shrugged at the same time, "Sorry, I'm just kind of…'out of it' today." She smiled up at Tidus and then looked back ahead of them.

"You ok?" he asked a bit worried.

"Uh huh. Just…doing a lot of thinking today." She stopped and then leaned forward giving Tidus a peck on the lips. He smiled and pulled her in for a full lip lock. Kairi giggled poking Tidus in the sides so that he'd let go.

"Ok, ok." He still held on to her waist, "Go to class, and LEARN something." He kissed her once again on the forehead and then trotted off up the stairs to his own class.

Kairi smiled watching him leave, the smile soon faded as the thought came to mind, "Is this what I really want?" Sitting down in her seat a debate started in her head.

Herself against her 'other' self.

"Why wouldn't want this?"

"I don't know."

"Tidus is a great boyfriend. Why wouldn't you want to stay in this relationship?"

"It just doesn't feel…"

"Like what?"

"Like…I don't know. Fully---right."

"How so?"

"I don't know!"

"You keep saying that. What's the point of fighting this 'rightness' if you have no idea of what you REALLY want; when all you could ask for is already in front of you."

"You mean Sora?"

"No you idiot. I'm talking about Tidus."

"Oh…"

"When did Sora get into this conversation?"

"Hasn't he always been in it?"

"…Has he?"

"Kairi? You care to read the rest of page 109?" Ms. Crawford called from the front of the class. She held an open book in her hands and tilted her glasses down a bit looking at her from above the rims.

"Um…" Kairi peered down at the book laid out in front of her. She was on the right page, but didn't know where to start. "Where did you leave off?"

The teacher gave out a sigh, "Kairi Kairi Kairi…if you would STOP daydreaming in my class all the time you wouldn't be doing so horribly in here. I left off at 'And so Allen had no choice but to leave…'"

Kairi cleared her throat and began to read from the second paragraph of the page down, "And so Allen had no choice but to leave his home---leaving everything behind. There was nothing left for him anymore, no reason to stay, no reason to live. The girl he had loved ever since he met her that day back in middle school was gone. She was dead, and never coming back. They had made a child hood promise to never leave each other. She lied, she had broken that promise. Allen's world was shattered, what could he do to ease the pain he felt inside. The aching of his heart, the numbness he felt…" ----the bell rang. Kairi let out a sigh as if totally relieved from reading that depressing…whatever. She closed the book and put her things back into her bag.

"Ok, I want you all to finish reading from page 110 to 145 by Wednesday and prepare yourselves for the test on Thursday. Friday I won't be here, Mr. Puhganii will be filling in for me that day, and you'll all just be watching a movie. I'll see you all tomorrow." Ms. Crawford called out as everyone began to evacuate the class.

Sora pushed the door open and walked out of his classroom first, being seated right next to the door and all. Slinging his backpack over his shoulders he got pushed into the middle of a human stampede. He made sure all his pockets of his backpack were zipped and then forcefully strayed away into a smaller less full hallway. This being his open period he went outside and seated himself on the immense steps in front of the school. He pulled out his cell phone and dialed Yuffie's number. It rang twice before she answered, "Yeah?"

"Heh..hey Yuff. Where are you?"

Other kids were heard in the background, "I'm still trying to get out of the hallway."

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah, these freakin kids are all shoving and getting in my way."

She shrieked, "OMG, some loser just grabbed my butt!"

Sora chuckled, "That's nice."

"Is NOT."

"I didn't really mean it was ni—"

"I know, I'll be there in a sec."

She closed her cell and placed it in her back pocket.

A few kids bumped into her and continued doing so, it took forever and she was not getting anywhere. She grew impatient.

"OK kiddies, get out of my way if you DON'T want to get pulverized!" She shouted as she began 'shoving back'. Pushing people and squeezing through possible cracks, finally she made it out. Taking a breath and doing a little goofy 'victory dance' she then pushed the doors open out into the fresh air. "FREEDOM!" she shouted.

Sora whipped around to see whom the weirdo was. "Hey loser. About time." He laughed and chucked a cookie at her.

"HEY!" she shouted dodging the cookie; do to quick reflexes she seized the cookie instantaneously after if hit the doors behind her and flung it right back at him. The half eaten chocolate chip cookie hit Sora in the back of the head and he yelped,

"OW! What the freak?" He rubbed his head and spun around again to see Yuffie skipping down the steps acting as if she had not just done a 'crazy ninja cookie-flinging..thing'. "You get weirder EVERYDAY Yuff." Sora shook his head and scooted away from her as she took a seat next to him. He was playing of course.

"So what are we going to do?" She ignored his comment about her spontaneous-ness.

Sora shrugged, "My car or your car?"

"Where to?"

"Early lunch?" Sora suggested not even sure if that was what he wanted to do either. It was only 11:30.

"Whatever." Yuffie got to her feet and started for the parking lot. "My car." She called back over her shoulder without turning around.

Sora finished the last of the cookies in his bag (A/N: chocolate chip cookies are the best) and then followed his ebony-haired friend. Walking a few steps behind Sora got bored moving his gaze from across the parking lot to Yuffie, and then from just Yuffie to her butt.

"You know what Yuff?"

"Hmm?" she continued walking without turning around.

"You've got a nice butt." He broke out laughing.

"Oh Sora, you're just jealous." She rolled her eyes though Sora couldn't see. He jogged up beside her and slapped her butt still laughing a bit. "HEY! Nerd…ever heard of 'personal bubble'?" she gave him a light shove and laughed.

"I was kidding Yuff."

"Oh so I DON'T have a nice butt. Was that an insult I didn't quite catch?"

"What?" Sora was confused, but before he could say another word Yuffie wrapped her right arm over his neck forcing him to bend over into a head-lock(the usual bully tactic. Lol). She began giving him a noogie roughing up his hair more than usual. "OK OK OK…SORRY master Yuffie. All mighty queen of ninjas!" He shouted until she was satisfied and let him loose. "Geesh, now my neck stings."

"HA…that's what you get dweebo." She grinned innocently and continued skipping to the car.

During lunch Kairi met up with her friend as usual in the cafeteria by the vending machines.

"Hey chick!" Laura called out to her as she approached the table.

She put on the usual 'happy' smile, "Hi Laura, what's up?" she sat down setting her tray on the table. Tidus kissed her on the cheek sitting down next to her with his bag of lunch in hand.

"Oh, I'm trying to find a way to get out of this 'date' on Friday. My old friend Ernie asked me out…and I tried to come up with as many excuses as I could, but he kept finding 'solutions' to them. And now…I'm kind of stuck." She explained quickly without taking a breath.

Kairi giggled a bit feeling sorry for her friend, "Ooo..that's a tuffie."

"Yeah, it is." Laura took a drink of her ice tea and then leaned back in her chair biting her lip.

"Hey," Tidus whispered into Kairi's ear.

Kairi giggled, (A/N: that really tickles. XD) she turned to face him on her right, "What?" she said in a soft voice almost as low as his.

He leaned in for a kiss and smiled, "Nothing. Just bothering you."

Kairi squinted her eyes a little and then giggled, "You're such a…" She looked into his eyes for a moment. How nicely he returned the gaze, "---I love you." She smiled and kissed him.

"Enough sucking face you two. I'd like to eat my lunch without barfing up breakfast." Ginger rolled her sapphire eyes and shook her head laughing slightly.

Tidus snorted, "Oh you're just jealous Ginge…chill out." He stuck his tongue at her playfully and Kairi pinched him. "Ow, what was that for?"

"For being mean to Ginge." Kairi chuckled, "Go get me a soda."

"Huh?" Tidus arched his brow.

"You heard her 'man-slave'. Fetch her a soda…NOW." Ginger teased.

Mumbling to himself under his breath Tidus obediently got up and headed over to the vending machine looking at the options of sodas to choose from (of course looking for 'PEPSI', Kairi's favorite).

While Tidus was gone Maggie whispered, "He's so cute Kai, you're super lucky."

"Yeah." Angel nodded in agreement.

"Really? I'm lucky?" Kairi looked around the disk-shaped table.

"Heck yes. Tidus is such a sweet heart." Alyssa said shifting her posture and propping her elbows on the table.

"You guys are oober cute together. If you two ever broke up---that'd like, be the END of the world. You're the perfect couple." Tammy stated.

"OMG, you've gotta find out if he's got a brother or..cousin for me!" Selphie said a little too loud.

Kairi smiled at her friends but before she got to nod or say a 'I know' or 'thanks' she looked up and saw Sora walk in through the main entrance of the cafeteria, a bag of Micky D's in hand. She watched his every move, each step he took from the doorway over to the table across the room. He bent forward handing the paper bag to a girl with spunky/short light brown-hair. He then seated himself beside her and started chatting away with the rest of her friends, some of them Kairi knew. Then she recognized the girl next to Sora, she was the one in the car with Sora earlier that day. Was she his new girlfriend or something? Some sort of REPLACEMENT? Kairi actually felt herself get 'jealous' and then remembered 'hey, I replaced Sora with Tidus. Argh, now I know how he felt.' Kairi grimaced a bit then leaned in a little to her left,

"Hey Laura, who's that?"

Laura looked up, "Who?"

"The girl over there, by Sora."

"Yuffie?"

"No, the one in the white shirt (boy was that a cute top)." Kairi still watched her.

"Oh. Hah ha that's Yuna, she's a newbie. She just transferred here a few weeks ago."

"Oh.." Kairi half mumbled.

"Did you want to go over there? I can introduce you to her---"

"No. um…it's ok." Kairi smiled and then sat up straight again just as Tidus returned with her soda. "What took you so long?"

"That vending machine ran out of Pepsi so I had to run around the school until I found one." He grinned and opened her soda for her.

"Thank you hun." Kairi took the bottle from his hand.

"You're welcome Honey bunches of oats." Tidus smiled and waited for a kiss.

The girls squealed. A couple even 'ooo'd and 'awww'd. Kairi looked around at the girls and then gave Tidus a quick peck on the lips. Soon after being 'christened' her new pet name Kairi's attention was then focused back onto the girl, Yuna, and Sora across the room (looking around at other things once in a while not to make her 'stare' so obvious)

A/N: ok ok..if there were any typos or any other weird stuff-sorry. lol. I got lazy so I didn't' proof read it. so it took just a little bit longer than I had planned to take to update this chapter. I started it but then ended up not liking it very much and had to think about it and rewrite it over. but I am finished, I sat here for like..EVER to type and now my butt is numb. You'd better love me. lol