Title: You've Always Been There
Author: DivineRoseKeeper
Rated: T
Genre: Romance Drama with a lil pinch of Angst
Summery: Kairi Hikari had always had a simple school- girl crush on Sora Isamu ever since she met him. But what happens when there is a fatal accident during a basketball game and it includes him?
New Summery: She loved him and he loved her. And the happily ever after thing? He saves her life, but paid the price of his own. Now he haunts her everywhere she goes, will she go mad or will she except that she loves him?SoraKairi AU
Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts is not in my possession, if it was do you think I would be writing this? Neither are Final Fantasy Series and Card Captor Sakura. Or the mentioning of Inuyasha, Sailor Moon and other Anime/Mangas!
Author's Corner: Well here you go, chapter eighteen. Damn, cannot believe eighteen chapters…
To My Wonderful Reviewers:
Simplenclean92: Well Sora had to know where she was didn't he? Lolz
Inu-Kagome Fan: OMFG! Ur back, Tabbie is happy! Yes, ur prize is that I updated. Lolz
Zarya: Well I respect Riku, I don't totally necessarily like him I just respect him, and so I didn't want to take his charming personality away. He really is sweet and I would never put him as an $$ like u said.
RuinsofTikal: Well the end of this fic is almost near so, u get to see wut happens…
LiLi-sama: Sorry LiLi Naminé will be wit Riku…. But I got something in mind for u at the dance, which does involve Riku!
Chapter Eighteen: Going on a Dress Hunt
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((.:Sora's POV:.))
The sun was about to rise. Kairi-chan was still asleep. She had came home kind of late last night. I of course was lonely, so I kept myself occupied by going into the living room and watching whatever Kairi-chan's father watched. I sighed. Riku-kun had walked Kairi-chan home last night. I would've done the same; I wouldn't want her walking all by herself at night, where she could get kidnapped.
Riku-kun was lucky; he got to eat some of Kairi-chan's Italian, which was amazing! I had had it once. I was about seven months ago.
.:Flashback:.
I saw Kairi-chan at her locker. She didn't look too happy. I walked up to her, "Kairi-chan." I said.
"Nani?"
"What's wrong?" I asked.
She sighed, "Okaa-san is out to help a friend of hers, Otou-san is on a business trip to Hong Kong and Yuf-chan is with Tifa-san."
"Oh," I said nodding my head in understandment. "Do you want me to go home with you?"
Kairi-chan looked at me her cheeks were glowing, "Uh, um, you don't have to."
"It's fine I don't want you to be lonely." I said giving her my trademark grin.
Um, okay," she said quietly.
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When we got to Kairi-chan's house she quickly rushed everywhere straitening up anything she thought that looked dirty. All I could do was stand and blink. "Uh… Kairi-chan?" I called.
She stopped and looked at me, "Nani?"
"You can stop now." I said running a hand through my spiky locks.
"Heh," she stopped what she was doing and walked up to me.
"You wanna watch TV, Usa-chan." I suggested.
"Hai," she said, "My room or the living room?" she asked.
"Uh, how about yours," I said blushing.
"Okay." We walked up the stairs up to her room. And we plopped down together down in front of her TV.
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"Want me to make some dinner?" Kairi-chan asked me.
I nodded, "I'll help." I said getting up with her.
"You don't need to, plus I'm going to make my specialty." She said with a sweet smile on her face.
"What's that?"
"Italian,"
I smiled, "Mmm, sounds good."
She giggled and walked out.
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Kairi-chan called me down. I walked down the stairs my hands behind my head. I sniffed a bit, the house smelled really well. That was a good sign. "Smells good." I said.
"Arigatou," she was wearing a pink apron around her waist, she looked cute. Kairi-chan put two plates on the table. It was Spaghetti and meatballs with garlic bread. Looked good to me. I sat down on one side as she sat on the other. I took a bite.
Kairi-chan looked at me, "Do you like it?" she asked.
I nodded my head shoving some more spaghetti into my mouth.
Kairi-chan giggled at me as I gave her a spaghetti filled smile…
.:End of Flashback:.
I looked at Kairi-chan, she looked so innocent. I smiled when I saw a bit of drool coming from one of the corners of her mouth.
Though I did feel kind of jealous when I had found out the Kairi-chan was eating dinner with Riku-kun. Did she still like him? I knew for a fact that Riku-kun cared for her dearly. I sighed. Would I ever know if Kairi-chan cared for me?
I noticed that she was starting to stir so I went to my spot by the window. Kairi-chan slowly sat up and rubbed her dusk colored eyes, "Ohayo," she called.
"Ohayo," I replied quietly not evening looking at her.
I watched her out of the corner of my eye. She got out of bed and went to her nightstand and took out a red book, which was my journal… I was curious to why she had it. And did she read it?
I freaked out a bit but I decided not to say anything, I was just curios of what she was going to do with my journal. All she did thank Kami was just look at the cover and put it away. Kairi-chan stretched, and made her bed real quick.
"What's wrong with you?" she asked walking up to me.
I shook my head, "Um, nothing." I lied, I was still upset, and maybe she does like Riku-kun. 'Though it really shouldn't matter… Im dead.'
Kairi-chan's expression softened a bit, "Oh,"
I sighed, and turned to her, "We didn't really talk much last night, what happened?"
Kairi-chan smiled slightly, "Well Riku-kun's mother wasn't home so I offered him for me to make dinner, that's all." She said.
I nodded.
Kairi-chan yawned, and moved to her vanity set and brushed her auburn hair. She was humming happily. She also had a dreamy smile planted onto her ivory soft face.
I raised an eyebrow at her, "What are you so happy about?"
Kairi-chan looked back at me and gave a tender smile, which would've made me blush if I were still alive, "Sakura-chan, Naminé-chan and I are going dress shopping today, that's all."
I looked at her, "So, whom are you going with?"
"Riku-kun, but he's going with both Nam-chan and I so, he'll be with her mostly because I'll be singing…"
"Oh,"
Kairi-chan looked at me and blushed, "Could you, uh, turn around, cuz I need to…"
I nodded and turned around.
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"Okay!" I turned around to see Kairi-chan in a purple tee in a light green mini-skirt. She had a black headband on her head to hold her bangs from her face. "Nani?" she asked me tilting her head to the left.
I shook my head, "Nothing,"
"Hmm," I heard her hum. "Hey," she said I looked up at her, "Do you wanna help me pick my dress out?" she asked.
I was surprised by this, we had agreed for me to stay in her room at all times to save her from embarrassment by seeming like she was talking to herself. "You sure?"
"Mmm hmm."
"Okay,"
"Yay, Arigatou, Oreo-kun!" she squealed.
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At The Isamu Household
((.:Kairi's POV:.))
Sakura-chan's father, Isamu Cloud-san was going to take us to the mall. Sakura-chan, Naminé-chan and I were al just sitting on Saku-chan's fluffy pink bed. Sora-kun was over in a corner just keeping an eye on us.
"So…" started Sakura-chan, "What kinda dresses are in your guy's mind?"
"I dunno," I replied.
"Anything that'll impress Riku-kun!" said a determined Naminé-chan.
Sora-kun gave me a confused look, I just shook my head. "Ugh!" I moaned, "You're STILL on that Riku-kun kick!"
Sakura-chan blinked, "You mean she's BEEN like that!"
I nodded as Naminé-chan pouted.
We all laughed, then I thought about it for a moment, 'Maybe... Hmm. Riku-kun and Naminé-chan do kinda look good together.' I smiled at my thought.
"So what's wrong if I'm uberly obsessed over a silver headed hottie?" ranted my cousin.
Sakura-chan exchanged the 'What the fuzzums of Billy bob Joe sora-kun's death of king Abraham is her friggin deal' type of look.
I looked over to Sora-kun who was just staring Naminé-chan like she was a freak of nature, I couldn't blame him, my cousin Nam-chan was very well shall I say, bizarre.
"Sakura-chan, Kairi-chan and Naminé-chan, Otou-san says it's time to go!" called out Sakura-chan's older sister, Yuna-chan.
"Hai!" we all said. We left out of Saku-chan's room, Sora-kun following me.
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We were all sitting in the back of the Isamu's family van. Sora-kun was just kind of hanging around not sitting because he really couldn't.
Sakura-chan, Naminé-chan and I really didn't say anything to eachother; we were just kind of listening to Isamu-san arguing about Sephiroth's empire that was against Isamu-san's.
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Isamu-san dropped us off at the mall. Sakura-chan looked at me and my cousin, "So," she started, "Shoes, dresses, or jewelry, first?"
We all looked at eachother, "Dresses!" we all squealed in unison.
I could hear Sora-kun groan about our girlish behavior. Sakura-chan froze, "Nani?" I asked.
She shook her head, "I could've sworn I heard Sora-kun groan."
Naminé-chan looked at her, as did I but mine was more nervous looking, "Uh, Sakura-chan, how could that be possible? Sora-kun is not exactly with us…"
Sakura-chan's expression saddened, "Yea, I know…"
There was a moment of silence, Sora-kun was just looking at us, with guilt, and I couldn't imagine how hard it must be for him.
"Okay!" said Naminé-chan breaking the silence. "So should we head pick our fairy tale worthy dresses now, or what?"
"Un," I said nodding as we headed for a dress store.
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Sakura-chan, Naminé-chan and I got to the store which thought had the nicest looking dresses. Sakura-chan went to the section where most of the pink dresses were kept as Naminé-chan went to the section where most of the blue dresses were kept. As for Sora-kun and I we went to the section where most of the purple dresses were kept.
The three of us, Sakura-chan, Naminé-chan and I all liked the color white, but we preferred, pink, blue or purple.
I looked around the purple section; so far there wasn't anything that just stood out to my liking. There was this once dark purple sequined dress that had purple feathers on the bottom, "Uck," I said sticking my tongue out.
Sora-kun walked up to me, "See anything you like yet?" he asked tenderly, I shook my head. "Didn't think so," he walked away to look some more.
Naminé-chan quickly walked up to me, "Kairi!" she said in English.
"What?" I asked her, I didn't even give her glance since I was still browsing through a rack of purple dresses.
"Look at this Kai." She said holding up something blue and sparkling.
I looked at what she had to show me, I almost gasped it was beautiful! "Oh my gosh, Naminé." I said. It was a sleeveless light blue dress, which almost completely matched with her angelic eyes. It was a v-neck that would probably show a little bit of her cleavage. It also had a clear thin layer of sparkly material over it to give it a fairy dust-Cinderella affect to it.
"Isn't it pretty, Kairi?" she asked.
"Why, why yes it is Naminé. In fact it's more than pretty, it's beautiful." I gave her a sweet smile.
My cousin looked at me, "Have you picked a dress yet?"
I shook my head, "Nope."
"Oh." She said, looking over to the section of where Sakura would be, "Well I'm going to check on Sakura, we're not going to try on the dresses until all of us decided on the ones we like, okay?"
"Okay." I said with a nod.
I looked back to the rack I had been looking at earlier, still nothing, turned around to see Sora-kun, I blinked. He had this huge goofy grin on his face, "I think I found something."
I nodded as I followed him; he took me to this section where this elegant dress hung. "Suteki…" I whispered.
Sora-kun smiled at me, "Un, isn't it?"
I could only nod, I was afraid if I opened my mouth that drool might fall out like Niagara Falls. I looked at the dress it was a strapless dress. The top half was a kind of silver-purple color, while the bottom part was lavender and it flowed out like a princesses'. I gasped. It was just breath taking.
Sora-kun walked up close to me, where if he was alive he could almost touch me, "It reminded me of your eyes," he whispered.
I just looked at him; he had this tender look on him. It was really adorable. I blushed, I was as red as cherry!
I looked to see if the dress was my size, and lucky me it was. I quickly rushed to where Sakura-chan and Nam-chan would be. Thankfully Sakura-chan had picked out her dress too. The three of us practically ran into the dressing room.
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All three of us walked out of our dressing rooms at the same time. When we each saw eachother, we gasped we all looked stunning. Sakura-chan's was a very light pink. It was a spaghetti-strap that held to her curves perfectly. The dress flowed out and it also had kawaii ruffles.
Nam-chan had the one dress she had showed me earlier on, it looked amazing on her! It held to her pretty tightly, and it was a little revealing but nonetheless perfect. It didn't really flow out really but it was still princess worthy.
And me? Well Naminé-chan and Saku-chan just stared at me. "Kairi-chan look in the mirror!" Ordered Saku-chan.
I turned around to the mirror, and I gasped. The dress looked stunning on me. It held tight but not too tight at the top half, and it showed a bit of my cleavage. And the bottom just flowed gracefully out. This was definition of a fairy princess moment.
I turned to my friends and Sora-kun, he was smiling at me, with a look I never seen him ever do, it was tender, sweet, lovingly… I blushed. "What do you guys think?" I asked.
"Kairi-chan, if I didn't know you, I'd think you were a princess." Sakura-chan told me.
"Mmm hmm," said Naminé-chan agreeing.
Sora-kun didn't take his electric blue orbs off me, "You look lovely, Kai-chan."
I blushed; it was very rare that he'd call me that.
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Author's Corner: I liked this chap. I'm happy with it, a lil SK fluff in it… And only about four more chapters… Next chapter is the dance and LiLi-sama make her appearance. Go LiLi! And if u'd like to see the girls dresses her: (u'll have to take out the spaces) h t t p / I m g . p h o t o b u c k e t . c o m / a l b u m s / v 2 4 1 / D I v I n e R o s e K e e p e r / t r I o d r e s s .j p g
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Tabbie