DISCLAIMER: Unfortunately I don't own Kingdom Hearts—I totally wish I did though. Sooo…because I hate having to write the disclaimer on every chapter I put up—this DISCLAIMER will be for the ENTIRE story. I DO NOT OWN KH OR ANYTHING ELSE I PUT IN THIS STORY (unless it's an OC or something).

"Yuffie, get up!"

I grunted.

"Yuff, GET UP." She yanked my blanket away from me.

"..I don't want to. Go away Aerith!"

"Can you NOT hear your alarm clock? Cloud and I can both hear it from our room!" did I forget to mention I've got selective hearing?

"What alarm clock?" I asked covering my head with my bright green pillow.

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

Oh…that alarm clock. I reached out my right hand and searched for the 'SNOOZE' button. "Aerith, can you be a COOL PERSON and press the snooze button for me?"

"No. Just get up Yuffie. You've got finals today." She turned off the clock's irritating alarm and then left the room.

I live in a combining hotel room (a suite) with Cloud and Aerith. Sora, Kairi, Selphie, Tidus and the others also live in the hotel; I don't remember which room numbers though. Squallie doesn't like being around people all that much so he stays in the room above the Gizmo Shop.

Oh yeah, so you know, Sora's my best friend. We have been since like—forever. Ok, not forever, for about two years. Not that long, but whatever. Oh yeah—it'd probably be better if I just started off at the beginning, RIGHT? Or at least…whatever. Blah, pretend you hear the rewinding noises, lol, since this isn't a MOVIE.

-REWIND-

"Yuffie?"

.snore.

"Yuffie Kisaragi!"

.snoring continues.

"Kisaragi!"

"WHAT?" I sat up straight and looked around me. The kids were laughing, I think at me.

The guy next to me, Eric, snorted, "Yuffie you're an idiot."

I squinted my eyes and glared at him, "Go eat a FORK Eric." I grinned and then looked up at Mr. Allen who was now standing by my desk. "Hey Mr. Allen, what is UP?"

"Apparently a referral, if you don't stop sleeping in my class."

That wiped off the grin on my face. "Oh." It's not like I sleep in this class everyday. Probably just three out of 5 days a week—but that's not a lot. And it's TOTALLY not my fault that his class lectures are SOO boring. This is my third period.

"Here." He said as he handed me a purple and white piece of paper.

I examined it. It was some work experience thingie for the summer and I was eligible for it and that I was supposed to be in the Recourse Center after school tomorrow. WOAH, I'm actually ELIGIBLE for something? AWESOME. I folded the paper into a tiny square and put it in my back pocket. My tiny book bag was already full…of candy. The bell for third period to end rang and I set off for fourth period, PE. I LOVE that class, I think I'm the only girl that does. All the other girls are extremely girly and wusses. You should see them when we play softball. I hit the ball into left field and all the girls SCREAMED and moved away from it. Like—COME ON, it's a SOFT ball. Losers.

Finally the girls' locker room came into view, I was walking and humming/singing to myself. People walking by must have thought I was weird, but I had a song stuck in my head. That one song, um…"Stacy's mom" by the Fountains of Waldo, or something. No—I think it was Waynes. Waldo's a cool name though. BOB's the coolest name! Oh Rachel's got some REALLY cool shoes—woah. Sorry bout that, my friends think I have ADD. I'm starting to believe them. And then I saw this SUPER HOTT GUY. I like—literally froze. This guy was hot! He just walked by me and gave me a glance, no smile, no ogling, nada. Which was weird—but back to my point, he was HOT.

He had like—the PRETTIEST eyes EVER and silver hair. I could stare at him all day and NOT get bored at all.

I watched him walk down the hall, towards the boys' locker room. YESS! He has PE the same period—why haven't I noticed him though? Whatever. I walked in through the double doors leading to my locker room and got to my locker. I put my bag in, pulled off my t-shirt, shoes, and jeans and then put on my white PE shirt and tiny navy blue shorts. Oh yeah, school colors, navy blue, baby blue, and white. I think that's pretty nice colors compared to our school rival's color; Purple and yellow—like YUK.

In the gym, I met up with Selphie and her friend Kairi. Kairi and I used to be friends, but we're not anymore—because some old drama. She started it—I swear! Anyway. I started stretching first.

"What are you doing Yuffie?" Kairi asked giving me a weird look.

"Um…it's called, STRET-CHING. You do this so you can—"

"I know what stretching is. Class hasn't even started yet, why are you doing that?"

"We're running the mile, I just want to get warmed up. So I don't pull a muscle or something. You guys should try it too…incase you decide to RUN. It'll help." I gave her a sweet smile and continued stretching.

"HEY Yuff!" I stood up straight pulled my right arm across my chest.

I spotted who was calling me, Tidus. I started waving, "HEY!"

He jogged up to me, "So..you gonna play blitzball with us this weekend?"

"If those sexist people allow me to, YES!"

"Awesome. And don't worry, it's not a tournament thing so there won't be that ONLY GUYS PLAY rule; it's just for fun. Me and the guys just felt like playing it and I mentioned about you wanting to play."

I arched an eyebrow, "And…they said yes?"

"Yeah." He grinned and the put his hands behind his head.

"Why aren't you stretching out?" I asked as I did toe touches.

"I already did." He glanced over at the teachers exiting the locker rooms, "You ready to run?"

"Heck yes I am. And I know I am going to beat your time." I grinned and then walked over to the starting line, where everyone else was.

"Whatever Yuffie, you know you'll never beat me." Oh that loser is gonna eat my dust.

"READY… GO!" Mr. McNamara yelled. And the crowd of kids took off running—well some of them did. Inhale. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale. I was getting TIRED…totally out of breath. Where the heck was Tidus? A few yards from the finish line I spotted Tidus ahead of me and I started speeding up. Passing by him I yelled, "I told you I'd beat you!" Passing the finish line my teacher yelled, "6:29!"

"YESS!" I turned to see Tidus; his time was 6:57. "HA! In your FACE Tidus! I SO BEAT YOU!" after doing my strange 'victory dance' I rubbed it in Tidus's face a while longer before heading off to the locker room. I was sweaty and totally in need of a shower.

In the locker room, "Hey Yuffie, what was your time?" Selphie sat down on the bench beside me. We had lockers right beside each other.

"6:29, you?" I pulled my faded green switchfoot t-shirt over my head and then got up to look at myself in the mirror, my hair was chaotic—strands of hair flying in all directions. Awesome. I never liked the totally CLEAN CUT look. I walked back over to my locker and pulled out my Chucks Taylors.

"OH MY GOSH, you run faster than the boys." Selphie exclaimed.

"Heh..I'll take that as a compliment." I tied my left shoe.

"I got 12:03. So did Kairi." Selphie sprayed on some of her perfume and then closed her locker.

I applied on my mascara and we were out of the locker rooms. It was lunchtime and I saw the guy again. Selphie didn't ogle at him as much as I did. When he walked by he totally turned heads though..mine was one of them (obviously).

Thursday

JOURNAL DIARY THINGIE! OMG, today I saw this kid at school and was like "Ey Selph, who's that guy?" and she said "OH, I met him yesterday. He's the new kid, Riku." And I was like, thinking to myself, 'this guys SUPER CUTE.' He really is, he's got silver hair and I think..greenish blue eyes? I'm not sure—I didn't see him too up close. Can you like—somehow develop near sighted-ness? Or do you have to be er—BORN with it? Whatever. I think if I see him again I'll introduce myself to him.

The after school bell rang.

"Hey Yuffie," Yuna slung her backpack over her shoulders, "wanna go to the mall with us?"

"Now?" I asked as I shoved my notebook into my bag and pulled the strap over my head. I got up but then found out I was stuck to my desk. "OOPS." I said as began trying to pull one of my buttons out from under the desk.

"Yeah today. And why do you have so many patches and buttons on your bag?" Yuna said and asked as she started walking towards the door.

My bag finally uh..unstuck and I followed her out of the classroom. "My bag has so many patches and buttons cause I want it to. And I can't go to the mall today, no time to spend walking around the mall like an idiot." She looked at me offended; I laughed, "I'm kidding. But I have to go to the recourse center."

"Why? It's Friday—you should be going out and doing something FUN."

"I know, but I got this piece of paper, and blah. Whatever. I'll call you guys after I'm done with—whatever they want me to do." I grinned and then said bye to her as I started for the recourse center.

"Hi." I was greeted as I walked into the room. I saw a lady about my height with short red hair and a pair of black nerdy glasses (which look totally cool).

I smiled, "Hi uh…" I glanced at her tag, "Ms. Brat…linger?"

She chuckled, "No, it's Brett-linger."

"Oh." I am going blind. "Good afternoon." The other kids in there just gawked at me.

Ms. Brettlinger just smiled, "Have a seat."

"Ok." I grinned and picked the nearest open seat. I knew none of the kids there, so I thought I'd make some new friends. I'm a good friend-maker. There was a kid who sat across from me and to me right, so I just chose the first target. Ok—that sounds like I was going to shoot the kid..whatever. He looked interesting. He had light brown (super) messy hair and…I couldn't see his eyes. But he looked like someone I'd hang out with. He had on a pair of skater shoes, a band t-shirt, jeans, and a bunch of cuff bracelets.

"Hi, I'm Yuffie. What's your name?" I smiled at the guy for about five seconds before he realized I was talking to him.

He glanced at me and said in a quiet voice, "I'm Sora." Then he looked back down at the paper in front of him. So he has blue eyes.

I blinked twice then looked over at the kid in front of me. Did anyone just notice that weird moment? "So. Are you a freshman?"

This time without even looking at me, "Yeah."

"That's cool…So am I. How cool is that?"

He just nodded.

"You know you're super quiet. You need to talk more." He looked over at me again and I grinned.

"So…you wanna be my bestfriend or something? There's gotta be a way to make you talk more." I continued.

"No, that's ok."

"Ok. It's final, we're bestfriends." I said satisfied and then turned my attention back to Ms. Brettlinger.

Turns out we had to take some tests first and we had to be back here after school Monday. Joy. Leaving the recourse center I caught up with the kid, Sora, and walked with him down the hall.

"So bestfriend, where are you going?" I asked casually—cause, it was casual. I think he thought I was some sort of stalker though…or just some weirdo who liked to bug people. Either way this kid had to do a lot more to get rid of me.

"Um..home?" He replied.

"You give short answers. You REALLY have to talk more. Being quiet really is NO fun at all. So you have a xanga or something bestfriend?"

Again he glanced at me then looked straight ahead of us, "Yeah."

"Awesome. So do I—we can write to each other online and junk. What's your xanga name?"

"Er—it's 'RockinLoser'."

"Ooo. Rockin'." I laughed; I guess I was the only one that thought that was kinda funny. I wrote it down on my hand, "And mine's 'starbucksaddict'. With TWO underscores." I told him, he didn't write it down though. "Need my pen bestfriend?" I offered him my pen. He just stared at the pen, again I laughed. "I won't shoot you if you don't write it down. I'll just leave you a comment and you'll know my sn."

"Ok…" Sora said in an unsure voice.

Glancing at the time I decided I had to go, "See you Monday buddy, I've gotta get home." I shook his hand and then left. I laughed at myself as I reached the hotel's doors. I probably scared the kid so badly. He was actually kinda cute. Maybe even cuter than that new guy I saw—woah, speaking of the new guy, I didn't see him today. Darn. I really wanted to—Ooo donuts.

"Thanks Cloud." I snatched a glazed donut out of Cloud's open box of Krispy Kremes and trotted up the stairs before he could attempt to steal it back.

Friday

I made a new friend today—er, I mean BEST FRIEND. He's super duper quiet though. I'll change that…I think that was the point of announcing our best friend-ship thingie. Eh whatever. He'll talk. He looks pretty cool. Either a skater or a musician (most likely a guitarist, which is super cool), or maybe both! Oh..and I didn't get to go to the mall, which I'm not too upset about. Yuna and Selphie say it wasn't all that fun anyway, so I didn't miss anything.

Oh, and today, no sighting of super hot new boy. I wonder where he was all day. Hiding from the awesome Yuffie? Nah..he doesn't even know me—yet.

And tomorrow, Tidus and his friends are playing blitzball and said I can play with them, I'm SO going to kick butt!

A/N: MUAHAHAH. Let the reign of THE DARK SIDE take over (at least most of) the Kingdom Hearts section of F F . n e t