Chapter Five: Keyblade Wars and First Confessions
Kairi chuckled. The look on Sora's face was hilarious.
She walked to his stallion, who had been let go by accident. She gently got the lunge rein. Ivory, seeing that a kind soul had got him, immediately trotted to her. Kairi smiled. This was a good stallion.
She led Ivory to Sora. She waved her hand in front of his dumbstruck face.
"Earth to Sora."
He shook his head as her came back to reality and blushed. He took the lunge rein from Kairi. "Thanks."
"Anytime."
Black abruptly turned and trotted to Kairi, stopping in front of her, head held proud. He was not breathing very heavily.
Sora mounted his stallion; Kairi did the same. They both trotted to where Mulan and Shang were.
"Solders!" The shoulders immediately straightened at the captain's voice. Kairi and Sora groaned silently- Chi- Fu was here.
"Hello, Kairi", sneered Chi- Fu.
"Same to you", said Kairi, with a trace of ice.
"Sora! Kairi! Dismount."
They did so. Mulan took the stallions and tied them up. Both horses were tied up without complaint.
"Unsheathe your keyblades."
They did so. They glowed for a moment, and then became normal.
"Captain, I trust Kairi knows how to wield that thing?" Chi- Fu had said her name with dislike.
Kairi immediately turned on the offence. "Do you, Chi- Fu?"
For the first time in his miserable life, Chi- Fu shut up.
"I thought so."
Shang continued, with the slightest sound of laughter in his voice. "As you can see, these warriors are not to be played with." Sora and Kairi looked at each other, smiled plastered on their faces.
"You shall learn from them today. Sora, Kairi, face each other." Puzzled, the two did as told.
"You two have got to fight. Even as friends, you've got competition."
Sora thought of Riku. His good friend, yet his enemy…
"Fight!"
Sora charged. Kairi got into a defensive position.
Kairi expertly blocked his barrage of attacks. How the hell does she block so well?
Kairi smiled, then pushed her keyblade, retreating. Sora took a deep breath, then attacked again. Kairi knew the drill; she kept blocking. Sora then thought of a tactic one had used against him. And it actually worked.
Sora attacked, gradually moving his keyblade up. When Kairi's arms were high enough, too high for her to block a downward attack, Sora pointed his keyblade at her stomach and a blast of magic hit her.
Kairi hit the floor, keyblade falling out of her grasp. She fell and didn't move.
Sora widened her eyes, and ran to where she was. He just stood there. The recruits gasped, and Shang had to hold Mulan from attacking Sora. And Black was roaring in anger, having his mistress on the floor, apparently knocked out. He looked like he was about to throttle Sora, the whites in his eyes blazing.
Sora lowered his keyblade, letting his guard down. No…
Kairi threw her legs under his, making him fall. Her keyblade came in her hand and the keyblade was pointed at his throat.
She smiled triumphantly. Sora smiled. He had to admit, she was a cunning fighter. A beautiful one too.
As the people cheered a bit, Mulan breathed again. Shang laughed- Mulan was so dramatic at times.
Kairi helped Sora up. He then called his keyblade.
"I have to admit, you scared me back there."
"Sorry about that- you needed a distraction. You're a good fighter. He's damn cute. I think I might like him…
Sora laughed. "Thanks. You too." I like her…
Mulan ran to Kairi, almost making her fall to the floor again. "Don't you EVER do that again! You scared the LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF ME! And I was about to kill Sora, but Shang stopped me."
"Good thing I did too. Sora was freaking scared. You should have seen the look on his face, Kairi."
"I wanted to, but then that would expose my trick." Kairi smiled at Sora, who laughed.
"Yeah. He was like, Kairi! No! Come back!" Mulan acted out Sora's thoughts. Everyone laughed.
Black neighed, his ears back. His ears were alert when Kairi had woken and had beaten that boy. He then laughed in his own way.
Kairi walked to him. Black threw his head in her arms, rubbing her palms. Sora laughed; Black was so worried about her, and he probably hated Sora by now.
Black nickered happily. "I'm here, Black. I'm fine. See?" Kairi turned around so Black could see she was all right.
"I think that's enough for today. Considering you'll have to do this for four more days before you leave." Mulan had come to talk to her, privately. Already the solders were in the eating tent, but Shang andSora were sitting down, talking to each other.
"Kairi, can I ask you a question?"
"Sure. What?"
"Do you like Sora?"
Kairi blushed. Mulan smiled evilly.
"Don't you DARE, Mulan…"
"I won't. I'll never tell. Besides, I don't want to encounter that side of Kairi."
Kairi raised an eyebrow, perplexed. "What are you talking about?"
Mulan sighed. "When you actually shut Chi- Fu up. That was amazing, kair. How did you do it?"
"he was just so freaking annoying thing. How sexist of him to think girls can't fight and have to get engaged as soon as possible."
"High five, girl! Now, about Sora…"
Kairi rolled her eyes. She had just admitted she liked him. Now what?
"What do you like about him?"
"His personality, he's cute, he fights, and there's something in his eyes when I talk to him…" Kairi broke off, thinking. Mulan smiled. Young ones these days…
Shang and Sora were sitting down, talking about the fight. Apparently Shang was impressed and a bit angry having Kairi defeating Sora. And yet no one could have pulled that trick off, unless you were Kairi.
"Sora, why did you lose?"
"For the hundredth time, Shang, I don't know."
Shang suddenly smiled, which then became into a wide grin. Sora raised an eyebrow. "What? Why do you look at me like that that?"
"You like Kairi, don't you?"
Sora blushed, muttering "Maybe."
Shang wasn't convinced. "You like her? That's why you lost."
Sora stood up for himself. "Well, it's not my fault that her eyes are so pretty, or that she has a pleasant character, and that I like her-"
Sora clapped a gloved hand to his mouth, blushing.
Shang smiled. "So…"
"You better not tell."
"I won't, don't worry. But I will tease you about it, so be prepared for misery."
Sora sighed in defeat, then lay on the grass, thinking.
"When are you going to tell her?"
Sora took a deep breath.
"When the time is right."
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