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Authors Note: Sorry for the large amount of authors notes in the last chapter..i just kept think and thinking of things to type! I'll keep it short this time. In our school play of 'Winnie the Pooh' I got the part of Piglet. I have 106 lines and my friend (who got Pooh) has 264...which is a LOT! Also in the summer musical in my theater company (Pirates of Penzance..doubt you heard of it unless your a theatre person) I got the part of a sister. I'm also trying out for Bye Bye Birdie in April (KIDS..what's the matter with Kids today? heh). Enjoy the chapter!

Chapter 8:

Day 7: Closing Ceremony

Sora looked into the mirror as if it was a life or death matter. "Today is the last day," he mumbled to himself. He was wearing a white athletic man's sleeveless shirt and regular jeans, like he was about to go and work out. At the moment he was staring at himself in the mirror with a serious face. The very same moment, he was blushing very deeply.

"How am I ever going to tell her!" he exclaimed to himself as he slapped his forehead (leaving a red mark to match the color of his blush). "I have a girl friend, she's in love with an animated retard, and that damn rabbit stole my trix! Today is going to suck.." Then it hit him like a ton of bricks. This was the last day he'd probably ever see her again and he still hasn't completely gotten her on his good side. "Damn it to hell," he mumbled.

"Hurry up Sora!" Kairi yelled from the other side of the door. "I need to take a bath."

His blush grew deeper and he hurried to button his blue collared Hawaiian T-shirt. "Out in a second," he called out as his fingers tried to button his shirt. "Button goes in the hole...Button goes in the hole...DAMMIT! IT DOESN'T GO THERE!"

"No!" Namine yelled. "Come out now! I want to give you a goodbye present!"

Sora came out of the bathroom with a smirk on his face (and his shirt very buttoned up like a good boy). He leaned against the closed bathroom door and shook his head like he was disappointed and pleased at the same time. "So many girls, so little time."

"The only girl who would be interested in you in Namine and your mother," smiled Kairi meanly as she pushed Sora out of way and went into the bathroom.

Sora shrugged and sat on the nearest bed. He looked up and started talking to Namine. "Where's Selphie?"

"Probably somewhere making out with Riku," winked Namine as she sat on the bed next to him. She was smiling shyly up very close to Sora's face, which made her look even more girly then she was.

Sora smiled at her and scooted away from her. "Are you hinting something?"

Namine stood up all of a sudden. Her face was red and angry and her fist were clutched together like they have been that way their entire lives. "Yes I am Sora! We've been dating for almost a year and you have yet to kiss me!"

Sora gulped and started shaking a bit. He had to think of an excuse really fast. He couldn't tell her that he didn't like her and that's the reason why he couldn't kiss her. He also couldn't say he was in love with another girl. "That's because...my religion won't let me kiss girls!"

"Then what are you going to do?" asked Namine angrily. "Make out with guys?"

"Maybe," Sora shrugged jokingly.

She jumped on top of Sora like it was her very last hope in the world. "Just kiss me and stop thinking of excuses! It's okay you know, we are dating after all."

"I can't!" he exclaimed as he pushed her off.

"Why not!" she yelled. Sora didn't answer and he just looked at his feet. "Your so stupid!" she yelled as she stormed out of the hotel room.

When Sora saw the coast was clear, he let out a sigh of relief. "Good riddance," he mumbled. "All she does is follow me around like a lost puppy."

Suddenly he heard a giggle from the other side of the room. "Hey there," said the smiling Selphie from the corner.

Sora made a sweat drop (all anime style). "You've been there the entire time, haven't you?"

Selphie nodded and continued to smile. "You know," she said. "You could just break up with her."

Sora sighed and rested his head on his hand. "You don't understand."

Selphie stood up and walked over to Sora. "You know what's strange?" she said out of the blue.

"What?" asked Sora with a bland tone of voice.

Selphie smiled with a sinister aura about her. "How you look like Niwa and how Aerith looks like Hijiki. How you seemed to act them out perfectly at the cosplay contest. How you and Niwa are in the same pickle with girls."

Sora's eyes grew big. The room grew silent and Sora began to stutter. "But I'm allergic to pickles!"

"You know what I mean," Selphie smiled devilishly as she made her way over to him even closer. "I know your little secret."

Sora stood up. "I don't know what you mean!" he yelled as he ran out of the room.

Selphie sat on the spot Sora sat and smirked. "Way to make your point," she whispered with a laugh.

"What was that?" Kairi said as she walked of the bathroom. She was in a purple skirt and white tank top with black out linings. Her hair was wet and she was currently drying it with a towel.

"Nothing," she smiled innocently. "Want to watch our last episode of Riri's house for the trip?"

"Sure!" she exclaimed as Selphie searched through DVDs. Then it hit her. It was the last day of the convention. "Isn't it strange how this is the last day?"

"Yeah," Selphie agreed. "Everything is happening so fast."

"I know!" Kairi exclaimed. "Lili, the author of this wonderful story, never includes a episode of Riri's House so early in the chapter."

"Who cares," Selphie said as she skimmed over the DVDs. "Hmmm..."

"What is it?" Kairi asked.

"Theres a DVD in here that doesn't look like the others," she said with a 'this-is-when-the-chapter-gets-really-really-interesting' tone of voice.

Kairi snatched the DVD out of Selphies grasp and took a better look at it. Instead of Niwa and Hijiki on the front with them holding a sign up that said "Riri's House" there was something different. The DVD was a deep shade of pink and in white cursive font it read To The Lovely Kairi. In the background laid a large picture of a heart. "Why is this in here?" asked Kairi with a blush forming on her delicate skinned face.

"How can this be?" Kairi asked herself.

"Let's watch it and find out what's in it before we go out running willy nilly through the woods," laughed Selphie as she popped the DVD into the hotel's DVD player. She sat on the bed next to Kairi and pressed the play button.

There was no theme song or any Hijiki introducing the show. All that was shown was Niwa sitting on a bench with a rose in his hand. He was smiling very nervously and fiddling with the rose petals. "Hello Kairi," he smiled.

"I'm going insane!" Kairi yelled as she began to smile the biggest smile in her life.

"You aren't going insane," Niwa said sweetly as he continued to smile.

"...That was creepy," commented Selphie as she sat back and enjoyed the scene.

"I made this DVD and snuck it into a hotel room," he said. Niwa then let out a laugh. "Don't worry, I'm not a freaky stalker."

"I don't care!" Kairi yelled as she lunged at the television. "Have my children!"

"Before you go teenaged girl on me, listen to what I have to say," Niwa said as his tone came a little more softer and serious. "Right now I'm at the very same convention as you are. This very moment I'm probably eating breakfast."

"LET'S GO TO THE DINING ROOM!" Kairi yelled as she tried to run out the door (only to be stopped by Selphie who set her down).

"The point is I have had my eye on you," he smiled. "Your very cute Kairi. Very, very cute. You have so many good qualities and if I tried to write one on every star in the sky, the universe would grow very big."

The two girls were now at the edge of the bed hanging onto every word Niwa spoke. "My point is Kairi," Niwa said as he stood up and held a rose out towards her. "I have fallen in love with you. I know it may seem corny but I don't know how to express myself otherwise."

Kairi stood up with a gleaming smile pasted upon her face. "Catch me Selphie!" she exclaimed as she began to fall back in a faintly manner (only to have her fall on top of Selphie).

"Another thing," Niwa said, catching the two girls attention. "Can you meet me in north elevator an hour before the closing ceremony today? I'd like to tell you my feelings in person. See you Kairi-sama." Then the screen went black and romantic music played softly in the back.

Kairi and Selphie (Selphie and Kairi) were utterly shocked and pleased.

"Holy crap!" Selphie exclaimed in a happy tone. "This is flippin' awesome!"

"Niwa loves me!" Kairi expressed happily as she began to dance around the room. "Niwa loves me!"

"This is the most wonderful day of my life!" exclaimed Kairi as she spun around in circles on the fifth floor of the hotel. People were looking at her strange but she didn't care. The love of her life loved her back and in fifteen minutes they would meet.

"It's like Romeo and Juliet!" she stated happily. "Except our families don't hate each other and no one has died yet!"

"Also," added a voice behind her. "In Romeo and Juliet the two fall in love at first site. You've loved Niwa for who knows how long."

Instead of turning around and finding out it was Sora, she just smiled. "I don't care anymore!" she exclaimed as she turned around and hugged him. "My life is perfect!"

"Don't assume that," Sora said. "You never know if Niwa isn't a fifty year old pervert that will drag you into his room and have hot monkey sex with you."

"I doubt a perverts voice could sound so sexy," she added as she broke the hug.

"You might not like the way he looks," he added.

"I don't care about looks," she smiled. "As long as I can be with him."

"...You might not care for the person he is," Sora said with a small frown forming on his delicate face.

"I would love Niwa even if he were you!" Kairi smiled happily. "That's how happy I am."

Sora blushed harder then he had ever blushed before. "Don't say that!"

"Aww Sora is getting embarrassed," Kairi laughed as she hugged him once more. "Just think about it. Ten minutes from now I'll be doing this with Niwa."

Sora just smiled and hugged her back. "Niwa will be very happy with you."

Kairi once again broke the hug and began to run in the opposite direction. "I need to go back to the hotel room really quick and touch up on my make up!" she called out as she waved. "See you at the closing ceremony!"

Sora waved back and smiled. "See you in a few minutes my flower," he whispered.

It was the time, the moment Kairi had been waiting for ever since she watched the DVD. Any moment Niwa would step through the elevator doors and they would run off into the woods and bake cookies together forever. Okay, not really, but that is how Kairi felt at the moment. She was currently looking out the glass side of the elevator and she obsessed the few anime fans left at the convention. Her back was towards the door.

"I hope my hair is okay," she muttered to herself. "I did touch up on my make up that should be fine." Kairi giggled to herself. "Oh gosh! I am so nervous!"

"Don't be," laughed a voice from behind. Kairi's heart began to beat a little bit faster.

"Niwa!" she exclaimed as she began to turn around. But Niwa put his hands on her shoulders to stop her.

"Please don't turn around. This would be easier for me if you didn't," Niwa said as he began to whisper into her ear. It made her entire body shiver with pleasure. "As you know Kairi, I care very deeply for you."

"And I like you too," added Kairi.

"I know," Niwa said as he set his lips against her neck casually. "It's just sad that this may be the last time I see you."

"I agree," Kairi said as her heart filled with joy. "But we could always call each other."

"But that would reveal my identity," laughed Niwa. "And we can't have that now can we."

"If I'm going to be your girl friend then how will we stay in contact?" asked Kairi.

"Like this," Niwa said as her gently grabbed her head and began to turn her around. "Close your eyes."

Kairi did as she was told. She was excited and nervous and blushing all at the same time. 'This is great," she thought to herself. 'My life is wonderful. Also, I'm about to get my first kiss from the love of my life!'

Then it happened. As her eyes were closed, Niwa set his soft lips onto her own set of lips. The feeling was sensational. The image of her and Niwa at the beach came into her mind and her face began to feel hot. To make her even more warm, Niwa ran his tounge across her teeth, massaging her gums softly.

'A wonderful thing a kiss can be,' Kairi thought as she slipped away from reality and into that heart embracing kiss.

Then Niwa pulled away and turned Kairi away from him. "Thank you Kairi, but I need to be heading out." She heard the elevator door chim and Niwa's footsteps stepping out of the elevator.

'This may be my only chance to ever see him!' she thought. "Wait!" she cried out as she turned around. When Kairi turned around and found who was in the elevator doorway, she was shocked and hurt. There stood Sora, annoying and perverted Sora, with the same shade of lip stick faintly planted on his own lips. Kairi felt like one thousand arrows were piercing through her betrayed heart.

"...Sora?" Kairi managed to squeeked.

"Uhhh," Sora said as his face turned bright red and he began to act very nervous.

"..Your Niwa?" Kairi asked faintly. Sora just stood there like he didn't even hear her. Kairi felt a tear run down her face and ran out of the elevator, pushing Sora out of her way.

"Kairi wait!" Sora yelled as he ran after her.

"Nice joke Sora!" she yelled as the tears streamed down her face. "You act like I'm your friend and then pull this on me!"

"It's not like that!" Sora screamed as his running footsteps came closer.

"Sure it isn't!" Kairi cried as she turned a corner. All she wanted to do at this moment was run until she fell off the face of the earth.

"Stop and listen to me," Sora said as he grabbed her arm to stop her from running.

"Why should I?" Kairi exclaimed as she tried to push him away.

"Think about it!" Sora exclaimed. "Who could of put that DVD into the hotel room?"

"Anyone with a hotel key," Kairi said with a dead tone of voice.

"And who are the only people with a hotel key?" he asked her, already knowing the answer.

"...You, Aerith, and Selphie," she answered.

"Yes! Think about Niwa's position and mine. He has a sister and I have a sister. He doesn't like his girl friend and neither do I. And don't you think it's strange how my voice and looks match Niwas? Don't you think it's strange how Aerith and myself acted out the characters perfectly?"

"No..." Kairi said in disbelief. "I don't believe you..."

"Believe me Kairi!" he yelled at her, trying to convince her. "I am Niwa!"

"You can't be!" she yelled back. "I'm in love with Niwa, not you!"

"Yet you only a few minutes ago said you would love Niwa, even if he were me!" Sora said.

Kairi had no arguments left in herself. She had been beaten. It was the plain truth that all along, Niwa had been Sora. She was in love with Sora. Kairi gave up struggling and calmed down. The auburn hair girl looked like a heart torn puppy that had lost it's way.

"I'll leave you to think," Sora said as he let go of her arm and began to walk away. "Meanwhile I'd like to say that everything you heard coming out of my mouth today was one hundred percent true."

Kairi watched Sora walk away and she wondered outloud, "It makes me wonder; Do I hate him or love him? Do I want to kill him or kiss him? I'm so confused..."

"Selphie!" Kairi exclaimed as she ran into the hotel room. "Something weird just happened!"

"Let me take a wild guess," Selphie said as she was packing. "You found out that Niwa was actually Sora and that he was in love with you?"

Kairi stared blankly at her. "Yeah! How did you know?"

Selphie laughed. "Simple. I've known all along."

"I need to talk to him," Kairi gasped as her eyes searched the room.

"Don't bother," Selphie said. "They already left."

"What?" Kairi exclaimed angrily.

"Let's just forget about this and go down to the closing ceremony," Selphie said as she linked arms with Kairi and they walked out of the room.

"Just one thing," Kairi said.

"What?" Selphie asked as they continued to skip along.

"...Let's take the stairs," she laughed.

"Okay," laughed Selphie with her.

Soon they were down stairs in a not so crowded room. There were about two hundred chairs set up and only fifty of them had been filled. Up front was a large podium and an even larger television behind that. A man wearing a regular t-shirt and tie came out and stepped behind the podium. "As you know this is the closing ceremony. Nothing really to say besides good bye...but that would have a sucky chapter ending. So, we would like to show you all a news clip that we had just received a few moments ago."

The man stepped back and took a remote out of his shirt pocket. He then pressed a button which caused the large television to turn on. In the next moment, the TV showed two teenagers standing together with a bunch of flashing camera lights and microphones surrounding them. The two teenagers were Aerith and Sora.

"So!" exclaimed a reporter. "You two are Hijiki and Niwa?"

"Is it true?" asked another reporter.

"Why did you decide to go public on your real identities?" asked another reported.

"Shut up and let us talk," Aerith groaned. All the reporters went quiet.

"The answer is not so simple," Sora smiled as a flash of light blinded him.

"Sora.." Kairi muttered.

"I did it for one reason and one reason only," Sora smiled. "For love."

The reporters started buzzing again. "For love you say?" asked a reporter. "Can I quote you on that?"

"Who is this girl, or boy, you love?" asked another annoying reporter.

"No comment," said Sora. "And it's a girl."

"And what is your reason Aerith?" asked another stupid reporter.

"This answer is simple, unlike my brothers," said Aerith. "To make my little brother happy."

The buzzing came up once more and the two teens became angry. "Stop asking so many damn questions!" they yelled in unison as they tried to break away from the reporter ring. Then the clip ended.

"As you see," said the man. "The creators of Riri's House came out in the open about their IDs. Once more, they were the ones who cosplayed Hijiki and Niwa at our cosplay contest. They were at this very convention! ...Well thats it! Get out of the hotel before they sue us!"

"Come on Kairi!" Selphie yelled from outside the hotel room. "We need to leave! My mom is here to pick us up!"

"Coming!" yelled Kairi back. She dragged her suit case out of the room and next to Selphie.

"Okay let's leave now," she said.

"Hold on one moment," Kairi said as she ran back into the hotel room. She looked around and sighed.

"This is no time for memories," Selphie said. "We need to get going."

"Yeah, yeah," Kairi said as she took one last look at the room. The room which had brought her and so many happy (and unhappy) memories to her. She sighed once more and closed the door to room 504.

End of Chapter 8

Authors Note: No that is not the last chapter nn; just to inform you...yep! Nothing else to write...be grateful for this chapter! Heh..and sorry! I kind of rushed it towards the end.