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Lili: Welcome back to this pointless disclaimer that no one reads! Today we have...RAE! Because all the other characters are busy making out behind my back and are too busy to do the disclaimer.
Rae: Humph! So you only invited me to this disclaimer today because I was a last resort? How dare you! -stomps off-
Lili:Don't leave me Rae! It doesn't matter! I don't own them...damn..-sighs- .now I need a new co-host...again.

Authors Note: So your all probably wondering (if you read my authors notes) what my idea is. Well...since Sora's home room won a special trip to America...I've decided that they are going to go to Vegas for seven days (one day per cool hotel/place I saw when I was on my own trip). This will hopefully stop all the "OMFG MAKE ANOTHER CONVENTION CHAPTER LOLZ"...Ok now onto the review thingy's.

Thanks to: Sonic101, Howl's Moving Castle, kitty-gurl1, Letter Bomb, Jaguira, x, Dani, Keya13, -y a k o s o k u-,DoublePersonality, Sonic Master A.J, bertie reads heaps, blah blah, Roaring Flame Cat, review lord, DivineRoseKeeper, stokes, -CuteAnimeBoysMakeMePant-No name man, ChrystiMagicV, BeAuTiFuLSouL2005, Okami no hanyou, carbuncle x3, Black Mistress, Pinksilky, xthechickenhouse, Litwolf689

Zarya...lol XD wow I'm confused. Sugar does that to yeah. And nope! The story was updated like...a second ago. Heh...your my first reviewer of this chapter! And yep...Namine was pressured by the mean bully comments people make...heh I'm trying to make a statement. I'm still deciding if I should have her be dead or not...I'll see how people react to it. And XD there is always that boy that we hovey-late (... love/hate).

RAE fo-shay...Yes'm..I have to thank good old Justin for that one :P. Make the fans lurve you! And it took foooorever because it was sooooo long. And yeah! Rae says it was the best and that's good enough for me. And I lurve my randomness...it's my best talent ever. I've decided. Ha ha...And let me explain that. I have that Lesbian Lurver Club thing in my profile and he was like "OMG I wanna be a lesbian lurver" and I thought it was funny so I was like "Lol whatever ..it's the 21st century!" and so now he's one of my lesbian lurvers. Oh...Rae you rock at life. And I looooove reviews. They make me happy inside. OMG this is loooong. But who cares ..you get a long review message back. AR AR AR! OMG That rocked. I'm a pirate and I go "ARRRR" ...I wonder what THAT means. Ha ha good times.

AnimeDutchess...XD Who cares...I don't like Namine either...and I created her! Ok...not the KH Namine...but the random version of Namine. She annoyed me. And she's not dead yet! Yes I did! I just think of random things and make them sound meaningful. That's how I make my lyrics! XD And I'm gonna update sooner...hopefully. And yeah! Your the first one who noticed that! I'm naming the airplane after you.

KrystalGamer...Yes...I actually didn't know the chapter was going to turn out that long...but I decided to add some things with the different characters because I didn't want it to be just Sora and Kairi ..you know? And I didn't want them to just jump in the battle of the bands. Yes! Las Vegas was awesome. And over down in Texas they have this two story laser tag place called 'Laser quest'...it rocks.

Anime master Inu...WTF? Yes...Namine died...ok not yet. And I also know that Cloud has blonde hair. And remind me later and I'll read the story. -sigh- No...I am not a fucking lesbian for the last fucking time. If you read my live journal..it's a joke between me and my friends. But thanks :P I do rock (allow me to be self-absorbed here). LATER NOTE: oo and Sorry for sounding like a bitch ..XD I had PMS when I wrote that ..you caught me at a bad time

Piper Ice...Do I hear a new comer? -throws confetti on you- Welcome to the cult! And spell check doesn't work! I use it on every chapter...and it sucks. I can't spell for crap and it does nadda to help. O.o What's a sliding contest? Lol I'll consider the mud sliding idea (though I don't really understand it). And oh my, oh my. You'll find out soon -laughs evilly- DANCE MY CHARACTER PUPPETS! DANCE! And oh my, oh my! That last idea inspired me for the awesome part of the story (can't tell you much...:D). Thanks and your the first reviewer who I haven't gotten annoyed with when they asked me to update.

Chapter 16
Viva Las Vegas: (Day 1) Airplane

(Started: June 25th Ended: July 22nd)
Thank you Dani for being an awesome person and sending me a gift for my birthday :D

"Did you pack everything?" Sanako asked her daughter as she loaded and locked a trunk into the back of a mini-van. She turned to her daughter to check if she was still there to answer her

Kairi sighed and rolled her eyes. "Yes mother. I've gone over the list many times. I'm very sure I haven't forgotten to pack anything."

"I'll go over the check list again because you are a teenager and by law, teenagers are meant to forget things," Sanako told the young auburn as she pulled out a pen and a piece of notebook paper. "Do you have tooth paste?" she asked as her eyes peered from over the paper.

"Yes," Kairi groaned as she loaded yet another suit case into the car and groaned. They have been over this many times.

"Underwear?" The mother questioned as she gazed at her from the roof of the paper once more.

"Of course," the irritated PMSer sarcastically answered.

"Shirts?" she checked off.

"Yes."

"Shoes?"

"No doubt."

The pace began to pick up a bit. "Socks?"

"Yes already!"

"Belts?"

"Elastics shorts," was the simple reply.

"Lotion?"

"Only the special kind."

"Condoms?"

"Yes...I mean no!" Kairi blushed as she slammed the trunk of the car closed. "Mother! Don't trick me like that."

"I'm just joking," Sanako laughed as she threw away the box of condoms she was saving for her daughter while she wasn't looking. The mother let out a fake cry. "Oh my, my little girl is leaving me. It's not everyday that your daughter goes off for a week!"

Kairi raised her eye brow as she started putting on her shoes. "I did it not even six months ago..."

"Yes," Sanako nodded in agreement. "But only every six months. Not everyday!"

"Your hopeless," Kairi laughed as she went inside the car.

"And that's why your my daughter," Sanako laughed cheerfully as she climbed into the car as well.

"No," Kairi pointed out to her dear mother. "I'm your daughter because you had sex with daddy and," she clapped her hands together. "POP! Out came a baby."

"Yes," Her mother laughed. "But it doesn't go POP! It goes 'OH MY GOD I HAVE A SEVEN POUND OF LARD IN MY VAGINA' for nine months."

"Let's change the subject," Kairi groaned as she turned her head out the window. "I can't wait until we get into Vegas!" Yes, she said Vegas. Las Vegas to be exact. The place with a themed wedding chapel around every corner. A place where they are so obsessed with gambling that they put slot machines in the airports. The very same Vegas that allowed people to hand out prostitution ads openly on the streets (A/N: They even hang them up oo;)

And thanks to the battle of the bands, Kairi's class was able to go this wonderful place. The secret prize winning trip for the battle of the bands was a week trip to the U.S of A. Las Vegas.

"Yes, yes," Sanako answered her daughter. "We never went any where this cool when I was a weeee little Irish penguin egg-let. All we went to was some tower in Tokyo over and over and people had sex. Rather boring after awhile."

"M'yes," Kairi agreed. "Sounds like the piddly diddly department after it exploded from a rain storm."

Her mother started the car and shook her head at Kairi.. "Bad Kairi," she said as she lightly patted her daughter's head. "Don't try to sound like your mother. You'll get cancer that way."

"Yes mommy," Kairi smiled like a two year old.

The mother and daughter duo laughed to themselves was until all that could be heard was the soft humming of the running engine and the rush of the wind as the car speed through the wind as the car speed through it like a knife to butter. It was nearly five A.M. and they had to be at the airport by five thirty to check Kairi's luggage in. Silence surrounded the car and gave Kairi a chance to think. A chance she didn't want...

Her vision became blurry and her mind became black as she was soon sucked into a horrible flash back.

"Namine!"

Sora pushed Kairi out of the way and went into the direction that the scream came from. Kairi just stared for a moment at the spot he once stood at.

"Kairi!" he called for her from a little ways off.

Without even thinking or calling back, Kairi took off towards his voice. She didn't know if it was out of concern or the simple fact that Sora had been the one to call her. She didn't even know herself anymore. When she turned the corner she saw a picture that would be engraved in the depths of her mind for the rest of her life.

The girl who had screamed had her knees together and her hand over her mouth. Her eyes screamed fear and her body looked like it was standing in the middle of an earth quake. Sora was kneeling on the ground with a girls body clutched in his arms. The girl's skin looked like it was mixed with blue paint and there was a noticeable bright red ring around her neck, as if it was irritated by an itchy material.

At the moment she looked like the lady smurf. Blue skin...white dress...blonde hair...

"Namine!" Sora screamed as his arms started shaking. Kairi glanced at his face. She saw that it had a mix of emotions swarming around it like bees to a trash can full of candy wrappers. Sadness, worried, anger, and the last she feared the most. Love. All that plus his teeth clutching together as though they were huddling together for warmth and the tears running down his face and slowly dropping on the almost dead body was too much for her to bear.

She took out her cell phone with no emotions in her movements. Kairi quickly dialed 9-1-1.

"Hello?" she said in an almost dead voice. "A girl just hung herself...yeah Mirai School."

"Kairi," Sanako smiled as she gently shook her daughter. The girl blinked and looked at her surroundings.

"Oh.." Kairi replied dully. "I guess I fell asleep."

"You bet you did," Sanako whispered in a motherly voice. She wiped an unnoticed tear from the soft skin of the young girls face. "Come on Kairi. Let's check your luggage in."

Kairi nodded tiredly. "Hai...okay mommy."

(A few hours before)

Sora stood in his shower with his head up towards the shower head. He had his eyes closed as though he were afraid the small water droplets were going to hurt him. His arms were crossed as another means of defense against the water.

Suddenly, he jerked his hand towards the knob and turned the shower off. The brunette breathed heavily as he clutched the wall for balance and looked down at the working drain.

"It won't leave my head," he groaned as he grinded his teeth together. His eyes winced badly as they tried so hard to hold back the tears. But it all eventually poured out of his body. The tears ran down his face and he looked up at the shower with the same painful face as though he hoped the once pouring body would wash away his tears. He collapsed in the bath tub and hugged himself.

"Why," he mumbled as he dug his short nailed into his semi-muscular arms. He let out his emotions in a painful yell. "It didn't need to happen this way!"

Sora closed his eyes and let the tears fall. He had these moments a lot since it had happened. Times where he had so much emotion hidden in himself that he had to let it seep through his tears and sorrow. Times where he recalled that horrible day where his life had changed forever (the day Namine hung herself). Times where he wanted to kill himself (or somebody else) over what had happened.

But after the moment had passed he went on living as though nothing had happened. He never recalled these moments. Whether it be by choice or not.

Then, like it always did, it had passed. He opened his eyes and was confused for a moment. "Where am...Oh yeah!" He hit his own head playfully. "Taking a shower...it's so early in the morning!" Sora stood up and stretched a bit. "I probably fell asleep."

"I love Ed," his sisters lovely singing voice rang from outside the bathroom door. "He's so sexy. Tra la la. Long blonde hair. Tra la la. Ma-a-a-a-tching eyes. Tra la la. Let's have sex. Tra la la."

"Aerith!" Sora barked to her, instantly shutting her up. "Aren't you supposed to be getting ready?"

"Awww man!" she whined loudly like a deprived child. "But I'm watching Full Metal Alchemist!"

"Yes," Sora laughed at his older siblings suddenly child like behavior. "But your also supposed to be doing last minute packing. Your mom's replacement chaperone for the trip."

"Yeah, yeah," Aerith giggled as she opened the door of the bathroom, ignoring Sora's naked body. "I'm so lucky!" she said as she hugged the blushing Sora (and you could see fairly well that he didn't only blush on his face). "I get to go to the United States with my wittle brother."

"Aeeeeeerrriiiiiiitttthhh!" Sora whined in a more child like behavior then his sisters. "Leeeeeet-goooooo-of-meeeeeeeee!"

"Oh Jesus!" Aerith exclaimed as she quickly loosened her grip. "I know I'm your sister but there isn't any need to remove your clothing when I enter a room."

Sora made a pouty angry face and pushed his sister away. "STOP STARING AT MY D-"

"DARLING CHILDREN!" Keiko, Sora's mother exclaimed as she also made her way into the bathroom and hugged both Aerith and her son. Keiko hugged her children as though she hadn't seen them in months. But the young woman's face was very pale and her eyes looked frightening tired. It was obvious she was suffering from a bad cold.

Keiko looked down at Sora. "Oh my...Sora your naked!"

Aerith grinned as her mother joined in the new game of 'lets-point-at-Sora's-penis-and-make-fun-of-him'. "Shall I get the camera?" she asked as she smiled a grin that was pinned on her face like a badge to a shirt.

"Oh my, yes," their mother giggled in the same fashion Aerith had. "We can show them to his little girlfriend!"

"Yes! Yes!" Aerith jumped for joy. "Kairi will just love-"

"Kairi is NOT my girlfriend," Sora yelled loudly in an almost sinister voice. He pressed his lips together as though to hold them together for support. Sora looked his family in the eye with such intense emotion in his eyes they looked like they were burning. "Namine is!" The spiky hair boy's looks quickly softened to a sad off distance gaze. "Namine..."

"Aerith" Keiko sing-songed in a rather overly cheerful voice. "Let's go put your things into the car." Aerith nodded quickly and hurried out of the bathroom with her mother.

And then, just like Kairi had, Sora began to feel dizzy as he entered the flash back world.

Sora held Namine's blue body in his trembling arms. He was very aware he was publically crying and god Dammit he didn't dare. Namine wasn't his current love but that didn't change the fact that she was his first love and his current girl friend.

The brunette met eyes with Kairi for a moment. She was standing beside him and had no emotion on her face. Kairi was talking on the phone with the police. No sadness, no happy, no emotion at all. 'How dare she?' and 'That unemotional bitch' were a few thoughts that freely soared Sora's teenage mind. At that moment in history...Sora hated Kairi with all his heart.

Kairi slammed her cell phone shut and fixed her gaze on the scene. "The police are on their way," she barely managed to speak. Sora didn't even speak to her. He just went back to the almost dead girl.

"Her heart is still beating," Sora said out loud. "But she's barely breathing. I really hope they hurry"

"Kimi..." Namine breathed as she laid unconscious in Sora's arms. "Kimi o ai shiteru. Gomen...gomen Sora-sama."

"...sama?" Sora blushed slightly. He brushed his fingers against Namine's pale skin. "Your going to be okay. Just hang in there."

Kairi shook her head as she browsed the magazine rack. She was currently in a news stand at the Tokyo airport. She was also staring at a particular magazine.

"Tsk tsk," she tutted as she let her finger glide to a popular fashion magazine for teens. "She really shouldn't had dyed her hair. It was such a pretty shade of black too..."

"KAIRI-SAN!" Selphie squealed as she wrapped her arms around Kairi's neck. "GUESS WHAT?"

"What Selphie?" Kairi dully replied.

"WE GET TO GO TO THE UNITED STATES!" Selphie yelled in her overly loud voice as she continued to choke Kairi.

"I know," Kairi laughed as a sweat drop formed on her newly styled hair as she struggled to pull Selphie off. She didn't want another incident like what happened at the mall.

"FOR SEVEN DAYS!" Selphie told Kairi.

"Yes, yes," Kairi nodded at the old information she already knew.

"TO LOST VARIOUS!" Selphie shouted with delight and excitement.

"...Las Vegas," Kairi corrected her overly hyper friend.

"Yes," Tidus said as he joined the conversation with Wakka. He smiled just roared 'cocky' and his attitude matched it. "Las Vegas. I've heard any tales of the women in the united states. To tell the truth I am hoping to come back to Japan without my virginity."

"Too much information," Wakka chuckled playfully as he messed up Tidus's hair.

"OOOOOOH!" Selphie chanted as she hugged the blushing boy. "We have horny little Tidus here today."

"Am not," he pouted.

"Are too!" Selphie joined in.

"Am not!" he exclaimed slightly louder.

"Are too," she yelled as she cupped her hands around her waist as she took her classic battle pose.

"I'm older then you!" Tidus suddenly put in.

"But I'm taller," Selphie grinned in a child like manner as she looked Tidus in the eye.

"By, like, an inch!" Tidus corrected her as he started to blush and turn his eyes away. He started to flex in the news stand for everyone to see. "And look! I have muscles."

"Well I have boobs!" Selphie told him as her anger started to steam out.

Tidus gazed at her chest for a moment before he smirked at her. "Not that I see."

"STOP!" Kairi laughed as she stepped in between her two friends. "Tidus...your not Sora. Stop acting perverted."

"But I am Sora!" Sora exclaimed happily behind them. He pulled Kairi into a warm, manly hug and squeezed her tightly. "Isn't that right my lovely?"

"I have bad gas today," Kairi pointed out to him. He quickly let go and stepped in front of her (to avoid the 'gas'). She stuck her tongue out at him. 'Only joking,' Kairi thought. 'Silly Sora-san.'

"Anyways," Sora smiled to the group of peers. "What are you guys doing?"

"Just chatting," Tidus shrugged. Wakka nodded to agree with what Tidus has said.

"I want to buy some food to munch on the plane," Selphie casually told Sora. "After all the plane ride is gonna take about thirteen hours."

"And you?" Sora turned to Kairi and fluttered his eye lashes. "Kairi dearest?"

Kairi raised his eyebrow. "...I'm buying a magazine. What's with the overly happy attitude?"

"Overly happy?" Sora questioned her. "Why shouldn't I be this happy? I'm going to Las Vegas!"

"I heard viagra makes you feel that way," Wakka whispered to Selphie and Tidus.

"Anyways," the brunette boy announced to crimson girl. "We're supposed to be waiting for our class mates to arrive and check them off the list, remember?"

"Shoot," Kairi snapped. "I forgot." She quickly handed 2500 yen to Selphie and told her to buy her a book and magazine that she would enjoy. Then she hurried and left the news stand briefly with Sora.

Kairi looked around as the two walked the halls. She observed one thing about this place. The airport was rather empty this early in the morning. Kairi had been on a plane once before to travel to her fathers funeral. All she remembered was holding onto her mothers hand tightly in fear that all the business people would knock her down.

"So let's see," Sora spoke up to her as they treaded the empty pathway. He pulled out a clip board from his bag he was carrying and began marking on it. "Who's all here?"

"Hmmm," Kairi began to think out loud. "Me, you, Tidus-" She heard Sora quietly mumbling something under his breath and he began to check off names. Kairi gave him one of her looks and began naming off again. "Selphie, Wakka...and I think that's it."

"That leaves Lulu, Sephiroth, and Cloud left," Sora finished as he clicked his pen and put the board back in his bag. Kairi quickly shot her eyes towards it and saw Namine's name wasn't on the list. She was guessing that was the thing he was mumbling at. "Both of our chaperones are here of course."

"Mr. Yoshizawa and Ke- I mean your mom," Kairi said. "Right?"

Sora shook his head. "Nope. My mom is ill and couldn't make it. Aerith is here in her place." He pointed out to her.

Kairi gleamed gigantically when Sora said this. She began to ramble questioned to Sora, who just stared at her. "Your sister is here? Why didn't you tell me? It's going to be nice visiting with her again. I haven't seen her since-"

"February," Sora finished her sentence. Kairi gave a puzzled look at the blushing Sora. Then she remembered the night she stayed at his house. Sora looked down at his shoes in sure awkwardness. "Valentines day, remember?"

Kairi's now shocked face wore a blush similar to Sora's. She now also stared at her flip flops. "Yeah..." Suddenly she remembered a few words Keiko had spoken to her that night.

"My son has the biggest crush on you." She also recalled when Sora had brushed her lips and almost kissed her...

"Kairi Higari! Sora Gainsborough!" Riku, their teacher, had called out and waved to them from a near by coffee shop. The two birds of love looked up at him with bright red faces. "Oh my, you two look rather flushed. Have you been making out? You know we can't have anyone catching mono so soon in our trip."

This comment only made them blush harder. "We haven't done any such thing!" they cried in unison.

"I know," Riku chuckled lightly as he took another sip of coffee. He turned towards Aerith, who was sitting across from him. "Your mother did go over our plans, didn't she?"

Aerith nodded politely. "I will watch over our group of students to make sure they are behaving and not getting into trouble. I should also force the buddy rule on everyone." She began to go into deep concentration. "And everyone should be up at nine and to bed by ten."

"Bingo," Riku smiled as he nodded to the young woman's intelligence. "Now," he said, turning towards Sora. "Sora. Who isn't here yet?"

Sora pulled out his clipboard and read off the names. "Lulu, Sephiroth, and," he let out a small peep and gave Aerith a look that warned her to brace herself. "Cloud..."

Aerith immediately spit out the coffee she was drinking like it was poison. "Cloud? As in Cloud STRIFE?"

Sora nodded weakly. "Yes..."

"Well Hercules damn me and fuzzums the crown of King Mickey," Aerith cursed as she leaned back in her chair. "I think I may vomit."

"Is there a problem Aerith?" Riku asked her with sympathy as he began to pat her back. "Do you need to get some air?"

"The only air I need is the kind on the plane," Aerith sighed as she took a deep breath in. "I refuse to back down." Her voice suddenly became quiet and hard to understand. She sighed and mumbled something under her breath that sounded like, "Mom needs me..."

Riku raised his eyebrow, shrugged, and went back to his coffee. "If you say so. Now if you'd like to continue our conversation-"

Kairi walked away to give her senpai and sensei privacy. Sora followed and continued to walk beside her. The slice of awkwardness grew since Mr. Yoshizawa's 'clever' and 'witty' joke. The girl gulped and decided to make conversation. "What was with your sister back there?"

Sora stretched his arms towards the ceiling and then rested his hands at the back of his head. "Do you want the long or short story?"

"Whatever will get me unconfused," Kairi told him as she glanced back at the coffee shop.

The brunette breathed in and spoke words as though they have been rehearsed many times before. "Cloud and Aerith had been friends since they were young. But Aerith is a year older then Cloud so when school started it push and pulled on their relationship a lot. So much that Aerith began falling for Cloud. She missed the fact that they couldn't hang out as much."

"Awww," Kairi peeped caringly in a quiet voice.

"Then, around a year and a half ago me and Aerith started a project with our extra money," Sora's story continued.

"Riri's House," Kairi nodded and smiled. She knew that part of the story.

"And that tore them apart even more," Sora narrated for the crimson hair girl. "So much that Cloud also began developing feelings for Aerith. He, of course, also missed the time he spent with her and realized how much she means to him."

Kairi was on the edge of her toes. "It's like a soap opera! Except better because no one died or got burned in a fire by an alien twin sister."

"Then about a year ago Cloud asked Aerith out," The brunette spoke the tale. "This is where our story takes a deadly turn."

"Deadly?" Kairi repeated in a question. "But they both liked each other! How could-"

"Let me finish!" Sora interrupted. He cleared his throat and continued. "Cloud asked her out in a letter so Aerith couldn't respond right away. In fact, Aerith was so happy she dedicated an episode to him, calling him Sky to protect his identity."

'So that's who Sky was,' Kairi thought to herself, not wanting to interrupt the story again.

"But she happened to get so busy with the episode that she forgot to respond. Cloud thought she didn't want to hurt his feeling and took it offensively. They got in a fight and not only did they not get together," Sora expressed the unwritten work. "But they also decided not to be friends."

"And that," Sora told Kairi with a painful smile on his face. "Is the short version of the story."

"Man," Kairi's scratched her head and sat down in the seated area #10. "I wonder how they are going to stand being with each other. Damn...It's gonna be hell for them..."

End of Chapter 16

Authors Note: Thank you for everyone who is supporting me...and I know I've said this a bazillion times before but I am trying hard to get the chapters out! XD Now I know how JK Rowlings feels...everyone going "OMFG" and junk...yep...! And sorry I couldn't write a review note to everyone ..when I looked at everyone who reviewed I'm like "HOLY SNAUSAGES THATS A LOT" so I had to narrow it down..:( Sorry guys!

And yep! We finally know what happened between Aerith and Cloud -dances-