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It didn't take Kairi or Tifa long to find Vincent; he was concealed in the darkness of "Ken's mini-mart."

He was awfully surprised to see them running to him, for they were supposed to be looking out for Bronco.

"What is it?" Vincent asked hastily.

"I found Bronco…" Kairi started.

"But she let him escape," Tifa imputed.

"Only because some other guy attacked me…"

"Who we think is another assassin,"

"Because you said there might be another group here…"

"And now Bronco is long gone," Tifa finished.

Vincent seemed to be contemplating over what the two girls just explained to him.

"You aren't hurt, are you Kai?" Vincent asked. Kairi shook her head. The pain from her side had faded a while ago.

Then he turned to Tifa.

"Go find Cyrus and bring him back to Kairi's house." He told her. With a small nod, Tifa was off, gone in a blink of an eye.

Tifa found Cyrus quickly, and in no time they were all in Kairi's living room, the two men sitting on the couch while the females sat on the floor, stretching.

"What happened?" Cyrus asked, eying Vincent nervously. Usually this wouldn't occur. Vincent didn't respond right away and pressed his thumbs together.

"I'm not quite sure…" He finally stated, as if he was choosing his words carefully.

"Kai here, got into a fight," Tifa answered, breaking the uncomfortable silence.

"Did you find Bronco?" Cyrus questioned.

"Um, yeah…but them some idiot, whom we think to be another assassin—"

"He is." Vincent interrupted in a cold voice. Kairi immediately shut up.

"Who is?" Cyrus asked, oblivious to just about everything.

"The boy who attacked Kairi. He's working for that wretched imbecile Aiden. Damn I didn't think he would go this far…" Vincent said.

"Aiden?" Tifa asked, sliding out into the splits. "Who's he?"

"That man is one of the most deadliest killers known to man. He's ten times worse than Bronco. I didn't think he would come to our town…I suppose I thought wrong. Anyway, he tried convincing me to come to his side, but I refused. I didn't want to be part of his gang. So he tried to kill me, and well, I basically fled here and trained my own faction of assassins. I didn't think he was going to come after me, but he's now arrived, with his own group of assassins." Vincent told the threesome.

They stayed silent for a while, Kairi pondering the most. So the guy she fought was an assassin for her new enemy Aiden? It also came to a surprise to Kairi how she, and possibly the others, never knew the exact reason Vincent wanted to train them into killing people. Sure, she always used to assume that Vincent wanted to kill the bad guys, but at the same time, why should they have to be the cops?

It all unraveled rather unclearly to Kairi, but she was starting to make sense of it.

"But it was like the boy was trying to protect Bronco! He stopped me from killing him!" Kairi argued, now wanting to kill him and Bronco more than ever.

"Aiden wants to kill Bronco too, Kai. He also wants to kill you, as well as Tifa, Cyrus and myself." Vincent replied, a hint of malice in his voice.

"So that's why he said, 'that's my kill'…" Kairi thought aloud.

"I hate to be telling this to you now, but I didn't think that Aiden would be coming so soon. I didn't want to put you into this much danger," Vincent apologized, looking at the ground.

"Ah, c'mon boss! We can take them!" Cyrus said in very confident tone. Energy and excitement sparked in his eyes.

"Yeah! This Aiden guy thinks he's so tough! Wait till we get through with him!" Tifa agreed, trying to encourage the excitement.

"That boy wasn't even that hard! He just caught me off guard, and I'm sure if he hadn't, I could've beaten him to a pulp!" Kairi joined in, even though she wasn't so sure she could have beaten him.

Vincent couldn't help but smile at his assassin's positive attitude toward the situation. Then, turning into his serious self, he said,

"I'm glad. But don't take this so lightly. Aiden and his gang are very powerful. They are also very skilled. We will have to train twice as hard if we are to demolish them."

The three trained ninjas nodded and grinned.

"We'll stick with you till the very end boss" Cyrus said sternly but proudly.

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A pair of gentle hands shook Kairi awake from her slumber. She groaned and opened her eyes slightly, only to see another violet pair staring back at her.

"Aunty?" Kairi asked sleepily, sitting up and rubbing her tired eyes. Her aunt chuckled.

"Who else could it be? C'mon, I made breakfast," She said, grabbing Kairi's hand and lugging her out of bed. The two relatives made their way downstairs, where there were pancakes, bacon and eggs (the typical breakfast) waiting for them, neatly arranged on the round table.

Aunt Marlene talked non-stop about her trip, and only asked once how Kairi had been doing for the past couple of days. Kairi lied easily about what she did, for her aunt obviously didn't know about her being an assassin. Then, it was time for school.

Kairi got dressed, and was about to pack her lunch when she saw it was already packed and ready to go. Kairi smiled and carrying her lunch under one arm and books in the other, walked out the door.

"Bye Aunt Marlene!" She called out before leaving.

"Bye sweetie!" Came her aunt's syrupy reply. Kairi walked to school in a happy manner; for once she might not be late to class.

"Kairi!" Yelled a male's voice behind her. Kairi turned around and saw Sora jogging up to her, panting heavily.

"Geez Sora, what did you do, run 20 miles?" Kairi joked, giving him a light shove.

"Something like that," Sora said, grinning at her. Kairi rolled her eyes in a comical way, and the two teens ambled off to school.

Dodging students and school janitors with plungers in their hands, Kairi and Sora made their way to their first period class. They entered the cubicle with 30 seconds to spare, and sat down, sighing as they took out their materials for the day.

The day passed breezily, some of Kairi's classes passing like the roadrunner and others like the struggling coyote.

But finally the final bell rang and Kairi whistled with joy. She began her rather short walk home, but this time, with her new friend Sora.

"Man I hate school!" Kairi complained, adjusting the weight of her heavy backpack to her left side.

Sora only laughed. He seemed to have something on his mind. Kairi took note of his sudden change in emotion and tried to get a good look at his face, which was looking at the ground.

"Sora? What's the matter? You seem…I dunno, sad?" Kairi asked, getting a tins bit worried.

"Uh, nothing. I just…I'm just tired," he responded, snapping back to attention. As they neared the corner in which Kairi were to turn, Sora grabbed her hand. Flashbacks of the other night flooded into Kairi's mind, and as she circled around to face him, his eyes made her alarmed. It seemed to Kairi that this exact situation happened to her last night, except with the boy that worked for Aiden. Kairi gulped as his beautiful blue eyes made contact with hers.

"I just wanted to say that I really like you…" He breathed, making Kairi so nervous she wanted to scream.

"I…um…like you a lot too Sora," Kairi said weakly. Usually she was very good at keeping her ground when another person tried to stare her down. But with Sora, she felt like she were going to collapse or crumble like a fragile rock.

Sora gave Kairi a genuine smile and let go of her hand.

"I'll see ya tomorrow Kai!" he turned on one foot and walked away. Then he stopped and turned to face her once again.

"Do you mind if I call you 'Kai" from now on? I think it matches your personality better…" He asked, as if he couldn't go on without asking for permission to use her nickname.

Kairi nodded.

"Sure! Can I call you 'So' from now on?" Kairi added in a fake pleadingly voice. Sora shook his head in a joking manner and giving her a small wave of his hand, he disappeared in the reverse direction.

"Oh fuck, I think I like him…" Kairi murmured to no one in particular.

You get all fuzzy and warm inside, and you can't stop thinking about him…

That's what Kairi's mother had said when she had asked what love was like. Kairi was starting to feel those symptoms and smiling to herself, she walked the rest of the way home, her mind only on Sora.

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Just in case you were confused, when Kairi says, "Can I call you 'So' from now on?" I meant it to be the first two letters in Sora. She's just joking, she isn't really going to call him that as a nickname.