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"Okay! I'm up, I'm up!" Kairi shouted angrily for the fourth time, lugging herself out of bed and painfully jogging down the stairs. It wasn't just the gash she received yesterday, but more like the day before that…she was still sore from the fight with Aiden's assassin.
"Took you long enough," Tifa remarked as soon as Kairi appeared in the kitchen. Kairi rolled her eyes and stuck out her tongue, obtaining a hit in the side from Tifa's spatula.
"Get home as soon as you can," Vincent told Kairi before she left. She didn't bother asking why, because he never told her anyway. Saying a quick goodbye, she left for another "exciting" day at school.
The stormy weather hadn't dispersed from the day before, so as soon as Kairi stepped outside drops of rain ambushed her. Groaning, she walked to school, with no Sora running up to her from behind.
He must really be mad…Kairi thought glumly when she was sure he wasn't going to come. I guess it really was a jerky thing of me to do.
As Kairi was about to turn into the big double doors of her school, she noticed something rather peculiar from the corner of her eye. Curiosity getting the better of her, Kairi sneaked around, and slyly made her way to the scene. There was a boy with spiky brown hair talking to a man taller than him, with a long black braid in an extensive dark alleyway.
"Sora!" Kairi whispered loudly to herself when she discovered who the boy was…. but who was the other man?
"What? I'm in school! You guys will have to do it without me," Kairi heard Sora exclaim.
"Sora, we need distractions, and don't forget what will happen if you don't help," The man replied. They whispered for a couple of minutes more, until the strange man nodded and jumped atop a roof and scurried off.
Kairi gasped quietly as Sora began to approach the area in which she was watching. She ran off as silent as possible from the vicinity, and ran through the doors of her school, desperate to get to class and act as if everything was normal. Her heart was beating twice as fast as she took a seat in Math, and recollected what had just happened. She just now realized whom the man was…he seemed familiar, but Kairi hadn't given it much thought.
It has to be the man with the long black braid that worked for Aiden's gang…the one that teamed up with the spiky blonde guy and battled Tifa, Kairi thought surely. The way he looks is more than enough comparison, but the way he jumped on the roof is so…assassin like. Oh no! Kairi suddenly had a horrible thought of what the conversation might have meant.
He must've been threatening Sora! 'And don't forget what will happen if you don't help.' The chump! What the hell is he trying to do with Sora?
Kairi's chain of thought suddenly broke when Sora walked through the door. She stared at him as he took a seat, and she almost totally forgot that she had punched him the other day.
All during 1st period, Kairi's attention was stuck on Sora. She just couldn't help looking over her shoulder and watching if his habits changed at all…they didn't. One time he caught her eyes, and Kairi immediately turned around embarrassed. Little did she know a small smile was dancing upon Sora's lips, and he chuckled as he resumed his schoolwork.
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The bell rang for lunch and Kairi packed up. As she was loading junk into her locker and taking out more textbooks, a finger poked her shoulder. She turned and saw Sora's gleaming face. Kairi abruptly looked away and began to think frantically of what she should say.
"Uh, are you mad or something?" Sora asked, smiling as Kairi blushed.
"N-no! You should be mad! I mean, mad at me because of what I did yesterday!" Kairi responded in an almost shout. "I had no reason to punch you like that...I really am an idiot."
"I take that as an apology then?" Sora joked, trying to get humor in the air again.
"Uh, yeah, sure," she said, slamming her locker door shut. Then she looked up at him, and nearly fainted. She really did find him cute, and the grin on his face just made him cuter.
"You think I'm attractive, don't you?" Sora sniggered as they began to walk to the lunch tables. Kairi blushed furiously.
"What? Wishful thinking!" She laughed giving him a light shove.
"Hey! You even admitted you liked me Kai, so you must find me good looking," He retorted hotly. Kairi burst into laughter at his increasing ego, and Sora shoved her back, but he couldn't help laughing with her. Little did she know he found her attractive as well.
Kairi was having such a great day with Sora, that when the end of school came, she hardly remembered ever being an assassin. She even forgot about Sora's conversation with the worker of Aiden's whose name she did not know.
But it all came back to her as she started to walk home. Sora wasn't walking with her, because he had said he had to talk with his friend, whom Kairi knew too well was the guy who worked for Aiden. She knew that she should have followed him, in case she needed to beat up the man with the braid, but she just found it morally wrong, so she stopped herself.
"I'm home!" Kairi yelled as she entered her residence. She looked around, and discovered nobody was there but her. She didn't worry too much, flinging her book bag on the couch as usual and flopping onto some fluffy pillows. That's when she noticed something out of the ordinary. Being an assassin, Kairi could tell when there was an eerie presence near her, and she cautiously stood up. At this moment, she knew something was terribly wrong.
"Vince? Tifa!" Kairi called out, but to her dismay, there came no answer. She stiffened, and carefully ascended the stairs, dejavu hitting her like an ice pack. Hadn't she gone through this before? 6 years ago? Kairi's heart beat faster and faster as she turned the corner and sniffed the air. It smelled like blood.
"Damn," Kairi cursed as she searched the rooms, including her own, for the object that emanated the bloody scent. That's when she saw a torn piece of red cape strewn recklessly on the floor in the middle of the hallway. It was definitely that of Vincent's, and she immediately broke into a run around her house, searching feverishly for some sign of her boss. She found blood splotches or smears here and there on the walls or floors, but she found no dead body or moaning victims. It was very obvious to Kairi that Vincent had been attacked, but where did that leave Cyrus and Tifa?
They should be here! Where could they possibly be when Vincent is in trouble! Kairi thought nervously, eyes brimming with worried tears. Wiping them away, she decided to take action, after all, this is what Vincent would want her to do, and she would do anything to find him.
Rushing up the stairs, Kairi changed into her uniform hurriedly, tying her mask with extreme speed and whipping out her hair tie, letting her hair cascade down her cheeks and eyes. She positioned her black fighting gloves on her hands, and placed her daggers by her side. She ran into the hallway and grabbed the piece of torn cloth that had been a part of Vincent's attire, and tucked it into her belt. She wasn't exactly sure why she did that, after all it was just a scrap of bloody thread particles, but she somehow thought it would give her good luck, and it was through distant relation, part of Vincent.
Kairi jumped through her window and ran sneakily through houses. Nothing like this had ever happened to her before, so she didn't even know where to start looking. He could be anywhere! Jumping on top of a old worn down market, Kairi got a good view of her town, her eyes searching anxiously for a sign of her friends, Aiden, or some sort of fight. She lived in a small town, so they couldn't be too far away, right?
Kairi searched as far as her eyes could see, and that was quite a distance, but still found no sign of movement, so she decided to move.
Jumping down, she made her way through dark alleyways, until she reached the outskirts of town. Another harsh wind blew her hair into her eyes, circling around her and making her very chilled and uncomfortable; it began to rain again. The wind carried the droplets of water in some odd direction, some landing on Kairi's pale cheeks and pallid suit.
All of a sudden, the bushes rustled behind her, and Kairi quickly turned around to meet some sort of figure charging at her. She didn't have much of a time to react, so she met him with her fists, although it didn't seem like he was trying to attack her. Kairi fell down, the figure falling down on top, his blonde hair brushing her face.
"Cyrus!" Kairi exclaimed, overjoyed that she had found at least one of her comrades. He looked up at her sheepishly, and quickly got up, giving her a helping hand, which Kairi took gratefully.
"Sorry 'bout that Kai. Ya see, I kinda ran into some—"
"Trouble?" Finished a voice not to far away from Cyrus. Both assassins glared in the direction it came from, and saw three shapes emerge from the very depths of the shadows that the trees produced. Of course, it was none other than the assassins of Aiden, the famous black braid dude, the spiky blonde hair dude, and the spiky brown hair dude.
"Sora?" Kairi whispered to herself silently, almost immediately assuming the assassin was her friend. She shook her head, rapidly getting the queer thought out of her system.
"Heh, looks like your outnumbered," glowered the guy with spiky blonde hair.
"It wouldn't matter if it were 10 to 2. We'd still kick your lame asses," Kairi shot back, already burning with hate for them. The three enemies grinned non-visible smiles, and laughed rudely.
"Let's see if your skills are as great as your ego," scoffed the man with the black braid, him and his companions readying themselves for an attack. Kairi's eyes flicked over to Cyrus, who nodded his head discretely and the two assassins ran at the men. Kairi ended up charging at the boy that resembled Sora, and Cyrus at the other two. Kairi brought down a powerful kick to start off the intense battle, the boy blocking it with his two arms, forcing her to flip backwards.
As soon as Kairi's feet hit the ground, the boy was coming at her again, and she didn't have much time to react, so she blocked his thrown punches aimlessly. Suddenly, an immense amount of pressure was felt in her foot, and she found that he had stomped on it…hard. Not expecting this, she almost tripped, but not before whapping the boy upside the head, although he did managed to trip Kairi, and she fell down on her back. Unexpectedly, a dagger came whizzing at her head, and she barely moved in time, the weapon hitting the ground with a sharp thud.
Kairi immediately looked fiercely over to the man who threw it, who happened to be the man with the black braid. His eyes gleamed mischievously, but it didn't last long, for Cyrus came in and high kicked him in the temple. Laughing, Kairi got up, only to be knocked down again by the brown hair kid's foot. She rolled over as he threw another punch, crushing the ground with tremendous force. Flipping back up on her feet, she whipped out her knife and threw it at him, following it as it flew at the boy. Astonishingly he wasn't totally prepared, and Kairi perceived it grazed his side, for it started to bleed mildly.
Kairi slid on her knees and impelled her leg out, attempting a low circle kick to hit him in the knees. He jumped to avoid it, in the process giving Kairi an advantage. Seizing this opportunity, she quickly recovered ground, and ran at him with speed like no other, jabbing him in the chest and knocking him down by punting his legs. He was once again on the ground, and Kairi smirked in victory.
This joyous moment did not last long, for in a sudden shift, a sharp and intense pain shot through her leg. She looked down and found a dagger resting in her thigh, and she moaned in pain. The boy was starting to get up now, and by looking at her state, she swore he was smiling. He did not throw it, for it was plainly obvious that the spiky blonde hair chap threw it. He had escaped from his battle with Cyrus and was leaning against a tree, his hand in the same position as it would be if he were throwing something. This did not last long either, and he was soon caught up in another combat with braid dude and Cyrus.
Kairi yanked out the protruding blade from her leg and cringing, tossed it to the side. During this time however, the boy had already gotten up, and was running to her. Not prepared at all, he punched her across the face, and she was thrown backwards. Without hesitating, he leaned over her, and grabbing her collar, punched her again. Kairi's cheeks were burning, and before he could punch another time, she slid out from under him. It was a very difficult task picking herself up, but she managed. She wanted to kill the boy…badly. But she couldn't help thinking of where Vincent had gone, and where the hell Tifa could be. Yes, there were only three of Aiden's assassins, so Tifa was probably battling the fourth, but that left Vincent and Aiden alone.
"Where is he? Where did your boss take mine?" Kairi demanded, resting on one knee.
"Fool, he's probably dead by now…" the boy replied, taking a couple of dangerous steps closer to Kairi. "You are pathetic to even imagine your boss would still be alive after fighting us."
"You're wrong! I'll kill you!" Kairi yelled angrily, refusing to believe Vincent was hurting, or maybe even dead. The boy laughed.
"Not if I kill you first."
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