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Kairi stared out the window as if she had just witnessed an atrocious murder; her complexion pale and legs shaking. Forcing herself to turn around, Kairi erratically changed into her black attire, jogging down the steps as she whipped on her mask. She knew she had to chase after Sora, no doubt about it, but she sure felt disturbed having to do something like this.
Opening the door, Kairi dashed over to the portal, but almost came to a screeching halt before jumping into it. It looked menacing, erected in the middle of the street and swirling with violet miasma. She knew that the more reasonable thing to do was go fetch her comrades, but a little help from her conscious, pride and curiosity persuaded her to dive in.
The sensations that Kairi felt were overwhelming as she plummeted into the ghastly portal, every one of them having innumerable descriptions. She felt soothed, but wet, as if she had jumped into purple water. This did not last long however, for Kairi soon felt ground underneath her feet once again, the wet yet gentle sensation now gone, replaced by an anxious, threatening stiffness in the air.
As Kairi looked around, she found herself on a large wooden porch atop a rather large hill. Looking down, she figured she could just jump off and be at the outskirts of her town. Perplexed but relieved a little, Kairi turned around to find herself staring at a wooden house, to which the porch was attached to.
"Sora?" Kairi called, immediately regretting it afterward. Kairi, you dummy! Remember, he doesn't know you're an assassin, so don't yell anything! Besides, Aiden could be anywhere—
Kairi's thoughts were cut off by a yell, then following it were some painful grunts. At first she thought it came from down bellow, maybe a small fight taking place on the suburbs of town. However, as she listened closer, she realized the noises were coming from inside the odd house. Heart beating faster than she could count, Kairi quickly found the door that led to the interior of the house and pulled it open. The house was dull, rather normal looking actually, but Kairi didn't pay much mind to it as she listened hard for more groans.
Traversing through the house, Kairi discovered it had many rooms, some large, some small, and for every room she journeyed through, she became more and more confused as to what type of place it was. Finally, she found the source of the noise: a door. Well, a door that led into a room obviously, but as Kairi hurried to open it, she found that she couldn't for it was shut and strongly locked. She pushed and pulled, but to her luck she could not.
"DIE!"
Kairi immediately stopped her ruckus as she heard that word…that cold, heartless word. Shaking once again, Kairi tried twice as hard to get the door to move open, but it just was more stubborn than ever, and didn't budge.
Dreadful thoughts started to fill the poor girl's head as she furiously struggled to open the door, thoughts of who the people were inside the room in which she was so desperately attempting to get into. One thought she had was that it was Sora, which was quite reasonable, but she refused to believe it. Then she came across the idea it was her boss, Tifa and Cyrus. That was also reasonable, in fact, more realistic, but she got that thought out of her head quickly, comforting herself by saying that Tifa and Cyrus were doing a good job in protecting Vincent. It would be just horrible if Vincent were in there…he was so wounded that he could barely stand.
"Aw, shit," Kairi cursed, backing away from the heavily locked door, completely fed up with the whole scheme.
Running at full speed, Kairi back flipped, hitting the door with extreme force. Smirking as she heard a click radiate from the lock, Kairi simply punched the handle once again and the door opened easily. Laughing at how she had not thought of that before, she ran through, but immediately afterward wished she hadn't.
First off, let me just tell you how the room looked. It was nothing like Kairi had ever seen before, with two curving stairways at the sides, and a large floor area in the middle. Near the top was a balcony looking thing in which the two staircases led up to. It was apparent that there were vibrant colors etched into this panorama, however it was covered up with dust and other crud that Kairi really didn't pay attention to because her focus was on the man who had shouted the bloody, hateful word.
Aiden almost laughed with surprise and joy as he saw Kairi enter the room, her eyes wide with fear and anger.
"Well look who's just in time to watch her favorite man die!" Aiden laughed cruelly, his voice more malicious and thunderous than ever. Kairi was at first confused as to what her enemy was talking about until she saw the man that was half dragging on the ground and collar grasped by Aiden's white hand.
"Vincent!" Kairi screamed, sprinting over to the two bosses with a dagger raised and ready to strike Aiden's head. Oh how she would have loved to do that, if not for the assassin that prevented her from harming him. It was none other than the boy who looked strangely identical to Sora who jumped out of the shadows and blocked her, forcing her to bounce back to the ground.
"Out of my way," Kairi growled.
"Never," the boy responded with almost the same ferocity as Kairi.
"No! Let her watch," Aiden cackled again, raising his own knife which I might add, was very large, at least three times the size of Kairi's, to Vincent's chest. Not expecting this, the boy zipped around Kairi and bound her hands to her back while pinning her legs down so she could not run and attack Aiden, but watch what dreadful thing he was going to do next. Kairi thrashed like a wild animal, struggling to escape her foe's grasp, but it was no use for he had her pinned down extremely well.
"Kai…"
Kairi immediately stopped thrashing around as she heard her boss mutter her name. Looking up to him she could only feel pity and anger at the current state he was in. He looked…well, basically dead already, for he was bleeding and cut all over the place.
"Need to say any more goodbye's? Sorry to tell you, but I'm running a short program here, and there isn't all the time in the world," Aiden said, leering at Vincent slightly.
"Let him go! I'll kill you, you bastard!" Kairi screamed, trying once again to free herself from the assassin's grip.
Aiden seemed to find this very funny, for he started to laugh his horrible, cruel laugh that sounded even more horrible in this room because it echoed.
"As you wish," Aiden sneered, and he plunged the knife into Vincent's chest.
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"Good job!" Vincent applauded as the dagger hit the very center of the target. Kairi gave her boss a big smile as she retrieved the knife she had just thrown. It was a nice day, a fine day to go train in the middle of the fields.
"Nu-uh. I can do better than that," Tifa smirked, and she lined up five different daggers between her fingers. Putting on a serious face (that Kairi always thought looked so cool) she twirled around, all the while the daggers spitting out of her graceful throws and stabbing the target dead center.
"Nice," Cyrus commented. Kairi snorted, and the rest of the day, the two females were competing against one another. Kairi knew she wasn't nearly as good as Tifa, for she was only in 8th grade right now and Tifa was 17.
The assassins called it a day, and made their way back home, Tifa and Cyrus racing each other back to the house, leaving Kairi and Vincent to carry on their own conversation.
"So when are we going to fight the bad guys?" Kairi asked, practicing her punches as she continued to walk.
"Soon," Vincent replied. Kairi groaned.
"That's what you said last time! How soon is 'soon'?" She whined. Vincent laughed and gave Kairi a noggie.
"You're a natural assassin, huh Kai?" Vincent grinned as they neared Kairi's home. Kairi beamed up at him.
"You really think so?" She asked happily, awfully proud of that statement. Vincent nodded.
"Of course."
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Kairi screamed as soon as the knife made contact with Vincent's chest, and for some reason she found the strength to push herself away from the assassin and rush over to her boss. She picked him up and rested his head on her knee, tears already forming in her pale eyes.
"Vince…." Kairi mumbled while shaking him. "Vince…VINCENT!"
It was then when Kairi broke down in tears and buried her face in her boss's cloak, afraid to believe that this was all real. She had only felt this much rage, sorrow and regret one time before, when she had found her dead parents in her house.
"No…no," Kairi muttered, shaking and crying. Then she threw her head back and let out a strangled cry, all the while Aiden and the other assassin watching in amusement.
"I trust you to take care of her. She'll be easy, she's in so much grief she can't think straight," Aiden told the boy, and with a nod he exited the room, smiling at how he had caused someone so much pain.
Sniffling, Kairi gently laid her boss back on the bloody floor and stood up. She was shaking, both out of rage and misery as she turned to face the boy who was now glaring at her. Eyes blinded by fury and tears, Kairi rushed him, throwing a fist in his face. So quick was her movement that the boy was thrown back, startled at her strength.
"You're gonna regret ever being born when I'm through with you," Kairi spat menacingly, advancing on him. He picked himself up however, and the two met again, in the air. They both had jumped and burst through the roof, now fighting on top of the house. Kairi knew she was a lousy fighter right now, but the fact that her boss was now dead made her keep throwing tangled fists and kicks at the assassin.
Then the boy kicked her in the stomach, throwing her off balance and causing her to roll of the roof and drop onto the porch. He soon followed and pounced on her, but she rolled to the side. Flipping up, Kairi stepped onto the wall of the house and ran horizontally, dagger in hand, and threw herself at the boy, both of their daggers clashing together. The earth vibrated as the weapons continued to collide and draw apart, almost as if they were magnets. Finally Kairi got the better end and knocked his knife away, giving her a wide opening and taking the advantage eagerly. She grabbed his collar and jumped up, taking him with her and slamming him into the ground, then high kicking him in the chin and throwing him over the edge of the balcony.
Kairi sighed and brushed her hair off her shoulder, although even small movements like that were painful. Turning around, Kairi headed back to the door of the house…until a knife in the back stopped her.
Kairi gasped as she felt cold metal insert itself into her shoulder, and she turned around slowly.
The boy stood there, panting slightly, one of his hands in a throwing position, while the other grasped the balcony for support, but he seemed rather fine having been thrown off of a ledge. Kairi dropped onto her knees, cringing as she felt hot blood trickle down her back. A little scream escaped her lips as she pulled the knife out, and she tossed it to the side. It hurt like hell, but Kairi tried her best not to show it.
"You bastard," She snarled, attempting to lift herself up. The boy didn't respond, but sauntered over to her and blocked her feeble attempts to punch him. He grabbed her wrists and pushed her up against the wooden barrage of the house, and drove his knee into her stomach, making her gasp in pain.
"Now to see who you really are," he said, gripping her mask and tearing it off. A dumb silence was met when the black cloth was taken off of Kairi's face, the only noise heard was the sound of the fabric recoiling off of the porch and flying off in the distance, getting battered with rain and wind.
Kairi felt the boy's hands loosening their grip on hers, and as she turned to look at him, she saw his eyes wide open with fear and surprise. Suddenly irritated by his dumbstruck expression, she shoved him off of her, which was surprisingly easy considering he was an assassin.
"What is it? Am I too beautiful for you?" She mocked, grasping her shoulder again to hinder the pouring blood.
"Kai…" The boy muttered, staring at her for extensive, agonizing seconds. Kairi jumped as she heard the boy mumble her name…her nickname.
Confused and mad, Kairi retracted her hand, then shot forward, grabbing the assassin's mask and ripping it off, just as he had done to her. Startled that he hadn't blocked her or anything, Kairi stumbled away and looked up, and nearly fainted, gasped, screamed, and cried at the sight in front of her.
"Sora…"
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Yay! I finally finished that chapter, that took forever didn't it? Well I really hope you liked it, so plz review!