Hi again. Sorry I took a while to get this chapter done. See, hehe, I got Kingdom Hearts 2 and I was stuck with it for a while. But I finally beat it and I can get back to this! Forgive me, lol.
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Team 15 did practically the same thing Team 16 did, they unpacked their things and ate dinner before going to sleep on a platform. Since they were a bit behind schedule, it turned out that both teams had to stay another night! It wasn't boring, but they did not like the part of no showers and no changing clothing.
"Ok, today we are going to focus on Teamwork. We're going to do activities that involve each and every one of you. You have to act like the team you are, ok?", Kevin said as the team got ready to go out.
"Teamwork?", Riku asked a little disappointed at how boring it was going to be.
"Yes, teamwork. We're going to be doing that all day", Kevin grinned. Everyone groaned loudly and started to complain under their breaths.
"Great", Jay said loudly in sarcasm.
"Oh come on, you haven't even tried it yet, so don't start complaining", Kevin said as he started to walk on the path. "Let's go guys". He was carrying a big bag, very weird.
"I wonder what kind of teamwork stuff we're gonna have to do", Jasmine sighed. "And we're gonna be here ANOTHER day. I wonder how Sora and Kairi are doing", Riku groaned and slouched as he started to walk with the others.
Jasmine shrugged. "Hey, well at least we didn't get…what's her name? Catherine, right?", Riku asked.
"Oh, I know. Thank-", Jasmine stopped talking. Riku raised his eyebrows and turned to his side to see why she stopped talking. "Uh, Jasmine?", Riku asked.
"Riku…what's that?", Jasmine whispered loud enough for him to hear. Jasmine pointed one shaky finger to the trees on her side. Riku looked closely.
Riku gasped. Through the darkness in the trees, there were what looked like black, long…hair that were snaking in the air. And in the center of all that were horribly white eyes.
"I-I-It's…No, it can't be her. She c-c-can only stay in the haun-n-nted woods. H-H-How could she have c-c-come here?", Jasmine studdered.
"There's no way; she doesn't have enough power to get here on her own. Max told us that she doesn't have much power, but she does enough to kill", Riku said in a whisper.
Jasmine grabbed onto Riku's arm forcefully, causing him to stop. The team went on without them.
"Riku…those are Heartless and Nobodies around her!", Jasmine exclaimed in shock. Riku took a step back. The Dusks and shadows were around the possesed hair (I finally got KH2, yay).
"How did they end up over here? It's not possible!", Riku said with disbelief.
"We can't fight them; we have to go with the team, Riku", Jasmine yelled, grabbing his arm more urgently. "We have to; it's the only way to protect ourselves and the others", Riku explained.
"Riku, I am not taking no for an answer. Come on", Jasmine pulled Riku, running towards the others.
"Jasmine, we have the power to fight them. Both of us have keyblades", Riku said, yet he didn't pull away from her grasp; he just let her keep pulling him.
"I know we do, but not now", Jasmine responded. Riku sighed and didn't bother to argue with her. Even though he only knew her for a few days, he knew by now that she was very stubborn and would not take no for an answer.
"Riku! Jasmine! What happened? You have to stick with the group", Kevin's voice came to their ears.
Both stopped to see everyone staring at them. Kevin looked like he wanted an answer.
"Well…see…", Riku stammered.
"I forgot my waterbottle! Riku came with me to get it, that's all", Jasmine said quickly after.
"Oh, well you should've just said so. Come on, I was just about to explain the rules to our first game", Kevin smiled.
Jasmine and Riku sighed quietly in relief and went up with the rest of the team. When Kevin was about to speak, a coucelor approached them. Kevin turned to see her.
"Hello Alexandra, what brings you here?", Kevin asked.
"Molly sent me here; it seems that two of the girls in her cabin were being awful and she sent them into your teams. One is with Team 16, but one has to be here. They have to be seperated, she told me", Alexandra said.
Jasmine's green eyes went wide. Alexandra had the very girl she hated more than anyone next to her. That very girl named Catherine gave her the revenge look on her.
Team 16…"Namine?", Sora and Kairi groaned.
"Hello again. I bet you were having an awful time without me, so I begged them to let me come with all of you", Namine smiled innocently.
"Oh yeah, we missed you so much", Kairi crossed her arms angrily.
"I know; and I know that Sora missed me the most, right?", Namine grinned.
"Didn't Catherine tell you that Kairi's my girlfriend?", Sora replied as he quickly held Kairi in his arms. She was not going to ruin anything else.
"Yes she told me, and I'm very aware of that", Namine said before flipping her hair and turning towards Roxas. "Roxas, I need to talk to you", she said with a serious tone.
"Poor Roxas, he's sure in for whatever she's angry at", Sora said quietly. Kairi nodded.
"Roxas, hey Roxas!", Namine called out as she walked towards him.
"Hi Namine", Roxas smiled.
"Can you help me out, please? I have a plan working up in my head", Namine glared towards Kairi.
Roxas sighed. Here we go again. "What do you have in mind?", Roxas asked nonetheless.
"Actually...I still don't know. I'm working on it, though", Namine whispered.
Roxas closed his eyes shut; he was hurt. No one could possibly know what was happening in his heart. It hurt him everytime she spoke of getting rid of Kairi or just plain Sora. It was like a knife would stab his heart everytime she would speak of it. Even though he didn't notice, his face looked like he was about to cry, or was in pain.
"Roxas? Are you ok?", Namine asked, her voice deep with concern (for once).
Roxas realized what he was doing and opened his eyes. He cleared his throat and looked at her with his normal face. "I'm ok; now come on, Max is about to talk".
Namine raised her eyebrow for a minute but then shrugged and went with the rest of the team.
"Alright, Team 16, the first thing in teamwork is trust", Max grinned. Everyone looked at him a little worried.
"I am going to pick 4 people; and they will be the people everyone else has to trust. Everyone else will be blindfolded and will be in a line. You will grab onto the shoulders of the one in front of you. You must trust the 4 people I chose to not let you bump into anything as we walk through the trail", Max explained.
"Are you serious? I don't wanna bump into anything. I can't trust them", Namine said outloud. Everyone glared at her, and she only smiled nervously.
"Ok then, you'll be one of the people unblindfolded; with Nigel, Albert, and Wendy. Namine, you go in front; Nigel, you go in back; and Wendy and Albert, you go on the sides. And since you're in the front, Namine, you just haveto follow me. Don't worry about getting lost.Now I want all of you to get a blindfold and get in line", Max explained.
"I can't trust Namine, she'll probably lead me to asite of poisonous snakes or something", Kairi whispered.
"Have no fear, cause I'm here! I'll make sure that she doesn't do anything to you. I'll be grabbing your shoulders and we'll just make sure you're not first", Sora gave her his signature playful grin.
"Haha! Ok, thanks Sora", Kairi laughed. Sora smiled wider and gave her a blindfold.
Sora grabbed Kairi's shoulders and put her in back of Roxas, who was first. "There, now nothing can happen", Sora smiled and put on his blindfold, as Kairi did too. Soon, the rest of the team did the same. They grabbed onto each others' shoulders and the unblindfolded people got in their positions.
"Alright, onward", Max said.
"Ok, just follow my lead and nothing will go wrong", Namine said as she started to walk through the trail.
Team 16 walked through the trees and on a single dirt path. The line stopped after a while because the one single path headed towards four new paths.
"Which way, Max?", Namine asked.
"This way; oh, hold on. I have a call", Max said.
No one listened, though. They only let go of their shoulders and started to talk or just stand there, laughing. And this gave Namine an idea. She walked over to where Kairi was and poked her arm.
"Huh?", Kairi was about to take off the blindfold, but Namine kept it on her.
"Max wants to see you", Namine said.
Hearing this, Roxas took off the blindfold and looked back. He knew that tone in her voice; he knew her all too well.
"Well, can't I take off my blindfold?", Kairi asked.
"This is still a teamwork thing; you have to trust me, ok?", Namine said.
Kairi hesitated, but then walked a little towards her. Namine put her hands on Kairi's shoulders and started to lead her to the one on the right side; opposite of the one they were going to.
Namine turned her head towards Roxas, who mouthed, 'What are you doing?'. Namine only grinned evily and kept on walking, leading Kairi away from the group.
Namine reached another place where the road went to many ways. Namine spinned Kairi around quickly.
"Namine, you lying slut! What are you doing?", Kairi yelled as Namine kept spinning her and spinning her.
"I'm just getting what I want, bitch", Namine said before pushing her forward and running back towards the group.
Kairi quickly got up and took off the blindfold only to gasp. There were about 5 roads and she didn't see Namine or anyone at all. She heard a branch crack.
"He-e-ello?", Kairi stammered. A pair of shadows came out from the trees and walked towards her. Kairi's eyes went wide and quickly made her Keyblade appear.
"Get away from me!", Kairi screamed and weilded the keyblade.
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Sora sensed that she wasn't near him anymore and reached his hand out to find no Kairi. "Kairi? Kairi", Sora said, walking forward with his hands out-stretched.
"I'm right here, Sora", Namine said, coming back from the path and making her voice sound like Kairi's.
"How come you didn't answer me?", Sora asked with suspicion.
"Sorry, I was talking with Wendy", Namine said.
"Oh, um…ok", Sora replied.
Something was different. Sora sensed something different about Kairi. He tried to take off the blindfold to see if it was really her, but a hand stopped him.
"We're gonna go in a while, Sora", Namine said.
"Then why did you take off yours?", Sora scooted her hand away and took off the blindfold. "Roxas?", Sora asked Roxas, who was standing in front of him.
"Hi Sora", he said nervously.
Namine was in back of Roxas, thankful that he was able to cover all of her body so Sora wouldn't see.
"Where'd Kairi go?", Sora asked, leaning his head to the sides.
"She's talking to Max. Put on the blindfold; we're gonna go right now", Roxas said.
Sora raised his eyebrows in suspicion. "Ok, I guess", Sora said and put his blindfold back on.
Namine took Roxas' hand and pulled him away from Sora. "Thanks Roxas. Can you do me a big favor? Tell Max that you're switching with me and give me your blindfold so he can think that I'm Kairi", Namine explained.
"Where's Kairi? That was sorta low, you know", Roxas said, hoping she would go back for Kairi.
"It's not like this is the Amazon; they'll find her eventually", Namine said.
"And what about Sora? He's going to find out when we take the blindfolds off", Roxas asked.
"Oh just calm down, ok? Can you please do me that favor?", Namine gave him the cutest smile she had.
Of course he couldn't resist. "Ok, I guess", Roxas smiled. Then he blushed seeing that she was still holding his hand. Namine noticed his blush and then let go of his hand, blushing a little as well. But Roxas knew it wasn't like that. He quickly left towards Max to leave Namine get her plan together.
Namine ran over to Sora and put on the blindfold. "Ok, sorry. I'm back", Namine said.
She felt his arms go around her from the back. "How come you left? I missed you", Sora said.
Namine grinned. Her plan was working. Even though this was only for a little while, she wanted him to get used to her. He's going to be mine, she thought.
"Hey Kairi, your hair smells different. It usually smells like cinnoman, but now it smells like strawberries", Sora said.
"Uh…see…when I went to the showers…I forgot my shampoo, so I borrowed Jasmine's", Namine quickly said.
"Oh, ok. Don't forget it next time cause I like that shampoo", Sora laughed a little and held onto her tighter.
When Roxas turned from telling Max, now it felt like a million knifes stabbed his heart. The one he loved in the arms of another. It made him feel worse because he helped; he helped himself to become in misery and pain at this sight.
He made a silent promise to himself that the next time Namine asked him to do anything to separate Kairi and Sora, he would say no. He would not give into any of her faces or words.
With hesitation, he walked towards them. "Sora…Kairi-", he said, looking at Namine with the 'He's gonna know you're not Kairi' look, "-we're leaving already".
"Ok", Sora responded with a smiled and put his hands on her shoulders.
Namine reached out and grabbed Roxas' shoulders. One single tear fell down his cheek. I hope one day, you'll put your hands on my shoulders because you love me…like I do… He loved her so much…it hurt.
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Poor Roxas. He's crying for Namine, and she doesn't care. Let's see if he'll ever have the guts to tell her how he feels.
What if something happens to Kairi? I mean, she isn't really a pro with the keyblade. And it's even more dangerous because Kikyo is in those same woods. You'll just have to stick around and wait for all of these answers my friends. Mwahahahaha!
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