Daydreams in Summertime

A/N: Chapter two, yaaaaay! I'm sorry for the long update. This school year's busy. X.x Also, in case some of you didn't know, Leon from KH2 is Squall from FFVIII. I prefer to call him "Squall" instead of "Leon" in this fic because it sounds cooler. XB

Disclaimers: 1.) I do not own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy, not any of its characters and setting. That's is copyrighted to Squaresoft. 2.) I did not make up the song "Play Ball," (AKA "track six") as it is written and sung by Utada Hikaru and produce by… Toshiba-Emi records, I think? 3.) And the most important one of all – I am not a doctor nor do I study anything in the medical field. Sure, I did a little research to make this fic more realistic, but just because I have included things about amnesia, the fugue state and D.I.D. does not necessarily mean that the info I provide in this fanfic is accurate. If you want to know more about this kind of stuff, ask a doctor or an expert… because I have no concrete knowledge on this stuff and I have no background in the medical career. Besides, I just got most of the information on google and wikipedia dot com. -.-

Thank you for your time – READ ON!

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Chapter Two – A Misunderstanding

"YES! Junior year over and finished with!" Selphie cheered, "It's vacation time – WOOOOHH! God, I love the last days of school! Goodbye homework, hello Destiny Island beaches!" She jumped up and down and skipped ahead of Riku and Kairi as they exited the school.

"Geez, calm down," Riku said. "We have beaches on all sides of this island. They're nothing that special."

Selphie stopped and turn around. "Oh pish! You guys have lived here for nearly all your lives! I grew up in a place with endless field everywhere with crap-beaches that aren't as lush and tropical here!"

"Oh, Selphie," Kairi chuckled, "You've lived here for more than three years already, haven't you?"

"Exactly," Riku said, "You think she'd get used to salty air by now."

"Oh, stop complaining!" Selphie replied, "I plan to get a tan this summer. You can just go ahead and stay pale since you're boring and stay inside all the time!"

"What did you say!" Riku growled. Selphie laughed and ran farther away to hide behind a coconut tree. Riku sighed, but Kairi chuckled softly.

"Don't mind her, Riku. She's just the teasing-type. She doesn't mean it," she said.

"Yeah, yeah, I know, but I intend to think that she means every word she says anyway," he replied. Kairi laughed sheepishly, but then brushed it off with a warm smile. Riku smiled back, his facing turning a little pink but Kairi didn't notice. Before Riku could say anything, Kairi suddenly stopped short when she heard two familiar voices.

"What's wrong?" Riku asked, but Kairi didn't answer. Instead, her gaze was locked onto something – or rather, someone. Riku turned to see Sora and Namine hugging and talking to each other; they looked a little sad. Kairi assumed it was because the end of school meant that Namine would have to go away soon.

"I'll miss you so much," Namine said. She looked up at Sora and kissed him on the lips – Kairi's heart stopped and the spout of jealousy she had quickly diminished and turned into waves of aching sadness and yearning. All of a sudden, Riku grabbed her forearm without a word and started to drag her to where Selphie was, leading her away from the scene. Kairi looked back, but by then they weren't kissing any longer.

"Stop looking," Riku told her, and Kairi obediently looked forward, only to see Selphie climbing down from the coconut tree with a coconut in her hand.

"Hey, guys! Look what I got!" she called out, holding up her coconut proudly as if it were a trophy.

"What the heck were you doing?" Riku asked. He released Kairi, and she automatically glanced behind her; Sora and Namine were already walking away as they both held hands.

"What does it look like? I got a coconut! Good thing I wore spandex under my skirt today!" she said. Riku shook his head and shrugged, then worriedly looked at Kairi who just stared at the ground.

"I'll drive you home, Kairi," Riku said softly. Kairi looked up and nodded graciously.

"Thanks, Riku," she said.

"Hey!" Selphie hollered, "I need a ride home too, you know!"

"And we'll bring the monkey and her coconut too," he added.

"What did you say!" Selphie retorted. Riku laughed as she lightly hit Riku on the shoulder with her coconut. Kairi laughed along with them, happy to know that her friends would always be there to cheer her up. They went their way toward the school parking lot. "Hey, why do we all have to go home? Let's party at Perly's and hang out!"

"You mean that icecream place that opened up last month?" Kairi recalled.

"Yeah, I hear their icecream's mad bangin'!" Selphie replied.

"HAHA. Bangin'? Did you just say bangin'?" Riku asked. Selphie only laughed in response. The three of them merrily went into Riku's car, headed toward Perly's.

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Kairi's eyes shot opened as a series of ear-splitting beeps rang from her alarm clock. Groaning, she brought her hand down hard on the clock's "stop" button to shut it up, only letting the fan's constant humming continue on. She looked at the time – it was 9 in the morning. She laid in bed for 10 minutes before really waking up as the fan by her bed kept her hair out of her face.

Hmm… a dream of the past, she thought. Yawning, she rolled out of bed and out of her room, not bothering to change out of her big shirt and shorts. She knocked on her brother's door, as she already knew it was locked.

"Squaaall," she called out. "Squall, are you up?" No response. "Can I use your car?"

"No," he replied, his voice muffled from behind the door.

"Please?" she insisted, "I'll come right back home after I'm done. It'll be really quick."

There was a long pause before the door was unlocked. Squall opened it, appearing to be only in his boxers with messed up hair. He put his finger up to his lips.

"Shh." Squall pointed at his bed and there, Kairi saw some girl in his bed under the covers, probably naked. Kairi gave her older brother a surprised, disgusted and discontented look. "She's sleeping," he said.

"You're gross!" she whispered back, wondering how their dad, who was already at work by the time, could stay oblivious to this.

"I thought you liked Rinoa," he said. "I don't want you driving my car. Where are you going?"

"To the hospital," she said, "Unless you want to drop me off there again, but I wouldn't have a ride back this time."

"Who are you visiting again?" he asked skeptically.

"I told you yesterday – my friend who got into a car accident."

Squall thought for a moment as he stared back at her suspiciously. He sighed and retreated back into his room. The door was left opened, but Kairi dared not to go in knowing her brother's girlfriend was sleeping naked in there. Shortly after, Squall came back with his car keys in hand.

"Come back as soon as possible," he instructed, handing her the keys. A big smile spread across Kairi's face as she held his keys graciously.

"Thank you!" she said, and she went back to her room to change. She put on a simple pink tee and white Capri's, grabbed her purse, and trotted down the stairs after briefly thanking her brother again. After brushing her hair and without even bothering to eat first, she was already out the door.

She hopped in her brother's red car and, putting her purse on the passenger's seat, she inserted the key in the ignition and turned on the engine. The music turned on and right away Kairi recognized it – Utada Hikaru's "Deep River" album. It was the beginning of track six; although Kairi wasn't really into listening to music in different languages, she liked the melody of the intro and decided to keep the song playing. She changed the gears into drive mode and made her way toward the hospital.

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Kairi anxiously approached the hospital room where Sora was as she walked through the wide hallway; she was alone now without the presence of Riku and Selphie, who always stuck with her. Kairi sighed at the fact that the two of them were able to handle things fine on their own while she was always the shy one that had no backbone. She wondered if perhaps that was what naturally happens when a girl grows up with two protective older brothers.

Before she went in, she heard someone talking inside the room. It was a male voice, different from Dr. Ansem and Sora's dad. If she heard correctly, the voice had a Besaid accent. She peeked in to see someone standing at the foot of Sora's bed – he was tan with orange hair that stood upward with a blue headband that crowned around his head. He was tall and his protruding hairdo made him look taller. She gasped and drew her head back, realizing that it was Sora's other best friend, Wakka. She looked right and left as if she were looking for a place to hide.

Wait a minute, chill out, she thought to herself. Maybe Wakka doesn't know me and think I'm his cousin or something. She waited outside near the door, thinking if maybe this would become a tradition each time she'd visit.

"I'm sorry, man, but I don't think you'll wake up soon enough to see me off at the airport," Wakka said from inside the room. "I'll be takin' off to the Besaid tomorrow mornin'… Man, this sucks… I can't even go to Tidus' funeral this weekend. I can't believe he's gone, you know? Us three, we were best friends…"

Oh, thank God I'm not the only one who talks to unconscious people, she thought to herself. Realizing that she was listening-in on Wakka's personal talk with the unconscious Sora, Kairi hit her forehead for accidentally eavesdropping again.

"Hey, Sora," Wakka continued, "When I get back here, you better not be stuck in depression."

Silence met Kairi's ears after that. Before she could peek into the room, Wakka came out and stopped short when he saw Kairi. She stared back puzzled at his surprised expression. Why was he so taken aback?

"Uh… aren't you Kairi?" he asked. Kairi bit her lip nervously.

"Y-yes," she warily replied.

"Oh. Too bad he's not awake to see this," he thought aloud as he held his chin. Kairi tilted her head confusedly.

"What?" she asked.

"Oh, nothin'," he replied with a big grin. "You a friend of 'is?" He gestured his thumb to the room, probably suggesting that he meant Sora.

"I—I guess," she responded timidly. Suddenly, Wakka placed his large hand upon Kairi's head, her posture automatically stiffened as he playfully ruffled her hair neatly combed hair. Frozen from shock, she didn't fight back but gave him a bewildered look after he was done. "W-what was that ?" she cried as she frantically, trying to put her hair in place again. He let out a booming laugh.

"Hey, you are pretty cute!" he decided. Completely lost, Kairi could only stare back at him, half-traumatized. She didn't even know him, and here he was playing mind-games on her. "Oh, what's wrong? I'm not THAT scary, am I?" he smirked. "Well, I gotta get goin'. See you 'round, Kairi!" And with that, he left. Still in shock and utter confusion, she just stood there, not knowing what the heck to think.

"R-right…" she mumbled.

Kairi hurriedly went in Sora's room, too weirded out (a/n: "weirded" isn't a word, but that's okay) to feel nervous about seeing him alone anymore. There, she saw Sora in the same position with all bandages still in place. Nothing obvious has changed from yesterday.

"Sora," she called out, "You've got such bizarre friends." She sat down in the chair next to him. "I'm sorry – I heard what he was saying… how he was going to Besaid this summer. I didn't mean to overhear. But the first thing I thought was that I was grateful that I wasn't the only person who's talked to you while you're out cold." She chuckled at herself then sighed. She looked at him, his cheek looking as if it were nearly consumed by the white linen pad – he must've had a huge opened wound there. Before she began to talk again, she heard footsteps come into the room. A female figure appeared next to her, and Kairi immediately looked and stood up.

It was Sora's mom.

"Ah… I…" Kairi was at a loss of words, only retrieving nothing from her blank thoughts as she tried to think up of some kind of explanation. Sora's mother was relatively young, her brown hair tied up in a high-ponytail and dressed in a blue dress with purple flowers that graced the collar and skirt. She looked stressed, and her eyes showed that she had no sleep. She spoke first.

"Excuse me, but are you…" she hesitated. "Are you Sora's girlfriend?"

"Huh?" Kairi, again, was at a loss of words. "Um, I think – I m-mean, I'm actually, uh—"

"Oh, it's alright," she said, giving her a strained smile. "You don't have to hide it from us anymore. Just minutes ago, Wakka's mother told me about you."

"W-what?"

"Yes," she confirmed, "It's… Namine, right? I saw you yesterday – you waited for us to finish our time with Sora. That was very considerate of you… thank you for that." Kairi only gave her a baffled look, her vocal chords paralyzed from not knowing what to do or say. Sora's mom switched her gaze toward her son. "Sora… he never really opened up to me. He never told me anything… w-we always argue about little th-things… I-I'm sure you heard from yesterday, but…"

"M-ma'am!" Kairi squeaked. Sora's mom looked at her with eyes filled with sadness and worry over her son. A chill ran down Kairi's spine from gazing into those eyes similair to Sora's. "I—I-I'm s-s-sorry! I—I'm so very—really, truly—b-but—!" she stuttered.

"I'm sorry for interrupting…" said a low voice. Kairi and Sora's mother turned to see Dr. Ansem. "…But I must speak with Mrs. Kamaya. So, Mrs. Kamaya, if you would please step out here…"

"Oh! Y-yes…" she replied. Kairi gawked at Dr. Ansem with agonizingly distressed signals as if to ask him 'Why in God's name did you interrupt me you wicked spawn of Satan?' but Dr. Ansem failed to notice the indication.

Kairi turned back to Sora as he laid in bed, seemingly without a care in the world. She groaned and cursed under her breath, and Kairi never cursed unless she really meant it. She frenetically looked around as if she'd find any kind of solution to this matter. Great! Now she think I'm Namine! Kairi looked in her purse and grabbed her cellphone to call Selphie or Riku for help. When she flipped it opened, her heart dropped – her phone was dead.

"Crap!" she whispered. She stuffed her cellphone back in her bag and placed it on the chair. She bit her lip and nervously looked out the door, seeing that Sora's mom was still talking to the doctor. Her heart was racing, pumping furiously; she didn't know what to do and had difficulty keeping calm – when suddenly…

"…uuh…"

Someone groaned. Kairi looked at Sora; she froze.

"Ugh…" Sora garbled, barely able to move. He cringed in pain with his eyes tightly shut as if he had difficulty opening them. Finally, his eyelids peeked opened until his blue eyes were visible. He looked up at Kairi with half opened eyes, his pupils a little red, but still had a captivating stare. Kairi could only gape back in denial.

"S-Sora…" she said, "Sora's awake! Sora's awake!"

Sora's mom and Dr. Ansem rushed into the room right away.

"Sora?" his mom cried. "Sora! My baby's awake!" She nearly fell on her knees crying as she leaned over the bed. Kairi stepped back to give her room, but noticed that Sora lacked any sort of emotional reaction – just lethargy and a blank gaze. It was only a matter of seconds before Sora's mom started to sob uncontrollably. "You're okay! My son is alright!" she chanted.

"How are you feeling, Sora?" Dr. Ansem asked. Sora only looked back at Dr. Ansem with a puzzled, groggy expression, unsure whether he was being spoken to or not. "I said, how are you feeling?" he repeated.

"…Where am I?" he asked. His head was throbbing as he winced in pain but was for some reason unable to lift his arm up without struggling. He tried to get up, only to painfully fall back on the pillow.

"No! You must rest, don't get up," Mrs. Kamaya pleaded. Sora groaned in agony; Kairi clutched onto her purse, wishing she could do something to ease his suffering.

"Your body must be sore, so don't move for now," Dr. Ansem said. "You've also experienced a small blow to the head – painful, but it's nothing serious."

"It's alright, Sora, I'm here for you," Mrs. Kamaya told him, caressing his cheek. Sora only gave her a perplexed look.

"…Who are you?" he asked. Kairi, Dr. Ansem and Mrs. Kamaya paused; time seemed to stop with a deafening silence.

"W-what?" his mom asked. "Sora, what did you…?"

"Sora…?" he repeated, "That's not my name… my name's…" he trailed off, giving himself a moment to remember his name. Suddenly, a blunt, aching tremor gave way in his head and he flinched and moaned. He strained to move his hand up to his temple, his fingertips barely touching the bandage that covered his forehead. Sora slowly opened his eyes again to look at his mother who seemed just as confused as he was but then saw Kairi behind her, their eyes meeting for the second time. Suddenly, he hand fell on his chest and his muscles went limp.

"Sora? Sora!" his mom cried.

"It's alright, he just fell asleep," Dr. Ansem assured.

Kairi felt like her guts were churning, wondering what had just happened.

"What happened, doctor? Why doesn't my son remember me?" Mrs. Kamaya demanded. Dr. Ansem went over to Sora and placed his hand on his head and neck to check for his temperature, then checked Sora's pulse and breathing. When all seemed clear, Dr. Ansem took a step back and held his chin.

"Perhaps, some form of amnesia," he thought.

"What?" said Mrs. Kamaya and Kairi in unison.

"However, I cannot diagnose anything until he wakes up again," Dr. Ansem explained. "He just happened to show symptoms of amnesia. Then again, depending on what kind of amnesia, maybe a minor retrograde, he may be able to already remember things the next time he wakes up. I highly doubt it to be anterograde amnesia."

"…Huh?" Kairi mumbled. She and Mrs. Kamaya merely stared back at him as he continued to hold his chin in wonder, unable to reciprocate anything he had just said.

"Doctor, I have no clue what you are saying!" Mrs. Kamaya yelled.

"Oh! Yes, excuse me," he said. He cleared his throat before beginning. "Anterogradeamnesia… is when new events are not transferred to long-term memory, so the individual will not be able to remember anything that occurs after the beginning of this type of amnesia for more than a few moments – Just think of it as a bad case of short-term memory loss. And so in contrast, there is retrograde amnesia, where someone won't be able to recall events that occurred before the start of the amnesia. In other words, if Sora here had retrograde amnesia, he would not remember anything before the accident – not where he was going, not why, nothing."

"S-so my baby has this retrograde amnesia?" Mrs Kamaya asked.

"Well, no, that's not the case," Dr. Ansem said. "Traumatic amnesia is when the cause is generally due to head injury. The duration of the amnesia is related to the degree of injury and may give an indication of the prediction for recovery of other functions. Mild trauma, like perhaps the car accident he was in, could have just resulted in no more than mild whiplash that might cause him to have no memory of the moments just before the accident. This is due to a brief interruption in the short or long-term memory transfer mechanism." Dr. Ansem looked at Sora. "However, Sora's head injury shouldn't be so bad as to give him amnesia, and he doesn't seem to have any signs of whiplash."

"So, what's wrong with him, doctor?" Sora's mom asked.

"I said already, I can't diagnose anything until he wakes up again," the doctor replied. "We'll find out in due time. I'm sure he'll be back to normal again when he's back. To have serious retrograde amnesia, he would have to have something lodged in his head, in which would require operation. Fortunately for him, our x-ray scans hold no evidence of anything penetrating through his skull. But for now, I can't guarantee you anything."

Mrs. Kamaya switched glances between Dr. Ansem and her son. Biting her lip, tears started to form in her eyes. Kairi bit her lip, feeling concern and sorry for Sora's mother. She also still felt a little clueless, as she had absorbed only half of what the doctor just said.

"Doctor," a nurse said from outside the room, her head poking in, "You're needed on floor number three."

"Excuse me, I must leave," the doctor said, stating the obvious. "I'll assign another nurse to look out for his recovery every so often as soon as I can." And with that, Dr. Ansem left the room.

Kairi sighed, concluding that Dr. Ansem was some kind of great rambling doctor that could rant for hours until end. She switched glances with Mrs. Kamaya and they both smiled awkwardly at each other.

"I'm sorry that you had to see me like this…" Mrs. Kamaya apologized.

"Oh, no, it's not a problem!" Kairi said. "Really, it isn't…"

Mrs. Kamaya got up from her knees and started to tuck Sora in, back to his original position. Kairi immediately went to the other side of the bed and helped her tuck him in. She looked up at the teen in surprise then nodded graciously.

"Thank you, dear… you're so polite," she complimented.

"N-no, that's not true…" Kairi denied. After the two of them made sure that Sora was snug under the blanket, Kairi reached into her purse and took her cellphone out the check the time, but then remembered that it was dead.

"You know…" Mrs. Kamaya began, "When Wakka's mother told me that Sora had a girlfriend, I was wondering what she would be like. I never would've dreamed she would be so modest." Kairi laughed guiltily then looked down to avoid eye contact. Mrs. Kamaya spoke again before Kairi was able to muster up the courage to tell her that she wasn't Namine. "Surprisingly, his mother told me that Wakka claimed that you made Sora go into an exclusive relationship, and they weren't able to hang out as much because of it. I got a little worried hearing it but now that I've met you, I feel like that maybe it was Sora's fault for cutting off his friends."

"No! It's not Sora's fault…" Kairi said, naturally defending Sora's actions. Knowing that Riku went out with her, I bet Namine's only comfortable with exclusive relationships…

"Oh, don't say it's your fault, dear," Mrs. Kamaya replied. Kairi wanted to hit herself for forgetting that she was 'Namine' in his mother's eyes. "You seem social enough to let my son do his own thing."

"Yes, but…" Kairi thought of a moment as to how to reply. Mrs. Kamaya looked at her wristwatch.

"It's almost lunchtime… care to join me for lunch?" his mother asked.

Lunchtime? Kairi thought. "I'm sorry, but I have to be somewhere right now."

"Oh, do you?" she said. "Alright. Go ahead and do your errand."

"Thank you, ma'am," Kairi bowed. "It was a pleasure meeting you, Mrs. Kamaya."

"The pleasure I mine," Mrs. Kamaya asked. "And just call me Rin."

"Um, okay… Well, see you." Kairi made her way out the door, finally finding an escape from the awkwardness.

"Wait!" Rin called out. Kairi stopped and turned. "Thank you for being here, Namine…"

Kairi only stared back nervously, hesitating to take action a she saw this as an opportunity to correct Sora's mother about her identity. Come on! Just say, ' oh, about that ma'am, I'm sorry. I'm not Namine, and I'm not Sora's girlfriend,' she thought, urging herself. Kairi finally forced herself to open her mouth in reply.

"You're welcome," she mumbled.

And with great regret she left.

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a/n: I was going to make the chapter longer, but I think this is fine. X.x Again, sorry for the long wait. I hope Dr. Ansem's speech didn't bore you. TT-TT

ALSO. In case you didn't read the disclaimer up above (Which I hope you did, or just disclaimer #3 at least), the Utada Hikaru song that's playing in Squall's car, aka "Track Number 6"? That's the song called "Play Ball". Yes, it is a significant element in the chapter… then again maybe I should have used it in chapter three. O.o;

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