I'm back with a new chapter, sorry to have taken longer that I first thought but I was a bit busy. Anyway, here's the chapter.

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Kingdom Hearts: Slave of Love Revised

Ch.8 Problems at School

Sora was half-asleep as he made his way to Kairi's. After a grueling day of work, having to clean, wash clothes and do various tasks around the utility building, Sora had pretty much fainted after, luckily, finding a bed to sleep in. The rooms were tiny in comparison to Kairi's but he really didn't complain, he didn't have the time to.

'I wonder what I'll have to do today…' he wondered as he entered the building of the dormitories.

It was true that he had been feeling a bit depressed before going to sleep but he decided to take things day by day. If he wanted to escape then he would need to do so in a clear head since just going with it would get him caught. He didn't really know when exactly he would make his move but he knew that he couldn't do it too early since Leon would probably be on high alert the next few days.

He was brought out of his thoughts when seeing that he made it to Kairi's room. His eyes squinted on the wooden door, already feeling annoyed at the spoiled girl that lived in the place. They had only met for a day and he already knew that she would be nothing but trouble, seriously, it wouldn't kill her to be a bit nice to him.

A sigh escaped his lips as he knocked on the door, hearing a muffled, 'come in' from inside. He opened the door and made his way in, seeing Kairi dressed in the school uniform and slinging a bag over her right shoulder.

"Alright, I'm a bit late so walk with me to school," she ordered bluntly before pushing him out of the way and exiting the room. Sora glared in annoyance but followed after her, waiting in the hallway as she locked her room until finally beginning to make her way out of the building.

"Okay so today I need you to clean my room," Kairi began as the two walked along the hallways of the buildings, "It's not that dirty so it won't take long. But remember not to take any clothes until I get back, I don't want you to run into something you're not supposed to."

'What the hell are you hiding in there?' Sora thought in alarm.

"Also, take my clean clothes and hang them in my closet. Again, if you touch anything that is not out in the open then I'll kill you."

Something about the way she said it made Sora shudder. Her serious look mixed with her words and tone of voice, made the threat seem a lot more real than it should be. She wasn't really going to kill him… right?

"And don't hang around like an idiot when you're done, I want you to wait for me outside of the school building in case I think of anything else for you to do," she finished her orders as the two finally made it out of the building and into the garden. Sora noticed a few students walking around but his attention turned to Kairi as she stopped on her tracks and turned to him, her violet eyes glaring into his befoer she pointed a finger at him.

"You got that?"

Sora scowled in distaste but nodded regardless, not really in the mood to spark an argument, much less that early in the day.

He watched as she turned back to the road ahead and began to walk once again, his scowl deepened as he followed after her, not getting why she had to be so serious all the time. He briefly wondered is it ran in her family.

"Kairi wait up!"

The two turned to see a brunette girl jogging towards them, followed by a blonde-haired girl accompanied by Olette who smiled politely at him. Sora smiled back before his attention turned to the blonde of the group who looked at him oddly as she and the other girls caught up to he and Kairi.

"So Kairi, did you finally get your homework done?" Selphie asked her friend, noticing that she finally got herself a slave.

Kairi nodded with a grin, "Yup. I finally got time to sleep."

The two continued their conversation, unaware of Namine leaning closer and closer to Sora, her blue eyes studying him thoroughly and making him highly uncomfortable.

"Um… can I help you?' he asked her in an attempt to get her to stop.

"No," Namine muttered without removing her gaze. She continued for a few moments before smiling to herself and moving away, "I'm Namine."

"S-Sora," he replied awkwardly.

She nodded at him before moving away and joining Selphie and Kairi's conversation.

"Don't worry about Lady Namine," Olette spoke as she moved to stand next to him, sliming politely, "She's really into trends and wanted to see how a meeting like that would work."

"Are you serious?"

"Y-Yeah," Olette replied in embarrassment.

'Why are you the one who's embarrassed?' he thought to himself while casting a glance at Namine, finding her to be talking with her friends without any trouble. 'So it was really an act…'

"We're going to school, remember to meet me out here," Kairi called out to him with a deep frown as she and the others walked away, with Namine casting a last glance at them.

"You have today free Olette, bye!"

With that the three girls left, leaving Sora and Olette to themselves.

Sora turned to Olette as soon as they were gone, noticing the way Namine had spoken to her.

"She seems nice."

Olette looked at him oddly, "Who?"

"Namine."

"Oh, she is," she smiled, "She's always been that way. When I first became a slave I was really scared but she was really nice to me and we ended up becoming friends."

Sora rose a brow, "Really?"

"Yup," she replied in happiness, "I still help her out with housework and other things but she doesn't treat me like a servant. We even go shopping every time she's free."

He nodded at her, thinking that maybe the situation was a lot less serious than he had thought. Everyone he had met, with the exception of Leon and Kairi, seemed to be really nice. Maybe he was making a big deal out of nothing, it wasn't like he was in mortal danger or anything so time was on his side when it came to escaping.

"Are there any others like that?" Sora asked but didn't get a response. Confused, he turned to where Olette was and instantly let out a gasp. She was surrounded by three man that were muttering things to her. He scolded himself for being too deep in thought to notice before running at the three men, that he now noticed to be a lot bigger than him.

"Let her go!" Sora exclaimed in anger, eyes narrowing at the three man that turned their attention from Olette to him, looking at him in what appeared to be annoyance.

One of the bigger man cracked his fists with a smirk, "What are you gonna do about it little runt?"

Anger showed on Sora's face before he ran at the nearest man, throwing a punch to the man's stomach that knocked the wind out of him, making him double over in pain and take a few steps back while clutching his stomach. Not done, the teen proceeded to charge in at the next man, delivering a kick to his knees, making him yelp in pain and punch at him. Leaning his head to the side, Sora dodged the incoming strike before retaliating with one of his own, making contact with the man's jaw in an uppercut and making his head snap back.

He took a few steps back before catching movement through the corner of his eyes and instantly ducked as the final man threw a punch that harmlessly passed over his head. Sora rose back up before delivering a punch to the man's chest, making him left out a groan of pain. Sora prepared another punch but was suddenly knocked aside by a hard punch to his right side.

'Dammit,' he cursed as he regained himself as the man followed with a kick aimed at his stomach. Eyes narrowing, Sora lowered both hands to meet the kick before headbutting the man on the face and following with a hard punch to his stomach that made him recoil back in pain.

Sora's stance relaxed a bit before his ears caught the sound of rushing footsteps.

"You damned brat!"

Sora's eyes widened as he turned on his heel to see one of the man running at him with a knife on hand. He took a few steps back as his jaw clenched in worry, knowing quite well that he wouldn't be able to stop a man with a knife.

Much to his misfortune, another man pulled out a knife, smirking as he did so, before breaking into a run as well. Sora, figuring that standing there would get him killed, rushed at the two man as well, using his momentum to roll as one of the man swung his blade at him. Rolling safely under the swipe, he got back to his feet, quickly turning around to meet the man's exposed backs but didn't as a sharp pain shot through his whole right arm.

"Dammit!" Sora hissed in pain while moving away from the area, making sure to keep his distance from the man. He looked down at his arm, seeing a large amount flowing down his arm and a large cut running down the length of it. "What do I do...?" he clutched his wound, eyes narrowing on his opponents as he quickly went over what to do in this kind of situation.

One of the man smirked before running at him once more. Sora could only look in fear as the man grew closer before he was suddenly flung aside by a strong wind current.

'W-What?' Sora's eyes widened in surprise as he turned in the direction in which the wind came from and noticed a new man standing there with his right palm pointed forward. This man was dressed mostly in red and was a lot taller than him, not that it really mattered to him.

"Who the hell are you?" The other man glared at the newly arrived man while the other attacker stood up shakily, clearly thrown off by the whole ordeal.

"It doesn't matter," the man responded calmly before reaching behind his back and pulling out a large sword. "I suggest you stop with this shit."

The man scowled as the final of his lackeys went to stand behind him, all of the eyeing the blade in fear. "Fine," the apparent leader growled as he and the other two left the area.

Sora sighed in relief before walking over to Olette and helping her to her feet, "Are you okay?"

"I think so," Olette smiled.

"Good," he smiled back before turning to the man that had saved them, now seeing that he had an eye-patch covering his left eye and many scars on his face. Pretty intimidating, in Sora's opinion.

"Um… thanks."

The man eyed Sora and gave him a curt nod, "Don't mention it."

"You were great agains-"

"Don't mention it."

Sora chuckled nervously as the man turned on his heel and began to walk away, sheathing his blade on his back before entering the school building, apparently not caring about what just happened.

Just who was this person? He had tossed aside a person without breaking a sweat, hell, he hadn't even moved.

"Are you okay?"

Sora was snapped out of his thoughts by Olette's voice, the latter placing a hand on his wounded arm and rubbing it tenderly. He blushed at the contact before moving away from her touch, not really comfortable with it.

"It stings a little but I'll be fine," he replied with a friendly smile before pumping his left fist as the air, "Wounds like these won't hurt me."

"I'm glad but I'm still going to help you with that," she said, motioning at the wound on his arm, "Come on, I'll get you cleaned up before it gets infected."

"Thanks,' Sora smiled.

Olette smiled back before the two of them began to walk away, Sora clutching his arm since movement made the wound sting. He was still wondering who the mysterious guy was, appearing out of nowhere with a big sword... Just by looking at the guy, he could tell that he was strong, not to mention how intimidating he looked with all those scars. Sora was sure that he had never met anyone who looked so scary.

'Oh well, it's not like I'll see him again.'

Kairi was not in a good mood. After being done with classes, she had run into Tifa, who had been her usual annoying self. To make things worse, after getting out of the school building and expecting to see her slave, he was nowhere to be found. She was forced to look around like an idiot for, who knew how long, until she finally called it quits and stomped away from the area.

'When I find him…' anger showed on her face as he walked along the school gardens before finally spotting two people sitting against one of the gate's walls. At first she paid them no mind but growled when noticing the highly noticeable brown spikes of hair.

She stomped her way over to Sora, giving him a cold glare once reaching him, noticing that he was sitting next to Namine's slave.

"What are you doing here?"

Sora frowned, not liking the way she had spoken to him, "I was waiting for you."

"Were you now?" She continued to glare at her slave before turning her gaze to Olette, "Leave."

Olette almost yelped at the tone of her voice before throwing Sora an apologetic look and escaping the wrath of Kairi.

"What did I tell you to do this morning?" she spoke once Olette was gone.

Sora crossed his arms and shrugged, "You told me to wait for you but you didn't say where. Be more specific next time."

Kairi fought the urge to strangle the teen. Just who did he think he was? It wasn't like she asked much of him, just the essentials. There were people who completely humiliated their slaves until they broke but she didn't do any of that. She just didn't speak to him much and kept the thing highly professional, so why couldn't he just follow through?

Couldn't he see the level of stress she had to put up with every day? Trying to meet her family's expectations. Finding the courage to go to school every single day knowing that she had to put up with Tifa and others that had noting better to do than to bother her. Couldn't anybody see how hard she tried. Every. Single. Day.

"I was waiting for you for way too long!" She clenched her fists in anger, angry tears gathering on the corners of her eyes before she quickly wiped them away. "But of course you didn't! You were too busy being a complete idiot. I don't even care anymore, let's just go!"

She gave no room to talk as she quickly made her way to the dormitories. Sora followed after her, his face showing a look of guilt as he tried to keep up with her pace.

Sora walked out of the building once he was done talking with Kairi and doing a few chores. She had still been mad when they got to her room and told him to take out the trash and just leave, which he did as quietly as possible.

He sighed as he glanced at the sky. He hadn't expected the girl to get like that and it made him feel bad.

Having his own problems, Sora had only been thinking of ways to get back at Kairi. It seemed trivial now, she didn't deserve it. If anyone was to blame, it would be Leon since he brought him to the school. She apparently had no idea of Leon getting her a slave so why the hell was he being such a jerk to her.

"I'll try being nicer to her..." he muttered to himself as he thought back at the teary face of Kairi, feeling another wave of guilt wash over him.

He sighed once more, wondering just how he could make it up to her without looking too obvious.

"I see."

One of the man that attacked Sora, shrunk under the gaze of a silver haired teen who stood next to the single window of a large room. The teen turned his gaze at the man, bluish green eyes hardening.

"S-Sorry master Riku but we were attacked by-"

"Enough," Riku interrupted. The man looked down in fear, his body shaking at the slight thought of what his master would do to him.

The teen opened his right hand, a flash of light shining on it before a black blade, somewhat resembling a bat's wing, appeared on his palm. He tightened his grip on the handle while casting a look of anger at the slave.

"You are my slave. You making a fool of yourself, my property by being looked at as weak, will not happen again."

The man looked at the teen in terror, watching as he walked towards him with the blade on tow.

"You're fired."

Ch.8 End