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He pushed Riku off of him and shook his head.
"This is wrong...This is so wrong."
Kairi stood in the storm staring up at Riku's window. The curtains were closed, but she knew. She knew exactly what was going on. Her eyes narrowed, she grabbed her school bag and walked away, with her head down.
"Traitor." She managed through her gritted teeth.
Riku woke up in a cold sweat, he looked around and sighed. Lately, he had been having nightmares, of course it was understandable in the current situation he was in, but every day it got worse and worse. It sometimes felt close to real.
He placed his hand on his head, he had a major headache. His eyes traveled to where he had the cage located. His eyes widened, no Sora.
"Sora!" He jumped out of bed and looked around, he couldn't find Sora anywhere, and the worse part was that the ladder was standing.
I knocked that down yesterday, I know I did... Riku climbed up the ladder hurriedly, once he reached the top he heard the distant sound of water flowing, and it grew closer as he approached the kitchen.
"What are you doing?" Riku nearly shouted, he grabbed Sora's arm, and pushed him, Sora fell over and landed on his back. He stared at Riku with tears in his eyes, and a quick bell rang indicating that whatever was in the toaster finished. Up came a poptart.
"...I was hungry." Sora stated sadly. He got up and dusted himself off, Riku however continued to glare.
"Why did you leave the room?" Sora grabbed his poptart, and blinked. He raised it up to Riku's face and waved it around.
"I was hungry."
"Sora! This isn't funny!" Riku grabbed Sora's wrist, causing the poptart to fall on the ground. He pulled Sora back to his room, and pointed down at the secret room.
"Go."
"Riku calm down, you're hurting me! It's not like I went outside! I was just hungry. Let go!" Sora pulled away, and glared at Riku, but it changed to a sad expression, he looked down at the secret room.
"I promise, I wont betray you and get you into trouble like that...Really. I'll let you make the decision." Then Sora began to climb down the ladder, Riku watched him and wondered.
If he's suffering so much inside of there, why didn't he just run away when he had the chance? What's he pulling?
"Oi Riku," Sora called out, causing Riku to jump out of his thoughts and back into reality. "Can you make me another poptart? Thanks!" Sora skipped off, out of Riku's view. Everything was so confusing to Riku, but since the boy didn't betray him he decided a poptart would be his treat.
He walked into the kitchen, and picked up the poptart on his way there. The doorbell rang, and Riku rolled his eyes. If it was the police, he was most definately going to tell them off. He quickly ran to his room, and knelt down by the entrance of the secret door.
"Sora, keep quiet, okay?" He recieved silence, but then again that was good. Standing up, he closed the secret door and put the rug right back over it. The person at the door was obviously impatient, he ran towards the door and opened it.
"Hello Riku." Kairi smiled, and held her hand out for Riku to shake, but Riku just cocked an eyebrow.
"What are you doing here Kairi?" She laughed and tried to look over his shoulder, in a very obvious manner.
"Oh nothing really, I just thought you'd like to have some company on your way to school." Something in Riku's mind clicked.
"Oh school? Well sorry I don't think I'm going to be going today, I don't feel too hot." Kairi instantly placed her hand on Riku's forehead.
"Hm, you don't seem to be sick," She smirked. "Oh, but you are very sweaty." She wiped her hand on her skirt, and tilted her head standing there staring at Riku.
"Maybe it's because you're trying too hard? Hm, what do you think?" Riku took a step back, his eyes widened.
"What do you mean by that? Trying to hard?"
"Riku, I know someone's in there..." Kairi pushed the door open, and walked inside.
"Kairi, no one's in here!" Riku reached forward for Kairi's arm, but she was too quick for him. In an instant she was in Riku's room looking around.
"Kairi, quit it, you're freaking me out! No one is here, I'm alone."
"Smells like Sora's cologne." She narrowed her eyes at Riku. "Where is he?"
"Kairi, the hell does that mean? What's your problem! You know he's not here!"
Kairi broke down into tears. "I-I know that Riku. I-I'm sorry. Y-yesterday I came over after the police left. When I knocked on the door, I could have swore I heard Sora's sobbing. H-He's crying for us Riku, he needs our help." She rubbed her eyes. "I feel like I'm going crazy, I can see, hear and smell him everywhere I go..."
Riku stared down sadly at the broken down girl, he smiled and took her hand. "Come on, don't worry. I'm sure Sora's okay." He guided her back to the kitchen and smiled.
"Need anything to drink?" She just shook her head and sighed.
"Riku, I thought you were Sora's best friend. I figured...You'd be more worried about him than the rest of us. You always were jealous of him, always! Sometimes I even thought you hated him."
Riku grabbed onto Kairi's shoulders and shook her violently.
"How dare you accuse me of such a thing. Everyone is coming to my house, crying. If I were to cry, who'd be the strong one here to support all of you and anyways, How the hell am I supposed to be sad when I'm not even given that chance! Don't you dare accuse me of hating him. Get out!"
Kairi's eyes widened. Fear, thats what she felt, pure fear. She pulled and ran away. Riku held onto his head, he went over to close the door, when he turned around he saw her bag there, she'd surely come back for her bag, wouldn't she?
He walked into the kitchen and put a poptart into the toaster.
She knows something, she was acting majorly suspicious. His heart pounded within him. Unless I can convince her that she really is going crazy. The poptart jumped up and Riku grabbed it and placed it on a plate. He set it down on the counter, and opened the fridge. But how? How do you convince someone that they're not sane? When he came out of his thoughts, he realized he was pouring milk on the counter.
"Shit!" He grabbed a rag and quickly cleaned up his mess. There's a way for everything. Finally he poured milk into a cup, and headed back to his room. He placed the cup on the space left on the plate and gingerly climbed down the ladder, where he met with a crying Sora.
He placed the plate down in Sora's lap, and hugged him. Sora picked up the Poptart and placed it into his mouth, he chewed very slowly, and it was hard for him to swallow. "S-She was crying really badly, Riku."
"It's alright Sora, don't be sad..." He smiled and patted Sora on the head. Sora finished eating, he closed his eyes and fell asleep. Riku picked the plate and cup up and lied Sora down.
>>Kairi
The rain was harsh, and nearly caused the girl to trip and fall over multiple times. She ran and ran, not stopping at all, today she was not going to school, she couldn't. It hurt too much, everything did. When she finally reached her house, she spotted several familiar police talking to her mother. She ran towards them, and hugged a female cop. Her cries loud and clear.
"I don't want to! I don't want to! Not anymore." The rain had her soaked, and her mother gave her a concerned look.
"Kairi whats wro--..."
"I'm not doing it! Not anymore, I just can't." She fell on the ground, and landed on a puddle, which splashed when she landed on it.
"Kairi, we need evidence. We need to find Sora. We can't save him until we've found him. Until then we arent allowed to accuse him. You do understand don't you? Riku doesn't care about your feelings. He's betrayed your trust, and he's committed a crime."
"It's not him! Riku didn't do anything! He didn't do it! How are you so sure it's him?!" She was now shouting at the top of her lungs, there was just too much pressure. Both Sora and Riku were her friends, very close ones. They helped her when she was all alone. She couldn't betray them. She just couldn't, but then again Sora. Poor Sora could be getting tortured and she was too concerned about her own feelings.
Riku or Sora? She screamed even louder, her insides hurt.
"Why?!"
>>Kairi's savior's
"Hey it's the new girl! Her name's Kairi." A female child around the age of six pointed at a red haired girl. She tilted her head. "She looks kinda lonely." A large frown appeared on her lips. "Poor girl..."
"Leave her alone Selphie, everyone's calling her a witch or somethin', she just suddenly appeared on the islands washed ashore. Talk about major freaky. Who knows where she could have come from!! Hey! Maybe she's an alien."
Selphie crossed her arms and glared at the boy who said this. "Tidus! That's majorly mean! Everyone's been treating her as if she's some kind of monster! I'm sure she's really nice!"
"So go ahead," The boy smirked. "Go on and talk to her." Selphie stood still for a moment, she looked over at Kairi, then looked down at her feet.
"Ahm...Maybe later..."
"Aye! Aw man, outside is rainin' we were gunna play some blitz ball. This is very disappointing, ya?" Tidus and Selphie looked over.
"Oh Wakka, rain makes it all the more interesting! Or are you making an excuse so that I wont kick your butt?!"
"No way brudda, it's not that. My mom would jus' freak if she saw me all soaked, ya know?" Tidus rolled his eyes, and Wakka shrugged. "Sorry!"
"Come on guys time to go home now." Selphie said and stuck her tongue out at Tidus and Wakka. She went over to the coat rack and grabbed her umbrella and coat. She glanced over at the red haired girl. She was staring out the window sadly.
Selphie looked down once again, and walked out, followed by all the other kids in the class. Pretty soon Kairi was left in the room all alone, staring out at the rain tapping against the window. Her big blue eyes became teary. She rubbed her eyes and began to cry. Never did she understand why she was hated so much.
"Hey Riku! Wait I left my umbrella! Wait for me, pleaaaase?" A spiked haired brunette ran back into the classroom and grabbed his umbrella, when he looked over he noticed the crying girl.
His mouth formed an "o".
"RIKUUU! RIKU! A girl! A girl! She's crying!" Sora ran out into the hallway and dragged a silver haired boy back in with him. "See? Isn't she the girl we saw on the islands? Isn't she?"
Riku blinked and nodded. "Yeah Sora, I think she is. Hey why are you crying?" Riku reached over to touch the females shoulder, but she backed away and ran under a desk.
"Go away you big meanie!" Sora and Riku looked at eachother and blinked. Sora got on his knees and crawled up to her. "Aw, Riku's not a meanie, really!" He held his hand out for her. She blinked away her tears. "W-Why are you being so nice to me? Don't you think I'm some kind of witch or something. Everyone else does!"
Riku chuckled. "That's just silly."
Sora managed to pull her out of underneath the desk. He had a wide smile on his face.
"If you're a witch, then can I be a vampire? Oh oh! Riku can be a mummy!" Sora giggled childishly, and took Kairi's hand.
"I bet you don't have an umbrella. Come on walk with us! Walk with us! I have a biiiiig umbrella! It can cover all of us." Kairi looked at both boys, a small smile appeared on his face.
"O-Okay!" She managed to get out. Sora handed his umbrella to Riku.
"You're the tallest, can you hold that over us, mummy?" Riku stuck his tongue out at Sora.
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>> Next day...
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"Hey witch girl! Get out of our school, no one wants you here!" A black haired boy pushed Kairi, and she fell down on the ground and started crying. Everyone else laughed as she cried.
"Yeah, get out of our school, no one likes you!" Another child chimed in.
Selphie, Wakka and Tidus all looked over at the poor girl getting picked on.
"That's going too far." Selphie whined, Tidus and Wakka nodded in agreement.
"Hey leave her alone you!" The silver haired boy tackled the one who pushed her to the ground, and started hitting him.
"Don't listen to them Kai, me and Riku want you here, we both like you alot! Hee.--Riku get off of him, the teachers gonna come and get mad!!" Sora helped Kairi up, and Riku got off of the boy.
"Nobody better pick on her ever again! I'll kick your butt!" Riku kicked the boy one last time, before going over to Sora and Kairi.
"You alright Kai?"
The boy who was picking on Kairi was now crying, he got up and ran out of the class. Sora started laughing, he and Riku helped Kairi to her seat. "There you go." They both took their seats besides her, leaving her in the middle of them. Kairi blushed, but smiled at the same time.
"T-Thank you."
"I'm gonna go talk to her now!" Selphie announced, she ran over to the table and smiled. "Hey are you okay?" Kairi nodded her head and smiled, pretty soon everyone was talking to them.
"Thank you so much."
The police all looked at eachother, disappointed. One sighed, and one shook their head.
"If the girl doesn't do what she's asked, we're going to have to take drastic measures and move in on the boy. It's the only way," They began discussing amonst themselves, Kairi's eyes widened, she shook her head.
"No! No! I'll do it! I'll do it! Please, just leave them alone! Let me do it!!"
A male police smiled.
"Good decision."
This came out longer than I expected. Whew, oh well. This short story is going to come to an end pretty soon. That was faster than I thought. Either the next chapter, or the one after it. Not sure, depends on how I feel.