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Can't Live With You, Can't Live Without You
Chapter 2: Surprise and Good Food

Kairi shivered lightly and hugged her jacket closer to her body. It shouldn't have been this cold in the fall. Usually in the beginning of fall it was somewhat warm in Destiny Islands, yet for some reason it was freezing almost as if Mother Nature felt like just skipping over fall and heading straight to winter.

'This definitely can't be good…' Kairi thought to herself as the letter lingered in her head. Kairi had left right when she got the letter to Café Umai, which was Kairi's favorite place to go ever since she was a child and her mother knew that…to her mother's advantage unfortunately. 'Every time Mom wants to deliver some sort of bad news or surprise she tells me to meet at Café Umai. She basically bribes me with the food! That is so cheap of her! Gosh…I'm totally excited for her latest surprise…' Kairi wondered sarcastically as she neared the cute, quaint café.

As soon as Kairi walked into the café she was greeted by her mother's shrill face.

"YOO HOO! Kairi darling! Over here!" Kairi's mother, Hana, screamed for her as Kairi flinched. She slowly turned around and pretended to smile, while she walked toward the table to see that her food had already been ordered and was waiting for her.

"You ordered for me?" Kairi questioned shocked a little.

"Of course I did. And your favorite too. Chicken and tomato sandwich with toasted bread and Chicken noodle soup on the side. I also got Hot chocolate with whipped cream on top," Hana recited proudly.

Kairi tried to resist as she smelled the food and almost fell into her mother's little trap, but she snapped out of it. "Cut the crap mom. Just tell me what's going on," Kairi commanded.

"What ever do you mean--?"

"I'm not eating a single bite of this until you tell me what's going on…" Kairi explained with a stern look on her face.

"Honey, please…could I at least tell you while you were eating?" Hana begged with puppy dog eyes.

"Then I might have the urge to spit my food in your face," Kairi threatened.

"Oh honey…please," Hana pleaded…it almost sounded like a whimper and Kairi just hated seeing her mother like that. Her mother had that same look right after her father died and Kairi just couldn't stand that look.

"Fine, oh fine. I'm hungry anyway," Kairi muttered as she grabbed the food and ate it ferociously.

"Manners Kairi," Hana scolded.

"Spitting Mom," Kairi retorted as Hana sent a glare at Kairi and decided to start her story.

"Well, my friend Keiko. You see she's been going through a rough patch and—"

"No, I will not take care of her dog!" Kairi yelled assuming this was the case. Last time her mom started with that same exact speech and Kairi had to take care of some woman's dog and he wasn't exactly the sweetest thing on the planet.

"What? No. This is completely different. Could you let me finish my story?" Hana asked rhetorically.

"I rather you not, but fine…" Kairi replied anyway.

"So as I was saying…Keiko has been going through some rough times. I can't really tell you what happened. It's private really, but…well…hmm…how do I word this?" Hana asked herself as she tried to buy more time.

"I don't have forever mom. I kind of have homework," Kairi rudely interrupted as she took another huge bite of her sandwich.

"Well…she can't afford for her son and her to stay at her house, so I was thinking…well you know since dad…well…you know…" Hana trailed off as her face paled a bit at the mentioning of her husband dying in a car accident. Kairi subconsciously flinched a little. Kairi's father was the only person who truly understood her and was always the peacekeeper between Kairi's fight with her mother.

"Yes…?" Kairi wondered completely clueless, while still chomping on some chicken and tomato sandwich.

"That they…well…you know move in with us…for a little bit. They'll pay some rent, but they'll just stay with us until she gets a stable job and so she could afford a hou--…Kairi are you okay? Oh my God. Kairi are you choking?" Hana asked worriedly as Kairi started coughing loudly and her face turned all red. Her hand reached for the glass of hot chocolate as she swallowed it quickly. She immediately stopped coughing and let out a sigh of relief, but that expression was soon washed off as she remembered what her mother had just said.

"WHAT?" Kairi yelled loudly causing people to turn around and stare.

"SHH! KAIRI. Keep it down please," Hana insisted as Kairi grunted.

Leave it to Kairi's mom to surprise her with the strangest things ever.

"So we have to practically share our house with some stranger?" Kairi hissed.

"Kairi please…they aren't strangers, they're my friends," Hana explained as Kairi snorted loudly and took a sip of her hot chocolate.

"You've gotta be kidding m—"

"They're moving in tomorrow at 6:00 so be home on time," Hana demanded as Kairi spat at some of her hot chocolate.

"TOMORROW? SO SOON?" Kairi exclaimed.

"What did we say about lowering your voice?" Hana tried to say calmly.

"Oh for Christ's sake Mom," Kairi muttered as she started banging her head against the table, "Where do you meet these people?"

"They're not staying FOREVER Kairi. Probably only a month at most…maybe a week at least?" Hana explained.

"Now my vacation's going to be ruined…" Kairi mumbled to herself.

"You don't even have vacation," Hana interrupted.

"Yes I do! Today's Tuesday right? On Wednesday your friend is coming and on Thursday we were having school off. Actually we have school off Thursday, Friday, Monday, and Tuesday because of President's week or something," Kairi pointed out.

"Well I find it highly unlikely that they'll ruin your so called precious vacation," Hana insisted with a pout on her face.

"UGH. MOM!" Kairi yelled in annoyance. Mom's just didn't get it did they? Kairi got out of her chair indignantly, grabbed her tote, and her jacket and stomped out the door…

…

…

And came back in…

"I forgot my hot chocolate…" she explained as she grabbed it fiercely and stomped out of the restaurant once again.

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"BEEP! BEEP!" Kairi's alarm clock rang the next morning. 'Stupid Life.'

"BEEP! BEEP!" Kairi's alarm clock kept ringing. 'Stupid Mom.'

"BEEP! BEEP!" Kairi's alarm clock continuously rang. 'Stupid School.'

"BEEP! BEEP!" If Kairi hadn't noticed her alarm clock was still ringing. 'STUPID ALARM CLOCK!'

"OKAY I GET IT!" Kairi shouted to the alarm clock…(who didn't do anything, but it's job) as she grabbed it and threw it across the wall. 'Wait…maybe that wasn't such a smart ide—'

"BOOM!" Kairi's alarm clock collided with the wall causing it to shatter into a million pieces as Kairi regretted her stupid decision.

"Oh man…" Kairi mumbled as she remembered the events from yesterday. Just thinking about it almost made Kairi sick to her stomach.

Kairi got up and did her usual routine. She brushed her teeth, washed her face, and combed her naturally straight, crimson colored hair. As soon as she was done she walked downstairs to eat breakfast.

"Still in your pajamas?" Hana questioned.

"I rather die than go to school," Kairi explained hoarsely.

"No excuses," Hana lectured.

"Fine, whatever. Let me eat first," Kairi mumbled as she grabbed a fork and stuffed her plate with bacon and eggs.

When Kairi was done she walked upstairs and changed into her school uniform, which consisted of a blue plaid skirt, a plain white button up shirt and knee length socks (A/N: just picture her school uniform in Kingdom Hearts 2). She put her hair up in a ponytail and grabbed her backpack as she headed out the door. This time though she didn't even bother to say goodbye to her mother.

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"Wait WHAT!" Selphie, Yuffie, Aerith, Tifa, and Namine all exclaimed. All 5 of the girls were one of Kairi's good friends. They all sat at the lunch table together every day.

"I told you guys already…my mom is letting some of her friends move into my house," Kairi whispered, "Look can we talk about this later? I'm going to be late for science class."

"Oh gees…just leave us hanging," Yuffie joked as she walked away toward her second period class. Soon after everyone slowly left Kairi and Namine so they too could go to their second period class.

"Wow…well that was awfully dramatic…" Namine trailed off.

"Yeah…well my mom's like that," Kairi commented rather sadly.

"I guess, but…do you know who's moving in?" Namine questioned.

"Uhh…no…I kind of forgot to ask that while I was in my mental shock. It doesn't matter anyway. They'll be here by today, it's not like I have to wait to find out anyway," Kairi added as she walked into science class that day. Kairi and Namine took their seats and the bell rang soon after.

"Well, class I'm here to discuss your very important science project on DNA ce—" Once again Mr. Unzari was cut off by Sora's very famous entrance.

"Hey Unzari! Told ya I'd make it somewhat on time!" Sora exclaimed, while giving off his trademark grin. Kairi could've sworn she heard a couple of girls sigh in delight and she almost threw up.

"Just sit down Hikari," Mr. Unzari hissed as Sora sat down in his seat with a loud thump. "As I was saying…you guys have a very important DNA cell project that I'm assigning today and will be due next Wednesday. The day you all get back from vacation."

The class let out a very loud groan and Mr. Unzari smirked triumphantly. "Your partners for this project will be your partners that you had for your frog dissection."

Kairi accidentally let out a yelp as she remembered that Sora was her partner.

"Is there a problem Kairi?" Mr. Unzari asked rudely as Kairi nodded her head to signal a 'no'.

"Very well. I will allow you to discuss your project with your partners for approximately 10 minutes. Now please move to where your partners is seated," Mr. Unzari commanded as everyone stood up to walk to their partners.

Kairi just glared at Sora and Sora returned the look. It seemed that neither of them wanted to get up and work on the project together at all.

'This is hopeless.' Kairi thought as she got up and sat next to Sora. Sora was about to open his mouth and say some snappy comment, but Kairi put her hand up.

"Don't even start," Kairi demanded as she grabbed a pencil and a sheet of paper, "I'm not in the mood for it."

"Who ever said I was EVER in the mood for it—"

"Okay as I was saying. We need to make a DNA project. I was thinking we just make a piece of DNA and then label the parts. That should get us a good grade. Okay?"

"Well, actua—" Sora was onec again cut off.

"Great. So our meeting is over," Kairi smiled as she turned around to walk away, but Mr. Unzari stepped in front of her.

"Where do you think you're going Mrs. Aozora?" Mr. Unzari questioned.

"Uhh…to my desk so I…" Kairi stammered.

"Didn't I say 10 minutes? It's barely been a minute. You stay in your seat next to Sora until the 10 minutes is over," Mr. Unzari commanded.

"Yes sir," Kairi replied as she grinded her teeth together. She turned around and sat back down next to Sora.

"I thought you said it was over, Kai," Sora mumbled.

"Yeah, well Mr. Unzari didn't agree okay?" Kairi snapped back, "Don't call me Kai."

"I'm not in the mood for this, Kai," Sora frowned as he banged his head on the table.

This was strange. Usually Sora would love to get into arguments with Kairi and sometimes during the arguments he'd even laugh or smile, yet here he was banging his head on the table and frowning…

And Kairi for some odd reason felt sort of…bad?

'I shouldn't feel bad. I hate him. I should be happy to see this jerk suffer!' Kairi thought as she stared at him, but it almost hurt her eyes to stare at him any longer and she turned her head in another direction where Namine and Roxas were. They seemed to be having a good time. They were laughing and smiling together.

And Namine was blushing yet again.

"I. Hate. Life," Sora mumbled, but it was muffled since he was banging his head over and over again. Kairi barely understood what he said.

"Umm…are you…uhh…okay?" Kairi questioned nervously. She wasn't sure what kind of reaction she'd get, after all they were enemies.

"Why do you care?" Sora retorted.

Kairi wasn't really shocked, but was kind of taken aback. "I don't care. It's just that if you keep banging the table your skull might crack and they might blame me for killing you. And trust me. I don't want to attend your funeral."

"Oh yeah, can I have your number?" Sora asked as his head came abruptly up from the desk.

"WHAT? NO," Kairi replied on reflex.

"No, no, no, not for that…whatever the hell you were thinking," Sora denied as he started blushing a bit and his eyebrows furrowed in disgust, "I meant for the project. So we could finish it."

"Ohh…yeah…" Kairi mumbled, "Uhh…it's 369-1231. And yours?"

"Uhh…369-3690," Sora replied.

"Great," Kairi mumbled sarcastically.

"Yeah…" Sora added awkwardly. This was, after all, their first…peaceful conversation they've had in probably 5 years.

"Class you can return to your seats," Mr. Unzari shouted as the class returned to their seats. Kairi glanced at Sora who had his head buried in his hands…

And strangely enough Kairi was worried for him.

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It was finally the end of the day and Kairi was once again in math class. Math class was the only class that all of the girls at the lunchtable had together. Kairi, Namine, and Selphie were in advanced math (as hard to believe as Selphie could possibly be in advanced anything), Aerith, Tifa, and Yuffie were just a year older in general.

As Kairi was taking notes in class she noticed something fall onto her desk.

It was a note. She opened it up and noticed the messy handwriting was from Selphie.

Hey KaiKai. I want to know who the new boy is that's moving to your house. If he's hott could you set us up?

mwah,
selphie

"Jesus," Kairi whispered as she grabbed a pencil and wrote down something.

Firstly, stop calling me KaiKai!
Secondly, I will not set you guys up no matter what. I want to spend my vacation relaxing, not playing matchmaker. Maybe when vacation's over, but I highly doubt I will.

-Kairi; NOT KaiKai

Kairi then flung the letter toward Selphie who read it and then pouted. Kairi turned toward Selphie to see she was sticking her tongue out at her and Kairi just rolled her eyes.

"DING! DING!" The bell rang and school finally ended.

Selphie grabbed her books and walked toward Kairi, "You are mean, KaiKai. You are just keeping all the hot guys to yourself!"

"Oh gosh Selphie!" Kairi muttered as she walked out the door.

"Oh Kairi! When you meet him tell us what he's like tomorrow!" Aerith exclaimed as Kairi nodded.

As usual Kairi and Namine walked back home. They were both imagining what the 2 guests would look like in Kairi's house, but their conversation soon ended when they arrived at Namine's house and soon parted.

"Kairi. Clean up your room!" Hana demanded as soon as Kairi walked into the house.

"That's for saying hi," Kairi retorted as she walked upstairs to 'clean' her room, but instead she was just going to go online or listen to some music.

Kairi signed on AIM and was planning on just putting on an away message, but Selphie IMed her before she could.

S hYper GrL: IS HE THERE YET!
OMG its kAiRi: No, calm down! He won't be here for a while. I gotta go uhh…clean my room. Ttyl
S hYper GrL: FINE. Lol. Ttyl.
OMG its kAiRi: okay bye ) 3.
OMG its kAiRi: is on away.

Kairi decided to leave her computer on and walked to her bed where she could listen to music. She put on her ipod headphones in each ear and blasted the music so she couldn't hear anymore of her mom's shrieking downstairs because the chair was tilted in the wrong angle or that spoon didn't match the plate setting.

Eventually Kairi dozed off, but before she did one thought lingered in her mind.

'I wonder what he's going to be like.'

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Chapter 2 is finally completed. Chapter 3 will be up tomorrow afternoon! I hope. It depends if I have soccer practice again. I hope you guys enjoyed. In the next chapter I'll reveal who the surprise guest are D.

x3,
LJ.